SUMMARY:

• Certified SAP consultant with over 13+ years of experience and expertise in multiple Full Life Cycle Implementations, Roll Out, Production Support, Enhancements and Integration projects related to SAP Material Management, Warehouse Management and Logistics Execution.
• Project implementation skills include Requirements gathering, AS - IS and TO-BE documentation, Functional and Technical specifications, Data Migration, Customization, Configuration and SAP Best practice methodologies across diverse manufacturing industries and Distribution centers.
• Experience in working with clients from different industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Oil and Gas.
• Strong experience in configuration of enterprise structure in MM and special scenarios in Procure to Pay (P2P), Sub Contracting, STO, Consignment Stocks, Scheduling Agreements, Pricing, etc.
• Expertise in writing Test cases, Test Scenarios/Scripts for Unit, Integration, Regression tests.
• Participated in the entire lifecycle of ASAP Methodology - Scope of project, Project Preparation, Blue Printing, Realization, Final Preparation, Testing Phases, Go-Live and Support.
• Conducting workshops for gathering business process information for a BPML (Business Process Master List), BPPs (Business Process Procedures), process mapping, reviewing BRD (Business Requirement Documents), writing functional specifications, process design, and preparing the Business Blueprint.
• Material Management: Experience in configuring Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Order, Purchase Requisition, RFQ, and Quotation, Release procedures, source list, availability check and CBP/MRP configuration.
• Expertise in MM areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management, Manufacturer Part Number Functionality, Subcontracting, Consignment, Third Party, GR, GI, Transfer Posting, Reservations, Vendor Invoice Verification, Vendor Invoice Management.
• Experience in MM functionalities such as Inter and Intra Stock Transport Orders (STO), Subcontracting, Vendor Consignment, Consumption based planning, Contracts and Scheduling Agreements.
• Expertise in Inventory Management such as configuring Movement types, Physical Inventory, goods movements, goods issue, transfer posting, stock transfer, stock transport order, goods receipt.
• Warehouse Management: Configuring Enterprise Structure, Good Experience in Mobile data entry, Stock management, Picking and Put-away strategies, Storage unit management, Handling Unit Management, Mobile data entry, RF Integration, Internal warehouse process, Cycle Counting, Inbound and Outbound deliveries.
• Knowledge in data management, specifically data migration and conceptual design for master data transfer in IM/WM modules from legacy system to SAP & validation of data integrity and good experience in working with LSMW and also Prepare Functional Specs for RICEFs.
• Knowledge of SAP ABAP technical tools/ RICEF W objects: Debugging skills, SAP Query, User Exit, BAPI, BADI, Workflow, Enhancements, Forms, Reports, and Interfaces.
• Worked with IDOCS and EDI process and implementation of SAP notes.
• Worked on Logistics Invoice verification - Data entry, creation and posting of Invoice, setting up of tolerance limits, blocking, unblocking and release of blocked invoices. Customization of taxes and discounts.
• Good experience working for upgradation and global roll out projects of SAP R/3 System
• Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for up gradation / new implementation / integration, import of data from any other external system to SAP.
• Worked on integration between ARIBA and SAP for indirect purchase process.
• Integrated all the Procure to Pay, SCM, Vendor Collaboration ARIBA and SRM for new entity ensuring no disruption to existing product supply.
• Involved in EDI interfaces for inventory activities related to Purchasing and Inventory Management between the SAP and Non- SAP systems (ARIBA).
• Expertise in integration of SAP MM with WM, PP, FICO and SD modules.
• Involved and led projects, which were implemented through different methodologies like ASAP, Waterfall and D2P.
• Worked on SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0 and their functional integration testing, E2E testing, and coordinated with Basis and Performance teams for system sanity check.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Packages: SAP S/4 HANA,SAP ECC 6.0,5.0, SAP R/3 4.7, 4.6C, 4.6B

Specialization: SAP R/3 - MM/SCM/PP/SD/WM/LE.

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/NT, MS-DOS, Sun Solaris-UNIX

Databases: Oracle, MS Access, SQL server 2000

Languages: C++, SQL, MINITAB, MATLAB, LINDO,LINGO, MathCAD, SAS

Productivity Tools: MS-Office, MS Visio

Webpage Development: XML, HTML, MS Front Page

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, OH

Sr.SAP MM/WM/LE Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted discussions with core business team for gathering of requirements and business process for Blueprint workshop
• Prepared project documentation of process design, business blueprint, configuration documents, functional specifications, test scripts, data migration templates
• Designed Functional specifications for Reports, Forms, Interfaces and Enhancements and configured SAP for end to end Procure to pay business processes
• Set up the organizational structure and global settings for the MM/P2P/LE module using IMG
• Prepared master data templates for various objects like material master, vendor master, Info-records, source list, purchase order.
• 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 ) as per Client requirements
• 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
• Configured Delivery Tolerances for materials received from the vendors
• Set up SAP WM configuration for the new warehouse structure using automatic placement and picking strategies
• Defined warehouse number, shipping point & assigned warehouse to storage location, shipping point to plant, transfer types, and movement types
• 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)
• Worked on interim storage areas to handle goods receipt and goods issue activities
• Configured and tested WM interfaces with MM, IM, PP, and QM modules
• Created test Scenario and performed unit and integration testing
• Provided end user training and documentation of user manuals, training material

Confidential, IN

Sr.SAP MM/WM/LE Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full life cycle implementation of MM/ WM and also closely associated PP module
• Involved in a part of multi-discipline team with responsibilities of gathering and analysis of business requirements, presentation of the To-Be process to the steering committee for approval, determining potential gaps in the system, design and documentation of new business processes
• Understanding the Business process flow implemented by DSM Engineering Plastics
• Involved in supporting level 2 Logistics Execution business process concepts including Materials Management, Inventory Management, Quality Management and Production Planning working on finalizing Knowledge Acquisition Plan for SAP LE module, arranging and attending KT sessions with incumbents and managing cross-functional project teams and foster team commitment to tasks
• Configured IMG settings and mapped into SAP R/3 Material Management and Warehouse Management to meet the organizational structure for the Client's specifications and its business processes
• Configured Plant, Storage Locations, Purchase Organizations and Purchase groups and assigned the Plant, Storage Location to the Company Code
• Configured the various Purchasing activities including PO processing, Purchase Requisitions, Info Records, Release Procedures and maintained pricing conditions
• Defined partner schemas and assigned them to Account Groups
• Configured Material Master Data to allow check for Shelf Life Expiration Date (SLED)
• Configured Inventory Management Parameters for all different kinds of Goods movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, GR for blocked stock and Goods returns
• Configured Warehouse Management settings with various Storage Types, Storage Sections, Storage Bins and Quant
• Configured the Warehouse Management Material flow strategies like the put away and picking strategies
• Configured creations of Storage locations automatically for different movement types with Goods issue/Transfer posting and Goods receipt
• Analyzed the implementation of RF devices for specific warehouses
• Customized Radio Frequency Queue Management, Verification Profiles Data and Barcodes for SAP Console
• Interacted actively with SD, PP and FICO teams for Unit and Integration testing of the system
• Developed the functional specs and provided report specifications with user requirement and control data for repetitive manufacturing profile to the ABAP programmers
• Demonstrated various MM/ WM transactions and business scenarios for the users as a part of end user training
• Provided post Go Live system support

Confidential, Lancaster, PA

SAP MM/WM/LE Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported Full Life Cycle Implementation in MM and WM.
• Developed Business Blue Prints for Enhancements and identified gaps and suggested development work in SAP to overcome the gaps.
• Involved in understanding the legacy system with the NTT team to generate the required rules for the Conversion design document. Worked with Extraction, Transformation and Load Functionality (ETL) team and Back office (BOA) team for completion of Open- PO and Open- GR conversion.
• Defined Plant, warehouse number, shipping point & assigned warehouse to storage location, shipping point to plant, transfer types, and movement types
• Configured, Customized and updated Master data: Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, Partner Functions, Source Lists, Routings, and Work Centers and MRP views, Inventory Management.
• Utilized, established and configured full procurement functionality from Automatic PR creation to invoice verification, including PR/PO cycle, stock transports, Source determination, scheduling agreements, contracts, request for quotes, pricing schemas, shipping notifications for all stock categories and special stocks like consignment, third party, and sub-contracting.
• Customized settings for automatic determination of GL accounts and mapping valuation classes to GL accounts.
• Configured IDOC setup for Purchase Order outputs, Order Confirmations.
• Configured the Physical inventory settings for cycle counting.
• Configured and customized WM structure by defining Storage types, Storage sections, Bins, Quant.
• Defined movement types for WM and interfaced them with IM movement types using special movement indicators.
• Configured and implemented Batch Management with classification by defining class, class type, and characteristics for selected drug materials.
• Configured put-away and picking strategies like LIFO and FIFO with automatic generation of Transfer Requests and Transfer Orders.
• Estimation and development of various ABAP change requests across various modules of SAP.
• Used ABAP Proxies and adapters like JDBC, SOAP and File.
• Developed ABAP reports and Classes for development of various interfaces.
• Worked on HUM (Handling unit management) and SUM (Storage unit management).
• Implemented zero stock check on bin during stock removal process for continuous physical Inventory
• Worked on Mobile Data Entry by creating and customizing the RF menu as per the warehouse operation procedure and made it user friendly as per Business Process.
• Conducted Unit and Integration testing.
• Worked on Print Workbench. Worked extensively in Smart forms & Adobe Forms and ABAP reports.
• Extensive experience in ABAP development, with both custom development and customizations to existing processes, including use of IDOCs, RFC, BAPI, BADI ALV, LSMW, ABAP Workbench, Data Dictionary, Reports, BDC, SAP Forms and SAP Scripts.
• Performed cutover activities in both MM and WM sections. Involved in designing the induction process of initial stock upload in both Inventory management and warehouse management.
• Worked on the migration of master and transaction data from legacy system to SAP.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP MM/WM/LE Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Support full life cycle implementation in MM and WM, configuring warehouse structure, placement and picking strategies, WM reporting and shipping.
• Developed Business Blue Prints for Enhancements and identified gaps and suggested development work in SAP to overcome the gaps.
• Gap Analysis of Materials Management Module and Warehouse Management Module.
• Defined plants, purchase organization and storage locations, assigned them to company code.
• Configured and customized and updated Master data: Material Master, Vendor Master, Customer master, Info Records, Partner Functions, Source Lists, Routings.
• Utilized, established and configured full procurement functionality from Automatic PR creation to invoice verification, including PR/PO cycle, stock transports, Source determination, scheduling agreements, contracts, request for quotes, pricing schemas, shipping notifications for all stock categories and special stocks like consignment, third party, and sub-contracting.
• Customized messages for PR, PO, RFQ, Contracts, scheduling agreement.
• Configured the Physical inventory settings for cycle counting.
• Carried out Physical Inventory in the warehouse and the shop floor.
• Configured and customized WM structure by defining Storage types, Storage sections, Bins, Quant.
• Defined movement types for WM and interfaced them with IM movement types using special movement indicators.
• Processed materials with Shelf Life Expiration Date (SLED) and Serialization in the WM system.
• Configured put-away and picking strategies like LIFO and FIFO with automatic generation of Transfer Requests and Transfer Orders.
• Configured master data for Storage Unit Management.
• Worked with Handling Unit Management (HUM) to reflect packing based logistics structure.
• Defined Control parameters for packing and handling unit. Worked with different attributes that define handling unit object.
• Worked with RF device to carry various activities like receiving, cross docking, put away, picking and shipping activities.
• Written functional specifications for RF device for various warehouse activities like inbound & outbound deliveries, pick & pack, internal movement types, manufacturing process, stock management and for RF local menu.
• Designed and configured shipping parameters for warehouse like Specifying picking locations, and processing outbound deliveries through shipping points.
• Configured RF Menu Management, screen management for Mobile data Entry.
• Defined various shipping conditions and loading groups and assigned goods receiving points for inbound and outbound deliveries.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, PA

SAP MM/PM/WM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements, studied the AS-IS Business Process submitted a solution design involving the TO-BE Business flows, documenting the operating procedures and performed gap Analysis between AS-IS and TO-BE Process in the production environment
• Assisted in defining project scope for the company and plant implementation of SAP MM module with full life-cycle implementation using ASAP methodology
• Analyzed the Business processes, mapped the processes and prepared templates in the material management module for SAP R/3 implementation
• Configured the Materials Management module such as defining Material Master Data, Purchasing, Inventory Management
• Configured Material Types, Material groups as per the requirements of the Client
• Configured Purchasing component of MM module by creating Purchasing groups, Source Lists, Purchasing Info Records
• Defined Purchase Organization and Storage locations, Assigned Purchase Organization to company code, Plant to company code
• Configured Vendor Master, Item categories, and Account assignment for PO, Purchase Requisition and Defined Quota Arrangement Usage
• Configured Messages, Item categories, Account assignment categories, access sequences for Stock Transport Orders
• Defined price determination process, defined custom condition types for freight burden etc
• Configured Release Procedure for purchase requisition and purchase order
• Configured Movement types, GR, GI, Transfer posting in Inventory Management component of MM module
• Created Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Scheduling Agreements, Contract Agreements and Quotations
• Worked on Source lists, quota arrangement, Info Records for Standard, Consignment and sub-contracting.
• Worked on MIGO transactions for Good receipt (GR)/ Goods issue (GI) for purchase orders
• Configured Organization Structure for a Warehouse such as: Setting Up various Storage Types, Automatic and Manual Storage Bin Creation
• Prepared functional specifications, interfaces, custom reports based on user requirements and coordinated with ABAP Programmers
• Carried out Unit Testing and Integration Testing with all possible Business scenarios to ensure minimum problems after Go-Live
• Prepared user manuals and documentation according to clients standards
• Did analysis of post go-live support depending upon number of issues logged with help desk, their significance and scope of continuous improvement of the project

Confidential, Natick, MA

SAP MM P2P IM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full cycle implementation of MM 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
• Inventory Management: 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, Benton Harbor, MI

SAP MM/WM/LE Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted discussions with core business team for gathering of requirements and business process for Blueprint workshop
• Set up the organizational structure and global settings for the MM/WM module using IMG
• Prepared questionnaires and involved in interacting with core team members and users
• Configured Material Types, and changed the field status of the material master records as per Client requirements
• Defined number ranges, and Release procedure for purchase requisitions, and purchase orders
• Documented, configured, and worked on Subcontracting, and Pipeline special stocks
• Configured Delivery Tolerances for materials received from the vendors
• Set up SAP WM configuration for the new warehouse structure using automatic placement and picking strategies
• Defined warehouse number, shipping point & assigned warehouse to storage location, shipping point to plant, transfer types, and movement types
• 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
• Configured and tested WM interfaces with MM, SD, and QM modules
• Created test Scenario and performed unit and integration testing
• Provided training in SAP to end-users as required
• Provided production support in SAP

Confidential, WI

SAP MM WM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in User requirements gathering & Business Blueprint Preparation
• Interacted with cross-functional team members, participated and was involved in transferring information into the master data for materials
• Mapped enterprise structure into SAP system, such as Company code, plants, Storage locations and purchase organizations as per the blue print
• Involved in configuration of the Materials Management module such as- Defining Material Master Data, Define Shipping instructions, Purchasing value key, Configured Material Types, Material Groups as per requirements of the Client
• Configured screen layouts, Data screens, sub-screens, Fields and Field selection groups for Material Master
• Define Terms of payment, Incotrms, Partner schema, Partner determination, Partner roles, permissible roles per account group, Partner settings and assign partner schema to account group for Vendor Master
• Involved in the Customization of Pricing Procedure Determination using Condition Technique
• Configured Purchasing Component of Materials Management module by creating Purchasing groups, Configure Purchasing Document Types and Account Assignment Categories and Define combination of Item Category/ Account Assignment Categories, Purchase Info Records, Purchase Order, and Source Lists
• Defined Release Procedures for purchasing documents.
• Wrote functional specifications for the Release Procedures of Purchase Orders and Purchase Requisitions
• Configured Inventory management component by defining Goods movements and Invoice Verification
• Worked on MIGO transactions for Goods receipt (GR)/Goods issue (GI) for purchase Conducted orders, sales order, stock transfer and STP