SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a competent senior SAP SD/LE functional consultant with 10+ years of rich experience in complex IT projects which include SAP Implementation, Template rollouts, Technical Upgrade (EHP 4.7 to 6.0), Custom enhancements & Production support.
• He has extensive hands on experience in the areas of SAP SD sales order processing, SD condition technique and pricing, SD Variant configuration and pricing, Availability check & TOR, Inter/Intra company processes, Dynamic credit management, SD Consignment processing, Delivery processing and scheduling, Delivery picking, packing, split and HUM, Shipment planning & transportation, Shipment costing & settlement, Billing documents and revenue recognition, Purchase orders, Warehouse management (ECC and Decentralized), EDI enablement of 3PL (Third party Logistics) vendors, Idoc and Idoc interfaces such as EDI 850/855/860/856/810/204/214/940/945.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Involved in all phases of ASAP Methodology like Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live and Production Support with 3 full cycle implementation/rollout(s) experience.
• Experience in the configuration and IMG settings, design and development of multiple SAP Functional Modules and its business process, Gathering Business requirements and Design, Development of functional specifications for RICEFW and Interfaces Design for Inbound and Outbound transactions including end to end testing.
• Conducting interactive workshops in end user training and documentation. He has excellent skills in compiling documentation for training the users.
• Good understanding of Simplification list for SAP S/4 HANA on premise edition 1511 and capability to work on HANA system.
• Proficiency in Order Management/OTC, Sales Documents, Item Categories, Schedule Line Categories, Availability Check, Copy Controls, Pricing Procedures, Dynamic Credit Management, Delivery, Shipment, Transportation and Billing Documents, Output Determination, Account Assignment, Text Determination, Customer and Material master, Third party order Processing and Intercompany business process with integration experience into FI/CO, MM, and PP modules.
• Experience in configuring Billing Document Types, Inter - Company Billing, Revenue Account Determination, Cancellation Documents, Credit/Debit Memo, Invoice Correction Request and Relevant Copy Controls.
• Possess knowledge in ABAP/4 Programming, Debugging, User Exits, BAPIs, BADIs and Function Modules, Cross Applications (EDI, ALE and IDOC), LSMW and Business Integration Technology (Workflow).
• Possess knowledge of SolMan, ChaRM, EWM, HP ALM, and Service Manager9.
• Experienced in Cross-Module integration of SD with MM, WM, FI and CO-PA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAP Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented new legal state Government requirement to charge 1 USD Manufacturer battery fee on retail sales for Lead acid batteries (Weight > 5 KGs and Volts > 6 V) sold in the state of California.
• Configured account key, pricing condition type, access sequence, pricing procedure, account determination / revenue recognition entries to charge Manufacturer battery fee on retail sales in California.
• Developed custom pricing requirement routine to identify Lead acid batteries from the list of SKUs available.
• Worked closely with ABAP team to enhance interfaces EDI 856, EDI 857 and EDI 810 to pass on the surcharge at Idoc header and item level which later was transmitted to JCI customers electronically.
• Developed enhancement in sales order user exit to allow business users override promotion code at sales order header.
• Designed LSMW based on BDC recording to re-price sales order yet to be shipped in order to charge this fee to JCI customers based out of state California.
• Working on cutover activity preparation to re-price existing open sales orders and orders which are yet to be shipped to add this fee to JCI Californian dealers / customers.

Confidential

• Worked independently with BRM to understand customer's discount programs applicable ONLY for Standard, Debit/Credit sales cycles and re-designed SAP pricing procedure in accordance with the requirements.
• Performed fit/gap analysis to understand new pricing condition types to be configured in system.
• Designed condition exclusion principle to implement customer programs for a given set of part numbers.
• Worked with business account financial managers to gather accrual requirements related to customer programs, designed account keys and posted condition types to P/L and Balance sheet accounts for correct account determination and revenue recognition.
• Following SAP SD Pricing technical expertise utilized-
• Defining condition types for price elements in business transactions
• Defining condition tables to store and retrieve condition records for different condition types
• Defining access sequence for valid condition records
• Pricing condition maintenance
• Worked on release procedures to create condition records, defining pricing scale (absolute and percentage scaling) and special pricing functions.
• Pricing analysis and running pricing reports.
• Defining SD & FI-AR integration and have worked setting up the Account Determination procedure to support in monitoring and handling payments in to various Customer Accounts and Account Receivables (AR)
• During UAT phase, conducted user training sessions to help business users understand new condition types introduced in system and provided Hyper-care support post Go-Live of the project.

Confidential

• Performed fit gap analysis based on the existing template and implemented Single and Multi-leg shipment processes, Freight management, Shipment cost document - Automatic and Manual pricing, partner, output and route determination.
• Good hands-on experience in integration of SAP ECC with SAP EWM with the ability to use EWM module for standard logistics processes such as pick, pack and PGI of deliveries.
• Worked extensively on EDI 850, 856, 204 and 214 interfaces SAP Idoc (DELVRY03/SHPMNT05) to send and receive data to/from Third party TMS and update other 3rd party systems accessed by users on real time basis.
• Worked on the configuration required for ALE/EDI like Partner Profiles, Message controls and handled variety of documents/Idoc for Shipment and Billing.
• Designed custom smart forms and enhanced existing ones to suit business’s Single / Multi-leg shipment process which involves multiple international customs border crossing points.
• Designed LSMW to update Service agent procedure group on vendor master data using BDC recording method.
• Defined and Assigned Account Determination Procedures, Account Determination Tables, Condition Types and Account Keys.
• Configuration of the output determination for printing sales orders, delivery, transportation.
• Set up of SAP tables required to receive/send SAP IDOCs (port set up, partner cross reference, and partner profiles) with good IDOC error resolution and handled variety of Idocs for Orders, deliveries and Shipment.
• Performed complete E2E Integration testing for the customers from Sales orders to invoices (850/875 to 810/880) and configured the Output listed as SAP EDI will transmit for 810/880, 204, 856 and 940 documents.

Confidential

• Worked in SAP OTC PDS team to understand customer’s requirement(s) for creating new legal entities as part of acquisition / spin offs and map these requirements to SAP system.
• Configured enterprise structure in SAP which includes creating Sales Orgs, Distribution channels, Division and Shipping points and their assignment in SPRO, unit testing business process flows, working on manual configuration and data migration.
• Developed enhancements to existing functionality, functional requirement gathering, requirement analysis, solution designing and development, configuration of solution, test case development, unit and integration testing and rollouts of new functionalities.
• Coordinated with onsite team to support Hyper-care and Go Live issues at the delivery of each project waves.

Confidential

• Gathered requirements, map business processes, carry out gap analysis on existing template, provide impact analysis and effort estimates for complex change requests.
• Developed enhancements to existing functionality through functional requirement gathering, requirement analysis, solution designing and development, configuration of solution, test case development, unit and integration testing and rollouts of new functionalities using PWF's change management process.
• Handled projects across various regions in Asia-Pac, prepared FSDs, PDDs and re-versioned them via CRFs, GCFs/LCFs per requirements, design, configure and test SAP systems as per agreed SLA and global standards.
• Managed the change requests end to end, coordinate with end users of different markets in US, Europe and APAC region, coordinate with global sector leads and global sub leads for approval of Local and Global changes.
• Implemented and enhanced key SAP business processes such as: ATP check and TOR, Backorder processing, Consignment processing, I/C process, Individual PO scenario, Dynamic Credit management and developing customized price change audit reports.
• SAP Pricing: Modified 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.
• Identified opportunities for process improvement and deliver BVAs to client to reduce system operating cost.

Confidenial

• Involved in all phases of the project right from identifying test cases, modifying relevant test cases per business needs, pre-regression testing, regression testing, and cutover activities.
• Responsible for all SAP SD functional areas for the Client’s North America ERP 6.0 Upgrade.
• Map the current 4.7 system structure, prepare SAP 6.0 ERP Upgrade assessment and plan.
• Created Customer master data, Material master data, Customer - Material Information record and Customer group.
• Supported implementation of SAP notes in global systems and handled other high priority issues brought in due to enhanced support package introduced into the landscape.
• Handled P1/P2 issues identified in production during hyper-care period and closely worked on them.

Confidential

• Supported Confidential PWF sector on numerous complex projects and custom enhancements which include problem definition, fit gap analysis, solution designing, testing, deployment and hyper care support with the objective of providing high quality and value adding consulting solutions to the customer.
• Conducted online and in person training sessions with business users to help them understand SAP infrastructure and how best it can be used in its vanilla stage.
• Extensive hands-on experience on new RICEFW development; Prepared FSDs and configuration documents eliciting real time business issues and other requirements.
• PWF SAP ECC 6.0 (SAP SD) - Configuration expertise in the areas of order types, copy controls, Billing (Dry/Cr Memos, AR/AP), 3rd party drop shipment process, short date shipment with Batch management and logistic process which includes delivery, shipment, and transportation of deliveries to end customers.
• Resolved business issues related to Pricing and Condition techniques, Material listing/exclusion, Product & Customer Hierarchy, Consignment sales process (fill-up, issue, return and pickup process), Availability check and transfer of requirements, Intercompany sales process, Shipment process and Credit management aspects of SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) across various PWF markets based in AMEA, US, LAR and EU regions.
• Experience in the configuration of standard SAP functions such as partner, output, account and text determinations, material substitution and free goods determination. Extensive knowledge on configuration of inter/intra company stock transfer orders, Individual PO scenario, TP scheduling process, I-docs processing and interfacing with other TP systems, batch split & HU management, BOM and other SAP modules such as MM.
• Training and Development - Conducted training and development program for super users working on client’s plants and single handedly documented various sub-business processes used in SAP SD which is in turn used to understand how SAP can be optimized in response to new and evolving Supply Chain process.

SAP Release Management

Confidential

• Release Management - Supply chain project(s): Worked on creating TSRs and RFCs for moving changes into production; packaged the release in SAP solution manager; coordinated all the issues/escalations occurring during the transport migration and attended CAB meeting for representing my team’s change.
• Business Process Modeling - Have good understanding of the business process modeling tools like Solution Manager in SAP, OVSD service management, Service manager Version 9.0, and Global Service manager tools of HP to modify vanilla process flows and implement simple-to-be-processes.
• Client Relationship Handling - Attended IPR meetings with the client to discuss the scope of the forthcoming projects and to analyze the impacts of the change on SAP systems. (Fly-alone/Fly together).
• Expertise in standard SAP functions such as partner, output, account and text determinations, material substitution, sales BOM, condition techniques and Pricing, Material listing/exclusion and Product & Customer Hierarchy.

SAP Application Maintenance & Support

Confidential

• In addition to Release management role, Confidential involved in handling various categories of incidents tickets logged in clients Production environment.
• Provided timely delivery of released incidents in the areas of Order Management, Shipping, and Billing.
• Worked closely with ABAP development team for fixing and carrying out new custom enhancements and ECC reports.
• Supported various Confidential business sectors simultaneously such as NA, AMEA, Europe, LATAM and Ireland.
• Extensively worked with super users, end users and business leadership to identify and resolve functional, technical and process issues.
• Worked with business community in developing and configuring SAP EDI shipment interfaces by integrating to SAP ECC 6.0.
• Provided functional consulting in SAP - SD, and LE along with issue resolution.
• Responsible for Master data maintenance for Customers, Materials, Pricing, output determinations.
• SAP SD configuration, customizations as per ticket assignment in OVSD, SM9, QC.

SAP POC

Confidential

• Developed customer specific 'proof of concept' for Unilever-India which covers OTC process.
• Understood business requirement, analyzed and designed SAP enterprise structure including Sales Organizations, Distribution Channels and Divisions as per changing company requirements.
• Worked on 'Order-to-Cash' process for sales order and contract processing. This included creating new order types, contract types, item categories, schedule lines, pricing, text determination and partner determination.
• Extensively worked on SAP data upload tool 'LSMW' using BDC recording and standard programs to mass upload customer and item master data relevant for OTC process.
• Gained extensive hands-on experience in the areas of Sales Order management, Shipping, Billing documents, Condition techniques and Pricing, Material listing/exclusion, Product & Customer Hierarchy, Consignment process, Shipment process and Credit management aspects of SAP Sales & Distribution (SD).

SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Trainee

Confidential

• Underwent rigorous classroom training on SAP SD to understand complete business aspects of O2C cycle.
• Completed internal certification in Technology fundamentals (Oracle PL/SQL) conducted by Infosys Limited.
• Completed internal certification in SAP Sales and Distribution conducted by Infosys Limited.
• Infosys certified in RETL - Basics of Consumer Produce Goods retailing.
• Completed Infosys internal certification on Store Management.

RUN Delivery Services

Confidential

• Planned, organized, directed and evaluated the operations of IT systems. Interfaced with business to discuss system requirements, designed functional specifications and estimated project costs and timelines.
• Actively involved in customer specification analysis, project estimations, design reviews and work allocation. Prepared test plans, executed functional testing of deliverables and conducted Internal Project Quality Audits.
• Extensively involved in project management processes such as Incident Management, Change Management and Production Management and other project roll out activities.
• Conducted training, mentoring and project induction programs for the entry level graduates and peers.