SUMMARY

• Lead SAP Functional consultant with around 14+ Years of consulting experience across diverse SAP modules in Procurement and Supplier Relationship especially in SAP SRM, PPS (Procurement for Public Sector) SAP MM, SUS, eSourcing, SAP QM and SAP PM
• Experienced in On - Premises SRM solution and Cloud SRM solution. Also trained in Ariba Cloud implementation
• Involved as a Senior consultant coordinating between client and team for multiple Full life-cycle implementations using ASAP methodology and Agile Methodology in MM, SRM.
• Expertise in integration of SRM with PI
• Experienced in Upgrades, Rollouts, Support & Enhancement projects
• Experienced in Business Blue printing, Fit-Gap Analysis, Solution Design, System Configuration, Integration testing, coordinating User acceptance testing, Regression testing, End User Training and Post production hyper-care support with transition to Support and Sustain group.
• Proficient in mapping the business process with the SAP system & facilitating the conversion process of legacy data into SAP and documenting the business processes
• Expertise in developing Test Scenarios & scripts for Unit, Integration, and User Acceptance Testing
• Experienced in Integration with other associated modules in line with P2P such as SRM, FICO, SD, PP, PM, HR modules
• Experienced on multiple SRM business scenarios including Self-Service Procurement, Plan-Driven Procurement with Plant Maintenance, Plan-Driven Procurement with Strategic Sourcing (RFx, Contract management, Bid management, EBP-SUS and MM-SUS scenarios.
• Experienced MM area including MRP (material requirement planning), Master data including Material Master, Service Master, vendor master, Enterprise structure, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Service Entry sheet (SES) and invoice processing
• Experience inPreparation of Process Definition Documents, Functional Specification Documents, for RICEFW objects.
• Experienced in Guiding ABAP team for the development activities, unit-module-integration testing
• Strong ability with analytical skills to identify & solve problems with an effective decision making ability
• Adheres to schedules and project timelines and communicates issues/problems that may impact ability to meet objectives
• Experienced in Onsite/Offshore delivery Model
• Trained on Ariba Procurement to Pay
• Ariba Sourcing and Event Management
• Ariba Contract Compliance
• Ariba Requistion to receiving
• Implementation of Technical Scenarios (Classic, Extended Classic & Standalone Scenarios)
• Expertise in Shopping Carts, Confirmations, Central Contract, User Organization Structure & Sourcing
• Data replication: Middleware Knowledge & Transferring materials and vendors from R/3 to SRM system
• Configuration of Enterprise structure by defining plants, purchase organizations, storage locations, storage sections, bins, etc.
• Configuration of vendor master, material master, and defining number ranges for vendors, Release Strategies, Inventory Management, Contracts, Scheduling & Outline Agreements, Quota Management, Vendor Management, Pricing Procedure within PO, MRP.
• Expertise in handling different types of purchase orders Viz. standard, consignment, sub-contracting, framework, third party, stock transport orders.
• Expertise in handling Inter company stock transport orders, intra company stock transport orders, Transfer postings and Physical Inventory
• Procurement Business Analysis, Production Support, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, UAT, Training document Preparation, Training Super & End Users,

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 - 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, SRM 4.0, 5.0, 7.0 & 7.02

MODULES: SAP SRM, MM, QM, PM, WM, eSourcing

OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows (2000, 2003, XP, 7, 8,10).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understand the As Is Process and determine the TO Be process and Business Blueprint and get the sign off from Business Stake Holders.
• Conduct FIT GAP analysis and propose system architecture and landscape.
• Customizing / Configuration changes as per requirement.
• Preparation of functional specifications for Technical Object Development (ABAP Developments)
• Developing test scenarios & Testing of Proposed Solution
• Preparation of Configuration Document, Testing Document & User Manual
• Study of Current business processes and understand the business requirement
• Implementation of Extended Classic scenarios.
• Configuration of Self Service procurement from Shopping cart creation till invoice settlement.
• Organization structure management
• User administration
• Configuration of SRM Organizational Structure and User Management and Roles in SRM, Portal User Management.
• Master data upload during cutover. Supplier, material, UOM and currencies replication from ECC to SRM

SRM Lead Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a part of Sourcing and Purchasing team responsible to identify the scope of sourcing area and conducted workshops and finalize the blue print and project scope determination in the area of Procure to pay process
• Analyzed the requirements for enhancements in the area of IBX Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Customized workflow approval and Implemented the SRM standalone scenario
• Created and updated FRICEWS objects data mapping design documents and coordinated with developers and performed unit testing team to ensure accurate conversion of data
• Developed test scenarios in the area of SRM, Purchasing and Sourcing and prepared test scripts for unit testing, and prepared relevant test data for testing
• Goods hands on experience in using Solution Manager and SharePoint.
• Cutover Planning and Go Live execution and Hyper-care support
• Supporting eSourcing system for Supplier Onboard, Contract Creation, Integrating Contract numbers in the IBX catalogues

SAP Lead Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identification and documentation of various business, technical, product and process requirements
• Mainly responsible for interacting with the business owners to understand their requirements.
• Prepared AS-IS business process for raw material and consumables procurement scenarios and gathered the requirement for other procurement process.
• Participated in all TO-BE workshops, identified RICEF and written functional specifications for Form.
• Analyzed the Business Requirements / studied the AS-IS Business Process, giving a solution design. This involved finalizing the TO-BE Business flows, documenting the operating procedures, gap analysis between AS-IS & TO-BE Process in the production environment.
• Organization model analysis and configuring the Organization structure according to the business model. Involved in setup to define the operational hierarchy. Controlling via attribute maintenance with purchasing organization, purchasing group, plant etc.
• Worked on Integration of EBP system to other Backend Systems and SUS.
• Replicating and creation of Users. Creating roles and authorization objects (PFCG).
• Master Data Configuration and replication from Backend System.
• Redesigned the business process and designed the blueprint, functional specification and technical speicficaion
• Configured ECC for Purchasing and goods movement.
• Configured Centralized Contract Management
• Assist in the various testing phases including Unit Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Communicate with the development team in converting business requirements into RICEFWs
• Coordinate the efforts of the developer/s in replicating the objects and associated required enhancements between SAP SRM and ECC.
• Provide hand over documentation to the support team
• Cutover Planning and Go Live execution and Hyper-care support

Team Lead, SRM and MM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Offshore Project lead for SAP SRM/MM upgrade project.
• To set a status call with all Internal team members and get the works done to meet the delivery timelines.
• Be a single point of contact for the client for the project deliverables
• Business Requirement Gathering for New Rollout Projects for Mars.
• Understand the AS IS Document followed by Client here SAP Solution need to be implemented.
• Design a TO Be process flow and Business Blueprint and get the sign off from Business Stake Holders.
• Do the GAP Analysis, Technical feasibility and man hour study for the New requirements which would be required to handle the gaps in Actual requirement and Current Template Solution.
• Configurations related to SRM, MM
• Extensively involved in discussion with the Business team for collecting required information and data for functional design document for theRICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversion, Enhancement, Forms & Workflow) objects.
• Worked inGAP Analysisand helped client inselection and implementation of suitable solutions for the entireRICEFW object for direct materials and indirect materials.
• ConfiguredMaterial types, Number ranges (External numbering) for Material master, PR, PO andchanged the field statusof the material master records as per the user requirements.
• Involved in requirements gathering and finalizing the requirements with end user.
• Configured Self Service procurement for Extended classic scenario
• Implemented Plan derived procurement in SRM. Configured PR without source of supply (ECC) to SRM shopping carts for sourcing and processing POs in ECC back end system once source is determined.
• Configured processing SC to create PR and PO in ECC
• Middleware setup for Master data replication between ECC and Workflow.
• IDOC replication of Org structure from ECC HR system to SRM.
• Configured external vendor punch out catalogs using OCI (open catalog interface) for each vendor
• Configured and maintained Central Contracts for Spare parts and services. Distributed them to back end system.
• Experience in finding solutions for issues using SAP OSS notes and initiated OSS messages to SAP
• Configured Business Rules Framework (BRF) for Shopping cart and Central contract workflows in SRM.
• Implemented BADIs for Doc check BADI for reading minimum values order check and screen validations with ECC vendor master, implemented BADI in ECC
• Contributing significantly during the integration/user acceptance testing phase.
• Timely resolution of Post Go live issues.

SAP Functional lead SRM

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Performed the role of Lead for SRM technology
• Involved in the global rollout of the SRM solution to international locations that included North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific
• Monitored and coordinated the resolution of Production support issues across all countries.
• Managed and delivered new system enhancements according to client business requirements by performing fit-gap analysis, designing and developing best-practice solutions
• Coordinated and executed transition of technology support to Colgate-Palmolive IT team.

SRM Consultant / MM Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring that quality services are delivered with regard to the agreed SLA.
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Identifying the gaps and preparing the Improvement Plans.
• Participatedin creating Functional documentation and Technical specifications.
• Production Support activities primarily involves enhancements, maintenance & bug fixes.
• Production support in Organization structure changes, shopping cart SC/PO trouble shooting, workflow,
• Trouble shooting in Master Data exchange between Enterprise Buyer and SAP back end system also setting up automatic and scheduled data exchange.

Associate Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed MM and PM rollouts.
• Assisted the users for UAT.
• Provided post implementation support and training as required to business.
• Configured Release Strategy
• Responsible for Spares maintenance
• Coding of Materials for MMS (Material Management system- Legacy)
• Vendor Development, Bidding and Scrap management
• Maintaining and updating of Material receipt/Material issue in MMS
• Stock maintenance, physical verification and inventory management
• Sending Bids to the vendor thro MMS & compare the bids based on the evaluation in MMS tool