SUMMARY:

• 17 years of SAP R/3 implementation experience in providing the solutions in supply chain management (Material management with & without AFS, Warehouse management with RF console integration with & without AFS, Logistic execution, Transportation planning, PP/SD/FI integration) and ABAP/4 (advanced programming and debugging).
• 11 full life cycle SAP R/3 project implementations (FLCD), roll outs and version upgrades (SPAU & OSS notes) using SAP best practices and industry standards.
• Full Involvement in all stages of a project life cycle - initiation (business blue print design), requirements definition, process mapping (BPD), gap analysis, negotiating/agreeing with business functional owners on in-scope / out-of-scope statement of works, project planning for estimated efforts and time line schedules, architecture, development (detailed functional document design), test plans/test cases, user training, IT support and continuous improvements for business continuity.
• SAP Configurations and cross functional integration with material management (IM & P2P), warehouse management, sales and distribution (order to cash), finance and controlling, production planning and interfacing with legacy systems.
• Full involvement in P2P (Procure to Pay) processes. Following are some of the processes involved with:
• PR & PO release strategy configuration.
• PR & PO configuration for standard procurement, subcontracting, vendor consignment.
• Optimized procurement process with PIR, source list and quota.
• ASN process for inbound deliveries with handling unit management & SU management in warehouse.
• Physical inventory process in IM and also from WM.
• STO process for intercompany & intra company shipments.
• Invoice verification & vendor payments.
• Full involvement in OTC (Order to Cash) processes and logistics execution activities.
• Full involvement with FI (Finance) in automatic account determination and GL account determinations.
• Integration experience with PP (Production Planning) for back flush process, make to order & make to stock processes.
• SAP MM, WM & PP integration experience for auto industry solution with automatic staging.
• Master data transfers and data migrations with SAP and legacy systems by ALE, EDI/IDOC, FTP, SAP BC, B2B server, RFC, BAPI, Workflow, LSMW, IM/3, UNIX flat files and user-exits/BADI usage across all modules.
• Multiple warehouse project implementations with RF console solutions in SAP for end to end warehouse operations.
• SAP integration with HighJump & I2 for transportation management solution (TMS).
• Project lead and coordination responsibilities at Confidential and ABAP team lead/solution designer role at Sony Systems.
• Extensive usage of SAP solution manager (SOLMAN) in functional document preparation, business process document (BPD) maintenance and test scripts.
• Multi-level purchasing release strategies, sub-contracting process and other P2P procurement optimization solutions using:
• Purchasing info records using scales & conditions, Source list & Quota management.
• SAP SNC (Supplier Network Collaboration) integration & support at all levels in the process.
• MHS (Material handler system) and RDS (box routing on the belt) integration from SAP RF transactions for box diversion at the warehouse.
• SAP AFS MM & WM implementation experience at Confidential with AFS module (SAP’s apparel & footwear solution).

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior SAP MM/WM Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Conducting the business discussions at Moreno Valley plant location to gather the requirements for SAP warehouse implementation solution to support the car manufacturing process with SAP ECC 6 on SAP S4 HANA platform.
• SAP warehouse layout proposal is done to match the production planning process.
• SAP MM, WM & PP integration solution layout with supply areas, control cycles with planned orders, production orders with material staging and bill of materials.
• Working on automated material staging solution upon production order release for warehouse picking.
• Working on RF process design for two-step pick part confirmation for warehouse pick and party delivery to the production line.

Confidential

Senior SAP MM/WM Specialist

Responsibilities:

• SAP AFS solution with batch management.
• Material master data conversion - Mexico used/shared the same set of materials that are available in USA. Designed a custom conversion program to extend the materials under Mexico plant with HTS codes, MSRP & wholesale pricing.
• Vendor master extension, PIR creation with source list cutover programs for Mexico.
• Implemented the 3PL (3rd party logistics) process via IDOCs for the 3PL partner Confidential . Following are the key IDOC interfaces developed to support the business process.
• Material master interface to Confidential from SAP.
• Inbound delivery interface to Confidential from SAP.
• Putaway/Receipt confirmation from Confidential to SAP.
• Outbound delivery interface to Confidential from SAP.
• Pack confirmation from Confidential to SAP.
• Shipment confirmation & PGI from Confidential to SAP.
• Returns delivery interface to Confidential from SAP.
• Returns receipt from Confidential to SAP.
• Configured the STO process for intercompany & intra company procurement with inbound shipments and shipment costing. Various shipment costing conditions are used to calculate multi-leg freight charges, security charges & custom duties paid to individual providers.
• Full container loads by ocean.
• Less container loads by ocean.
• Full truck loads from USA to Mexico.
• Air freight shipments by freight provider DAMCO & TNS.
• Activated the purchase order conditions for the following PO pricing.
• Duty rates.
• Freight charges - The freight charges on the PO are the estimates only. Actual freight charges are posted during goods receipt using the conditions maintained on the shipment cost documents.

Confidential

Senior SAP MM/WM & LE Solution Specialist

Responsibilities:

• End to end business process design for SAP materials management & warehouse management implementation at APAC (3 warehouses) with SAP AFS module.
• As-is and To-be with BPD preparation for Australia warehouse & 2 warehouses in Indonesia (Bali & Jakarta).
• Process improvement recommendations and walkthroughs with the business in finalizing the design using SAP best practices methodologies.
• To-be process prototyping to demonstrate the SAP solution to the business.
• Process optimization design decisions to handle heavy loads on RF processes and locking techniques and solutions to overcome the key would be potential issues.
• Key configurations in SAP to preemptively foresee the bottle necks in achieving the agreed design and resolutions.
• Cutover activities for go-live.
• Interim bin setup, these are system specific bins required in SAP.
• Bin master load.
• Number ranges.
• Output conditions for pallet & carton labels (UCC & SSCC), packing slip and shipment PDF.
• Printer configuration.
• AFS specific conversion activities for the following:
• Master grid load.
• Sales grid & purchasing grid load.
• Season, collection & theme load for materials.
• RF process to support full warehouse operations (Palletization, Receiving, Relocation, Physical inventory, Picking, Inventory adjustment).
• Real time RFC connection from RF picking to RDS for carton diversion on the belt.
• Key warehouse configurations to support the following:
• Wave picking.
• Putaway & Picking strategies (bulk and small/large) to support carton picks and loose item picks from various storage types.
• Negative picking setup in loose items storage type to improve pick TO performance & further replenishments.
• Storage unit management to handle cartons.

Confidential

Senior SAP MM/WM & LE Solution Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provided SCM solutions for Apple’s RMA business.
• Provided ASN solution for Cisco’s IML business.
• End to end solution to provide the parent/component serial information, country of origin and supplier details on the ASN.
• SAP interface design with IM First to get the component serials, country of origin information to SAP for ASN.
• Cross docking solution in SAP to effectively place the stock for faster turn around and utilization.
• Using the inbound deliveries, outbound deliveries and sales orders with confirmed schedule lines to the equation.
• Has the provision to restrict outbound documents with certain number of line items to use for cross-docking.
• Has the provision to restrict specific document types into the equation.
• Functionality can be turned on at the table level for any new country deployments.
• Custom vendor consignment process design to effectively use the vendor inventory.
• Process is designed to cover Ingram’s P-release and S-release processes (SAP standard).
• In P-release process, stocks are picked from specific buckets like pallet area, full case area and/or repack area (SAP palletization). The solution utilizes the Ingram stocks first and only converts the vendor stocks for the quantity it is finding short dynamically during wave release (pick TO creation).
• Provided end to end SCM solution for Belgium and Nederland SAP implementations.
• Physical inventory tolerance limits and role assignments for write-offs (LI21).
• RF screen designs for end to end warehouse activities.
• Putaway, picking and replenishment strategies to support P-release/S-release processes using handling units and serial numbering.
• Delayed delivery update configuration to allow maximum concurrent processing in pick/pack RF activities.
• Implemented VAS (value added services) solution to move the picked items to work center for additional work. VAS specific items of the delivery are first moved to the work center and merged with the regular items in 916 (at warehouse) for delivery shipment to the customer.
• MHS (Material Handler System) integration with SAP for automatic box routing in pick/pack process in the warehouse.
• Implemented yard management solutions for vehicle check-in, dock door assignment, scheduling and planning.
• Implemented XSI setup for Nederland and Belgium for carrier tracking by HU.
• External delivery company setup (VTRC) for tracking number generation for delivery & shipment for handling units.
• Custom consignment solution to use vendor consignments at the time of picking/shipping.
• Provided SCM solution for delivery based credit control setup.
• For standard items credit check is done at the time of delivery creation and for 3rd party items it is still done at sales order.
• Worked on delivery download interface to IM First to restrict information sharing based on deliveries credit status.
• Wave releases are also controlled by the credit status of the delivery.
• Delivery level credit control functionality is later deployed on NL, SG, MY, NZ also.
• Implemented the warehouse infield-destruction process.

Confidential

Senior SAP MM/WM & LE Solution Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Involvement in business process document design (BPD), Functional documents (FD), End user training, Test cases and simulations.
• Organization structure definition and configuration (Plants, Storage locations).
• Warehouse configuration and automation for document posting and printing.
• Handling unit/Storage unit management setup.
• Outbound logistics - Transportation planning configuration and setup.
• Radio frequency (RF) configuration and development (SAP mobile interface).
• Custom screen designs to support the warehouse operations on RF device, key functionalities are: (1) Receiving (2) Picking (3) Moving the case/box within the warehouse (4) Query (5) Cycle counting.
• Development provides all the options available in the legacy system and more, which benefits Yamaha in less training costs for 3rd party warehouse people.
• Automation of planning activity by interfacing with TMS system HIGHJUMP.
• Custom layout design for shipping document & label printing.
• Interface design for master data setup and involvement in cutover activities.

Confidential

Senior SAP MM/WM Solution Specialist

Responsibilities:

• New plant, storage location(s), purchasing group(s) and MRP controller setups.
• Warehouse configuration and automation for document posting and printing.
• Put away and picking strategies with search indicators in WM.
• Subcontracting process, where lens frames are procured from 1st vendor using standard PO with SC vendor as 2nd vendor. Upon GR the stock are placed under 2nd vendor. Finished goods are procured from 2nd vendor using subcontracting PO (item category L) where the frames are fixed with the lenses.
• Purchase requisition release strategy setup with classification for cost center procurement.
• Master data conversion programs for material master, product hierarchy, BoM, PIR, Product group and Bins.
• LSMW interface to load initial stocks with pricing from legacy system.
• Frame disassembly process to disintegrate the sunglass frames (excess in stock) and reuse the components to manufacture the frames as per the customer order.
• Custom reports for material and vendor capacity details and other status reports.

Confidential

Senior SAP MM/WM Solution Specialist and Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Organization structure setup (plant, storage locations and warehouse).
• Storage types to handle the stocks at interim level, at receiving area and shipping area.
• Bins for BOX receiving and consolidation.
• Number range for TR, TO.
• IM/WM movement type assignments.
• Picking and Put away strategies for stock removal and placement.
• Handling unit management configurations to perform the postings by BOX.
• RF Scanner integration using mobile data entry in SAP & SAP Console.
• Master data interface for storage bin creation.
• FI integration (FI-AP) for automatic account determination for the movement types.
• New PO type with number range.
• New material groups to identify software materials.
• New storage location to separate the hardware & software products.
• Defined Message type, assigned processing routine and partner function for the PO.
• ALE linkage to send the PO details to PRMO system (Product Revenue Management).
• Customized PO creation program with email option for success and error reports.
• Reconciliation report for PO verification.
• Mater data interface for Material master, PIR and Source list.
• Material master procurement type setup to enable build and buy scenarios.
• RMA process setup (Non Confirmation Tag) for Vendor returns.
• Warehouse setup with storage types, storage sections, storage type search, storage section search, storage bin type search, Picking & Put away strategies.
• New report development to monitor the 1 to 1 exchange status (Shows the 201/202 document details by NCT#).
• Change in NCT program to generate the custom invoice for NO CHARGE SHIP option.
• New PO type, number range and message type setup for build to order (BTO) and build to stock (BTS) scenarios.
• User-exit activation for custom segment population for EDI.
• Port and partner profile maintenance for EDI messages 850 (PO), 855 (Confirmation) and 856 (GR).
• Master data interfaces for purchase info record (PIR), Source list and Quota arrangement.
• FI integration (FI-AP) for automatic account determination for the movement types.

Confidential

Senior SAP MM Solution Specialist and Technical team lead

Responsibilities:

• Master data migration activities.
• Involvement in design discussions and solution.
• Functional specification design, test data preparation & user trainings.
• Team lead role and coordination in solution design.