Brief Biography
Vijay Sivaraman is an accomplished IT leader with over 21 years of experience in Supply Chain, Retail, Manufacturing, and Logistics IT systems. His extensive career includes significant roles at major companies like Unilever, SAP, Smollan, and TVS SCS. Vijay has a proven track record of leading IT teams, driving new technology initiatives, achieving process excellence, and developing strategic solutions that result in profitable business outcomes. His expertise spans across AWS/GCP Cloud, IoT, AI/ML, Blockchain, open-source application development, microservice architecture, real-time geo-tracking, mobile and WMS, among others.
Achievements
Cloud adoption and Cost Savings: Migrated SAP and Botree landscape to Google Cloud Platform, saving INR 2 million annually.
Sales Engagement: Improved sales engagement through mobile application reporting and geo-spatial reporting, increasing retailer reach from 48K to 84K
Cognitive Intelligence: Created cognitive intelligence solutions using video feed for face recognition and object counting.
Competencies
1. Strategic Leadership and Vision
2. Cloud Computing and Infrastructure Management - Platform expertise with GCP and AWS
3. IoT and Emerging Technologies integration to SAP
4. Process simplification using Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
5. AI/ML and Data Analytics in areas of customer analytics, constraint planning, load/beat optimization etc
6. IT Infrastructure and Operations
7. Customer Engagement and Sales Force Automation - developed inhouse SFA platform
8. Business Applications and ERP Systems