SUMMARY:

• SAP Project Management with 13 years of experience in Implementation, Rollout, Upgrade, Data Migration and Support project experience in SAP Global Environment.
• Exposed to all phases of Project Implementation - Preparation, Business Blueprint (BBP), Business Requirement Document (BRD) Realization, Pre-go Live, Cute Over, Go Live and Post live Support.
• Proficient and Expertise in SAP Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Logistics Executions Business Process such as Discrete, Repetitive and Process Industries Environment.
• Worked closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, understand and synergies different requirements into a common set of Authority's business and system processes.
• Acted as the primary contact and project team escalation point for clients utilizing specific account.
• Leading customer kick-off meetings, project status meetings, site visits, customer project reviews and customer projects audits.
• Translating customer needs and requirements into detailed project plans shared with company functions involved.
• Managing cross-functional teams.
• Developing enduring faithful Customer relationships.
• Managed project risk and planning for project contingencies.
• Managed project cost and project margin, including project forecasting and project reporting requirements ensuring/improving Project profitability.
• Managed project scope, including the preparation of project change requests to address changed or emergent scope
• Leading complex negotiations including negotiations with non-supportive customers, partners and sub-contractors
• Keeping track of quality issues, major NCs, RCAs, etc. Escalating internally to drive resolution if necessary.
• Managed project development from initiation to closure and accountable for project results.
• Worked with the project sponsor and stakeholders to complete the project charter and the statement of work, outlining the scope, goals, deliverables, required resources, budget and timing.
• Ensuring the complete requirements have been gathered and documented.
• Carry out preliminary feasibility study on proposed improvement work.
• Planed and delivered the work within defined schedule, cost and quality standards.
• Worked with appointed consultant and contractor in the execution of the work.
• Conducted regular meetings, supervise the work and ensure that it is delivered in accordance to work specifications and agreed timeline.
• Reviewed and approved contractors method statements, shop drawings etc. before they proceed with work.
• Oversee the work-in-progress, coordinate with all stake holders (internal and external) to meet, plan and execute the works and ensure that all works being carried out by the contractors are compliance with the relevant authorities’ and statutory requirements.
• Provided a project schedule to identify when each task will be performed and by which team member.
• Provided appropriate communications to the project sponsor and stakeholders and manage clear expectations.
• Resolved issues and problems as they arise throughout the project’s life cycle.
• Identified risks and risks mitigation plans in project.
• Managed project scope by ensuring that any changes to the scope are documented and approved by the project sponsor using project change request forms.
• Identified and tracked project milestones and the critical path, while providing status reports to the project sponsor and the PMO.
• Leading and motivating project team members on a proactive basis, and keeps projects on time and within project budget.
• Ensuring and Managed all the project documents has been safely stored and accessible to the project team.
• Established and implemented processes and procedures to meet departmental internal controls requirements.
• Responsible for regular 1 to 1 communication with direct reports, obtaining information from team members around project health, mentoring and helping manage issues.
• Escalated and intervene when appropriated, Identified Project Risk, Involved, Resolved, Tracing and escalating critical issues to minimize project risk factors.
• Managed client stakeholders and external resources to ensure successful implementation.
• Proactively addressed customer concerns and met customer needs.
• Coordinated with contactors, vendors to propose detailed technological solutions to meet common business processes and requirements.
• Preparing of project schedule, monitoring progress of project, liaising between stakeholders and vendors ensuring project is implemented according to Authority requirements.
• Ensured smooth and successful implementation of assigned areas of work quality control and quality assurance requirements assigned by stakeholders.
• Prepared project scope, plan and obtained management approval of the project plan.
• Co-ordinated the review, presentation and release of design layouts, drawings, analysis documentation.
• Co-ordinated meetings with the product committee, project managers and functional managements to discuss project needed resources, issues, and delays in completing the task.
• Worked with Vendor Contract Management, Third Party to review contract terms and conditions to understand obligations in a contract and areas of risk.
• Worked with functional managers and the team sponsor to obtain necessary resources to support the team's requirements.
• Established and maintained relationships with clients, vendors and third parties.
• Experience with business process analysis and business requirements gathering and documentation.
• Uphold company policies regarding on site assignment, submission of travel reports, weekly project.
• Proficient in Production Planning (SAP PP), Demand Management (DP), Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP), Long - Term Planning (LTP).
• Experience in Production Planning (SAP PP) master data, BOM, Routing, Work centers, production versions, production orders, release, confirmation, order cost settlement and order prints.
• Experience in configuring SAP PP, MTS, MTO, shop floor activities, batch management, serial numbers, order types, MRP parameters and demand management, capacity leveling, interfaces with MES, MAXIMO and Third party systems.
• Skilled in Material Management (SAP MM) configuring various processes such as Purchasing Info Record (PIR), Purchase Requisitions (PR), Purchase Orders (PO), RFQ, Source List, Source Determination, Quota Arrangement, Outline Agreement, contract’s value & quantity, Scheduling Agreements, Pricing Procedure, Release Strategies, Message Output Determination.
• Adapted at Inventory Management - Movement Types & Stock Types, Goods Receipts (GR), Goods Issue (GI), Physical Inventory Management, Cycle Counting, Inventory Sampling, Stock Transfers, Transfer Posting, Reservations and Special Inventory.
• Adopted in Warehouse Management (SAP WM) Warehouse structure creation Warehouse Number, Storage Type, Storage Section, Storage Bin Structure, Storage Bin Types, Picking Area, Storage Unit, Staging Area, Warehouse Order Management, Transfer Requirement (TR), Transfer Order (TO), Put Away Strategies, Pick, Pack, Stage and Load.
• Worked on SAP QM Quality Planning, Inspection, Certificate, Notification, master inspection characteristics, inspection methods, catalogs, coding, Material specification, inspection plans, Quality inspection process, Inspection lot processing, notification processing, defects recording, results recording, usage decision.
• Implemented in Production Planning (SAP PP), Logistics (SAP LE) and Inventory Management, Sales & Distribution (SAP SD) with Inspection Stock and Inspection Lot and Quality Certificates.
• Worked as SAP Project Lead - Global Supply Chain (SAP SCM), Logistics Executions (SAP LE) involved in managing activities related to activities related to SAP S/4 HANA implementation projects, implementation and support of SAP S/4 HANA Global Environment.

SKILLS:

SAP Project Management SAP Consultancy Solution Customization Agile Methodologies Business Analysis Client Interaction Stockholder Management Vendor Management People Management Team Leadership

WORK EXPERIENCE:

SAP Global Supply Chain Project Lead

Confidential

Project Lead - Sr SAP Business Analyst

Confidential

Team Lead

Confidential

SAP Lead Functional Consultant

Confidential

SAP Lead Consultant

Confidential

SAP Functional Consultant

Confidential

SAP Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed SAP, ERP, Microsoft and Cloud adoption projects such as migration of existing on premise systems onto the cloud.
• Understood and worked with commercial cloud service providers on their various offerings to support transition of systems to a cloud first environment.
• Proactively communicated and collaborated with multiple stakeholders to elicit and analyze requirements, reconcile conflicts, deconstruct high-level information to deliver the appropriate system.
• Engaged multiple stakeholders for demand planning and project prioritization.
• Managed cross-projects activities dependencies and trade-offs.
• Engaged stokeholds on project including clarifying of project scope, communication of changes and deliverables.
• Managed and determined 3PL outsource vendors for project development
• Worked with internal stakeholders to deliver blended products including allocation of workload, refine and ensuring adherence to the agreed product development process.
• Monitoring and reporting project status, resource allocation, risks, quality and issues for portfolio of project.
• Continuously identified area of improvement for increases efficiency, quality.
• Conducted procurement exercises such as tenders and requests for proposals to obtain solutions and services for the delivery of the project.
• Worked with Vendor IT functional, business, application development teams, infrastructure and architecture and information security to support the delivery of projects.
• Closely followed industry trends to identify new technologies that provide business values.
• Aligned project deliveries and IT solutions with IT Enterprise architecture.
• Worked closely with PMO for project reporting and documentation.
• Ensuring compliance to Government, principles and policies.
• Continuously benchmark project management performance to identify improvements and achieve higher capability maturity.
• Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules and plans as required.
• Experience with all aspects of the system implementation including gathering requirements, designing the future state solution, the development objects related to their process scope, as well as supporting testing and post implementation support.
• Coordinate with internal and external design partner in co-development project, guide the global Off-shore and On-shore team
• Closely worked on SAP modules (MM, PP, SCM, LE, WM, QM, FICO, SD, PM, PS, BI/BW, BO, Analytics on Cloud, BPC, GRC, Success factors, ARIBA, IBP, MES, PI/PO, ABAP, Basis, S4 HANA).
• Resolved and escalated issues arising from operations in coordination with other departments.
• Evaluated Business Process, BBP, BRD, Prepared AS -IS and TO-BE process and perform GAP Analysis in the production environment.
• Managed unit testing, integration of software modules, version control, proper documentation of coding and testing activities and continuous optimization.
• Conducted SAP reviews including application functionality, application controls including segregation of duty, work flows.
• Worked as SAP Project Lead - Global Supply Chain and Logistics Executions involved in managing activities related to activities related to S/4 HANA implementation projects, implementation and support of SAP Logistics in S/4 HANA Environment.
• Ensure compliance to project management policies and procedures for accomplishing forecast accuracy, quality standards and meeting project timeline.
• Prepared and presented monthly financial forecasts and reconciliations against budget. Deliver financial submissions and updates to sponsors and senior stakeholders in accordance with capital management processes.
• Worked on SAP Material Management (MM) Purchasing, Procurement Inventory Pricing Procedure, Agreements, Contracting Subcontracting and Stock Transport Order STO’s (Intra & Inter), SAP Logistics Execution (LE).
• Function as SAP Project Lead - Global Supply Chain and Logistics Executions for UPM, Helsinki, Finland catering to Material Management (MM), Manufacturing Production Planning (PP), Demand Planning (DP), Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Quality Management (QM), Ware house Management (WM), Logistics Executions (LE), ABAP, Basis.
• Render strategic consultancy related to Supply Chain & Operations (SCM), Material Management (MM) Purchasing, Inventory, Production Planning (PP), Sales & Distributions (SD), Forecasting, Logistics Executions (LE) and Ware House Management (WM).
• Involved in configuration of Production Planning (PP) plant parameters for MRP such as MRP Group, MRP Controller, Planning horizon, and lot-sizing procedure including various objects in capacity requirements planning like formulas, availability check, standard value keys, scheduling parameters for planned and production orders, production schedulers and MRP controllers, order type dependent parameters, production order confirmation and scheduling margin keys
• Configured Materials Management (MM) Purchasing, Procurement Inventory Pricing Procedure, Agreements, Contracting Subcontracting, Stock Transport Order STO’s (Intra & Inter) business scenarios.
• Worked on Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, User exits, BADI, BAPI, IDoc, RFC, EDI’s, BDC’s, ALV, use LSMW to migrate mass data from client’s legacy system to SAP system.
• Function as SAP Solution Architect involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP using BOA methodology and also LSMW, utilizing complexes, medium and as well as low level objects while loading the data.
• Guided the process team for mapping of data from legacy system to the SAP system, technical designing of objects with SAP BOA methodology and LSMW
• Work on data profiling tools for ongoing project to understand the quality of data before loading into the SAP, loading of master data from the legacy system to the SAP system.
• Configured business scenarios of Supply chain (SCM), Material Management (MM), Inventory Management, Manage Stock, Outbound Delivery, Inbound Delivery, Shipping, Pack Outbound Deliveries, Pricing, Release, Invoice Processing, STOs (Inter, Intra) company, Purchase Work flows.
• Involved in writing the custom functions as per business requirements for loading the data into SAP. Identified bugs in existing mappings by analyzing the data flow.