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Venu Gopal … Mississauga, ON. acvcmv@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

** ***** ** ***** ********** in SAP, Sales & Marketing, Logistics and Project Management with 10 years of experience in SAP as SD Functional Consultant.

Certified in SAP SD version ECC 6.

Experience in cement and Engineering goods manufacturing Industry with implementation and support projects, leading both functional and SAP teams in multiple projects in 24/7 environment both in multiple countries.

Possess strong configuration skills in SAP 4.7 and ECC 6 versions in Sales Order Management, Sales Document (Contract, Order), Pricing module, Logistics, Billing, Rebates and Sales Reports.

Extensive experience in configuring the integration points between Sales and Distribution Module and MM, FI, PP modules and EDI functionality.

Worked on both English and Arabic transactions and screens, familiar and learning French Language.

Strong familiarity in SAP implementation methodologies, including ASAP and functionality of Solution Manager.

Actively participated in the effective execution of EDI in the company.

Lead the teams in requirements gathering through multiple sessions with business representatives to perform business process mapping & business needs analysis.

Experience in SAP Full Life Cycle Implementation & integration of Third party software with SAP.

Self-motivated pro-active professional with excellent people skills and ability to work independently or with a team with an experience in dealing with top Management and Statutory bodies. Thereby collaborated with all stakeholders, on all open issues & SAP projects through good communication.

Possess good knowledge of Testing (test script design, test script execution, and defect analysis), Training (training development and delivery) and User Manuals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Front End Tools : MS Office, MS Project & MS Visio

ERP : SAP R/3 4.7 & ECC 6 with knowledge of MM, FI & PP.

ERP (Other) : NoriaErp, Linkbiz, Pipeline Deals & Solution Manager(SAP),

EDI, Oracle, PL/SQL, GECARS.

Career path SAP :

Job Title : SME – SAP

At GE Canada ( General Electric ), Mississauga, ON, Canada

Duration : Oct’ 2014 to Current

Role : IT Integration Project Lead – SME in SAP – GECARS.

Client Profile :

One of the Largest group of companies, General Electric, which is into multiple verticals and industries across 70 countries. GECARS is the AR application operated centrally and supported multiple ERP’s across all the companies within GE.

Responsibilities :

Primary support for new projects and support projects related to both SAP and Oracle.

Since years planned set of companies undergoing ERP migrations and simultaneously Integrating with the GECARS application within the group.

Active participation in Project Team on behalf of GECARS IT team with other relevant Industry side members and to initiate, execute, GOLIVE and post support phases and successful handover to the support teams.

Was and is member in multiple projects and using different tools supporting the projects as primary source of SAP in the course of project.

Extensive experience in configuring the integration points between Sales and Distribution Module, Finance and Accounting and Materials functionality.

Worked on both English and Arabic languages, currently learning French Language thus have ability to comprehend and can effectively deal with cultural differences.

Lead the teams in requirements gathering through multiple sessions with business representatives to perform business process mapping & business needs analysis.

Experience in SAP Full Life Cycle Implementation & integration of Third party software with SAP, knowledge in Oracle and PL/SQL and GECARS.

Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle including requirements gathering, analysis and design, development tools and technologies, release and version control, testing methodologies, and GO Live/ deployment management.

Self-motivated pro-active professional with excellent people skills and ability to work independently or with a team with an experience in dealing with top Management and Statutory bodies. Thereby collaborated with all stakeholders, on all open issues & projects through good communication.

Possess good knowledge of Testing and Training methodologies.

Job Title : Support Assistant

At Blanco Canada Inc. Brampton, ON, Canada

Duration : Jan’ 2012 to Sep’2014

Role : Master data support and assisted in EDI interface integration in SAP

Responsibilities :

Assisted in develop and implement new strategy to facilitate migration of EDI trading partners incrementally while continuing to process non-migrated customers without disruption.

Worked with customer master data changes and monitoring.

Assisted own and client technical staff to implement function module customizations to EDI and other SD functions.

Involved with the team in implementation of custom ABAP routines for special EDI processing like ORDERS, ORDCHG, INVOIC, SHPMNT and some codes like LZ, LZM types.

Worked closely with the Technical consultant related to functional specs for basic setups and tables like – OVAI, OVA9, VV22.

Assisted users in testing and validating the functionality.

Job Title : SD Consultant & Lead – ( SD, MM, PP and FI CO ) SAP

At Northern Region Cement Company, Saudi Arabia

Duration : Sept’ 2009 to Sep’ 2011

Project : Support

Client Profile :

Largest Cement manufacturing company in the north of Saudi Arabia. 50 percent of the produce will be basically for Exports. Managed by Saudi and American Nationals. Implemented ECC 6 in 7 Modules. Produces Portland and Sulphate Resistant Cement..

Responsibilities :

Monitored daily functionality of all modules and Issue resolving through Solution Manager. Acted as team lead / a change agent with focus on SAP business process optimization and leverage of best business practices.

Resolved issues relating to Production, Materials Management, Warehouse Management and Finance, as per Service Level Agreement(SLA).

Successfully handled year ending operations of functional modules.

Regularly monitoring and enforcing compliance, accuracy and integrity with regard to SAP Master Data and after assessing the impact of requested changes within business operations. After completion of change Request approvals, planning and implementing the required changes in the system in liaison with both SAP and other departments.

Successful in dealing with advanced analytical and problem-solving skills

Ensuring work is performed in compliance with the SAP Best Practice, SOP’s and controlling full Change Management process between functional and IT-SAP, identifying opportunities to further leverage systems and standardization to the advantage of the business.

Preparing project documentation for mini projects, including project charters, timelines and change management processes related to project planning, risk mitigation strategy and regular status reporting to project stake holders.

Keeping the top management and the stake holders in constant update as required.

Supporting the SAP functionality both for Sales & Production modules in 24/7 environment.

Continuous effort in making changes in authorization roles and users.

Preparing functional specs and verifying technical specs too for the new changes in production.

Implemented Defect Management and worked with the three functional modules for performance and quality assurance through SAP process chek.

Coordinating with third party teams located in multiple locations across the country and India. Used to provide and advise/assist on technology solutions to meet business area needs.

Used Solution Manager for requirements and issues in production live, planning, managing and scheduling, fixing them through related consultants and project status analysis.

Creating new forms for billing invoices and internal delivery documents using ABAP support.

Job Title : SD Consultant Client

At Northern Region Cememnt Company, Saudi Arabia

Duration : October’ 2008 to August’ 2009

Project : SAP - End to End, Full Lifecycle Implementation

Responsibilities:

Gathered and reviewed business/functional requirements, use cases and architecture documents

Analyzed the existing Noria Software & the physical process flow, thereby conducting fit/gap analysis and business process modeling, at required processes.

Preparation and getting confirmation of Business Blueprint i.e.,Prepared business requirements documents that clearly define the business problems; business objectives and options/solutions.

Configuration of Complete SAP Sales Cycle. Pre Sales scenarios, Contracts, logistics execution, Rebates Management, Pricing conditions and procedure, Credit Management, etc.,

Inter-Phase between Weigh Bridge Software and SAP system for VL02N.

Master Data’s & Initial upload through BAPI & LSMW and the Customer master, material master, and the vendor master integration with Finance, Material management and the Production.

Creation of User Authorization Role, Testing of roles and Release Strategies.

Developed test plans, Processed through Unit testing, UAT and Integration testing for all Business Scenarios did end to end testing as manager for testing phase.

Proficient in effective coaching and knowledge transfer skills.

Worked on resource related billing as the business process required some instances.

Worked as team Manager for complete Integration testing phase( 1 month ).

Involved in Capturing error Events and bugs and their fixing as per requirement planned schedule

Writing Functional specifications for additional requirements such as Forms design and Reports.

Worked as team coordinator for all Z – Developments.

Handled 3 phase training process to BPO, Power Users and End Users.

Company : Design Optimization Technology Services, Mumbai, India.

SAP Associate SD Consultant :: April’ 2006 to May 2008

The DOTS is into Designing and CAD services. Having strong functionality in providing onsite and offshore support to engineering giants like L&T, Siemens, etc. The IT Division dealing with SAP activities like support and pre - implementation preparatory projects. DOTS was also a resource partner for TCS Mumbai in SAP projects.

SAP Implementation -- SAVAIR LTD., MUMBAI

Duration : December’ 2007 to May’ 2008

Role : Associate SAP SD Consultant

Client is an ISO 9001-2000 certified project-management company focused on EPC solutions and LSTK contracts. The company has been promoted by professionals with more than two decades of experience in the field of design, engineering, piping, process, heavy fabrication, project execution and industrial automation industries.

Role Description : Part of this assignment carried out the following activities

Interacted with application users, Managers and Top Management for

requirement collection.

Gathered and reviewed business/functional requirements, use cases and other

documents

Analyzed the existing local software and the data in Excel.

Excellent client relationship skills including building rapports and scope-

management

Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners.

Lead in the development of Opportunity Assessments and Business Cases

Good in Assessment of business and application requirements

Lead in the development of Requirements and maintaining necessary

documentation

Preparation and getting confirmation of Project Report

EDUCATIONAL Summary :

Degree

Major / Specialization

MBA IT

Master of Business Administration in Information Technology

PGDCA

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application

PGDPMIR

Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Mgt & Industrial Relations

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