Profile

• Over 8 years of consulting experience in SAP focusing on SAP MM & SRM modules
• Knowledgeable & skilled in all phases of projects from business blueprint, mapping, gap analysis, configuration, end user training & production support
• Good understanding of business processes in logistics and supply chain management
• Involved with technical teams during coding & debugging activities in areas of SAP scripts, interfaces & enhancements for development of certain ABAP Programs
• Performed & part of developing test plans, test cases, scenarios for UAT & integration testing
• Ability to implement SAP best practices in-line to company’s standard functional process
• After Go Live Support include handling issues & fixing within SLA Compliance
• Excellent communication, interpersonal & decision-making skills & ability to work with multi-cultural group.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• SAP MM/IS Retail
• SAP SRM

Experience/Project Work

Client: Confidential, CA.
Role: SAP MM/Retail Functional Analyst Duration: 18 Months – Till Date

Responsibilities/Deliverables:
Project: Store Returns Automation

• Understand Client’s Retail Store returns & other Inventory management processes
• Worked closely with key business users in developing detailed requirement and coming up with conceptual design of proposed solutions
• Design & development of Returns process starting from customer return to Vendor to D.C or Scrap house.
• Prepared process flow diagrams and functional specifications for a custom utility in SAP ITS for Returns process
• Involved in preparing design documents for custom GUI transactions for rules, control data set up and a report for transaction data look up for Returns process
• Worked with POS Interface –Outbound to upload POS Systems in stores with master data such as EANs, conditions & merchandise categories etc.
• Worked with Retail assortments to build rules for Store returns process
• Tested all the core retail business processes to evaluate impact of implementing Serialization functionality
• Good understanding of Retail replenishment process Prepared test plans, test cases, scenario’s for UAT & Integration testing
• After Go Live Support include handling issues & fixing within SLA Compliance

Project: EHP 5.0 Upgrade

• Tested the upgraded version of production copy in sand box to ensure basic processes are working and system is stable
• Worked with Technical team on SPAU corrections and monitored retrofit process
• Involved in detailed assessment and testing of SAP Retail business processes in development
• Worked closely with Point Of Sales (POS), Data Warehouse, ABAP, Basis and other teams
• Worked with technical teams and SAP Support to resolve certain critical issues due to EHP 5.0 upgrade pack implementation
• After Go live Support including handling issues & fixing within SLA compliance

Project: Mobile Applications for BOH processes

• Involved in requirements gathering sessions for building mobile applications for Back of the house processes of Apple Retail stores
• Worked with iOS, UX and Business teams in preparing UI flows for mobile application
• Worked with iOS & ABAP teams in designing Web services for data exchange between SAP & iOS.
• Prepared a functional specification for Goods movement mobile function
• Involved in preparing functional specification for a custom utility to maintain rules for inventory variances validation for cycle count mobile function
• Prepared test plans, test cases, scenario’s for UAT & Integration testing

Client: Confidential,MI.
Role: Sr.SAP MM Analyst Duration: 4 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Responsible for conducting requirements gathering workshops to understand the Existing model master design & define detailed requirements
• Identified all the data flows going in & out of the legacy systems to be retired
• Frame detailed design choices & implications for overall recommended process design
• Responsible for identifying the best practices for decommissioning legacy systems
• Identification/definition of the core business process for OEM & non WMCS products
• Worked on identifying an appropriate data conversion strategy

Industry: Confidential,Austin, TX.
Role: SAP P2P Consultant Duration: 4 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Responsible for change requirements originated from different users in different areas in SAP MM module.
• Configured release strategies for internal and external purchasing documents
• Configured IM parameters for various Goods movements like Goods receipts, Goods issues, Returns and Stock Transfers
• Developed comprehensive Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios and carried out Unit testing and Integration Testing
• Worked on enhancements like change in layout designs for configured output types for various documents
• Worked on configurations related to special procurements like subcontracting, stock transport orders and third party orders
• Created detailed User training documentations and held training sessions to the end users
• Involved in preparation of functional specification, and guiding ABAP/4 team in generating reports using ABAP work bench
• Worked on configuring custom movement types to meet required functionality
• Clean up of master data (Material & Vendor Master) for data redundancy

Client: Confidential, VA.
Role: SAP MM/E-Procurement consultant Duration: 18 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Set up of the New Company code, Plants & Purchase Organizations
• Addition of New PO document types and extending the Release procedures to new plants of the company code
• Worked on enhancements like change in layout designs for the configured output types for various purchasing documents
• Prepared Material Master Data maps for all the relevant fields and prepared specifications for Material master conversion
• Worked on converting materials from SAP 4.6c to ECC 6.0 using LSMW
• Worked on Issues arising during migrating material master to SAP
• System Testing, Providing Test Data for Developers for Unit Testing and Worked with Users for User Acceptance Test
• Trouble shooting on PO’s & confirmations created in SRM which have not passed to backend ERP system

SRM Activities:

• Performed requirement gathering for new business roll outs.
• Provide post-production support to user community residing in USA and Canada
• Monitored daily delta uploads of users from SAP HR to SRM organization structure
  Manually updating the HR Hierarchy from the backend into the Root Organization Plan
• Maintaining the attributes like Cost Centers, Delivery Address for the positions in Root Org structure upon request from the EBP users

Client: Confidential, IL.
Role: SAP SRM& MM Functional Consultant Duration: 14 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Customizing activities involved in setting up of new Release Procedures for PO’s & PR’s
• Involved in basic training of End-users & Power users
• Setup split valuation of materials
• Configured settings for Vendor Evaluation
• Configured Purchase Order Release Procedure (Release Group, Release Code, Release Indicator, Release Strategy, Workflow)
• Setup System Messages in inventory Management & Purchasing as per user requirement
• Worked extensively on sub-contract procurement, handling scrap or bi-product etc.
• Involved with technical Team for development of new reports in Purchasing & Inventory Management
• Also involved in Cross-Functional issues in SD, FICO & PP
• Prepared Functional Specifications for Reports.

Client: Confidential,MN.
Role: SAP MM Consultant Duration: 9 Months
Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Worked with the user community to identify their requirements, design enhancements and functionality to help meet user requirements
• Studied and analyzed these client requirements using the ASAP methodology
• Carried out complete study of system deficiencies with regards to SAP delivered functionality
• Configured Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, and Transfer Postings and Invoice verification.
• Setup the system for the creation of automatic Transfer orders and Transfer Orders.
• Performed cross company Stock Transport Orders (STO).
• Creation of Purchase requisitions, Purchase orders, Release strategies, RFQ, contracts, Scheduling Agreements and Outline agreements for configuring purchasing functions.
• End user training, presentations, creating documentation which include user manuals, master data manuals and customizing guide.
• Developed new PO Output program to schedule a batch job for sending PO output for all released PO’s in the form of PDF file as en attachment in the Email

Client: Confidential,
Role: SAP MM Business Analyst Duration: 20 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Involved in project definition, preparation, AS -IS mapping.
• Configured material master, Purchasing, Inventory Management, and MRP.
• Analyzed, designed and customized purchasing and pricing functionality to comply with the client\'s requirements.
• Configured Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Procurement of external services and set criteria for vendor evaluation.
• Configured Goods Issues, Goods Receipts, Automatic Movements, Reservation, Physical Inventory, Movement Types and other relevant objects in Inventory Management.
• Automatic determination of GL accounts, mapping valuation classes to GL accounts.
• Worked on setting up tolerances, purchase value keys.
• Customized material types and assigned number ranges for the material types.
• Configured and customized incoming invoice and invoice block with related functions.
• Simulated transactions in Purchasing, MRP, Inventory Management, and Invoice Verification.
• Involved in integration of PP, SD and FI/CO modules.
• Interacted with ABAP/4 consultants for data migration and report development activities.
• Involved in preparing Test scenarios and helped power users and end users for testing.

• Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering