PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Certified SAP consultant working as Senior SAP MM/IM/WM/QM Functional consultant.
• 15+ years experience in SAP with special emphasis on Configuration, Implementation and Production support in Materials Management, Quality Management and Warehouse Management.
• Successfully completed 9 full life cycle implementations and 9 maintenance & support projects in SAP MM/WM/QM module.
• Strong understanding and experience in ASAP methodology and its implementation phases such as Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation and Go Live.
• Comprehensive understanding of SAP implementation processes, business analysis, re - engineering, SAP processes mapping - As-Is & To-Be processes, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Cut-over planning, Go live and post Go Live implementation support.
• Proficient in Configuration of Materials Management Module - Material Master, POs, Outline, MRP, Agreements, Info records, Stock transport orders, Inventory Management, GR, Transfer Posting, Stock Transfer, Consignment, Subcontracting, Invoice Verification, New Movement Types, Pricing and Split Valuation.
• Expertise in Configuration of Warehouse Management architecture - Warehouse structure in WM system, Basic stock management, Warehouse Movements, physical inventory, cycle counting, Put away and Picking Strategies, Storage Unit Management.
• Cross functional skills in SD, QM, PM and PP Modules.
• Demonstrated ability in analyzing complex business objectives & to keep projects ahead of schedule, following pre-determined time and cost parameters, while maintaining composure and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Real time experience in preparation and execution of test cases based on the clients business requirements.
• Expertise in analyzing and extracting core issues in complex business and technical processes as well as providing guidance and supervision to large and small groups of users.
• Experienced in working in a team oriented environment and a good problem solver.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, self-motivated and high project management skills.
• Expert functional skills in Supply Chain Management.
• Worked in varied industries like Automotive, Auto components, Healthcare, Engineering, Food, Retail, Chemical, etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 releases 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0

Databases: Orcle9i, MS Access, MS SQL Server 2000.

Office Productivity: MS-Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Visio.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Procurement/Inventory management/Invoice verification- lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gather the local requirement from the business users in Mexico and transform it to SAP solutions according to the central template.
• Analyze the gap, process changes based on the local legal requirements related to SAT regulations.
• Conduct scope verification/process confirmation workshops in process related to procurement of direct material, non-production material, EDI invoice verification, goods movement, release strategy, period closing, accruals, subcontracting, external processing, ERS
• Design and develop the NetWeaver plugin to manage vendor-tooling process managed at the vendor location.
• Develop NetWeaver plugin to manage vendor claims handling process.
• Develop NetWeaver plugin to handle price/quantity discrepancies within affiliate vendors during intercompany processing.
• Implement the eFactura interface to with the invoice discrepancy report to handle invoices according to the Daimler separation of duties policy.
• Design the interfaces connecting the logistics system, procurement system with the finance template solution.

Confidential

SAP MM/SD consultant

Responsibilities:

• Monitor ways to improve the system, building and assisting the system enhancements in the areas of procurement, inventory accounting and invoice verification.
• Handle/resolve incidents and user issues as a part of the North America hub function.
• Creating change requests, developing rough functional specifications, performing functional and user acceptance tests of the fixes and new processes that are developed.
• Conduct periodic regression tests to ensure that the system functions as per the design.
• Automate the test cases using HPQC/HPALM that the repetitive test cases can be efficiently conducted in less time frame.
• Support the other Daimler projects as the procurement, inventory accounting, invoice verification sub matter expert.
• Handle/troubleshoot interface errors on SAP Application interface framework.

Confidential, Cincinnati

SAP MM/SD consultant

Responsibilities:

• Procure to pay.
• EDI functional design focusing on the areas related to master data, contract management

Confidential, Cleveland

SAP WM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led warehouse management blueprint sessions for various Lines of businesses.
• Held key meetings with business process teams capturing requirements, reporting progress.
• Created BPDs (Business Process Documents) and PFL (Process Flows) highlighting various business scenarios.
• Configure warehouse number, storage types, storage sections, storage unit types and the corresponding master data.
• Configured IM Movement types to support Goods Movements.
• Configured physical inventory process and enhancements required to pass on data between IM-WM.
• Designed the warehouse Putaway and Stock removal strategies.
• Configured the ITS mobile service required to carryout RF transactions.
• Worked with BAPI's and exits required in WM and Availability check.

Confidential, Houston

Senior SAP MM functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Fine tuning the MM blueprint and redefining the scope adhereing to the time frames and solution deliverables.
• Configure the business scenarios in purchasing, inventory management.
• Exercise a centralized purchasing management system by implementing release strategy for PR’s and PO.
• Providing functional specs for the RICEF objects.
• Assist the core team resolving the cross functional areas required during integration testing.
• Prepare and cleanse the material and vendor master data required during cutover.
• Load the material master and vendor master in the production system.
• Support post Go Live handling production tickets.

Confidential, Log Angeles

Senior SAP MM/WM functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducting the MM workshop sessions during requirements gathering.
• Formulating the MM blueprint identifying the gaps and proposing enhancements to bridge the gaps.
• Worked on proposed list of enhancement projects in MM to improve business processes from SAP standpoint.
• Configure the business scenarios in purchasing, inventory management, batch management, dangerous goods management.
• Providing functional specs for the custom report and extract programs and developing custom transactional reports.
• Develop specs for the material master, BOM, DG master interface to the front end MLM legacy system.

Confidential

Senior SAP MM/WM functional & Interface specialist

Responsibilites

• Provide WM configuration, cut over preparation and Go Live support in eight global warehouse management and shipping implementations for both raw and finished goods warehouses.
• Led and executed the material/customer/vendor master data and inventory conversions from legacy system into the new Decentralized WM SAP environment.
• Participated in adding shipment document functionality in SAP and implemented the use of Express Ship Interface (XSI) parcel tracking with UPS and FedEx systems.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with MM, IM, SD, WM, LE, Transportation, HUM, XSI, RF Mobile Data Entry, Decentralized WM, ALE/IDOC’s.
• Worked in fixing client issues pertaining to SAP functions: Batch management, Handling Unit Management, Serial Number Tracking, and SAP Console/Radio Frequency.
• Worked with internal warehousing operations like Pick to Belt functions.
• Worked with custom specific business processes like case calculation and haz calculation.
• Worked extensively in building interfaces with the shipping systems pro-ship and clipper-ship.
• Knowledge on building user exits for pick to belt, double deep put away and stock removal strategies.
• Configured packing types involving ‘shipped as stored, special packaging, shipped as stored pallets and normal packaging.
• Knowledge on shipment creation, transportation planning, automatic leg determination, shipment stages and planning stages in the shipment execution.
• Worked with cycle count processing, plant to DC shipping, directed put-away with stock placement and removal strategies, fixed bin replenishment, priority replenishment and fixed-bin picking.
• Worked with BPMON monitoring for IDoc resolution and error handling.
• Have worked in SOLMAN extensively.
• Interfacing between SAP WM Decentralized Warehouse Management with other ERP systems.
• Interface with JDE, AS 400 systems with SAP.
• Business process re-engineering in building a custom function to capture serial numbers using ZMT1 and designing the data distribution between the systems.

Confidential

Senior SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working on proposed list of enhancement projects in MM to improve business processes from SAP standpoint.
• Taking responsibility in introducing Request for Quotation segment in procure to pay process.
• Configure STO scenarios with relevant shipping points and picking locations for the newly introduced plants and tolling sites.
• Applying release procedure at the purchase requisition level and the end users at managerial levels on releasing the documents.
• Configure tolerances for Logistics Invoice Verification process, both Vendor specific and Company Code level.
• Worked extensively in configuring workflow for release strategy in purchase requisition and purchase orders.
• Coordinate with Finance team in clearing up the residual and irrelevant GR/IR differences.
• Working on the IDoc functionality for process orders, goods movements, deliveries and invoices and testing modifications for the same.
• Provide functional specs for a number of custom reports and extract programs and developing custom transactional reports using Query for end users.
• Monitor and troubleshoot day to day production support tickets.
• Train end business users on multi-transactional activities in SAP and developing documents for the same.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

SAP MM/QM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintain current Organizational Structure and create new Org. Elements as per Business requirement.
• Creating, fixing, and maintaining master data: Material Master, Vendor Master, Batch Master, Purchasing Info Records, and Customer Master.
• Refining configuration of the SAP Logistics/MM functionality with integrated view of procure to pay process.
• Setting up reorder point planning (CBP) along with automatic purchase order creation for MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) supplies and using source lists wherever needed.
• Converting traditional purchase requisition process into SAP standard purchase requisition process and implementing release procedure for the same.
• Prepared Business process as per the ASAP methodology for setting up QM master data in material master Quality View, Inspection characteristics, Quality Plan, Catalogs for Usage Decision and Generic Characteristics, Routings.
• Configure vendor evaluation integrated with QM receipts.
• Worked with Available to promise from MM aspects.
• Configure workflow for vendor rebates, invoice verification, document parking, invoice release and spin out process.
• Configuring Stock Transport Order process, both Inter Company and Intra Company, with outbound delivery and billing from SD module and ATP.
• Teaming up with ABAP and SD resource in developing a price upload program to update constantly changing oil/chemical prices being purchased or sold.
• Interacting with business users and process owners to gather requirements and converting them into functional specs for customized inventory reports.
• Creating new storage locations and setting up batch jobs for monthly inventory cycle counts for each.

Confidential, Moncure, NC

SAP MM/WM/QM Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creating a framework for organizational structure of Business Processes that is to be integrated with SAP system.
• Creating Purchase Organization and Storage locations; assigning Purchase Organization to Company Code, Plant; assigning Plants to Company Code.
• Configuring Material Master Record: Maintaining choice of field for data screens, defining attributes for material types, output format of material numbers, material groups; configuring standard material types as per the client’s requirement.
• Configuring Vendor Master Record: Maintaining vendor account groups, creating number ranges for vendor accounts, defining account groups with screen layouts for vendors, defining Partner Functions, updating payment and contact information of vendors.
• Developed implementation plan for Quality notification functionality.
• Configuration skills include such as Master data, Inspection plan, Quality, QM in procurement, Production and Information Systems.
• Experience in creating Info Record, Quality Notifications: internal, vendor and customer, Defect Recording and Analysis.
• Defining Pricing procedure, conditions, schemas access sequence.
• Implementing advanced shipping notification and delivery tracking for Logistics.
• Setting up vendor consignment process: defining and assigning consignment info records in source list and creating consignment contracts.
• Working on batch management, SLED, release procedure, source lists.
• Implementing Outline agreements for raw materials and operating supplies: scheduling agreements, contracts - value/quantity based.
• Defining message output types for purchasing documents, testing print layout and setting up e-mail and fax communication mediums.
• Testing integration of PP module; MRP runs, conversion of Planned Orders into Purchase Requisitions, creation of schedule lines.
• Configuring settings for Goods Issues, Goods Receipt, Movement types and other relevant objects in Inventory Management as required by business logistics.
• Creating functional specs for custom modifications and working with ABAP resource for user exits.
• Testing out all the configurations for any errors, making necessary corrections at each stage, and documenting the results.
• Supporting post go live phase and providing to business users.

Confidential

Team Lead - MM/WM/QM

Responsibilities:

• Map Business Requirements, Preparation of Detailed Process Flow for functional Requirements, Developing functional specifications for the Development of Reports.
• Document “As is” and “To be” Business process and coordinate to prepare “Business Blue Print” Documentation.
• Configuration of MM/WM business process in Purchasing, Inventory Management, Putaway, Stock removal, Interim bins, Internal warehouse activities, auto TO creation, Handling negative stocks, Integration with QM, continuous inventory, Handling unit management, Stock monitoring, Assigning IM and WM movement types.
• Configuration of shipping control and Transportation management.
• Configuring Available to promise with SD, MM and PP.
• Unit and Integration Testing for Key Business process in Procurement, Inventory and Logistics Invoice Verification Process.
• Go Live and Post Implementation Support in the Production Server.

Confidential,

Team Lead-MM/WM/PP/SD/QM

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of consultants in MM, WM, QM, PP and SD in delivering support to the production issues.
• Handling critical issues which could lead to production stoppage.
• Setting up support desk and help the client in following SAP Best Practices.
• Configure and train the client to follow new business process using Schedule Agreements and Blanket PO.
• Handled issues in Warehouse monitoring, Cycle counting and storage location control, hazardous material management.
• Involved in business scenarios like inter company billing, sales and operations planning and development of custom reports in AP/AR.

Confidential

Team Lead-MM/WM/QM

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of consultants in MM, WM and QM in delivering support to the production issues.
• Configured release strategy for Operations planners to approve the purchase requisitions before they get converted to purchase orders by the buyers.
• Configuration of supplier performance metrics in SAP based on the weighting criteria.
• Setting up support desk and help the client in following SAP Best Practices.
• Handled issues in physical inventory.

Confidential

Team Lead-MM/WM/QM

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the client in understanding business requirements, mapping solutions in SAP ECC 6.0
• Study business processes in MM/WM/QM point of view.
• Prepare business blueprint.
• Configure and demonstrate business scenarios.
• Configure material master including material types, material groups, vendor master data, procurement, inventory management components, goods receipts, reservations, batch management, serial number functioning including material movement types.
• Quality notifications were designed for use in product and customer complaints, vendor audit recording and Quality Info records for vendor control.
• Configure storage types, storage sections, picking area, storage bin types, bin structure, search strategies for storage type and storage sections.

Confidential

Team Lead - SAP MM/WM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Job encompasses maintenance support (problem resolution & Customer relation) to the onsite team of Colder and knowledge transfer among them.
• Business scenarios in procurement, inventory management, materials requirement planning, logistics invoice verification, cross docking, EDI, warehouse activities and transaction through console.
• Responsible for testing (MM, WM, PP related to MM, FI related to MM) during up gradation from version 4.6 to ECC 6.0
• Handle issues in RFQ creation and associated work flow scenarios in SRM-MM integration.
• Proficient in Testing tools and methodologies QTP and QC.
• Handling Tickets.
• Weekly/periodic documentation.
• Resolving the day-to-day problems of the users.