Our strategic partnership with What-If Connect gains you access to cutting edge products that can take your business to the next level.
CAC Business Solutions brings together expertise in engineering, project management, supply chain operations and commercial operations.
We help our clients innovate for growth, along with program management, organization design, team training and coaching to achieve real outcomes.
Our Clients
“CAC Business Solutions is unique in the level and breadth of experience, expertise, and insight they leverage on behalf of their clients. As a trusted advisor and partner, CAC Business Solutions has been instrumental in helping Bayer Consumer Healthcare Research & Innovation organization manage change post acquisition of Merck’s consumer business, establish innovation operationing model and design and develop metrics/dashboards to monitor progress. They bring passion and commitment to every engagement and deliver customized solutions to the business”
“I found a true partner in CAC Business Solutions when opening up my new business in Central America. CAC Business Solutions provides timely, to-the-point information to make correct business decisions. They understand the needs and see the opportunities that lay ahead to help me create a successful business. They work side by side with me providing the tools and step-by-step guidance and follow up needed to make my project a reality.”
“Chinna supported us in setting up a global Strategy Realization Office, with dual focus: innovation/renovation portfolio management, and project management of our key innovation projects.
What I particularly appreciated is Chinna’s state of the art expertise in project and portfolio management, combined with an ability to adapt his approach to the specificity of our business. Chinna’s commitment is absolute, and thanks to his great thinking partnership and dedication, we were able to get our SRO off the ground in record time. Chinna is a great mentor, who is extremely effective at managing change, by transmitting his knowledge and experience to all stakeholders in the organization, whatever their role and level. As such, we are able to build a sustainable approach to portfolio and project management.”
“CAC Business Solutions has been an invaluable resource to Trivent teams in the US and India in terms of their strategic thinking, the passion they bring to the engagement, and their commitment to delivering the right solution to our business. They are very insightful with their due diligence, understand business challenges, and provide tailored recommendations and work with us side by side until the results are delivered. Simply put, they are a true partner! ”
S. Chinna Chinnakaruppan, PMP, CPIM has more than 20 years of cross-functional experience in commercial operations, project & portfolio management, integration/transition management, engineering and technical leadership, with expertise in team building and staff leadership, supply chain management, Rx- to-OTC switch and developing best practices for commercial execution of pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare products based on Project Management Institute (PMI) and American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) bodies of knowledge.
Chinna spent more than 15 years at Merck Consumer Care, formerly Schering-Plough HealthCare, where he held a number of leadership roles from Manager, Maintenance and Engineering, Executive Director, Global Project Management to Executive Director Commercial Operations for Canada, Latin America and Western Europe to hsi most recent role as General Manager of South Korean Consumer Case business and Executive Director for the Merck-Bayer Commercial Transition. He was at Abbott Laboratories prior to Merck, holding various leadership roles in engineering and technical/operations.
Currently as an owner & independent business consultant at CAC Business Solutions, LLC, Chinna combines his strong project management, organizational, and analytical skills with a collaborative and consultative style to help clients increase efficiencies, create greater value, manage/mitigate risk, align operating/business models with strategy in-order-to drive exceptional business results. In addition, he is involved in business development, organizational change management, business transition/integration and establishing project management office.
Chinna has a BE and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Annamalai University and the University of Tennessee, respectively. Additionally, Chinna has completed a number of well-recognized executive leadership development programs, including the Gap International Breakthrough Intensive and Executive Challenge courses and Harvard Business Publishing Leadership Development, Organizational Leadership course. He is certified as a Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM). He serves on boards of Project Management Institute Keystone Chapter and Tamil Nadu Foundation (TNF) Greater Philadelphia Chapter.