PROFILE:

A motivated, results oriented, Integration Manager with a proven track record in managing complex projects. Recognized as an effective project manager with the ability to organize, prioritize and make decisions, while operating under demanding timelines. Possesses a strong work ethic and drive to achieve objectives with a sense of personal accountability and responsibility.

SUMMARY:

• 17 Years of extensive experience in managing SAP Projects.(Total experience of more than 24 years).
• Presently working as a Integration Manager responsible for managing team of senior Business Analysts for designing / ensuring global processes across different modules with SAP as an enabler at Clearwater Seafoods LP .
• Led teams for initiating and supporting the business in successful implementation of cost reduction initiatives. Handled transformation initiatives in many cross functional areas including OTC/PTP/RTR resulting in annual savings of $3 million and above per year.
• End to End Implementation & Support experience on various projects including Business Blueprint development, mapping business requirements, Realization, UAT/Training & User Manual preparation, Cut - over & Go-Live and post Implementation support.
• Led teams for implementation (9 projects) and support (4 projects) for successful project delivery.
• An excellent team player and Pro-active trouble shooter with strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills who can initiate changes and implement new processes in challenging and diverse environments
• Have led teams for AS-IS study and preparation of TO-BE in Order to Cash .
• Worked on identification of process GAPs & preparation of training documents including delivering user training for Order to Cash.
• Have good general knowledge of Record to Report, Logistics, Plan to Manufacture, Procure to Pay, Data, Business Intelligence, Testing, Security, Infrastructure, Development, Change Management and have in depth knowledge of Order to Cash and Project Management.
• Have extensive experience in working with multi-vendor and leading offshore/remote teams.

SKILS SUMMARY:

Project Management

IT Project Lifecycle

Technical

Planning & Scheduling

Monitoring & Execution

Change Management

Client Relationship Management

Requirements Analysis

Business process improvement

Testing/QA/Rollout/Support

SAP ECC6.0

SAP BI

System Integration

SAP PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Integration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prioritization and scheduling work across business processes to achieve key common business goals.
• Responsible for organizing and leading a cross - functional team in development of integrated business processes, implementing project deliverables, with an emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency
• Responsible for providing technical direction and control of project personnel and for providing a framework for project planning, communications, reporting, procedural and contractual activity.
• Proactively identify changes in scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken to assess the impact on budget and timeline.
• Analyze risk and establish contingency plans to mitigate.
• Oversight and solution architect responsibilities for E2E processes and functional solution
• Management of SAP integration points through an integration strategy
• Tactical management of functional streams including creating templates and standards across streams, reviewing quality and consistency of work products and solutions, detailed planning, holistic risk mitigation and issues management, and options analyses for cross-stream decisions
• Managed SAP Service pack upgrade project as Project lead with Project Manager reporting to me.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• My role had a governance approach that allows for oversight of and accountability in Sales and Operations planning for Continuous Improvements
• Process Management.
• Identification of pain points.
• Breakdown of barriers.
• My role is also instrumental in implementing a global process ownership model thus breaking down silos by identifying and standardizing high performing and value added processes throughout the organization.
• My role also drived visibility and continuous improvement through metrics and best practices targets.

Confidential

Business Analyst, Sales and Distribution

Responsibilities:

• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines.
• Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data.
• Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project.
• Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Managed SAP HR upgrade project as additional responsibility at Confidential which fulfilled all objectives as laid down by business.

Confidential

SAP Manager ANZ deployment

Responsibilities:

• I was involved in all phases of the implementation, including blueprinting, gap analysis, mapping, prototypes, design, configuration, testing, go-live, user training and post production support.
• I was also responsible to deliver both a complex and comprehensive business solution. Lead other project consultants in setups, life cycle activities and ensure integration best practices are followed.
• I defined strategy, review deliverables for quality assurance purposes justified the business case, develop implementation plans, track progress against plans, provide expert functional and SAP recommendations to the team and the client, keep client informed and help him in understanding the process.
• Understanding the AS IS business process of Confidential, globally which included determining customer requirements and processes by gathering information concerning business needs and improvement opportunities.
• Designing the TO BE business process and documenting the same, in terms of PDD / PFL / URS.
• Analyzing and documenting the GAP resolutions.
• Configuring the SAP system, for mapping the agreed TO BE Global business processes (for UK,US, Canada) which included
• Enterprise structure configuration, definition of Sales document types, Item categories, Schedule lines and determination of Item category/ Schedule lines.
• ATP: Availability checks, Transfer of requirements, requirement types/classes, define procedures for schedule line categories/requirements class, availability check checking groups/rules.
• Consignment Process - Fill up, Issue, Pick Up and Return
• To establish a confidence relationship with the client by demonstrating strong knowledge of functional best practices and SAP standard functions.
• To have a critical eye on customer business requirements and other modules team requirements to keep a coherent OTC solution.
• To support the team as a single point of contact for Solution Manager and Consultant Assistant.
• To plan the implementation of system changes by preparing project plans, time lines and integration testing plans.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP Solution Manager 4.0

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide Application Support (break/fix, enhancements, monitoring, testing) for the MM and cross module.
• Configure PO Document type, Number ranges and field status.
• Implemented SAP Functions: Vendor Evaluation, Release Strategies, and Procurement of External services.
• To Plan and execute Regression, Unit and Integration testing of MM module

Confidential

SAP Order to Cash Testing Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Test Scripts
• Validate Existing Test Scripts
• Understand the process for which a test script is created
• Create test data basing on the test script specifications
• Document the test results
• Highlight the failure of the test scripts to the concerned module lead .
• If any interfaces are connected to SAP, check with the interface owners if the data sent from SAP is received in the correct format.
• Secure sign off the test script results from the client

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP Solution Manager 4.0

Confidential

SAP SD AMS Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted / Participated in the requirement gathering workshops and understood the (As - is) business requirements, evaluated alternative solutions and designed the best possible (To-be) solution. I had been part of all the requirement gathering workshops for all the SD processes.
• Worked in co-ordination with other cross-module (LE/PP/WM/FI) teams to understand the Integration points and designed the solution to meet the cross-module requirements of the Client.
• Created / Delivered Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Process Design documents (PDDs) for SD processes as a part of team. I had been instrumental in delivering the blueprints for Order Management, Delivery, Billing processes.
• Lead / conducted the business sign-off workshops and got the business sign-off for the most of designed SD Process.
• Developed Key Data Structure (KDS), Data Templates, Data Standards for data collection for Configuration and Master data creation for System realization. I had actively designed Security Role definition and conducted profiles creation.
• Carried configuration and mainly in areas concerning Text and Output Determination, Order Management and captured all the details in the CSP document.
• Created the Functional Specifications for the developments related to SD Module for Outputs, Enhancements and reports.
• Carried out Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Role Testing for the processes spanning SD Module.
• Carried Integration testing with other cross-module teams and Business process owners and got the business Sign-offs.
• Developed the QRG (Quick Reference Guide), Training material and carried training to the Key business users.
• Ensured the entire Configuration, Master Data and other developments related to SD Modules are moved to Production Servers before Go-Live after testing in QA Server.
• Carried out support for some issues arising after go-live.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential

SAP SD AMS Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Handling Day to Day operational issues pertaining to Order to Cash cycle till Excise Invoice creation & Billing and several other changes required from the client side.
• SD Integration with MM, WM, FI-CO & PP for providing perfect SAP solutions to the client requirements.
• Change Request analysis and handling for sales Order to Cash cycle.
• Variant Configuration: Characteristics, Class creation and Configuration profile assignments for the steel depending on different characteristics of steel i.e. finish, grade, thickness. Defining values for variant characteristics, Object dependencies, BOM Structures and worked on variant tables. Variant pricing based on different characteristics.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C

Confidential

Deputy Manager - IT

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the business requirements
• Analyzing the As-Is process and designing the To-be process followed by creation of the PDD documents.
• Analyzing the Gaps and suggesting the required developments / customizations.
• Job Work Billing Type creation and copy control maintenance from Delivery to billing documents.
• Credit Management, Risk categories creation, Simple and Dynamic credit control check
• Delivery Challan cum Debit note/Invoice, Packing list challan creation.
• Sales registers and other customized ABAP reports creation with Technical consultants.
• Plant creation, definition of storage locations, Shipping points, Loading points, Warehouses for FG (warehouse managed).
• Billing: Billing document types, Copy control from Sales & Delivery documents to Billing document types.
• Enterprise Structure, Sales order processing, Pricing, Billing, Rebate agreements, Credit Management, Availability checks, ATP scenarios, Requirement class/types, Revenue Recognition, Account determination.
• LE: Shipping documents, shipping pricing procedure, shipment costing, transportation, and route determination.
• Inter Company Stock Transfer, Third party Order processing, Output determination configuration.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C

Confidential

SAP SD Core Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of the cross-functional team with SAP implementation partners as SAP SD functional Consultant
• New Process Mapping and configuration according to the user requirements.
• ABAP Reports: Daily Stock movement Reports, Monthly MIS generation and reporting, Sales Reports, Dealer Paid Stock reports and Query developments.
• Responsible for User Manual preparation, UAT (User Acceptance testing) and User trainings and any changes in reports pertaining to SAP (SD) module.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C