Muthukumar Ramachandran

SAP CERTIFIED MM CONSULTANT

Summary of Skills:

Around 15+ years of experience in designing and implementing SAP modules in various Complex environments.

In-depth knowledge of Master Data Management (MDM), Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Procure two Pay (P2P), Inventory Management (IM) and Invoice Verification (IV), Sales and Distribution (OTC), ERP (WM) -Warehouse Management SCM (EWM) – Extended Warehouse Management and SAP Industry Solutions (SAP IS Retail)

Experienced in SAP-MM with knowledge of Cross-Functional Modules such as Warehouse Management, (WM), Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Finance & Controlling (FICO), Quality Management (QM), Production Planning (PP) & Project Systems (PS)

Experienced in full life-cycle implementation phases of a project (ASAP-Methodology)-blueprinting, realization, testing (Unit testing, User acceptance testing, Quality testing and integration testing), final preparation, training, documentation, data uploading, go live and post go live (production) support.

Master Data & Other Technologies: Material Master, Vendor Master (partner functions), Info Records, Source Lists, Customer Master and Worked on Custom Upload Programs. Interfaces, ALE, IDOCs and EDI 850, 856, 852 & 857.

MM-P2P (Purchasing)&Inventory Management: Hands on experience in configuring Purchasing (Purchase order, Purchase Requisition, Outline Agreement), Release Procedure for Purchase order, Special Procurement Process (Vendor Consignment Stock, Subcontracting, Service order, Stock Transport Order, Release Procedure, Work Flow, Confirmation. Condition Technique, Pricing Conditions, Invoicing and 3way Invoice match. Consumption Based Planning, MRP Type, MRP Area and Reorder Point Planning. Goods Movements, Stock Transport Order – InteraCompany Transfer Posting, Special Stocks, make to Order, Movement Types, Batch Determination, Split Valuation, Automatic Account Determination.

Sales and Distribution(SD): Experience in Sales functions like Order to Cash cycle, Presales, Sales Process, Credit Management Shipping, (Inbound, outbound), Delivery process, picking, packing and Post goods issue, Third Party Process, Intercompany Sales, Pricing, Serialization, transportation, 3PL, forward and reverse logistics.

SAP Industry Solutions (IS Retail): Article Master, Site, Merchandise Category, Retail Pricing, Supply Chin and Retail Store config, Merchandise Distribution and Replenishment.

Warehouse Management: Warehouse Org Structure, Inbound Process, Outbound Process, Putaway and Picking strategy, Wave, Two Step Picking, Slotting, Rearrangement, Process Oriented Storage Control (POSC) Bin Management, Storage Unit Management and Radio Frequency Processes.

Extended Warehouse Management: EWM Org Structure, EWM Master Data CIF (Core Interface), ERP and EWM Connection, Inbound and Outbound Process, Slotting, Wave Management, 2step Packing, Make Order, HU-Packing, RF Connection.

Hands on Experience to build on ABAP query, LSMW Recording and Data Migration activities.

Certified SAP Consultant in Materials Management (Supply Chain Management)

Good working experience of HP Quality center, CharM, Maximo, Solution Manager, Remedy etc.

Hands on experience in MS-Office Excel (VLOOKUP up, Pivot Table and Excel Formulas)

Self-motivated to work independently as well as in a team with significant contributions to team-based problem solving and ability to track and prioritize numerous simultaneous tasks.

Technical Skills:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0. In areas of MM/SD/PP/WM/FI&CO & E-sourcing.

Logistics: MM-PUR, MM-IM, MM-LIV

Operating System: Windows 7, 8 & 8.1 and Windows XP/Vista.

Applications: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Project, PowerPoint, Visio.

Méthodologies : ASAP Méthodologies, Solution Manager.

Integration Tools: ALE. IDocs & EDI

Ticketing Tools : Remedy, SM7 & Maximo

Testing Tools : HPQC quality Center

Master Data Conversion Tools : LSMW

Project Profile:

I. Project Name

KCS Lightning–Implementation & Data Loading

Client

Kansas City Southern Railroad, Kansas City, Missouri,

Role

SAP MM Specialist

Duration

August 2015 – till date

Project & Client Description:

Kansas City Southern (KCS) rides the rails of a 6,500-mile network that stretches from Missouri to Mexico. The company's Kansas City Southern Railway (KCSR) owns and operates about 3,300 miles and 3200 in Mexico.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Working as a SAP Specialist in the lightening Project and providing SAP Best practice solutions

Designed and implemented new structuring for Master Data and Org Elements.

Configured Material Master for Material types Spare Parts, Manufacture Part Number & Operating Supplies and restructuring the master data.

Designed and worked on warranty Claim management.

Configured the special procurement for Consignment Process & Configured the MRP Type and MRP Area as per Business Requirement

Worked on Split Valuation Process and configured new valuation types as per business requirement.

Configured the valuation class and mapped with General Ledgers

Worked and designed the Purchase order Conversion program and converted to the new structure (Material Master, Plant and on hand Balance Stock).

Data Cleansing and Data Extraction and Data loading into SAP Landscape (Development, Quality & Production).

Worked and created LSMW tool for data loading used LSMW methods of Direct Input, Batch Input Recording and BAPI as per business requirement.

II. Project Name

IBS–Implementation, Enhancement & Testing

Client

AmerisourceBergen Corporation (ABC), Chester brook, PA

Role

Senior SAP MM & SD Consultant (P2P & OTC)

Duration

March 2012 – July 2015

Project & Client Description:

AmerisourceBergen is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical service companies serving the United States, Canada and selected global markets with a focus on the pharmaceutical supply channel. Servicing both pharmaceutical manufacturers and healthcare providers, and 26 pharmaceutical distribution centers and 3 specialty distribution centers are strategically located throughout the United States.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved in this SAP implementation project including requirement analysis, business process design, Configuration, testing & training in the areas of SAP MM. Interacted with the Client, to understand the business process and prepare the blueprint.

Worked with end users directly to understand issues / new requirements and propose the solutions.

Prepare functional specifications for reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms and work closely with developers.

Worked on as-is and to-be mapping of business Processes in MM area for all business units and product lines.

Prepared functional specifications for various deployments.

Worked and designed the Drop ship Process (Third Party sales).

InteraCompany STO process: National Distribution Centre (NDC) will be a facility that will procure material centrally from supplier and will deliver the goods to Forward DC (FDC) through stock transfer.

Requirement gathering for serialization implementation project involving SAP AII/OER for 3 PL and contract manufacturing scenarios.

Solution design for serialization related business requirements

Designed complex custom upload Program for STO: On hand Balance Stock using Stock Transport Order Process.

Worked on Interfaces of Inbound process of Master Data (Material Master and Vendor Master).

Worked on various Projects related Pricing (Bracket Pricing and Promotions).

Worked on Order Cash process (Precook, Dropship and Direct ship).

Worked and designed for various custom reports based on customer requirements.

III. Project Name

Catalyst NA – AMS Project

Client

Kraft Foods, NA, Chicago,

Role

SAP MM Consultant - P2P & IM

Duration

Aug 2011– Feb 2012

Project & Client Description:

Kraft Foods Inc. is North America's largest food and beverage company. It is the second largest in the world. Kraft Foods' core businesses are in beverage, cheese and dairy, snack foods and confectionery, convenience foods and cereals.

Production support projects dealing with customizations and configuration changes

Configured new material types as per requirements of the client.

Performed the baseline configuration in the area of Materials Management (MM) and Inventory Management (IM).

Creation of MM organization structure and subsequent process.

Worked on Physical Inventory process.

Prepared of Master Data and Transactional data for Unit testing and integration testing.

IV PROJECT Name

Everything Everywhere – AMS Project

Client

Orange Telecom & T-Mobile.

Role

SAP MM & WM Consultant

Duration

Jan 2010 – July 2011

Project & Client Description:

Everything everywhere is UK’s biggest Telecom Industry, having 28 million customers, 15,000 employees and 700 stores nationwide. It run two of Britain’s most famous brands - Orange and T-Mobile.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Worked with site SME’s and end users during pre and post Go-Live phase

Analyzed the issues in SAP configuration pertaining to Purchase info records, Material Master, Vendor master, Source List and got it resolved

Trained the users on goods receipt and goods issues and also on WM related stock transfers/ transfer postings

Helped the client with their Cut over and Go-Live activities

Guided the users with Physical inventory cycle counting

Created training scripts for the users to guide them through the process

Provided post Go- live support and helped them in any problems encountered

V Project Name

France Telecom – Implementation & Roll out

Client

Orange Telecom.

Role

SAP MM & WM Consultant

Duration

June 2008– Dec’2009

Project & Client Description:

Orange Telecom (UK) is Telecom was a leading Telecom provider in UK, Orange sells Handsets, Sims, Vouchers and accessories to a number of channels and provides a number of after sales services which include Upgrades, Care and Returns. They have around more than 300 Retail stores throughout UK.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Attended workshops to prepare GAP Analysis document by comparing AS-IS and TO-Be processes in the areas of PTP & Warehouse Management

Prepared solutions for the GAPS identified and demonstrated Proto types for the To-Be processes

Configured all relevant customizing settings as per GAP analysis document

Design of Organization Structure: Configuration of plants, storage locations, purchasing organization, and purchasing groups.

Configured Document Types, Number Ranges, Message output types and Release strategy for new PO documents.

Customizing done in Goods Movement, Cross Company using Stock Transport Order (STO), Subcontracting, Vendor Consignment & Physical Inventory.

Worked on Automatic Account determination for Valuation class mapping with General Ledger Account.

Configured and customized for Consumption based Planning process.

Worked on Replenishment process for the Reorder Point Planning.

Worked on Inbound Process, Outbound Process, Putaway and Picking Strategy, 2step Picking, Posting Change, Bin Management and RF.

Preparing test script for unit as well as Regression Testing and integration testing

VI Project Name:

Reliance Petroleum - Production Support

Role

SAP MM Consultant

Organization

Reliance Industries

Duration

July 2006 – May 2008

Project Description:

Reliance Industries Ltd. is India's largest private-sector company, generating revenues of $19.97 billion, or more than 3 percent of India's total gross domestic product., Reliance has successfully completed a backward integration strategy that has transformed it into India's largest private-sector petrochemicals company.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Production support for tickets / incidents in Purchasing and Inventory management.

Define New Plants and Storage Locations as per the business requirements.

Configuration of Material Types as per the requirement.

Configuration of Document Types for various Purchasing documents i.e. Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders.

Handled users issues on Subcontracting and Inventory related issues.

Helped the team members to understand of some key business process.

VII Project Name:

Reliance communications – Production Support

Role

SAP Functional Consultant.

Organization

Reliance Engg. Associates Pvt. Ltd.

Duration

April 2005 – June 2006

Project Description:

Reliance Communications is a telecom company to sell the handsets and vouchers to the end customer and wholesale dealers in throughout India.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Uploaded Master data for material master, vendor master &, purchase info record through LSMW.

Interacted with the users for clarifying queries regarding tickets.

Analyzed of ABC Materials activities through SAP and data prepared in MS Excel sheets and sending it across to the business for effectively keep the stock inventory.

Prepared /Analyzed for various reports and identify the movable or non-movable stock in the plant.

Provided training to End users.

Education:

MCA

2004

IGNOU, India

B.Sc.

1999

Madras University, India

Functional Experience

Vendor negotiation and Finalization,

Analyzing & controlling inventory class A, class B & class C materials from selected Plants.

Follow up and checking the status of delivery from the vendors,

Analyzing & monitoring the stock for crucial requirement to avoid bottle-necks.

Training

Attended In-house training for Advance Warehouse Management Module to enhance my WM skills.

Attended in-house training program of E2F (Consulting – Foundation and Advance) to enhance my Consulting skills.

Trained as SAP-IS Retail & EWM Consultant.

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