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Wipro Consulting

Prashant H ThakurWipro Consulting

OverviewPrashant brings more than 6 and half years of consulting experience to his role as a senior consultant at

Wipro Consulting. His core area of expertise includes IT strategy, business process reengineering, ITGovernance, project management, ERP vendor evaluation and selection, SOX audits and performance

improvement using balanced scorecard and benchmarking. He is well versed with IT and management

frameworks like PMI, PRINCE 2, TOGAF, COBIT, ITIL and Lean.

Prior to Wipro Consulting, Prashant has worked with several top management consulting firms like

Siemens Management consulting services, KPMG and Capgemini in the Technology consulting practice.

He has advised and managed consulting engagements at CXOs and senior executive level and havedemonstrated technology and business consulting expertise for domestic as well as international clients

across manufacturing, Oil and Gas and media verticals.

He is also trained on several enterprise applications like SAP Material management (functional) and

Siemens PLM. He has not only worked on execution and project management aspects but also has

developed thought leadership in various aspects of presales, lead generation and account management.

Engagement ExperienceBusiness Process Improvement and harmonization for Procurement and HR for a media

conglomeratePrashant worked on a business process re-engineering engagement for procurement and HR processes for

a media client. The client is a leading media and entertainment conglomerate with services spanningbroadcasting, subscriptions, channel entertainment and other media related services and operations.

Prashant conducted current business assessment, analyzed processes across multiple business entities andsuggested improvements using tools like TOC and Lean management principles. The harmonized andimproved processes were later taken as input for SAP blueprinting phase.

Business process improvement for electromechanical company using Lean principlesPrashant led a full scale business process assessment engagement to improve process performance of aelectromechanical manufacturing company. The assessment involved studying and analyzing end to end

processes, conducting time-motion study, designing current and future state value stream maps,

identifying waste and redesigning processes and estimating benefits realization.

Developing Go-To market strategy for a Logistics majorPrashant identified and designed new service operations and systems to improve service management of a

logistic major. He took the lead in designing the work flows across business units in scope. This projectrequired an entire re-think of the companys market segmentation and customer identification approach.

Business process maturity assessment for an agro based manufacturing companyThe client is one of the leading producers of Animal & Poultry feed and they are also into poultry and

processed meat business. They were in the process to undertake ERP Implementation for all their majorbusiness. Before they could undertake such implementation, they wanted to conduct a Process Maturity

Assessment and Prioritization of key business process. Prashant has led this consulting engagement and

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used Process maturity assessment tools to analyze business process and assess its maturity level, conduct

gap analysis and suggest process improvement.

IT strategy and business process maturity assessment for a public sector chemical & fertilizer

company in IndiaFor a public sector chemical and fertilizer company, Prashant had spearheaded an engagement to define abusiness-driven technology strategy to support its business operations. This included creating a series of

future business scenarios, defining the business processes and technology capabilities required to achievethe scenarios, undertaking business and IT processes maturity assessments and developing animplementation plan encompassing the required change programs and their expected business impact.

The resulting strategy became the blueprint for the divisions IT initiatives over the next several years and

contributed to increases in customer satisfaction as well as reductions in service cycle times and unitcosts.

IT Strategy and roadmap design for a worlds leading manufacturer of plastics and laminated

tubesPrashant played a pivotal role in defining IT roadmap for a plastic manufacturing major based out of

India. His responsibilities included conducting IT and business assessments, understanding business pain

points and UDEs, defining futuristic IT framework, conduct gap analysis and calculate Benefit realization

Prashant also undertook ERP vendor evaluation and selection followed by implementation selectionengagement for the client.

Program management for ERP implementation for a leading media houseThe client is a leading player in the field of Media and Sports Entertainment based in India. The client

was implementing ERP for some of their functions ie F&A and Projects. Prashant played a role of third

party Program Manager for the ERP Team. His responsibilities included setting up PMO, monitoring andreviewing day to day activities as per project plan, maintaining issue register, log registers, resource

management and facilitate and chair project status meeting to the stakeholder. Prashant headed and

guided the teams towards successful delivery as well as helped in building a strong partnership with theclient to explore potential opportunities to improve clients strategy and ensure successful ERP

implementation.

Conducted IT Audits for Leading retail and financial services clientPrashant has conducted IT general control audits including audits for Logical Access Maintenance,

Program Change & Version Control, Computer Operations and End-User Computing program changes,

physical and information security.

IT Effectiveness Assessment for a largest Global Pharmaceutical Company in South KoreaPrashant was a part of the engagement team to conduct IT assessment study as well as optimization forcritical business processes of a Pharma major. The assessment involved studying and analyzing business

processes and existing applications, identification of potential candidates for application rationalization in

terms of Retain, Retire and Replace. Also, his role involved determining candidate processes for

implementation of optimization recommendations and benefits analysis.

SCM Applications transition management for a leading Earth Moving and Construction equipment

manufacturing company in Peoria, USPrashant has worked on designing application transition roadmap for a manufacturing company based out

of US. His responsibility included application portfolio analysis, drafting transition plan and training plan

for the resources and application transition sequencing.

IT Effectiveness assessment for Leading Auto Major in Michigan, USPrashant was a part of portfolio analysis team for application rationalization engagement for an auto

major based out of US. The assignment required performing an application portfolio analysis exercise to

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