SUMMARY

• Working with SAP - TM for the last 8 Years, which includes 2 years of support & 6 years of global implementation. Has completed four Full Life Cycle Implementations on TM, supported multiple SAP Upgrade projects, 10+ Production releases and hyper care support from onsite / production plants / DC.
• Have a good exposure on Freight Booking export processes which includes Ocean & AIR booking. Worked on implementing freight booking process and supporting the same from process lead perspective.
• Have exposure on upgrade from SAP TM 9.1 to SAP TM 1909 especially on Custom report & Master data relevant requirements.
• Extensively worked with SAP TM tendering process and integrated EDI with carrier and coordinated EDI & carrier integration from client side. Have completed two Go live & hyper care support on Ocean & Air Booking integration & Shipment process.
• Actively participated in Analysis, Development, Testing, and functional Support on intercompany Domestic transportation process
• Extensively Worked on SAP TM Order scheduling functionality for high value 3M customer facing dating requirements. Also generated a custom table in ERP which is a replica of TM scheduling methodology for 3M client which reduced 60% of scheduling performance.
• Worked on Direct shipment option, Direct to trailer, on SAP SD and SAP MM support projects for more than a year which brought in-depth knowledge on SAP TM at the initial phases.
• Have exposure on forwarding quotation and forwarding order integrations on LSP Cycle have done POC for couple of LSP client from Confidential .
• Engaged on all the SAP TM release and its upgrades. Have done upgrades from 8.1 to till 9.5 for several clients. Good skillset on latest stand-alone SAP TM 9.5 system and worked a short implementation role on Nestle client.
• Expertise in TM queue clearing, order integration, and post-processing framework. Resolved and brought the permanent solution for nearly 100+ integration error messages on PPO2 (Post-processing framework). And recently worked on a project to automate all the XML integration to process and trigger mail business users and resolve with Splunk tool.
• Very good understanding and customizing on BOBF (Business object processing frame work) and with its associations. Also have good experience on working with PPF (Post processing framework) functionality, PCF (Process control framework) functionality and very basic level understanding on FPM (Floor Plan Manager).
• Good skill on setting up standard and custom POWL queries for clients and longterm experience on enhancing POWL queries and worklist with adding editing custom and standard fields and its functionalities.
• Better understanding of SAP GTS and SAP EWM businesses and its functional process flow. Attended training from Confidential /SAP to have better TM to GTS & TM to Ewm integrations. Managed GTS and EWM support team for nearly for a year in 3M client. From the Intercompany Export scenario perspective, developed and coordinated GTS and EWM integration with TM.
• Have experience in managing people and business teams on various implementation & testing cycles. Have completed nearly 10+ huge testing cycles in 3M which includes coordination with 4 freight forwarder and complex inter & intracompany export scenarios.
• Worked on Agile delivery methodology for 4 years and have knowledge on, Scrum, Jira, Hpalm (QC) tools, Splunk, MS Power BI.
• Excellent interpersonal and Communication skills with Hard Working, highly self-motivated, goal-oriented professional committed by demonstrating strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to follow through projects from inception to completion.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Eagan - Minnesota

SAP TM Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Focused to create functional specification documents for S4 HANA 1909 upgrades requirements, especially on custom reports and on master data related custom developments.
• Exposure to work with SAP ACM Team (Agricultural commodity management) and on a client which has commodity-based products.
• Responsible to write functional specification and to work with PI on developing mapping document for EDI 300, EDI 301, & EDI 304 which for Freight forwarder integration
• Focused to develop and work on Rail & Road related report which includes development “Average rate per lane” (of any lane and duration which user wants) & “Rail/Road health report”

Confidential, St. Paul

SAP TM/Logistics & Intercompany Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed and worked on Ocean and Air fright booking process for US Export scenarios. 3M Export process and its interfaces are with the client's primary freight forwarders like DHL, CEVA, Kuehne Nagel & Expeditors and many of those scenarios were with complex interfaces used, where I had to accommodate 3M legacy & current SAP trends. This intercompany export scenario involves 4 major export processes like Ocean consolidation at 3PL, Air Consolidations, Ocean Direct and Border crossing truck shipment.
• Export process has extremely high visibility to the client, not only is it of high value but also has many legal regulatory requirements that must be met. On top of working on these export interface implementations, coordinated freight forwarders as a primary point of contact from 3M, where myself able to complete and coordinate many end-to-end testing’s with 3M SAP team and forwarders(3PL’s) at various stages of implementation.
• Enabled and worked with TM to GTS direct standard integration for export deceleration request from TM. Which passes shipment information’s to GTS & get back a confirmation from GTS with ITIN fields.
• As a product owner, created and resolved defects on hyper care period and testing cycles on SAP EM process. Completed end to end testing on milestones from 3PL -> SAP EM -> SAP TM and update back to GTS if its export event for a post export filing.
• Recently worked with Splunk tool to automate the export process in SAP ECC & TM. example, Triggering Email for long run inbound XML/EDI from 3PL, Clearing and raising support incident creation for standard TM-ECC shipment integration, Incident creation for outbound IDOC failures.
• Familiar with handling EDI, XML and IDOC, AL11 PI file share. We had to use all these 4 mediums in the single data flow from 3PL to SAP TM.
• Also, developed many reports in MS Power BI tool for leadership with the help of Hana reporting team. Also created many SOP for client team and managed them as an architect and process owner perspective.

Confidential St. Louis-Missouri

SAP TM Architect

Responsibilities:

• Focused to provide additional support to TM architect team to copy the functionalities and upgrade from SAP TM 8.1 to latest TM system TM 9.5. Worked on enabling standard domestic and Truck export flow into SAP TM 9.5 which includes integrations between ECC to TM, TM to EM, and integration with external event management system.
• Acted as secondary responsible and worked with senior SAP EM consultant for SAP TM - SAP EM Integrations for handling the Execution events on Freight Unit, Freight documents from 3PL. These interfaces needed tasks like, enabling Transportation milestones/statuses through EDI214/240/856, setting up Event codes and needed External mappings with middleware.
• Worked with the client team to analyze their requirements, prepare and participate in workshops, Job aid / user guide document preparation and requirement documentation
• Closely worked with SAP to bridge the Gap with respect to SAP TM 9.5 upgrades, Standard order integration and SAP EM integrations perspective. Nearly identified and worked on 12+ major standard bugs with SAP.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP TM - Manager

Responsibilities:

• Focused to support at the time of Hypercare on plant for Confidential client and successfully coordinated cutover tasks and go live/hyper care gate pass. Visited NGC major production plant for first 3 weeks of hyper care ex: Illinois Waukegan and Marryland, Belcamp plant.
• Tendering and subcontracting: - Major concentration to implement standard tendering and subcontracting process from SAP transportation management through EDI communication for major carriers which involves setting up automated “peer to peer tendering” and flexibility to do manual “broadcast” methodology as a secondary option.
• Scenario’s and processes which was taken care as part of implementation, Cut over task and (or) as part of hypercare support:
• Complete end to end TM integrations with ERP system.
• End to end standard Domestic process in TM. Complete Cockpit setup for each plant user for freight order creation
• Tested all the BOL and packing list generation forms at plants. Major focus to support BOL/ Packing list generation support at the plant.
• Standard Freight charge and settlement processes.
• Shipments creation and standard error handling at the time of ECC shipment updates based on client requirements.
• Was able to work with couple of OSS messages with SAP for standard bugs.

Confidential, St. Paul

SAP TM Functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a TM consultant, involved from initial SAP TM rollout projects on 3M and successfully deployed TM solution to 6 countries in NA and EMEA regions.
• Successfully maintained client relationship for more than 2 years on support role and delivered SAP TM upgrade (TM8.1 to 9.1) involved in gap analysis, clean up activity, Business process test script review, various testing cycles, go live support and hyper care support.
• Provided hyper care support for 5 to 6 Go lives in 3M and nearly 7 testing cycles (PIT/UAT) for export and domestic freight booking process (Ocean/Air Freight booking).
• Developed and coordinated as a single point of contact for other process members, for transportation business and support team on these aspects ->
• Managing all the BG jobs from transportation standpoint.
• Primary contact for Pre Go-Live task (Kanban-cut over task) from LEX- TM module.
• CIF: Monitoring and altering at every release. Managing its automated process.
• Default route & transportation lanes and ERP routes updates coordinator.
• Post-processing framework, PPO2 ERP<->TM inbound and outbound queue clearing
• TM delivery trigger and its automated jobs for each country and plants. Creating and managing their selection profiles.
• Direct to trailer (Shortcut freight order planning) & Freight unit merge enhancement
• VLPOD - For Export Scenario
• Handled support incidents on below mentioned additional TM areas on top of other above mentioned areas.
• Scope change configuration for already Live countries
• Business process clarifications and changes
• ERP - TM integration issues, TM - EM integration issues
• Settlement related queries and incident. Issues related to VIM posting against TM settlement.
• Route, T- lane update (TM master data update/CIF update)
• BRF Condition creation and condition updates.
• Support incident to analyze PCF (Change controller strategies)
• Selection profiles creation and updates
• Carrier selections, low-cost carrier selection determination from DSO rates.
• Altering Fright unit building rule based on new business requirement.
• SAP TM & ERP inbound and outbound queue clearing process.
• XPS rate calls for parcel shipments.
• LSMW loads
• SAP PI (TM- ERP) related fixes.
• Enabled “Freight chargeback” functionality for sale orders and stock transfer orders.
• Provided solution on nearly 100+ inbound and outbound queues error message (ERP and TM side) and on post-processing error messages.
• To reduce the performance time on order scheduling for specific countries due to high volume, created a custom table in SAP ECC which is equivalent to TM order dating functionality.
• Handled and spent 30% of the incident resolution time on LEX, EWM and GTS incident - where I could catch the overall logistic knowledge which includes SAP TM, GTS and EWM.
• Have coordinated and completed end to end integration testing & regression testing as SAP LEX modules coordinator, where I was able to complete GTS, TM, EWM functional flow for nearly 5 times.
• Provided classroom training on every 6 months on SAP LEX and TM processes.
• Involved in all aspects of project implementation i.e. conducting user workshops, documentation of business blueprint design, identification, and documentation of functional gaps, configuration of design, designing of key business reporting, testing, training, preparation of go-live activities and supporting post go-live activities.