PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• About 7 years of experience in the IT industry, expertise in SAP as a SAP HCM Functional consultant with 2 Full-lifecycle implementations, and exposure to SAP Modules like SD, MM, FI/CO, EWM, SPM, SCM, and CRM
• Good knowledge on Service Parts Planning (SPP), Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) engines of Service Parts Management (SPM) module.
• Good understanding of CRM applications like Sales, Service, Marketing and CIC areas.
• Good understanding of Outbound, Inbound, and Internal processes in EWM module.
• Expert in HCM business process and in the areas of Organization Management (OM), Enterprise Structure, Personnel Administration (PA), Personnel Development (PD), Time Management (TM), Payroll (PY), Recruitment (REC), Training & Event Management (TEM), Management of Global Employment (MGM), and Benefits (BN)
• Good knowledge in the areas of Employee Self Service (ESS), Manager Self Service (MSS), Managers Desktop (MDT), Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM), E-Recruitment, Learning Solutions (LSO), and Time Managers Workplace (TMW).
• Good Understanding of Service Contract Act (SCA) wages and Fringe Benefits.
• Have an excellent understanding of HCM reporting like HIS, SQL Query, Ad-hoc Query and Logical Databases (LDB) like PNPCE, PAP, and PCH.
• Have an excellent understanding of the human resources & business processes comprising the life cycle of an employee including recruiting, hiring, employee information maintenance, payroll and benefits.
• Programming expertise in FRICE objects (Forms, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, and Enhancements).
• Worked with special emphasis on Data Migration with BDC’s and LSMW for data uploads for various SAP Projects in developing ALE for multi-server interfaces in R/3.
• Have expert knowledge in analyzing business requirements for design application and coordinated with Technical development team for customization and implementation of the SAP R/3 system.
• Ability to conduct a fit/gap analysis by customizing the requirements to standard SAP.
• Applied knowledge of ASAP methodology with phases like – Project Management, Business Blue Printing, Realization, Testing, Go-Live and Post Go-Live Support.
• Used Slide shows, Screen shots and other training materials to explain the enterprise structure, hiring process of an employee & maintenance of info types.
• Ability to bridge the gap between Technical and Functional teams in IT / SAP HCM Projects and have the ability to deliver from “AS IS” to “TO BE” state.
• Experience with SAP test tools like CATT and ECATT.
• Good knowledge of Testing the system, end-user Documentation, Technical documentation and writing Reports along with Productions support.

ERP : SAP R/3 Version 4.0B, 4.5B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0,
SAP CRM 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, SCM 5.1, and Solution Manager.
Languages : ABAP/4, PCUI, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, JAVA, .NET
GUI Tools : SAP GUI, Developer 2000, VB 4.0/5.0
Database : Oracle 7.x/8.0.x, SQL Server 7.0
Operating Systems : Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP/VISTA, MAC, UNIX, Sun Solaris 8
Testing Tools : MQC (Mercury Quality Center), Load Runner, Win Runner, QTP.

• SAP Certified SOLUTION CONSULTANT

Confidential,IL Mar 08-Till Date
SAP HCM Analyst

Caterpillar is a technology leader and the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial turbines. Caterpillar logistics is active in spare parts distribution services. Cat Logistics is a technology-based company providing customized based solutions that transform distribution to a source of competitive advantage. Their heritage as a world-class distributor of caterpillar products enables them to provide integrated solutions from managing transportation, inventory, and distribution centers to sophisticated forecasting, information management, and network consulting services.

• Created an Organizational Structure made of the different organizational units, positions, and jobs, establishing Relationships between objects and customized the reporting structure, and assigned the various organizational units and positions to cost centers.
• Customized various integrations from PA to other sub modules with HCM using Integration switches.
• Set up Features LGMST, ABKRS for new Personnel Areas / PSAs.
• Maintained master data using transactions PA30 and PA40 for hiring a person, pay change, transfer, retirement, termination and leaving, worked on Dynamic actions.
• Customizing the account assignment for cost center at department level.
• Assigned appraisal models to specific Personnel area/Personnel sub area Employee groups/Employee sub groups.
• Designed and setup of Enterprise, Organization & Personnel & Pay scale Structure.
• Configured the various Actions involved in the life cycle of an employee. (Hire till Termination of Employee) and customized the info groups for each of the actions.
• Worked on the Internal and External number range allocation for the employees.
• Defined Info-groups and assigned them to personnel actions to enter structured information of Employees in the system.
• Data gathering & preparation of process flows & development of AS-IS & TO BE models, prepared Business blue print documentation.
• Involved in Master Data load and data validation from legacy to SAP.
• Organized various Users meetings for gathering requirements.
• Associated in team meetings in finalizing enterprise and personal structures.
• Maintained and configured Master data for PA and OM Modules.
• Involved in configuration of Holiday Calendar, work schedules, absences, attendances and quotas required for Time management, defined public holiday classes according to clients requirements.
• Configured Daily Work Schedule, Break Schedules, Period work schedules and work schedule rules.
• Defined Attendance, Absences, Overtimes, Quotas and Leave entitlements, defined Deduction rules and rounding rules for absence quotas.
• Grouping Personnel Sub areas for Work Schedule and for Public Holiday Calendar.
• Defined the leave quotas base on employee group and employee subgroup by using the info types. (2006 and 2007).
• Configured CATS for time recording.
• Carried out time evaluation using the program RPTIME00.
• Set up and tested features-SCHKZ, QUOMO, TMSTA etc in Time management module.
• Good knowledge in the HCM sub-module Learning Solutions (LSO).
• Created test cases, test scripts in Quality Center taking the test plan and Use cases into consideration.
• Worked closely with the development team to solve issues pertaining to functional environment.
• Performed HCM parallel and UAT to ensure all requirements are tested thoroughly.
• Involved in Verification and validation of test results.
• Documented defects, and reported them with detailed information using QC, and prepared weekly status reports capturing the issues to be resolved in MS excel.
• Verified and validated the test results.
• Tested the HCM transactions for field errors, missing data, and syntax errors in all the custom programs and modified the field changes.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, OM, PA, TM

Confidential,AZ May 07-Feb 08
SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Honeywell International is a diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services.

• Created and Maintained the Organizational Structure Objects, Organizational Unit, Jobs, and Positions (using transactions PPOCE and PPOME).
• Created New Personnel Actions as per client requirements, created dynamic actions and configured table T558Z.
• Customized the Enterprise structure (Personnel Area, and Personnel Sub Area) and the Personnel Structure (Employee Group, Employee Sub group).
• Customized personal data, family data and addresses.
• Created and configured the info types using the transaction code PM01, payroll clusters (PCL2), and worked on the logical databases like PNP/PNPCE, PAP, PCH and their data types.
• Created various types of shift patterns like Normal, rotation and alternative shifts for various working hours with necessary break schedules along with shift compensation.
• Configured the Feature SCHKZ to default the work Schedule. Maintained the feature VTART to define default values for the substitution types based on the enterprise and personnel structure.
• Defined Attendance, Absences, Substitutions, Overtimes and Availability as per the client requirements.
• Performed personnel sub area grouping for substitution types.
• Defined: valuation rules and Counting classes for paid and unpaid absences, rounding rules for the Counting classes, deduction Rules for the attendance and absence Quotas.
• Configured different data entry profiles for CATS for employees entering time data.
• Configured CATS for monthly, semi-monthly and bi-weekly payrolls.
• Defined and maintained Time Constraint Classes.
• Evaluated time using Time Evaluation report RPTIME00.
• Configured Benefit area, including benefit plan definition, eligibility, and coverage and contribution rules.
• Configured health plans, insurance plans, saving plans (401K plan) and COBRA plans.
• Created wage types for all benefits plans to enable Benefits-Payroll integration.
• Defined different cost formulas and calculation rules for health plans and insurance plans.
• Defined and configured eligibility rules for the employees based on their number of working hours.
• Defined and configured vesting rules and schedules for 401K-employer contribution.
• Worked with features BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT and ELIGR.
• Defined and configured vesting rules and schedules for 401K-employer contribution.
• Created and assigned the wage types to the respective benefit plans.
• Worked with the different info-types 0008, 0009, 0011, 0207, 0208, 0210, 0234, 0235, 0267, 0032 required for running payroll.
• Defined the payroll periods and pay dates for each payroll area.
• Created wage type and check wage type group for Basic pay, Additional payments, and Recurring payments.
• Developed Schemas, Rules, and Features to accommodate business acquisitions.
• Developed and configured Vacation & Sick Quotas.
• Customized payroll schemas and PCRs for calculations during payroll run.
• Generated Payroll periods, Configured wage types for the new business requirements and mapped them to the G/L Accounts.
• Tracked defects using QC and involved in bug-review meeting.
• Involved in resolving post go-live issues and errors.
• Documented Payroll configuration as part of knowledge transfer.
• Defined and documented test scenarios, test scripts, identified test cases, prepared end user training documents.

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, OM, PA, TM, BN, PY

Confidential,NJ Nov 05-Apr 07
SAP HR Functional Consultant

• Analyzed and configured Enterprise Structure, Personnel Structure by defining personnel area, personnel sub-area, employee group and employee sub-group.
• Maintained Master Data using transactions PA30 and PA40 by performing various employee related Actions.
• Expert in Customizing Actions, Info-type menus and Info-type groups.
• Configure and designed various standard and custom PA Info-types and maintained their subtypes.
• Configured Organizational Structure by creating organizational units, jobs, tasks and positions. Familiar with assigning tasks to positions and integrating all of these into the enterprises organizational plan.
• Familiar with maintaining Account Assignments and inheritance as well as the reporting structure for positions to maintain the hierarchy.
• Set up integration between PA/OM and PD using Integration switches.
• Set up Features LGMST, ABKRS for new Personnel Areas / PSAs.
• Create variants for the users to run Time Evaluation for various Payroll Areas.
• Configured custom Time Management Schemas for various locations of U.S.
• Configured Work schedules, Periodic Work Schedules, Rotational and standard Work Schedule rules, Break schedules, Holiday calendars.
• Configured TMW profiles and Time Administrators of various Personnel Areas.
• Maintained Absence Types applicable to different employees groups.
• Configured different data entry profiles for CATS for employees entering time data.
• Configured Automatic Accrual of Absence Quotas thru RPTQTA00. Defined Base Entitlement, Validity and Deduction Period, and Generation Rules.
• Involved in resolving post go live issues.
• Involved in running time evaluations and analyzed the time evaluation log structure. Tested the Schema and PCR functionality by analyzing the time evaluation log.
• Configured the benefit area, first program grouping, second program grouping, eligibility groupings, variants and rules.
• Configured the health plans, insurance plans, and benefits savings plans 401k.
• Configured the eligibility groupings, variants and rules.
• Configured and customized the work flows for the enrollment of the employees in the benefit plans.
• Defined new Cost Groupings, Cost Rules, Benefit Program Groupings and Benefit Programs for the plans.
• Worked with features BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT, ELIGR, TRMTY, CSTV1, and CRDV1.
• Defined and configured vesting rules and schedules for 401K-employer contribution.
• Created and assigned the wage types to the respective benefit plans.
• Created and walked through functional design documents with the client and development team.
• Configured and implemented Payroll module to include wage types, schemas, rules, features, taxes, financial posting, and all other subsequent activities.
• Assisted customers with testing; resolved issues with parallel testing results.
• Configured critical statutory and compliance reports.
• Mapped Legacy wage types to SAP wage types.
• Assisted ABAP programmer with Payroll conversion activities including file layouts, tables, master data, interfaces, and verification of data.
• Recommended and assisted customers resolve Payroll related production support problems.
• Resolved post go-live issues and errors.
• Documented Payroll configuration as part of knowledge transfer.
• Supported system go-live and stabilization activities after the go-live.
• Created simulated data to test the system, interacted with developers and testers to follow up defects.
• Resolving Tickets/requests in Payroll, Benefits, Organizational Management, Time Management and Personnel administration.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7E, OM, PA, TM, PY & BN

Confidential,GA Feb 05-Oct 05
SAP HR Functional Consultant

Morrison Homes is a Home-Builder Company, which leverages the strength and experience of the world\'s most productive builder to provide customers with a superior home buying and home owning experience since 1984. Morrison Homes was voted "America\'s Best Builder" by the National Association of Homebuilders and Builders magazine. The project involved in an end-to-end SAP implementation of Morrison Homes followed by Customer Support.

• Configured Holiday calendar and work schedules.
• Time wage types and Selection rules and Time Evaluation Schemas.
• Defined Health, Insurance and Savings plans.
• Configured PA, PD and Payroll modules. Configured wage types and worked with Off-cycle payroll. Worked with Reports in PA, PD and Payroll.
• Worked with Info type settings in Organizational management. Setup the organizational structure. Assigned positions and cost centers to organizational units.
• Conceptualize and recommend HR information systems.
• Conducted Unit testing and integration testing for HR Modules.
• Configured posting payroll results to FI/CO.
• Maintained the personnel sub area grouping for work schedules, assign personnel sub area grouping for daily work schedules.
• Defined daily work schedules, with planned working time calculated the planned hours for one day, taking the break schedule into consideration.
• Created period work schedules by specifying the sequence of daily work schedules for a work schedule for one or more weeks.
• Defined taxability model controls, maintained Tax forms group and involved in the evaluation of tax form groups.
• Maintained number range for pay dates of taxes & extensively used the Tax form Layout.
• ESS interfacing with time management and trained the users.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6c, PA, PD, OM, TM, PY