SUMMARY

• Fifteen years of experience in various facets like sourcing, purchasing, procurement, Marketing, Export - Import Related issues, cost estimating of the manufacturing products produced by casting process.
• Ten years of experience in purchasing/ procurement management/ buying activities.
• Five years of experience in SAP in complete Purchasing procedure, PR, RFQ, PO, Release of PO, e-procurement process, P2P Cycle.
• Five years of experience in SAP MM and over Four years in SAP SRM.
• Coordinated in SAP R/3 implementation MM module providing functional knowledge and preparing business process guide.
• SAP - MM / SRM Business process Production Support Team member during upgradation of SAP MM to EHP 6.0 and SRM to 7.02 and involved in various testing process.
• Extensive Procurement experience in Oil & Natural Gas Industry.
• Adept at facilitating requirements definition sessions and developing and delivering end-user training.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP-R/3 ERP 4.6c, ECC 6.0

SAP Modules: MM-PUR, SRM, MM-IM, MM-LIV, MM-WM.

Applications: SAP GUI 6.40, 7.00, 7.02

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP MM - Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of requirement gathering questionnaire for Org Structure / Mater data / Purchasing / Valuation & Account Assignment / Invoice Verification and prepared the business process documentation.
• Interacted with the Business Process owners to understand the existing business processes and the customer specific requirements. Followed ASAP Implementation methodology and designed the business processes, prepared blueprint and completed configuration during realization phase.
• Configured Plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations and groups, Info record, source list, material master, pricing, purchase order types, Release strategy for PR/PO, vendor master, MRP, Goods movements, Stock Transport orders, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory, Goods Receipt, Invoice verification and stock movements.
• Configured Purchasing documents like purchase requisition / PR, purchase orders / PO, RFQ / Quotation.
• Maintained plant parameters for Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) such as MRP groups, MRP controller, MRP types, planning calendar, planning horizon, lot-sizing procedure, and availability check for components.
• Preparation of BBP for MRP /Auto PO/ Release Strategy / ERS / Duplicate Invoices.
• Configuring MRP /Auto PO / Release Strategy / Duplicate Invoice Check / ERS. Configuring Logistics Invoice Verification for procure to pay process and testing the integration.
• Customizing Invoice Verification with vendor-wise tolerance limits as per the business requirements. preparing test data, Test case design, Test Scripts, Review of Test cases and Test Execution and Carrying out GUI, Functional testing, UAT, Upgrade testing, Integration testing with various scenarios, and Go-Live activities and re solved the issues reported.
• Testing of Duplicate Invoice Check / ERS / Procurement of Service PO/ EDI/Idocs. Preparation of Cutover document for MRP/ Auto PO / Procurement of Service PO/ EDI/Idocs.
• Prepare Transport request for configuring MRP/ Release Strategy / ERS / Duplicate Invoice check.

Confidential

SAP - MM / SRM Production Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of MM Organizational Elements: Creation, Assignment and significance of MM Enterprise structure components like Company code, Plant, Storage locations, Purchase Organization and Purchasing Group.
• Involved in resolving SAP (MM) related day to day issues related to Purchase Requisitions, RFQs, Purchase Orders, Goods Receipt, Goods Issue and Invoice Verification.
• Responsibilities include implementation of new features and enhancements, handling user queries, solving solution manager issues.
• Raising the change request (CRs) and delivering the functional specifications. Preparing the test data for testing the CRs, Unit and integration testing for the CRs.
• Generating various reports for management like List of materials in a Plant, List of Vendors, PR’s, RFQ’s, PO’s and Contracts for Material and Vendors.
• Conducted end user training in MM module and preparing the training material using recording tools like Uperform of complete life cycle of P2P in ECC. Experience in preparing eLearning documents and coordinated in deploying the content to the entire work force via web.
• Configured MM Master, Vendor Master, Procurement to Pay cycle (P2P), Purchase eLearning courses, and then quickly deploy the content to the entire workforce via the web. Requisition (PR), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Order (PO), and Purchasing Info record, Source lists, contracts, Pricing Conditions, PO Approval Strategy.
• Release strategies for PR and Purchase Orders, Edit Characteristics, Edit Class, Define Release Procedure for Purchase Orders, Release Groups, Codes, Indicator, and Strategies.
• Prepared cut over plans and data migration for Material master, Vendor Master and Purchasing Info Records from legacy systems using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench).
• Configured Inventory management Parameters for all goods movements like goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, GR for blocked stock, goods returns, Transfer posting and Stock transport order (STO).
• Configured the Inventory management of goods at the points of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks viz. consignment, third party, and sub-contracting.
• Created physical inventory settings, documents, posting differences, inventory sampling and cycle counting.
• Warehouse Management Configurations: Define and Assign Warehouse Number, Define Storage Type, Storage Sections, Picking Areas, Storage Bin Types, Storage Bin Structure, Storage Type Indicators, Storage Unit Types, Storage Section Indicators, Putaway Strategies.
• Integration of MM with FI: Configured account determination for goods movement, Valuation and Account Assignment, Logistic Invoice Verification. Payment to Vendors, Posted Invoice documents for the Purchase Orders.
• Material planning: MRP (MRP types, MRP profiles), planning run, lot size calculation, reorder point planning. Consumption Based Planning, Plant Parameters, MRP Controllers, Planning. Worked on MRP-Procedures, Planning process, carry out planning run, evaluating the planning run, Procurement Proposal, Master Data.

Confidential

Material Management Officer - Procurement/Contracts Manager

Responsibilities:

• Receiving and checking purchase requests. Processing purchase requisitions. Initiating purchasing process for that equipment.
• Purchase of equipment (Capital / Spares) & services in accordance with the company purchasing policies.
• Implementation and Management of purchasing procedures. Preparing and processing purchase orders.
• Creation and management of purchase orders / service entry sheet in the system as per authorisation.
• Ensuring that materials, services and supplies are procured according to project requirements.
• Liaising with internal departments as and when necessary to plan to meet, and to supply demand to the relevant quality.
• Interacted effectively with vendors / supplier (local /overseas) to resolve contractual issues and with colleagues to achieve departmental goals.
• Managed to obtain best reduced price for the material/services procured as per technical specifications. Negotiating.
• Matching Purchase Orders with Invoices and Reconciliation of invoices
• Maintaining reports and documentation of procurement
• Analyze vendor performance and make recommendations to maximize future performance.
• To ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements of Procurement Directives, Standing Orders and Contract Procedure Rules.
• Ensured timely delivery of material / services through consistent communication and follow-up with the vendor.
• Experience in using ERP system i.e., SAP (MM) Module, complete Procurement / Contracts/ Services cycle.