SUMMARY:

• SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement 1709
• 9+ years of in-depth experience in Materials Management (MM), Inventory Management (IM), Warehouse Management (WM) with focused experience managing projects in Retail Supply Chain and Manufacturing industries.
• 7+ years of Project Management Experience
• Excellent understanding of S/4 Hana, Simple Logistics and Migration steps
• Effectively managed projects while leading teams onsite and offshore
• Expertise in delivering projects on time and capable of handling complex projects
• Expert in Procure to Pay Processes
• Ability to efficiently interact with the clients to understand business processes for GAP analysis and propose strategic solutions.
• Ability to analyze and understand problems, develop action plans, successfully complete the tasks within operating and financial guidelines.
• Configured MM Organizational Elements: Company code, Purchasing Organization, Plant & Storage loc.
• Configuration of pricing procedure in procurement for domestic procurement and Imports.
• Configuration of Batch Management in SAP for Inventory Management.
• Expertise Configuring MM Module - Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Outline Agreements, Info records, Release Procedures, Release strategies, Inventory Management, GR, GI, Movement Types, Reservation, Transfer Posting, Stock Transfer, Invoice Verification, Automatic Account Determination, Valuation, Physical Inventory process.
• Understanding the Process Gaps and synchronization of business processes to suit to S/4 HANA environment.
• Experience in configuration of Pricing Procedure in procurement. Extensive experience working on Make to Stock, Make to Order and procure to pay (P2P) project implementations.
• Expertise in EDI transactions like EDI 810, 820, 824, 850, 857, 860
• Expertise in configuration of Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process including Purchase Requisition, Request for Quotation, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt and Invoice.
• Experience in Inventory Management activities involving physical inventory, inter/intra company stock transfer, transfer posting, Goods Movement, Special Stocks
• Experience with Fiori Applications to include custom functionality
• Expertise in implementing ASAP methodology, good understanding of AS-IS business process, Blue Print, Realization-configuration, Final preparation, Unit and Integration testing, User acceptance testing.
• Hands on Experience with Audit and SOX compliance and security controls
• Mentored users in SAP overview training, end user navigation training.
• Expertise in implementing SAP Solutions using standard configuration as well as working with ABAP programmers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: S/4 logistics SAP ECC 6.0Reporting tools: Report Painter, LSMW

Cross Applications: ALE, IDOC, PI, SOLMAN (Solution Manager), Fiori, Manhattan

Documentation Tools: MS OfficeTesting tools: HP QC, Panaya

Databases: MS SQL server, MS Access, Oracle

Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Environment: Retail

SAP MM/Fiori Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handled issues related to Purchase Requisition creation or PR to PO conversion, and Contracts. Maintaining and streamlining release strategy for PR & PO.
• Involved in streamlining the above process in Fiori using Custom Tiles
• Implemented Email Notification with accurate information for approver and reviewers to improvise and to streamline the workflow process
• Worked with HR systems to identify and build interfaces to fetch the Organizational hierarchical charts to stream line the flow of workflow for PR and Invoice approval
• Managed production support team and trained end-users on new enhancements
• Involved in meetings with SAP and implementing partners to discuss the current process and participated in team meetings with regards to moving to Simple Logistics
• Conducted workshop for Fit Gap Analysis and prepared the analysis document for Hana Migration
• Prepared system conversion pre-requisites for S/4 HANA migrations.
• Identify the delta business capabilities of S/4 HANA applications.
• Developed the Activate methodology roadmap plan for executing S4 HANA conversion.
• Prepared the plan for the S4 HANA conversion activities.
• Prepared the logistics prototype scenarios and presented to business.
• Preparation of Master data templates for Business Partners and Material master for data migration in S/4 HANA.
• Validation of master data for migration and validation of uploaded data in the system with reference to templates.
• Provided production support for issues originating in SAP procurement (both MM & SRM) & Inventory Management (Goods Receipt, transfer posting, Goods Issue and Physical Inventory). Analyzing the incident tickets and providing solutions through Remedy Ticketing Tool.
• Knowledge about BAPI’s, BADI’s, Functional module, message type, Inbound and outbound parameters. IDOC’s interfaces for Purchasing and inventory activities related to Purchasing and Inventory Management between the SAP and Non- SAP systems.
• Involved in designing pass through interfaces between SAP and legacy systems.

Confidential

Environment: SAP Retail

SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintained master data and supporting existing business by identifying, defining, and cleansing business critical data that drives planning and purchasing process.
• Understanding the business processes of the client through the transition process from existing Support team and have gone through the process documents and configuration and understand the complete system.
• Participated for Go-Live and Post implementation support.
• Created LSMW for Material Master, Info records and schedule agreements.
• Involved in support and maintenance of various special Procurement processes for Subcontracting, Third Party, and Consignment and creating Purchasing documents for the same.
• Customized material master record including material types, number ranges, material group, and deletion of fields and applying suppressed, mandatory and optional functions.
• Configured vendor master record; created vendor account groups, number ranges, incoterms, text types, purchasing group, partner determination, and terms of payment and shipping instructions.
• Configuration of special stocks in inventory management for subcontracting and consignment Materials. Setup tolerance limits for invoice verification, and processed verification, block, release of invoices.
• Worked on support of goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfer, transfer postings and goods receipt for blocked stock.
• Involved in production support and training for end-users by noting down the problems and giving solutions, by involving in configuration changes, to enhance the efficiency of the development team.
• Maintained and supported Stock Transport Order process- Inter Company and Intra Company and setting up shipping points by creating a delivery document.
• Co-ordinated with technical team (ABAP consultants) and gave functional specifications for customizing reports according to the user requirements.
• Designed and configured the Split Valuation and Automatic Account determination.
• Worked on MRP batch job variant for total and multilevel planning, evaluated the planning situation and stock requirements.
• Configured for manual/automatic creation of Bins, Warehouse Movement Types for automatic Confirmation of TO.
• Defined Inventory movements for different business process requirement and prepared Business Process Document.
• Expertise in Logistics Execution(LE): - Functionalities like Outbound Delivery processing, delivery types and item categories, picking, Goods Issue, Bill of Landing and warehouse management and goods issue, scheduling, Routing and Route Determination, controlling transportation processing and worked on Material Listing and Transfer of Requirement
• Enhanced and supported warehouse, service centers, stores and head offices as plant and performed Set up related to shipping point, transportation planning point, storage location, routes, warehouse structure and STO's.
• Configured Control Parameters for Warehouse Number, Picking Strategies, Put away Strategies, Number Ranges, WM document types and catalog types.
• Responsible for unit & integration testing as well as resolving Tickets to support day to day Business operations
• Interact, communicate effectively and develop relationship with Business and WMS Partners. Configuring of all messaging between Manhattan WMS and MHE.
• Completed WMS Software upgrades and customer requests providing troubleshooting and support to distribution staff during Go-Live and Warranty
• Performed a thorough “Pre-Go-Live” audit to validate system and client readiness for successful implementation.
• Implemented software configuration changes to support business processes and collaborated with business users to determine business requirements and translated them into system requirements.
• Performed Unit and integration testing (UAT - User Acceptance Test) including RF and labels.
• Trained users for day to day issues on completing the transactions, new process mapping and training on useful T codes and reports development.
• Involved in preparation of customization documents, user manuals and knowledge transfer to end-users.

Confidential

Environment: Manufacturing

SAP MM/WMM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full cycle implementation of WM- MM-SD module: project preparation, business blueprint, realization, final preparation and finally go live and support using ASAP methodology
• Prepared a detailed document of AS-IS study and developed the detailed TO-BE processes to suit the company's objectives
• Coordinated in setting up organization structure related to MM like Purchase organization and storage locations, assigned purchasing purchase organization to company codes and plants, assigned plants to company code
• Created end user documentation of the company's business processes using ASAP Business Processes Procedure (BPP) and relating it with a SAP reference model (First cut model)
• Configured the Material Master (material groups, material types, field selection groups) and Vendor Master (field status for vendor account groups, partner determination schema, account groups, partner functions)
• Maintained Material BOMs and Equipment BOMs with the help of PP consultants and core team members
• Configured automatic Purchase order processing by setting the Automatic PO Indicator in Vendor Master and Material Master
• Hands on experience in Procure to pay process right from Determination of requirements, Quotation maintenance, Vendor allocation, Processing PO, Goods Receipt and Invoice Verification to Payment
• Configured Consumption Based Planning of MRP based on past consumption values using Reorder point procedure
• Configured Release Procedure with Classification an approval process for Purchase Orders by creating Release group, Release code, Release Indicator and Release strategies and linked it with Workflow
• Managed material stock by quantity/value, goods issue, stock transfer posting
• Configured and utilized new movement types in Inventory Management by copying from the default movement types available in SAP R/3 and changing the control indicators according to the requirements
• Managed customer care teams to help configure and test the solution that was implemented
• Worked directly with the client personnel and end users to obtain specifications and feedback

Confidential

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for troubleshooting the issues in the system and providing support
• Responsible for the full implementation of a Greenfield implementation for the OTC work stream along with hands on technical delivery.
• Provided on-site support in RTC-Quotation to Purchase Requisition, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Invoice Verification, Subcontracting, Bill of Materials and Warehouse Management.
• Supported SAP Configuration in the area of MM master data, Request for Quotation, Purchase Order, Pricing Procedure/Condition Type Configuration, Account Determination, Goods Movement, WM Setup, Picking/Placement Strategy Configuration and Handling Unit Management.
• Provided support for RF transactions like goods receipt, picking and transfer order confirmation and goods issue.
• Supported Process Leads for smooth transition of new projects, defects and additional enhancements and the integration of MM/IM with other functional areas.
• Tracked Pending issues and updating to Project Manager with proper information
• Responsible for minor configuration changes (New Plants, Storage locations and Routes)
• Co-ordinated activity with business users for proper handshake of issues during user testing as well as during issue resolution.
• Prepared documentation for training for end-user, Assisted the project change management team.