SUMMARY:

• A Premium level and Certified SAP Procure to Pay and Supply Chain Management professional and a Graduate Mechanical Engineer with a total of 27 years including domain experience in Procurement and Warehouse Management of which 12 years of diverse, global professional experience in the design, implementation, upgrades and Maintenance support of business processes enabled in SAP ECC,SRM,SUS,MDM, Ariba On Demand cloud and Field Glass integration with ECC for contingency Labor solutions.
• Implemented the SAP Costing Project which deals with the Product Costing, Integration with the AS 400 and ECC including the Bulk Materials and their processing at TIEM an associate company of the Toyota Industries - Manufacturing Major in Fork lift Trucks.
• Led two end-to-end SAP ECC 6.0 integration with the SRM/SUS systems and the Ariba On demand cloud solutions’ implementations at Confidential s.a.r.l USA and at National Grid USA which includes multiple Custom interfaces for SRM system first of the kind in the World.
• Team Lead, Solution Architect and Integration Testing Lead experience on multiple implementations, enhancement and ancillary project upgrades in SRM/SUS, SAP MM,SAP WM, PM which resulted in Million dollars of Increase in Revenues and savings and value additions in addition to increased internal efficiency in the form of Automation in Procurement processes.
• Completed 5 full lifecycle Implementations of Ariba Procurement,Buying and Invoicing, Ariba Integration with ECC and SRM, MM,WM,PM, Upgrade, Project releases for optimization in MM and SRM, support projects spanning across large and medium sized companies in industries such as Manufacturing, Utility, Energy, Service (Fleet Management and Equipment Rentals).
• Excellent experience in various project methodology like Agile, Waterfall and activities like Offshore / Onsite team lead, Project Planning, Gap Analysis, conducting user workshop, Requirements gathering, AS-IS and TO BE, Blueprint Preparation, Process definition and flow documents, process designing, Testing plan, Test scripts Preparation, end to end process testing, UAT, end user, RICEFW objects, functional specifications, development coordination, ABAP debugging, cutover activities including designing, template preparation and data migration with CIF, LSMW, BDC and BAPI.
• SAP Materials Management SAP-MM/IM), MM-PUR, MM-IM, MM-LIV,VIM and MM-ESM.
• SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP-SRM)- Supplier Self Services-SRM MDM Catalogs-Punch out Catalogs
• Ariba On Demand Cloud Services ( AN and APC) integration with the ECC and SRM systems for Procure to Pay Processes, Customizing the Interfaces .Worked from CI4 to CI9 integration, configuration of the default rules setup, Set up of the Integrated Suppliers with Ariba Network, impact analysis of hot fix and major releases in Cloud
• SAP Warehouse Management (SAP-WM)- New Warehouse Implementation, Automation and aggregation of demand thro’ PM Components, Wave Picking, Grouping and Bundling, Customized Pick and Put away Strategies, Manual Waves, Dynamic Cycle counting, Customization of RF Programs
• SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP-PM) - PM-EQM, PM-PRM, PM-WOC, PM-WCM,EDI and XML interfaces from the STORMS,MAXIMO and Power plan external Systems
• SAP Prod Planning (SAP PP) Good Exposure in Production planning Bills of Material, MRP, Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Inventory Planning. Configuration ofPP-MRP processes, scheduling, production orders, process orders, repetitive manufacturing, classification, batch management, capacity planning, demand management
• Front ended with the SAP in the realization of a MM-SUS-SRV retrofit solution for Service procurement involving multiple back end systems with a unique vendor user concept

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Data Migration: Experienced in preparing Master Data templates for Equipment Master, Functional Location, Class, Characters, Material Master, Vendor Master, Customer master. Used various data migration tools like LSMW, BDC and BAPI

Third Party Tools: HPQC test environment, RWD uPerform, Winshuttle, MS Share Point, Open text, Sabrix, Green light AVM,GRC,MS Office - Project, Visio, Power point, Access, Excel and Word.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Logistics Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 EHP 7.0 and AS 400

Responsibilities:

• Design of the Requirements as above
• User workshops and sessions
• Blue printing all the AS IS and TO BE Processes
• Build and guide the Technical resource on ways to realize the Requirements
• Successful Deployment to Production and hyper care
• Documentation of the Process diagrams, Functional specifications, Test Plan, Cutover Plan, Test Scripts etc

Confidential

SCM and PTP Global Lead Consultant

Environment: SRM 7.0 EHP3, SUS, ECC 6.0 and Ariba Network and APC ( on Demand)

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of the Incidents, Change Requests raised in HP SNOW (for MM, SRM,SUS, SRM MDM,PM and FOI, Ariba)
• Preparation and close opportunities of the Potent Change Requests for the enhancements based on pain points from Customer
• Preparation and realization of continuous service improvement plans based on LEAN, Six Sigma and Automation Initiatives
• Led the design and developed various enhancements in Shopping cart and Purchase orders as part of the Optimization which went live in Dec 2014 and May 2015
• Led the design and development of enhancements, reports and conversions ( upload Programs) for Fleet and Equipment Rentals implementation in SAP PM with custom fields on Master as well as Transactional data
• Designed and developed the Blanket Work Orders which can be used effectively downstream while maintaining timely closures in one to many as well as Parent and child combinations
• Developed simplified coding logic for certain reports for unfulfilled demand lines in PM Work Orders and Continuous improvements in case of integration of Work Order interface with PM and the legacy systems like STORMS and MAXIMO
• Improvised the encrypt logic for the WEX interfaces thro’ which the Fuel consumption and odometer hours are sent to PM
• Leading the Warehouse Implementation and configuration and design of the Dynamic Cycle counting and Mixed Bin Strategy for a new Warehouse
• Led the design and integration of the Custom and standard interfaces with the Ariba Network and Ariba procurement Content with the ECC and SRM systems
• Special activities like System refresh and coordination with the SAP, Problem Management, Process Improvements and Pro Active Initiatives

Confidential

Global Lead Consultant (MM/SRM/PM/MDM/e sourcing/EP)

Environment: SRM 5.0, SUS with two back end systems ( ECC 6.0, R3 4.70 )

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of the Tickets raised in Solution Manager tool (for MM, SRM,SUS,EP and MDM)
• Preparation of the SOW, design and development of the enhancements and mini projects
• Drive Commitments and realization of enhancements per Release calendar in the Bi-weekly calls with the Client
• Analysis and Review of the Metrics for the weekly Health check calls
• Led and worked on Projects for enhancements in Bar coding the Goods Issue and Goods Receipt slips printing through the handheld devices using the SAP GUI Ext
• Designed and developed the Kitting of components Availability, Sourcing for the Plant Maintenance Orders
• Led the major projects for Localization of the CIN ( Country India) for Taxation ( Excise duty) and Service Taxes for the Plants of the Client in India
• Instrumental in the Increase of revenues due to the competitive pricing in the market coupled with Excise Duty Credits for Yarn and drove the Cost savings due to the implementation of the Service taxes for the Servicing plant in India
• Led the Incident analysis and other works for special activities like System refresh and coordination with the SAP, Problem Management, Process Improvements and Pro Active Initiatives

Confidential

Global Lead Consultant (MM/SRM/PM/MDM)

Environment: SRM 5.0, SUS with three back end systems ( ECC 6.0, R3 4.70 and R3 4.6B )

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of the Tickets raised in Remedy tool (for MM, SRM,SUS,EP and MDM)
• Preparation of the SOW, design and development of the enhancements and mini projects
• Drive Commitments and realization of enhancements per Release calendar in the Bi-weekly calls with the Client
• Analysis and Review of the Metrics for the weekly Health check calls
• Led the major enhancements for Bidding, Merger of Legal entities in Brazil and Purchase Order forms and TSCA enhancements for Goods Movements and Simplified User interface for Vendors on Supplier Self Services (SUS)
• Instrumental in the Increase of revenues due to the competitive pricing in the market coupled with Excise Duty Credits for Yarn and drove the Cost savings due to the implementation of the Service taxes for the Servicing plant in India
• Designed and developed the PM Work Order interface with catalogs for easy sourcing and downstream automation of procurement processes
• Led the Incident analysis and other works for special activities like System refresh and coordination with the SAP, Problem Management, Process Improvements and Pro Active Initiatives

Confidential

Global Lead Consultant (MM/SRM/PM/MDM)

Environment: SRM 5.0, SUS with three back end systems ( ECC 6.0, R3 4.70 and R3 4.6B )

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of the Tickets raised in Remedy tool (for MM, SRM,SUS,EP and MDM)
• Impact Analysis of about 2000 SAP Notes which are part of the Support Pack for identification of the Critical and high impact business functionalities likely to be impacted
• Design and development of positive and negative test scripts to rule out any possible impacts and Organize for the testing of the Business processes and scenarios
• Identification of Custom code and enhancements that are likely to be impacted and planned a contingency for the correction of the same
• Drive Commitments and realization of enhancements per Release calendar in the Bi-weekly calls with the Client
• Tracking the defects and according the resolutions in Solution Manager
• Planning of the Cutover activities, Release and successful go live
• Smoke test at Go Live

Confidential

Global Lead Consultant (MM/SRM/MDM)

Environment: SRM 5.0, SUS with three back end systems ( ECC 6.0, R3 4.70 and R3 4.6B )

Responsibilities:

• Comparison of the configuration for the Business scenarios RTP,STP and SRM
• Analysis of the comparison, recommendations to the Business and addition of the configuration/design of enhancements based on the Business decision
• Fine-tuning the Org Structure and the Configuration related to the Catalogs in the SRM and SUS
• Build up the Document Repository for all the documents in the SOLMAN
• Develop Test Scripts
• Issue tracking and Defect resolution in the SOLMAN for the Integration testing

Confidential

Global Lead Consultant (MM/SRM/PM/MDM)

Environment: SRM 5.0, SUS with five back end systems ( ECC 6.0, R3 4.70 and R3 4.6B )

Responsibilities:

• Configured the SRM Client and the SUS Client in the Production Build including Bidding, ROS, ensuring the tracking of the Transport requests
• Conducted Business Workshops and finalized the design of the Goods receipts and Confirmations ( Order Responses) for Purchase Orders between MM and SUS
• Configured and Replicated the Material and Service Masters, Vendors and Business Partners in the Production and the QA Environments
• Build and replication of the SRM Organization Structure including the attributes maintenance, Users and Buyers assignment
• Designed and developed an upload cockpit in the SRM for maintenance of all the Global data and Business enhanced mapping Tables
• Developed the Test plan and Test Scripts for Integration testing
• Managed the Integration test Workshops and guided the users in two cycles of the Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Collaborated with the SAP for various corrections involved in resolution of the defects raised during the Integration Testing
• Coordinated with the SAP in all cycles of the development till changes are moved to Production for the retrofit of the enhanced SUS for their MM SUS SRV

Confidential

Procurement Consultant (MM/SRM)

Environment: SRM 5.0, SUS with one back end systems ( ECC 5.0 )

Responsibilities:

• Configured the SRM client and integrated the R3 Back end systems successfully for the following Business scenarios:
• Self Service Procurement
• Contract Management
• Bidding & Auctioning
• Plan driven Procurement
• Documentation for the Delta changes in Functionalities between SRM various releases

Confidential

Procurement Consultant (MM/SRM)

Environment: SRM 6.0, SUS with one back end systems ( ECC 5.0 )

Responsibilities:

• Configured the business scenarios Self Service Procurement, Operational Procurement and Contract Management in Classic, Local Scenarios and Contract Management.
• Integration of the MM and SRM systems and replication of Master Data
• Build and Maintain the Organization Data
• Developed and documented the Test Scripts and tested various scenarios as above

Confidential

Procurement Consultant (MM/SRM)

Environment: SRM 6.0, SUS with one back end systems ( ECC 5.0 )

Responsibilities:

• Configured different scenarios in a total of about 26 Test system Landscapes which includes MM of different releases and SRM,SUS and PI
• Conducted smoke tests using the web interface as well as the GUI Interface for the newly customized Landscapes before these systems are released for Testing.
• Solved the Support tickets raised by the Internal Testing team with regard to the Internal messages & IT support messages
• Solved the issues as part of the acceptance of the Mini Scenarios in SRM 7.0 Development systems and got the acceptance of Special Taskforce of the Confidential .
• Configured test systems in SRM 7.0 which was again smoke tested and released for the Module Integration Testing
• Active participation and contribution to the design Workshops Development Experts from different functions & the officials of the Testing & Competency Center.
• Guided the testing team of the shared services’ users in execution of the test cases of various business objects in SRM 6.0 Testing
• Ensured the timely updating of the Configuration Guide & the KT Documents based on an analysis carried out on the Support tickets over a period of Time.

Confidential

Procurement Consultant (MM/SRM)

Environment: SRM 5.0, with one back end systems ( ECC 5.0 )

Responsibilities:

• Solved the tickets in the Self service procurement, EBP & Integration with R3 as per the SLA Timelines and timely updating the documentation

Confidential

Procurement Consultant (MM)

Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of the Enterprise Structure for MM module, Configuration of Material Master, Vendor Master, Source List and Purchase Info records, doc types, setting number ranges
• Migration of Master Data using BDC and LSMW
• Uploading all the Master Data after successful Unit & Integration Testing
• Testing the generation of all types of Purchasing documents
• Configuration of release procedure for Purchase Requisition, Purchase orders and Contracts
• Configuration of Goods receipts/Goods Issues
• Transfer Postings and Stock Transfers
• Configuration of incoming invoices, delivery costs etc
• Configuration of Automatic Account Determination

Confidential

Logistics Consultant (MM/WM)

Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the Tickets in Remedy tool
• Resolving the support tickets & arranging resolution within the SLA timelines.
• Maintaining the documentation for transition
• Weekly health checks on the Incidents