SUMMARY:

• Around 15 years of IT experience as SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant
• Involved in all phases of SAP implementation, including blueprinting, gap analysis, mapping and configuration, testing, go - live, user training and postproduction support.
• Worked in various industries such as Pharmaceutical, Automobiles, Chemical and Manufacturing industries.
• Worked on PI integration between Ariba and SAP ERP Systems. Have a good knowledge on SAP Ariba CXML, and CSV files.
• Worked on SAP Ariba procure to Pay process which includes Purchase Requisition creation, PR Approval, Purchase order creation, Invoicing.
• Analysing and Finalizing the Business Drivers and project scope for the client by mutually agreeing and signoff on deliverables for the project.
• Have done with 6 Full life-cycle implementations.
• Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for upgradation / new implementation / integration, import of data from any other external system to SAP.
• Experience with configuring Enterprise structures, Purchase Requisition, Purchase order, Quota arrangement, Subcontracting, Consignment, Customer master, Material master, item proposal, Material Determination, Customer material info, contracts, Stock Transfers, Stock Transport Orders (Inter & Intra Company), Transfer Requirements, Transfer Orders, Info Record, Source List, Quota Arrangement and Pricing Conditions.
• Created and configured vendor master, Info-Records, source list, Number assignments, Descriptive & Control data, assigning Material types, Purchase data, Purchase group, data cleansing, Order size MRP type, MRP controller, Lot key size, Procurement type Storage data, Accounting & costing data, etc.
• Worked on MM PP integration like MRP procedures such as MRP and Consumption based planning (CBP), etc.
• Worked on various delivery types, storage unit management, stock placement and stock removal, and goods issue for sales order, inbound and outbound deliveries and other goods movements.
• Configuration Knowledge in Plant Parameter, MRP Area, MRP Controller, Scheduling parameters, Stock Transfer, Scope of Planning, Single Item Planning, Lot Size, Special Procurement.
• Configuration Knowledge in Master Data which includes Material Master, Bill of Material, Work Center, Routing, Rate Routing, Production Version, Resources, Master Recipes and Control Recipe.
• Experienced in MM-FI integration and worked on Automatic account determination, valuation area, Valuation grouping code, Transaction keys, account key, T030 entries, G/L account determination and movement types.
• Worked on HPQC to write Test cases, Design Test Plan and Test script and Issue log.
• Extensive experience in Configuration of SAP MM, SD, WM and LE.
• Excellent Relationship Management skills, with the ability to conceive profitable and efficient solutions utilizing technology. Industrious individual thrives on a challenge while working effectively with all levels of management and the people.
• Responsible for the solution design, configuration, testing and maintenance of the SAP Logistics modules in ECC 6.0. (MM, PM, QM).
• Sales: Inquiry, Quotation, Sales Order, Cash Order, Back Orders, Scheduling Agreements, and Contracts, Rebates and Third-party order processing.
• Experience and knowledge of integration points of SAP Logistics modules across other SAP modules.
• Good knowledge on SAP MM tables related to master data, purchasing.
• Responsible for working with business users and clients to gather and document business requirements for system changes and to develop solutions to satisfy business needs.
• Responsible for Production support to troubleshoot, investigate, analyze and solve software problems.
• Responsible for developing all documentation related to system changes per client change control policies and procedures.
• Responsible for analyzing the impact changes will have on other internal/external business application systems.
• Worked on Handling Unit Management, Batch Management.
• Basic Functions: Expert in Maintaining Determination Procedures, Condition types, Access Sequence and Condition Records for Pricing, Text determination, output determination and material determination.
• Agreements: Scheduling agreements, Quantity contracts, Values Contracts.
• Good Understanding on Combined sales orders, combined deliveries, combined billing, split orders, split deliveries, Split invoicing, Stock Transport Order, and Intercompany Billing.
• Expertise in integration with Finance (FI), Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP) and Warehouse Management (WM) modules, Inventory Management (IM).
• Good Knowledge on ABAP Programming, Reports, User Exits, ABAP Queries, ALE/ EDI, IDOC
• Experienced in Cut-over activities and Rollout Phases Experienced in Cut-over activities and Rollout phases such as Release phase and dress rehearsal phase in which we apply support pack, new functionalities, new region, extended functionalities, upgrade, connection to a new system.
• Functional specifications, testing scenarios, creating training material, conducting end user training. Experience in unit testing, integration testing and regression testing.
• Experience in working on a project environment and supporting clients in designing and implementing their objectives in innovative project.
• Coordinated with the Business team for the proper development of the Functional Specifications and worked closely with the Super Users in the Functional Unit Testing, IT.
• QA's scope includes extensive functional and regression testing following each of the multiple builds to ensure proper functioning of the new and existing functionalities.
• Handled the Service-Request support tickets of SAP Material Management module and found the Master Data issues and have done analysis and found the root cause.
• Understanding & Analysing customer’s ‘AS-IS’ Business Processes and mapping ‘TO-BE’ processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Analyst: MM, IM, WM, PP, SD, SCM

ERP:: ECC 5.0,ECC 6.0

OS: Windows NT, 98/2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, UNIX, Linux

Integration:: PP, SD, FI, QM, PM

Data Migration: LSMW

SAP Interface Tool: IDOC, EDI, ALE

Office Tools: Word, Excel, Power Point, Project

Testing: HPQC, BPT, Panaya

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Data monitoring and error handling, supporting production configuration and assisting in functional change requests, handling day to day tasks and Incidental tickets.
• Monitored Order confirmation and backflush of material on shop floor and supported the transition from legacy system to SAP during Cut Over period.
• Worked with Business master data team to get a detailed insight of functional specifications.
• Configured REM profiles, Planners work bench, staging of materials and created Production versions.
• Prepared end user Self-Help documentation with detailed steps and screen shots for all the issues and enhancements that are successful.
• Worked with User-exists, interfaces, customer-exists, BADI’s and BAPI’s.
• Involved in getting the required Business requirements for all global plant operations from Functional Managers in Purchasing, Inventory Management, Vendor management of stocks and Customer Master Team.
• Fixing the issue related to validation under interface environment. Involved in PI mapping and partner profile creation for logistics system and suppliers.
• Write Business Requirement Documentation (BRD), Process Requirement Document and draw Process flow diagrams for AS-IS and To-Be process.
• Intensively involved in super and end user’s training such as schedule training labs at Corporate as well as Plant site.
• Assisting end customer and Production support in Physical Distribution process such as Creation of sales order, Outbound deliveries, Shipments, Pick/Pack, Post goods issue, Good Receipts (for Stock transfer orders).
• Have worked with SD team in the setting up data for OTC cycle, third party procurement.
• Worked on to extend Standard IDOCs (i.e. MBGCR01, DELVRY07, SHPMNT05 and ORDERS) and add Z-segment to capture client specific details such as date code, pallet count, Pallet type and pick up and drop sequence for Shipment information.
• Prepare Cutover and Roll out document before release and after go-live as well.
• Configured Procure to pay (P2P) Cycle, Order to cash (OTC)STO, Return PO and return Sales Order.
• Configured various standard Material Management documents - which includes Purchase Requisition (PR), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase order (PO), Purchasing Info record, Source lists, release orders, quota management.
• Configured custom document types for Refurbishment PO, Intercompany returns, etc MRP and Consumption based planning such as Reorder point, Forecasting etc.
• Worked on Cutover activities - material load file, open PO extract, legacy vendor conversion and PIR load file.
• Enable EDI messages to Warehouse Management System. Worked on EDI messages such as Delivery creation (940), Delivery Confirmation (945) Advance Shipping Notification or Dispatch advice (ASN 856), Purchase Order Acknowledge (855), Purchase order change (860), Acknowledgement (865),
• Experience working SAP integration, such as PI and IDOCs
• Implemented/Configured RF Queues, Assigning Users to different RF Queues, Custom Mobile Data Entry screens and activated RF monitor.
• Involved in mobile data entry standard transactions and custom transactions like: Put away / Picking by Delivery, Physical Inventory and Transfer Order confirmation.
• Configured Output Determination for Deliveries, Shipping Points, Shipping Conditions and Shipping Point Determination, Configuration of Shipping and Transportation activities like Processing Deliveries, schedule line agreements, delivery schedules, purchasing and shipping notifications.
• Closely worked with other teams such as Warehouse Management, Order to Cash, Supply Chain Management, and Plant Maintenance etc.

Confidential, Evansville, IN

WM/IM/RF Functional Consultant (Support)

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Created new Business units and purchasing organization. Understanding of business processes in Warehouse Management for the SAP implementation. Configured the organization structure related to WM storage locations
• Adopted stock transfer techniques to assist in plant to plant stock transfers and cross company stock transfers using Stock Transport Order.
• Configured new Storage types and storage bins, control parameters for TR/TO and configure storage type search, storage section search, storage bin type search strategies warehouse for automatic creation of TO and wrote function specs for picking materials for production orders, printing stock labels.
• Configured Business blue print documentation for Outbound Delivery Processing and 3PL interface documents related to warehouse management systems.
• Worked on creating mapping documents to create interface with SAP and non- SAP systems at the 3PLs.
• Worked On EDI/XML IDOCs to communicate order and Delivery instructions to the 3PL’s ERP system.
• Co-ordinate cut over plans and data migration for Material master, Vendor Master and Purchasing Info Records from legacy systems using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench).
• Managed complex warehousing facilities including automatic warehouse, custom designed storage areas, high rack storage, bulk storage, fixed bin storage and other commonly used storage areas.
• Worked with various goods movements of handling units like Good Issue, Goods receipt and other movements like reversals & general goods movements posting.
• Performed SAP RF configuration for menus, queues, queue determination, verification profile, RF Menus, Barcode Scanning, Screen Management and RF Queue Management.
• IDOC types defined for data, such as purchase orders, invoices, GR, GI which was broken down into more specific categories called message types.
• Customized the Inventory Management for defining the number ranges for GR, field selection for MIGO, movement type, Invoice verification, material valuation and material value changes when material is delivered, and a surplus stock occurs. Posted Invoice documents for the Purchase Orders.
• Data Conversion for devising and implementing the approach used in loading both AP open items and GL balances into SAP.
• Experienced in MM-FI integration and worked on Automatic account determination, valuation area, Valuation grouping code, OBYC, transaction keys, account key, T030 entries, G/L account determination and movement types.

Confidential, Rosemont, IL

SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant (Full Cycle implementation)

Environment: ECC 6.0

Description: Confidential Corporation is an American chemical company based in Rosemont, Illinois that specializes in chemical intermediates for applications such as agrochemicals. It was founded in 1931.

• Responsibilities:
• Participated in conversions of material masters (plant, storage location, & warehouse extensions), info records, source lists, open Purchase Orders, and initial stock uploads at both IM and WM levels.
• Involved in the study of the company business processes and preparing the Business Blue Print.
• Setting up Organizational structure i.e. Configuration of Plants, Storage locations, Purchasing Organizations, purchasing groups, purchasing areas, defining purchasing info records and number ranges.
• Configuration of material master, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipts, Goods Issues and Logistics invoice verifications, Vendor master data such as vendor info records, terms of payment, vendor evaluations and maintained related vendor data (general data and purchasing data).
• Setting up Release Procedure for Purchase order (Release Group, Release code, release indicator, release strategy).
• Customized and configured Stock Transfer Orders (STO) for transfer of stock between the plants. Responsible for setting all the parameters: supplying plant, receiving plant and shipping point determination.
• Configured Purchasing documents like RFQ/Quotation, purchase requisition, Purchase orders, Automatic purchase orders, and scheduling agreements.
• Expertise in RICEF. Depending upon the business requirements developed functional specs for RICEF objects.
• Experience in Automatic creation of Transfer orders from Transfer Requirements.
• Worked with Handling Unit Management (HUM) to reflect packing-based logistics structure.
• Responsible for Data migration of open PO’s and materials from Legacy Systems using LSMW.
• As part of the data migration process worked on data cleansing, data mapping of material master, vendor master, purchase orders and coordinated with the DM team to prepare the file formats by creating sample records through LSMW recording method.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

SAP MM/IM/WM/SD Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Consulted with multiple business process owners to identify, define and document Business Needs & Objectives, current Operational Procedures, Problems, input and output Requirements and configuration of Business Rules.
• Goods receipt, Goods issue, Reservations, Movement types, Stock transfer order, Sub contracting, Purchase order, transfer postings, Returnable transport packaging (RTP-Process), Invoice verification, Split valuation Physical inventory, consignment, pipeline materials.
• Served as liaison between business users and application service providers
• Extensively worked on Invoice processes like invoice pushes to accounts payable, invoice exceptions.
• Conducted business process Gap Analysis between To-Be design and SAP standard Business Processes, and made recommendations for Process Improvement
• Translated business requirements into SAP functional requirements and created Functional Design Specifications.
• Configured WM Master Data, Stock placement and Stock removal strategies, Movement types, Storage unit management and Transfer order processing. Expertise in handling Inter company stock transport orders, intra company stock transport orders, transfer postings and Physical Inventory. Experience in Defining Delivery process, Delivery Types and Shipping point determination. New Functionalities like Storage units, Handling units and RF Solutions/ SAP Console, Bar code/label printing, enhancement by linking WM/IM transactions, PO put away in warehouse, Warehouse bin-to-bin move, RF activities monitor, SAP console, ITS mobile, bin stock inquiry.
• Reviewed the configuration of SAP MM, and understanding its configuration, core performance and settings to develop an improvement plan for the entire supply chain area.
• Solved application and configuration issues and collaborated with other BSA's to ensure end-to-end business process integration.
• Processed materials with Shelf Life Expiration Date (SLED) and Serialization in the WM system.
• Worked on Business workflow, Direct Procurement and Indirect procurement.
• Configured ALE for MATMAS Message type for extracting Material Master from ECC by creating new Logical system for Receiver PI system, Sender system and ALE Customer Distribution Model.
• Configured CRM and SRM, Communication Channel, Receiver Channel and Interface Determination.
• Translated business requirements into SAP functional requirements and created Functional Design Specifications.
• Worked on design, development and maintained Ariba modules like Buyer, Invoicing, Contracts and Analysis
• Worked on Ariba implementation & customizations and integration with other systems.
• Solved application and configuration issues and collaborated with other BSA's to ensure end-to-end business process integration.
• Configured Output Determination for Deliveries, Shipping Points, Shipping Conditions and Shipping Point determination, Configuration of Shipping and Transportation activities like Processing Deliveries.
• Implemented Application programming Interface (API) that eliminates the necessity to manually run reports that can run from 15 minutes to one or two hours.
• Enable EDI messages to Warehouse Management System and outside cold storage units. Worked on EDI messages such as Purchase order creation and (O/B 850), Change PO (860), Advance Shipping Notification or Dispatch advice (ASN 856).
• Ensured that business capabilities and data were adequately addressed after corporate move to SAP.
• Established user community to track issues, enhancements, and newly identified requirements.
• Wrote business cases, requirements, mock-ups, test plans, and documentation for new reports in SAP to cover gaps between initially delivered SAP functionality and business needs.
• Customized and configured Stock Transport Orders (STO) for transfer of stock between the plants. Responsible for setting all the parameters; supplying plant, receiving plant and shipping point determination.
• Worked with various types of programmers to perform solution validation and facilitate testing.
• Worked on WI-FI RF Scanner Solution along with related configuration.
• Trained new users and performed remedial training to existing users, including creating training and reference documents.
• Closed deals led customer orientation and project kick-off activities.
• Worked on third party logistics (3PL) and helped to integrate SAP and Third-party system called Red Prairie and Manhattan.

Confidential, Lancaster, PA

SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Analysed, validated, and documented system and business requirements. Identified gaps in business operations and suggested solutions. Collaborate with developers to establish the technical vision and trade-offs between business requirements and system capabilities.
• Worked in GAP Analysis and helped client in selection and implementation of suitable solutions for the entire RICEF object for direct materials and indirect materials.
• Defined functional specifications for the Release Procedures of External documents (Purchase Orders) and Purchase Requisitions for Procurement using 032 class types and with classifications.
• Created and documented various standard MM - like include Purchase Request (PR), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Order (PO) and Purchasing Info record.
• Responsible for the Procure to Pay - P2P cycle and customized the PO by converting error messages to warning messages as vice versa as per business and also involved in procurement activities in supply chain like Quota Arrangement.
• Worked on STO’s for Intra and Inter company stock transfers between two plants to send and receive materials from one plant to another.
• Conducted MRP planning methods such as total planning at plant level, Single- item Multi-level, Single-item Single-level. Setting up production order manufacturing cycle for new plant.
• Worked with Extraction, transformation and load functionality (ETL) team and Back office (BOA) team for completion of Open- PO and Open- GR conversion, archiving of materials.
• Involved in Debugging of the programs during the error handling while testing of the RICEF object.
• Co-ordinate cut over plans and data migration for Material master, Vendor Master and Purchasing Info Records from legacy systems using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench).
• IDOC’s interfaces for Purchasing and inventory activities related to Purchasing and Inventory Management between the SAP and Non- SAP systems.
• Reconfigured interim storage types, interface between IM-WM, reference WM Movements, internal WH movements, Maintained Parameters for HU Required Storage Locations.
• Legacy systems were consolidated to automate the process to streamline the data into BizTalk and then into SAP, Vendor validation was completed before sending the data to SAP.
• Worked on Design and development of various aspects of Ariba like approval rules, scheduled tasks, invoice exceptions, IR engine, Integrations events, work flow changes, triggers in amls etc.
• Worked on enhancements such as LMELA010 for incoming shipping notification, ME590001 grouping of requisitions for PO split, MM06E005 customer fields in purchase document, enhanced Put-away and Picking Strategies MWMTO003.
• Involved in interfacing and integration of MM and WM with SD, PM and FI/CO modules.
• Assisted in SAP Console Implementation- Verification Profiles, RF Menus, Barcode Scanning, Screen Management, RF Queue Management.
• Worked on solution manager to assist end user and provide support to end users by solving the tickets generated by the end user via solution manager.
• End User Training (Training includes working with process teams, creating training curriculum for SAP MM processes, Maintaining Business Process procedures, Creation of Job Aids, Course Outlines, course manuals, Training materials using simulation producer).
• Manage testing cycles, include test plan creation, development of scripts and coordination of user acceptance testing.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP MM ARIBA Analyst

Environment: ECC 6.0, Ariba P2P and Ariba Network

Responsibilities:

• Strong understanding of how document flow and data translation occurs between ERP systems specifically SAP and other business applications such as Oracle, Zeal, clear orbit.
• Understanding of the functional processes involved in source to payment and the electronic transactions that support them.
• Configured Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchasing, Contracts, Scheduling agreements, Info records, Source lists, Release Strategies, Pricing, Service master, Account determination, Batch determination, serialization, Vendor evaluation and Partner determination.
• Understanding and exposure to EDI, Middleware, and other integration tools
• Ability to adapt support style to align with the technical capabilities of the customer.
• Strong Supply Chain knowledge on Procurement and Payable processes.
• Worked on Ariba Network for Purchase Order collaboration, Ariba ASN, Order Confirmation, Process On-time delivery reports.
• Worked on Ariba Network integration with SAP ECC for Procure to Order process.
• Have good knowledge on internal and external catalogs using Ariba, Trading Relationship Requests, Validated errors in Vendor master data and also worked on supplier load from ERP.
• Configured Purchasing documents: Purchasing info records, RFQ/Quotation, purchase requisition, purchase orders, source lists, Quota Arrangements.
• Worked on Direct and Indirect PO’s in P2P Cycle Analysed WBS related failures in Ariba.
• Have good knowledge on TRR requests, Worked on various PR failures,
• Monitored all inbound and outbound EDI transaction processing and analysed, identified and tracked all exceptions and errors processing.
• Responsible in supporting supplier's enablement in Ariba to use Ariba Invoices.
• Worked on invoice Failures that are sent from Ariba Network to ERP with the help of IDOCS.
• Worked on VAT related issues, tax related failures, order confirmations, ASN’s, GR failures.
• Worked on PR failures on Ariba P2O, Scheduling agreements, Supplier enablement in Ariba Network.
• Have Knowledge on Material group ; commodity code, Inco terms related issues, ANID mapping to a different supplier, Supplier Mapping to different email address .
• Worked on long text description in PR item level description issue, Plant name different on Ariba, tax jurisdiction error; Po failures with incorrect ANID mapping.
• Worked on Cost element related issues, unit of measure related issues.
• Have Analysed the master data in ERP for the interface related PI failures. Collaborated with supplier when he fails to create invoice in Ariba network and gets issue resolved and helped him to create Invoice.
• Resolved tickets relating to Purchase orders, Goods receipts and Invoice verification.
• Worked on Blanket Po’s, Scheduling Agreements, Service Agreements.
• Have effectively communicated with the Suppliers and Internal Users to resolve the Issues.

Confidential

SAP MM/WM Consultant

Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Enterprise Structure of Materials Management and Warehouse Management which includes plants, storage locations, storage sections, warehouse number, storage bins, purchase orgs.
• Understanding of business processes, mapping and preparation in Warehouse Management for the SAP implementation.
• Conducted GAP analysis and suggested development work in SAP to overcome gaps.
• Organizational Data Configuration: Created plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations and groups, Info record and maintained the source list.
• Configured Vendor Master: Created vendor account groups, number ranges, purchasing groups.
• Creation of purchasing documents (like Requisitions, Request for Quotation (RFQ), Maintaining quotations, Info records, Purchase order, Contract agreement, Scheduling agreement, Goods receipt, Goods movement etc.), Release Procedures.
• Designed Sub Contracting process with Special Procurement keys and Procurement types. Documented the process flow for all the subcontracting Scenarios.
• Co-ordinate cut over plans and data migration for Material master, Vendor Master and Purchasing Info Records from legacy systems using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench).
• IDoc types defined for data, such as Purchase orders, invoices, GR, GI that was broken down into more specific categories called message types.
• Configured and customized Inventory Management parameters for various inventory movements like Goods receipts without Purchase order, plant-to-plant and storage loc-to-storage loc etc.
• Configured special stocks in Inventory Management for subcontracting, third party and consignment materials.

Confidential, The Woodlands, TX

SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant (Upgrade)

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a SAP MM/WM functional analyst in an upgrade project from SAP version ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0 which involved testing functionality changes, implementing enhanced functionality with new version of SAP. Helped coordinate upgrade of MM and WM module with other modules for integrated testing.
• Have experienced in both technical and functional upgrade of the project.
• Compared the two systems for adjustment in dictionary objects using the SPDD transaction and compared the objects such as Programs, Reports, Screens, Messages, Notes, Function Modules Using SPAU transaction.
• Participated in Business Integration and User Acceptance Testing - delivered training on different aspects of SAP functionality. Instrumental in developing integration walkthrough scenarios for testing.
• Defined Data Requirements including data definitions, validations, data cleansing rules, exception handling rules for MRO.
• Defined Business Process and workflow requirements. Developed requirements for Traceability Matrix.
• Purchase Order Processing: Order types, Item categories, RFQ, Contracts and Schedule Line agreement, Inventory Management including Warehouse management, Goods Issue/Receipt, Movement types.
• Documented MM and WM custom 5.0 transaction codes, user exits, function modules, reports and queries as part of upgrade analysis. Analysed existing MM and WM business process and mapped it into SAP ECC 6.0 MM and WM functionalities.
• Responsible for Unit testing the configuration and involved in Integration Testing support for testing preparation & test execution and created functional specs for the mapping of EDI.
• Expertise in RICEF. Depending upon the business requirements developed functional specs for RICEF objects.
• Designed and developed the RF gun functionality for the Warehouse users for much improved process efficiency.
• All the master data requirements for pricing, output was set-up as required by the business requirements.
• Trained users for creating Purchasing Documents, Goods receipts and Invoice verification.