SUMMARY:

• Total of 6 years of extensive experience in the field of Materials Management, this includes experience in Project analysis, Customization and Implementation ofSAPR/3MMModule.
• Has completed 1 full life cycle implementation projects and also involved inSAPsupport and maintenance projects.
• Excellent understanding of business processes in Logistics. Excellent knowledge of the ASAP methodology. Experienced in Blueprinting, Realization, Testing (unit testing, User Acceptance testing and Integration testing), end user, Final preparation, Go - Live and project support.
• Excellent configuration skills on Organizational Structures, Automatic Account Determination, Output Determination and Enhancement, Pricing Determination and Enhancement, Release Procedures and all other functional aspects of MM module.
• Configured Materials Master including Material Types, definition of Views and Fields, required Number Ranges for Material types.
• Configuration of Vendor Master including creation of Account Groups defining Fields and usage of Partner functions. Worked extensively on Contracts, Scheduling agreements and Invoice verification.
• Expertise in configuration and maintenance of Master Data in Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, Bill of Materials (BOM), Quota arrangement, Account Determination, Source List and Vendor Evaluation.
• Configuration of Inventory Management Movement Types, Number ranges for material document of Goods Receipt, Goods Issue and Stock Transfers.
• Configuration of MM and IM movement types
• Experience in Purchase requisitions, PO’s, RFQ, inbound and outbound movements using purchase and sales orders, warehouse storage type, sections and bins.
• Configuration and documentation of stocks that are to be delivered to Quality Inspection in accordance with business requirements.
• Configuration of Message types, Access sequences, Message Determination Schema for Output Control of Purchasing Documents.
• Configuration of Warehouse Activity Monitor to supervise unconfirmed transfer orders, open transfer requests, deliveries, interim storage stock and negative stock.
• Experience in implementing MM with other cross functional modules such as SD, PP, FI/CO and QM.
• Adept in translating business objectives into functional and technical requirements.
• An effective team member with excellent communication, leadership, co-ordination and client facing skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Primary skills: SAP MM/IM, SAP R/3 4.6, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

Applications: SAP GUI 6.40, 7.00,7.10,7.20

Secondary Skills: GIS, AutoCAD, ERDAS Imagine, Microstation

Office Products: Ms-Office, Ms-Visio, Microsoft Project Plan

Operating System: UNIX, Windows 95/NT/2000/XP/VISTA/7, Solaris, HP UX

Groupware: Ms-Outlook Express, Lotus Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

SAP MM/IM Production Support and Enhancements

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 (Functional Consultant), Windows Vista

Responsibilities:

• Handling Tickets & Tasks and responsible for closing the same following Service Delivery Model.
• Raising Change Requests (CRs) and writing functional specifications for the development team.
• Preparing test data for testing CRs (Change Requests)
• Testing CRs (Change Requests), documenting test scripts and validate test results.
• Testing it in Development system and worked with Basis Team in moving transports and testing it in quality and production system
• Executing the needed changes in configuration
• Involved in the configuration of Inbound Deliveries.
• Maintained Shelf Life Expiration Date (SLED) procedure in the MM module.
• Involved in Interfaces and Integration of MM and WM with SD, PP Modules.
• Provided End User on Master data, P2P, Release strategies and Info records.
• Involved in Analyzing and testing the business process with the end users.
• Actively participated in resolving data issues and conflicts within Functional Team.
• Configured Pricing procedure. Defined condition types, access sequence, condition table, condition records and calculation schema for price determination.
• Managed Special Stocks such as Consignment and Subcontracting.
• Designed Unit testing for Procure to pay cycle.
• Configured external service management and Split valuation.
• Configured returnable goods and maintained material valuation.
• Settled up Batch Management for all key materials.
• Worked on batch determination, batch split, batch classification and batch Strategies.
• Configured Vendor Master: Created vendor account groups, number ranges, purchasing groups.
• Extensively worked on price determination process, Stock Transport Orders (STO), Automatic conversion of Purchase requisition to Purchase order.
• Configured the Physical inventory settings, Reservation Management Program for Reservations in IM.
• Designed Sub contracting process for special stocks and documented the process flow for all the subcontracting Scenarios, also designed Consignment and Third-party processing.
• Set up Release strategies for purchasing documents with classification and Work Flow.

Confidential, Omaha, Nebraska

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Extensively work on Material Master Data.
• Customized and Concentrated on Purchasing and Material Master.
• Good knowledge of working between different legacy environments, Worked to settle on all the Interface Technology Issues.
• Settled the Inventory Differences between Legacy & SAP R/3 environments.
• Maintained master data of Purchasing info Records and Contracts (Outline & Scheduled Agreements) & Quota Arrangement.
• Worked on all the relevant Inventory Management & their movement types.
• Settled the Reservation Creation & Maintenance efforts.
• Configured Ship to & the Sold to customers in SD.
• Worked on the Inbound and Outbound Deliveries.
• Monitored & Provided End users the
• Involved in Production Support activities include analyzing customer problems, suggest solutions, implementing changes, and test the changes in Purchasing and Inventory Management.
• Extensively handled production support tickets of various priorities.
• Studied all existing and planned distribution depots, interface with the plants/manufacturing facilities, and centralized purchase order-processing network.
• Production support work involving troubleshooting related to posting of goods movement, stock availability for posting, changes to master data, purchase documents including PO, Outline agreements, release procedure, not released for further processing, posting period issues, vendor block etc.
• Re-configured MM Requisition to pay (Procurement to pay), and Logistics Invoice Verification (MIRO).
• Configured inventory management parameters for all goods movements like goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, goods receipt for blocked stock, goods returns
• Carried out split valuation of materials based on valuation category.
• Maintained inventory types such as annual inventory, continuous inventory and continuous inventory based on stock placement, continuous inventory based on zero stock check and cycle counting for each storage type.
• Created new storage types for receiving goods into quality inspection in warehouse based on special movement indicator.
• Configured and customized Outline Agreements-Scheduling-Delivery/Forecast Delivery, Contracts Value/Quantity.
• Developed functional specifications, technical specifications and mapping documents.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

SAP MM & WM Team Member

Environment: SAP R/3 5.0 (Post Go-Live, Production Support and ), Vista

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business Process
• Studied MS Visio Flowcharts and interacted with client regarding issues.
• Assimilated the business process and various scenarios that had to be taken into consideration.
• Covered MM, WM and SD related issues for returnable packaging material and stock, both batch managed.
• Resolving issues
• Worked with consignment stock related problems.
• Resolved SMS tickets related to returnable packaging material, consignment billing, and invoices to vendors & credit memos to customers.
• Resolved problems related to pricing procedures and accounts payable.
• Assisted ABAPers with extensions for consignment billing and returnable package receiving process.
• Worked on various types of Purchase Orders, Planned Orders, Sales Orders, Inter Company Transfers, Consignment and Standard order deliveries
• Worked with Inbound and Outbound Deliveries
• Shipments of batch managed material and returnable packaging material.
• Corrected wrongly sent or billed deliveries by client, by reversing the entire transactions and redoing them.
• Provided to end users on completing a delivery and resolving issues related to wrongly entered of PGI’d deliveries.
• Created Job Aids for their with screen shots and instructions. Documented End User Material for MM, WM, and PP related transaction.
• Walked client thru steps on transactions and helped build up confidence in the new system especially among older employees who were not willing to accept the SAP system in spite of all the different functionalities and ease it provided as compared to their legacy system.
• Participated in AS-IS business process workshop and understand the current business requirements. Presented TO-Be workshop to the business users and mapped in SAP.

REXAM Beauty and Pharma, Waterbury, Connecticut

SAP Purchasing Team Member

Environment: R/34.7, UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, conducting meetings, interacting with Subject Matter Experts for system analysis and understanding business process flows,
• Prepared AS-IS study and detailed TO-BE report, documentation of Business Blue Print, and presenting process flow using Microsoft Visio.
• Defined the Functional specs for the SCM processes to fill gaps defined in the processes.
• Configured Plants, Purchasing Organization, Purchasing Group, Storage Locations.
• Designed Master data set up like Vendor master, Material master, Info record, Bills of Materials
• Configured Purchasing, Receiving, Inter plant, Inbound deliveries, Subcontracting, Third-party orders, Stock transport orders.
• Customized settings for Release Procedures for (i). Purchase Requisitions with classifications, (ii) Purchase Order approval process, (iii) Outline Agreements (Contracts and Schedule Agreements).
• Customization of Material Master for different material types and Templates for material numbers.
• Configuration of Vendor Master for different account groups & assignment of nos. to the groups.
• Customized the Purchasing Groups.
• Configured field settings for material master, vendor master, purchase orders, goods receipts, and invoice verification.
• Performed regression testing in the MM module.
• Worked extensively on Purchasing Cycle ( Purchase requisitions, Purchase Orders, Schedule Agreement, Contracts, Source Lists, Goods Receipts, etc.)
• Unit test for distribution process pricing, delivery outputs and reports.
• Configuring document types for purchasing documents like purchase requisition, purchase orders.
• Assisted in system settings that 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
• Leaded and updated the team during weekly meetings.
• Imparted to end users on process changes.
• Setting up Screen Layouts for purchasing documents like request for quotation.
• Created new material groups, purchasing value keys.
• Master data conversion and data migration using SECATT.
• Data Modeling and Master Data Management.
• Prepared documentation for knowledge transfer and trained key users.
• Documented business process procedures.
• Performed regression testing in the MM module.
• Prepared business process procedures & with Visio diagrams as per client requirement.
• Involved in various phase of testing UNIT testing, Integration testing and developed various test cases and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).