Career Objective:

To associate with an organization which progresses dynamically and gives me a chance to update my knowledge and enhance my skills in the state-of-the-art technologies and be a part of the team that excels in work towards the growth of the organization and gives me a satisfaction thereof.

Professional Summary:

8+ years of Functional IT experience, in SAP MM/IM modules, experience in implementation of 3 life cycles. Lead version up-grades from 3.1H to ECC 6.0. Domain expertise in Manufacturing, Agriculture, Logistics and automotive industry.

• Strong understanding and experience in ASAP methodology and its implementation phases such as Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, and Go Live & Support.
• Strongly worked on Interdependencies and Interfaces Configuration among the SAP modules including PP, WM, SD and FI.
• Worked on Development and Configuration of Enterprise Structure and Master Data including Material Master, Vendor Master, Quota Arrangement, Source List, Info Records, Outline Agreements, Vendor Evaluation and Vendor Confirmation.
• Proficient in Procure to Pay Process and Order to Cash cycle for material and non-material items, Configured Purchasing sub-modules including the Quotations, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Blanket Purchase Order, Automatic Creation of Purchase Order and Stock Transport Orders.
• Worked on Pricing Procedure, Release Strategies and Version Management.
• Configuration and development of Material Requirement Planning wherein Consumption Based Planning with Reorder Point and Forecast Based Planning were dealt with. Also, Configured Forecast Models, Lot Size Procedures, MRP Profile, Contract and Source Determination, Evaluation and Processing Planning Result, MRP Area, MRP Procedures and Conversion of Planned Order to Purchase Requisition.
• Customized settings for Inventory Management and Physical Inventory including Goods Receipts, Goods Issue, Transfer Posting, Special Stock Types(Subcontracting, Consignment, Pipeline and Third Party), RTP Stocks, Reservation, Dynamic Availability Check, Missing Part Check, Batch Management, Partial Delivery, Material Document, Accounting Document, Subsequent Adjustments, Physical Inventory, Counting Methods and Inventory for Free Products and By-Products.
• Worked extensively on Configuring and Customizing Logistics Invoice Verification (Two way-ERS and Three Way Match), Maintain variances, Parked and Held Invoice, Account Maintenance, Invoice in Background, Subsequent Adjustments, Credit and Debit Memo, Invoice Plan, Planned and Unplanned Delivery Cost, Invoice Reduction and Automatic Settlements.
• Worked with FI Team (MM-FI Integration) for configuring Automatic Posting to GL Account, GL account maintenance based on Automatic Posting Key related to MM, GR/IR clearing, Accounting Documents, Down Payment to Vendor, Spilt Valuation, Valuation Class for different types of Materials, Valuation Area, Plant and Company code), Automatic or Manual account assignments, Movement Type and Planned and Unplanned Delivery cost (G/L account).
• Prepared “AS-IS and TO-BE” Documents at the time of Up-gradation and extensively worked on all the area of Business Process (RICEFW).
• Worked on ABAP program (ABAP) logic also worked effectively with developer.
• Skills in various Reporting, Performance Testing and Data Uploading tools like ABAP/4 query, Z-Transaction, Report Writer, Report Painter, LSMW(Using Batch Input recording and Direct Input).
• Worked on Logistics Information system (LIS) including Logistics Information System, Purchasing Information system, Inventory Information System and their different Analysis Procedures like Standard, Flexible and Early Warning Analysis.
• Worked on versions ERP 3.1H, 4.6C, 4.7 and ECC 6.0
• Effectively interacted with the clients to understand Business Processes for GAP analysis and proposed long term and short-term strategic solutions, experience in developing interfaces using IDOC’s, EDI and ALE for all Master Data and Purchasing Document (850, 855, 860, 869, 870, 810, and 856(ASN)).
• Participated in uploading data from multiple legacy systems to R/3, to create a single integrated system and manage all transactions across an extended supply chain (SCM).
• Manage the Supply chain (SCM) initiatives in Business performance/Metrics.
• Prepared the Training Manual, Business Blueprint and Involved in Functional Design (FD) and Functional Mapping Documentation (FMD).
• Pro-active in troubleshooting and can instantly identify business problems, formulate strategic plans, initiate changes and implement new processes in challenging and diverse environments.
• Experience developing test scripts and participate in Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Strong expertise in problem solving, decision making, and translating business requirements into business solutions utilizing process improvements as well as ERP solutions.

Educational Qualifications:

Bachelor degree in Computer Science & Systems Engineering

Professional Experience:

Confidential,NY Jan 2012 to Till date
Title: SAP MM/IM Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

• Developed test scripts based on identified business processes
• Involved in Unit testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing with all the possible business scenarios along with configuration change.
• Identified the training needs and trained the core users.
• Participated in the preparation of customization documents and user’s manuals
• Support go-live and involved in Cut-over activities.
• Assist Users and business to migrate the data from Legacy system to SAP.
• Provided Post-implementation support and assist end-user with day-to-day operations.

Confidential,CT May 2010 to Dec 2011
Title: SAP MM/IM Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

• Responsible for full life cycle implementation of Material Management module including post go–live support for Mexico RLCS plant.
• Gathering requirements, analyzing against template, gap analysis, leading blueprinting workshops, documenting the blueprint
• Configured Material Management by Defining and assigned screen sequences to Material Type/Industrial Sector and configured setting of number ranges.
• Configured and created Purchase Requisition (Number Range and Document Type), RFQ/Quotation, Contract and Purchase Order.
• Resolved issues in inventory by using Batch Management, handling of Special Stocks
• Configuration and customization of Material Master, Vendor Master (Account Group and Partner function), Purchase Info Record.
• Configured MM – Purchasing, procure to pay cycle, Intercompany purchasing, Output determination, and Account determination for Goods movement as and when required by the team.
• Inventory Management (IM) : Generated Goods Receipts for Purchase Orders, Goods Issue for production orders and reversals, removing materials for non-production and packaging areas
• Carried out Configuration of movement types, Inventory Document Number Range, Physical Inventory, Tolerance Limits for GI/GR and Cycle Counting.
• Worked on GI/GR for Purchase Orders, Stock Transfer and Transfer Posting.
• Set up of Organizational Structure related to Storage Locations and Purchasing Organizations.
• Experience working with EDI Integration for 850, 810, 855 etc
• Established the whole procurement cycle from automatic creation of requisitions in MRP run to Invoice verification.
• Set up Release procedures for purchasing documents
• Developed LSMW objects to create/ change routings, BOM, and Material master
• Involved in developing functional specs for different reports like On hand raw material inventory, Production order Status, Labels and demand for finished goods as per business requirement
• Identified the training needs and trained the core users. Participated in the preparation of customization documents and user’s manuals.
• Prepared go-live activities sheet and executed on timely manner

Confidential,MI Aug 2009 to May 2010
Title: SAP MM/IM Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

• Full life cycle implementation of one of the biggest ongoing projects in USA. Implementing ECC 6.0 for about 30 plants across USA.
• Lead the implementation of all Logistics modules (PP/MM/SD), Design Demand planning as per client requirement
• Configuration of Plant, Purchasing Organization, Purchasing Group, Storage Locations, Material Types, Material Groups and IM movement types.
• Customized plant parameters for MRP and Consumption Based Planning and Defined MRP groups and Controllers.
• In routings and work centers, customized task list usages, standard values and parameters, defined control keys, maintained task list types, material type allocations, defined work scheduler/planner group, defined control keys
• Customized the conversion of Purchase request to Purchase Orders and defined order profiles.
• Designed and drafted upgrade plan, reviewed new functionalities with business owners and made blue print document of the proposed system.
• Worked with EDI processing to get demand for MRP from the customers
• Configuration of the Materials Management module such as defining and assigning various components of the company and Material Master Data, Info Records, Source Lists, Purchasing, Inventory Management.
• Creating Outline agreements – scheduling (delivery/forecast delivery), contracts (Value/quantity based).
• Communicated status, issues, and impacts, with team, team leadership, relevant client sponsors and process owners.
• Carried out Unit Testing and Integration Testing with all possible Business Scenarios to ensure minimum problems after Go-Live.

Confidential,AZ Sep 2008 to May 2009
Title: Sr. SAP MM/IM Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

• Participated in requirements gathering, and blueprinting, aligning processes according to standard US manufacturing models (global templates).
• Defined BOM explosion control and BOM and routing selection.
• Configured production order types, confirmations, operations, status profile, and selection profile, defining print control, order costing, and production order type dependent parameters.
• Configured planning calendar to group the schedule line quantities by weekly, bi-monthly depending upon the customer.
• Configured PO, PR, STO, Source list, quota arrangement and Purchase Info records.
• Configured Material master, custom material types, defining material groups, material status, unit of measures etc.
• Configured and designed vendor evaluations, scheduling agreements, consignment.
• Configured Automatic account determination from MM perspective.
• Configured conditions, condition tables, access sequences, conditional schemas, price determination process, and scope of list for conditions.
• Configured messages, access sequence and text for messages.
• Designed and wrote functional specifications for Production Order, TR, PO, STO and PR smart forms.
• Involved in implementing various enhancements during Production order create and order save process
• Involved in developing functional specs for different reports like Plan By Tools, ETO order Status, Shop paper work, Pick List for production, Labels etc
• Responsible for providing end user training for Production Planning, control and execution and Material management
• Responsible for developing all the required test scripts based on identified business processes
• Responsible for all the required migration documents for data migration between legacy and SAP systems
• Developed all the required end user training documents and supported cutover plans and was involved in Go-Live of the project.

Confidential,WA Mar 2007 to Aug 2008
Title: SAP MM/Master Data Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

• Part of the core team, participated in requirements gathering, and blueprinting, aligning processes according to standard US manufacturing models (global templates)
• Created Material Master, Vendor Master, Source List, Info Records and Purchase Requisitions for the business needs.
• Configured purchasing documents like RFQ’s, Purchase orders and outline agreements.
• Configured Purchasing Process including Purchase Requisition (MRP), Purchase Requisition (Third Party), Purchase Order (MRP), Purchase Order (Third Party), Purchase Order (Stock and Non-stock), Scheduling Agreement, and Contracts.
• Configured item categories, and item account assignment categories for PO, Purchase Requisition, and defined Quota Arrangement Usage in Vendor Master.
• Involved in purchasing plan and setting up Invoice receipts.
• Involved in configuring Goods Receipts, Goods Issue, Stock Transfers, Transfer Posting, Physical Inventory analysis for in-house production and sub-contracting.
• Worked on integration testing including Creating PIR, Running MRP, Purchase order, Post good receipts, Post goods issue, Invoice verification.
• Created the ERS (Evaluated Receipt Settlement) for selected vendors with subsequent Credit memo.
• Configured Release procedures using workflow.
• Worked on defining Pricing Procedures and determining pricing procedures.
• Configured Extended Material Master records, Blanket PO`s.
• Defined number ranges for various documents - Purchasing docs, Goods movement docs.
• Developed training material for Purchasing and Inventory Management.
• Interaction with ABAP Team for Reports Development.
• Created Work Centers with the support of PP implementation team.
• Configured Production Planning Master data, BOM, Work Centre. Routing, MRP controller, MRP Groups, BOM usages.
• Coordinated Cutover Plans and data migration for Material master, Vendor master and Info records from legacy systems using LSMW.
• Identified and studied Business Process Requirement (BPR) and Business Process Procedures (BPP) for effective documentation.
• Involved in analyzing and testing the business processes with the power-users. The testing was done against various reports and the corresponding possible risks.
• Imparted training to all the core team members of the client in SAP navigation, Material Master, Vendor Master, MRP & Purchasing Transactions, and Standard Reports.
• Responsible for training end-users in troubleshooting and all aspects of Material Management

Confidential,MO Jan 2006 to Mar 2007
Title: SAP MM/IM Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

• Analyzed the Business Requirements, studied the AS-IS Business Process, submitted a solution design involving the TO-BE Business flows, documenting the operating procedures and performed gap analysis between AS-IS & TO-BE Process in the production environment.
• Studied the business processes, mapped the processes and prepared templates in the Production Planning module for SAP R/3 implementation.
• Worked with development team for creating RICEFW objects like Reports for Open Purchasing Documents and Conversion of Data from Legacy System to SAP R/3 using LSMW.
• Worked on Solution Manager including support desk, Change Management, Knowledge Transfer, Project Management and Service Delivery.
• Master Data Configuration: Configured different Material Types, Vendor Confirmation using EDI and IDOC 855 and 850 for Advance Shipping Notification.
• Worked on Pricing Procedure based on Pricing Complexity, Vendor Evaluation based on existing criteria Price, Quantity, Delivery, Services, also created Functional Specification to create new Sub-Criteria.
• Worked on Outline Agreements including Value and Quantity and Distributed Contracts at Plant Level.
• Procure to Pay Cycle: Configured Automatic creation of Purchase Order from Purchase Requisition as well as at the time of Goods Receipts.
• Inventory Management: Worked on processing of Stock Transport Order (Inter and Intra Company Code) and Transfer Postings of Special Stocks including Free Goods and By Products in Inventory Management
• Configured Freezing and Blocking of book inventory, counting procedures in physical inventory including the inventory Sampling and Cyclic counting procedure using Batch input method.
• Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV): Performed Logistics Invoice Verification and Evaluated Receipt Settlement, Configured Invoice Verification including Parking of Invoices and Integration with FI for Accounts Payable.
• Configured Invoice Plan Settlement and Prepayment (Down-payments) to Vendors and worked with FI team for configuring Automatic Posting Keys.
• Configured integration with FI for Payment cycle and Automatic Posting of Unplanned Delivery and Planned Delivery cost to separate G/L Account.
• Configured Material Master Data for SD including Loading Group, Transporting Group, Availability Check, Material Packaging, Shipping Instruction and Delivery Plant.
• Helped SD team to configure Posting of Good Issue and Inventory Updates after Posting Good Issue also handled Transfer of Requirements for MRP Point of View to generate Procurement Proposals.
• Coordinate with the Technical Team for the issues requiring comprehension of Functional requirements. Responsible for trainings and Knowledge Transfer to all new employees. Supported End-users in handling tasks and also provided Application supports.

Confidential,WI Jun 2004 to Dec 2005
Title: SAP MM Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6

• Kohler Australasia Implementation/ Kohler Europe implementation / Kohler BHAG project and Version migration for North America Plants Part of the core team, participated in requirements gathering, and blueprinting, aligning processes according to standard US manufacturing models (global templates)
• Configured BOM item categories, default values for item status, BOM status, BOM usage, BOM alternative determination
• Studying existing business process in the context of material management and deciding to-be process and to be mapped to the SAP system
• Worked on master data conversions, Material Master records (using MM 01 transaction) and Vendor Master records (using MK01 transaction), from legacy system were brought into SAP
• Designed and Configuration the MM organizational elements Purchasing Organization, Plant, Storage Location
• Customization of Master Records.
• Apart from the Standard Material types, configured New Material Types as per the requirements of the Client and created several valuation classes and account category references, changed the field status of the material master records as per the users requirements.
• Configured vendor master records, created account groups based on the type of control required, defined usage of partner functions and vendor sub-range functions.
• Configured the terms of payment for vendors and Shipping instructions
• Defining partner schemas and assigning to account groups.
• Characteristics and classes were reviewed and created for release procedures to requisition, purchase orders and scheduling agreements
• Configuring Inventory Management Parameters for all Goods movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, GR for blocked stock, Goods returns etc.,
• Creating storage location automatically for different movement types with Goods issue/Transfer posting and Goods receipt
• Worked on Goods returns, Shortage of Material supplies and damaged goods.
• Configuring special stocks in Inventory management for Subcontracting, and Consignment materials
• Created Statistical Conditions for price comparison without altering the Material
• Procurement Prices and Inventory valuation
• Interfaced IM & WM for direct transfer order confirmations against material documents
• Customization of Access sequence, condition records and business rules understanding clients business process
• Customized Invoice Verification with Vendor-wise tolerance limits as per the business requirements.
• Produced most of the new business forms with SAP script
• Unit testing and Integration testing using CATT / other tools like Win runner
• Supporting helpdesk with user training
• Successful completion followed by post go-live support

Confidential,United Kingdom May, 2003 to Jun, 2004
Title: Senior Programmer Analyst / SAP MM Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6

DHL International Ltd is one of the leading Express and Logistics Forwarding Company in the world which operates more than 220 countries in the world.

LOGISAIR is DHL’s Global Freight forwarding application for Air and Ground logistics. This application caters from Freight Pickup to final delivery to the Customers. The application runs on IBM Mainframe under MVS environments.

This project deals with System Appreciation of LOGISAIR application along with Development and Maintenance and to migrate the IBM Mainframe systems to SAP R/3.

• System Appreciation – Understanding the whole system.
• Knowledge transfer from all the groups in DHL.
• Involved in requirement gathering from Business partners across the globe and prepare the Target design in SAP
• Developed LSMW objects to load Material Master, Vendor Master, Physical Inventory, and BOM
• Configured custom Material types, Purchasing groups, MRP profiles, Planner ID’s, Scheduling Margin Key and Lot sizes.
• Configured custom Purchase documents types, Number range, Purchase requisition, PO, STO
• Coordinate with Offsite team to resolve the issues.
• Responsible for training end-users in troubleshooting and all aspects of Material Management
• Project Management

Confidential,Portland, ME Sep, 2000 to May 2003
Title: Programmer Analyst

Hannaford Bros Co. is a leading retail company that runs about 140 supermarkets, most of which operate in New England and New York as Hannaford and Shop ‘n Save. Hannaford owns three distribution and transportation centers in US.
This project deals with the maintenance of existing Hannaford Merchandising & Distribution systems and development of new Systems to automate / enhance the existing retail store & merchandising operations.

This project was to develop an application for Forecasting and Buying Perishable Items with the following requirements.

• Forecasting has to consider various factors that affect the sales like promotional sale plans, price changes, Seasonal changes, Events etc.
• Should forecast daily.
• System should help buyers in doing their buy decisions.
• The new system must be compatible with the IBM mainframe and CICS environment.
• Understanding the Business significance
• Requirement gathering from Business partners across the globe and translate into software needs
• Designing the application which include the database
• Development and testing which includes preparation of Analysis, Design documents and test scripts.
• Review and Testing
• Team Management
• Executed the project in CMM5 Level.
• Coordinate with Offsite team to resolve the issues.
• Project Management

Environment:
COBOL, CICS, ADSO, JCL, DB2, ORACLE, VSAM, MVS, SQL, PL/SQL, Easytrieve Plus, SYNCSORT, FTP, IDCAMS, FILEAID, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, QMF, MSOffice, MS Project, ENDEVOR