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title: "Ganesh Ramachandran - Senior Consultant in Chennai | Tal"
description: "Meet Ganesh Ramachandran, Building Zora AI S2P | Reimagining Source-to-Pay with AI | Procurement Intake & Orchestration | Digital Procurement Transformation | Program Management based in Chennai. AI stack includes claude, openai, and Figma Make. Explore public work links including medium."
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# Ganesh Ramachandran on Tal

## Headline

Building Zora AI S2P \| Reimagining Source\-to\-Pay with AI \| Procurement Intake & Orchestration \| Digital Procurement Transformation \| Program Management

## About

Ganesh is a Senior Consultant in Deloitte’s SCNO practice, focused on procurement transformation across advisory, digital procurement, intake and orchestration, and AI\-enabled solutions\. He has demonstrated experience in both Advisory Consulting such as Current State Blueprinting, Operation Model Assessment, ABC Evaluation \(As\-Is, To\-Be, Change Management\) & Digital Procurement Solution Roll\-Outs such as Coupa, earning Applause Awards for high\-impact delivery and leadership\. He also actively works on Automation & AI Accelerators for Sourcing & Procurement Use Cases\. Currently he serves as an AI Source\-to\-Pay \(S2P\) Product Manager for a flagship internal AI product suite aligned towards Procurement Analytics\. Ganesh has overall 7\+ years of experience in Consulting, Product & Program Management\. He is a certified Coupa Implementation Professional, experienced in Analytics, Procure to Pay \(P2P\), Supplier Enablement, Catalog and Supplier Information Management Modules\. Ganesh began his career as a Software Engineer with Tata Elxsi\. Post MBA in Operations, he joined GEP worldwide as Associate Product Manager where he owned and managed all Receivables Products \(GR, ASN, Service Confirmation, Return Note\) within GEP SMART and delivered solutions across diverse industries \(Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Retail and FMCG\)\.After a stint as APM, he ventured into Consulting with Thoucentric where he led the End\-to\-End Procurement Orchestration & Digital Transformation of the S2C landscape in the areas of Procurement Negotiations, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Risk & Resilience Management for a Fortune Global 500 Client\. Prior to joining Deloitte, he worked with KPMG Global Services as a Procurement Transformation Professional implementing Coupa for clients across Pharma, Paints & Coating Industries\. TEDx Organizer \| Space Enthusiast \| Blogger \| Content Writer Medium Blog URL: ganesh\-r\.medium\.com

## Location

Chennai

## AI stack

claude

openai

Figma Make

## Work experience

Senior Consultant at Deloitte, Nov 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Building Zora AI S2P

Consultant at KPMG, Dec 2023 \- Nov 2024 · 1 yr, India

Program Manager at Thoucentric, Jan 2022 \- Nov 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Highly Experienced in the following from a consulting lens • End to End Procurement Digital Transformation • Strategic Sourcing for Indirects • Building Resilience in Procurement • Procurement Strategy Consulting • Procurement Spend Analytics & Opportunity Assessment • Business Process Management & Workflow Automation

Associate Product Manager at GEP Worldwide, May 2021 \- Jan 2022 · 9 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Product: Receivables in Procure to Pay \(P2P\) My responsibilities as an APM at GEP included • Owning & managing the entire Receivables Product in GEP SMART \- Procure to Pay \(P2P\) suite • Interacting closely with client interface teams for Requirement Gathering and Gap Analysis • Brainstorming to analyze the problems, dependencies and all impact areas • Performing Industry Research to understand the competitors’ offerings • Conceptualising and designing the solution that is scalable, sticky and also in line with the Product Roadmap • Grooming the solution with Engineering team to ensure technical feasibility • Presenting the solution to impacting cross functional teams \(UI/UX, Engineering and other Product Modules\) and get the Stakeholder Alignment • Vetting the solution with client interface teams through workshops and concept walkthroughs • Using Agile Management practices to devise sprint wise quarter plans and ensure timely delivery of features • Performing release walkthroughs and demos to external stakeholders after each sprint

Product Management Intern at GEP Worldwide, May 2020 \- Jun 2020 · 2 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Researched the Peers and Industries to understand the competitive landscape of Digital Procurement and Blockchain Industry • Conducted Peer research on 36 direct and indirect players in the same industry as GEP to understand their stance in blockchain • Performed Industry Research on Top 18 Blockchain Platform to understand their offerings • Identified 3 use cases of Blockchain in Procurement Industry – Supply Chain Visibility or Ethical Procurement, Procurement Frauds Prevention & Reduction in Cycle Time • Used Multi Criteria Decision Analysis \(MCDA\) models like AHP and TOPSIS to quantify the factors influencing blockchain selection and ranking the platforms • Performed Cost Benefit Analysis and calculated a positive Net Present Value \(NPV\) \- A metric necessary for convincing the leadership team of Blockchain uptake • Estimated a Return on Investment \(ROI\) of 120%\(approx\) for the proposed Blockchain based Procurement solution \(5 Year Projected PV\) • Devised a 3\-layer product architecture using Hyperledger Fabric for digital signature of legal documents involved in Sourcing and Procurement

Software Engineer at Tata Elxsi, Jul 2016 \- Jun 2018 · 1 y 11 mo, Bangalore, Application Developer for Set Top Boxes \(STBs\) in for India’s top broadcasting & telecom company

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Operations Management, Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management \- SIOM

Engineer’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy

## Public links

- medium: https://medium\.com/@ganesh\-r

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