Summary of Experience and Qualifications

Vijayakumar is a Subject Matter Expert and SAP professional with over 10 years of experience with global projects, with overall expertise in Sales and Distribution, Materials Management and Project Systems. Had worked for Deloitte Consulting(Big 4 Consulting) as an SME in SD & VC for 3 years.He also has a good understanding of Supply Chain Management, Financials, ABAP, Variant Configuration and general integration with and within SAP. He has been instrumental in lots of successful project and participated in several major SAP implementation life cycles as well as performed QA tasks on others. Vijayakumar also, has extensive IT and Business experience. Most of the experience has been gained in the Manufacturing and HighTech industries. He has both US and Asian experience. Result oriented, self-motivated with ability to work in multi-tasking and changing environments. Experienced in working with Variant Configuration Module in different industries.

ABAP SKILLS: Interfaces (Inbound and Outbound), LSMW, Reports

Professional Experience

TMT Industry: June 2009 - Present
SAP SD (Ver 6.0)
Client: Confidential - San Jose, CA

SAP Sales & Distribution:

• Wrote Functional specs for Quote & Order flows for UI with backend functionality using SAP,Cold Fusion,Live Cycle.
• The user interface being developed is based on the Flex functionality of Adobe.
• They have a current licensing website on Flex applications called as LWS which is a licensing website for placing orders by customers.
• Created Test Plan & Test Scripts with Test cases for Unit,Integration & UAT tesing.
• Did a lot of functional/technical testing on Function Modules that ties up with the front end Flex application.
• Did a lot of error handling for SAP function modules,Flex application.
• Also played a key role in testing of the Licensing Website applications for orders,contracts etc.

TMT Industry: January 2009 - May 2009
SAP SD Pricing & Billing Lead, SAP Ver.(6.0)
Client: Confidential - Phoenix, AZ

• Helped the client in evaluating the existing Legacy Pricing tools & helped them in taking decisions as to what it will take to migrate to SAP Pricing, the functionality, the level of effort etc. required to use SAP for Pricing
• Did an extensive research & went through some of their exisiting Legacy tools & prepaired an evaluation matrix in the form of spreadsheet which mainly focused on Tools v/s functionality in SAP .
• Had mocked up lot's of complex scenarios from the legacy system in SAP system for pricing.
• Did a Proof of concept on the functionalities for Pricing & brought the client to a comfort level to use pricing in SAP.
• Configured the billing scenarios including milestone billing & gave a demo on the billing functionalities

Food & Beverage Industry: January 2008 till December 2008
Client: Confidential - Denver, CO, USA
SAP SD-Pricing Lead, (Techno Functional)

• Worked on a Project in a Food & Beverage company which manufactures different kinds of Cheese, Sells Cream & other by-Products of Cheese. They also manufacture whey Proteins.
• Successfully completed the design Phase by designing a complex pricing structure along with Transfer Pricing piece.
• Was involved in the Unit testing along with lots of Functional Unit Testing around pricing.
• Also worked on the complex Transfer pricing piece (Intercompany & IntraCompany Orders).
• The Transfer Price is very important & complex piece for this company & there are three scenarios that had to be worked on for this piece to work ,
• Scenario 1: Transfer from Manufacturing Plant to Customer
• Scenario 2: Transfer from Plant to Cold Storage(3PL) Location.
• Scenario 3: Transfer from 3 PL to Customer.
• The transfer price have been successfully tested for all the scenarios & worked according to requirements.
• Designed the Access Seq/Cond. Types/Tables/Pricing Procedure for Domestic, Export, Sample, Donation Orders & that worked to perfection.
• Worked on EDI for order confirmation, shipping notification, invoices etc for outbound & sales order, order changes etc for inbound EDI.
• Wrote VOFM rules for Pricing logic, added custom Z-fields to KOMG,KOMK,KOMP structures.
• Worked on ABAP reports for Pricing.
• Debugged errors in pricing using ABAP Debugger.
• Also designed the Complex Freight Piece which involved complex formulas & custom Tables along with the interface to bring in the data from the Legacy Systems.
• Designed the Extended Rebate Functionality for carrying out Partial settlement, Final settlement, Reverse Accruals etc.
• Configured the Extended rebate functionality to carry out rebate settlement concurrently for three recipients namely the Chain Customers, Distributor & Broker. Configured the Condition types, Condition Groups, Rebate Types, Info structures & executed the Formulas to carry out the settlement to these three recipients within a single rebate agreement.
• Involved in Complex formulas & interface testing along with testing enhancements related to pricing like Price effective date fields which has different fields stored in customer Master & an enhancement that read these dates from the customer Master & applies them in the order & the Pricing kicks off from these dates in the Sales Order.
• Tested Forms like Price Confirmation/invoice which are based on the Output Determination Procedure/Output types logic.
• Implemented Revenue Recognition with the following tasks: set revenue recognition for item Categories, maintain account determination, determining the revenue accounts,revenue account determination for transfer of billing values between SD & FI modules.

Industry: Health Care July 2007 till December 2007
Client: Confidential - Milpitas, CA, USA
Enterprise Applications (Ver. 6.0)
Sr. VC Consultant;

Health Care company involved in the Production of Health related equipments which are used by major hospitals around the country, Europe, Australia, Asia etc.

Role: Worked extensively in Variant configuration designing the complex models. Involved in Business Requirements gathering pertaining to Legacy systems that needs to talk to
SAP R/3 VC for the synchronization of the data & the structure needed to be harmonized among various Regions too.
The Harmonization of the Materials was the Major challenge in this Particular Project as the part numbers varied among regions that led to some inconsistency in Sales Orders among regions and even in the Legacy system. This was essentially an upgrade project.

SAP Variant Configuration:

• The configurable materials involved were highly complex with the Super BOM's going as deep as 4 levels of configuration. Lots of dependencies & rules had to be written for the various permutations & combinations of BOM's, Characteristics, Variant tables etc.
• Creating Characteristics and Dependencies.
• Configuration of the different types of Dependencies for controlling the selection of variants for the configurable material.
• Variant functions for checking & maintaining the consistency of values in the tables for the variant materials was done.
• Written lots of complex dependencies(Rules) to select the BOM components in a multi-level Hybrid BOM, calculate pricing of the variant products, values etc. in Routings, to get the appropriate components to a work center etc. Different dependencies were written to get the end result namely Pre Condition, Selection Conditon, Procedures for computing BOM quantity & Pricing & last but no the least - Constraints which formed the most complex dependency to check the consistency of values, bring values from the top-bottom/bottom-top amongst different classes.
• Also used Variant Tables as part of pricing methodology.
• The Interface is built to handle the Variant configuration data that will be passed from the OMNI (Legacy) Configurator to SAP VC. This is a very complex interface as it needs to handle huge complex configuration across two systems.

Industry: High Tech June 2006 till July 2007
Enterprise Applications (Ver. 6.0)
Client: Confidential - Santa Clara, CA,USA
Sr VC Consultant;

High tech company manufacturer of semi-conductors. Highly complex models gets manufactured and supplied all over America & overseas for manufacturing chips; wafers etc. used in Cell Phones, Computers etc.

Role: Was involved in the Workshops for the Variant configuration and integration with PP

• Worked extensively in Variant configuration designing the complex models, & eventually design the system as to how the VC would have to work. Involved in workshops & factory tours for understanding their current business & manufacturing process. Worked on Extensively in Production Order Process setup including Planning functionalities and Forecasting.

SAP Production and Planning:

• Customized PP in the following areas: Material Masters, Work Centers, and
• Routings.
• Set up MRP profiles. In Routings and Work centers Customized Task list Usages,
• Standard Values and Parameters, Defined control keys, Maintained Task List
• types, Material type allocations, Define work scheduler/planner group, define control keys, reduction strategies, routing selections. Worked on Planning Profiles & Tables for calculating quantities of components. Setup of MPS & MRP scenarios.
• Also worked on demand management for production.
• Worked on the whole process of Production Order Process including Planning strategies & Capacity Planning. Worked on the BOM, MRP & MPS for the different BOM Levels according to the requirements.
• Setup of Routings, Work centers & formula calculation for Capacities within the work centers like for Set up, Processing & Tear Down functions.
• Set up the Material Master Data for Production. Basically the MRP Views. Work Scheduling & Costing Views
• Also worked on the Scenarios for Order Change Management & ECM for Production related changes including the Status Management with reference to Variant Configuration.
• Written lots of complex dependencies(Rules) to select the BOM components in a multi-level Hybrid BOM, calculate pricing of the variant products, values etc. in Routings, to get the appropriate components to a work center etc. Different dependencies were written to get the end result namely Pre Condition, Selection Conditon, Procedures for computing BOM quantity & Pricing & last but no the least - Constraints which formed the most complex dependency to check the consistency of values, bring values from the top-bottom/bottom-top amongst different classes.
• Also used Variant Tables as part of pricing methodology.
• Have worked on extensively in Sales & Operational Planning.

SAP CRM IPC & ECC 6.0 Variant Configuration

• Had various meeting sessions to gather inputs and coordinated time with each product Configurator to gather their thoughts so that there were no mis-communications & requirements were up to date.
• Customization of Super BOM & Super Task lists for Variant Materials, Using of Variant Conditions for determining Surcharges & Discounts in Sales & Distribution & Purchasing
• Defined the possible statuses for tables & also maintained groups for the tables, variant class for the configurable materials with class type 300 was created variant tables for storing in the characteristics & values of the variant materials was created.
• Configuration of the different types of Dependencies for controlling the selection of variants for the configurable material, variant functions for checking & maintaining the consistency of values in the tables for the variant materials was done.
• Integrated VC with SD/PP/MM for production, procurement, orders & pricing.
• Implemented a BADI to determine the Runtime for two different plants based on the sales org. Implemented another BADI to allow different plant combination for Bill of Material and Knowledgebase
• Involved in creation of Middleware objects (function Modules) with the use of existing objects for initial Loads as well as Delta Processing. Done the customization of IPC User interface (UI) using XCM. Setup and distribution of master data between two disconnected systems by creating File Port and processed them using a BDC recording.
• Wrote a BADI to select a Knowledge base in CRM based on the Plant. Implemented another BADI to do vendor selection in partner function based on the sales org. Involved in the design and development of Customer specific pricing procedure.

Industry: Manufacturing: February 2005 till May 2006
Client: Confidential - Farmington, CT, USA
Role: VC Consultant involved in the configuration of their products in R/3
Technical Environment: SAP R/3 ERP 2004 (version 5.0)

VC Consultant/Development; 6 months.

Role: Was involved in the requirements gathering & workshops for accessories & generic products.

Involved in Process flows, mapping out AS IS & TO BE Environments.
Had various meeting sessions to gather inputs and coordinated time with each product Configurator to gather their thoughts so that there were no mis-communications & requirements were up to date.

Thevarious tasks besides Gaps/functional specs/RICEF inventory implemented by me were:

• Customization of Super BOM & Super Task lists for Variant Materials.
• Using of Variant Conditions for determining Surcharges & Discounts in Sales & Distribution & Purchasing
• Defined the possible statuses for tables & also maintained groups for the tables Variant class for the configurable materials with class type 300 was created Variant tables for storing in the characteristics & values of the variant materials was created.
• Configuration of the different types of Dependencies for controlling the
• selection of variants for the configurable material.
• Variant functions for checking & maintaining the consistency of values in the tables for the variant materials was done.
• Integrated VC with SD/PP/MM for production, procurement, orders & pricing.
• Wrote Lots of Complex dependencies like constraints, procedures for Pricing & Component selection in BOM & Routings.

Technical Environment: SAP ERP 2004(VER ECC 5.0)

Industry: Manufacturing: January 2002 till January 2005
Service Area: Enterprise Applications
CLIENT: Confidential

SAP implementation

• Role: Worked on the configuration of Sales Order Management - order types, standard order, contracts, cash sales. Item categories - free of charge, Schedule Line categories- BP, Delivery Scheduling & Availability check, Copy Controls - Standard order, Account Determination and Credit Management.
• Defined pricing dependencies through condition records, condition tables, and Access sequences.
• Defined pricing procedure for handling various discount structures based on customer specific agreements. Volumes and value of order.
• Configuration of billing function involving Document types, Invoices, Credit and Debit memos and Revenue Account Determination.
• Price list analysis report using various pricing procedures and pricing conditions.
• Generate price lists using pricing procedures, sales areas and customer information.
• Developed sales analysis reports: By Customer, By Sales office, by sales group, By Brand and By Material.
• Developed Test scripts for unit testing, string testing & integration testing.
• Wrote Functional specifications for interfaces, reports, conversions etc.
• Implemented Revenue Recognition with the following tasks: set revenue recognition for item Categories, maintain account determination, determining the revenue accounts,revenue account determination for transfer of billing values between SD & FI modules.

Technical Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Industry: High Tech: August 1999 till December 2001
Service Area: Enterprise Applications
Client: Confidential

Role: Involved in the following responsibilities:

SD Functionality:

• Pricing procedures with standard and non-standard SAP fields; condition types; requirements, text/partner/material/output determination; availability and allocations checking; credit checking;
• BOMs; incompletion procedures. Specialty solutions include: proprietary partner determination solutions for non-customer entities involved in a sales transaction
• Special Requirements: external tax interface (VERTEX), foreign trade, serial numbers, customer service management (incl. service agreements, replacement contracts), refurbished equipment orders, returns within warranty period Maintained rebate agreements for clients (material rebate, group rebate, customer and hierarchy rebates).
• supporting order management (quote to cash), incl. foreign trade processing

VC Functionality: Responsibilities included :

• Attended workshops for Order Management, Product Configuration, Engineering Management, Inventory management. Prepared the Customer input Documents. Prepared process flows for as-is & to-be scenarios, business scenario documents, configuration documents etc.
• The configurable materials involved were highly complex with the Super BOM's going as deep as 4 levels of configuration. Lots of dependencies & rules had to be written for the various permutations & combinations of BOM's, Characteristics, Variant tables etc.
• Creating Characteristics and Dependencies.
• Dependencies in the Configuration Profile. - Interface Modeling
• Price Determination in Sales: - Material Prices, Surcharges and Discount. - Language Specific Condition Texts.
• Creating Object Characteristics. - Variant Table for Price Conditions. - Dependencies for Price Determination.
• Assigning Price Determination. - Effects of Product Variants on Sales.
• Effectively rolling out the pricing in the sales order where all the characteristic value prices selected gets added up to the generic product.
• Was involved in forecasting, planning, S & OP, RLT planning, Task lists, ECM.

Technical Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C

Industry: Manufacturing
Service Area: Enterprise Applications: February 1999 till June 1999
CLIENT : Confidential
Role: Major role included implementing SAP R/3 MM, PP.

As a Consultant the responsibilities were:

SAP MM

• Taking care of Implementation, post implementation support & maintenance job.
• Post Implementation job and maintaining customization of Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Requisitions, RFQ, Quotation, Purchase Orders, Outline Agreements, Purchase information records as well as Sourcing administration.
• Maintaining existing customized workflow for purchased materials and purchase requisitions.
• End user training for implemented workflow.
• Processing transfer postings, reservations and special stocks of inventory management.
• Purchasing - Requisition/Source of Supply - Vendor
• Evaluation/Quotas/RFQ/Quotation entry and analysis/PO/Automatic, Vendor known/unknown, confirmations.
• Invoice Verification - Entering Invoices with order reference.
• Inventory Management - Managing materials stock by quantity, by value, goods issue, stock movement documentation/Reservation/Quantity inspection/Physical Inventory.
• Units of Measure, Special Stock, Consignment, Material Storage/Movement, Transfer Posting.

Technical Environment: SAP R/3 4.0

Industry: High Tech: January 1999 till February 1999
Client: Confidential
High Tech Manufacturing Company.
Role: SD Consultant

The Responsibilities included were:

• Worked on the configuration of Sales Order Management - order types, standard order, contracts, cash sales. Item categories - free of charge, Schedule Line categories- BP, Delivery Scheduling & Availability check, Copy Controls - Standard order, Account Determination and Credit Management.
• Defined pricing dependencies through condition records, condition tables, and Access sequences.
• Pricing procedures with standard and non-standard SAP fields; condition types; requirements
• Text/partner/material/output determination; availability and allocations checking; credit checking;
• BOMs; incompletion procedures. Specialty solutions include: proprietary partner determination solutions for non-customer entities involved in a sales transaction

Technical Environment: SAP R/3 3.1H

System Experience

Software / Products: SAP VC,SD, MM, CRM,PP, ARIBA
Development Tools / Languages: ABAP, COBOL, MVS,CICS,DB2
Hardware / Operating Systems: Windows NT, UNIX, LINUX
General Tools: Microsoft office, Primavera

Education

Master of Information Technology
Diploma in Project Management
Bachelor's in Chemistry
Training

Professional Affiliations/Certifications

• Microsoft Certification for Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic.NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
• Member of CWG- Configuration Workgroup
• Member of SDN - SAP Developer Network and ASUG - American SAP User Group