Abraham Kurian Email Address

Chief Information Officer

Harsco Corporation is a diversified, worldwide industrial services company. Harsco's businesses serve some of the world's largest and most essential industries, including non-residential construction, infrastructure, steel, metals, minerals, energy, and railways.

As a CIO I have over 21 years of true global IT leadership experience. With consistent track record of productivity, profits and internal/external customer satisfaction in various industries including Manufacturing, Distribution, Retail, Wholesale,Warehousing and Consulting. I have designed and implemented 30+ ERPs which delivered a strong ROI. Helping C-level executives to achieve maximum efficiency by optimizing business functions. Core Competencies: Strategic and Business Planning, Enterprise Architecture, Process improvement & Best Practices, Hands on Domain Expert, Budget & Cost Management, Project Management, Data Security, Onshore/Offshore Models, Oracle EBS, BaaN, and JDE ERP , Supply Chain Optimization, Industrial Manufacturing, Auto Parts Manufacturing, Consulting, SOX, HRIS and CRM systems, I have extensive and impressive global experience, hold an MBA and previously worked for IBM. My recent key accomplishments are: ■ WORKING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT Developed and executed inventory optimization strategy to reduce the excess inventory by 6M and improved the working capital by 21M in a year ■ BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT Including product life cycle management, Engineering Change management, implemented several work flow based Business Process to improve organizational efficiency and reduce the operational cost by 5M yearly. ■ MANUFACTURING EXECUTION Instituted Lean Manufacturing and other transnational process improvements. Infused companies with continuous improvement cultures including educating hundreds of employees on improvement methodology, TQM and process re-engineering ■ CRM Instituted a complete integrated CRM including bidding, pipe line activities, quote management, Voice of customer and field service calls. Re-engineered and migrated a complete manual system into the modern platform independent technology. ■ ACQUISITIONS:Directed acquisition team and executed IT integration for fourteen acquisitions across the globe.