Summary

I have over 12 years of experience in IT industry with over 8 years in SAP R/3 Materials Management (MM) including 2 full implementation life cycles.

• Excellent knowledge and experience of implementing ASAP methodology using Solution Manager.
• Experienced in configuring & customizing of Material Master, Purchasing, Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Consumption Based Planning (CBP), Inventory Management (IM), Material Valuation, Service master, Invoice Verification (LIV).
• Comprehensive knowledge of SAP MM integration with Sales & Distribution (SD), Financial and Controlling (FI-CO), Production Planning (PP), Warehouse Management (WM), Quality Management (QM), & Plant Maintenance(PM).
• Extensive experience in creating Business Blue Print, and GAP Analysis documents.
• Expert in detailed Functional and Technical design documents creation, based on requirements and specifications gathered as business liaison.
• Extensively involved in unit testing, integration testing, and User Acceptance testing.
• Experienced in User Training, creating Manuals and tutorials using DATANGO and MS Tools.
• Several years of experience in Change Management and issue tracking using various tools.
• Advance level of expertise in SAP Roles and Authorizations.
• Excellent communication skills to work efficiently with clients and team members.
• Deep understanding of sequential, object oriented, and web programming.
• Extensive knowledge in database design and modeling.

Skills Highlights

ERP : SAP ECC 6.0, & 4.7

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and MS Access

SAP Tools: Solution Manager 7.1, IDOC, EDI, CATT Script, LSMW, SMARTFORMS, SAP Scripts, BAPIs, Function Modules, User Exits, Roles & Authorizations

Sub Systems: QM/3 (SAP certified interface to automate recording of inspection readings) QS-Stat (SAP certified interface for quality statistical data analysis)

Programming: SQL, ABAP

Tools: Star Team, BMC’s Magic, DATANGO Training, Visio, TOAD, MS OFFICE, and MS Project

Confidential,Virginia Beach VA (Nov 07 - Present)
Business Systems Analyst (SAP MM)
STIHL Inc. manufactures over 180 model variations of handheld outdoor power equipment.

• Involved in upgrade of SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 and Unicode conversion using Solution manager road map.
• Production support in MM to the user specific problems and issues depending on new Business Process procedures.
• Managed STO project. Prepared the scope and Business blueprint, and designed a cross functional STO process with key business users and close interaction with FI, SD, LE (WM) and ABAP consultants.
• Worked closely with SD and LE business users and analysts to define purchasing organization, purchasing groups, storage locations and customize and enhance the document types, goods movement (Movement types) and the returns process to incorporate the STO project.
• Prepared the business blueprint and designed and configured the MRO process for procurement of MRO supplies and stock for consumption.
• Designed and configured approval procedure to incorporate the MRO project - Created Release codes, groups, strategies, alternative release strategies and role resolution workflow using customer exit.
• Wrote functional design document to interface between Trend (Infor) system and SAP system, and implemented the process of posting the transactions via IDOCS, and ran as background job in SM35 on daily basis.
• Worked extensively with roles and authorizations and workflow procedures
• Reviewed and modified the workflow process for error notifications, material and vendor master creation.
• Responsible for updating material, vendor and purchasing master data and outline agreements for new company codes and vendors.
• Worked with message control, output determination and pricing procedures for the new company codes.
• Worked extensively with ALE and EDI. Created new partner profiles and logical systems for interfaces with new partners.
• Responsible for the year end MM closing activities.
• Supported QM processes as backup person.
• Configured and Implemented different types of Quality Notifications and their workflows.
• Implemented QM/3 and QS-stat interfaces to work with SAP QM module.
• Modified existing reports and created new reports based on user needs and provided continuous training and day to day support for end users.
• Prepared detailed test scenarios, test scripts, set up the test data, Unit Testing, Integration Testing.

Confidential,Charlotte NC (Aug 05 - June 07)
SAP MM/IM Consultant
Charlotte Pipe and Foundry is a manufacturer of cast iron, PVC, CPVC, ABS and Flow pipe and fittings for residential, commercial plumbing systems and industrial applications.

• Involved in full life cycle implementation of the SAP Systems in MM (IM & Purchasing) module.
• Performed configuration in MM for Purchase Requisition, Purchase Orders, Contracts, Stock Transport orders, Goods Receipts and Goods Issues.
• Implementation of procurement processes with FI integration to maintain material master, vendor master and info record.
• Configured Message determination and Output determination for all the Purchasing documents.
• Configured Pricing Determination Creating Calculation Schema, Condition Type, Tables and Records and assigning Access Sequence to the Condition tables.
• Setup Release Procedures for purchasing documents. Defined release conditions, pre-requisites, codes, indicators, and strategies.
• Creation of Storage types. Sections, bins, removal strategies etc. TO confirmation, picking strategies.
• Configured Material Master Data (material groups, material types, field selection groups) and Vendor Master Data (field status for vendor groups, partner determination schema, account groups, partner functions, and Incoterms & Number ranges).
• Configured Vendor Evaluation for on time delivery and Quality rating.
• Configured consumption based planning for creating planned orders and Inventory based Purchase orders.
• Involved in automating the Invoice Verification process through ERS for Services Mgmt.

Confidential,Chicago IL (Feb 05 - Aug 05)
MM Functional Consultant
OfficeMax Incorporated provides both business-to-business office products solutions and retail office products.

• Provided production support to buyers and planners.
• Involved in company wide project for purchasing data harmonization for better control and enhanced reporting.
• Created technical design requirement document to create a mass change program for source list, with or without schedule agreements and MRP flag.
• Helped Business warehouse/intelligence consultant to extract purchasing data based on user requirements for reporting.

Confidential,Madison WI (Jan 04 - Feb 05)
SAP Systems Analyst – Contractor
Pacific Cycle design, manufactures, markets, and distributes bicycles and other recreational products.

• Involved in complete life cycle of implementing of SAP MM Module.
• Extensively used LSMW, and CATT scripts to map and convert legacy data into SAP.
• Customized Master data. Configured Material Hierarchy.
• Successfully handled the data migration of all material related to the plant and implemented the enhancement of custom fields required for specific country.
• Configured source list and quota arrangement for sourcing of materials.
• Defined and configured MRP, MRP controller and time fence and scheduled batch job for MRP run.
• Created and configured release strategies based on Business requirements.
• Configured third party processing and successfully handled the global sourcing of materials.
• Worked with pricing and scheduling of pricing batch jobs.
• Configured successfully the upload of vendor master data and purchasing info records.
• Configured purchasing, Stock Transport Order, subcontracting and services.
• Worked with development team to perform the Unit and integration test.
• Interacted with the other team members to facilitate the task assigned by them.

Confidential,Houston TX (Jan 00 - Sep 03)
B2B E-Procurement Programmer/Analyst
DomiNet provides complete self-contained indirect goods spend management system from requisition to vendor invoice payment process.

• Designed, developed and implemented 100% web based B2B E-Procurement P2P System.
• Implemented and designed dynamic product display system driven by user input. When the customer comes to web store, system displays product content corresponding to the vendor\'s offering.
• Implemented and designed checkout system for B2B e-commerce.
• Integrated and implemented Punch-out System with Ariba Network, which transfers order data using CXML over HTTP.
• Implemented web-based UNSPSC (United Nations Standard Products and Services Code) mapping tool.
• Integrated and implemented credit card transaction approval system with Payment Tech using Objective-C and XML.
• Implemented module for a customer to look up past orders and drafts using Objective-C.
• Implemented a product search engine which searches products offered.
• Converted applications written in Objective-C to Java.
• Wrote test plans and tested the applications accordingly.
• Environment: WebObjects, Objective-C, JAVA, JavaScript, Sybase, CSS, HTML, and PL/SQL, CXML.

Confidential,Mobile AL (Mar 98 - Dec 99)
Programmer – Internship
Omni phone produces coin, non-coin telephone systems.

• Developed and enhanced modules for inmate\'s telephone system.
• Involved in coding and testing.
• Installed Omni Phone\'s software on client\'s machines.
• Environment: Oracle 7, Pl/SQL, C, UNIX.

Education

• Bachelors in Computer and Information Systems

Minor in Business Administration

• Corporate Training in SAP R/3 4.6C Materials Management
• Corporate Training in SAP ECC 6.0 Quality Management
• Certification in CPIM