OBJECTIVE:

To be a successful SAP Supply Chain Management professional & to pursue a challenging career in this field by applying knowledge, skills in a creative and challenging work environment through continuous learning process.

SUMMARY:

• 17.4 years of consulting & domain experience including 10 years of strong SAP professional experience in SAP Implementations, Enhancements, rollouts, Support & Upgrade projects. 7.4 years of strong functional experience in manufacturing industry with domains including Engineering, Purchase, Quality and Production departments.
• Executed 6 E2E MM implementation projects, 2 E2E LE/WM & 1 SAP EWM implementation projects covering rollouts, Testing, support, upgrades for MM/WM from 4.7/5.0 to ECC 6.0 & feasibility study project for MM/WM from R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
• Key player in Apple’s NPI project for one of the product release launched in 2013. Designed and developed various supply chain models to cater Channel customers & consumers sales across AMR, EMEIA & APAC regions. Led & executed more than 13 logistics projects at Apple Inc. representing IS&T team.
• Proficiency in Scoping, Planning, Business workshops, Gap/Fit Analysis, Process Designs, Configuration, Testing, Deployment, Data Migration and Post Go - Live Support in SAP systems.
• Strong SAP expertise in Materials Management & Warehouse Management modules with exposure on logistics execution modules. Worked on optimization of supply chain process flows with scope to include configurations of Handling Unit Management, Serialization & RF applications.
• Exposed to debugging, user exits, report developments, ABAP query designs, functional specification preparation & ABAP development support.
• Strong at EDI integration that includes reviewing specifications & mapping. Strong ALE-Idoc configuration knowledge to integrate Vendors, 3PL’s, customs brokers, carriers & distribution centers responsible for warehouse operations, packing & Shipping processes.
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills used to access customer needs, business requirements, solve complex technical / design problems and build high functioning teams.
• Worked for diversified clients across various geographical locations, which includes US, France, Switzerland & India with Hi-tech, Pharma, Manufacturing, Watch & Jewellery, Automobile & service industries.
• Good exposure in integration part of EWM, WM, SD, PP, LE and FI with MM.
• EmploymENt history
• Working with Confidential as Project Lead handling Implementation & Rollout projects on EWM, MM & WM modules for past 4.8 years.
• 3.1 Years with Capgemini Consulting India Pvt Ltd., Bangalore as SAP MM/WM Senior Functional consultant with diversified projects experience.
• 5 Months in KPIT Cummins Info Systems Limited as Consultant for Internal Support Project.
• 10 Months in Confidential as Consultant in Mahindra and Mahindra Dealer Management System Implementation & rollout Projects.
• 12 Months as Member of SAP implementation with the role of core team member for SAP MM/WM modules in Royal Enfield Motors.
• 7.4 years of Strong domain experience with Royal Enfield motors managing diversified business functions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Project Lead with hands on experience in Materials management, extended warehouse management & Warehouse management modules configuration activities.
• Managed projects through Apple specific D2P methodology through out the project life cycle with Offshore - Onsite Model.
• Experience to lead OEM setup activities along with Business Process Re engineering teams & partners. To define and document clear acceptance criteria including the stakeholders who will provide sign off.
• Led and own the project deliverables considering the following factors schedules, Risks, Issues, Changes & dependencies that are critical for project management.
• Skills to schedule & plan effective business workshops and driving the sessions so as to capture the business requirements resulting in preparation of Business Review documents & Playbacks.
• Ability to understand business requirements, identifying gaps with standard SAP process and to propose customized solutions. Involved in Gap analysis and recommending business about the SAP best practices.
• Organizing Kick Off Meetings, Mobilization meetings & Business Playback sessions.
• Preparation of design documents to map the business requirements and participating in Global design approval meetings to initiate system developments.
• Configuration & customization activities of MM/EWM/WM/LE modules in system based on Business Review document.
• Experience in leading /handling IT/ UAT support for global SAP implementation projects.
• Execution of test scripts along with third party interfaces & external partners for the exchange of logistics data.
• Working with Performance testing, Volume testing, Regression testing teams for CR implementation.
• Presentations to production support team for CR implementation, Pre & Post production cutover activities, TDM maintenance and Warranty Support & Project handover.
• New Virtual plant setup for the Apple care iPad personalization process, which includes implementation of New Buy process, OTV process, & repair processes. The project involved setting up of new organizational elements and other associated configurations to complete the logistics process flow.
• Involved in detailed design of Logistics process flow for BOSS project to manage Direct Ship, Hub Ship and STO scenarios.
• Worked on arriving at regional specific EDI specifications for various transactions which includes 850, 846, 810, 856ASN, 940, 856SC & 945. EDI specifications sharing to OEM, conducting workshops to walkthrough OEM handbook and providing samples to aid in OEM EDI development.
• Involved and managing workshops to Integrate Peripheral systems which includes APO, GTS, BW, GBI, TMS, EDI, EDW, eCost, GCRM, GSX, iLog and other sub systems for the successful delivery of the projects.
• Development of analytics report in SAP to publish data set to GBI system in order to cater the AC business needs. Preparation of functional specification, development with ABAP team, testing and transporting objects.
• Involved in optimizing the process setup for handling Central procurement-planning model to implement Korea functional warehouse.
• Lead the warehouse management team in Project blueprinting, Process requirement design and implementing the warehouse management module for Korea Hub.
• Set up configurations for WM structure by defining warehouse number, storage type’s storage sections and storage bin.
• Defined WM movement types, Storage type search, Storage section search, Storage bin type search, Stock placement (put away) and stock removal (Picking) strategies.
• Customized shipping/receiving (Inbound / Outbound) process according to the business requirement and client needs.
• Experience in configuring WM and IM modules for movement types, physical inventory, cycle counting, and creation of bins, transfer requirements and transfer orders.
• Designed the warehouse processes using custom RF transactions for Goods receiving, Issues, Production staging & cycle counting operations.
• Designed & developed function modules to perform PGI transactions for Brazil in country direct ship model to capture Nota fiscal from OEM for material movements.
• Optimized CIM download report used by manufacturing team at CORK with a performance improvement of 20% through optimizing the code and functional process flow.

Confidential

SAP MM Functional consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Getting involved in early phase of Prototype documents preparation.
• Demonstrating Implementation benefits of SAP over other ERP system and its various solution methodologies to complex business process scenarios.
• Understanding the client business process thereby preparing and documenting Business Process Master List.
• Involved in functional workshops to document AS IS process prevailing with the client.
• Collection of Process flows, data list and other informations to transform the raw data in to BBP.

Confidential

SAP MM / WM functional consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities: 

• Visited Paris for a three-week duration to interact with Sanofi - Experts to understand the Business process involved through functional workshops.
• Preparation of TOC to list down MM and WM Business processes & to estimate the test case script volume.
• Walkthrough country specific Design papers to build country matrix for test plan execution.
• Evaluating test scripts for updates, deletions and additions.
• Organizing and collating the test script volume in the HP quality center to build Upgrade project.
• Involved in Dual maintenance activities to have both upgraded system and R/3 4.7 in synchronization.

Confidential

SAP MM Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 & IBM web sphere for Interfacing

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering related to interface for the Master data objects, which includes Material Master, Material BOM, Document Master and Change Masters.
• Field Mapping and development of logic with filters for the transfer of above Objects.
• Configuration of ALE / Idoc settings to carryout above scenarios with the following message types MATMAS, DOCMAS and BOMMAT.
• Building up of testing strategies, test scripts and conducted testing for the Master data distribution.
• Building up logic for the Search, Copy and Impact analysis scenarios to design & develop BAPI.
• Idoc Monitoring and troubleshooting.

Confidential

SAP MM / WM Functional Lead

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 & ECC 6.0

Responsibilities: 

• Involved in workshop activities for a week at client place in Paris to discuss about business processes being followed at Sanofi pertaining to MM & WM modules.
• Understanding customization, business process mapping & Process flow from upgrade point of view.
• Identifying pain areas of the client and to study feasibility of eradicating the same by upgrading the system.
• Assessment study of system for upgrading from 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
• Study of testing requirements after upgrade and the discussions on test strategy to be formulated after system upgrade.
• Conducting workshops to present delta functionalities available in ECC 6.0 and categorizing the functionalities as Quick wins, upgrade scope and extended scope.
• Preparation of Assessment documents and submitted the same for validation with the risks involved.

Confidential

SAP MM consultant

Environment: ECC 5.0 & ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in workshop activities to understand the business processes of Watches and Jewelry business spread across various parts of Globe such as in Swiss, Japan, USA, Germany, Bienne, UK & Paris pertaining to MM/SD & PP Processes.
• Understanding the system landscape and preparation of Business Process Master list after discussing the same with the Key Users.
• Validation and approval process of BPML.
• Involved in Business KT sessions for the preparation of the Test scripts.
• Engaged in Team meetings for the project plan activities.
• Transferring the Business Knowledge gained in Onsite to the offshore team members and to the Technical team.
• Preparation of Unit test scripts / integrated test scripts.
• Planning and execution of test scripts in the upgraded instance to fix system anomalies.
• Co ordination with onsite business team for the successful completion of UAT.
• Fixed issues related to technical errors and program corrections resulted from UAT.
• Monitoring the Project Management tool and assigning the tickets related to Logistics Module.
• Fixing issues by applying correct OSS Note, changes in includes and function modules etc.., resulted as a result of poor SPAU import.

Confidential

SAP MM & WM Consultant

Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved as a team member in the test factory to carry out Unit test & Integration Testing from offshore for various Testing campaigns like Core & V2 India.
• Defects recording and tracking through Source Forge PM tool.
• Interacted with KT sessions from onsite for better understanding of the business process flow.
• Engaged in Team meetings emerged as a result of defect analysis.
• Engaged in Shari culture programs to foster a learning culture within the team.

Confidential

SAP MM consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Test Factory is a CG global initiative to build test script templates and ecatt test repository to attract clients in automating the testing process.
• It involved identification of MM & WM business scenarios, studying the feasibility for integrating the scenario for testing purpose.
• Coordinated in establishing the system landscape.
• Configuring the system to setup work environment to simulate business processes of a two-wheeler manufacturing industry with organizational elements and master data requirements.
• Building of test cases and scripts and testing the same with the ecatt-testing tool.
• Repository building in terms of automated test scripts with success logs.

Confidential

SAP MM consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an active MM consultant for the preparation of proposal generation process, which comprised of Understanding Indian Business processes of Tenneco, Walkthrough BBP of European process, comparison of GAP, Understanding Scope of implementation in India. This is to prepare and estimate man day hours and resource requirement calculation purpose.
• SAP training coordinator for the Bangalore SAP unit, which includes identifying the training requirements, spotting out trainers and liaison with managers to schedule the training events, follow up with infrastructure and successfully completing the program.
• Participated in Interview panel to take care of MM consultant recruitment drives.
• Prepared white papers and documents as COE activities and contributing to the central repository.

Confidential

SAP MM consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• KPIT Cummins Info systems had implemented SAP to carry out its internal business processes effectively.
• Played key role in Support activities related to MM module.
• Active consultant for sorting out the tickets raised by the user and configuring new requirements after discussing the same with the unit head.
• Development of Z reports to facilitate the requirements of User.
• Configuration of two tier PO release strategy for high valued items.

Confidential 

SAP MM/WM consultant

Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• The Dealer Management System (DMS) was developed to integrate all the Dealers of Mahindra Automobiles on a shared system landscape.
• This Project was initially handled by SAP India & later was handed over to Bristlecone India, where my role was to work as a Materials Management consultant.
• Active SAP MM Consultant for the rollout activities of SAP R/3 MM Module in Mahindra and Mahindra Dealer Management System.
• Configuration of MM functionalities which includes Pricing, Split Valuation, Stock Determination & Release strategies
• Creation of new tax codes and configuring TAXINN procedure to suit the client requirements
• Configuration of OBYC settings for automatic account determination during the Goods movement transactions.
• Successful configuration and testing of all the scenarios for Materials Management & Integration testing with other Modules.
• Developed various pricing procedures for Vehicle purchase, Spare & accessories purchase and Local purchase as required by the Client.
• Creation and configuration of new movement types & messages in Inventory management.
• Activation of G/L tab activation, Check for Invoice verification, Default definition of tax codes and settings related to unplanned delivery cost management.
• Configured Serial number profile for Vehicle purchase processes.
• Involved in freezing out the organizational elements for the next rollout of dealers and configured the same.
• Developed various customized reports to serve both the operational and control needs.
• Developed Customized transaction in order to carry out Warranty claim process through Materials management module.
• Ensuring seamless integration between MM/SD/FI/CS with XI interface.
• Developed XI Interfaces for data exchange between M&M’s SAP 4.7 & DMS 5.0 system for Material master, Purchase Info record, Source list, PO-SO cycle, Auto GR, Pricing Claim, Shortage Claim, Damage Claim, Excess Claim & Warranty Claim processes.
• Worked on User manuals, Configuration documentation and End User training.
• Responsible for solving the issues reported after implementation through MM helpdesk support activities.