SUMMARY:

• Accomplished SAP Materials Management, Master Data & Supply Chain Solution Architect & Project Manager
• Twenty - two years of extensive experience in architecting, designing, consulting, deploying, conversion, managing and supporting SAP projects in Materials Management, Master Data Governance, Ariba, SRM, APO, SNC and Logistics domains in pharmaceutical, manufacturing, High-tech, IT and service industries.
• Expertise in Sales: O2C, interfaces, inter-company process, STO, Logistics execution, Classifications, DMS; Production Planning: MRP, BOM, DP, SNP; Finance: Accounts Payable, Project Accounting, Taxes, assets;
• Trained and Certified in SAP S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement, Implemented MDGS on HANA, working on S/4 HANA pilot and S/4 Data Conversion using SAP Services, RDM, Migration Cockpit and Excel Macros.
• Supply chain skills include Procurement: Procure to Pay (P2P), Inventory Management, external services, direct and indirect, pricing, output, SRM, CCM, LAC, Integration with Ariba/ SRM, supplier enablement; Materials Management: MRP, CBP, Contracts, scheduling agreements, Inventory management, Invoices; valuation, returns: Planning & Collaboration: SNC and APO; Logistics execution; distribution; GTS screening
• Expert in Materials Management, MDG, Data Migration, Governance, Compliance, Project Management.
• Master data: Expertise in MDG, Data Governance, standardization, migration, transformation, conversion, cross reference, cleansing & data tools LSMW, BDC, BackOffice, BODS, BAPI, macros and ABAP programs
• Knowledge in Operational compliance: FDA Regulatory Validations like cGMP, GxP controls, 21 CFR Part 11 Electronic records, Audit trail, SHFDA, GSP; Financial: Segregation of Duties, SOX, GRC, MAPP, Supplier DDQ Questionnaires; Data Privacy: GDPR, Safe Harbor, Data Protection Directive, sensitive info, NAYA
• Consistently delivered the projects/ initiatives within budget and time frame using best practices, Provided leader ship to many full life cycle, end-to-end implementations, deployments, upgrades and support projects.
• Provided application integration solutions utilizing best practices and approachesincluding governance, strategy, consulting, architecture, development, testing, support & integration and project management
• Eight years of functional experience in technical consultancy, ERP, software and project management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP ECC606, S/4, MDG, Ariba, SRM, APO, SNC, SAP PI, GTS

SCM: Ariba, MDGS, iProcurement (Oracle), Manugistics, JDE

Testing: ALM Quality Center, SolMan, SECATT, Excel Macros;

Tools: Visio, e-Project, MS Project, GxPharma, Confidential Service Center; SharePoint; PDOCS

SAP EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Collegeville, PA

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of MDG - S on HANA to support ECC, Ariba, JDE for setting up master data Governance
• Involved on all global roll outs, acquisitions and currently rolling out to Central American Countries. Project manager for Confidential integration, solution confirmation, development, deployment and global roll outs
• Subject Matter expert: Procure to Pay, Inventory Management, 3PL, Invoice Verification, Accounts Payable, master data, Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMO), Subcontracting, Consignment, External Services
• Designed and built interfaces between SAP and Ariba - Org data, Master data, transactions and ASN.
• Many E2E implementations - blueprint, solutions confirmation, fit-gap, design, develop, testing, cut-over, deploy and hyper care. Delivery manager for multiple global roll outs and many acquisitions including Confidential .
• Heavily involved in data migration strategy and data conversion process using BOA, LSMW, macros etc
• Vendor Master Maintenance web based portal tool - Vendor Request Form, Vendor processing application, Country or Company code based defaults, workflow, notification center, approvals, conditional special approval, create / change / delete vendor in ECC, bank confirmation and extract delta to edge systems using Web Dynpro, BSP, Enterprise Portal and ECC. The tool is being used by more than 100K users globally.
• Designed and built an application for inter-company transfers across heterogeneous landscape involving SAP and non-SAP sites using Manugistics, JDE, MAPS, MRPII, Oracle and a host of legacy systems and middleware applications/tools.
• Material Master and procurement master data and workflow design for ECC, APO, SNC, GTS and Ariba
• Designed “Enhanced Journal Upload Tool” to simplify and automate recurring Record to Report closing activities using Excel front-end template, real-time error checking, and integration with SAP all in one step.
• Designed and built a program to identify duplicate parked invoices in an effort to eliminate overpayments to suppliers and save processing time - Identifies about 1500 duplicates every week on average.
• Accounts Payable stabilization project involving ~ 65000 parked invoices worth ~ $155M - Provided solutions
• Designed and developed an Excel Macro for PO conversion simulation achieving 99.2% success on average
• Posted Ad-hoc goods receipts, invoice receipts, changes to the POs, reversals through Excel macros
• Price Break and volume discount on multiple items on a Purchase Order using Condition Group with Vendor
• PO Release strategy for Approved Spend Limit, FCPA/MAPP compliance, Global Trade Service requirements
• Designed and built an application for a specific process to plan and deliver products directly to retailer
• Delivered a process to include material specifications, batch details in xml file along with PO output
• Delivery Manager for Supply Chain for Americas (Canada, USA, Mexico & CAC)
• SAP / ARIBA / MDGS implementation and roll out for Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and CAC countries
• Implement electronic invoicing process (UUID / CLAVE) for Mexico and Costa Rica
• Requirements gathering, solution confirmation, fit - gap analysis, solution development, build, testing, training, conversions, cut-over activities, compliance, go-live, Hypercare & SAP ERP Roll outs, Hypercare
• Integrate Confidential market operations on the Confidential SAP ERP platform quickly without disrupting the business.
• Understand Confidential ’s ERP solutions and capabilities to evaluate any unique or business critical processes
• Conduct workshops, perform Gap analysis, Solution Confirmation, Data Mapping, design and Build, Deploy
• Supply Point Company Rationalization (SPCR)
• Implement the Supply Point Company Rationalization - Release 1 (SPCR) project.
• The objective of the SPCR project is to create and enable the new Organizational Structures and migrate the data from the current 8 Supply Point companies to 5 new Supply Point companies.
• Master Data Governance - Supplier (MDGS) implementation
• Implement MDGS Tool for Confidential for One consolidated view and governance of suppliers globally
• Robust Data Replication to SAP and non-SAP systems and integrate with SPIM to collaborate with suppliers
• Conduct workshops, identify gaps, Architect, Design, build and deploy MDG S tool to replace vendor portal
• Archive inactive vendors, cleanse data base, identify duplicates, support SAP and non-SAP applications
• Operational Readiness Council (ORC) & Legal Entity Alignment (LEA)
• One Company, two legal entity structures; capital allocation strategies, Revenue Guidance and operating plans, budgets, Open dialog across functions at Country level.
• Retrofit global deployment sites for Established, Innovative and vaccine products including markets, plants, distribution centers, logistics centers.
• Global Model and Global Deployments
• Solution architecture, identify & analyze the gaps, design, configure, build, Test and resolve defects, provide go-live and hyper care support.
• Engaged in development of Global Model Enhancement for the combined Pfizer / Confidential business processes
• Develop interface solutions for systems like Master Batch Record (MBR) and Imprint Text Utility (ITU)
• GME & Deployment projects for direct and indirect procurements, overall procure to pay global model
• Deployed Sites: Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom; Ireland plants, China, Hong Kong, Logistic Centers; US Plants, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Singapore; US and PR; Korea; Spain, Portugal, Germany plants, Logistic centers; China and PR plants; France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Japan; Brazil, Argentina,
• Designed and developed many site specific solution to address country and plant requirements like variable data printing, import instructions, pallet instructions, attach spec documents to POs, packaging specs
• Developed a program to address requirement by China government for all Pharmaceutical enterprises to submit the sales out and buy in reports on daily basis, with predefined XML format to upload to its website.
• Responsible for assigned deliverables for project phases - Solution confirmation, indentify & analyze the gaps, design, configure, build, Test and resolve defects, provide go-live and hyper care support.
• Functional /technical solutions, creation of specifications and recommendations in support of global model
• Coordinated Global Model Enhancement activities for enhancement requests gathered through deployment, requirement sessions assessing impact on the SAP integration activities for Ariba 9r1; Other legacy system interfaces for procurement and direct procurement requirements
• Provided solution guidance and recommendations on P2P integration between procurement and Finance; and also inter-company, planning, manufacturing and distribution processes and Interfaces
• Assess impact on SAP for approved business requirements, SAP test development and execution
• Performed configuration, participated in solution delivery workshops, maintained and updated documentation
• Process optimization; improve operational efficiencies and performance enhancement Initiatives
• Vendor Request portal, Auto GR posting, ERS for services, Payments through Amex,
• Integrated Excel ->SAP JV upload, intercompany reconciliation capability, Reduce processing, errors and adjustments, improve DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) and working capital
• Best in Class industry standards, Benefit realization, Trusted and integral business partner, released capacity through elimination of non-value added activities, improved automation, increased system utilization, accuracy, timeliness, reduction of audit quarries, address current pain points.
• Designed and executed a solution to update 2.5M views of about 600K vendors with new pay terms, pay methods, partner roles and extensions to the Company codes
• Segregation of duties, Sarbanes - Oxley Act, Tax codes access, 201 CMR, sensitive & personal information
• Clinical, employee, legal, strategic vendors all the way from master data to transactions and reports
• Safe harbor regulations, NAYA for France, HIPAA, FDA, Data Protection Directive (EU), personal id access
• Ariba Integration, GTS interface and SNC deployment
• Integration of SAP ECC for the Ariba 9r1 Global Model design for direct and indirect procurement.
• Designed, built and maintained master data interfaces between ECC and Ariba using PI middleware and GIS.
• Designed a solution to block PO output for GTS Sanction Party List (SPL) screening to address global trade risk, compliance, license check, Country embargo, product classification, and import / export transactions.
• Provided solution to transfer documents from ECC to SNC for SMI processes and material display
• Requirement to generate a file at PO Create/ Change to the TRAX freight Audit system for freight spend allocation, based on electronic invoices sent to TRAX from the carriers for both Direct and Indirect Purchasing
• New doc types, number range, change screen layout, set up tolerances, set up invoice plan, return orders
• Configure contract and scheduling agreements, control confirmation keys, default values for doc types
• Set up multiple pricing procedures, condition types, access sequence, condition tables and schemas
• Set up release procedure for requisitions with value thresholds by currency, plants, creation indicators etc
• Configure release strategy for ASL, HCP, work flow routing, notification and approval by email and web page
• Set up tax configuration for multiple countries including non-deductible, sales tax, GST, PST, QST, HST etc
• Output determination setup, message types, condition table, access sequence, update the communication structure with additional fields, output by EDI, email, fax, print out and Ariba Supplier Network
• Version management for external purchasing documents and revise fields relevant for change
• Implemented BAdI for Customer screens, tax jurisdiction code from delivery address, price determination
• Configured new account assignment categories, confirmations, partner determination, quota arrangement.
• Country settings and checks, unit of measurements, set up transactions and screen variants, time zones
• Activate business function sets LOG MM CI 2&LOG MM MAA 1 and implemented enhancement points
• Configured Document Management system for SRM, PR, PO, Vendor master, labels and specifications
• Extensively used classification for release strategies and vendor categorization, monitoring and reporting
• Set up IBAN for European banks, tax fields for Brazil, Argentina, South Korea, set up industries
• Extensively worked on the extended withholding tax for 1099 reporting and 1042S Foreign Vendor WHT
• Configured many new vendor account groups for third party, manufacture, inter-company, clinical, legal, employee, strategic, forwarding agents, plants, one time, ordering and remittance vendors
• Subsequent (End-of-Period Rebate) Settlement by maintaining rebate agreements for high volume items
• Configured MRP types, special procurement types, procurement proposals, forecast, order profiles
• External services management including blanket orders with services and limits suing service master
• Plant parameters, maintain copy rules, availability check, set tolerances limits, Rough goods receipt etc
• Activate user exit to update the tracking number, batch numbers from PO to material document
• Built a tool for auto closing POs and web based application using DCI & Final invoice flag, Latest GR date.
• Expertise in Subcontracting, vendor consignment, Stock transport order and third-party processing
• Defined split valuation, valuation control, valuation classes and configured automatic postings
• Configured tolerance, variances, Invoice & GTS bocks; developed a program for notification of the blocks
• Configured Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS) and Consignment settlement processes

Confidential, Frazer, PA

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed cross functional impact assessment and resolved upgrade related issues
• Resolved complex cross functional technical issues focusing on P2P, Finance, SOM and Interfaces
• China deployment, Thermacare rollout, PO communication and Confidential integration
• Provided solutions for China tax pricing, alternative currency and language translations
• Designed and implemented SRM hosted catalogs in Chinese language using CCM / SRM for improved buying experience and reduced procurement cycle time and cost.
• Involved in rollout of ERP for Thermacare engaged in manufacture of heat wraps based on the global model including analysis, configuration, data conversion, testing and cut-over.
• Managed, Designed and delivered project for Purchase Order emails and output strategy
• Involved in PO output changes, logo changes, ownership change for Confidential integration.
• PO closure project Required for Internal Audit, SOX and Legal Compliance Requirements, Increase and enforce Confidential internal policy compliance, improved data integrity
• Supplier enablement and Global Catalog Content Manager
• Managed a project to stream line supplier enablement processes and catalog content
• Define business processes, technical activities, approval paths, templates, RACI charts and tools for implementing and managing punch-out, internal hosted and third party catalogs.
• Train and develop near shore team to support the SRM and CCM processes globally.
• Enable multi-lingual and multi-currency catalogs and create cook books for the sites.
• Master data Governance & Process Project and Vendor master workflow project
• Designed improved master data management policy, data standardization, validations, global integration, processes and controls addressing inconsistent policy, procedures for adding/changing master records, lack of reporting to monitor compliance and inability to delete/archive inactive records and in corporate applicable best practices and effective reporting.
• Created a controlled, reliable and single authoritative source of global vendor master data that supports purchasing, payables, manufacturing quality, compliance, vendor/supplier analysis and reporting globally utilizing Enterprise portal, ECC, BSP pages and workflow.
• Define Enterprise master data management strategy, clear ownership and governance practices for business, finance, purchasing and IT; ensure policy compliance, track metrics, report performance, oversee corrective actions and data quality; Transaction logging & monthly exception reportingof critical changes
• Designed solutions for access control and authorization based on policy and process objectives, automated user maintenance, fully automated vendor add / change through controlled workflow, capture / retrieval of supporting vendor documents,
• Developed reports to capture vendor adds/ changes supporting compliance and performance monitoring;
• Established ongoing, automated data risk analysis program (e.g., watch lists, fraud detection); Established comprehensive vendor clean-up consistent with data standards & routine deactivation of non-active vendors;
• Provided solution for creating employees as vendors complying with safe harbor regulations.
• SRM 5.5 implementation including EBP, CCM, LA & BE and integration with ECC, HR, Portal, Identity Management and SuS.
• Worked on SRM 5.5 implementation with EBP, LAC, BE and CCM components.
• Also involved in enhancements, support for SAP ECC worldwide deployments as an SME.
• Involved in requirement gathering, feasibility study, Gap Analysis, mapping business processes and writing Functional Specifications for SRM implementation.
• Designed and implemented master data interface with ECC, data conversions, and maintenance processes and data migration strategy.
• Expert in configuring organization structure, Indirect Procurement, Plan Driven Procurement, Service Procurement and Self Service Procurement with classic and extended classic modes
• Proposed solutions that reflect underlying strategic business needs and industry best practices by generating new perspectives, ideas and innovations.
• Set up ALE interface with SAP HR system and developed a solution for moving old business partner numbers to new organization structure.
• Identified required BADIs, user exits, BAPIs and idoc types to support different processes.
• Rollouts for consumer, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Canada & Germany
• Involved in deployment of SAP global model for Canada and European sites
• SRM organization structure integrated with non-SAP HR systems, country specific pricing, output /currencies
• Alternate data for vendor master using vendor sub range, plant level and partner roles
• Upgrade of core SAP R/3 system from version 4.6C to ECC 5.0 with migration to Portal.
• Trained and Certified on FDA regulated Business Processes/Enterprise Computer Systems, Policies and Procedures for Pharmaceutical Industries.
• Resolve system fallouts due to upgrade in Core R/3, EBP, ITS and workplace systems
• Standardize and fine-tune core R/3 with newer functionalities/ document attachments as available in ECC 5.0
• Business Process Analysis MM, QM, WM, IM, B2B, workplace and Interfaces Modules
• Analyze and Identify the critical and custom transactions in materials management and EBP
• Documentation of Test Scripts as per Confidential Documentation Methodology and GxPharma
• Create Integration Test Scripts; Execute and document Integration Test Scripts
• Co-ordinate with B2B, APO, EDI and BW teams to Identify and Execute Key Interfaces
• Co-ordinate with WM/IM, QM, SD, FI/CO teams to Identify and Execute Key touch points

Confidential, Houston, TX

Solution/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the project right from the initial phase of gathering, reviewing, analyzing and mapping the processes for global & regional requirements and building global template.
• Designed system architecture, data conversions, maintenance processes for all procurement masters - Vendor, info record, source list and contracts including interfaces and partners.
• Designed, developed and implemented acquisition processes involving sourcing, purchasing including requisitions, auto purchase orders, release strategy, third party, sub-contracting, message determination, partner determination, inventory management including 3PL and legacy systems, invoice verification / ERS.
• Provided leadership to master data reference forums, integration points with PP, SD, FI modules, components like APO, BW & GTS and partner systems like Xelus, iCost etc, Initiated process reengineering leading to best-converged business processes, testing, problem resolution process & super user training.
• Actively involved in all deployments / roll outs for Europe, North America, Latin America including region specific config, development, testing, move to production, conversion, cut-over processes, retirement plans, training, partner coordination and warranty support. Regularly involved in SAP standardization processes.
• Developed high quality documents at all stages of the implementation including Gap requirement documents, application design documents and business process procedures.
• Provided expert and practical solutions for unique and challenging applications, systems and processes using vanilla SAP and extensive use of BAPIs, FMs and standard IDocs.
• SME in output & communications R/3 utilizing workflow, SCOT, Outlook, MAPI, XML & IDocs.
• Designed interface between SAP and web application and B2B communications
• Upgrade to mySAP ERP2004 release 5.0 SR1and the Web Application Server will be on the latest version 6.4 and be integrated with Netweaver ‘04 capabilities.
• Analyze the existing business processes in light of new capabilities & asses upgrade impact.
• Plan for upgrade development, unit testing, integration testing & support move to production
• Identify appropriate custom code that can be removed as part of upgrade / solution standardization releases.
• Confidential Marketplace is a secure, web-based eProcurement & B2B tool that allows for hosting application with a customized online catalog to automate their procurement processes and uses Microsoft’s BizTalk technology. Designed end to end solution architecture middle ware and gateways.
• The process includes purchase requisitions, purchase orders, advanced ship notifications and goods receipt for project based and cost assigned procurements. Worked on integration points with project systems, finance and EDI teams. Developed mapping specification and implementation guide.
• Web Application tool using SAP WebAS and XI.Project initiated to design and develop WebAS portal and integration with R/3 using XI as part of NetWeaver CoE initiative to define & showcase SAP NetWeaver baseline solution.
• Managed the Proof of Concept project for building a standard solution to support supply chain & procurement processes including back order processing and vendor confirmations.
• The process includes purchase orders, PO releases, acknowledgments, confirmations and goods receipt and managed services. This includes XI configuration & integration with SAP.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed on-site and off-shore team engaged in support functions including root cause identification in transactions, ABAP/4 programs, ALE/EDI/ IDocs, short dumps and Implementation of existing models for new regions, project readiness assessment management, Implementation, Go-live plans, Post implementation support & documentation, Quality and Unit testing, coordinating with development team, Functional support during wave releases, establishing checkpoints and developing requirement specifications (CSS).
• Successfully integrated SAP R/3 with warehouse management system (DAEI) for Miami hub.
• Streamlined a process for scanning and determining serial numbers & country of origin.
• Trained team on inter-company planning and execution of Compaq business models.

Confidential

SAP R/3 Implementation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and mapping business processes, configuring business processes to take care of the integration aspects, executed transactions for validation of baseline configuration, Refine Baseline Configuration as per feedback from end-user, Training the end-user on SAP functionality’s, Integration testing, Finalization of layout sets and reporting requirements.
• Successfully designed, developed and implemented Software Technology Park (STP) Process not available in Standard SAP System, MRO procurement processes.
• SAP Interconnect - iProcurement (Oracle) Integration Project aimed at integrating SAP R/3 and iProc.
• SAP external interface configuration involving defining logical systems, ports, RFC’s, BAPI’s. Development of Idoc segments, types, message types, process codes and function modules. Configuring partner profiles, distribution models, meta-data exports and message control.
• Managed design and Configuration of SAP R/3 system and OIP adopter to manage entire procurement cycle from Purchase requisition to invoice verification including masters.

Confidential

SAP Implementation Practice Leader MM

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business procedures, reporting, integration, conversion and authorization requirements, documenting the AS IS study, blue printing the TO BE business procedure, developed Interfaces
• Identified baseline Scope, Developed & configured business processes in SAP. Developed test plan, roll out / cut-over / implementation strategy & processes.
• Master & legacy data upload & reconciliation of the data.
• Carried out Integration testing for validation of baseline configuration, refined baseline configuration for gaps.
• Instrumental in designing and developing transactions to map newsprint procurement, transfers and goods issues, by developing custom programs and interfaces and use of classification, variant configuration, batch determination, pricing procedures.
• Analyzed business process requirements, designed SAP solution & implementation plan, and configured SAP for enterprise structure, master data & business processes. Underwent on the job SAP training version 3.1G.

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• A statutory body, engaged in extending expertise, technical and financial assistance to all types of Industrial & Service enterprises.
• In charge of Technical and Computer Services department at District Office.
• Evaluate feasibility of ERP software like Oracle financials etc.
• Industrial Consultancy, Technical, Financial Appraisals and Viability studies.
• Machinery & Material Sourcing, Purchasing, valuations and Invoice Verification, Computerized asset tracking & account application.
• Financial analysis, asset classification, sanctions, loan portfolio management etc.
• Management Information system, Loan appraisal system and Financial Analysis and Asset Classification package.