Raghu Siddegowda

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Profile Summary

** ***** ** ***** ********** in IT industry as SAP MM-WM functional consultant with

o2 End to End Implementations

o3 roll-outs and support

Engaged in business consulting, business process optimization, mapping business processes into SAP.

Client facing skills.

Business blue printing - Requirement definitions, system/process mapping & solution design.

Design, development and testing of functional specs for RICEF objects.

Cut-over activities including knowledge transfer.

Experience in working with HP Quality Center 11.0

Extensive documentation skills for RICEF objects.

Worked with various tools: SOLMAN, Remedy, Rev-Trac, and Share Point.

Successfully handled complex multi-country rollouts in exceedingly demand environment, like Excise duty.

Rich Integration experience of MM with other modules such as WM, EWM, FI, SD, PP & SRM.

Experience in using BAPI, IDoc and Identifying SAP OSS notes.

Test Script preparation for Scenarios in Functional Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Ability to work in a fast paced environment, Good team player.

Excellent technical skill with the ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.

Configuration experience in SAP Materials Management (MM), Inventory Management (IM) and Warehouse Management (WM).

Project implementation using ASAP methodology.

SAP SKILLS

Organization Structure: Configuring Plants, Purchasing Organization, Storage Location, Shipping point, Warehouse, Storage type, storage bin and their assignments to other respective organizational units.

Warehouse Management: Good Experience in Mobile data entry, Stock management, Picking and Put-away strategies, Storage unit management, Handling Unit Management, RF (Radio Frequency) Integration, Warehouse operations, Warehouse Activity monitor, Internal warehouse process.

Master Data: Material Master, Vendor Master, Material Types, Vendor Account Groups, Number Ranges, Screen Sequence, Vendor Payment Terms, Purchasing Info Records, Source Lists, quota arrangements.

Purchasing: Internal & External Purchasing Documents (PR, RFQ/Quotation, PO, Outline Agreements), Document Number Ranges, Release Procedures with Classification, Partner Determination, Pricing, Message Determination (Printer), Account Assignment and Item Categories, Automated Purchasing using Auto-POs, Vendor Confirmation Control, Split valuation, Inco terms & shipping/delivery instructions, Goods/Services Based Invoice Verification, Returns to vendor.

External Service Management: Service Master, Service Entry Sheet, Service Purchase Order, Release Procedure for Service Entry Sheet.

Inventory Management (IM): Plant parameters for IM, Goods Receipts, Goods Issues/Transfer Posting, Other goods receipts, Physical Inventory, Reservations, IM Movement Types, Return delivery, Stock Transfer (Intercompany, Plant to Plant, storage location to storage location), one step stock transfer, two step stock transfer, stock transfer with STO, shipping (integration with SD), serial number management, MRP, Accounting Document Types for Goods Movement.

Valuation & Account Assignment: Configuring Account Determination and Split Valuation.

Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV): Configuring Account Postings, Invoice Blocking, Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS), Accounting Document Types for LIV, Message Determination for ERS and Consignment Settlement.

Managing Special Stock: STO, Consignment, Subcontracting, Pipeline, Third Party Processing, RTP.

RICEF: Designing customized business process Reports and Forms for Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice and PO Condition Values. Designing Master Data Conversion objects for Material Master, Vendor Master, and Source List.

Data Migration: Extracting, cleansing and transforming the legacy system data such as Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, Inventory Balance etc. Preparing LSMW objects and uploading the legacy data into SAP system. Used Mercury Quality Center tool for resolving the defects raised during data mock tests and cutover phases

Testing: Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and also assisted end users in User Acceptance Testing to validate the business scenarios using quality tools such as HPQC.

End User Training: Experienced in Post Implementation Production Support and training the end-users with preparation of training materials using SAP i Tutor.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

Bachelor of Engineering from Visveswaraya Technological University– 2004

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Packages: ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, R/3 4.7, SRM 5, SCM 7.0

ERP Modules: SAP MM, WM & EWM

Project Management & Process Designing: ASAP Project Methodology

Document Management: SOLMAN, SharePoint, HPQC & Re

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/NT/2000/98

Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint.

Professional Experiences

Client : Rush Enterprises, New Braunfels, Texas

Duration : Jan 2015 to Feb 2016

Project : Support and Enhancements

Role : SAP MM Consultant

Project Summary:

Rush Enterprises, Inc. owns and operates the largest network of commercial vehicle dealerships in the United States, representing truck and bus manufacturers including Peterbilt, International, Hino, Isuzu, Kalmar, Ford, Mitsubishi Fuso, Blue Bird, Elkhart, Collins and IC Bus. The company's dealerships are strategically located in high traffic areas on or near major highways in 20 states throughout the United States.

Responsibilities:

To provide solutions to the issues raised by Business Analysts.

Solved the NAVISTAR, ISUZU and HINO interfacing issues.

Study of current Business processes and suggesting best practices & improvements.

Fixing bugs in the customized programs and Functional Unit Testing for the fixed solution

Client : Shell, Houston, Texas

Duration : May 2010 to Dec 2014

Project : Downstream – One GSAP Roll-Outs

Role : SAP MM Consultant

Project Summary:

GSAP (Downstream One) Project is the Global Implementation project of rolling out the Global template to the 40 countries where Shell operates in downstream activities over a period of 8 years through various releases.

HM (Hydro-carbon Management) team deals with the IS–Oil specific processes and is involved in the configurations, testing, functional specifications (for Customized solutions), documentations and Hyper-care support during go-live phase.

Responsibilities:

Configuration for SAP IS Oil -TSW, TDP and HPM.

Configuration of Country specific Factory Calendars & Plants.

Design and testing of functional specs for RIEF objects.

Providing directions to offshore teams on achieving successful delivery, quality and timelines.

Test cycle preparations - Unit Testing, String testing and Integration Testing.

Involved in Unit testing and Integration testing of scenarios for various release countries.

Hyper-care support during go-live phases.

Worked on new Change Requests and deploy for the live countries.

Identification of need for development of RICEF (Reports, Integration, Customizing, Enhancements & Forms) to meet the Legal requirements.

Holding review meetings to monitor progress of the project as per schedule and ensuring timely completion and delivery of project to the client; extending production support for applications.

Involved in quarterly audit, which helps to defect handling and make sure the issues resolve on time.

Participate in the preparation of long-range systems plans and assure that they are in concert with business objectives and goals

Client : John Deere, USA

Duration : July 2009 to April 2010

Project : Roll-Out and Production support

Role : SAP MM-WM Consultant

Responsibilities:

Configuration of Storage type, storage section

Storage Bin configuration, Number range, Bin creation.

Put away and Picking strategy.

Configuration of Movement type.

Configured automatic generation of transfer requirement and transfer order

Resolving daily issues created through CA ticketing tool and SOLMAN.

Mass updating of Material masters, Info records and Scheduling agreements.

Customizing changes for Purchase groups and MRP controllers.

LSMW and Query generation as per business need.

Client : Mahindra SAR Transmissions, India

Duration : June 2008 to April 2009

Project : SAP ECC6.0 Implementation and Production Support

Role : SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

Business process study and TO BE process documentation.

Customizing of Organizational elements, and Purchasing Documents as per business requirements.

Pricing procedure configuration for Domestic and Import purchases.

MM-FI integration configuration.

Release procedure configuration for purchasing documents.

Intercompany Stock transfer setup.

Unit, Integration, UAT Testing through Solution Manger, Preparation of user manual training documents.

CIN configuration for TAXINN procedure

Data Migration from Legacy System to SAP.

Preparation of User manual training documents.

Training Core users and End users.

Post Go-Live support activities.

Client : Dantal Hydraulics, India

Duration : Sept 2007 to May 2008

Project : Implementation and Support

Role : SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

Business process study and TO BE process documentation.

Customizing of Organizational elements, and Purchasing Documents as per business requirements.

Intercompany Stock transfer setup.

Involved in uploading OSS-notes related to Budgetary 2007-08 changes.

Configured New Import Pricing Procedure.

Provided user training for Register extractions & taking print outs.

Provided user training for Monthly Utilization (J2IUN) and Excise JV (J1IH).

Mapped closing balances of all the registers in production server for the Go-live.

Raising OSS to SAP to resolve problem in Excise reversal for cancelled material docs.

Developed various reports as per client requirement.

Preparation of User manual training documents.

Training end users.

Client : ABB, India

Duration : June 2005 to Sept 2007

Project : Roll-Outs and Production Support

Role : SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

Resolving MM issues and queries through solution Manager to support day-to-day operations.

Conducted power user training, overview & Module training for users on MM Module

Involved in client meetings which includes Power users & Users from different locations of India.

Involved in regression Testing for the roll out of different countries for MM related scenarios.

Handled change request for modification of reports & form layout of PO & GRN print out.

Preparation of Functional specs and testing of developments

Part of ERP Optimization Project as MM Consultant.

ERP Optimization project involves development of new BI report specific to support the Project Business of ABB.

Business process study AS- IS and preparation of TO-BE documentation.

Finding the gaps between the existing processes and SAP supported business processes.

Configuring the Enterprise structure: Plants, Purchase Organization, Storage locations.

Set up Purchasing structure: Purchase Requisition – Document Types, Number Ranges, Release strategy, Purchase Order - Document Types, Number Ranges, Release strategy.

Subcontracting scenario, Stock Transport Orders, Third Party Processing and Consignment.

Mapping the business process and implementing the outline agreements i.e., Contracts and Scheduling Agreement.

Understanding the business process and customizing the field selection for material master based on material types.

Pricing: Customizing the price determination process by using condition techniques and access sequences.

Optimized Purchasing with the help of Source List and Info records

Organization : Fluid Power Enterprises

Duration : June 2004 to June 2005

Role : Purchase Engineer/SAP MM trainee

Operational Responsibilities:

Responsible for Procurement of raw materials, tools & consumables.

Evaluating & negotiating with vendors for price & various other terms & conditions.

Creating Purchase documents as per internal requirement.

Accessing the performance of the vendors based on various criterions such as quality/ technology improvement rate, timely delivery, credit terms etc.

As a part of Team, involved in material procurement, Inventory control, and Plant inventory reduction considering the future requirement.

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