CAREER SUMMARY

• A Seasoned SD Solution Architect consultant with 15 years of experience He has expertise in Sales and Distribution, Logistic Execution, Shipping and Transportation, pricing Strategy, billing & Invoice, IS - Oil and Gas Downstream, Bulk Shipment and transportation, Exchange, Hydrocarbon Product Management, SILO management, APO (Advance Planning and optimizer) like GATP, Demand planning, Supply network planning, and Core interface.
• He is a MBA Graduate and a trainer with 2+ years of experience in Project Management. He facilitated business growth across teh project lifecycle, bringing diverse IT projects to successful completion. He possesses good client relationship management skills and has worked with premier clientele like Doosan, Confidential (now Schneider Electric),Apple, Lexmark, Bacardi, Shell, Infineon, Indian Oil Corporation, Tyco Electronics and Nalco Chemicals, etc.
• Good understanding of business processes in Logistics and SCM.
• Good team player, strong team orientation & leadership qualities, hardworking and enthusiastic.
• Very good logical skills suitable for process design, development & implementation.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and Customer Oriented attitude.
• Certified Solution Consultant for SAP Sales and Distribution, Order to Cash and has around 12 years of business and varied industry experience like Mobile, Electronics, electrical, Petrochemical, Oil and Gas, Chemical, High-tech, Sprit and Beverages, Heavy equipment, etc.
• Over 12 years of experience in Technology consulting (IT-SAP), Business consulting, Process consulting.
• Full Life-cycle Implementations, Upgrade, Rollout and Production Support. Has extensive SAP experience in SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) covering SAP components ranging from 4.6C to ECC 6.0. Involved in Upgrades and Post Implementation production support.
• Extensive SAP experience encompasses Solution Architect, Project Implementation, Systems Analysis and Design with Data Gathering, Business Process Blueprinting, System Configuration, testing (unit testing, integration testing and User Accepting testing), User Training, Master Data Build-up and Maintenance and Production / Post Production Support. Extensive experience in SD Integration with SAP LE, MM, WM and FI/CO.
• Ability to work independently and in groups. He has assisted in instituting improvements for better management workflow. He is a goal driven problem solver, creative, analytic, well organized. He has progressively developed his inter-personal and communication skills. He demonstrates record of high performance including attention to schedules, deadlines and quality work. Good understanding of general business processes.
• International exposure having worked in USA, France, Geneva, Malaysia apart from India.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, ND

SD Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Integration of current SAP system with Amber road compliance Management system to simplify, automate and streamline global trade operation.
• Analyze& define business processes.
• Functional requirements document - gather functional requirements
• Analyse& define technical process.
• Detail design document (including integration details & technical requirements)
• Configure system to meet design requirements.
• Material master, customer master data inventory analysis.
• Develop and test inbound /outbound programs.
• Mapping of Customer master and material master fields in Amber road Product master and customer master fields.
• Data Migration of customer master and Material master to Amber road.
• Mass loading and delta loading of master data.
• Data validation a Unit testing.

Confidential, Boston, MA

SD Lead, Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of ECC 6.0 SD in Professional Service environment.
• Process re-engineering across all entity, Global process requirement gathering, workshop, designing, building solution, testing, Data Migration, integration testing.
• Data Migration strategy for Transactional and master data.
• Integration with sales force Gimmal Documental solution for Contract and Project.
• Procurement process for sub-contractor and payment to vendor and Intercompany billing process for teh offshore resourcing.
• Contract management, Resource Related Billing, integration with Project System, HCM and FI/CO.
• Rev Rec specific to Service industry like result analysis, milestone billing, straight line method, event based billing and rev rec.
• Prototype solution development, end-to-end presentation to business.
• Building RICEFW objects, solution as per business process requirement.
• Creation of BPP and subsequent workshop for sign off.
• Design implementation of communication method like email and print output to end customer and internal use.
• BI/BW reports, like utilization, commission calculation, time entry, cost and profit margin report.
• End-user training and training documentation.

Confidential, Boston, M

Material master

Responsibilities:

• Data conversion Plan.
• Data Inventory assessment, source system identification and defining ownership of data.
• Data cleaning in source system and finalizing cut off date.
• Mapping and conversion rules.
• Extraction program and load program rules.
• Adjusting rules and modifying program after testing.
• Initial load and mass load testing.
• Fixing mass load issues.
• Full load to test environment.
• Mock load to pre-production environment.
• Data validation and sign off from Business object owners.
• Cutover plan and accommodation of delta change data.
• Full load into production System.
• Validation report in Production system.

Confidential, Foxboro, MA

SAP Lead

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of ECC 6.0 Sales and distribution.
• Migration of Legacy system data to SAP, material master, customer master, condition records, sales order, sales order and material master with variant configuration. Material variant materials.
• Global process requirement gathering, workshop, designing, building solution, testing, Data Migration, integration testing.
• Design and implementation of drop shipment, intercompany process, make to order, make to stock, variant configuration, material variant processes, business rules, exception rules, use of logical operators, variant pricing, reporting.
• Drop ship, Project and Warranty order fulfilment.
• Repair and return service management related pricing, project orders pricing.
• Integration with MM, PP, FICO for teh OTC processes.
• Taxware implementation for USA.
• SAP pricing process global and regional, sales order costing, variant pricing.
• EDI-IDOC configuration, monitoring, error handling.
• Data migration from legacy to SAP, customer master, material master, opens sales order, pricing, customer material info records.
• Cutover strategy, plan and execution.
• Batch job and variant creation, sequence, monitoring.
• Design implementation of communication method like email and print output to end customer and internal use.
• End-user training and training documentation.
• Planned and implemented Continuous process improvement

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

ITUNE Gift Card Lead

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of ITunes Gift card processes in Apple retail store, third party retail store, and reseller across Geography. Apple DC.
• Setting up new materials for of ITUNE music, video, album sales in various channels.
• Setting up new DC, Reseller and ITUNE Gift card and gift certificate process roll out.
• Design and requirement gathering for implementation of new business processes.
• Integration with other non-SAP system.
• Integration testing end to end in multiple systems.
• Prototype solution preparation and presentation to business,
• Test strategy, integration test, user acceptance testing, post deployment test.
• Integration with X-card system.

Confidential

OTC OM and DIST Lead

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and Unit Testing
• Business Process Procedures
• Interfaces, enhancements, etc.
• Data analysis, Data conversion, Data loading
• Unit testing, String testing, integration testing, regression testing, volume performance testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Super user Training, end user training material
• Prepare Global Deployment
• Performing and transporting software configuration
• Review and Analyze functional Specs and discuss requirements with process team.
• Coding and testing RICEF developments
• Documenting teh steps to support teh business processes in teh system
• Final software configuration, cutover and continuity planning, interim Business procedures, test planning, RICEF unit testing.
• EDI-IDOC configuration, monitoring, error handling.
• Knowledge transfer from Project team to support team.
• Post go live War room, defect resolution and pilot support.
• Post go live primary support in OTC order management and Distribution.
• Critical Business requirement fix, solution.
• GTS Implementation with SAP and support. Material screening, sanction party list screening, embargo check, etc. Export related document printing.
• Integration with EWM and 3PL system.