SUMMARY:

• About eleven years of Strong experience as SAP R/3 Functional Consultant in MM and WM.
• Knowledge of best business practices and functional responsibilities. Excellent knowledge of SAP MM/WM/SD configuration experience and understanding of the multiple options within the configuration along with the Pros / Cons of the options. Strong knowledge of the ASAP methodology
• Forecasting and Inventory Management, P2P. Strong process and integration experience between the modules (MM, WM, SD and Integration with FICO).
• Consulting exposure includes requirement analysis, Process mapping, Configuration and post implementation and support.
• Hands on experience working with Inventory Management & WM. Designed specific cycle counting process both IM and WM levels for specific warehouses
• Possess in - depth functional experience in the areas of Materials Planning and Production, Supply Chain, Performance Improvement, Procurement, Sales and Distribution and Logistics execution.
• As a Solution Manager he initiated projects in Supply Chain Management, Integration knowledge, expertise in different logistic components and manufacturing industries.
• End-to-end project management expertise including planning and monitoring on-site activities and final execution, commissioning projects within the time and cost parameters.
• Excellent project management, organization, problem solving, decision making, critical thinking skills; Can interface effectively with partners, vendors, customers, and other developers, in a diverse matrix environment; have worked in fast paced environment, under pressure, with tight deadlines.
• Significant experience in process decomposition and business process re-engineering; have interacted with top level business team to do solution analysis; have worked with user community to identify requirements, design functionality that meet user requirements; have collaborated with users, developers and quality assurance teams to design enhancements to solve customer problems.
• Involved in developing many functional specifications, worked closely with the fellow ABAP programmers in the previous projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Core Functional skills: Procurement and Inventory Management, Production. Master Data management, Procure to Pay(P2P), Warehouse Management (Lean Warehouse management).

SAP Auxiliary skills: Sales and Distribution (Order Processing, Delivery Processing, Pricing Procedures),Supplier relationship management(SRM) Production Planning(Planned Order, Production Order, Production Order ConfirmationSAP Technical Skills: Moderate Abaper, Able to independently debug the coding, Independently setup partner profile configurations.MM-EDI, Create and execute LSMW,OER

Master Data Management: Material Master, Vendor master, Purchase Info record, Source List, Batch master, Customer master record, Price Master, Customer material info record

SAP Testing: Unit Testing, Integration testing, Regression Testing, UAT

Database: Oracle 9.0, MS SQL

MS Office tools: MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point, Project Scheduling. Visio, Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St Louis, MO

SAP MM/P2P Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed L3-P2P Support team of SAP Materials Management and P2P functional analysts for all regions.
• Coordinate with members of other functional teams, development team and business teams in issue resolution.
• Play a critical role in enhancing the operability of the SAP P2P & MM solution by ensuring & supporting effective monitoring, error handling, & maintenance of the SAP MM & Ariba solutions.
• Provide functional expertise during business blueprinting and should able to provide guidance/recommendation on the SAP MM/P2P solutions.
• Map business requirements to the processes in SAP.
• Configure SAP application to meet the business requirements
• Handling day to day issues with Ariba and enhancement as required by the business.
• Help develop custom designs where SAP standard processes cannot meet the business requirements.
• Write functional specifications, guide technical team in technical design, unit test scripts, integration test scripts and execution of unit and integration testing.
• Expertise in cross module integration scenarios with MM.
• Estimate resource requirements for new projects.

Confidential, St Louis, MO

SAP MM/SRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all enhancements and support for MM and SRM US/AUS
• Master Data load for PCI project - Macarthur Coal
• Handling issues with EA approval in SRM which is customized
• Enhancement of Release strategies for PR and PO for different code and prerequisites.
• Enhancement of different customized MM reports as per requirement
• Responsible for Data load in to SRM and MDM
• Handling day to day issues with SRM and enhancement as required by the business.
• Enhancement of different Inventory and vendor reports which are customized.
• Improvements in different customized processes as required by business
• Monitoring the IDOCs and job failures for SRM/ECC and fixing them.

Confidential

SAP MM/P2PConsultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for material valuation, inventory and account determination
• Gathered requirements for the current scenarios, master data and inventory in quality
• Processing of transfer postings and special stocks in Inventory Management like sub-contracting, third-party and vendor consignment
• Inventory Management: Managed material stock by quantity/value, goods issue, stock movement documentation/reservation/ physical inventory, stock transfer.
• Conversion of account determination and GL Account mapping to new accounts.
• .Developing extract programs for purchase orders, purchase requisition, and contracts
• Developing load programs using BAPI and LSMW to upload new GL Accounts
• Responsible for mapping new Recon GL accounts in vendor master using mass maintenance.
• Heavy testing with respect to direct postings in account determination.
• Responsible to run costing for mass and individual material after resetting account determination.

Confidential, Moline, IL

Senior MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Development of blue print documents for this new implementation initiatives.
• Configured organization structure related to plants, storage locations, purchase groups and purchase organizations.
• Worked on various aspects of the system ranging from production planning, procurement, inventory and accounting. Mostly worked on configuring and custom transactions of the system.
• Designed various process flows for procure to pay scenarios. Developed specific design and business process for a) Direct purchasing b) Indirect Purchasing c) Services d) Sub-contracting.
• Configured Vendor consignment and stock transport orders to suit the company stock transfers
• Worked hand in hand with batch management - Auto batch numbering based on ownership by plant - Inspection plans for material goods receipt.
• Developed custom warehouse reports, example report identifying purchase order, batch and vendor lot number.
• Was involved in the conversion of data in the legacy system into R/3 system using LSMW.
• Set up Master data for custom material types this involved some custom fields in basic data for broad categorization of material, Accounting view and Costing were customized with some catch weight specific consideration for valuation and pricing.
• All the pricing, Tolerance group, Inventory System, setting up the new planning system was done.
• Involved in working with different material types which would eventually have different pricing, procurement methods, production layout and planning and were managed on different inventory basis.
• Configured calculation schemas, vendor schema groups and purchasing organization schema groups for both domestic and international plants.
• Worked on procurement processes and customized the procurement process according to the company needs.
• Worked on setting vendor evaluation for selecting the best of vendors for the procurement of materials.
• Setting up stock levels according to storage bin, managing the inventory in accordance with storage type and also configured storage type for different stocks.
• Worked on inventory stock, maintaining them in various locations and transferring/issuing them accordingly as needed. Stocks were managed at plant location as they came in based on the material type they were issued to different storage locations and various production operations.
• Configured the Release strategy for Purchase requisition based on the purchasing group which would deal with mostly Non stock items.
• Worked on setting up various output types & condition records for various objects such as PO/Outbound delivery/shipments etc.. . Created custom goods movement for stocks that were to be handled according to the specified requirements & one’s which were handled under variances/donations/Physical Inventory warehouse etc….
• Part of master data set up team to work price changes under costing and accounting of the material, valuation type, strategy group for planning under MRP for production requirements. Worked on configuring make to stock production planning with gross requirement.
• Defining the planning strategy and planning the PIR's for selected Finished goods & important assemblies by implementing the Demand management component.
• Extensively worked on the production planning and execution part of the system, gathering Ind. Reqs, running the MRP in batches based on different material types, auto converting the Prod. Orders, their Routings(std. & alt), Work centers, operations and extensively on BOMs, mostly on a multi level ( up to 6 levels) and also the BOM explosions and Cost roll ups, Cost estimates and Costing variants.
• Worked extensively with Business and End user groups, Production Support and resolving user query.

Confidential, Philadelphia

Senior MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Followed the implementation procedures while configuring standard business processes
• Configured and Verified master data, prepared prototype for business user for SAP PR, RFQ/Quotation, vendor evaluation, ranking list, contracts, scheduling agreements, PO, GR/GI, invoice verification and purchase info records.
• Configured Material Types and various subcomponents required for production was grouped under the Bill of Materials (BOM).
• Configured the Material Master Data (material groups, material types, field selection groups) and Vendor Master Data (field status for vendor account groups, partner determination schema, account groups, partner functions).
• Configured the purchasing order with variant configuration parts in a make to stock environment and constantly updated user community on this.
• Inventory Management: Managed material stock by quantity/value, goods issue, stock movement documentation/reservation/ physical inventory, stock transfer.
• Processing of transfer postings and special stocks in Inventory Management like sub-contracting, third-party and vendor consignment.
• Involved in SFC wherein maintained the required routings for Repetitive manufacturing
• Configured and utilized movement types, cycle counting the physical inventory, and posting the cycle count variance.
• Involved in integrating of MM/PP/WM with FI/CO and SD modules.
• Worked on configuring the Transfer Order and delivery relation WM. Managed various stock at different storage bins and configured its properties to handle stocks. Configured cycle counting at warehouse for FMCG storage types.
• Involved in service orders related configuration and resolving SES issue. Hands on IDOC/ALE setting up to transmit data from SAP to Legacy systems using EDI & LSMW tools.

Confidential

Senior MM/WM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements for the new ERP environment, involved in the GAAP analysis to determine detailed system enhancement along with some new functionalities
• Involved in running the entire process cycle which was adopted from the client’s Business Process Catalogue for MM (procure to pay) and SD (Stock Transport Order, Billing), Quality Management (Maintaining material specs, inspection lots & usage decision & Creating certificates for vendors, material inspection set-up), FI (Tax ware, payment proposal)
• Worked on standard modules such as MM/WM/SD, specific business processes with integration with legacy systems on Sub-contracting process.
• Utilized Workflow as a part of standard release strategy to ensure the approver’s levels and setting up the basic workflow Inbox data also involved in some configurations at workflow container level.
• Developed custom tables for the condition types to pull records based on those fields and also to configure the pricing procedure involving material group/plants.
• Developed custom transaction for creating Pos through Contracts, custom transaction for Invoicing, Enhancements & some custom reports
• Worked Extensively on Service orders, SES, Service Catalogue, Service master data and had closely worked on the portal integration of SAP, where vendors can login onto portal to enter fill the service sheets.
• Constantly resolve the tickets that were put into Mercury tool by the users and also used to prepare detailed documentation and attached to it.

Confidential

Senior MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Configuration of MM module with integration to other modules
• Involved in Unit testing, Scenario Testing and Integration Testing
• Involved in testing in areas of document types, item categories, copy controls, pricing, and output determination

Confidential

MM/SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• MMSD objects testing and dependency checking
• Test steps preparation for all MM objects for client demo
• MM objects Configuration and moving to QAS
• MM/SD objects BPP preparation for archiving process and displaying archived documents through MM T codes
• Variants creation for all MM/SD objects for catch up jobs
• MM/SD objects Variants sign off and Job scheduling in Production

Confidential

MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Baseline configuration according to the blue print document. Thereafter, also involved in fixing the problems, enhancement (Any problem in process or t-code that arises due to a process deficiency that was not configured or developed in the design).
• Defined material control data attributes for material types like ROH and FERT.
• Supervised the production shop floor control processes and issues regarding shop floor maintenance and creation of BOM for our high end products
• Hands on configuration to configuration while building Planning strategies for Planning with Final Assembly.
• Involved in retail pricing procedure and configured the required fields for customizing.
• Data migration of the required Master data was carried on through LSMW
• Worked with Intermediate Document to work for the exchange of documents to the partner systems and transporting the information.
• Built variant Configured parts for the purchasing department.
• Configured built In-House repair management process for effective utilization of goods through service orders.
• Documented all required information to keep track and progress of the project.
• Handled helpdesk for issues reported through mails and forwarded / replied to concern person along with a copy to Project Manager.
• Scheduled regular meetings are scheduled to keep customers informed on the latest news, issues or problems concerning the project.
• Automatic determination of GL accounts, mapping valuation classes to GL accounts.

Confidential

MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented MM Procure-to-pay cycle configuration, configured purchase requisitions and automated purchase ordering process to a great extent by assigning processing requisitions based on info records, and extensive use of contracts
• Configuration and customization of material master, creating new material types, valuation classes, account category references, split valuation and involved in maintaining field status for material master records.
• Configure the vendor master data. Defined different business partners, account groups for different partners, screen layout, number ranges, and terms of payment, Inco terms, shipping instructions, text types, purchasing groups, and partner determination.
• Configuration and customization requests-RFQ-quotations, purchase requisitions, purchase Order, outline agreements, release procedures, purchase information records, contract (value/contract), scheduling agreement, goods receipt and vendor evaluation.
• Configured the system to take care of inter company stock transfer with billing and handling of special stocks and special procurement types
• Configure message determination schema, account determination procedure and calculation schema.

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop all associated services that will maximize value creation, accelerate growth and achieve operational profit and excellence across all functions
• Develop effective Operations Management to ensure committed service levels are met consistently, designing and developing SOP for all functions. Ensure conformity of processes and documentation with company and industry standards
• Supervise and devise best practices for special equipment departments dealing in Quarries procurement, container stuffing, stevedoring
• Development and implementation of Regional Offices, Corporate Pricing Structure, Single Corporate Structure, Regional Offices IT integration, New trade route and Mode of transportation for bulk cargoes, Corporate trainer and ISO 90 02 - 200 0 certification.
• Optimizing value chain and maximizing profit through process reengineering and contracting profitable service level agreements
• Interface with the ship and shore staffs, port state control authorities, surveyors, inspectors, ship agents and charterers which resulted into quick turnover of ships, satisfied customers and additional business opportunity
• Collaborate with Sales and Customer Service function to ensure on-time delivery of around 2,200,000teu shipments annually; Design tailor-made logistics solutions to meet customers’ specific needs, ie: Belgium Blocks Inc(Newark port), O & G Industries(New Haven), etc.
• Design and implement new local financial process based on global guideline to ensure the smooth launch of own ship chartering firm improving the timeliness and accuracy in shipment and cost effective reporting and analysis
• Optimize the distribution network and improve the turnover of inventory up to global requirement, achieving a unit cost saving of 11% in 1999 and 14 % in 2000
• Track the customers' order FCL, LCL, and air shipment; Control B/L release based on payment record; quote tariff on value added service in trucking, railway, and warehouse service;

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for programming of customizing screens in manufacturing module
• Responsible for programming of customizing screens and transaction screens in HR module
• Developed a intranet tool to assist quality department on deputation
• Responsible for collection of data for different CD titles and correcting the contents to the size of CD and designing the screen for interactive CDs
• Liaising with the clients and designing the presentations on both 3D AND 2D and compositing in Director 6.0 software and programming the interaction part of the presentations
• Played a major role towards development of new 2D games and new format of interactive CDs with combination of titles and supported till production in our own plant
• Played major role in testing new multimedia products on deputation