Abhishek Sharan

Experience

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  DESI Power (Decentralised Energy Systems India PVT. Ltd.)

  Aug 2005 - Nov 2008

  Development Manager Finance

  Ensure effective utilization of resources and operational performance including team presentations, Team mentoring and management, brainstorming sessions for improving and enhancing process Prepare reports on analyst previews and reviews on covered company’s quarterly, half yearly, annual results and other financial events.Prepare business projections, budget, cash flow and profitability projections for each business units & power plants and for each new and existing projects of DESI Power. Handle monthly cash flow, budget and profitability report of each plants / site. Adept in Finance and accounting policies with expertise in Financial Research and analysisSupervise Project Feasibility and Packaging Report, proposals and other reports.Formulate business plan, financial plan for DESI Power’s 100 Village Empower Partnership projects.Planning, coordinate and interact with funding agencies / financial institutions like MNRE, The World Bank, ICICI Bank / IFMR Trust, CERs buyers etc. for DESI Power projects.Maintain liaison with equipment / systems vendors, local partners and Project Implementation Teams. Show less

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  Tyco International

  Nov 2008 - Mar 2011

  SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYST

  Overview of Responsibilities:Analytical support to the strategic sourcing team of Tyco.Prepare monthly Sourcing Savings Dashboard for Tyco Business segments..Publish the monthly Sourcing and Savings HighlightsProvide data and analytical support to the Top Management for setting up the annual savings and spend budget for the businesses.Prepare ad-hoc spend and savings analysis reports based on the request and coordinate with the site as well as with sourcing leaders of each regions globally for this. Show less

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  Unisys

  Mar 2011 - Jun 2012

  PROCUREMENT ANALYST-1 (SENIOR ANALYST)

  Provides procurement support activities include Data Analysis and Supplier & Category (commodity) Market Intelligence Analysis during Product Development Phase.Supplier Risk Assessment (Financial Ratio Analysis etc.)Preparation of standard and ad-hoc spend analysis report: involves Payment Term Analysis, Supplier Rationalization Analysis, Contract Analysis etc.Prepare and update the supplier’s profile for strategic sourcing on quarterly basis: profile includes supplier risk analysis, spend trend, competitor analysis, market trend analysis, SWOT analysis etc.Identification and analysis of potential suppliers for any specific category and region: a market intelligence report.E-auction & E-Bid analysis for E-sourcing team. Show less

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  Eaton Corporation

  Jun 2012 - Aug 2016

  ResponsibilitiesPeople/Team management Manage ANALYTICS & REPORTING Function for all the businesses of Eaton managed by SCM Shared Service Centre, Pune. Create Vision, Service Maturity, and strategic path for the function Responsible for team growth and creating a High performance and competent team Responsible for quality hiring for the teamProcess management Standardization of activities, best practices, reports and processes across businesses.  Responsible to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the processesCustomer management Escalation management, Monthly performance review with customer Providing business solutions- data management and process improvement related solutions to business using several Continuous Improvements tools like BPI / Kaizens / Value Stream Mapping (VSM) / problem solving tools (A3, Standard Work,5S etc.) Automation activitiesTransition management Responsible for Flawless Transition of all the activities to the team. Project Management approach to transition a new activity Show less Scope of work Team Management: Managing a team of 11 analysts: provides reporting and analytical support to SCM globally. Team mentoring and development: Mentor each team members to achieve team goal and work towards solution design by enhancing skill set. Provide solution to business using Analytics: Works with site / leadership to understand business problem and provide analytical solution to plant, leadership and business. Team provides multiple analytical reports to business globally:Operational schedule reports: for Plants and Division o Daily Operation reports: Daily inventory & sales status report of plant and division with respect to forecast.o Daily Supply Chain tracker: provided status of Work Order, POs & Inventories with respect to different parameters like On-time, Past dues, Expedite and De-expedite.o Inventory management related reports: on receipts- to see Excess Receipt Value and Excess Receipt Quantities based on demand, standard cost & actual PO cost. Supplier wise min-max status, whether part is Approaching Min or Violating Min.o Purchase Price Variance report: Actuals as well as forecasted for each site and rollup to business level.o Supplier Performance reports/ analytics: On Time Delivery & DPPM scores. Support to Global Sourcing and Category Management:o Spend analysis: based on commodity, supplier and regionso Supplier classification scorecard (SUA): Strategic, Core, Developing, Maintain & Eliminateo Maintaining Cost-out database & Long Term Agreement (LTA) database and reporting based on these databases (like Past due report, Monthly Scorecard, Expatriation report etc.).Project Management of following projects:o Supplier data cleansing project: to clean & standard supplier data across all tools and ERPs.o Supplier rationalization project: to reduce supplier baseo LTA database creating and scheduling for reportso Supplier database creation and maintenanceo Commodity code correction in ERP Show less

  • Functional Manager - SCM (Reporting & Analytics)

    Nov 2014 - Aug 2016

  • Deputy Manager - SCM (Reporting & Analytics)

    Jun 2012 - Nov 2014
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  DXC Technology

  Aug 2016 - Dec 2018

  OPERATIONS MANAGER (SUPPLY CHAIN DATA SCIENTIST) - ANALYTICS

  Responsibilities / Achievements Cost savings opportunity assessment: work closely with Category Leads to identify opportunity for cost savings and account / supplier levels. Providing descriptive Spend analysis for each accounts, combining Invoice, PO and proactive renewals data. This analysis includes defining addressable spend, opportunity for supplier consolidation, and in some cases to tap non-required spend.  Simplifying and consolidation of multiple data sources to produce analytical reports and presentations at executive levels- includes weekly cost savings performance dashboards / templates (which consolidated data from multiple sources, like pipeline, forecast, not in P&L, Indirect etc.) & Spend analytics (includes Invoice and PO data from multiple PR/PO systems).  Conducting data classification cleaning program to tap cost savings, which are not reported under Supply Chain. So far, this program helped Americas SCM to achieve USD 30 million full year cost savings. Horizontal deployment of Performance Assessment tool across region.  Lead in commodity/ category mapping cleaning program for Supply Chain. Support in implementation of new database and tools for Supply Chain: o Lead and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of Supply Chain Spend data during Data Lake/ Business Intelligence (a new databases/ tool implemented in Organization) implementation.o Lead in creation of Master Tables (Business Managed Files) like Commodity/Category mapping table, Cost Object / Regional mapping tables, which get mapped with new implemented tool. During movement from HPE to DXC, helped in transition of multiple reports and represented from newly formed company DXC. Manage and maintain Category playbook / workbook Process improvements & standardization Expert and Lead in creating executive view / presentation of data. Lead Strategic & Innovative initiatives within team to deliver optimal analytical solutions to Supply Chain team Show less

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  NTT

  Dec 2018 - Dec 2022

  Director Business Analytics

  Led and worked on:- Spend Datawarehouse / Spend Cube management: Data Collection, Storage, Cleansing, Classification and Analytics- Cost Savings Opportunity Assessments- Established a centralized NTT Global Accounts Payable / Purchase Order Spend Data Warehouse / Cube, Price Benchmarking Analytics process; built a strong & lean team to manage end to end Spend cube refresh- Worked on Spend Data Warehouse / Cube creation and management: Accounts Payable (AP) Data, Purchase Order (PO) Data & Travel data (T&E, TMC & CC) processing- Brought deep data manipulation, interrogation and visualization skills to maximize the utility of data insights, with a strong focus on high quality, on time project delivery- Built strategy and deploy end to end processes to create Spend Data Warehouse and established process to get it refreshed periodically. Following high level processes- Extensively investigated, analyzed & interpreted business information needs based on a strong understanding of business processes, drivers & priorities; developed & implemented governance & post-implementation evaluation overall activities to ensure outcomes achieved meet institutional objectives- Identified data quality issues, supporting information governance by participating in necessary activities and assisting in development of & adherence to database & development standards- Data collection: Data collected from multiple sources with different data structures. Data Quality & Completeness Assessment & Validation- Data Structure & Normalization- Spend Category Classification: Document findings (data wrangling) related to ability to produce one to-one category classification. Assumptions made about the data. Domain knowledge captured during validation- Administered Spend Visualization: using Power BI tool multiple analytical interactive dashboards for users; spend analytics / assessment for cost savings opportunity assessment Show less

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  Dito

  Jan 2023 - Dec 2024

  DIRECTOR, BUSINESS ANALYTICS & INTELLIGENCE

  Responsibilities:• Working on multiple functions (like Operations, Finance, HR, Procurement, Delivery & Sales) of Dito responsible for:o Business Process Improvements (BPIs) using automations and best practiceso Reporting & Analytics Excellence & automationso Data managemento Supporting & driving organization toward digital transformationo Driving Cost Savings• Finding new processes, determining gaps in existing process and implementing new processes; participating in design reviews and contributing in allocation of functionality to specific system components• Selling & evangelizing value of BI, analytics and sound data management to executive sponsors of BI program to business users and IT Managers• Working with stakeholders to define business & systems requirements for new information technologies, particularly in areas of BI, analytics & data warehousing• Providing leadership and direction for cross-functional activities that span across multiple organizations• Working with other organizations in the company to ensure that analysis is complete, timely, and accurate; leading the development of businesses cases for further project sales as determined by the practice Show less

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  Zscaler

  Dec 2024 - now

  Data & Analytics Leader for Source to Pay