Rahul Shekatkar

Sr Product Manager/Solution Architect – E2E Merch/MP&A Retail Systems 

Rahul is a retail systems expert with deep functional knowledge across a broad set of Merchandising and Inventory-related business capabilities acquired at two public retail companies over 20+ years. He is adept at driving strategic thinking and solutioning around complex end-to-end inventory-related retail processes at scale,  acting as a flywheel driving collaboration and delivery with senior and mid-level business and engineering partners on multi-year transformative technology implementations. Rahul is an analytical thinker with a customer-first mindset experienced working cross-functionally in matrixed organizations.

Experience

• Columbus Consulting – Nike  
  • Assisted in implementing O9 Solutions integrated Digital Demand sensing solution by establishing a QA/QE framework and setting up an effective reporting framework using Jira and Xray. 
• Five Below  – Sr. Director, Product Management: Merch Management, MP&A, Inventory Management & Advanced Analytics
  • Led the implementation of Oracle 19 Retail, RESA (Sales Audit), RMS (Stock ledger/Inventory Control), RPM (Pricing and Promotional Management), RTM (Global Trade Management including Item and Master Data Management and PO Management) and REIM (Accounts Payable/Invoice Match).  
  • Led the transformation of Store Inventory Management, defining new processes and implementing Manhattan’s new cloud-based Omni Active (MAO) platform
  • Led the solution architecture enabling omni capabilities Buy Online, Pickup in Store and Ship from Store ensuring all back-end systems across Planning and Allocations, Inventory Control, Inventory Accounting and Sales Audit supported the business requirements
  • Led the MDM process transformation, design and implementation of  Bamboo Rose as a Vendor Portal for Item and PO Management and its interplay with Oracle ERP for Item, Merch Hierarchy, Locations, suppliers, item attributes, alternate hierarchies, location attributes, etc.
  • Implemented SAS Viya’s Analytics Demand Forecasting platform to drive in-season planning and allocations. 
• The Gap, Inc.  – Director, Product Management: Merchandise Management, MP&A, Inventory Management & Advanced Analytics
  • Led the design and  implementation of multiple systems across core merchandising, pricing, planning, forecasting and data and analytics