SUMMARY

• 7 years of extensive experience as, an SAP consultant in the PP/MM modules with very good understanding of integration with SD, FICO, QM, PM, WM and ABAP, SAP FICO Functional consultant with three full life cycle implementation and two production support projects.
• Expertise in PP configuration of Flexible Planning, SOP, Demand Management, MRP, MPS, Capacity Planning, Production orders, Order Settlement and Long Term Planning (LTP)
• Expertise in Planning Strategies such as Make to Stock, Make to Order and Assembly to Order (ATO)
• Experience with Repetitive Manufacturing (Make to stock production) such as Production versions, Material Staging, Rate routing, Back flushing, Product cost collector and REM Confirmation.
• Experienced in MM functionalities Subcontracting, Release Strategies, Consignment, Consumption based planning, Goods movements - Goods Issue, Transfer Posting and Goods Receipt.
• Experienced in QM areas such as Quality Planning, Quality Inspections, Quality Certificates and Quality Notifications.
• Experience working with Variant Configuration (VC), which includes Configurable materials, Super BOM and Super Routing.
• Well versed in FICO modules of New GL, AP, AR, AA, IO, CCA, PCA and their integration with other SAP modules in various business processes like Order to Cash, Procure to Pay
• Experience in performing user training, developing documentation on SAP processes and issues, cutover activities and in all levels of support.
• Implemented 3 full life-cycle implementation projects besides extensive background in upgrade, production support and testing of PP, PP-PI and MM modules in Versions 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC6.0.
• Experienced in Integrating MM with other modules like QM, SD/ PP/ FICO/ PM/APO Modules. Hands-on experience in gathering business requirements, business process analysis, GAP analysis, preparation of Proof of Concepts for delivering SAP solutions.
• Strong experience in Configuration in MM-Procurement (Purchasing, Sub contracting, Scheduling agreements, contracts (3rd party processing), W.M, RF, Inventory Management, Account determination for goods movement, Pricing, and Logistics Invoice Verification.
• Expertise in data migration system from legacy to SAP using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW)them as per SAP processes.Proficient in SAP's ASAP Methodology and well versed with business process, its mapping & configuration in SAP.
• Lead team member in successfully carrying out the realization phase of FICO, including CCA, PCA and COPA, discussing efforts, benefits and outcomes. Created presentations on current and future state of the project implementation and outcomes
• Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI modules- General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting and Treasury. Coordinated in Integration with SAP modules like MM and SD.
• Good working Knowledge in controlling modules including Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CEA) with good conceptual understanding of Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Product costing (PC), Internal Order (IO) and Profitability Analysis (COPA)
• Experience of 3 full cycles of SAP R/3 implementations including business blue print, realization, testing, production deployment and post production support.
• Excellent SAP SD and LE configuration skills to meet complex client's business requirements. Involved in business consulting and functional analysis of SAP-SD modules using ASAP methodology including analysis and mapping of business processes (as-is, to-be), gap analysis, functional specifications, configuration/ development, testing, implementation, user acceptance and training/ org management.
• Experience in implementations for different modules in SAP Business warehouse 7.0/7.3 and SAP Business Objects solutions using XI 3.1/ BI 4.0which involves Gap analysis, Blue Printing, Realization, Production support, Testing, Documentation, Requirement analysis, End user documentation, Data extraction, Data modeling, Data loading and Reporting.
• Knowledge of Business Intelligence, data warehousing, application and design integration,, ABAP, SOA, Microsoft.Net, web services and workflow/process automation.
• SAP experience encompasses expertise in Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, System upgrade, Integrating, Testing, User training, Data migration and support of R/3 with different versions including ECC 6.0 and in phases like Cut-Over, Deliver, Go-live and Post Go-live.
• Experience in implementations for different modules in SAP Business warehouse 7.0/7.3 and SAP Business Objects solutions using XI 3.1/ BI 4.0which involves Gap analysis, Blue Printing, Realization, Production support, Testing, Documentation, Requirement analysis, End user documentation, Data extraction, Data modeling, Data loading and Reporting.
• Good experience in extracting data from SAP & non-SAP systems. Sophisticated skills to work on Flat File Extraction, Generic Data Sources, BI Content Data Sources, Full and Delta Extraction Management. Expertise in migration of 3.x to 7.x Bex queries and working with BEx in building Queries.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Versions: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0 4.7, ECC 5.0 & 6.0.

Version: ECC 6.0 FI-GL, AP, AR, AA, SD, MM, New GL, RICEFW, LSMW, CO-PA, CCA, PCA, PC

SAP Tools: LSMW and IDOCs.

ERP PACKAGES: SAP ECC 6.0, 5.0, R/3 4.7, R/3 4.6

BUSINESS AREAS: MM, SD, PP, PM, FI-CO

ETL TOOLS: BODS 4.0

Reporting Tools: BexAnalyser, Report Designer, Query Designer, WAD, Crystal Reports 2011, BO XI 3.1, Crystal Reports for Enterprise, Web Intelligence, Xcelcius, Dashboardds 4.0, Design Studio 4.0, Lumira

Reporting Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer

General Tools: Visio, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Project

Operating Systems: MS Windows 2000/98/95, WinNT 4.0, and UNIX

Tracking Tools: HPQC, MS Outlook, SOLMON & Lotusnotes.

Methodologies: Accelerated SAP (ASAP), UML, SDLC, Business process restructuring

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP FICO Functional consultant with 7 plus years of functional experience in Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules and integration with logistics modules (SD and MM)
• Installed, upgraded system copies, performance tuning, and monitoring of SAP Merchandising for Retail, SAP Business Warehouse on HANA, Solution Manager and Process Orchestration.
• SAP experience encompasses expertise in Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, System upgrade, Integrating, Testing, User training, Data migration and support of R/3 with different versions including ECC 6.0 and in phases like Cut-Over, Deliver, Go-live and Post Go-live.
• Conducted workshops for gathering requirements of the intended business processes using the ASAP methodology. Documented existing processes and identified GAPs for the blueprint scoping.
• Working with Enterprise Financial Services (EFS) identified proposed solutions for GAPs identified and created functional specifications (reports, forms, interfaces) required in FI - GL, AR, AP to enable ABAP programmers to develop custom programs.
• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICO.
• Configured customer master data - account group, payment terms, dunning, document type, reconciliation account, screen layouts, payment terms, and customer/vendor clearing, inter-company clearing accounts and setting up inter-company transactions.
• Examining the AS-IS documents and recommending suitable TO-BE process in SAP. Responsible for gathering business requirements, conduct workshops with the business users, designing, configuring, and testing and for providing post implementation support.
• Designed functional specification for lockbox interface and configured relevant settings in SAP for lockbox processing.
• Coordinated the integration efforts of FICO with SD and MM teams based on functional requirements.
• Sound knowledge in SAP HANA Modeling, SAP Business Objects, Business Warehouse.
• Analyzing business requirements and proposing IT solutions using the ECC 6.0 system. Performed detailed AS-IS analysis through flow charts to map physical flow of manufacturing processes followed by in-depth study of processes designed to develop the To-Be models.
• Transfer of Master data like BOM's, Work center, Routings from SAP ECC 6.0 system to SAP APO system by creating Integration models and monitoring application log by using document.
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for account payables including partial payment Configuration, check management and check printing, open item clearing in account payables, outgoing payments for outstanding invoices with invoice verification for good receipts.
• Developed interface functional specifications with exception reporting for SAP sales integration with custom sales reporting database.
• Thorough understanding of the relationship between various SAP modules (FICO, SD, MM, and PP) and of overall business processes such as Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to Pay (P2P)
• Implemented statutory FDA reporting using SAP master data & BI Info Cube, reducing manual errors and increasing the process efficiency.
• Implemented new invoice interface from IXOS with workflow into SAP by working with accounting and development teams.
• Developed functional design for interface between custom sales application and SAP AR, payment interface from SAP and custom payment system. Created unit test scripts, integration and interface test scripts.
• Analyzed the business process through consultation. Gathered financial requirements and mapped these requirements into an appropriate SAP FI/CO model and submit for approval by multiple markets.
• Generated reports using Report Painter and Report Writer. Involved in Post Implementation Support and End User Training.
• Worked in Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting. Involved in transferring legacy data transfers excel to SAP using LSMW in ABAP.
• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICO.
• Worked on day to day support issues which comprise General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Receivable, Asset Accounting and Cost center accounting.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirement, Preparation of Blue Print by reengineering the system to fill the GAP between the existing system and to the TO-BE system.
• Develop business requirements & functional design for ABAP programmers and debug technical issues.
• Proficiency in writing Functional Specs for all (RICEFW) Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow objects.
• Lead team member in successfully carrying out the realization phase of FICO, including CCA, PCA and COPA, discussing efforts, benefits and outcomes. Created presentations on current and future state of the project implementation and outcomes
• Worked on migrating General Ledger accounts, Customers and Vendors master data from legacy system into SAP through LSMW.
• In General Ledger (FI-GL), configured account groups, posting period, fiscal year variants, and document number ranges & field status groups.
• Created General Ledger (FI-GL) master records and reconciliation accounts for Vendors, Customers and Assets.
• Built solutions for warehousing and repackaging requirements like kitting, line sequencing, metering, subassemblies, warehousing and of parts with JIS, during blueprint phase and prototyped the solutions in Warehouse Management and Extended Warehouse management for Brasil parts
• Configured Accounts Payable (FI-AP) including vendor account groups, number ranges and tolerance groups.
• Configured the creation of customer account groups, number ranges for Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits and credit limit groups.
• Uploaded Accounts Payable (FI-AP) master data and configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.
• Configured AP module for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item/ balance interest calculation.
• Worked on New GL, on the activation of New GL accounting, definition of ledger for GL Accounting, integrating the GL with subcomponents, document splitting, segmentation and parallel Accounting.
• Maintained Lockbox configuration with BAI2 format and cash management in treasury and worked on Electronic bank statements (EBS) . Managed multiple ledgers within the general ledger according to the client requirements.
• Worked on designing the customizing the EDI 823 Outbound/Inbound IDoc's. IDoc extensions were created and implemented in order to handle the exchange of customer required data that was not available in the SAP delivered IDoc's.
• Configured settings for FI-MM integration for the work flow of Procure to Pay Cycle and worked closely with SD Consultants for integration of FI-SD Accounts Receivable (AR) for the Order to Cash cycle.
• As FICO implementation Lead - first point of contact regarding configuration changes, integration issues with other modules (SD, MM, CS) . Provided daily updates on open issue items during project status report meetings.
• Created fixed asset master data and specified depreciation terms for each depreciation area in the chart of accounts. Also made entries for deactivation, deletion, and blocking of an asset from the asset portfolio.
• Involved as a team member in configuring controlling area, operating concern, Profitability Analysis, Cost Element Analysis, Cost Center Accounting and Product Costing. Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate settlement to COPA and to CCA.
• Responsible for Profit Center Accounting (PCA), created Standard Hierarchy, Profit Centers, Dummy Profit Center, defined Document Types, Number Range Assignment.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

SAP BO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementated different modules in SAP Business warehouse 7.0/7.3 and SAP Business Objects solutions using XI 3.1/ BI 4.0which involves Gap analysis, Blue Printing, Realization, Production support, Testing, Documentation, Requirement analysis, End user documentation, Data extraction, Data modeling, Data loading and Reporting.
• Experience in SAP BO 4.0 Universe Information Design Tool (IDT), Web Intelligence Reporting, SAP Dashboard 4.0 (Xcelsius) and Crystal Report 2011.
• Performed configuration of Business Objects 4.0. Involved in adding new group/user, assigning universe access to users.
• Configured and extracted data from the LO Cockpit extractors, SAP Inventory management by making use of the SAP defined data sources like 2LIS 03 BF, 2LIS 03 BX and 2LIS 03 UM
• Extensively worked in designing and configuring back-end components including InfoObjects, Datasources, Transformations, Data Transfer Process (DTP), Hierarchies, Infosources, Update Rules, Transfer Rules, InfoSets, Infopackages, Infocubes, DSO's ( Standard, Write Optimized, Direct update), Multiproviders and Process Chains.
• Migrated 3.x to 7.x Bex queries and working with BEx in building Queries. Extensively created Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, Formula Variables, Conditions, Exceptions, Aggregations, RRI, Cell editors, and Customer Exit Variablesfor developing custom reports.
• Proficient in ETL activities like Data Extraction, Loading (Full/ Delta upload) and Data Modeling and proficient in data extraction from SAP R/3 SD, MM, PP, PM, FI-CO and COPA. Performed DataSource Enhancement, writing ABAP User exits for Transaction data and Master data. Start routines, Field routines and End routines.
• Extensively used Open Hub Service to extract data out of BW and feed downstream systems to support Legacy System reporting needs. Creating and scheduling process chains for data loading process.
• The business requested the business enhancement change solution to reduce the variances in the freight Costs between standards and the actual posted through the invoices with the Profitability Analysis module of SAP FICO.
• Worked on Remodeling of the existing cubes to accommodate new key figures and characteristics. Involved in Production Supportissues which involved debugging ABAP routines, Data loads, Validation and trouble shooting of Transaction Data and Master Data, Process Chains Monitoring, Transport Management.
• Improved data load and query performance by using Aggregates, Compression, Partitioning, Indexes and optimizing Data packet size. Evaluated statistical performance using BW Statistics for optimization.
• Good experience in extracting data from SAP & non-SAP systems. Sophisticated skills to work on Flat File Extraction, Generic Data Sources, BI Content Data Sources, Full and Delta Extraction Management.
• Proficient in ETL activities like Data Extraction, Loading (Full/Delta upload) and Data modeling and proficient in data extraction using LO Cockpit and Generic Extractors.
• Experience in Business Objects Universe designing (OLAP Universes), Creating Information spaces using Business Objects Explorer. Worked on Breaks, Sorts, Prompts, Drill down, Slice and Dice, Alerts for creating Business objects WEBI reports and used document linking to link them.

Confidential, Woburn, MA

SAP PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with team members and management in analyzing short term and long term strategic requirements of the client and developed as-Is report. Developed Blueprint, prepared TO-BE report and performed GAP Analysis.
• Analyzed the legacy system and worked on Master Data conversion from legacy to SAP using LSMW. Hands on experience with data migration using LSMW / BDC for all master records.
• Documented and got signoff the Business Blueprint Print document by the Process owners. The Design phase is to design the system at detail levels as per TO-BE process like preparing the Process design for Material master creation, BOM, Work center, Routing, ECN, and MRP (consumption based planning, reorder point planning, Safety stock replenishment) and which includes the process description and Process flow chart.
• PP Module (Production General): Master Data (Material Master, BOM, Work Center, Routing, Rate Routing, Production Versions), MRP, MPS, Planned Order, Production Order, PRT, Work Scheduling, Scenarios on Make to Order, Make to Stock, Planning Strategies, Demand Management, SOP Flexible Planning.
• PP/PP-PI Module (Process Industries): Master Data (Material Master, BOM, Resources, Production Version, Master Recipe), PI Sheets with Phases and Characteristics, Process Order, Control Recipe, Confirmation Parameters for Process Orders, Planning Strategy (10, 40, 50, 20), DM, MPS, MRP, LTP, MTO, MTS, SOP Flexible Planning.
• Variant Configuration: Configurable Materials KMAT with Super BOM and Routing, Variant Class, Characteristics, Characteristics Values. Assigned Object Dependencies, Preconditions, Selection Conditions and Procedure to Configurable Profile.
• Detailed Functional Design to determine the Functionality gaps in Engineering and Production. Understand the requirement of Reports, Interface, Forms and Enhancement and Preparation of Functional Specifications for RICEF Specifications in Engineering & Production.
• Liaised with business and Material Management Team in the development of Enterprise Structure, creating plants, storage locations, purchasing organization and Shop Floor design.
• In Development phase, develop Baseline Configuration by defining MRP Controllers, MRP Areas, storage location MRP per plant, Scope of planning for total planning, Special Procurement type, Product Hierarchy and configure settings.
• Helped and guided material management team on mapping distribution centers, stock allocation and stock transfer.
• Responsible for decision making related to Back flush, auto replenishment, work scheduling, managing inventory at plant and distribution centers, identifying work in progress Stock.
• Extensively worked on inventory management which includes goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, stock transfers, transfer postings, movement type and cycle counting.
• Configured Flexible Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) by creating Info structure, planning hierarchy and Plan type. The active plan was then transferred to Demand Management.
• Involved in setting up customized Info Structure as per the business needs for Flexible Planning. Designed a customized 'Z' version of MFBF transaction for easy access to shop floor people.
• Created a Pull List to control material flow and supply production shop with materials. This pull list checks stock situation at production line calculates missing parts for the components and triggers replenishment for missing parts.
• Used Core Interface (CIF) transfer master data from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP APO by creating Integration models.
• Configured background jobs for MRP Run and special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues.
• Worked with SD team, on delivery processing, serial number assignment, sales order pick, condition records.
• Configured back flush settings for components to automate goods movement and confirmation.
• Designed Navigation Profile for planners in Stock/Requirement List to assign frequently used transactions for different MRP elements.
• Trained end-users on process flow, stock/requirements list, planned order conversion, use of various movement types for different purposes.
• Extensively conducted training sessions for section users and super users in PP and MM functionality.