PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of experience in SAP R/3 version 4.6C, 4.7 & ECC 6.0 as a MM Functional consultant with more than Two Full Life Cycle Implementation.
• Ability to configure SAP (IMG) to meet specified business requirements.
• Experiences in Integration of MM - IM, MM-SD, MM-FI and MM-PP.
• Experience in implementing SAP R/3 MM modules with expertise in Procure-to-pay cycle configuration (Purchasing, Inventory Management and Invoice Verification).
• Extensive knowledge in MM organizational elements Purchasing Organization, Plant, Storage Location.
• Experienced in Cross Company / Intra Company Stock Transport Orders.
• Experience in Handling of vendor consignments, Pipeline, purchasing Release strategies, Physical Inventory.
• Experience in Master Data: Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, and Source List.
• Specialized in Output Determination, Maintaining Output Condition records Purchasing Document types, and Number ranges.
• Specialized in Configuring and customizing of Purchasing in the Material Management: Contracts (Quantity/Value), Scheduling Agreements, Sub-Contracting, Third party, Frame works.
• Extensively worked on LSMW, SAP Query and MS Excel.
• Good knowledge on EDI and Workflow.
• Extensive knowledge in Procurement, MRP, Master Data.
• Configuring Inventory Management (IM) Parameters for all Goods movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, GR for blocked stock, Goods returns etc.
• Experienced in Batch management and Variant Configuration.
• Plant Maintenance Configuration - Functional locations BOM, Equipment BOM, Serial numbers, Notifications, Maintenance orders and Capacity requirement planning.
• Movement types - Stock transfer and Transfer posting (with special stock types).
• Experienced in MRP Controllers, Special Procurement keys, Document types for Stock Transport Orders
• Proficient in Gap-Analysis, As-Is / To-Be, Blue Print, Configuration, Testing, Training, Documentation and go-live support.
• Good Understanding of ABAP Programming and conversion of data from legacy systems.
• Created Test scripts and Business Process Procedure training documents for Global Roll out.
• Proficient in Logical, analytical, team building and communication skills.

SKILL:

MM Module: configuration of Material Master, Vendor Master, Source List, Info records, vendor evaluation, Account Determination, Valuation, Split Valuation, physical Inventory process, Invoice Verification, Idoc message types, Partner profiles, Idocs, Classes, Characteristics, Classification, Variant configuration, Batch Management, Handling unit Management and MRP.

MMPurchasing: Optimization of purchasing cycle, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, RFQ, Quotation, Release strategy, Condition records, pricing procedure, Subcontracting, Third-party, Consignment, External Procurement, Stock Transport Order, Plant to Plant setup, Scheduling agreements, Quota arrangements, Output control.

WM Module: Configuration and Designing warehouse structure, Define and configuring new Storage Types and storage Bins, put away and stock removal strategies, stock transfers, Assigning warehouse movements types to Inventory movements types, setting up interfaces with IM, PP and SD shipping, Customizing the production integration describe the replenishment strategy for WM staging and set up master data and customizing for processing WM staging, Storage unit management..

PP PI: Defining Profile with Default Values, Recipe Status and Usage, Priority Sequence for Automatic Recipe Selection. Defining Order Types, Order Type Dependent Parameter and Number Ranges, Process Management. Transporting predefined Message Categories, Defining and set up control recipe destination, Defining and Setting up Process Message Categories, Defining Process Message Characteristics and Setting up Message Destinations

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0.

Methodologies: ASAP Methodology, Solution Manager

Operating System: UNIX, Windows 95/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7

Applications: MS-Office Suite, MS-Project, MS-Visio, Lotus Notes, Outlook

Functional Skills: Material Management, Inventory Management, WM, FICO, SD

Reporting Skills: Report Writer & Report Painter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jackson, MI

Sr.SAP MM/FI Functional Consultant

SAP Environment: ECC 6.0, HP QC, Solution Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the existing Specifications, Standardization & Coding to reduce the variety of materials and equipment used in the plant.
• Configuration and Creation of Enterprise Structure.
• Configuration of Material Masters, which includes number range assignment, screen sequence, fields configuration.
• Configuration and creation of new screen sequences and assigning as per user profiles.
• Configuration and creation of new material types.
• Creation of new material groups, purchasing value keys, shipping instructions.
• Configuration of Vendor master, which includes creation of new account groups.
• Configuration of screen layout for vendor master with reference to accounting groups.
• Assignment of number range for vendor master with reference to accounting group.
• Optimized the purchasing cycle of SAP related to Source Determination
• Configuration of purchasing info record and Optimized the purchasing cycle of SAP related to Source Determination.
• Automatic creation of Purchase Order, Release Procedures with Classifications for Purchase Requisition, defined Characteristics and Classes. Created Purchase Orders by referring to Purchase Requisitions & Contracts.
• Configuration of Purchase Requisition, which includes creation new document types and number range assignment.
• Configuration of Release Procedure with classification for Purchase Requisition, which includes creation of characteristic and class. New Release strategies are created as per business requirement.
• Analyzed EDI mapping templates for gaps and suggested fields in the IDOC types(ORDERS,ORDERSP,INVOIC) for procurement of orders placed via EDI.
• Integration with SD, PP, FI implementation team in better functioning of MM-SD, MM-PP MM-FI integration process.
• Conducting the technical seminars and presentations to develop the As-Is and To-Be Documents.
• Study of organizational change management for business impact and risk assessment to identify the risks to be addressed for successful implementation.
• Was Primary team member and responsible for solving the problems/issues with the user, configure and test SAP for change requests, Incident tickets and design and test development objects for the new enhancements needed.
• Support role involved break fixes for Production issues on FI-AP,MM modules and also new Enhancements to facilitate additional functionality requests for the business.
• As an on-site coordinator, worked with the offshore team in India in managing the HP Service Manager for ticket handling for changes and bug fixes to make sure the fixes were done in a timely manner and per the CMS standards.
• Involved in the Test Director testing for the implemented changes.
• Interacted with the client in gathering business requirement, creating business requirement document, and functional design document.
• Created Functional Specification Documents for the enhancements required in AP to enable ABAP programmers to develop custom programs.
• Worked as a liaison between the End-Users and ABAP programmers to cater to the client’s requirements from time to time.
• Involved as one of the senior team members of FI and carried out configuration and enhancements based on the requirements of the client.
• Performed unit, Integration and regression testing and created the test scripts for the tests in HP Quality Center
• Tested AP scenarios: - Vendor master maintenance, vendor invoice and credit memo postings, park and posting parked invoices, automatic payment program for check payments, ACH payments, wire payments, manual outgoing payments, defining check lots, release blocked invoices, cancel vendor invoice posted through invoice verification, price variance, quantity variance, unplanned delivery costs, evaluated receipt settlement printing the check with the existing check number, printing the checks without payment program, cancel payment, reinstate the check information in the check register and AP reporting, void checks, reprint the checks, linking of Vendor documents with EDI
• Helped in documenting Business Process Procedures.
• Responsible for overall lookout of SAP Invoice Management, Payments and downstream Finance transactions Procure-To-Pay and other integrated work processes and other AP issues pertaining within the organization.
• Responsible for Automatic Payment Program for payments to vendors; check lots, void & reissue of checks, online cash and blockage of payments for certain vendors.
• Tested automatic payment run F110 for incoming/outgoing payments.
• Also worked with the Positive Pay interface for Vendors and configured partner profiles for the banks.
• Configured One-time Vendors with Separate Screen Layouts.
• Resolved Interface related issues such as Data upload and download from legacy to SAP.
• Analysed Workflow for the Payment Request for Vendors to design solutions and designed the To-Be Solution and gathered functional requirements for the to-be system.
• Responsible for designing and working with the custom Ardmore interface for freight charges for Vendors and check whether the invoices got posted to SAP.
• Supported a team member in recording the travel expenses for monthly and semi- monthly Employees for our customised web portal
• Co-ordinated with the HR and Security team for the Employee set up for recording the Travel Expenses for the Employees
• Experienced in job scheduling and back ground processing and responsible for checking the jobs run without any issues.
• Involved in FI-MM integration: Worked with MM team to configure movement type, material type, and valuation group. Automatic Account Determination of GR/IR through OBYC using t-key WRX.
• Generated reports using Report Painter, Documentation for end users, end user training and User acceptance testing.
• Supported and worked with the MM team for posting the invoices for several Vendors and also worked with the FI-MM integration. Supported issues related to inbound and outbound processes for Electronic Data Interchange EDI.
• Worked on EBS, check deposits, check forms and wire transfer and ACH Payment, Payment Order / Remittance Advice for EDI 820.
• Reprocessed the Idoc to change the status of Idoc.
• Developed CATT Scripts to load the legacy data. Used CATT Scripts and LSMW to load the legacy data in to SAP.

Confidential, Plymouth, MI

Sr.SAP MM Analyst

SAP Environment: ECC 6.0,R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Collecting and understanding of the user requirements, filling up the storyboard for the business process, preparing the BPML (Business Process Master List) and Business Blue Print using ASAP.
• Studying existing business process in the context of material management and deciding to-be process and to be mapped to the SAP system.
• Worked on master data conversions, Material Master Records (using MM 01 transaction) and Vendor Master records (using MK01 transaction), from legacy system were brought into SAP.
• Designed and Configuration the MM organizational elements Purchasing Organization, Plant, Storage Location.
• Customization of Master Records.
• Apart from the Standard Material types, configured New Material Types as per the requirements of the Client and created several valuation classes and account category references, changed the field status of the material master records as per the users requirements.
• Configured vendor master records, created account groups based on the type of control required, defined usage of partner functions and vendor sub-range functions.
• Configured the terms of payment for vendors and Shipping instructions.
• Conducted workshops to identify cost savings, process improvements and redesign core processes for indirect purchasing, receiving, P-card and involved in MM & FI integration.
• Involved in the configuration of P-card for Defining Number Ranges, Defining Card Company, Allocating the Company Code, Defining Product categories for Procurement Card defined Process Procurement Card and Defined Blocking Reasons
• Authored design specifications and wrote P-Card & approval workflow enhancements.
• Defining partner schemas and assigning to account groups.
• Characteristics and classes were reviewed and created for release procedures to RFQ/Quotation, requisition, purchase orders, contract and scheduling agreements.
• Configuring Material Management Parameters for all Goods movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, GR for blocked stock, Goods returns etc.,
• Creating storage location automatically for different movement types with Goods issue/Transfer posting and Goods receipt.
• Worked on Goods returns, Shortage of Material supplies and damaged goods.
• Configuring special stocks in Inventory management for Subcontracting, and Consignment materials.
• Created Statistical Conditions for price comparison without altering the Material.
• Interfaced WM for direct transfer order confirmations against material documents.
• Configured the Automatic Output Determination process.
• Configured the Stock Transport Order process for different plants at intercompany level.
• Created customer account groups. Defined the Sales Organization, Distribution Channel and Divisions.
• Assigned Delivery type, Document type and defined the Checking rule.
• Prepared the functional specifications for the RICEF objects. Working with ABAP programmers.
• Customization of Access sequence, condition records and business rules understanding clients business process.
• Produced most of the new business forms with SAP script.
• Successful completion followed by post go-live support.

Sr.SAP MM Consultant

SAP Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• ASAP methodology was used to complete requirement gathering / business blueprint, GAP analysis & confirm the ABAP developmental requirements, Realization / design / configuration, testing (Unit and Integrated testing), data migration, GO Live and support.
• Involved in business process understanding for procurement to pay process, Inventory management, and Warehouse management and managed logistics function consultants team.
• Analyzed EDI mapping templates for gaps and suggested fields in the IDOC types(ORDERS,ORDERSP,INVOIC) for procurement of orders placed via EDI.
• Setting of customized parameters for all purchasing documents like RFQ, Quotations, Purchase Requisitions and Purchase orders, contracts, Scheduling Agreements, etc.
• Defined Valuation Classes, Valuation Types, and Valuation Groups for Valuation areas.
• Designed and configured SAP Materials Management (MM) with integration to Sales/Distribution (SD) and Production Planning (PP) /Inventory Management (IM) system.
• Extensively worked on the production planning and execution part of the system, gathering Ind. Reqs, running the MRP in batches based on different material types, auto converting the Prod. Orders, their Routings(std. & alt), Work centers, operations and extensively on BOMs, mostly on a multilevel (up to 6 levels) and also the BOM explosions and Cost roll ups, Cost estimates and Costing variants.
• Configuration of Invoice Verification, Credit Memos, Subsequent Debits & Credits, Taxes, Foreign Currency, cash discounts.
• Defined customized Condition types for Pricing Schemas for Pricing Procedures.
• Configured Movement Types in Inventory Management. Configured Output Determination in purchasing using spool request.
• Worked on Physical Inventory, year-end Physical Inventory adjustments, matching with GL account valuations.
• Configured settings for physical inventory for cycle counting in WM and IM.
• External Services Process was evaluated and implemented to include Service Materials, Frame Work Orders / Long term contracts.
• Coordinated with ABAP team for enhancements and interfaces.
• Involved in day to day support activities like solving tickets in Material Handling, Warehouse management, Production orders, Procurement, Inventory Management.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

SAP MM/PP Consultant

SAP Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Purchasing documents - Requisitions / Source of supply / quotes / RFQ / quotation entry and analysis / PO / automatic PO / Vendor Known/unknown, confirmations, release procedures.
• Configured MM - Purchasing, Sub Contracting, Intercompany purchasing, Output determination, Account determination for goods movement as and when required by the team.
• Extensively worked on Price Determination process and Message Determination process.
• Set up Release Strategies / Procedures for purchase requisitions and purchase orders.
• Maintained Invoice Verification tolerance limits, frameworks and evaluated receipt settlement (ERS) with logistics invoice verification (automatic IR from GR)
• Configured Material Groups / Material Types, Field Views and Screen Fields.
• Configuration of Vendor Master for different Account Groups & Assignment of Numbers to the groups.
• Involved in all aspects of PP configurations like BOM,Work Center and MRP.
• Configuration of every aspect of Bill of Materials including creation of Item Category, creation of BOM Usage, restricting item type plus all the other nuts and bolts of BOM creation/changes. Alternate BOM environment strategy also covered.
• Work Center Configuration explaining in detail the relevant fields selection, configuration of the very complex standard value key formula, creating shift sequence plus all other related connects.
• All Aspects of Routing creation, configuration of usage for routing, in-depth analysis of various user defined fields and its applicability to various transactions.
• Worked on Master Data Conversions for data load in SAP from Legacy system using LSMW.

Confidential, Vienna, VA

SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant

SAP Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Engaged in client meetings to gather requirements for warehouse, DC and Plant operations.
• Prepared design documents for warehouse and plants operations involving configuration, enhancements (e.g. RF scanners, solution approach for material identification) and reports.
• Most of the design details included in the area of Handling Units, Equipment master data, RF Scanners, STO and Inventory Management.
• Developed and implemented warehouse management system by using data extract and BDC session in SAP.
• Handling Unit Management, Storage Unit Management, Batch Management, Serial Number Management.
• Defined put away and Picking strategies, configured system for automatic generation and TR and TO.
• Recently implemented SAP barcode system using SAP Console (SAP’s native RF solution) for the Warehouse.
• Conducted warehouse visits to visualize physical warehouse and configured the WM module interface with MM by defining storage types, sections, storage bins.
• Customized reports with new business process covering RF Functionalities (Receipt, Put away, picking, Loading, Shipping) placement strategies based on shipment, packing and delivery splits for four different warehouses.
• Configuration of Master Data which includes Material, Vendor, Purchase Info Records and also customizing the same as per the client's requirement.
• Configuring Inventory documents like goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfer and transfer postings.
• Designed and Implemented SAP Functions: Vendor Evaluation, Release Strategies, Procurement of External services.
• Experienced in route determination process for outbound deliveries
• Reviewed and executed Data Migration task using LSMW / BDC tools.
• Procurement process was automated to have Auto PO from PR with Preferred Vendor Selection and Transmittal of PO to Vendors via FAX / EDI to selective vendors.

Confidential

SAP MM/WM Consultant

SAP Environment: SAP R/3 4.6c

Responsibilities:

• Provide initial assessment of landscape, as-is / to-be while determining the components of the project plan.
• P2P (Purchase to Pay) process including Purchase Requisitions, Purchasing Order, Purchase Order (third party), Purchase Order (stock and non-stock), Scheduling Agreement, Goods Receipt and Vendor Evaluation.
• Developed a workflow to notify all relevant persons about changes in a vendor master by the Accounts Payable department.
• Validated WM integration with IM, SD, PP, and QM modules.
• Configured Vendor Evaluation for one time delivery and Quality rating.
• Creation of User Manuals and training of key users on main functionality of the MM Module.
• Assisting for Post implementation support and enduring the proper working of the MM area.
• Attending to break issues and provided solutions as per the priority and within stipulated time frame.
• Configuration modifications as per changing requirements and providing technical specifications to ABAP programmers for new developments.
• Developed specs for multiple RICEFS objects-Reports, enhancements to transactions, user exits, BADIs, BAPIs, and enhanced standard SAP Reports.