Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Senior product and supply chain leader with deep expertise across Warehouse Management, Transportation Management, Last-Mile Delivery, Distributed Order Management, Omnichannel Fulfillment, Transportation Procurement, Fleet Management, and advanced Transportation Optimization & Simulation. Brings 19+ years of experience in supply chain and logistics, including 13+ years in senior leadership roles, building and scaling high-performing global teams. Proven ability to lead cross-functional, geographically distributed teams, providing both strategic direction and operational rigor across complex enterprise environments. Accomplished product leader with a strong track record of defining product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmaps for enterprise platforms. Regularly led executive-level product steering forums, translating market signals, customer needs, and competitive insights into clear investment priorities and differentiated solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Supply Chain & Logistics space: • Warehouse Management - coupled with Omnichannel Fulfillment, E-commerce, Native SaaS • Last Mile solutions - Order Management, Last Mile Routing, Warehouse Management, Consumer Notifications, Carrier Mobile Experience, Finance - Billing & Settlement • Transportation Modeling - Optimize sourcing, ordering patterns, static routes, time windows, Transport Method and simulate multi echelon supply chain networks. • Transportation Management – Procurement, Shipment Planning Optimization, Execution, Invoicing, Claims, Appointment Scheduling and Yard Management. • Fleet Management - Optimize fleet resource assignment to loads, Dispatch Management. • Product Integration - Transportation Management integration with Warehouse Management Systems and ERP systems. • Supply Chain BI: Developed ERDs and defined reports using Cognos Report Studio, Tableau. * No Visa Sponsorship Required*
Design, Implement and Support Manhattan Transportation Management Solutions namely Transportation Procurement (TP), Transportation Planning and Execution (TP&E), Transportation Modeler (TM), Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI). Analyze business requirements and design features in product across MANH TMS suite of products. Worked closely with the product management team to refine market requirements as new product introductions. Engaged in Product roadmap discussions with clients. Experience in developing robust Supply Chain Optimization models using MANH Transportation Modeler. Focused in trouble shooting and solving complex Transportation Optimization problems. Experience in designing Entity Relationship Diagrams for various modules in TMS space. Designed several Operational reports using Cognos Report Studio. Coordinate, plan and define scope for release/go live activities in multiple projects. Support teams during Sales and Implementation phases. Identify cross product dependencies and work with teams across products to ensure seamless integration. Collaborate with members across departments that include Development, Quality Assurance and support teams while delivering product releases.
• Coordinate and facilitate consultations with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements for new releases. Provide guidance to team members on technology capabilities and solutions. • Directly responsible for developing custom business requirement templates, use case and UML diagrams. Created Process maps, data dictionaries, use cases, activity diagrams etc., • Created Wireframes an UX designs using Microsoft Visio and open source online tools. • Extensively participate in functional and technical specification walk-throughs with team and stakeholders to identify opportunities, project scope, project risks, and technology constraints and assumptions and create a product backlog with Epics, Features and User stories. • Responsible for progressive elaboration of user stories while considering solutions that will integrate into real-world business process by effectively interacting with clients and implementation teams. • Develop documentation to thoroughly understand requirements in order to complete feature development on-time including modifications, project plans, issues list, status reports. • Worked on SAAS product and manage multiple enhancements and operational requests throughout the lifecycle including preparing business specification documents, project and implementation plans, estimates, test scripts, and documentation. • Experience in assisting with implementing change management. Familiarity with Functional Testing, Integration, System Testing. • Participate in project meetings for project tracking, analysis, version control and status reporting as well as for identification of the critical path of development to ensure project deliverables remain on schedule toward completion. • Implemented Appointment Scheduling, Detention, Invoicing products.
Maintained full responsibility for determining, gathering, analyzing, and translating business requirements into functional requirements, identifying all stakeholders and developing communication parameters, initiating the requirements gathering process with business teams in Atlanta, working with Quality Analyst to support testing and identification of issues and constraints, and providing innovative recommendations and sound technology solutions. Analyze functional needs, discuss scope of projects, anticipate any potential roadblocks, determine product performance metrics, and to establish close-out plans. Create wireframes for applications. Exhibited excellent collaboration and leadership skills and attention to detail and deadlines as well as ability to take ownership of projects and multi-task effectively while working with stakeholders across the company. Supported SAAS team, validated functional flows for various clients for release upgrades.