SUMMARY

• 10 years in IT Technical Support.
• 6 years of experience implementing SAP MM/IM.
• SAP MM functional expertise with the ability to work closely with clients and developers to implement efficient and effective solutions.
• Experience working in manufacturing industry sectors with global implementation.
• 3 Full Life Cycle implementations using ASAP methodology involving project preparation, business blueprinting, realization, testing and final preparation.
• Experience in business process upgrades and enhancement of new functionalities.
• Enterprise structure and master data configuration: Extensively worked on configuration of enterprise structure and master data including Material data, Vendor master, Quota Arrangement, Source List and Information Records.
• Proficiency in Configuring MM/SD: Integration points including material master, stock transfers, post goods issue, third party items, inter- company billing, loading and transporting groups, plant data and shipping condition.
• Proficiency in Configuring MM/FI: Integration including, valuation class, valuation areas, automatic and manual account assignment, planned and unplanned delivery cost, automatic posting keys, GR/GI clearing account movement type and pre-payments to vendors.
• Purchasing Configuration: Worked on the entire procurement to paying cycle including purchase requisition, request for quotation, comparing and rejections of quotations, outline agreement, purchase orders, blanket purchase order, stock transport order, automatic generation of purchase orders and special procurement in purchase.
• Experience working on pricing procedures for various vendors, developed release strategy for quotation, outline agreement and purchasing documents.
• IM Configuration: Goods receipt with and without purchase order, goods issue, stock transfers, subsequent adjustment, sub-contracting material types, reservations, material document, physical inventory documents, inventory sampling, cycle counting and physical inventory process, RTP stocks, free goods and by products.
• Invoice Verification Configuration: Maintained variances invoice reduction, invoice verification, blocked and released blocked invoice, planned and unplanned deliveries.
• Worked on data migration and analysis from a Legacy system to SAP R/3 using LSMW.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential,Newberry, SC
Confidential,SAP MM (MRP Optimization) Sept 2010 – Dec 2010

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed problems that the end users were facing while using the SAP system plus developing a better way for them to work with the system.
• Designed, developed and tested enhancements to for production systems.
• Deeply involved with the support team.
• Worked hand in hand with the end uses on how to go about their purchase requisition, source of supply, vendor selection, quota, RFQ, purchase order, purchasing groups, terms of payment and source list determination. Heavily involved in the training process.
• Worked on finding the best way to configure that the inventory was correct and remained that way.
• Helped in configuring the best way on how to monitor the shelf life of their product within the SAP system.
• Helped in the P2P process, from the time they ordered the product/material to the time it is received, to the production floor up to the end product (Finish product).

Confidential,Houston, TX
Confidential,MM/IM Functional Consultant May 2009 – August 2010
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Carried out material master configuration for basic settings, maintaining order of main and additional screens, maintaining user settings, field selection for data screens, setting for other key fields, new material types and valuation classes.
• Heavily involved in the technical and support functions.
• Configured the vendor master for terms of payment, account groups, evaluation of the vendor considering the main criterion like price, delivery, quantity and services.
• Defined new purchase orders document types and configured version management for purchase order and purchase requisition.
• Set up configuration for automatic generation of purchase order through purchase requisition and at the time of goods receipt.
• Coordinated and performed the successful configuration, design, analysis and testing of SAP material management along with inventory management.
• Was involved in the configuring the release strategies for purchase requisition and purchase orders.
• Configured system messages, manual account assignments for goods receipt, goods issued and automatic generation of physical inventory documents for goods movements.
• Worked on the setting of expiration data, check to set the material shelf life expiration. Data check for goods receipt for each plant and movement type.
• Configured tolerance for under and over deliveries at the time of goods receipt and dynamic availability check.
• Configured to set up the allowance for negative stocks automatic creation of storage location and delivery completion.
• Involved in problem solved and business analysis plus training the end uses when the system went live.
• Provided support to the end users when the system went live.

Confidential,Houston, TX
Confidential,
SAP MM/IM Functional Consultant June 2008 – May 2009
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 /ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed an SAP upgrade project from 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
• Worked on all the old transaction of R/3 4.7 system and documented the related issues.
• Worked on existing MM configuration and moved the configuration to the new version.
• Initially tested the different transaction on the sandbox server and documented the relevant issues encountered.
• Created universal user manual for post processing for MRP, purchase requisition and purchase orders.
• Completed documentation of all the enhancements along with user manuals, unit integration and user acceptance testing scripts were prepared and carried out successfully.
• Worked on the changes of ECC 6.0 version and analyzed the new enhancements and their corresponding applications.
• Configured the new transactions and enhancement as per the client requirements during the functional upgrade.
• Verified and tested master data, prepared prototypes for the business users for SAP procure to pay cycle, comprising of purchase requisition, request for quotation, vendor evaluation, ranking list, contracts, scheduling agreements, goods receipt, goods issue, invoice verification, purchase order and purchasing info. records for special stock.
• Customized IMG activities in procurement and inventory management processes, such as purchase of non-stock and stock materials, request for quotation, contract, scheduling agreements, inbound delivery, goods receipt, goods issue, reservation and transfer orders.
• Helped in the user training of the new upgraded system.

Confidential,Pasadena, TX
Confidential,
SAP MM Consultant (Purchase to Pay)
April 2007 – March 2008

Responsibilities:

• Configured material master, including material types, definition of views required number ranges for material types.
• Configured purchase info record, purchase requisition, scheduling agreement contracts quota arrangements involving definition of document types and number ranges screen layouts.
• Configured vendor master data, defined different business partners and account groups.
• Involved in the purchasing functions including requisitions, contracts and purchase orders, and accounts payable blocked invoice resolution.
• Looked into the data to identify problems or recommend preventive actions.
• Procurement of master data and wrote BPP’s and supported testing of the system.
• Customized price elements, like discounts, freight basic price and taxes involved while dealing with various vendors.
• Performed integration between MM/SD inter-company billing, loading and transporting groups including shipping conditions.
• Was involved in the customizing of sales receipts.
• Supported the team members on vendor master conversions.
• Defined pricing procedures for different vendors depending on their conditions.
• Worked on setting up tolerance and purchase value keys.
• Provided technical/functional specification for reports and guided ABAP developers.
• Automatically determined GL accounts, mapping valuation class of GL accounts.
• Researched/troubleshoot problems over the phone, via email or in-person.
• Resolved problems that were counted while performing an SAP transaction.
• Customized the inventory management process.
• Was responsible for end user support for vendor life cycle process and vendor master data.

Confidential,SAP MM Configuration Consultant Feb 2006 – Feb 2007
Environment: ECC 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Performed Integration testing and Unit testing in MM to validate the configuration and generated detailed test scenarios and test scripts, user documentation and training sessions.
• Configured Inventory Management and Invoice verification comprising of goods receipt, goods issued and transfer posting.
• Configured vendor master data including field status for vendor account groups, partner determination schema, one time vendor and partner functions.
• Configured the settings for organization structure with relevant assignments.
• Configured problems for end users and also created detailed documents for users.
• Maintained user authorization levels for releasing purchase requisitions and purchase orders using release strategy.

Confidential,SAP MM /IM Consultant Sept 2005 – Jan 2006

Responsibilities:

• Prepared configuration testing documentation on effectiveness of various application controls in the business processes such as Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, processing, Goods Receipts and Invoice processing, procurement to pay for special procurement, and Physical processing.
• Handled tickets and tasks depending on the configuration issues.
• Responsible for troubleshooting the issues in the system and providing support.
• Created unit integration test scenarios and resolved configuration and business process issues resulting from testing.
• Configured settings for system messages for Inventory management and Physical Inventory.
• Resolved issues related to purchase reminders, open purchase order, posting periods and allowing posting to previous period.

Confidential,Houston, TX
Technical Support Feb 2001 – July 2005

Responsibilities:

• Helped customers/employees troubleshoot their technical difficulties.
• Provided step-by-step solutions to the end user or used remote access to solve the problems that they encountered.
• Provided assistance to customers/employees with software or system problems.
• Installed and modified operating system software programs including virus protection, word processing and printers.
• Prepared recommendations on software or programs and developed user manuals.

EDUCATION

Associates Degree - Computer Science