SUMMARY

• An SAP S/4 HANA and Activate PM Certified, Retail/AFS/CAR solution architect with over 13 years of experience in SAP S/4 Fashion and Retail implementation as well as application maintenance projects with extensive experience working with business and IT teams on Supply Chain, Data Migration, P2P, Retail Master Data, CAR/POSDT Integration and Retail Store Inventory Management (MIM) in a Global Organization.
• Experience responding to RFPs, analyzing requirements to match with COE capabilities, identifying assets and reusable objects to provide jumpstart solutions.
• Extensive experience in working directly with Senior Management and Key Stakeholders in the engagement.
• Extensive experience working as a Solution Architect and Integration Lead. Led business blueprint workshops for Project Evaluation, worked with strategic functions to identify gaps in key business capabilities and designing IT roadmap, provide enterprise - level architectural recommendations demonstrating business value.
• Extensive experience leading IT Functional, technical and integration teams in areas including SAP MM, SD, Retail, FI, IM, LE, WM, CAR, ABAP, BW/Hana, PI.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of business processes in SD (B2B and B2C Sales) - Configuring Sales document types like Standard Sales Orders, Basic Functions: Text Determination, Output Determination, Partner Determination, Material Determination, Account Assignment, Customer Hierarchies, Credit Management, Copy Control between various documents and Tax Determination. Master Data: Customer Master, Vendor Master, Material Master, BOMs, Item Proposal, Material Determination, Customer Material info, Source List and Pricing Conditions. Service Management: Service Notifications, Catalog Profiles, Call Management, Contract Processing, Repair Order, Service Order, Service Processing and DIP Profiles.
• Delivery processing, outbound logistics and A/R Billing, Revenue recognition mapping of business processes in SD, Pre-order, Back-Order, Consignment, complex Pricing schema, tax pricing conditions, VOFM routines, Resource Related Billing, billing plans, Interface with Frontend systems, CS Integration, Vistex IP module, working knowledge of BRF+ framework.
• Worked on configurations for SAP edocument solution for Spain and Canary Islands (upgrade from SII eDocument 1.0 to SII eDcoument 1.1) including generic and country specific settings for generation e-invoice(both incoming and outgoing) in the form of XML document as needed by the tax authority in Spain.
• Excellent understanding of EDI communication and Idoc processing. Experience with EDI 810,850,940, 855, 856 and 214.
• Good working knowledge of S/4 HANA Data Migration Cockpit, XML Templates (Transaction ‘LTMC ’ and ‘ LTMOM ’). Extensively worked on legacy Data Migration(Transaction and Master Data objects) to SAP using ETL Tools BODS & LSMW . Custom written interfaces using BAPI Function Modules ( RFC/ALE/EDI ) to generate IDocs for loading legacy data to SAP. Legacy data analysis- quality, cleansing, validation, enrichment and transformation. Data mapping - mapping of legacy source system fields to target SAP table fields. Data conversion, validation and reconciliation- validate and reconcile legacy data loaded in SAP systems with business stakeholders, functional experts and key business users.
• Expertise in customizing Purchasing documents, Credit Management, Contract Management, Scheduling agreement, Subcontracting, third party/ drop shipment, Release management, Vendor management, Vendor Sub range, Vendor consignment, Inter-company sales, Intra-company STO, Demand planning, Allocation, Requirement planning and Retail distribution - store replenishment.
• Expertise in Retail master data setup, Vendor master data, Purchase Info record, Outbound and Inbound deliveries, Confirmation control, Cross-company sales, Intra-company STO, Collective POs
• Experience in Invoice verification/ Account Payable. Configured and setup in SAP-3way match setup, ERS setup, document posting, parking, checking variance- Blocking and Releasing.
• Extensively worked on Fiori MIM for performing various retail store operations like Retail product lookup, Stock Adjustment, Stock transfer, Store order, Receive products etc.
• Extensively worked on POS Outbound and Inbound Interfaces for sending Article prices/EAN, Bonus Buy to POS and other upstream systems and receiving sales data from POS and posting them to SAP ECC via CAR/POSDM. Built integrations using SAP PI, BODS and ABAP for transactional and master data interfaces.
• Worked extensively on E-commerce Sales integration.
• Experience in SAP Retail Master data setup including Accounts group configuration, partner procedure determination, Vendor master data, Site master and Site profile configuration, Article Master - Single articles, Generic articles, Sets, Displays, Pre-packs and reference articles, Merchandise Category and Hierarchy, Assortment and listing. Experience in migrating Article Data from the Legacy System to SAP retail using LSMW - Standard Batch Input Recording Method and Batch Recording Method.
• Extensively worked on Retail Pricing and promotions including defining condition types for price elements in business transactions, defining condition tables to store and retrieve condition records for different condition types, defining access sequence for valid condition records, condition maintenance, One and two step pricing processes in retail.
• Experience in setting up Enterprise Structure including Company code creation, defining organizational units and assigning them to each other so as to accurately reflect the Enterprise structure in which all the business transactions could be processed.
• Have rich experience in working with Retail and Non Retail IDocs - WP PLU, WPUWBW, WPUBON, WPUTAB, WPUFIB, ORDERS and DEBMAS.
• In-depth understanding of SAP CAR technical architecture, worked on setting up demo system for POS data transfer and audit (POSDTA), Multi-channel sales and inventory analytics, Omni-channel Article Availability (OAA), Migration from POSDM to SAP CAR.
• Good working knowledge of CAR PMR(Promotion Management for Retail), worked on setting up demo system for PMR including DDF setup for replication master data from SAP S/4 to CAR, Creating Promotions and Offers in PMR and sending it back to SAP S/4 for Bonus Buy creation which in turn is sent out to POS via outbound interface.
• Extensive experience in Non-SAP systems based on heterogeneous environment. Experience in working with HP-Mercury QC testing tool.
• Have worked in the capacity of a Project Lead to monitor the development and delivery and have experience in handling Cutover Tasks on multiple Global Rollouts/Implementations.
• Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills in project walk through and system functional specification presentations.
• Exceptional interpersonal and team building skills.
• Actively participated in training, hiring and developing a team of architects in various areas.
• Extensive knowledge of tools like MS Visio, PowerPoint, Excel and PowerPoint proficiency.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP S/4 Fashion Supply Chain Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading requirement gathering workshops, gap analysis and integration of SAP P2P with other downstream systems.
• Lead the process design of purchase order creation and custom solutions including but not limited to vendor partner substitution.
• Hands on experience in key mapping of various carrier vendors to sites.
• Collaborated with business to gather & analyze requirements to maintain and S/4 Vendor master data, Data governance, Standard operating procedures for Vendor Master and customer master.
• Very good understanding of various business partner functions such as Sold-to, Ship-to, Bill-to.
• Worked on design and solution for various custom load programs for customer discounts.
• Driving various processes related to Direct and Indirect purchasing process of Vendor master data creation, changes and updates in S/4 and Ariba.
• Responsible for support service now tickets for Order to Cash process, customer master updates, vendor master, payment methods, bank info updates for company code extension, payment terms updates, eDocument invoice error related tickets.

Confidential

SAP OTC and MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducting workshops for requirement gathering and blueprinting.
• Provide end-to-end solution for various business processes in Supply Chain, Procurement and Store Operations area
• Designed and implemented store replenishment and other procurement processes including
• Replenishment from DC
• Replenishment from third party vendor
• Indirect Procurement with release strategies
• Special orders
• Store to Store transfer
• Return to Vendor
• Return to DC
• Rx Orders
• Physical inventory & Cycle Count
• Order to Cash process for Franchise Store sales
• Consignment sales and return process.
• Worked on MIM for performing various retail store operations like Retail product lookup, Stock Adjustment, Store order, Receive products etc.
• Preparing User training manual, cutover plan for phased rollout and performing the cutover activities.

Confidential

SAP SD/OTC consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducting workshops for requirement gathering and blueprinting.
• Providing end-to-end solution for bringing in Smart Shopper sales into SAP for orders placed from Ipad/Smart device (using Magento ecommerce tool) at the store, fulfilling the order from DC and sending order status updates to the customer. Extensively worked on SD order management(SD OM), Interface with front end system and logistics execution.
• Master data interface was developed to send articles and prices to Magento.
• ORDERS idoc interface was developed for creating sales order in SAP.
• Interface was developed to send Sales order output from ECC to AFS for order fulfillment.
• Shipment/Cancellation messages were sent from ECC back to Magento and Customer.
• Smart Shopper Sales were also sent to SAP CAR/POSDT system for recording sales and sending it to ECC and various systems for analytical reporting.
• Enhancements were made to update VAT percentage in appropriate FI tax tables so as to be able to generate eDocuments with correct VAT percentages for outgoing invoices for Italy.
• Preparing User training manual, cutover plan for phased rollout and performing the cutover activities.

Confidential

SAP SD and FI consultant

Responsibilities:

• eDocument solution was implemented using eDocument framework(based on AIF framework) in SAP for Spain and Canary Islands for sending VAT information to the tax authority in order to be tax compliant.
• Configured FI invoice document types(both incoming and outgoing invoices) that are relevant for eDocument creation.
• Configured FI tax codes relevant for eDocument creation.
• Third party interface was designed and developed to send eDocument in the form of XML file to external third party system. eDocuments were generated through ESSII EDOCCREATE and monitored and submitted to the tax authority using EDOC COCKPIT transactions.
• Preparing User training manual, cutover plan and performing the cutover activities.
• Post Go-live support including Monitoring of Sales and financial transactions.

Confidential

SAP SD/Retail consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide end to end solution for bringing in Contact lens subscription sale from third party Adaro portal in to SAP FMS and CAR POSDT.
• New interface for Sales feed from Adaro to CAR-POSDT was designed and developed.
• New interface for creating vendor PO for subscription order was designed and developed using WGSREQ idoc.
• New interface was designed and developed for sending PO to the vendor and receiving ASN’s from the vendor.
• Configurations were made in FMS for posting the Sales and tenders to the correct GL for the idocs WPUUMS and WPUTAB posted into FMS from CAR-POSDT.

Confidential

SAP SD/POSDM consultant

Responsibilities:

• Providing end-to-end solution for bringing in Store sales from POS to SAP POSDM system.
• Conducting workshops for requirement gathering, blueprinting and solutioning.
• POSDM configuration involving:
• Inbound profile setup/ Store setup
• Setting up single step processing of outbound tasks for
• BW data distribution.
• Generating WPUBON and WPUFIB idocs for sending Sales, Tender and Financial data to ECC.
• Totals/Store balancing/Transaction balancing tasks.
• Enhancement to send customer specific data to BW.
• Partner profile set up for outbound/inbound idocs(WPUBON and WPUFIB) in POSDM and ECC.
• Preparing User training manual, cutover plan for phased rollout and performing the cutover activities.
• Post Go-live support including Monitoring of Sales and financial transactions on POSDM workbench,