Prashant H Thakur

Wipro Consulting

Overview
Prashant 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, IT
Governance, 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 have
demonstrated 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 Experience
Business Process Improvement and harmonization for Procurement and HR for a media
conglomerate
Prashant 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 spanning
broadcasting, subscriptions, channel entertainment and other media related services and operations.
Prashant conducted current business assessment, analyzed processes across multiple business entities and
suggested improvements using tools like TOC and Lean management principles. The harmonized and
improved processes were later taken as input for SAP blueprinting phase.

Business process improvement for electromechanical company using Lean principles

Prashant led a full scale business process assessment engagement to improve process performance of a
electromechanical 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 major

Prashant 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 project
required an entire “re-think” of the company’s market segmentation and customer identification approach.

Business process maturity assessment for an agro based manufacturing company

The 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 major
business. 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 India
For a public sector chemical and fertilizer company, Prashant had spearheaded an engagement to define a
business-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 achieve
the scenarios, undertaking business and IT processes maturity assessments and developing an
implementation plan encompassing the required change programs and their expected business impact.
The resulting strategy became the blueprint for the division’s IT initiatives over the next several years and
contributed to increases in customer satisfaction as well as reductions in service cycle times and unit
costs.

IT Strategy and roadmap design for a world’s leading manufacturer of plastics and laminated
tubes
Prashant 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 selection
engagement for the client.

Program management for ERP implementation for a leading media house

The 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 and
reviewing 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 the
client to explore potential opportunities to improve client’s strategy and ensure successful ERP
implementation.

Conducted IT Audits for Leading retail and financial services client

Prashant 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 Korea

Prashant was a part of the engagement team to conduct IT assessment study as well as optimization for
critical 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, US
Prashant 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, US

Prashant 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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find ways to improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness of ongoing application maintenance &
production support services. This Applications Portfolio Analysis exercise was also aimed at identifying
the inventory of production applications that are suitable for offshore maintenance and production
support.

Benchmarking and Balanced Scorecard for Largest Oil (Exploration & Production) company in
India
Prashant was a part of business consulting engagement to design balanced scorecard and conduct
benchmarking of key business processes for an Oil and Gas major in India. Prashant conducted
workshops, analyzed key performance metrics, designed strategic maps, defined balanced scorecard for
Basins, Material management and IT services and designed benchmarking models for the mentioned
processes.

PLM Implementation for leading Auto part and Glass Suppliers in Michigan, US
The client is a global tier 1 automotive supplier with nearly a century of automotive engineering .The
client had implemented PLM – Team center Solution for the Automotive division. Prashant was trained
on PLM Team center – Manufacturing module and has worked as a Manufacturing Consultant in the
implementation.

Education
Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai University
Masters in Management studies, (Systems and Operations)

Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering, Mumbai University

Bachelor of Engineering in Computers

Technology Competencies
SAP Material Management
Siemens Product Lifecycle management (Team center Manufacturing)

Achievements
Certifications
Certified PRINCE 2 Foundation (OGC, UK)
Certified PRINCE 2 Practioner (OGC,UK)
Certified Lean management practioner professional from QAI
Certified Project Management Professional (PMI, US)
Certified Business process re-engineering professional from JMA, Japan
Certified IT Governance Foundation professional (ISACA)
Certified ITIL V2 Foundation professional (EXIN)
Certified COBIT Foundation professional (IT Governance Network)
TOGAF v 8.0 Enterprise Architect trained ( The Open Group)
Six Sigma Black Belt trained
Theory of Constraints trained from Siemens
SAP MM (functional) trained from Siemens
SAP PLM Teamcenter (Manufacturing and Engineering) trained from UGS

Professional Memberships
PMI

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