SUMMARY

• SAP solution consultant in Retail and Supply chain management with overall 13 years of experience in SAP Implementations and various other projects.
• Handled various full cycle implementations, roll - outs, interface developments, major enhancement and support projects.
• Core expertise in SAP MM and IS-Retail and good experience in SAP SD, POSDM modules.
• Experience in cross-module integration of SAP MM with FICO, SD and PP. SAP IS Retail with POSDM, POS.
• Trained in Manhattan WMS system processes and working experience in integration of Manhattan WMS system with SAP.
• Worked with all kinds of SAP IDOCs (both inbound and Outbound integration IDOCs) Orders IDOCs, Inventory Update IDOCs, Article master IDOCs, POSDM IDOCs, etc
• Experience in various middleware mapping integration framework with SAP - ETL, ESB, Manhattan integration Framework(MIF), Flat files. etc
• Proficient in using Quality Center for Test Planning, Requirements Management, Defect Reporting and Tracking and good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC & Configuration Management.
• Experience in managing unit testing, system integration and regression testing on multiple projects, as well as providing support for end-to-end user acceptance testing.
• Strong domain experience in Retail industry, Process Industry, Logistics, Procurement and Inventory management.
• Mentored & trained project team members. Actively coordinated offshore business activities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• During the Blueprint stage conducted workshops involving Purchasing, Logistics, Merchandise and IT heads of the company to prepare the business process documents.
• Prepared several blueprint documents on various IS-Retail functionality like Merchandise Distribution, Collective PO, Allocation table, Replenishment, Quantity Optimization etc.
• Configured the system to execute the complete Procurement Cycle starting from replenishment run at store until creation of external vendor orders (Collective PO).
• Worked on Customization of Merchandise Distribution with adjustments, Allocation table, Promotion etc.
• Configured Purchasing documents such as Requisitions, Purchase Order Optimization processes, Inventory Management, MRP, Vendor Master, Material Master, Invoice Verification and providing SAP MM functionality knowledge sharing to end users
• Analyzed Client purchasing methodology to optimize processes within SAP R/3 by configuring Automatic PO generation, updating PIR from purchasing documents such as PO and Outline Agreements, maintaining Source List requirement at Plant level, and defining Processing Time for PR, PO and GR.
• In IM, configured GR so postings were made to appropriate Stock Status such as Unrestricted-Use, Quality Inspection, and Blocked Stock or GR Blocked Stocked. Did Inter-warehouse transfers, involving Storage Location to Storage Location Transfer. Carried out Reservations and Goods Issue
• Defined and configured Inventory Sampling Profile procedures and creation of Physical Inventory document for Continuous, Periodic and Cycle Inventory procedures
• Defined Plants, and maintained Storage Locations for each Plant.
• Inbound and outbound integration of IS Retail with POS and XI.
• Inbound integration of data including Sales, tender, discount totals, Physical inventory.
• Knowledge in Trickle feed inbound processing (Real-Time Individual Processing)
• Outbound Integration including assortment list, bonus buy and merchandise categories.
• POS integration with related modules including SAP MM, SD, FICO, BI and XI.
• Complete understanding of POS functionality process, workflow.
• Troubleshooting any IDOC related Issues and responsible for any new developments in Inbound and Outbound Processing
• Creating and reviewing Functional Specifications and Test Plans
• Involved in baseline configuration as per the Blue Print document
• Business Process Mapping and Business Process analysis
• Analyze and write detailed specifications and Test Requirements.
• Business Impact analysis
• Design review and analyzing the Problems
• Designing of interfaces using different integration scenarios
• Test case design, Review of Test cases and Test Execution, Tracking bugs and Presenting Test results
• Exhaustive unit level, integration and regression testing for all the modules of the application.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Followed ASAP Implementation methodology and designed the business processes, wrote blueprint phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.
• Completing solution configuration and setup processes by providing industry best practice processes, solutions and methods and accountable for completion of quality deliverables and resolution of issues
• Developing functional specifications for development objects and providing understanding of functional and technical disciplines.
• Communicate status, progress, issues and risks to business process team leader
• Coordinate/collaborate with architecture teams, development teams and business partners.
• Defining the cut over strategy for Inventory conversion
• Involved in Data mapping of Legacy system with Standard SAP Retail solution. Working with various types of IDOCS: ORDERS, PREQCR, Goods movement IDOCS (DESADV, WMMBXY, MBGMCR) and IDOC field mapping for legacy systems using the middleware solution.
• Validating the Inventory Reports
• Go-live and post implementation support and provided support to end users training, and troubleshooting
• Day in life IDOC issues resolution and batch job scheduling, monitoring and issue resolution