SUMMARY

• 13+ years of experience in SAP application design, development, integration, testing and deployment in Agribusiness, Chemical, Consumer Products, and Manufacturing industries.
• 10+ years of experience designing and implementing SAP Master Data Solutions including 5+ years wif SAP Master Data Governance (MDG).
• Expertise in IDOC/ALE configuration, mapping, and monitoring/troubleshooting of different master data idocs like DEBMAS, CREMAS, MATMAS, GLMAST, COSMAS, and PRCMAS etc.
• Proficient in designing and preparing detailed functional specifications for MDG reports and enhancements.
• Expertise in analyzing and documenting business processes, performing Fit/Gap analysis and mapping the processes to SAP functionality.
• Expert knowledge of SAP value flows and integration points between SAP Master Data and transaction modules like SD, MM, PP and FICO.
• Experienced in ECC configuration related to master data objects like Customers, Vendors, Materials, GL Accounts, Cost Centers, and Profit Centers etc.
• Proficient in designing and configuring BRF+ workflows for MDG change requests.
• Proficient in developing and using LSMW objects for data migration and mass changes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP Master Data Governance (MDG 6.1, 7.0, 8.0), Data Quality Management (DQM), Information Steward (IS), Winshuttle, BRFPLUS, LSMW, ALE, IDOC, SOA Webservices, Finance & Controlling (FICO), Sales & Distribution (SD), and Materials Management (MM).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Senior SAP MDG Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirement gathering and blueprinting sessions. Developed detailed blueprints for MDG implementation.
• Responsible for design and configuration of end - to-end business process flows in SAP MDG for optimal performance, efficiency and scalability including system landscape design, various interfaces, and integration wif other SAP modules and enterprise systems.
• Designed processes and workflows for all domains to ensure adequate control, proper audit trail, data quality and consistency, faster data creation and facilitate collaboration across multiple instances.
• Imported all ECC configuration relevant for Customers and Vendors using BC Sets. Configuration included Organizational Units, Account Groups, Payment Terms, Accounting Clerks, Tolerances, Partner Determination, Tax Configuration, Material Groups, Customer Attributes, Industry Codes, Incoterms and Transportation Zones etc.
• Configured Business Partner including BP roles, BP Groupings, Number ranges and assignment,
• Activated business functions MDG FOUNDATION/2/3, MDG ERP CUSTOMER 1/2 and MDG ERP SUPPLIER 2
• Activated Business Partner (BP) data model.
• Setup Customer Vendor Integration (CVI) by activating creation of port processing orders, synchronization, defined BP roles and number assignments for both directions.
• Activated relevant Business Configuration (BC) sets to import predefined Customer and Vendor change request types.
• Configured business systems for key mapping.
• Created functional specifications for derivation and validation rules to ensure data consistency.
• Created change request types for Create, Update, Mass Update, Deletion, Block, and Account Group Change. Created Change Request statuses, reasons, rejection reasons, and priorities.
• Configured rule based workflows using BRF+ for all Change Request Types. Configured workflow steps, actions and configured properties of each step to make various fields status Hidden/Display/Editable/Required as per Business Rules.
• Configured workflow approval steps using security roles or an enhancement to use dynamic agent determination to route the workflow to correct approver.
• Configured replication models for Customer and Vendor. Configured outbound implementations, outbound parameters and target systems and assigned to replication models.
• Configured ALE setup for DEBMAS/CREMAS/ADRMAS type idocs for data replication from MDG Hub to MDG Client.
• Configured DQM and activated postal validation checks, duplicate checks and match code creation.
• Created initial match codes for all Customers, Vendors and Materials.
• Configured fields for duplicate search including Name, Street, City, Postal Code etc.
• Maintained supported countries, region code mapping, DQM exceptions, duplicate display field list and other required settings.
• Imported all ECC configuration relevant for Material Master using BC Sets. Configuration included Organizational Units, Material Types, MRP, BOM, Rounding Profiles, Product Hierarchy, Material Statuses, Storage Conditions, Costing Versions, Valuation Class, and Overhead Groups etc.
• Configured Business Partner including BP roles, BP Groupings, Number ranges and assignment,
• Activated business functions MDG FOUNDATION/2/3 and MDG MATERIAL 1/2/3.
• Activated Material (MM) data model.
• Activated relevant Business Configuration (BC) sets to import predefined Material change request types.
• Configured Enterprise search (Freeform, Fuzzy, and Complex) and Duplicate search for Materials.
• Configured business systems for key mapping.
• Maintained value mapping for several configuration objects like Plants, Transportation Zone, Region, Distribution Channel and Material Groups etc.
• Created functional specifications for derivation and validation rules to ensure data consistency.
• Created change request types for Create, Update, Mass Update, Deletion, and Blocking of Materials. Created Change Request statuses, reasons, rejection reasons, and priorities.
• Configured rule based workflows using BRF+ for all Change Request Types. Configured workflow steps, actions and configured properties of each step to make various fields status Hidden/Display/Editable/Required as per Business Rules.
• Configured workflow approval steps using security roles or an enhancement to use dynamic agent determination to route the workflow to correct approver.
• Configured replication models for Materials. Configured outbound implementations, outbound parameters and target systems and assigned to replication models.
• Configured ALE setup for MATMAS/CLFMAS idocs for data replication from MDG Hub to MDG Client by maintaining Logical Systems, Distribution Models and Partner Profiles etc.
• Imported all ECC configuration relevant for financial objects using BC Sets. Configuration included Organizational Units, Chart of Accounts, Global Parameters for Company Code, Controlling Area Settings, and Field Status Variants etc.
• Configured Business Partner including BP roles, BP Groupings, Number ranges and assignment,
• Activated business functions MDG FOUNDATION/2/3, MDG FINANCIALS 3 and FIN MDM ORG.
• Activated Financials (0G) data model.
• Activated relevant Business Configuration (BC) sets to import predefined Financials change request types and edition types.
• Created functional specifications for derivation and validation rules to ensure data consistency.
• Created editions for various financial objects like GL Account, Cost Center, Profit Center, Cost Elements and Chart of Accounts etc.
• Created change request types for Create, Update, Mass Update, Deletion, and Blocking of different objects like Accounts, Cost Elements, Cost Centers, and Profit Centers etc. Created Change Request statuses, reasons, rejection reasons, and priorities.
• Configured rule based workflows using BRF+ for all Change Request Types. Configured workflow steps, actions and configured properties of each step to make various fields status Hidden/Display/Editable/Required as per Business Rules.
• Configured workflow approval steps using security roles or an enhancement to use dynamic agent determination to route the workflow to correct approver.
• Configured replication models for Materials. Configured outbound implementations, outbound parameters and target systems and assigned to replication models.
• Configured ALE setup for GLMAST/COSMAS/COELEM/PRCMAS/COGRP1/COGRP2/COGRP6 idocs for data replication from MDG Hub to MDG Client by maintaining Logical Systems, Distribution Models and Partner Profiles etc.
• Report to compare master data in all domains (Customer, Vendor, Materials & Finance) between Hub and Client.
• Utility to send notification when a configuration object related to MDG governed object is created or updated in MDG Client.
• Enhancement to give a warning message when same value is created for a configuration object related to MDG governed object. dis ensures dat all objects remain consistent across multiple instances and reduce the need for value mapping.
• Enhancements to default values for various master data fields based on business rules.
• Enhancement to display the Client configuration values in Hub for objects using value mapping.
• Enhancement to add custom CIN screens in MDG UI and allow update of CIN related fields using MDG CRs for Customers and Vendors. dis is a country specific requirement for India.
• Dynamic agent determination to derive the correct Workflow approver based on business rules.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior SAP MDG Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted blueprinting workshops wif business process owners to define and document overall business scenarios and prepared detailed Business Blueprint.
• Responsible for design and configuration of end-to-end business process flows including system landscape design, various interfaces, and integration wif other SAP modules and enterprise systems.
• Imported all ECC configuration relevant for Customers and Vendors using BC Sets. The configuration from MDG Client was cleaned up to remove redundant entries before loading in Hub.
• Helped business users in performing detailed data profiling and data quality assessment for all Customers and Vendors using Information Steward.
• Helped business users in developing and executing strategy to cleanse and segregate master data for migration to MDG Hub.
• Activated relevant business functions, BC Sets and Business Partner (BP) data model.
• Configured Business Partner and Setup Customer Vendor Integration (CVI) for MDG.
• Created change request types for Create, Update, Mass Update, Deletion, and Block. Created Change Request statuses, reasons, rejection reasons, and priorities.
• Configured rule based workflows using BRF+ for all Change Request Types. Created custom Change Request actions to route the Change Request to relevant approvers.
• Created Self-Approving change requests for updating non-critical fields. These CRs are approved by the requester themselves.
• Created Customer change requests dat required special approvals to make changes when master data freeze was in place. During the freeze period, no changes could be made using normal Change Requests.
• Configured replication models for Customer and Vendor. Configured outbound implementations, outbound parameters and target systems and assigned to replication models.
• Created a separate replication model for mass processing of Customers and Vendors. dis replication model used DEBMAS/CREMAS wif a different logical system and message function to allow batch processing for large volumes.
• Configured ALE setup for DEBMAS/CREMAS/ADRMAS type idocs for data replication from MDG Hub to MDG Client.
• Configured serialization of master data idocs to ensure dat ADRMAS always processed before DEBMAS. dis was required as transportation zone was a required field on most Customer Account Groups.
• Created LSMW and performed data migration for Vendors. Assisted BODS team in migration of Customers by monitoring and resolving idoc errors.
• Performed detailed comparison and correction of all migrated data to ensure data quality.
• Played a pivotal role in developing system landscape, transport strategy, test strategy, data management and cutover plans. Developed post-implementation go-live support environments and constructed the transition plan from the project team to support team.
• Report to compare master data for Customer and Vendors between Hub and Client.
• Designed an enhancement to modify Rev-Trac, a transport management utility to automatically distribute all MDG relevant configuration from MDG Client to MDG Hub.
• Enhancements to default values for various master data fields such as Sales District/Office/Group, Payment Terms, and Reconciliation Accounts etc. based on business rules.
• Complex enhancement to determine the Approver based on various Customer characteristics such as Sales Area, Customer Group, Material Group, and Partner Function etc.
• Utility to send notifications to Requesters if the Change Request TEMPhas not been completed wifin specified time period.
• Utility to automatically close Change Request and rollback data from staging tables.
• Enhancements to create custom entities and custom fields and add them to Data Model, MDG UI, Master Data Idocs and ECC Screens etc.
• Custom Master Data Audit Report for master data changes based on various criteria such as Date, User, Table and Field etc.
• Create a follow-on Change Request using data from Original Change request. These requests were used for follow-up steps required from Business after the Customers were created.

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

SAP Master Data Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Migrated iTunes customers from iTunes system and vendors from central SAP system to new SAP RMCA system.
• Designed and created detailed functional specifications for automated Vendor management solution for creation and update of iTunes Vendors from iTunes frontend to backend SAP systems.
• Managed complete lifecycle including design, development, integration testing, cutover, and post go-live support for above Vendor Automation Project.
• Prior to Vendor automation project, Vendor data was manually downloaded from iTunes Connect, Validated, Scrubbed and loaded in SAP. dis process had a turnaround time of 2 weeks thereby delaying Sales processing. After dis project, Vendors could be created in SAP wifin 1 hour wif high degree of accuracy due to various real-time validations for address check, duplicate check, bank and tax validations etc.
• Created functional specifications for new interface to third party bank master data provider Acccuity.
• Designed and created functional specifications for Vendor Audit Report to perform detailed check for vendors created or updated wifin a specific date range. Checks included payment methods, partner bank type, expected company code & currency relationship, and non-permitted characters in name and address fields.
• Designed and created functional specifications for Vendor Change report dat gives all changes made to selected vendors based on different search criteria such as Vendor Number, Vendor Account Group, Search Term, User Name and Date Range.
• Designed a Vendor Master process to enable Vendor Royalty Payments to specific bank accounts based on royalty currency. dis was achieved by enhancing LFA1 structure to map royalty currencies to partner bank type.
• Supported various enhancements to Vendor Automation Program during global rollouts of iTunes stores wif the introduction of new currencies, additional country specific validations

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP Master Data Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for migration of legacy Customers, Vendors and Materials during new SAP implementation.
• Identified the different stakeholders and business process owners for all master data domains.
• Conducted blue printing workshops to gather business requirements and prepared detailed design documents.
• Created detailed mapping documents to map legacy fields to SAP. Developed business rules for enrichment and derivation of SAP required fields dat are not normally available in legacy systems.
• Worked wif Business Process Owners to identify the sources of all Master Data and developed a strategy to extract the data.
• Worked wif Business Process Owners to perform detailed data profiling and define strategy and rules for cleansing and harmonizing the legacy data.
• Developed taxonomies for naming of all critical master data attributes across all domains.
• Customized existing data load utilities as per the Client requirements to facilitate data migration.
• Developed detailed integration test plans and ensured all Master Data was migrated as per schedule and made available for various testing phases.
• Developed training plans for Master Data users and created detailed training documents.

Confidential, Denver, CO

SAP Master Data Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for migration of legacy Customers, Vendors, Materials and Financial master data during new SAP implementation.
• Conducted blue printing workshops to gather business requirements and prepared detailed design documents.
• Worked wif Accountants to design the Chart of Accounts and GL Account structure. dis structure was developed based on SAP best practices and used to migrate legacy GL Accounts to SAP.
• Worked wif business users to understand the financial reporting structure and developed a comprehensive design for cost center and profit center hierarchy to report by line of business. Alternate hierarchies were designed to facilitate Plant level reporting.
• Worked wif functional resources form different domains to map the legacy fields to SAP.
• Designed and created detailed functional specifications for utilities to load Customers, Vendors and Materials. These utilities were used by different functional teams for data migration.
• Worked wif Business Process Owners to perform detailed data profiling and data cleansing.
• Developed detailed integration test plans, training plans and created detailed training documents.