SUMMARY:

• Confidential possess 8 years of overall work experience including 4.5 years in SAP ERP consulting and over 3.5 years in Software Engineering.
• He has achieved rapid career progression from a graduate hire to working as an expert in SAP Materials Management.
• He has worked on multiple SAP global assignments across geographies in US, China, Singapore and European regions and possess rich experience in Planning and Procurement area.
• Predominantly handled C&IP (Consumer & Industry Process) clients and well exposed to wholesale and distribution industry.
• Presently, he is working with Confidential - SAP service line and is part of one of the aggressive project and handling SAP MM, Planning in an implementation assignment. Conducting workshops ensuring successful execution of blueprinting phase with 100% customer satisfaction alongside managing off shore team.
• By establishing quality standards and good rapport with client from offshore he is able to prove successful onsite off shore model for doing more critical work.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAP Functional Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Client interfacing with business and core team to understand and map business processes as a part of the Business Blue printing phase
• Identify the development objects for client's business process to address the gaps identified in gap analysis
• Create Configuration Document & complete SAP configuration as per requirements
• Create Functional Specification & work with development team to develop requirements
• Develop testing strategy with the client, Project team members & create test scripts for Unit test & Integration Testing cycle
• Develop a cutover plan as per Final Preparation phase & complete the cutover activities during cutover
• Train the core team members/Client center of Excellence team in resolving issues after Project go live
• While being onsite, manage offshore team for deliverables

Confidential

Functional Team Lead/Sr. consultant

Responsibilities:

• Role encompass understanding client's business requirement, map it to SAP Business process. Close the identified gaps and provide the best-fit solutions
• System configuration around: Organization structure, pricing procedure, PR and PO release procedure, developed custom PR approval FIORI app
• Designed & implemented complex custom solution for buyout (trading products) with tight integration with sales module. Solution is currently live in APAC region yielding successful results
• Design and document functional specification documents for WRICEF objects, coordinate development efforts with the dev team and test the objects
• Work closely with development and Sales & Distribution team to achieve MM-SD integration and design solution for buyout business process
• Onsite role in Singapore for UAT, integration test cycles, Go-Live and hyper care support

Confidential

Procurement Team Lead & Cutover Lead

Responsibilities:

• Configured the system for MM and LE configuration (Plant, Sloc, POrg, Pricing Procedures, Output Conditions, account assignment & item category) as per the roll out template
• As a cutover lead: designed and executed the cutover plan for the entire roll-out, hosted the cutover, hyper care, defect status meeting
• Data Activities for Procurement master data: material & vendor master data and contract, output conditions, data cleansing, preparation of load files, assisting business with pre and post load validation
• Worked closely with OTC team to achieve OTC-MM integration
• Presented Procurement demo for Sprint 1 and Sprint 2 of the system to the business
• Driving Procurement change impacts from identification to closure
• Successfully went live in 11 weeks using the Hybrid Agile Delivery model

Confidential

Onsite Procurement Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed complex interface for integration with agricultural software, automating the entire procurement process and streamlining the business processes from planning, procurement and receiving departments. Coordinating the efforts with the development team to complete the interface development, testing, and delivering it as a critical go- live component.
• Worked on the Procurement Business Readiness: contributing towards change Impact area, performing vendor communications, driving change impacts from identification to closure
• Assisted data team in the data collection activities, pre and post load validations for contracts, vendor and material master
• Worked as a Cut-over lead to accomplish all the cut-over task in co-ordination with client and other cross functional teams
• Worked as Defect Co-ordinator to resolve the defects and report the daily status in co-ordination with core development team
• Performed end user process and Post Go-live hyper care support including, KT sessions to the AMS team
• Worked closely with LE team for MM-LE Integration areas
• Completed documentation of the Quick Referency Guides, Test Scripts

Confidential

Onsite Procurement Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the PTP team for Design lock down sessions for China/Thailand/Korea/Singapore/Hong-Kong Roll outs
• Worked as a Cut-over lead to accomplish all the cut-over task in co-ordination with client and other cross functional teams
• Worked as Defect Co-ordinator to resolve the defects and report the daily status in co-ordination with core development team
• Role encompassed understanding client's business requirement (Pricing Records/Output Condition Record/Source List/Contracts/PR/PIR/PO/STO), map it to the Global template. Close the identified gaps and provide the prototyping of solutions.
• Worked closely with FI and LE team to achieve FI-MM and MM-LE Integration.

Confidential

MM consultant

Responsibilities:

• End-to-End SAP Implementation experience as a sole Procuement (MM) Consultant in the project. Role encompassed understanding client's business requirement, map it to SAP Business process. Close the identified gaps and provide the best-fit solutions.
• Project related-MM Tasks: Vendor Master Conversion, Purchase Requisition, Custom PR Release Procedure, PO, Custom PO-Form, Goods Receipt, Invoice Processing.
• Worked closely with FI and HR team to achieve FI-MM and HR-MM Integration.
• Independently worked in MM Sphere through project phases of Realization, FUT, Integration cyclce 1 and 2.
• Document Test Scripts for Testing cycles, and maintain track of Gaps/Defects in the sharepoint website.
• Won 2 Spot s for the performance in the project

Confidential

MM consultant

Responsibilities:

• Independently worked on SAP-Quality Management module to understand client's business requirement during the workshops and design the Aris flow for the same. Close the identified gaps related to QM domain.
• Project related-QM Tasks: Quality Inspection Plan, Quality Info Records, Master Inspection Characteristics, Codes and Code Groups.
• QM Knowledge on Notifications, s, Inspection with use of Dynamic modification Rules, Procurement integration with QM.
• Participated proactively in the procurement and warehouse management related workshops.
• Identified solutions from SAP to close Gaps/requirements gathered during procurement workshops: Procurment/Receiving/Purchasing types/Contracts and Agreements
• Update the Aris flows for the workshops conducted as per the requirments gathered during workshops.
• Prepared the decks for blue-printing phase for Supply Chain Management related processes.
• Prototyping of the scenarios related to warehouse management(WM)/inventory management(IM) cycles.
• Prototyping of FI related pricing scenario to adjust warehouse overhead cost.
• Document Gaps in the sharepoint website.
• Direct client interfacing during the workshops to gather requirements

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experience in software development of mobile-multimedia applications and testing of telecom VAS applications. Client: Packet Video, USA and Comverse, Israel.
• Hands on experience of performing onsite coordinator in Integration and Testing projects that involved use of extensive, direct client interfacing, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Independently handled and managed the entire project from initiation to delivery.
• Established sound knowledge with business through onsite exposure for project deliveries with for Orange Telecom- Madrid, Spain, Portugal Telecom-Lisbon and TMN-Porto, Portugal.
• Achieved maximum customer satisfaction rate with FTR (first time right) project deliveries
• Facilitated the team with my Japanese language skills, by understanding requirements from a Japanese document and transferring knowledge to the team