SUMMARY

• Over 7+ Years of experience as an SAP MM functional consultant with 3 full life - cycle implementations using ASAP methodology, upgrade projects and post go-live support using versions ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0 in variegated Industrial environments.
• Industry experience and strong domain knowledge in Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods and Chemical Industry business processes.
• Worked as Procure to pay analyst covering the source selection, procurement of goods and services, contract management, vendor material handling, vendor master data inventory maintenance, payment procedure.
• Hands-on capabilities in Business process mapping, blue printing, functional and technical design, configuration, data migration, customizations, unit and integration testing, final preparation, Go-Live and Post Go-Live support.
• Worked extensively in the areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management, Material Requirements Planning, Invoice Verification and Sales Management, Account Payable, Physical Inventory, Non-valuated Materials.
• Proficient in carrying out special functions like Subcontracting, Third Party, Vendor Consignment and Stock Transport Orders.
• Implementation of bar coding Technology with Handling Unit Management (HU)
• Knowledge and expertise with RICEFW. Experience with functional design and interfaces EDI / IDOC or with external systems.
• Setup Warehouse Structures, Storage Types, Bins, Sections, TR/TO, Placement and Removal Strategies, KANBAN, Batch Management, SLED inWM, Posting Changes, Replenishment procedures inWM, Physical Inventory in IM, Delivery processing inWM.
• Prepared detailed functional specifications for development activities including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms (RICEF).
• Experience using SAP tool LSMW and debugging ABAP, writing functional/technical specifications for customized transactions and functional exits.
• Understanding & analyzing ‘AS-IS’ Business Processes and mapping ‘TO-BE’ processes. Finalizing the Business Drivers and project scope for the client by mutually agreeing and signoff on deliverables for the project
• Ability to interface with others in a motivational manner and lead others in process development and utilization.
• Good communication skills and team oriented approach.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Newark, NJ

SAP MM/IM/WM Functional Analyst

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and performed successful analysis, design, configuration, testing and implementation of SAP WM application module
• Involved in the setting up the warehouse management organizational structure, global settings and various basic functions in WM module
• Configured WM structure by defining Storage Types, Storage Sections, Bins, Quant.
• Structuring medium to complex warehouse and defining movements (Inventory tracking) within warehouse
• Involved in configuring of Batch Management, Goods Movement, and GR, GI, Stock Transfer, Reservation and physical inventory in both IM and WM
• Configured the PO printing process to print PO based on Purchasing Groups. Create access sequences to meet the requirements
• Set up process to move stock from non-HU location to HU managed location Configured Vendor Master: Vendor account groups, Number ranges and Purchasing Groups, MMOrganizational Elements: Purchasing Organization, Plant & Storage location.
• Configured Vendor master including Vendor consignment stock and Evaluated receipt settlement
• Worked on various Purchase documents like Purchase Requisition, RFQ, Schedule Agreements, Contracts, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Goods Issues, Transfer posting and Invoice Verification
• Assigned Partner Schemas to Account Groups and defined Permissible Partner Roles
• Created Custom Report to list the stock with Storage Location and Stock Type (Unrestricted, Restricted, QI, and Blocked) on any given day
• Involved in configuring Material Requirement Planning (Consumption based Planning-Forecast/Reorder point and MRP procedures)
• Configured Stock transfer for 1-step transfer posting and 2-step transfer postings
• Integration with QM for Master Data Maintenance and In-process Inspection
• Defined Release procedures with characteristics for Purchase orders
• Defined new condition types and Pricing Procedures for different vendors, which were based on the purchasing area and material price
• Configured Automatic account determination for posting to the respective GL accounts with new movement types established for custom material types
• Created new User Procedures to create Purchasing documents followed by training end users

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

SAP WM/MM Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Developed the different phases of the ASAP methodology in correlation with the other members of the team and the project leads in planning the scope of the project, providing documentation, defining business scenarios and providing support
• Involved in BPR and AS-IS and TO-BE processes, Gap Analysis and other MM configurations.
• Involved in business meetings and actively participated in making decisions of configuration settings
• Involved in flow chart documentation, presentation to the management team
• Designed and described Functional Specifications for various interface definitions with critical legacy system analysis with data mapping and unit test plan
• Created FSD (Functional Specification Document) based on approved requirements
• Configured various Material types and Material groups and configured Vendor master records and partner functions
• Defined Valuation Classes, Valuation Types, and Valuation Groups for Valuation areas
• Involved in the customization of IM and WM functions of Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Stock Transfer, Transfer Postings, Reservations, Physical Inventory, Batch Management and Special stocks
• Processed materials with Shelf Life Expiration Date (SLED) and Serialization in the WM system
• Maintained Plant Parameters, created Material, extended material to all Storage locations, created Bill of Material, created subcontracting contract for Finished Material, standard contract for Bulk Material
• Defined storage types, storage bins and storage sections
• Used custom Mobile data entry screens for plant requirements
• Configured control parameters for TR/TO and configured storage type search, storage section search, storage bin type search strategies
• Configured the physical inventory settings and carried out physical inventory at storage location level
• Developed interfaces for RF devices via SAP web console. I.T.S. mobile to integrate RF devices into SAP WM module and worked on SAP interface with RF guns
• Customized Warehouse Management RF screens to automate picking of Deliveries and Handling Units, using hand-held and vehicle-mounted Radio Frequency terminals
• Involved in developing functional specification for Radio Frequency devices
• Responsible for Performing Goods Receipt, Goods Issue and Stock Transfer by managing materials stock on quantity and value basis
• Customized settings for Batch Determination and MRP procedures.
• Coordinated with ABAP team for enhancements and interfaces.

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

SAP WM/MM Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business teams to understand the business process and specific business needs
• Customized and configured Stock Transport Orders (STO) for transfer of stock between the plants. Responsible for setting all the parameters, supplying plant, receiving plant and shipping point determination
• Configuring automatic conversion of Purchase requisition to Purchase order
• Configured Vendor Master: Created vendor account groups, partner functions, number ranges, purchasing groups
• Integrated Warehouse Management System via other components such as Inventory Management and Shipping
• Managed complex warehousing facilities including custom designed storage areas, high rack storage, bulk storage, fixed bin storage and other commonly used storage areas
• Carried out Split Valuation of Materials based on Valuation categories, Origin, Procurement and Batches
• Defined control parameters for warehouse number, number ranges for transfer requirements, Transfer orders, Storage units, Handling units, physical inventory documents
• Configured settings for physical inventory for cycle counting in WM and IM
• Setup stock transport order for plant-to-plant and inter-company stock transport order
• Interfaced WM-IM for creation of interim bins and movement types
• Worked on the Handling Unit functionality that constituted automatic packing using packing instruction determination and output determination
• Configured Output Determination for Deliveries and Billing Documents, Shipping Points, Shipping Conditions and Shipping Point Determination, Configuration of Shipping and Transportation activities like Processing Deliveries
• Configured various business processes in WM integration with IM, QM, PP and SD Modules
• Configured & customized RF transaction for production order confirmation, label scanning
• IDOC types defined for data, such as purchase orders, invoices, GR, GI which was broken down into more specific categories (message types)
• Set up Release strategies for purchasing documents with classification and Work Flow
• Configured control parameters for TR/TO and configured system directed put away and pick strategies using location and product dimensions, also defined picking strategies such as LIFO and FIFO
• Test scenarios for unit testing and co-ordinate and participated in integration testing activities.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

SAP WM/MM Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured the organizational structure for MM Purchasing Organizations, Plants and Storage Locations
• Assisted in the definition of key business process issues within and across key business process areas as part of Global Template Design Phase and developed the detailed TO-BE process and prepared business blue print, scope document and work plan for the implementation of SAP
• Configured Warehouse Management settings with various storage types, sections and storage bins and there structure and worked on configuring Good Movements, Movement Types and Warehouse Structure along with definition of the Put away and Pick strategies
• Worked on Capacity check, Two-Step picking, Negative stocks and Zero stock check
• Configured different Picking and Put away strategies like stock removal, stock placement, fixed bin storage, next empty bin, addition to existing stocks and bulk storage
• Customized Warehouse Management RF screens to automate picking of Deliveries and Handling Units, using hand-held and vehicle-mounted Radio Frequency terminals. Multiple distribution centers and a variety of work practices were supported
• Configuration of MM module with the following functionality: Material Master, Vendor Master, Source Lists, Purchase Requisitions, RFQ, Quotation, Contracts, Purchase Orders, Outline Agreements, Release Procedures, Good Receipts from Purchase Order, Logistics Invoice Verification, configured automatic posting, set tolerance limit, block invoice, release invoice, Output Determination and Pricing Procedure using Condition Technique
• Worked on Batch Management using Batch class and characteristics, Batch classification, Batch Split and Batch Traceability
• Inventory Management Process including Goods Receipt, Damaged Goods/Discrepancy Goods Receipt from Production, and Storage Location to Storage Location Transfer, Goods Issue, physical and annual inventory documents with automatic zero stock check display
• Was involved in legacy data extractions and file creation, validation of those extracts and load using LSMW
• Involved in the Data Migration Activities of Master Data, Transaction Data and Initial Inventory Upload
• Regular training for the key users and end users on SAP functionality's and navigation through screens. Prepared documents and end user manual for training

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP WM/MM Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Blueprint preparation, AS-IS study, design of the TO-BE process and gap analysis
• Responsible for Project Preparation, Blueprint, realization, go live and production support phase
• Responsible for customization of the MM and WM module and integration with other modules
• Configured the Put away and Picking strategies to optimize material flow
• Involved in flow chart documentation, presentation to the management team
• Involved in configuring and testing WM movement types to enable integration between Inventory Management and Warehouse Management
• Configured the inventory management - Goods receipt, Goods issue, Transfer posting
• Involved in basic configurations of defining storage locations, warehouse, Storage types, Storage Sections, storage bins and appropriate assignments and created new purchasing organization and purchasing groups
• Configured all transactions of procure to pay process from Purchase Requisitions to invoice verification
• Implemented Invoice Verification including parking of Invoices and Integrated with FI/CO for accounts payable
• Configured Purchasing process including Purchase Requisition (MRP), Purchase Requisition (Third Party), including Purchase Order (MRP), Purchase order (Third Party), Purchase Order (Stock and Non-Stock), Scheduling Agreement, Contract
• Configuration of Invoice Verification, Credit Memos, Subsequent Debits & Credits,
• Involved in the day to day support activities like solving tickets in material handling, warehouse management, production order, procurement, inventory management
• Worked on building queries for custom reports and configuring Inbound and Outbound EDI Messages for purchasing functions (purchase order and PO acknowledgement, PO change and change acknowledgement)
• Involved with Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms
• Trained users for all purchasing and WM functions also provided post Go-live support for MM and WM

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP WM/MM Support Analyst

Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Designed and described Functional Specifications for various interface definitions with critical legacy system analysis with data mapping and unit test plan
• Configured Vendor master including Vendor consignment stock and Evaluated receipt settlement
• Integration with QM for Master Data Maintenance and In-process Inspection
• Integrated with FI CO for product cost controlling provides a basis for material valuation
• Set up WM - PP interface for GR from production and Material staging, IM-WM interface for various movement types, output determination in WM, Set up wave picking, set up goods movements for different delivery types and resolved unit of measure related issues
• Worked on Handling Unit Management which includes packaging instructions & packaging materials set up to create Handling Units packaging during Inbound and Outbound deliveries at Inventory management and Warehouse Management level
• Defined Release procedures with characteristics for Purchase orders
• Configured Scheduling agreements with release documentation made for JIT and Forecast Delivery Schedules
• Defined new condition types and Pricing Procedures for different vendors, which were based on the purchasing area and material price
• Configured Automatic account determination for posting to the respective GL accounts with new movement types established for custom material types
• User training, managing the issues and resolving them

Confidential, O’Fallon, MO

SAP MM/WM/IM Analyst (Testing)

Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Experience in writing and preparing Scenario spreadsheets for the testing purposes.
• Experience in writing test scenarios based on functional specification.
• Experience in writing and developing test scripts from functional specification in test plan within HP Quality center.
• Experience in executing test scripts in test lab within HP Quality center and raising defects in quality center. Assigning them to the FS owners / development team.
• Experience in regression testing in order to check that the existing functionality works as it worked before the release.
• Involved in inspecting and reviewing functional specification and raising defects against them while executing end to end testing.
• Coordinate the creation of test data and test cases for integration and regression testing.
• Experience in uploading test cases, requirements, test plan, defects into Quality center.
• Developed and executed scripts for Purchase Requisition, Shopping cart, Purchase order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Receipt.
• Manually performed Integration testing of workflow (SBWP) inbox consisting approval and rejection of Purchase order.
• Involved in identification and documentation of all the defects and issues to ensure functionality.
• Manually performed negative and positive scenarios during testing phase.
• Maintained daily status report, participated in daily status meeting to report issues and progress of the team.
• Communicated with developers, functional consultants, business team throughout the testing to speed up the defect resolution.
• Coordinate with the offshore team in building functional Integration and End to End test tests.
• Daily test schedule with offshore team and knowledge transfer activities.
• Involved in interfacing and integration with MM & SRM.