SUMMARY:

• Overall 8 years of IT experience, 6 1/2 years of SAP R/3 as an SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Consultant with good understanding of business logic and process flow.
• Professional working experience in the industries spanning pharmaceuticals, food, wireless devices, furniture, and textile sectors.
• In - depth knowledge of Sales and Distribution module, experience in configuration / customization and modification of Sales and Distribution (SD) module as well as Materials Management (MM) Module.
• More than two years of on-call Production Support experience, SOX control Implementation experience and experience with onsite auditors.
• Experience working in a validated environment complying with CFR Part 11 for electronic signatures and CFR Part 211 for GxP standards.
• Enterprise structure: Extensive experience in configuring the Enterprise Structure in SD by integrating with other modules.
• Master Data: Proficiency in configuring, migrating and creating Master Data.
• Sales Documents: Expertise in configuring Sales documents like, Item/Product Proposal, Item Categories, Schedule Line Categories, Quotations, Enquiry, Orders, and Contracts.
• Shipping and Transportation: Expertise in configuring Material determination, Availability Check, Picking, Packing, Delivery, Transportation planning and scheduling.
• Billing/Invoicing: Experience in defining Billing Document Types, Billing Plans, Pro forma Invoices, Credit memo and Debit memo.
• Pricing: Familiar with defining Condition Types, Condition Tables and Access Sequences.
• Proficient in the overall Order to Cash and Order Management processes.
• ABAP: Experience in designing reports/layouts, deriving specifications and technical requirements for the business process. Also experience in guiding the technical team members for enhancements (user exits) and modifications.
• Interfaces: Experience in designing and mapping interfaces between SAP and third party systems in flat files and/or electronically.
• EDI/ALE: Proficiency in configuring the environment for communication through EDI or distributing (and replicating) master data through ALE using IDOCS.
• Data Migration: Expertise in migrating and converting data from legacy system to SAP and vice versa using LSMW and ABAP programs.

STRENGTHS:

• Solid organizational, communication, analytical skills, demonstrated proficiency in mentoring and supporting individuals substantially reducing the learning curve.
• Ability to finish the work assigned under pressure in order to meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent client facing skills, ability to communicate and work with people at different levels of the organization.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

ERP: SAP R/3 3.1i, 4.0b, 4.6c., 4.7

RAD Tools: ABAP/4

Languages: COBOL, C, C++, JAVA, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript and ASP.

Platforms: MS-DOS, Linux, Windows (all), Windows Server (NT, 2000).

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server and MS-Access.

Tools: Business Objects, Brio, See5, Turbo Analyst, Rational Rose, Visio, Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic, Microsoft Publisher, FrontPage, Swish, Edit Plus, Dream Viewer and Cold Fusion.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

SAP SD Functional Analyst/Team Lead

Environment: SAP R/3 Version 3.1i

Responsibilities:

• As a SD functional Analyst was responsible for the ongoing production support activities, implementing new business requirements, designing functional and technical requirement specifications. Some of the major activities performed:
• Implemented new business requirements such as creating new order reasons, order types, new route determination, tax percentage changes, new shipping conditions and sales territory changes.
• Created FRS (functional requirement specification) for the new business processes such as Tolerance Block on EDI orders, minimum surcharge applied to specific customers, tracking samples through customized program and new ASN/DDN interface implementation. Created and updated the URS/ UAT documents for the new and changed business processes.
• Designed Reports and created technical specification for Product Recall reports, Net sales report, sales territory report, product sample sales report and sales detail reports.
• Created queries to retrieve sales data, customer data, territories linked to sales orders, product pricing linked to customers, taxes/surcharges linked to sales orders, customer mailing list based on old sales data, payers credit limits/payment terms for business users and the auditors onsite.
• Created and monitored the critical batch jobs on daily basis by involving the responsible business users. Provided 24 hours on-call support.
• Mapped new fields required by Wholesalers for ASN requirement and resolved file transmission issues with EDI and sterling commerce. Worked closely with EDI team to map fields/segments for new requirements and also performed unit as well as end-to-end file transmissions testing with EDI and end customers.
• Designed interface programs in SAP to get pricing data from the external contract management system into SAP. Supported the users to get the correct pricing files into SAP from the external system and to send the invoice files from SAP.
• Solved support tickets such as running sales and financial reports, add users to the email list, create/discontinue batch jobs based on users requests, create queries for non-sap users, fixed printer problems etc. which were logged into clarify on daily basis.
• As a SAP SD Team Lead successfully implemented the following projects

Confidential, Franklin lakes, NJ

SAP SD Functional Analyst

Environment: SAP R/3 Version 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Formulated As-Is and To-Be processes from several sessions with the team members.
• Customized and configured the various areas of SD implementation guide via the Enterprise IMG.
• Configured sales documents such as Quotation/Enquiry, Orders, Contracts, and Scheduling Agreements.
• Customized Customer Master, Material Master, Condition Master, and Customer- Material Info Master Records according to the business requirements.
• Worked on various order types like Standard order, Cash order, rush order and special order types in Order Management.
• Maintained Customer Account Groups, Partner Types, Access Sequences and Procedures.
• Configured Invoice, Debit/Credit Memo and rebate agreements in Billing.
• Assigned Account groups, Sales areas and assigned hierarchy types for Pricing by sales document type. Defined and assigned Pricing Procedure using Condition Types and Condition Records.
• Worked on sales Document types for service orders, Returns, Credit and Debit memo requests.
• Defined Modes of Transportation, Shipping Types, Routes and Transportation Connection Points.
• Maintained the data relevant to taxes in consultation with the members of FI module.
• Performed Integration testing with other modules like MM and FI.
• Configured various output types and configured various output determining procedures.
• Modified the custom packing list to display columns in the layout according to the selections made in the selection screen. This was required to hide details in the list if necessary.
• Designed report, which would list out the summary or details of the customer of a particular group. Included an option for the users to download the list in excel format.
• Modified several other reports and layouts depending on the new business requirements and generated documentation for these modifications. Also, mentored ABAPERS to complete the assigned tasks by explaining them the process, purpose and the task.
• Generated Ports and Partner Profiles; configured message control and set up the parameters for communicating through EDI.
• Prepared specification for setting up the Distribution Models and coordinated in getting the required info for RFC destination and Ports.
• Moved data from legacy system to SAP System: Material, Customer Vendor, Customer Hierarchy and Source Lists.
• Involved in testing and debugging of all transactions.
• Created recordings for data entry using transactions and created file for this format. Used LSMW for mapping the data from legacy system according to the structures as in the recorded file and used BDC for uploading data - data migration.
• Demonstrated High quality consulting effort that added to client’s satisfaction ratings and enabled team to establish credibility with key customer executives.

Confidential, IL

SAP SD Configuration Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 Version 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements and created functional specifications for conversions, interfaces and enhancements. Configured prototype for SD module based on business requirements.
• Configured the SD module by setting up the overall organization structure design, document types, item categories, master data, usage of condition step, copy control of sales document types to billing and delivery documents.
• Created Customer Master Data, Material Master Data and Customer-Material Information record.
• Defined number ranges for sales documents, materials and customer master records.
• Worked on sales Document types for Service Orders, Returns, Credit and Debit memo requests.
• Created Stock transport orders, sales orders- delivery- transfer orders, make to order products, ATP checks, back order processing, rescheduling deliveries, BOM and alternate BOM. Configuration of consignment stock process for the project scope including consignment fill up, issue, returns and pickup.
• Defined and assigned pricing procedure using condition types and condition records. Performed pricing with all relevant options like material pricing, price list type, and customer specific with discounts taxes and freights.
• Defined condition types for each pricing procedure with all relevant access sequences. Defined the Group condition types and sequences in pricing procedures.
• Defined condition tables, which enable to store and retrieve condition records for each of the different condition types and defined the access sequences.
• Worked with material price, price list type, and customer-specific price.
• Configured the billing plans as per the requirements. Customized the billing dates as per the billing plans - milestone billing and periodic billing.
• Maintained credit control area, assigned company codes to credit control area and assigned credit limit check to the sales document types and delivery types.
• Made changes/updates to the customer master and material master using Batch Input procedure.

Confidential, CA

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 Version 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the marketing and account receivable departments along with the ABAP team members to gather and verify requirements for the customer master.
• Mapped the internal sales organization structure via the organizational chart.
• Created Customer master data, material master data, customer-material Information record and customer groups.
• Defined number ranges for customer master record and the sales document - Item Proposals.
• Created order reasons for sales documents, defined Item Categories and schedule line categories.
• Worked on the special sales document types such as cash sale, rush order, credit/debit, return and free of charge delivery types.
• Defined Third party processing both through the plant and vendor, defined and assigned account keys assigned G/L accounts and defined pricing procedure determination.
• Set copy control requirements to various sales, deliveries and billing documents.
• Customized Batch management, Purchasing, Source determination, PIR, Third party purchasing, created new Document types, Pricing procedures, Output Determinations, Billing, Account determination, layout, copy control.
• Created sales, delivery and billing document types. Created billing documents based on documents like invoice based on delivery, credit and debit memos based on requests. Invoices based on sales orders and delivery. Cancellation document based on billing documents/credit memo.
• Created new customer account groups. Partner types, access sequences and procedures.
• Configured the availability checks with interaction of PP module members on basis of the ATP quantities, product allocation and planning.
• Defined product hierarchies and assigned it to the material master record along with the MM module members.

Confidential, TX

SAP SD Configuration Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 Version 4.6B

Responsibilities:

• Worked with customer hierarchy and defined hierarchy types and setup partner determination for hierarchy categories.
• Created customer master and material master records. Configured customer groups and account groups.
• Assigned account groups, sales areas and assigned hierarchy types for pricing by sales document type.
• Configured various output types and configured various output determining procedures.
• Created various sales document types such as standard orders, credit and debit memos, return and re-route orders, samples and free charge deliveries, consignment orders. E-commerce orders. Assigned sales areas to sales document types.
• Configured various item categories and setup item category determination based on the sales document type, item category of the higher-level item.
• Defined and assigned schedule line determination by parameters such as item category and MRP type.
• Set up availability check and transfer of requirements as well as delivery scheduling and transportation scheduling. Defined delivery priorities and worked with background and forward scheduling.
• Configured delivery and billing documents types. As well as specific inter-company billing document types.
• Defined and assigned pricing procedure using condition types and condition records.