SUMMARY

• Deliver with profound process knowledge with a support in assessing, organizing, improving, implementing & managing the business processes.
• Fine tune the current procurement process to the best industry standards as SAP MM IM WM consultant.
• Optimize the procurement process by retiring most of the legacy systems interfaces for sourcing such as Lognet and quotation approval process within the procurement.
• Have Working Experience in the diverse industries: Manufacturing, Chemical, Pharma and Trading.
• Have Working Experience in Multiple Implementation, Roll out, Upgrade and Global Production support projects.
• Excellent working experience in the integration with SAP Sales & Distribution (SD), Warehouse Management (WM), Production Planning (PP) and Finance & Controlling (FICO) modules.
• Good experience in performing data loads through LSMW with Batch input recording method.
• Defining the Project Scope - Articulating the specific work to be done for the project.
• Project Time - Setting the finish date of the project as well as any interim deadlines for phases, milestones, and deliverables.
• Projecting the Project Cost - Calculating and tracking the project costs and budget.
• Strong working experience in Functional specification design for Critical Business requirements in the areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management & in the area of Logistics Execution.
• Sound Customization working experience in various areas of IMG activities including Organization structures and process flows in Materials Management, Logistics General, Sales and Distribution, Handling Unit Management and Logistics Execution (Shipping, WM and Radio Frequency).
• Good working experience in LE reports for Warehouse management, RF screens development, Handling Unit Management, Batch Management and Mobile Data Entry (Radio Frequency) with Mobi interface (3rd party system).
• Strong experience in Handling unit management (HUM) configuration with problem solving solutions.
• MM: Master Data such as Material master, Vendor Master, Purchasing Info records, Configuration of complete Purchasing process such as PR, PO, SA, Quotation document types, Number ranges, etc. within complete Purchase Account Management, Consignment & Pipeline Processes, Configuration of Inventory Management including creation of new movement types, Automatic account determination process, Logistics Invoice Verification, Physical Inventory process, Batch Management, Pricing Procedure configuration, Consumption Based Planning, Quota Arrangement process, Stock Transfers & Transfer postings, Configuration Setup of Stock Transport Orders for both Intra Company (Within same Company code) & also Inter Company with delivery & billing (Between different company codes), Integration of Handling Unit Management with Inventory Management and having rich expertise with the integration of different modules like WM, SD, PP & FICO.
• 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 EDI Setup for Inbound (Advanced Shipping Notification) IDoc, Vendor Inbound Invoice & Outbound IDoc from SAP to DNS System. (External 3rd Party system through Gentrann Server).
• Proficient in creating ABAP Query reports for small to medium functional reports.
• Good understanding in reading the ABAP code and fixing minor bugs for quicker resolution of critical break-fix issues.
• WM: Master Data like Storage Bin Structure mapping for creation of Automatic Bins, Put away and Picking strategies, Configuration of new storage types, Printer controls for both Pick and Put away tickets, RF queue management, Kanban replenishment, Auto TO creation, Two Step TO confirmation, stock transfers, warehouse movements, physical inventory, Mobile data entry, RF transactions, integration with HUM.
• SD/LE: Defining Delivery process, Delivery Types, Delivery Documents, Shipping point determination, Route Determination, defining the shipping conditions and Loading groups and Interfacing with WM.
• PP: Master Data, Process orders & Production orders, MRP areas, MRP types, etc.
• QM: Configuration of new Inspection types, Master Inspection Characteristics, etc.
• GTM: Configure new TC document types for both Sales and Purchase Pre-TC and Call-Off TCs, Incompletion procedures, etc.,
• Strong experience in coordination of Onsite and off shore working environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Growmark’s SAP Implementation Project - Spark as Sr. SAP MM Consultant with EDI. As a part of Release1, Wave 1&2, Release 2 (R1W1 &R1W2 and R2) phase of the spark project which is being implemented by SAP Americas Inc. My responsibilities include -
• Involved in Requirements gathering for Release 3 (Crop Protection and Seed Businesses.)
• Very good working experience in handling complete end to end design, analysis, develop and mapping of Vendor Inbound Invoice through EDI 810.
• Handling EDI to IDoc in Process Orchestration (PO) and IDoc to Vendor Inbound Invoice processing through Open text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM).
• Involved in the Cut over strategy planning process, Data Migration for master data loads such as Vendor Master, Purchase Info Records (PIR), Source lists and transactional data such as Open Trading Contracts (TC).
• Handling P2P cutover activities in Pre-Production and Production systems to make ready during the cutover weekend before Go-Live.
• Involved in implementing EDI PO Invoicing and Non-PO Invoicing processes through Open text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM).
• Creation of ABAP Queries for the data validation of Vendor master records compared to the legacy system OMNI queries and also for small to medium reports.
• Involved in the Functional Unit Testings’ (String test 1&2) and Integration Testing with Procure To Pay (P2P), Global Trade Management (GTM),IS-OIL, Transportation Management (TM), Order to Cash (O2C), Finance teams (FICO) and Commodity Management (CM).
• Having Strong working experience in the creation of Functional Specification design documents for the new enhancements of the DVS / DVS Canada Title transfer process in complete integration with Global Trade Management GTM Trading contracts and also new configurations as needed for the gaps as and when required by Business with in stipulated SLA.
• Strong working experience in Split valuation configuration for the Terminalling and Exchange Processes. (IS-OIL process).
• Rich expertise in Creating the test scripts for Exchange Agreement process, DVS Process with Title Transfer, Terminalling &Exchange Processes, Book Transfers, etc. which are the major processes for Release 1 Wave 1(R1W1), Release 1 Wave 2(R1W2) and Release2.
• Conducting Business requirement clarifications meetings with Business core team and SAP Off-shore team to make key decisions for fine-tuning the To-Be process in SAP.
• Implementing Handling Unit Management in Release 3 processes with both Warehouse Management and without Warehouse Management.
• Involved in SAP ABAP and coordination of SAP HANA development processes
• Implementing Automatic STO process for the 3rd party DVS Process.
• PO Output Configuration for Release 3.
• Implement same solution globally for DVS and STO process globally including Lubes, Tank and truck center businesses as well.
• Plants as MRP areas configuration to accommodate few Satellite Warehouses Nearby Alpha and Nashville Warehouses which are specific to only Release 3.
• Customer and Vendor Allocation Processes.
• Conducting trainings on multiple P2P processes for Propane, Crop Nutrients & Agronomy Business users.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.17 MM, EWM, SD, TM, GTM, CM, FI, CO, QM, ABAP, SAP BI, VISTEX, HANA, HR

Confidential

Sr. SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Review of the Current Solution Design implemented in Mach 1 project with a setup of all day business meetings for one week to achieve the following:
• Understand the current designed processes in the area of SAP MM (End to End Procure to Pay & Source to Pay) with the CAT Business team and to provide the Recommendations on most of the pain points, current process improvements most of which are running based on variety of many legacy interfaces.
• Involved in the meetings for other modules such as IM WM, SD, PP, QM & MES to understand on the integration areas and provide solution recommendations in the area of Procurement without impacting other integrated SAP modules.
• Involved in planning a Business road map to retire few of the legacy systems like Lognet, Engineering Data System (EDS), The Item Catalogue (TIC), Material Replenishment Collaboration (MRC), My Supply Cabinet (MSC), etc.
• Prepared and submitted the Solution Design Review Report to Confidential team through SAP America in order to implement our solution recommendations with more of process improvements.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.13, MM, SD, TM, FI, CO, PP, QM, PM, SAP BI, HANA, HR and few Legacy systems like EDS, TIC, MRC, MSC, Vertex and Lognet.

Confidential

Sr. SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Confidential Global SAP AMS Production Support Project as SAP MM Lead and my responsibilities include the following:
• Coordinating with off shore team on Day-to-Day global production support issues.
• Conducting weekly support advocate meetings with Client manager & India off shore team on the daily updates.
• Publishing the weekly support ticket metrics and progress on the tickets related to all SAP modules’ issues.
• Follow up on the Pending issues and help them to co-ordinate with Business due to time zone differences.
• Tracking and proposing the Break - fix changes through Change Request Management and keep track of all the change requests and see that everything is in adherence to SOX compliance meeting all the Statutory requirements.
• Support the portal issues in JDSN (Vendor master general data), WISE (Material master) issues with SAP
• Directly support the Vendor Evaluation process for all SAP Landscapes (for all regions) with a customized report Achieving Excellence considering different parameters such as Delivery Non-Conformances, Quality PPM with the respective tolerances by means of Z-table maintenance.
• Proposing different process improvements and implementing with the Tier 3 Global team and Business SMEs’ & BPIs’ due approval.
• Providing additional help in terms of Pre-Sales activities.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.17, MM, SD, OM, TM, PP, QM, PM, FI, CO, ABAP, SAP BI, VISTEX, HANA, HR.

Confidential

Sr. SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Confidential SAP Continuous Improvement Project as SAP Senior SAP MM / WM Lead and my responsibilities include the following:
• Analysis, Design, Develop and Implement, Problem Solving for Business requirements
• Strong Integration with WM, SD, PP, QM & FICO modules
• Brain storming sessions with cross functional Business analysts for process design and GAP Analysis.
• Strong Functional specification design for Critical Business requirements in the areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management & Logistics Execution, Handling unit Management, testing in configuration systems, move to Quality systems and then propose to Production systems with user acceptance test
• Rolled over different enhancements to other region units, Region 1 (Asia Pacific - India & China), Region 2 (Europe & Australia), Region 3 (South America) & Region 4 (North America) to make as a single global template.
• Taken over the most critical project of data merging from one Turf landscape to Agricultural landscape.
• Completely managed the data load issues during the Cycle testing for JD CC landscape merging to JD AG landscapes.
• As a part of continuous improvement, streamlined the REMAN process for JD Engine works to stop sending the Info record information to WISE so that WISE & SAP have the same information.
• Expertise in planning with MRP areas used for specific process like standard sub- contracting process, Drop ship vendor sub- contracting process, and vendor managed inventory with consignment process.
• Impart trainings in SAP MM and WM for different levels of Business like Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Business Process Integrators (BPIs) and end users of different factories.
• Designing ABAP queries for quick functional reports.
• Solutions provided for different classes of batch job failures and troubleshooting of IDocs for different EDI issues
• Updating and tracking the project documentation through Solution Manager Document repository management.
• Tracking and proposing the Break - fixes through Change Request Management.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, ECC 6.12, MM, EWM, SD, OM, SNP, SPP, TM, PP, QM, PM, FI, CO, ABAP, SAP BI, VISTEX, HANA, HR.

Confidential

Sr. SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting of day to day production AMS support issues through CA Tool which is a web based application designed for Confidential to handle Break-Fix issues
• Very good understanding of various Confidential specific Global Business processes in different landscapes and suggesting best practices and process improvements for some of the Business processes where Business thinks that may need fine tuning
• Involved in Roll-Out and Post go-live support for Construction & Forestry (C&F) Roll-out project of 2 new plants (Dubuque and Davenport works) at Onsite locations - Moline, IL, USA.
• Attending Knowledge transition sessions at Onsite locations and cascading the same across the off-shore team members.
• Involved in SAP ABAP and coordination of SAP HANA development processes
• Visiting different Confidential Factories which helps in best understanding of the live business issues and help them to resolve in an optimistic resolution approach
• Handling both development and configuration issues through SAP Solution manager in a time bound manner within the stipulated SLA for different priority of issues
• Working on SDPs where Business looks for long term solution on few Critical Business processes
• Testing of various MM & WM scenarios, which involve multiple interfaces such as JDSN for Supplier Profile (Vendor Master), WISE for Material Master, Etc.,
• Involved in a Technical Upgrade project to EhP 7 mainly for the validations at each and every stage /phase of the upgrade in different parts of the world.
• Coordinating and problem solving with other cross module team members such as Sales & distribution, Finance & controlling and Production Planning, Etc.,
• Good Co-ordination and rapport maintenance with the Global teams, Business users of different countries, BPIs & SMEs which helps in quicker resolution of any Show stopper production issues
• Proactively accepted few Global team responsibilities and performing the same as a part of AMS in different landscapes.
• Gathering new business requirements and preparation of the functional specifications and coordinate with the technical team till the requirements are fulfilled.
• Creation of test scripts for various requirements and for new Business criticality processes
• Change request management and part of TCM team for moving of changes from configuration to next immediate test/ quality clients and proposing the changes to Production systems upon Business approval.
• Conducting weekly support advocate meetings & internal team meetings to discuss on business criticality issues
• Attending Change Review Board (CRB) meetings for all the open transport requests of the team members for the development and configuration issues

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, ECC 6.12, MM, EWM, SD, OM, SNP, SPP, TM, PP, QM, PM, FI, CO, ABAP, SAP BI, VISTEX, HANA, HR.

Confidential

Sr. SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and Understanding of Business requirements.
• Detail Studying the As-Is process of the business and mapping the To-Be Process of the business to SAP in the areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management & Logistics Invoice Verification.
• Business Blue Print Preparation including Process Flow-charts.
• Complete configuration related to Purchasing, Inventory Management, Logistics Invoice Verification, Automatic account assignment & pricing procedure.
• Implemented Asset Procurement and Service procurements procedures from SAP Best practices
• Handling of day to day production support issues through e-mails & solution manager as well specific to MM & WM modules.
• Taken care of complete CIN customization and Implementation.
• Analysis & troubleshooting of the tickets depending on the severity to meet the pre-defined SLA.
• Preparing functional specifications for the new business requirements.
• Coordinating with other cross module team members on integration issues
• Conducting knowledge transfer sessions to other team members
• Impart trainings to Business users and Core team members
• Preparation of training documentation.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, MM, SD, FI, CO, SAP BI, ABAP, HR.