SUMMARY

• Highly accomplished consultant with 11 years of experience and proven track record of success in implementing SAP Sales & Distribution.
• Profound knowledge of business processes through operational expertise in a diverse industrial environment; Industries include Manufacturing - Hi Tech, FMCG (Food, Beverage), Pharmaceutical, Telecom, and Automotive.
• Exceptionally competent in the applications of SAP R/3 versions 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0
• Five Full Life Cycle projects including two new implementations, migration projects, two upgrade project experience in SD with ASAP methodology: Project Preparation, Business Blue Printing, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live and Support. Also worked on Merger/Acquisition Integration projects and Global Roll out projects.
• Extensive experience in SAP R/3 SD, VC and SAP GTS modules with specialization in all phases including Design, Configuration Management, Implementation, Testing and Continuous Production Support.
• Expertise in devising Data Migration Strategy, Data Conversion Architecture, Data Quality Analysis, designing Data Testing, Data Loading and Data Validation approaches.
• Successful in managing and meeting the expectations of clients of varying sizes in terms of delivery, resource & time management, balancing on-site & off-shore work schedules etc
• Experience on cross-functional integration of SD with FI, MM and LE modules.
• Comprehensive knowledge in all areas of SD/Order-to Cash (OTC) functionality, Quote to Cash (QTC) including extensive custom development work with Availability Checking, Pricing, Transportation, Order Processing, Billing, Output Development, Account Determination, Queries, and Reports .
• Complete knowledge of configuration of Business Partners (Account Groups, Customer Hierarchy, Partner Determination, and Partner Functions), Customer-Material Info Records, Material Determination, Material Inclusion/Exclusion, Incompleteness Procedures, Text determination, Output Determination and Item Proposals.
• Customized Sales Documents (Inquiries, Quotations, Sales orders, Scheduling Agreements, and Contracts), Delivery Documents and Billing Documents for material and service related transactions.
• Configured document types to handle special business scenarios like Make to Order (MTO), Make to Stock (MTS), Consignment Orders and Third Party Order Processing.
• Configured Item Categories, Schedule Line Categories, and Copying Controls .Configuration expertise in Available to Promise (ATP), Rebates, Promotions, Sales analysis, Bill of Materials (BOM), Returns and Repair Orders.
• Hands on Configuration experience in Variant Configuration. VC objects like the characteristics, class, configuration profile, dependencies, variant tables, variant functions, materials & Bill of Materials in the sequence.
• Configured and implemented complex Pricing Procedures as per business requirements (configuration includes customizing Condition Types, Access Sequence, and Condition Tables).
• Extensive experience in Pricing along with VERTEX tax classification.
• Experience working in Logistics Execution (LE) includes working with functionalities like Outbound Delivery Processing, Picking, Packing, Good Issue, Stock Transport Order (STO),Routes, Transportation Zones, Shipping Point Determination, Delivery Types, Batch Determination, Serial number management, Delivery Split, Copy Controls for Delivery, Delivery Due Lists, Output Control, Bill of Lading, Scheduling and 3PL’s( Third Party Logistics).
• Experience in using Express Shipping Interface (XSI) to integrate 3PL’s and Carriers for tracking individual deliveries and exchange of data between the SAP system and the express delivery company using IDOC’s.
• Billing: configuration of Billing Types, processing Complaint Documents, Billing plans (Periodic and Milestone billing) and Account Determination Invoices, Credit Memo, Debit Memo, Rebates, Individual, Collective Billing, Inter-Company Billing, Invoice split, Accruals, Integration with Financial Accounting and Revenue Recognition.
• Generated mapping documents using EDI transactions (both inbound and outbound), determined Partners and Output, created Partner Profiles, IDOC extensions and IDOC types, verified outbound and inbound IDOCs, ALE, BAPIs, RFC destinations and User-Exits.
• Extensive knowledge in preparing functional specifications for Customizing Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, and Forms (RICEF).
• Very good knowledge in ABAP and hands on Debugging experience.
• Extensively worked on data migration with LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench) and BDC (Batch Data Communication).
• Project planning and implementation from GAP Analysis to Cut-Over Support.
• Experience with Global Trade Services (GTS) functionalities of Compliance Management, Customs Management, Risk Management and Electronic Compliance Reporting and familiar with integration of SAP ECC to meet the Clients functional needs.
• Performed unit testing, scenario testing, integration testing, and regression testing. Experience in analyzing business specification documents, developing Test plans, Test strategy, Test scope and defining Test Cases and automating test scripts using ECATT and CATT.
• Dynamic and highly motivated and structured individual with excellent management skills supported by effective communication and interpersonal skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP MDM Architect

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C and ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved right from the project preparation phase conducting workshops and gathering requirements from the business, created blue prints, performed gap analysis based on as-is and to-be processes for the project and successfully got sign off from all the verticals, created functional specs for conversions and required configurations for the realization phase and got approval from the business for all the activities related to Quote to Cash area.
• Played key role in Management of Project Time Lines, Resources, Budgeted Hours and Object Inter-dependencies.
• Led the multiple teams of consultants located in US and India & Coordinated with Data Stewards, Business Teams located in US, Canada, Europe and Asia.
• Worked on Analysis, Configuration and Conversions of Master Data like Customers, Customer Hierarchies, Partner functions, Contact partners, Installed Bases (Equipments, Functional Locations), and Pricing, Texts, Outputs, Material Listing Exclusion, Material Determination.
• Worked on Analysis, Configuration and Conversions of various Transactional data like Open Quotations, Open Sales Orders, Open Contracts, Open Returns, Open Credit Memos, Open Debit Memos, Open Free of charge deliveries, Open Subsequent delivery free of charge, Open Deliveries, Billing documents and open AR items.
• Worked on Intercompany, Consignment processes.
• Worked extensively on Customer master data and related programs for upstream and downstream interface applications like SalesForce.com, Siebel, UCM, SAP GTS, Informatica, EDW, etc.
• Set up ALE between both SAP boxes for Customer Master data and worked on EDI for various IDocs.
• Designed revenue recognition plan to accommodate B Box design for the I Box design.
• Worked closely with Data Governance Council, Data Stewards and Business Teams of all verticals to comprehend the requirements, extraction of data, conversion and enrichment of data from SAP 4.6C and integrating with ECC 6.0 System.
• Utilized SAP Data Migration best practices in Scoping, Data Quality remediation, Cleansing & Enrichment of data, Trial Loads, Dry runs, Final Loading, Delta loads, Validation and Business Sign-offs.
• Designed Cut-over activities, Prioritization of objects based on Dependencies and assessment of need based requirement for delta loads.
• Identified the relevant fields in SAP and mapping the fields with relevant conversion rules for conversion and synchronization of data.
• Built / coordinated with other teams to build appropriate XREF (Cross Reference) / Look up tables to reduce hard / repetitive coding and alteration.
• Tested and Loaded (hands-on) using of various enriched objects using the loading tools such as IDocs, LSMW, Custom ABAP Programs, BAPIs (SAP Function Modules).

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr.SAP SD/VC/GTS Analyst

Environment: ECC 6.0, GTS 8.0

Responsibilities:

• Handling the day-to-day issues of the users and help to resolve the problems they face in doing the transactions.
• Worked with business users in different time zones to collaboratively work on the requirements.
• Participated in all cross functional team meetings for proper functioning of integration and interfaces. Close co-ordination with ABAP for functional specifications and providing technical information required and ability to debug and understand programs.
• Worked on various business scenarios for Quote To Cash (QTC), Warranty Contracts, Rush Order, Sales Returns, Repair Orders, Consignments, Stock Transport Orders (STO), Cross Company Purchase Orders (CCPOs).
• Configured Incompletion Procedures, Copy Controls, availability check, delivery blocks and their status, invoicing, pro forma invoices, debit memos, credit memos, returns processing.
• Worked on Status profiles, Copy controls for sales documents, text determination.
• Customization of pricing procedures based on the clients requirements using the condition technique and creation of new condition tables, access sequence and condition types and assigning them to pricing procedure and maintaining condition exclusions. Worked on pricing procedure of system orders for special mark up condition types, variant costs, warranty, labor, royalty provisions
• Configured product profiles in Variant Configuration -- from creating the KMATs, classes and characteristics to dependencies, configuration profiles and variant pricing.
• Worked on product base system description, where in depending on the configurable product chosen, their description, graphics, information will be pulled from a Z table in the output.
• Worked on EDI for various inbound and outbound IDOCs.
• Worked extensively on Shipping point determination in ECC and creation of Legal Units in GTS system and assigning to feeder system of ECC.
• Worked on Compliance Management (Embargo Checking, Product Legal control, Sanctioned Party List screening), Customs Management (Customs Processing, Transit procedures).
• Worked on loading US HTS codes into GTS in .XML format as provided by FedEx data provider, Classifying materials with an HTS and ECCN code.
• Prepared recordings for LSMW customer master upload, customer material info records and pricing upload.
• Experience developing functional specs for RICEF objects and implemented OSS Notes.
• Worked on new Z fields. Developed Queries for the customer requirements by using table join and logical data base.
• Extensively worked on various customized classical and interactive reports which also include interfacing with other legacy systems.
• Worked on various output forms and enhancement of output determination. Worked on several forms in SAP Script and Smart Forms for the following countries: Japan, China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, US and European forms as well.
• Worked on various test scripts, scenarios for Unit testing, Integration testing and getting the sign off after successful completion.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

SAP SD Lead

Environment: R/3 4.6c to ECC 6.0 (upgrade and support)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the upgrade from R/3 4.6c to ECC 6.0, go-live and daily global production support of the SAP SD.
• Implemented new functionalities and enhanced existing functionalities including articulating, analyzing requirements and translating them into effective solutions.
• Prepared and tested all business scenarios for Order To Cash (OTC), Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Sales returns, Serialization, Stock Transport Orders (STO), Goods receipts and transfer postings.
• Configured Incompletion Procedures, Copy Control, availability check, delivery blocks and their status, invoicing, pro forma invoices, debit memos, credit memos, returns processing. Also configured Credit Management (Credit Control Area, Credit Data and Credit Groups).
• Worked on complaints like Free of charge delivery, Returns, and Invoice Correction Requests.
• Worked extensively on condition techniques like Pricing procedures, output determination, Partner determination, material determination, listing/exclusion, free of goods (FOG) determination.
• Extensive development work with Available to Promise (ATP), Availability Check, Transfer of Requirements (TOR), billing, output development, account determination, user exits, and Query generation.
• Customization of pricing procedures based on the clients requirements using the condition technique and creation of new condition tables, access sequence and condition types and assigning them to new pricing procedure. Pricing included material price, price lists, customer specific prices, various discounts, promotions, taxes and freight charges.
• Worked on integration of third party tools like Vertex for tax calculation.
• Experience developing functional and technical specs for RICEF objects.
• Worked on Billing document types(delivery and order related invoices, credit and debit memos, cancellations of billing documents), individual invoices, collective processing of billing documents, invoice splits, invoice lists billing plans, item categories, Inco terms, payment terms, billing blocks and revenue account determination.
• In Billing Procedure involved in customization and configuration of Inter Company Billing, Revenue Recognition, Rebate agreements, Integration with Accounting.
• Configured EDI settings with regards to inbound and Outbound IDOCs.
• Work closely and collaboratively with the onsite and offshore resources in different time zones to prioritize, coordinate and execute daily production support seek and provide guidance from/to them where necessary in implementing small to medium size projects.
• Familiar with Global Trade Services (GTS) functionality and integration with SAP ECC to meet the Clients functional needs.
• Management review with steering committee, auditing of project success and reporting thereof.
• Worked on test scenarios for Unit testing, Integration testing and UAT and getting the sign off after successful completion of testing for go live.
• Knowledge Transfer to the cross functional team members including onsite and offshore resources on regular basis.
• Prepared documentation required for end users and conducted training sessions.
• SD - LE Integration: Transportation: Configured shipment types, transportation chain, shipment stages, and automatic leg determination. Worked on creating, processing and settlement of Shipment Cost Document.
• Transportation planning and shipments- individual, collective, transportation chain, freight costs, billing, planning point, preliminary- secondary leg determination, shipment documents, route determination.
• Shipping (LE-SHP) Configured shipping controlling documents, modeled the collective delivery create processes, and designed shipping relevant functions in the order and delivery, configured picking with (warehouse management system) WMS activities, picking confirmation, packing and goods issue tasks.

Confidential, Green bay, WI

Sr. SAP SD Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 (full cycle implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business Requirements and prepared a Business Blue print for multiple business process and got signed off from Business.
• Configured End to End OM activity from master data, Sales documents, Item category settings, Delivery and Invoicing.
• Defined and Assigned enterprise structure, setup sales area and assigned sales orgs.
• Configured partner determination procedure for customer master and setup a new partner functions
• Configured Multiple Account group and customer master field settings based on the account group. Defined a New number ranges and assigned to each account groups.
• Configured multiple sales process, Delivery related billing, return order scenario, Credit memo, Drop ship scenario, Debit Memo, Invoice correction request, Consignment Process.
• Configured Pricing Procedure for the Business need and used Custom Routines
• Configured Incomplete Procedures at sales order level and Item category level for each doc type and item category levels.
• Configured text determination at sales document header level and Item category level to be copied in the output forms.
• Configured Output determination procedure in sales order, Delivery document and billing documents. Handled in designing 18 types of various output forms for sales order forms, delivery forms and billing related forms.
• Worked on production related issues with regards to Route Determination, Pricing Condition type change, Sales, Delivery billing document changes according to the FDA guidelines etc.
• Configured order to stock in availability check to transfer requirement settings at order level to MRP. Configured Material determination procedure for Business requirements.
• Involved in problem solving and configuration related to EDI inbound and outbound.
• Handled Data Migration activity for sales related master data and open transaction data to be uploaded from ORACLE TO SAP.
• Involved in a Regression testing for data migration uploads to check the values at master transactional data level. Worked in Unit testing and Integration testing in QA Client and fix the issues for Go LIVE.
• Prepared User manuals for each business process and trained the users.
• SD- FI - Integration: Assign sales area to credit control area at org structure level
• Defined the screen layout for each account groups based on customer requirements in customer master
• Setup Automatic credit control setting for credit control area at sales order, delivery level and Post goods issue at delivery level.
• Setup the Credit master at customer master data.
• Configured pricing determination procedure FI account keys and account determination setup with GL accounts.
• Defined Payment terms and Inco terms as per business need.
• SD- MM - Integration: Assigned Sales organization to plant at enterprise structure level.
• Defined material master setup with material type and activated the views.
• Configured Availability check and transfer of Requirements for MRP planning to trigger the sales requirements.
• Configured material movement type from sales reservations at order level to reserve the stocks.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP SD Functional Analyst

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Sales Development including order types, item categories, sales area assignment to document types, schedule lines, copy control routines, user exits for exclusive division determination for new business units.
• Configured special business transactions: Rush Orders and Consignments.
• Shipping and Transportation development including routes, transportation zones, shipping point determination, delivery types, batch determination, delivery split, copy controls for delivery, delivery due lists, output control.
• Configured Pricing by defining new condition types, condition tables, access sequences, customer pricing procedures, document pricing procedures, pricing procedures determination and assignments. Others include condition exclusion, price lists.
• SD/FI Integration: AR, Revenue account determination, G/L accounts, and account keys
• Configured Billing by defining and assigning billing types, invoice lists, copy controls, output control, billing due lists, rebates, intercompany billing.
• Output determination using condition technique for sales, shipping and billing.
• Configured shipping relevant functions, creating deliveries, picking, packing processing and goods issue (PGI). Developed process flow for PGI reversal.
• Worked with different client divisions for evaluating the AS-IS of the Logistics process and understanding their requirements for transportation, Freight Costing.
• Worked with auto packing functionality, batch management. Configured shelf life expiration date (SLED) for batch managed materials.
• Created new routines and requirements for various elements of OTC such as sales, deliveries, billing, invoice listing, pricing, outputs and copy controls.
• Actively monitored and addressed production issues, change requests, problem logs and incidents logged through help desk on daily basis.

Confidential, Oak Brook, IL

SD Functional Consultant

Environment: R/3 4.7 to ECC6.0 (Upgrade)

Responsibilities:

• Aggressively involved in the Upgrade project from R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
• Preparation of Functional Requirement Specifications(FRS) for the new development activity like Bapi sales order simulation to create open sales orders and contracts
• Responsible for Order Fulfillment Process with various Business Process documents like Standard Order, returns Order, Credit, Debit memo requests and third party business scenarios.
• Monitoring the project deliverables and support the team members to maintain the delivery issues
• Mapping the Sales Order directly to Billing Document through copy controls for Sales Order related Billing.
• Prepared Business Print and complete all the configurations relevant to Sales and distribution.
• Design and development of various sub modules of Sales and Distribution like Sales, Master Data, Billing, Pricing and Promotions, Output Determination, Reports, Programs etc
• Implemented Revenue recognition process as per business process with proper analysis.
• Defined partner determination procedures and control business partners, configuration of incompletion procedures.
• Configuration of condition technique for pricing: pricing procedures, condition types, access sequences, condition tables, condition records.
• Configured the Output determination procedure as per business requirement
• Worked exclusively on the Copy Control, Copy Requirements, Data Transfer Routines, Pricing routines, User Exits.
• Developed ABAP Queries for the customer requirements by using table join and logical data base.
• Created a Z fields in order header data tab according to map the business needs.
• Involved in integration testing and fix the road blocks in order to cash process.
• Prepared the user manuals and trained the end users to custom the new process added in SAP.
• ECC 6.0 Functional Support Activities: Interacting with clients on Critical Support issues. Documents updated in Solution Manager
• Interacting with business team, Understanding the pain area and providing solutions.
• Handled critical billing Batch Job issues and Support tickets
• Worked in pricing area of setting up a new condition type, Condition exclusion, calculation type and routines as per business requirement.

Confidential, Lake Forest, Illinois

SAP OTC consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured the Customer Account Group fields applying suppressed, mandatory and optional functions for Customer Master Data and defined Account Groups for Customers, Partner Functions and Partner Determination Procedure for Customer Master.
• Defined Material Determination, Item Proposal and Number Ranges.
• Pricing: Created Standard Pricing Procedure with different Discounts/ Surcharges/ Rebates using Condition Tables, Condition Types, Access Sequence and Pricing Procedure Determination. Configured Condition Exclusion for particular customer groups to get best price. Pricing also included Material Price, Price List, Customer Specific Prices, Customer Discount and Material Discount.
• Rebate processing for turnover discounts, billing and posting to FI.
• Defined and Assigned Account Determination Procedures, Account Determination Tables, Condition Types and Account Keys.
• Integrated with Warehouse Management to synchronies the inventory from SAP to ALOG Legacy System using interfaces (IDOCS).
• Involved in configuring shipping module that includes configuration of basic functions like freight, transfer of requirements, routes, scheduling and documents for outbound delivery.
• Configured the billing documents, billing plan types and billing procedures - individual billing, periodic billing, collective billing and custom payment processing.
• Involved in Variant Configuration with exposure on object dependency, class item, characteristic values and material types classes.

Confidential

Jr.SAP SD Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6c

Responsibilities:

• Studying and analyzing the present business processes pertaining to Sales and distribution, creation of Enterprise structure in sales process and assignment of organizational data, customization of master data for customer and material master.
• Configuring sales order processing/customer order management component, incorporation of organizational structures in sales process, partner definition and determination.
• Configuration of pricing procedures for various types of customers by suitable condition technique. Configured special scale based discount types based on Customer Groups
• Variant Configuration: characteristics, class, configuration profile, object dependencies and variant pricing.
• Maintain Output determination Procedure for sales and billing documents.
• Preparation of End User manuals for new business process.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studied and assessed the clients systems and business processes.
• Researched the various steps in the lifecycle and then constructed the system in such a way that the riskier claims could be easily identified and monitored.
• Assisted in building a business analysis process model.
• Performed requirement analysis, went through all the use cases and workflows.