Hany Soni

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Overland Park, KS 66221

Cell: 913-***-****

E-mail: acqusm@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Solution oriented SAP solution architect with notable success directing a broad range of corporate initiatives while managing and participating in planning, analysis and implementation of SAP ERP/GTS systems in direct support of business objectives.

Track record of increasing responsibility in system analysis and full life cycle project management.

6 full life cycle implementation as GTS consultant and project manager, 4 Full life cycle implementation as Lead SD/CS consultant and 1 full life cycle implementation as CRM consultant.

Demonstrated capabilities to design and implement the solution to meet the specific needs.

Hands-on experience leading all stages of system development efforts, including requirement definition, design, architecture, testing and support.

Leadership abilities; able to coordinate and direct all phases of project based efforts while managing, motivating and leading project teams.

Adapt at developing effective policies and procedures, project documentation and milestones and technical/business specifications.

CORE COMPETENCIES

SAP Global Trade Services

SAP Sales and Distribution

SAP Customer Service

SAP Customer Relationship Management

Integration with other SAP modules and third party integration

Build sustainable project teams

Project Management

Program Management

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

SAP experience includes configuration, system communication, third-party systems interfacing, Project Management & Upgrade.

Domain expertise in Business Processes of Manufacturing industry, Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Aero Space and Defense, Automotive Industry.

Extensive knowledge in the areas of SAP GTS Compliance Management (SPL, Embargo, License Determination and Product Classification), SAP GTS Customs Management (Export/Import Process, Trade Documentation, Electronic Communications with customs authorities, Bonded Warehouse and Duty Suspension), SAP GTS Risk Management ( Preference Processing, Letter of Credit processing) and SAP GTS Electronic Compliance Reporting.

Hands on experience in integrating SAP GTS with SAP/Non-SAP Feeder Systems, Data Providers (Customs Info) and Storage Applications.

Experience in IDOC communications with AES (Automated Export System), ATLAS and ABI (Automated Broker Interface) integrating SAP GTS via SEEBURGER for the Electronic Communications with Customs Authorities.

Hands on experience in implementing SAP Archive Link configurations to support the archiving process to send documents to external storage applications.

Extensive Configuration experience in SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS), SAP ECC modules Sales & Distribution (SD)

Good understanding of SAP GTM (Global Trade Management) processes: Trading Contract (TC), Trading Expenses and Position Management along with Trading Execution Workbench and case management.

Integration experience with SAP Transport Management System (SAP TMS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Supply Chain Solutions Inc Sept 2014 – Present

Client: SABIC

SABIC is a diversified manufacturing company, active in chemicals and intermediates, industrial polymers, fertilizers and metals. SABIC is one of the largest manufacturer of mono-ethylene glycol, With 40,000 employees worldwide, SABIC is one of the largest listed company in Middle East.

Project:

The initiative of the project is to evaluate feasibility of GTS roll out with unique processes in chemical industry. The scope of the project was to analyze existing business processes and design to-be process to develop a global template for GTS in over 26 countries.

Role: SAP GTS Core Lead

To provide guidance and advice best industry practices for GTS process.

Responsible to build and motivate GTS teams in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions.

Responsible for design of global template and localization efforts.

Responsible for resource planning, budgeting and overall delivery of GTS.

Led a team of 15 consultants, 20 SME’s from different regions and 15 super users.

Conducted workshops with business to gather requirements for processes such as SPL screening, chemical regulations, Foreign Trade Agreements, Embargo checks, License determination, Excise Monitoring, Customs Declarations.

Responsible for process definition, optimization and design of core processes in GTS and ECC such as High Sea sales, U-turn sales and Routed transactions.

Instrumental in leading team to provide process optimization to meet legal requirements for complex processes.

Responsible for leading the integration efforts between various teams and build processes to comply with legal requirements in international trade.

Responsible for interface design with various customs authorities and customs brokers including ABI, AES filing.

Responsible for connecting SAP ERP and other non-SAP systems to SAP GTS.

Technical Environment: SAP GTS 10.1

Supply Chain Solutions Inc Feb 2014 – Sept 2014

Client: Schaeffler AG

Schaeffler AG is one of the leading manufacturer of rolling elements such as bearings for automotive, aerospace and industrial uses. With around 79,000 employees worldwide, the Schaeffler Group is one of the largest German and European industrial companies in family ownership.

Project:

The initiative of the project is to roll out existing functionalities such as compliance management, custom management and FTZ solution. In addition to US roll out, the scope of the project includes NAFTA roll out and a custom solution for Traced value calculation and AALA calculations.

Role: SAP GTS Lead

To provide guidance and advice best industry practices for GTS process.

Responsible for overall delivery of GTS initiatives by leading a team of consultants and developers from SAP Germany to provide a customized solution.

Led team of 10 consultants, 10 business SME’s and 6 super users.

Helped client to lower the budget by re planning resource engagement and completed project with in timeline and reduced cost by 20%.

Conducted workshops with business to gather requirements around NAFTA, Traced Value and AALA calculations.

Responsible for process definition and design of core processes in GTS and ECC such as Preference determination, AALA, Traced value and FTZ.

Instrumental in leading development efforts and manage deliverables.

Responsible for leading the integration efforts between various teams and SAP.

Responsible for Build activities and guide others during build phase of the project which included preparing documentation such as Configuration Rationale, Functional design, Development document, Business Process Definition, Data mapping.

Responsible for connecting SAP ERP and other non-SAP systems to SAP GTS.

Technical Environment: SAP GTS 10.1

Supply Chain Solutions Inc Dec 2013 – Jan 2014

Client: EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation offers data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud computing and other products and services that enable businesses to store, manage, protect and analyze data. With over 60000 employees, it considered the largest provider of data storage system.

Project:

The initiative of the project is to replace Trade Sphere (Legacy system for GTS needs) with SAP GTS. This implementation was a part of larger project known as PROPEL 3. To meet business needs for trade screening, SPL screening, Embargo, License determination and export functionalities were scoped during this implementation. Before build phase, project got differed for next release due to budget constraints.

Role: SAP GTS Lead

To provide guidance and advice best industry practices for GTS process.

Participated in workshops with business to gather requirements around SPL, Embargo, License determination and Exports.

Involved in process definition and design for core processes in GTS and ECC such as Exports, SPL, Embargo, License determination etc.

Responsible for leading the integration efforts between various teams.

Responsible for Build activities and guide others during build phase of the project which included preparing documentation such as Configuration Rationale, Functional design, Development document, Business Process Definition, Data mapping.

Technical Environment: SAP GTS 10.1

Supply Chain Solutions Inc July 2013 – Dec 2013

Client: Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is one of the leading corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing with 100,000 employees and presence all over the world.

Project:

The initiative of the project is to get current and stay current with the newer version of GTS. The project was triggered due to SAP’s decision to support older version of GTS at additional cost. This project was a technical upgrade of GTS 8.0 to GTS 10.1 which will allow Microsoft to gain full support from SAP and take advantage of new functionalities provided by GTS 10.1.

Role: SAP GTS Lead / Architect

Responsible for detailed proposal within client’s budget guidelines and profitable.

Leveraged India resources to meet client budget Guideline of $1M.

Completed project within 6 months timeline and generated profit of $400K by accurate resource planning.

Led project team consisting of business subject matter experts, SAP function resources and ABAP programmers, BI/BW functional resources and Security functional resources.

Instrumental in analyzing impacted objects due to the upgrade and changed data structures.

Responsible to provide correction to the impacted objects for seamless integration and user experience.

Responsible for seamless integration with various interfaces such as TREX, BI, BODS, BizTalk, Screen Manager, Shield, Fortress, etc. and seamless transition to newer version for the deployed functionalities.

Responsible for Performance and stress testing. Collaborated with SAP VTO service to analyze the results and ensure no performance degradation. Stress test included load test from various interfaces.

Instrumental in creating a future road map for deployment of new functionalities available in GTS 10.1.

Responsible for connecting SAP ERP and other non-SAP systems to SAP GTS.

Technical Environment: SAP GTS 8.0, SAP GTS 10.1

Supply Chain Solutions Inc October 2012 – July 2013

Client: Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar is the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines with over 100,000 employees and presence all over the world.

Project:

Caterpillar started a few projects to provide solution for duty suspension, Foreign Trade Zone and Preference determination. At the same time, there was an initiative to stabilize the GTS solution, Upgrade to GTS10.0 and provide support and new functionalities to satisfy business requirements.

Role: Senior GTS Consultant / Project Manager (FTZ)

To provide guidance and advice best industry practices for GTS process.

Led a project team of 5 consultants and 9 business SME’s.

Instrumental in negotiation with 3rd party vendor to build FTZ solution.

Conducted workshops with business to gather requirements around FTZ, Preference Determination, SPL, Duty Suspension, Embargo, License determination and Imports and Exports.

Involved in process definition and design for core processes in GTS and ECC such as FTZ, Duty Suspension, Preference determination, Duty Suspension, Imports and Exports, SPL, Embargo, License determination etc.

Responsible for leading the integration efforts between various teams.

Lead integration discussion regarding purchase requisitions, Purchase orders, Goods receipt and Goods movements with MM/WM.

Functional lead for RICEF requirements and functional specification design to satisfy business requirements such as commodity code rationale upload, Reports to identify materials with duplicate commodity codes etc.

Led the upgrade efforts from functional perspective and successfully completed GTS 10.0 upgrade and GTS Plug in upgrade.

Responsible for interface design with various customs authorities and customs brokers including ABI, AES filing with US government.

Responsible for connecting SAP ERP and other non-SAP systems to SAP GTS.

Technical Environment: SAP GTS 8.0, SAP GTS 10.0

Deloitte LLP May 2011 – October 2012

Client: Cameron International Corporation

Cameron is a leading provider of flow equipment products, systems and services to worldwide oil, gas and process industries with over 18000 employees and 300 worldwide locations.

Project:

Cameron’s overarching objective, just labeled “Optimus”, is to transform its global business & finance processes via re-implementation of SAP. Optimus should deliver the following benefits to Cameron.

Deliver a Global view of the business

Reduce SG&A

Facilitate future acquisitions

Focus on the “3 C’s” – Customer, Cycle time, Cost & Compliance

Role: Lead Order to Cash Consultant and Solution Architect

To provide guidance and advice best industry practices for International trade and SD processes.

Led a cross functional team of 2 CS consultants, 6 SD consultants, 3 CRM consultants and 2 Foreign trade consultant.

Generated additional revenue by providing additional functionalities to client and adding resources on the project.

Conducted workshops to gather business and legal requirements.

Instrumental in logical system and interface definitions to screen orders, inquiries and deliveries created in non SAP systems.

Responsible for process definition and design for core processes in international trade and SD areas such as SPL, Preference determination, Imports and Exports, Sales order processing, Cross company order processing, etc.

Responsible for configuration of Foreign Trade Organization, Legal units, Administrative unit, Enterprise Structure, sales documents, service orders, billing documents, pricing procedure, Item category and partner determination.

Lead integration discussion regarding purchase requisitions, Purchase orders, Goods receipt and Goods movements with MM/WM.

Functional lead for RICEF requirements and functional specification design.

Lead integration for service processing with other modules such as CRM, FI-CO, MM and PP.

Standardized processes and provided expertise on integration with other modules.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

GRUNDFOS MANAGEMENT A/S, OTALHE, KS Feb 2006 – May 2011

Major Projects:

SAP GTS Implementation June 2010 – May 2011

Project:

The project was part of the global roll out of Compliance management functionalities of GTS to mitigate risk. After successful implementation of pilot project in Germany, Grundfos decided to roll out the global template to other companies worldwide. This project was a cluster roll out in three European countries. With acquisitions and change in business model, it was necessary to screen the customers, vendors and contact person to reduce the risk.

Role: Lead functional GTS consultant

•As a process owner, create global template, identified business requirements which deviate from global template and provided local solution based on the template guideline.

•Instrumental in business requirement gathering, configuration, UAT, Data upload and cut-over activities

•Conducted workshops to gather business and legal requirements.

•Architect the solution to meet business needs which required few custom developments to accommodate local requirements.

•Instrumental in creating functional specs for custom developments and outputs.

•Hands on configuration experience with GTS and ECC.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP GTS 8.0

SAP GTS Implementation July 2010 – Dec 2010

Project:

The project was initiated due to the NAFTA audits and penalties paid because of ineligible qualification of products shipped to Canada and Mexico. The scope of the project was to implement Risk management and customs management functionalities of GTS 8.0. Being a foreign trade zone manufacturing facility, client required an accurate inventory management system for inward and out ward product movement to save customs duty.

Role: Project Manager and Lead functional GTS consultant

Project Manager

•Project team consisted of FI, SD, MM, WM and GTS consultants and ABAP programmers.

•Led project team consisting of business subject matter experts, SAP function resources and ABAP programmers.

•Developed project plan, managed task execution and tracked project budget to actuals. Responsible for project budget and timeline.

•Completed project in defined time line and reduced cost by 15%.

•Responsible for building a sustainable project team that can support after go-live.

Lead GTS Consultant

•Conducted workshops to gather business and legal requirements around trade preference and foreign trade zone.

•Designed business process and worked as process owner to build a global template which can be extended to other companies globally with minimal efforts.

•Instrumental in business requirement gathering, configuration, UAT, user training, Data upload and cut-over activities.

•Prepared blueprints and proposed solution for accurate inventory management system as per CBP guidelines to manage Foreign Trade Zone manufacturing. Guided business on reporting requirements.

•Architect the solution to meet business needs which required few custom developments.

•Instrumental in creating functional specs for custom developments and outputs.

•Configuration included creation of Foreign Trade Organization, Legal units, Administrative unit, etc. Also configured Risk management for preference determination of products based on country of origin.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP GTS 8.0

SAP GTS Implementation July 2009 – July 2010

Project:

The project was initiated due to increasing legal regulations. Grundfos decided to implement SPL and AES functionalities of GTS to screen denial party list. With acquisitions and change in business model, it was necessary to screen the customers, vendors and contact person to reduce the risk. The project was started in Germany with intent of building a global template that can be implemented across all the global companies.

Role: Lead functional GTS consultant

•Designed business process and worked as process owner to build a global template which can be extended to other companies globally with minimal efforts.

•German company in Grundfos was the initial roll out for beta testing and then other 8 companies in Europe and North America was part of the second phase of implementation.

•Participated in upgrade to SAP GTS 8.0.

•Instrumental in business requirement gathering, configuration, UAT, Data upload and cut-over activities

•Conducted workshops to gather business and legal requirements.

•Architect the solution to meet business needs which required few custom developments.

•Instrumental in creating functional specs for custom developments and outputs.

•Hands on configuration experience with GTS and ECC.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP GTS 7.1, SAP GTS 8.0

SAP CS Implementation Feb 2011 – May 2011

Grundfos Pumps Corporation, Madrid, Spain

Project:

Due to the restriction on functionalities and global initiative, Grundfos decided to convert service processing from CRM to ECC.

Role: Lead SD/CS Consultant

•Responsible for requirement gathering and core design for Service and repair processing.

•Responsible for configuration of Enterprise Structure, sales documents, service orders, billing documents, pricing procedure, Item category and partner determination.

•Lead integration discussion regarding purchase requisitions, Purchase orders, Goods receipt and Goods movements with MM/WM.

•Functional lead for RICEF requirements and functional specification design.

•Lead integration for service processing with other modules such as FI-CO, MM and PP.

•Standardized Service process and provided expertise on integration with other modules.

•Responsible for data mapping for conversion objects.

SAP ERP Implementation March 2010 – Feb 2011

Yeomans Chicago Corporation, Chicago, IL

Yeomans is a leading manufacturer of sewage pumps with more than 250 employees and 30 worldwide locations.

Project:

The company was acquired by Grundfos and as a part of globalization, SAP was deployed for ERP.

Role: Lead SD/CS Consultant

•Responsible for requirement gathering and core design for Service and repair processing.

•Responsible for configuration of Enterprise Structure, sales documents, service orders, billing documents, pricing procedure, Item category and partner determination.

•Lead integration discussion regarding purchase requisitions, Purchase orders, Goods receipt and Goods movements with MM/WM.

•Functional lead for RICEF requirements and functional specification design.

•Lead integration for service processing with other modules such as FI-CO, MM and PP.

•Standardized Service process and provided expertise on integration with other modules.

•Responsible for data mapping for conversion objects.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

CRM Archiving Jan 2009-Dec 2010

Global Project

Project:

Users complained long response time using search functionalities in CRM5.0. The project was to analyze the issues and propose a solution. Solution was to create secondary index and continuous archiving. The project was divided in three phases, Secondary index creation, old document archiving and continuous archiving.

Role: Project Manager and Functional CRM Consultant

•Analyze the long response time and provided options to resolve the issues.

•Managed team of 5 consultants including SAP BASIS and ABAP programmers.

•Provided all the functional help in identifying archiving objects.

•Instrumental in testing and defining new security roles.

Technical Environment: SAP CRM 5.0

SAP ERP Implementation June 2006 – Nov 2008

Peerless Pump Company, Indianapolis, IN

Peerless is a leading manufacturer of fire pumps with more than 2500 employees and 50 worldwide locations.

Project:

The company was acquired by Grundfos and as a part of globalization, SAP was deployed for ERP.

Role: Lead SD/CS Consultant

•Responsible for requirement gathering and core design for Service and repair processing.

•Responsible for configuration of Enterprise Structure, sales documents, service orders, billing documents, pricing procedure, Item category and partner determination.

•Lead integration discussion regarding purchase requisitions, Purchase orders, Goods receipt and Goods movements with MM/WM.

•Functional lead for RICEF requirements and functional specification design.

•Lead integration for service processing with other modules such as FI-CO, MM and PP.

•Standardized Service process and provided expertise on integration with other modules.

•Responsible for data mapping for conversion objects.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

SAP CRM Implementation Oct 2003 – March 2005

Role: Project Manager and Functional Consultant

•Project team consisted of CRM consultants and ABAP programmers.

•Managed team of 8 consultants including 2 external consultant and business project team of 6 subject matter experts.

•Responsible for project budget and timeline.

•Responsible for requirement gathering and core design for Account management process.

•Responsible for configuration, RICEF objects and functional specs.

•Responsible for data mapping for conversion objects.

Technical Environment: SAP CRM 5.0

FEDERAL-MOGUL, Allentown, PA July 2000 – Sep 2003

Database Coordinator

Responsible for troubleshooting, business analysis, system performance analysis, configuration changes, authorizations, reporting, queries, and Helpdesk

Instrumental in developing and implementing PL/SQL procedures.

Lead slow movers deletion project using forecast and data mining techniques.

Documented and trained users on the SQL procedures.

Proficient with data mining, data warehousing and data migration.

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Gujarat University – Ahmedabad, India

Master of Science in Computer Science

Widener University – Chester, PA

Certificate in Project management

Villanova University – PA

Certificate in IS/IT Project management

Villanova University – PA

COMPUTER PROFICIENCIES

PLATFORMS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2007

LANGUAGES: Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, HTML

DATABASES: ORACLE 9.0, Access,PL/SQL

ENVIROMENT: SAP R/3 4.7, SAP GTS 10.1, SAP GTS 10.0, SAP GTS 8.0, SAP GTS 7.2, SAP CRM 5.0, SAP CRM 2007

TOOLS: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio), FrontPage, AutoCAD

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