SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of experience as an SAP R/3 functional consultant, experienced in various facets of the Sales and Distribution (SD), Logistics Execution and Materials Management modules including Analysis, Design, Implementation, Customization, Development, Integration, Testing and Training of SAP R/3 (ECC 6.0,4.7, 4.6C, 4.6B, 4.0B).
• Completed 3 full life cycle implementations with conventional and ASAP methodology.
• Experience attained in various engagements, spanning from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups.
• Integral perspective of typical project challenges facing members of implementation teams due to diverse project roles, including: Senior Business Analyst, Testing Coordinator, Configuration Specialist. Creative, pro-active team player with strong ability to achieve quality results within business and technical teams.
• Experienced in configuring Master Data, Document Types (Sales Order Types, Delivery Documents, Billing Documents, Credit and debit memo, etc.) including special order types (Third Party Processing, Consignment Processing, Inter-company billing, Revenue management, Revenue Recognition and inter-company stock transfers), Availability Check, Credit Management, Material Listing/Exclusion, Rebate processing, Deliveries, Picking, Packing and Shipping.
• Experienced with Customer Order Management (Order-To-Cash) and make-to-order business processes in manufacturing, Consumer products, and food industry.
• Experience in the configuration of basic functions including partner determination, output determination, text determination, account determination, material substitution, and free goods determination
• Hands on Vistex expertise (transactional/composite) for charge backs, bill backs, sales incentives, customer rebates.
• Have knowledge in sap test acceleration & optimization (ATO).
• Experience working in SAP Materials Management (SAP MM) Components including Purchasing, Pricing: STO with & without SD Delivery and Billing, Consignment orders, Output determination, Messages, Reports, Credit/Debit Memos, etc.
• Worked extensively on multiple projects on Order Management Shipping, Warehouse Management and Transportation.
• Involved in S&OP reporting and configuration changes for warehouse and storage locations.
• SAP Technical expertise includes ABAP, BDC, ALE, EDI, IDoc, User exits, RFC, BAPI, BADI, and Data Dictionary Objects.
• Implemented various customer EDI transactions, multiple ALE transactions and, Processing routines and Message control configuration.
• Experience in Design, Configuration, Testing and Support in ALE, EDI, and IDoc interfaces with Legacy systems within the company and third party soft wares.
• Designed and developed Technical, Mapping Spec’s for various EDI transactions like EDI 850, 810.
• Experience in integration of SD with MM, WM and FI/CO modules.
• Functional analysis and specification writing experience Interfaces, Enhancements, Reports / Forms (FRICE Objects).
• Experience in integration with legacy systems and technical consultants for interface design.
• Documented several end user training manuals and imparted functional training to offshore and end-users at the client site using InfoPak tool.
• Worked with ASAP methodology and with SAP Solution Manager.
• Self-starter with drive, initiative and a positive attitude. Able to meet very stringent deadlines and always deliver results, even under pressure. Very keen and enthusiastic; constant desire to learn; genuine commitment to excel

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

• Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Modules: Sales & Distribution (SD), Materials Management / Purchasing (MM Logistics Execution (LE formerly shipping), Financials (FI/CO) and Warehouse Management (WM), PP (production planning) EDI. 
Most recent version: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 
SAP Reporting Tools: ABAP/4 Workbench, Logistics Information System, ABAP List Viewer, SAP Query, SAP Smart Forms 
Methodologies: ASAP (SAP) 
Project Utilities: MS Project, Access, Visio, Notes, Office XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, GA
SAP SD Techno-Functional Consultant Nov’11 Present

• Supporting ‘C’ Level Executive on material management, sales orders processing, credit block , mix shipment, billing blocks, free of charge delivery, credit management, route determination, availability check, user exit and the various parameter for SD and MM.
• Worked on various critical issues from OTC area, extensively worked on Idocs from OTC perspective
• Provided training, functional expertise, presentations, and trouble-shooting support on SAP SD products in a customer service environment; taught on-site classes as required.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GAFeb’11 Oct’11 
SAP SDLead Functional Consultant

• Lead Consultant of the OTC team which reevaluated the Order to Cash scenario in SD.
• Extensively worked on customer returns, Credit memo, Debit memo request, Free of charge delivery and Invoice correction request.
• Involved in designing process design documents and functional designs for pricing optimization.
• Involved in pricing Optimization Configuration like creation of various kinds of requirements and formulas to meet client demand. Worked on complex pricing procedures and configured condition tables with new custom fields to meet business requirement, access sequence. Worked extensively on Promotions, Sales deals and Rebates.
• Involved in developing various interfaces between SAP Pricing and Third party tool (Servigistics).
• Extensively involved in FI integration like Revenue account determination.
• Automated the system for efficient customer order management to a great extent by assigning and processing requisitions based on Info Records, and extensive use of scheduling agreements for all regular materials reducing the number of transactions.
• Worked with SAP ABAP team in developing RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms) list as per the client needs.
• Leadership role during all the three phases of System Testing; primary responsibilities included resource and task allocation and creating unique end to end scenarios for a comprehensive system testing in Mercury Quality Center.

Confidential,Westchester, PA Mar’10 Jan’11
SAP SD Lead Consultant

• Participated in implementation of the project including blue-printing, requirements gathering, configuration, enhancements, testing, knowledge transfer and Hyper care.
• Participated in writing Process design documents, functional specifications and flow charts as per client business process to understand technical team clearly.
• Extensively involved in Order to Cash implementation. Configured various Sales, delivery and billing document types as per the customer’s specific requirement.
• Involved in Pricing Configuration like creation of condition tables, access sequence, condition types as per the client requirement and adding fields to the field catalog by doing system modification. Extensively worked on rebates.
• Played a key role in developing a solution and business process design for stock transport orders using STO’s. Involved in Intercompany sales order processing and Intra company sales order processing.
• Globally configured the SAP billing module and integrated it with the Finance module to meet the business requirements. Worked on Revenue account determination.
• Gathered Vendor Master Data and Material Master Data requirements for Order Management Team. Extended Materials to Plants, various storage locations and their respective Sales Areas.
• Actively involved with SAP ABAP team in enhancing pricing routines as per Shell business requirements.
• Worked with ABAP team in developing ALE and Idoc configuration.
• Imparted functional knowledge with SAP ABAP team to develop Reports and Enhancements as per the client requirement.
• Responsible for creation of Batch program for data migration in Plant maintenance module, testing and documentation of data transfer.
• Extensively involved in all types of testing using Mercury Quality Center.

Confidential, Sidney, OH Jan’09 - Feb’10
SAP SD& LE Functional Consultant

• Participated in full life cycle implementation of the project.
• Extensively involved in business blue-printing, requirements gathering, gap analysis and AS-IS TO-BE business processes, configuration, enhancements, testing, knowledge transfer and Hyper care.
• Extensively involved in Order to Cash complete business process flow implementation.
• Configured various sales documents types like Standard order, Returns Order, Cash sales, Rush order, Credit Memo and Debit Memo. Delivery documents like Return delivery, Cash sales, Replenishment delivery and delivery without order reference and billing documents like Standard invoice, cash sales, credit memo and invoice list as per the customer’s specific requirement.
• Configured Incompletion Procedures, Copy Control, availability check (ATP), Delivery blocks and their status. Worked extensively on Logistics and Sales Information System.
• Globally configured the SAP billing module and integrated it with the Finance module to meet business requirements. Worked on Revenue account determination.
• Involved in Pricing Configuration like creation of condition tables, access sequence, condition types and pricing procedure to meet client business requirements. Extensively worked on Promotions, Sales deals and Rebates.
• Actively participated in Logistics Execution Configuration like lean warehouse management, shipping and Transportation. Actively involved in batch management.
• Played a key role in developing a solution and business process design for stock transport orders using STO’s. Involved in Intercompany sales order processing and Intra company sales order processing.
• Prepared functional specs for various new Sales Order and STO types to suit needs.
• Gathered Vendor Master Data and Material Master Data requirements for Order Management Team. Extended Materials to Plants, various storage locations and their respective Sales Areas.
• Worked closely with the business users to gather requirements as input for the creation of complex reports (Multiyear report, Zero Suppression report, Sales report etc.).
• Worked on various change requests and enhancements which involved using BAPI’s to create sales order (credits/debits) in SAP from the external system data which had files from US and Canada and also have strong knowledge in creating and monitoring batch jobs
• Configured various credits and debits memo requests for the corresponding billing types
• Extensively involved in all types of testing using Mercury Quality Center.

Confidential,Los Angeles, CA Nov’07 - Dec’08 
SAP SD Consultant

• Worked in full life cycle implementation. Conducted group workshops & one-on-one requirement gathering sessions with super users and management.
• Prepared a detailed document of AS-IS study and developed the detailed TO-BE processes to suit the company objectives.
• Worked as a primary consultant in implementing Order to Cash.
• Customized and implemented organization structure and sales areas as and when required by the management.
• Maintained price relevant master data in customer master record and material master record.
• Set up Separate prices for regular customers and dealers by defining different price groups.
• Configured the condition types, access sequence, and the pricing procedures, and worked with formulas for alternative calculation types.
• Configured custom sales, billing and delivery document types to suit the business requirements.
• Involved in Logistics Execution Configuration like warehouse management, shipping and Transportation activities. Configured delivery processing, picking, packing, shipping point determination and storage location determination.
• Configured Output determination procedure, text determination and partner determination.
• Configured change pointers on custom tables to send an IDOC from SAP to legacy system whenever data was changed in these custom tables.
• Loaded Master Data (Customer Master Records/Material Master Records) from Legacy system into SAP by using LSMW.
• Involved in unit testing, Integration testing, regression testing and User acceptance testing by using Mercury quality center and U perform. Prepared test scripts and user manuals.

Confidential,Chennai, India Oct’05 - Sept’07
SAP SD Consultant

• Responsible for 24X7 production support. Worked as an onsite coordinator. Responsible for conducting WMR (Weekly Meeting Reviews) with offshore team to check the status of existing tickets.
• Worked on various critical issues from Order to Cash and Logistics Execution area.
• Extensively worked on Idocs from Order to Cash perspective.
• Provided training, functional expertise, presentations, and trouble-shooting support on SAP SD and CRM products in a customer service environment; taught on-site classes as required.
• Trained in managing off-shored large scale call-center operations and processes such as Activations, Customer Service, Billing, Training, Sales and Retention for a telecommunications company.
• Assisted in redesigning the Change Management Process and the training material for performance improvement resulting in annual savings of $ 38 million from reduced call time.
• Devoted 30-35 hrs in a month on evaluating calls on quality parameters and providing escalation support.

Confidential, Chennai, India July’03 - Aug’05 
SAP SD Business Analyst

• Documented the organizational architecture and made a blue-print of business processes within each department of the manufacturing plant to prepare a base document for building the ERP system.
• Acted as knowledge source and process consultant during the deployment of SAP full suite for integrating data exchange amongst Marketing & Sales, Production, Warehouse and Logistics departments.
• Created Excel-based ‘purchase planning’ modeling chart for Merchandising department and ‘material-in-stock’ modeling chart for Warehouse which enabled raising 100% accurate bill-of-material and reduced material wastage significantly.
• Established Design Studio with Executive Management in a manufacturing environment and introduced discriminatory pricing strategy which added significant value straight to the bottom-line on each successful order.
• Explored ways to lower the cost of transforming business data into information. To help achieve a cost effective reporting process, I suggested the following:
• Save money by reducing the cost of creating and supporting custom reports.
• Minimize the number of information structures and queries that must be maintained (Reuse reports whenever possible).
• Worked as Jr. Consultant in the Production Support team for about a year.