Guest
David Jayaramen
Chief Transformation Officer · Cornerstone Advisory Solutions
Twenty-five years of SAP releases, from federal supply chain to a statewide S/4HANA program and a national transformation in Saudi Arabia.
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The episode
Season 1 · Recording
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Why him
David has run release and change governance where the auditors come back: seventeen federal ERP releases at USDA, two federal audits at USTRANSCOM, and twelve-plus monthly releases across 110+ agencies for the State of South Carolina. He also walked into a Saudi national SAP program the steering committee was drafting a termination notice for, and took it to a full go-live. The conversation is about what has to be true before he will sign.
“What distinguishes my perspective is my ability to connect the boardroom vision with the realities of execution. I bring both the technical depth to understand what is possible and the strategic perspective to help leaders determine what actually makes sense for their business.”
What we cover
- What evidence has to be on the table before he says go
- Release governance that survives a federal audit
- Who belongs in the go/no-go room, and who is usually missing
- Taking over a program already in crisis, and rebuilding executive trust
- Standing up a quality function when the tooling is bought but idle
- Clean core, legacy sunset, and the cost of carrying both
By the numbers
Figures as David reports them.
- 25+
- Years in enterprise transformation
- 17
- Federal ERP releases at USDA / WBSCM
- 110+
- State agencies in the South Carolina program
- 94,000
- Users across statewide ERP environments
- 220+
- Requirements across two DoD releases
- ~120
- Consultants directed on the RUA Al Madina program
Where he has signed off
Mar 2025 – Jun 2026
RUA Al Madina · Saudi Arabia
Global Cloud & Business Transformation (Chief Transformation Officer)
Took over a multi-phase SAP cloud transformation — S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Ariba and SAC across Finance, HR, Procurement, Inventory, Budgeting, Recruitment and Compensation — at the point the steering committee was drafting a termination notice for the incumbent consultant. Rebuilt governance and the delivery team, and took the program to a full go-live with Oracle legacy platforms decommissioned.
Jul 2021 – Oct 2024
Norfolk Southern Railway
Enterprise Quality Transformation
Stood up the railway’s first Quality Center of Excellence across the SAP landscape, after a multi-million-dollar investment in test automation tooling had sat unused for a year. Made a requirements traceability matrix mandatory before any application could reach production, brought Internal Audit in as a stakeholder, and completed a zero-data-loss migration off the legacy ALM stack.
Oct 2019 – Jul 2021
State of South Carolina
Statewide S/4HANA Modernization
Ran S/4HANA discovery and enterprise integration strategy across 110+ state agencies. Institutionalized the CCB and SRB decision frameworks, coordinated twelve or more monthly releases, and secured two state audit approvals.
Jan 2018 – Aug 2019
DoD / USTRANSCOM
Mission-Critical Cloud ERP Transformation
Built the delivery and governance capability for SAP Transportation Management on AWS GovCloud. Onboarded 120+ professionals, delivered two major releases covering 220+ requirements, and passed two federal audits on auditable release and change governance.
Dec 2007 – Jan 2018
USDA / WBSCM
Federal Supply Chain & Supplier Transformation
Ten years of federal supply-chain and supplier modernization supporting five agencies and 7,500+ users. Directed 80+ consultants through Supplier Relationship Management and Supplier Self Service capabilities, and delivered 17 ERP releases.
Platforms
Credentials
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- ITIL Certified
- IBM Certified Solution Expert
- Former Secret security clearance
- BS Electronics & Communications Engineering, Anna University
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