PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of functional experience as an SAP MM/IM/ WM functional consultant with 3 full life-cycle implementations using SAP ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0 and R/3 4.7. Expertise in the areas of Material Management (MM), Inventory Management (IM) and Warehouse Management (WM).
• Hands on experience in Business process study, blue printing, functional and technical design, configuration, gap analysis to customizations, unit and integration testing, Go-Live and Post Go-Live support.
• Extensively worked on Material Management such as Master Data, Direct and Indirect procurement, Release strategies, Subcontracting, Third party order processing, Material and Service Contracts, Consignment Purchases, Inter and Intra Stock Transfer orders, Scheduling Agreements, Valuation and Account determination.
• Experience in Inventory Management, Goods Receipts, Goods Issue, Invoice verification, Stock Transfers, Transfer Postings, Material to Material Transfers, Physical inventory, Stock determination, Cycle Counting.
• Experience in enhancing and supporting Logistics Execution applications, this includes shipping, Warehouse management, Inventory management and Transportation.
• Worked on Warehouse Management suchasWarehouse structure – Storage types, storage sections, bins, Storage Type Indicators, Interface between WM and IM, Goods movement and material flow – Inward and Outward movements, Stock placement, removal and return rules.
• Experience in SAP SRM EBPsuch as Self service procurement, Workflow, Strategic sourcing, SUS -supplier self service, CCM -catalog content management, XI, contract management, and direct procurement.
• Good understanding and exposure to ABAP/4 programming and development of Interfaces and utilizing for report writing, Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW), query writing and Data upload.
• Strong working knowledge of EDI, IDOC types, Message types, Partner profiles and Process codes in logistics environment.
• Extensive knowledge on cross functional applications of MM/WM/SD/PP/FI in industrial scenarios.
• Involved in full cycle implementations and SAP upgrades.
• Expertise in developing Testing Scenarios, Integration and Acceptance Testing.
• Worked with end-users and management to solve daily issues, improve existing business process and perform system analysis tasks.
• Strong team player with leadership, interpersonal, presentation skills and communication skills. Excellent problem resolution skills with ability to work under pressure in a highly visible role. Logical thinking, analytical mind and an open mindset and ability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• ERP : SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0.
• RDBMS and Front end tools : Oracle, SQL Server 2000, MS Access and MS Excel.
• Applications : Ms Office, Ms Word, Excel, Power point, Ms Project
• Operating System : Windows 95/98/2000, Windows XP/Vista.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor of Engineering.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA May’11 – till date
SAP MM/SCM (IS Retail)
SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential is the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer with stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S Virgin Islands, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico and China. 
Responsibilities:

• Involved in several interactions with the clients business process in order to understand the requirementsand analyzed the inputs and propose solutionswork-a round accordingly.
• Worked on Master Data Configurations –Site Profile, Site groups, Listing procedures, General Assortments, Assortment types, Merchandise categories, Article hierarchies, Assortment lists, Pricing conditions, Promotions
• Configured the Article Master Data screens, Sub Screens and the fields.
• Analyzed the business processes, and involved in the enhancements of the article master and added custom fields in the article master like NLP, SB and Pro label.
• Worked on the Vendor master in configuration of the new Partner function, Vendor Account group and worked on the Vendor sub ranges and Vendor Partner Profiles.
• Worked on the interface between SAP and Manhattan TMS system and involved in the mapping of fields for sending the Purchase orders and article master.
• Involved in the design of the Canadian Home Depot website like article, Price and Promotions feeds to WCS
• Worked on the interface between SAP and POS in sending the article master data and Prices. Set up flow of data through mapping from ECC to External Warehouse via SAP XI, EAI/B2B.
• Configured the Output message types and Output Condition records
• Design functional specification for Interfaces between ECC and the Third party systems
• Configured Delivery Document types for Outbound Deliveries (Individual, Collective processing etc), Returns Delivery, Replenishment Delivery, Consignment, and Returns.
• Worked on Inventory Management (IM) that includes Inter Company Stock transfer, Third Party Order, Transfer posting, GR/GI, Physical Inventory and Reservations.
• Configuration of IDOCS posting between ECC and UPS (External Warehouse) for Purchase orders, Goods Receipt, Pick order requests, Inventory Advices, Inventory uploads.
• Extensively worked on data conversion using LSMW – Batch Direct Input, Batch Input Recording and Idoc methods for Article master, vendor master, sub ranges and vendor partner profiles. Worked onSQVI queries.
• Prepared functional specifications, custom reports based on user requirements and coordinated with ABAP Programmers
• Worked with developers for the development of custom transactions which helped the end users to simplify their activities.
• Assisted in creation of training material guide and trained end users on SAP projects.
• Assisted the projects during Go-Live and production support.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI Feb’ 10 – May’ 11
SAP MM/IM/WM/PP Consultant
SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential produces some of the world’s most reliable lawn mower engines as well aspressure washers,electrical generators, and a wide variety of other applications. For over 100 years, they have manufactured engines that are durable, reliableand just easy to use and maintain. Every year, 3,000 employees build over 10 million small engines right here in America.
Responsibilities:

• Determined Functional requirement definitions through analysis of current (AS IS) and targeted business processes (TO BE) for Materials Managements and Warehouse Management modules, and its components including Inventory Management, Purchasing, Physical Inventory, Logistics Invoice Verification, etc.
• Worked on Vendor Master, Material Master, Purchase Info Records, Source List, Outline Agreements, Contracts, Output Condition Records, and Purchasing Condition records.
• Worked on Direct and Indirect procurement, Contracts, Scheduling agreements, Quotations, Third party, Consignment, Inter and Intra Stock transfer orders.
• Worked on Account Determination, Price determination, Schema groups.
• Configured Screen Layouts, Data screens, and Sub Screens for Purchasing and Inventory Management. Configured Material Types, Material Groups, Vendor Account Groups, and Release Strategies.
• Implemented Cross Company Stock Transport Orders (STO), Created new Delivery type, New Document type, worked in Inbound Deliveries, Outbound Deliveries.
• Worked on Pricing procedures based on the client’s requirements using the condition technique through the creation of new condition tables , access sequence & condition types assigning them to customized pricing procedure .Pricing included material price, price list, customer specific prices, customer discount and material discount.
• Configured the release strategy for Purchase requisition and Purchase order
• Batch Management: Batch specifications, creating batch master record, batch status, quality to unrestricted, Batch determination inventory management, Production, and ware house management.
• MRP: Configured New MRP Groups, New MRP Profiles, and Special Procurement keys for Stock Transport.
• Inventory Management & Physical inventory: Stock transfers between storage locations, Plants and company codes. Transfer postings for stock types. Design development of new movement types. Goods receipts for Purchase orders, orders, reservations, and other goods receipts. Goods issues to cost centers, Return deliveries and Reservations. Physical inventory and cycle counting, managing Special stocks like Consignment, Subcontracting, Returnable Transport Packaging, Third party processing, Project stock, Company own special stock and Externally owned special stocks
• Integration of MM to other modules like SD, PP, FI/CO to suit business requirements.
• Warehouse Management: Warehouse structure, Put away and Removal Strategies, Storage Types, Storage Bins, Quant’s, Transfer Requirements (TR), Transfer Order (TO), Number Ranges (for TR, TO, Quant, Storage Unit).
• Strong in Storage Unit Management (SUM) / Handling Unit Management (HUM).
• Strong in retail shipping labels and price sticker labels according to customer requirements.
• Implementation of SAP EBP(Enterprise Buyer Professional) 4.0 and setting up catalogs in Requisite emerge with views as per category constraints.
• Provided functional inputs for the development of java based interface to create shopping carts from third party systems into EBP.
• Customization of standard BBP web templates as per the business requirements.
• IR & Account payables: Performed 3 way matches for invoice verification, tolerances for invoice verification, planned and unplanned delivery cost, holding of invoices and release of invoices. Automatic payment run, Enter GL Account postings, Credit memo and subsequent adjustments.
• EDI: Extensively worked on EDI 850, 860 & 810.
• RICEFW-Customizations for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow. Closely worked with ABAP programmers for customization and implementation of special fields, user exits and UI screens.
• Data Migration: Created CATT and LSMW for various inventory / purchasing document loads. Extensive experience on SQVI queries, MS Access, and MS Excel.
• Documentation & Training: Created Business Process Procedures and Training Documents.

Confidential. Morgantown, WV. Mar’09 - Feb’10
SAP MM/IM Consultant
SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential is one of the world’s leading generics and specialty pharmaceutical companies, providing products to customers in more than 140 countries and territories. Confidential has attained leading positions in key international markets through its wide array of dosage forms and delivery systems, significant manufacturing capacity, global commercial scale and a committed focus on quality and customer service. The company ranks among the top five generics companies in several markets around the world and is the largest U.S.-based generics manufacturer in the world. Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business processes, mapped the processes and prepared templates in the material management module for SAP implementation.
• Was actively involved in the Realization phase by participating in tasks like Configuration, Master Data Loads and Unit/Integration/User Acceptance testing.
• Configured the Materials Management module in Material Master Data, Purchasing, Inventory Management (IM).
• Configured Messages, Item categories, account assignment categories, access sequences for Stock Transport Orders
• Designed, Configured the Third Party, Consignment and Sub contracting Process.
• Set up new document types for the Purchase requisition, Purchase order, Scheduling agreements, Contract etc.,
• Defined price determination process, defined custom condition types for freight burden etc.
• Configured Document types for Outline Agreement. Configured Movement types, GR, GI, Transfer posting (TO) in Inventory management component of MM module
• Worked on LIV- logistics invoice verification (MIRO), invoice block, Invoice verification in background.
• Settings for vendor evaluation-weighting keys, weighting factors.
• Created Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Scheduling Agreements, Contract Agreements and Quotations.
• Worked on Source lists, quota arrangement, Info Records for Standard, Consignment and Sub-Contracting.
• Worked on MIGO transactions for Goods receipt (GR) / Goods issue (GI) for purchase orders, sales order, and stock transport orders.
• Worked on SAP SRM EBPsuch as Self service procurement, Workflow, Strategic sourcing, SUS -supplier self service, CCM -catalog content management, XI, contract management, and direct procurement.
• Carried out Unit Testing and Integration Testing with all possible Business Scenarios to ensure minimum problems after Go-Live
• Participated in Cut-Over plans, defect resolution and logging of errors.
• Extensively conducted training sessions for section users and super users in MM functionality by web based tools and net meeting.

Confidential, Portland, Oregon. July’08 - Mar’09
SAP MM Consultant.
SAP ECC 5.0

Confidential is a global leader in the market for hyper pure silicon wafers and a partner tomany top-tier chip manufacturers. Confidential’s silicon wafers are found in computers, cell phones, flat-screen displays, navigation systems and many other applications. Their technological expertise, high quality, strong customer focus and global orientation rank us among the semiconductor industry’s leading producers. Responsibilities:

• Introduced the entire process in SAP for Bulk Purchasing, Packaging, Finished goods and general Inventory Management transactions for three new families of products.
• Designed, Configured the Third Party, Consignment and Sub contracting Process.
• Configured the integration points with SD and FICO for third party and inter company (STO) processes.
• Set up new document types for the Purchase requisition, Purchase order, Scheduling agreements, Contract etc.,
• Configured the Batch management and designed the inter company purchasing
• Designed and configured the Split Valuation and Automatic Account determination.
• Created new movement type for the direct stock posting.
• Configured the account determination based on Inventory management movement types transaction keys and modifiers.
• Worked on Inventory management areas of Goods receipts, Goods Issues, Transfer Postings, reservations.
• Developed the LSMW scripts for the Material Master and vendor master loads.
• Designed the Training documentation and delivered the end user training
• Coordinated the integration testing efforts. Involved in creating the template environment, test plan, test cases for all MM activities.
• Worked on IDocs and EDI mapping of Purchase order (EDI 850 Outbound) and Invoice (EDI 810 Inbound).

Confidential, Kansas city, MO. May’07 - July’08
SAP MM/IM/WM Functional Lead
SAP ECC 5.0

Confidential, a division of Farmland Foods, Inc. has delivered consistent quality pork to the foodservice industry for over 45 years. Confidential is a part to Smithfield foods a global food company with more than 57,000 employees globally a world’s largest producer and process for pork and a leader in turkey processing. Responsibilities

• Involved in production support activities include analyzing customer problems, suggest solutions, implementing changes, and test the changes in purchasing and Inventory management.
• Studied all existing and planned distribution depots, interface with the plants and centralized purchase order processing network.
• Configured inventory management parameters for all goods movements like goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, goods receipt for blocked stock, goods returns.
• Carried out split valuation of materials based on valuation category.
• Updated Release Procedure for Purchase orders as per the new values and assisted the work flow consultants to change the similar settings in work flow.
• Re-defined stock placements of hazardous materials by activating hazardous material check
• Maintained inventory types such as annual inventory, continuous inventory and continuous inventory based on stock placement, continuous inventory based on zero stock check and cycle counting for each storage type.
• Created new storage types for receiving goods into quality inspection in warehouse based on special movement indicator.
• Re-assigned organizational structure in WM like definition of warehouse and assigning this to plants and storage locations.
• Configured Picking/Put Away strategies for stock placement and stock removal from storage bins. Created, Changed, Deleted, Blocked and Displayed Storage Bins.
• Re-Configured interim storage types, interface between IM-WM, reference WM movements, internal WH movements.
• Developed functional specifications, technical specifications and mapped documents for various EDI transactions.

Confidential, Scottsdale, Arizona. Nov’06 - May’07
SAP MM Functional Consultant.
SAP R/3 4.7 
Confidential is a diversified energy company specializing in the discovery and development of both traditional fossil fuels and renewable energy resources. Confidential BioFuels, is committed to becoming a worldwide leader in the development and deployment of renewable energy resources. Responsibilities:

• Setting up Enterprise Structure of Plants and Storage Locations. Over 60 plant locations all over United States represent their distribution network for circulation of Raw materials, Consumables etc. Defined methodology for changes in plant address and creation of new plants
• Implemented MM procure-to-pay (P2P) cycle process. Configured purchase requisitions and automated purchase ordering process to a great extent by assigning processing requisitions based on info records, and extensive use of contracts.
• Configuration and customization of material master, creating new material types, valuation classes, account category references and involved in maintaining field status for material master records.
• Configured vendor master data. Defined different business partners, account groups for different partners, screen layout, number ranges, and terms of payment, incoterms, shipping instructions, text types, purchasing groups, and partner determination.
• Involved in optimization of the critical custom SAP ABAP programs with the technical team
• Configured and Owned Release Strategies for Purchasing Documents throughout.
• Configuration and customization requests-RFQ-quotations, purchase requisitions, purchase Order, outline agreements, purchase information records, contract (value/contract), scheduling agreement and goods receipt.
• Configured the system to take care of inter company stock transfer with billing and handling of special stocks and special procurement types - Stock Transport Order (Item category) between two company codes two different plants.
• Configured message determination schema, account determination procedure and calculation schema.
• Configured MRP Controllers, Special Procurement keys, Document types for Stock Transport Orders
• Responsibilities included post implementation production support in MM module to the user specific problems and issues depending on the new business process procedures
• Extensively worked for SAP MM Help Desk Support

Confidential, Rye, NY. Sept’05 - Nov’06 SAP MM/WM Consultant 
SAP R/3 4.7

Confidential makes many generic and brand name drugs that are distributed in the United States, Europe, Asia and worldwide.Confidential manufactures both pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), in essence, ingredients to be used in finished pharmaceutical products. Its products are in several therapeutic areas, including psychiatry, neurology, cardiology, diabetology, gastroenterology, respiratory, and orthopedics.
Responsibilities

• Organizing and leading workshops to gather and validate business requirements.
• Developing the functional specification as per the business requirement for the purchasing process.
• Worked with technical team to design the interfaces which is going to use for communication between SAP and legacy system.
• Set up the Material Master, Vendor Master, Source list, and Purchase Info Records.
• Configured Released Procedures for the Purchasing documents.
• Configured Purchase Tolerances and Vendor evaluation.
• Defined the various WM Org structure data such as Warehouse Number, Storage Type, Storage Section, and Picking Areas.
• Defined put away and picking strategies.
• Assign WM movement type references to IM movement types.
• Worked with different movement of material from warehouse to material staging area.
• Created the testing data for User acceptance testing and Integration testing and conduct the testing with end users.
• Documented the whole testing results, defect status during the testing.
• Created the test cases with business process owners for the three cycles of testing.

Confidential, Wichita, KS. Aug’04 – Sept’05
SAP Consultant
SAP R/3 4.7

Confidential is one of the world\'s largest integrated producers of polymers and fibers, primarily for nylon, spandex and polyester applications. The company delivers exceptional value for customers through market insight, innovative products, and a powerful portfolio of some of the most recognized trademarks in industries in which it operates. Responsibilities

• Translated business requirements into SAP functional and configuration requirements.
• Set up Release procedures for Purchase requisitions and Purchase orders based on their value.
• Carried out Automatic conversion of Purchase requisition to Purchase order.
• Set up Scheduling agreements, Delivery schedules, and Contracts.
• Worked on Blanket purchase orders.
• Setup Batch determination and Stock determination process.
• Determined and setup Evaluated Receipt Settlement(ERS).
• Worked on External service management by maintaining Service master, Number ranges, Service entry sheet and Messages.
• Interfaced MM module with FI/CO module for automatic account determination.
• Configuration of Shipping points, Picking location and Good receiving point determination for Inbound deliveries.
• Involved in configuration of special procurement types such as consignment, subcontracting, and services.
• Involved in Configuration of Inventory Management like Goods receipt, Goods Issue, Transfer posting, Return Delivery and Stock transfers, Reservations, and Reporting in inventory management.
• Prepared Functional specifications for reports based on the user requirements.
• Validated the process by developing testing scenarios and script for integration / user acceptance test.