SUMMARY

• Oracle e - Business Suite Functional expert with 8.3 years of IT Experience including in-depth experience in design, support and implementation of software applications Including experience as a Functional Consultant
• Expertise in I-Procurement, Sourcing, i-Supplier, WMS, BOM, Configurator, Advance Pricing, Order Management, Accounts Receivables, Cash Management, AME, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, I-Expense, Shipping, Inventory, Purchasing modules.
• Extensive experience in the Functional aspects of Oracle Applications 11i, Release 12.1.3 and 12.1.1 Worked across different modules of the Supply Chain Management suite including Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Inventory, Oracle Receivables, WMS, Oracle Order Management, and Oracle Shipping.
• Strong understanding of different methodologies (Agile, Waterfall and Iterative), finance and risk models, operation (six sigma, supply chain services), marketing and engineering.
• Excellent communication skills, managed projects with C Level executives and open source engineers.
• Experience in high volume, high risk, high visibility and low downtime production systems.
• Successfully designed and implemented projects in custom-built products, COTS, version upgrades and services.
• Ensured escalations are met, issues resolved, risk mitigated and task prioritized due to strong technical and executive experience.
• Tools used on projects: MS Office, MS Project, Visio, MySQL and PHP, statistics and risk management modeling.
• Hands on project manager, gathered requirements to develop architecture, logic and data models, used data for project estimations, sign offs and change request approvals.
• Extensive experience with Managing Off Shore and On Site teams.
• Experienced in desktop applications, hosted solutions on server farms and disaster recovery centers.
• Developed several Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Specification Documents (FSD)
• Experience includes execution of 4 full lifecycle Oracle Applications implementations including the exposure to e-Business Suite Release 12, numerous Application Support projects, RICE implementations, upgrades, with high level of Customer Satisfaction.
• Over 6 years of extensive experience on Oracle Supply Chain Manufacturing Applications consulting including Quote to Cash and Procure to Pay Executed critical projects as Business Analyst, Functional Consultant, Onsite Coordinator, Designer on Functional & Techno-Functional roles.
• Extensive business area experience & have received great commendations at Client site for excellent interpersonal & Client interaction skills.
• Adept in reviewing and analyzing the 'as-is' business scenarios, processes and activities, evaluating end user requirements and custom designing solutions and troubleshooting any problems in the process.
• Demonstrated abilities in mapping business requirements and translating these requirements into Oracle applications functional specifications and detailed test plans and custom designing solutions.
• Strong communication & leadership skills with an ability to interact with business users and lead business projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Oracle SCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) with the business rules associated to archive the daily transactional data across different Operating units for nine fiscal years until Sep-2007.
• Preparing business test scripts with the business rules associated with it to test the data integrity of archived data.
• Worked on the Distribution Modules of Purchasing, Sourcing, BOM, Configurator, Shipping, i-Procurement, AP, Payments, AME - setups and business process definition.
• Performed all the setups for Shipping, i-Procurement, Sourcing, OM modules.
• Worked on the setups for AME including the setups of Approval Rules, Attributes, Parallel Approval Process, Conditions, Actions, etc.
• Implemented TCA - for AR customer master conversions.
• Worked on the setups of the Sourcing module.
• Worked on Setups of the Configurator module.
• Worked on the configuration of the INV module - setting up the Inventory Orgs, Sub Inventories, Categories, Catalogs, Item Templates, Min Max and Reorder point planning, Cycle counting, ABC Analysis, etc.
• Worked on the i-Procurement setups - configuring Punch Outs, Catalogs, categories, Approval process, etc.
• Worked on the i-Supplier portal setups - defining the supplier registration process, supplier creation and approval process, etc.
• Performed all of the setups for the OM module - defining the Transaction Types, processing constraints, defaulting rules, price lists, discounts and surcharges, drop ship process, back to back order process, IRISO Process.
• Worked with the Business team to baseline the ‘As Is’ Process and derive ‘To Be’ flow.
• Worked on the setups of the AME Module - defining the parallel approval process, custom attributes, attribute mapping, approval rules, exceptions and exemptions, approval limits, etc.
• Pricing Business Requirement Study and designed / documented Functional Specification.
• Identification of Gap & put collaborative effort with the Technical team to address the same thro Technical Specification.
• Facilitated Pricing & IT Business to obtain clarity on the Business Rules and capture the same.
• Flow Testing for Modules (Purchasing, i-Supplier Portal, Order Management, AME) to make sure flow is working without any issues.
• Conducting Pre Project Review & Post Project Review.
• Providing Post Implementation support
• Worked for the Category & Mapping data migration to meet the go alive deadline.
• Jointly worked with the QA team in formulating the Test Cases & Test Scenarios.
• Assisted Business for Business Acceptance Testing and obtain Sign off.

Environment: Release 12.1.3, Purchasing, WMS, BOM, Sourcing, Configurator, Shipping, i-Supplier Portal, Order Management, AR, AP, GL, FA, CM modules

Confidential, St Louis, MO

SCM Functional Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Study AS-IS Business Process
• Analyze the Catapult Expandable System Integration Requirements.
• Identification of GAPs & proposal of Solution.
• Worked on the configurations of the Purchasing, BOM, Sourcing, Configurator, Shipping, OM, i-Procurement
• Preparing of all of the Functional Specification Documents (FSD), Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Data Mapping Documents (DMD) and Functional Testing Documents.
• Worked on the Item Master Setups in Inventory module, defining of item templates, categories, catalogs, defining item attributes, enabling items in various organizations, controlling item attribute changes by implementing controls, etc.
• Worked on the setups of the BOM and Configurator module.
• Defined product catalogs and categories in Inventory module
• Worked on the Sourcing module setups
• Worked on the setup of the OM setups
• Setup AME Setups - defining AME Rules, Attributes, Conditions, Parallel Approval, Etc.
• Understand Division-specific business processes from the end users and implement the same.
• Responsible for training the end users on the new processes and facilitated on-the-job training.
• Performed Item Mapping from legacy system and vendor catalogs into Oracle - to define new items and categories.
• Worked on the setups of Banks in oracle Cash Management - including the defining of all Internal and External banks, defining the bank branches, defining the bank setups, bank accounts, integration with banks both US and International banks.
• Worked on the setups of the Cash Management module - including the defining of bank statement templates, cash forecasting, defining of the bank transaction codes, Auto and Manual reconciliation process.
• Setup the Work Execution flow and Preventive Maintenance Flow in Enterprise Asset Management.
• Worked on the Revenue Recognition process in AR including setting up the deferred revenue rules.
• To Be High Level & Detail Documents Preparation
• Module Configuration Documents Preparation Shipping, Sourcing, BOM, Configurator, Purchasing, Order Management, i-Supplier Portal, i-Procurement, AME modules setup
• User Training as a part of CRP1, CRP2, CRP3
• Data Migration functional specification documents creation
• Design Creation & Validations
• Application testing w.r.t individual module
• Issues Tracking & Customer Sign off
• Provide inputs and part of the team for new solution.
• Test various business scenarios in the new system.
• Interact directly with end users, infrastructure teams, and project teams.
• Functional design of the Conversion / Integration programs.
• Progress the track thro CRP1, CRP2, UAT & Go Alive.
• Provide user training & documentation

Environment: Oracle applications R12 (Technology: Purchasing, Sourcing, BOM, Configurator, i-Procurement, i-Supplier Portal, Order Management, AME)

Confidential, Greenwood Village, CO

Oracle SCM Functional Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on setup configurations including Flex Field Values & Value Sets, OM Order Types & Workflows, Pricelist Shipping/Picking parameters, Release rules, profile options, lookups & module specific shared entities & objects and their integration.
• Adept in reviewing and analyzing the 'as-is' business scenarios, processes and activities, evaluating end user requirements and custom designing solutions and troubleshooting any problems in the process.
• Defined the Approval Hierarchies, Document Security, Streamlined the Receiving process, Setup the Matching Process in Purchasing module
• Defined the setups for the Configurator and BOM module.
• Worked on the configurations of the Purchasing, Sourcing, i-Supplier Portal, Order Management, AME modules.
• Worked with end users to document the business processes & functional requirements also providing them with training materials
• Coordinated activities with Implementation team on creating test plans & documents, conduct unit testing, correcting bugs and re-testing while meeting project deadlines. Facilitated discussions with end-users / managers to gather functional requirements.
• Worked in parallel with the client is resolving the CRP 2 and post go-live testing issues with offshore support.
• Coordinated with client through Concalls and WEBEX sessions to get the requirements and also coordinating with the technical team for fixing the issues for proper deliverables to the client.
• Provided KT sessions to the testing and the technical teams.

Environment: i-Procurement, Order Management, i-Store, BOM, Sourcing, Configurator, Advance Pricing, Order Management, AR, Cash Management, i-Expense, Purchasing modules

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Oracle SCM Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed solution pilot covering prototyping of “To Be” business process flows by analyzing the gap in the business requirements & then mapping it to oracle functionality
• Worked on setting up order verification holds and new customer credit check holds in OM
• Performed setups & did integration testing for split shipment, drop shipment process, RMA process, shipping parameters with Quoting, Order Management & custom made ‘Scheduling & Dispatch’ modules
• Worked on the Item Master setups including setting up of Inventory Orgs, Defining Item Attributes, Item Catalogs, Item Categories, Item Attribute controls, etc.
• Perform on-site deployment activities for oracle solution for Inventory, Order Management, Quoting modules & custom solutions including ‘Scheduling & Dispatch’.
• Performed Item Mapping from legacy system and vendor catalogs into Oracle to define new items & categories
• Performed configuration setup of custom module ‘Scheduling & Dispatch’ & facilitated user validation.
• Setting up of complete Order to Cash cycle setups from Quoting & order entry in order management to ship confirm in shipping execution module
• Developed test scripts & conducted CRP testing for the Order 2 Cash cycle
• Involved in the deployment cycle for Item Mapping, Production Cutover activities, helping the Pilot divisions to Go-Live, & user support in live phase
• Documented new procedures & Involved in training the business users on the new processes and also assisted them during their on-job training exercise

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the current Business process and preparation of As-Is documentation.
• Designing of To-Be process and Identification of Gaps.
• Setup Configuration - BR100 Preparation & Mapping of Business Process
• Conducting CRP 1 Testing and CRP 2 Testing to super users.
• Conducting UAT - End to End Integration testing
• Performing out the Production Setups.
• Module owner Training.
• Post production support
• Functional Business Support and resolving day to day critical issues.
• Creation of TAR with Oracle team for Standard Functionality issues.
• Key setups like Flex fields, Organization, Inventory Parameters, UOM, Sub inventory, stock
• Established a Item Category and Item Cataloging for their products.
• Defined a ABC Analysis and Cycle Count
• Established Customer Item and Customer Item Cross Reference
• Established a process for smooth month end closing procedure in Inventory
• Established Purchase Requisition process and Approval hierarchy to manage non-production (Indirect) Items purchases in the Organization
• Developed solution to manage Stock Items and recurring non-stock purchases using Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) and Blanket Releases
• Configured Auto-Sourcing rules, Approved Supplier List(ASL) and BPA to enable Buyers to release purchase orders automatically from Planners Workbench
• Developed solution to manage Inventory using ‘Inspection’ as receipt routing for Items routed through Quality department and established ‘Return to Vendor’ process
• Worked on the complete setup of i-Procurement module including the setups of the Approval Rules using AME, setting up the Approved Supplier Lists, Auto Sourcing, Customized the Requisition import process form i-Procurement to Purchasing.