SUMMARY

• Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst with over 18 years of experience in SAP Logistics Supply Chain functionality
• Worked as a Senior Specialist, Lead Consultant & Senior Business Analyst in different SAP modules’ implementation.
• Good experience in Process reengineering; system configuration; gap analysis; integration testing; cutover; delivery of training materials to personnel using SAP and coordination with the development team for the custom enhancements.
• Diverse experience includes involvement in all aspects of the implementation process, business process analysis, complete system configuration, testing, end - user training, and production support.
• Full life cycle project implementation experience including Performance testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Ability to manage, guide, supervise, train large and small groups.
• Involved in Configuration and support of SAP WM/LE Modules for Agriculture Industry
• Implementation and configuration of SAP QM Module for Energy; Consumer Products & Retail and Manufacturing Industries.
• Implementation and configuration of SAP MM Module for Consumer Products & Retail industries.
• Implementation and configuration of SAP PP Module for Manufacturing industries.
• Implementation of LABWARE-LIMS Interface with SAP for the Agriculture Industry
• Involved in Production support activities for SAP PP-PI & TSW Modules for Energy industry.
• Involved in Sales Force and SAP Integration for Logistics
• Involved in building Shipment Interfaces for integration between SAP and External Freight Forwarder
• Involved in development of key Logistics interfaces between SAP and Sales force & third party B2B systems.
• Good understanding and integration knowledge of QM business processes with other modules such as PP; MM; PM & SD
• Evaluate the organization's technology use & needs and recommend improvements
• Assist IT Management leads in guiding daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Product Management team and key business partners periodically for Understanding the Business requirements.
• Creates and Evolves the products to have the Business Strategy for the products through innovative business solutions that can be applied across enterprise.
• Identifying and promoting business process improvement opportunties
• Reviews the enhancements with the business users & Solution Architects and prioritizes the request.
• Computes the rough estimates and the enhancement design plan for the development of the enhancement.
• Obtains the funding approval and cost center and proposes a cutover plan.
• Works with the Development team and arrange to complete the enhancement.
• Collaborate with the business users for performing User Acceptance Testing.
• Obtain Business Approval and arrange to deploy the changes to Production system.
• Transition the enhancement details to the Support team.

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Joined the Products & Engineering team as a Product Manager for SAP Logistics functionality.
• Create and evolve the Product to enable the business strategy through innovative solutions that can be applied across the organization.
• Have a deep understanding /expertise in technology and platforms.
• Participate in enhancement prioritizations
• Collaborate with the Development team, Business Analyst and testing teams for deployment of the enhancements.
• Transition the enhancement details to the production support team for On-going support.

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in Business requirements gathering
• Building of Production functionality in sales Force system.
• Development of new interfaces such as contract management; process order; Goods Receipt against process order; Goods Issue against process order and technical completion of process orders.
• Development of New batch update interface from Sales Force to SAP.
• Collaborate with scrum team in the design and development of enhancements.
• Collaborate with User Interface engineers for lightening screen development
• Interact with business users to understand needs and business leads to understand strategy

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a GPS enabled tracking system and will facilitate the client to track and trace the shipments for the client’s approved carriers.
• Shipment data with all the shipment stages (with multiple picking locations and with multiple customer ship to locations) will be sent to the Confidential system through the outbound interface. All the approved freight forwarders have been loaded in the Confidential system.
• Client will load the shipment and tie it to the appropriate freight forwarder. Once it is assigned, then the truck movements can be tracked through the GPS sytem.
• Digital Bill of Lading will be viewed in the Confidential system and facilitates the truck drivers and the customers to sign the documents electronically.
• Texting functionality is enabled and facilitates the truck drivers to text message the customer contact person before arriving the customer facility.
• Signed BOL will be received through inbound interface and attached to the shipment for tracking and documentation purposes.

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Integration of SAP; Sales force and third party B2B systems which will facilitate update of both inbound and outbound transactions between the systems.
• Development of Outbound Inventory Adjustment interface; Inbound interface for PGR/PGI being performed in the B2B system which will update SAP and sales force systems.
• Cost avoidance of $1.0 M/year by replacing WITS software and avoiding long term manual processes during extended WITS outages
• Savings of $200 K/year from streamlining logistics & tolling work flows
• B2B integration for Monsanto toll manufacturing and 3rd Party warehouses

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Replacement of age old third party warehouse system
• Provides Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control and manufacturing functionalities.
• Improving accuracy and efficiency in Inventory Tracking
• Cost avoidance of $3.0 M/year by replacing WITS software and avoiding long term manual processes during extended WITS outages
• Savings of $500 K/year from streamlining logistics & tolling work flows
• Enhanced inventory visibility moving to real time view for all products
• Barcoding improves inventory accuracy for all brands and businesses

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Replacement of existing third party system CODI.
• Coordinated in the development of new interfaces such as Shipment Interface; Goods issue and Goods receipt interfaces for updates between SAP and Sales Force system.
• Designed and Implemented new plant classification system for capturing plant attributes and usage in shipping interfaces for controlling subsequent downstream functionalities in B2B and other 3rd party warehouse systems.
• Increased Organizational Efficiency
• Increased Supply Utilization
• Improved Customer Service
• Reduced Cost
• Worked with the Implementation Partner for GATP functionality GO Live for seed materials

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design, Development, Testing and Installation of SAP Total Logistics Management on Monsanto’s SAP system to enable Seeds & Traits and Crop Protection Business users to perform their Logistics business operations.
• Involved in the set up of subcontracting and stock transport orders.
• Coordinate with other teams and complete new plants configurations across different functionalities.
• Implemented warehouse management for new plants and configured different put away and picking strategies.
• Defined Shipping points and their automatic determination in the sales order.
• Configured the item categories and item category determination for deliveries.
• Route determination is set up to calculate the transportation planning time and to transit time for the Shipment.
• Configured schedule lines and assigned them to the item categories as per business requirement.
• Configured shipping relevant functions, creating deliveries, picking, packing processing and goods issue.
• Implemented new tags and placards outputs for seed materials.
• Working knowledge on physical inventory and cycle counting for both IM and WM

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• During Support pack upgrade, stock discrepancy issue was faced and some of the batches under quality stock could not be moved and in some cases, batch statuses could not be changed. The same material and batch does exist in both unrestricted and restricted stock.
• Worked with SAP America and as per their suggestion, a suitable OSS note has been applied to resolve the stock discrepancy issue, in 2014

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design; development & Implementation of Outbound and Inbound Shipment Interfaces between SAP and the freight forwarder system as per EDI 304 & 856 specifications for Ocean shipments.
• Reduction in Customs Inspections
• Greater business certainty (More accurate data, Monsanto control over process)

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Allows the EME (Europe & Middle East) Leadership Team (ELT) to better manage the EME Vegetables business by harmonizing processes related to the resources, products, customers, third party vendors and service providers*, EBIT, cash, research and development, royalties etc.,
• Centralize EME R&D costs, standard Cost Of Goods Sold, and Intellectual property under the Dutch Legal Structure for better cash management and IP protection
• Indirect sales to customers located in EU countries such as IT, ES, HU, UK, FR, PL, BE, DE = Duo Billing
• This project had assisted Monsanto business to have better visibility of our inventory and sales, simplify our transfer pricing, costing of materials, and in general help control costs. As such, this project is an important contributor to Monsanto’s focus on growth and operational efficiency.

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Client has acquired a new seed company and involved in the SAP Implementation Project.
• Actively participated in the Implementation of this Project during the Design Phase; Testing Phase and Go Live phase of the project.
• Demonstrated some of the key custom QM functionalities to the Implementation team.
• Opportunities to optimize cost and customer service and recognize potential high-leverage options to consolidate, streamline and standardize work processes across organizational silos.
• A future state vision supported by a business case and a well functioning social system that creates the necessary alignment and support of key stakeholders across EMEA

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The goal of this project is to revamp the existing ABC rating system for seed batches. The rating specifications for an Inspection Characteristic should be based on Material group; material pricing group; product type; production environment.
• Custom override functionality is proposed for overriding the rating of the batches.
• Better Inventory Utilization
• Reduce manual inventory decisions.

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The goal of Speed Priority Project is to develop a Global prioritization and criticality process for crops from the time of creation and conversion of Planned Order to Production order through the QA testing process of received crop at FPO or Processing Plant.
• Active member of the project supporting QM business needs.
• The goal of Speed Priority Project is to develop a Global prioritization and criticality process for crops from the time of creation and conversion of Planned Order to Production order through the QA testing process of received crop at FPO or Processing Plant.
• To re-define and develop an updated global process of Prioritization of new crops from start to finish (Planned Order > Process Order > Purchase Req > STO > Process Order > IL)

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Global QM support activities for Veggie QM Business for both Open field and Protected Culture field business.
• Conducting training/meetings and business communications in English with the stake holders on prioritizing the support issues/enhancements and finalize the implementation cutovers.
• Integrated SAP’s Production Planning (PP)-Process Instruction (PI), Logistics Execution (LE), Total Logistics Management (TLM) and Materials Management (MM) modules with SAP QM.
• Responsible for Global QM Support for Veggie Seeds Division and Row Crops and involved in new projects and performed different enhancement and support activities.

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on PM Master Data objects such as Functional locations; task lists for the newly created plants.
• Carries out Plant specific PM configuration whenever new plants are configured.
• Tracking of physical samples across different physical lab locations.
• Supporting PM orders for each orders and confirmation of orders

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Global QM support consultant for the Veggie Seeds
• Scheduled periodical business meetings with key Global business users on understanding the enhancements/support issues and prioritize the requests and finalize the implementation cutovers.
• Integrated SAP’s Production Planning (PP)-Process Instruction (PI), Logistics Execution (LE), Total Logistics Management (TLM) and Materials Management (MM) modules with SAP QM.
• Active Test Coordinator for performing the SAPGUI and Support pack testing
• Trained as a Champion for automation of the Testing Process.
• Planned and organized for the QM module specific configuration needs of the system
• Prepared the functional design specification and coordinated with the development team for the custom development objects and arranged to test and apply them in the appropriate systems.
• Provided verification of configuration in the production client and performed configuration table comparison between quality and production clients.
• Planned and actively coordinated with the Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting team for the development of BI reports for QM Module

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Outage Testing in D08; Q08 & P08 clients at appropriate time intervals as per the directions of the Project team. Assisted the Upgrade
• Project team in successfully completing the ECC Upgrade Go-Live Project.
• Resolved the issues came up after Go-Live in a timely manner.

Confidential

Senior SAP Functional and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Closely coordinating with the business team in getting the critical fields which need to be extracted to LIMS from SAP.
• Prepared functional specification (FDS) for custom enhancements and coordinated with the off-shore development team in completing the enhancements. Coordinated with the business and identified the FI test characteristics.
• Created Inspection plans and combined ICL & FI Test together.
• Tested the custom reports exclusively used for Seminis and identified the ABC Rating report changes because of results upload from external system. User exit changes have been completed for ABC rating.
• Created test scenarios and test documentation for unit & Integration in D08 and Q08 clients.
• Prepared cutover plan for the SAP activities to be performed prior to Go-Live. Tested the SAP-LABWARE Interface in Q08 client.