SUMMARY

• 22+ years as an IT Professional including 14+ years in tier one management consulting.
• 14+ years as Sr. SAP Consultant Practitioner/ managing Projects with strong Functional & Technical, Business/Application Analysis experience in Solution design, Integration, Customization, Testing and User Training.
• Sr SAP SD Consultant (Techno Functional Spec Writer and Configurator) running end to end business scenarios integrating with other value streams. Deep understanding of business processes related to SAP Order to Cash (SD), Demand Planning, Procure or source to Pay, Billing & AR and integration with FI/CO, MM & PP modules.
• ECC Pricing with Vertex Taxes & Sales order integration with Vistex IP Module (i.e., Chargebacks, Bill Backs, Rebates & Price protection). Expertise in SAP integration with primary focus on Order to Cash.
• Proficient in conversion of business requirements into functional specifications and technical specifications for solution development, unit and integration testing and other aspects of software development & implementation lifecycle
• 11 SAP projects including 1 S4 HANA & 4 Full Life Cycle SAP ECC implementations plus technical upgrades, roll outs and production support.
• Driving Key strategic decisions with the leadership and developing roadmaps. Excellent communication & presentation skills.
• Driving Key strategic decisions with the leadership and developing IT roadmaps. Excellent communication & presentation skills.
• Creative ability to absorb complex technical information and communicate it effectively at all levels to both technical and non - technical audiences. Assessing and evaluating risk. Understanding of the implications of new technologies. Demonstration of clear leadership and the ability to influence and persuade. Has a broad understanding of all aspects of IT and deep understanding of own specialism(s). Understanding and communicating the role and impact of IT in the employing organization and promoting compliance with relevant legislation. Taking the initiative to keep both own and subordinates' skills up to date and to maintaining awareness of developments in the IT industry.
• Excellent Management & Team Lead experience, managing consultants, analysts. Project & non project related Performance appraisals for external and internal direct reports.
• Industry experience includes: Chemicals and Agrochemicals, Retail, Healthcare, Nuclear Energy, Industrial Manufacturing, Financial Services/Banking.
• Driving statement of partnership projects, ensuring they meet customers' needs and are operationally sound, Partnering with the PMO team, participate in project request assessments to maintain enterprise wide applications alignment. Providing thought leadership and hands on support within their area of SAP Functional responsibility.
• Determining a course of action by breaking it down into smaller steps and by planning and resourcing each of these, making allowance for potential problems.
• C-level communication skills.
• End to end solution design skills in scenarios like Make to Stock, 3rd Party Drop Ship, Customer Returns, Consignment, Backorders, Rescheduling, Monitor Sales Orders & Sales Activities, Manage Demo Units to Departments/Sales People, Manage Employee Commissions, Rebates and etc.
• Sales: Sales Order Processing in Inquiry, Quotation, Order, Scheduling Agreements, Contracts Involving Customer Master and Material Master. Cross Company sales, Third Party Order processing, Make To Order (MTO), Consignment Sales & Inventory Stock process. Sales order transactions, user exits.
• Enterprise Structure: Organizational Units like Sales Area (Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, and Division), Sales Office in OTC and also Units relevant to other Modules like MM, PP and FI/CO.
• Experience in customization of master data, pricing, shipping, transportation, account determination, sales documents, and delivery, billing documents, copy control, rebate processing, credit management, user exits & BADIs.
• Customer Master, Material Master, Vendor Master.
• Pricing: Configuration of pricing procedures and associated condition tables, condition types, access sequences and condition records. Custom & Standard pricing routines.
• Shipping: Outbound Deliveries, Picking, Packing, Loading, Transportation, and Post Goods Issue integration with WMS & TMS.
• Billing: Billing Split rules, Billing Due management, Regular Invoice, Invoice List, Credit Memo, Debit Memo and Pro-forma Invoice.
• Conversant in SD concepts like Customer and Product hierarchy, Order management, Credit management, Text determination, Variant Pricing and Output determination.
• Cross-Functional integration skills of SD with MM, PP and FI/CO modules.
• Solution Architect: Interaction with ABAP Programmers, solution design of custom objects in line with must-have business requirements.
• IDOC processing in sales and distribution.
• Involved in Distributed Technologies like ALE/EDI/BAPI’s in handling Data Migration, Data Conversion activities.
• ABAP concepts such as ALV Reports, BDC’s, LSMW, BAPI, BADI, ALE, IDOC (extensions and configuration), EDI, RFC, User Exits, OSS notes & Smart Forms.
• Maintain awareness of phasing and implementation approaches (across lifecycles, etc.).
• ECC/Vistex Pricing: multiple projects in Chargebacks & Rebates modules.
• Knowledge of SAP HANA, BO 4.0 tools - Crystal Reports, Webi & dashboards.
• Knowledge of SAP new dimensional products like CRM, SRM, Ariba, IBP & APO etc.
• SAP Test Plans & Test Cases in HPQC.
• Hands on working with both Revtrac & Charm transports’ management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

SAP OTC Solution Architect & IT Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gatekeeper/Solution Architect for all the SAP OTC designs & an escalation point for Order to Cash.
• Provided IDOC structures, solution designed different process variations for big retailers like Home Depot, Lowes etc., to find home for data segments in conjunction with EDI mapping activities for Inbound PO 850 Sales Orders, Outbound 855 Order Acknowledgement, 856 ASN & 810 Invoices with GXS & PI (middleware) for transformation & IDOC processing. Validations of IDOC inbound orders, testing function module as needed to reprocess & replicate issues.
• Solution Designed Pricing Complex Schema consolidating & simplifying multiple pricing procedures& common conditions in to one keeping the regional pricing strategy for various brands globally for Confidential . Configured pricing condition tables, access sequences & conditions. Including Rebate agreement & promotion design. Custom requirement & calculation routines to accommodate for must have business requirements around certain acquisition and standard cost and discount calculations. Field extensions to the field catalog using pricing communication structure.
• Solution designed commissionaire Pricing Structure to accommodate for European countries/company codes’ tax and local government requirements. Also, to include the Intrastat reporting.
• Hands in Functional Unit & quality Integration testing, data validations & defect fixing.
• Solution designed different complex areas to include SAP interfacing with external applications like portal, Microsoft dynamics CRM & Bizgen for price quoting and material availability as an example.
• Addressing/Resolving/Escalating Risks, Issues, Logging assigning, and making sure action items are completed, driving key decisions with the business.
• Managed a large OTC scope (165 RICEF Objects) and a team of 12 SAP consultants (TCS, SAP America & local vendors) to deliver SAP OTC solution on S4 HANA platform aligning with the business transformational and standardization objectives.
• Writing performance reviews for the consultants, Managing Functional Specifications, their technical reviews for Development and testing. Ensuring the quality of Solutions & deliverables are within best practices of the technology and business framework.

Confidential - Dublin, Ohio

SAP Order to Cash/Vistex Chargebacks - PM

Responsibilities:

• Managed & Delivered Vistex Project to standardize IP Chargeback functionality for Nexeo’s price support business and associated Vendors.
• Managed IT Support group for Order to Cash (SD) area both offshore and onshore.
• Ticket monitoring, escalations, Rev Trac transport approvals & change control activities.
• Captured business process gaps, requirements, developed & delivered project plans, timeline, resources, testing, cut over & deployment activities.
• Managed solution design both functional & technical for all RICEF objects, configuration and master data changes.
• Built business case for & with business counterparts while helping them learn the SAP system. Trained power users and their team with new processes, enhancements and functionality.
• Integrated other work streams D2B, FI, BIW, and WMS, TMS for process enhancements, design reviews and change control.
• Delivered project on time within budget.

Confidential - Melville, NY

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led a large OTC scope and efforts for North American affiliate across 28 Brands of Estee.
• Integrated end to end scenarios, blueprint closure signoff, localization, facilitating design & build activities, test plans in HPQC.
• Solution designed complex scenarios keeping the standardization theme for Estee and SAP best practices.
• Managed integration with other work streams D2B, FI, BI, and WMS, TMS.
• Involved in decision points around retirement of various legacy applications and optimized legacy ECC interfaces both inbound and outbound.
• Identified RICEFW objects & managed team of developers to define the Deliverables.
• Managed functional & technical design teams up to 50 consultants & developers onshore and offshore.
• Interfaced with client counterparts to ensure that business requirements were met.
• Worked with change management team to identify any organizational change impacts around people, system and/or processes.
• Supervised data conversion team to give them the insight on the sales side for Customer Master, Material Master & Sales Order conversions.
• Planned the test cycles across work streams i.e., SD, MM, PP & FICO through working with the testing team & the integration team.
• Successfully delivered the project on schedule within budget.

Confidential - Dublin, Ohio

SD Pricing Designer/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed complex pricing solution integrating with Vistex for Rebates, Charge backs & Bill backs and Vertex for taxes. Implemented solutions in various releases in line with medical business segment requirements and best practices.
• Scope included pricing structures, custom solutions like pricing hierarchy optimization, hard floor price & ceiling price validations via routines, standard cost, contract cost & acquisition cost validations.
• Price change notification model, price change history, Pricing Hub to feed into different interfaces for Cardinal Price quoting capabilities.
• Integrated with other work streams like FI, BI, STS and OM.
• Identified RICEF objects & managed team of developers to define the Deliverables.
• Managed & wrote functional specs for the configuration of the Pricing schema & the development of associated custom routines.
• Worked with client counterparts to ensure that business requirements were met.
• Together with change management team identified organizational change impacts around people, system and/or processes.
• Directed data conversion team regarding insight on the sales side for Customer Master, Material Master & Sales Order conversions.
• Managed testing across work streams i.e., SD, MM, PP & FICO.

Confidential - Lynchburg, VA

SD Lead Designer

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with French & German core team members to deliver fit gap analysis for Confidential ’s fuels’ plants, parts & equipment sectors for the North American region.
• Focused on business processes around Sales & Distribution integrating with Project Systems.
• Identified design gaps in global template preventing standardization of US requirements. Identified RICEF objects &managed team of developers to define the deliverables.
• Managed & wrote functional specs for the configuration of the Pricing schema & development of associated custom routines.
• Managed the coordination of all the design deliverables, their peer reviews & sign offs.
• Worked with client counterparts to ensure that the business requirements are met.
• Managed a team of 16 consultants & 5 analysts and 10 business counterparts.
• Managed testing across work streams i.e., SD, MM, PP, PS & FICO.
• Liaised with on site Project Manager and Technology Lead to plan staffing levels.
• Facilitated integration scenarios with work streams to include planning & execution of cut over, testing & deployment activities.