Shruti Kurup
Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Summary
Seasoned IT Project Manager with 8+ years of experience in transforming business goals related to efficiency improvements into new system designs.
Techno-functional professional with experience in Logistics and Supply Planning Optimization as well as executing complex digital transformation projects.
Experience in covering in 4 end to end full cycle SAP implementation projects and various continuous improvement projects.
Demonstrated success in analytical problem solving and boosting operational efficiency. An effective team member with excellent communication, leadership, coordination.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
IT Projects Delivery Lead
AW Rostamani LLC
Dubai
11.2025 - Current
- Leading major IT projects for AWR Logistics and Automotive vertical ensuring smooth execution, timely delivery, and strong alignment between business needs and technology goals,
- Managing implementation of 4 critical projects involving Contract and Billing System Roll out and Transport management solution roll out while following PMO standards across every phase.
- Handled full project lifecycle from project kick-off to closure, preparing all project related documentation.
- Efficient in managing and driving offshore and local vendor teams.
- Ensured all deliverables met quality standards, security governance, compliance and business continuity standards.
- Served as Logistics and Supply Chain SME, advising business on best ways to optimise processes to enhance efficiency and recommending technology solutions when needed.
- Managing process change process, preparing change requests and ensuring full compliance with GIT's change management guidelines.
- Worked closely with IT Business Partner and Business Analysts to analyse and assess system enhancement requirements.
- Coordinated cross functional teams and external partners to implement new technology platforms into AWR ecosystem, improving adoption and boosting operational efficiency.
- Lead development of project deliverables for each project stage.
Responsible for developing baseline project schedule and monitor project progress against it (actual versus planned targets). - Responsible to monitor and report on progress of projects to all
stakeholders, project lifecycle from initiation to closure.
WMS Consultant
Ehrhardt Partner Group
Dubai
10.2023 - 10.2025
- Skilled WMS Consultant with experience in analyzing, designing, and implementing WMS solutions for diverse industries.
- Adept at optimizing warehouse operations, inventory management, and supply chain efficiency.
- Known for leveraging industry best practices and in-depth technical expertise to drive improvements in warehouse processes.
- Excellent business knowledge and working experience in supply chain management processes, Warehouse management for customer fulfilment, Transportation Management Systems.
- Provided support and system enhancements, leading to upgrades that added new features such as RFID integration and voice-directed picking, improving real-time inventory accuracy.
- Proficient in leading end to end implementation projects including system configuration, testing, training, and post-implementation support.
- Interacted with customers/key business users to understand business needs, data sources and translate into project scope.
- Conducted detailed requirements gathering with stakeholders to identify key operational challenges and mapped WMS functionalities to meet those needs, improving inventory visibility and order accuracy and overall warehouse efficiency.
- Expertise on system integration with 3rd party software's and ERP's. Proficient on integration methodologies XML, ETL, EDI and API’s and Hub and Spoke.
- Contributed to creation of integration documentation, including data mapping, transformation rules, and system flow diagrams.
- Specialized experience in WMS integration with SAP as host system (ECC/S4HANA/B1).
- Performed configuration setup/verification and Sanity/Smoke testing for WMS implementation projects.
- Reviewed user requirements, use cases and detailed designs to develop test cases.
- Participated in UAT testing and site preparation for Go live and Release.
- Effectively involved in Defect Analysis, Defect Triage and reporting to project management team.
- Prepared detailed reports on project status for stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment with objectives.
- Monitored progress against established goals, adjusting schedules and resources as needed to keep projects on track.
- Expertise on project management tools like JIRA, Confluence, MS Projects and querying tool SQL.
- Hands on experience in EPG-LFS WMS, EPG-Transport Management System.
Network Supply Planning Specialist
Henkel
Dubai
04.2021 - 09.2023
- Led cross-functional teams to implement supply chain optimization strategies, reducing operational costs by 18% within the first year through lean initiatives and process re-engineering.
- Develop consistent approach to SLOB sensing and action planning.
- Specialized in supply planning processes, MRP, Detailed Scheduling, Heuristic and Optimizer Usage, Constraint based planning, Capacity Planning, Master data design, process chain design and setup.
- Managed inventory optimization projects by leveraging demand forecasting tools, improving inventory turnover by 22% and reducing stockouts by 15%.
- Closely monitored delivery timing, product availability and pricing to maintain profitable minimum order quantities along with network evaluation to understand the impact on holding inventories, lead time and possible effect on the customers.
- Responsible of modelling the Supply Chain Network.
- Evaluation of potential material flow alternatives and implementation of the changes.
- Streamlined transportation processes in conjunction with business and IT team, by introducing an automated route/Network planning tool, reducing fuel consumption and improving delivery timelines.
- Strong techno functional experience in ECC planning and execution process along with SNP-APO/DP integration.
- Project lead for DDMRP and SPO tool (Stock Parameter Optimization) implementation for Safety Stock definition across IMEA across EMEA region and core team member for several digital transformation projects in the Supply Chain Team.
- Implemented advanced analytics for real-time supply chain visibility, improving lead time accuracy and customer satisfaction levels.
- SPOC for all technical issues and escalations from the system perspective for IMEA.
- Engage the demand planning, supply planning and S&OP team for alignments of forecasting bias and other pertaining issues.
- Analyse weekly and monthly patterns to forecast business needs, resulting in reducing inventory cost by 15%.
- Experience on SAP MM/PP/WM/SNP APO-DP along with DDMRP along with process mapping tools like Signavio and Microsoft power automate.
SAP Project Lead
Truebell Trading And Marketing LLC
Dubai
04.2017 - 03.2021
- Led the SAP S4HANA end to end Implementation (HEC - Private cloud), for trading and distribution in Food distribution vertical.
- Supported the SAP implementation team during the blueprinting phase by gathering business requirements and mapping them to SAP functionality.
- Spearheaded the project lifecycle from initial planning, requirements gathering, and blueprinting to configuration, testing, and post-implementation support.
- Acted as the primary liaison between the client and SAP consultants, translating business requirements into technical specifications and ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Creation, Reviewing and maintenance of the Functional and technical documents (FSD, BRD, Version change documents).
- Conducted workshops and training sessions to empower business users in utilizing SAP systems effectively, increasing user adoption and productivity.
- Configurations with respect to Sale order automation, EDI integration, Expiry Management, Batch management optimization, Delivery Management, Pricing, Billing, Shipping, Availability check, Output determination, Rebate agreements, intercompany billing.
- Support SAP configuration in areas of MM master data, goods movement, pricing procedure, WM pick up/putaway strategies configuration, pack and route optimization and handling unit management.
- Expertise in SAP tables, queries, BDC, LSMW BAPI's, BADI's, Functional Modules, EDI, ALE Batch Management IDOC's, CoreABAP, Interactive ALV rep and program debugging.
- Optimization of various processes in warehouse functions like pick and pack, inbound processing, outbound processing, route optimization, 3PL management processes for the SAP WM module implementation.
- Preparing test scripts and test data, conduct unit test (UAT) in development and user acceptance test (UAT) in quality system.
- Troubleshot complex issues during the implementation phase, utilizing expert knowledge in SAP functional modules to resolve problems efficiently.
- Delivered SAP training, user support and knowledge transfer along with successfully managing change management activities, including change requests, system enhancements, and post-go-live support to ensure smooth system adoption at end of project.
Senior Product Specialist
D-Link
Goa, India
03.2016 - 02.2017
- Liaised between customers and manufacturing to design new product.
- Was successful in resolving complex configuration issues and able to improve the sales output by assisting presales engineers with more successful resolution rate.
- Key Responsibilities: Technical training on enterprise level products to presales engineers and technical team.
- Assisting the core technical team to fix complex customer issues.
- Increased credibility and client awareness by developing technical SOP's.
Senior Quality Analyst
D-Link
Goa, India
11.2012 - 02.2016
- Testing of enterprise level products like switches/firewalls along with technical documentation and highlighting bugs in configuration.
- Created test cases and automation scripts.
- Simulated issues and reported issues to HQ based in Taiwan for product updates & developed workaround solutions till the resolution of issue.
- Performed gap analysis between business and technology solutions.
Associate Support Product Engineer
D-Link
Goa, India
12.2009 - 10.2012
- Provide technical support in SOHO segment of Smartlink products.
Education
Bachelor Of Engineering - Information Technology
Goa University
Goa, India 03.2005 - 06.2009
Skills
- Business process mapping and Analysis
- Process improvement/re-engineering and efficiency optimization
- Project management and stakeholder communication
- Supply Chain and Logistics management
- Change management and user adoption strategies
- Functional and Technical specifications documentation
- System Integration
- Digital Transformation
- Data Analysis
- Master data management and Governance
- SAP Configuration and Support (SAP MM/LE/WM/EWM/SD/PP)
- SAP SNP APO-DP
- SAP IBP
- DDMRP and SPO (Camelot Solutions)
- MS Projects, Confluence, JIRA
- Power BI, Excel, SQL
- EPG LFS-WMS/TMS/CnB/Lydia
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:
Certification
Demand Driven Planner Professional April 2022
Professional Scrum Master
Timeline
IT Projects Delivery Lead
AW Rostamani LLC
11.2025 - Current
WMS Consultant
Ehrhardt Partner Group
10.2023 - 10.2025
Network Supply Planning Specialist
Henkel
04.2021 - 09.2023
SAP Project Lead
Truebell Trading And Marketing LLC
04.2017 - 03.2021
Senior Product Specialist
D-Link
03.2016 - 02.2017
Senior Quality Analyst
D-Link
11.2012 - 02.2016
Associate Support Product Engineer
D-Link
12.2009 - 10.2012
Bachelor Of Engineering - Information Technology
Goa University
03.2005 - 06.2009