SUMMARY:

• Responsible for setting up and developing Sales domain as part of SAP COE setup, Hiring resources, team development, mentoring along with managing third party resources towards establishing and successful running of domain work.
• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated delivery management of projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives
• Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.
• Managed cost, schedule and performance of project components while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the project & program.
• Delivered projects 300 mil - billion USD.
• Experience with managing AMS Support & COE activities.
• Present periodic Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities and client issues.
• Lead blueprinting workshops, presentations, facilitating meetings and Change Management.
• Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team environment.
• Mentored staff in methodology and consulting excellence and encouraged best practice towards solutions and in project management and project planning.
• Managed team of more than 70 functional/technical resources (Onshore/Offshore) and multiple concurrent project efforts.
• Experience in working with various industry sectors namely Pharmaceuticals, Life sciences, Chemical, Oil, Consumer Products, Manufacturing, Automotive, Food, Medical Devices, Paper, Nuclear, and Defense etc.
• Experience in working and alongside with recognized Integrators - IBM, Accenture, SAP, CSC, Wipro, Igate and TCS.

SKILL:

• Expert in Delivery Management, Solution Architecting, Managing, Leading, Client facing, Designing, Customization & Configuration of OTC, SD, LE, CS in integration with MM, WM,PP,FI,CO-PA,BI/BW and Supply Chain Requirements. Expertise includes the understanding, mapping, fit-gap analysis and implementation of user requirements vis- -vis SAP functionality and recommendation of SAP s Best Practices.
• Experience with more than 10 full SAP implementations and several upgrades.
• Expertise with Order Management, Pricing, Invoicing & Revenue.
• Expertise with Order fulfillment and LE requirements.
• Expertise with SAP Shipment Costing in managing Shipping Costs and Freight Payments.
• Expertise with Data Conversion & Migration, with use of LSMWs & ETL tools.
• Expertise in interfaces with EDI & Idocs.
• Expert on integrating SAP with 3rd party tools viz with Pricing tools - Pros Pricing, Vendavo using Idoc/EDI and PI, with Vertex and trained on Vistex and some others.
• Expertise on interfacing Transportation (TMS) & Warehouse management solutions -Manugistics, GC3,Ultra, Manhattan, Red Prarie and other 3PL solutions.
• Expertise with global implementations, global template and offshore model.
• Expertise in working on different phases of Project including Blueprinting, Realization, Cut-over, Go-live and Post Go-Live & Support.
• Experience in working on implementation methodologies like ASAP, Solution Manager & other Integrators methodologies. coordinating on different testing viz Unit, Integration, User Acceptance, and Regression etc. and in working on test tools like HP ALM. gap analysis, modifications and trouble-shooting skills.
• Well versed with Visio, Power Point and MS Office products.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Architect & Domain Lead

Responsibilities:

• Built & developed Customer/Sales Domain area as part of Global COE by hiring Resources and utilizing contractors towards successful delivery. Have developed Expertise with establishing such COE efforts.
• Managing, Leading & Mentoring a team of employees/contractors for Support & Project work.
• Managing expectations of North America & Ecuador business stakeholders.
• Involved with the overall development of COE in India.
• Involved with participating in Hypercare and transition to Support of OTC processes in the Market-to-Cash strategy including spearheading Knowledge transfers efforts with Design team.
• Support work includes Configuration, Development, Break-fix and process re-engineering of a very complex solution with continuous improvement in managing and handling support work.

Confidential

SAP Solution Architect & Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project: SAP Implementation
• Leading team for Paper Co. Acquisition Project in the OTC arena.
• Solution Architect for Order-to-Cash requirement for Capital Bifurcation when merging mills into the current SAP environment.
• Architected solution for InterCapital Sales process.
• Produced Design Intent Document for the proposed solution.
• Influential in getting deal of 2.5 mil USD with targeting to grow to more than 12 mil USD.
• Involved with the Delivery Management of the project.
• Working on getting to become AMS Support for the Client
• Providing strategic consulting to the Client.
• Presales & Scenario building efforts for SAP HANA utilizing ECC 6.0 with EHP7.
• Involved with Presales, Prototyping & Presentation on various project efforts.

Confidential, VA

Sr.SAP OTC/Supply Chain Consultant/Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected solution for ‘Industrialization’ process without Customization and utilizing SAP standard capabilities.
• Working on implementing Nota Fiscal 3.1 Requirements including pricing and tax requirements.
• JIT requirements in the automotive industry with Schedule line agreements and JIT Calls.
• Working with handling unit requirements in integration with warehouse management.
• EDI requirements for JITs and ASNs.
• Working closely with data migration team and data validation.

Confidential, MD

Sr. SAP SD/OTC/LE Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Order management, pricing, execution and fulfillment of Regular & Catch Weight Managed Products with Inventory Management and Movement types (MM areas).
• Fulfillment of Allocated Products, VMI, Orders, Invoices and related EDI & Idoc interfaces.
• COPA transport project.
• Migration of EDI interfaces to PI for third-party applications.
• Support of custom & complex TPM business processes.
• Data migration for above requirements.
• Training and helping business community in understanding processes in SAP.

Confidential, VA

SAP OTC Lead & Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead Igate team for Order-to-Cash implementation thru Requirements gathering, Blueprinting & Design deliverables for Sales Orders, Pricing Delivery, Invoicing(Revenue Recognition) and Inventory Movement and Management(Related MM areas) for Batch managed products in consumer goods manufacturing environment.
• Delivered and presented process flows to Business & Client IT Management.
• Architecting solution and design for ATP requirements and fulfillment from manufacturing locations.
• Solution proposal for unique cross-docking transportation requirements.
• Lead Data conversion and design strategy for migration of Customer, Material, and Pricing data from legacy systems.
• Recommending and helping Client with SAP’s best practices

Confidential, MN

SAP Lead SME Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Brought in as SAP Lead SME Consultant when Accenture could not deliver with 2 Conversion cycles failed, helped the project to Go-live on time by bringing conversions to 99% success and without further slipping.
• Worked as SAP Lead SME Consultant for processes and data conversion and migration for Sales & Distribution, Customer Service, Materials Management, Production & Quality in integration with Finance module.
• Worked with Sales, Billing and Customer Complains processes involving interfaces with Salesforce.
• Worked with Contracts, Maintenance Plan, Service Orders, RRB for Customer Service and MRO Parts in Integration with CRM for managing Customer complaints.
• Project Planning & Project Management.
• Helping Business Community in understanding process and operations in SAP.
• Testing, defects resolution and preparation for go-live activities
• Experience working in validated environment with CSV and GxP requirements.

Confidential, VA

SAP SD/OTC Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in leading efforts as part of SAP NA team on blueprinting and implementing OTC areas covering Master Data, Sales, Pricing (Taxes with Vertex), Delivery, Logistics, Billing, Account Determination & Revenue postings.
• Conducted Workshops and Presentation to Client on SAP solutions around business processes in integration of Sales with Production Planning, Materials Management and Warehouse Management.
• Logistics Execution (LE) & Delivery fulfillment is set up with warehouse managed inventory.
• Sales integrated with Make-to-Stock Production Planning (PP) strategy.
• Lead Development of test scripts test plan, execution and co-ordination.
• Experience working in validated environment with CSV and GxP requirements.

Confidential, VA

Sr.SAP SD/OTC Pricing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on implementation of auto creation of Invoices with fit-gap analysis and solution for Contracts and sales processes.
• Worked on Sales Order Blocking requirements for freight and logistics requirements.
• Developed test plan and testing.
• Project Preparation & Planning work for Order-to-Cash & LE processes efficiencies based on Considerations in Chemical Industry.
• Involved with implementation and IT project management of Pricing tool- Pros (Same as Vendavo) In integration with SAP.
• Worked with Deal Manager, Price Optimizer, Analytics and Price Waterfall and pocket margin Requirements.
• Worked on the interface build between SAP, BW & Pros utilizing idocs & PI as middleware.
• Liaison with BW Resources in development of Reports for Corporate requirements like Revenue Across Regions, product segments, on-time payments, freight etc. Had involved writing functional specifications to help developing Infocubes, Queries, field selection in BI/BW.
• Involved in planning for implementing LE & Transportation requirements.
• Resource deployment.
• Training and hand holding for business community.