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# Suhas Deobhankar on Tal

## Headline

Technology Leader \| Digital Transformation & IT Strategy \| Enterprise Application Development \| Board Member

## About

Strategic, influential, and results\-oriented Senior Information Technology Leader with over 20 years of progressive experience in aligning business strategy with IT across multiple industry verticals\. Proven track record for driving continuous improvements by drawing on expertise in people, tools, technology & processes to align with business transformational goals with considerations of quality, cost, and speed\. Trusted advisor to executive leadership team and C\-Suite for IT Strategy and roadmap\. Built strong partnership between Business Units and Technology team to align & implement high impact, best\-in\-class digital solutions\. Breadth of business experience in all aspects of Operations and Supply Chain Management including Demand Planning, S&OP, Strategic Sourcing, Inventory & Cost Management, NPI Planning and On\-time Delivery fulfillment\. Deep technical experience in SAP Enterprise Ecosystem including business processes of Prospect\-to\-Order, Order to\-Cash \(O2C\), Forecast\-to\-Delivery \(F2D\), Manufacturing, Procure\-to\-Pay \(P2P\), Integrated Business Planning \(IBP\), Business Intelligence and Analytics, Cloud solutions and E\-Commerce Portals\.

## Location

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

## Work experience

Director of Business Systems at MiniMed, Mar 2026 \- Present · 5 mos

Director of Business Systems at Medtronic, 2024 \- Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Responsible for providing technology leadership including ERP Strategy and Roadmap, ERP Budgeting, Program Management for ERP/Planning/CRM/Reporting/SaaS Applications including Application Design, Solution Architecture, Development, Enhancements, Reports, Maintenance, Integration, Business Continuity/DR, Security, Resource Management and Competency Development\. Managed several business\-critical global projects focusing on Digital transformations, App rationalization, new technology evaluation & implementations, cloud migrations, process re\-engineering, data accuracy, and data governance\. Developed strong relationships with key business stakeholders in Finance, Sales, Operations, Manufacturing, Procurement and Quality to understand business processes, unique challenges and delivered tailored solutions to improve efficiencies, reduce risk and optimize cost savings\. Managed ERP Delivery departmental budget and spend for external services, MSP contracts, licensing, Capex/Opex, depreciation, etc\.

Director, Business Applications at Semtech, 2021 \- 2024 · 3 yrs, Overall responsibility of IT Applications and B2B/B2C integrations\. Product Owner for SAP Systems to deliver innovative & proactive solutions to business challenges\. Proven expertise in on\-time/within\-budget/in\-scope management of complex programs & projects through use of project management methodologies and best practices for deploying new IT functionalities\. Drove organization\-wide cross\-functional collaboration between Business Units, Sales, Marketing, Finance and IT teams for coherent, integrated processes towards shared outcomes\. Led strategic and transformational initiatives through various business cycles like acquisitions, divestitures, green field & brown\-field implementations of SAP and other IT Applications\. Demonstrated expertise in managing relationships with IT Vendors, MSP Partners, and Consultants from inception to partnership\.

Board Member, Semtech Women’s Leadership Council at Semtech, 2021 \- 2023 · 2 yrs, Mission to elevate, empower and advocate for women at Semtech and in the communities around the world\.

Senior Manager, Business Systems at Semtech, 2016 \- 2021 · 5 yrs, Coach, mentor and Subject Matter Expert \(SME\) to Global Supply Chain, Operations, Sales and Marketing departments to increase productivity by maximizing effectiveness of ERP, Planning Systems and Analytics tools\. Led cross\-functional program teams of business users, vendors, infrastructure team, testers, business analysts, and developers to deliver projects on\-time, within budget and with high quality\. Project Manager for various cross\-modular SAP Projects deploying functionalities for continuous improvement and strategic/tactical reporting for Forecasting and SIOP, Order\-to\-Cash, Procure\-to\-Pay, Profitability, Gross Margin analysis, What\-if simulations using \-SAP ECC, SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization, SAP EIS & SAP Business Intelligence\. Managed day\-to\-day competing priorities for Global IT Business System Analysts by planning, organizing, directing and controlling their work to ensure prompt acknowledgement of IT issues, root cause analysis, on\-time resolution within stipulated Service Level Agreements \(SLAs\), change management, and delivery of results in an efficient manner\. Built strong cross\-functional SAP team and delivered several technical projects like Database upgrade from Oracle to HANA, Enhancement pack upgrades, Support pack upgrade, Live Cache upgrade, etc\. to keep IT systems up to date\.

Manager \- Operations Business Systems and Master Data Management at Semtech, 2014 \- 2015 · 1 yr, Ontario, Canada, Played a crucial role of liaison between Operations and other departments like IT, Sales, Marketing and Engineering to translate business requirements into SAP ECC and Oracle Agile PLM functionalities\. Responsible in functioning and strategy of Operations business systems \(primarily SAP and Oracle Agile PLM\) to align with Operations business goals and objectives\. Operations track lead for company\-wide green\-field $35M SAP implementation project across 40 sites\. Instrumental in successful deployment of SAP functionalities, training and onboarding of >60 Ops super\-users\. Breadth and depth of experience in all aspects of Master Data Management including building of the Governance model, Procedures, Data dictionaries, establishing Workflows and scripts for data extraction/migration and reports to monitor/improve the data quality\. Full responsibility in management of all master data elements in the SAP planning and execution systems like Materials, Plants, Vendors, Bill\-of materials, Routings, lead\-times, Planning Horizons, Lot sizes, Resource capacities, production, shipping and receiving calendars, Purchasing Info Records, Source Lists, Safety Stock etc\. Managed and delivered Data Cleansing and Data Migration from legacy systems into SAP at go\-live\. Introduced reports to support the business and monitor master data quality, metrics, and trends\. Worked closely with internal audit team to document controls for master data and planning processes\.

Supply Chain Manager at Semtech, 2009 \- 2014 · 5 yrs, Toronto, Canada Area, Demonstrated success in managing end\-to\-end supply chain processes \(Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Production Purchasing\), with on\-site/global remote teams in close coordination with contract manufacturers, 3rd party suppliers & logistics providers with complete focus on Quality, Speed and Cost\. Managed Global Strategic Sourcing, Vendor selections, Contract Negotiations and assessing supplier capability from the technology, quality and cost standpoint and provide inputs to R&D & Quality for supplier selection\.

Senior Supply Chain Consultant \- Advanced Planning & Optimization at Bristlecone, 2005 \- 2008 · 3 yrs, Directed project teams in timely closure of global Implementation/Roll Outs/Upgrade/Support Projects and Pre\-sales in variety of roles \- Project Manager, Solution Architect, Pre\-Sales and Functional Lead\. Deep experience in Business Consulting in areas of Supply Chain, Sales, Inventory and Operations – Demand Planning and Forecasting \(DP\), MRP, Supply Network Planning \(SNP\), Global Available\-to\-Promise \(GATP\), Linear and discrete Optimization, Capable\-to\-Match \(CTM\), Vendor Managed Inventory \(VMI\), Heuristics, Deployment and Transport Load Builder \(TLB\)\. Participated in 3 full life cycle implementations and 2 support projects of SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization \(APO\)\. Project engagements with reputed multi\-national organizations like Unilever, Georgia Pacific, Sargento Foods, Mahindra & Mahindra, Kansai\-Neroloc Paints, Danone Foods, Marico Industries, Gennum Corporation, etc\. Led activities blueprinting, prototyping, designing and implementation\. Extensively worked on architecture, configuration, master data, test scripts, unit, integration and regression testing, user training, documentation, cutover and go\-live support\. Key contributor in achieving SAP Customer Competency Centre \(CCC\) at Unilever Asia Pacific for global implementation, roll\-outs and support of SAP SCM modules\. Built internal Accelerated and Pre\-configured Solutions to achieve faster ROI\.

## Education

Supply Chain Analytics, MIT Professional Education

Business Analytics for Leaders: From Data to Decisions, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

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