Professional Summary

• Over 7 Years of experience as an SAP MM functional consultant with 2 full life-cycle implementations using ASAP methodology, upgrade projects and post go-live support using versions SAP R/3 4.6c, 4.7/ECC 6.0 in variegated Industrial environments.
• Highly motivated, creative SAP consultant with proven ability in implementing projects in Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD) Warehouse Management (WM), & Inventory Management (IM).
• As a SAP functional consultant, was involved in business transformation, solution architecting, implementation and support of SAP R/3 & ECC in MM module.
• Hands-on capabilities in Business process mapping, blue printing, functional and technical design, configuration, gap analysis to customizations, unit and integration testing, Go-Live and Post Go-Live support
• Materials Management Module Configuration: Procure to Pay, Release Strategies, Subcontracting, Third Party order processing, MRP, Inventory Management, Handling Unit Management, Stock Transfer, Invoice Verification, Batch Management, Account Determination, Valuation, Physical Inventory, Master Data - Materials, Vendors, Pricing
• Experienced in Configuration in MM- Procure to pay cycle, Procurement (Purchasing-Purchasing Documents, Scheduling Agreements, Contracts).Pricing and Logistics Invoice verification
• Creation of material master records, vendor master records, and purchasing info records
• Maintaining plant parameters for goods receipt, goods issue, transfer posting for all stock categories and special stocks like consignment, sub-contracting and pipeline in the area of Inventory management
• Customization of Invoice verification settings with provisions for credit memo, Invoice reduction
• Good experience in all cycles of testing, test scripts and good knowledge in HP Quality center, testing cycle consists Unit testing, Process Scenario testing, Integration testing, End to End testing and User confirmation tests
• Good presentation, business communication, interpersonal and people skills- a total team player. Able to meet very stringent deadlines and always deliver results, even under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
SAP R/3 : MM, SD and WM
Expertise : Procurement, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, and Logistics Invoice Verification.
Knowledge : Business Process Management, Business Requirements Analysis, Business Process Improvement, Process Modeling/Mapping, Project Management, ASAP Methodology, MS Project.
Other : Presentation, Communication, and Writing Skills.
MS Tools : MS Office, Excel, Word, Visio, Project

Professional Experience:
Confidential,Dayton, NJ Oct. 2011– Till Date
SAP MM/SD Consultant

• Mapped the requirements, and configured the system to customer business requirement for Sales and Distribution (SD) and Material Management (MM) module.
• Organizational Data Configuration for MM: Created plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations and groups. Assigned plants, purchase organizations to company code, and plants to purchasing organization, Created Info record and maintained the source list.
• Organizational Data Configuration for SD: Maintain Sales organization, assigned Sales organization to Company code, Maintain distribution channel, Maintain Division.
• Maintained Master data like Material master, Vendor master, Info records and Source lists.
• Configured Release procedures for various purchasing documents like Purchase requisition, and Purchase order.
• Configured output determination procedures for printing Material Documents like ZFAX, ZEMAIL, NEU
• Automated conversion of Purchase requisition into Purchase orders.
• Maintained bill of materials (BOM), work centers and routings. Extended the Material master to include work scheduling, MRP and forecasting views
• Configured the Logistics Routing process based on Transportation zones, loading Groups and weights
• Configured the Replenishment process for Inter Company and Plant to plant goods movement.
• Analysis and documented the functional requirement of various account groups for Vendor Master and identified field status according to each vendor account group
• Generated Goods receipt for purchase orders, Goods issue for production orders and reversals
• Integrated with SD implementation team in sales order, pricing procedures.
• Involved in Pricing Procedure determination and Automatic account determination includes Defining Valuation class, valuation grouping code & assign to G/L account , Stock account, GR/IR clearing account, Vendor account Set up new document types for the Purchasing documents PO, Scheduling agreements, Contract etc.,
• Maintained control parameters for Transfer requirements and Transfer orders.
• Involved in assisting Warehouse staff in creating Transfer orders for production staging
• Resolved issues related to incomplete transactions like Deliveries, Transfer requirements, Shipment Documents, and Transfer orders
• Cross functional configuration done in liaison with FI/CO, Sales and Distribution (SD), Logistics Execution, Production Planning modules.
• Worked on Account determination for material management with integration of FI module by using account determination wizard.

Confidential,Pittsburgh, PA July’ 2010 – Oct’ 2011
Role: SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:

• Involved in the gathering of business user requirements and functional requirements.
• Translated business requirements into SAP functional and configuration requirements.
• Involved in designing of global blue print for business processes (gap analysis).
• Organizational Data Configuration: Created plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations and groups. Assigned plants, purchase organizations to company code, and plants to purchasing organization, Created Info record and maintained the source list.
• Configured Vendor Master: Created vendor account groups, number ranges, purchasing groups, defined partner determination schemas and assigned to account groups, terms of payment.
• Configured Material Master: Created material groups. Defined number ranges for various material types and purchasing documents etc.
• Configured Pricing Procedures with associated Condition Types, Condition tables and Access Sequences.
• Designed Sub Contracting process with Special Procurement keys and Procurement types.
• Co-ordinate cut over plans and data migration for Material master, Vendor Master and Purchasing Info Records from legacy systems using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench).
• Configured the Invoice verification, material valuation and material value changes when material is delivered and a surplus stock occurs.
• Involved in Go-Live and also in post-production support of the Project.
• End user training, presentations, creating documentation which include user manuals, master data manuals and customizing guide.

Inventory Management (IM)

• Configured Inventory Management parameters for various inventory movements like Goods receipts without purchase order, plant-to-plant and storage loc-to-storage loc etc.
• Configured special stocks in Inventory Management for subcontracting, third-party and consignment materials.
• Configured the Inventory Management for defining the number ranges for GR, field selection for MIGO, movement type.
• Configured the Invoice verification, material valuation and material value changes when material is delivered and a surplus stock occurs.

Warehouse Management (WM)

• Involved in implementation of Warehouse Management (WM): planning, design, development, configuration, warehouse capacity planning.
• Defined and managed storage types.
• Managed warehouse structures and processed all relevant postings and transactions such as Goods Receipt, Goods Issues and General Stock Transfer.
• Defined put away and picking strategies.
• Configured automatic and manual generation of Transfer Requirement and Transfer order to handle goods receipt, goods issue and customer returns.
• Configured Physical Inventory settings, documents, posting differences, Inventory Sampling, and Cycle counting.
• Worked with creation of serial number profile for serialized materials.

Confidential,CA March’ 2008 – June’ 2010 Role: SAP MM Functional Consultant Responsibilities: Materials Management (MM)

• Worked with the user community to identify their requirements, design enhancements and functionality to help meet user requirements.
• Involved in Requirement gathering workshops and documentations and made presentations for the same.
• Configured plants, distribution centers, storage locations and assignment with the company code.
• Compiled the information required for creation of Material Master, Vendor Master and Info Record documents and customized the same.
• Configuration and customizing of purchasing function by creation of Purchase requisitions, Purchase orders, Release strategies, RFQ, contracts, Scheduling Agreements and Outline agreements.
• Pricing procedures defined for different vendors based on the pricing complexities associated with each purchase area.
• Worked on release strategy for purchase requisitions and purchase orders.
• Worked on special stocks like consignment and third party and monitoring the stock.
• Setup subsequent settlement process and quota arrangement procedures for materials requirements planning in accordance with consumption and forecasts.
• Source determining procedures and source list.
• Preparation of Integration test scripts for testing.
• Involved in Go-Live and also in post-production support of the Project.
• End user training, presentations, creating documentation which include user manuals, master data manuals and customizing guide.

Testing

• Involved in modification of new and existing Sap Scripts in MM. These included Purchasing groups, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Orders and Billing Documents.
• As a part of the Integration Team Tester, was involved in performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to validate the business scenarios.
• Performed Regression testing to ensure that the business processes still work properly after the upgrade.
• Involved in performing Acceptance testing to determine that the system, as upgraded and fixed meets the user’s requirements.

Role: SAP MM Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:

• Involved in business process understanding for procurement to pay process, Inventory management and warehouse management.
• Performed Issue research, analysis, resolution providing to users related to MM.
• Involved in data gathering for Material Management.
• Coordinated with cross functional/technical consultants in solving Cross-functional issues.
• Integration tested for business process specified by client and prepared test scripts.
• Configured Master Data: material master, vendor master (partner functions), Info Records, source Lists
• Supported the issues that came with purchase requisition, and release procedures for purchasing requisitions, purchase order, goods receipt and Invoice verification.
• Defined Put away and Picking strategies, configured system for automatic generation of Transfer Requirements and Transfer orders.
• Worked on Cycle counting method of Physical Inventory where inventory is counted at regular intervals within a fiscal year
• Handled Special Purchasing types like Contracts (Value/Quantity), Sub-contracting, Consignment, Third party processing, evaluated receipts settlement (ERS) and Frame Works (invoicing plans).
• Carried out Split valuation of materials based on valuation category, new part, repaired part and manufacturing part as valuation types.
• Configured consumption based planning as per production requirements.

Education: BS Mechanical Engineer