Alok Buch Email Address

Information Technology Value Stream Manager Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain

General Atomics (GA) and its affiliated companies now constitute one of the world's leading resources for high-technology systems

• Highly motivated, self-driven, results oriented, and seasoned SAP professional with the ability to work under challenging deadlines achieving deliverables successfully and on time• A good team player with excellent communication and presentation skills• Demonstrated leadership skills by leading a team of 15-30 consultants as a Solution Architect/Manager for almost 6 years• Over 9 years of functional consulting experience implementing SAP solutions with 7 full life-cycle SAP implementations in Consumer products and Aviation, Aerospace & Defense industry• An expert who is always keen to learn and understand business process intricacies around R&D, Engineering & Quality, Planning & Operations, Procurement & Inventory with an open mind before formulating a system design proposal• Responsible for designing, implementing, and managing end-to-end solutions in the actual costing (MTO/GPD) and standard costing environment for business processes like Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Concept Through Certification (C2C), Order Through Manufacture (O2M), Requisition to Pay (R2P), Specific to A&D: - Military Contract Flowdown Solution, Solution to protect technical data from unauthorized access based on ITAR control requirements• Extremely strong in designing aggregate and detailed planning solutions in SAP – S&OP, Production Planning, MPS, and MRP based on business requirements from various stakeholders in the organization• A functional expert with SAP PP/MM/WM, ATP, Batch Management and Serial Number Management modules and their integration touch-points with QM, SD, and FI/CO • Highly proficient with other SAP modules like QM and Project Systems (PS). Good working knowledge of various APO modules (DP/SNP/PPDS/gATP)• Highly proficient technically to understand ABAP programs, debugging, identifying user exits, BADIs, BAPIs, and function modules, write functional specifications, and work with the ABAP development team