PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Have total of over 30 years of experience in Information Technology with more than 25 years of functional implementation experience in SAP Extended Warehouse Management, Materials Management, Warehouse Management including Yard Management and Production Planning at various clients.
• Experienced in all phases of the Project Implementation including preparation/requirements gathering, blueprinting, realization, testing (unit testing, user acceptance testing, integration testing), end user, final preparation, go - live and project support.
• S/4HANA experience EWM Solution architect with eight plus years of EWM consulting in business innovation and transformation. Four successful EWM implementations from 7.2 to 9.4.
• Platinum Level Applications Consultant for SCM, LES solutions, focusing on Warehouse Management Applications (ERP WM and SCM EWM) and Transportation Management Applications (TM, LE-TM):
• Assessment, Design and Implementing SAP WM and EWM Solutions.
• Utilize SAP EWM and WM RF framework in a creative/effective way to minimize new RF custom developments.
• Configure Motorola and Intermec RF Device (Handheld and Truck mount) connectivity using ITSMOBILE along with industry specific browsers and SAP console.
• ITSMOBILE RF performance evaluation and performance improvements.
• Consultation to select the right solution for Warehouses and Distribution centers (WM / IM/ EWM)
• SCM EWM Blueprint Evaluation, Requirement Analysis, Fit Gap Analysis, Functional Design, Technical Design, Solution Option Evaluation
• EWM / WM configuration, development, custom enhancement, testing, Go Live and Production Support
• Conduct EWM concepts workshops for new clients looking to implement EWM Solution
• Demo standard EWM functionalities for new clients looking to implement EWM Solution (Demo covers all standard functionalities and EWM RDS solutions)
• SAP EWM Interface with Third Party Integrations - Conveyor, Voice, Shipping Packing Application, Tracelink, Legacy, Billing, ADSI, Numina
• Custom RF development to support warehouse and shipping operations
• Advanced EWM Functionalities - VAS, Kitting, Serial Number Enhancement
• EWM Configuration and Implementation
• Warehouse Structure: Warehouse, Storage types, Storage sections, Storage bins, bin types, Activity areas, Doors and Staging Areas, Work Center. Master Data: Product master, Business Partner, Supply Chain Units, Packaging Materials, Packaging Specifications, Sort Sequence, Resources Warehouse Stock Management: Stock Types including consignment stock, Blocked stock for scrapping and quarantine, restriction of expired batches Integration between ERP and EWM: Master Data and transactional data Inbound and Outbound: Inbound Processing, Outbound Processing using POSC and LOSC, Wave Management and 2-step picking Internal Process: Value added Services, Replenishment and Physical Inventory. Warehouse Monitoring and Analytics using measurement services Alerts and Queue Monitoring Exception Handling Cartonization Planning PPF actions for printing different labels, documents, task creation and GR /GI RF and Voice picking Yard Management Quality Management Integration Carrier Integration with EWM for Shipping Labels generation.
• Managed and Implemented all stages of eight full life-cycle implementations from business blue print, configuration, implementation, integration testing, go-live and post go-live support, key-user of Material Master, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Consumption-based Planning, and Logistics Invoice Verification . Implemented procurement and Inventory management for both production items and MRO items.
• Expertise in configuration of SAP: master data (material master, vendor master, source list, purchase info records, customer master), purchasing, external service management (ESM), service entry sheet (SES), inventory management (IM), invoice verification (LIV), sub-contracting, vendor evaluation, warehouse management (WM), Yard Management, Shipping, transportation, Picking/Put away strategies, and batch management.
• Managed entire implementation of Warehouse Management from business blue print, configuration, implementation, integration testing, go-live to post go-live support, key-user .
• Implemented Production Planning for both discrete manufacturing and Process Industries.
• Worked with business to identify the key validations for the Master data consisting of Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchasing Info Records, Bill-of-Materials, Work Centers and routings and used Access Database to validate the legacy data before loading it into SAP using LSMW.
• Worked as a team to implement one full life cycle of EBP (earlier version of SRM) for a client in North New Jersey.
• Interfaces to Third-party warehouses - Designed IDoc generation for Request-to-store/Request-to-ship and sending the EDI to third-party warehouse.
• Setup complete Warehouse layout and management based on various categories like fast moving, slow moving and heavy items.
• Experienced in Mobile data entry, Stock management, Picking and Put-away strategies, Storage unit management, Handling Unit Management, RF Integration, Internal warehouse process, Cycle Counting, Inbound and Outbound deliveries
• Excellent cross-functional skills (PM, FI/CO, SD, QM) of integrating and prototyping complex industry specific business requirements.
• Trained both the key-users and end-users for effective use of their business functions in SAP. Excellent in presentation and communication skills.
• Proficient and knowledgeable in ABAP, ABAP Query, SAP-Script, LSMW, and CATT.
• Developed, enhanced and maintained Forms, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Workflows (FRICEW)

SOLUTION AND DELIVERY MANAGEMENT:

• Expertise in how businesses work, understanding the core business drivers of a manufacturing business model and excellent at process management.
• Identify and quantify solution drivers and translate into value. Development of compelling explanations for business cases and agreement to move forward.
• Translating business needs into application requirements and planning to best service internal and external customers.
• Systematically managing significant numbers of competing initiatives, quantifying efforts, enabling measurement and objective evaluation of IT investments.
• Developing business process and application roadmaps, defining application scope and resolving conflicts.
• Defining application technical requirements from all available inputs. Validating that technical solution meets functional need. Recommending alternatives with pros and cons, if technical solution compromises functional requirement/intent.
• Experienced using structured methodologies. Strong understanding and implementation of SDLC concepts and usage, ASAP Methodology, Solution Manager Documentation and Ascendant Methodology
• Driving logical data modeling efforts and providing global master data strategies.
• Leading others testing/quality plans and ensuring the quality of application project delivery including a properly functioning/performing application with necessary user and IT support staff and documentation. Driving quality throughout all testing phases.
• Managing the quality of application delivery including a properly functioning system with necessary user and support documentation. Authoring and delivering content.
• Leading implementation, conversion, reconciliation cutover planning efforts. Performing plan reviews for completeness and correctness.
• Influencing business process and organizational change. Consulting business leaders on to-be process design and gaps to be overcome. Working with business to ensure user adoption and project benefit realization.
• Excellent in relationship building with vendors. Leading periodic vendor deliverable reviews and communicating capabilities

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Business Process Requirement Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Process Modeling/Mapping
• Microsoft Visio
• Team Leadership
• Project Management
• ASAP Methodology
• Offshore Methodology (Satyam)
• MS Project
• Offshore team management
• Extended Warehouse Management
• Material Master, AFS Material master with Grid values and Article Master (IS-Retail)
• Purchasing (PUR)
• Inventory Management (IM)
• MM-FI Integration and Valuation
• Automatic Account Determination
• Invoice Verification (IV)
• Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV)
• Warehouse Configuration (WM)
• 3 rd Party Warehouse Interface
• Decentralized Warehouse
• Lean Warehouse Management
• Consumption-Based Planning (CBP)
• Engineering Change Management (ECM)
• Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
• Shop Floor Control (SFC)
• Classification and Variant Configuration
• Accounts Payable (FI-AP)
• Data Migration
• WM-MM, WM-SD Integration
• MM-FI/CO, MM-PP, MM-PM, WM-PP, PP-PI Integration
• Handling Unit Management in MM, WM
• RF, Barcode, SAP Console
• Country specific solution: India
• EDI, IDOC, Interface Design
• User Exit design and programming
• Logistics Information System (LIS)
• ABAP, Data Dictionary, ABAP Query, SAP-Script
• LSMW, and CATT
• Web design, Dreamweaver
• HTML, PHP, XML and Java script
• Visual Basic
• Oracle SQL & Database.
• MS Access

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead SAP EMM Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 10 plus EWM consultants at onsite and offshore for world's largest manufacturer of gasoline engines, pressure washers, and power generation, lawn and garden turf care and job site products. These products are designed, manufactured, marketed and serviced in over 100 countries on six continents.
• Led the SAP EWM business process requirement, system design, configuration, system testing, user, data conversion, go live and production support related to two value streams: service parts and Engine and lawn mowers and finished product sold to customers
• Managed SAP EWM business process in the area of inbound, outbound, internal processes
• Outbound process contains kit to order, defining multiple queues like emergency pick based on delivery priority, certain customers are shipped particular day of the week, setting shipment calendar and wave templates - so that customer orders are assigned to the particular wave.
• Designed international scenario using Inter-company STO. Collaborated with SAP development team on one of the complex custom development for kit to order through STO using Item category is KIT.
• Configuration of Inbound outbound processes and replenishment processes using POSC,LOSC, Nested HU, Batch Management and Catch Weight Management
• Configured outbound processes for shipment with POSC storage control, using work center for packing, and labeling as well as direct picking for STO. Developed single Warehouse Order per delivery for Engine and Product warehouses to make the picking more efficient.
• Direct put away for Bulk products, pre-pack engines and multi-step POSC put-away with deconsolidation and quantity classification for service parts for were configured in the system
• Implemented Cartonization Planning and generation of PSHU’s for pick into tote / trolley that need to be packed during picking
• Setup Wave Management for Direct picking and multi-step picking with packing at work center was based on wave releases
• Developed interfaces to pick from VLM storage
• Configuration and testing of Exception codes for Nested HU processes (CHBD,BIDP,BIDF, BIDU etc)
• Drafting cutover plan and executing cutover activities
• Supporting all activities for Day in Life testing
• Enhancements to EWM solutions and hyper-care activities for EWM go-live support.
• Identify gaps and provide recommendations for enhancement to Inbound and Outbound processes, including application of OSS notes for serialized product transactions.
• Provide solutions related to integration of EWM with production facilities, which manufactured products using production order and shipped to the warehouse using POSC processes.
• Setup returns process for customer returns that need to be put away, refurbished or scrapped as per the decision from the quality process.
• Process to handle special stocks like block stock, quality stock and serialized stock.
• PPF and various label printing and re-printing solutions related to labels and forms.
• Provide alternate unit of measure solutions to handle products that are packed in different UOM using packaging specifications.
• Configured Kit to Stock process using production order from ERP. Configured custom KTS Packspec condition type to allow warehouse specific conditions and external steps to direct the kitting process to a specific Kitting work center.
• Exception and Verification field solutions for RF put away and picking.
• Design, develop and deploy SAP integration with Ship ERP
• Functional specifications were created for HU labels, Packing list and Pick list forms, and RF enhancements (Pick by EA)

Confidential

Lead SAP EMM Consultant and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 15 consultants at onshore and offshore
• Led Organization structure workshop for mapping Warehouse Structure - Mapping of physical warehouse into SAP logical warehouse
• Integration Management for implementing EWM solution in the area of Handling Unit Management, Batch Management and Returnable Transportation packaging
• Led solution development for Mobile Technology, Conveyor Integration, Pick To Voice Integration, Tracelink and ADSI Integration
• Warehouse Structure - Mapping of physical warehouse into SAP logical warehouse. Used LOSC (Layout oriented storage control) and mapped complex putaway processes. Inbound - Used POSC (Process oriented storage control), VAS (Value added services), customized putaway strategies, RF development with Special Unit of measure functionality, Kitting, repacking and putaway functionalities
• Outbound - Wave, Wave template, Cartonization, Replenishment, Ad-hoc WT (Warehouse task) customization, Conveyorised material flow, Yard Management, Complex PPF action, RF and Bar code development, HU Management.
• Design, architecture and implementation of the 3rd party software vendors - Tracelink, ADSI, HazShipper, Liaison, Numina, Lucas, Enovia, Vitech, GSM, Agile, Onbase, OpenText, Vistex
• Complete warehouse design using RF process - inbound, outbound, internal
• Integration Management for implementing EWM solution in the area of Handling Unit Management, Batch Management and Vendor Consignment. Designed and developed solution using SAP EWM Mobile Technology. Developed master data transfer plans and tools based on EWM standard tools
• Designed and configured putaway strategy for VAS, Bulk, QA, Cooler, Hazmat and other regulated products
• Designed and configured stock removal process for Pick to Cart, Packing, Conveyable and Non Conveyable Products, Exception Handling
• Simplified label printing and reprinting process for HU, MSDS, Proforma Invoice, Wave, IFU, Packing List, BOL
• Led complex design of wave release and GATP integrations panning across SAP EWM, ECC, SCM, GTS and TM. Resolved RF issues and printing issues. Resolved complex putaway issues, wave release issues and custom inventory upload
• Lead blueprinting workshop and business process documentation for SAP Transportation Management
• Blueprinting, configuration and test of TM Scenario’s for Domestic Outbound and International Inbound. Configuration of SAP TM 9.0 Processes for Ocean & surface modes across Tendering, Carrier Selection, Planning, Charge Management, Freight rating and Freight Agreement.
• Blueprint, design and Implement SAP TM 9.0 solution for customer's North America domestic network with focus on Order integration, Transportation Planning, Carrier selection and Rate shopping.
• Implemented SAP TCM as a central repository for freight rates
• Addressed gaps with standard solution and assisted in designing the requirements document to back-port TM 9.0 Transportation Charge Management functionalities
• Assisted with the design playback, function spec for custom enhancements and cutover activities
• Worked with the SAP Development team in delivering a glitch free back-ported solution by performing extensive testing and addressing bugs.
• Worked closely with the EDW team in requirements gathering and solution design for a custom data push/pull interface. Performed extensive testing of the interface to load rate table and carrier information into the data warehouse.
• Developed custom enhancement for transport scheduling for cold storage products
• Configured EDI240 for shipment status update
• Configured shipment cost data and shipment interfaces with UPS and CH Robinson

Confidential, San Diego

Principal SAP EWM/MM/WM Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• SAP EWM Team Lead through Design and Hyper-Care by leading team of 10 consultants, team member and development team from workshop, requirement study, design, development to Go Live
• Lead requirement workshop, design sessions, blueprinting and system demonstration
• Lead and managed a diverse team of contract consultants and client. Lead system design efforts and configurations for all warehouse operations including Finished Goods Warehouses and Raw Material warehouses across the North American geography Areas of responsibility included receiving of goods, RF enabled putaway, handling in inventory, cross-docking from production to staging, customer RF enabled picking, as well as issuing to production from raw materials.
• Analyze SAP requirements from business users, understand their needs and provide solutions. Gather requirements, design, build and test production fixes. Provide enhancements and quality customer support. Conduct to key SAP users across the business. Configure SAP EWM component enhancements and transportable changes. Stream line Queue and IDOC functionality.
• Responsibilities included: drafting business process mapping (warehouse specific), maintaining SAP EWM master data (Packspecs, Storage Types, Storage Bins, Warehouse Order Creation Rules (WOCR). Perform monthly team administrative functions and reporting. Compiled and executed change management requests,
• End-to-End Full Scope EWM Design and Configuration for multiple warehouses
• Business Design and Configuration for Inbound/Outbound Processes with POSC/LOSC
• Design and Configuration of Yard Management for Inbound/Outbound operations
• Design for Production integration and ASRS (Automated Retrieval System) integration with EWM
• Design and Configuration of technical framework for PPF/Warehouse Monitor/RF
• Advanced Development across multiple EWM functional areas and business processes
• Deployed EWM Solution in the area of Inbound, Outbound, Warehouse Order, Physical Inventory, Wave Creation, WOCR
• Led the master data migration through CIF and inventory conversion into EWM
• Prepared functional and technical design for Custom RF development to support warehouse and shipping operations
• Inbound/Outbound Processing for Logistics facilities
• Integration of standalone SAP EWM solution with multiple 3-rd party systems (mylogistics)
• Custom Development within RF Framework, PPF and Warehouse Monitor
• Design and Configuration of technical framework for PPF/Warehouse Monitor/RF
• Deployed EWM Solution in the area of Inbound, Outbound, Warehouse Order, Physical Inventory, Wave Creation, WOCR
• Prepared functional and technical design for Custom RF development to support warehouse and shipping operations
• Visited their distribution centers, conducted the workshops, did the as-is analysis and gathered the detailed requirement, did gap analysis, gap solutions sessions and created blueprint documents in solution manager.
• Business requirements gathering and business process mapping of WM/MM to-be process flows for 40 distribution centers
• Lead the offshore and onsite WM consultants in the business process requirements collection, blue printing, and writing functional specifications
• Lead SAP Configuration in Materials Management, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management
• Managed SAP MM and WM Integrations with external system Pick To Voice, Mylogistics, Servigistics and Oracle
• Lead architecture and functional design of SAP WM Integration with Pick To Voice and Warehouse Control System.
• Business requirements gathering and business process mapping of WM/MM to-be process flows for the 38 distribution centers
• Developed WM business processes such as Dock to stock, Receive and putaway materials, Manage material movements, Stock transport orders, Manage shipping and delivery, Manage third party warehouse shipping and delivery, Manage parts store room, Manage material disposition and waste, and Manage physical inventory
• Configured WM storage types, storage sections, storage bins, putaway strategy, and picking strategy for finished goods store, raw material store and parts store
• Configured Yard Management functionality for Vehicle Check - In, Check - Out, Loading and Unloading
• Developed and configured processes such as Manage Purchase Requisitions for Direct and Indirect materials, Request for Quotation and Procurement contracts, Manage Consignment process, Procure Sub contracting, Goods Receiving, Goods Issuing, Stock transfer, MRP and CBP processes, Valuation and account control, and Discrepant material disposition (based on quality usage decision)
• Configured Outline agreements such as Quantity and Value contracts, Scheduling agreements with release document, and Framework Order
• Setup Stock Transport Orders of serialized and batch managed products for intra company transfers using SD shipping and billing
• Implemented vendor evaluation with main and sub criteria, weighting factors, scoring range, and trained users in effectively using the ranking list
• Configured handling unit requirement for storage locations and created RICEF for printing of HU labels
• Setup output control and configured EDI messages 850, 855, 856, 860, 865, 840, and 843 for the automation of purchasing activities
• Designed RF interfaces for goods receipt, picking, warehouse movements, replenishment and cycle counting process
• Performed technical specification review, unit testing and quality control of all the RF interfaces
• Did configuration of Warehouse management including storage types, storage sections, storage Unit types, storage bin types, strategies, output set-up, including interfacing warehouse management with other modules like SD and IM.
• Worked on configuration for RF and serial number management.
• Worked on setting up EDI interface between SAP and 3rd party carriers (UPS, Fedex, LTL) to send shipment information and receive back the status updates for delivery information for shipment and receive shipped information to update SAP.
• Set up configuration for stock transfer orders including copying outbound delivery to inbound delivery in receiving plant, return sales order process, and return to vendor process.
• Use Charm process in solution manager for transports. Documented scenarios, processes and sub-processes in solution manager 7.0. Created blueprint documents and maintained transaction codes in solution manager for processes, done the configuration through solution manager for the processes.
• Created functional specifications for various developments and did development and functional testing.
• Created test scripts for string tests and integration tests in HP Quality center. Executed these tests and logging the defects in HP Quality center.
• Prepared the cut-over list of the tasks and have done the mock test.
• Was an integral member in the EHP5 upgrade and my contribution was to Identify the various SAP Notes related and also document and test all SCE scenarios.
• Designed business scenarios for various inbound, outbound and internal processes including Returns.
• Configured WM storage types, storage sections, storage bins, put away strategy, and picking strategy for finished goods, raw material store and parts store
• Designed, tested and deployed SAP WM Integration with
• Transportation Management system (my logistics)
• Interacting with Business Users, Process Owners, Subject Matter Experts for business requirements gathering & analysis of business requirements
• Working with ABAP development team to create new development objects, development changes and enhancement of ABAP objects
• Write detailed Functional Specifications for Customization, ABAP Layouts and Reports Development
• Worked on Pricing Procedure, Release Strategies and Version Management
• Resolved issues in inventory by handling of special stocks, and creation of new storage locations for business gaps. Worked with setting up condition records for different outputs.
• Defined the Release Group, Release code, Release Indicators, Release Strategy and Prerequisites.
• Configured the Automatic Output Determination process for new movement types
• Setup and worked with various EDI processes like 850, 855, 856, 860 and 810.
• Developed functional spec to use the correct IDoc message type SHPCON post the GR.
• Setup intra-company stock transfers with delivery.
• Setup returns to vendor with delivery.
• Developed optimized process to post the parked invoices for both GR-based invoicing and PO-based invoicing.
• Performance tuning of various extraction programs.
• Setup Vendor evaluation with various criteria.
• Worked on Unit testing and integration testing for RF functionality, including system improvement and enhancements and validations in RF functionality in existing processes.
• Work Allocation and scheduling, resources allocation for weekday & weekend activities.
• Providing go live support to Super users and end users in RF functionality.
• Implement the use of Bar codes for the inbound processes and outbound processes in Warehouse.
• Setup WM managed cycle counting and annual physical inventory. Interfaced annual physical inventory counts with third-party system.
• In the process of implementing Project System with the capabilities to allocate materials to the project based on the customer’s forecast plan. Also adjusts allocation based on the change in the forecast and actual sales orders.
• Interfaced with thrird-pary system SalesForce to send Product Master, and Customer Master, along with the allocation and actual quantizes for each Project.
• Interfaced with Servigistics for Project system forecast and actual sales with to the forecast..
• Also work with interfacing to APO planning and custom vendor minimums in APO Planning.

Confidential, Long Island, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a part of a team in implementing AFS Materials Management.
• Developed Business rules and functional specification to create master data and the various views.
• Incorporated the business data validations using the Access database.
• Developed LSMW to load the non-stock materials, vendor master and partner functions.
• Developed LSMW to load the inventory at various plants.
• Developed functional specification to update AFS related master data and send the extracted data to be used in the ordering of the products using the websites of Framesdata.com and Framesdirect.com.
• Interfaced with the existing AFS system to Received ASN and create the PO and Inbound delivery on the fly.
• Setup Inter-company and intra-company stock transport orders.
• Setup third-party custom procurement process with the an existing AFS system
• Setup buy-sell procurement process within the same AFS system and with another separate AFS system in Europe.
• Developed custom Inventory report to report on stock-on hand, quality inspection stock, in-put away, qty-picked etc per grid-level and stock category level.
• Developed interfaces to external website FramesDirect.com to update the inventory feed every 20minutes.
• Developed custom transactions to move the product samples from one Sales Rep to another Sales Rep.
• Setup Purchase Requisition Release and Purchase Order Release process with work flow for non-stock materials.

Confidential, Massachusetts

SAP EWM/MM/WM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented full lifecycle of Procure-to-Pay, Inventory Management and Warehouse Management.
• Performed study of current Business Process and proposed process based on Best Business in the areas of Purchasing, Inventory management and Warehouse Management.
• Proposed re-structuring of the warehouse for efficient picking and managing of the warehouse.
• Configured complete Warehouse Configurations for multiple warehouse locations. Also implemented RF Scanners at these warehouse locations.
• Configure Purchase Requisition and Purchase order Release Strategies with Classification along with the workflow.
• Setup Inter-company and Intra-company stock transport orders.
• Configured new documents types for Contracts & Purchase Orders with the corresponding partner functions.
• Setup material class to identify the materials as ROHS, REACH and PDSM compliant.
• Classified minority vendors with multiple categories using vendor classification.
• Developed custom RF transactions to transfer materials from WM location to IM storage locations and to issue materials directly to the production orders.
• Trained key users and end users in the area of Procurement, Inventory Management and Warehouse Management functions.
• Assisted in the data cleansing in the area of material master, Bill-of-Materials, Work Centers, Routings, Vendor master and Partner functions.
• Loaded Material Master, Bill-of-Materials, Work Centers, Routings, Vendor Master and Warehouse Views using LSMW.
• Configure ATP check for Released & Created Production Orders, Sales orders, Stock Transport Orders and Deliveries; so that all the processes work in more integrated manner.
• Performed cutover activities to bring-in the inventory from the legacy system, open purchase orders and open sales orders.

Confidential, Connecticut

Responsibilities:

• Performed study of current Business Process and proposed process based on Best Business Practice to improve the Inventory Control.
• Identified incorrect unit of measure in the Material Master and changed the Unit of Measures to reflect the correct base unit of measure and stock keeping unit.
• Performed cleanup of the Material Masters & BOMs and archival of obsolete parts. Loaded Material master data using SAP workbench. key-users and end-users in Materials Management.
• Interface to Plant Maintenance.

Confidential

SAP Functional Lead (MM)

Responsibilities:

• Managed and implemented full life cycle of IS-Retail Materials Management including Business Blueprint, Analysis, Design, Prototyping, Configuration, Testing, Documenting, and Go live and Post go-live maintenance.
• Configured material types and configuration of field selections to display in material master views.
• Recognized for the architectural design of Purchase-to-Pay process and integration with other modules.
• Prototyped and designed various business processes and procurement variations like own sale, third-party drop-ship sale, and third-party commission based sales with integration of SD side processes and FI posting requirements.
• Provided regular project progress updates to senior management.
• Developed and implemented optimal interface process for updating the massive volumes of article master (material master) data (about 7-8 millions) from external product database system.
• Configured new vendor account groups, screen layouts, partner roles, partner schemas and assigned partner roles to vendor account groups & purchasing document types.
• Developed interfaces to load article masters (material masters) and special customer master data for Sellers.
• Configured automatic account determination.
• Defined number ranges for both logistics and accounting documents.
• Set tolerance limits at company code level to block invoices above tolerance limits during Logistic Invoice verification.
• Implemented new product lines like Downloadable pdf documents, Physical and Digital magazine subscriptions, and Downloadable Digital audios.
• Improved performance of various programs to avoid bottleneck during peak holiday season when the order rate was more than 200,000/hr.
• Trained in SAP Business Intelligence and was part of the team to test BW data integrity.

Confidential

Senior SAP Supply Chain Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in developing and implementing Global template for Materials Management module.
• Managed all the implementation phases of MM including Inventory Management at various sites in Europe and India.
• Set up separate pricing procedures to take care of the tax conditions and enhancement, import duty conditions and other special duty conditions related to India.
• Developed custom application and report for statutory reporting for India.
• Enhanced and supported custom BAPIs to interact with internet application for PO confirmation and Label printing for the vendors when shipping the Materials. Using the redirector the SAP custom BAPIs were called to return the details of Purchase Order and Scheduling Agreement.
• Configured automatic account postings.
• Set duplicate invoice check and tolerance limits for invoice posting in LIV.
• Implemented planning and procurement of MRO items.
• Worked closely with on-site and off-shore development teams to correct software bugs and deficiencies based on the testing results.
• Involved in Release support - Release to QA and final testing for Release to Production environment.
• Involved in performance testing and tuning of programs and Database access for better overall performance.

Confidential

WM/MM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing all the implementation phases of MM and WM modules at various locations including go live and post go-live maintenance.
• Coordinated both on-site and offshore development teams for timely completion of the development deliverables and testing.
• After analysis developed design specifications for loading master data. The implementation tasks include data analysis and cleansing and mapping to SAP R/3 using LSMW.
• Configured all settings and parameters for new warehouses in US, Europe and Asia to work more efficiently.
• Developed custom Unit and Transfer Order bar code label printing program for efficient receiving in the warehouse.
• Configured Release procedure with classification for both Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders.
• Implemented procurement and Inventory Management for both regular production items and MRO item.
• Setup Stock Transport Order and Subcontract Order.
• Setup GR based invoicing, with planned and unplanned delivery costs.
• Configured company code level tolerance limits and checks for duplicate invoices during Invoice Verification.

Confidential

Senior SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Recommended changes to business processes based on Best Business practice.
• Planned project estimates, prioritized tasks and assigned tasks to team members. Managed individual work assignments for both on-site and off-shore teams of MM/WM modules.
• Reduced total procurement cost by having centralized global contracts with the vendors.
• Categorized and created service masters so as to enable capture of individual sub-services within a major external service.
• Implemented procurement of external services to identify and report variations between planned and actual costs for sub-component services within the major service contracts.
• Implemented efficient process to store and ship from third-party warehouses.
• Interfaced with Plant Maintenance for MRO items and service items.