SAP MM Consultant

Enterprising and diligent consultant with expertise in SAP MM implementation and support, excellent communication, analytical and client service skills looking for a challenging role in SAP MM with an organization that values professional excellence, innovation and best solution.

Executive Summary:

• A highly motivated professional with over 7 years of strong functional experience which includes SAP MM Implementation, Customization and Production Support with touch points in PP, WM, LE and IS Retail.
• Strong background with Engineering and MBA and experience in business process methodology.
• StrongSAP Data Migration skillsfrom different legacy systems like:Visibility, and Solomon.
• ExtensiveSAP Data Migrationexperience by conventional method of Creating Tables, Views, Stored Procedures, Functions, and Transformation rules.
• Successfully completed 3 Full Life Cycle Implementations.
• Expertise in all implementation phases of "Project preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-live, and Post Go-Live Production Support".
• Supported all the phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, configuration, testing, and deployment of solutions, post-production support/maintenance, documentation, and end-user training.
• Extensive experience in Cross-functional integration across various modules of SAP viz., FI, PP, WM with MM.
• Extensive experience in Material, Vendor master data and open PO, Inventory/stock data migration into SAP ECC system.
• Configuration of Materials Master including definition of views required, Number Ranges for Material types, Configuration of MRP with consumption based planning and re-order point planning.
• Vendor Master configuration including creation of Account Groups and usage of Partner functions and Partner Schema determination and their assignment to document types and account groups.
• Configurations for standard and custom movement types including screen layout definition and number range assignment.
• Configuration of Purchasing Info Record, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Scheduling Agreement, Contract, Quota Arrangement involving definition of Document Types, Number Ranges, Screen Layout, Release procedures for purchasing documents, message type, Access sequence, Message determination schema.
• Valuation and Account Assignment configuration including definition of Valuation Control, grouping of Valuation Areas, definition of Valuation Classes, Account groupings and Automatic G/L Account Assignment.
• Utilized extensive Inventory and accounting background in business process analysis and design, hence successfully acted as a "liaison" to the technical team and end users during the full life cycle SAP implementations. Successfully designed Functional design (FD) documents and worked with technical teams for various RICEF objects.
• Worked with cross functional teams at various levels to effectively gather requirements, drive process improvements and best practices and deliver solutions.
• Expertise on production support and ticket resolving.
• Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Excellent verbal and written Communication Skills.
• Ability to learn quickly and take up new tasks and responsibilities.
• Work effectively in cross-functional team environments and experience of providing training to business users.
• Willingness to get an opportunity to work on other modules and take full responsibility and project leadership roles.

Technical Skills:

ERP Package : SAP-R/3 4.0, SAP ERP 4.6c, 4.7,e, 6B, ECC 6.0.
SAP Modules : SAP MM, WM
Operating Systems : MS Windows 9x/2000/XP, UNIX, MS DOS
Web Technologies/GUI: HTML, VB 6
Others : MS-Word, MS-Excel and MS-PowerPoint

Education & Certifications:

• Master's in Business Administration
• Bachelors in Engineering

Professional Experience:

Confidential, Buffalo, NY July'11-Till Date
SAP MM Consultant ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Design, Development, Integration testing, performance testing of data migration processes, and on-going maintenance of Master Data, Transaction data using SAPMDMand other migration tools.
• Lead SAP Data migrationteamfor Legacy data analysis, Master Data (Materials, Vendors), and transactional data (inventory, open PO) collection, extraction, cleansing, harmonization, and transformation to load into SAP.
• Design, develop and maintaindata migration programs and manage migration tools like LSMW.
• Developed long-term partnerships with suppliers; acquiring techno-commercial offers from various vendors; undertaking reconciliation of vendor accounts for pending materials and payments.
• Monitoried quality of procured material through regular meetings and interacting with suppliers for timely supply & services at competitive cost; negotiating complex commercial agreements with vendors.
• Configured MRP and customizing experience in MM in Purchasing, CBP, Inventory Management, Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV) and Vendor Evaluation.
• Provided SAP Functional Design documents for development team including full life cycle implementation.
• Assisted in post go live documentation to aid in the continuing support of the SAP Implementation.
• Organized and facilitated Business Process workshops to define as-is and to-be processes for Procure-To-Pay processes involving representation from 3 manufacturing sites from different geographical locations.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing with Business Partners and IT.
• Defined Organizational Unit hierarchy and their assignments.
• Successfully configured Materials Master including Material Types, definition of views, required Number Ranges for Material types etc.
• Defined Message types, Access sequences, Message Determination Schema for Output Control of Purchase Orders.
• Defined of Condition types, Access sequences, Calculation schema, Scheme groups and Schema Determination for Pricing in Purchase Orders.
• Extensive knowledge of Inventory Management including GR/IR, Transfer Posting, Stock Transfer Automotive Movement, Movement Types, and Reservations.
• Purchasing-sub-contracting using BOMs, Consignments, external procurements Requisitions, contracts, scheduling agreements, Invoicing, RFQs, PR/RFQs/PO/release procedures and confirmations, pricing procedures, Quota arrangements, source list, Info records, Vendor Evaluation, Master records.
• Successfully worked with FI team for Account Determination.
• Configured automatic and manual account determination, split valuation, invoice verification and MRP including customization and enhancement in MM.
• Designed complex warehouse structures, and configured placement, Removal, Replenishment, Inbound/Outbound deliveries, Posting Changes, Stock Transfer, Storage Unit Management and Batch Management.
• Configured Order types, Delivery Types, Contracts, Transportation, pricing condition, Master Data, Account Determination, Billing and payment processing and batch management.
• Worked with FICO team during FI MM integration and in grouping Valuation Areas into Valuation Grouping Code.
• Data migration and conceptual design for master data transformation in IM/WM modules from legacy system to SAP & validation of data integrity and good experience in working with LSMW.Worked with LSMW with standard Batch/direct input and batch input recording.
• Purchasing – Configured and customized Purchase Requisition, Purchase Orders, Setting of Document Type, Source Determination, SLED and Number Assignment for Internal and External Purchasing document. Configure release procedure with/without Classification. Settings for special procurement process including Subcontracting, Vendor consignments and pipeline.
• Extensive experience in setting up, and customizing master data in MM.
• Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and Regression Testing.
• Successfully prepared Functional Design Documents and worked with teams for RICEF objects.

Confidential, Ohio Jun'10-Jun'11
SAP MM Consultant, ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Managed and build strategies to take care all the phases of Data Migration and various methodologies as per customer requirement.
• Main responsibility includes: data analysis of legacy systems and assist with the preparation of a physical data model; data quality assessment of data from legacy systems; transformation of data using data mapping, business rules and logic; identification of data quality issues and reporting of these issues to the business; reconciliation of data and delivery of the relevant artifacts in a timely manner; resolve critical technical issues in effective ways.
• Responsible for all the data migration jobs, which include preparing all the relevant templates, setting up LSMW based on the requirements.
• Uploaded Vendor Master and Material Master into SAP system using LSMW.
• Configured Purchasing documents such as Requisitions, Purchase Order Optimization processes, Inventory Management, MRP, Vendor Master, Material Master, Invoice Verification and providing SAP MM functionality knowledge sharing to end users.
• Analyzed Client purchasing methodology to optimize processes within SAP R/3 by configuring Automatic PO generation, updating PIR from purchasing documents such as PO and Outline Agreements, maintaining Source List requirement at Plant level, and defining Processing Time for PR, PO and GR.
• In IM, configured GR so postings were made to appropriate Stock Status such as Unrestricted-Use, Quality Inspection, and Blocked Stock or GR Blocked Stocked. Did Inter-warehouse transfers, involving Storage Location to Storage Location Transfer. Carried out Reservations and Goods Issue.
• Carried out subcontracting and consignment PO and defined Plants, and maintained Storage Locations for each Plant.
• Mapping and customizing the price determination process by using condition techniques and access sequences.
• Actively supported the company wide replenishment process in the supply chain group like MRP, RP, Promotions, Physical Inventory, Retail Store functions.
• Configured Purchasing structure, Inventory Management, Goods Receipt, invoice verification and stock movements.
• Defined Release Procedures for purchasing documents.
• Logistic Invoice verification configuration (LIV) involving System Messages, Vendor Tolerance Group, Planned Delivery Costs etc.
• Vendor Master configuration including creation of Account Groups and usage of Partner functions and Partner Schema determination and their assignment to document types and account groups.
• Implemented Inter-company and Intra-company Stock Transport Order (STO) scenarios.
• Develop Design templates for legacy data mapping and developed LSMW for data migration.
• Successfully migrated Material, Vendor master data and open PO, Stocks data into SAP.
• Directly involved with Assembly, Integration and authorization testing.

Confidential, VA Jun'09-May'10
SAP MM Consultant ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Defined number ranges for various documents like Purchase Order, Purchase Requisition etc.
• Successfully configured new Material Types as per the requirement of client and created several Valuation Classes and Account Category References. Lined Material Types to Valuation Classes via ACR.
• Customized Invoice Verification with Vendor wise tolerance limits as per the business requirements.
• Worked with technical consultants to develop data migration related programs.
• Coordinated with project functional and technical consultants to execute data migration
• Enhanced standard Purchase Order form to include Ship to address by line item.
• Maintained Source List requirement at Plant level.
• Defined attributes of Material Types and activated assigned material Views for the departments.
• Created Purchasing Groups as per project specifications.
• Worked with FI team in grouping Valuation Areas into Valuation Grouping Code.
• Maintained Plant settings in IM for goods movements with respect to automatic SLCO creation.
• Master Records - Worked extensively with master records by maintaining different material types, internal and external number assignment, configure material group, configure partner schema, assign partner roles to vendor, material group, and user departments for material master and defined payment terms for vendor master, Info record.
• Worked on configuration of Inventory Management: Number Assignment, Field Selection (Goods receipts, Goods issue/Transfer postings).
• Involved in Master data migration for Vendor, Material, pricing data
• Vendor Evaluation, RFQ/ Quotation/Quotation Entry and analysis/PO/Automatic Vendor known/unknown, Confirmation and Release Procedures.
• Successfully configured and defined Pricing Condition types, Access Sequence, Condition Tables, Calculation Schemas, Schema groups, Schema determination.
• Configured Inventory Management Parameters for all Goods movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, GR for blocked stock, Goods returns etc.,
• Created storage location automatically for different movement types with Goods issue/Transfer posting and Goods receipt.

Confidential, Horsham, PA Jun'07-May'09
SAP MM Consultant ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements in the area of SAP MM and created a working document for mapping the various processes relevant for interfaces.
• Developed Functional Specifications based on the business requirements and interaction with the subject matter experts, developed and users.
• Worked on Product Support. The scope of support includes resolution of problems logged by the end users. Committed duration and application of Support Packages.
• Successfully configured new Pricing Procedures, Condition Types, Access Sequences, Accesses and Condition Tables for automatic pricing.
• Hands-on Configuration experience in SAP Material Management (MM), Inventory Management (IM), and Warehouse Management (WM).
• Successfully completed Blueprinting, Realization, Integration Test Cycles, Data Conversion and Cut Over Activities, Designed Gap Analysis, Workarounds and Technical Development Specification.
• Designed development and testing of Functional Specifications for RICEFW Objects.
• Successfully configured Purchasing Info Record, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Scheduling Agreement, Contract, and Quota Agreement involving definition of Document Types, Number Ranges, and Screen Layout etc.
• Workflow Configuration for Release Procedure and Invoice Verification.
• Successfully Configured Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV) involving System Messages, Vendor Tolerance Group, Planned Delivery Costs etc.
• Configured standard and custom movement types including screen layout definition and number range assignment.
• Vendor Master Configuration including creation of Account Groups, and usage of Partner Functions and Partner Schema Determination and their assignment to Document Types and Account Groups.
• Defined Organizational Unit hierarchy and their Assignments.
• Supported business implementations by sharing best practice and configuration skills.
• Responded to user requirements, problem resolution, develop designs, and processes.
• Conducted configuration changes to accommodate change requests.

Confidential, Anjar, India Apr'05-May'07
SAP MM Consultant, ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Followed ASAP Implementation methodology and designed business processes, wrote blueprint phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.
• During the Blueprint stage conducted workshops involving Purchasing, Logistics, Merchandise Distributions, MRP, Replenishment, Stock Order.
• Direct interaction and meetings with the Business Process owners to understand the existing business processes and the customer specific requirements.
• Studied existing business process in the context of material management and decided To-Be Process to suit client objectives and mapped to the system.
• Successfully carried out Gap Analysis and completed the study of system deficiencies with regards to SAP delivered functionality.
• Configured Material Master including Material types, Defined Views and assigned number ranges for Material Types etc.
• Configured Vendor Master including Account Groups, and Partner Schema Determination.
• Successfully configured Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Reorder point Based Planning (ROP) and Consumption Based Planning.
• Implemented Stock Transport Order (STO) scenarios, Batch Management for inbound shipments, and Prepared Functional Specifications for RICEFs.
• Configuration of the project covering Merchandise Distribution, Material Master, Purchase order, Goods Movement, Customer Master, Vendor Master, Stock Transport Orders, Purchase Orders, and Delivery Documents.
• Worked with FI team for Account Determination.
• Active participation during UAT and Go-Live Phase, solving the issues reported by the client teams.
• Carried out Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and Regression Testing.