SUMMARY:

• Around 8+ years of SAP functional consulting experience in SAP Material Management, Production Planning with emphasis on life cycle implementations and production support across diverse industries.
• Extensively worked on User Requirements Gathering, Writing Functional/Technical Specs, Creating BPPs (Business Process Procedure Documents).
• Experience includes Project Planning, system configuration; system testing, user, documentation and post go - live support.
• Worked on MM, QM, WM, FI modules and integration with life cycle implementations, experienced in implementing Global Design Blueprint, Realization, Gap analysis, integration testing, cutover planning, Go Live and Participated in 3 full Expertise in the configuration and customization of SAP PP, PP-PI and MM module SAP projects.
• Worked on MTS (Make-to-Stock), MTO (Make-to-Order), Make-to-Order for Configurable Material, Stock Requirement/ MRP Lists, Repetitive manufacturing, Variant Configuration, Super BOMs.
• Customization and prototyping, detailed configuration, transport request shifting, cutover strategy,, documentation, conversion.
• Worked on various RICEF objects including design and development of various complex interfaces and conversion objects.
• Data migration expert - legacy to ECC 6.0 using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW).
• Worked on developing test scripts for various business scenarios for Unit testing, Integration testing and User acceptance testing.
• Conducted extensive session for business users by preparing documentation and user manuals.
• Directly involved in special stocks procurement types such as consignment, subcontracting, pipeline, third party and Returnable Transport Packaging materials.
• Good experience in handling of Vendor Consignments, Direct & Indirect Procurement, Service Procurement and Release Strategy.
• SAP IM: Goods Movement, Movement Types, Stock transfers, Physical Inventory, IM-RF Integration, Bar Codes, Labels, Inventory tracking, Serialization,
• Master Data: Vendor Master, Material Master, Info Records, Source List, Condition Records, BOM (Bill of Material), Classification Data
• SAP WM: Warehouse structure, put away and Removal Strategies, Storage Types, Storage Bins, Quants, Transfer Requirements (TR), Transfer Order (TO), Posting change Notice, Number Ranges (for TR, TO, Posting Change notification, Quant, Storage Unit), stock transfers, in-bound and out-bound process, Cross docking process.
• MM-SD Integration - Delivery, Billing, Handling Units Management, Inter-Company STO.
• MM-FI Integration - AP Invoicing and Pricing, Automation Account determination.
• MM-IM/WM - Transfer order, Transfer request, Storage unit management, Physical inventory, Goods Receipt and Goods issue.
• Proficient in solving I-doc issues.
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills and analytical and problem solving abilities
• MM-PP Integration - Planned orders, Production orders, Batch management, MRP.
• Proficient in LSMW & Data Migration process like cleansing etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP R/3 Skills: Warehouse structure, movements, put away & picking, Search strategies, TR, TO, Shipping, Deliveries, Picking/packing

SAP MM: Procure-to-Pay, Subcontracting, Third-party, Consignment, GR, GI, Transfer posting, Movement types, Transfer Posting, Stock transfer, Invoice verification, Account Determination, Valuation, Physical inventory, SLED, LIV and MRP

Other Tools: Solution Manager, CA ticking tool, MS Office 97, MS Project, Windows 95/98/2000, XP, NT 4.0, Power Point

ERP Packages: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, 4.6C, 4.6B

Business Analysis: Materials Management, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory, Warehouse Management.

Data Migration: LSMW, Cleansings

Domain Knowledge: MM, IM, WM, SD, PP and FI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAP SCM Consultant

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Working on optimizing system Integration process of reverse logistics in T-Mobile on Direct, Indirect and special procurement process.
• Maintaining outstanding KPI’s of reverse logistics by reducing variance between SAP and WMS systems.
• Working on high priority production IT incident cases dealing with Stock transfer orders devices of forward and reverse logistic warehouses, Repair device, Vendor returns - DOA devices.
• Extensively worked on customer returns (RA’s) on pricing conditions, billing and customer credit management.
• Working on Extensively on Vendor Invoice settlements based on service entry dollar amounts.
• Worked on Operational Incidents for new vendor setup on transportation planning and execution in SAP.
• Working on systems Integration on various WMS systems like JDA, C-vision and Unit tracker.
• Addressing Sync variances between WMS systems JDA, C-Vision and SAP of Confidential .
• Generated various real-time reports on variance and worked towards resolutions by co-ordinating Operations and IT teams.
• Working on tracking and monitoring IMEI's on Operational incidents using SAP OER and Device Management.
• Working and maintaining KPI’s of SOX Audit reports on Idocs and Sync Variances.
• Monitoring and resolving failed Idocs of Return warehouse systems (3PL) by co-ordinating operation teams.
• Working on process improvements of warehouse operations and monitoring outbound and inbound deliveries of reverse logistics in SAP ECC & SAP OER (HANA).

SAP Functional Lead

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in roll out for plant 0045 Mexico plant. Implemented new configuration of the business with plant specific.
• Worked with the business for all customized documents and understanding media business.
• Lead the team of 6 resources and worked with them as part of the project.
• Co-ordinated offshore, Cap Gemini resources and Cognizant resources to achieve deployment of the developments as per schedule.
• Configured Procure to Pay (P2P) process by automatic creation of requisition through MRP, automatic PO creation and invoice verification in the background.
• Customized and configured Stock Transport Orders (STO) for transfer of stock between the plants. Responsible for setting all the parameters; supplying plant, receiving plant and shipping point determination.
• Worked on production process of the business and sub-contracting process of the business.
• Involved in S & OP stake holders meeting to discuss Rapid Response application report on gaps between Consensus demand plan and aggregate supply plan
• Extensively worked on SAP BOM, Planned orders, production orders, task list, routing
• Worked with the business for all customized documents and understanding media business.
• Understanding the business requirements to prepare customer requirement document as part of business document flow.
• Worked on physical inventory, cycle counting, analysing the count results, posting of difference in the system.
• Configured Inventory Management Movement types, GR, GI, Transfer posting and Stock transport order (STO).
• Worked on data conversions using standard SAP tools like LSMW and also on testing tools like quality centre (HP).
• Performing testing at each stage of deployment and interacted with stakeholders to solve the issues of the stake holders.
• Prepared documents for the business about new changes in the systems after enhancements got deployed.
• Prepared UAT testing scenario documents for the business.

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Understanding high level requirements and high-level business processes from Business Blueprint document.
• Interacted with key business users to gather detailed requirements and prepare detailed business requirements document and identify gaps from Client’s standard solution.
• Designed functional specifications for the RICEFW objects to handle the identified gaps like custom reports for material stock reports and on-time delivery analysis.
• Extended Client’s comprehensive and highly regulated labelling system to Ralcorp's products.
• Configured for the subcontracting of some manufacturing processes.
• Worked on account assignments for automatic account determination and postings during goods movements.
• Created and reviewed system requirement documentation periodically and updated regularly with change requests.
• Developed test strategy and test plan documents based on system requirement documentation and developed traceability matrix between requirements and test cases, including User Acceptance Tests (UATs).
• Prepared documents for individualized on-the-job end user on the redesigned business processes.
• Designed, coordinated and executed data migration plan for data collection, cleansing, conversion, migration and validation of all master data and transactions data.
• Prepared control sheets carrying data rules/business rules for data requirement in SAP.
• Reconciled Plant-by-plant using control sheets to consolidate information from each plant to ensure up-to-date information and process data clean-up as required.
• Migrated material and vendor master data, and transactional data and help Key Users validate the migrated data.
• Implemented common sourcing plan to improve supply chain efficiencies and leverage of client’s.
• Migrated vendor master data from Client’s Supplier Master File (SMF) as well as other SAP-required fields.
• Migrated existing Client’s contracts.
• Developed functional specifications for custom reports to compare and select suitable vendors/contracts for new contract negotiation for common sourcing.

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Responsibilities:

• Played as Business Analyst role and lead workshops with business users and SMEs (Subject Matter Experts).
• Developed As-Is and To-Be business process flows and map business requirements to system functionality.
• Performed gap analysis and identify inconsistencies between business requirements specified and system.
• Participated in design validation, assisting in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix and tying RICEF objects to the identified gaps.
• Designed functional specifications for the RICEFW objects to handle the identified gaps like custom reports for material stock reports and on-time delivery analysis.
• Configured stock transport order process, both intercompany and intercompany, with outbound delivery and billing from SD module to facilitate material transfer within companies and cross-companies.
• Activated Quality Management - Post to Inspection for certain materials as per business requirements.
• Worked on Invoice Verification and Automatic Invoice Settlements using Evaluated Receipt Settlements (ERS).
• Configured Vendor Specific and General Tolerances for price, quantity and delivery.
• Customized Release Procedure for Service Entry Sheets (SES).
• Configured Automatic Account Determination of GL accounts for Goods Movements.
• Worked on production sub-contracting.
• Developed and implement material master data and vendor master data conversion plans.
• Prepared documentation for mapping rules to migrate material master, vendor master, and transaction data from legacy system to SAP through LSMW.
• Performed Data Migration, including testing to check the validity of the data.
• Created test documents for and perform Unit tests, Integration tests and Regression tests for all customized developments.
• Reported regularly on the progresses of activities, workload estimate and due dates.
• Provided to Power Users and support Power Users during User Acceptance Testing.
• Executed cutover activities for Go-Live conversion.
• Supported in post Go-Live hyper-care period.
• Responsible for detailed planning through execution of knowledge transfer to support services.

SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate Onsite Offshore Consultants
• Creating functional specifications for customer reports
• Interacted with end users to resolve various production support issues and referred OSS notes for solving certain SAP issues
• Solving high priority production incident cases dealing with direct and indirect purchasing, direct shipment process, subcontracting, and Inventory management- Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Transfer posting
• Work carried out like baseline configuration of MM
• Worked on configuration of Material master, Vendor master
• Configured Procure to Pay (P2P) process by automatic creation of requisition through MRP, automatic PO creation and invoice verification in the background.
• Facilitate workshops for the end user s and knowledge transfers for super end users
• Configured Purchasing process including RFQ/Quotation, Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders
• Worked on configuration of Inventory Management: Number Assignment, Field Selection (Goods receipts, Goods issue/Transfer postings)
• Vendor Evaluation, RFQ/ Quotation/Quotation Entry and analysis/PO/Automatic Vendor known/unknown, Confirmation and Release Procedures
• Pricing elements like basic price, discounts, freight and taxes were defined for various grades of Materials, and material groups and vendors
• Configured and defined Pricing Condition types, Access Sequence, Condition Tables, Calculation Schemas, Schema groups, Schema determination.
• Configuring Inventory Management Parameters for all Goods movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, GR for blocked stock, Goods returns etc.,
• Creating storage location automatically for different movement types with Goods issue/Transfer posting and Goods receipt
• Configuring special stocks in Inventory management for Subcontracting, and Consignment materials
• Reconfigured MM specific requirement planning, MRP parameters and Forecasting
• Worked on Enhancements for purchase orders like QA specs for each line item and for Goods receipt
• Worked on queries and issues from end users for Purchase orders based on date, plant, vendor, etc.,
• Worked on data conversions using standard SAP tools like LSMW and also on testing tools like quality centre (HP)
• Identified, analysed and processed failed IDOC’s for inbound deliveries & Sub contracting purchase orders
• Created documentation, manuals and provided knowledge transfer to the end users
• Involved in providing solution for gaps, break/fix support and documenting the solutions
• Coordination with other team members for conducting cross functional testing scenarios
• Worked on automated test execution for Unit testing, Integration testing and system testing

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Complete customization of Enterprise structure, including creation of plants, Storage locations and Purchase organization as per the blue print.
• Worked on Vendor Master, Material Master, Purchase Info Records, Source List, Outline Agreements, and Contracts.
• Involved extensively in data migration activities of master data and transaction data as per data migration policy of Confidential .
• Developed the LSMW’s using batch recording for Material Master and vendor master loads.
• Designed the documentation and delivered the end user
• Coordinated the integration testing efforts. Involved in creating the template environment, test plan, test cases for all MM activities.
• Worked on Make to order scenario by synchronising Manufacturing plant of Pune location and depot plant of Hyderabad location.
• Implemented Cross Company Stock Transport Orders (STO), worked in Inbound Deliveries, Outbound Deliveries.
• Set up Purchase info records, and configured subcontracting & consignment stocks to meet certain core business requirements.
• Worked with FI team to configure the automatic postings required for Sub-contracting and consignment cycle.
• Performed integration test with WM, SD, FI modules.
• Developed specs for multiple RICEF Objects-Reports, enhancements to transactions, user exits, and enhanced standard SAP Reports.
• Performed Unit test, Integration test, and user acceptance test for all customized developments.
• Provided in SAP to end-users as required.
• Provided SAP post-production support after go-live.
• Mentored client so that they will be able to configure and maintain the new SAP system.