SUMMARY:

• SAP Implementations, Upgrades, Releases
• Global, Multi - site Deployments
• Migration off Legacy Applications to SAP
• Technical and Functional Roles on SAP Projects
• Project Planning
• Program/Portfolio Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Project Budget, Scope, Schedule, Milestone, Task Management
• Risk Management & Mitigation Strategies
• Issue Management & Action Plans
• Project Documentation & Reporting
• Communications Management
• Client Relationship Management
• Change Management
• Resource Management (On & Off Shore)
• Vendor Selection and Management
• PMO Leadership
• Best Practices & Lessons Learned
• Creation of G/L Masters, Cash Journals, House banks and Maintaining Field Status Variant and Posting Keys
• Defining Fiscal year variant, Posting periods, Tolerance groups, Document types and number ranges
• Defining Interest Calculation Types, Defining interest rates, Assigning Accounts for Automatic Posting for Interest Calculations.
• Settings for foreign currency valuation (fluctuations in exchange rates)
• Creation of Customer/Vendor Accounts Groups, Number Ranges, and Customer/ Vendor Masters Creation
• Configuring Automatic Payment Program and Dunning for Vendors/Customers
• Configuring Input/Output Tax and Withholding Tax

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: /Methods: MS Project, Office, Visio Waterfall Iterative SDLC SAP ECC, FI/CO, SD, CRM, SCM, SRM, SAP BW 7.3, APO (Advanced Planner & Optimizer Demand Planning), Aii / OER, Helix WMS (SAP EWM), CRM, AFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed status profiles for campaign management solution.
• Used Actions configuration to manage automatic updates of campaigns and for status management.
• Supported the design of campaign management solution which leveraged SAP CRM 7.0 to manage the end to end process of creating coupon offers and analyzing the redemption of coupon offers.
• Managed 4 resources to ensure SAP CRM 7.0 solution is properly tested and fulfills business requirements.
• Leveraged Quality Center 9.2 to facilitate testing and report team status/progress.
• Collaborated with business and development teams to manage scope and ensure defects are properly prioritized and resolved.
• Reviewed all solution functional specs to provide feedback and identify gaps.
• Developed functional designs to address business process pain-points
• Re-engineered business processes to increase efficiencies
• Tracked team progress and maintained task list for junior resources
• Spearheaded resolution of production support and enhancement tickets for SAP CRM 7.0 system and tracked progress
• Was recognized by firm for coaching junior resources in SAP CRM 7.0 functionality including middleware transactions, transaction configuration and middleware troubleshooting
• Developed cutover plan and coordinated execution of cutover tasks for project go-live
• Configured WebUI screens, status profiles, partner profiles and set up pricing conditions for service products
• Supported deployment by completing cutover activities
• Performed regression testing of EDI / XML solution after system upgrade
• SAP APO/DP
• Sound Understanding of Supply Chain Management concepts and processes including Design, Development, Configuration, Implementation and Support of SAP APO/DP modules
• Created Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristic Value Combinations, Storage Bucket Profile and Time Bucket Profile with different periodicities.
• Maintained DP Master Data and Created Master Forecast profiles. Modeled forecast strategy based on Univariate, Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) and Composite forecasting profiles
• Setting up the Demand Planning book, Planning Object Structure, Planning area and macros in the interactive demand planning.
• Defined DS Planning Board Profile and Overall profile. Configured PP/DS Alert Profile, Work Areas, Propagation Range, Strategy Profile and Optimization profile.
• Maintained PP/DS heuristics, Campaign planning and Product planning table configuration.
• New global SAP AFS ECC 6.0 implementation.
• Responsible for SAP areas: Implementation of Warehouse Management, Inventory
• Management, Shipping, Transportation, development supervision/QC and post-go-live and production support.
• Responsible for process and interface design from SAP to the 3rd party raw material warehouse in Austria and Brazil via WM IDOC connection: Pick, pack, ship, transfer postings and inventory reconciliation.
• Responsible for process design and realization and SAP configuration of finished goods conveyor supported warehouses in Austria, Brazil and USA: Goods receipt, inbound delivery processing, QC and returns cockpit, RF support using SAP Console, complex putaway and picking strategies, packing station, staging, shipment processing, manifesting and interface to UPS shipping station
• Responsible for definition and blueprint of fulfillment and intra warehouse processes
• Responsible for entire WM configuration and integration with MM and SD
• Provided all required WM, WM-RF and WM related SD and MM configuration
• Specified all required ABAP programs, coached ABAP developers, performed quality control of development and developed key transactions myself.
• SAP SD
• Providing the solutions for user making mistakes
• Worked on pricing condition technique and configured condition exclusion for group to get the best price and discount.
• As a SD Consultant with the live implementation core team.
• Involved in the AS-IS study of Organization structure and business re-engineering process.
• Configured the baseline configuration of the Organization structure and prepared documentation.
• Worked with the Gap Analysis, suggesting alternative solutions for the gaps in the form of developments.
• Defining and assigning the Enterprise structure with documentation.
• Creation and customization of customer master records, Item proposal and material master (SD Part).
• Configuration of relevant Sales Documents like Inquiry, Quotation, Sales Order and customized their utilities as per End user request
• Configuration of Various Basic Functions in Sales and Distribution like credit management, Incompletion logs, Text determination, Partner determination, Material determination.
• Worked with Pricing (Condition Records, Condition Types, Condition Tables, Access Sequence and Pricing Procedures).
• Formulating the end user for SD module in SAP ECC 6.0, this included preparing End user Manuals and imparting classroom .
• Notification of changed data before goods receipt from EWM to the ERP system; Notification of a reversal or correction of the goods receipt from EWM to the ERP system; Notification of an inbound delivery split from EWM to the ERP system
• Deconsolidatehandling units containing different products before put away in different storage sections
• Automatically determine storage concepts usingslottingfor products and accordingly optimize the arrangement of your products in the warehouse
• Control warehouse activities such as picking or posting changes withWave Management
• Create executablework packages, consisting ofwarehouse tasks, that warehouse employees should perform at specific times
• Manage and Track Vehicles/ Transportation Units from yard check-in to yard check-out, including movements tasks within theyard
• Provide quality process support with integration to theSAP Quality Inspection Engine (QIE)
• Support the safe handling and storage of hazardous substances and the transport of dangerous goods in accordance with regulations withSAP Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S)integration
• Automatically communicate deliveries and goods movements toSAP Global Trade Services (GTS)via the ERP system for customs management, re-exports and Duty unpaid returns
• Planlabortimes and resources more effectively, thereby making your warehouse more productive using functions to measure, plan, simulate, and visualize the activities in the warehouse
• Use theWarehouse Cockpitto display warehouse key figures graphically and to evaluate or monitor activities using defined chart types
• UseRFIDwithin the inbound, internal and outbound processes to expedite Warehouse task confirmation, Loading, Unloading, Automatic packing
• Optimize your goods-receipt based on purchase orders and production orders
• Createkitsand then transfer them to stock or to outbound orders
• Use integratedbatch-managementin the inbound and outbound delivery processes
• Use theMaterial Flow systemto control your automated warehouse
• Specifyserial numbersfor the outbound delivery process
• Useprocess-orientedas wellas layout-orientedmethods for storage control for your complex putaway or stock removal process steps based on your processes or your layout data
• Streamlined business partner collaboration viaEnterprise Servicesbased on international communication standards (EDIFACT) and out-of-the box process integration with global SCM players
• Choose betweencentralizedordecentralizeddeployment options
• Expedite your inbound and outbound flow, lower warehouse costs and material handling bycross-dockingyour orders
• Usetransportation cross-dockingto support the transportation of handling units across different distribution centers or warehouses, up to the final place of destination

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• ProjectDirect movement of inventory usage as defined by Helix WMS (SAP EWM) to facilitate fulfillment automation and Audit inventory accuracy.
• Manage any Helix WMS and SAP/ Oracle related project.
• Uses the Helix CRM/WMS applications on a daily bases and work directly with Gateway by providing customer service and get on going feedback to process improvements that need to be made to Helix.
• Provide requirements gathering, analysis of hardware and software, documentation, design, planning, estimating and project management services through established corporate procedures for both client and internal projects. Provide professional assistance to co-workers in design and development of projects. Interface with all departments in development life-cycle management including business analysis, systems analysis, development, quality assurance and internal IT.
• Recommend modifications to inventory management system as needed.
• Deployment Manager for SAP FI/CO, SD, CRM and Supply Chain project. Managed the planning and oversaw execution of the technical environments, process readiness, user setup, transports, configuration dependency, backups,, site readiness and organizational change activities.
• Project Manager for SAP SRM/e-procurement project. Created and managed the work plan and resources for the implementation of Enterprise Buyer, Catalog Management, Live Auction/Bidding Engine and Supplier Communications. Liaison with the corporate level Project Management Office (PMO) for issue resolution, scope definition and deployment activities.
• Project Manager for an SAP Functionality Feasibility Study. Managed team to determine requirements, identify gaps, offer mitigation strategies and deliver implementation options for replacement of decentralized purchasing, scheduling, warehouse, inventory and asset management legacy systems. Coordinated resources and developed project schedule, methodology, project templates and final report.
• Define, design Process Integration (PI) and Exchange Infrastructure (XI)
• Completed Auto-ID Infrastructure (SAP AII) and SAP Object Event Repository (SAP OER) project (include kick off project, business requirements gathering, blue-print, business user’s approval, software development, QA,, deployment and support.
• Serial numbers format range management (Define global serial number ranges and local serial number ranges for Item, Case and pallets)
• Dynamic Flexible delivery processing scenario
• Define / Configure Product Tracking and Authentication processes
• Configuration / setup of interface with Distribution Center system
• Perform Product tracking and authentication
• Master data setup (include multilevel line items) in SAP AII and OER to support processes in Distribution Center system
• Business requirement gathering and process creation. Structuring the Organization as per Gateway Requirement
• Creation of G/L Masters, Cash Journals, House banks and Maintaining Field Status Variant and Posting Keys
• Defining Fiscal year variant, Posting periods, Tolerance groups, Document types and number ranges
• Defining Interest Calculation Types, Defining interest rates, Assigning Accounts for Automatic Posting for Interest Calculations.
• Settings for foreign currency valuation (fluctuations in exchange rates)
• Creation of Customer/Vendor Accounts Groups, Number Ranges, and Customer/ Vendor Masters Creation
• Configuring Automatic Payment Program and Dunning for Vendors/Customers
• Configuring Input / Output Tax and Withholding Tax
• Configured SAP SD module for US specific requirements in the areas of:
• Sales Order Types, Item Categories, Schedule Lines, Copying Control, Number Ranges
• Scheduling Agreements and Quantity Contracts
• ATP, Requirement Types
• Pricing and its interface with Accounts Receivable, Taxes and Account Determination
• Material Determination, Sales BOM, Output Determination, Foreign Trade, Credit Management
• Integrating SAP- SD touch points with different R/3 modules like WM and MM.
• Shipping process (deliveries, picking, packing), Delivery document types
• EDI: mapping Idocs, setting partner profiles, Output processing Fax, Mail comms
• Finished goods Returns to the Plant. Inventory adjustments.
• Rebate agreements prepared design for legacy interface requirements, conversion requirements, and report requirements for the technical team.
• Debugging of ABAP programs and troubleshooting of SAP end users problems on SAP R/3 in MM Module
• Configuring Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas and Depreciation Keys
• Creation of Asset Classes, Asset Number Ranges, Account Determination, and related settings
• Managing acquisition of new asset with Asset Under Construction (AUC) and settlement of the same to final asset
• Transferring APC Values
• Maintaining Group and Low Valued Assets
• Maintain the Versions for actual and planned postings
• Creation of Cost Centers and Definition of Cost Centre Hierarchy
• Creation of Activity types and Statistical key figures and Allocation, Distribution and assessment of costs
• Creation of Primary and Secondary Cost Elements with appropriate Cost Element Category
• Definition of Internal Orders Types, Order Masters and Settlement Profiles
• Product Costing - Estimation of product costs in integration with PP and MM modules, WIP calculation and variance settlement
• Full cycle EWM implementation.
• The business process definition (inbound/outbound)
• The functional specifications for client own developments (Forms, Reports & Enhancements)
• The testing phases (Form, Report, Enhancement testing, unit testing, integration testing, authorization testing)
• The End User / The Key User
• The Cut Over / The Go-live support
• Performance testing organization, preparation and analysis
• Collaborate with business areas to define business needs and requirements for delivery of global warehouse business processes.
• Configure SCM EWM module and perform application testing to accommodate business requirements.
• Develop technical and functional specifications, test scripts, change requests and transport all the way to production.
• Provide architectural and technical leadership through Realization and Deployment.
• Assist business users in developing business process documentation.
• Share subject matter expertise with team members. Teach when requested or when appropriate.
• Innovation on Cloud, In-Memory Appliances, Big Data and Advanced and Predictive Analytics
• SAP HANA enabled solutions design ( Data, Application, Security, Reporting, Mobile Visualization)
• Delivering hands-on “end-to-end” SAP solutions (SAP HANA, SAP BO 4.0, SAP BPC 10.0, SAP BW 7.3, MDM 10.0)
• Delivering Big Data Management services, including, Strategy & Roadmap, Data Integration, Data Transformations, Data Mapping, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Steward, Data Profiling, Data Enrichment
• Accelerations through Methodology, Framework, Tools and Architecture
• Thought leadership on Finance, Business Analytics, Risk Performance, and Information Management
• The role as PLM work stream lead for blueprint and realization involved working closely with the client, project manager and other third party consultants ensuring the best possible solution was designed, documented and delivered. In this role Roger advised on implementation methodologies, discussed process options to ensure best business practices were achieved.
• PLM team management
• Conception workshop animation
• Blue print of a SAP PLM proof of concept
• Customizing of SAP PLM
• Functional specification of the system
• New development testing
• Implementation of Solidworks / SAP PLM interface
• Hands on experience in CIF master data settings, Routings, work centers and PDS.
• Detailed configuration of master data setting in SAP R/3 for integrating it with APO.
• Provide Planning experience to business testers during Network Simulation.
• Identify data integration gaps between different supply chain optimization tools ie AspenTech, i2, SAP APO, SAP ECC etc and find the root cause of demand shortfalls.
• Lead and support QA testing efforts for various planning models.
• Analyze Plan results and work in conjunction with solution team to resolve data or modeling problems.
• Drafted business requirements, functional design and technical design documents for MP model enhancements
• Configuration of Core Data Interfaces (CIF and Integration Models)
• Project manager, designer and lead developer of EDI/SAP for Confidential . Responsible for the implementation of customized SAP/EDI to process all 850, 970, 856 and 940’s for order processing with a major computer vendor. In addition, wrote custom programs to meet specific trading partner requirements related build to order processing within a forty-eight hour window and matching external BOM’s to internal variant configurations. Designed and developed processes to feed external systems for US customs, production planning, manufacturing, and third party warehousing and shipping. Set up SAP/EDI system including work flow for error notification, configuration, batch scheduling, and automatic FTP processing and mail messages. Performed all project management tasks including scheduling of resources, time and material estimates, project planning and coordination with external system development.
• Special reports to monitor and processing of CIF (restart, registration programs)
• LiveCache Monitoring and Reporting
• Global ATP Processing and Backorder Processing,
• Programs for Mass ATP Check and Dynamic BOP variant creation
• Reports to validate GATP and BOP processing (Before and After)
• Product Allocations and Characteristic Value Combinations
• Configuration of DP and SNP, Prototyping Capable to Match (CTM) and Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
• Design of Global Logistics Operation interfaces with Factories
• Designing interface architecture, coding programs to support the interface architecture, Code reviews and Performance tuning
• Developing functional specifications, testing scenarios for CRM SD, MM, WM & FI interfaces
• Design, Documentation and coding of WM related interfaces: Goods Receipts upload and downloads, Warehouse Staging and Warehouse Relocation
• Print (SAPScript) programs for Printing of Bill of Lading, Master Bill of Lading, Crate Cards and Shipping Labels
• Dialog Programs for maintaining Crate Cards/Labels, Staging and Bill of Lading data, Online staging, Online relocation, Warehouse workbench and Creation of automatic inbound deliveries from PGI of outbound deliveries for plant to plant transfers
• Field Exits and User Exits for Handling Unit Validations, Delivery creation and change, Material Master custom fields enhancements, Sales Order creation and change processing
• Various Data extract and interface programs in SD, MM, WM and FI areas
• Post Go-Live support and mentoring of new developers

Confidential

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP / Helix CRM Web Channel: (which includes E-Commerce, B2B, E-Marketing and E-Service)
• Enable your partners to forge loyal relationships with our partner channel management software.
• Design the process to improve processes for recruitment, communications, channel marketing, and forecasting.
• Help channel partners drive indirect revenue and expand market reach
• Centralize information to boost productivity
• Identify and close gaps through a more comprehensive analysis of partner and channel performance

Confidential, San Diego, CA)

Responsibilities:

• Design, Setup and deploy (Software, hardware and operation) for Costco call center in Ft. Myers, FL.
• Contribution: Designed a new IT process model, facilitated a business process needs assessment and helped institute new organizational structures for IT governance and investment prioritization.
• Organized and drove to successful conclusion a rapid response plan to address a failed Oracle Financials implementation. Then, defined the strategy and management approach for upgrading this solution, resulting in the highest year over year improvement scores in the annual IT customer survey.
• Balance the Inventory between Helix (WMS) and SAP WM/EWM.
• Coordinated the enterprise applications architecture and pioneered intranet and e-business solutions.
• Data conversion from Excel Database using SAP LSMW functionality
• Classical and Interactive Report Programming with following modules: FI, CO, MM, SD, OTC, WM, EWM, LES, PP, SM, PM, OER, & HR.
• Data Dictionary: Custom data repositories, customer maintained tables, structures, views, data elements, domains, and match codes.
• SD/OTC
• Team member of the OTC team through Scope definition, Requirements, Realization, and Go-Live phases
• Worked with client counterpart to define project scope and project plans
• Worked with Order to Cash team and business users to collect and document business requirements
• Resolved issues, and communicated the progress and status during the realization phase
• Defined and executed master data conversion activities for Customer and Price master data
• Defined and designed Order to Cash inter-company business process
• Responsible for configuration, integration and implementation of SD with other modules like MM and LE
• Designed and configured pricing for inter-company billing processes
• Designed and configured output determination procedures
• Developed and executed Unit Test Plan activities (plan, prepare, execute, document test results)
• Worked with team to prepare and execute Go-Live plan and activities
• Assigned tasks and documenting resolution for post Go-Live issues
• Guiding configuration in areas of pricing, rebates, customer master, availability checking, listings / exclusions, output, and inter-company process
• Customized various reports required for day-to-day operation and management information systems
• Testing configured transaction and creating test data for SD related transactions

Confidential, Bentonville, Arkansas

Responsibilities:

• Design, Setup and deploy (Software, hardware and operation) for Confidential call center in North Sioux City, SD.
• Data Conversions, Uploads, Migration and Interface Programming. Modules involved: FI, CO, MM, SD, & HR.
• Dialog Programming: SAP Process Reengineering, Interfaces to custom data repositories and tables.
• SAP Script: Custom Development and Modifications to SAP defined Layout Sets and Print Programs.
• Enhancement and Modifications. User Exits, Screen Exits, and Menu Exits.
• R/3 BASIS administration: CTS, LCP, HOTpacks, OSS, TST refresh, Spool Management and daily PRD support. Strong Expertise in Performance Tuning.
• Heavy experience with Profile Generator and SAP R/3 Security Architecture.
• Configuration and Customization with FI/CO modules.
• Experience with SAP IDOC and ALE technology.
• Interaction with End Users, Business Process Owners and SAP R/3 functional consultants for finalization of functional specifications and report formats.
• Able to lead, Multi-task, adapt to changes, and manage complex projects.
• Good knowledge of Business process re-engineering concepts with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Use Vertex for Rate and rule updates to ensure that calculations for sales tax, consumer use tax, value added tax and specialty markets, like lease and retail, are always accurate and in compliance.
• Partner with business to convert the new and/or changed business processes into IT solutions.
• AFS/APO
• Drive the setup of the planning application (SAP SCM/APO) and its interfaces to other applications (eg RMA, SAP AFS).
• Roll out the application globally over different brands within the Adidas, Confidential and Columbia Sportswear Group.
• Create IT solutions in regards to development standards, proper design, less complexity, change management and global support model from an organizational as well as from a process (design, implement, measure, improve) point of view.
• Take part in and manage projects according to the agreed scope and within budget.
• New global SAP AFS ECC 6.0 implementation.
• Responsible for SAP areas: Implementation of Warehouse Management, Inventory
• Management, Shipping, Transportation, development supervision/QC and post-go-live and production support.
• Responsible for process and interface design from SAP to the 3rd party raw material warehouse in USA and Mexico WM IDOC connection: Pick, pack, ship, transfer postings and inventory reconciliation.
• Responsible for process design and realization and SAP configuration of finished goods conveyor supported warehouses in Austria and USA: Goods receipt, inbound delivery processing, QC and returns cockpit, RF support using SAP Console, complex put-away and picking strategies, packing station, staging, shipment processing, manifesting and interface to UPS shipping station.

Confidential, Rancho Cordova, CA

Sr. Project Manager / Consultant Lead (ERP)

Responsibilities:

• Contribution: IS Hitech (Discrete Industries) Implementation.
• Business scenarios mapping, resolving issues for Upgrade of SAP from 3.1 F to 4.6 C - Industry Solution - Software with variant configuration.
• To - Be Business process design and mapping them in to SAP.
• FI/CO
• Gathering business requirements for existing business processes, identifying the non-value - adding events, to follow ASAP Methodology.
• GL Accounting creation of GL masters, Cash journals, Sample document, Parked documents Month end provisions.
• Accounts payable creation of vendor master, vendor account groups, configuration for Automatic payment program, Defining Alternative reconciliation account for special GL transaction like Down payments and Automatic payment program.
• Account Receivable creation of customer master, customer account groups, interest calculation configuration, Dunning program for customer account and Defining Terms of payments.
• Bank accounting configuration of House Bank, checks management, and bank statements.
• Configuration of CO module - Organizational structure settings. Maintenance of cost center standard hierarchy, Creation of cost centers, Cost elements, statistical key figures, Internal Orders, Profit center accounting, Profitability Analysis.
• Involved in integration issues in SAP from SD and MM modules to the FI module.
• Involved in Final Preparation (Final integration test and validation, End User, Quality checks)
• Provided Post Implementation Support to the operational teams
• Sales Distribution (SD)
• Lead OTC team through Scope definition, Requirements, Realization, and Go-Live phases
• Worked with client counterpart to define project scope and project plans
• Worked with Order to Cash team and business users to collect and document business requirements
• Resolved issues, and communicated the progress and status during the realization phase
• Defined and executed master data conversion activities for Customer and Price master data
• Defined and designed Order to Cash inter-company business process
• Responsible for configuration, integration and implementation of SD with other modules like MM and LE
• Designed and configured pricing for inter-company billing processes
• Designed and configured output determination procedures
• Developed and executed Unit Test Plan activities (plan, prepare, execute, document test results)
• Worked with team to prepare and execute Go-Live plan and activities
• Assigned tasks and documenting resolution for post Go-Live issues
• Guiding configuration in areas of pricing, rebates, customer master, availability checking, listings / exclusions, output, and inter-company process
• Customized various reports required for day-to-day operation and management information systems
• Testing configured transaction and creating test data for SD related transactions
• Pricing specific to - Software solution including variant pricing, bump pricing, bundle pricing.
• Configuration of Pricing procedures, condition types, Access sequences, condition exclusions for Value contract, Global deals and Scheduling agreements for the consulting and business scenarios.
• Handling all the I-Base related issues and I-Base related processes.
• Configuring end to end Business processes with new sales document types, new item categories, new delivery document types and new billing document types including the copy controls and routines to take care of requirements and data transfer routines.
• Configuring the end-to-end Business Processes in SAP including Partner determination procedures, Text determination procedures, and output determination procedures.
• Configuring the Print, ALE and Email outputs.
• Business end user, unit testing, Integration testing and resolving various issues.
• Support for go-live preparation and handling all cutover activities.
• Configuration of Asset Classes, Master data, Addition, retirement., transfer and other business transactions
• Configuration of Capitalization process to capture costs spanning multiple years and/or multiple capital projects to plan and track costs.
• Internal order configuration for Capital orders through IM.
• Responsible for all technical aspects of this high-profile pilot implementation for the Accelerated SAP methodology (ASAP). This included responsibility for: technical project management activities such as estimating, scheduling, status reporting, conversion from legacy systems to SAP, development of all new reports and interfaces, resolution of technical issues, integration testing support, and development of database.
• Configuration of US and Mexico Country specific Tax Books (ACRS/MACRS/AM (AA) T/ADR) for tax depreciation.
• Configuration of Inflation accounting
• Configuration of Book and Tax depreciation related Dep. /calculation Keys in accordance with US/Mexican Tax Regulations.
• Usage of "99" series accounts for global reporting purposes.
• Configuration of Operating and Capital lease functionality
• Property tax specific master data and tax area configuration for Net worth calculation.
• Configuration of Group asset Functionality and Group depreciation Reporting
• Data conversion from Excel Database using SAP LSMW functionality
• Data Mapping for Conversion of Legacy system into SAP
• Customization of Reports to meet the clients need
• Integration of AM (AA) with FI, WM, EWM, LES, MM and CO.
• Functional specification for Data Conversion, Reports
• Designed detailed Assets Business processes to be used by users in post implementation SAP environment, for the ease of users.
• Additionally helped FI team in Banking and Lockbox Configuration.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Director of PMO / Consultant Lead

Responsibilities:

• Contribution: Preparation of Business process as is documents, To-Be documents and mapping them in to SAP.
• Prepared and configured a template to implement the SD module for a specialized SAP AFS (Apparel and Footwear) industrial solution.
• Configured, setup, and testing the pricing module for a full range of products. This involved system modification, addition of fields in the field catalogue, customizing various allowances offered to the customer, and testing the pricing for their complex material system. Pricing included customizing the price to the level of the product grid and dimensions.
• Customized various reports required for day to day operation and management information systems.
• Responsible for auditing Project System (PS) Module. The client has been implementing PS module for about 18 months and wanted to improve the performance of PS module and its integration points to other modules.
• Responsible as consultant for PS Module, Nestle needs to capture the sales promotion activities and records them and choose PS as solution.
• Activities: conduct workshop for collecting user’s requirement and make the necessary setting in PS module.
• Handling data loads from their legacy system to SAP for Customer Master, Ship to DC, Ship to Stores, Forwarding Agents, Factors, Allowances, Customer SKU, Customer Hierarchies, and Open Sales Orders.
• Prepared specs and testing the layout set modification for printing order confirmations, invoices, bill of lading, packing list, etc.
• Prepared business blueprints and business process procedures and trained users on the business processes.
• SAP APO DP gap-fit, scoping, workshops, design, data migration, statistical forecasting, cut-over, post go-live support
• Accomplished SAP APO DP trainer with excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Business process re-engineering experience paired with influencing skills
• FI/CO
• Financial Accounting:
• Company code, Business area, Document control, Fiscal year maintenance. Field status Group, Finalisation of Chart of Accounts, foreign currency,Tolerance groups for GL, GL Master, Park document, Hold document Recurring entries
• Accounts Payable:
• Vendor master data configuration, Tolerance group, AutomaticPayment Program, Invoice, Credit memo, Check management, Down payment,Integration with MM module.
• Accounts Receivable:
• Customer master data configuration, Terms of payment, Openitem management, Dunning, Invoice, Credit memo, Down payment, Interest calculation,Integration with SD module.
• Asset Accounting:
• Asset master data, Organisation structure, Chart of Depreciation,Depreciation area and key, linking with GL Valuation Methods, Depreciation key, Depreciation Run, asset acquisition, write-off, Information system.
• Cost Element Accounting:
• Cost element group, assignment of cost elements to group, Actual postings, Information System.
• Cost Center Accounting:
• Cost center hierarchy, Actual Postings, Periodic Reposting, Distribution, Assessment, Information System
• Internal Orders:
• Order types, Creation, Expense booking, Status management, Settlement, Planning, Actual Postings, Year-end closing, and Information System.
• Profit Canter accounting: creation of Profit Centre, Maintain automatic account assignment of revenue element, Choose additional B/S & P&L A/C - Account groups
• Sales Distribution (SD)
• Handling Customization, Configuration and Enhancements related issues.
• Maintenance support includes solving the service request raised by the end user by providing effective solutions for business within the time frame agreed upon in the SLA.
• Created and maintained the Organizational entities.
• Customizing Alternative Product selection, Material Determination, Material Listing/ Exclusion, Service Contracts, and Free Goods.
• Involved in preparation of Technical Specifications, review of Routines & User Exits, Preparing Material, and Documentation.
• Developed and customized reports in SD module such as sales order report, which covers all organization levels, delivery status, invoice status, shipping details and partner function details.
• Pricing Procedure Determination and maintenance.
• Handling Tickets on Day-to-Day business.
• Interacting with the client.
• Interactions with cross Functional consultants.
• Responsible for resolving the cases
• Enhanced SAP with inclusion of Special Partner Functions and Custom Tables.
• Handled integration issues for integration of the SD module with MM and FI.
• Configured total text determination procedures including the flow of text from masters to various transactions.
• Configured output determination procedures by using conditioning techniques.
• Set special business processes such as multi store orders, material determination, material substitution, material exclusion, and listing suitable to match the complications of the apparel industry including the configuration of UPC codes.
• St. John operates more than 100 Retail stores to serve 100 thousands customers in remote area. Under SAP IS-Retail solutions, each retail store is considered as a store with Handheld Computer device as Point of Sales (POS) system.
• I involved in this SAP IS-Retail project as a team lead of SD module and SAP IS-Retail Solutions. My roles are:
• Provide the best practice solutions fromSAPSDmodule to serve Modern Trade and Wholesales customers.
• Provide SAP IS-Retail solutions for Retail Stores transactions, e.g. retail promotional activities, stock allocations, replenishment process from warehouse to Retail Stores sites, POS inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Train team members on SAP IS-Retail functions.
• VMI setup-EDI PROACT setup to transfer Stock and sales data to Core SAP system from Retail system
• Retail Hubs converted to Core plants in Core SAP system
• Replenishment setup for Sites.
• Setup for PO acknowledgement and design involved in update of Sales order in Retail system Purchase order
• Wrote Functional specs for shifting Hub Allocation rule, Hub Allocation strategy to SAP Core plants for stock allocation to individual sites
• Setup new interface to update the Sales order quantity changes in SAP Core system to SAP IS Retail system real time. Extensively involved in leveraging the BAPI applications to set up a PORDCH EDI message between Core and IS Retail.
• Configuration of Serial Number profile for deliveries in IS Retail and Article Master Assignment for the same. Created an ALV report for tracking deliveries, serial no, carrier and tracking number
• Conceptual roadmap of Archiving the existing Retail Hubs in IS Retail

Confidential, Houston, TX

Director of PMO / Consultant Lead

Responsibilities:

• Contribution: Configured SD module of SAP R/3 4.5 B system created of Pre-configured client.
• Creation of SD master data in R/3 including Customer master, Materials master, Pricing, ATP scenarios, Credit check, Delivery scheduling etc.
• Handled the integration issues to integrate R/3 OLTP system with SAP-BW (Business Information Warehouse)
• Created queries based on existing and new infocubes.
• Created info areas, Info object catalogs and assigned info objects, created SD related new info cubes and maintained update rules.
• Prepared the R/3 OLTP system for data transfer, maintained info sources and communication structure. Created Info package, scheduler and populated Info cubes including full update and delta update.
• Handled data loads from R/3 OLTP, Excel sheets and flat files.

Confidential, San Pedro, CA

Project Manager / Consultant Lead

Responsibilities:

• Contribution: Configured “Denied Party Screening System” (DPSS) for OCR, Inc.
• Created new transaction code and new menu for handling the DPSS with the menu options to display/change, block and unblock Customers and Vendors listed in the federal Denied parties in accordance with the US government regulations.
• Created specs for the new pop up screens during customer master data creation and Vendor master data creation, warning the user about the hits in the DPSS list and giving the options to continue or to abort.
• Created new blocking codes for the DPSS system and configured the system for total block or delivery block for Customers and quality block for the vendors and to use blocking code during the master data creation.

Confidential, Gardena, CA

Director of PMO / Consultant Lead

Responsibilities:

• Contribution: Defined master data elements for APO and its assignments to locations, products, resources and all other components of supply chain cockpit.
• Created master data for materials with variant configuration to suit implementation of APO.
• Created Real time Core Interface models to communicate and transfer data update for master data and transactional data between R/3 and APO
• Switched off MRP for the APO specific materials.
• Configured SD suitable for make to order and assemble to order PP scenarios SAP R/3 4.5 B system.
• Configured SD / PP interface for transfer of requirements.
• Configured make- to- order scenarios with strong PP interface. Creation of order - passing the requirements to PP module as a production order - confirmation of assembly /production and stock posting in to sales order stock - delivery.
• Handled the Integration Issues for integrating R/3 system with SAP-APO to handle Global ATP and Product allocation Scenarios.
• Created the SD related Master data.
• Configured Pricing for all the products including the products with variant configuration, with classes, characteristics, and configuration profiles and object dependencies.
• Created all SD related (Action, selection and procedure) Object dependencies.
• Configured Available to promise in R/3 system and Global ATP in the APO system.
• Configured the Sales support, Sales order processing, Delivery and shipping processing, Billing and invoicing.

Confidential

ERP Manager

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Structure to Global Parameters:
• Company, company code, Fiscal year, Posting Period Field Status variants and Assignment, Chart of Account, Account Group
• General ledger:
• GL Master, Park Document, Hold Document, Recurring Document, fast entry, cross company code transaction, House bank
• Account Payables /Account Receivable:
• Vendor account groups, Customer Account, Dunning, and Withholding Tax
• Asset Accounting:
• Chart of Depreciation, Asset Determination, Screen Layouts, and Number ranges, Asset Class, Depreciation areas, Integration with General Ledger, Valuation Methods, Depreciation Key
• Final Preparation and Go Live and Support:
• All master data & transaction data had been uploaded through LSMW process in to SAP systems Change in customizing as per client's requirement and Inter Company transactions, UAT process. Design and preparation of end user manual
• Involved in Final Preparation (Final integration test and validation, End User, Quality checks)
• Contribution: Preparation of Business process as is documents, To-Be documents and mapping them in to SAP.
• Defining and assigning the Enterprise structure for SD by mapping international business.
• Pricing specific to Variant configuration and SAP IS - Software solution including variant pricing, bump pricing, bundle pricing.
• Setting up Variant configuration for materials with configuration profile, classes, Characteristics, Characteristic grouping, characteristics, BOMs and object dependencies for pre-condition, selection conditions, procedures and constrains.
• Configuration of pricing procedures, condition types, Access sequences, condition exclusions.
• Pricing solutions to handle international pricing for more than 15 countries including the currency conversion matrix.
• Configuring end to end Business processes with new sales document types, new item categories, new delivery document types and new billing document types including the copy controls and routines to take care of requirements and data transfer routines.
• Configuring the end to end Business Processes in SAP including Partner determination procedures, Text determination procedures, and output determination procedures.
• Configuring the Print, ALE and Email outputs.
• Intercompany billing and the required EDI set up.
• Interfaces and the issues to handle interface with other end systems.
• Preparation of functional specifications for Data loads for master data, pricing records and testing and handling the data loads.
• Handling the required CATTs for data up load and . the users in total SD cycle.
• Addressing the issues, special requirements and wish list of the BPOs and User community by putting in place required modifications and configuration in place.
• Creation of test scenarios for unit testing and integration testing for all SD business processes and getting the sign-off after successful completion of testing.

Confidential, Township, Pennsylvania

Sr. Busi ness / Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Contribution: Prepared the SD configuration template for Schwan's "Back Home Food (Diet) Sales" concept to enable the SAP SD module to accept order bookings over the phone and handle automatic pricing and availability check.
• Configured the system to manage subsequent functions including delivery, pick confirmation, and billing documents.
• Prepared and created the customer database and configured the system for automatic default of various fields for order bookings over the telephone with minimal data entry to reduce order booking efforts.
• Setup / configure, blue print and deployed the RF Id and auto Id.
• Configured product proposals and material determination to enable coupon sales and customer specific discount pricing.
• Implemented the Materials Management module involving creating vendor information records, data load and interfacing with the legacy systems, created request for quotations, purchase orders, stock transfer orders, vendor master records, adjustment of the layout set for the printing and forwarding by EDI of by auto faxing the purchasing documents.
• Generated goods receipt for Purchase Orders, goods issue for production orders and reversals, removing materials for non-production and packaging areas, removing obsolete and scrap materials from inventory.
• Setup the warehouse including configuring various storage locations, warehouses, storage types, storage sections, placement strategies, removal strategies, and capacity check.
• Configured and utilized movement types, cycle counting the physical inventory, and posting the cycle count variance.
• Batch Management and RF Transactions: Created and maintained batch numbers for materials, SLED monitoring, RF transactions with bar codes, and mobile IM.
• IDOC error analysis for various transactions posted with IM. Error rectification and re-posting the IDOC. Introduced and deleted the batch management flag for materials.
• Implemented "Big Bang Live". Trained users and solved problems while going live.
• Analyzed report specifications, modified reports to suit user requirements, trained user groups to use SAP lists, and customized reports and transactions.

Confidential

SR Business / Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Contribution: Implemented the Sales & Distribution module involving setting up global and transportation data.
• Created and updated the master database of customers, items and orders.
• Analyzed stock availability, scope of credit, information, pricing, and customized ABAP/4 reports.
• Implemented the MM module. This included setting up global data, creating the master vendor database for products and services.
• Conducted detailed discussions with management and user groups to create business flow and process flow documents.
• Facilitated deliberations on corporate processes and policies with higher management to aid process re-engineering.
• Conducted JTMs (Joint Team Meetings) and led JADs (Joint Application Development) to arrive at the "To-Be" design.
• Mapped the finalized "To-Be" design with Oracle Manufacturing to determine the gaps and deliver the MAP-GAP document through customization of the system.
• Presented a design solution to plug gaps by workarounds or customizations to complete the final sign-off.
• Interfaced legacy systems to import data into manufacturing.
• Developed business scenarios for extensive system testing.
• Special customization was done to interface purchasing and order entry for operation optimization.
• Identified transition issues by comparing data models between legacy systems and manufacturing.
• Customized reports to suit the client requirements.
• Built and tested the interface programs between the legacy systems and SAP modules by BDC programs.
• Tested the system by case simulation before going live.
• Assisted with preparing the disaster management system.