Summary

I have over 11 years of IT industry with 8 years of SAP R/3 experience in Materials Management (MM) including 2 full implementation life cycles, as Functional Consultant & Systems Analyst.

• Several years of experience in Project Management activities.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of implementing ASAP methodology.
• Experienced in configuring & customizing of Material Master, Purchasing, Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Consumption Based Planning(CBP), Inventory Management (IM), Material Valuation, Service master, Invoice Verification (LIV), and SRM modules.
• Comprehensive knowledge of SAP MM integration with Sales& Distribution (SD), Financial and Controlling (FI-CO), Production Planning (PP), Logistic Execution (LE), Warehouse Management (WM), Quality Management (QM), Project Systems(PS), & Variant Configuration (VC).
• Extensive experience in creating Business Blue Print, and GAP Analysis documents.
• Expert in detailed Functional and Technical design documents creation, based on requirements and specifications gathered as business liaison.
• Extensively involved in unit testing, regression testing, and User Acceptance testing.
• Experienced in User Training, creating Manuals and tutorials using DATANGO and MS Tools.
• Several years of experience in Change Management and issue tracking using various tools.
• Advance level of expertise in SAP Roles and Authorization.
• Excellent communication skills to work efficiently with clients and team members.
• Deep understanding of sequential, object oriented, and web programming.
• Multi years of experience in database models.

Skill Highlights

• Industries: Manufacturing, Retail, and Process
• ERP: SAP ECC 6.0, & 4.7
• Databases: Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and MS Access
• SAP Technologies: IDOC, EDI, CATT Script, LSMW, SMARTFORMS, SAPScripts, BAPIs, Function Modules, User Exits, Roles& Authorizations
• Sub Systems: QM/3 (SAP certified Interface to Automate QA measurement readings recording) QS-Stat (SAP certified Interface for QA Data Analysis)
• Programming: SQL, ABAP, JAVA, HTML, CSS, XML,& WebObjects
• Tools: Star Team, BMC's Magic, DATANGO, Visio, TOAD, Dreamweaver, MS OFFICE, and MS Project

Confidential, Virginia Beach VA (Nov 07 to Present)
Business Systems Analyst (SAP MM)
STIHL Inc., one of several manufacturing facilities in the STIHL Group, is the headquarters for U.S. operations. STIHL Inc. manufactures over 180 model variations of handheld outdoor power equipment for sale in the U.S. and around the world. STIHL products are sold through a network of over 8,000 servicing power equipment retailers from coast to coast.

• Involved in upgrade of SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 and Unicode conversion.
• Production support in MM to the user specific problems and issues depending on new Business Process procedures.
• Managed STO project. Prepared the scope and Business blueprint, and Designed a cross functional STO process with key business users and close interaction with FI, SD, LE (WM) and ABAP consultants
• Worked closely with SD and LE business users and analysts to define purchasing organization, purchasing groups, storage locations and customize and enhance the document types, goods movement (Movement types) and the returns process to incorporate the STO project.
• To incorporate the STO process created new info structures, and modified the interfaces with legacy systems, multiple reports and programs extracting data for GIS (BW).
• Prepared the business blueprint and designed and configured the MRO process for procurement of MRO supplies and stock for consumption
• Designed and configured a complex approval procedure to incorporate the MRO project- Created Release codes, groups, strategies, alternative release strategies and role resolution workflow using customer exit.
• Wrote functional design document to interface between Trend (Infor) system and SAP system, and implemented the process of posting the transactions via IDOCS, and ran as background job in SM35 on daily basis.
• Worked extensively with roles and authorizations and workflow procedures
• Wrote CATT scripts to update HR- Organizational Structure to link User ID, Personnel # and position ID.
• Reviewed and modified the workflow process for error notifications, material and vendor master creation.
• Responsible for updating material, vendor and purchasing master data and outline agreements for new company codes and vendors.
• Worked with message control, output determination and pricing procedures for the new company codes.
• Worked extensively with ALE and EDI. Created new partner profiles and logical systems for interfaces with new partners.
• Supported QM processes as backup person.
• Configured and Implemented different types of Quality Notifications and their workflows.
• Implemented QM/3 and QS-stat interfaces to work with SAP QM module.
• Responsible for the year end MM closing activities.
• Modified existing reports and created new reports based on user needs and provided continuous training and day to day support for end users.
• Prepared detailed test scenarios, test scripts, set up the test data, Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Issue resolution for the new business processes
• Prepared Detailed Design Documents and training documentation for the new processes.

Confidential, Charlotte NC (Aug 05 to June 07)
SAP MM/IM Consultant
Charlotte Pipe and Foundry is a manufacturer of a complete system of cast iron, PVC, CPVC, ABS and Flow pipe and fittings for residential, commercial plumbing systems and industrial applications.

• Involved in full life cycle implementation of the SAP Systems in MM (IM & Purchasing) module.
• Performed configuration in MM for Purchase Requisition, Purchase Orders, Contracts, Stock Transport orders, Goods Receipts and Goods Issues.
• Implementation of procurement processes with FI integration to maintain material master, vendor master and info record.
• Configured Message determination and Output determination for all the Purchasing documents.
• Configured Pricing Determination Creating Calculation Schema, Condition Type, Tables and Records and assigning Access Sequence to the Condition tables.
• Setup Release Procedures for purchasing documents. Defined release conditions, pre-requisites, codes, indicators, and strategies.
• Creation of Storage types. Sections, bins, removal strategies etc. TO confirmation, picking strategies.
• Configured Material Master Data (material groups, material types, field selection groups) and Vendor Master Data (field status for vendor groups, partner determination schema, account groups, partner functions, and Incoterms& Number ranges).
• Configured Vendor Evaluation for on time delivery and Quality rating.
• Configured consumption based planning for creating planned orders and Inventory based Purchase orders.
• Involved in automating the Invoice Verification process through ERS for Services Mgmt.

Confidential, Chicago IL (Feb 05 to Aug 05)
MM Functional Consultant
OfficeMax Incorporated provides both business-to-business office products solutions and retail office products. The company provides office supplies and paper, in-store print and document services, technology products and solutions, and furniture to consumers and to large, medium and small businesses.

• Provided production support for SRM user community.
• Involved in Material Requirement Planning. Configured planning levels, MRP procedures, MRP areas, MRP types, and maintained MRP related master data.
• Worked on consumption based planning using different type of forecasting models.
• Configured rounding profiles, lot size procedures for material requirements planning.
• Involved in executing the planning run and planning evaluation with user community.
• Configured replenishment setting for articles and sites.
• Setup characteristics, classes, and configuration profiles for variant configuration.
• Trained user community with the SAP vendor sub range concept and usage.
• Set up of organization structure related to MM Storage locations and purchasing organizations.
• Configured settings for Reservations like Number range with interval, dynamic availability check and create storage location automatically.
• Supporting the physical inventory verification process in finished goods-returns.
• Developed Test plans, Test Strategy and Test Cases.
• Use extended Computer Aided Test Tool (eCATT) to create and execute functional tests.

Confidential, Sparks MD (Jan 04 to Feb 05)
SAP Systems Analyst - Contractor
McCormick manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, herbs, seasonings, specialty foods and flavors to the entire food industry.

• Involved in complete life cycle of implementing of SAP MM Module.
• Extensively used LSMW, and CATT scripts to upload legacy data into SAP.
• Customized Master data. Configured Material Hierarchy.
• Successfully handled the data migration of all material related to the plant and implemented the enhancement of custom fields required for specific country.
• Configured source list and quota arrangement for sourcing of materials.
• Defined and implemented quality procedure related to procurement.
• Defined and configured MRP, MRP controller and time fence and scheduled batch job for MRP run.
• Created and configured release strategies based on Business requirements.
• Configured third party processing and successfully handled the global sourcing of materials.
• Worked with pricing and scheduling of pricing batch jobs.
• Configured successfully the upload of vendor master data and purchasing info records.
• Configured purchasing, Stock Transport Order, subcontracting and services.
• Managed successfully the business transformation of processes to specific country.
• Worked with development team to perform the Unit and integration test.
• Interacted with the other team members to facilitate the task assigned by them.

Confidential, Houston TX (Jan 00 to Sep 03)
B2B E-Procurement Programmer/Analyst
DomiNet provides complete self-contained indirect goods spend management system from requisition to vendor invoice payment process.

• Designed, developed and implemented 100% web based B2B E-Procurement project.
• Implemented and designed dynamic product display system driven by user input using JAVA. When the customer comes to web store, system displays product content corresponding to the vendor\'s offering.
• Implemented and designed checkout system for B2B e-commerce using JAVA.
• Integrated and implemented Punch-out System with Ariba Network, which transfers order data using CXML over HTTP.
• Implemented web-based UNSPSC (United Nations Standard Products and Services Code) mapping tool.
• Integrated and implemented credit card transaction approval system with Payment Tech using Objective-C and XML.
• Implemented module for a customer to look up past orders and drafts using Objective-C.
• Implemented a product search engine which searches products offered in B2B using WebObjects that includes HTML, Java script, Java, Objective-C.
• Converted applications written in Objective-C to Java.
• Wrote test plans and tested the applications accordingly.
• Environment: WebObjects, Objective-C, JAVA, JavaScript, Sybase, CSS, HTML, and PL/SQL, CXML.

Confidential Mobile AL (Mar 98 to Dec 99)
Programmer - Internship
Omni phone produces coin, non-coin telephone systems for use in the public and correctional markets.

• Developed and enhanced modules for inmate\'s telephone system.
• Involved in coding and testing.
• Installed Omni Phone\'s software on client\'s machines.
• Environment: Oracle 7, Pl/SQL, C, UNIX.

Education

• Bachelors in Computer and Information Systems
  Minor in Business Administration
• Certification in CPIM
• Corporate Training in SAP ECC 6.0 Quality Management
• Corporate Training in SAP R/3 4.6C Materials Management
  Houston-Texas, July 2003.