PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 16 plus years of overall IT experience with all project stages including Business Development, Project Estimating, Requirement gathering, Gap Analysis, Issue Resolution, Configuration, Custom Code specifications, Testing, training, Go Live assistance, Post Implementation support and Operation/Maintenance. Also experience working on SAP FI/CO SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), Sales & Distribution & Sr SAP GTS Functional modules.
• Experience in Simple Logistics/S4 HANA (SD) transformation technologies in migration from ECC to S4 HANA & S4 HANA upgrade (1610 to 1809 versions)
• 10 plus years of SAP/ERP Project Management Experience with proven success in implementations, upgrades, Enhancements and applications performance tuning. An active participation in phases of more than 6 implementations and proven veteran of multiple full life cycle implementations in a wide range of industries including Utility, Pharmaceuticals, Life sciences, Manufacturing etc.
• Senior SAP Project Manager with multiple Go - Lives in various industries and many global/international projects. Fully versed in all aspect of project management and deliverables. Familiar with various project management methodologies such as; Solution Manager, ASAP, Activate, PMBOK, etc.
• Decisive, action oriented and results-focused professional offering outstanding talents in Resource Management, Team building, Budget Management, Developing Project Scope, Customer Relationships, Cost Avoidance, continuous design improvements, and providing project metrics for Senior Management. Immensely enjoy navigating all aspects of complex or troubled projects.
• Leadership role involved in SAP Implementation Management, Customer requirements gathering, Project Management, project turnarounds, Customer Relationships, Project Budget Management, and team mentoring.
• Professional agile Project Manager in various facets of Project Management. Knowledgeable in applications of Scrum, Agile methodologies, and skilled in developing processes that facilitate continual progress and team achievement. Dedicated to applying principles of agile management to projects and tasks.
• Conceptualize, generate, plan, manage and execute high impact implementation projects which includes identifying and implementing process improvements that drive productivity, client and employee satisfaction, and improve revenue drivers
• Extensive knowledge in the areas of SAP GTS Compliance Management (SPL, Embargo, License Determination), SAP GTS Customs Management (Export/Import Process, ECC/GTS Plug in, RFC connection, Org. structure, Documents, Number ranges, Number schemes, Duty calculation and SAP GTS Electronic Customs Declaration & Broker communication.
• Expertise in Order-To-Cash (SD/OTC) processes and integration to other SAP modules (MM, PP, FI/CO). Extensive background in Variant Configuration (VC)
• Key Role in analyzing the AS IS current design of client’s business processes & propose SAP Best practices with improved Lead times.
• Flexible skill set ranging from being a Project Manager, Team Lead, Configuration, Integration Manager, Individual Team Member and Trainer.
• Self-motivated leader, effective team player and a strong individual contributor with proven leadership, organizational, communication, facilitation, and project management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP S/4 HANA 1909 SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, SAP Solution Manager, SAP PM, SAP GTS 8.0, 10.0, 10.1, 11.0 SEEBURGER BIZ 5 & BIZ 6 Middleware, Scrum Agile Methodology

Project Management Tools: Gate Technology tool, ASAP, MS ProjectPC Applications MS Word, Outlook, Power Pointe, Excel, Visio, Win shuttle/Work soft

Platforms: Windows2000, XP, Vista

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential, Long Island, NY

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of analysts and junior consultants for a successful rollout of SAP PM integrated with Utility Engineering Software solutions (CAD Workforce Management system. Involved in efficiently gathering the business requirements and developing suitable solutions to map these requirements in SAP interfaced with external applications.
• Leadership role in the management of client relationship.
• Part of initial Proof of concept of migrating from ECC to S4 HANA, which is part of client roadmap.
• Proposed new SAP PM & FI/CO Enhancements to improve existing business processes and workflow.
• SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) Service Now & Maintenance Structure Management - Lead the effort to design, build and configure PM applications, acting as the primary point of contact for both the IT and Business teams.
• Ran all aspect of Program and Project Management - blueprint, communication (internal and external), timelines, deliverables, issues/risks, training, security, role mapping, workforce transition, cutover, data conversion, scope, Post-Go-Live Support, etc.
• Project Management focus area includes Project Planning, Financial Management (SOW, LOI, CR’s, Contracts, Task Order etc)) Staffing, Communication & Scope Management.
• Customized client specific reports on SAP SM/CS requirements by combining 3 reports (IW58, IW64 and IW68). Developed functional specifications and worked with the technical team
• Created a new notification type and quote process for repair orders
• As part of enhancement, new additional FI related Fields were developed in Service order
• Made Configuration changes in Service notifications, Service Orders, Customer repair orders
• Implement agile management ideals by facilitating exercises such as sprint planning and team leading standups.
• Manage project timelines and communicate with management staff and clients to ensure project progress satisfactorily.
• Enact delivery upon completion of projects and ensure that delivery adheres to agile practices maintained by the company
• Responsible for establishing and managing client relationships with key decision makers
• Set and manage customer expectations in regard to: Project Scope and timeline, Customer responsibilities, Stakeholder Roles and Responsibilities, Project Governance (communication, change control, escalation), Risk management and Organizational readiness
• Identified GAPs and developed functional specifications to address all WRICEF objects.
• Coordinated with the team in carrying out Functional Unit Testing and creation of test scripts
• Coordination with IT Change Management team in transporting Baseline and Final Configurations from Dev to Quality server for QA testing and supported business team in UAT testing.
• Developed cutover plan and performed relevant cutover activities in preparation for go-live.
• Performing as a team leader: creating a positive environment by monitoring workloads of the team while meeting client expectations and respecting the work-life quality of team members; providing candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner; and keeping leadership informed of progress and issues.
• Involved in supporting the end users in the issues related to Plant Maintenance like: Issues in Maintenance Order Processing, Notification, and Interface related issues in Communication etcc.

Project/Cutover Manager

Confidential, Behring, PA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as part of PMO team for S4 HANA technical upgrade from 1610 to 1809 driving all the tasks involved for a successful project timeline.
• Create and Manage Project plans, risk trackers, and other standard Project Management documentation
• Part of UAT testing & identifying the cutover tasks after the S4 HANA transformation during UAT sessions.
• Involved in validation of Configuration/Integration test scenarios in the areas of S4 HANA OTC & SAP GTS.
• Cutover Manager role in validating to make sure all the ramp down & ramp up cutover tasks are completed on time
• Instrumental to ensure all activities/tasks completed and progressed accordingly with in-line respect to the Project Delivery Framework and Methodologies.
• Conducted daily/Weekly meetings to get updates on the Cutover tasks status with the Thread teams, Teams in Australia & LATAM etcc
• Created standardized templates for capturing the deliverables required for the Project Planning
• Project Coordinator assisting the business for Technical/Business GOLIVE & Hyper care in migration from ECC to S/4 HANA.

Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Confidential ’s went through a double GTS upgrade to 11.0 successfully in a timely manner (Full Life Cycle), the first complete upgrade of the system since Confidential has launched SAP GTS in 2010. The shipping department at Confidential ’s use GTS functionality for import/export SPL screening, Embargo & license determination and for generating Customs Declarations. Alongside the See burger enables to electronically submit Customs Declarations in the UK. This upgrade was in line with the company’s overall cloud migration strategy.
• Had the opportunity to be part of the strategy meetings related to HANA upgrade at Confidential ’s. Confidential ’s has on their future roadmap to move forward with S4 HANA implementations. Upgrade to GTS, Confidential has also upgraded their See burger system from version BIS 5 to BIS 6.
• Project Management focus area includes Project Planning, Financial Management (SOW, LOI, CR’s, Contracts, Task Order etc)) Staffing, Communication & Scope Management
• Develop performance, project status, meeting correspondence and ad hoc reports for consumption by various levels of management.
• Performed as Change Management Manager, providing and executing Communication Plans, Training Plans, Risk/Issue resolution and tracking, Knowledge Transfer and Workforce Transition Plans.
• Built project team of 30 team members, educating them on SAP and best business practices.
• Lead and designed legacy system interfaces to SAP.
• Worked with Senior Management on business process re-engineering, providing advice on business structures and how they best align with SAP and best business practices
• Had the privilege of working as a GTS Functional Team Lead managing all the key Project Management activities including cutover activities etc.
• Hands on configuration for GTS/See burger upgrade related issues.
• Worked closely in coordination with Basis, ABAP, SAP Security, BI team & FI/CO team to get all the tasks completed.
• Involved in Configuring SAP GTS Compliance Management (SPL, Embargo, License Determination), SAP GTS Customs Management (Export/Import Process, ECC/GTS Plug in, RFC connection, Org. structure, Documents, Number ranges, Number schemes, Duty calculation and SAP GTS Electronic Customs Declaration & Broker communication.
• Setup of an end-to-end solution for creating Customs declarations for Imports & Exports in the SAP GTS system for Hong Kong & Switzerland. The solution included configuring General Settings (Org units), Communication messages, Incompletion procedure, Default settings, Duty Calculation, Custom code list setup etc.
• Lead effort for developing documentation, policies and procedures for Post Go-Live Production Support and the transition of technical staff defining new roles and responsibilities after go-live of GTS Upgrade using Agile methodology (Scrum master)

Confidential, Hunt Valley, MD

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• The company was undergoing the migration process from ERP to SAP S/4 HANA platform.
• Had been involved in Project Implementation for Simple Logistics configurations (SD/GTS) & process flows setup etc. The company goal was to Design, implement, and deploy SAP HANA solutions including FIORI interface and customization to achieve defined business goals.
• Responsibility also included managing GTS related Global Project Implementation & Global GTS support.
• Key team member for implementing GTS Self Filing Imports for US Customs & GB Customs (Chief)
• GTS Architect role, was responsible in maintaining Global template across the company. The scope included all the aspects of the full life cycle project which included integration of ECC with GTS.
• Extensive knowledge and configuration in the areas of SAP GTS Compliance Management (SPL, Embargo, License Determination), SAP GTS Customs Management (Export/Import Process, ECC/GTS Plug in, RFC connection, Org. structure, Documents, Number ranges, Number schemes, Duty calculation and SAP GTS Electronic Customs Declaration & Broker communication
• Coordinated activities to ensure that project deadlines were met by providing innovative and customized client and enterprise wide solutions with ongoing analysis and recommendations

SAP Project Manager

Confidential, Ravenswood, WV

Responsibilities:

• Single point focal and leadership for all Variant Configuration Related Business requirements and Implementation.
• End to End implementation of VC products all the way from building VC model, setup business scenarios end to end strictly following the ASAP methodology.
• Designing and structuring of a VC Structure, which includes Configuration Profile, Converting the Manufacturing process, flow and business rules in to dependencies such as Procedures, Pre-Conditions, Selection Conditions, Constraints and assign the same in relevant Super BOMs, Task-lists, and Configuration Profiles.
• Creation of Variant Tables on the Options of Manufacturing Process and the Product permutations to use the same in the suitable dependencies for suitable product selections and Process related Calculations.
• Maintenance and Production Support on VC related implementation and it components to offer the seamless Supply Chain management.
• Initiate, coordinate and conduct the meetings for VC related issues, updates and implementations with business counterparts from different manufacturing sites across the globe.
• Initiating VC and Supply Chain related Improvements in SAP systems and devising the Implementation plan and its execution.
• Testing of VC implementations and offer training on VC components to graduate the Shop floor and Supply chain resources on VC systems and its processes.
• Involved in complete configuration of Sales & Distribution (SD) module of ECC 6.0 version of SAP, which includes Sales document type, Item categories, Schedule line categories for third party scenarios, Review & modifications on Pricing Procedures, Billing documents.
• Deep knowledge of Integration points which includes MM, FI/CO, PP, CO/PA.
• Order management including Standard, Credit Memo Request, Debit Memo Request and Returns.
• Involved in Regression/Integration testing for end-to-end SD scenarios & end user documentation/training.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

SAP Project Manager/VC Architect

Responsibilities:

• SAP SD/OTC Consultant role in rolling out SAP ECC 6.0 release to a newly acquired company by Confidential .
• ConfiguredOrder-to-cash (OTC) Business ProcesseswithNew Sales Document Types, New Item Categories,Delivery Document Types and Billing Document Types including the Copy Controls and Routines to take care of Requirements and Data Transfer Routines.
• Involved in Order Management:Sales Orders, Returns(Credit Memo Request & Debit Memo Request)Contracts,Schedule Agreements, and Consignment Process.
• Integration with MM and FICO on Creation of Third party Order Processing, Inter-Company Orders.
• Billing: Configured SD Billing function such as collective billing,Periodic/Milestone billing, and Billing according to Customer schedule,Inter-Company Billing, and Delivery related billing, Contract billing, Credit Memo and Debit Memo.
• Configured OTC (Order to Cash) scenario related delivery and billing type for a specific material characteristic billing variant configuration and VC Sales BOM
• Configured the settings for SD, the availability check, ATP
• Configured Service contracts and quotations. Set up pricing and periodic billing
• Involved in setting up SAP VC Global templates in order to obtain standard business processes across the organization, SAP VC Sales BOM concept being one of them. Extensively worked on Variant Pricing Routines to accommodate the Sales VC BOM.

Confidential, Greenville, SC

SAP VC Architect /SAP SD

Responsibilities:

• Configured several aspects of SAP SD includingMaster Datacomponents,Sales Order Management, Pricing, ATP, Delivery Processing, Shipping, Transportation, Billingand Credit Management.
• Configured document types, item categories, pricing procedures and copy control rules of master contract, quantity contract and value contract.
• ConfiguredPricing Tables, Access Sequences, Condition TypesandPricing Procedure determination.
• SAP SD/VC Lead in a full life cycle SAP/VC implementation which includes setting up VC structure (Characteristics/Values, Class, Configuration Profile).Setting up BOM & writing appropriate dependencies to explode the BOM components & get the Price in the Sales document.
• Key member in the implementation with a scope of providing Web-accessible Variant Configuration via the SAP IPC product. This supports selection of attributes for configured materials from SAP model definitions for materials to be configured outside of SAP. A process to extract the configuration information and pricing of a configured material in SAP.
• Advanced knowledge on third party Sales process and Intercompany Sales. Good understanding of intercompany Pricing & Billing Procedures.
• SD Support role to Business to accommodate enhancements of SD functionality on ECC SAP system.
• Worked on the Functional spec, & understanding the SD functionality for various Electrical products to come up with a best possible design scenario.
• Used Remedy system to monitor and resolve Helpdesk Production tickets.
• Preparing test scenarios, unit testing and integration testing.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

SAP Functional SD/VC

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7C, ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead in the complete Vendor selection process of finalizing the Vendor Solution for a Web based Configurator to process the SAP Quotes for a VC Make to Order/Make to Stock materials. The project is currently under implementation. The scope of the project is to develop a Web Based Configurator, which integrates with SAP/VC & CRM. It also integrates with CAD to extend the submittal drawings to the Customer. The lead-time to submit a quote to the customer would dramatically improve with much richer user experience post implementation of this project.
• Use of configuration in Mobile applications.
• Team member in Technical Upgrade activities from 4.7c to ECC 6.0 ( Complete Full Life cycle)
• Involved in complete configuration of Sales & Distribution (SD) module of ECC 6.0 version of SAP, which includes Sales document type, Item categories, Schedule line categories for third party scenarios, Review & modifications on Pricing Procedures, Billing documents.
• Deep knowledge of Integration points which includes MM, FI/CO, PP, CO/PA.
• Order management including Standard, Credit Memo Request, Debit Memo Request and Returns.
• Customized and configured Condition Tables, Condition Types, and Access Sequences for Customized Customer Pricing.
• Involved extensively in complex Pricing Procedures and Pricing Routines.
• Worked extensively on Third party Purchased scenario.
• Worked on Z programs as part of enhancements to develop a custom solution on Standard Orders.
• Familiar with SAP Scripts, Smart Forms, EDI/IDOC’s
• Worked on BI/BW Reporting
• Involved in 2 full life cycle SAP/VC implementations for Third party purchased & In-house production scenarios for Electrical manufacturing VC Product lines.
• Worked extensively in preparing the Functional spec, technical spec.
• Team Lead in the complete design phase of Variant Configurable (VC) Product which includes setting up the VC models, writing the dependencies, VC pricing both on Sales & Purchased side, Sales BOM’s. All solutions were provided on a Global Template, in accordance with Cooper UNITY Project guidelines.
• Worked on time related and service related Revenue Recognition Procedures. Intercompany order and billing configuration.
• Customized Outbound delivery documents, Picking, Packing and transportation.
• Worked on the Availability check (ATP) and the Transfer of Requirements and involved in the cross functional Integration with MM and FI.
• Used Remedy system to monitor and resolve Helpdesk Production tickets.
• Preparing test scenarios, unit testing and integration testing.
• End user training, creating training manuals, etc.

Confidential

SAP Systems Analyst -SD/OTC

Environment: 4.7Version

Responsibilities:

• Involved in studying the configuration of Sales to Billing (OTC) process at Confidential & assisting the team in Integration testing for a smooth GO Live.
• Studied the configuration for the complex Resource Related Billing (RRB) process implemented at Confidential to manage their Sales & Billing process.
• Involved in Integration testing of the Sales & Billing process with other cross-functional modules viz Materials Management, Project Systems, Funds Management, and Financial Accounting & Controlling.
• While doing Integration testing, tested different Sales Order types for Clients different business scenarios.
• Worked on Customer complaint related Sales and distributed processes like Returns, Credit Memo/Debit Memos, and Invoice Correction, Canceling a Billing Document.
• Worked on the concepts of Reason for Rejection & assisted the customer in providing solutions of temporally or permanently deactivates some of the line items in the Sales Order for further processing.
• Assisted in creating new Value contract types using a service material with different business scenarios. Built and Tested Pricing Procedures by using the condition technique and ensured that the right pricing procedures were used under the relevant pricing scenarios.
• Responsible for putting up the training documentation together using different documentation tools like Info Pak.
• Responsible for delivering the end user training to Client’s Subject Matter Experts & Super Users.

Confidential

SAP Systems Analyst -SD/VC/OTC Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Studied the master data created for a VC material & provided recommendation using the rules for defining & assigning the characteristics & values for the configurable material.
• SAP SD Support covering the complete range of functionalities using a VC product (Master data, order management, pricing, shipping, billing).
• Worked on the concepts of delivery order block & reason for rejection & assisted the customer in providing solutions of blocking the order at delivery level & stopped from processing to MRP.
• Assisted in creating new Billing documents using a configurable material. Explained the concepts of item category, item category groups & Pricing to create the billing documents at the main item level or at the component level for a configurable material.
• Assisted in creating new contract documents (Quantity & Value contracts) using a configurable material. Built and Tested Pricing Procedures by using the condition technique and ensured that the right pricing procedures were used under the relevant pricing scenarios.
• Provided support with Order to Cash (OTC) processes, Delivery & Transportation processing, Invoicing & posting the documents to Accounting using a configurable material including Credit management.
• Provided support with special business transactions like Rush Orders by configuring the appropriate settings.
• Provided recommendations to get some fields incorporated in the sales documents to meet the business requirements using user exits concepts after having discussions with the technical consultants.

Confidential, Johnstown, PA

SAP SD/OTC (Production Support)

Environment: SAP R/3 Enterprise version 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• SAP SD Support covering the complete range of functionalities (Master data, order management, pricing, shipping, billing).
• Assisted in creating new sales documents by extracting the document data as default and fixed values from the customer data and other sources.
• Built and Tested Pricing Procedures by using the condition technique and ensured that the right pricing procedures were used under the relevant pricing scenarios.
• Defined a new Sales Organization and Distribution Channel to the existing Organization Structure of the company to expand further sales activities by customizing the required settings.
• Provided support with Order to Cash (OTC) processes including Customer Order Management (COM), Delivery & Transportation processing, Invoicing & posting the documents to Accounting.
• Provided support with special business transactions like Cash Sales, Rush Orders, Customer Consignments, Free of Charge deliveries and subsequent free of charge deliveries by configuring the appropriate settings.
• Created new sales document types with appropriate settings in customization in order to meet growing needs of the customer.
• Created Variant Configuration (VC) profile and assign configurable material to Variant class. Worked on processing Sales Orders and Bill of Materials (BOM) s. by defining dependencies.
• Used Variant conditions to influence the price of configurable material. Configured pricing conditions to meet the Variant prices (VA00) and for effective real time price determination.
• Maintained different material types like configurable (KMAT) with different item category groups Involved in configuration simulation used to check the configuration model.
• Worked with Production Planning (PP) Consultants on Cross Functional points to resolve the Production issues.
• Created end user documentation and trained users.
• Involved in the Full life cycle implementation of the Accelerated SAP (ASAP) roadmap for Project preparation, Business Blue Print, Realization, Integration and GOLIVE.
• Facilitated the Business Management team and designated Core Team members for Project Preparation activities including Implementation scope validation.
• Involved in the discussions with the team members to study & document As-Is and To-Be business processes.
• Studied & involved in redesigning Serena’s Revenue Recognition process from SD and FI perspectives.
• Provided Solution for Variant Configuration (VC), Pricing and Output requirements.
• Configured and tested SD Organizational structure, Customer Master, Material Master, Condition record.
• Configured and tested the complete Order to Cash (OTC) process including Shipping & Transportation functionality in SAP 5.0.
• Participated in preparation of end user documentation, test scripts, and training.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

SAP SD (Production Support)

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Studied the Sales and Distribution structure of the company. Identified the Organizational units in the SAP System that is relevant for Sales and Distribution. Form Organizational structure using combinations of Organizational units for Sales Order processing, Shipping and related areas. Defined the relevant Organization structure in SD/FI.
• Analyzed the pricing strategies and customized pricing procedures. Created standard pricing procedure with different discounts, surcharges, and rebates using condition tables, condition types, access sequence and pricing procedure determination.
• Credit Management functionality - Defined credit groups and assigned to sales and Configured delivery documents and set system for automatic credit control check
• Created outline agreements that included value contract and quantity contract for different applicators.
• Configured free goods determination, output control, and partner determination.
• Customized material determination procedures.
• Worked on Shipping & Transportation functionality, which included determination of shipping points, Route determination etc.
• Defined Shipping points and their automatic determination in the sales order.