SUMMARY:

• Proven SAP SCM delivery champion known for management of large SAP implementations with strategic and tactical approach with an average cost savings of 10 - 15% of the overall estimated program budget
• Managing SCM fulfillment for SAP customers and overseeing the execution and control of SAP project delivery with the systems integrator
• Been advisor reporting to CIO, senior vice president or executive sponsor while managing the delivery of the overall SAP project typically via big 4 systems integrator
• Experience with complex project circumstances including multiple vendors, high degree custom development and onsite-offshore delivery model
• Manage the budget, schedules and risks for assigned projects, enhancements, maintenance and support activities and services
• 16 + years of ERP (SAP & PeopleSoft) implementation experience in diversified industries including retail, manufacturing, public sector, utilities, consumer goods, financial services, healthcare, chemical and oil & gas

SAP MODULE EXP. DETAIL:

MM

SAP R/3, ECC6, SAP All in One

Ariba

SAP Ariba

PM

ECC6.0

PS

ECC6.0

PP

SAP R/3

FM

ECC 6.0

SD

SAP R/3

SM

ECC6.0

Solman

ECC 6.0

PRA

ECC 6.0 Oil & Gas

EXPERIENCE:

Sr Consultant Plant Maintenance

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed vision 2020 with stake holders, global & North America ‘source to pay’ senior managers & category managers
• Documented, verified and coordinated approvals for Vision 2020 documents from stake holders
• Shared prior Ariba experience and expertise to do analysis and develop relevant SAP MM, SRM & Ariba processes.
• Developed Business Process Documents to cover as-is and to-be processes for Ariba APC, Sourcing, Spend Analytics and Category Sourcing Management
• Provided functional/technical expertise to plan, analyze, define and support the delivery of capabilities for Ariba applications.
• Elicit, document, analyze, verify, prioritize, validate baseline requirements against SAP functionality specific to SAP-MM-PUR, SRM, ARIBA
• Fit-gap analysis
• Develop process models
• Conduct conference room pilots
• Shared Relevant SAP & Ariba Module Knowledge and Experience
• Plan / Analyze / Design management
• AAES Experience

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential has begun a Business Transformation program related upstream specifically addressing the needs of their unconventional business. This project is of size of 39 Mil.
• Ulka’s responsibilities included analyzing and designing/re-designing business processes of the organization for Inventory Management and in general LO processes.
• In the complex environment of SAP where IM is integrated with FI/CO, PRA, PM, PS I have managed and mapped inventory management process across their unconventional business. I could successfully remove their earlier custom development to handle JV for returned equipment and placed SAP standard procedures in deploying it. Implemented concept of valuated project stock successfully, giving more visibility to stock value bought for projects.
• Ulka was part of B2B integration team for procurement where 12 suppliers are integrated their SAP ERP with Confidential SAP ERP via ADP system. Also worked as testing, issue management using ServiceNow and development lead for MM.
• Performed extensive GRC work for Logistics access control setup across the Confidential North America user base.

Team lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project management
• Heavy PRA Production Support - End-to-end process of setting up a delivery network with its associated entities and transactional data input for processing
• Setting up BA and associated vendor/customer
• Creating master data entities for new wells
• Checking measurement points ( never had to create new measurement points)
• Defining delivery networks etc
• Volume allocation not much to level of allocation rule details
• And help report/enter production daily transactions
• And troubleshoot reports
• Handle implementation concerns after merger of the business.
• Non-SAP systems monitoring and planning for the next upcoming SAP project for the acquiring company.

Confidential

Managing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Ulka was responsible for 3rd go-live support for MM, SRM and WM modules, optimization for procurement where I was successful in increasing efficiency of procurement office by 200% by adopting scheduling agreement and also introduced standard pricing for metal including maintenance of variable pricing.
• Ulka managed offshore development team. I was also responsible for setting up silver buying process. Also managed contract based procurement and e-sourcing using sourcing cockpit.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities as a Program Manager
• Establish and enable PMO aligning company’s vision and mission.
• Mobilize PMO
• Setup reporting structure for PMO to CFO and CEO
• Setup and facilitate control procedures to monitor continuously all PMO activities.
• Prioritize projects as per business goals
• 2 Factors Authentication from design to deployment.
• Integration of Payment Gateway with various Bank’s CBS for NEFT, RTGS, CTS
• An Indian client of Thinking Minds wanted a solution to handle bulk NEFT/RTGS transactions. I have managed complete offshore development team of about 40 people (along with program manager’s activities). Developed a payment gateway for it. It captures the transaction directly or through ERP and processes NEFT/RTGS fund transfer. Payment gateway talks to RBI/Bank system for doing these transactions.
• Integration of payment gateway with Bank Gateway for VBV (Verified By Visa)
• Automatic Check/check Clearing:
• Integration of payment gateway with check scanner is implemented for various banks for their client

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As project lead, Ulka had implemented one full life cycle SAP MM for Rail Division SAP ECC 6.0 implementation starting from Blue print to user-documentation
• Confidential has a huge SAP R/3 implementation setup covering the divisions of Railways, Aviation, Bicycle & pedestrian, DMV, Ferry, Highways, and Public Transportation.
• SAP implementation for Rail division has started with the blueprint of procurement, inventory management and plant maintenance module. It covered SAP facilities and asset management analysis, plant maintenance modules integration with MM.
• Participated in analyzing, planning, designing and implementing MM/PM
• Collaborated with internally and with other IT groups
• Provided quality and timely support to the business users via the ticket process
• Acted as project lead and participated in leadership activities as applicable
• Ulka had responsibility to implement SAP R/3 for Rail division as SAP MM Consultant and the production support. The implementation should turn into the ROI of 4Mil per year and provide business transparency and better control over the vendor operated operations at Rail Division. The objective of the project was to replace existing vendor operated Material Management System and save money on third-party software maintenance and bring all the operations under the hood of NCDOT’s SAP practice.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Set up of Organization Structure related to plants, Storage locations and Purchasing Organizations.
• Mapping of AS-IS processes with TO-BE processes, creating EUP’s for respective MM business processes which includes procure-to-pay, inventory management with configurable material and non configurable material, consignment stocks handling, vendor returns, customer returns, setting up procurement workflow, and invoice verification
• Master Data: Creating master data conversion plan, issuing the appropriate programming instructions for data conversion programmers, testing of data conversion programs for material master, vendor master and inventory etc.
• Configuration and Customization of Material Master, Vendor Master.
• Purchasing: Configuration and Customization of Purchasing including release strategies using the complex approval matrix, output types including printing and emailing Pos to vendors, setting up the condition records and tolerance groups for vendors, using the procure-to-pay workflow.
• Inventory Management: Configured Goods receipt, Good issues, Transfer postings and stock transfers, Reservations, Reporting in Inventory Management

Confidential, GreenVille, SC

Team lead for SAP MM

Responsibilities:

• Team lead with 3 business super users and one ABAP developer and offshore development team.
• Mapped process for project procurement for DZII, PO email to vendors, Procurement Requisition Release for hundreds of DZII plants.
• Managed inactive plants in order to stop the requisitions from being created for the inactive plants.
• This was very interesting scenario in such a large SAP environment where they have over 230 plants maintained in the SAP R/3 and over a period of time they wanted to eliminate old plants but still be able to use the history data but prevent any new operations using those plants. This problem was there since couple of years
• Day & Confidential ed the Best SAP Consultant of the month title on accomplishing this.