MEENAL GANDHI NAIK

**** ******** *****

abm6vh@r.postjobfree.com

Vista, CA 92081

Phone: 760-***-****

Professional Experience Summary:

> Over 7+ years of experience in the Sales & Distribution and Logistics

modules of SAP.

> As a SD Configurator and Functional Analyst, project experience has

been in High-tech, Pharmaceuticals, Food and Furniture industries.

> Full SAP life cycle development and implementation experience,

including blueprinting, design, scripting, module prototyping,

configuration, system testing, data mapping, conversion, technical and

functional specification, end-user training and documentation, go-live

support along with post-implementation and production support.

> Ability to easily adapt to changing business environments and can

function independently with minimal or no supervision.

> Demonstrated proficiency in handling and resolving critical day-to-day

production issues.

> Focused professional with expert analytical and polished communication

skills.

Technical Environments:

ERP: SAP R/3 3.1i, 4.0b, 4.6c, 4.7 and ECC 6.0.

Ticket tracking Applications: Clarify, Remedy AR system and Telelogic

Application system.

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server and MS-Access.

Languages: C, C++, JAVA, SQL, HTML, XML, JavaScript, VBScript and ASP.

Platforms: MS-DOS, Linux, Windows (all), Windows Server (NT, 2000).

Tools: Microsoft Visual Safe Source (VSS), Microsoft Publisher, FrontPage

and Swish.

Educational Background:

Masters in Information Systems - DePaul University - Chicago, IL

Professional Industry Experience

EMC/RSA

MA

SAP SD Business Analyst

Jan'10 - Present

. Worked with the business, SD and FI teams to develop, test and deliver

business solutions.

. Participated in design workshops, prepared functional specifications,

test plans and end-user training plans.

. As a testing lead, collaborated with IT teams to review, approve test

plan, project plan and technical designs.

. Acted a liaison between the business and the technical team for

requirements gathering and design documentations.

. Developed process and training documentation. Created workflows, as-

is and to-be designs for the project.

Abbott Vascular

CA

SAP SD Functional Analyst

Sept'07- Oct' 09

. As a SD analyst conducted biweekly ticket review meetings with the BSE

(Business System Expert's) around the globe to gather requirements,

analyze and prioritize the production support tickets. Troubleshooted

and analyzed production related critical business issues on daily

basis

. As the part of the international requirements, configured custom sales

order types, item categories, delivery types, billing types and copy

control routines to register sample, demo and free of charge orders

within SAP. Analyzed existing reports and EDM Extracts to see the down

stream impacts of creating new order types, item categories and

billing types.

. Areas of configuration and design focus include pricing, tax

determination, order types, inter-company and external vendor purchase

orders, goods movements, deliveries, commercial invoices, end customer

and inter-company billing for both domestic and international

locations.

. Reviewed and analyzed functional area customer requirements, created

functional and technical specs, performed system configuration and

testing, provided guidance to ABAP programming resources and managed

end-user expectations, development of training materials, training of

users, conversion, go live and ongoing user support.

. Closely worked with the Supply and Finance teams to resolve the cross-

functional business requirements.

. Created requisite documentation, updated URS/UAT's and performed unit,

system and integration testing.

. As a Testing Lead on several projects created test plans, test

scripts, coordinated the testing and timelines with the BSE's located

at different locations around the globe.

. Provided customized solution for rebates for Italy's unique number

range system requirement. This involved configuring Rebate agreement

types, customized Rebate credit memo requests, Rebate correction

Requests, Rebate Request for Manual Accruals and related billing

types.

. For Thailand's requirement of tax-inclusive pricing requirement,

analyzed the existing pricing procedures, pricing conditions,

routines. Successfully implemented the project within the project time

lines.

. Acted as a liaison between the business and IT to determine Enterprise

Application Integration requirements, XML message formats, data

transformation and mapping for Germany's Electronic order requirement.

Closely worked with EAI teams for coordinating testing, data migration

and implementation tasks. Analyzed standard SAP BAPI's, mapped the

requirements and performed gap analysis.

. Worked with a team of ABAPER's onsite and offshore to determine the

Level of Effort on the tickets that required customized technical

solutions such as Modifying standard pricing routines, Sales order

user exits, layout changes and custom reporting.

GE Healthcare

NJ

SAP SD Functional Analyst

Jul'04-Jun '07

. GE Healthcare's North Americas 3.1i is planned to merge with Europe's

4.6c version and upgrade to ECC 6.0. As a part of the single instance

business blueprint, updated the as-is process documentation, organized

workshops, participated in the blueprinting of the system, identified

and listed the Gaps for the North America SAP system. Prepared a

global template for SAP North America, which could later be

customized, to be site-specific and rolled out accordingly.

. Worked with other project team members and business departments to

identify appropriate business solutions and resolve specific issues

related to the Global SAP design.

. Implemented business requirements such as Designed Reports and created

technical specification for Product Recall reports, Net sales report,

sales territory report, product sample sales report and sales detail

reports

. Created and Updated the URS/ UAT documents for the new and changed

business processes via Visual Safe Source (VSS).

. Created and maintained functional requirement specification for

business and technical requirement specification for the technical

team.

. Additional activities included Quote to Cash configuration including

order types, item categories, availability checking and scheduling,

pricing determination, tax determination, output determination, route

determination and reports.

. Prepared the As-is and to-be processes, organized workshops, prepared

project plans, implementation/deployment plans for seamless transition

from a third party warehouse adage modem system to a FTP solution.

. Wrote queries to retrieve sales data, customer data, territories

linked to sales orders, product pricing linked to customers,

taxes/surcharges linked to sales orders, customer mailing list based

on old sales data, payer's credit limits/payment terms for business

users and the auditor's onsite.

. To comply with the ASN pedigree requirement conducted workshops and

worked closely with the business users, third party warehouse, EDI

support and wholesalers/distributors to understand the ASN

requirements. Designed new processes to trigger the ASNs from SAP

through the EDI subsystem. Mapped new fields required by Wholesalers

for ASN requirement and resolved file transmission issues with EDI and

Sterling Commerce.

. Designed interface programs in SAP to get pricing data from the

external contract management system into SAP. Supported the users to

get the correct pricing files into SAP from the external system (

Contract Management system and to send the invoice files from SAP.

Conducted one-on-one training for the customer service representatives

and documented the new process.

. Handled the SOX audits by designing custom programs and reports for

monitoring unauthorized changes. Reviewed the existing interfaces,

which lacked proper security controls and designed new controls to

provide appropriate security features. Worked with FI team by creating

queries to extract the sales and financial data for the sox reports.

. Participated in the Business Intelligence workshops and provided data

to help map the fields to the UK SAP system. Highlighted the gray

areas and helped the end users understand the reports derived from and

compare it to the BI Cognos reports.

. As a SD functional Analyst was responsible for the ongoing production

support activities, implementing new business requirements,

designing functional and technical requirement specifications.

Monitored the critical batch jobs on daily basis by involving the

responsible business users. Provided 24 hours on-call support.

. Resolved support tickets such as running sales and financial reports,

add users to the email list, create/discontinue batch jobs based on

users requests, create queries for non-sap users, fixed printer

problems etc. which were logged into clarify on daily basis.

Becton Dickinson & Co.

NJ

SAP SD Configurator/Analyst Apr '03 - July

'04

. Served as SD configurator for the rollout of SAP for US and International

locations with tasks, which included analysis, gap definition, design,

customization, testing and training.

. Formulated As-Is and To-Be processes from several sessions with SAP

team members. Work with cross-functional teams within and outside of

IT including, Supply Chain, Finance, Product Distribution, Quality,

Product Planning, Contracts, Marketing, and Sales to implement best

practices, system solutions, reporting systems and improve business

processes.

. Configured the enterprise structure, pricing procedures, item category

determination, deliveries, shipping point determination, serial number

profiles and batch determination.

. Defined and assigned pricing procedure using condition types and

condition records. Performed pricing with all relevant options like

material pricing, price list type, and customer specific with

discounts taxes and freights.

. Configured all areas of Logistics including sales orders, pricing,

delivery processing, transportation, billing, credit management and

accounts receivables, batch management, availability checking.

. Configured quotes, sales orders, free of charge orders, inter-company

sales, drop shipments and stock transport orders, material determination,

pricing condition types, pricing procedures and determination, tax

procedures and determination.

. Performed Integration testing with other modules like MM and FI.

. Maintained the data relevant to taxes in consultation with the members

of FI module.

. Worked closely with programmers to determine data migration plan,

developed data mapping, tested the SD data migration and conducted the

final migration verification

. Provided post go-live user support and training. Identified system

problems after go-live, prioritized, reconfigured, tested and transported

into the productive environment.

Chef Solutions Inc

IL

SAP SD Configurator Oct '02- Mar

'03

. Gathered requirements and created functional specifications for

conversions, interfaces and enhancements. Configured prototype for SD

module based on business requirements. Formulated As-Is and To-Be

processes from several sessions with the team members.

. Configured the SD module by setting up the overall organization

structure design, document types, item categories, master data, usage

of condition step, copy control of sales document types to billing and

delivery documents.

. Configured sales documents such as Quotation/Enquiry, Orders,

Contracts, and Scheduling Agreements. Worked on the special sales

document types such as cash sale, rush order, credit/debit, return and

free goods.

. Created Stock transport orders, sales orders- delivery- transfer

orders, make to order products, ATP checks, back order processing,

rescheduling deliveries, BOM and alternate BOM. Configuration of

consignment stock process for the project scope including consignment

fill up, issue, returns and pickup.

. Defined and assigned pricing procedure using condition types and

condition records. Performed pricing with all relevant options like

material pricing, price list type, and customer specific with

discounts taxes and freights.

. Configured Invoice, Debit/Credit Memo and rebate agreements in

Billing. Configured the billing plans as per the requirements.

Customized the billing dates as per the billing plans - milestone

billing and periodic billing.

. Configured various output types and configured various output

determining procedures.

. Configured various item categories and setup item category

determination based on the sales document type, item category of the

higher-level item.

. Set up availability check and transfer of requirements as well as

delivery scheduling and transportation scheduling. Defined delivery

priorities and worked with background and forward scheduling.

. Generated Ports and Partner Profiles; configured message control and

set up the parameters for communicating through EDI.

. Performed Integration testing with other modules like MM and FI.

. Created and updated documents related to URS/UAT's, and helped users

maintain them in a timely fashion.

. Involved in system and regression and end-end testing with the users.

Louis and Company

CA

SAP SD Configurator Jan '02

-Sep '02

. Mapped the internal sales organization structure via the

organizational chart.

. Created Customer master data, material master data, customer-material

Information record and customer groups.

. Defined number ranges for customer master record and the sales

document - Item Proposals.

. Created order reasons for sales documents, defined Item Categories and

schedule line categories.

. Worked on the special sales document types such as cash sale, rush

order, credit/debit, return and free of charge delivery types.

. Defined Third party processing both through the plant and vendor,

defined and assigned account keys assigned G/L accounts and defined

pricing procedure determination.

. Set copy control requirements to various sales, deliveries and billing

documents.

. Customized Batch management, Purchasing, Source determination, PIR,

Third party purchasing, created new Document types, Pricing

procedures, Output Determinations, Billing, Account determination,

layout, copy control.

. Created sales, delivery and billing document types. Created billing

documents based on documents like invoice based on delivery, credit

and debit memos based on requests. Invoices based on sales orders and

delivery. Cancellation document based on billing documents/credit

memo. Created new customer account groups. Partner types, access

sequences and procedures.

. Modified several other reports and layouts depending on the new

business requirements and generated documentation for these

modifications. Also, mentored ABAPERS to complete the assigned tasks

by explaining them the process, purpose and the task.

. Moved data from legacy system to SAP System: Material, Customer

Vendor, Customer Hierarchy and Source Lists.

. Created and updated URS/UAT's, FRS/TRS documents in a timely fashion.

. Involved in system and regression and end-end testing with the users.

. Created recordings for data entry using transactions and created file

for this format. Used LSMW for mapping the data from legacy system

according to the structures as in the recorded file and used BDC for

uploading data - data migration.

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