Ajay Kulkarni

SAP S/4HANA

Product engineering of the S/4 HANA cloud and on-premise product. Innovating, designing, developing, testing, and deploying solutions. Streamlining processes for the SAP Digital Supply Chain in Manufacturing, Produce Area. Key Responsibilities: • Product Ideation • Product Architecture • Product Design • Product Testing • Product Migration and Porting • Technical Support • Sustaining Engineering

• Executed SAP programs and key strategic initiatives in the SAP area using DevOps/agile methodologies. Spearheaded initiatives in the SAP Products area. Acted as a Tech-Lead /Technical Architect for SAP rollouts and Implementations. • Was responsible for Technical Governance and architecture of SAP on-premise and cloud landscapes, Defined the technical guidelines across adidas and enforced them, Mentoring and managing Developers internally and externally.

Designed, Prototyped, and Developed features and components for SAP Fashion Management (FMS), SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM), and SAP S/4HANA Retail for Merchandise Management Key Responsibilities : •Took design decisions for the features to be developed. Actively foresaw technical issues and proposed alternative ways to achieve them. • Acted as a mentor for Junior Developers and as a Team Lead for Partners. Acted as a Scrum Master.

Handled customer escalations and messages, execution of support services, security incidents, performance optimization of code requests, custom developments, customer ramp-up, production go-live support, release management, and technical upgrade of IS-AFS product. Key Responsibilities : Acted as the Subject Matter Expert for Projects and Co-innovated on functional and technical topics with Fashion Customer, development organizations, training department, and Pre - Sales / Sales Teams.

Developed features, components, and enhancements to existing functionalities for Industry Solutions - Apparel and Footwear(IS-AFS) and Industry Solution - Oil and Gas(IS-OIL) Key Responsibilities : • Designed and implemented tools, frameworks, and applications using ABAP and Silverlight for GIS (Geographic information system), production planning, manufacturing, and simulation module. • Analyzed business use cases from customers and created data sources for ODP, BI queries, and analytical models