Rakesh Kakadia

Background

About Rakesh Kakadia

Rakesh is a PMP certified professional; strategic thinker with a background of more than 2.5 decades in delivering optimal results & IT value to business in high-growth environments in the areas of Information Technology. His overall experiences comprises of last 15+ years in SAP and Project Management, including Planning Systems, prior 10 years in the Production Planning, Scheduling and Manufacturing Operations Domain. He is a process oriented professional with proven abilities in preparing a technology road map having a clear framework for various processes to be implemented. Rakesh is skilled in initiating, administering and executing across a portfolio of projects harmonizing technical needs with business realities including Conceptualization, Budgeting / Estimation, Planning / Monitoring and Implementation. His areas of expertise includes Program & Project Management, Business Engagement, Business process Re-engineering, Change Management, Budget Planning, People Management, SAP-Production Planning, SAP-Variant Configuration with exposure to QM, SD, MM and other SAP modules. He has also been Core Team Member, i2-Factory Planner for Essar Steel India Ltd. Rakesh holds in-depth knowledge of Manufacturing & Project Business; especially Steel Business starting from Mining to Retail. He has worked in some of key areas like Steel Melting operations, Technology Cell Group, Business Planning, Systems Implementation, Production Planning, Analytics (MIS/EIS). Rakesh is apt in building and motivating large cross-functional teams that well exceed corporate expectations; innovative and results-driven manager focused on achieving exceptional results. Winner of Next100 CIO - 2015 Awards. Currently, assuming responsibilities of end-to-end IT Application and Infrastructure support, administration of IT Projects, Strategy & Governance, People management, Stakeholder management, Vendor & Supplier management & Budget management for Essar's Project Business in India & Overseas.