2025
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Ramesh is an AI-driven manufacturing technology leader who unites shop-floor realities with enterprise systems to deliver measurable outcomes at scale. He led a global SAP S/4HANA template for discrete manufacturing, designing a clean-core architecture and instituting code-quality guardrails that lifted reliability while accelerating feature delivery. Under his program leadership, daily, outcome-focused scrums cleared more than 190 critical roadblocks in nine months, keeping scope intact and schedules on track across multiple plants and time zones. Ramesh architected a new Quality Management stream and production-grade Certificate of Conformance capabilities so that inspection results, genealogy, and compliance artifacts travel end-to-end with each part—improving traceability, audit readiness, and customer confidence.
He pairs deep ERP expertise with modern platforms: data lakehouse patterns for OEE and yield analytics; a BTP-centric integration mesh that synchronizes IoT/MES/ERP events for near-real-time visibility; and GenAI-assisted document intelligence that accelerates vendor onboarding by extracting and validating RFQs, spec sheets, and certificates. To make this velocity durable, Ramesh built a hands-on Excellence Center that codifies standards, runs peer design reviews, and mentors engineers into technical leaders. He authored SOPs, naming conventions, and programming guidelines that simplify handoffs from build to run, reduce toil for operations, and raise compliance posture without slowing delivery.
Ramesh also models values-based leadership. He proactively mitigates delivery risk through capacity planning and partnership orchestration, and he protects teams with smart scope management and pragmatic automation—delivering a critical release with roughly half the anticipated custom build effort while preserving work-life balance. His security mindset is practical and proven, including recognition for quickly identifying and neutralizing a sophisticated phishing attempt. The through-line in his work is a repeatable pattern: align on value streams, architect for traceability and quality, automate what matters, and invest in people. The result is resilient programs that scale across plants and regions without sacrificing speed, safety, or quality—an achievement that advances digital manufacturing from slideware to sustained enterprise impact.
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Prashant Chaturvedi
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Innovation in Services and Solutions - NextGen Technology
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United States
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Naresh Erukulla
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Innovation in Technology - Information Technology
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United States
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Hangzhou Ouchao Trading Co., Ltd.
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Innovation in Design - Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
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China
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Flying Fish Creativity (Taiwan)
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Innovation in Campaign - New Category
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Taiwan