SUMMARY:

• Senior Program/Project Manager with extensive experience across many industries (Automobile, Utilities, Railroad, Logistics, Food & Beverage, High - tech)
• Expertise leading complex implementation project by providing complex solutions in Supply Chain Management
• Delivered several successful projects in SAP ECC, SAP EWM, JDA Supply & Demand, SuccessFactors, Syteline ERP and Mfg/Pro ERP.
• Worked in various roles from Program/Project Manager, Solution Architect, Regional Manager, Functional and Technical consultant
• Managed $25 million SAP projects with approx. 30+ cross functional internal and external resources efficiently
• 15 full life cycle ERP implementation experience (including 10 implementations in SAP) in various industries
• 6+ years of Project Management / Solution Architecture experience in managing and successfully delivering high profile and very complex SAP projects.
• 20+ years of overall ERP experience with all project stages including business development, project estimating, requirements gathering, gap analysis, business process reengineering, issue resolution, configuration, custom code specifications, testing, training, go-live assistance and post implementation support.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Full Life cycle Implementation Projects: 10 in SAP and 5 in other ERP system (Syteline)
• Support Projects: 5 in SAP and 2 in other ERP system Mfg/Pro
• Upgrade Project: 1 in SAP
• Primary Module: Materials Management (MM), Warehouse Management (WM), Sales & Distribution (SD/OTC)
• Secondary Module: Plant Maintenance (PM) and Production Planning (PP)
• Other Module Exposure, Integration and Detail Knowledge: SAP SRM, Ariba-Procurement, Financial Accounting (FI) and SAP EWM
• SAP Versions Worked: S/4 HANA, ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0 and 4.6C
• Project Manager: 2 in SAP and 1 in Syteline
• Team Lead: 7 Projects in SAP and 3 in Syteline
• Solution Architect: 3 Projects in SAP
• Regional Manager Experience: 1 Year
• Industry Exposure: Automotive, Remanufacturing, Energy and Power, Logistics Shipping, Railroad, Consumer Products and High Tech.

SAP EXPERTISE:

• Standard Purchase order, Consignment, Sub-contracting, Third Party, Stock Transport Order, Logistics Invoice Verification, Credit/Debit Memos, ERS, Release strategies, Messages/Outputs, EDI, Contracts, Scheduling Agreement, Vendor Master, Source List, Info Record, Price determination, Quota Arrangement, etc.
• Material Master, Goods Movement, Special Stocks, Physical Inventory and Cycle Counting Process, Split Valuation, Batch Management,, Reservations, Stock Transfer and Transfer Posting, etc.
• Lot-Size Calculation, MRP Areas, Re-Order Point and Safety Stock calculations, Forecasting, etc.
• Service Master, Service Entry Sheets, Approval for Service Entry Sheets, etc.
• Storage Type, Storage Section, Storage Bin Types, Storage Bin Structures, Strategies for Storage Bin Types and Storage Type Search, Picking & Putaway Strategies, Posting Change, Transfer Requirement, Transfer Orders and their automation, Physical Inventory Process for WM. Inbound and Outbound Delivery Process, Pick List, RF Screens and Menus, etc.
• Sales Order, Scheduling Agreement, Third Party Process, Backorder Process, Outbound Delivery and Shipment Process, Invoicing & Credit memos, Pricing and Conditions, Availability Checks, Messages/Outputs, Integration Points between SD and MM.
• Functional Location, Equipment, Serial Number Managements, Work Centers and Operations for Equipment Bill of Materials, Work Orders for Maintenance Orders, Maintenance Plans, Schedules and Maintenance Strategies for Preventive Maintenance, Warranty Types, Warranty Categories, Warranty Counters for Vendor Warranty based on Serial Numbers.
• Designing of Work Centers, Bill of Material and Routing, Work Order Process, Make-to-Stock and Make-to-Order Process, Variant Configuration, Demand Planning, Forecast Planning, Master Production Schedule, MRP and Integration points between PP and MM.
• Understanding of the processes in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets & Project Systems, Validation and Substitution, Appropriation Requests, Field Status Groups, Master Data including GL accounts, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Tax Procedures for US including Tax Codes and Tax Jurisdictions, Inter-Company Configurations, etc.
• Working knowledge of EWM Inbound & Outbound process, Wave management, SGI process, Master Data CIF between ECC and EWM, clearing of queues, etc.
• End-to-end configuration of Workflow for various objects, HR Organization Hierarchy, Document Management System, Security Roles and Authorization, Archiving, In-depth knowledge in IDOCs and BAPI’s, Reporting, RWD Info Pak, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Albuquerque, NM

Solution Architect, Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided hyper-care firefighter support on Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Production Planning and Extended Warehouse Management processes in SAP (S/4 Hana 1709)
• Process redefine for Third Party Sales order and purchase process, Stock transport order and Sub-contracting process and drop-ship scenarios
• Implemented Freight on incoming PO’s and STO
• Implemented Special stock Q for Project to work with Sales order, Purchase Orders, STO’s and MRP
• Clean up proposal and project planning activities for Plant and Storage location structure, Materials Master, open PTP documents and open OTC documents.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Program Director, Project Manager, Solution Architect, Test Manager & Cutover Lead

Responsibilities:

• Delivered multiple projects and multiple phases successfully in SAP ECC 6.0 (S/4 HANA), SAP EWM 9.3, SuccessFactors (PM/GM, LMS, EC, EC-Pay for US and Mexico), JDA Demand and JDA Supply.
• Managed the team size of 30+ which includes contractors, IT employees and business leads
• Delivered a very tight timeline / high pressure project on time and on budget for the above modules
• OTC project includes designing the sales order, delivery, shipping and invoicing. EDI-850, EDI-855, EDI-856, EDI-857, etc.
• Responsible for building high performance teams and innovative solutions that will help with product quality through cost effective and productive solutions
• Preparation of project proposals and presented to senior executives of the company.
• Prepared the staffing plan and recruited resources for each work stream.
• Managed the overall project to stay within the budget of the project.
• Designed the very complex Material master, Bill of Materials, Routers, etc., and migrated all the data to SAP.
• Configured the complex MRP process to consider Alternate BOM’s and Alternate Items.
• Helped the PMO team in drafting and managing the project plan
• Architected the overall interface design for the entire project.
• Lead the integration architecture between SAP and JDA for Demand and Supply Planning using JDA CONNECT.
• Lead the testing phase as Testing Manager by defining the testing strategy for SIT, UAT, Parallel Testing, etc.
• Worked very closely with the C-Level and Senior Vice Presidents by providing periodic project updates.
• Involved in taking key project decisions throughout the project
• Helped the project team in designing the critical business processes.
• Led the cutover activities for multiple phases and multiple go-lives
• Helped the Change Management Team in defining change management strategies, business readiness dashboards and supported the user training activities
• Boosted delivery quality with KPI metrics

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Project Manager/Solution Architect and Sr. SCM Lead

Responsibilities:

• Drafted and Managed the project plan using Microsoft Project
• Managed the team of 10+ consultants and business workstream leads
• Delivered the project successfully on-time and on budget
• Lead the cutover and go-live activities
• Conducted workshop with the business team for moving Procurement functions from SAP SRM to SAP ECC.
• Migration of procurement functions from SAP SRM to SAP ECC.
• Designed all the custom enhancements related to SRP such as custom PO approval, Custom text fields with drop down search help, etc. in ECC.
• Designed and configured auto-PO function for all the stock coded materials with ref to contract by populating all the custom fields.
• Performed business process workshop and configuration related to PR, PO and Contracts in SAP ECC.
• Designed and configured release strategy with workflow for PR, PO and Contracts.
• Worked on data migration of PO’s and Contract from SRM to ECC.
• Part of managing the cutover activities during go-live.
• Part of evaluation process for Ariba for procurement functionality.
• Designed, documented and configured Inventory management, Planning and part of procurement in ECC
• Worked on integration between ECC and SRM to support the procurement functions for Extended Classic scenario
• Designed the complex process for managing Wire and Cable on Reels using Batch Management .
• Designed and configured Serialization for Transformers and Meters.
• Designed and documented several interfaces between SAP and work management system (Maximo), Faster/EJ Ward, Faster and FGS (Legacy Planning System)
• Worked on interfaces between SAP and Power plant.
• Configured the Procure to Pay process including MRP using Re-order levels and Replenishment
• Worked with the offshore development team on all custom programs and interfaces.
• Worked with the data migration team on various data migration objects such as material master, stock balance, etc.
• Designed and built the Test scenarios, Test conditions and Test scripts and executed the same using HPQC.
• Part of performing System stress test, integration test, regression test and user acceptance test.
• Worked with the Security team on designing the roles for users
• Part of planning and execution of cutover activities during go-live.
• Lead the post go-live support for the SCM team.
• Part of execution and testing of support pack upgrade.

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Regional Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the team of 8 functional consultants for Americas Region.
• Managed all the project related activity using tools in Solution Manager
• Designed the Complex Interface for PO, GR and IR from sub-system called NS5.
• Successfully Rolled-out the Global Design for MM module and BOBJ.
• Part of the Planning and Execution of Training in Various locations.
• Duties included analyzing Business Requirement, carrying out Fit-Gap Analysis, Process Design, and Customization of all WRICEF Objects for both Purchasing and Inventory Management.
• Designed the complex Approval Process for the Purchase Orders.
• Configured end-to-end procure-to-pay process with MRP using Re-order Points and Forecast Demand
• Used the Data Migration Framework for the Data Migration and Interfaces from various sub-systems
• Conducted Regional Conceptual Design Workshop Procurement, Inventory Management and Consumption based planning.
• Designed complex pricing procedures.
• Designed the complex interfaces for Purchase Orders from various systems.
• Involved in the FileNet attachment discussions for Contracts, Info record, E-voucher attachment to PO, etc.

Confidential

SCM Support Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in end-to-end implementation of interface between APWF (Custom legacy system) and SAP on Purchase Requisition creation, Purchase Order Query and Inventory Query.
• Worked on designing Vendor Sub-Range.
• Part of Support Pack upgrade testing using Mercury Test System.

Confidential

SCM Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing and documenting IDOC interface for RFQ, PO and Sales order process for normal and consignment materials.
• Involved in integration testing for Procure to Pay, Physical Inventory process for IM and WM, Stock Change Process of IM and Posting Change Process of WM and Sub-contact PO Process.
• Tested various custom reports in ECC 6.0 and compared them with ECC 5.0 using PDF comparison.

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

SCM Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Configured Organization Data for centralized Warehouse Management.
• Configured Storage Type, Storage Section, Storage Bin Types and Storage Bin Structures and Strategies for Storage Bin Type and Storage Type Search.
• Configured Put away and Picking Strategies for Fixed Bins and Open Storage Area.
• Implemented Posting Change, Automatic Transfer Order creation and Confirmations for Transfer Requirements.
• Developed Functional Specification for custom program to bring in inventory from Inventory Management to Warehouse Management.
• Configured Physical Inventory and Cycle Counting Process in Warehouse management.
• Defined Menu Management, Screen Management and RF Queue Management for Mobile Data Entry using RFID.
• Developed Functional Specification for all Mobile Data Entry screen for Inventory Management and Warehouse Management
• Configured Organization Data for Plant Maintenance.
• Configured Technical Objects like Functional Location, Equipment and Serial Number Management.
• Configured Work centers and Operations for Equipment Bill of Materials.
• Implemented Work Orders for Maintenance Processing.
• Configured Maintenance Plans, Schedules and Maintenance Strategies for Preventive Maintenance.
• Configured Warranty Categories, Warranty Types and Warranty Counters to capture Vendor Warranty based on Serial Numbers.
• Configured Split Valuation and Batch management.
• Configured Automatic Purchase order for MRP generated purchase requisitions.
• Designed the MRP Planning process using MRP types VB, VM and PD
• Configured Confirmations for Order Acknowledgements, Shipment Notification and Inbound Deliveries.
• Configured Workflow for Appropriation Request and Release GL Park Document.
• Configured Release Procedure with classification for Purchase Requisition with user exits and configured the workflow.
• Defined Field Status for Inventory Management and Purchasing to match up with FI field status.
• Configured Account Groups, Valuation Classes and Automatic Postings for Automatic Account Determination.
• Defined the Organization Hierarchy of KCSR for the Workflow Process. Created Organization Units, Positions, Jobs, Reporting Structure, Assigned Users to the Positions.
• Helped the Basis team to configuring the RFC Connections and Destinations.
• Prepared functional specification for Conversions, Forms and Interfaces and tested the programs.
• Worked closely with Technical team to Add Tax Jurisdiction Field during goods issue using BADI on MIGO screen.
• Configured the Archiving for Material Master and Vendor Master
• Configured the CO substitution rule to determine cost center and functional area during Physical Inventory and Cycle Counting adjustment.
• Configured new (Custom) movement type for second hand material from fixed assets and Scrap Sales.
• Configured External Service management with Service Master and Service Entry Sheets.
• Created training documentation using RWD Infopak, trained all levels of users at multiple locations

Confidential

Support Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in fixing of the In-bound and Out-bound error IDOCs and monitor them periodically
• Responsible for re triggering the failed output which is used for communicating with other systems
• Handled the configuration issues related to Stock Transport Orders, Sales Orders and Delivery and Shipment.
• Setting up of Bill of Materials and creation of Production orders for MOD pallets.
• Managed the corrections to the master data for Batch Management and Shelf Life Expiry Date.
• Involved in trouble shooting the legacy transaction with SAP movement type mapping and fixed the Gap.
• Provided the extensive Technical support to the Change agents and Super users.
• Responsible for reconciling the inventory between SAP and Legacy systems