Professional Profile

Senior Consultant with (14) fourteen years of SAP consulting experience. He is a Subject Matter Expert in – SAP Order To Cash, Logistics, Procure To Pay,Vistex, Customer To Cash, Workflow, Variant Configuration, EDI, e-business and Integration Technologies. He was with Accenture for two years and IBM Business Consulting Services/PWC Consulting for six years. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He has significant expertise in managing global projects, global resourcing, strategic IT outsourcing and the implementation of IT risk mitigation strategies. He is certified in SAP All-In-One Best Practices (A1S) Integrated Business Processes as well as ASAP Focus Methodology (Fast-track 14-week Concept to Go-Live). He Certified in IS-Oil Oil & Gas Secondary Distribution

Positions Held:Sales & Distribution Lead, Vistex Pricing and Billbacks, Inventory Management Lead, Procure To Pay Lead, Customer To Cash Lead, Logistics Solution Lead, Warehouse Management Lead, Order To Cash Lead, Project Manager, EDI Lead, Development Manager and Technical Project Manager.

SAP Module Knowledge: SD, MM, LE, IM, WM, TM, GTS, IS-Oil, OGSD, VC, TD, EDI and WF

SAP Releases: mySAP ERP2005, ECC6.0, mySAP ERP2004, Netweaver7.0, Netweaver2004s, Netweaver2004, SAP Enterprise 4.7, SAP R/3 3.0D, 3.0F, 3.1G, 4.0B, 4.5B, 4.6B and 4.6C.

Notable Projects
TEVA Pharmaceutical, Cephalon Inc., Bristol Myers Squibb, Smithfield Foods, Patheon Pharmaceutical, Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Osteotech Life Science, Maxum Petroleum, Simons Petroleum, General Petroleum, AmeriGas, PepsiCo, DealerTrack, Dow Chemical, T-Mobile, Siemens, Gillette, Atkins, Lam Research, Burger King, MCI-WorldCom, Nestle USA Jet Blue, Mead Westvaco, Timken and Texas Instruments.

Industry Experience

Pharmaceuticals, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Aerospace, Hi-Tech, Food & Beverage, Telecom and Food Services.

Experience and Accomplishments

Confidential – West Chester, PA (Nov’11 – Apr’12)
Role: Order To Cash Principal Consultant
To integrate the business processes of TEVA (Oracle) and Cephalon (SAP), after TEVA purchased Cephalon to become a company with $20billion in revenue serving 60 different countries. Manoj was responsible for the design and implementation of the Order To Cash process. The integration was achieved primarily using EDI-850 (Sales Orders), EDI-856 (ASN) and EDI-810 (Invoice).He was also responsible for the Master Data Synchronization of Material Master, Batch Management, Inventory and Pricing. He wrote FDA Regulated Test Scripts and conducted two successful Go-Lives at TEVA-Cephalon.

Confidential – Princeton, NJ (Mar’11 – Oct’11)
Role: Order To Cash Principal Consultant
Responsible for architecting the new Third Party Logistics Solution (3PL) for the client based on the Exel /Red Prairie Platform. The scope of the project included the design of the following EDI based interfaces - Open Orders (940), Shipment Confirmation (856), Goods Receipts (944) and Inventory Adjustments (947). The project used HP-Quality Center (HP-QC) for running the FDA Regulated Test Scripts. The Solution Manager Tool (SOLMAN) was used for Ticket Logging and Transport Management.

Confidential - Smithfield, VA (May’10 – Mar’11)
Role: Vistex Billback Consultant -Pricing, Agreements and Claims
Smithfield/Farmland Foods is a Food Service Company selling mostly Pork based products (fresh & packaged). Responsible for running the blueprint workshops and documenting the requirements. Manoj configured Vistex Pricing, Promotions, Billbacks, Claims and Agreements processes. He wrote Functional Specifications for complex development objects such as Agreement Approval Workflow, Claims Approval Workflow, Agreement Portal Enhancement, Agreement/Claims Conversions etc.

Confidential - Toronto, CA (Jan ’10 – May’10)
Role: Sales & Distribution and Materials Management Post Go-Live Support
Patheon is a Canadian Pharmaceutical company that implemented SAP in 2009. Manoj was responsible for resolving various Sales & Distribution and Materials Management related tickets for the company. He was responsible for supporting the following SD areas Contract Management, Pricing, Delivery Processing, Billing Customer Sub-Contracting and Inter-Company Sales. He was responsible for supporting the following MM areas Purchase Orders, Purchase Contracts, and Stock Transport Orders.

Confidential - Long Island, NY (March ’10 – May ‘10)
Role: Sales & Distribution Lead
DealerTrack is a mid-sized software company. Manoj was responsible for design and configuration of the following areas - Software Bundle Sales, Revenue Recognition, Subscription Based Sales, Pricing, Software Maintenance, and Perpetual Licensing Sales.

Confidential - Oklahoma City, OK (May ’09 – Jan ‘10)
Role: SAP OTC and IS-Oil OGSD Lead
Maxum Petroleum is a privately held company in the Oil & Gas distribution business. Manoj was the SAP Oil & Gas Secondary Distribution Lead at Maxum. Manoj was primarily responsible for Dispatch and Best Buy business processes. Used ARIS for the modeling of Business Processes. His other responsibilities included TD-Driver, TD-Vehicle, Equipment Master, Wet-housing, Driver Payroll and Forecasting. Manoj installed sections of the SAP OGSD system for Maxum. Manoj was responsible for Order To Cash configuration and design.

Confidential – Valley Forge, PA (Jan ’09 – May’09)
Role: OGSD Inventory Lead
AmeriGas is the largest Propane Distributor in America. AmeriGas implemented SAP IS-Oil and Oil and Gas Secondary Distribution (OGSD) Modules. Manoj was the Inventory Management Lead for the project. Manoj designed and configured –Material Management, Physical Inventory Process and Inventory Movements. Manoj customized the Data Collation tool with Special Item Categories and Document Types in order to accommodate the Propane Cylinder Exchange process. He configured Sales Logistics Cockpit, Variant Configuration and the Best Buy functionality. He designed the Physical Inventory Workbench.

Confidential – Bridgewater, NJ (June ’08 – Jan ’09)
Role: Order To Cash Lead
Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of important medicines for patients with cancer and other life-threatening conditions. Some of the well known products are ONCASPAR®, DEPOCYT®, ABELCET® and ADAGEN®. ENZON used the SAP All-in-One Life Science Best Practices solution following the SAP ASAP Focus Methodology. The project scope included FI, SD, QM. PP and MM.
Designed a custom 3rd-Party process covering – Planning, Replenishment, Delivery, Receiving, Inventory Movements, Customer Sale and Customer Cash Receipts. This new process was used to operate the ENZON-RX Crossroads partnership which consisted of over 60% of the company revenue stream. Manoj also gathered requirements and configured – Standard Order to Cash, Plan To Deliver, Variant Configuration for Make To Order, Customer Sub-Contracting, Debit Memo, Credit Memo, Free of Charge Delivery and Sales Returns processes. He configured Resource Related Billing for ENZON Services. He also configured Periodic Billing Plans to collect payments for monthly equipment lease payments.

Confidential- Eatontown, NJ (January ’08 – July’08)
Role: Order To Cash Lead
Osteotech, Inc. is a global leader in the processing of human bone and connective tissue for transplantation and an innovator in the development, manufacturing and marketing of biologic, biomaterial and device systems for musculoskeletal surgery. Osteotech used the SAP All-in-One Life Science Best Practices solution following the SAP ASAP Focus Methodology. The project scope included FI, SD, QM and MM. Manoj gathered requirements and configured – Standard Order to Cash, Variant Configuration for Make To Order, Inventory Management, Consignment Orders, Third Party Orders, Customer Sub-Contracting, Debit Memo, Credit Memo, Free of Charge Delivery and Sales Returns processes. He setup Logistics Information System and Sales Information System (LO-SIS) for reporting profitability. He configured Resource Related Billing. He also configured Periodic Billing Plans to collect payments for monthly equipment lease payments.

Confidential - Boonton, NJ (July ’07 – December ‘08)
Role: Project Manager + SD Lead
Allure is a Mid-size $100m company that supplies bath-room accessories to big retail stores like Walmart, K-Mart and Target. Allure used the SAP All-in-One Wholesale Distribution Best Practices solution following the SAP ASAP Focus Methodology. The project scope included FI, SD, WM, MM and EDI. Managed a team of 6 consultants onsite, 5 consultants offshore and a client project staff of about 30 people. Responsible for the full project planning and delivery for the full project lifecycle. It was a fast-track 18 week implementation with a consulting revenue of approx $500,000. He was also the Order-To-Cash and EDI Lead. He installed the SAP All-In-One Best Practices (A1S) Building Blocks.

Confidential – Chicago, IL (Mar’06 – July ’07)
Role: Logistics Solution Lead (Sales Order Management, Transportation Planning and Warehousing)
Configured Order To Cash, Variant Configuration, SD, Stock Transport Orders, EDI and WMS process.
He was responsible for managing a team of 40, (10 members of his team work on-site in Chicago and 30 members working in India). He was responsible for architecting delivering the full Logistics Solution for Pepsi. Team consists of Configuration Specialists, Systems Analysts, Application Integration Developers (TIBCO, Informatica and XI) and SAP Developers. He was responsible for the project work-planning, resource leveling, weekly performance metrics aggregation and reporting. He visited the Indian team once every three months to help put together new processes, revamp existing processes and kickoff major project campaigns. He was named a Key player that the CIO of PepsiCo picked to be in Warehouse Management Integration SWAT team.

Confidential– Midland, MI (May ’05 – March ’06)
Role: Lead Architecture Specialist
Dow Chemical is a $40 Billion company with complex integration requirements. He was the Lead Architect Specialist for Dow Enterprise Integration. He was responsible for defining the Dow Integration Roadmap for the next 5 years.

Confidential – Queens, NY (Mar ’05 – May ’05)
Role: Project Manager
Project Scope: Jet Blue decided to implement SAP for all Financial, Purchasing and Human Resource functions. Software : mySAPERP 2004 Enterprise, Web Application Server 6.4 and Netweaver, Exchange Infrastructure (XI 3.0), SAP Portal Employee Self Service (ESS) / Manager Self Service (MSS), Solution Manager.
Role Project Manager (Infrastructure and Application Development)
Responsible for managing the basis-infrastructure, security, portal and the development teams. He was responsible for developing the project technical work plan, the effort estimation and resource leveling plans. He setup the Earned Value Management (EVM) tracking system for the PMO, in order to track the progress of the project. He was responsible for developing the RICE development strategy documents. He evaluated various SAP & IBM Accelerators / Rapid Implementation Tools and picked the most suitable ones for the project.

Confidential – Dayton, OH (Oct ’04 – Mar ’05)
Role: MM Process Consultant and E-Commerce Strategy
Configured Purchase Contracts, Purchase Orders and Stock Transport Orders.
He was asked to evaluate the current E-Commerce business practices and make recommendations for changes. He worked closely with Analysts from Gartner and Forrester in proposing the E-Commerce Strategy for the client.

Confidential– Long Island, NY (June ‚4 – Oct ‚04)
Project Scope: Atkins Nutritional was growing at a fast pace and wanted to replace the current AS400 based system with SAP. Configured Order To Cash and SD.
Role: SD and EDI Team Lead
Software SAP 4.7 Enterprise, Web Application Server 6.2 and Netweaver; Harbinger/Inovis Trusted Link 5.4. Responsible for managing a team of 6 people, two of his team members were working offsite. The EDI scenarios included all of the purchasing, sales, invoicing and third party warehousing scenarios. The EDI scope included 29 EDI interfaces which included transactions such as 850, 855, 940, 945, 947, 856, 810, 214 and 943.

Confidential – Seattle, WA (April ‘03 – June ’04)
Project Scope: T-Mobile decided to replace the core businesses from People Soft to SAP. The scope of the project included modules – Finance, Controlling, Assets, Project Systems, Procurement and Logistics
Role: Project Manager SAP Application Development
Software SAP 4.7 Enterprise, Web Application Server 6.2 and Netweaver.
Responsible for managing a team of 26. 12 members of his team were on-site developers and 14 members were off-site working in India. He was responsible for the design and delivery of over 250 custom objects. Contributed to the definition of the Statement of Work and estimated the work/effort requirements for all custom developments. He expanded the capabilities of the Ascendant Toolset for enhancing its tracking and reporting capabilities. Built a new Ascendant based development request tracking system. He established new development guidelines and standards for the project. He built several good project planning, tracking and reporting tools. He was involved in the technical design and approval of all of the custom objects developed on the project. He managed the development side of the upgrade to SAP 4.7 version.

Confidential– Miami, FL (Dec ‘02 – Mar ’03)
Role: SAP HR Compensation Workflow Consultant
Software SAP R/3 4.6C
Burger King wanted to use workflow to manage the HR Compensation Management of the company and the many franchises that the company owns. The scope of the project entails all the way from the CEO to the Franchisee Managers. He was responsible for workflow customization and development. He integrated workflow with SAP-Portals and Outlook. The workflow used components from with HR info-type 380 (compensation) and info-type 105(communication). The work involved complex workflow object programming and role resolution programming. Also developed a workflow administration and basis maintenance guide

Confidential – Freemont, CA (July ‘02 – Oct ’02)
Role: SAP MM Purchasing & Integration Lead
Software SAP R/3 4.6C, ESIS Supplier Marketplace
Lam Research wanted to replace their paper-based procurement process to an electronic communication medium using ESIS Supplier Marketplace and automate the internal SAP procurement process. Manoj was responsible for the functional configuration as well as technical development. Responsible for the business process reengineering, interface design, data mapping, gap-identification, gap-resolution, MM-Purchasing configuration, ALE configuration, unit testing, full cycle test, transport resolution, troubleshooting activities, issue resolution and post implementation support. Supported a team of five off-site developers to lead and support in making this effort a big success. The transactions developed included Purchase Orders, Purchase Order Response, and Request for PO Status, Request for PO Status Acknowledgement and Advanced Shipment Notification.

Confidential– Atlanta, GA (April ‘02 – June ’02)
Role: Service Parts Planning & Optimization Consultant
Software SAP R/3 4.6C, Sevigistics
Sevigistics is an Atlanta based software company that makes planning and forecasting tools.
PWCC formed an alliance with Sevigistics to provide the consulting services, and to demonstrate the capabilities of Sevigistics in Sapphire 2002. He was responsible for the Interface design, data mapping, gap-identification, gap-resolution, functional configuration, unit testing and full cycle test. Interfaces Developed - Material Master, Demand History, Stock Amounts, Install Base Data, Open Orders, Optimal Stocking Levels, Replenishment Data, Repair Orders and Procurement Orders.

Confidential– Philadelphia, PA (August ‘01 – April ‘02])
Role SAP MM Purchasing & Integration Lead
Software SAP Markets Enterprise Buyer Professional, SAPM MarketSet Connector, SAPM MarketSet Order Management and SAPM MarketSet Analytics SAP Markets awarded PWCC the status of Most Valuable Partner in 2001 and this project was awarded to PWCC as part of this new relationship. SAP Markets new dimensional products Enterprise Buyer Professional, MarketSet Order Management and MarketSet Analytics will be integrated with Oracle Application and PeopleSoft backend systems.
He was responsible for the workflow design, configuration and development. Provided the integration architecture design and blueprinting. Completed cross system data mapping and integration design. He also completed the configuration of EBP functionality and communication technology. He was responsible for MarketSet Connector and MarketSet Order Management configuration

Confidential – Orlando, FL (March ’01 – August ’01)
Role:SAP MM Purchasing & Integration Lead
Software: SAP R/3 4.6C, Commerce One Supply Order
The client wanted to implement Commerce One direct materials e-marketplace application - Supply Order and integrate it with SAP. The Supply Order solution will be replacing the existing EDI system. MarketSet Connector was used to map the IDOC format to XCBL formats and vice versa.
Configured MM Purchasing module. He was responsible for integrating SAP (IDOC) and Supply Order (XCBL) transactions -Purchase Order, Purchase Order Change, Purchase Order Response, Advanced Shipment Notification and Invoice. Manoj was responsible for driving the mapping effort, identifying the gaps and providing gap resolution. He conducted regular meetings on gaps with representatives from C1 Supply Order, SAP Markets MarketSet Connector and client staff. Planned and executed extensive testing - unit testing, full cycle test, cutover testing, day-in-the-life testing, volume testing. MarketSet Connector / Business Connector - configuration and connectivity to C1; Marketsite.net and supplier setup; Troubleshooting failed transactions and analysis of different MarketSet Connector logs.

Confidential – Boston, MA (Aug ’99 – March’01)
Role:Lead SAP SD Consultant
Software: SAP R/3 4.5B, 4.6B
Integration leader for the integration of via ware Warehouse Management System and Freight Logic Transportation Planning Systems with SAP. Led the team through two great go-lives, the fist project go-Live was on Aug 15, 2000 at the California distribution center and the next roll out was on Jan 1,2001at the Canadian distribution center. Every 2-3 months there will be one new plant going live with this new process. Ultimately all Gillette plants globally will be using this new process.
Configured Order To Cash and SD modules. Conducted two full cycle Implementations which included scope definition, resource planning, development, unit testing, full cycle test, cutover testing, day-in-the-life testing, volume testing, production cutover and post implementation support. Documented the business requirements, identified the gaps and provided gap-resolution. He was responsible for the Workflow error handling design, configuration and development.

Confidential – Glendale, CA (Sept’98 – Aug’99)
Role:SAP Application Integration Architect
Software: SAP R/3 4.0B
Responsible for the requirement analysis study, gap-analysis, gap-resolution, data mapping, ALE / EDI customizing, IDOC development of the following interfaces:

• Integration of ARIBA ORMS with SAP for Nestle E Buy (Business to Business Commerce)
• Integration of SAP with Factory Management Systems(Legacy) ,Commodities Purchasing Systems(Legacy) using ALE and Order Life Cycle ( Datawarehouse ) using ALE
• EDI 810 Customer invoice outbound using EDI and EDI 850 customer purchase order Inbound using EDI

Confidential, Singapore (Dec ’97 - Aug’98)
Role:SAP Application Developer
Client:Confidential
Software: SAP R/3 3.1G,
Configured ALE and did several of the IDOC interface programs. He documented the business requirements and technical specifications. He created over 45 operational and analysis reports for SD, FI, MM, CO and PP. He also developed eight data conversion programs.

Bachelor of Engineering Electronics

Training
Project Management: Experienced Project Management Training at IBM, Armonk; Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from Project Management Institute (PMI)
Consulting Profession: Method Blue Academy- Package Solutions Integration Domain Overview; Global Services Method; Core Consulting - Deep Blue C; Method BLUE Leadership & Solution Design
Methodology: Accenture Delivery Methods, IBM SAP Ascendant Methodology; Project Management Institute PMBOK Methodology; SAP ASAP Methodology and SAP ASAP Focus Methodology
Business Process Design and Configuration: Certified in IS-Oil Oil & Gas Secondary Distribution;
Certified in SAP Best Practices Processes and ASAP Focus Methodology; Business Process Design; Business Process Management; SAP Materials Management and Procurement Training Sales & Distribution Fundamentals; Efficient R/3 Implementation Training using Business Engineering Workbench; SAP IS-Oil and Oil and Gas Secondary Distribution (OGSD).
Business Strategy: Business Strategy - Business Design Specialty Course; Full Value Procurement Mastery
Technology:
BIT400 - Netweaver Exchange Infrastructure (XI) Configuration at SAP, San Francisco;
PAIT10 - SAP Partner Academy Advanced Interface Technologies at SAP, Singapore;
CA910 - Application Link Enabling at SAP, Singapore
CA210 - EDI Interface at SAP, Singapore;
BC620 - SAP IDOC Interface at SAP, Singapore;
i2 Rhythm Link training at i2 Technologies, TX.