Sr.sap Functional Consultant Resume
Miami, FL
Profile:
Highly experienced and motivated professional with 17 + years of business process & IT experience which includes 11 + years of SAP Supply Chain Management experience using implementation methodologies like ASAP methodology, business process re-engineering and uploading master data by LSMW as well as sound understanding of various modules interfacing.
Summary:
- Worked on Three End-to-End full life cycle implementations of SAP MM/WMand along with SixRollout, support, maintenance and up-grade projects experience.
- Well versed with the ASAP Methodologyand good experience inpreparing Functional Specs, Process flows, evaluating current process and suggesting process changes and having ability to handle the multiple projects.
- Extensive experience(but not limited to) in Procure to Pay(P2P), Inventory(IM) & Warehouse Management System(WMS).
- Experience in analyzing/building enhancements to system interfaces between SAP and legacy systems, mapping data, uploading of data conversion or data migration.
- Experienced in various phases of projects such as gathering requirements, identifying gaps, blue printing, design, configuration, custom developments, Unit Testing, integration testing,training, documentation, and go-live support.
- Experience writing Business Requirements and Functional Design requirements for custom application development, building a new system or enhancing existing systems.
- Analyze, Implement and document the detail requirements from the BPD workshops.
- Proficient in the Configuration of Master Data such as Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Info Records, Source list and Quota Arrangement.
- Worked extensively on Material Master Issues, Uploading by using LSMW.
- Expertise in the Special Procurement process such as the Consignment, Subcontracting and Stock transport orders and Stock Transport Scheduling Agreements.
- Worked on Integration between MM, PP, WM, SD, QM, FICO,SRM,APO-SNP,PM, and modules.
- Proficient in the Inventory management areas such as Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Stock Transfers, , Physical Inventory, Valuation (Split Valuation).
- Configured the System for ASN’s outbound delivery.
- Expert knowledge and experience of SAP solutions ideally in a Pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
- Good knowledge in Warehouse Management (WM)like configuring storage type, storage section, picking area, storage bins, quants, transfer order print output.
- Radio Frequency solutions (RF Console), Barcode usage, mobile data entry, warehouse activity monitor, Transfer Requirements, Transfer Orders, putaway and picking strategies, Inventory Counting, movement types.
- Configured Handling Unit Management (HUM), Storage Unit Management (SU), and RF scanners for different projects.
- Implemented Warehouse Management for mobile devices using ITS.
- Extensive experience in Logistics Execution (LE) functions like Delivery processing (In bound &out bound), Transportation.
- Hands-on experience in using different project tools for project management and documentations like Solution manager, HP-Quality Centre(QC), MS Share-Point, Service-now, REMEDY, and MS-Project etc.
- Responsible for writing the functional specifications of WRICEFs (Workflow, Reporting, Interface, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms).
- Created new forms for bar code labels, Mobile Data Entry.
- Good knowledge of EDI/IDOCS, Idoc processing, Reprocessing and trouble shooting.
- Worked on Configuration of Messages – condition table, access sequences, accesses and message determination schema.
- Good experience in Integration of SAP with Ariba using Idoc’s.
- Worked on Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for Roll out, up-gradation and import of data from other external systems to SAP using LSMW. Processed EDI/IDOC documents.
- Very good knowledge in HPQC and SOLMAN.
- A good team player, ability to take additional responsibilities ,quality conscious with excellent planning and implementation skills, capable of quickly adapting to new challenges and environments.
- Manufacturing Scenarios: Process Industries, Pharmaceutical, Discrete Manufacturing And Repetitive Manufacturing.
Skill Set:
Primaryskills : SAP MM/WM, SAP R/3, 4.6, 4.7, ECC 6.0,
Languages : C, C++, SQL
Operating Systems : Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, UNIX
Tools : LSMW, MS Visio, MS Office
Project Management & Reports : MS Project, MS Office Suite, MS Visio
Document Management : SharePoint, Solution Manager
Industrial Experience Summary:
Client: Confidential, Miami, FL
Industry: Industrial Solutions
Project: SAP MM/IM Functional Consultant - Implementation Go-Live Support
- Conducting training to business user’s on the business processes and preparing training documents.
- Understanding Interfaces like ALE and IDOCs used and the third party systems.
- Provided support and solved user issues, ensured configuration changes and ABAP development activities to fulfill the requirements.
- Study of business processes, process mapping and preparation of ready-to-use templates.
- Customized new material types and material groups and assigned number ranges for new material types.
- Managed master data for Material Master, Vendor Master, Customer Master, Info Records & Source Lists.
- Maintaining Material master data, uploading of data by LSMW.
- Configuration changes and maintain the Transports.
- Performed configuration enhancements for MM module (Purchasing, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory, and Invoice Verification) to meet the Business needs for the plant.
- Configured the system for special procurement process like Sub contracting, Third party and stock transport orders.
- Configured the Inter & Intra company stock transfer and handling of special stocks.
- Handled issues on Output determination Zebra printers and associated programming software.
- Extensively worked on interfaces with legacy and third party systems.
- Worked on MRP issues and trained the user’s.
- Monitor EDI/IDOC failures and supported resolution process like Idoc processing, reprocessing and trouble shooting.
- Used HPQC for testing.
- Co-ordination with ABAP team for designing layout sets, specifications and technical requirements for the business process in integration with ABAP.
- Worked on sales order, Delivery,PGI,Shipment and Billing.
- Integration between MM,SD,PP and WM.
- Prepared Change Request which included functional specs and ensured that the transport was moved across other environments.
- Performed unit testing and integration testing for custom transactions.
- Worked with end users and prepared training material for Purchasing and Inventory Management process.
- Resolving issues raised during the go-live.
Client: Confidential, Rochester hills, MI
Industry: Auto Supplier
Project: SAP MM/IM/WM Functional Lead Consultant – Implementation.
- Responsibilities include the conducting workshops, understanding Business processes, Functional Design Documents, Process flow diagrams for different process, Preparation of Functional specifications.
- Study the As-Is state of validation in SAP project and change process (business as usual) and identify the GAPs.
- SIPOC methodology was used during the workshops for understanding the processes.
- Used ISAP Methodology for Rollout of the project.
- Responsible in reviewing and getting sign off on all the functional specifications, Business Configuration documents, RICEF objects.
- Co ordinate with BI team for reporting deliverables.
- Conduct meetings with stakeholders to achieve sign-off.
- Designed and configured the complete cycle of Procure to pay process involving Enetrprisestructure,Purchasing, Inventory management, Invoice verification, Physical inventory, Valuation and Account determination.
- Worked on MM Purchasing master data like material master, vendor master, purchasing info records, source list, condition records, and Messages.
- Material Group creation and its maintenance.
- Very good experience in maintaining material master data, Uploading by LSMW.
- Designed and configured MM Purchasing documents PR, PO, RFQ, Contracts, scheduling agreements.
- Configured QM module for equipment calibration orders that were linked to inspection lot generation, results recording and usage decisions with automatic update of equipment status and measuring documents.
- Configured system for Creation of PR’s and Stock transport scheduling agreements by MRP.
- Design and configuration of special procurement process in MM Purchasing including Stock Transport Orders (STO) for intra and intercompany procurements.
- Design and configuration of Physical inventory process including Cycle counting, annual inventory, continuous inventory process.
- Configured Release strategy for both PR and PO.
- Worked on pricing procedure.
- Setting up of corresponding account determinations, interfacing with FI/MM/SD/PP at various levels.
- Maintained Goods Receipts Tolerance Limits and Invoice Receipt Tolerance Limits.
- Design and configuration of Warehouse Management (WM) for Transfer requirements, Transfer orders, inbound deliveries, outbound deliveries, put away strategies, picking strategies, stock transfer and replenishment.
- Configuring interface between IM-WM, reference WM movements, internal WH movements.
- Integrating the system with Production Orders, Integration with MaterialManagement integration with Batch Management and Batch Status Management and Understanding of Integration with Quality Management.
- Experience with integrating 3rd party WMS systems to SAP.
- Configured and maintained SAP WM / ERP Interfaces (Partner Profiles, RFC and Idocs)
- Understanding Interfaces like ALE and IDOCs used.
- Experience with transportation, route determination and route scheduling.
- Preparing training documents and trained users on all P2P, WM and Processes.
Client: Confidential, IN
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Project: SAPMM/WM Functional Lead Consultant
- The objective of the project is to provide an Operating model Support of SAP specific processes related to Argentina and Brazil countries rollouts.
- Responsible for managing Client Relationship and handling escalations in Confidential and Leads process designs, application developments,application configuration.
- Developing, implementing and documenting the change requirements from the business (for business process enhancement), in compliance with the change management policies.
- Conducting workshops,Understanding and finalizing the business requirements of the organization. Implementing the business requirements based on the Business Blueprint.
- Implementation of MRP/MPS for various distribution centers and manufacturing plants.
- Developed process flow of requirement transfer from one plant to other plant, Regional, Distribution Center, Central warehouse.
- Configured the system for Procurement of consumables,Procurement of stock items (Materials Requisition Planning) and Procurement of services.
- Configured the system for interface between WM and Production orders.
- Setting up of background jobs for MRP run, Planning file entries and consistency check.
- Worked on Integration issues of PP module with Controlling (CO) and Quality Management (QM) modules.
- Master data involving Minimum remaining shelf life, Total shelf life, re occurring inspection (Inspection interval), and in-house production time, Production version data.
- Power user training and end user training at different plants in a country covering entire cycle of Procure to Pay.
- Establishing interface between SAP and Ariba and testing them.
- Designed and configured the complete cycle of Procure to payprocess involving Purchasing, Inventory management, Invoice verification, Physical inventory, Valuation andAccount determination,
- Extensively worked on MM Purchasing master data like material master, vendor master, purchasing inforecords, source list, and condition records.
- Designed and configured MM Purchasing documents PR,PO, RFQ, Contracts, scheduling agreements.
- Design and configuration of special procurement process in MM Purchasing including Stock TransportOrders (STO) for intra and intercompany procurements,
- Design and configuration of Physical inventory process including Cycle counting, annual inventory, continuous inventory process.
- Design and configuration of Warehouse Management (WM) for Transfer requirements, Transfer orders, inbound deliveries, outbound deliveries, put away strategies, picking strategies, stock transfer and replenishment.
- Physical inventory count including cycle count inventory, quant inventory, annual inventory, continuous inventory.
- Maintained Warehouse Management and Handling Unit Management related master data.
- Design of shipping including delivery processing with shipping point determination, delivery scheduling, partial delivery, delivery split,delivery monitor, picking location determination.
- Automatic packing with packing instructions, packing instruction determination, handling unit creation.
- Setting up the system for decentralized warehouse management.
- Design and configuration of Batch management - batch master, new batch creation and batch status.
- Batch determination in Inventory management, warehouse management, sales and distribution.
- Configuration of customized transactions for picking and packing and maintaining Z Custom table.
- Configuring interface between IM-WM, reference WM movements, internal WH movements.
- Configured the system for integrating 3rd party WMS systems to SAP.
- ConfiguredthesystemforOutputDetermination and solved issues on Zebra printers and associated programming software.
- Setting up of route determination and route scheduling.
- Experience with EDI transactions.
Client: Confidential, PA
Industry:Glass Manufacturing
Project: SAP MM/WM Functional Lead Consultant - Implementation.
- Responsible for requirements gathering, preparation of Business blue print, functional specification for developments, setting up of configurations, unit testing, integrations testing, planning for cut over activity, user training etc.
- Co-coordinating with offshore functional and technical team on deliverables, meeting functional and IT SMEs for process clarifications and approvals.
- Responsible in reviewing and getting sign off on all the functional specifications, Business Configuration documents, RICEF objects.
- Extensively worked on the production planning and running the MRP in batches based on different material types,
- Solving release strategy issues of PO based on the business Requirements.
- Setting up of various P2P documents type such as PR,PO, Intercompany orders, samples, scheduling agreements, Consignment processes and Returns.
- Setting up of Pricing Procedures for domestic,Import and intercompany with various requirements, taxations, discounts and freights etc.
- Setting up of corresponding billing processes, account determinations, interfacing with FI/MM/SD/PP at various levels.
- Very high proficiency in configuring and resolving issues of the procure to pay process, Account Payables and worked on Interfaces to external systems.
- Very good experience in Integration between SAP and Ariba.
- Unit and Integration testing with the ARIBA and Affiliate Systems.
- Maintained various Text determinations and maintained various output types and procedures for purchase orders, invoice outputs as print outs, PDF, emails, IDOC etc.
- Trained users on all P2P, WM and Processes.
Client: Confidential , NJ
Industry: Consumer Health Company
Project: SAP MM/WM Functional Lead Consultant
- Understanding the Business processes and Preparation of Functional specifications and process flow charts.
- Configuring the system for the batch management and solving the issues raised from the users.
- Setting up of Pricing Procedures for domestic sales, exports and intercompany with various requirements, taxations, discounts and freights etc.
- Setting up of various delivery processing such as Inbound and Outbound, Picking, Packing, Stock transfers and PGI processing.
- Configured the system for Warehouse management-Defining ware house structure,storage type,storage section,picking area,storage bin,blocking/un blocking storage bins and applying user exits.
- warehouse activity monitor like-unconfirmed TO’s,open TR’S,Open posting change Notices,open Deliveries,critical stock, managing special stocks,stock transfers,
- Interface of WM with IM/SD/QM/PP modules.
- Designed the system for handling unit management and Storage Unit management.
- Maintained various output types for deliveries, billing document and maintained various and procedures for orders, deliveries, billing such as print outs, PDF, emails, IDOC etc.
- Understanding Interfaces like ALE and IDOCs used.
- Setting up the system for route determination and route scheduling.
- Unit and Integration testing with the ARIBA, ARAVO and Affiliate Systems.
Client: Confidential
Industry: Global Technology and IT Enterprise
Project: SAP MM/IMFunctional Lead Consultant
- Configured the MM and WM module such as defining and assigning various components of the company and material master data, info records, source lists, purchasing and inventory management.
- Configured special out puts like triggering email to Vendors when Purchase orders and Schedule agreements created & Schedule lines.
- Handling special stocks like Subcontracting, Third party and stock transport orders.
- Configuration – Release strategy for Purchase requisitions documents.
- Configured Vendor account groups, Number ranges & purchasing info records.
- Worked on purchase requisition, source of supply, vendor selections, Purchase orders & Schedule agreements.
- Configured Pricing Procedure for Pricing/Discounts/ Surcharges/Taxes, by use of Condition Types, Condition Tables, Access Sequences, and Condition Records.
- Configured Scenario Vendor Returns in Purchase Order Processing for Tracking of Returned Material and issue of Credit Memo.
- Defined and Assigned Account Determination Procedure.
- Configured and maintained Intra Company Stock Transfer between Plants and Inter Company Transfers.
- Coordinated End-to-End Testing, Integration testing and perfectly monitored and made available a worthy environment for the User Acceptance Testing.
- Interacted with the Development Team in fixing unknown exceptions.
- Interface with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software anomalies.
- Processed the conversion of master data like material master,source list and vendor master through LSMW.
- Prepared different Training documents for standard and customized sap to train the end users.
- Configuring WM including storage type, storage section, picking area, storage bins, quants.
- Radio Frequency solutions,Barcode usage, warehouse activity monitor, Quant management, storage unit (SU) management, Transfer Requirements, Transfer Orders, putaway and picking strategies, physical inventory, movement types, RF control.
- Delivery processing, shipment planning and processing, shipment costing.
- Batch management including batch determination, shelf life expiry date checking (SLED).
- Configured the system for Handling unit (HU) management and Storage unit management (SU).
- Customization and master data uploads. Managed the design, implementation of the EDI communication to various business partners.
Client: Confidential
Industry: Manufacturing
Project: SAP MM Process Optimization, Validation & Upgrade.
- Study the As-Is state of validation in SAP project and change process (business as usual) and identify the GAPs with respect to regulatory compliance.
- Analyze existing SAP Landscape and recommended the new Client Transport strategy for Upgrade and Future support.
- Upgrade of SAP from ECC 4.6b to ECC 6.0.
- Mange SAP validation & Upgrade Projects & Status Reporting.
- Responsible for day to day monitoring & tracking of activities and close co-ordination with SAP validation & Upgrade team located offshore.
- Provided responsive SAP support for MM business users during the User Acceptance Testing phase and documented issues using SAP Solution Manager.
Client: Confidential
Industry: Confectionary Manufacturing
Project: SAP MM/IM Functional Consultant – Implementation and Go-Live Support
- Worked to understand the required Business Requirements for the implementation ofthe Material Management Module.
- Configured and maintained Vendor records, Source List and Info Records for the existing materials and their respective vendors.
- Configured the Procurement Process and special procurement strategies like Vendor Consignment, Sub-Contracting, Stock Transport Order.
- Configured purchase requisitions and automated purchase ordering process to a great extent by assigning processing requisitions based on info records.
- Maintained Goods Receipts Tolerance Limits and Invoice Receipt Tolerance Limits.
- Was involved in the conversion of data in the legacy system into R/3 system using LSMW.
- Maintained the distribution model for ALE/IDOCS .Creation of Ports and Partner Profiles.
- Defined and managed several different types of storage, such as high rack storage, block storage or fixed bin storage.
- Configured release strategies (approval procedures) for Purchasing Requisitions and Purchase Order (PO) as per the approval hierarchy of the organization.
- Configured Movement types: Goods receipt, Goods issue (order, cost center), transfers postings, stock transfer (plant to plant, within plant), physical inventory management.
- Designed Integration script for integration testing for MM-IM-WM interface.
Client: Confidential
Industry: Oil Refinery
Project: SAP MM/IM Functional Consultant – Post go-Live support
- Involved in configuration and maintenance of Master Data for Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, Source List and Quota Arrangement.
- Involved in creating and scheduling Purchasing documents - Contracts, Agreements, Invoicing Plans, Release Procedures and Purchasing Document Configuration.
- Involved in various Procurement processes of creating PR, PO, RFQ, Subcontracting, Third Party and Consignment.
- Involved in Post Implementation support & maintenance project for MM Module after the successful implementation of various modules i.e, FI/CO, MM, SD.
- Sending Daily & Weekly Monitoring Status Reports of the Scheduled Background jobs to the Client
- Analyzing the impact of changes to be taken place.
- Support to users & power users for their Queries & Enhancements
Client: Confidential
Industry: Battery Manufacturing
Project: SAP MM/IM Associate Consultant – Support
- Set up the Material Master, Vendor Master, Source list, and Purchase Info Records.
- Setting of customizing parameters for all purchase documents like RFQ, Quotations, Purchase Requisitions and Purchase orders, Contracts, Scheduling Agreements etc.
- Configuration of different materials management scenarios for Stock Materials, Consumables, External Services, Stock transfers, Third Party Transactions etc.
- Customizing and setting up Release Procedures with and without classification for all purchasing documents viz. Purchase Requisition's, PO's.
- Developed the functional specification for the Purchasing to Pay Process.
- Configured the Inter Company and Intra Company Stock Transport process for different Plants.
- Identification of Training needs of a client for training purpose at all levels like Individual users, Transactional users and Information users.
- Develop Training material & support aids for end users and power users.