Senior Sap Sd Otc Functional Consultant Dallas, Tx
Summary:
Highly qualified SAP SD Functional Consultant with over Eight years of experience with full End to End Life Cycle of SAP implementations in Sales and Distribution (SD) & Logistics Execution (LE) module along with its integration with MM, PP, WM, FICO modules ~ Plus progressive knowledge with flexible, resourceful, strong organizational, time-management and planning skills to deliver projects on time, despite intense pressure and aggressive timelines. Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills to access the customer needs and solve the complex design and functional problems.
Professional Expertise:
- Leading Experience in various stages of implementation right from Blueprint, Gap Analysis to customizations using ‘AS IS’, ‘TO BE’ in business processes and design strategies, Go-Live, Post-Live Prod. Sup, User Training & Docs.
- Customization, creation of Master Data, various SD functions, SD business process in sales, pricing, shipping, transportation, credit management, taxation, availability check, ATP, transfer of requirement, picking, packing, billing plan, account determination, rebate testing, promotions, sales deals, agreements, inter-company processes, 3rd party sales Process, licensing, and relevant copy controls Worked on variety of industries like, Telecom, Banking & Finance, Auto, Retail, Pharma Industry…
- Successfully completed PMO course from Project Management Institute (PMI.Org)
- Customization of pricing procedures based on the clients requirements using the Condition Technique, i.e. creation of new condition tables, Access Sequence & Condition types, assigning them to new Pricing procedure and checking its impact till the level of billing
- In-depth understanding of SD and LE functionality from developer\'s and Client\'s perspective
- Extensive experience in building, leading and co-coordinating a team in an Onsite-Offshore model
- Basic Functions like free goods, Listing / Exclusion, Cross Selling
- Availability check set up, Output determination, Defining and assigning output types, Contracts, Partner determination, Text determination and Incompletion Log
- Experience in business process improvement, re-engineering, change control, quality assurance, standards and procedures, review process, reporting escalation and continuous improvement
- Sound Knowledge and experience in Service Management (SM) and Customer Service (CS)
- Opened, Researched and Responded OSS notes
- Played a major role in Unit / Compatibility / Integration / User Acceptance / E2E testing and documentation
- Hands-on experience in handling various User Exits / BADI’s: Capable of converting business requirements into functional specifications for developing ABAP programs
- SAP Tech expertise includes ABAP, BDC, ALE, EDI, IDoc, User exits, RFC, BAPI, BADI and Data Dictionary Objects
- Interacted with ABAP and Workflow teams for customizing SAP system to meet business requirements
- Expertise in migrating, converting and cleansing of data from legacy system to SAP using LSMW / CATT
- Experience in SAP implementation processes including ASAP methodology and implementation planning.
- Effectively manage important projects and programs in fast-paced, time-critical environments.
Technical Skills:
Operating Systems:
Solaris v2.5, Windows95/98/NT/2000/XP/NT, Lotus Notes, HP Unix, Exceed, VM/VSE, OS/390,OS/400
ERP :
SAP R/3 - 4.6C, 4.7 and ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, Solution Manager
Methodologies :
ASAP Methodology, Typical SDLC
Languages / Familiarity:
ABAP / 4, Java 2, JavaBeans, RMI, HTML, DHTML, XML, C, C#, Visual Studio.Net, PASCAL, COBOL
Testing Tools:
HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Mig.Tracker Tool, Jack Track / Track Plus
Databases:
Oracle 7.x, 8i, 9i, MySql, MS Access, DB2, DB2/400,SQL Server 2005/2008
Network/Protocols:
Network Topologies, X.25, TCP/IP, Network Security and Ethernet
Others:
MS word, MS Excel, MS Visio, PowerPoint and other Office Products
Education & Achievements:MS in Computer Applications
BS in Computer Science & Engineering
Confidential,Dallas, TX Feb ‘10 – Aug ‘12
Senior SAP SD OTC Functional Consultant
Project Description: Responsible for Telecom Business process requirements into TO-BE SAP functional and configuration blue prints to provide high-level estimates for design implementation efforts. Support different billing doc types of TLG Billing System (Ensemble & Enabler) activities and resolving issues across multiple platforms / environments.
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Involved in the GAP analysis, Blue printing, \'AS IS\' & \'TO BE\' processes, BPR studies, and flow chart documentation, presentation to the management team.
- Gathered requirements and created functional specifications for conversions, interfaces and enhancements. Configured prototype for SD module based on business requirements.
- Experience with RICEFW
- Worked on Service Processing, Contracts, Organization Management, Activity Management and Master Data
- Create Service Organization, Service Employees and Assign Service Representative to Service teams
- Created service products, service profiles and response profiles for Service level Agreements (SLA)
- Configured Complaint handling with context to Order Management and billing procedures. Activated Task list for employees as a follow up for complaints
- Customized Customer Master, Material Master, Condition Master and customer- material info master records according to the business requirements.
- Implemented end-to-end Order to Cash (OTC) cycle, which included configuring new order types, item categories, delivery types, billing document types, sales agreements, pricing, output determination, text determination, credit control, etc.
- Implemented Pricing Configuration like creation of condition tables, access sequence, condition types and pricing procedure to meet client business requirements. Extensively worked on Promotions, Sales deals and Rebates
- Configured various sales documents types like Standard order, Service Orders, Returns Order, Cash sales, Rush order, Credit Memo and Debit Memo
- Configured Incompletion Procedures, Copy Control, availability check (ATP), Delivery blocks and their status
- Globally configured the SAP billing module and integrated it with the Finance module to meet business requirements
- Worked on Revenue account determination
- Configured credit management, defined credit control area and risk category and performed dynamic credit control check
- Migrated huge volume of Master data from Legacy system into SAP by using LSMW and BDC
- Gathered Vendor Master Data and Material Master Data requirements for Order Management Team. Extended Materials to Plants, various storage locations and their respective Sales Areas
- Imparted functional knowledge with SAP ABAP team to develop Reports and Enhancements as per the client requirement.
- Created test scenarios and conducted testing for the new business process (NIC), handled the production cases and maintained documentation to track the sales documents that were created during the testing process
- Resolved issues related to Vistex for charge backs, bill backs, sales incentives, customer rebates issues with (transactional/composite) for charge backs, bill backs, sales incentives, customer rebates
Confidential,New York, NY Apr ‘08 – Jan ‘10
Senior SAP SD Consultant
Project Description: The community includes banks, broker /dealers and investment managers, as well as their market infrastructures in payments, securities, treasury and trade. BCD&M is one of the most important projects that (US Trust & SWIFT) and the community faced in recent years
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Worked closely with the marketing and account receivable departments’ members to gather and verify requirements for the customer master
- Collected business requirements and generated requirement specifications sets for sales and distribution during Business Blueprint phase. Identified gaps, analyze gaps and suggest solution to address gaps
- Mapped the internal sales organization structure via the organizational chart
- Created Customer master data, Vendor Master, material master data, customer-material Information record and customer groups.
- Worked on various order types like Standard order, Cash order, Rush order and special order types in Order Management
- Responsible for Customer Service Processing (Notification, Service Order, Quotation, Billing Request)
- Configured various output types and configured various output determining procedures
- Exclusively worked on Resource Related Billing and Revenue Recognition
- Maintained the data relevant to taxes in consultation with the members of FI module
- Worked on Customer Credit and Risk management
- Worked on EDI mappings and Transactions
- Worked closely with Business and ABAP team in finding the programs which had impact and needed to be changed
- Involved in testing and debugging of all transactions (unit testing, Integration testing and user acceptance testing)
- Provided some Post Production Supports, handled Tickets related to various SD functionalities
- Involved with Full Life Cycle of the project
Confidential,Detroit, MI Feb ‘07 – Mar ‘08
SAP SD Functional Consultant
Project Description: Daimler -- Chrysler project, US was part of global implementation of SAP Vehicle Management System at the client site. Existing business functionality of all product lines of Daimler -- Chrysler has been mapped to SAP Vehicle Management System. All SAP functionalities were Action based. A user has to follow sequence of actions to execute a particular functionality
Environment: SAP ECC 5.0
Responsibilities:
- Discussion with business for preparing blueprint for existing process of handling dealer network, pricing slabs, tax structure, verification of documents, billing reports, fleet incentive, retail incentive etc.
- Creation of fleet incentive master data
- Customization of Action matrices for executing SAP VMS functionalities
- Creation of new pricing procedure and tax base for Daimler -- Chrysler US MI
- Creation of new account groups for direct customers, company customers and dealer customers
- Customization of new sales document types for Quotation, Standard order, Credit memo request, Debit memo request, Return, Consignment, Free of charge delivery and Subsequent delivery free of charge
- Creation of IDocs for receiving orders placed by dealers to company systems and transferring billing documents to third party system for dealers
- Creation of new account keys for account posting with FI consultant
- Created projects, test cases and business scenarios for business processes using solution manager
- Creation of billing reports with ABAP programmers
- Creation of new sales organization, distribution channel and divisions for multiple product lines of Daimler – Chrysler
- Configuration and assignment of new plants, shipping points and storage locations
- Creation and assignment of new item categories and schedule lines
- Copying control, Log of incompleteness, Partner function determination
- Maintained customer master data, pricing master data and preparation of user manuals
- User familiarization for SAP -- SD functionalities
Confidential,IL Jan ‘06 – Jan ‘07
SAP SD Functional Analyst
Project Description: Kraft Foods is the largest Food and Beverages Company in the US.
Environment: SAP ECC 4.0
Responsibilities:
- Created/customized Customer Master, Material Master, Customer Material Info Record, Condition Tables and Worked on Product Hierarchy and Product Proposals
- Configured Sales Document Types, Item Categories, Schedule Line Categories, Document Flow, Copying Control, Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Incompletion Logs, Material Listing/Exclusion & Product Selection, and Availability Check & TOR (Transfer of Requirements)
- Customized Pricing, Taxes, Free goods, Rebates and Promotions
- Translated business requirements intoSAPfunctional specifications and configured the requirements
- Involved in Cross Functionality of SD with MM & Mass maintenance via LSMW and custom transactions
- Configured Delivery Types, Delivery Item Categories, Automatic Delivery Blocking, Delivery Scheduling, Processing Deliveries, Picking, Packing, Shipping, Shipping Material Groups, Shipping Point Determination, Batch Splits, Transportation Planning and Scheduling, Route Determination and Freight Costs
- Configured Billing Components comprising Billing Document Types, Invoices Based Deliveries, Credit and Debit Memo, Billing to specific deadlines, Collective Invoices, Invoice Splits, Invoice Lists, Billing Plans, Billing Blocks, Down Payments, Revenue Account Determination, Credit Management and Integration of SD with FICO
- Developed functional/technical specifications for Programs, Reports and Interface Requirements
- Worked on cross-functional configuration aspects of SD with LE, MM, WM and FICO
- Created Test Scenarios for Unit Testing and Integration Testing
- Created Procedures & Process Documents including training to End Users and Production Support Team
Confidential,Mason, OH Feb ‘04 – Dec ‘05
SAP SD Functional Analyst
Project Description: Luxottica Group is a leader in the prescription business in North America with its Lens Crafters and
Pearle Vision retail brands. Implemented and provided Production support SD/LE activities including shipping and warehousing as a SD/LE Functional Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 4.0
Responsibilities:
- Actively involved in defining Business Organization structure of Sales & Distribution management in the SAP R/3 Enterprise structure. Defined number ranges for customer master record and the sales document
- Post implementation support and trouble shooting, follow-up on initial user problems and resolving them by making required changes and involved in Cross Functionality of SD with MM
- Configured customer master and Settings for field selection of customer master data. Configured and created OTC (order to cash), consignments, credit management, deliveries, invoicing, inter-company sales
- Configuration of various Account Groups as per customer classification, and defined partner functions, Maintaining Partner Determination Procedures in various objects such as Customer Masters, Sales Document Header & Item, delivery, billing docs etc.
- Configured sales documents, billing, shipping, credit management, consignments etc.
- Configured Customer master, material master, contract management and pricing
- Configuration of Third party Order processing, Delivery and Billing
- Creation of Pricing Procedure, Condition Type, Access Sequence and Condition tables
- Involved in Regression / Shakeout / Functional / Integration / End to End Testing
- Preparation of Unit test Plans and Integration of Test Plans. Execution of test plans and result recordings
- Set up Sales & Distribution Organizational structure and various basic functions in S&D: Partner Determination, Pricing, Master data, Inquiry, Quotation, Sales Order, Delivery, Billing Documents, Invoice
Confidential,Hyd, India Feb ‘01 – Dec ‘03
Functional Experience / Employee
Project Description: Aurobindo Pharma Limited based at Hyderabad, India manufactures generic pharmaceuticals and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients. One of the world\'s top 5 manufacturers of semi synthetic penicillin’s, Has Asia\'s largest sterile API facility, One of India’s top 5 pharma companies ranked in terms of turnover , Estimated sales volume of US$270 million in the present financial year
Environment: Sales & Marketing
Responsibilities:
- Reporting to Managers of Accounts and Distributions Departments
- Preparing and maintaining books of accounts and statutory requirements
- Preparations of age wise reports of Debtors and creditors preparations of MIS Reports
- Reconciliation’s of stock and inventory
- Created Excel-based \'sales / purchase\' modeling chart for Merchandising department and \'material-in-stock\' modeling chart for Warehouse
- Preparation of costing reports and meeting the requirements of external an internal auditors