SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an IS - Retail-AFS, Merchandise Planning and Assortment Planning, POSDM, SD & MM Consultant. Has total 16 years of experience, during which acquired skills in various roles including sales & marketing, analysis, design, development of applications, system & integration testing and team management across a number of diverse industry sectors.
• In SAP, have 14 years of experience in SAP IS-Retail, AFS, MPR, APR,POSDM, MM and SD. has done 6 implementations and 3 roll-outs including upgrade and 4 support project experience.
• Posse’s strong analysis and design skills associated with an admiration of business requirements which has been gained by working on various bespoke applications in the Retail sector. Confidential is involved in Pre-sales client demos, estimating RFP’s, project preparation, activity planning, and presentations for committee meetings.
• Has experience of mapping the business process by coordinating with core team to map AS-IS and TO-BE documents. Confidential has expert knowledge and hands on experience in designing and configuring the SAP IS Retail solutions including setting up the enterprise distribution chain, sites, vendor master, article master (single, generics & variants, structured, additionals), merchandise hierarchy, merchandise category, classification, planning workbench, assortments & listing, LSMW, OAPC, PRICAT, SAP Retail Store (MIM), Purchase order optimization and Open to Buy.
• Has also project managed various implementation and deployment projects in the Asia Pacific region.
• My teams were made up of staff and contractors located on and off site from different countries.
• As a Project Manager for more than 8 years, also has the experience of planning for and overseeing the budgets of the projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle, WA

SAP Retail and Vistex Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Rollout of two retail store and two distribution center in France.
• Extension of configuration of Vistex functionality of Sales Rebate, Purchase Rebate, Margin Adjustment, Price Protection to France country rollout.
• Conducted Unite Testing, SIT and UAT.
• Imparted End user training of Retail process and Vistex process.

Confidential

SAP Planning Solutions Lead consultant

Environment: SAP CAR on HANA, SAP MPR and SAP APR

Responsibilities:

• Trained in SAP MPR and APR at St. Ingbert, Germany.
• Setting up of Centre for Excellence for SAP MPR and APR with installation of SAP MPR and SAP APR.
• Setting up SAP FIORI as front end tool.
• Activation of tiles like Manage locations, Clusters, Product Attributes tile for SAP FIORI.
• Installation of SAP MPR and APR on CAR
• Installation of SAP CAR and configuration of SAP CAR, MPR and APR, FIORI and SAP Lumira
• Build SAP MPR and APR demo system for prospective customers and COE
• Developed accelerators for SAP MPR and APR based on RDS
• Integration of SAP CAR with SAP IS Retail and SAP FMS system
• Responsible for SD and MM pricing configuration

Confidential,San Francisco,Los Angeles

SAP SD Lead consultant

Environment: S/4 HANA Implementation with Simple Finance and Simple Logistics (beta)

Responsibilities:

• To gather current process detail in SAP SD area of Confidential and then conduct validation workshop with demonstration of SAP Standard best practices of SAP SD on S/4 HANA
• Configured 16 best practices process of SAP SD in S/4 HANA like Sales order Processing, Master data, Business partners, Rebates and settlement process, Third Party sales process, Drop shipment process (Intercompany), Returns, Complaints, Credit Memo, Debit Memo, Pricing procedure, consignment process, Sales Quotation process.
• Conducted workshop on WRICEF with Interface - outbound EDI 852, 855, 856, 810, Inbound EDI 850 with respect to 3PL warehouse. Forms for Sales order, billing and delivery order.
• E-Commerce ( Confidential .com) integration with SAP S/4 HANA. Interface discussion with business for SAP and E-Commerce.
• Procurement Master Data, Procurement of Direct Materials, External Procurement of third party resources, Indirect Procurement, Assets, Procurement of Direct Materials, Inventory Management, Physical inventory, Inventory Management, Return to Vendor, Stock Transfer, Sub Contracting.
• Gathered Gaps and logged in GAP register.
• Gathered requirement of FIORI for logistics and passed to FIORI Consultant.
• Activated FIORI Tiles like sales order, display sales order, open sales order tiles for simple logistics and gathered changes in display sales order FIORI App.
• Integration with other modules like FICO and MM.

Confidential,Freeport,Maine

Solution Architect - SAP IS Retail SD and MM, POSDM

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP PI, SAP BI, FLEXPLM, Websphere

Responsibilities:

• Working in Stage 2 implementation of SAP IS Retail. Stage 2 implementation includes process of sales from POS, E commerce, Bulk sale process from DC and implementation of POSDM on SAP BI
• Involved from Project preparation phase till now for stage 2 implementation. Currently project is in realization phase.
• Creation of Virtual store for E commerce
• Configuration of retail sales pricing, POS outbound, inbound.
• Designing of interface between E-commerce website and SAP IS Retail
• Master Data maintenance and support like Article master, Article group, Sales set, Display and prepack, Generic Article and variants, Article group Sales Price master, Procurement price master, Customer Master, Assortment, Assortment list, listing and listing procedure, Merchandise Category, MC Hierarchy, Characteristic profile, Site master, Site Group and Vendor Master.
• Upload of master data via mass upload tool of SAP, LSMW- Article Master, Customer Master, and Vendor Master Etc.
• Configuration of different type of Idoc like WP PLU, WBBDLD, WPUFIB etc. for communication between POS and SAP IS Retail
• Configuration of different type of Idoc like ARTMAS, LIKOND, INFREC etc. for communication between third party system and SAP IS Retail
• Designing of POSDM architecture site wise.
• For Stage 1, Master Data Monitoring in SAP IS Retail.
• Designing of interface from source system to SAP IS Retail for stage 1
• Implementation of procure to pay in stage 1 which includes import process design, procurement price and schema for procurement.
• Writing functional spec for enhancement in schema of Imports. Developing new routines for bypassing calculation
• Designing of Local procurement process.
• Definition of HTS codes, custom duty & Freight calculation in import schema
• Interface between FLEXPLM and SAP ECC.

Confidential

Project Manager and SD Lead

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BW and Websphere

Responsibilities:

• Supported as Project Manager for issues related to SAP ECC for Honda.
• Optimized band mix as compared to solution band mix 6.7/7.1
• Achieved Manager Recognition award from leadership.
• Developing new business process in template combining SAP ECC and BI.
• Leading a team of Twelve Consultants, Six technical consultants, two functional, two BI and one basis.
• Designed process to fetch Data from SAP BI with enhancement in Finance.
• Successfully done 1st closing of CIN in April 2015
• Successfully completed HR Patch upgrade
• Moved project from -35% to 7 % gross profit.
• Attained highest customer satisfaction
• Hold Stage Gate Review meetings with Project Steering Committee which is made up of members such as the Vice President Of Projects, Vice President of Project Finances and IT Programme Manager.

Confidential, Los Angeles

Project Manager SAP IS Retail

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BW and Websphere

Responsibilities:

• Supporting as Project manager for issues related to IBM SAP IS Retail for Confidential .
• Work with Central team to ensure alignment on plans and consistency of approach across deliverables
• Measure and monitor progress at clearly defined points in the process to ensure that the deployment is delivered on time and that it meets or exceeds expectations.
• Balance scope, schedule, quality, and risk.
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations.
• Ensure that all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitment are communicated to all affected team members.
• Work with business counterpart for buy-in for all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, quality assurance plans, schedule, and scope changes.
• Manage cross release, cross unit ownership of deployment issues and interdependencies.
• Developing new business process in template combining SAP IS Retail, BI and POSDM.
• Leading a team of Twelve Consultants, Six technical consultants, two functional, two BI and one basis.
• Designed allocation process to fetch Data from SAP BI with enhancement in allocation.
• Configured rule based markdowns and markdown plan based on slow seller management in SAP BI based on analysis of sales data.
• Price planning was handled by way of promotions and Manual price override and then transferred immediately to POS.
• Designed E-Commerce interface between SAP IS Retail and Web Sphere
• Designed and Implementation of Site creation process from SAP Production to SAP Quality or Development (Automate the whole process.)
• Master Data maintenance and support like Article master, Article group, Sales set, Display and prepack, Generic Article and variants, Article group Sales Price master, Procurement price master, Customer Master, Assortment, Assortment list, listing and listing procedure, Merchandise Category, MC Hierarchy, Characteristic profile, Site master, Site Group and Vendor Master.
• Upload of master data via mass upload tool of SAP, LSMW- Article Master, Customer Master, and Vendor Master Etc.
• Configuration of different type of Idoc like WP PLU, WBBDLD, WPUFIB, Cond A etc. for communication between POS and SAP IS Retail
• Streamlined Physical inventory process.
• Working on proof of concept for application of SAP HANA 1.0 SPS08 in Confidential .
• Setting budgets and agreeing project time scales and deadlines with clients.
• Holding weekly internal and external meetings on progress
• Single point of contact for all communications between the customer and senior management of IBM.
• Managing staff to ensure that all milestones are achieved within the agreed timeframes.
• Ensuring effective quality control processes are in place to monitor deliverables produced.
• Maintaining client relationships.
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks.
• Ensuring that projects conform to IBM ASAP methodology and required standards
• Conducting regular impact analysis in order to assess the consequences of the project deliverables on other sections of the business.
• Keeping accurate administrative records of expenditure, accounting, costing and billing.
• Assisting the technical team in their design and development tasks.
• Producing project definitions to include validated functional requirements, scope, roles, responsibilities, budgets, timescales and resources.
• Configured P2P process, Purchase order, STO, Inbound Delivery, Outbound Delivery, Scheduling agreement, physical inventory at store and DC, Interface with third party warehouse management system.

Confidential

Project Manager

Environment: ECC on SAP HANA 1503, SAP PI, SAP BI, SAP DMS and Wondersoft

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for implementation of SAP IS Retail for Confidential / Samrin services
• Designing of resource requirement sheet, planning of phase wise implementation and control of slippage.
• Did presales for Confidential and made proposal for bidding and won sales or 2 million USD.
• Master Data maintenance and support like Article master, Article group, Sales set, Display and prepack, Generic Article and variants, Article group Sales Price master, Procurement price master, Customer Master, Assortment, Assortment list, listing and listing procedure, Merchandise Category, MC Hierarchy, Characteristic profile, Site master, Site Group and Vendor Master.
• Upload of master data via mass upload tool of SAP, LSMW- Article Master, Customer Master, and Vendor Master Etc.
• Configuration of different type of Idoc like WP PLU, WBBDLD, WPUFIB, Cond A etc. for communication between POS and SAP IS Retail.
• Configuration of different type of Idoc like ARTMAS, LIKOND, INFREC etc. for communication between third party system and SAP IS Retail.
• Implemented SAP IS Retail solution using Rapid deployment solution (RDS) methodology. Implemented in target time of 5 months.
• Plan and monitor day-to-day activities for the project.
• Prepare and monitor the budget for the project.
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations.
• Ensure that all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitment are communicated to all affected team members
• Work with representatives from the Process Excellence, Business and Solution Architect teams to assess and provide recommendation on the interfaces assessed.
• Leading a team of 15 Consultants, Six technical consultants, six functional, two BI and one basis.
• Design of system landscape of Confidential involving S/4 HANA, BI, PI, POSDM, SAP IS Retail, FIORI and SAP DMS.

Confidential

Manager SAP IS Retail

Responsibilities:

• Supporting as team lead of issues of IS Retail, AFS for Burrbery, Maxeda and Nilgiris
• Developing new business process in template combining SAP IS Retail, BI and POSDM.
• Developed OAPC and Price Planning Workbench Process for Maxeda and COE
• Building Retail Template for SME business focussing Hardware, Fashion and Whole Sales Business segment of Retail.
• Exclusively worked with Business people for understanding AFS Business Process and IS Retail Process .
• Strong knowledge of AFS specific topics like allocation, value added services, seasonality, pre packs, and AFS related Master Data.
• Maintained Customer Master - AFS Fields, Material Master AFS Views, AFS - Condition Master, Sales Grids, AFS - Categories and Structure.
• Sales Document Structure - AFS Specific Setting,
• Allocation Run (ARun, ARun requirement sorting, ARun Allocation Rule, AFS ARun Release rule. Reallocation - Early Allocation.
• AFS Pricing, condition tables, access sequence .
• AFS Basic Setting- Seasons, Categories. AFS SD-MM- FICO Implementation
• Working with EHP4 Patch and implementing latest functionality of SAP IS-Retail in M&S Mode
• Leading a team of four Consultants, one technical consultant and one basis.
• Involved in presales of solutioning of three decimal places in Al-Futtaim (Dubai)
• Got in House training in SAP BI

Confidential

SAP IS-Retail SD & MM and POSDM Consultant.

Environment: SAP ECC, SAP BI, SAP PI, Oracle, TP Linux, Calypso

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and setting up of retail organization structure like company code, controlling area, purchase org., sales organization etc.
• Master Data requirement gathering and strategy to map various legacy system master data to SAP.
• Design of LSMW for master data migration and customization of fields in article and site master. Hiding fields in vendor master and defining customer master account group as per Oracle Finance.
• Configuring sales price per pricelist for different distribution channel.
• Designing report such as sales price exception, Promo price exception, Stock exception report etc.
• Definition of EAN Number in consideration of various legacy system
• Defining port for XI system for sending and receiving aggregated sales, promotion, bonus buy, physical inventory, article change, FI transaction, info record IDoc etc.
• Configuration of various promotion like Coupon promotion, on top of promotion and bonus buy scenarios as per Calypso and TP-Linux format of Wincor POS. Designed custom report for Promotion module such as promotion violation reports, Promotion details relevant for store managers.
• Design of process of creation of Store Order and Quick order using PDA.
• Business requirement for Vendor Rebate, configuration of Vendor Rebate and user acceptance of the same.
• Configuration of SAP Retail Store to smoothen Store operation.
• Configuration of partner profile for store including outbound profile and inbound profile, message type WPUUMS, WP PLU, WPDBBY, WP EAN, WPUFIB etc.
• Assisted BI Consultant for configuration of POSDM.
• Verification of Stores Data in POSDM with BI System using sales audit tool of POSDM.
• Involved in user acceptance training (UAT).
• Writing functional spec for raising tax invoice to vendor based on Rebate Agreements.
• Testing of interface to legacy systems.
• Wrote Program (Coding) to automate the settlement date in Rebate Settlement in Background job.
• Added additional fields in search selection of Article Master.
• Actively involved in User Acceptance Test.
• Go-Live Preparation of Master Data, POSDM and DC.
• Post Go-Live Support.

Confidential

SAP IS-Retail SD and MM

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 and

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirement for wholesale process, procurement of merchandise and non merchandise articles, Vendor Rebate management and SAP Retail Store.
• Done End to End Implementation. Involved in all phases of project until go live.
• Conducted User training for retail processes in Confidential .
• Business requirement for Vendor Rebate, configuration of Vendor Rebate and user acceptance of the same.
• Configured Customer service process in Confidential .
• Configuration of SAP Retail Store to smoothen Store operation.
• Configuration of partner profile for store including outbound profile and inbound profile, message type WPUUMS, WP PLU, WPDBBY, WP EAN, WPUFIB etc.
• Post Go-Live Support.

Confidential

SAP SD/MM + CIN

Environment: SAP 4.6 and ECC 6.0

Responsibilities: The project started with Pre Sales, RFP and Project Proposal.

• Involved in Pre Sales which includes understanding the requirement and demonstrating the capabilities of company in terms of providing solution and business streamlining.
• Involved in SAP upgrade from 4.6c to ECC6.0
• End to End consultation of Tax and legal procedures in India and setup of office, getting importer certificate, VAT, CST and TIN number for Pioneer India
• Business Requirement gathering for sales and distribution and procurement and customs clearance.
• Mapping Business process in SAP and Indian User training in Singapore and Go-Live
• Configuration of Withholding Tax and customization to calculate Fringe Benefit Tax.
• Assisted Pioneer in negotiating with Logistics vendor in India for customs clearance, warehousing and distribution of products to customer or distributor.
• Configured customer service process

Confidential

SAP IS-Retail (Logistics- Team Lead)

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• The Client is trader and distributor of Christian books worldwide. Joined the project in localization phase and involved till Go-Live.
• Configured B2B Process for Confidential . This involves understanding requirement from business process owners, Blueprint of Business Process, Mapping of Business process to SAP thru configuration and customization.
• Pricing - two step and single step pricing, Retail Pricing, Retail Promotions Configuration - set up of retail promotions and bonus buys, understanding the requirements for setting up wholesale operations - Retail system incl. credit management, rebates, consignment process, normal sales.
• Sales Price Calculation, Subscription Process using Milestone Billing & Sales BOM, Product Allocation for Special Events. Allocation Table, Allocation Rule for Creation of Sales order. Article Listing Process. Implementation was on SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential,Cupertino,CA

SAP IS Retail SD and MM

Environment: SAP 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Customization of Retail process for starting operation in China. This involves defining new company in China which will be having chain of stores in Beijing. These Apple store will match the standards of US Apple store. The project duration was for one year ending June 2008.
• Analysis of business requirements, to-be process and GAP analysis. Design of playback and design documentation.
• Creation of Company code, Sales org, Reference Site & article, Store, Purchasing Org and Store, Storage Locations.
• Vendor Master, customer master, payment details.
• Setting up of purchasing org, group, distribution centre, Merchandise category creation & variant configuration.
• Setting up of EDI, Partner profile and IDoc Types.
• Connection between SAP retail server and POS server thru IDoc exchanges.
• Customization of Message Type for email process.
• Setting up of Tendering process in Retail server, setting up of reports in SAP Retail Store.
• Setting up of Profiles of Business persons for China.
• Writing Functional Specification for various logistics related reports.

Confidential

Manager - SAP SCM

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked for rollout project in India at Faridabad. The primary responsibility was to look after SCM of Asia Pacific including three plants in China and one in Australia. Independently handled SD & MM module including CIN and authorization (Global template). Also worked on WMS module. Configured Customer Service process for Australian Subsidiary.
• The team size was five Technical and Four functional consultants. Supervising and analyzing As- is, To-be process and blue print of business processes of company. Worked on Global template of SAP 4.7.
• Customization done as per blueprint and successfully went live under stipulated time. Proficient in Variant configuration, Variant product setup and variant pricing set up on SAP SD . Configured make to order and Make to Stock Scenario.

Confidential

Asst. Manager- SAP SD & MM

Enviornment: SAP 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Confidential (STI), a fortune 100 Co. as Asst. Manager- SAP SD & MM. Handled team of six persons including three Technical Consultant and three Functional consultants.
• Involved in End to End Implementation of SAP project
• Creation of Customer master records, account group, and text and partner determination.
• Configure quotations, sales orders types, item categories, and schedule lines.
• Designed SAP pricing for standard and configured products.
• Have worked extensively on, Variant Configuration, Variant Pricing, variant product setup, Order to Cash cycle.
• Proficient in Customer Rebate processing.
• Configuration of the output types to facilitate the printing of the required documents like the sales invoice, sales order and writing functional specs for forms etc.
• Configured copy control of various sales document. Writing ABAP code in User exits.
• Conducted User acceptance test and provided user training.
• Configuration of CIN Version 3.0 i.e.., Excise Duty, configuration of Excise in pricing, copying control of Order- Delivery---Excise invoice. Account determination of Excise and concepts of registers like RG23A Part-I, Part-II, RG23C, RG23D, RG1 etc., TR6 challan and PLA.
• Configuration of MM Settings like Document type, Pricing Schema, Release strategy, Material type, Material group, field selection screens etc.
• Configuration of Inventory Management, Movement Types, Sub Contracting Process. Configuration of automatic account determination in Inventory Management.
• Configuration of Logistics Invoice Verification and tolerance limits.
• Handled SAP security of application side to conform Best Practices of SAP. Cleared the security audit of Price Water Coopers. Streamlined activity groups as well as profiles as per requirement of different departments of company.

Confidential

SAP SD Consultant

Environment: SAP 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• The job was to study and prepare the blue print of STI and As-is, to be process of SD, MM. The Project started in September 2005 and worked with Korean Consultant. Development of Excise and Sales Tax structure in SAP for upcoming company in consultation with PriceWater Coopers. Transferred to Confidential Pvt. Ltd. on January 1, 2006