EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Over 16years of SAP experience in IS - Retail and IS-Autosolutions which includes 10 years of leading international projects with Onsite/Offshore development teams.
• SAP Project experience includes full Life Cycle Implementation, Global production support and Roll out implementation.
• Diverse experience includes Business Process Analysis, SAP Implementation Processes, Development Life Cycle Processes, Testing, End-user Trainingand Production support.
• Project Management activities like project planning, staffing, liaison with client, monthly billing, preparing SOW etc.
• Business Development activities like writing Proposals, SOW; Conducting Pilot projects, Taking part in Due Diligence, Doing assessment studies at client sites.
• A self-motivated and organized individual with exceptional analytical and problem solving skills.
• Proven ability to interact effectively at all levels within a large industry with excellent communication skills.

SKILL:

• Expert configuration experience in Purchasing, Inventory Management, Consumption Based Planning and Logistics Invoice Verification.
• Expert implementation experience in different procurement processes like Subcontracting, Stock Transport Orders, Consignment and Third Party.
• Strong cross functional implementation experience of materials management functions with SD, FI/CO, QM, PM and PP.
• Strong implementation experience in Release Procedure, Pricing Conditions and Material Valuation.
• Strong experience in coordinating with various technical teams like ABAP/EDIIDoc/EAI in developing solutions.
• Strong experience in Requirements gathering, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation of customized Transactions, Reports, Inbound and Outbound Interfaces to legacy systems.
• Strong experience in managing SAP Solution Manager, Winshuttle and Testing tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago

SAP Environment:SAP ECC 6.0; IS-Retail

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a Lead Consultant for IT Merchandising, Marketing& Workplace Pricing, responsible for managing various application teams - SAP, Winshuttle, Mainframe, AS/400, CATCON, CATBOX, Digital Publisher, ES Softproofing, MarketMax, InfoPath, Field Pricing Tool etc. Managing onsite and offshore teams and ensuring for the delivery of Production Support and Merger projects.
• Involved in Confidential and Office Depot merger projects in identifying data mapping between the systems SAP and RMS, solution design, development, data loading, testing and implementation of the solution.
• Compare the key attributes needed to create an article in SAP and the key attributes needed to create an article in RMS.
• Extract all the information related to the articles and compare the data for common SKU’s based upon UPC numbers, Manufacturer’s code, Vendor, Vendor part number, etc.
• Define the new business rules for building the transformation logic and creating cross reference tables to accommodate ODP’s SKU’s in SAP.
• Requirements gathering and writing functional specifications for all the ad hoc reports used for merger related activities.
• Weekly report to pull the data related to new articles that were added to the system after the merger. This report pulls the general data, cost information and vendor information related to all the new articles.
• Weekly report to pull the data related to all the articles that were discontinued by stores or on catalogues or on the retail and B2B website.
• Gathered requirements from the business owners which includes business requirements and SAP to legacy application interfaces of Article Master & Info Records
• Analyzed the existing business scenarios in Materials Management processes
• Identified the data mapping requirements for data migration
• Prepared the functional specification for the data migration for the conversion programs/LSMW and validation programs
• Tested the conversion programs/LSMW and validation programs in the development and testing environment
• Carried out mock cut-over data migration
• Carried out cutover activities - Uploaded Material Master Data, Open Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders
• Validated the data in the Production environment
• Worked on setting up a new interface between EPIM and SAP
• Requirement gathering from business related to the information that needed to be exchanged by the new interface
• Functional specification document to create the change pointers for all the fields whose data will be passed to EPIM system
• Functional specification document for the programs that need to be created for processing the change pointers based upon the business requirements.
• Functional specifications document for creating a file to be sent to TIBCO for data analysis if there are any errors with transferring from SAP system to EPIM system
• Tested EPIM interface
• Worked with the middleware team (TIBCO) to ensure the smooth data flow and setting up the translation logic for certain fields between both the systems.
• Carried out detailed analysis of the reported issue
• Communicated with business users in case of any clarification required
• Identified the root cause of the issue and provided solution to the business users within the specified SLA duration
• Adhered the ticket resolution process in the Remedy tool
• Documented the root cause analysis and the resolution for each ticket in the ticket monitoring tool
• Coordinated with cross functional SAP teams and non-SAP teams to resolve the issue on timely manner

Confidential, Chicago

SAP Environment:SAP ECC 6.0

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements from the business owners which includes business requirements and SAP to legacy application interfaces
• Analysis of the existing business process for blocked invoice release and repayment functionalities
• Determination of Gap between “As-Is” and “To-Be” functionalities
• Designing solution to fill the gap which will result in enhancing standard SAP functionalities and designing new transactions in SAP
• Designing data mapping to interface with legacy applications
• Designing customized database tables to meet the requirements

Confidential

SAP Environment:SAP ECC 6.0

SAP Application Management Lead

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring of ticket flow and assignment to respective teams
• Monitoring and coordinating with respective teams on WIP tickets
• Ensure meeting the SLA of each ticket
• Ensure adhering ticket resolution process
• Coordinating with non-SAP teams and ensuring seamless resolution of dependant tickets
• Coordinating with business users on critical issue resolution
• Periodic reporting to internal & client leadership teams
• Project planning for specific projects
• Determination of resourcing needs and getting on boarding the resources as required
• Carried out detailed analysis of the reported issue
• Communicated with business users in case of any clarification required
• Identified the root cause of the issue and provided solution to the business users within the specified SLA duration
• Adhered the ticket resolution process in the Remedy tool
• Documented the root cause analysis and the resolution for each ticket in the ticket monitoring tool
• Coordinated with cross functional SAP teams and non-SAP teams to resolve the issue on timely manner
• Preparation of functional specification for custom developments
• Review, finalize and sign-off the functional specification and data mapping document from business owners
• Working with development team in preparation of technical specification document
• Determining feasible technical design and sign-off technical specification document
• Working with development team to get ABAP, Interface and Legacy application developments completed
• Providing business logic, program logic and database queries to development team during program development
• The root cause analysis of the key issues and established a work-around solution and subsequently addressing the issue through the change management process. This helped to reduce the repeated & known issues in the system

Confidential

SAP Environment:SAP ECC 6.0

Retail Master Data Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring of ticket flow and assignment to respective teams
• Monitoring and coordinating with respective teams on WIP tickets
• Ensure meeting the SLA of each ticket
• Ensure adhering ticket resolution process
• Coordinating with non-SAP teams and ensuring seamless resolution of dependant tickets
• Coordinating with business users on critical issue resolution
• Periodic reporting to internal & client leadership teams
• Project planning for specific projects
• Determination of resourcing needs and getting on boarding the resources as required
• Preparation of functional specification for custom developments
• Review, finalize and sign-off the functional specification and data mapping document from business owners
• Working with development team in preparation of technical specification document
• Determining feasible technical design and sign-off technical specification document
• Working with development team to get ABAP, Interface and Legacy application developments completed
• Providing business logic, program logic and database queries to development team during program development
• Carried out detailed analysis of the reported issue
• Communicated with business users in case of any clarification required
• Identified the root cause of the issue and provided solution to the business users within the specified SLA duration
• Adhered the ticket resolution process in the ticket monitoring tool - ‘Unicenter’
• Documented the root cause analysis and the resolution for each ticket in the ticket monitoring tool
• Coordinated with cross functional SAP teams and non-SAP teams to resolve the issue on timely manner
• Carried out root cause analysis of the inventory variances and established the standard procedure and developed an automated tool.
• Carried out IDocmonitoring and fixed the common errors.
• Identified the logistics business processes which need to be analyzed
• Identified the process steps to be analyzed for each business process
• Identified the customized interface and report programs to be analyzed
• Analyzed the customized programs for possible impact
• Prepared the assessment report with observations, findings and conclusions

Confidential, moline, il

SAP Environment:SAP ECC 6.0

Lead Consultant

• Monitoring of ticket flow and assignment to respective teams
• Monitoring and coordinating with respective teams on WIP tickets
• Ensure meeting the SLA of each ticket
• Ensure adhering ticket resolution process
• Coordinating with non-SAP teams and ensuring seamless resolution of dependant tickets
• Coordinating with business users on critical issue resolution
• Periodic reporting to internal & client leadership teams
• Project planning for specific projects
• Determination of resourcing needs and getting on boarding the resources as required

Business Analyst

• Gathering requirements from the business owners which includes business requirements, legacy application to SAP interfaces, data load requirements, web-based application and performance Key Process Indicators (KPI)
• Analysis of the existing legacy warranty applications and SAP standard functionalities
• Determination of Gap between “As-Is” and “To-Be” warranty management functionalities
• Designing solution to fill the gap which will result in enhancing standard SAP functionalities and designing new transactions in SAP
• Designing Dealer Portal screens for web-based warranty applications
• Designing data mapping to interface with legacy applications
• Designing data load methods and programs to load master data and high volume of transactional historical data
• Designing database tables to extract data from the legacy applications
• Determining Key Process Indicators of performance of SAP and Dealer Portal warranty applications.
• Preparation of business blue-print documents
• Preparation of functional specification
• Preparation of data mapping document
• Review, finalize and sign-off the functional specification and data mapping document from business owners
• Working with development team in preparation of technical specification document
• Determining feasible technical design and sign-off technical specification document
• Working with development team to get ABAP, Interface and Legacy application developments completed
• Providing business logic, program logic and database queries to development team during program development
• Preparation of positive and negative test cases for each development
• Preparation of test scripts for each test case
• Preparation and maintaining test data
• Unit Testing - Modular testing of development in unit testing environment
• Demonstration of unit testing to business owners
• Obtaining sign-off from business owners for unit testing
• Working with business owners in preparation of integration test cases (end-to-end, business scenario based)
• Business scenario based testing in integration test environment
• Verify and ensure that the KPI are satisfied
• Obtaining sign-off from business owners for integration testing
• Development of database queries
• Validate extracted data from legacy application using database queries
• Scheduling and monitoring batch jobs to upload data into SAP
• Root cause analysis and fixing the data errors in SAP
• Migrating data to various test clients for different testing phases

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Carried-out training need analysis with various functional users of SAP application
• Developed the training road map based on the need analysis
• Designed the training curriculum
• Established the learning path for each functional role
• Established training delivery process for new training material creation and training material updation
• Developed JDPS Training Placemat which is synchronized with JDPS System Delivery Process (SDP)
• Coordinated with Community of Practice members and identified the training needs for system enhancements on an on-going basis
• Coordinated with offshore team on the development and delivery of training material
• Carried out internal quality audit (IQA) of training material
• Developed training material for material management processes
• Delivered Instructor-Led training at various client locations in USA, Mexico, France & Argentina
• Gathered the process steps followed in each business unit
• Analyzed and developed the process flow diagrams in MM, SD & PM processes
• Coordinated with all the power users and designed the content flow
• Delivered and obtained approval of the final training material
• During class room training, the process and transaction related gaps were identified and provided solutions in collaboration with CoP.

Confidential, nashville, tn

SAP MM Consultant

SAP Environment:SAP ECC 5.0, Solution Manager 3.2, eCATT 3.0

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating and interaction with key business users, project stakeholders and functional consultants in understanding requirement and solution design.
• Estimation and distribution of work to the functional and technical consultants. Involved in project management activities like project tracking and monitoring to meet deadlines, resource management, issue resolution, status reporting etc.
• Analyzed the existing business scenarios in Procurement and Inventory Management and the integration with SD, PM & QM
• Gathered new Maquiladora requirements from the Custom Broker and business owners.
• Analyzed new business requirements and scenarios.
• Identified the GAP between the existing business processes and new requirements.
• Prepared the Blueprint Documents and documented in SAP Solution Manager.
• Designed SAP system solution to meet the new requirements.
• Presented the SAP system solution to business and obtained approval for Configuration and development.
• Prepared the Functional Specification for Configuration and Development objects.
• Uploaded Blueprint documents and Functional Specifications in SAP Solution Manager.
• Carried out cutover activities - Uploaded Material Master Data, Open Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders and Contracts and validated the uploaded data.
• Configured MM Organization structure such as Plant, Storage Location and Purchase Organization.
• Configured new Document Type for Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order.
• Configured Import Code Numbers (HTS Code - Harmonizing Tariff Scheme).
• Configured new Valuation Classes
• Configured Automatic Account Determination for the new valuation classes.
• Configured new Pricing Condition Type and assigned to pricing schema.
• Configuration was done through SAP Solution Manager.
• Changed the Purchase Order output to include the HTS Code and Maquila Permit Number.
• Changed the GR Slip and Return Delivery Slip to include HTS Code, Maquila Permit Number and Pedimento Number.
• Developed the GR Slip and Return Delivery Slip in “Spanish” language.
• Developed new report to identify the missing HTS Code for the “Maquila” qualified material.
• Developed new report to monitor the changes in HTS Code.
• Developed LSMW script to extend materials to the new plant & storage locations.
• Prepared Unit and Integration Test Plan using eCATT.
• Performed Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Recorded Test Results in SAP Solution Manager.

Confidential, Troy, MI

SAP MM Consultant

SAP Environment:SAP 4.6C, Test Director 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating and interaction with key business users, project stakeholders and functional consultants in understanding requirement and solution design.
• Complexity determination of Configuration and Development Objects.
• Estimation of Configuration and Development hours for objects.
• Assignment of work to onsite and offshore teams.
• Involved in project management activities like project tracking and monitoring to meet deadlines, resource management, issue resolution, status reporting etc.
• Gathered new requirements from the business.
• Analyzed the technical feasibility of new requirement.
• Designed the system solution to meet the requirement.
• Presented the system solution to the business and obtained the approval for development.
• Prepared Functional Specification.
• Configured SAP to meet the requirement.
• Coordinated with respective Technical teams - ABAP/EDI/EAI to develop the solution.
• Prepared the Unit Test and Integration Test plans using the testing tool - Test Director.
• Performed Unit Testing in the development client.
• Presented the development to business and obtained confirmation.
• Performed Integration testing in the Quality client.
• The unit testing and integration testing results were recorded in testing tool - Test Director.
• Obtained sign-off from the business.

Confidential, Chicago

SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Estimation and assignment of work to the team.
• Progress monitoring and reporting.
• Studied Business Processes of Supply Chain stream from the catalog of processes.
• Identified relevant documentation from BPDM and Virtual Training Assistant.
• Rationalized the Process Diagrams drawn in Visio.
• Modeled the business processes in ARIS Web Designer as per the standards.
• Conducted the Self IQA (Internal Quality Audit) of the business process models.
• Conducted the collective IQA with the Project Manager, Team Leads and the team members.
• Identified and incorporated the changes and improvements in the model based on the collective IQA.
• Published in Web to obtain approval from the business process owners.
• Analyzed and incorporated the changes requested by the business process owners.
• Obtained Final Approval from the process owners.
• Base lined the process models.
• Followed the modeling and version control standards.

Confidential

SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Study and Analysis of the Business Processes of IOCL, which were configured in SAP.
• Study and Analysis of Master Data Uploading Methodologies for Material Master and Vendor Master Records.
• Preparation of User Manual for the MM Module.
• Training to the Implementation Team Members.

Confidential

SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP Walkthrough: Presentations were made to the users on MM benefits and integration with other modules.
• As-Is process: In this process, detailed analysis was made on the current system to obtain an understanding and definition on how business activities were performed. Inventory of current reports and forms was performed. The business activities dependencies and impact to other activities were identified.
• To-Be process: In this phase, all As-Is processes were mapped to SAP functions. If their current process were not catered by SAP, GAP analysis was performed.
• On completion of As-Is and To-Be processes, requirements from the users were defined.
• Scripting: Based on the To-Be process, relevant SAP transactions were detailed step by step for training and end user purposes.
• Configuration for Purchasing, Inventory Management, Valuation and Account Assignment to cater for the plant's requirement and integration aspects with SD, FI and PP modules.
• Carried out Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Carried out cutover activities - Uploaded Material Master Data, Open Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders and Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Delivery Schedule and validated the uploaded data.
• User Profile: Mapped SAP user profile to current users.
• Training: Trained the core team members in the preparation of MM master data for materials, vendors, Info records, and conditions.
• Post Go-Live Support: Resolved Post Go-Live issues.
• Configured Organizational elements such as Plant, Storage Location and Purchasing Organization.
• Configured Material types and assigned number ranges for different material types.
• Configured document types and number ranges for PR, RFQ, PO, Quantity Contract, Value Contract and Scheduling Agreements. The permissible Item Categories were determined and configured for each document type.
• Configured Release Strategy for Purchase Requisition with classification.
• Determined and Configured Price Determination Process with necessary calculation schema, condition types, access sequences and condition tables.
• Configured Stock Transport Order processing for inter-company scenario with SD Delivery.
• Worked with Subcontract Order Processing.
• Configuration of Goods Receipt and Goods Issue.
• Configured Automatic Account Determination, which includes configuration of Account Category Reference, Valuation Classes and determination of G/L Accounts for Valuation Classes.

Confidential

SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Material types and assigned number ranges for different material types.
• Configured document types and number ranges for PR, RFQ, PO, Quantity Contract, Value Contract and Scheduling Agreements. The permissible Item Categories were determined and configured for each document type.
• Determined and Configured Price Determination Process with necessary calculation schema, condition types, access sequences and condition tables.
• Configured Stock Transport Order processing for inter-company scenario with SD Delivery.
• Worked with Third party Order Processing.
• Worked with Subcontract Order Processing.
• Configuration of Goods Receipt and Goods Issue.
• Configured Automatic Account Determination, which includes configuration of Account Category Reference, Valuation Classes and determination of G/L Accounts for Valuation Classes.
• Unit level testing & Integration testing of MM module.
• Trained the core team members in the preparation of MM master data for materials, vendors, Info records, and conditions.