SUMMARY

• An SAP S/4 HANA and Activate PM Certified, MDM/IS - Retail/CAR solution architect with over 13 years of experience in SAP S/4 Fashion and Retail implementation as well as AMS projects with extensive experience working with business and IT teams on Supply Chain, Data Migration, P2P, Retail Master Data, CAR/POSDT Integration and Retail Store Inventory Management (MIM) in a Global Organization.
• Experience responding to RFPs, analyzing requirements to match with COE capabilities, identifying assets and reusable objects to provide jumpstart solutions.
• Extensive experience in working directly with Senior Management and Key Stakeholders in the engagement.
• Extensive experience working as a Solution Architect and Integration Lead. Led business blueprint workshops for Project Evaluation, worked with strategic functions to identify gaps in key business capabilities and designing IT roadmap, provide enterprise-level architectural recommendations demonstrating business value.
• Extensive experience leading IT Functional, technical and integration teams in areas including SAP MM, SD, Retail, FI, IM, LE, WM, CAR, ABAP, BW, PI, non-SAP WMS(PkMS).
• Experience in SAP Retail Master data setup including Accounts group configuration, partner procedure determination, Vendor master data, Site master and Site profile configuration. Performed FIT-GAP on Customer Master and Vendor Master design including Merchandise planning requirements as well as supported on-going ad-hoc changes to Customer/Master data based on business requirement. Create / Update Requirement document, Functional, technical, Source to target mapping and configuration documents needed for implementation. Worked on Article Master - Single articles, Generic articles, Sets, Displays, Pre-packs and reference articles, Merchandise Category and Hierarchy, Assortment and listing. Experience in migrating Article Data from the Legacy System to SAP retail using Winshuttle, LSMW - Standard Batch Input Recording Method and Batch Recording Method.
• Good working knowledge of S/4 HANA Data Migration Cockpit, XML Templates (Transaction ‘LTMC ’ and ‘ LTMOM ’). Extensively worked on legacy Data Migration(Transaction and Master Data objects) to SAP using ETL Tools BODS & LSMW . Custom written interfaces using BAPI Function Modules ( RFC/ALE/EDI ) to generate IDocs for loading legacy data to SAP. Legacy data analysis- quality, cleansing, validation, enrichment and transformation. Data mapping - mapping of legacy source system fields to target SAP table fields. Data conversion, validation and reconciliation- validate and reconcile legacy data loaded in SAP systems with business stakeholders, functional experts and key business users.
• Worked as cutover lead for data migration from legacy to S/4 HANA system. Prepared cutover plan including data migration objects from various areas(Master data and transactional data). Used data migration tools within S/4 for setting up different types of data loads - initial/full load, delta load. Conducted mock data migration in quality system to ensure there are no/minimal data errors during actual data migration in production system.
• Expertise in customizing Purchasing documents, Credit Management, Contract Management, Scheduling agreement, Subcontracting, third party/ drop shipment, Release management, Vendor management, Vendor Sub range, Vendor consignment, Cross-company sales, Intra-company STO
• Expertise in setting up Vendor master data, Purchase Info record, Outbound and Inbound deliveries, Confirmation control, Cross-company sales, Intra-company STO, Collective POs
• Experience in Invoice verification/ Account Payable. Configured and setup in SAP-3way match setup, ERS setup, document posting, parking, checking variance- Blocking and Releasing.
• Extensively worked on Fiori MIM for performing various retail store operations like Retail product lookup, Stock Adjustment, Stock transfer, Store order, Receive products etc.
• Extensively worked on POS Outbound and Inbound Interfaces for sending Article prices/EAN, Bonus Buy to POS and other upstream systems and receiving sales data from POS and posting them to SAP ECC via CAR/POSDM. Built integrations using SAP PI, BODS and ABAP for transactional and master data interfaces.
• Extensively worked on Retail Pricing and promotions including defining condition types for price elements in business transactions, defining condition tables to store and retrieve condition records for different condition types, defining access sequence for valid condition records, condition maintenance, One and two step pricing processes in retail, bonus buys.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of business processes in SD(including B2B and B2C scenarios) - Configuring Sales document types - Standard sales orders, Credit Memo Request, Debit memo Request, delivery processing and Billing, mapping of business processes in SD.
• Experience in setting up Enterprise Structure including Company code creation, defining organizational units and assigning them to each other so as to accurately reflect the Enterprise structure in which all the business transactions could be processed.
• Have rich experience in working with Retail and Non Retail IDocs - WP PLU, WPUWBW, WPUBON, WPUTAB, WPUFIB, ORDERS and DEBMAS.
• Worked on Mobile In-store Inventory Management. Implemented several In-store applications such as Product Lookup, Store to Store transfer, Cycle Count, Inventory reporting, Goods Receipt, Physical inventory counting. He worked on heavily customized also adapting client's processes.
• Good working knowledge of S4 HANA and SAP Fiori based applications designed for Retail In-store operations. Experience in configuration of Fiori Launchpad, Transactional and factsheets Apps. Setting up role-based (Store Associate/Store Manager) Fiori Security.
• In-depth understanding of SAP CAR technical architecture, worked on setting up demo system for POS data transfer and audit (POSDTA), Multi-channel sales and inventory analytics, Omni-channel Article Availability (OAA), Migration from POSDM to SAP CAR.
• Good working knowledge of CAR PMR(Promotion Management for Retail), worked on setting up demo system for PMR including DDF setup for replication master data from SAP S/4 to CAR, Creating Promotions and Offers in PMR and sending it back to SAP S/4 for Bonus Buy creation which in turn is sent out to POS via outbound interface.
• Extensive experience in Non-SAP systems based on heterogeneous environment. Experience in working with HP-Mercury QC testing tool.
• Have worked in the capacity of a Project Lead to monitor the development and delivery(Offshore/Onsite model) and have experience in handling Cutover Tasks on multiple Global Rollouts/Implementations.
• Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills in project walk through and system functional specification presentations.
• Exceptional interpersonal and team building skills.
• Actively participated in training, hiring and developing a team of architects in various areas.
• Extensive knowledge of tools like MS Visio, PowerPoint, Excel and PowerPoint proficiency.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP S/4 Retail/Fashion Supply Chain Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading requirement gathering workshops, gap analysis and integration of SAP P2P with other downstream systems.
• Hands on experience in key mapping of various carrier vendors to sites.
• Collaborated with business to gather & analyze requirements to maintain S/4 Vendor master data, Data governance, Standard operating procedures for Vendor Master and customer master.
• Worked as cutover lead for data migration from legacy to S/4 HANA system. Prepared cutover plan including data migration objects from various areas(Master data and transactional data). Used data migration tool LTMC/LTMOM within S/4 for setting up different types of data loads - initial/full load, delta load. Conducted mock data migration in quality system to ensure there are no/minimal data errors during actual data migration in production system.
• Worked on design and solution for various custom load programs for customer discounts.
• Driving various processes related to Direct and Indirect purchasing process of Vendor master data creation, changes and updates in S/4 and Ariba.
• Responsible for support service now tickets for vendor master, payment methods, bank info updates for company code extension, payment terms updates.

Confidential

SAP Retail & CAR solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Providing end-to-end solution for bringing in Smart Shopper sales into SAP for orders placed from Ipad/Smart device (using Magento e-commerce tool) at the store, fulfilling the order from DC and sending order status updates to the customer.
• Master data interface was developed to send articles and prices to Magento.
• ORDERS idoc interface was developed for creating sales order in SAP.
• Interface was developed to send Sales order output from ECC to AFS for order fulfillment.
• Shipment/Cancellation messages were sent from ECC back to Magento and Customer.
• Smart Shopper Sales were also sent to SAP CAR/POSDT system for recording sales and sending it to ECC and various systems for analytical reporting.
• Preparing User training manual, cutover plan for phased rollout and performing the cutover activities. eDocument solution was implemented using eDocument framework(based on AIF framework) in SAP for Spain and Canary Islands for sending VAT information to the tax authority in order to be tax compliant.
• Configured FI invoice document types(both incoming and outgoing invoices) that are relevant for eDocument creation.
• Configured FI tax codes relevant for eDocument creation.
• Third party interface was designed and developed to send eDocument in the form of XML file to external third party system. eDocuments were generated through ESSII EDOCCREATE and monitored and submitted to the tax authority using EDOC COCKPIT transactions.
• Preparing User training manual, cutover plan and performing the cutover activities.
• Post Go-live support including Monitoring of Sales and financial transactions.
• Conducting workshops for requirement gathering and blueprinting.
• Providing end to end solution for procuring POP/supplies and services from Confidential Wholesale for Store replenishment.
• Designed and developed interface for Store order (third party sales order) creation in FMS from Store MIM portal application.
• Developed interface for sending order from FMS retail system to AFS vendor for order fulfillment.
• Finance Interface was developed to receive intercompany invoice in FMS. Enhancements were made to bypass the GR process for the non-stock items.
• Prepared User training manual, cutover plan and performing the cutover activities.
• Post Go-live support including Monitoring of orders and complete end to end process in the system.