SUMMARY

• SAP consulting experience of 14 years in SAP MM/WM and SNC along with 14 years of functional experience in Procurement, vendor Management, Production Planning, Manufacturing, Inventory controlling.
• Experience in working as SME and senior advisory consultant with International clients with Multi - Cultural background. Adept experience in implementation, system integration, Go live and support and in-depth knowledge in end-to-end business processes related to Supply Chain and technology integration. Certified in SAP S/4 Hana enterprises management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Hands-on Configuration experience in SAP Materials Management (MM), Inventory Management (IM) & Warehouse Management (WM) and Supplier Network Collaboration (SNC).
• Played the role of SAP MM Subject Matter Expert for IBM’s 'High Performance Process Excellence' project
• Excellent Communication & Client facing skills
• Business blue printings - Requirement definitions, system/process mapping & solution design
• Gap Analysis, workarounds & technical development specifications 
• Design, development and testing of functional specs for RICEFW objects
• Data management -- strategy, discovery, gathering, conversion and validation
• Test Phase Planning (Unit/Integration/UAT) involving test script creation & resource allocation
• Experience in working with HP-Mercury QTP testing tool, ALM.
• Quality Assurance and Peer Reviews
• Cut-over activities including knowledge transfer & Train-The-Trainer Planning
• Experience in designing custom SAP IDoc and Interfaces.
• Rich Integration experience of MM with other modules such as FI, WM, SD and PM.
• Experienced in complex integration projects involving more than 4 legacy applications (PKMS,WMOS, Ariba, GTIN, Lean Logistic, Megamation, Maxload Pro )
• Extensive documentation skills for RICEF
• Solid understanding of ABAP programming logic
• Resource planning and allocation
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• Sound experience in On-Shore/Off-Shore model in Implementation and Support Projects
• Experienced in leading implementation, post go-live support teams (4 - 20 resources) 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior SAP MM/WM Consultant

• Implementing of SAP release process for JIT delivery scenario in Newport News Plant operation.
• Legacy data migration of newly acquired business to SAP and fixing the prevailing issues.
• System and Physical inventory issue correction.
• Implemented Subcontract process for Poppets.
• SAP BOM issue correction with reference to legacy system SYTELINE.
• EDI issues monitoring and fixing the errors on daily basis.
• Enhanced delivery return process
• SAP APO role out for non-automotive components with scenario consisting of Demand Planning and supply Network Planning and Production planning. (DP, SNP, PP&DS).

 Senior Advisory Consultant SAP MM/WM, SNC

• Gathering the business requirements, modeling the business, designing the solutions and deployment.
• Monitor and resolve any SAP-MM, SAP-WM, SAP-SNC incidents.
• Work closely with client business users to provide appropriate functional solutions and continually Identify better ways of task/process design/execution. Provide innovative solutions to client requirements and generate value add to the customer.
• Monitor and manage any new RFSM (Request for System Modifications) related to SAP and Non SAP Procurement/Inventory systems which includes prepare the time estimation and day to day project status tracking.
• Ensure that Service Levels committed to Hillshire Brands are met by IBM for maintenance incidents. Ensure that Service Level committed are met for Development projects.
• Working on critical incidents arising in SAP-MM, SAP-WM, SAP-SNC applications and ensure that business operations are never interrupted.
• Work with the business users to prepare test cases scenarios for the projects to ensure that they are tested thoroughly following IBM’s Ascendant.
• Supporting all the SAP-MM, SAP-WM, SAP-SNC applications interfaces and working on real time errors with the Business user.
• Work with multiple Hillshire Bands business groups and Hillshire Brands IT groups to collate and prioritize the business requirements arising from users.
• Working with Release management and Change Management.
• Providing Application Development and Maintenance updates to IBM management and other Hillshire Brands project executives.
• Responsible to work with Production change control board team to get change management approval for any required changes.

Project Lead

• Worked as Project lead in Heinz implementation project on live milk collection data interface to SAP.
• Participated in the implementation project from requirement gathering to delivery and hyper care support.
• Responsible for team member Selection for the project.
• Handled the project Scheduling and setting mile stones.
• Preparation of Functional and project Design documents and estimation.
• Well-coordinated with Business community on day today activities.
• Monitoring the technical development activity in the project.
• Highly capable of People Management.
• Excellent in communication with client interaction.
• Project status monitoring and providing project updates to IBM management.
• Experienced in unit and integration testing in different environment
• Ensured the user training in professionally organized.
• Good interaction with client and solid solution resulted in Sign off on appropriate time from Client on mile stones.
• Planned approach for the individual activity helped in Go Live of the project.
• Hyper care Support provided to the client after Go Live.
• Ensured the object handed over to Support team after Go live.

Senior Consultant SAP MM /WM, SNC

• MM Enterprise structure, Master Data: Material, Vendor, Purchase Info Records, Source Lists, Pricing and Service
• Stock, Consumable, and Service Procurement
• Procurement Optimization, PR and PO, RFQ/Quotation, Source Determination, Contracts, schedule agreements and confirmations. Vendor Evaluation, Conditions, account determination
• Good issue/Good Receive, Transfer Posting, Automatic Movements
• Reservation, Physical inventory, Movement Types, Print Control
• Output Determination and stock determination.
• Stock Transfer Order with and without delivery.
• Invoice verification process and tolerances
• Special Procurement: Consignment, Subcontracting and Sales Orders
• Valuation and account assignment, split valuation and material ledger valuation
• Invoice Verification foreground and background, Tax Jurisdiction, Automatic Posting, parking and blocking
• Data Transfer with IDOCS, Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS),Message determination
• Outsourced manufacturing.
• WM: Warehouse structures Definition and Assignment to Plant /Storage Location; WM control parameters. WM/IM integration
• Warehouse Layout Master Data: storage types, storage sections, picking areas, doors and storage bins, quants.
• Batch Management in WM and Shelf life functionality. Warehouse Movements: Transfer Requirements and Transfer Orders.
• Warehouse Management Strategies: Put away, Stock Removal and Return Transfers.
• Good Receives with LE/IM: Activities: Transfers, Confirmation and Print Control, Good Issues with LE/IM: Activities: Transfers, Confirmation and Print Control
• Stock Replenishment: Internal Stock Transfer, Fixed bin Replenishment and Posting Changes.
• Activities: Transfers, Confirmation and Print Control, Storage Units and Handling Units Management
• Hazardous Materials, Crossdocking,
• WM/SD integration (delivery creation, goods receive, production supply, pick, pack, load, ship and inventory with Radio Frequency SUM and HUM)
• Inventory procedures: Annual Physical inventory, Continuous Inventory and Cycle Counting.
• Value Added Services, WM/PP integration (WM/PP interface), WM/QM integration, Standard WM RF transactions
• Design of custom WM RF transactions and User Exit Implementation
• SNC: Worked on Implementation project setting up master data interfaces like Product master, Business partner, Transportation lane, Location.
• Worked on exceptional management setting and new alert monitor creation.
• Worked on release processing, PO collaboration, Supplier managed inventory ( SMI Process).

Senior Consultant SAP MM

• Understanding the testing requirement and Developing the Script
• Conduct unit test and recording in testing tool.
• Conduct Integration test among other modules and SRM.
• Conduct Meetings with Client to finalize the test scenarios.
• Developing the test cases along with test data.
• Coordinate with team to conduct quality testing on time.
• Managed all the test resources in MM,SRM,ABAP
• Scheduled the activities and allocated to the respective resource.
• Reporting to Project team and managing the Metrics and defects.

SAP Functional Consultant MM

• Design Business Process repository and define procurement business requirements
• Definition of Organizational structure plant, storage location, purchase organization and their assignments.
• Vendor Master configuration including creation of Account Groups and usage of Partner functions and Partner Schema determination and their assignment to document types and account groups.
• Definition of Release Procedures for Purchasing documents 
• Logistic Invoice verification configuration (LIV) involving System Messages, Vendor Tolerance Group, Planned Delivery Costs etc.
• Configurations for standard and custom movement types including screen layout definition and number range assignment
• Workflow configuration for Release procedures and Invoice verification
• Definition of Condition types, Access sequences, Calculation schema, Scheme groups and Schema Determination for Pricing in Purchase Orders
• Creation and maintenance of SAP Batch Jobs
• Development of ABAP Queries
• Design Mapping, LSMW for Legacy Data conversions & Data Migration.
• End user training and documentation of user manual, training materials

SAP Functional Consultant (MM)

• Organized and facilitated Business Process workshops to define as-is and to-be processes for Procure-To-Pay processes involving representation from 7 manufacturing sites from different geographical locations.
• Designed MM process in SAP for 7 manufacturing site
• Define Organizational Unit hierarchy and their assignments
• Configure Materials Master including Material Types, definition of views, required Number Ranges for Material types etc.
• Configure Purchasing Info Record, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Scheduling Agreement, Contract, and Quota Arrangement involving definition of Document Types, Number Ranges, and Screen Layout etc.
• Definition of Message types, Access sequences, Message Determination Schema for Output Control of Purchase Orders
• Definition of Condition types, Access sequences, Calculation schema, Scheme groups and Schema Determination for Pricing in Purchase Orders
• Define Input Tax configuration for purchasing
• Configure Valuation and Account Assignment including definition of Valuation Control, grouping of Valuation Areas, definition of Valuation Classes, Account groupings and Automatic G/L Account Assignment
• Successfully completed Unit testing and integration testing along with involvement of Core team.
• Experienced in data conversion and cut-over activities
• Successfully completed blue-printing, configuration/realization, integration test cycles,
• Go Live and Support.

 SAP Functional Consultant (MM)

• Documented AS IS business process in the context of materials management and deciding to-be processes to suit objectives and to be mapped to the SAP system.
• Carried out GAP analysis and completed the study of system deficiencies with regards to SAP delivered functionality
• Understand and translate Business requirements to SAP configurable objects
• Definition of Organizational Units and their assignment like Plant setup, Storage locations, Warehouse setup
• Configuration of Materials Master including Material Types, definition of views, required Number Ranges for Material types etc.
• Vendor Master configuration including creation of Account Groups and usage of Partner functions and Partner Schema determination and their assignment to document types and account groups.
• Configuration of Purchasing Info Record, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Scheduling Agreement, Contract, Quota Arrangement involving definition of Document Types, Number Ranges, Screen Layout etc.
• Configuration of Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) , Reorder Point based planning (ROP) & Consumption based planning
• Implementation of Stock Transport Order (STO) scenarios
• Subcontracting process developed for components operations carried out with other manufactures.
• End user training and documentation of user manual, training materials
• GO Live and Support.

Senior officer-Purchasing

• Planning and ordering of Spare Parts
• Maintain Inventory levels, Availability and Service levels as per company norms
• Principal interaction for technical clarifications & Pricing Issues
• Quotation analysis & Price Comparisons
• Price negotiations with Vendors & Forwarding Agents
• Defining Terms of Payment with Vendors
• Branch Planning
• Disposal of Slow-moving Inventory and converting to use in existing designs of products.
• Co-ordinate Principal Visits
• Prepare Ordering Forecasts & Business Plans
• Verify Incoming Vendor Invoices and coordinate for corrections
• Tracking & Selection of sources of supply.
• Finalization of terms of purchase.
• Placement of purchase orders and monitoring the team.
• Follow-up of purchase orders.
• Maintenance of smooth relations with suppliers.
• Performing vendor evaluation and follow - up activities of purchase orders.
• Inventory management
• Got good exposure in dealing with senior management from various fields.