SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in SAP implementation in the areas of Materials Management (MM), Warehouse Management (WM), Sales & Distribution (SD), Master Data Management (MDM) and Master Data Governance (MDG) has in - depth business process noledge. Experience emphasizes in configuration, implementation, Upgrade and support of SAP R/3, ECC MM/WM/SD.
• SAP Functional consultant with implementation and configuration experience in Material Management (MM), Warehouse Management (WM) and Sales & Distribution (SD).
• 2 full life cycle implementations of SAP MM/SD with hands on experience in up gradation and support projects of SAP R/3 to ECC 6.0.
• Good noledge in Configuring Company Code, Controlling Area, Plants, Purchasing Organization, Storage Locations, Sales Organization and their assignments to other respective organizational units.
• Good noledge in ASAP Methodology and AS-IS & TO-BE mapping
• Worked on the Supply Chain Model to represent the Supply Chain Network with all relevant locations (suppliers, distribution centers and customers), resources (storage, handling and supply capabilities) and relationships (Transportation Lanes).
• Excellent configuration skills in Master Data such as Material Master, Vendor Master, Material Types, Vendor Account Groups, Number Ranges, Purchasing Info Records, Source Lists.
• Excellent Configuration skills in Master Data, Purchasing, Material Resource Planning, Inventory Management, Material Valuation
• Implementation experience in all the phases of a life cycle, including blueprinting, gap analysis, mapping, design, configuration, testing, go-live, end-user training and post production support in MM, WM and SD Modules.
• Expertise in Pricing procedures creating Internal & External Purchasing Documents (PR, RFQ/Quotation, PO, Outline Agreements), Document Number Ranges, Release Procedures with Classification, Partner Determination, Message Determination (Printer), Account Assignment and Item Categories, Automated Purchasing using Auto-POs, Vendor Confirmation Control.
• Expertise in External Management Services such as Service Master, Service Categories, Service Entry Sheet, Service Purchase Order, Release Procedure for Service Entry Sheet.
• Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for up gradation / new implementation / integration, import of data from any other external system to SAP using LSMW.
• Expertise in Materials Requirement Planning (MRP), Manual Reorder Point Planning, Master data for CBP, Implementation of Planning Process, Evaluation of Planning Results, and Forecast based Planning, Time-Phased Planning.
• Experience in working on interfaces with third party system as well as technical realization of IDOC based interfaces.
• Support of live systems as well as upgrades and enhancements and experience of SAP components mainly Materials Management (SAP MM) collaborated with understanding of other SAP modules such as SAP ABAP, SAP SD and SAP FICO
• Experience in Valuation & Account Assignment, Configuring Account Determination and Split Valuation.
• Good domain noledge in Retail and Life Science acquired while working for the specific domain projects
• Expertise in Managing Special Stock such as Plant-to-Plant Stock Transport Orders (STO), Consignment, Subcontracting, Pipeline, Third Party Processing.
• Mapping of warehouse structure in SAP WM, Developing strategies for put away and picking and Configured warehouse management (WM) settings with various Storage types, Sections, Storage bins and quant’s and Configured Control parameters for Transfer Request/Transfer Order (TR/TO) in WM
• Hands on experience in RICEFW Designing, customized business process Reports and Forms for Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice and PO Condition Values. Designing Master Data Conversion objects for Material Master, Vendor Master, and Source List.
• Worked closely on end user queries connecting SAP ARIBA system to SAP ECC and coordinated with Webmethods team as well as in analyzed IDOCS to find discrepancies or errors in data leading to root cause analysis of issues
• Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and also assisted end users in User Acceptance Testing to validate the business scenarios using quality tools such as HPQC.
• Experienced in Post Implementation Production Support and training the end-users

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

ERP Modules: SAP MM/WM/SD, SAP ABAP, SAP Ariba

Platforms: SAP Support/Configuration, SAP Web Methods, Advanced Planning & Optimization, Solution Manager

Project Management & Process Designing: MS Project, ASAP Project Methodology.

Databases: PL/ SQL, SQL Server 2000, MS Access.

Test Management Tool: Mercury Quality Center

Document Management: SharePoint

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/NT/2000/98, Mac OS X

Office Software: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access

Programming Languages: C, C++, HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lexington

SAP Master Data Governance

Environment: ECC 6.0, MDG

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Master data creation and maintenance in SAPMDG (Master Data Governance).
• Worked on creating maintaining deleting Material Master Data, customer master data and vendor master data
• Worked on Procurement to Pay cycle (P2P) and worked on Material Master, Product data Master (PDM), Purchasing documents to realize defined to functional requirements.
• CreatedPurchase Requisition (PRs), Purchase Order (PO), and Purchasing Info record,contracts,Info Records for Standard, Consignment and Sub-Contracting.
• Actively participated in successful launch of various products in different market regions.
• Worked on the Supply Chain Model to represent the Supply Chain Network with all relevant locations (suppliers, distribution centers and customers), resources (storage, handling and supply capabilities) and relationships (Transportation Lanes).
• Also worked and tested the full product flow right from making packing shipping to the destination
• Excellent opportunity in collaborating with various stake holders in working on the Intercompany STOs.
• Worked on creating and maintaining the BOMs, Master Recipes and Production versions as part of product launches.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to manage tactical and operational activities related to OpU Products.
• Actively participate in SAP implementation projects and various other projects as deemed necessary.
• Document all changes made to production systems via change controls and SOPs.
• Facilitate assessment of a change requested to SAP and its implication to all effected components in the system as well as to existing SOPs and work practices.
• Assist in resolving the issues in Ariba Supplier chain network portal.
• Develop, implement and continuously improve processes and procedures used within Business Systems and Supply Operations with the goal of improving operating efficiencies and identifying cost savings.
• Ability to troubleshoot functional issues within SAP and collaborate with internal IT and/or affiliate support on behalf of the end user community.
• Support daily operations; provide trouble-shooting assistance and enhancement training to end users ensuring thorough understanding of SAP and Supply Chain principals.
• Understanding of the business processes, needs and requirements ofQuality Assurance, and Finance groups and map these to the functionality available within SAP.
• Support the product UPI/serialization requirements/operations

Confidential, Cambridge

SAP Master Data Management

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuration and maintenance of Master Data for Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, Source List and Quota Arrangement.
• Centrally creating and changing master data records
• Controlling and monitoring the master data processes (for example, the creation,consolidation and distribution of master data)
• Processing requests for master data to be created or changed
• Determining whether or not a newly requested master data object already exists in the central system
• Approving or rejecting the master data requests
• Review Vendor Data to ensure accurate records and minimize duplicate records
• Manage vendor master data records for acquisitions, divestitures and projects
• Create New vendor master records and implement all requested changes to current vendor master data by following the required processes
• Supplementing the master data records with specific attributes (for example, purchasing data, sales data)
• Determining whether or not duplicate master data records exist
• Submitting requests for creating new master data or changing existing master data
• Execute changes to SAP master data (e.g. customer, vendor, materials etc.) as approved by the business
• Coordinate material and finish products master data setup, validations and periodic maintenance
• Perform regular business related activities e.g. price and contracts updates, approval schemes
• System monitoring and user management related activities
• Perform mass updates as required
• Worked on WinShuttle Template for Master Data upload
• Participate in projects and initiatives across multiple functional areas and regions
• Work with business units and process experts to resolve master data issues
• Ensure data quality, compliance and consistency of master data across business systems
• Support the business with required procedures, submit incidents and change requests when needed
• Assist business process experts in defining standard operating procedures, process flows and related documentation

Confidential

SAP MM Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Provided Production Support and solving end user problems in Material Management transactions.
• Handled production support issues in the form of tickets, queries and change requests, problem documents.
• Involved in Procure-to-pay (P2P) processes for Purchase Req, Purchase order, goods receipt and Invoicing.
• Handled Level 2 Support tickets and Service Requests of SAP MM functional issues and provided root cause analysis
• Schedule and monitor background jobs and also has closely worked on interfaces from SAP to third party system.
• Worked closely on end user queries connecting SAP Ariba system to SAP ECC and coordinated with Webmethods team as well as in analyzed IDOCS to find discrepancies or errors in data leading to root cause analysis of issues.
• Handled Idoc related issues and also collaborated with Web methods, SAP Finance, SAP SD, SAP Security team as part of solving incidents.
• Provided go-live and post-live support. Coordinated with the local team to resolve post go live integration issues.
• Provided post-production support on day-to-day activities performed in SAP
• Involved in Unit Testing, Functional Integration Testing, Regression Testing Using HP Quality center, user acceptance testing and system testing for all customized developments.
• End user training and documentation of user manuals, training material.
• Worked closely with developers on various issues involved in development.
• Involved in the updating of Master data, extending master data, deletion of data in master records i.e. info record, material master and vendor master
• Involved in setting up of purchasing master data: Purchase info records, Source list
• Provided optimized solution to the end users in planning for various groups of materials
• Involved in setting up of master data for Subcontracting including creation of Bill of Materials (BOM) and purchasing documents like SA, Contract to serve their long term purposes
• Involved in Mass Maintenance for some specific changes in master data during Go-live.
• Documented End-to-End document
• Changed distribution channels of materials for re-routing as new materials are coming in.
• Configured new storage locations depending on business requirements
• Supported end users in Receiving, Issuing, Cross Docking, and Shipping
• Involved in Cycle counting for the entire inventory in the Warehouse
• Worked on various issues in receiving, issuing, procurement, stock transfers and transfer posting.
• Created detailed user documentation and held training sessions for users.

Confidential

SAP MM/APO DP Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Execute Testing on Interfaces: Customer Master, Item Master, Sales Order History
• Successfully testing the scenario based testing on each interface.
• Collaborated with teams (BW) and ABAP worked along with them to log the defects and notified the bugs to the developer.
• Create Sales Orders of different SO types as part of testing and tested on various cases for Sales Order History Interface.
• Performed Cross functional testing on various modules.
• Tested the business scenarios, prepared job aids, and trained the end users
• Assisted with issue troubleshooting while uploading inventory, sales and purchase orders during cutover, blackout and production periods
• Mapped the subcontracting business flow and worked on the process order and purchase order subcontracting involving 3PL’s.
• Worked on issues with configuring batch determination, batch split, batch search strategy and Bill of materials.
• Provided efficient training to the end users by the end of Go live.
• Successfully and quickly resolved the critical and high level incidents during go live and reduced the incidence of black out forms at plants.
• Successfully performed the overall Go-live hyper care exit.
• Knowledge transfer and documentation
• Helped the cutover team in creating and validating the initial inventory for all the materials
• Trained business analysts and end users on transactions and prepared detailed documentation.

Confidential

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Unit Testing, Functional Integration Testing, Regression Testing Using HP Quality center, user acceptance testing and system testing for all customized developments.
• Executed Pillar wise Test Script execution for IT Release and UT Release.
• Successfully tested SAP MM cycles Procurement (PO creation, Release of POs, Transfer Order processes cycles and Invoice, Credit memo) in addition to some of the SAP SD scripts
• Provided go-live and post-live support. Coordinated with the local team to resolve post go live integration issues as well as hyper care issues.
• Performed Cross functional testing on various modules
• Analyzed the business/system requirements and process flows as part of requirement review and providing feedback to facilitate QA Sign-off
• Analyzed the testing scope, estimate the effort involved, and gain approval from the various stake holders of the project.
• Identify and analyze risks with impact and mitigation plan.
• Performed issue management and escalation, when necessary.
• Communicated and collaborated with developers and concerned team members for defect fixing
• End user training and documentation of user manuals, training material.
• Customized MM functionalities: Master Data Material Master, Service Master, info records, source lists, Consumption Based Planning, purchasing, and Inventory Management.
• Configured purchasing organization, purchasing groups and pricing & other Purchase functions.
• Configured the Inventory management of goods at the points of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks viz. consignment, third party, and sub-contracting.
• Created physical inventory settings, documents, posting differences, inventory sampling and cycle counting.
• Configured vendor master partner functions.
• Configured tolerances and limits in purchase orders and created scheduling agreements and contracts.
• Configured Inventory Management Parameters for all goods movements like goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, GR for blocked stock, goods returns
• Configured release strategy for purchase requisition and purchase orders as per the approval hierarchy of the client
• Unit test for distribution process pricing, delivery outputs and reports.
• Configuring document types for purchasing documents like RFQ, purchase requisition, purchase orders.
• Assisted in system settings dat are relevant to the maintenance of conditions and price determination in the purchase of materials
• Automatic determination of GL accounts, mapping valuation classes to GL account
• Designing Core User and End user Training strategies and training documentation
• Assisted the project lead in preparing various documentations and also conducted seminars and training sessions
• Developed and worked upon various test cases and scripts and tested various scenarios using various quality tools such as HPQC
• Performed Unit testing and Integration testing
• Responsible for providing the necessary documentation and noledge transfer for the implementation

Confidential

SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business/system requirements and process flows and creating Functional Specification documents based on discussions with client core team members.
• As a role of functional consultant, worked on modules related to Receiving, Inventory Management, Return to Vendor and other related modules handling the Service-Request support tickets of SAP MM.
• Worked on small Enhancement projects from concept and design, prototyping and testing to the implementation and subsequent roll out
• Production Support and solving end user problems in Material Management transactions.
• Handled production support issues in the form of tickets, queries and change requests, problem documents.
• Involved in procure-to-pay (P2P) processes for Purchase Request, Purchase order, goods receipt and Invoicing.
• Handled Level 2 Support tickets and Service Requests of SAP MM functional issues and provided root cause analysis
• Collaborated with another IT vendor as part of Project Production Change Request and worked on Data Feed from SAP to third party vendor (Via XI interfaces; pushed via cloud using web services). Scheduled couple of calls between third party vendor, ABAP developers, XI team etc.; whenever required and tried to bridge all communication gaps for the Project PCRs.
• Handled the Service-Request support tickets of SAP Material Management module and also found the Master Data issues and has done analysis and found the root cause.
• Analyze the scope, estimate the effort involved, and gain approval from the various stake holders of the project.
• Rich experience in HP Quality Centre v11.0 which is used for executing the business process flow scripts
• Created User-Manuals and other necessary documents for SAP MM activities dat provided Knowledge Transfer to associates at team during hand-over
• QA’s scope include extensive functional and regression testing following each of the multiple builds to ensure proper functioning of the new and existing functionalities

Confidential

SAP MM Functional Analyst

Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a MM Functional Analyst, provided solutions to various user issues.
• Business Requirement Gathering from users and analyze the Gap.
• Tracked progress and closure of issues and provide end-user training.
• Worked with issues related to Master Data of raw material, finished goods and packaging materials.
• Determined, developed and documented: business requirements, system design, and configuration settings.
• Successfully induced configuration changes to accommodate change requests.
• Configured various standard Material Management documents dat include Purchase Requisition (PR), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Order (PO), Purchasing Info record, Source lists, quota management.
• Worked on different Pricing Procedures determined for different vendors, which based on the purchase area and material price.
• Implemented delivery scheduling and availability checks to all the storage location.
• Configured the Warehouse Structure based on the Existing Layout of the storage area, designed the Put away, Picking Strategies along with Master data, Number ranges.
• Involved in Unit testing and Integration testing for the functionalities.
• Carried out User acceptance testing for procure to pay functionalities and warehouse functionalities (put away and Picking).
• Supported Pre go live users Training and Post Go live activities for purchasing and warehousing functionalities.
• Worked in the WM, configuring the master data and transactional data items like storage types, storage sections, storage bins, picking and put away areas.
• Defined and managed several different types of storage, such as high rack storage, block storage or fixed bin storage also defined Storage Bin Structure for all Materials by defining Template, Structure, Start Value, End Value and Increment.
• Defined WM Movement types, Storage type search, Storage section search, Storage bin type search, Stock Placement (Put away) and Stock Removal (Picking) strategies.
• Configured Inventory management Movement types, GR, GI, Transfer posting and Stock transport order (STO).
• Tested purchase requisition cycle, request for quotation cycle, purchase order cycle, outline agreements, sub-contracting, goods receipts and issue cycles using HPQC