SUMMARY

• 11+ Years of IT Consulting work experience in SAP MM & PP, SAP Legacy, Concur, Web/Portal and SAAS Applications
• 5+ Years of Supply Chain Manufacturing and Operations domain experiences
• Worked in Implementation, Migration, Upgrade and Roll - Out projects for Apparel, Banking, Bio Medical, Health Care, Pharma, Retail, and Telecom business domain
• 5+ Full Life Cycle System Implementation projects experience
• 10+ Migration, Upgrade and Roll-out projects experience
• High appreciation in SAP MM, PP, SD, QM modules, also worked in SAP APO, IM/WM, PM, FI-AP, BI/BO Front Office Interface SAP modules and Concur Travel Expense & Invoice Modules
• Extensively worked in SAP business process like Plan To Stock, Procure To Pay, Order To Cash cycle, FI-AP Non-PO Service process and Vendor Management
• Extensively worked in Supply and Demand Business scenarios and applications
• Excellent understanding of ASAP methodologies, Business Process Procedures (BPP), Functional Specification (FS) and Technical Specification (TS) documents and RICEFW objects
• Worked in SAP Solution Manager for managing and accessing SAP functional and technical design documents
• Extensive knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Business Requirement understanding and Test scope drafting, reviewing and leadership sign-off
• Excellent command over Design and Drafting Test Plan and Test Strategy
• Test effort Estimation, Test Data Management and Test environment readiness
• Vast experience in Design and Execution of Test Scenarios & Test Scripts
• Good command on Stage gate meetings and Defect Triages
• Extensively worked in Supply and Demand Business scenarios and applications
• Excellent in keeping track on deliverables as per laid down SLA’s and Plan’s
• Seamless daily, weekly status reporting and stake holder’s communication
• Monitoring and Identifying deviations and escalation to leadership forums and knowledge
• Managed Large, mid and small-size projects across different regions like NA, CALA, EMEA and APAC
• Good understanding on TCOE model operation
• Generated Business flow diagrams using MS Visio
• Strong Team Management and Onsite-Offshore model operations

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Package: SAP ECC 6.0

SAP Modules: SD, MM, PP-PI, QM, PM, IM/WM & BO Reports

Other Applications: Concur T&E and Invoice module, Cognos

Testing Tools: HP ALM 11.52, QTP, SAP TAO, RMT, Clear Quest

SAP Certificate Course Pursued: SCM Manufacturing

Project Management: PMP certification course in-pursuit

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP Retail Data Cleansing, Involving Articles Masters and Vendor Master, SAP Article Hierarchy, Merchandising Category Hierarchy and Vendor Hierarchy
• Coordinating Legacy / Heritage Systems (JDA, BDM, ADR 4/7, Oracle etc.) feed into SAP
• Ensure interface and data flow between Planograms for the Rite Aid Stores in JDA system and SAP
• Ensure Master data availability as per Store release and cut-over Plan
• Ticket resolutions and Change Impact Analysis
• Work closely with cross-functional project teams to define and deploy Change Management Plan for projects that impact Global Strategic Sourcing (GSS) employees and stakeholders (suppliers and cross-functional)
• Obtain agreement on the Program/Projects Communication plan and timeline from the impacted business
• Assist in the development of presentations to IS customers and business stakeholders.
• Coordinate the creation of Project and Program Steering decks
• Solicit Stakeholder feedback on Program/Project communications
• Work closely with the Business Readiness/Change Management team within a project
• Participate in Business process workshops and client forums

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• River BBx SAP ECC6.0 Implementation across Manufacturing and DC locations
• River Engineering SAP PLM Upgrade
• River HR SAP System Migrations for 64 countries
• River Engineering SAP PLM BNS Drawing Import Project
• SAP SP14 Upgrade from SP06
• India GST Implementation
• Concur T&E Implementation - Agile Pilot Project
• Maintain SAP Functional Area of responsibility by understanding upkeep/enhancement requirements and designing changes to the existing solution.
• Partner with the PMO team, participate in project request assessments to maintain enterprise wide applications alignment. Provides estimates (cost, duration) for enterprise application projects. • Coordinate with SAP Director & SAP Project Management area to assure that all changes whether cross functional in nature or module specific fit within the overall direction of the Global SAP team from both a functional, technical, & support perspective.
• Provide Status reports and updates to SAP Director so that timely information can be incorporated into Business Steering Committees.
• This position will direct and support an organization that is a combination of internal employees and multiple partnerships with global systems vendors.
• Ensure that application changes are appropriately documented, tested and reviewed and occur in agreed change control windows with appropriate monitoring •
• Utilize tools to monitor departmental cost and cost trends, striving continuously to improve value. • Identify creative ways to reduce cost by streamlining processes and systems
• Ensures the security confidential and proprietary information and materials.
• Design and implement efficient procedures for the distribution and implementation of IT changes into production
• Facilitate issue tracking and resolution of post go live activities where required
• Assist in the prioritization of enhancements and changes into release packages
• Develop process for emergency and exception releases and seek necessary approvals
• Participate in weekly Change Review Board meetings
• Consolidate and publish Release Notes or Installation Deployment Summary (IDS) for each deployment
• Ensure compliance with IT processes including proper documentation, reviews and approvals of related changes
• Day to day work activities include Review and Approval of Functional Requirements Specification Documents, approvals of Change Impact Assessment Documents, creating a schedule of testing tasks within the overall project schedule.
• Lead & Manage the Testing and Validation activities in synchronization with project scope, schedule and objective.
• Manage the Task allocation for onsite/offshore team, review the work and resolve issues.
• Maintain a communication channel with all the leads and Project Managers to ensure all project deliverables and compliant and within timelines.
• Provide daily/weekly status reports, risks and mitigations to the project team, as per expected frequency.
• Work with Internal IT Team and Vendor partners to work on the Business process improvement and Tool upgrade
• Co-ordinate between IT and Business Team on Business requirements and Workshops
• Track and report project metrics to the project team as per the agreed frequency.
• Work with Vendor partners on IT application procurements and demos

Confidential

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and track of all production-related activities required to support successful deployments
• Implementation planning and dependency analysis for both major and weekly maintenance release cycles
• Identify risks, cross application dependencies and downstream impacts per release
• Establish and communicate master release schedules
• Design and implement efficient procedures for the distribution and implementation of IT changes into production
• Facilitate issue tracking and resolution of post go live activities where required
• Manage scope and schedule of releases
• Creation and communication of release status, implementation scorecard and executive status reporting
• Assist in the prioritization of enhancements and changes into release packages
• Develop process for emergency and exception releases and seek necessary approvals
• Participate in weekly Change Review Board meetings
• Consolidate and publish Release Notes or Installation Deployment Summary (IDS) for each deployment
• Ensure compliance with IT processes including proper documentation, reviews and approvals of related changes
• Provide timely escalation to IT Leadership where necessary/appropriate