Lakshmana Rao Vadavalli
Senior Kinaxis RapidResponse Consultant
Salary / Daily rate
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Digital Supply Chain expert with 20+ years implementing Kinaxis Rapid Response solutions across Life Sciences, CPG, and Hi-Tech industries. Led global S&OP transformations at Fortune 500 companies like Nissan and Sanofi, specializing in demand planning and data integrations. Ready to accelerate your supply chain digital transformation with proven Kinaxis expertise.
Work experience
Kinaxis Rapid Response Implementation Freelance Consultant
Chitkalas Info techFreelance
May 2021 - Present
5 years 6 months
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Director - Chitkalas Info tech. a Kinaxis Rapid response solutions specialzied company. Supply Chain transformation services. Kinaxis Rapid response tool implementation consultancy services. worked in many Life sciences, CPG, Hitech clients to implement and support Kinaxis Rapid response.
Kinaxis Rapid response implementation Consultant( Digital Supply chain)
SanofiFreelance
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
7 months
REMOTE, Spain
Worked as an independent freelance consultant helping with EEMEA countries implementation of global supply chain transformation centred around Kinaxis Rapid response tool. Implemented Demand Planning functionalities to the EEMEA countries. Business engagement, Participate in the requirements Workshops(remote), Technical work involving data integrations and workbook, help business with the testing of the functionality and Global Deploy team coordination are some of the key tasks handled by me.
Leader - S&OP Digital Transformation( Kinaxis Rapid Response Implementation)
Nissan Motor Corporation
Oct 2018 - May 2021
2 years 8 months
Japanga, Odisha 770073, India
Nissan has embarked on a journey of Global Supply Chain Digital Transformation to drive business productivity and value. I have the responsibility for establishing Nissan's Digital S&OP practice(COE) centered around Kinaxis Rapid Response & Supply chain analytics SkillSet and driving global S&OP digital transformation using Kinaxis Rapid response tool. Some of my responsibilities include,: Talent hiring, establish COE, Vendor engagement, Leadership, strategy formation, project delivery, solution design and implementation for Nissan's Global Digital S&OP Transformation. Engagement with Kinaxis. Areas of Expertise: Program Implementation Strategy, Sales & Operations Planning, Supply Chain, COE Setup, Program Management, Kinaxis Rapid Response technical and implementation, Team Leadership, IT Architecture, Data Integrations and Business Alignment.
Xilinx
Mar 2005 - Oct 2018
13 years 8 months
Dublin, Ireland
Technical Program Manager/ IT Project Manager/Staff Information System Analyst
May 2012 - Oct 2018
6 years 6 months
Dublin, Ireland
Skill Sets/Projects: * Oracle ERP - Order Management, Supply chain fulfillment, Inventory, Shipping, Pricing, Vendor Managed Inventory, Oracle APS(ASCP), Project Management, SQL * Kinaxis Rapid Response Implementation: -Kinaxis RR Implementation Program & Project Management - Integration Track Lead - Architect for integration of data from Oracle ERP, PLM and MES systems to Kinaxis RR - Development Lead - Kinaxis RR Implementation Roadmap - Cloud Governance policies - Vendor Engagement -WWIT Support Lead for Kinaxis Rapid response - Enhancements, bug fixes, disaster recovery test support, single IT point of contact globally. -Workbook development * MES - WWIT Support lead for MES applications and their vendor Integration, Project Management
Technical Project Manager/Team Leader/Snr. Analyst Programmer
Mar 2005 - May 2012
7 years 3 months
Greater Dublin
Skill Sets/Projects: * IT Supply Chain Solutions, Oracle ERP, APS(ASCP) * Oracle ERP Order Management * Oracle MRP, Inventory Management * Trade Compliance
Senior Software Developer
Core Tech
Feb 2002 - May 2005
3 years 4 months
Cork Metropolitan Area
Custom Retailing software development for Major Irish Retail chains. - Point of Sale - Inventory - Pricing - BI dashboards - Reporting
Oracle Consultant
ABS UK
Dec 2000 - Mar 2002
1 year 4 months
London, UK
Software Developer
Quest Syscon
Jun 1998 - Dec 2000
2 years 7 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Worked in onsite assignments at: - Dubai Port Trust, Dubai - Almoyeed International Group, Bahrain Oracle forms conversion projects
Software Developer
RAM INFORMATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
May 1997 - May 1998
1 year 1 month
Greater Hyderabad Area