SUMMARY

• SAP Solutions Manager with 13 years of overall IT experience including nearly 10 years in the implementation of various SAP solutions.
• Hands - on experience managing onsite/offshore resources and vendors and contracts.
• Strong background in managing stakeholder expectations and problem-solving.
• Strong requirements gathering and blueprinting experience.
• Strong acumen for delivering integral business value through SAP solutions.
• Strong background in ERP and BI solution evaluation based on business objectives.
• Several years of hands-on experience with Accounting and Logistics business processes and a thorough understanding of integration aspects between SAP modules.
• A strong combination of technical, business and leadership skills driving results in complex environments.
• A Team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Delivery and deadline oriented with a distinguished ability to work on cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.
• Self-motivated, a fast learner and adaptive to new technology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP FI/CO: Organization Set Up, Financial and Management reporting, Cost Center and Profit Center Accounting, CO-PA, Journal Approvals, Recurring / Accrual Journals, Cost Center Planning. Strong understanding of New G/L, A/P and A/R and Internal Orders.

SAP PS: Hands on experience with Project Structures / Templates, BOM-PS Interface, Finite / Infinite Scheduling, Cost / Revenue Planning, Budgeting, Overhead Calculations, Results Analysis and Revenue Recognition, Settlement, OpenPS, Workforce Planning, Earned Value, Versions, Workflow.

SAP PM: PM Work Orders, Integration with QM, Task Lists, Settlement to Projects.

SAP PLM: Hands-on experience with DMS (Document Management System). Understanding of PPM and MRS.

SAP IM: Hands-on with Investment Programs, Appropriation Requests, Measures and Budgets.

SAP MM: Hands-on experience with setting up purchase order types, MM-SRV (Service Sheets entry and approval), Account Assignment Categories, Movement Types, MIRO process, Invoicing Plans, Material Master, Release Strategies.

SAP SD: Hands-on experience with Contracts and Orders, Order Types, Item Categories, Requirements Types and Classes, Pricing Agreements, Billing Plans, Milestones, Variant Configuration.

SAP PP: Strong understanding of Routings, BOMs and Consumption of Labor and Materials in Production Orders.

SAP HR: Hands-on experience with CATS (Cross-Application Timesheets) and HR mini-master.

SAP BPC: Strong understanding of EVDRE reporting, consolidations, business rules and planning applications, dimension modeling and analysis.

Other SAP: ABAP, LSMW, BDCs, Report Painter, Interfaces, IDOC, User-exits, BADI, BAPI.

Business Intelligence: Strong solution experience with SAP Business Objects, SAP BW, Qlikview and Domo.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Business Process Manager

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in defining the scope of the SAP implementation along with the implementation roadmap and key deliverables at various phases.
• Created the scope of work for consultant engagement and worked with various vendor companies regarding solution roadmaps and engagement models.
• Participated in interviewing and selecting SME’s from the business team and lead blueprinting workshops and facilitated process discussions.
• Suggested the introduction of new SAP modules in the existing template to enhance usability and acceptance of the solution in operations.
• Conducted an end-to-end gap analysis of the existing SAP template and the group’s business processes and came up with implementation alternatives. Played a key role in the Steering Committee’s decision-making process.
• Introduced departmental KPI’s to improve on-time and on-budget manufacturing.
• Implemented Percentage-of-Completion (POC)-based revenue recognition.
• Incorporated the Time & Attendance system in SAP for payroll time and established reconciliation with shop floor bookings.
• Evaluated 9 different ERP systems and played a key role in proposing SAP as the ERP system for the group of companies.
• Evaluated various Business Intelligence tools and played a key role in justifying visual BI as an enabler to drive operational effectiveness. Created a TCO calculation model to compare multiple licensing models (on-premise vs Saas).
• Lead discussions with business stakeholders to prioritize issues/enhancements and manage consultants to deliver quality solutions on-time and on-budget.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

SAP Finance & PS Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding business requirements and identifying gaps in the core solution. Prioritize gaps, identify and implement solutions.
• Conduct business process workshops with key stakeholders, gather requirements and lead solution implementation.
• Architect solutions working with other consultants and engage business users for buy-in through demonstrations and solution proposals.
• Project types included fixed rate projects with milestone billing, cost plus overhead rate projects, T&M, billed to the client on a resource-related basis, R&D and overhead projects.
• Configured POC revenue recognition based on actual costs.
• Configured settlement profile to settle revenue, cost of sales and profit to CO-PA for Profit & Loss reporting.
• Established the Investment Program Structure for capital projects for USA and Canada.
• Lead the configuration of IM/PS for settlement and capitalization of AUC and assets.
• Configured excel-based cost planning for projects and cost centers.
• Developed a custom-intercompany billing process for projects owned by one company and executed by the other between US and Canada.
• Designed a solution for make-to-order manufacturing of RTUs (Remote Transmission Units) to produce manufacturing demand and delivery from project.

Confidential, St Louis, Missouri

SAP PS Lead

Responsibilities:

• Implemented workforce planning to allocate resources to network activities.
• Implemented Investment Management (appropriation requests) to initiate project creation.
• Configured Availability Control for budget control in projects.
• Configured settlement profiles to settle capital vs expense portions of actual dollars to AUC vs cost center respectively from projects using a source structure.
• Decommissioned legacy time entry system for capital projects and implemented CATS.
• Designed an interface to update purchasing data related to capital projects to a vendor collaboration system to monitor release status of purchasing documents.
• Implemented an e-Invoicing system to provide vendors with an internet-based invoice submission system for electronic invoicing (MM-SRV).
• Implemented workflow approval for journals, accrual and recurring entries.
• Worked on an interface to send EDI data for payments to the Tobacco and Trade Bureau (TTB) through the Federal Reserve using IDOCs.
• Worked with the SAP BW team to implement FI and PS reports in BW.
• Participated in unit and integration testing for upgrade from SAP 4.6C to ECC6.0.
• Served as the help desk to resolve issues related to SAP FICO, CATS, PS and PM and training. Worked on several major and minor enhancements to the system.

Confidential, South Bend, Indiana

SAP PS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the blueprint workshops for the implementation of SAP Project Systems.
• Completed detailed process mapping, functional design and configuration using assembly processing, network scheduling, stock and non-stock material procurement, cost planning for networks and period-end closing for make-to-order processing of sales orders.
• Configured capacity planning and scheduling for network orders.
• Implemented milestone billing with project confirmations controlling sales order billing plan.
• Implemented Results Analysis with settlement to Financial Accounting and CO-PA.
• Created test scripts for validating business processes and worked with business users while performing user acceptance testing. Supported go-live and production support.

Confidential, Barberton, Ohio

SAP PS Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Member of the blueprint team to map business processes for creating project quotations and convert them into sales orders and process the project for order delivery and billing.
• Configured Easy Cost Planning models for creating rough cost estimates for professional services projects and created quotations based on ECP values.
• Created Dynamic Item Processor (DIP) profiles for sales pricing and resource billing.
• Utilized BOM-PS interface to assign material components to network activities and documented the reconciliation and BOM component update processing logic.
• Implemented CATS for time entry on projects.
• Actively involved in functional and integration testing and developed training documentation and training for integrations between PS, MM-Purchasing, MM-SRV, CATS and FI/CO.

Confidential

SAP PS Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided detailed functional specifications to process sales orders to build machines for underground mining and foundation drilling and managing engineering services.
• Created quotations for customer RFQs using sales pricing using project cost planning.
• Created standard templates, settlement profiles and setup Results Analysis keys.
• Developed specifications and customized dynamic item processor for resource billing.
• Created validations and substitutions to prevent moving activities between WBS elements.
• Migrated data from legacy project management system into SAP R/3 using LSMW.
• Participated in unit and integration testing and created training documentation.

Confidential, Dearborn, Michigan

PLM Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Gateway interfaces between Visteon’s Teamcenter and Ford/GM/Toyota.
• Established BOM data exchange between Teamcenter and SAP so that structure and quantity flows are derived from Teamcenter and value flows in SAP.
• Lead offshore teams on interface development projects and monitored project progress and resource utilization and responsible for delivering tools on time.