SUMMARY:

• An SAP ERP professional about 8.5 years of Global implementation experience with specialization in SAP Logistics - Transportation management, providing professional services in Transportation Management business processes, Organizational Change Management, Production Systems support and Client Data Management.
• Over the past 8+ years, I have played various roles as Functional Lead, Project Coordinator, Support Business Analyst, Technical Lead and Agile scrum master.
• Divakar was successful in maintaining strong client relationships, managed clients at all levels of an organization and led cross-functional teams in technical and business environments with strong analytical skills, effective communication and the ability to convey complex issues and ideas.
• Professional experience of 8.5 years in IT industry including 6 years of Functional experience in SAP TM 8.1/9.0/9.1 & 9.3 and 2.5 years of Application Development experience in SAP ECC 6.0/SAP TM 8.0/9.0/9.1.
• Extensively worked in various End-End Global implementation and transformation projects
• Functional expertise in Design, Implementation and Testing in SAP TM 8.0/9.0/9.1, ECC 6.0
• Extensively worked on business requirement gathering, designing functional specifications and configuration of ERP and SCM/TM modules
• Designed process flows for each functional area during the implementation, carrying out requirement gathering, requirement analysis, gap analysis, Data setups, functional modifications, unit testing, having in-depth knowledge of various project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Iterative, Hybrid), Mapping Requirements, AS-IS process, TO-BE Process, Gap fitment documents, conducting workshops, Process flow design reviews, Scope Verification & Validation, Alternatives Identification and Analysis, Go-live and Post-Implementation Support
• Strong experience in configuring integration process of Order-to-Cash, Stock Transfer, Inter Company, Customer Returns to Transportation Management
• Worked on setting up Transportation Management Master Data like defining Business Partners, Partner Role codes, Locations, One-time locations set-up, Transportation Lane, Transportation Mode, Default Routes, Mean of Transport, Means of Transport assignment to Transportation Mode
• Worked on defining Charge Calculation process by setting up Charge Profiles for Settlement, Charge Categories & Charge Type, Freight Agreement Set up, Freight Agreement assignment to Carrier and Purchase Org, Calculation sheet creation with necessary Rate table and Scales
• Worked on defining document types for OTR/DTR, Freight Unit, Freight Order/Booking Order, Freight Unit Building rules(FUBR), Planning Profiles, Carrier Selection settings, Automatic Freight Planning through Strategy setup, Carrier assignment based on Direct Shipment option
• Worked on defining Freight Settlement Profiles, Dispute Management and Carrier Invoice creation and postings
• Strong experience in setting up ECC-TM standard integration for Transactional data like Order(TRS0), Delivery(TRD0), Returns(TRR0), PO/STO(Workflow) and Master Data like Customers, Vendors, Plants, Shipping points, Materials through CIF(CFM1, CFM2, CFM7)
• Requisite knowledge of associated modules and their integrations with SAP TM like SAP GTS, EWM & EM
• Expertise in TM queue processing, order integration and post processing frame work. Experience in providing permanent solution for integration error messages on PPO2- Post processing frame work
• Technical expertise in Design, Implementation and Testing in SAP ABAP (ECC 6.0) which includes SAP Material Management, Sales & Distribution, Production Planning and SAP Transportation Management (8.0/9.0/9.1)
• Strong experience in Agile project management and played as a Scrum Master
• Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with thorough understanding of phases like Requirements Analysis, Design, Development and Testing
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to communicate at different levels within the organization with exceptional problem solving, analytical skills at both application & system level

SOFTWARE:

• SAP Charm - Project Experience
• SAP SOLMAN / SOLDOC - Project Experience
• HP ALMQC (Test and Defect Management) - Project Experience
• HPSM and GSM Ticket Management - Project Experience
• Agile Methodology - Project Experience

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP TM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on Ocean and Air freight booking process for US Export scenarios and In-land Freight Order process for US Domestic, Canada and Panama
• Worked on Export processes and its interfaces with various freight forwarders/3PLs like DHL, CEVA, Kuehne Nagel & Expeditors, where we had to accommodate Client legacy integrating with SAP trends like Ocean consolidation at 3PL, Ocean Direct and Air Consolidations at port
• Having part of Transportation team, I’ve worked on integrations with freight forwarders, middleware teams like Web methods and NGG to perform component and end-to-end testing at various stages of implementation
• Have knowledge in GTS Customs Export Declaration filing process, Pre-Report and Post-Report ITIN process
• Worked on Rate management process including configurations Organization <-> Carrier Freight Agreements Set Up, Calculation sheets, Rate table and Scales
• Good knowledge in Cost Distribution, Freight Settlement, Agency Business document processes
• Worked on Defects/tickets during hyper care period and testing cycles on SAP EM process. Worked on end to end testing for Milestones from 3PL -> SAP EM -> SAP
• Worked on following regular Process stabilization and improvement activities,
• Managing all the Scheduled Batch jobs from transportation stand point.
• CIF: Monitoring and altering Model Frameworks. Managing its automated process.
• Default route & transportation lanes and ERP route determination configuration
• Post processing frame work, PPO2 ERP<->TM inbound and outbound queue clearing
• TM delivery trigger and its automated jobs for each country and plants. Creating and managing their selection profiles, Condition tables
• Direct to trailer (Shortcut freight order planning) & Freight unit merge process
• Has played a role of Change Request Coordinator, involved in Solution Analysis, Change Requests creation, Risk and Compliance validation and solution presentation to the Business and Change approval team
• Has worked on Incident management process, good knowledge in HPALM/GSM tool and business SLAs.

Confidential

SAP TM Functional Consultant - 30 Months

Responsibilities:

• Has worked on SAP TM 9.0 implementation for Germany and responsible for both AD (Application Development) and AM (Application Maintenance) projects
• Worked with client team to analyze their requirements, prepare and participate in workshops, requirement documentation
• Worked on Master data set up like Business Partners, Location, Transportation Lanes and Products and, have worked in setting up CIF models for Master data transfer from ECC -> TM
• Worked on Integration configurations like Order and Control key set-ups for Transactional documents like Sales Order/Stock Transfer Order and Delivery from ECC -> TM.
• Good knowledge in Charge Management process includes setting up Freight Agreements, Calculations Sheets, Rate tables and Scales.
• Good knowledge in Freight Settlement process and ECC integration to create Service PO and Service entry sheets and respective configuration set up.
• Worked on Customizing standard integration process and Proxy enhancements according the business requirements to flow the necessary custom data between the systems
• Worked on preparing Functional Specifications, conducting workshops with the business for requirement gathering, feasibility analysis, End user s, Preparing the User Guides
• Been travelled to Germany and Switzerland to support the Business Go-Live and Post Go-live activities, Co-ordinate between the On-shore process team and Off-shore Technical teams
• Worked on Change Management process and Incident management process with various Client defined SLAs

Confidential

SAP ABAP/Technical Consultant- 2 Months

Responsibilities:

• Worked short term for 2 months to support US Roll-out and Post Go-live Hypercare.
• Majorly worked on Smart forms and very little on SAP scripts like Order Confirmation, Billing forms
• Worked on Change Management and Incidents following various client defined SLAs

Confidential

SAP ABAP/Technical Consultant - 22 Months

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on SAP-ABAP (ECC 6.0) the WRICEF concepts like Reports, Interfaces, Enhancements, Smartforms and little on ABAP-Workflows
• Worked on ABAP-List/ALV and OO-ALV programming techniques to design custom reports for SD and MM process to give monthly Sales and Purchasing reports
• Worked on designing custom Smartforms from the scratch like Purchase Orders, Order Confirmation, Packing and Picking list, Invoice, Production Order for various countries according to the local business requirements and Label printing
• Worked on various country language translations like Chinese/Japanese/Polish/Portuguese/Spanish/UAE etc and designed a language translation tool using ABAP programming called Confidential Language Translation Tool which helps mass maintenance of language translations. It saved 80% of development efforts than standard SAP translation techniques
• Worked on Enhancement Implementations to Sales order, Delivery and Billing Document creation process, Pricing procedure, Copy routines, Output Determinations
• Worked on customer BADI’s to fill the customer fields to meet the business requirement
• Developed Customer ABAP-OO Classes/Methods for Proxy Integrations between SAP ECC and SAP TM for Data transfer and filling Customer fields
• Worked on SAP TM 9.0 Technical roll-out for Germany and very good knowledge in BOPF concepts like Determinations, Actions, SAP Web UI Customization using FPM techniques, Wire Schemas for Data transfer between Application server and UI
• Worked on SAP technical upgrades and OSS notes implementations.
• Supported many SAP Roll-outs and good knowledge in Support process after Go-Live
• Worked on Technical Designs and involved in Functional Design preparations with Process team, Code reviews, performance tuning
• Worked on Change Management process and Incident management process with various Client defined SLAs
• Worked on conducting technical s to the new joiners and supporting them to understand the existing system and process