Alok Kulkarni

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About Alok Kulkarni

15+ years of total experience in strategizing, building, and delivering innovative solutions to complex supply chain problems with exposure to both SaaS and Managed Services model.As a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), my role is contributing to product vision, create product roadmap and channelize efforts to drive value ranked backlog to rollout breakthrough solutions that increases overall value proposition.I have domain expertise in spare part planning, part service lifecycle management, demand forecasting, service level optimization, supply planning, supply chain analytics and diagnostics.I manage agile teams to build and deliver solutions that connect supply chain data, reveal planning insights, and transform supply chains by enabling actionable intelligence for fortune 500 customers.Lead delivery of next generation product features/solutions by conducting research, understand shared needs of customer, competitive analysis, industry knowledge, market trends, collaborating with domain experts and engineering teams.I have successfully completed three major releases of SpareX ((with Entercoms Inc), a comprehensive spare part planning suite. I also get opportunity within Baxter Planning to drive the roadmap of comprehensive spare part planning suite, Prophet, and two MVP initiatives, Advanced Life Cycle Planning that offers predictive planning capabilities and Service Data Hub (SDH) that offer data platform for prescriptive analytics for service supply chain optimization. Skills: Product Vision, Product Roadmaps, Requirement Analysis, Agile Scrum, Building MVP, Business Process Automation, Team Management, Cross Functional Coordination, Data Modelling, Data Visualization, Data Analysis and ETL. Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Excel, PostgreSQL, Python (Pandas), Miro, Draw.io, Databricks (basic), Power BI, Figma (basic).Exposure to client facing role, cloud-based deployments (AWS), optimization techniques, API development and testing, solution adoption strategies, domain driven Information model, sales support, conducting trainings and interviews.