Ajith Mathew

Experience

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  Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Private Limited

  Jul 2001 - Jan 2005

  Marketing Executive

  - Study and analysis on heavy machinery performance namely excavators, motor graders and compactors.- Achieving sales target set for the team.- Analysis and reporting of other heavy machinery in the market.

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  Tech Mahindra

  Jan 2005 - Mar 2010

  Senior Consultant

  - Implemented Ciba APAC rollout through my role as SAP SD team lead.- Led a team of SAP SD consultants at offshore for production support and developments.- Implemented complex functionality like Mexican invoicing.- Led SAP SD and ABAP team during implementation of complex business scenario in Arcelor Mittal steel.- Led SAP SD team during the SAP Rollout at Nissan China.- Supported hyper care at Unilever Hamburg and supported 2 Rollouts from offshore.- Production support for Unilever Europe.- Regression and Integration Testing for version upgrades.- Disaster Recovery testing of business critical scenarios for production servers. Show less

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  Fossil Group, Inc.

  Apr 2010 - Feb 2021

  - Responsible for building SAP S/4 roadmaps for OTC and Logistics & Distribution business areas.- Process blueprinting and implementation of OTC and Logistics process flow to integrate Amazon market place in the Fossil IT landscape of EMEA regions.- Solution design, implementation of SAP Plant connectivity (PCo) and SAP WM integration with MFC systems of the Fossil EMEA warehouse in Germany.- Engage with business partners across EMEA, US and APAC regions of Fossil to understand business requirements, identifying business opportunities and to deliver IT solutions fitting global template.- Build business cases to outline benefits and quantify bottom line financial impact. - Implement process & system changes to enhance process efficiency and productivity to derive business results in the CoE (Center of Excellence) of Sales and Logistics & Distribution.- Manage investment budget and project prioritizations.- Approve solution designs for cost, timing and milestone commitments.- Operate as primary contact with IT vendors on day-to-day interactions on solution delivery Show less - Successful digital transformation of Concession and Consignment business of Fossil Europe entities using Agile project methodology transitioning from MS access dB to cloud solution with interfaces to SAP AFS system. - Successful implementation of Concur travel expense cloud application with mobile and desktop versions with integration to SAP AFS system for over 15 entities in EMEA to support digital transformation initiative of Fossil.- Managed the overall delivery of Fossil Mexico and Fossil Italy Aftersales SAP AFS implementation.- Managed overall IT application and infrastructure move of Fossil leather warehouse between 3PL service providers, which includes end to end IT infrastructure installation (desk side support, server and network) and SAP WM reconfiguration. - Managed overall delivery of VAT legal regulatory solution for Fossil Spain (SII) & Poland (SAF-T) through regional SAP solution providers.- Managed the overall delivery of SAP AFS roll out and IT infrastructure deployment for Fossil Spain, Portugal and Canary Islands.- Led project planning phase to define blueprint schedule, phase plans, staffing model and budget.- Managed team with project oversight to deliver high quality blueprint that streamlined business processes and leverage maximum SAP standard functionality.- Managed the execution and verified output of blueprint activities including SAP high level solution design, custom development, fit gap analysis and RICEF inventory creation.- Direct oversight of end-to-end solution architecture and integration of SAP system with external applications. Show less - Configured SAP OTC processes while additionally rendering Project Management assistance to the SAP roll-out in Montres Antima AG, manufacturing company of Fossil Group.- Guidance to SAP project team on project design to adhere to the global template.- Conducted technical design reviews and peer reviews for the SAP technical resources within the team.- Led the execution of realization phase including governance, RICEF development and testing phases.- Supporting user acceptance testing and training of key users & end users Show less - Design, Build and Run responsible for SAP SD / OTC module of SAP AFS in Fossil Switzerland and Fossil Scandinavian regions.- New template design responsible for SAP SD module for Fossil India, manufacturing unit of Fossil and also executing through realization of the template.- Responsible for the Roll-out of the SAP SD template of Fossil to Swiss technology Production (STP) that manufactures watch movements. - Designed and implemented complex developments like the ISR forms for Switzerland, OCR numbering for Sweden, VAT determination for Europe and ATP manipulations. - Achieved performance improvement results in background jobs in SAP AFS specific functionalities like allocation and for billing jobs. Show less

  • Solution Manager CRM / Logistics and Distribution

    Sept 2018 - Feb 2021

  • Program Manager

    Aug 2015 - Aug 2018

  • Assistant Project Manager

    Apr 2014 - Jul 2015

  • SAP SD Analyst

    Apr 2010 - Mar 2014
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  GlobalLogic

  Apr 2021 - now

  Global IT Product Owner

  Client Hilti Befestigungstechnik AG• Responsible and ownership of CX IT products of Hilti Fleet Management covering product design until delivery to Hilti business units.• Provide strategic advice for business process solutions and collaborate with product manager, business stakeholders to define and document business requirements as well as partner with technical staff to develop solution alternatives.• IT liaison for product design, development, implementation activities using AGILE methodology across multi-layer system landscape encompassing core ERP system SAP S/4 HANA, AWS / MS Azure cloud systems and customer facing UI. • Drive adoption of the products within the business community and reach alignment with business stakeholders on backlog items and adoption based on real user needs and strategic direction. Show less