CAREER SUMMARY

SAP MM/WM/IM Functional with 9 Years of overall IT experience with 5+ Years of those years focused on SAP Projects and Implementations. Excellent knowledge of SAP /R3/ECC - MM/WM/IM modules which include: analysis, design, customizing, configuration and implementation. Good understanding of ASAP methodology, all the way from Business Blueprinting, Realization, Go-live & Cut over, post implementation support & Training. Other areas of expertise include project management, quality management, web design, and ERP support. Team player with great communication and leadership abilities, also skilled in the use of various multi-media tools for presentation and publication like Macromedia Dream weaver, Adobe Flash, PowerPoint, MS Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, SharePoint and Citrix. MBA specializing in Supply Chain Management from Indiana University in Pennsylvania.

Projects

• Hands-on experience for configuration in SAP Materials Management (MM), Inventory Management (IM) & Warehouse Management (WM). Participated in more than 3 ERP implementations
• Developed specs for multiple RICEF objects-Reports, enhancements to transactions, user exits, and enhanced standard SAP Reports.
• Created spec documents for enhancements for capturing rejections by vendors through EDI.
• Configured and tested WM interfaces with MM, SD, and QM modules.
• Setup organization structures such as storage locations, purchasing organizations, purchasing groups, plants, warehouse, storage types, storage section, storage bins.
• Configured materials master including material types, definition of views and fields, required number ranges for material types.
• Configured, managed and tested, Material Master Purchasing -Procurement to payment cycle.
• Configuration of vendor master including creation of account groups defining fields and usage of partner functions.
• Maintained vendors arrangement, merchandise distribution, customer arrangement and retail store activities.
• Handled retail transactions such as User profile, pricing, assortment management, procurement, inventory management, sales order management, invoice verification etc
• Configuration of Supplier Self-Service interface with Shipping notification (ASNs) Options.
• Interfacing SAP/legacy application of vendor, suppliers and subcontractor with SAP using EDI and ALEs
• Configuration and implementation of batch management with the classification by defining class , class type, and characteristics.
• Worked with the Infrastructural Team in a full life cycle implementation of Oracle 11g.
• SAP Product Data Management (PDM): material master, vendor master, info-record, source list, service master, classification, BOM master, WBS element and Networks.
• Inventory Management: goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfer and transfer postings, physical inventory, tally sheets, returns, reservations and movement types.
• Worked on the various activities during deployment such as parallel run, mock cut-over to streamline the go live process.
• Worked with various migration tools such LSMW, IDOC and ALEs during data conversion from legacy system to SAP
• Creating, configuring and maintaining Bill of Materials, Material requirement planning (MRP), Production Orders, Batch Management and Planning Strategies.
• Configured Material Types and various sub-components required for production under the Bill of Materials (BOM).
• Worked to create Object dependencies, setting configuration Profile for configurable objects within variant configuration
• Inventory Management Module: Movement types (GR/GI/Transfer movements), Stock Transfer Order, Physical Inventory, Availability check, Consignment, Subcontracting and Reservations.
• Configure and managed toll processing/sub-contracting of semi-products (Seals and sweetening agents); initialing stock, subcontracting purchase order creation, good receipt, quality inspection and payment.
• Manage Stock Movement, Transfer Postings, Stock Transfer Order (STO) Processes.
• Set up QM Master Data i.e. Code Groups & Selected Sets, Master Inspection Characteristics, and Inspection Plans.
• Designed network for the supply chain management for company such as;
• Managed inventory and distribution of products and sales records
• Maintained IT equipments i.e. computer, routers, servers and laptops
• Managed database of fleets, supplier & distributors,
• Integrated 3rd party network into operations and enforced adequate security,
• Ensured over 98% availability of IT assets, networks and services verses an average of 65% prior taking on the role, which resulted in 40% increase in the daily out of the operation site.
• Technical support Engineer in implementation team for oracle 11g self service project, activities included development, customization, implementation and training
• Designed different IT networks Local Area Network, Metropolitan Area Network and supervised the implementation which included generating EOI and RFPs for equipment purchases (computers, servers, routers) and contracts and liaised between Management & 3rd party Company.
• Generated a central post merger inventory database for IT assets and operation material between Agip and Unipetrol - leading to Oando plc.
• Designed a centralized backup procedure and data transfer protocols for Oando plc.
• Managed and designed datacenter for a core site, a mirror site and Metropolitan Area Network between Factory, Admin. Building and Staff residential Quarter within 9 mile radius for a Chemical Company a project worth $ 1.28 million.
• Generated and maintained regional network operational documents and network capacity and availability reports for all operational sites in the Nation.

SAP/Middleware Integration Specialist March 2012 - Till date
Confidential, Beaverton, Oregon
Summery; I worked on the phoenix project in Product Creation Solutions (PD&I) department; the project aims to replace the old middle ware Egate with new middleware i.e. informatics, Oracle fusion and JCaps; as the SAP specialist, my primary role is to document the business rules for all the SAP MM Links (16 links) in Egate, data structure, and create business requirement / mapping documents based on the new design/architecture of the new middle ware;

• Reviewed prior documentation on the SAP remediation links between the upstream and downstream section.
• Designed the template for the reverse engineering documentation of the business rules in E-gate for the MMLinks
• Extracted the business rules for the SAP MM Classification link from Egate working with Monk programs and reversed engineered documents for the link.
• Designed mapping document, functional requirement for the classification after documentation
• Extracted the business rules for the MM, Sales Grid, PO Grid and Plant derivation links from Egate working with monk programs and reverse engineering document
• Knowledge transfers to other BSAs for the documentation of other SAP MM links such as PIRs, HTS, and Source list .

Functional Consultant - Vendor Queries June 2011 - February 2012
Confidential, Houston, Texas

• SAP modules worked with include Material Master; Vendor master Data, Finance Module, Quality management and logistics
• Post-migration support; ensure data cleansing, identifying data loss during migration and creating replica in new SAP
• 1st Tier customer Support; taking vendor queries, advising on account status, payment status/ history and sending remittance of payment to vendor
• Liaising between Vendors and procurement agent to reconcile vendor account.
• Documentation of business process and identify possible holes and ways to optimize process.
• Generating service request for Accounts Payable/Finance team to modify accounting/material documents
• Generating Critical Payment request for Accounts payable/Finance to expedite payment.
• Escalation of delays in problem resolution by 2nd tier to team lead
• Creation / Maintain of Vendor masters using Global Vendor Master Form (GVMF)
• Following up on Vendor Queries until, payments are made and remittances are sent to vendor.
• Request for Credit notes for over payments and matching with invoices to balance out customer account.
• Monitoring Service Entry Sheet approval process and troubleshooting the work from for speedy approval of SES
• Working with the SES team to optimize the SES approval process

Functional Consultant (MM/WM) April 2010 - May 2011
Confidential, Pittsburgh/Johnstown, Pennsylvania

• Prepared step-by-step implementation process and configuration procedures for business processes.
• Implemented, tested S&D processes i.e. Order to Cash cycles
• Configuration Order Types: consignment sales, item categories, schedule line categories, copy control, customer returns processing, credit/debit note processing.
• SD document Processing such as; Pricing, Material Determination, Material Listing/ Exclusion, customer material info record.
• Output Control for EDI documents/ print outputs, Account Determination, Credit/ Risk Management, Availability Check (ATP), Item Proposals.
• Configured WM structure by defining storage types, storage sections, bins, interim-storage bins and doors.
• Worked on configuring the Transfer Order and delivery relation WM.
• Managed various stock documentation/reservation/ physical inventory, and transfers.
• Configured storage types with and without Storage Unit management
• Defined usage and implementation of Warehouse Management with the following functionality: Storage Bin management, warehouse movements, goods receipts, goods issues, putaway strategies, picking strategies, stock transfers, transfer postings and replenishment, cycle counting procedure.
• Inventory management: managed material stock by quantity/value, goods issue, stock movement different storage bins and configured its properties to handle stocks
• Configuring the entire Materials Management module encompassing Purchasing, Inventory
• Management, Physical Inventory, and Logistics Invoice Verification areas.
• Performed WM batch determination configuration by defining condition table, access sequence, strategy type, search procedure and assignment of the same to the warehouse.
• Defined the various Movement types in the IM and WM, defined Picking strategies, such as LIFO, Configured Shelf life expiration date (SLED) for warehouse stock.
• Documentation of As-Is Business Process, To-Be Business Blue Print Documentation and Gap Analysis.
• Preparation of test scenarios for MM, SD, QM and WM
• Coordinating the physical inventory with the respective personnel to enable the exact stocks to upload during Go-Live.
• Worked with data conversion team with data requirement, Data mapping and Data cleansing approach
• Developed Functional Specification for ABAP programmers during gap analysis.
• Carried extensive testings; integration testing, performance testing, regression testing before data transfer to production server.
• Post go-live support; coordinating the consultants with day to day issues like password locked, printer configuration, authorization extension to a particular user, etc.
• Error handling during end-user training.

(SAP- IT Consultant) August 2009- April 2010
Confidential, Indiana University, PA

• Configured Materials Master including Material Types, definition of views and fields, required Number Ranges for Material types, Source List and Info records.
• Configured the Release strategy for Purchase requisition based on the purchasing group which would deal with mostly Non stock items
• Managed Vendor Master Data, PIR, contracts, and P2P cycles
• Configured the Material Master Data (material groups, material types, field selection groups) and Vendor Master Data (field status for vendor account groups, partner determination schema.
• Configuring message determination for purchasing documents and output determination for goods receipts & issues.
• Managed inventory of material, configuring transfer posting for quality inspection, returns if failed inspection and moving to storage location passed quality.
• Configuration of Message types, Access sequences, Message Determination Schema for Output Control of Purchasing Documents.
• Configured additional release procedures required by business to place orders with vendors
• Created class, characteristics and assigned configuration profiles to materials
• Configured the system for Reservation of materials specific to Sales Order, deliveries, and also manual reservation in IM.
• Configured Shipping data related to deliveries and goods determination, process availability check and transfer requirements by setting up requirement class and integrating it with strategy group in MRP selection.
• Documented all required information to keep track and progress of the project.

Role: Functional Consultant (MM/WM/IM/PP) Sept. 2005 - Jan. 2008
Confidential, Port- Harcourt Nigeria
Confidential is an agro-allied and chemicals company committed to helping sub-Sahara Africa become self reliant in food production and economic wealth.

• Extensively worked in a full life cycle implementation.
• Conducted Business discussions with core team and business process workshops for Blue print design.
• Involved in set up of organization structure configured material types as per the requirements of the client.
• Configuration, supported, and troubleshooting errors in mm/wm/pp modules - sap r3 4.6c.
• Supported subcontracting and vendor consignment processes
• Configuration of Message Types, Access Sequences, Message Determination Schema for Output Control of Purchasing Documents
• Involved with EDI development team in identifying message type for Purchase Orders (850), Order confirmation (855), Order shipping notification (856), and Invoice (810)
• End user training on how to handle IDOC error monitoring and preparing training materials and activities for training
• DOC test tool for testing inbound scenarios using WE19
• Configuration of Materials Requirement Planning (MRP), Reorder Point based planning (ROP) & Consumption based planning (CBP)
• Worked on various aspects of the system ranging from production planning for MTO & MTS scenarios, procurement, inventory and accounting.
• Worked on setting up custom routing and operations based on the dynamic production operations environment according to the planning strategy.
• Plan production cycle, Planned Independent requirement (PIRs) and Dependent requirement (BOMs) planned order, production order and repetitive manufacturing.
• Hands on experience working on aspects related to variant configuration within Purchasing, sales and production.
• Configured Variant BOM materials to meet customer requirements by maintaining order BOM with pricing at header/Item level depending on the product groups in sales Order.
• Worked to create Object Dependencies, setting configuration profile for configurable objects within variant configuration.
• Configured and executed shop floor activities including conversion of planned orders and carrying out goods movements and order confirmations.
• Identified error causes and error recoveries for incorrect performance of some material movements.
• Configured WM Movements Types, Interim storage area for specific combustible materials, Storage Types, Storage Sections, and Storage bins.
• QM module: Master data, Control quality, Quality Notification, reporting etc
• Define processing parameters for the quality notification i.e. during of inspection and priority
• Log all activities that have been carried out for the problem
• Configured purchase requisition and Automated purchase order. .
• Managed Receipts, Transfer Postings for Inspections, Stock movements, Stock Transfer Orders.
• Configured multiple WM and IM movement types, for picking and putaway strategies for storage type search and section search.
• Defined warehouse number, shipping point & assigned warehouse to storage location, shipping point to plant, transfer types, and movement types.
• Managed Transfer postings for Quality Inspection, Scrapping after inspection and clearing as unrestricted stock.
• Configured storage types, storage sections, storage bin types and storage bins structure.
• Customized put away and picking strategies for fixed bin, open storage, addition to existing stock, and storage unit types (pallets).
• Defined and configured field selections in Material Master, and Vendor Master.
• Worked on interim storage areas to handle goods receipt and goods issue activities.
• Reviewed quality certificates for every inbound delivery and monitoring their receipt.
• Configured Catalogs/Code groups through selected sets, also configured UD codes with relevant follow-up actions.
• Setting up master inspection characteristics manually and via ale.
• Configured the QM Handling for Customer Returns Happens Through Return Sales Orders.
• Configured the Materials for Recurring Inspection, recursive inspection, inspection and miscellaneous Inspection Types.
• Inspection Lots for existing batches, results of each characteristic for each Lot and its UD code Assigned) for all the existing batches in Inventory from Vendors systems to Notore systems.
• Configured and tested PP interfaces with MM/ PDM, QM, QN and IM modules.
• Creation of Quality Certificates, managed and maintained Quality Notifications
• Created test scenario and performed unit and integration testing.
• Provided training in SAP to end-users as required.
• Performed cut-over planning and execution in MM and WM modules
• Conducted Unit testing, Integration testing, and User testing
• Worked on preparations for the Go-Live phase, including assisting with training end users
• Generated, PO, EOI and RFPs for acquisition of servers & Routers for Data Centre
• Designed and supervised the implementation of Notore's data centres (Core and Mirror site) using Microsoft Visio and Project Management
• Supported finance legacy application and data back up
• Generated RFPs for Fibre MAN area network, IT liaison between Management and 3rd Party Company
• Oversaw the implementation of a Fibre MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) for the factory, Administration Building and Staff residential Quarters within a 9-mile circumference a project worth 1.28 million USD
• Designed a comprehensive IT project plan for the fiscal year
• Generated a database for inventory of old and new IT inventories.
• Provided hands on training for new users and refresher courses for old users

Role: Technical Support Engineer June 2001 - Aug. 2005
Confidential, Lagos Nigeria
Confidential is one of Africa's largest integrated energy solutions providers with a proud heritage. It has a primary listing on Confidential and a secondary listing on Confidential

• Part of the Implementation Team for Oracle 11g with data migration, data cleansing and validation techniques, and extensive testing during data validation on new system
• Supported Go-live and deployment team
• Meeting with different unit in the organization review business process that will be used as Blue Print for the company
• Documentation of all organization according to ISO standard
• Managed schedules and data for Supply and distribution of petrol and diesel in Southern region
• Managed the database of fleets trucks
• Managed Servers, Computers, Printers, Routers and other IT equipments
• Network/Technical Support Engineer for more than 120 systems at different point in time in Oando
• Managed Technical/Customer support services and field operations at different Oando's offices, depots, joint ventures and terminals.
• Managed Servers, Computers, Printers, Routers and other IT equipments
• Supervised the installation of VSAT Network, Radio Network and Fibre Network between different Stations in Lagos i.e. Apapa, Ikeja, JV Office and Head quarters.
• Generated and maintained regional network operational documents and network capacity and availability reports
• Technical support Engineer in the full life cycle oracle self service 11g project development, implementation and training
• Network/Technical Support Engineer for more than 120 systems at different points in time in Oando
• Provided internal analysis and support to ensure proper escalation during outages and down periods
• Ensured over 98% availability of IT assets and network versus an average of 65% prior to taking on the role.
• Raising RFPs for IT projects, reviewing of proposals, short listing and IT liaison for contract negotiations between executives and business groups
• Generated a centralized data management system for APAPA Terminal, AGIP Terminal and JV venture including data backups and data transfer protocols.
• Supported Oracle 11g and other legacy applications such as ACCPAC....

Education/ Certification

• MBA, Supply Chain & Quality Management.
• ITIL (Service Management), Certified EHS, Microsoft Certified Professional (ISA Server)

Technical Skill

Operating Systems /Server - Windows 2003/NT/4.0/95/98/2000/XP/Vista, Window 7, Server 2003, Microsoft Citrix
ERP Environment - Oracle 11g & SAP R/3 ECC 6.0/4.7/4.6C (Materials Management (MM), Inventory Management (IM) and Warehouse Management (WM), Quality Management (QM)
Packages / Project - MS- Project, MS-Office, Visio. Multimedia Adobe Flash, Dream weaver, HTML