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EDI Specialist with 9 years' experience in application development, support and maintenance of Global EDI Gateway for a major CPG client in North America including expertize in products like IBM WDI, Axway Interchange, Sentinel and WebTrader

Professional Summary

Over 9 years of hands-on experience in IT industry including 5 years of client facing experience

Possess Subject matter expertize in providing consultation on issues and queries pertaining to design and execution of Global EDI projects.

Leading team strength of 20 people across multiple support, maintenance and development projects in EDI gateway / B2B area for a major CPG company in North America.

Managed all aspects of EDI life cycle from the establishment of Trading Partner relationships, requirement gathering, analysis, design, mapping, testing and production support.

Proficient in the application of ANSI X12, EDIFACT, EANCOM standards and translation to Flat Files/XML/SAP IDOCs/CAD formats

Skillful in setting up the transmission protocols like AS1, AS2, HTTP, HTTPs, SMTP, sFTP, FTP, Control-M AFTP.

Expertize in EDI gateway data mapping products like IBM Websphere Data Interchange for Windows and Mainframe platforms.

Trained on multiple EDI tools such as Gentran Integration Suite GIS /IBM Sterling Integrator SI , Axway Integrator

Working knowledge of IBM Mainframe technologies JCL, COBOL, DB2, REXX , Unix, Linux, PL/SQL, MQ series and Global Data Synchronization with 1-WorldSync.

Expertize in workload automation Batch monitoring tools like BMC Control-M, Windows Scheduler.

Working knowledge of data flow monitoring and analysis tools like Axway Synchrony Sentinel, IBM Sterling Inflight.

Working knowledge of incident, problem and change management toold like BMC Remedy, HP Service Manager, Service Center and HP Quality Center for Defect Tracking and Application testing.

Possess knowledge of EDI business process in Supply-Chain, Retail, Banking and Freight Carrier areas.

Experienced as SAP Business Process Executive for Order to Cash Integration.

Good knowledge on SAP Idoc structures, SAP EDI Setup and configuration for Sales and Distribution module.

Strong experience in project management processes with multiple projects executing at CMMi Level 5.

Experience with all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC

Good client interaction and consulting skills both from onsite and offshore locations.

Technical Skills

EDI Tools	Gentran Integration Suite GIS /IBM Sterling Integrator SI ,Sterling Map Editor, Graphical Process Modeler, Axway Gateway Interchange, IBM Websphere Data Interchange WDI , Axway B2Bi, Synchrony Map Designer and Sentinel, EDISIM
Databases	Basics of SQL, DB2
O/S	UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mainframes
Protocols	MQ, FTP, SFTP, AS2, VAN, Control-M AFT
Others	SAP SD Module, GDS 1-Sync

Work Experience

Confidential

Confidential is the world's second largest Retail CPG Industry. It is an American multinational confectionary food and beverage conglomerate whose headquarters is located in Northfield, IL. The core businesses of Kraft are in beverage, cheese, snack foods and dairy foods. Some of its popular brands are Planters, Philadelphia, Kool-Aid, Oscar Mayer, Cracker Barrel, Maxwell House, Jell-O and Kraft Macaroni Cheese

Confidential

Provide EDI Application support as a subject matter expert for all delivery streams and Business Process Support for Order to cash delivery stream of Kraft Foods.
Business objective of minimizing manual touch points for complete order to cash cycle and improve efficiency of different processes involved.
Optimized the process for reporting issues and getting faster resolutions to enable better co-ordination between Kraft business and support team with Managed services.
Onboarding of new trading partners by analyzing and translate their business requirements into EDI mapping specifications.
Reporting and handling of Orders/Invoices/ASN/Debit/Credit errors along with trading partner rejections.
ITIL activities such as incident Mgmt, change Mgmt, problem Mgmt, ticketing process, MSR, WSRs etc

Confidential

Enable the new Confidential Kraft Foods to bring up a new B2B system on cloud of managed services vendor IBM by developing new interfaces to mimic functionalities that of existing system and interfaces.
Analysis and optimize existing Interfaces to achieve a better architecture.
Provide Managed services vendor with requirements to design a new and better B2B system facilitate a smooth transition.
Development and Testing of new interfaces on windows and Linux platforms
Coordination, testing and approval of new interfaces on managed services environment in coordination with business teams,

Confidential

Kraft Foods Inc as a company was split into two publicly traded companies with one being the ever growing International Snack Brands which in turn was renamed Mondel z International and other mostly stable North America based Grocery business later to be known as Kraft Foods Group.
Develop new mechanism through which Grocery Co will exchange its data over the firewall security of Snack Co.
Design and Implementation of EDI Gateway-B2B Hub application for split of critical business processes like OTC, OTM, STC, STP etc.
Installation of B2B data integration product Axway Interchange and migration of approximately 600 trading partners, 25 VAN providers, 15 Bank connections to new environment using AS1, AS2, sFTP protocol.
Design and Implementation of SFTP protocol in Kraft Foods/ Mondel z International environment.

Confidential

Legacy Modernization project involved re-hosting of all legacy applications and bringing up a new translator on a windows hosted solution along with migration of all mainframe B2B processes into new windows based Microfocus platform. This project was executed in phases for all regions to reduce impact of big bang on all the regions.
Analysis, Migration/Development and Testing of existing mainframe interfaces on windows and Microfocus.
Installation of new EDI translator on all environments and migration of all components from previous version on mainframes.

Confidential

Integration of newly acquired Cadbury business including new third party warehouses spread across multiple countries like UK, Belgium, Nordic and France onto Kraft under a central B2B system.

Analyze, design and develop new Cadbury interfaces by aligning with existing warehouse management system at Kraft Europe. Creation and review of EDI mapping specifications in co-ordination with SAP Functional teams. New development, testing and production cut-over of Data Transformation Maps.
Confidential	Confidential

Migration of warehouse interfaces on middleware E gate to SAP PI system. Due to this all the earlier IDoc interfaces were replaced with the new XML interfaces between the Kraft B2B hub and SAP PI retaining IDoc processing between SAP ECC and SAP PI systems.

Creation of new EDI mapping specifications by reviewing existing interfaces and mapping E gate in coordination with SAP Functional teams. Design and development of new EDI mapping to integrate European warehouses of Kraft into SAP via SAP-PI as middleware. New development, testing and production cut-over of Data Transformation Maps.
Confidential	Confidential

APAC Catalyst started based on the successful execution of SAP implementation on all the Kraft business of North America. The APAC business migrated from a legacy AS400 system to new ERP systems commonly deployed for entire Asia.

Analysis of existing Customers and Warehouses interfaces Kraft Australia to create new mapping specifications to integrate into SAP. Design, Testing and production cut-over of newly developed Data Transformation Maps.
Confidential	Confidential

SAP implementation of business applications in Kraft Foods North America initially on the legacy mainframe system.

Documentation of existing legacy applications and move them over to the SAP environment by developing similar interfaces co-coordinating between the SAP Business, Functional and Technical teams.
Implementation of ERP solution involving internal business teams and external partners with minimal or no changes external to Kraft.
Phased out implementation based on delivery streams by releases with Release 2A - Order To Cash, Release 1C Material To Inventory, 3PL Interfaces and DSD: Pizza and Biscuit.

Confidential

This project involved enabling Trading partners of Kraft across Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America to exchange business transactions with Kraft business through EDI documents communicating in more secure way using AS2 protocols.

Development and testing of EDI translation maps and subsequent support for worldwide B2B Hub Services Integration involving Trading partners in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America until the roll out is stable.
Involved monitoring of the batch process and jobs, handling issues involving failures of jobs.

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