Summary

• SAP Sales and Distribution consulting professional with over 11 years of functional experience in Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing & Distribution and Service industries.
• Specializing in the areas of Sales & Distribution with Logistic Execution, Materials Management, and Finance and Controlling.
• 6 years experience in SAP R/3 and SAP solutions.
• 3 SAP R/3 Full cycle Implementations, over all 5 SAP project implementations.
• Customized copy control functionality for various sales related documents.
• Extensive experience with procedure development, script testing, implementation of SAP R/3 software including Order-to-Cash, Purchase-to-Pay and Manufacture-to-Stock processing.
• Highly skilled in SAP master data management, data migration and data mapping of Material master, Customer master, Vendor master, Service master and Pricing.
• In depth knowledge of Pricing, Available-To-Promise (ATP) and Back order processing, Material determination, Rebates, Inter company, STOs, third party process and other sub processes in SD
• Extensive experience in data mapping of transaction data like, Sales orders, Credit memos, Billing documents, 3rd part warehouse processing, shipping conf, Service confirmations etc.
• Highly Skilled at guiding clients through blueprint workshops, re-engineering businesses processes, configuration, testing, training and master data conversions; and providing knowledge transfer to client so they understand how specific configuration enables their requirements.
• Strong knowledge of Data services to map data from legacy systems to the SAP Environment.
• Demonstrated ability to streamline custom development efforts by designing Technical requirements, programs, Interfaces and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) processing such as credit cards etc., with development teams to deliver solutions on time and on budget.
• Ability to work effectively as the team lead for sales and distribution and as part of a global team made up of consultants from various business disciplines and Verticals.

• 3 Full end to end Process Implementation cycles experience.
• Expertise in logistics processing: Order to Cash (OTC), Purchase to Pay, Make to Order(Configurable Products), Customer Service, Inventory, and Warehouse management.
• Configuration experience in most aspects of the SAP R/3 implementation cycle, Master data Pricing, Availability Check, Customer Order Management, Sales information system (SIS).
• Extensive experience in data mapping in regards to both Master Data and Transactional Data for conversions and for interfacing to 3rd Party warehouse management systems.
• Expertise in designing and mapping EDI transactions viz., 850, 855, 856, 860, 810, 846 and 832 etc..
• Expert in Payment Card processing, setup and Interface with merchant accounts, payment card settlement and error management
• Customized and designed EDI processesin Order-to-Cash, Return Goods Authorizations, Contract management, Chargeback processnon SAP 3rd party Distribution systems using IDOC and function modules.
• Expert in designing/writing functional design documents (FDD) and technical specifications/Technical Design Documents (TDD) for custom development objects, routines and user exits and identifying GAPs
• Defining Condition tables, Condition Types, Access Sequence. Assignment of Fields, Addition of Created Table and Access No, Creation of Condition Record, Defining and assigning pricing procedures. Customer pricing, Document Pricing.
• Transportation Scheduling: Backward and forward scheduling carrying with availability check. Configuring Route Determination based on the shipping point and destination country. Defining mode transport and assigning shipping points.
• Setting up country and department zones, shipping conditions in sales order. Transportation group and weight group.
• Configuration Billing Procedures with billing type's Inter Company billing Rebate processing, Consignment process, Periodic Billing and Milestone Billing, Third party order processing, Transfer of stocks, Cross-selling, and Transfer order. Main item billing and component billing.
• Experience working with cGMP process chains adopted in Pharmaceutical environments and the regulatory aspects related to Validation testing. Trained in 21CFR Part11 course, to understand the Validation requirements for cGMP processes.
• Experiencedin Fast Track and SAP Best practice implementations.
• Assisted Sales teams in R/3 product Demo and Pre-SalesSupportactivities.

ERP : SAP SD ECC6.0/5.0/4.7/4.6/4.5
Modules : SD, LE, MM and FICO
Interfaces : EDI, IDOC,
Applications : MS-Office, MS-Visio, MS-Project
Groupware : MS-outlook 2000/2002/XP/2003, Lotus Notes
Database and Tools : Oracle 9i/ SQL Server 2005, SQL, PL/SQL

Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunication
Certified as "Project Management Professional" (PMP)
Diploma in Computer Application Development

Professional Experience/Project Work

Confidential, Golden Gate Project, Des Plaines, IL

Project Description/Scope:SAP ECC 6.0 solutionimplementation of Customer Hierarchy for reporting and pricing, Implementation of D.O.G (Sales District, Office and Group) for sales data reporting, Integration of Hierarchy data to BW/BI environment, provided and coordinate data mapping for pricing for WEB project implementation, maintained pricing related subtotals based on billing types for commissions and incentives reporting purpose, created data dictionary for all BW/BI reports, created ECC utility tools ( for extraction and uploading) for maintaining the very heavy volume pricing data.

Role: SD Consultant Sep 2011 - Current

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Involved in JAD (requirement gathering) sessions in order to evaluate the AS IS process and ensure consistency in the TO BE Process structures for Customer Hierarchy for reporting, Pricing Data Maintenance, D.O.G, Pricing Subtotals, Data Dictionary for reports, One time ship-to customers set up and Web related pricing.
• Worked with Quote to Cash team and business users to collect and document business requirements for all projects.
• Created KDDs (Key Design Documents), FDDs (Functional Design Documents) and TDDs (Technical Design Documents) for all projects.
• Mapped Enterprise Structure through IMG that involved integration with FI and MM.
• Configured the system to customize the D.O.G, Pricing Subtotals, Data Dictionary for reports and Web related pricing projects.
• Designed Security roles for Customer Hierarchy, D.O.G, Data Dictionary, wrote test scripts, Integration testing the solution.
• Creation of test scenarios for unit testing and integration testing for business processes and getting the sign-off after successful completion of testing.
• Set up the system for handling one time customer for ship-to customers along with secured access roles for adding one time ship-to customers.
• Created ECC Pricing Utility tools to allow extraction and uploads for Pricing data maintenance (~ 28 Million Pricing Condition records).
• Reviewed the Lawson Pricing set up and suggested possible corrections and solutions for enhancing the overall performance.

Confidential, San Diego, CA
Project Description/Scope:SAP ECC 6.0 Solution Implementation at Headquarters: Implementation phases, Blue Print Validation, Realization, and Integration testing Phase, GO Live Preparations, After Go LIVE support.

Role: SD Consultant Jan 2011 - Sep 2011

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Involved in JAD (requirement gathering) sessions in order to evaluate the AS IS process and ensure consistency in the TO BE Process structures.
• Worked in the Order to Cash team and business users to collect and document business requirements
• Study business process changes / requirements and configure SAP to suit the requirements. This involved integration with FICO, PP and MM modules.
• Mapped Enterprise Structure through IMG that involved integration with FI and MM
• Configured the system to customize sales processes; enquiry, quotation, order, shipping and billing, sales organization, sales order types, Item categories, Schedule Lines, sales area, Copying Control of sales documents and the number ranges and ATP.
• Master Data Management for Customer Master and Vendor Master.
• Credit management, output determination, payment terms, customer master, material master, condition master, pricing, automatic pricing determination at different levels, pricing procedures, billing plans and document types.
• Designed and implemented Order to cash process that completely runs on user-friendly SAP portal.
• The Sales Order to Cash process is designed to collect Payments at order, ship goods, run Revenue Recognition and Pay taxes.
• Successfully configured and implemented integration with Vertex External Tax software.
• Successfully designed and implemented Payment card process and its integration with PPS- Payment Card system.
• Successfully configured SD Integration with Financial Account assignments.
• Designed Security roles for SD team, wrote test scripts, Integration testing the solution
• Creation of test scenarios for unit testing and integration testing for all SD business processes and getting the sign-off after successful completion of testing.

Confidential, Furniture Stores, Manchester, CT
Project Description/Scope:SAP ECC 6.0 Solution Implementation at Headquarters and Retail Stores and DC locations: Implementation phases, Blue Print Validation, Realization, and Integration testing Phase.

Role: SD Consultant Feb 2010 - Dec 2010
Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Involved in JAD (requirement gathering) sessions in order to evaluate the AS IS process and ensure consistency in the TO BE Process structures.
• Involved in configuration of sales and distribution module involving sales Inquires, Quotations, sales order, Shipping, invoicing, (OTC - order to cash) quantity & Value contracts, scheduling agreements, pricing, credit management and consignment.
• Defining and assigning number ranges for sales, delivery and billing documents.
• Extensively worked on the master data management involving customer master, product master, vendor master etc.
• Defined Pricing Procedure using Condition Techniques based on distribution channel and created Access sequences for Specific division with relevant discounts.
• Mapped Enterprise Structure through IMG that involved integration with FI and MM
• Configured the system to customize sales processes; enquiry, quotation, order, shipping and billing, sales organization, sales order types, Item categories, Schedule Lines, sales area, Copying Control of sales documents and the number ranges, ATP.
• Worked with Order to Cash team and business users to collect and document business requirements
• The Sales Order to Cash process is designed to collect Payments at order, ship goods, run Revenue Recognition and Pay taxes.
• Wells Fargo bank Interface in customer master, Sales order for application process, Authorizations, Settlement and Issuing credits.
• Successfully designed and implemented Payment card process and its integration with PPS-Payment Card system.
• 17 different types of payments are accepted on the sales order to process sales. Payment card types used, Credit cards, Debit Cards, Cash, Checks, Electronic checks, Gift cards and Wells Fargo Loans.
• Successfully configured SD Integration with Financial Account assignments.
• Coordinated with RICEFW Team to develop Pricing Routines
• Demoed Executive presentation for Inter Company Business Process

Confidential, Cambridge, MA
Project Description/Scope:ECC 6.0 New Vaccines business implementation in SAP and Website. Phases Blue print, Realization, Validation Testing, Go-live, Support and Phase2 work.

Role: SD and LE Consultant Mar 2009 - Jan2010

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Project implementations from blue print to successful go live on time just before the start of the flu season.
• Project executed in FDA compliant validated environment. HP Tools used for unit and IntegrationTesting, Datango for Training content development.
• Successfully conducted Blue print workshops and process walkthrough's for the client in the area of Order to Cash, SAP- Web interface, Chargebacks, EDI process, UPS 3rd party Logistics interface and Pricing / Promotions.
• Configured the vaccines business in the areas of Order management, ATP, Pricing, Delivery and Billing processes.
• Successful implementation of brand new website using SAP web services, with real time interface from SAP for customer master creation, maintenance, order entry, pricing and sales reporting.
• Implemented the EDI processes for new business using SAP-Trusted Link interface in the areas of 850 - Inbound sales orders, UPS 3rd party EDI interfaces 940 - delivery outbound, 945 - delivery confirmation, 947 - Inventory Adjustments and 846 - Inventory Advice.
• Designed and implemented the customer state license verification and license expiration date validation process at sales order/ delivery.
• Configured the complex pricing and promotion programs for web and standard orders.
• The pricing and promotions include, GPO tiered pricing, Contract price, List price, , Cumulative tiered discounts by period, Early bird discounts, Free of Charge, Buy X- Get Y, Donations, Samples, Inventory Assurance, Admin fees. Deferred Revenue and Deferred COGS, Right of Return and Price stability guarantee, Use of Coupon codes on web for discounts and Federal Excise tax.
• Successfully configured the Customer Hierarchy functionality to maintain the GPO pricing contracts in Pharmaceutical business.
• Designed and wrote functional specs for Customer State License verification user exit enhancement in Customer master, Sales order and Delivery creation.
• Implemented SAP Payment card process for Web and Standard orders. The 3rd party Payment card interface is not used yet. The Payment card settlement and clearing is done internally in SAP, the collection process is done off line in this phase. Plans to implement 3rd party payment card interface in next phase.
• Implemented a fully automatic order process 'On Demand' similar to Consignment with Max and Min stock quantity and Automatic replenishment and bill to the customer.
• Configured Customer Hierarchy, Billing types, Output types, Partner determination, Account Assignment, Text determination, background jobs for delivery processing.
• Successful data migration of Customers, GPO's, New Season Sales (Pre-books), Open Orders and Pricing master.
• Training of internal power users and 3rd party customer service users.
• Used Solution Manager Tool for Project Management documentation, Blue print documentation.

Confidential, Apparel, Chicago, IL
Project Description/Scope:
AFS 6.0 implementation: Blue print, Implementation, Go-live, Support and Phase2 implementation.

Role: SD Team Member May 2007 - Feb 2009
Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Conducted successful Blue print workshops and process walkthrough's for the client in Customer Order management, EDI processes and Manhattan WMS interfaces.
• Successfully used Solution manager functionality for Blue print documentation, Configuration documentation and testing processes.
• Configured full AFS system in the areas of Order management, ATP, Pricing, Allocation Run process, Delivery process, Packaging, Shipments.
• Successfully mapped the EDI process 846, 850, 855, 860, 856 and 810. EDI subsystem TLI- Trusted link mapped to SAP.
• Successfully configured all the Sales, Delivery and Billing Pricing configuration.
• Designed and Wrote functional specs for Sales user exits, Master data load mapping, EDI mapping and user exits, WMS mapping and user exits,
• Configured Contracts, Advance Sales orders, Rebate Agreements, Commission process, Deliveries, Packaging, handling units and Collective Shipment process.
• Configured Seasons Functionality, Sized group pricing, Pre-packs and Assortment functionality, Substitution and Re-branding process, Sales Planning, Samples, Outlet Stores, Contract manufacturing process.
• Sales order inbound interface with commercial websites.
• Wrote test scripts, trained the super users, helped Info-pack team to build training documents.
• Designed and implemented 'Hide Cost and Margin display' in sales/ billing docs using Authorization and user exit.
• Designed top of the line Sales status report, used for sales reporting, demand management, sales reconciliation at the end of the season.

Achievements:

• Successful Project go-live.
• Successfully Implemented one of the most complicated projects with interfaces to EDI, 3rd party WMS, Neopost, Worldview, 9CI and 3rd party PLM and shop floor systems.
• Successful Season implementation in SD, MM and PP modules.
• UPC Assignment project successfully complete after go-live. 1.8 million UPC's migrated from mainframe system to SAP.

Confidential, Minnesota - Vehicle Care
SAP SD Consultant July 2006 - May 2007

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Extensively involved in full life cycle implementation of SAP SD modules, from "Planning" to "Go Live".
• Participated in business blueprint for SD and participated in all cross functional team meetings to integrate SD with MM and FI/CO.
• Coordinated between End-User and technical consultants to ensure the Sales/Purchase reports to meet modified or non-standard business requirements.
• Performed configuration of SAPSDEnterprise structure.
• Actively participated and provided assistance in Order to Cash process integration and User Acceptance Tests for created sales organizations.
• Configured and tested all possible business scenarios like order to cash, Rush Orders, Third Party Sales, Consignment Sales and Sales Returns.
• Regularly updated the status, issues and impacts of changes with team leadership, relevant program sponsors and process owners.
• Involved in implementation aspects of Sales Order Management including Quotation/Order Management, Contract Management and Billing Management by defining, managing and assigning relevant configurations using standard SAP or user specific formats.
• Configured End to End business processes with new sales document types, new item categories, schedule line categories, Delivery Document types, delivery item categories and new billing types including copying control.
• Involved in the implementation of Shipping/Transportation/Logistics Management, including Invoicing.
• Involved in setting up of Customer Master, Customer material information Record, Pricing master conditions and Rebate Master with relevance to SD module.
• Involved in developing functional and technical specifications for programs, reports and interface requirements. Developed training module for improving operational efficiencies
• Performed initial testing of problem fixes, change request, enhancements, and new functionality
• Prepared configuration, support and process documentation as needed
• Worked with users & development team to define required unit and integration test requirements.
• Responsible for preparation of "Go-Live" activities in SD and in related areas of MM.

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

Role: SAP SD Consultant Oct 2005 - Jun 2006

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Extensively involved in full life cycle implementation of SAPSD modules, from "Planning" to "Go Live".
• Involved in conducting sessions with management, development team, users and other stakeholders to refine functional requirements.
• Participated in all cross functional team meetings to integrate SD with MM and FI/CO.
• Performed configuration of SAP SD Enterprise structure.
• Involved in setting up of Customer Master, Customer material information Record, Pricing master and Rebate Master with relevance to SD module.
• Designed, configured and tested business scenarios like Order to Cash (OTC), Rush Orders, Third Party Sales Orders, Consignment Sales and Sales Returns Order management process with order types, item categories, schedule lines, and copy control for sales and billing documents, specifying different copying requirements.
• Regularly updated the status, issues and impacts of changes with team leadership, relevant program sponsors and process owners.
• Involved in the implementation of Shipping/Transportation/Logistics Management, including Invoicing, Cost Control and Foreign Trade Management.
• Performed initial testing of problem fixes, change request, enhancements, and new functionality
• Worked with users & development team to define required unit and integration test requirement.
• Used Solution Manager Tool for Project Management documentation and Blue print documentation.