Praveen Kumar

SAP MM Certified/ Ariba Functional Consultant

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Summary:

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SAP Expertise

Experience involving different phases of SAP implementation/Roll outs, upgrade and enhancement projects.

Experience in Implementation of Ariba.

Experience with Open Text Vendor Invoice Management interface with Ariba.

Experience in SAP MM with complete implementation, Support and Rollout projects.

Experience in SAP TSW with complete implementation, Support and Upgrade projects.

Developing system requirements, Testing, Training and defining Support procedures.

Strong hands on configuration and design skill.

Expertise in handling different third party interfaces.

ALE/ IDOC, RFC – Configured RFC destinations, partner profiles and ports, developed enhancements to handle custom requirements during the processing of inbound/outbound IDOC.

Functional and Integration knowledge in SAP MM, WM, SD, PP, PM and FICO module.

Certified in SAP MM (Procurement with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP4)

ITIL® certified.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (EEE), JNTU, Hyderabad-2007.

Professional Experience:

Customer

Total - Kaizen

Duration

Nov-2013 till Date

Project Description

SAP Implementation / Enhancements / Rollout and Support

Role

SAP Senior System Analyst

Systems Involved

ECC6.0 /Open Text VIM

KEY Responsibilities

Implemented Ariba interface with VIM for Materials and Service POs.

Developing new interface with Ariba with Liaison middleware.

Developed Auto SES for service lines in VIM.

Understanding the client’s business process requirements and the as-is situation of the business process. Mapping the business process of direct Procurement, indirect procurement and Inventory management in line with the SAP functionality and configuration of organizational structure.

Plants, storage location, Purchase organization, purchase groups were configured in the SAP Environment.

Creating different Purchasing document and integrating Production, Maintenance and Finance.

Customization of different Purchasing documents such as PR, RFQ and PO’s. Preparation of Contracts.

Configured vendor master data. Configured Pricing condition.

Pricing procedures defined for different vendors based on the pricing complexities associated with each purchase area.

Pricing elements like basic price, discounts, freight and taxes were defined for various grades of Materials, and material groups and vendors.

Release procedure w/o classification for PR and with classification for PO.

Configuration of inventory management.

Mass data transfer (LSMW) for Material Master, and vendor master.

Customizing of Vendor evaluation and invoice verification.

Developing all training manuals for end users training.

Conducting End User training.

Supporting day to day issues in MM Co-ordination with client and Functional consultant for new developments/enhancements.

Interacting with end user (if required) through net meeting/phones/mails for resolving tickets based on severity levels.

Developed additional roles and process options in VIM.

Handling team to Support Application Maintenance and Application development of Refinery business.

Working on major evolutions in the monomers division of the company to efficiently streamline their current processes.

Developed new Interfaces in Refinery business for Nominations and Ticketing.

Developed new reports for gain and loss for physical inventory.

New Nomination sub screen's specific to refinery system for Excise duty purpose and for different specific requirements.

Developed new Nomination validation BADI's for customer specific fields

Implemented Open Text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM)

Resolving day to day Support issues and major Evolutions in Refinery Business related to Interfaces Nominations to Refinery, Nominations acknowledgements, VIM, Interface issues with Ariba and all MM issues.

Provided SAP MM boot camp for project resources.

Involved in knowledge transfer transition. Discussed with client, mobilization team, and helped all the new team members for smooth transition of knowledge transfer and access to new systems.

Involved in resource ramp up for project.

Organized Knowledge transfer to new delivery center.

Professional Experience:

Customer

TOTAL- Helios

Duration

Nov-2012 to Oct 2013

Project Description

SAP Upgrade from 4.7 to ECC 6.0

Role

SAP Global Domain Lead

Systems Involved

ECC6.0

KEY Developments

Identifying all the critical objects and Third party interfaces.

Preparing detailed Testing plan.

Co-ordinating with all the teams and third parties for testing.

Performing the Unit test and resolving issues.

Performing the interface testing with different third parties of all the Refineries and resolving the issues identified due to upgrade of SAP.

Creating test plans for automatic testing.

Coordinating with SAP team to get resolved the issues due to upgrade in SAP MM, Ariba and VIM

Unit testing, integration testing and regression testing.

Knowledge transfer to client's super users about the new enhancements and transferring knowledge of SAP MM and TSW.

Professional Experience:

Customer

TOTAL Marketing and Refinery

Duration

Mar-2011 to Nov 2012

Industry

Energy

Project Description

SAP Support and Enhancements

Role

SAP Global Domain Lead

Systems Involved

ECC6.0

KEY Developments

Implementation of Ariba and support.

Worked on various Logistic scenarios for Supply & Marketing Business.

Developed new release strategies for PR and PO for based on client requirement.

Developed new pricing procedures, output messages.

Created new movement types for Inventory management.

Developed third party transfers, stock transfers.

Resolving Incident tickets related to Purchasing, Sales, Goods movement, Nomination, Ticketing, Exchanges, Excise duty, Formula & average pricing.

Material management

TSW master data configuration, Plant configuration, Excise duty configuration. Outbound & Inbound Interface with Refinery system and Third party optimization system Enhancements. Developed new interface with Refinery system.

New Nomination sub screen's specific to refinery system for Excise duty purpose and for different specific requirements.

developed new Nomination validation BADI's for customer specific fields

Requirement and feasibility analysis for new enhancement requests.

Unit testing, integration testing and regression testing.

Knowledge transfer to client's super users about the new enhancements and transferring knowledge of SAP MM and TSW.

Build industry specific knowledge in the organization.

Converting functional downstream best practices into SAP specific solutions

Asset development work including scenario position paper, configuration rationale, Business Process design documents, Process model, Test script etc

Simulation of various downstream scenarios in SAP and publish that is Accenture energy portal

Preparation of Training document, client Demo etc.

Handling Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) issues.

Handling 20members team.

Professional Experience:

Customer

Shell - GSAP

Duration

Sep-2008 to Feb-2011

Project Description

SAP Rollouts/Enhancements/Support

Role

Sr Team Member MM/HM TEAM

Systems Involved

SAP 4.7

GSAP of Shell UK is one of the world's largest SAP R/3 Implementation project. Aim of this project is to make easier to do downstream business with Shell by implementing a common set of systems on a global scale and also to reduce other application in the Worldwide Shell companies to one single ERP.

KEY Developments

Supporting Shell GSAP project for SAP MM WM & HM functionality.

Change Management & SOx Focal point.

Trouble shooting and solving tickets related to MM, WM, BSP, Work Flow within stipulated SLA Period.

Resolving Incident tickets related to Nomination, Ticketing, PGS, LSC, BSP, WF and Idoc.

Resolved Sev 1 & Sev 2 ticket within a stipulated time frame.

Fixing the bugs in through Change management and moving the transports across the clients with Revtrac system.

Regression testing, scenario automation, recording of result in Mercury tool.

Configuration of Plant, Storage location, PR release strategy, Purchasing Group, OIH table entries maintenance.

Also working as Focal Point for Problem tickets, Sev1 & Sev2 and Effort estimation for testing.

Co-ordination with user, Application Specialist, Process Focal Point and Architect.

Attaining KT session during hyper care session.

Attaining weekly meeting with client for project progress.

Coordinating with SAP for critical issue via OSS call.

Implementation and Support for Philippines.

Resolved the issues during Go-live.

Provided KT on process of BAM -IBM working.

Helped business in completing Reconciliation and Month end process.

Prepared user for Smooth Go live.

Attended daily KPI meeting and discuss the concern in meeting.

Professional Experience:

Customer

The Clorox Company Limited –USA

Duration

Feb-2008 to Sep 2008

Industry

Chemical

Project Description

SAP Upgrade

Role

SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant

Systems Involved

SAP 4.6c/ECC6.0

KEY Developments

Preparation for the Unit Testing.

Prepared the test plans for the unit testing.

Completed the unit test, SIT-1, SIT-2 successfully.

Resolved the issues raised due to version change from SAP 4.6C to ECC 6.0.

Resolving tickets in the Call handling tool (OVSD) and Testing in HP Quality center Mercury tool.

Co-ordinate with other support teams to synchronize support

Handle MM/WM Tickets to closure within SLA

Involved in 2 development projects.

Customer

MSPL

Duration

June-2007 to Feb-2008

Industry

Mining

Project Description

SAP Implementation/Support

Role

SAP Consultant

KEY Developments

Understanding the client’s business process requirements and the as-is situation of the business process. Mapping the business process in line with the SAP functionality and configuration of organizational structure.

Plants, storage location, Purchase organization, purchase groups, Warehouse Number were configured in the SAP Environment.

Customization of Material Management Module by creating the master records for the Material Master and Vendor Master data. Creating different Purchasing document and interfaces among Production, Maintenance, Materials and Finance.

Created Purchase Organization for different areas and assigned Purchase groups.

Customization of different Purchasing documents such as PR, RFQ and PO’s. Preparation of Contracts, Scheduling agreements and Quota arrangements.

Configured vendor master data. Configured Pricing condition.

Pricing procedures defined for different vendors based on the pricing complexities associated with each purchase area.

Pricing elements like basic price, discounts, freight and taxes were defined for various grades of Materials, and material groups and vendors.

Release procedure w/o classification for PR and with classification for PO.

Configuration of inventory management & Warehouse Management.

Configured different storage types, storage sections, storage bins and storage units such as high rack storage, block storage or fixed bin storages.

Generation of reports for purchase order, contract, schedule agreement, consignment, sub contracts and warehouse stocks.

Mass data transfer (LSMW) for Material Master, and vendor master.

Customizing of Vendor evaluation and invoice verification.

Developing all training manuals for end users training.

Conducting End User training.

Supporting day to day issues in MM Co-ordination with client and Functional consultant for new developments/enhancements.

Interacting with end user (if required) through net meeting/phones/mails for resolving tickets based on severity levels.

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