SUMMARY:

• Confidential is Senior SAP Solution Architect with 18 years of Supply chain experience.
• Expertise in SAP’s Procure to Pay, Order to Cash areas. MM, IM, AP, SRM, Ariba and S4HANA (Sourcing and Procurement) modules. Exposure to SAP SD, PP, WM, EDI, FI & CO areas.
• He has vast experience providing consulting to Confidential 100 companies.
• During his professional career he has worked in different IT departments and gathered Rich experience in Customer handling, Client facing, Team Management, Recruitment and hands on configuration and customization.
• Despite his 18 (Eighteen) years of experience he finds that learning is a never ending. He had opportunity to work some of the finest and complex processes across Hi - tech Manufacturing, Apparel, Utility, Automobile, Chemical and processing industries where he could utilize his expertise in Ariba and Procure to pay area to implement SAP’s best practices.

FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE:

• SAP Functional Consultant with 18 years of Supply chain experience. Expertise in SAP’s Procure To Pay, Order To Cash areas. MM, IM, AP, SRM, Ariba & S4HANA Procurement modules. Exposure to PP, WM, EDI, FI & CO
• Total Seven end to end Greenfield implementation experience. With extensive exposure of Implementation guidelines using tools such as HPQC (now ALMQC), JIRA - Agile Methodology, Solution Manager
• ECC to S4HANA Migration using SLT, Maintenance Planner and BODS.
• Implement Procurement processes using S4/HANA, ARIBA solutions. (ARIBA upstream, downstream processes)
• Ariba On Cloud Scenario with integration to backend System using CIG (Cloud Integration Gateway)
• Ariba Integration with SAP system using PI for Service procurement
• Ariba Snap Rapid Deployment using SAP Best practices
• SAP Ariba Procurement Solutions, Ariba Spot buy, Ariba Supplier Management SPQ, SQM.
• Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contract Management & Ariba Invoice Management (Supply Chain Finance)
• Leading Ariba OD&T (Operational Development and Training) at current organization.
• Acting as Global SAP-Ariba Chief Architect at current organization
• S4HANA Solution using SAP Model Company - Sourcing and Procurement
• S4HANA Implementation using 1709
• S4HANA POC using 1809 including CVI, SUM of DMO
• ECC, Concur and Workday Integration for Travel and Expense Payment Management.
• Extensive production support experience handling onsite offshore teams.
• Team leading and team management
• Maintaining SLA, review Support matrix, resource budgeting and allocation
• HANA Studio - Exposure to ECC to HANA Connectivity, Data Provisioning, Data Modeling. Working knowledge of different view types (Attribute, Analytics and Calculation views). Work with BI team in understanding requirements and Data mapping.
• Three Years of experience in high tech manufacturing and process industry volume production with an extensive background in Manufacturing, Inventory, Accounts Payable and JIT.
• Invoice management, Invoice scanning and approvals, accounts payables, G/L accounts, Cost center, Budgeting, internal orders, statistical internal orders
• Invoice posting, credit and debit memos, invoice parking, EDI, XML and cXML invoicing

TECHNICAL EXPOSURE:

• SAP ECC EH5, S4HANA 1709, S4HANA 1809, SAP Model Company, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Procure To Pay
• Integration with XI (PI) - XML interchange
• ABAP debugging, understand codes, build functional specs and communicate design to the technical team
• Good understanding of Solution Manager implementation methodology
• U sed LSMW for converting the Master data from Legacy system to SAP automatically.
• Training: Created Training documents, cheat sheet for the end users and given class room training/Individual training for MM/WM/SRM Modules. Conducted UAT, Knowledge transfer to other IT members and end users
• Implementation experience includes Business Requirement analysis, Mapping Client’s Business Process to SAP Processes, Blue Print, Production Support, GAP Analysis, Configuration, Prototyping, Testing, Training, Documentation and Post Go-Live Support for most of the clients. Tracking Project, activities using JIRA, Managing JIRA board - Agile Methodology. Building test plan landscape in ALMQC - Test, Test ID, Test scripts and test cases
• Managed functional and ABAP resources in projects and coordinated with ABAP/4 Professionals for User Exits, Writing Functional & Technical Specs, Developing reports, Applied OSS Notes, Worked with SAP team when having issues, worked on custom report, user exits and BADI’s, internal service requests and EDI Communications.
• S4/HANA Sourcing and Procurement (MM), ARIBA solutions. (ARIBA upstream, downstream processes)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Tools: LSMW, EDI, ABAP and Solution Manager

Reporting Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, BW, MS Project

Project Utilities: Visio, MS - Office Suite (Word/Excel/Project/Access), SharePoint

Interface Tools: PI (XI), WebMethod, BizTalk, BAPI, BAdi

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP Greenfield Implementation and Global Rollout
• S4/HANA Sourcing and Procurement (MM), ARIBA solutions. (ARIBA upstream, downstream processes)
• SAP Ariba Procurement Solutions, Ariba Snap, Spot buy, Ariba Supplier Management SPQ, SQM.
• Started Journey as MM, SRM Lead. Moved into other areas such as Data Conversions, Ariba, S4HANA, Ariba, EDI, RICEFs
• Involved in Initial Project scoping, Budgeting and later on joined the project as a Module lead.
• Successfully Lead and championed many activities in Procure To Pay Area MM and SRM
• Managing RICEFs and EDI
• Part of HPQC’s transition from HPQC to ALMQC
• Extensively using JIRA and Agile Methodology
• Exposure to Solution Manager to the New SOLDOC (Web UI)
• Project is in Rollout and stabilization stage
• Despite several rounds of budget cuts and resource ramp up and down, client is still finding value in my skills and ability to deliver project deliverables.
• Work with BI team in understanding requirements and Data mapping.
• Exposure to Attribute, Analytics and Calculation views.
• ECC - Concur Integration and Workday Integration for Travel and Expense Payment Management.
• Production support, Maintaining SLA, review Support matrix, resource budgeting and allocation
• Resource load balancing, Managing onsite and offshore support teams

Confidential, Orange County, California

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP SLO Project (SAP ECC, SAP SLO, SAP MM)
• Understanding the scope change from purchasing perspective
• Analyze the impact on purchasing processes due to Chart Of Account conversion
• Indentify, finalize purchasing processes for impact assessment and validation
• Build HPQC for testing integration (MM, IM)
• Test various business processes post SLO conversion
• Identify defects, issues due to chart of account conversion and resolve them in timely fashion
• Review statuses periodically

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Procure To Pay Manager

Responsibilities:

• Production support, Maintaining SLA, review Support matrix, resource budgeting and allocation
• Resource load balancing, Managing onsite and offshore support teams
• Worked with business and the project managers to get the requirements.
• Champion the requirements starting with solution workshops, effort estimates and resource requirements
• Prepare functional specifications
• Work with the technical team in completing the enhancements
• Work closely with Integration teams and process team to find out issues and help them resolve.
• Make sure testing activities are carried out as per the plan/schedule.
• Work closely with the developers/functional team/business in resolving issues/defects
• Provide test status and statistics to the managers as part of day to day activities
• LSMW

Confidential, Carlsbad, CA

Sr. Principal Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead full life cycle implementation mySAP SRM 5.0
• ECC and SRM role out at Chicopee, MA
• Project Manager lead the project with peak team of 18 members
• Championed CFR (capital funding request), project approval, budget preparation and resource on boarding activities
• Worked with business and the project managers to get the requirements.
• Created test Plans/Schedule for Global roll outs of Asia and Europe divisions
• Work closely with Integration teams and process team to find out issues and help them resolve.
• Make sure testing activities are carried out as per the plan/schedule.
• Work closely with the developers/functional team/business in resolving issues/defects
• Provide test status and statistics to the managers as part of day to day activities
• Master data configuration such as Material Master, Vendor Master
• LSMW
• Integration with XI (PI)
• XML document exchange
• EDI: Purchase orders and inbound invoices
• ASN: Using EDI with the freight forwarder
• Production support, Maintaining SLA, review Support matrix, resource budgeting and allocation
• Resource load balancing, Managing onsite and offshore support teams

Confidential, San Jose, CA

P roject Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the GAP analysis, 'AS IS' & 'TO BE' processes, flow chart documentation, presentation to the management team.
• Manage the entire project
• Prepare SOW (Statement of Work), project budgeting, resource identification and deployment
• Client facing to prepare the project plan, Test plan and plan for user training
• Team management and client interaction
• Analyze Business Requirement (As-Is Process)
• Conducting Conference Room Pilots - Blueprint sessions
• Lead both onsite and offshore teams to ensure timeliness and quality of deliverables.
• Ensure that the deliverable is in total shape.
• Master data cleansing and upload into SAP.
• Prepare and deliver Configuration Rational Inventory
• System build and test (Development, QA environment)
• Unit and Integration Testing
• Train business super users on the newly deployed SAP solution
• Master data configuration such as Material Master, Vendor Master
• LSMW

Confidential, Plano, TX

SAP MM and mySAP SRM Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Business Requirement (As-Is Process)
• Workshop presentation on ECC - P2P functionalities and propose business options
• Blue print Preparation
• Conducting Conference Room Pilots
• Gap Analysis (RICEPW)
• Prepare and deliver Configuration Rational Inventory.
• Coordinate with onsite/offshore for ensuring timeliness and quality of deliverables.
• Ensure that the deliverable is in total shape.

Confidential

LEAD SAP MM, SRM

Responsibilities:

• SAP Implementation ECC 5.0 and mySAP SRM 5.0 (SUS, CCM, XI XML)
• Project preparation: part of combined team of Accenture and Wipro to outbid SAP over Oracle Apps solution
• Presentation on Onsite - offshore model and benefits
• Project ramp-up, resource identification and onboarding
• Lead team of onsite and offshore consultants
• Configure and deploy SRM decoupled scenario
• Configure direct purchasing, indirect purchasing processes in ECC and SRM
• Contract Management: configure and deploy Local contracts, Back-end contracts and Global outline Agreement (GOA)
• SRM integration with ARIBA and ccHubwoo for catalog hosting
• Analyze Business Requirement (As-Is Process)
• Workshop presentation on mySAP SRM functionalities and propose business options
• Blue print Preparation
• Configure & Customize SAP ECC and mySAP SRM Decoupled scenario.
• System build and test (Development, QA environment)
• Unit and Integration Testing
• Master data configuration such as Material Master, Vendor Master
• End User training. (preparing training scripts, conducting training workshops etc)
• Conducting Conference Room Pilots
• Gap Analysis (RICEPW)
• Prepare and deliver Configuration Rational Inventory.
• Coordinate with onsite/offshore for ensuring timeliness and quality of deliverables.
• Ensure that the deliverable is in total shape

Confidential

SAP MM/SRM consultant

Responsibilities:

• Full life cycle implementation: (Version Upgrade) EBP 3.0 to mySAP SRM 4.0
• Created Solution Paper for all the gaps which various solutions with detailed advantages and disadvantages.
• Conducted meetings with business regarding the changes/updates on implementation process.
• Configure & Customize mySAP SRM Classic scenario
• System build and test (Development, QA environment)
• Unit and Integration Testing
• End User training. (preparing training scripts, conducting training workshops etc)
• Conducting Conference Room Pilots
• Conduct problem analysis and communication the solution to the user
• Coordinate with onsite/offshore for ensuring timeliness and quality of deliverables
• Document the solution in the call logging application once solution is complete
• Production Support

Confidential

SAP MM consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Creation of Master data for Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Info record, Source List
• Customization of Purchasing Document types, Number Ranges, Release Procedures
• Experience in business scenarios like Sub-contracting, Consignment, Third Party Processing and Stock Transport Order
• Study, Design & Documentation of the process and Current Transaction codes
• Designing new transaction codes enabling feature of BDC to add more atomization in Transaction execution
• Modification of Scripts and output types
• Testing of all components & processes
• Creation of Service master, Service Entry sheets, and Customizing of Release Procedures for Service Entry sheets and Pricing
• Involved in customization of consumption based planning
• Resolve problem and help tickets originating in my module.