SUMMARY:

• SAP Certified Professional with 16 years intensive large - scale SAP implementation experience and overall 20 years IT work experience. Strong business process analysis and system architecture skills specializing in Order-To-Cash, Logistics Execution (LE) Transportation, Procure-To-Pay and rebates processes. Extensive cross-functional experience in integrating SD with Inventory Management (MM-IM) and Accounts Receivables & Payables (FI-AR & FI-AP), SAP Technical System Architecture, SAP tables and Data Dictionary (DDIC), User Exits, and BAPI & BADI Methods. Worked through 6 full-cycle projects. Certified in SD and ASAP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAP Modules SD, LE, MM, FI, VISTEX IP
• SAP Versions ECC6.0, ECC5.0, 4.70, 4.6c
• SAP Reporting Tools BW, SIS, ABAP List Viewer, ABAP Query
• Other utilities VERTEX, LSMW, CATT, OSS, Solution Manager
• Application Software MS Project, Office, Visio, Google Docs
• Industries Retail, Food Distribution, Pharmaceutical Products Distribution, Consumer Packaged
• Goods, Chemicals Manufacturing, Aerospace, Aeronautics, Airline Catering,
• Equipment Manufacturing, Cement and Concrete Products Manufacturing
• Software Distribution, Professional Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Norfolk, VA

Lead Consultant

• Process Design & Configuration - Designed the complete order to cash processes to encompass distinct lines of business from sales to billing and freight cost settlement involving legacy interfaces. This involved:
• Design and configuration of sales and shipment cost pricing schemas using a number of alternate calculation methods using reference pricing conditions, and condition exclusions, configuration of rebate and sales deal agreements, and configuration of Tax-Per-Document for use with an external tax system.
• Configured order management by customization of Sales, Delivery, Billing, Shipment, and Shipment Cost document types, item categories and schedule line categories, and customization of copy control for SD and LE via VOFM routines for external sales and STO processing.
• Configuration of rules based ATP check, backorder processing, and product allocations.
• Configuration of VERTEX communication, external system tax data retrieval, activated, tested and resolved VERTEX outbound RFC update to the VRA database for SD, FI and MM transactions. Set up rules for the VERTEX O-series 4.0 Taxability Manager and Max Tax.
• Configuration of Revenue account determination, GL determination in shipment cost settlement, and dynamic credit control.
• Customized collective processes in shipment and shipment cost processing utilizing transportation chain variants and configuration of activity profiles.
• Configured partner determination, material determination, route determination, output and text determination.
• Interface Design - Revamped processes and designed inbound / outbound interfaces to four legacy applications. Carried out field Mapping, designed translation tables, generated pseudo code, and prepared specifications documents for each interface.
• Conversion - Carried out BDC recordings, generated upload templates with field mapping to legacy applications to be used for Open A/R balance conversion, contract conversion, and Sold-to / Bill-to / Ship-to conversions for various legacy applications.
• Enhancements & Forms - Prepared specifications for a number of copy control and alternate pricing calculation routines.
• Outlined modifications to VOFM routines to enhance the SAP standard collective invoice program and enable various invoice combination requirements.
• Prepared specifications to implement updates to the pricing communication structures and pricing user exits.
• Designed and generated specifications for a custom program to over-ride VERTEX County tax determination to meet Discretionary tax accruals and cap requirements for various U.S. tax jurisdictions.
• Designed and generated specifications for enhancements to enable custom payment terms based on fixed and percentage amounts using gross product weight as the calculation base.
• Other technical specifications generated include a user exit to transfer freight values to VERTEX for tax determination, Smart-form specifications for Bill of Lading, Invoice, and monthly Statement of Account.
• Training & Testing - Delivered super user training to various groups across business lines. Provided coaching and review of test scripts for unit, string and end-to-end test cycles. Guided super user activities in execution of the three test cycles, logged issues and carried out design modifications as needed.
• Project Planning - Collaborated with consultant leads in MM, FI, CO modules. Prepared updates to the project and cutover plans with a high level of granularity encompassing all process design, baseline configuration, detailed configuration, RICEF objects specifications, and development, securities and authorizations requirements, end-to-end and integration user acceptance testing, BPP generation, super and end user training, conversions and cutover.

Confidential,Reston, VA

Lead SD Consultant

• Process Design - Analyzed, designed, generated specifications, managed testing and documented a number of process enhancements to enable handling of a large volume of transactional data such as:
• Revenue Recognition Process For Estimated Pricing - Involved fully automated re-pricing, processing and reporting for orders containing products with estimated prices.
• Collective Billing - Custom program for consolidated billing with extensive archival, research, and reprinting features in multiple file formats available through a robust central billing cockpit.
• Retroactive Billing - Collective Credit/Debit memo processing for price updates made retroactive for previously processed transactions.
• A/R Clearing process - Custom program to create consolidated A/R documents and to clear individual A/R documents for management of a large volume of receivables.
• Flight Cancellations Handling - Implemented a custom logic to re-price orders for cancelled flights based on contractual agreements with various airlines.
• Item Category Re-determination for Standby Returns & Cancellations - Custom logic implemented to reset inventory management characteristics of billable items not removed from inventory.
• Customizing – Pricing with alternate calculation method, condition exclusions, and condition supplements, tax determination based on a new tax category, revenue account determination, incompletion procedure, copy control for invoice combination and splits, retroactive billing, credit / debit memo, text and output determination.
• User exits and Requirements Routines - Implemented user exits in SD as follows:
• Partner function by plant – Table based determination by destination plant in the sales order
• Delivery block removal – Triggered on flight status received in the BAPI from the Catering Exchange Portal.
• Cancellations logic – Table based discount determination based on cancellation minutes
• Billing block trigger and removal - Based on estimated price flags in material master
• Item category re-determination for standby returns – Based on item reason codes in BAPI
• Custom Programs & Reports – Designed and generated specifications for the following:
• CMIR Upload Program – Looks up the customer and the customer material number on the material master characteristic field and creates the CMIR record.
• Legacy Pricing Engine Interface – Automatically creates and updates price records using the legacy master data
• A/R Breakout Report – Reconciliation tool to manage G/L balances with drill down features
• Order Re-pricing Report – Runs nightly to update pricing records from estimated figures to contracted pricing.
• Open Order Report – Generates total value of blocked orders containing estimated pricing used for manual journal entry to recognize revenue on unbilled transactions.
• Blueprint, Testing, Training, and Documentation - Worked to align U.S. with global requirements, generated and managed the As-Is document (comprising of more than 40 legacy applications) and the To-Be blueprint documents on the Solution Manager. Carried out and managed Unit, String, and Integration testing via the Solution Manager. Generated BPPs and conducted training for the order processing, pricing, and billing departments.

Confidential, Plano, TX

SD Consultant

• Implemented Results Analysis for third party service orders items with bill of materials to enable systematic matching of revenue and cost of sales within the same period. This included configuration of sales, purchasing and billing documents, item category and account assignment categories, pricing, copy control to enable billing of sales order BOM main item upon invoice receipt of the corresponding third party purchase order sub items, configuration of the service material BOM, Material type definitions, valuation class and account determination for service materials, derivation of a requirements class for Results Analysis of non-valuated service materials, configuration of unit cost estimates and variants to allow automated determination of earned revenue based on partial invoice receipt and enable percentage of completion billing based on the ratio of actual cost to planned cost.
• Designed the to-be processes involving internal and third party disposal, recycling and transportation vendors for inbound & outbound services based on validated as-is scenarios gathered through requirements gathering workshops. Generated functional specifications for the interface to a mainframe transportation management system.

Confidential,Richmond, VA

SD Consultant

• Diagnosed and implemented revisions for numerous errors in batch determination, output determination and Sapscript, pricing and billing, credit management, shipment processing, freight cost settlement and postings, item category and storage location determination for subcontracting deliveries, various “Revenue Canada” pricing, and tax postings issues, errors on routes, vendor & material master, QM and EH&S master data. Carried out various ad-hoc data extractions.
• Created and maintained selection variants for transportation chains, new ATP checking groups, new item categories for subcontracting, new text type, access sequence, and procedure updates for customer master, new activity profiles for U.S. shipment types, new settings as required for freight forwarder & certificate-of-analysis outputs
• Analyzed, revised, documented many processes such as:
• U.S. Weekly Freight Cost Business Process, Determined revision requirements for iDoc processing and prepared technical specifications, determined revision requirements for collective background shipment cost processing and prepared technical specifications, determined manual cost allocation requirements when evaluated receipt settlement is not possible and prepared technical specifications for an Audit Report, researched and identified all freight cost processing errors and prepared user exit specifications to prevent some errors, designed and generated a Freight Cost Audit Report to detect errors not preventable by user exits.
• Identified and implemented needed revisions to bring the Canada GST tax determination in compliance with “Revenue Canada” guidelines using the Computed Value methods, implemented revisions to realize new calculation methods of sales representative commissions, identified errors and made revisions to correct composite pricing errors, implemented new list pricing, surcharges and freight tables, sequences, and conditions to fulfill various business unit requirements.
• Generated a full set of documentation and trained users at various plants in all aspects of subcontracting deliveries from P.O. to goods receipt of the finished product.
• Generated a number of standard reports used globally with ALV functionality and Excel download features from UNIX. These included creation of new dictionary objects (structures, views, tables, domains, and match-codes, creation and use of function modules, data retrieval from standard and change-log tables and BDC uploads. Examples of completed reports include:
• Identifies all outstanding orders to be fulfilled per employee responsible (CSR) widely used and scheduled to run in background nightly for each CSR with output formats in ALV and Excel (downloadable from the UNIX file server).
• Extracts data from change-log and calculates performance metrics based on comparisons of actual posted data versus customer requested delivery date & quantity.
• Sales Order Specifications Report - Generates metrics for product & packaging cost trend analysis
• Used for manual cost allocation where shipment cost documents could not be processed via ERS. Breaks down the freight cost per material net weight per division used for high volume reconciliation of the freight costs.
• User Exits & Requirement Routines – Implemented user exits in SD and LE as follows:
• Enhanced order and delivery processing by enabling verification of correct partner assignments in vendor master.
• Expanded functionality of materials listing/exclusion by revision of a requirements routine to enable override of a preceding exclusion condition record.
• Revised delivery processing to enable batch search strategy in stock transports.
• Generated technical specifications to enhance U.S. delivery processing in controlling printing of production date, shelf life, expiration date, product specifications on Certificates of Analysis
• Generated technical specifications to Enable printing of customer material codes on certificates of analysis
• Revised shipment processing to populate the cost relevance indicator based on incoterm in order and to make the service agent entry compulsory.

Confidential, Lexington, SC

SD Analyst

• Pricing - Work in pricing included promotions/sales deals, customized pricing allowances to the level of the product grid and dimensions, taxes and free goods, and rebate processing. Tasks included procedure modification, addition of fields in the field catalog, alternate calculation types, pricing determination, account assignment and revenue determination, copy control (copy requirements and data transfer routines), document incompletion control and user exits.
• Order Management - Full configuration of sales and delivery document types and transaction flows, item and schedule line category definitions and assignments. This included master, quantity and value contracts, scheduling agreements, consignments, returnable packaging issue/pickup, and debit/credit memo request. Other work included BOM processing to multiple sub item-levels, product proposals, material substitution, and material listing & exclusion.
• Shipping - Customized shipping controlling documents, copy control, incompletion procedures, user exits, configured picking with lean WM, picking confirmation, and multi-level packing functionality for distribution centers and factories (e.g. crate, containers), route and shipping point determination, goods issue and their relevant outputs. Other work included setting up ATP (available to promise) and configuring the transfer of requirements, configuration of requirement types / classes, availability checking rules, third party order processing and customer returns processing
• Material Master & Inventory Management - Sales views data setup, product hierarchies, alternate units of measure, set-up and use of material types (LEER, PROD, ERSA), account determination/account key assignment, valuation classes, participated in design and development of intercompany stock transfers orders and new movement types.
• Reporting – Built new SIS information structures. Created characteristic and key figure field catalogs, the associated update rules, formulas and requirements, set up the statistical groups for updating the structures, and user exits to populate fields using requirements. Other work included developing ABAP queries to generate various non-standard reports, and modification of report layouts using the ABAP List Viewer.
• Testing & Support - Prepared and conducted functional test scenarios, participated in drafting the integration test plan and procedures, validated SD/MM/FI interfaces. Provided general SD troubleshooting and resolution during the cutover and post-implementation periods. Researched, identified and debugged issues with SAP OSS.
• Business Process - Researched/analyzed new business requirements, participated in order-to-cash process analysis and defined requirements for process modifications per SAP “best business practices”, mapped the requirements, assessed gaps and helped finalize the upgrade project scope.

Confidential, Rosemont, IL

SD Analyst

• Set up rebate processing, intercompany billing, milestone and periodic billing, created down payment agreements in billing plans, collective processing, customized billing types, set up account assignment and transfer to AR & AP, output definitions, copy requirements, and data transfer routines.
• In receivables risk management set up payment guarantee forms and schema. In credit management configured automatic credit control and credit update assignments, automatic notifications and authorization allocations. Set sales and billing document release and status management.
• Customized standard business content of invoice correction request, credit/debit memo request, delivery order correction, and returns. Configured relevant outputs, modified copy control and data transfer routines, requirements and formulas. Other work included definition and assignment of business areas, credit control areas, SD organizational structure, and customer master records, customer hierarchies, and partner determination for customer master, sales, billing, and sales activity objects.
• Supported FI team in configuration of GL, AR & AP. Configured GL account master records, reconciliation accounts, finalized the chart of accounts, set up dunning for open items, maintained field status groups, valuation classes, and configured tax jurisdiction codes, posting keys & automatic postings for sales/use tax transactions. Configured house banks, reason codes, payment programs, vendor master, terms of payment, and customer tolerance groups.
• Set up output determination for order confirmation, invoice & invoice list. Prepared specs and developed layout sets for order confirmation, invoice, credit/debit memo for accounts receivable, and payment notice. Set up text determination procedures including the flow of text from masters to various transactions.
• Used ASAP methodology to build business processes in SD and LE, identified functional deficits, participated in evaluations, process improvement, and modeled solutions.
• Recorded and executed CATT procedures for regression testing, creation of test data, and uploads from excel sheets. Coordinated testing, provided diagnostic support for integration and user acceptance testing and validated SD results.