PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced functional consultant with 18 years of experience proven track record of success in implementing SAP ABAP, material management, Supplier relationship management, and Ariba testing. Profound knowledge of business processes through operational expertise in a diverse industrial environment.
• Three full life cycle implementations in SAP S/4 HANA Procurement, MM / SRM / ARIBA with ASAP methodology: Project preparation, Business blue printing, Realization, Final preparation, Go - live and support.
• Experience in SAP R/3 MM ARIBA PM module with specialization covering all phases of EAM including design, implementation and continuous production support.
• Knowledge of cross functional integration of MM, WM, SRM, PM and Ariba modules. Comprehensive knowledge on creation of Master data for Material master, Vendor master and Purchasing Info Records. Various types of Purchase Order.
• Configured and implemented difficult pricing procedures as per business requirements.
• Configuring MM organizational structure like creation and plants, Storage locations and Purchase organization.
• Working knowledge on SAP Simple logistics S4 HANA.
• Hands on experience working with Inventory management and Warehouse management. Designed specific cycle counting process at both IM and WM levels for specific warehouses.
• Good understanding of the Release procedures in Purchasing. Extensive use of tables for various reporting requirements. Defining Pricing conditions, Pricing procedures and Output determination procedures. Setting of tolerances and purchasing value key.
• Led an operations business team in the development, support and testing of objects, fixing of defects interactive customer service relationship management that centralized information and improved customer service.
• Extensive hands-on experience in P2P scenarios.
• Testing of Upstream and Downstream scenarios in Ariba
• Worked on configuration and testing of PPS in SRM
• Comprehensive experience in handling cross-functional areas of Plant Operations and SAP R/3 PM module implementation. Over 8 years of experience in SAP implementation and support this includes 3 full life cycle implementations as Team Lead role for Plant Maintenance Module.
• Functional expertise in managing the production operations with key focus on bottom line profitability by ensuring optimal utilization of resources. Expertise in business process re-engineering.
• Insightful knowledge of business process analysis and design, reengineering, process rationalization, cost control, capacity planning, performance measurement and quality control.
• Adept in analyzing information system needs, evaluating end-user requirements and custom designing solutions and troubleshooting any problems in the process.
• Expertise in managing production activities involving resource planning, in-process inspection, team building, design & development and co-ordination with internal departments.
• An effective communicator with excellent relationship management skills and strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Core functional skills: - SAP MM, PM, SRM and Ariba

Master data management: - Material master, Vendor master, Purchase info record, Source list.

Operating System: - Windows NT, 2000, XP, Windows 7

MS office tools: - MS word, MS excel, PowerPoint, MS-Project

DA Languages: - R, SPSS, SAS Eminer, WEKA, R rattlRcmdr, Rstudio, Excel, Tableau

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP ARIBA, SAP S/4HANA.

Environment: SAP ECC, ARIBA, CIG

Responsibilities:

• Gathering of requirements and Analysis of requirements.
• Identifying requirement and existing solutions,
• Configuring tiles in guided buying
• Configuration of validation policies in guided buying.
• Preparation of pricing file. Co-ordinating between all stake holders.
• Presentation of defects to relevant stack holders.
• Managed and coordinated successful key deliverables.
• Working with multiple application teams to ensure releases are delivered on-time, on-budget and on-quality while satisfying the product scope.
• Managing complex project release estimates & forecasts.
• Worked on simplification
• Develop and review project status with Functional teams by creating weekly status reports.
• Leading team for SAP ARIBA implementation and coordinating with SAP ARIBA team for requirements gathering and various SRs.

Confidential

SAP ARIBA, CIG, AN, MM

Environment: SAP S/4 HANA, ARIBA, CIG, SLP

Responsibilities:

• Configured the workflow for supplier request. SLP
• Made changes to supplier request as per business requirement.
• Added / modified existing questionnaire in supplier request template.
• Identifying requirement and existing solutions,
• Preparation of test scripts for P2P scenarios, SLP and Sourcing.
• Testing of P2P scenarios.
• Testing of SLP scenario.
• Preparation of daily status reports. Weekly 7 Point key report. RO preparation. Effort estimation.
• Identifying requirement and existing solutions,
• Identify gaps and development for gaps identified.
• Prioritise task or developments to be completed.
• Initiation of that will improve the quality of service to BP users.
• Upstream / Downstream Operations functions, transit time and overall cost.
• Preparation of pricing file. Co-ordinating between all stake holders.
• Presentation of defects to relevant stack holders.
• Execution of scripts in HPALM.
• Configuration of supplier groups.
• Tested scenarios using guided buying.
• Building of Reports in ARIBA.
• Identify gaps and development for gaps identified.
• Written the functional spec for the gaps identified.
• Testing of development objects build for the gaps.
• Prioritize task or developments to be completed.
• Schedule of job for invoice status update.
• Monitoring of message in CIG for various documents.
• Testing for Procurement scenarios in guided buying.

Confidential

SAP MM

Environment: SAP ECC, ARIBA,CIG

Responsibilities:

• Gathering of requirements and Analysis of requirements.
• Identifying requirement and existing solutions,
• Implemented commerce automation process for invoice modernization project.
• Configuration to send Purchase orders to AN for Direct procurement. i.e. from ECC to AN.
• Configuration of supplier groups.
• Building of Reports in ARIBA.
• Identify gaps and development for gaps identified.
• Prioritize task or developments to be completed.
• Schedule of job for invoice status update.
• Configuration to send purchase order to AN for indirect procurement. i.e. from SRM to AN
• ELS support, Ticket handling and proposed solutions and KT.
• Configuration of project, system connections, support and Transaction mapping in CIG.
• Mapping of various custom fields in CIG mapping tool.
• Initiation of that will improve the quality of service to BP users.
• Upstream / Downstream Operations functions, transit time and overall cost.
• Preparation of pricing file. Co-ordinating between all stake holders.
• Presentation of defects to relevant stack holders.
• Led team for SAP ARIBA implementation and coordinated with SAP ARIBA team for requirements gathering and various SRs.
• Managed and coordinated successful key deliverables.
• Advised suppliers in maintaining their profile with remittance information.
• Configuration of invoiced submitted in AN send to VIM component.
• Preparation of daily status reports. Weekly 7 Point key report. RO preparation. Effort estimation.
• Consolidating inputs from involved parties in the project, including team members, SMEs, release management, and operations teams to ensure successful implementation of releases to the production environment with minimal disruption.
• Preparation of daily status reports and Stakeholder & leadership communications.
• Assign the work to team member and getting the status from the team regularly.
• Support team in development of approved PBIs by helping remove impediments Responsible to track all impediments to closure.
• Responsible to track all actions identified in Retrospective meetings to closure
• Facilitate and participate in the Scrum ceremonies
• Encourage team members to attend and participate in all Scrum ceremonies and other meetings
• Support team in management of the Sprint backlog
• Generate required reports and metrics data
• Engage other members of the organization in removal of impediments beyond control of Scrum Master
• Support the team in conflict resolution and problem-solving
• Creating communication channel (team, Product owner, stakeholder)
• Provided KT to support team and working on ELS and Transition activities.

Confidential

SAP MM, ARIBA Functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops, to-be design, blueprint for ARIBA-ECC integration for direct and indirect procurement
• Implementation of Ariba Network for Purchase Order collaboration
• Implement Ariba Spot Quote, ASN, Order Confirmation process On-time delivery reports and Sourcing modules
• Involved in configuring OCI parameters for both internal and external catalogs using Ariba APC
• Involved in supplier enablement.
• Configured master data including material master, vendor master, source list, info records and pricing.
• Configured Purchasing documents: Purchasing info records, RFQ/Quotation, purchase requisition, purchase orders, source lists, Quota Arrangements.
• Configured release procedures, alternate release strategies, and MRP types for special category materials as required by the production facility.
• Hands on experience in integration between different modules like MM, SRM,PM and FI/CO.
• Configured and created master data of materials, BOM, Routing, work center and Production order confirmation parameters. Extended the material master records to include work scheduling, MRP and forecasting views.
• Involved in implementing Make to Order and Make to Stock Strategies for the company.
• Involved in Unit testing / Integration testing and Regression testing for key business process.

Confidential, Houston, TX.

Sr. SAP MM/SRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathering of requirements and Analysis of requirements.
• Preparation of daily status reports. Weekly 7 Point key report. RO preparation. Effort estimation.
• Preparation of pricing file. Co-ordinating between all stake holders.
• Manage project scope, requirements, time, cost, resources, risk and integration
• Presentation of defects to relevant stack holders.
• Managed and coordinated successful key deliverables.
• Preparation of daily status reports and Stakeholder & leadership communications.
• Coordinate with ARIBA team. Constructed the transition plan from the project team.
• Configuration and testing for Ariba downstream scenarios.
• Involved in preparing test scripts from functional design documents
• Assign the work to team member and getting the status from the team regularly.
• Led team for SAP ARIBA implementation and testing of sourcing, contract management process.
• Testing invoice with to PO in Ariba down stream
• Testing invoice without to PO in Ariba down stream
• Responsible for overall deliveries. Preparation of effort estimation and preparation of pricing file.
• Testing of bidding scenario in Ariba upstream
• Consolidating inputs from involved parties in the project, including team members, SMEs, release management, and operations teams to ensure successful implementation of releases to the production environment with minimal disruption.
• Defect Management in HP ALM. Testing of MI reports, Inventory Management, Spend Analysis.
• Presentation of defects to relevant stack holders in the project.
• Led the team for Regression testing on SRM / Ariba integration scenarios.
• Conducted Knowledge transfer workshop with support team
• Contract process testing using Ariba upstream.
• Design and development of various aspects of Ariba like approval rules, scheduled tasks, Invoice exceptions, IR engine, Integration events.
• Supporting the team as and when required.
• Validation of config and Executed P2P scenarios.
• Time and cost estimation, Planning based on weekly status report.
• Assisted in Ariba Unit testing, System testing, System integration testing.
• Coordinating with Ariba team and testing of Scenarios for PO and Invoices process thru Ariba.
• Documented all the test evidences for various business scenarios as project learnings.
• Worked with third party vendors to gather information on various business process.
• Monitoring the quality of the deliverables and arriving at quality checks periodically.

Confidential

SAP MM/SRM

Responsibilities:

• Assessment for change request requirements.
• Preparation of Test Scripts, Testing of custom developments, Testing of Business scenarios.
• Managing the transition phase of transferring the functional, technical and procedural knowledge to our maintenance and support organization;
• Time sheet approvals, Resource utilization and evaluation
• Vendor evaluation process.
• Manages large-small sized teams and or day to day support work efforts.
• Determines methods and technical procedures on current and new assignments.
• Prioritization of project delivery activities based on functional and technical inputs.
• Maintenance of User roles within the purchase department and users
• Develop and review project status with Functional teams by creating weekly status reports.
• Support business on distribution of workload to various purchase groups.

Environment: SAP ECC, SRM

Confidential

MM/SRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creation and Maintenance of SRM organization structure.
• Maintenance of User roles within the purchase department and users
• Configuration for getting external requirements into SRM from backend.
• Replication of Material master data from backend system.
• Replication of vendors into SRM7.0
• Configuration of system for supplier registration process.
• Configuration for buyer managed and vendor managed catalogs.
• Customization of workflows as per business requirements.
• Coordinate tasks with Business Partners to understand the business process needs and analyze requirements
• Facilitate cross-functional, intra-department, and inter-department communications and cooperation in achieving project success.
• Distribution of workload to various purchase groups.
• Transfer of external requirements from various non legacy systems into SRM
• Transfer of accepted bid to CLM for agreement/contract creation.

Confidential

Sr. MM/SRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Onsite offshore co-ordinator. Conducting workshops for Key users and end users.
• Sign off of documents from end users on business process.
• Providing detailed reports as per an agreed schedule (or on request), including management and account performance reports;
• Effort estimation for various developments.
• Ensuring that quality services are delivered with regard to the agreed SLA
• Time and Expense approvals.
• Support sales team in solution design as per customer requirements.
• Creation and Maintenance of SRM organization structure.
• Extensively worked in a full life cycle implementation.
• Conducted Business discussions with core team and business process workshops for Blue print design.
• Involved in set up of organization structure configured material types as per the requirements of the client.
• Configuration of Message Types, Access Sequences, Message Determination Schema for Output Control of Purchasing Documents
• End user on how to handle IDOC error monitoring and preparing materials and activities for
• DOC test tool for testing inbound scenarios using WE19
• Hands on experience working on aspects related to variant configuration within Purchasing, sales and production.
• Worked to create Object Dependencies, setting configuration profile for configurable objects within variant configuration.
• Configured and executed shop floor activities including conversion of planned orders and carrying out goods movements and order confirmations.
• Identified error causes and error recoveries for incorrect performance of some material movements.
• Managed Receipts, Transfer Postings for Inspections, Stock movements, Stock Transfer Orders.
• Lead project meetings including schedules, data requirements, and resource assignments.
• Configured storage types, storage sections, storage bin types and storage bins structure.
• Customized put away and picking strategies for fixed bin, open storage, addition to existing stock, and storage unit types (pallets).
• Defined and configured field selections in Material Master, and Vendor Master.
• Led workshops with users to understand the requirements.
• Reviewed quality s for every inbound delivery and monitoring their receipt.
• Configured Catalogs/Code groups through selected sets, also configured UD codes with relevant follow-up actions.
• Created test scenario and performed unit and integration testing.
• Provided in SAP to end-users as required.

Confidential

Team Lead - MM/SRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SAP Note 1088474 to get the search help values in delivery/performance e tab of shopping cart.
• Configuration for getting external requirements into SRM from backend.
• Migration of Org structure from SRM4.0 to SRM7.0
• Separation of Vendor org structure from Purchase org structure.
• Resolved different issues in SRM7.0 in post upgrade.
• Unit test and cycle test for different objects.
• Migration of workflow to process controlled workflows.

Confidential

MM/SRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Validation of estimates from consultants.
• Weekly development meeting with the team to monitor progress
• Updating the status report to top management.
• Owner for Application development technical processes. Provide process to development team.
• Provided team leadership within the team of Release coordinators and build managers to define and gain adoption of clean, well-designed components and best practices across the entire product line, and share those with partners, internal stakeholders and customers.
• Configuration for getting external requirements into SRM from backend.
• Configured for vendor search.
• Worked on configuration and tested for Contract.
• Configured the system for buyer has authorization to change SC
• Configured the system to map external product categories into internal product category while creating business documents..
• Configured the system to exclude line items from RFx calculation.
• Configured the system to get external requirements into SRM system.
• Worked on configuration of RFI form.
• Creation of shopping carts from excel sheet.
• Support and maintenance for SRM system
• Managing the transition phase of transferring the functional, technical and procedural knowledge to our maintenance and support organization
• Involved in IMS issue resolution.Change of old approver to new approver
• Addition of all purchasing roles to particular users
• Change of approval limits.
• Report Invoice Error WF clean up: Users receiving frequently message 'Error when processing your request' when opening invoice in IMS
• Handling of errors in IDOC for accounting
• Invoice escalation handling.
• Configuration for getting external requirements into SRM from backend(PDP).
• Configuration for Contracts in SRM.
• Worked on configuration and tested for Contract.
• Change of data in the IDOC segments for sales orders by using exit ZXVEDU15
• Testing of Procurement processes in EBP & integration with R/3 using Classic Scenario.
• Enhancement for Interface from SAP MM to IGE for stock.
• Interface SAP sales orders to BASIS by using exit ZXVEDU16
• Development for Upload Promotion Quotas.
• Developed a report to list shopping carts by status
• Developed a report to download the attributes to file.

Confidential

Team Lead/MM/SRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the requirements
• Preparation of Technical Specifications from Businessdocuments / Functional Specs.
• Analyzing, monitoring and reviewing the Technical Specifications assigned for Offshore
• Effort estimation, Time and Expense Reporting and schedule compliance
• Re-branding for NEWCO
• Modified existing program ZEAC QUOT REPORT to print Credit card payments and Net charge on Credit card.
• Developed a report for Aircraft Service-Quotation History Report based on Revision number.
• Worked on Effort estimation for NEWCO re-branding for different type of objects.
• Done the changes for scripts, Adobe forms, smartforms, reports, Function modules in NEWCO re-branding.
• Transfer of Category ID with respect to purchasing Org and update of part master data.
• Transfer in Contract domain: Header transfer and price agreement transfer
• Updated the vendor details in SRM
• Implemented the BADI BBP SC MODIFY UI to change the layout.
• Handling master data configuration, processing and technical object structuring.
• Billing of material related to equipment, functional location and material.
• Overseeing preventive maintenance configuration & processing.
• Administering Data Migration from Legacy to SAP
• Maintaining Plant Maintenance Information System (PMIS)
• Integrating with other modules like PP and MM. Creating new enhancements and proposing transport requests. Handling new configuration changes as per business requirements.
• Creation & updating of key master date like Task List, Maintenance Plans (Single Cycle, Strategy based & performance based)., BOM’s, Work center, Functional location, Equipment.

Confidential

Team lead / MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Receiving inquiries / work Order requisition from various departments.
• Inviting quotation from various vendors.
• Vendor Negotiations and price, delivery and payment terms.
• Compiling quotation for Negotiation and preparation comparative Statements.
• Configured purchasing document types.
• Material replication from ECC to SRM.
• Created a Module pool program to accommodate DPL US Cotton business request for having QM State Lab Form with fields to key in manually to generate desired (Smartform) output.
• Created a Module Pool program to update the custom table with flat file values with validations
• Created a Module Pool program to modify the exiting Database table values with details screen where the user will enter new data
• Created report accommodate DPL’s requirement of Detailed Scheduling Report based on existing report.
• Modified existing program Z CHECK PRODUCT EXCLUSIONS to pass the new fields that make up the key combination of the new cotton exclusion type ZHB9 created for Branded Seed.
• Created BDC for which identifies the source lot number and copy into the receiving lot operation.
• Created an ALV report YPP PRINT LOAD TKT with an input fields in ALV output, call a smartform for load ticket output with selected line items.
• Modified existing standard script for inserting DPL logo, address and modification of layout.

Confidential

ABAP / SRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead, led a team of 23.
• Monitor and modify project schedules and created weekly status reports.
• Analyzing, assigning, monitoring and reviewing the Technical Specifications assigned for Offshore
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clearly.
• Effort estimation, Time and Expense Reporting and schedule compliance
• Working on Reports, Interfaces and Enhancements
• Preparation of Technical Specs from Functional Specs
• Preparation of MOM, Weekly status reports, Approval of Time sheets of team members
• To maintain quality of the project as per the standards
• Identification of risks, issues, defects analysis and preparation of mitigation plans
• Preparation of Resource Utilization
• Developed Interactive ALV report for CC Customer Open Item Analysis for Order-to-Cash: Credit and Collection area of FI module.
• Developed ALV report for Head Office Customer Listing for Order-to-Cash: Accounts Receivable area of FI module.
• Worked on Module Pool Program: Developed Hierarchy Overview Details in Order-to-Cash: Accounts Receivable area of FI module
• Modified existing custom programs as per the new project standards