About

Fuwad Ghani is an experienced engineering manager with over 17 years of experience working across product, consulting, and services industries. Currently, he is the Director of Software Engineering at Walmart Global Tech India, where he leads the core retail practices to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs, including GNFR - Indirect procurement, Manufacturing - Supply chain, Real Estate - Property management, and IoT product development for HVAC and Energy use cases in Store Facility management. He also leads key horizontal platform services like UX, CTC, Internal Controls, Integrations, and Mobility/Portal. Fuwad is a skilled professional in business process, SRM, P2P, customer relationship management (CRM), SAP architecture, SAP ERP, and pre-sales. He is a SAP Certified Development Consultant ABAP Workbench focused on SAP ABAP from Siemens Academy. In his previous role as Senior Engineering Manager at Walmart, Fuwad led the manufacturing product for Walmart, defined the roadmap while working closely with the business and driving initiatives, built teams from scratch, and led to support associates own their career across product management and technology. He also ideated, conceptualized, innovated, and implemented value for the business, drove digital transformation for the manufacturing of private labels across supply chain and plant automation, and drove agile ways of working while incubating the product mindset to drive business need vs want for speed and reduced time to market. Additionally, he drove automation to enable CICD across product value stream. Before joining Walmart, Fuwad worked as a Senior SAP Consultant at Capgemini, where he provided SAP consulting services to clients and designed solutions to re-engineer their business processes with SAP best practices. He also worked on PoCs to demonstrate the 'As to be process' in emerging technologies like SAP HANA, Netweaver AS 7.40, Mobility, and CRM. He delivered projects in various SAP implementations, support, and roll-out landscape of clients, defined the delivery process for the project in terms of best practices and methodology, and provided expertise in ERP concepts for the manufacturing industry in various domains. Fuwad holds a degree in MCA from Aligarh Muslim University, an Executive Program for Leadership in Organizational Leadership from IIM Bangalore, and a SAP Certified Development Consultant ABAP Workbench in SAP ABAP from Siemens Academy. His tech stack includes P2P, Senior Software Engineer, and product manager.