SAP PROFILE

• Working as Sr SAP Technical consultant with 9 years of experience in SAP ABAP.
• As a Techno-Functional consultant has hands on experience in various functional areas ranging from Sales & Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), WM, FI/CO, PP, PM, PS, HR, IS-Oil, IS-Utilities, Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Transportation Management Solution (TMS), APO (SPP & DP), CRM (Sales & Marketing).
• Has implementation experience in various industries like Logistics, Oil & Gas Industries, Manufacturing Industry, Chemical Industry and Textile & Polymers.
• Accomplished professional with expertise in RICEFW development and worked in the areas of Implementation & Development, Upgrade, and Maintenance & Support.
• Worked in various areas of ABAP like WEB – DYNPRO, WEB Services, RFC, BAPI, Development workbench, Reports (Classical & Interactive), Module Pool/ Dialog Programming, Menu Painter, Screen Painter, Function Modules, SAP Scripts, Smartforms, Adobe forms, Workflow, BSP, ABAP Query, BDC, Data Dictionary, LSMW, ALE/IDoc, ALV, ABAP Objects, HR Info types, Logical Database, User Exits, Enhancements, BADIs and Formula & Derivation Tool.
• Involved in upgrade from 4.6c to 4.7 and familiar with transactions SPDD and SPAU.
• Has good functional knowledge in SCM – EWM & SCM –TMS, Sales & Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), SAP CRM,
• Experienced in end to end Order to Cash (OTC) process involving sales order, delivery & Billing and MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) Process.

• Good understanding of APO with experience in DP & SPP (Spare Parts Planning).
• Hands-on Experience in trouble shooting, performance tuning, writing technical specifications from functional design specifications and implementing OSS notes.
• Involved in creating and customizing various Layout sets, Driver/Print programs and Output types for printing different SAP documents and labels using SAP Scripts, Smartforms and Adobe forms.
• Working Knowledge of SAP BW and Middleware SAP XI, MQ Series.
• Has Experience in Working with ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0 and involved in 4 Full SAP life cycle Implementations.
• Experienced in Data Migration and Data Uploads using Batch Data Communication Program (BDC’s), BAPI, Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) and workflow.
• Involved in Master data transfer with BAPI and RFC, creating RFC destinations, Logical System and Partner Profile generations.
• Experienced with Sustain Activities like Go-live Support and Production Support.
• Experience in leading the Team to deliver the Solutions without breaching the SLA’s in Implementation and Sustain Process.
• Extensive Experience in analyzing complicated business process and creating functional and technical Specifications
• A result oriented approach with a good proven track record with excellent interpersonal and good communication skills with proactive attitude and leadership qualities.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology

TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP : SAP R/3 version 4.0, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, IS-Oil, IS-U
New Dimension SAP : SAP SCM 5.0 (APO – DP, SPP), SAP CRM 5.0,
GUI : SAPGUI, Web Dynpro.
Programming Languages : ABAP, C
Middleware : MQ Series
DBMS : SQL Server 2000/2005, MS Access, Oracle 8i.
Web Technologies : Java, HTML, XML.
Operating System : UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 95/98/2000/ XP/Vista.
SAP EXPERIENCE
Client : Confidential, TX - USA.
Duration : Sep 2008 – Till Date.
Role : Sr SAP Technical Consultant
Environment : SAP R/3 4.6C, ECC 5.0 (IS-Oil), WEB Services

Client Profile : Confidential

Project : R/3 Application Development (MTS)
Description : The SAP Movement Tracking System (MTS) is to assist in the Scheduling, Tracking and Posting of inventory movements at NuStar. These inventory movements include Sales Orders (SO), Purchase Orders (PO) and Stock Transport Orders (STO). MTS is highly integrated with NuStar’s SAP back office system, allowing for the creation of customer invoices, goods receipts and inventory movements related to NuStar Commercial Marketing and Supply activity. It is a role based application. It integrates with SAP to allow for E-mail and faxing capabilities of event alerts and nomination activity. All the information captured within MTS is exportable to a spreadsheet environment if so desired.
Functional areas involved are SD, MM, PM and FI/CO.
Contribution:

• Analysis and review of Business Requirements.
• Involved in designing the solution and preparation of Detailed Technical design.
• Developed Release maintenance transaction (Module pool) using Table controls and Tab strip controls.
• Developed a screen which links release to a text container which uploads text for respective release legs into text database.
• Developed transaction for AFS (Authorization for Service) maintenance.
• Involved in database design and development, creation of data dictionary objects.
• Creation of conversion programs for creation/ change and reversals of documents using BDC and customizing tables.
• Involved in creating and consuming web services to provide/get transportation data from third party application.
• Development of function modules for conversion programs to call dynamically.
• Implemented Work order enhancement (IW31) to have custom fields on work order tab.
• Implemented a menu exit for the transaction IW31/IW32 to have customer menu. Created of output forms using Scripts/ Smart Forms.
• Developed print programs to send movement data (Ticket/Release info) to partners.
• Developed a report to send AR (Account Receivables) Aging report to D&B on every month 15th.
• Involved in all phases of project form Design/Development to Go-Live.

Client : Confidential, IL - USA.
Duration : July 2007 – Aug 2008.
Role : SAP Techno-Functional Consultant
Environment : SAP SCM 5.0, SAP R/3 ECC 5.0, SAP CRM 5.0
Client Profile : Confidential
Project : SCM 5.0 Implementation
Description : This project is SCM implementation which has Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Service Parts Planning (APO-SPP) along with Customer relationship management (CRM 5.0).Currently the business is running on Mainframes system which takes care of Warehouse Management and partially used for planning and forecasting purpose. It is migrated to SAP SCM which will enable Constant optimization and evaluation of the supply chain network’s efficiency and also offers robust Planning and Forecasting Techniques. This solution contains major areas Demand Requirement Planning (DRP), Forecasting, Lead Times, EOQ & SS Calculation, Supersession (Interchangeability) and Triggers.

Contribution: I was involved in the following activities-

• Providing high level technical design to team members.
• Communication with the Business Analysts on Issues/Clarifications.
• Responsible for performing the Technical unit tests and Functional Unit test.
• Responsible for Development of complex ABAP objects, Reviewing of Specs / Code, preparation of Object Deliverables.
• Developed a transaction for Mass Load via UI to upload legacy data into SAP.
• Developed customized super-session screens to have customer fields.
• Involved in Legacy data conversion using LSMW, BAPI & IDocs.
• Created conversion program for uploading triggers data into SAP.
• Created program to upload forecasting profile parameters into SAP system.
• Created program to upload forecasting Key figures data.
• Developed various implicit enhancements and implemented OSS notes.
• Developed an implicit enhancement to calculate safety stock.
• Developed an implicit enhancement to calculate lead time.
• Designed and developed custom BW Extractors for forecasting.
• Developed a custom extractor to extract all forecasting key figures data.
• Developed a custom extractor to extract forecasting profile parameters.

Project : SAP R/3 Implementation
Description :This project is SAP R/3 implementation of MM, WM and SD modules. Caterpillar has two clients (MHI & SCM) which have big warehouses for machinery and spare parts in Japan. This solution is implemented to cater the daily needs of business and to expedite Inbound Process (like Inspection, Concepting, Packing and Storage) & outbound process (like Picking, Packing, Loading and Shipping) for warehouse. This system is integrated with Mainframes system (Legacy system) where some of the business activities are carried out and MQ Series is used as middleware.

Contribution: I was involved in the following activities-

• Analysis and review of Business Requirements.
• Providing high level technical design to team members.
• Communication with the Business Analysts on Issues/Clarifications.
• Analysis and review of detailed Technical Specs, providing high level technical design to team members and walk through Code reviews.
• Responsible for performing the Technical and Functional Unit test.
• Involved in all phases of project from development, unit testing, integration testing and Go-Live.
• Developed a custom transaction for bundling process.
• Developed a custom transaction for packaging and printing.
• Involved in Legacy data conversion using BDC and IDocs.
• Created a program to create Delivery document in back ground.
• Created a program for Sales Order creation based on the data received from mainframes system.
• Implemented customer exit to Copy Packing Proposal into out bound Deliveries.
• Developed customer enhancement to have own document number by passing own number range object.
• Developed Scripts to print Put away Tags/Process Tags / Pick tags with barcodes.
• Developed IDoc Programs which involves shipping requisition interface/push decision interface, shipping confirmation interface.

Client : Confidential
Duration : Jan 2007 - June 2007.
Role : SAP Techno-Functional Analyst
Environment : SCM 5.0, Java, Teradata database.

Project : Teradata – APO Integration
Description : This is an Add-on for the Teradata customers who can use it to integrate with SAP APO for better performance bypassing the APO – BW component. Data loading from BW to LiveCache and back takes considerable time. This involves data conversion from Planning Area format (linked lists) to BW cubes format (star schema Complex macros require more time to run – as they do not use any database operations like grouping / summing / direct updates. To overcome the above issues Teradata planned to develop an adapter which will directly connect to LiveCache for extraction of data and as well as to load the data into LiveCache.
Contribution: I was involved in the following activities-

• Analysis and review of Software Requirements.
• Designed the solution for the extraction LiveCache data into Teradata and Loading of Data from Teradata into LiveCache.
• Developed/coordinated for the entire solution.
• Analysis and review of detailed Technical Specs & Code.
• Responsible for improving performance.
• Responsible for performing the Unit Test and Integration Testing.
• Responsible to customize and map the adapter settings.
• Developed BAPI/ RFC to create and load the tables in Teradata.
• Designed/developed Selection-Screens to get the data Extraction/Loading.
• Involved in all phases of project form Design/Development to Go-Live.

Client : Confidential
Duration : Sep 2005 - Dec 2006.
Role : SAP Consultant
Environment : SAP R/3 4.6 C, SCM 5.0, SCM 6.0, SAP CRM4.0,

Project : SAP SCM Transport Management Solution
Description: (SCM – TMS 6.0) - This is a core product development project of SAP Supply Chain Management.TMS will be a part of my SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM6.0) which is slated to release in mid 2007. This solution will cater to the needs of Logistics Service Providers as well as Shippers. This solution is intended to optimize the Transportation costs and planning the Transportation steps/stages. It offers Route optimization, Vehicle Scheduling (existing TP/VS in APO), Freight Costing for various geographies and for different modes of Transportations.
Contribution: I took part in the development of Freight Cost Evaluation which is core part of TMS 6.0 to calculate shipping charges.

• Identifying the different objects to be developed during Gap analysis.
• Analysis and review of detailed Technical Specs & Code.
• Responsible for improving performance.
• Involved in customizing the different scenarios for testing.
• Responsible for performing the Technical unit tests and Functional Unit test.
• Monitoring day to day activities of every team member.
• Feasibility study of using CRM Pricing engine to use in Shipping Calculation.
• Identifying different integration points with Freight calculation.
• Responsible for developing Freight booking and Freight Agreement transactions using Web-Dynpros.

Project : SAP SCM – EWM 5.0 Development
Description : This is a core product development project of SAP Supply Chain Management.EWM is a part of my SAP Supply Chain Management. It deals with Delivery Processing, Monitoring, Work Scheduling,Execution, Shipping and Receiving, and Physical Inventory. This is an important part of the SCM 5.0 release. This module will carter the needs of huge de-central warehouses by automation,with minimum resources requirement. Highly efficient in integrating de-central warehouses with ERP.

Contribution:

• Analysis and review of Business Requirements.
• Configured and tested the master data for the transactions involving Inbound Delivery Process and involving Outbound Delivery Process.
• Configuration of outbound delivery functions like handling units(HU) and pricing in delivery for freight calculation and transfer these prices to Shipments
• Communication with the Business Analysts on Issues/Clarifications.
• Responsible for improving performance.
• Involved in customizing the different scenarios for testing.
• Responsible for performing the Technical unit tests and Functional Unit test.
• Monitoring day to day activities of every team member.
• Develop work plans and monitor them towards completion.
• Conducting weekly reviews for the development.
• Developed interfaces for Inbound and Outbound Scenarios.
• Involved in developing Warehouse Monitor Transaction.
• Responsible to conduct object walk through, Spec/Code reviews etc.
• Responsible to create the test data in R/3 and SCM.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan and Unit Test Results

Client : Confidential
Shell is one of the major Oil and gas Products Company in the world,
having turnover of US $ 20 billion and operations at more than 120
countries.
Duration : May 2004 to Aug 2005
Role : ABAP Consultant
Environment : SAP R/3 4.0B, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7D (IS-Oil).
Project
Description: Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies. It is one of the major Oil and gas Products Company in the world, with turnover of US $ 20 billion and operations in more than 110 countries, Shell with 104,000 employees play a key role in helping to meet the world’s growing demand for energy. I have worked in various development and support projects of shell for different geographical locations.
Modules involved are SD, MM, PM, PS, HR and Bulk Transportation (TD).
Involved in the following activities-

• Preparation of technical specifications from functional spec.
• Design of data flow with the consideration of performance issues and coding standards Object development and peer review of the developments.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan and Unit Test Results.
• Involved in upgrade from 4.6c to 4.7 used a transactions SPDD and SPAU.
• Involved in developing Data Conversion programs for Master data like Material Master, Customer Master, Vendor Master and Transaction data like Sales Orders, Purchase Orders using BDC /BAPI & LSMW.
• Developed Classical/Interactive/ALV reports in SD, MM and FI/CO areas.
• Developed Layouts/Print programs for various documents in different languages like Route Lists, Delivery Documents etc.
• Developed custom transactions for purchase group maintenance & tranche maintenance using module pool programming.
• Developed User exits/Customer exits in sales area to save the data into custom tables.
• Implemented user exit in CATS transaction to change the cut-off date to change in time sheet.
• Developed Interfaces, Conversions, Scripts, Smartforms, Pricing Routines.
• Implemented user exits SAPMF02D and SAPMF02K to validate customer and vendor creation
• Providing support for Production Problems.
• Analyzing & fixing the problem by finding the root cause of the problem.

Client : Confidential - is a leading producer of Hi-yielding
Hybrid seeds under its brand name "JK Seeds". It produces seeds for a
large variety of crops.
Duration : Sep 2002 - Apr 2004
Role : ABAP Consultant
Environment : SAP R/3 4.6C
Project
Description:Client has implemented SAP to run business involving Purchasing, Production, Logistics areas etc. Modules implemented are HR, Materials Management (MM), Sales&Distribution (SD), Quality Management (QM), FI/CO, Project Systems (PS) and Production Planning (PP).

Contribution: Involved in the following activities

• Problem Analysis, complexity determination and estimation of objects.
• Preparation of issue sheets by analyzing the functional spec.
• Preparation of technical specifications from functional spec.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan and Unit Test Results.
• Communication with client on issue clarifications, status updating etc.
• Providing support for Production Problems.
• Analyzing & fixing the problem by finding the root cause of the problem.
• Developed all kinds of ABAP objects in SD and MM areas.
• Involved in writing BDC Programs to transfer Legacy data into SAP.
• Developed custom transactions using screen painter to cater to the requirement of client.
• Developed various SMARTFORMS Layouts and driver programs in SD and MM Modules for Debit/Credit Note, Invoice, Billing details etc.
• Developed SMARTFORMS Layouts for complex label printing
• Implemented enhancement CNEX0007 to add new customer-specific fields for the WBS elements and implemented enhancement CNEX0001 for checking these user-defined fields
• Implemented enhancement CATS0005 to add new fields in the time sheet data entry section and also implemented enhancement CATS0003 to validate these new fields

Responsible for writing a custom report similar to standard SAP report MB51 to show Current/Previous Period Material Document List by Material type, Profit center and Profit center group.
Responsible for creating custom reports for Customer & Vendor Balances in Local currencies.

Client : Confidential – has presence in various business areas
but primarily into Chemicals and Textiles. It has manufacturing plants
spread over five places in India with majority of its products being
exported to countries in Europe, Far East and USA.
Duration : May 2000 - Aug 2002
Role : ABAP Consultant
Environment : SAP R/3 4.6B
Project
Description: Client has implemented SAP to meet daily business activities. Modules implemented are Human Resources (HR), Sales & Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Project Systems (PS), Production Planning (PP) and Quality Management (QM) in all the manufacturing plants

Contribution: Involved in the following activities

• Problem Analysis, complexity determination and estimation of objects.
• Preparation of issue sheets by analyzing the functional spec.
• Preparation of technical specifications from functional spec.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan and Unit Test Results.
• Communication with client on issue clarifications, status updating etc.
• Providing support for Production Problems.
• Analyzing & fixing the problem by finding the root cause of the problem.
• Developed Layouts for print documents, Labels.
• Developed various interactive ALV reports for MM, SD, FI/CO modules.
• Responsible for writing a custom Function Module for Stock in Transfer report similar to SAP standard report MB5T with additional selection by Profit Center, Profit center Group and Delivery Date.
• Developed a report similar to F.48 to list Vendors not created in financial accounting.

Involved in development of Test Scripts, Test Configurations with Scenario chaining (i.e. chaining of transactions).

• Responsible for ABAP knowledge transfer to client IS personnel.