SUMMARY:

• IT professional with strong SAP SD experience for over 9 yrs. Utilized functional experience in the implementation of the SAP projects for several prominent clients.
• Over 9 years of strong domain experience in sales and distribution, production planning, marketing, logistics management, customer relationship management, service management etc in different verticals including manufacturing, FMCG, consumer durable, industrial product, and retail product industries.
• Possesses a thorough experience of the business processes, marketing strategies, sales and distribution network & processes, and production processes to better understand and translate client requirements into appropriate solutions.
• Experienced with four implementations and four support projects of SAP SD R/3 4.6C, 4.7, and ECC 6.0 with major multi - national clients.
• Skilled in project implementation and management using ASAP methodology. Contributed for projects in the various phases of the life cycle like Scoping, Project Preparation, Business blue print, Realization, Quality Assurance, Final Preparation, Cut over testing, Go-Live, Production support.
• Performed business requirement study, gap analysis, and development of functional and technical specifications and process flows.
• Hands on experience in the configuration and customization of SAP IMG with respect to the business demands.
• Good experience in the configuration, development, defect management, Integration testing, documentation, and end-user support phase of the project cycle.
• Proficient with enhancements and modifications of the existing functions
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving ability.
• Outstanding communication and cross-functional skills (MM, PP, ABAP, FICO, PS etc).

SKILL:

SAP (Versions):

Functional: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7 Enterprise, E.C.C 6.0

Other modules: MM, FICO, PS, PP

Software: Visual Basic, MS Access, Lotus Notes, Office 97, Oracle Discoverer, Crystal Reports

Databases: Oracle 10g, Oracle 9i, Developer 6i & 9i

Testing tools: Quality center, Loadrunner, QTP, My test tools, Solution Manage

Requirement Management tools: Borland caliber Analyst, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Doors, Irise studio etc.

ETL Tools & other tools: Business Objects, Data Integrator, Informatica. PL/SQL DeveloperLanguagesSQL, PL/SQL, HTML, C++,C#, ASP.Net, VB.Net, ADO.Net

Operating Systems: MSDOS, Windows 95 & 98, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows NT, Windows - XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

SAP SD Sr.Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved & contributed in the Blue printing stage, Realization, Implementation and go-live.
• To review the customers and to analyze whether to be integrated to the existing channels or create a new distribution channel ‘A’ for the selected Coleman Customers.
• The Coleman products were assigned a different Product hierarchy.
• Worked on Confidential wherein the proprietary Coleman products were sold to allowed customers and were disallowed for other customers. The solution was based on creating a material characteristic ‘proprietary code’ for the material class for the proprietary code material. This was used to generate a popup message when the sales order had a material with the prop code. Prepared the functional specs and coordinated with the development of the solution with the technical team.
• Prepared the functional specs and worked on enhancements pertaining to Order confirmations and Invoices to carry the Coleman Logo for selected customers such as Whole Foods, Trader Joes etc.
• To maintain the output for channel ‘A’ by customer, not by customer/channel because of the logo and as not all customers in Coleman required Coleman logo.
• Prepared the functional specs, worked on enhancements with respect to copy of the text field from the sales order to the invoice. Worked on the Smartforms.
• Prepared the functional specs, worked on Confidential project wherein the export instruction documents (EID) for International orders were consolidated (maximum of 25 orders) into a single email attachment and send to the recipients (freezers).
• Worked on production tickets to ensure the SAP OTC process is unhindered. The SAP implementation had a lot of Z-programs. Performed debugging to understand the issue and suggest a fix..
• Worked on CPE (Commodity Pricing Engine) and configured new Surcharge Rule, Period determination rule, Term rule, Term & Formulas from time to time as per the business requirements to facilitate the pricing.
• Participated and conducted meetings with the business on the project enhancements and ensured business sign off at all stages of the project implementation.
• Worked on issues on EDI orders, worked on a project to reject sales orders with duplicate po’s.
• Configured new sales offices, sales group and sales districts as per the business requirement.
• Supported the business and the users with respect to the day to day issues concerning SAP SD OTC process.
• Co-ordinate with the development team (offshore) on the development of the WFRICEFobjects.

Confidential, NJ

SAP SD consultant- Conversions

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the technical mapping document with field values for the (As-Is) legacy system and the (To-Be)Optimus system.
• Prepare the mapping rules for specific fields in the Header tables, line item, partner tables, provide the mapping values for the item categories, sales areas, pricing condition type and the pricing condition procedure etc.
• Co-ordinate with the business users on the requirements from time to time and include the changes in the technical mapping document.
• Prepare the functional specification document for the overall conversion process and prepare the functional document for including the specific functionality such as billing plan in the sales order program (BAPI) and in consultation with the developer, contribute towards the development of the enhancements.
• Participate in Mock-3 (development server), mock-4 (quality server), dress rehearsal (production server replica) to check the efficacy of the conversion logic, the efficacy of the conversion program, check for any issues in the conversion process and raise defects to the respective teams (ETL for issues in extraction, transformation, loading), engineering team (for issues with configurable materials), development team for changes in the sales order conversion program and track the defects for closure.
• Worked on variant configuration (with the engineering team) to ensure the characteristics, dependencies and the configuration profile for the KMAT materials are maintained in the optimus system and coordinated to ensure that the master data is loaded prior to the running of the load program.
• Analyze the total open sales orders converted, total open line items, the total quantities & the net value of the open sales orders converted in the Optimus system with respect to the Legacy system. Analyze the reasons for deviation and provide scope for rectification.
• Subsequent to the dress rehearsal, participate in the Regression testing, with the involvement of the business users from US/Canada regions.
• Preparation for Go-live in consultation with the Master Data team, Data integration team, the project systemsteam, the engineering team (Variant configuration), the finance team, the MM team, the business (address thecleansing issues with respect to the open sales orders). Get the sign off from the business for the validation of the open sales orders, open line items & the dollar value before executing the open sales order conversion program.

Confidential, GA

SAP SD Functional consultant /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a principal SAP SD consultant for supporting the business on the issues in the production environment.
• Mainly, the issues were related to order to cash and pricing functionality.
• Worked on the requirements for inter-company/ intra-company sales processes. Identify the issues and work towards the resolution.
• Document functional requirements, develop functional specs for program changes, make configuration settings, perform testing, conduct system demos and work with users providing and testing support.
• To work on the issues and the defects and log the defects as an object type (WRICEF) and support in the preparation of the functional specifications for the defect.
• To log in the defect in the Quality Center and interact with the development team on the development aspects.
• Present the functional specs to the business and take the sign off for the development.
• To interact with the development team and support in the development of the solution.
• Work with the offshore team on the development issues.
• To interact with the business and support in the break fixes.
• To do the necessary configuration changes to map the functionality. Test the development to check the functionality as per the functional specs and the requirement
• To resolve issues arising out of resource related billing and support the testing team in the preparation of the testing strategy, regression testing, integration testing and the writing of the test cases for execution.
• Work in close consultation with the SAP-PS, SAP-FICO, SAP-ABAP consultants on the enhancements.
• Support the testing team in the testing of the object and submit it to the business to have the sign off for transporting the solution for go live.

Confidential, TX

SAP SD Functional Consultant/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a principal consultant, interact with the client, understand the business process and prepare the blueprint for the Carve out testing. As the documentation available was minimal, prepared the functional document for effective use.
• In the process of carve out testing, identify the areas of subjective attention.
• To interact with the other functional consultants (F1, MM, PP) to discuss the business process and work on the integration points.
• Basically, the project constituted the utility of the configured SAP solution to the business process of the company.
• To validate the test scripts written by the testers pertaining to business scenarios such as Purchase to Cash, MRP to Sale (Cash), Demand to Cash, Demand to Stock Transfer Order, Demand to Stock Transfer Replenishment, Consignment process, Scheduling agreements, etc.
• Discussed with the business users to understand the business logic and prepared the test sets.
• Interacted with the cross functional members of the testing team and work on creation of the test sets pertaining to end to end scenarios, based on the business logic.
• Worked on the end to end OTC Process and STO process. To work on the interphases of the SAP system with the external transport management system, Biztalk etc. To validate the interphases (RFC’s, IDOC’s) to ensure compliance as per the business process.
• To validate the output types generated upon executing the OTC process.
• To execute the test cases in Quality center 10.0 and validate the results. To support the users in the User testing. To check the defects arising during the testing process for rectification and to retest the corrected solution so that it is defect free.
• To plan for cycle 1 testing, cycle 2 testing and prepare for Go-Live.

Confidential, NJ

SAP-SD Consultant/ Functional Tester

Responsibilities:

• To participate in discussions with the clients and the implementers and understand the business process and the important changes those were implemented in the Confidential process.
• To work on the test plan in consultations with the client and the implementer. To agree upon the testing methodology to be followed.
• To write the test scripts adapt to match the business process and check that the enhancements undertaken and correctly mapped in the development process.
• To work on the end to end OTC process and STO process/Inter - company/Intra-company sales processes.
• To map the integration of the SAP system with the Legacy systems, with an external Transportation Management system and the Warehouse Management system.
• Planning of the testing cycle. To execute the test cases and the test scenarios to check the functionality of the SAP implementation and undertake Regression testing to check for any bugs resurfacing upon enhancements.
• The enhancements contributed to a lot of customization and the enhancements were also implemented for the earlier releases. The enhancements were tested keeping in mind the different business process involved for various divisions of Pepsico.
• To redirect the defects arising during the testing process to the development team for rectification and to retest the corrected solution. Work in close tandem with the development team to handle the defects.
• To work in consultation with the developers in ensuring that the solution is defect free.
• To undertake the System testing and participate in the User acceptance testing.
• To check the business requirements through the Borland Calibre software and the testing was undertaken on Quality centre 10.00.

Confidential, NJ

SAP- SD Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Formulate and define application scope and objectives and devise/modify procedures to solve business problems.
• Responsible for business requirements analysis, development of detailed functional and technical specifications of system interfaces, modifications, and enhancements
• To undertake Customization of the SAP, keeping in mind the business process of the associate clients.Customize SAP functionality to satisfy business requirements and business process design.. Maintain the OTC process and trouble shoot any issues during testing.
• The project has specialized teams for Order Management, Shipping & transportation, Pricing functionality, Revenue recognition within the SD module implementation. I was entrusted to undertake the development activities under the Order Management process.
• Creation of ‘Z’ tables to map the various business processes. Set the material mix functionality based on the product line and the area of operation.
• The project had the integration of SAP-APO, GATP, SAP-CRM etc functionalities infiltered in customizing the solution.
• After working in the development phase, presently working in the System Integration Testing(SIT), primarily concentrated on Defect Management. Analyze, debug and rectify the defects to ensure the compliance of the solution to the functional requirements.
• Good knowledge of Solution Manager and Quality centre, My Test Tools for undertaking the Defect Management phase.
• Good interaction with the cross functional guys, the technical guys (ABAPers), the testers to work in managing the defects effectively.
• To attend the daily meetings and report the developments to the team leaders as well as the BRL’s on a daily basis.
• Configuration of pricing procedure, Delivery, Shipping, Picking, Transportation, Billing, credit management, account determination and output determination functionalities. Checked test scenarios pertaining to the above functions, Rebate processing, sales promotions etc.
• Lead small sub-projects or regularly coach other project personnel to ensure business application systems are developed in a way that complies with architectural standards and established methodologies and best practices.

Confidential, NJ

SD Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering of existing business practices and documenting As-Is business processes accordingly.
• Developed detailed To-Be model based on future corporate and operational strategies, corporate vision and new business challenges.
• Participated in the gap analysis for As-Is and To-Be process.
• Prepared scope documents, objectives, deliverables and involved in the preparation of the blueprint, schedules for realization, testing, go-live and post implementation support schedules.
• Worked on Order to Cash Process
• Worked on the configuration of the Master Data, Maintained Account Groups, Partner Functions and Partner Determination Procedure for Customer Master for Add on Customers.
• Configured the various Sales document types for Inquiries, Quotations, Sales Orders and special sales orders such as Rush order, Cash order, Third party sales, Intercompany sales, Consignment sales etc. Customize the Item categories and schedule line categories. Configuration of Delivery and Billing documents based on the business cycle
• Worked on the Logistics Execution (LE) shipping functionality by configuring the various functions like shipping conditions, route determination including the configuration of shipping types, modes of transport, routes and stages, transportation groups and loading groups,
• Configured and customized exclusive pricing procedure with Price, Costs, Surcharges, Discount, Freight and profit margin using Condition technique. Worked on condition exclusions and condition supplements. Worked on the credit management, account determination procedure.
• Based on the company’s business requirements, configured the Sales Promotions, annual supply contracts and Sales deals (Pricing), Rebate processing, Contracts, Sales forecasting etc.
• Undertake the Account Determination and the Output Determination. Also worked on various output determination by using different output types and output condition records.
• Good knowledge of working with user exits. Created Z transactions for specific business requirements Worked on the WRICEF objects as per the business demands.
• Configured and customized SAP functionalities and prepared documentation for the processes involved.
• Maintained settings for incompletion log generation for sales documents and Configuration of LIS, Sales Information structures (SIS) to generate reports for the client.
• Prepared Unit test specifications. Performed Unit Testing, Regression testing, Integration Testing.
• Worked on Variant configurations, IDOCs, RFC’s, EDI and APO.
• Interacted with the SAP-MM, SAP-PP & SAP - FICO Consultants on various relational configuration issues.
• Experience with ware house management (WM), Ability to work successfully across organizational lines and to influence the outcome in a positive manner.

Confidential, GA

Senior SAP SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed Business procedure document blue prints for enhancements.
• Streamlined the Rebate settlement processes and accruals,
• Return orders with different reason codes were configured with different goods movement types to expedite the whole process without affecting the inventory.
• Worked on OTC Process, Promotions and sales deals (Pricing), Rebate processing, Consignment sales process, contracts, scheduling agreements etc.
• The automatic charge back process and resubmissions with active header and line status profiles were designed and implemented to make the whole process as smooth as possible.
• Successfully integrated the Customer and wholesalers EDI requirements with minimum complaints and worked with Basis for creating partner profiles for different EDI’s.
• Created pricing condition types like restocking fees and freight charges to be incorporated into the return order pricing procedures.
• Customized Availability check for ATP involving RLT, checking rule, requirement class, requirement type, checking groups. Defined checking groups and involved in controlling availability check for ATP.
• Worked on the variant configuration and the customization of material master records for Configurable material. Configuration of the BOM, creation of characteristics, dependencies and configuration profile.
• Worked on Shipping, Delivery, transportation functions- picking, packing, pgi, shipment creation, etc
• Ability to communicate to a wide variety of audiences including business, technical and management
• Creating transaction data for testing of reports
• Communicate SAP capabilities/possibilities within one or more functional areas
• Customize SAP functionality to satisfy business requirements and business process design
• Prepare functional specifications for WRICEF objects (Workflows, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms etc)
• To interact with the business users and document the process flow for their smooth functioning.
• Participated in the testing of the functionality, further to the development with the testing team.

SD Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Blueprinted third party intercompany process with to existing third party transactions.
• Created new pricing procedure and condition types
• Created new output types and also worked on requirements in output control
• Defined copy controls for third party intercompany process.
• Created condition records for output types and was part in writing condition formula in pricing.
• Resolved issues related to pricing, and order management.
• Supported third party process and intercompany process
• Interacted on FI/CO and worked on Account recognization by assigning pricing condition account keys to the right G/L accounts.
• Responsible for re-defining Enterprise Structure pertaining to SD in response to the new expansion undertaken by the top management. To gain market share, as per the requirements of marketing department, new distribution channels and sales offices were configured with higher responsibility profiles created for sales persons in conjunction with HR.
• Configured order management cycle with special needs incorporated in delivery scheduling involving sales offices more into the procedure.
• Worked in streamlining the Pricing master data between IPC and SD
• Rebate settlements and Credit invoices were streamlined by creating special user accounts, which helped in efficient disposal of customer requirements.
• Returns delivery and subsequent free of charge delivery was given priority than the credit settlement with customers.
• Automated efficient intra-company sales and stock transfers to speed up the deliveries in conjunction with BAPI/ABAP programmers.
• Developed test cases and innovative test runs in direct consultation with marketing personnel to overcome any possible difficulties, which might come up during the production run.

Confidential, GA

SD Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuring & building up organizational structures including sales organization distribution channel, division, sales offices and sales groups.
• Configuring of Master data (Customer,Material, business partners, agreements, conditions etc), Material Substitution, Sales order and material determination.
• Creation of pricing procedure, condition types, access sequences, condition tables and the determination of prices in the sales documents through info records and master conditions.
• Configured Sales & Distribution involving Sales Inquires, Quotations, Shipping & transportation, Billing and interval scales for conditions.
• Configuration of Special business process like Consignments, Rush orders, Third Party Orders, etc.
• Maintained SD revenue account recognization, created new master data of customer account assignment groups and material account assignment groups, define & assign account keys, assign G/L accounts.

Confidential, GA

SD Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported Sales & Distribution application on day-to-day basis
• Maintained Customer Master Record (CMR) and Material Master Record (MMR)
• Worked on various Sales Documents types like Quotation, Contract, Sales Order, Returns, Delivery free of charge, Scheduling Agreement, Credit memo request, Debit memo request.
• Extended Materials to new sales Org. and distribution channels.
• Maintained pricing procedure and created condition types, access sequence and Condition records.
• Developed new pricing procedures as required by business requirements.
• Resolved issues with delivery creation and Delivery Due List
• Maintained Customer Shipping Conditions and Material Loading Group for Shipping point determination.
• Fixed issues with schedule line category and errors related to goods issue.