SUMMARY

• Senior IT professional with over 14 years working experience in SAP R/3 with 3 Full life cycle implementations using ASAP Methodology: Business Blueprint, Realization, Finalization and GO - LIVE support.
• SAP SD Certified Project Lead /Techno-Functional Consultant with in depth experience in the end-to-end cycle of large-scale SAP implementations and support projects.
• Sound process level understanding of SAP R/3 S4 Hana modules OTC(SD),LE,MM,IM,WM modules..
• Implementation experience includes Business Requirement analysis, mapping client's business process to SAP processes, GAP analysis, Configuration, Re-engineering, Prototyping, Testing, Training, Documentation and Post Go-Live Support.
• Functional expertise: Pre-sales activities such as inquiry and quotation, and major business activities such as Pricing, Billing, Shipping, Transportation, Availability check (ATP), Credit Management, Partner Determination, Output Determination, Bill of Materials etc.
• Proficient in customizing different sales order process such as Standard sale orders, Cash sales, Rush orders etc.
• Expert in customization of Customer master, Material master etc.
• Pricing Experience: Configuration of Condition Types, Condition Tables and Access Sequences, Determining and Maintaining Pricing Procedure, Creation of Condition Records, Special Pricing Functions such as Condition Exclusion and Analysis of Pricing.
• Billing Experience: Configured Billing Documents based on Billing Types and Item Categories, Customized Invoices. Expert in integrating billing to Accounting and Controlling.
• Credit and Risk Management: Sound knowledge in the configuration of Credit Control Area, Credit Data and Credit Groups. Direct experience of customizing Dynamic credit check process and payment guarantee procedure. Deep understanding of credit card processing.
• Experience in data cleansing and data conversion using tools like LSMW, BDC,interfaces including EDI/IDOC, RFC and BAPIs.
• Technical proficient on debugging and user-exits. Good understanding of ABAP codes.
• Advanced knowledge on third party sales process and intercompany sales. Good understanding of intercompany pricing and billing procedures.
• Production support: experienced in unit testing, system integration testing, performance testing and user acceptance testing, and regression testing.
• Process understanding of Electronics and PC/Server/Media/Manufacturing, Paper mill and Pharmacy Industries, strong understanding of various sales/finance support processes like Order tracking, Configuration, delivery support and working knowledge of SAP Security Authorizations, SOX and IT-Audit.
• Application architect in terms of planning and providing support in the areas of Conversions, Data Analysis-Migration, Interfaces, various reporting technologies (BW,BI, Data warehouse) in or around SAP
• Experience in working with SAP R/3 3.1, 4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0 versions.
• Managed multiple projects, functional analysts for both on-site and off-shore resources.
• Performed Project Manager, SAP SD functional lead roles etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Manager - IT Technical lead/ SAP S/4 HANA OTC Integration specialist

Responsibilities

• As a Technical lead/Data scientist responsible for Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) of data from disparate source systems (SAP S4 Hana OTC/MM/FI/CO) systems from Different SAP clients.
• Responsible for maintaining, supporting, and enhancing existing integration systems as well as assisting in the ongoing development of technical best practices for data movement, data quality, data mapping, data cleansing and other ETL related activities.
• Based on the business requirements responsible for creating the extraction codes for different SAP tables, Mapping the SAP tables data to Common data model in the Business intelligence tools and provide the Business intelligence reports in different SAP modules based on clients request.
• Hands on design & development of ETL programs which are operationally stable, efficient and automated.
• Design & Develop technical solutions that are scalable & aligned with the enterprise architecture and can adapt to changes in business.
• Design & Develop ETL systems that maximize re-usable components/services, collect/share metadata, and incorporate audit, reconciliation and exception handling.
• Develop and ensure best practices, standards of excellence, and guidelines for programming teams.
• Manage offshore & onsite vendor resources.
• Assist in the development, documentation and application of best practices and procedures that govern data management policies and operations.

Confidential

SAP SD/OTC Managing consultant

Responsibilities:

• As an SD Order processing managing consultant provided the SAP order to cash project process scenarios for the different Sales order business process scenarios, shipment and Delivery process and the Billing scenarios.
• Responsible for Several Project phases such as Collecting Business Requirements, Developing Business process Procedures & Design Specifications, Configurations and Project Planning.
• Involved in gathering of business user requirements and created Functional requirements for the same.
• Provided technical guidance during the Functional spec and Technical spec development phase and conducted various meeting to understand the business requirements.
• Responsible for the effective use of all master data procedures to ensure that all information systems and services met the company standards and end user requirements.
• Actively involved in different projects to enhance the functionality of the existing 5.0 environments and Configured the SD module with IMG to suit the client’s business requirements.

Confidential

Managing consultant- SAP MM/IM/WM

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding the project plan and managed the RICEF objects as per the project plan base line.
• Conducted and reviewed the project risk plan and take the necessary steps to mitigate and avoid the project risks.
• Worked with the business team to create the SAP security plan for different business processes.
• As a release manager responsible for deploying projects for several releases.
• Lead weekly status meetings with the team to monitor progress.
• Estimate cost, resources and budget and responsible for creating the cost management plan and the resource management plan.
• Facilitated the BRD meetings with the MM/IM/WM teams, coordinated with functional design lead for getting the business solutions, managing project scope until deployment, coordinated with the testing team for different test cycles and deployed the solution for all of their IM plants and warehouses .
• Responsible for Retail store shipping project for all of their retail stores. This is a custom solution for the retail shipping. Since each store was following the separate shipping calendar SAP deliver schedules will not be applicable for shipment. Hence this project will create a new shipment process providing the stores delivery for each district and zone based on calendar date and minimizes shipment processing cost.
• Responsible for creating Configuration design documents for the following objects i.e
• Configuration MM Organizational Elements:Company code, Purchasing Organization, Plant & Storage loc.
• MM-Purchasing/Procurement: Configuration for Material Master, Vendor Master, Partner schema, Purchase requisition, Purchases order, Venison management, shelf like check andpricing schemas.
• Expertise in designing scenarios likeoutline agreements,RFQ, source list, info records, quota arrangement, Scheduling agreement, Reservation, Vendor consignment, subcontracting and vendor evaluation.
• Inventory Management:Customizing donein Goods Movements,Cross Companyand Intra-companyStock Transportorders usingStock Transport order (STO), Subcontracting, Customer and Vendor Consignment & Third Party Orders, Physical Inventory, Cycle Counting.
• Configuration ofInventory Management Movement Types, Number ranges for material document of Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, shelf life check for movement types and Stock Transfers- inter and intra company.
• Involved in configuration of MRP: Configuration done in Plant parameters,Forecast planning,MRPcontrollers, and Lot-sizing procedures.Pricing CalculationSchemas for a condition tables, access sequences, condition records and condition types.
• Warehouse Management:Setup Warehouse Structures - Storage Types, Bins, Sections,TR/TO, Placement and Removal Strategies,KANBAN, Batch Management,SLEDinWM, Posting Changes, Replenishment procedures in WM, Physical Inventory in IM,Delivery processing in WM.
• Reviewed and approved architecture, design and customization for SAP BW architecture for the following SAP BW Reports
• Month to Month comparisons reports for all refineries providing capital spares, Total inventory and routine inventory and Dollar difference values
• Transaction summary dashboard report for all refineries providing cycle count adjustments, Item issued counts, items direct issued counts, Item receipts and item return counts for all refineries.
• Inventory financial reports providing cycle count accuracy, weights, Total inventory values, capital spares inventory values etc.
• Responsible for creating/validating data loading steps from SAP MM to SAP BW INFOCUBES, ODS objects and Master data info objects.
• Responsible for development and product management of SAP Material Management Services core applications for Material management processes.
• Responsible for application architecture implementing best practices in SAP
• Responsible for management and product development for a new SAP LOB solution in Material and Warehouse processes.
• Responsible for architecting, design and managing the Retail store shipping process for all of their speedway store processes.
• Responsible for Data modeling/Extraction/Reporting for the following Business objects reports ie
• Responsible for designing the MM/WM organization elements including plants, Movement types, storage locations, Movement types, Automatic account determination, shipping processes etc.
• Responsible for managing RICEF components in the Functional /Technical design for the MM processes.

Confidential

SAP SD OTC/LE/WM Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided subject matter expertise in business processes and SAP configuration associated with OTC processes including quote management, sales order management, pricing, contracts, shipping, billing, credit management, warranties etc.
• Provided SAP Demo and explaining the SAP processes for SAP outbound delivery processing including Delivery processing, Pick pack process using transfer order and packing instruction process etc.
• Involved in understanding the business requirements for the SAP Warehouse management in the business areas inbound shipment, Quality management process, Ware house put away process, kit management process, inventory control checks, outbound delivery process, Consignment shipments etc.
• Designed the organization structure for the existing plants and the warehouse management.
• Participated and/or lead efforts to develop the global SAP functional design, configuration, and implementation template for SAP SD
• Worked with other business and technical teams to identify and support SAP system integration requirements
• Worked with OTC implementation teams to ensure the global SAP design template is properly “localized” to support specific geographic locations

Confidential

Manager(SAP)

Responsibilities

• As an SME provided the SAP order to cash project process scenarios for the different Sales order business process scenarios, shipment and Delivery process and the Billing scenarios.
• Responsible for Several Project phases such as Collecting Business Requirements, Developing Business process Procedures & Design Specifications, Configurations and Project Planning.
• Involved in gathering of business user requirements and created Functional requirements for the same.
• Managed the RICEF development objects for the Order to cash domain.
• Provided technical guidance during the Functional spec and Technical spec development phase and conducted various meeting to understand the business requirements .
• Responsible for the effective use of all master data procedures to ensure that all information systems and services met the company standards and end user requirements.
• Actively involved in different projects to enhance the functionality of the existing 5.0 environments and Configured the SD module with IMG to suit the client’s business requirements.
• Worked extensively on pricing procedures and pricing conditions, requirements and formulas including AFC. Configured SD functionality of variant bill of materials and variant price.
• Configured custom order types, OTC (Order to Cash) scenario related delivery and billing type for a specific material characteristic billing variant configuration and Multi level BOM.
• Created several output types and configured it for automatic proposal.
• Prepared templates for Data Conversion Loads using LSMW for Customer master, pricing conditions, Customer-material info, output conditions etc.
• Involved in the cutover task for the Order to cash objects.
• Involved in the configuration of Material Determination, Account Determination, Route Determination, Contracts, Agreements and Rebates Processing etc.
• Defined the process of extracting, transforming, and loading the data into system, by defining the functional specifications and testing the programs.

Confidential

SAP Specialist

Responsibilities

• Responsible for management and development of SAP tax solutions for Different countries. Worked with the SAP Functional lead to understand the existing business requirement, Conducted feasibility analysis for modifying the existing tax conditions based on the new tax law from Brazil for the sales and nota fiscal documents, lead the configuration team for modifying new tax condition type, affected pricing procedures etc.
• Responsible for setting up the Smart buy purchase orders interface changes for the worldwide implementations. Responsible for setting up the company codes, purchase organizations configurations, Mapping the workflow changes for the PORDCH02, PORDCR01 idocs, Responsible for changing the Idoc segments based on the SAP XI mappings from the smart buy systems, coordinated with QA team during implementations to make sure all test plans are implemented as per the test requirements etc.
• Worked as SAP Architect for customizing the business solutions for the SAP SEPA European project in the European economic area. Responsible for all phases of the project starting from Design, analysis, construction, Pre go live and Go live for more than 20 countries. Responsible for setting the Bank account number, account codes, new payment method in country and company code using FBZP transaction, setting up the PAYMUL idoc, and implementation of the project for all the countries etc.
• In Accounts Payable (AP) configured manual and automatic outgoing payments, house banks, ranking order, bank accounts, check management, automatic payment program and integration with MM to meet the client specific requirements for different company codes in multiple countries. Further responsible for introducing new payment method for European countries, and involved in all phases of the project from project initiation, configuring the new payment methods, architecting the business solution from creating the payment file and transferring the payment file using B2B method to the Receiving bank and supported after go-live until the license period expiration
• Involved in the configuration of company code, standard chart of accounts, country chart of accounts, fiscal year variants, posting periods, GL accounts, and business areas for eight divisions with different currencies for regulatory reporting purposes
• Worked on reconciliation accounts for outgoing payments, sort methods and adjustment accounts for regrouping, month and year end closing activities including accruals /deferrals, processing recurring entries, closing sub-ledgers and preliminary closing of GL
• Provided configuration support in FI-MM integration for account determination, material movements’ setup, and inter-company billing and involved in resolving the post production issues
• Worked on Functional Specifications for developing an Interface for generation of new Vendors from the existing vendors
• Created New Lockbox configuration for the production environment for American banks. Monitoring the Lockbox, EBS & other financial daily files through FTP site into R/3 by a Middleware program
• Created the functional design and implemented for master data setup for customer/vendor/Asset class/GL Accounts/Asset master etc.
• Created the functional design and implemented the credit management process for more than 20 company codes. Responsible for assigning the credit control areas, risk category setup, automatic credit control determination, and credit master setup for the payer, setting up the credit checks, credit groups etc and provided the functional design for the reports in the credit management
• Provided the training/Demos, during the business blue print stage for the business process design and End user training during production preparation phase
• SAP Modules: SAP FI, SD, PM, MM Modules

Confidential

SAP SD Solution specialist

Responsibilities

• As a Solution specialist in SD module responsible for ongoing SAP SD development and configuration in the Order processing area
• Created AS-IS business process for Tendering, Delivery, order processing, SAP Contracts and Billing, Transportation, billing process for the existing companies in the US locations
• Responsible for creating customization set up for SD order process by conducting different
• Customer workshops in the customer locations
• Responsible for creating the Sales organization setup for their existing US companies
• Analyzed their pricing need and configured accordingly for their invoice, sale order and quotations by creating the relevant condition types, access sequences and the pricing procedures etc
• Created the functional design for the intercompany sale order process, plant transfer order, intercompany invoices generation process set up, assigning the delivery plant to the sales organization for invoking the intercompany sale order, configured the intercompany invoices documents, assigning the relevant intercompany sale order to the intercompany invoices, copy control setup for the standard order to intercompany invoice etc.
• Project preparation phase responsible for creating RICEF components
• Provided demo for the intercompany sale order/invoices creation process
• Configured the sales quotation document types, customer inquiries documents, new item categories, item category determination procedure setup, schedule line category setup, consignment order process setup, condition types, copy control procedure setup, shipping point determination procedure, route determination etc.
• Worked with their business users to establish necessary security and authorization setup for the different business objects in the SD module
• Master data setup for the following objects i.e. Business Partners, Pricing, Customer master etc.
• Created user acceptance test scripts for creating end to end process in the Spare parts sale order, repair sale orders and Make to order sale orders etc.
• Provided ongoing training and knowledge transfer to the business users
• Provided the key users in localized detailed design, process documentation, data cleansing and data migration activities for different objects such as Customer master, material master, pricing conditions, project templates etc.
• Responsible for setting up the integration points between SD and MM, SD and FI, SD and PS, PS and MM, PS and HR systems

Confidential

SAP Management consultant

Responsibilities

• As an SD/Customer service management consultant responsible for mapping the existing order process to SAP
• Designed the following process in SD module i.e. Visit detail process/service notification (CS), sales order creation, creation of Project order from sale order, WBS element creation, creation of service orders thru DP90 Tran (CS), pricing Procedure setup, contract management process for service maintenance orders, creation of invoice/Billing requests(CS), linking the cost pricing type to cost centers Etc.
• Designed the following in the resource related billing i.e. DIP setup, Service sale order document configuration, Service item category configuration, expenditure view setup, coordinated with the COPA team for integrating the cost items, pricing procedure setup for the service sale order and the billing request etc.
• Configured the following in the Order Management
• Sales organization, Distribution channel, sales districts, Account groups, Item proposal, number ranges for item proposal, Service contracts, Billing methods etc.
• Billing doc types, A/C determination procedure, Retro billing etc.
• Partner Functions, Partner Procedure setup, Account Group setup; Order Defining and assigning Account Keys etc.
• Shipping and Transportation: Defines routes, route stages, shipping types, transportation connection points, departure zones to determine the automatic route in the sale orders
• Delivery document type, Delivery item category, Delivery item category determination, shipping point, shipping point determination procedure, Picking, packing, PGI, POD etc.
• Revenue Account Determination, Condition Types, Condition Type Group, Number Ranges, Agreement Types, Condition Tables, Access Sequences, etc.
• Reconfigured 'Rebate' & 'Brokerage' Programs due to change in business process. Analyzed and
• Configured pricing procedures to align them with business requirements
• Created material determination procedure for contract items to assign a generic item no based on the cost category group maintained in the ztable
• Created pricing procedure for the service sale orders, pricing requirements, pricing formula, pricing condition types etc.
• Created output determination procedure for the sale orders, invoices etc.
• Modified the SAP pricing procedure for sales documents (sales order, Billing request, quotation, invoices etc) to include the SABRIX tax condition types
• Created detailed functional specifications for the different business process
• Coordinate with the offshore resources during functional guidance
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project during implementation

Confidential

SAP Management consultant

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Analysis of the functional specification provided by the client, Designed the technical specs using ABAP/4 Interactive reports, ALV reports, BAPI, LSMW, BDC etc.
• Responsible for creating the detailed Technical/Functional design and the project implementation for the following objects in the SAP MM module i.e.
• BOM load into SAP
• MR21 - Material costing load into SAP
• BOM Assignments load into SAP
• Batch classification load into SAP
• Inventory report
• Major brand Load
• Major brand Maintenance
• Major brand rebate group-update in Material master
• Audit log ALV report
• Involved fixation of problems that arise due to a process deficiency that was not configured in the design
• Coordinated with the offshore resources during the ABAP code development for the functional knowledge guidance
• Responsible for overseeing the quality procedures related to the project during implementation
• Responsible for the data migration for the following objects i.e. Material master, Vendor master i.e. managing the master data migration process i.e. data cleansing, data conversion and master data loading in SAP etc
• Provided Data uploading assistance for the business users

Confidential

SD (Order to cash)/IS Retail Functional Lead

Responsibilities

• Worked as a lead consultant for a leading training and publication company involved in the AS IS /TO BE case study for their existing systems using solution manager
• Using SOLMON, I working in the business blueprint, project preparation and realization phases. Created a new project for etraining courses, organization setup, adding team member to the existing project, system landscape definition for their project, configuration units setup, authorization profile setup, document type creation, AS IS case study documentation, To be case documentation preparation, project milestone setup etc
• Successfully created AS IS Case document for their existing processes i.e. e-Training, Onsite training, Consultancy services, publication sales etc
• Studied their existing order processing process, pricing processes, contract training system for their preferred vendors, shipment process, training session scheduling, course code setup, onsite training sessions management, billing system Proposed TO BE System using SAP SD ‘ OREDER TO CASH’ system for their training and publications systems
• Conducted L1 training for their existing business users
• Configured the following in the Business blue print design, i.e. Sales organization, distribution channel, training divisions, plants, customer groups, material groups for their different groups, created material determination procedure and assigned to the sale order document type etc.
• Analyzed the existing different procedure methodologies for their training courses for their different sales divisions, customers, different pricing variables (cost price, discounts, surcharges, taxes, rebates etc) and created the pricing procedures for their standard and cash order sales document types.

Confidential

Senior consultant

Responsibilities

• Configuration - primarily in the area of Sales & Distribution in the order management mainly in the make to order and engineer to orders including customer master, pricing order management and rebate processing
• Business Analysis: Analyzed and provided solutions to post implementation 'issues' in the area of Sales & Distribution Configuration (Master Data, Basic Functions, Sales, & Billing), integration & stress testing
• Modified the SAP pricing procedure for sales documents (sales order, Billing request, quotation, invoices etc) to include the SABRIX tax condition types
• Coordinated with the ABAP developers for setting up the Sabrix Tax software for the initial rollouts
• Configured and fully implemented 'Bill back' program
• Provided production support in the area of Order Processing, Delivery, Billing and other areas of Sales & Distribution
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project. Client site for implementation
• In connection with freight pay policy changes involved in the configuration changes for the shipment and delivery module in SD module. Involved in all phases of the project i.e. Business Blueprint, Realization, and Final preparation phases
• Created the process design for creating shipment cost document for small parcels in SAP. Designed the inbound IDOC delivery segment, process codes, partner profile setup, designed the function code enhancement for creating shipment cost using VI01 SAP Tran
• Configured condition types, pricing conditions, shipping conditions for shipment cost document preparation
• Coordinated quality assurance and configuration management efforts for the above projects
• Implemented procedures and processes along with controlled baselines and defect monitoring for the entire project
• Involved in configuring the price determination procedure for the freight costs, involved in testing with different scenarios for creating the shipment cost through Picking via Warehouse management, packing, creation etc using the transaction WE31.