PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over all 12 years of total consulting and project experience in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) SAP Package implementation. Rich experience with process analysis, design, mapping, development, customization and implementation of SAP ERP application.
• SAP experience includes E2E implementations, rollout and support projects.
• Three full life cycle Implementation experience in MM and one implementation experience in WM Module using RF Environment.
• Having good exposure on HANA migration projects.
• Extensively worked on SAP Vehicle Management system (SAP - VMS)
• Having good knowledge on Extended warehouse management (SAP-EWM)
• Rich experience in multiple industry domains including Auto, Telecom, Utilities, and Manufacturing sector
• Engaged in SAP Implementation, Customization, Configuration, Testing, User Training, Support, Business Consulting, mapping business processes into SAP, working for business process improvements in areas of MM WM including procurement & inventory management
• Hands on experience in RF Devices and Barcode technology (SAP Console, ITS)
• A systematic, organized, hardworking and dedicated team player with an analytical bent of mind, determined to be a part of a growth-oriented organization
• Have worked in the Entire Project life cycle Scoping and Planning, Process Design, Blueprint, Configuration, Testing, Deployment, Post Go-Live Support and involved in continuous improvement phase implementations.
• Have done risk analysis at every phase of the project and provided steps to mitigate the risks.
• Experienced in cross functional integration with other SAP module include PP, SD and FI
• Extensive experience in analyzing issues in Complex Business processes & preparing Functional specs, User Manuals, Reports & Troubleshooting Tickets for users
• Familiar with different data migration tools, Ticket logging tools, documentation and training tools
• Extensively worked on supporting tools like JIRA, HPQC, HP-ALM, Remedy, WBP, Uperform, share point, Solution Manager, Rev-trac, MS-Office.
• System integration for master data & transaction data between different SAP and non-SAP applications (ICS, WMS etc.)
• EDI connections with business partners include 3PL WMS, OEM vendors
• Very good understanding in Variant BOM and MRP Procedures.
• Worked on EDI/IDOC’s for Master Data and Purchasing Documents (850, 855, 856, 810, and 860).
• Extensively Worked on Custom EDIs to send data to External systems and trading partners
• Experienced in identifying Test scenarios and converting in to Test cases
• Having at most patience to test all documented test cases which includes Unit Testing, Integration testing and regression testing.
• Rich experience in providing training to Master Data Stewards and end users in front of big forum.
• ‘To make everything possible’, ‘Happy to help’ and ‘protect environment’ are the core values which have been following.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Organization Structure: Configuring Company Code, Plants, Maintenance Planning Plant, Purchasing Organization, Storage Locations, Sales Organization, Sales Area, Warehouse, Storage type, Storage sections, picking area, storage bin type, storage unit type and their assignments to other respective organizational units.

Master Data: Material Master, Vendor Master, Material Types, Vendor Account Groups, Number Ranges, Vendor Payment Terms, Purchasing Info Records, Source Lists, quota arrangements and Bin Master.

Purchasing: Internal & External Purchasing Documents (Purchase requisition, RFQ/Quotation, Purchase Order, Outline Agreements), Document Number Ranges, Release Procedures with Classification, Partner Determination, Pricing, Message Determination, Account Assignment and Item Categories, Automated Purchasing using Auto-POs, Vendor Confirmation Control, Split valuation, Incoterms & shipping/delivery instructions, Goods/Services Based Invoice Verification, Returns to vendor.

Inventory Management (IM): Plant parameters for IM, Goods Receipts, Goods Issues/Transfer Posting, Other goods receipts, Physical Inventory, Reservations, IM Movement Types, return delivery, Stock Transfer (Inter company, Plant to Plant, storage location to storage location), one step stock transfer, two step stock transfer, stock transfer with STO, shipping (integration with SD), serial number management, MRP, Accounting Document Types for Goods Movement.

Valuation & Account Assignment: Configuring Account Determination and Split Valuation.

Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV): Configuring Account Postings, Invoice Blocking, Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS), Accounting Document Types for LIV, Message Determination for ERS and Consignment Settlement.

Managing Special Stock: STO, Consignment, Subcontracting, Pipeline, Third Party Processing.

RICEFW: Designing customized business process Reports and Forms for Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice and PO Condition Values. Designing Master Data Conversion objects for Material Master, Vendor Master, and Source List.

Warehouse Management: Good Experience in Mobile data entry, Stock management, Picking and Put-away strategies, Storage unit management, RF (Radio Frequency) Integration, internal warehouse process. Experience Designing and generating barcode labels for warehouse operations. Generated output using Intermec and Zebra Type Label printers. Good understanding on Serial management, Batch Management, Handling unit Management and storage unit Management.

Data Migration: Extracting, cleansing and transforming the legacy system data such as Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, Inventory Balance etc. Preparing LSMW objects and uploading the legacy data into SAP system. Used Back Office Associates (BOA) tool for extracting, cleansing and transforming the legacy data and used Mercury Quality Center tool for resolving the defects raised during data mock tests and cutover phases.

Logistics Execution: Worked on Logistics Execution (LE) functions like Delivery Processing, Picking, Packing and Transportation and Configuration includes Standard Orders, Consignment Orders and 3rd party order processing, 3rd party Logistics Interface, intercompany Orders, STOs.

Testing: Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing, 3PL integration testing and assisted end users in User Acceptance Testing to validate the business scenarios using quality tools such as HPQC.

End User Training: Experienced in Post Implementation Production Support and training the end-users with preparation of training materials using SAP i Tutor.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows 98, ME, XP, Vista, 2000, 2003 server and Windows 7

SAP: SAP MM, IM, WM, VMS, SD, PP

Integration Applications: SAP PI/PO, SAP APO, SAP BW, SAP MDG, Rev-trac, Charm, Transport Expresso, ICS portal

Tools: Testing Tool HPQC, HP-ALM, Remedy, Service Now, Jira, U Perform, Share point, Solution Manager.

Environment: s: Citrix, VM ware. Web Portal.

Database: Oracle, SQL Server 2005, 2008.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

MM+EWM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Scoping of the project and determine the EWM related processes (As Is study) to be implemented, studied As-is process and designed corresponding To Be scenarios as per business requirement.
• Designed EWM processes i.e. inbound, outbound, put away, picking wave processing, physical inventory, Handling Unit, Yard management, POSC, replenishment, kitting, VAS and evaluating them as per business requirements. Designed material flow and Warehouse structure as per physical layout.
• Working in customizing the ERP and EWM integration. Configured Storage type, storage section and their assignment for warehouse. Configuring and determination of WPT, Storage type
• Searches sequence, Put away and picking rule. Warehouse order creation rule, RF framework, Warehouse
• Monitor, Work centers, Handling unit management, PPF, master data maintenance.
• Configured WM organization structure by defining and creating storage types, storage sections, storage bins
• Manually & automatically designed storage areas, high rack storage, bulk storage, fixed bin storage & other
• Commonly used storage area
• Design of EWM processes i.e. inbound, outbound, put away, picking wave processing, physical inventory, HU,
• Yard management, replenishment and evaluating them as per business requirements.
• Reviewed and approval for RICEF developments i.e. Labels, forms, reports, BADI etc.
• Knowledge Transfer to local functional specialists as to how to monitor and manage interfaces through IDOCs and QRFC queues and data discrepancies between ERP & EWM systems.
• Configured WH structure for RF devices and Mobile Data Entry for various movement types in warehouse
• Designed STO process for EWM and MM Managed Storage locations.
• Designed Unit testing and Integration testing scripts for testing of MM-IM-EWM interface using HP Quality Center.
• Prepared end user training documentation and provided post implementation support to the end users.

MM, PP, WM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Management of functional team deliverables for blueprint, realization and go-live tasks.
• Facilitating the best practices, business requirements and solutions to the software template team on GAP Realization.
• Analyze business requirements, configure & customize the system, specify new developments & enhancements.
• Configuration of Master Data which includes Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Info Records and also customizing the same as per the client's requirement.
• Configured account determination for goods movement, pricing, BOM and logistics Invoice Verification for accounts payable
• Configured Document types, number ranges, screen layout for scheduling agreement
• Extensively worked on creating Schedule lines from MRP, scheduling agreement releases and release output to vendors via Email and EDI
• Handful of experience on Material planning: MRP (MRP types, MRP profiles), planning run, lot size calculation, reorder point planning.
• Extensively worked to load cutover data from Legacy system to SAP system, Master data includes Material master, Vendor master, Info record and also generated Source list from SAP. Transactional data includes Open Purchase Orders, Scheduling agreement and took responsibility to load open Inventory
• Configuring Inventory documents like goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfer and transfer postings.
• Designed and Implemented SAP Functions: Vendor Evaluation, Release Strategies, and Version Management.
• Procurement process was automated to have Auto PO from PR with Preferred Vendor Selection and Transmittal of PO to Vendors via Email / EDI to selective vendors
• In WM front, configured the master data and transactional data items like storage types, storage sections, storage bins, picking and put away areas.
• Configured WM Structure by Defining storage types, storage sections, storage bins, quant's and doors.
• Defined and managed several different types of storage, such as high rack storage, open storage and fixed bin storage
• Defined Storage Bin Structure for all Materials by defining Template, Structure, Start Value, End Value and Increment.
• Customized put away and picking strategies for fixed bin, open storage, Next empty bin, addition to existing stock, and storage unit types (pallets)
• Defined Put away and Picking strategies
• Configured Handling unit management system and RF scanners
• Assisted in SAP Console Implementation- Verification Profiles, RF Menus, Barcode Scanning, Screen Management, RF Queue Management
• Defined WM Movement types, Storage type search, Storage section search, Storage bin type search, Stock Placement (Put away) and Stock Removal (Picking) strategies.
• Configured storage types with and without Storage Unit Management
• Responsible for configuration / testing and deployment in Production system for the fixes.
• Designed, mapped and developed Engine Remanufacturing process in SAP.
• Suggested the best practices to setup master data and Info records.
• Worked extensively in business reports development as per business requirement.
• Build prototype, implement the solution in a development and test environment.
• Facilitate test scripts, work instructions, business demos and training to the business users.
• Delivery of post go-live support.
• Suggesting the Workaround for the gaps identified and mapping the same in SAP system.

MM+WM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for process design and configure SAP system as per business requirements.
• Developed functional specifications for RICEFW objects in coordination with technical team
• Worked in the WM, configuring the master data and transactional data items like storage types, storage sections, storage bins, picking and put away areas.
• Defined WM Movement types, Storage type search, Storage section search, Storage bin type search, Stock Placement (Put away) and Stock Removal (Picking) strategies.
• Configured storage types with and without Storage Unit Management
• Manage SAP Support calls: issue resolution / debugging / bug fixing / apply OSS notes. Configured EDI/IDOC
• Configured WM Structure by Defining storage types, storage sections, storage bins and quant’s
• Defined and managed several different types of storage, such as high rack storage, block storage or fixed bin storage
• Defined Storage Bin Structure for all Materials by defining Template, Structure, Start Value, End Value and Increment.
• Customized put away and picking strategies for fixed bin, open storage, addition to existing stock, and storage unit types (pallets)
• Defined Put away and Picking strategies and configured search strategies as per business requirement.
• Configured Handling unit management system and RF scanners
• Assisted in SAP Console Implementation- Verification Profiles, RF Menus, Barcode Scanning, Screen Management, RF Queue Management for different message types to distribute data also involved in customizing the interfaces
• Scheduled Daily, weekly, monthly batch jobs as per business requirement.
• Worked extensively on the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & integration testing (script) of MM- IM -WM
• Responsible for writing the Knowledge transfer documentation and doing the Knowledge transfer to IT stewards and End-user training documentation with tools like RWD U-perform
• Configured the process of incoming GR's directly to interim storage area, Bin creation for them dynamically put away strategy to move Material from Interim storage location to destination Storage location with automatic Stock Transfer Order (STO) creation
• Worked on physical inventory, cycle counting, analyzing the count results, posting of difference in the system
• Worked on various types of Label printers for designing custom labels such as "Zebra", "Intermec", "DATAMAX"
• Prepared test scenarios for all business process and was successful in getting signoff from customer
• Travelled to Client location Orange county, Connecticut for UAT and Go-Live
• Worked very closely with Business users during UAT phase.
• Worked with Training team to prepare training material for end users.
• Prepared cutover and conversion tasks for go-live phase of the project.
• Support SAP Security team in role development and end user authorizations.
• Resolved all production issues during hypercare period.

Confidential

MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identifying and mapping the business scenario through various workshops with client. Presented Standard SAP features, did FIT-GAP analysis.
• Have been to Budapest, Hungary to gather business requirements.
• Analyzed the requirements and finalized the Blue print documents.
• Configured purchasing organization, purchasing groups and pricing & other Purchase functions.
• Configured the Inventory management of goods at the points of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks viz. consignment, third party, and sub-contracting.
• Created physical inventory settings, documents, posting differences, inventory sampling and cycle counting.
• Configured vendor master partner functions.
• Worked on quality contracts, value contract for purchase requisition, contracts and purchase orders.
• Material planning: MRP (MRP types, MRP profiles), planning run, lot size calculation, reorder point planning etc.
• Customization of Batch Management by defining batch strategy for inventory management.
• Configured tolerances and limits in purchase orders and created scheduling agreement and contracts.
• Configured Inventory Management Parameters for all goods movements like goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, GR for blocked stock, Advanced goods returns.
• Prepared process flow functional requirements.
• Configured the system as per requirements and did the Unit testing with different scenarios
• Build prototype, implement the solution in a development and test environment
• Facilitate test scripts, work instructions, business demos and training to the business users.

Confidential

MM WM Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business community to troubleshoot and resolve system issues.
• Translated user requirements into functional specifications.
• Designed and presented applicable solutions to business community.
• Configured applications as per business needs and addressed business reporting requirements.
• Assisted the business users to document software change requests.
• Created test scripts to test business functionality and assisted in the execution of test scripts
• Worked with business community to establish training plans and provide user training with applicable training documentation.
• Solved critical tickets within SLA
• Updated the ticket status on weekly basis
• Prepared proactive proposal to reduce ticket count
• Have received appreciation mails from client for resolving complex tickets

Confidential

MM Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in roll out and support activities for various plants going live one by one in Europe division of Nokia Siemens Networks
• Configured the system as per country specific organizational elements
• Prepared test plan and test cases for all business scenarios
• Executed end to end business scenarios for all countries
• Finding process improvement areas and suggesting their benefits to the business.
• Handling /monitoring major and minor enhancements.
• Contributing to the resolution of critical issues in SD area as well.

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Planning the work and ensure delivery on time.
• Support day to day activities by resolving MM issues.
• Communicate / interact with client business teams in understanding the system issues and work with the technical team in providing solutions.
• Configuration of enhancements to accommodate the changes in sales process.
• Development of various functional specifications - Mainly for interfaces and reports.

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed delivery of all requests related to MM.
• Communicating with users to gather the requirements on issues.
• Assisted end users in maintaining and updating on master data.
• Interacting with cross-functional and technical consultants to get the inputs on issues.
• Preparing configuration documents for new configuration requirements.
• Providing functional specification to technical team to ensure new enhancements and bug fixings.