Introduction

• Seasoned business consultant with 10 years of diverse experience specializing in Strategic Operational Procurement, Business Process Improvement and Implementation of SAP ERP solutions for manufacturing and utility companies.
• Having worked in a Power distribution utility and an IT consultancy services company, I bring together the best of both worlds to the industry I work in. My expertises include business requirement gathering, analysis, blueprinting, writing software specifications, configuration, testing support of SAP ERP/SRM integrated applications. I am also familiar with EDI, Idoc XML communication protocols. I have been involved in end-to-end implementation and support of SAP integrated Procurement MM/SRM solutions for various leading companies. My recent role required me to interact with key business associates and other cross-stream consultants to understand the business requirements and provide optimally feasible solutions whereby acting as a layer between the business-users and SAP technical team. Clientele includes a leading hydraulic cylinder manufacturing company, a leading electronics manufacturing services company and a leading fiber and yarn manufacturing company. I am a SAP certified professional and have also participated in SAP's Partner Testing initiative launched by SAP for its new version of SAP SRM SRM 7.0, before release in the market marking a valuable contribution in quality of the product. I bring value to any customer engagement by applying my proven knowledge of procurement processes and their enablement in a complex ERP landscape. I have a tremendous ability to take quick decisions, creatively design solutions and analytically solve the problems in a fast paced work environment.

Work Experience

Confidential

Role: SRM MM Consultant

Contribution:

• As a SAP functional consultant, I provided production support, maintenance and new enhancements for client's integrated multiple SAP systems landscape which includes SAP SRM EBP , SUS, MM ECC 6, 4.6 4.7 and SRM-MDM catalog. I was responsible for the following activities while supporting client's key business processes such as SRM extended classic scenario, plan driven procurement scenario, Import procurement, cross company procurement and vendor registration process in an integrated systems environment.
• Business requirement gathering analysis
• Propose suggest an optimally feasible solution
• Prepare Functional specifications work with the technical team to realize the solution
• Configuration changes in SAP MM, SRM and SUS applications
• Configuring troubleshooting SRM workflows
• Troubleshooting Vendor registration issues
• Unit Integration testing
• Write test scripts and support UAT.
• Propose improvements in existing design/ functionalities
• Train team members on client's IT processes and tech. standards.
• I worked on the following SAP related configurations:
• Integration of users in SRM Org Structures
• Creation of purchasing groups material groups
• Replication of Material Masters, Vendors NCM codes in SRM
• Configuration changes to meet specific business functionality
• Setting up new plant codes and other dependent parameters
• Create LSMW for mass update requests
• SRM-MDM search UI configuration
• OCI catalog configuration for SAP SRM SAP PM modules
• Maintain configuration for Plan Driven procurement scenario
• Setting up of PR PO release Strategies in SAP MM
• Work on design enhancements related to PO output forms/SAP scripts/Smartforms.
• Work on custom fields, layouts, and screen transaction variants.
• Monitor Global Procurement SAP systems for any potential issues related to idocs, XMLs, batch jobs, dumps etc. and doing analysis.

Tools Skills:

SAP SRM 5.0, SUS, MM ECC6/4.6/4.7 , SRM-MDM Catalog, SAP Solution Manager Remedy

Confidential

Role: MM SRM Consultant

• Business requirement gathering
• Business blueprinting Configuration of Organizational structure in MM and SRM Creating positions and personnel numbers in MM Set up release strategies for various document types in MM Assigning agents to country specific rules for PO release and Vendor approval etc. Maintain customer specific tables, approval limits etc. Create Purchasing Organization and purchasing groups Assign responsibilities to purchasing groups Assign attributes to organizational units users in SRM. Setting up PO outputs in MM.

Tools Skills:

Confidential

Role: SRM Support Lead

Contribution:

• Provided post go-live support for client's EBP self-service procurement scenario indirect materials , where SRM 5.0 is integrated with multiple SAP and non-SAP ERPs such as SAP MM, Baan, Fourth Shift, Visual Manufacturing etc. My responsibilities included providing SRM training to client's in-house support team and resolve SRM issues for a customer base of nearly 6000 users on daily basis. As a support lead, I was responsible for:
• Providing SRM training to client's in-house support team
• Driving the team for timely resolution of SRM issues
• Ensuring compliance with SLA
• Extensive preparation of documents on support activities
• Assisting and training the users via telephone and web-meeting
• Update the weekly ticket status tracker and discuss with senior business team members
• The various support activities taken up by me during the engagement are-
• Creation of SRM users, buyers purchasing groups
• Assigning roles resolving user login problems
• Organizational structure maintenance trouble-shooting
• Monitoring flow of master data transactional data between different applications, e.g. Baan, MDM, XI and SRM
• Checking the consistency of master data such as UOM, Currencies, GL, Product Categories Cost Dimensions
• Correction of master data mappings in SRM and XI systems
• Analyzing resolving failed PO XML messages in SRM and XI systems
• Maintaining workflow related custom tables in SRM
• Checking global to local vendor mappings in SRM custom tables
• Maintaining Product Categories exchange rates in SRM
• Executing user substitution work-item transfer requests
• Liaison with SAP MDM team and ERP teams for early resolution of issues
• Coordinating with Site finance teams for obtaining correct GL product category combinations
• Testing of new enhancements in the system

Tools Skills:

Confidential

Contribution:

• As an SRM Consultant, I was involved in the functional testing of the SAP SRM module for the following components:
• EBP
• LAC
• RFx and Bidding Engine
• Shopping Cart
• Achieved 'Defect Validation Ratio' of more than 75
• Also, provided recommendations for future releases

Confidential

Role: SRM/ERP Consultant

Contribution:

• Business Requirement gathering and Gap Analysis
• Preparation of Business Blue print document
• Implementation of Plan Driven Procurement scenario with MM-SUS integration.
• Configuration of MRP process in SAP MM system.
• Configuration of message types output types for transmitting documents from ERP to SUS system.
• Displaying customized fields in SUS Supplier Self Service
• Write functional specifications for the customized ABAP reports for SUS system PO status, Delivery status etc.
• Testing and monitoring the mappings in XI system
• Preparation of test scripts and documents including User Training Manual.
• Project status reporting
• Supporting critical customer issues and resolving these issues in a timely manner e.g. monitoring reports and idocs .
• Coordinate and resolve Post implementation issues
• Exhaustive testing of the solution for various business scenarios as per the client's requirement.

Tools Skills:

SAP Supplier Relationship Management SRM , SAP Materials Management MM , SAP Exchange Infrastructure XI , SAP Enterprise Portal EP