SUMMARY

• Over 20 years of experience in various SAP and non SAP systems. Experienced liaison between IT and business team.
• Proficient in multiple technologies and applications. Experienced in Project Management, Business and System Integration, Solution Architecture, Business System Analysis and Software Testing.
• Experience in consumer goods industry. Multiple SAP Full Life Cycle Implementations.
• Solid functional and technical experience with EDI transactions with customer, warehouse, 3PL/4PL party systems, integration mapping and testing. Knolwedgeable on integration methodologies IDOC, FTP, HTTP, SOAP.
• Experience in requirements gathering/documenting, collaborating with various teams, design, testing, go live/post go live support.
• Strong expertise in WM/LE functional areas of Deliveries, Pick/Pack strategies, Handling Units, customer Shipments, Inter company shipments, Warehouse structure in WM system, storage location control, Inbound and Outbound deliveries, HU management, storage Unit Management, Physical inventory, Mobile Data Applications, Customer ASNs.
• Sound understanding of SAP Master Data (Customer, Material, Vendor) components with proficient knowledge of the SAP Tools (LSMW,BAPI’s) needed to help with extract and load data.
• Experience in evaluating, integrating with SAAS and on premise 3rd party solutions. Involved in installation, configuration, data load, training and post go live support.
• Architected warehouse automation solutions - ASRS, WCS, Voice picking, Telematics.
• Led proof of concept teams for emerging technologies. Partnered with SAP, Microsoft on initiatives.
• Experienced in documenting AS IS and TO BE solution architecture. Reviewing application portfolio and developing transition strategy.
• Knowledge in developing and performing unit testing, scenario testing and integration testing for most SD/MM/WM functionalities.
• Proven coordination skills between various team, balancing on-site and off-shore work schedules

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP ECC 6.0, BI, SNC, EAM, APO, SAP MM, WM, LE, LSMW

Software Application: Microsoft Office, MS Visio,EDI, Sharepoint, PI, Web Methods, TIBCO, MQ Series, MII, Ortec LEO, ARIS, ITS Mobile, LSMW, JIRA, WEBI, OTM, JDA, AS/400

Methodologies: ASAP Implementation Methodology, SDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Engaged in the divestiture between Confidential and Procter & Gamble. Engaged in the Design, Testing and implementation of Warehousing, Transportation, and Order management operations to efficiently operate in SAP ECC. As part of the business operations team involved in activities from production planning, warehousing, logistics, order management and invoicing.
• Liaison between business operations team, IT, 3rd party 3PL/4PL warehouse and transportation companies to develop business processes and enable interfaces between SAP, JDA, OTM.
• Documented the Business Process for Customer Deliveries/Inter Plant replenishments, Customer ASN transmissions, Physical Inventory process and technical Interfaces between the various systems. Facilitated the XML mapping sessions between the internal IT teams and 3PL/4PL managed warehouses.
• Facilitated the business and technical process between Confidential and CHEP/PECO systems. Co- ordinated the connection protocols and testing activities based on the updated supply chain network within Confidential .
• Led requirement sessions for new capabilities in transportation - pool points, customer pickup shipment process, enabling dedicated carriers for specific transportation lanes, consolidation of orders, direct production to 3PL shipments, automating goods receipt process, introduction of new lanes for domestic/international shipments. Analyzed changes required within Confidential SAP system and 3rd party partners. Led design discussions, tracked development progression, testing sessions and go live.
• Based on updated supply chain network, additional 3rd party distribution centers were added and decommissioned, partners for production centers changed, new software packages introduced. Actively involved in defining the business process changes between production - warehouse distribution and customer shipments. Facilitated the technical design sessions, testing and go live implementation.
• Led the testing and issue resolution between cross functional teams SD/MM/FI/PP/WM. Escalated critical customer ASN interface issues to teams, as needed. Provided training to users on the system process and work processes.
• Participated in on boarding of new Warehouse partners. Discussed EDI 888, 850, 940, 856, 944 and 947 transmission mapping into SAP IDOC. Participated in discussions to deliberate between EDI vs SOAP protocols.
• Participated in the digitalization initiative and developed BI analytics requirements for Supply Chain using BObj Webi developed on SAP HANA S4 platform.
• Over 5 SAP life cycle implementations. Managed projects from requirements gathering to go live implementation.

Business Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Captured the AS IS telematics offering by Michelin partnering with multiple service providers.
• Facilitated design sessions between the service providers to design integration patterns and protocols. Identified FTP, WebServices options for exchanging transmissions.
• Prepared the Business process and Solution Architecture. Assisted with the strategic business planning for the solution.
• Enabled implementation of JIRA for project management and established processes for SDLC.

Supply Chain Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The solution introduces automatic case picking using robotic devices, conveyers, cascading devices and software that manage the robots. The robots were designed to receive the pallets that need to be built and delivered with optimum efficiency. Partnered with the vendor and internal manufacturing team to design the solution to interface with SAP Warehouse Management. The solution spans across multiple domains - Network, Security, Windows servers, Integration and SAP development.
• Identified the interfaces between SAP ECC and robotics software needed, for the solution to efficiently execute the replenishment process and provide visibility to the Inventory. Worked with the Integration team to confirm the protocol for the interface, and appropriately used IDOCs, web services and database update protocols.
• Ensured data compliance based on security policies of the organization and adhered to the Network arhitecture patterns.
• Highlighted the need for the automated solution to work independently during a planned/unplanned SAP outage and designed a back up plan.
• Partnered with the Project Manager in identifying the roles and level of engagement needed from the Integration, Development, Mobile, Workstation, Network and Security teams. Prepared the list of tasks and activities to be executed by each of the teams. Worked with developers closely to ensure the technical solution for each RICEFW object was implemented correctly and efficiently.
• Decommissioned legacy Fleet Maximo system and introduced SAP EAM solution. The base model was designed to scale for more than 50 facilities and 100 users. Eliminated paper documents and improved efficiency with a more real time preventive work orders and reactive orders in SAP EAM.
• Introduced mobile tablets to be used by mechanics for maintenance orders. Rendered SAP solution on iPads configured using ITS mobile.
• Compared functionality between Maximo and SAP EAM solution and assisted in SAP EAM configuration. Leveraged functionalities of Plant Maintenance for Interoperability.
• Collaborated the cross functional integration with SAP BI and FI team to develop a dashboard.
• Documented the process in ARIS BPM and updated the SAP transactions for the process. Used the BPM process in the training sessions.
• Led development and configuration of the ITS mobile solution on iPads. Co-ordinated between the development and implementation teams.
• Presented the solution in SAP SCM conference 2012.