This is the biograpy of the author of this site, Mr. Santosh Karkhanis.
Mr, Karkhanis is a senior SAP R/3 free lance consultant, consulting worldwide for the last 15 years. He has implemented SAP in USA, UK, Australia, China, South Korea, India etc. with big consulting firms like IBM USA, PWC USA, SAP America etc. for big Multinational clients in various industries.
Experience Summary
• A highly experienced, result-oriented individual with Fifteen years of SAP R/3 implementation experience and over Eleven years of domain experience (Total 26 years of Industry experience).
• A first class B.Tech Engineer from IIT, Mumbai.
• First rank in Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications from NITIE, Vihar Lake, Mumbai. Completed many Management courses from institutes in India & abroad.
• Worked on SAP IS-Retail with a big retail group.
• Worked as a Project Manager on a mega SAP implementation in South-East Asia.
• Actively involved with SAP AG in developing SAP R/3 ver 4.x.
• Trained by SAP through their ‘Training for Partners’ course.
• Experience of implementation, upgrade, Support & training in SAP R/3
• Global experience of implementing SAP worldwide with Big consulting firms.
• Background and skills are unique as a result of working as a Project manager, functional analyst, ABAP/4 technologist and SAP report developer
• As a senior information technology professional, is thoroughly familiar with system development life-cycle methodologies. Is familiar with ValueSAP methodology (the latest version of ASAP), Accelerated SAP (ASAP) methodology and Price Waterhouse SAP Tool Kit.
• Was involved in designing strategy for ‘Organizational Change Management’ for SAP R/3 implementation.
• Familiar with Quality standards. Was a core team member in implementation of 'ISO9000' standards in many organizations and was a 'TQM' program facilitator in software industry.
• Involved in the delivery and training programs in SAP R/3.
• Implemented SAP R/3 in South East Asia (China, Korea) where user representatives were not familiar with English.
• Bagged a prestigious award in ‘Supply Chain Management’ in ‘Lakshya-2002’ event organized by NITIE, Mumbai and ‘Confederation of Indian Industries’.
Modules implemented
• Warehouse Management (WM)
• Service Management (SM/CS)
• Plant maintenance (PM)
• Quality Management (QM)
• Production Planning (PP)
• Materials Management (MM)
Trained by SAP Asia, Singapore in
• SD Module (in 1995)
Industries worked with
• Retail
• Utilities (Power generation & distribution)
• Electronics (including PC manufacturing)
• Apparel Footwear
• Specialty Chemicals
• Pharmaceutical
• Light Engineering Goods
• Oil & Natural Gas
• Automobile
SAP Versions worked with
• ECC 6
• ECC 5
• R/3 ver 4.7
• R/3 ver 4.6x
• R/3 ver 4.5x
• R/3 ver 4.0x
• R/3 ver 3.1x
• R/3 ver 2.1x
• R/3 ver 2.0x
• R/2 ver 5.x
• R/2 ver 4.x
Implemented SAP R/3 in countries
• UK
• USA
• Australia
• Hong Kong
• Mexico
• China
• South Korea
• India
Implemented SAP R/3 with big consulting firms like
• PriceWaterhouse Coopers, USA
• PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Hong Kong
• PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Australia
• IBM, USA
• IBM, Hong Kong
• IBM, India
• SAP America, USA
• Origin, USA
Special Skills
Very cool & calm personality. Can take decisions calmly in very demanding situations.
A result oriented person.
A very fast learner. Can learn new skills (Software & others) very fast.
Application oriented. Can think of application of any new software/ package.
A born leader. Can lead & motivate sub-ordinates.
Very good team member. Can understand feelings of colleagues & keep them comfortable.
Excellent communicator. Can understand exact needs of customer & can direct the delivery team to work on fulfillment of the needs.
Educational Background
• A first class B.Tech. Engineer from IIT, Mumbai (1983 batch)
• First rank in ‘Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications’ from NITIE, Vihar Lake, Mumbai
• Completed ‘Supply Chain Management’ and ‘Production Planning’ courses from APICS, USA
• Completed ‘Gemba Kaizan’ from JMA,Tokyo, Japan with 92% marks
