Randi Elkind

Relevant Business Experience:

  • A proven change agent and innovative thinker with over twenty yearsof transformation experience with large scale enterprises, shared service organizations, and global companies. Extensive leadership experience with demonstrated success in improving company operations and delivering targeted results. Provide strategic and operational guidance to start-up organizations, in-flight at risk programs, practice building, and organizations looking to drive operational efficiency and effectivity. Serve as an accomplished and effective bridge between business and technology. Successful in removing companies operational gaps and tightly aligning their operations to their competitive strategies.
  • Developed the go-forward roadmap that enabled Supply Chain to better service its’ customer base for a utilities company. Responsible for all aspects of the business design and implementation as Project Director in Phase One and Lead Business Architect in Phase Two. The transformation program’s goal was to enable further optimization of the recently implemented SAP ERP system and included organizational, process and technology enhancements. Benefits included enhanced procurement capabilities through the use of SAP, increased account payable automation, better tracking of purchased materials and services, improved internal controls and implementation of process improvements linked back to the business requirements. Provided full visibility at an organization-wide level into company purchases through a comprehensive spend analysis, improved data integrity through the cleansing of master data, and the implementation of sourcing tools and capabilities to enable benefits to be realized on a sustainable basis.
  • Business architect and procurement team lead responsible for the detailed listing of all Procurement, Logistics and Finance processes with identified business process gaps to the target software for a shared services healthcare supply chain organization. Part of a multi-disciplinary team that developed the design, implementation plan and budget of an SAP-based supply chain solution for a shared services company consisting of 12 healthcare organizations.
  • Performed strategic assessment and business case for the development of the procurement e-marketplace solution for a shared services Education Supply Chain Organization. Developed the initial marketing plan, the business requirements for the e-procurement software, and the managed services to implement and host the platform. Continued to serve as the business advisor on overall business strategy and direction of the program and eMarketplace. Led the Supplier Enablement stream for the e-marketplace implementation.
  • Led implementation of SAP SRM for a high tech manufacturing. Deployed to 3 continents, 5 countries, over 1300 users, 11 supplier catalogs, and 3 languages. Fully integrated system to SAP ERP backend, EDI P.O. invoicing. Solution included Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS).

Relevant Career Experience:

2014 – Present / Resources Global Professionals
Independent Contractor
2005 – 2014 / CGI Group
Director, Consulting
1999 – 2005 / Capgemini Ernst & Young
Senior Manager
1994 – 1997 / Ernst & Young LLP
Manager
1997 – 1999 / CSC; Senior Consultant