Summary:

• Confidential is a certified SAP professional with 11 years of experience in Configuration, Development, Solution Architecture and Project Management. He has led several global SAP implementations and has deep expertise in SAP MM Procurement ECC 6.0, 5.0, R/3 , Supplier Relationship Management SRM 5.0, 7.0 , MDM Catalog Management, Supplier Managed Catalogs SAAS applications , EWM/WM, Logistics Execution, MRP, Inventory Management, Supplier Network Collaboration, Manhattan e-Commerce, and Distribution Management systems. He possesses in-depth knowledge and cross-functional expertise in SAP FICO AP, AR, and GL , EAM/PM, PPM, SD, CRM, HCM and BI Reporting. He has the acumen to understand the business needs and architect solution for upstream e-procurement/e-sourcing business processes as well as downstream warehouse management processes.
• He has hands on experience in SPRO configuration nodes and coding experience in SAP ABAP BADIs, Technical and Process-Controlled workflows, Webdynpro and Dictionary Objects , Java, J2EE, STRUTS, XML and SQL languages. He has performed technical configurations for SAP Enterprise Portal, MDM Data Manager and business integration tools like ALE-EDI/Idoc, Gentran, and SAP Process Integration PI . He has supported various SOX compliance initiatives including the resolution of SOD conflicts.
• He has demonstrated history of successful Strategic Planning, Stakeholder Management, Staff Management, Budget Management, Relationship Management, Business Process Improvement and Issue Resolution implementing complex technology solutions spanning various industries. He has exemplary leadership qualities and the ability to work with cross-functional teams from varying backgrounds. He is adept in SAP ASAP, Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methodologies, and is well experienced in various project and business process management tools like SAP Solution Manager, SAP Project and Portfolio Management PPM , and Microsoft Project.

Projects:

Role: Sr.Manager/Sr.Architect

Confidential

• Oversee the Supply Chain Process platform application implementations across the vertical through initiation, design, development , testing and deployment
• Manage Functional and Technical consultants to perform Requirements Gathering, Fit-Gap Analysis, Proof of Concepts, Process Modelling and Solution Design.
• Oversee the design to integrate SAP Procure 2 Pay solution with Manhattan Order Management e-Commerce and Distribution Management systems
• Actively driving Pre-Sales RFP and Contract negotiation process. Review/Co-Ordinate Statement of work for new implementation, Upgrade as well as Change requests.

Role: Solution Architect SAP

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• Responsible for design, configuration and maintenance of MM Procurement, SRM, SNC, Supplier Portal, Logistics Execution and EWM Modules. Managed various supply management process improvement initiatives and technology upgrades.
• Responsible for developing enterprise wide IT Roadmap for Supply Chain applications, assess best of the breed products and provide recommendations to leadership team.
• Performed Fit-Gap analysis, Cost and effort estimation. Supported business and IT leaders for preparing Investment Memo, ROI evaluation, Upgrade strategy and roll-out plans.
• Led the Procure 2 Pay deployment with strategic intent, and ensured operational excellence by providing thought leadership to the implementation team guiding them through Design, Deployment and Production Support.
• Involved in the evaluation and blue printing of Ariba for sourcing, e-procurement, Discount Pro and supplier credit risk analytics.
• Acted as the techno-functional Lead for e-procurement roll-out for indirect materials including office supplies using portal based SRM shopping cart, RFx and Auction. Led the implementation of B2B data interface deployment for Purchase Order, Confirmations, Delivery and Invoice collaboration with the suppliers.
• Led a team of cross functional experts which includes members from Supply Chain, Finance, Accounts Payable, Procurement and Tax to redesign the Sales Tax accrual and payment process for SCE's dynamic business needs and complex procurement strategy. Designed Procurement universe- a reporting dashboard using BI involving strategic, operational and spend performance analytics reports.
• Provided guidance to onsite and offshore teams during realization, testing and Go Live phases for delivering the RICEFW objects. Resolved several critical Production support issues.

Role: Specialist Senior SAP

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• P2P and Logistics Lead for prototyping and modeling the business processes. Involved in configuration and testing of MM, SRM and Logistics related SAP nodes for meeting milestones.
• Coordinated with client counterparts to prepare the visioning documents using Solution Manager for Strategic Processes like Sourcing, Category Management, Contract Life Cycle Management and operational processes like bin management, posting changes and cycle count processes
• Collaborated with cross functional team members for configuring Evaluated Receipt Settlement, e-Invoicing, Non-PO payment, and Procurement card processes.
• Assisted Security, Basis and Process controls team in defining appropriate roles and authorization for Supply Chain users, resolved SOD conflicts. Developed Release strategies, and escalation processes.
• Designed the process flow for B2B interfaces involving EDI and XML communication structure.

Role: Sr. Consultant P2P SRM Lead

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• Performed business fit-gap analysis and designed scalable solutions in areas of Procure to Pay and logistics.
• Managed the delivery of RICEFW objects including defect resolution during development, integration testing and FAT phases.
• Instrumental in evaluating SRM 7.0 capability and business benefits for the client. Key resource for gathering functional requirements and design process flow and project initiation document.
• Collaborated with SAP ramp up coach to setup the sandbox and resolve critical issues related to Purchase order and contract replication.
• Designed, configured and tested processes around Direct and Indirect procurements and Vendor Returns.
• Designed and implemented process controlled workflow for shopping cart and RFX approval which is currently being used by various business units for technical approval process.
• Maintained org structure using PFAL and performed master data replication. Configured RFx and Auction templates and mapped the text types for data transfer.
• Architected the IDM user provisioning solution which centralized business partner creation and user provisioning for Supplier Portal, SRM and CRM systems
• Integrated Procurement with TMS solution for inbound transportation planning and load tendering. Worked on Third party drops ships and vendor confirmations
• Customized movement types, Reasons for movement and built reports for Inventory controlling such as Through-Put, Productivity, Accuracy and expense management.
• Performed a major role in SAP Integration with Open Text. The solution involved integrating Shopping cart, RFx, Auction, PO and Change order PDF copies to Open Text which offered a huge benefit of eliminating thousands of paper copies and retaining the change order history.

Role: SAP Consultant

Confidential

• Interacted with the clients to gather business requirements, and prepared high level technical design documents.Managed the project deliverables, conducted weekly status report meeting to discuss and resolve timeline, workload and delivery issues.
• Worked on extended classic scenario configuration, Organization structure attributes and Hierarchy definition, Material/product master management, Scheduling jobs for document replications and status updates, Alerts Monitoring , Master data replication, Workflow design and monitoring, IDOC configuration, monitoring and Troubleshoting
• Worked on Business workflow configuration and implementation for shopping carts, PO, Purchase Contracts, Confirmation, SUS, Purchase contract. Defined Workflow start conditions and event mapping.
• Performed ALE /IDOC configuration for Inbound Outbound IDOC Mapping, PORT definition, Partner Profile assignment and Distribution module assignment.
• Worked on data/info source, info cube, update and transformation rule development for data extraction in to BI system. Developed custom routines to enhance data extraction.

Role: Sr.Software Engineer

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• Interacted with the Solution Management team to gather Requirements and Prepared design documents for business process flow.
• Involved in enhancement pack development for MM, SRM, FI and FSCM modules. Key resource for implementing the switch framework on P2P modules.
• Designed a dialog program to include Commodity Future in Treasury transaction. Created Enhancements using BADIs for fetching the commodity price from market data feed webservices.
• Developed a report to calculate Net Present Value NPV for derivatives such as options and Futures and display the NPV value along with the prevailing interest rates and volatilities.
• Designed webdynpro ABAP screens for Kayak applications and time management on demand solution.
• Designed and developed webservices for customer events conducted by SAP Labs India.
• Conducted Performance Analysis using the tools ABAP Runtime analysis and Statistical Data Analysis.

Role: Software Engineer

Confidential

• Worked as core team member for SAP implementation. Involved in various custom development objects using ABAP, Java/J2EE, SAP Script, BDC and LSMW.
• Developed Report to compare G/L Account to its Profit Center: This report will provide the end user with the ability to compare on a daily basis its G/L Account to its Profit Center. This report will pull data from both the BSIS and BSAS table, to show both debits and credits.
• Developed Report to display the expenses for a particular month and for the corresponding year, this is based on the profit center, company code, period etc.
• Developed a BDC program for FI module to upload Asset Master Data using transaction AS01.
• Developed procurement workbench to display information such as material demands based on sales orders, inventory levels, and on order stock. The report output included the capability to create purchase order based on the material demand/availability information.
• Developed BAPI interface to send customer information and contact information from ECC to external system.
• Involved in Performance Tuning to improve the communication between the application and database by reducing the frequency of database SELECT calls made to the same table and, changing inefficient programming techniques.