PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 10+ years of SAP experience in SAP Materials Management (MM & IM) demonstrated in multiple SAP projects
• Excellent knowledge of Business processes in diverse industries including Food processing, Telecommunication, Energy, Retail & Infrastructure
• Demonstrated experience in multiple SAP projects including Full life - cycle implementation, Roll out projects and Application Maintenance (Production support) projects
• Worked through various phases of a project life cycle, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live & Hyper care
• Extensive experience in Business process workshops, Business process walk-throughs, Business requirements gathering and analysis, Blueprint, Functional Design for Confidential, Functional Unit test, Integration test and UAT), Business Cutover planning and execution
• Very good working knowledge in cross functional / multi system integration processes i.e. Supplier Network Collaboration (SNC), WM - Warehouse Management, SRM Supplier Relation Management
• Extensive SAP configuration skills includes Enterprise structure definition i.e. Company Code,, Purchasing Organizations to align with Central Purchasing, Decentralized Purchasing, Plant / Storage Location to align with WM processes, Material types, Vendor Account groups, Purchasing document types, Partner determination schema, Screen control, Pricing Calculation Schemas, access sequences, condition types, Cross-company purchases, Third party orders, Triangular purchasing processes, Cross-Border purchases, Imports, Stock Transport orders (STO), Subcontracting, Consignment, Inventory Management, Batch Management, Serial Number Management, Shelf life expiration, Reservations, Shelf Life Expiration (SLED), Movement types, Physical Inventory, Cycle count, Stock Transfers, Transfer posting, EDI, PO collaboration via Ariba Network, Readsoft integration for Invoice processing

SOFT SKILLS:

Self: motivated, Excellent client facing skills, Good interpersonal skills, Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago

STP Lead Consultant, SAP ECC Roll-out / Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Working as SAP Lead consultant for Confidential Catalyst Template project
• Directly responsible for design and configuration of End to End Procurement processes for Confidential
• Conducted Business process workshops, Design workshops and performed GAP analysis, designed Business blueprint
• Authored Functional design documents for various Confidential
• Lead and execute Integration test cycles with Test Hub team
• Co-ordinated User Acceptance Testing, involving all the involved business users
• Authored Training documents for various procurement processes
• Worked with various Business partners for Master & Transactional data cleansing and migration
• Closely worked with OCM (Organization Change Management) team for change impact analysis, communication and mitigation
• Actively worked with Security and Internal Controls (IC) teams to re-define security roles for local Brazil users

STP Lead Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for deploying ECC solution for new Manufacturing plant in Davenport, directly responsible for Procurement and Logistics Process
• Responsible for system configuration, data migration, Integration testing activities
• Worked with Business users for successful completion of UAT
• Exited Hypercare ahead of schedule and handed over to normal BAU support process

STP Lead Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned Legacy Heinz North America procurement processes and migrated / adapted to Kraft SAP ECC processes
• Extensively worked on External Manufacturing process (Co-packer process) and 3PL integration via custom interfaces and EDI
• Designed and extensively worked on End to End EDI process automation via 850 (PO creation), 860 (PO change), 855 (Order Response), 856 (ASN), 810 (Invoice)

STP Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared detailed configuration guides for recurring change requests to improve overall resolution time and productivity
• Interacted with process owners, key end users and provided functional support and resolutions for SAP MM, SNC, AP issues, which also includes coordinating with technical and cross-functional process teams
• Lead support team of 7 members and responsible for supervision of daily activities, assigning tasks to the team members and monitor their timely closure
• Proactively identified pain points in the existing system, work towards continuous process improvement, ticket reduction, and automation initiatives to optimize cost, time and quality constraints

Confidential

Consultant - SAP ECC Data Migration

Responsibilities:

• Designed and executed ‘Data Extraction and Migration Strategy’ detailing data extraction rules, techniques, Data Object mapping rules, Data transformation methods from Legacy system to SAP systems, Data cleansing methods, Data field mapping rules
• Designed and implemented Master data migration templates for various master & transactional data such as Vendor Master, Material Master, Purchasing Info Record, Source list
• Developed various LSMW tools for data migration for various SAP data objects
• Extensively worked with Business users for data transformation and data cleansing

Confidential

MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Documented AS-IS processes, Defined TO-BE processes to align with SAP Best practices
• Gathered business process requirements, Prepared BPML (Business Process Master List), Business Requirements Document (BRD), and Business Blueprint using ASAP methodology
• Performed GAP analysis and documented Process Definition Documents (PDD), Functional Specifications for Confidential
• Configured SAP MM purchasing processes and IM Inventory Management processes
• Prepared master data templates for various objects like Material master, vendor master, Excise master, Info-records, source list, purchase order.

Confidential

Techno Functional Consultant - MM, PS & ABAP, SAP

Responsibilities:

• Provided functional expertise in the SAP MM module and cross-module impact analysis
• Worked closely working with ABAP Development team and Basis teams
• Prepared Test strategy, Test Plan, Test cases and Test steps for each business process
• Documented and Monitored test defects via HPQC and worked towards resolution
• Actively worked with BASIS team for system cutover activities

Confidential

Functional Consultant - MM, SAP Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of production support tickets / issues, minor enhancements
• Co-ordination with technical team for Development & Enhancements
• Process analysis and Identify Improvement areas of Business Processes.
• Identification of training needs, creating user manual and conducting end user training

Confidential

Functional Consultant - MM, SAP Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for Application maintenance and production support activities that included analyzing customer problems, identify and implement solutions for Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes
• Was responsible for problem resolution within SLA
• Actively worked on system enhancements
• Proactively look for automation of tasks handled both on SR and Non-SR activities