Working as a retail manufacturing product technology expert and product leader for the last eight years, Gopinath Kannaiyan has ushered the retail manufacturing industry into uncharted territory time and time again. He's seen the industry change their approaches to evolve as customer-centric service providers and reduce costs all through the use of leading technologies. Driven by ever-changing and fast-paced work environments, Gopinath takes on product management that is daunting, delivers flawless results, and continues pushing forward with every new technological advancement. Currently focused on retail manufacturing product innovations, Gopinath has spent his entire career introducing new technologies to a wide range of retail product customers.
In today's world, people want accuracy and efficiency at a level that is only possible with technology. In order to process all kinds of product data quickly behind the scenes, offer insights about how to move forward, and provide updates to the customer, providers need to employ tools and technologies that enable these functions. Unfortunately, the process of moving to a new system can be tedious and costly, and there are high rates of failure without proper leadership.
Gopinath is an expert at the digitalization of core product platforms, the digital enablement of customer interactions, boosting analytical capabilities, enabling cloud functionality, and offering innovation in a notoriously challenging industry. Though some projects require a combination of these focus areas while others only need one or two, Gopinath's ability to adapt a solution to fit business needs keeps projects agile, effective, and affordable.
Gopinath's track record of leading the transformation of retail manufacturing products and modernizing organizations from the bottom up speaks for itself. He successfully proposed a product strategy that would move one organization to an updated system without compromising the critical production environment needed to keep operations moving. His innovative approach saved the client $2 million annually in system maintenance.
Acting as the foundation for all retail manufacturing product innovation, getting the core platform approach right is pivotal to enabling technological solutions for all retail service providers. It's not uncommon to see old, legacy systems that struggle to process the sheer amount of data providers have access to today. These systems can lead to data corruption, inaccurate processing, and an overall lack of downstream analytics. Much of Gopinath's career has been spent implementing new core products related to data and MDM and boosting technological functionality that revolutionizes the retail manufacturing business.
Today, Gopinath works as a Product Manager at Supply House, where he advances retail product solutions and works with clients to achieve their goals as needed. Product leaders are often looked at as purely technical resources, and while the role requires a large technical skill set, Gopinath is evidence that product leaders do so much more. They are business consultants who help bring organizational goals to life using technology.
A natural leader, Gopinath takes time to understand each unique product before diving in. His product transformation outcomes have an impressive rate of success, and we have awarded him Bravo Awards to thank him for his business-altering efforts. Gopinath illustrates what it looks like to move the needle without losing sight of what's most important: the people behind it all.
