Harishankar K

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Visiting faculty on Digital Transformation, Digital Supply Chain Management & Operations. My focus areas include : - Design & teach courses on above areas - Collaborate with faculty members to develop innovative courses, research topics and case studies - Mentor & support select Post Graduate & PhD students - Engage with industry to develop and provide unit based programs for value

Open Network for Digital Commerce is a transformational project backed by Ministry of Industry and Commerce - DPIIT with the objective of democratising and significantly scaling E-Commerce across the country. This will be a significant addition to the country's digital public infrastructure. As part of ONDC Leadership team, I am working with industry leaders, network participants, solution providers and the MSME community to identify and take forward opportunities for value chain transformation. We are specifically focusing on opportunities that have the widest impact and which requires experimentation & proofs of concept to arrive at scalable models; and then get multiple stakeholders, beneficiaries and funding / development agencies aligned on these opportunities. Some of the areas we are working on are : - Getting the large traditional trade channel to be an effective & viable part of Digital Commerce leveraging an Open Network - Getting small, medium & micro industries incl artisinal sectors to leverage Digital Commerce and Open Network for wider reach and growth - Digitizing Agriculture and related areas to improve market access and efficiencies improving incomes and livelihoods.

Leading Technology for Global Digital Core Transformation program (Project Aurora). This is a significant multi-year business transformation of core processes across all Business Units in Kimberly-Clark. It entails : - Implementation of a global S/4 HANA (for core ERP) with re-engineered processes; - Best in class connected solutions for Supply Chain, Order-to-Cash and Finance/GBS - Data & Analytics and AI/ML capabilities; - Move to cloud infrastructure Also lead Kimberly-Clark's Global Digital Technology Centre (GDTC) in Bangalore

IT Leadership role reporting to Global CIO Responsibilities include : - Strategy and Road map for Digital Core with SAP S/4 as a Business Transformation Program - IT Capabilities for Corporate Functions and Global Business Services - Digital Engineering including Intelligent Automation, Integration and CI/CD - Enterprise Architecture to support all capabilities in Kimberly-Clark globally Also lead Kimberly-Clark’s Global Digital & Technology Centre in Bangalore to leverage talent and partner ecosystem

Partner with Global Supply Chain, Finance and R&D functions to conceive and develop solutions and drive the agenda on Digitisation of the Core functions. Member of the Global Enterprise & Technology Solutions (ETS) Leadership of Unilever and reporting to the Global CIO. Responsible for Enterprise Applications globally for Unilever - covering ERP (SAP) and other platforms including Oracle and Integration that support our core business operations across all markets. Lead a team responsible for Intelligent Automation ( RPA and Cognitive) across Unilever Lead a globally dispersed internal team of IT professionals and IT partners - software vendors and systems integrators.

Have led the establishment and ramp-up of Bangalore centre for Unilever's Enterprise & Technology Solutions. This is now Unilever's largest hub for IT and Services globally - with a focus on emerging markets led innovation and leveraging the partner ecosystem in India. This centre is increasingly taking lead on newer areas including Digital Core, Analytics and Intelligent Automation

Led IT for Customer Development and Supply Chain. Reporting to Global CIO and IT Business Partner to Global Customer Development and Supply Chain leadership.

Responsible for IT for Corporate Functions globally in Unilever covering Finance, HR, Workplace, Services and Agile working & Collaboration. Reporting to Global CIO and Business Partner to Chief Enterprise Support Officer. Led the IT enablement streams on this transformation to establish global shared services As an added responsibility, led the establishment of Unilever 's Global Centre for Enterprise Support & IT Innovation in Bangalore

Vice President - IT at Hindustan Unilever Ltd and Unilever South Asia. As CIO of HUL, Led all aspects of IT working closely with the business leadership of HUL. Led significant multi-year programs including : - End-to-end SAP implementation - a first time for HUL - IT capabilities for Customer Development & Retail Execution including distributor management systems, handhelds for field force and enablement of Shakthi channel - all of which were first of its kind for CPG industry in the country

Responsible for IT Systems for HLL's Largest division - Home & Personal Care. Led key initiatives on IT capability for End-to-end Supply Chain and supported big business transformation initiatives

Member of a small business team on E-Commerce at Hindustan Lever. We conceived and created capabilities for Customer and Supplier Collaboration

Part of a small team working with the HUL Board to identify growth business opportunities for Hindustan Lever. A number of these have since been taken forward as businesses

Was Head of IT for Ponds India (then a separate Unilever company). Was also responsible for a number of Commercial projects associated with the integration of Ponds India into Hindustan Lever

Responsible for Finance and Customer Supply Chain & Logistics for HIndustan Lever - South India