SUMMARY

• Senior SAP SD, IS Retail & MM Consultant with Eleven years of SAP experience with Fortune 50 clients like Apple, Chevron, Telstra, Intel and Applied Materials.
• 18+ years of total experience in consulting & Industry. Experience for working with clients from USA, Europe, South Africa & China on various SAP implementation, roll out, upgrade, testing and support projects.
• Completed three SAP end - to-end implementation, three roll outs, System upgrade and various others enhancement projects. Completed projects for various industries such as Consumer Electronics, Retail, Oil & Natural Gas, Chemicals, Semiconductor and Telecom.
• Extensive experience of Managing SAP Projects & leading team. Handled a team ofonsite & offshore functional consultants and managed coordination between team members. Experience of handling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Project management skills with high degree of experience in managing stakeholders at all levels. Executed projects with End-to End responsibility of resourcing, execution, project management, Solution Summary and Transition approach.
• Highly skilled in project evaluation/ management, requirement gathering, business blue printing, documentation, and customized configurations for business processes as per SAP Best practices
• Strong Knowledge and exposure in SAP OTC, P2P, Pricing, taxes and cross module Integration (SD, MM, FI) for supply chain solutions.
• Strong Knowledge and exposure in EDI & IDOC functionalities.
• Expertise in the SD & MM module which includes:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Sr. SAP Logistics Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Thorough Interaction with the business to streamline the business processes and to finalize the requirement.
• Presented and conducted playback/overview sessions to share knowledge on integration points, proposed design options and recommended solutions.
• Translated customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, established specific solutions and lead the efforts including configurations and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Worked on Automation of PO/SO process, MM Purchasing, Pricing and SD, MM, FI Integration for supply chain solutions.
• Worked on EDI, IDOC and workflow functionalities.
• Worked in Setup of the future Apple Stores in SAP Retail for Turkey, China and Brazil.
• Completed developments and configuration to support processes related to China buy back solution, Turkey Print Delivery note, Electronic Nota Fiscal (NFe) setup in SAP Retail, SAP GRC, Fulfillment, Return, Stock Transfer, New Country Expansion & New Store openings configuration in SAP.
• Supported the technical team and prepared the functional specification for various custom developments, Inbound and Outbound Interfaces, user exits, and reports.
• Coordinating for solution design, impact analysis and data requirement with other SAP and non-SAP systems under implementation.
• Prepared and documented test data for functional testing, Integration testing. Provided UAT Support.
• Supported users in implementation of new business processes.
• Prepared End User Training documents.

Confidential, CA

Sr. Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided daily support to the Users. Handled issues related with various business processes like Blending, Manufacturing, Load, Unload, Transfers, shift turnover and various Reports.
• Involved in the development of various enhancement. Gathering requirements from business subject matter experts in sales, inventory management, and production processes for new enhancements and mapped the same requirements to SAP.
• Thorough Interaction with the business to streamline the process and to finalize the requirement.
• Given daily on-site support to ECC and xMII users system activities; addressed questions about system behavior; corrected system use and specific configuration behavior.
• Managed team activities like assignment of tickets, keeping track of queues and preparation of ageing reports for tickets to ensure higher management visibility, if needed.
• Supported the technical team and prepared functional specification for various developments including functional modules, BAPIs, and custom development.
• Prepared presentations and conducted overview sessions to share knowledge on integration points, proposed design options, and recommended solutions.
• Focused on extending ECC functionality to xMII in support of shop floor users

Confidential, CA

SAP SD Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of SAP SD module. This includes configuration related with Sales Order, Pricing, Rebate, inter company sales, intra company stock transfer, availability check, Plants abroad, Third Party Order and automatic batch determination.
• Designed and configured Customer and Material Master Data according to the business needs.
• Involved in customizing various Sales Documents like Quotations, Sales orders & Scheduling agreements
• New developments to support processes related to new Sales, Delivery, and Invoice documents, Consignment Order Management, Value & Quantity Contracts, Returns processes, special order types.
• New developments to support processes related to EDI and IDOC as an interface to interact with other system.
• Worked with Copy Control between Sales, Delivery and Billing document types.
• Worked on Configuring Pricing Determination Procedure specific to various business scenarios.
• Worked on Rebates including Rebate Agreement Type, Condition Type Group, Condition Types, Access Sequence, Condition Tables, Account Determination, and Condition Records.
• Configured data transfer using copy control: sales document to sales document, sales to billing, billing to delivery and miscellaneous
• Extensively dealt with Material Determination, Output Determination, Text Determination and Incompletion logs
• Prepared functional specifications for pricing routines, requirements and various RICEF developments.
• Prepared and documented test data for functional testing, Integration testing.
• Supported user community in implementation of the new systems and processes.
• Provided End User Training

Confidential

SAP SD Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Onsite Project Lead and SAP SD Lead Consultant and provided daily support and completed various enhancements.
• Thorough Interaction with the business to streamline the process and finalize the requirement.
• Worked in new enhancements projects like PPA (Petroleum Product Act), GDTOP (Global Downstream Transport Optimization Process), StarCard, Faxing/Emailing/SMS solutions for call centre and OTIF (On time In full).
• Provided daily support to Chevron users based in South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland.
• Daily on-site support of SD users system activity; addressing questions about system behavior; correct system use and specific configuration behavior.
• Corrected general SD configuration: Copy rules, Inter company sales and transfer, output, pricing calculation, order management, outbound deliveries, and the billing function
• Managed team activities like assigning tickets, keeping track of queues and preparing aging reports for tickets to ensure higher management visibility, if needed.
• Coordinated with other team members in overall resolution process, setting up the system in SAP based on business requirements.
• Provided production support for different production challenges in SD and cross-functional applications. Supported problems included pricing problems, Credit and Rebate, partner determination, Output and printing problems.
• Worked on EDI, IDOC and workflow functionalities.
• Creation of Batch job/Interfaces monitoring & fixing them.
• Resolved the long pending issues in a short period of time.
• Did customization in SAP SD for fulfilling the client requirement & helped in the development/enhancement of ABAP reports related to SD module.
• Obtained 5 out of 5 in the customer satisfaction survey in this project.

Confidential

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Enterprise structure for the SD module.
• Configured the SAP system to facilitate the business processes for sales and distribution management for all appropriate transactions and for all business units. This includes configuration related with Sales Order, Pricing, Rebate, inter company sales, intra company stock transfer, availability check, Third Party and automatic batch determination.
• Preparation of functional specs for various reports and Interfaces.
• Worked on EDI, IDOC and workflow functionalities.
• Completed the testing of the Reports /outputs /Business Scenario's. Preparation of test script and test cases for Functional and Consolidate Testing
• Preparation of Configuration Document, User Manual and Test data for UAT.

Confidential

SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted end-user workshops to gather requirements and to understand the workflow of the as-Is study of the existing system, performed GAP analysis and successfully designed and mapped the To-Be system.
• Configured the Enterprise structure for SD module
• Designed and configured various Master Data according to business needs.
• Involved in customizing Order to Cash process.
• Worked on the integration of the SD Processes with MM, FI and PP.
• Created Sales Documents like Inquiries, Quotations, Sales orders, contracts & Scheduling agreements.
• Configured, setup, and tested the Pricing for a full range of products.
• Involved in Creation of Number Ranges, Account Groups, Partner Determination Procedure, Text Determination Procedure, Account assignment and Automatic Account determination and integration with FI module as per business requirements.
• Configured Inter-company sales processing, Stock Transfer and Third-party orders.
• Configured Credit Memo, Debit Memo, Pro forma invoices, Returns and Cash Sales scenario.
• Configured Output Determination, Copy controls, Incompletion Logs
• Configured the credit management functionality with FI interface and automated Credit Control Checks in line with the credit policies set-forth by the policy directives of the company.
• Route Determination and maintain routes depending on shipping conditions and transportation groups
• Worked with FI, MM, PP team with reference to Integration points
• Prepared specs and tested the layout set modification for Quotations and printing order confirmations.
• Prepared Test cases and performed Integration Testing
• Supported Go-Live activities including troubleshooting and resolution for SD related problems.
• End User documentation and Training

Confidential

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business process and configure it in the SAP.
• Creation of New Sales Organization and plant for Masan, Korea and Beijing and Dongguan, China
• Business process mapping related with Consignment Flow and Inter Company Stock Transfer.
• Integration of SD with MM, PP and FI Module.
• Preparation of test script and test cases for Functional and Consolidate Testing
• Preparation of User Manual and Test data for UAT.
• To manage a totally independent territory for Marketing and Business Development.
• Test Market Planning, Market Research, Evaluation and Introduction Strategies.
• Brand Management with focus on penetration and retention strategies.
• Construction and implementation of marketing plans.
• To formulate and adapt business strategy so as to achieve branch contribution target.
• Motivate and monitor team members to achieve contribution target with optimum utilization of available resources.
• Helped consultants in their study about the business processes and in implementing Textile Integrated manufacturing (TIM), an ERP package for textiles, successfully in the company.
• To keep close track on competition activity.
• Lead team of Techno Commercial Executives and developers.
• Business Process reviews and mapping the same for Application Development.
• Project life cycle implementations from inception to testing and final deployment.
• Conception of project, strategy designing, cost analysis and time line analysis.
• Logical designing, execution path and feasibility study for software requirements.
• To formulate functional groups for load balancing and distribution and allocation of modules.

Cleared Java Certification

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Planning of India entry strategy for international clients.
• Prospecting of new international and domestic clients
• Formulation and implementation of marketing strategies.
• Expeditious interaction to map out the service need and then offer Business solutions.
• Carried out Feasibility Reports on the projects
• Prepared reports to get Funding and appraisal of the project by Financial Institutions.
• Prepared necessary agreements for Technology Transfer, Joint Ventures, Brand Licensing, Marketing Tie-ups etc
• Liaisoning with government agencies to ensure relevant clearances are obtained.
• Carried out locational studies and Market Research Studies for companies wishing to set up manufacturing units in India.