SUMMARY:

• Over 12+ years of experience in total, 9+ years of experience as SAP Functional consultant in Material Management (MM), Warehouse Management (WM), Logistics Execution (LE), Inventory Management (IM), Sales and Distribution (SD), & Event Management (EM)
• Involved in 3 full life cycle global SAP R/3 project implementation, roll out, Go - live support and pre-& post system refresh activities.
• Involved in 1 production support project using ticketing tools like BMC remedy, Info notes, Service Now etc.
• Extensive experience in analyzing issues in complex business processes & preparing functional specs, user manuals, reports and troubleshooting tickets for end users.
• Proficient in managing and customizing of master data, pricing procedure, stock transport orders, material requirement planning, special stocks and batch management.
• Worked on various EDI messages related to purchase orders, acknowledgement (850,855), shipment notification (856), carrier shipment status (214), warehouse shipping advice (945), warehouse shipping order - pick and pack (940).
• Onsite lead responsible for team size of 10 offshore and coordinated them for various project deliverables.
• Having good knowledge in technical module (ABAP), involved in debugging, ABAP queries, Idocs (ALE & EDI), business object workflow, user-exits, BADI, BAPI and ways to find underlying data.
• Excellent knowledge of basic Shipping functions, deliveries, delivery schedules, picking/packing, goods Issue and replenishment deliveries.
• Configured mobile data entry in warehouses for RF devices.
• Defined put away, picking strategies and configured the system for automatic generation of transfer requirements and transfer orders.
• Configured warehouse activity monitor to supervise unconfirmed transfer orders, open transfer requests, deliveries, interim storage stock and negative stocks.
• Monitored all inbound and outbound EDI transaction processing and analyzed, identified and tracked all exceptions and errors processing.
• Cross functional experience in integration with other modules like QM, PP & FI.
• Hands on experience in SRM, batch management, Idocs, Interfaces, Logistics Execution, Sales & Distribution and Warehouse Management.
• Carried out unit testing and integration testing with all possible business scenarios to ensure minimum problems after go-live.
• Highly experienced in identifying the issues related to the Idoc processing, monitoring the Idocs, solving the issues related to the Idocs.
• Self-motivated, organized individual with exceptional analytical & problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to interact effectively at all levels within large and small industry with excellent communication skills.
• Efficient team member with excellent work/time management skills, excellent leadership, communications and interpersonal Skills, ability to work under strict deadlines.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Lead Functional Consultant (SAP MM, EM, LE & SD)

Responsibilities:

• Working as onsite lead functional consultant responsible to implement SAP MM/SD/LE & EM module for Confidential ’s complex business process, gap analysis, onboarding new process into SAP for all Confidential products w.r.t finished goods & Confidential care.
• Analyzing the business requirement document (BRD) after the project workshops with client & conducting follow up meeting with client for open questions in terms of GAP in understanding the business process/requirements.
• Subsequent direct interaction and meetings with the business process owners to understand the existing business process and the customer specific requirements.
• Preparing the conceptual design and presenting it to Client IS&T Manager for internal review, Confidential SAP global team for global approval & finally to business process owners.
• Responsible to lead the offshore team and provide guidance in order to implement solutions that covers the entire supply chain process of Confidential .
• Responsible to create the detail design document (DDD/FS) & test plan/execution.
• Coordinated and performed successful analysis, design, configuration, testing and implementation of SAP MM/SD/LE/EM module for Confidential ’s shipment tracking tool, Confidential care business process mapping into SAP.
• Worked on various EDI messages related to purchase orders, acknowledgement (850,855), shipment notification (856), carrier shipment status (214), warehouse shipping advice (945), warehouse shipping order - pick and pack (940)
• Designed and configured intercompany pricing procedure with a requirement routine to calculate based on customized pricing conditions.
• Onboarding new carriers into the shipment tracking system (SAP EM).
• SPRO configuration for new carrier events in SAP EM, shipment event handler, application object type, business process type, status attribute profile, rule set, header extension table etc.
• Configuration of the project covering the material master, vendor master, purchase orders, goods movement, invoice verification, stock transport orders, returns, customer master, sale orders, delivery & billing documents.
• Analyzed, defined and implemented MM/SD/LE/EM functionality for various legs of shipments created in Confidential care business process and coordinated the integration with other modules in a cross-company environment.
• Adopted stock transfer techniques to assist in plant to plant stock transfers and cross company stock transfers using stock transport order.
• Configured new output condition types, determination procedures with EDI integration to push the data to vendors, warehouse, customers and to other SAP systems via SAP business object workflow to meet the requirement.
• Customized pricing procedure according to the client’s business process.
• Business presentation of the configuration done in the system for approval at cross functional team meetings and presented during reviews with client’s business process owners.
• Actively participated during the user acceptance testing (UAT), performance testing, cut over activities, go-live phase & solving the issues in hyper care period reported by the client’s team.
• Responsible for post implementation support and enhancement CRs in MM/SD/LE & EM module.

Confidential

SAP MM/WM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as onsite functional consultant responsible for End to End Implementation, roll out and enhancement CRs in MM & WM module.
• Followed ASAP implementation methodology and involved in business process discussion and blueprint documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.
• Mapping client business process to SAP business processes and available methods.
• Documented all required information to keep track and progress of the project.
• Configuration of MM Organizational structure for plants at multiple locations.
• Baseline configuration of creation and assignment of plants to company code and storage location to plants.
• Creation of material master record for different material types, purchasing organization, purchasing groups, purchasing info record and source list.
• Creation of vendor master records and configuring their partner roles.
• Worked on procurement cycle - Purchase requisition, RFQ, maintenance of quotations, vendor selection, purchase orders, goods receipt and invoice verification.
• Involved in setting up bar coding, SAP Console, RF-developments to meet business requirement using radio frequency and barcodes at WM.
• Worked on WM movement types replenish fixed bin transfer from quality to own stock and blocked stock.
• Configured control parameters for TR/TO and configure storage type search, storage section search, storage bin type search strategies.
• Configured warehouse for automatic creation of TO and wrote function specs for picking materials for production orders, printing stock labels.
• Prepared functional specifications for custom reports for material stock reports and on-time delivery analysis.
• Configured new movement types in WM with reference to inbound and outbound deliveries and configured various put away and picking strategies.
• Configured the system for WM-PP interface to facilitate the staging of materials for production using control cycle.
• Configured pricing procedures through condition tables, condition type, access sequence & condition records for automatic pricing in purchasing.
• Configured different procurement processes like subcontracting, consignment and stock transport order etc.
• Setup the print, fax, EDI and e-mail facility at PO level.
• Additional responsibilities included coordination during integration testing, user training, user acceptance testing (UAT), resolving defects during integration & user acceptance testing, Go-Live preparation.
• Written functional specifications for the changes required and new development.
• Created new background jobs using BATCHMAN.
• Continuously monitoring the background jobs on daily basis and troubleshooting the aborted jobs.
• Involved in Problem management by finding the recurring issues and fixed it.
• Troubleshooting the complex issues by debugging it and created a change request.
• Involved in preparing Known error database and error handling documents.
• Providing the quick and effective solutions for the issues handled.
• Involved in creating documentation for Knowledge transfer sessions received and preparing presentation to transfer the knowledge to offshore colleagues.
• Involved in estimating the company code creation and completing the configuration as far as MM module is concerned.
• Consulting on various problems & issues in regard to SAP MM SRM.

Confidential

SAP MM/WM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full life cycle implementation in MM and WM, configuring warehouse structure, placement and picking strategies, WM reporting and shipping.
• Successfully complete blue-printing, configuration/realization, integration test cycles, data conversion and cut-over activities
• Organized and facilitated Business Process workshops to define as-is and to-be processes for Procure-To-Pay processes involving representation from various manufacturing sites from different geographical locations.
• Gap Analysis of Materials Management Module and Warehouse Management Module.
• Designed MM and WM process in SAP for various manufacturing sites
• Oversee Plant Maintenance Business Blueprints & Configuration documents.
• Define Organizational Unit hierarchy and their assignments.
• Configured, customized and updated Master data: Material Master, Vendor Master, Customer master, Info Records, Partner Functions, Source Lists, Routings.
• Utilized, established and configured full procurement functionality from Automatic PR creation to invoice verification, including PR/PO cycle, stock transports, Source determination, scheduling agreements, contracts, request for quotes, pricing schemas, shipping notifications for all stock categories and special stocks like consignment, third party, and sub-contracting.
• Definition of Condition types, Access sequences, Calculation schema, Scheme groups and Schema Determination for Pricing in Purchase Orders.
• Customized messages for PR, PO, RFQ, Contracts, scheduling agreement.
• 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.
• Data conversion which involves developing Data Conversion strategies and executing Mock data loads.
• Design Mapping, LSMW for Legacy Data conversions & Data Migration.
• Cut-over strategy and Planning.
• Configured the Physical inventory settings for cycle counting.
• Carried out Physical Inventory in the warehouse and the shop floor.
• Configured and customized WM structure by defining Storage types, Storage sections, Bins.
• Defined movement types for WM and interfaced them with IM movement types using special movement indicators.
• Configured Master data for Storage Unit Management.
• Worked with Handling Unit Management (HUM) to reflect packing-based logistics structure.

Confidential

SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for post implementation support as far as MM module and SRM-SSP are concerned.
• Providing support to SAP MM functionality in Maersk business around globally.
• Handled change requests and provide quick and efficient solutions.
• Resolved high priority and critical issues within SLA using the ticketing tool BMC remedy.
• Taken care of IDoc errors between legacy systems and SAP for Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Invoice Receipt and Sale Order creation.
• Consulting on various problems & issues in regard to SAP MM & SD.
• Exceptionally handled SRM-SSP transactions using the extended classic scenario.
• Impact analysis and change management for each release.
• Troubleshooting the issues in shopping cart creation and SSP PO creation.
• Provided root cause analysis and solution for Invoice and PO approval workflow issues.
• Actively involved in Management reports and control dash board updates.
• Involved in estimating the company code creation and completing the configuration as far as MM SD module is concerned.
• Effectively involved in successful roll outs to 132 countries around the world.
• Provided the hyper care support for the end users during the roll out.
• Gathering all the business requirements from the BPOs.
• Involved in enhancements in which business requires minor changes to the functionality.