Summary

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Client project includes implementations, rollouts, enhancements, process improvements, legacy site carve outs and operational support

Lead and delivered projects resulting in synergies of $4M/year, 15 legal entity consolidation, product rebranding and annual distribution cost savings of $285K

Experienced across pharmaceutical, medical technology, hardware retail, semiconductor equipment and electronics industry business processes

SAP certified consultant in Sales & Distribution and actively working in cross functional modules like Materials Management and Warehouse Management

Handled and worked with internal stakeholders, external partners, functional and technical teams across several geographical locations including America, Europe and Asia

Good understanding of validated environments, dual landscapes, GxP and SOX quality compliances

Interfaced SAP with external Web ordering systems, Warehouse applications, Transportation planning application, Demand planning systems, MES and Service management system

Experienced with add-on systems including BW, SCM, CRM, Streamserve, TIBCO, PI, WebMethods and Control-M

Integration experience and knowledge between SD, MM, WM, PP, FI, APO and EWM

Worked with various incident and change management tools like Remedy on Demand (RoD), HP Quality Center (HPQC), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Heat, Solution Manager and Trace applications

Technical Skillset

Areas of specialization in SD

oOrder management – Sales documents, Availability check, Free goods, Material determination, Listing & Exclusion, Text control, Incompletion log, Credit management

oShipping and transportation – Shipping/Receiving point determination, Scheduling, Routes, Picking, Packing and Shipment processing

oBilling – Billing documents, Intercompany billing, Billing plans, Invoice list, Account assignment, Pricing, Outputs, Copy controls, Partner determination

Areas of specialization in MM

oPurchasing – Material master, Vendor master, Source list, Info records, Purchase requisition, Purchase order, Confirmations, Conditions

oInventory management and Physical inventory – Goods issue, Goods receipt, Stock transfer, Transfer postings, Output determination

oLogistics invoice verification – Incoming invoice, Document parking, Invoice block, EDI posting, Message determination

Areas of specialization in WM

oStructural Elements – Storage type, Storage section, Storage bins, movement types and transfer order processing

oStrategies and Activities – Putaway process and Storage bin search for putaway, Stock removal and Storage bin search for stock removal

oInternal warehouse processes – Posting change, Stock transfers, Radio Frequency, Storage unit management and Decentralized warehouse management

Areas of specialization in cross module components

oEDI and Idocs

oBatch management and Serial management

oHandling unit management

oSHDB, CATT and LSMW

oBasics of ABAP and debugging

oOSS note implementation

Professional Experience

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Jacksonville, FL April 2015 to till date Lead Analyst– SD/MM

J&J Vision Care is world’s leading innovator and manufacturer of disposable contact lenses. The best-selling Acuvue brand of contact lenses was launched as the first mass-marketed disposable soft contacts and has been dedicated to bringing benefits of vision care to people around the globe.

Project Responsibility

Functional lead and solution architect for Vision Care Alternate Manufacturing (VCAM) & Product Availability Communication (PAC) projects

Conducted business process analyses, assessments and preliminary cost/benefits analyses in an effort to align SAP solutions with business initiatives.

Participated in Kaizen workshops, represented functional teams, identified process gaps, designed business & system processes, defined scope and project phases

Gathered requirements, prototyping, configuration, functional screening, system integration testing, cutover and Go-Live activities

Functional Area Handled in Project

Created new sales document type, item categories, schedule line categories, item category & schedule line category determination and copy controls configuration for 3rd party order processes

New purchase requisition document type, purchase order account assignment category, screen layouts and defined business transaction type foreign trade data

Configured new availability check rules and checking controls for precise product availability date determination

Provided functional advice for Web Methods and e-commerce changes, assisted with technical data mapping and development screening

Worked with BPX to select & create appropriate test scenarios and determine system changes met project specifications

Drafted functional unit testing & user acceptance testing scripts, executed pre-validation & validation scripts, assisted user acceptance testing and performed regression testing

Conducted user training sessions, production support team handholding and prepared user training manuals

Alcon Laboratories, Fort Worth, TX September 2012 to April 2015

SAP Lead – SD/MM/WM

Alcon manufactures medicines and devices to serve the full life cycle of eye care needs offering surgical, pharmaceutical and vision care products to treat many eye diseases and conditions, including cataracts, glaucoma, retinal diseases, dry eye, eye infection and inflammation and other ocular health issues.

Project Responsibility

Actively involved in all phases of Canada and UK implementation lifecycle - AS-IS process documentation, requirements gathering and blueprinting, conceptual design and prototyping, configuration, unit testing, system integration testing, cutover activities and Go-Live

Performing configuration, assisting technical teams during development, executing unit and integration testing, coordinating user acceptance testing

Reviewed business requirement documents, functional specs, test scripts and other process documents during SME review stages

Functional Area Handled in Project

Created and assigned organization units like plants, storage locations, purchasing organization and purchasing groups for intercompany processes

Configured document types, number ranges, vendor master account groups, material master data, incoterms, partner determination and terms of payment for affiliate, direct and indirect purchases

Setup of intercompany purchases, stock transfer ordering, decentralized warehouse delivery process

Designed and delivered several custom RICEFs – batch characteristic check, intercompany goods in transit, ASN receipt, inventory reconciliation report and file based ordering

Interfacing with external systems included decentralized warehouse systems (UPS and Movianto), transportation mgmt system (Tecsys), planning application (GPR), and service system (ServiceMax)

Configured output procedure, condition types, access sequence, condition tables and layout for packing slip, warehouse instruction and returns form

Idoc types covering material master (MATMAS), batch master (BATMAS), purchase order creation (PORDCR1), inbound delivery creation (DESADV), A/P invoices (INVOIC), order creation (ORDERS), delivery replica (SHP_IBDLV_SAVE_REPLICA) and confirmation (SHP_IBDLV_CONFIRM_DECENTRAL)

Good understanding of transfer postings, physical inventory, goods receipt and invoice receipt

Assisted MDM teams with data mapping, dry run validation, migration of legacy data and security team in fixing user authorization roles

Used SQVI reports, mass maintenance and SHDB recordings for several reporting and mass uploads

Ciba Vision Corporation, Atlanta, GA October 2010 to August 2012

Lead Consultant - SD/MM

CIBA Vision engages in the research, development, and manufacture of contact lenses and lens care products. It offers various contact lenses, including breathable, colour contact, as well as contact lenses for astigmatism. The company also provides lens cleaning solutions.

Project Responsibility

Involved in the To-Be system design, prototyping, configuration, user trainings and various testing phases of the Switzerland rollout.

Primary contact for affiliates processes during day in life testing, go-live, hyper care phases and automation of background jobs

Worked on the Atlanta molding site rollout, performing configuration, unit and user acceptance testing and cutover data loads

Redesigned contract purchase, direct sale, contract sale, direct transfer, direct repack and toll sales covering manufacturing, distribution, trading and subcontracting sites

Functional Area Handled in Project

Setup organization units like sales organizations, sales areas, sales office, departure zones, routes, purchasing organization and groups representing Switzerland company

Extensively worked on affiliate sales scenarios including quotation, sales order, third party sales, returns, credit memo request and debit memo request

Created delivery type, item category determination, delivery pricing and shipping blocking reasons

Maintained billing types, number range for trade invoices, proforma and returns credit

Configured new price list and material group based condition tables, access sequence, affiliate pricing procedure and output types for AP posting, 3rd party order creation and invoice prints

Configured material determination, listing/exclusion, incompletion log, copy controls and invoice list

Delivered the 3rd party order creation, destination plant payable posting, return order generation and affiliate invoice form RICEFs

Created new plants, storage locations, packing stations, customization of push order scenarios for Atlanta molding rollout

Stock transfer order, replenishment order with no preceding document, packing slips, delivery related commercial invoices

Designed and developed quality approval label, shipping label and pallet history forms

Responsible for data loads, master and open transaction data migration using LSMW and SHDB

Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA April 2009 till October 2010

Consultant - SD

Varian Medical System is engaged in manufacturing of medical devices for treating cancer and medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, and brachytherapy. The company also supplies informatics software for cancer clinics, tubes and digital detectors for X-ray imaging in medical and scientific applications and X-ray imaging products for cargo screening and industrial inspection.

Project Responsibility

Part of core team for India rollout and was involved in all phases of the project

Subject matter expert for SD domain, monitoring and assigning tickets, presenting domain related issues/solutions to Functional Review Board

Responsible for OMNI Application and SAP interface. Analysed errors using variant configuration simulators and assisted FEs on daily basis for successfully order creation

Functional Area Handled in Project

Created and assigned SD Enterprise Structure as per organizational requirement for India operations

Extended sales document types like quotation, contracts, system orders to new sales areas

Setup special sales orders such as consignment sales, FE transfer, returns process, credit and debit cycles, Intercompany Stock Transport Orders for plants across different company codes

Configured shipping point determination, route determination, output and pricing procedures

Added new fields to the pricing structures (KOMP, KOMK), field catalogue and changed user exits to calculate the price based on custom fields added to the customer master and material master

Designed copy control requirements, data transfer routines for sales and billing documents.

Worked on different customized reports, smart form of invoice, credit memo/debit memo, bill of lading and GSM worksheet, etc.

Worked on Special Business Transactions: Billing Plans - Periodic Billing and Milestone Billing

Involved in data conversion analysis/validation of SD module objects like Customer master, output conditions, open sales orders and customer info records from legacy systems

Recommended, designed and implemented sales order cockpit which provides several necessary information of orders and projects in a clear structured and easy accessible fashion

Stanley Works, New Britain, CT January 2008 till March 2009

Consultant - SD/WM

Stanley Works is a worldwide manufacturer and marketer of tools, hardware and specialty hardware products for home improvement, consumer, industrial and professional use. Stanley Works is well known for its brand of tools like hand planes, saws, rulers, try squares, chisels, screwdrivers and others.

Project Responsibility

Customer’s single point of contact for SCM domain, monitoring incidents, evaluating work order requests and process improvement analysis

Lead and successfully completed various projects – Barcelona & Japan DC setup and involved in Data Center Migration testing

Gathering business requirements, project scoping, effort estimation, work allocation, functional team coordination, managing cutover activities and on-time deliverables

Prepared project plan, user requirement specifications, business process documents, functional specifications, unit testing, user acceptance testing documents and cutover activity plan

Functional Area Handled in Project

Created and assigned enterprise structure like sales orgn, sales area, plant and storage location,

Defined shipping points, shipping conditions, loading groups, route determination, delivery blocks and blocking reasons

Configured WM activities like warehouses, storage types, storage sections and storage bin types

Activated search strategy for storage type, storage section and storage bin type, put away and stock removal strategies

Worked on interfaces - external warehouse systems (Red Prairie, CSS), planning application (i2), MES systems (Camstar, Werum)

Designed and tested warehouse bin label, Handling unit content label, Bin verifier generation RICEFs

Worked on functional design and testing of several BW reports for various business requirements related to supply chain management reporting

Conducted power users sessions on different business scenarios with system walk through demonstration and documentation

ADC KRONE, Singapore January 2007 till December 2007

Associate Consultant – SD/MM

ADC KRONE is a world leader in providing network infrastructure products that enable the delivery of high-speed Internet, data, video, and voice services to consumers and businesses. The company provides copper and fiber based connectivity solutions and cabling products used in public access and enterprise networks.

Project Responsibility

Part of the team responsible for Business Process Requirement Gathering, AS-IS Study & Analysis, Mapping of business requirements to SAP, Blue print preparation & Signing off

Performing configuration, assisting technical teams during development, executing unit and integration testing, coordinating user acceptance testing and final preparation

Responsible for Post Go-Live support to resolve issues pertaining to the implementation

Functional Area Handled in Project

Customized account groups including Sold-to, Ship-to, Bill-to and Payer Partner Functions.

Configured Partner procedure, Output procedure, Pricing and account determination procedures

Designed inventory synch report for stock discrepancy between SAP and external warehouse stocks, and receive ASN via idoc messages interface

Worked on Serial Number Management - Define Serial Number profiles and assign in the Material Master for the automatic assignment of serial numbers

Successfully handled EDI/Idoc configuration and worked on partner profiles with error handling

Data migration requirement from legacy systems, identify data source, design functional specifications, mapping and transformation rules and cross-reference tables

Successfully created custom data conversion programs, to execute batch data transfer programs and recording programs with BDC processing, within the Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW)

Worked on functional analysis of SAP BW reports development for various business requirements related to supply chain management reporting

Drafted the batch jobs sequence, frequency and schedules and created them in SAP and Control-M

KLA Tencor, Milpitas, CA May 2003 till May 2005

Associate Consultant - SD

KLA-Tencor supplies process control and yield management products for semiconductor, data storage, LED and other related nanoelectronics industries. The company's products, software and services are designed to help integrated circuit manufacturers manage yield throughout the entire fabrication process, from research and development to final volume production.

Project Responsibility

Ticket management from initial response till ticket closure using the Heat Application

Handled all SD related enhancements and production issues and offshore delivery

Represented SD changes to functional review board for promote to production and reviewed other functional team changes to ensure no downstream impact

Prepared weekly and monthly utilization reports and Incident status reports for analysis

Functional Area Handled in Project

Item category, schedule line category, account assignment key, output condition types and EDI partner profile to receive the ASN IDoc from vendor and also send them to the customer.

Product hierarchy structures to accommodate till level 8, executed configuration activities, modified existing programs/user exits and updated material master with new codes.

Created and executed CATT Procedures for mass maintenance of master and transactional data

Calculation and application of freight surcharge was automated by creating and configuring a pricing condition type, access sequence and condition table

Created new division, sales area, sales office and sales groups, plants in US and Canada

Assignment of shipping points, shipping point determination and picking location determination

Configured sales document types, pricing procedures and assisted in master data creation

Identified obsolete customers, vendors and materials based on rules and updated the deletion flag to avoid them from being loaded into SAP ECC6.0

Analysed the weekly Inventory discrepancy report for stock differences between SAP and DM Plus Stocks and provided corrective steps to users

Developed SAP query reports for the client for different business requirements

Education

Qualification: Post Graduation Diploma in Management Specialization: Systems & Marketing

School/College: Indian Institute of Modern Management, Pune, India

Qualification: Bachelor of Engineering Specialization: Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

School/College: Sathyabama Engineering College, University of Madras, Chennai, India

Additional information

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratheb-nadarajah-7a58a047

Home Address: 7651 Gate Pkwy, Apt 705, Jacksonville, FL – 32256

Work Authorization: H1B valid until September 2016

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