RAVIKANTH “RAVI” GADICHERLA

Establish enterprise accountability: Lead data, AI, and governance for SAP S/4HANA- and o9-enabled E2E planning, aligning 29 enterprise domains with demand, supply, and integrated business-planning decisions.

Strengthen data trust and control: Apply enterprise governance standards, data-quality management, and SAP–GCP–Sievo reconciliation across critical data flows.

Govern investment and partners: Govern approximately $45–60M in annual Data & Analytics portfolio and vendor scope, aligning investment, capacity, controls, and enterprise priorities.

Build stewardship and adoption: Built a 40+ person internal data, AI, analytics, and governance organization and trained 250+ procurement and supplier-finance users.

Scale governed decisions: Enabled North America and Latin America planning-data deployment, creating a repeatable foundation for continued global rollout.

Govern industrial data at the edge: Aligned enterprise data standards and governed products with smart-factory and IoT initiatives supporting predictive maintenance, OEE visibility, process-quality analytics, material-flow intelligence, and energy optimization.

Productize enterprise data: Scaled Buyer 360 across 13+ domains, 2,000+ commodities, and 35+ market-data sources; created 12 reusable spend and pricing products that realized $200K+ in reuse value.

Connect governance to value: Deployed cost, pricing, category, and order-to-cash analytics that identified $15M+ in cash opportunities and delivered $4.7M in annual cash acceleration.

Set the growth analytics agenda: Built and executed a multi-year roadmap across Tableau, Power BI, SSRS/SSIS, and Azure AutoML with executive sponsorship.

Improve margin and predictability: Led analytics supporting >500 bps standard-margin expansion and EBIT improvement from 13% to 18%.

Sustained 97.5% sales-forecast accuracy for eight consecutive quarters.

Unify commercial execution: Established a 360° customer view in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, integrating actionable insights and increasing CRM usage to 70% within six months.

Scale standards and ownership: Launched the global Business Intelligence Competency Center, shared data standards, governance practices, and a master-data-management framework.

Optimize cash across the network: Led analytics across 7 entities and 60+ countries; managed a $2–5M annual portfolio spanning delivery, integrations, change, governance, and SOX compliance.

Accelerate inventory decisions: Built SAP HANA and Tableau inventory analytics supporting FY15 free operating cash flow of $267M, up $111M; delivered an obsolete-inventory report in one week that generated $1M in sales.

Modernize enterprise intelligence: Directed SAP BI, NetWeaver, and HANA strategy, standardizing reporting and governed analytics across commercial and operational functions.

Create executive visibility: Designed a Tableau product-life-cycle dashboard recognized with Kennametal’s 2015 Impact Award; advanced decision enablement recognized by the 2015 Strategic Reward Program Award.

Shape culture through continuous improvement: Contributed to Lean Steering Committee initiatives using FMEA and Value Stream Mapping; received Manager’s Awards in 2009 and 2010.

Formulated comprehensive SAP Business Warehouse (BW) solution strategy and architecture for complex retail BI implementations.

Gathered detailed user requirements and executed robust data modeling using entity-relationship and star-schema concepts as a key member of SAP Business Warehouse (BW) implementation teams.