Business Analysis Resume
Summary:
- Over 8 years of experience in Business Analysis, Configuration, Testing and Production Support of SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) module.
- Worked on 3 Full life-cycle implementation projects including blue printing, design, gap analysis, realization, testing, go-live and support.
- Proficient in Order to Cash, Order Management, Order fulfillment, Logistics management and Third party sales.
- Expert in SAP SD working on Pricing, Rebates, Taxes, Contracts, availability check, account determination, partner determination, text determination and output determination.
- Experience in defining Enterprise Structure in SD module and assigning with other modules.
- Proficiency in creating Customer Master Data and Material Master Data and Customer-Material Records.
- Extensively worked on LE (logistics execution) shipping Delivery, picking, packing, shipping, transportation, batch management, serial number management, and Ware house management (WM).
- Worked on configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting issues related to Master data- Customer master, Material master, Vendor master, Plant master and pricing master.
- Proficiency with the Billing Procedures- Invoices, Credit Memo, Debit Memo, Rebates, Individual & Collective Billing, and Invoice split.
- Expertise in cross functional integration of SD with FI and MM.
- Worked on Availability check, Transfer of Requirements, Account Determination procedure, Credit Management, Output Determination Procedure, Text Determination, Listing and Exclusions and Route Determination.
- Good understanding of IDOCS, EDI, ALE, Workflow basics, and the ABAP queries.
- Effectively collaborate with the business organizations and Technical/Development teams to identify the root cause of problems and propose solutions.
- Effectively prepared documentation on SAP transactions, processes, requirements and changes.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently or in a team with excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
Skill Set:
SAP SD
- IMG: Defining and assigning Organizational units in Sales, Shipping, and Billing.
- Master data: Setting up and configuring Customer master, Material master, Vendor master
- Order-To-Cash cycle: Configured Sales processes, partner control, availability checks, pricing, billing, outline agreements, incompletion log, BOM and interfacing SD/MM.
- Order Management: Order types, Item categories, Schedule line categories, copy controls, Available-To-Promise (ATP), Intercompany Configuration.
- Logistics (Shipping & Transportation): Configured Delivery processing, Picking and interfacing with WM, Goods Issue, Routing, Shipping Point Determination, setup and assign Plant, Storage Locations.
- Pricing: Configured Pricing Procedure determination using Condition Technique, Requirements, VOFM routines, Formulae.
- Billing: Configured Account Determination and interface SD/FI.
In-depth knowledge of Text determination, Output determination, and Partner determination, Material Inclusion, Material Exclusion, Rebates, Free Goods and Free of Charge items, Material Determination, Contracts, Consignments.
Tools Used:
Operating Systems: MS Windows, XP, 98, 00, 03 and 7.
Languages : C, C++, Java, SQL.
SAP R/3 Tools : e-CATT Scripts, ABAP Queries, SAP SD. MM. FI.
Experience:
Confidential, Dallas, Texas
Apr 2009 - PresentSenior SAP SD Consultant
Project: R/3 6.0 Upgrade
Celanese is a leading chemical manufacturing company and one of the world's largest producers of acetyl products, as well as a leading global producer of high-value end-use applications. In this assignment, I’ve been involved in ECC 6.0 Upgrade project for SAP SD (SCM). Involved in Integration testing, Security Authorization, configuration and Go – Live Support.Responsibilities ECC 6.0 Upgrade Project at Celanese, a leading chemical manufacturing company. Worked extensively in Shipping and Transportation sub module including dangerous goods functionality. Created, maintained and analyzed Master Data. Configured the distribution processes including picking, packing, goods issue and the relevant outputs. Configured Delivery and Billing documents types, output determination for sales orders, deliveries and billing documents. Involved in Forms, T Codes, Unit and integration testing of SCM Functionality. Worked extensively in Order, Delivery and EDI Processing. Involved in defects resolution and configuration as required of SAP Shipping and Transportation (SCM Functionality). Actively involved in Post Go - Live support. Solved problems related to SD in Production system, Interacted with the end users to understand problem, provide urgent solution to the customer for high priority problems.
Client: Confidential, Ashburn, VA April 2008 to Feb 2009
Position: Sales & Distribution and Logistic execution Application’s Specialist.
- Created specifications for custom reports and interfaces between SAP and other third party applications such as the DMC (deduction management tool)
- Developed design specifications for all sales, distribution and other related custom reports. Provided specifications and configuration for third party shipping and bar coding systems.
- Involved in the development of business requirements and re-engineering of business processes pertaining to order entry and dispatch and delivery and the logistic execution processes, pricing invoicing ,account receivable and credit management
- Researched business requirements leading to system configuration or new development.
- Responsible for mapping data from the current mainframe system into SAP environment
- Active participant in pre-sales meeting to determine the ability of R/3 to met company’s requirements
- Team member in the development of business requirements and the re-engineering of business processes.
- Configured various sales, delivery and billing document types and set up their copy rules
- Set-up of commission’s structure and developed a comprehensive rebate agreement processing partial settlement as well as developed complex rebate settlement program for customer
- Assigned sales office to sales area, sales group to sales office, plant to sales organization and distribution channel.
- Assigned various shipping points to plants
- Configuration of the in Inbound Freight Payment system design, testing, and implementation
- Configuration of Business Area Account Assignment by defining rules by sales area
- Assigned business area to plant and division and business area by sales area.
- Created various customer account groups
- Configured credit management. and established credit control areas and risk categories and set up customer masters for credit processing., developed a comprehensive automated credit checking mechanism
Confidential, Jan 2006 to March 2008
Functional Consultant SAP R/3 SD ECC 6.0
IS Retail
Responsibilities and Contributions:
- My role in this project was to support on-going issues, analyze the business processes in-order to offer suitable solutions to the problem.
- Actively involved in defining Business Organization structure of Sales & Distribution management in the SAP R/3 Enterprise structure. Defined number ranges for customer master record and the sales document.
- Worked on Visit plan, Schedule, Route A/c, Pricing, ATP, Batch, BOM and Inventory management.
- Played a major role in Unit test Scenario preparation, Integration testing, User testing and documentation.
- Configuration of various Account Groups as per customer classification, and defined partner functions, Maintaining Partner Determination Procedures in various objects such as Customer Masters, Sales Document Header & Item, delivery, billing docs etc.
- Configured sales documents, billing, shipping, credit management, consignments etc.
- Configured Customer master, material master, contract management and pricing.
- Configuration of Third party Order processing, Delivery and Billing.
- Creation of Pricing Procedure, Condition Type, Access Sequence and Condition tables
- Set up Sales & Distribution Organizational structure and various basic functions in S&D: Partner Determination, Pricing, Master data, Inquiry, Quotation, Sales Order, Delivery, Billing Documents, Invoice
- Configured customer master and Settings for field selection of customer master data. Configured and created OTC (order to cash), consignments, credit management, deliveries, invoices, inter-company sales.
- Configured Delivery processes which includes Shipping document, Organizational units in shipping, controlling elements of delivery process.
- Functions relevant for shipping in sales order, Creating & processing deliveries, Picking Process, Packing processes -Inbound-Outbound delivery.
TheDSD Route Accountingcomponent supports the entire process of the outbound delivery and the route sales (on the basis of the SAP R/3 standard system) by making use of Check-out, Check-in, and the corresponding settlement transaction.
Confidential, NY Nov 2004 – Dec 2005
SAP SD/MM Consultant
- Involved in the complete cycle of Order to Cash (OTC), Order Management, Logistics and Billing.
- Preparation of As-Is documents, To-Be documents for the client’s business process and mapping them in to SAP.
- Hands on experience on OTC and Sales Order Processing - Inquiry, Quotation, Contracts, Sales Order, Pricing, Shipping Point, Route determination and Billing
- Configured new pricing procedure right from condition types and access sequences to suit the Business requirements for Canada.
- Configured shipping points, picking locations and shipping point determination.
- Worked on Enterprise Architecture, configuring Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, Divisions, Sales Offices, Sales areas.
- Worked on setting up master data, conditions and billing types required for Intercompany sales process.
- Created a shipping surcharge condition type for a pricing procedure and created account determination.
- Configured transportation zones, routes and route determination.
- Worked in coordination with FI team to solve the SD_ FI integration issues.
- Configured revenue account determination.
- Worked with the ABAP team to write User exits to block sales order creation if specific conditions were not met.
- Worked to set up new Partner functions, Vendor Master Data, Customer master data and material master data.
- Controlling the flow of documents as per business needs through copy control and document changes for sales, delivery and billing documents.
- Involved in Functional and Technical Spec review meetings.
- Mass maintenance of condition records using MASS transaction.
- Involved in training of Super Users and End Users.
- Worked on inter-company sales and automatic invoice verification and STOs.
- Created customer material info records, item/product proposals for specific sales areas.
- Managed the helpdesk by analyzing the day-to-day problems of the users and giving them Production support.
- Extensively used Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access Data Base while working on different SAP Tables.
Confidential, Orlando Mar 2003 to Oct 2004
Position: Lead SAP SD Applications Specialist, Analyst and Consultant
- Responsible for requirements planning fit analysis, scope determination, work plan development, process design and application configuration for this established Semiconductor Company.
- Configured the general ledger account determination based on the condition type, chart of accounts, sales organization, account assignment group of the customer, account assignment group of the material, and the account key.
- Utilized account determination analysis in troubleshooting account determination errors to resolve posting issues
- Worked with material determination by maintaining prerequisites such as creating material determination procedures and assigning material determination procedures to sales document types and thereafter defining the substitution reasons.
- Defined and assigned incompletion procedures for Sales document header, sales document item and schedule line as well as delivery header and item as well as for partners
- Configuration and Setting up Copy control rules from sales document to sales document, from billing document to sales document, sales document to billing document, delivery note to billing document, billing document to billing document and from sales document to delivery document.
- Set up various copying rules for Condition types and conditions and assigned several custom data transfer routines
- Configured various Partner determination procedures and assigned various partner functions
- Defined new partner functions for customer master, Sales document ,delivery billing and shipment
Confidential, MNJan 2002 to Feb 2003
Senior SD Consultant
Involved with Full Life Cycle of the project, some of the tasks involved are:
- Maintained Credit Control area, assigned company codes to credit control area and assigned credit limit check to the sales document types and delivery types.
- Definition of sales and billing document types for standard order processing, returns, credit and debit invoices, rebate processing, Exports and intercompany transactions.
- Worked extensively on Variant Conditions in pricing for a trading contract. For the purchasing configuration, employing the MM variant conditions and for the sales configuration employing the SD variant conditions.
- Developed requirement routine for creation of customized Pricing Procedure. Actively involved in pricing configuration, included wherein were the definition and assignment of condition type, access sequence and pricing procedure.
- Configured the system for Make-to-Order situation using Variant Configuration to provide dynamic configuration and variant pricing to encompass variant surcharges and discounts.
- Extensive development work with Available-to-Promise (ATP), transportation, order processing, billing, output development, account determination, user exits and SIS reporting.
- Assisted in the composition of post go-live documentation to aid in the continuing support of the SAP implementation.
SAP Consultant
Project: R/3 4.6b Implementation
SAIL is a major iron & Steel manufacturer and shipping corporation in India. I was involved in blueprint stage and configuration.
- End-to-end implementation of SAP Projects.
- Core Team member responsible for requirements analysis, “AS IS” analysis, “TO BE” model, Gap evaluation, prototype design, testing, training, conversion and Go Live.
- SD design & configuration, creating functional specifications to the technical team, testing.
- Worked with setting up of customer Hierarchy and assigning sales areas, Account groups and Partner determination for Hierarchy categories.
- Configured pricing procedure, condition types, access sequences, and condition records.
- Configured Document types, Account Receivables, and Special Payment types.
- Configured basic shipping functions such as defining shipping conditions, loading groups & shipping points, assigning shipping points, shipping point determination.
- Worked on route determination: defined routes, modes of transport, shipping types, routes and stages, route determination by delivery types etc.
- Worked on shipping and transportation scheduling: maintained working hours such as pick/pack time, loading time, transit time, transportation lead-time.
- Created custom reports and custom invoice types.
