Architecture, delivery and platform leadership for enterprise planning across supply chain and finance.
Summary
Lara Srinath is a Master Anaplanner and Solution Architect with more than ten years of experience delivering, optimizing and supporting enterprise planning platforms across supply chain and finance.
His work spans solution architecture, platform operations, governance, data integration and continuous improvement. He has led cross-functional teams and business-critical platforms, partnering with executive stakeholders to build scalable, secure and high-performing planning systems.
Designed, implemented and supported a portfolio of 10+ production models serving more than 75 planners and business leaders across supply chain and finance.
Reduced model open and calculation times by up to 80%, maintained 99% availability and cut support-ticket volume by 25% through architecture and continuous-improvement initiatives.
Led data integration and oversaw 15+ enterprise integrations using Anaplan Connect, certificate authentication and scheduled pipelines.
Managed and mentored up to 8 direct reports and 15 cross-functional resources across discovery, design, delivery, hypercare and production support.
Implemented multi-echelon inventory optimization, replenishment planning, MPS and material planning with Anaplan Optimizer; developed Polaris and standard supply-chain application accelerators.
Del Monte: Extended the planning horizon from 3 to 24 months and reduced the planning cycle from 3 weeks to 1 week by unifying statistical forecasting, DRP, MPS and MRP with SAP execution.
Consultant
DeloitteManila, Philippines & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Designed forecasting solutions using statistical algorithms, outlier detection, demand-history correction and manual overrides.
Tenaga Nasional Berhad: Delivered demand and inventory planning across Distribution, Generation and Corporate business units during a 12-month transformation.
Denka Chemicals: Implemented BOM-driven material planning and actual-versus-budget financial planning for operations and finance teams.
Led discovery workshops, data preparation in R, scalable DISCO-based architecture, UAT, training and solution documentation.
Anaplan Developer
SolvanniCoimbatore, India
Designed, developed, and published an Inventory Planning model to the Anaplan App Hub.
Transformed Excel-based manual planning into real-time, multi-dimensional Anaplan models, enabling faster decisions and fewer errors.
Applied ALM to build, deploy, and maintain models across Dev/Test/Prod, with rollback safety.
Improved performance by monitoring and reducing sparsity, ensuring scalability and responsiveness on large datasets.
Skills
Platforms
Anaplan - Classic, Polaris, ALM, Data Hub, CloudWorks & Optimizer