Suresh R PMP

SAP MDG/MM-SRM Consultant

E-mail id: acq28m@r.postjobfree.com

Contact No: 443-***-****

Profile:

Over 12 Years excellent consulting experience in SAP implementations and support projects. Successfully implemented three SAP MDG project and three life cycles of SAP MM and one full life cycles of SAP SRM. Over five years of functional domain experience as a procurement officer in various industries in FMCG and manufacturing.

Summary:

Diverse SAP experience covering different aspects such as project management, business blueprint, Configuration and development, Go-Live, support and continuous improvements.

Emphasis on procure to pay, Inventory and supply chain operations and strong integration experience in highly complex organizational and technical landscapes.

Strong Configuration and Implementation experience in MDG module, Material Master, Vendor Master Domain and Procure to Pay (P2P) processes.

Experience in setting up custom data model in MDG.

Experience in configuring rule-based workflow using BRF+(Business Rules Frame Work Plus) decision tables

Experience in defining validation and derivation rules using BRF+(Business Rules Frame Work Plus)

Leading on-site and offshore model team, assigning the tasks to resources, monitor and review the deliverables

Strong integration experience with SD, FICO, APO, PP, PM and SRM.

Excellent understanding of data mapping, conversion, transformation and loading with migration using LSMW, BDC and QTP.

Extensively worked on Floor Plan Management using overview pages and strong exposure on Web dynpro application.

Strong experience in Master Data including Material Master, Vendor Master and Customer Master and transactional data- MM Purchasing, Inventory Management, and strong exposure on supply chain management environment.

Experienced professional in various stages of the project including change management, functional requirements gathering, fit/gap analysis detailed functional design documents, unit and integration test plans.

Experienced in SAP Solution manager as a production support tool and HPQC to upload test cases and perform test scenarios.

Had very good Experience on ABAP Reports, Transactions, BDC’s, Data Extractions, Function Modules, and Smart forms, BAPI, BADI, ALE/IDOC, and RFC.

Proven ability to interact effectively at all levels within a large industry with excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.

Experienced in capturing requirements, propose solutions, design and execution to meet business objectives.

Technical Skills:

ERP

MDG7.0, SRM5.0-7.0, ECC 6.0,ECC 5.0, R/3 4.7,SAP SRM,MM,WM

Operating Systems

Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP Unix

Databases

Oracle 8i, MS Access 2000, DB2

Tools

HTML,SAP tools(LSMW, Workflow),MS office

Industry Experience:

Manufacturing

Oil and Gas

Consumer Goods

Pharmaceuticals

Power

Chemicals

Professional experience:

Exxon Mobil, Houston, TX Feb’14 – Till date

SAP MDG Consultant

ExxonMobil is the world's largest international oil and Gas Company, providing energy that helps underpin growing economies and improve living standards around the world. ExxonMobil holds an industry-leading inventory of global oil and gas resources. It is the world's largest refiner and marketer of petroleum products.

The Procurement Master Data Project (PMDP) will implement a suite of tools as part of a Global platform with common processes and controls, providing timely and accurate data and fully integrated to client ERP instances and processes. The objective of the project is to improve and sustain master data quality. Together, these improvements will lead to a more efficient and sustainable end-to-end Purchase to Pay process. The centralized SAP MDG tool will create MRO Material Masters and Service Masters and feed them to the various SAP ERP boxes, as specified. Procurement MDG will enhance data quality for data clean-up, validation, duplicate checking and on-going sustainment.

Responsibilities:

Gathering business requirements and defining the as-is and to be process, identify and performing fit/gap analysis and preparation of detailed functional design documents.

Responsible for adhering to the deployment plan and achieving key miles stones and project deliverables as per the deployment schedules.

Responsible to generate material short description and PO text based on material class and characteristics and validate and fill the required fields at SME in the approval process of creating materials

Enable duplicate material check functionality based on material description, material type, Base unit of measure and manufacturer (part of data quality )

Prepared functional specification and worked on designing the field validations based on each role.

Configured BRF+ rule based workflow with 5 levels of approval (Requestor, business approver, SME, inventory Analyst and Cataloger.

Worked on enhancing the standard data model with custom entity types

Worked on configuration of change request types, reason code, rejection reasons, workflow steps etc.

Worked on BRF+ rule based workflow for setting up multilevel approvals

Worked on validations and derivations using BRF+

Data replication to other ERP system and Legacy systems.

Extensively worked on initial load of data using IDOC from multiple systems

Mass upload: Used DTIMPORT to load multiple materials at a time into an active area directly. Developed a solution like one or none (i.e. create all materials or none of the materials).

Worked on key mapping and value mapping

Actively involved in standard web Dynpro configurations using FPM

Involved in standard UI enhancement, adaptations and customizations

The Coca-Cola Company Atlanta, GA July’13 – Jan’14

SAP MM Lead Consultant

Overall responsibility of Material management functionality for the project including customizing of business specific requirements, client interaction and interfacing with business process owners especially issue resolution with other module leads. Actively involved in cross module integration and business functionality testing (Both Integration and User Acceptance testing).

Responsibilities:

Gathered requirements from Subject Matter Experts (SME), Business Analysts (BA) and Functional teams on Master data of MM including Material master, Vendor Master and Customer Master.

Worked closely with master data custodians on data quality and data enrichment.

Preparation of Functional Specifications and specified data Extraction Strategies, Cleansing and Transformation methods.

Performed FIT/GAP analysis and Configured material master settings including master data structures.

Performed and involved various load techniques including LSMW including Batch recording, BAPI, IDOC and BDC and wrapper programs.

Co-ordinated with App Dev. team to develop various migration scripts and involved in testing.

Defined functional testing scenarios and coordinating execution of unit, integration, and user acceptance testing.

Performing Impact analysis on proposed changes impacting the system and processes.

Identified and resolved issues in a timely manner and provided weekly status reports.

Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ Jan’11 to June’ 13

Senior SAP MDG Consultant

Intel Corporation is also in the development of advanced integrated digital technology platforms for the computing and communications industries. The company’s products include microprocessors; chipsets; motherboards; flash memory; wired and wireless connectivity products; communications infrastructure components, including network processors; and products for networked storage and Employee strength close to 100,1000.

The project involves the Implementation of SAP Master Data Governance (MDG), the latest master data management solution from SAP. This project involves getting different subject areas of master data implemented in MDG starting with Commodity and Location. Once set up, the master data would be managed and governed in SAP MDG and would be distributed to SAP and non-SAP systems. This helps achieve a single version of the master data across the enterprise systems thus enabling greater data quality. The project involves in Setting up the Data Model, Building User Interfaces, Setting up Governance, Building system interfaces and Modelling Replication.

Responsibilities:

Involved in implementing Custom Data Models using SAP MDG (Two Implementations)

Gathered the business requirements and prepared business process documents. Performed Fit/Gap analysis and prepared detailed functional specification documents.

Working with Data architecture team

Scheduling meetings with the customer to analyze/review the requirements and come up with effort estimation.

Responsible for prioritization, scheduling and task assignment monitor the progress and review the deliverables from offshore

Configure and activate Custom Data Models in SAP MDG

Set up Entity Types

Maintain relationship between entity types

Configuring UI for entity Types

Configure Data Validations and Derivation rules using BRF+ Rules

Configure Change Request settings for UI modelling

Set up Rule based workflow for change request types using decision table for multi-level approval process

Set up Data Replication for entity types to replicate data in other system like ECC, SRM and BI using MDG interface models

Worked on implementing Material Master Data Model in SAP MDG in a stand-alone hub system

Worked on SAP MDG EHP5 and EHP6 versions

Establish quality standards and reporting metrics that meet the goals of the customer

Prepared Test Scenarios and coordinated Unit, Integration and User acceptance testing and obtain sign off and uploaded the test cases and test results to HPQC.

Managed a team consisting of onsite and offshore model.

Project #2

This project involves configuration of supplier/vendor master data for vendor account types VEND, ALTP and ADDR with multi-level approval process based on the vendor account type.

Analyze the business requirements and involved in business blueprint, design and Fit/Gap analysis and preparing functional specifications.

Import pre-defined BC sets

Configure Business activities and Change request types for create, change, delete, block/unblock and mass upload for supplier master data

Define priorities, reasons and rejection reason for the change request types

Configure workflow tasks for supplier related application components (i.e. configuring all the non-background tasks as general tasks)

Set up customer vendor Integration (CVI) for supplier

Define Service names for rule-based workflow

Configure rule based workflow for change request types using BRF+(Business rules frame work plus) decision tables

Define validation and derivations using BRF+ +(Business rules frame work plus) rules

Customize/Adapt supplier User Interface to enable partner functions, tax withholding tabs after MDG6.1 ADD ON Installation

Configured rule based workflow for Create supplier with Seven-levels of approval using BRF+ decision tables and standard rule-based workflow WS60800086. The approval process varies based on vendor account group VEND, ADDR and ALTP and it was achieved with the implementation of dynamic agent determination BADI.

Configured rule based workflow for delete supplier with four levels of approval using BRF+ decision table’s and standard rule-based workflow WS60800086.

Configured rule based workflow for block/unblock supplier with four levels of approval using BRF+ decision table’s and standard rule-based workflow WS60800086.

Worked on creating UIBB for new entity types added to the standard data model using FPM configurations

ALE set up for the message types ADRMAS and CREMAS

Involved on generic interaction layer enhancement for adding the new entity types to supplier UI

Worked on BI extractors that fetches the supplier master data from ECC to BI for detailed reporting purpose

Worked on update function modules to update custom entity data in the target ERP system

Search set up for connector MDG_BUSINESS_PARTNER using TREX

Initial load of data and Mass upload for the custom entity types

Creation of domains, data elements, structures, table types, tables and search helps

Planning for custom developments

Managing offshore technical team

INTEL, Chandler, AZ October 09 - December 10

Senior SAP MM/PP Functional Consultant/ SME

Intel decided to move from SAP 4.6B to ECC 6.0 to get rid of over 110K customizations due to high maintenance cost. Intel SAP replotforming included AT, GPS, FAB/SI and BOX CPU divisions. First Implementation started with AT followed by GPS, FAB/SI and BOX CPU. Overall responsibilities including client interaction and actively involved design, prototypes, Coordination between offshore and onsite teams.

Responsibilties:

Gathered client’s requirements and involved in documenting the business requirements

Preparation of functional specifications and actively involved in testing the customized programs.

Extensively worked on conversion of material master, Multi-level BOM, vendor master, customer master and Inventory. Validated attributes of material master.

Extensively worked on master data and guide the MDM team on data quality and data enrichment.

Gathered requirements, designed and actively involved in development of automatic material and BOM creation process from SPEED (third party tool) to ECC 6.0

Gathered requirements and Configured Split valuation based on valuation category

Performed inventory conversions and Scheduling agreement conversions

Worked extensively on Intel specific Intercompany stock transfers and Stock transport orders.

Extensively worked on Extraction of data, data cleansing and transformation.

Derived strategies and selecting the right tool and executed the data conversion from SAP 4.6B to ECC 6.0

Actively involved in preparation of test cases and performed unit and functional testing

Co-ordinate the offshore and onsite for data conversion activities.

Setup message determination process and involved in Vendor on-boarding process for inbound I-DOC - Goods receipt, invoice receipt, APERAK and outbound I-DOC- Purchase Order, Scheduling agreements and APERAK.

Sysco Corporation Houston TX October 08 – October 09

MM/SRM Functional Consultant

SYSCO Corporation is the market leader in the North American foodservice distribution Industry.

Company distributes from 1161 locations across USA, Canada and Ireland to more than 420,000 restaurants. Responsibilities Including Implementing deployment plans on timely manner, co-ordination between Support and Implementation teams.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for cutover activities for Rollouts, Support and ongoing developments in Sysco Procurement and Inventory management functions

Involved and worked extensively on Intercompany design and deliverables to the production.

Worked extensively and involved in Inter and Intra company transport orders.

Configured release strategies and approvals for Purchase Orders. .

Extensively worked on procurement to pay configurations, batch managements and post production support activities.

Worked extensively Logistics execution process including Procurement to Pay and Order to Cash cycles.

Worked Extensively on MRP planning and integration points with SAP MM.

Gathering new business requirements and proposing solutions for existing issues and new requirements on Procure to Pay and Order to Cash cycles and converted them as a change requests.

Preparation of test scripts for Unit testing, Quality testing update the HPQC with test results.

Worked extensively on logistics operations (OTC) like DDL, PGI from 3PL systems and customer returns.

Excellent experience in hyper care and post production support. Addressing and resolved the users, business directors and super user’s issues.

Managing and coordinating Onsite and Offshore team to meet project objectivities.

Module Implementation: ECC 6.0 SRM 7.0, MM, MDM, WM, SD, FI-CO, PP AND QM

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Oracle 9i

THE COCA COLA COMPANY, Atlanta, GA July’07 to Oct’08

SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant

Coke is the one of the well Known Global business brand in Beverages and food. Some of the Coke Brands are more than 125 years Old. Overall responsibility of Material management functionality for the project including customizing of business specific requirements, client interaction and interfacing with business process owners especially issue resolution with other module leads. Actively involved in cross module integration and business functionality testing (Both Integration and User Acceptance testing).

Responsibilities:.

Coordinated and performed successful analysis, design, configuration, testing and implementation of SAP Materials Management (MM) application module using SAP Reference IMG for the entire “Requisition-Procure- Invoice-Pay” cycle.

Purchasing Configuration: Configured Purchase Requisition (PR), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Order (PO) and Purchasing Info record, Source lists, contracts, scheduling agreements, Release strategies, and quota management, Info Records for Standard, Consignment, Invoicing Plan, Sub-Contracting and Service master. Configured Material master, vendor master as per the requirements.

IM Configuration: Configured transfer postings, goods issue, goods receipt for purchase order, reservations and special stocks of inventory management.

Interfaced regularly with other members of the SAP project team to ensure smooth integration of the MM functionalities with the other modules like SD, PP and FI/CO etc.

Designed and Configuration the MM organizational elements Purchasing Organization, Plant, Storage Location.

Configured new material types as per the requirements of the client and created several valuation classes and account category references

Configuration of Calculation Schema (Pricing Procedure) for local vendors and pricing procedure with necessary Condition types, access sequences and condition tables.

Setup message determination process for communication with vendors in purchasing

Worked with BOM and BOM Explosion control and created bill of materials for sub-contracting.

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, Oracle 9i

Client: RHODIA CHEMICALS, Cranbury, NJ Mar’06 to July’07

Senior SAP MM/SRM Consultant

Rhodia is a leader in its businesses and it has wide presence in industrial, automotive, tire, electronics, perfume, health, beauty and home care markets. Rhodia Implemented ERP to integrate all of its Units.

Overall responsibility of Materials management functionality for the project including customizing of business specific requirements, client interaction and interfacing with business process owners especially issue resolution with other module leads. Actively involved in cross module integration and business functionality testing (Both Integration and User Acceptance testing).

Responsibities:

Understanding the clients Business Requirement and Mapping the business process in line with the SAP functionality and configuration of Organization structure

Configured Material Master, material types, and defined number ranges for various material types and purchasing documents etc.

User requirements analysis, to-be design of SRM.

Configured ALE-RFC Settings for backend integration from SRM to R3

Set Up Distribution MODEL for Messages like Confirmation and IV, SRM Organization structure settings vendor organization structure settings, assignments, user creation.

Worked Extensively on SRM MDM integration with SRM and Contract Management.

Cross application setting for Transaction types and number ranges, workflow settings

Configuration of operational procurement like self-service procurement, service procurement.

Post go-live support: Resolved the problems encountered by the user in the day to day use of SAP MM/SRM module. Test the programs in which the user encountered errors and accordingly correct the setup in case of system issue or train the user about the steps procedures to follow to run the programs correctly.

Client: Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Pittsburgh PA March’04-Feb’ 06

Senior SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant

Bayer is a leader in Health Care Products and discovering new products to improve human health. Bayer core business is to Discover, Manufacture and Market the Pharmaceuticals Products.

Responsibilities:

Understanding the clients business process requirements and the as-is situation of the business process, Mapping the business process in line with the SAP functionality and configuration of organizational structure.

Defining and maintaining global settings, company code, material types, number ranges storage locations.

Configuration of STO, Scheduling Agreement, Consignments and Service Master.

Configuration of Release strategies for purchase documents

Validate attributes of Material master, Configured Material types and Material groups.

Configuration of Split Valuation.

Defining terms of payment, account group and vendor number range

Depending on the requirement of the business scenario, source list were specified

For material as possible sources of supply for a valid period and for fixed vendors

Configuration of document types and number ranges for PR, RFQ’s and PO’s

Configuration of Calculation Schema for local vendors and pricing procedure with necessary

Creation of invoice documents with respect of purchase order

Configuring inventory management for creation of GI/GR, Stock Transfer and Transfer Posting.

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, Oracle 9i, Linux

The United Illuminating Company, New Haven, CT Oct’ 02 to Feb’ 04

SAP MM Functional consultant

The United Illuminating Company is doing business in power distribution, Headquarters in Connecticut. The Company has Implemented SAP to integrate all its power distribution centers throughout North America

Responsibilities:

Expertise in implementation and configuration of the MM Module in SAP R/3.

Worked in MM areas of Inventory management, (Goods receipt, Goods issue, Transfer posting, Goods Movement types, Reservations and Material document concepts) Purchasing, (subcontracting, third-party, consignment, External Procurement- Stock transports, requisitions, info records, release strategies, vendor evaluation, master records)and Logistics invoice verification.

Configuring and customizing of Purchasing, Consumption Based Planning, Inventory Management (IM), Material Valuation and Invoice Verification.

Configuring Module - Master data, Purchase Requisitions (PR), Purchase Orders (PO), Outline Agreements, Info records, Release Procedures, Inventory Management, GR, GI, Movement Types, Reservation, Transfer Posting, Stock Transfer, Invoice Verification, Account Determination, Valuation, Physical Inventory process.

Proficient in the Configuration of Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase order, Purchase Requisition, RFQ, Quotation, release procedures, and defining number ranges for various documents.

Implementation and configuration experience in MM Requisition to pay (Procurement to pay), Foreign Trades/Customs, and Logistics Invoice Verification (MIRO).

Configured conditions, conditional tables, access sequence, price determination process and schedule.

Educational Qualifications:

B.SC from Nagarjuna University India

B.SC TECH Nagarjuna Univewrsity India

PGDCA Indian Institute of Technology India

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