Sri K

uxrhul@r.postjobfree.com

Tustin, CA

Tel: 919-***-****(M)

EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS

• A US Citizen with over seven years of experience in IT with extensive experience in SAP R/3 Sales and Distribution module and integration with FI, MM modules.

• Involved in Three Full Life Cycle Implementations using the ASAP Methodology and Solution Manager.

• Experience working in various Industries like Aerospace & Defense, IT, Utilities, Beverage, etc.

• Order Management: Expertise in configuring Basic Functions including Text Management, Output determination, Revenue Account assignment, partner determination, copy control, Pricing Procedure (condition types, access sequence and pricing procedure determination), Variant Configuration.

• Experience in the ASAP methodology, involving all phases of project lifecycle from initial project planning and scoping through gap analysis, customizations, testing, go-live, production support, user training and documentation.

• Worked extensively on the Order-To-Cash (OTC) transactions involving the complete sales cycle and posting them to appropriate accounts.

• Extensive working knowledge of ABAP with respect to debugging, coding, LSMW, user exits, BDC BADIs, BAPIs, ALE and EDI.

• Organization Structure: Defining and Assigning Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, Division, Sales Area, Sales offices, Sales groups, Plant, Storage Location, Shipping / Loading Point.

• Master Data: Experience in configuring Master Data, Document Types (Sales Order Types, Delivery Documents, Billing Documents, Credit and debit memo, rebate processing, etc.) including special order types (Third Party Processing, Consignment Processing, Inter-company billing and inter-company stock transfers), ATP, Credit Management, Revenue Recognition, Material Listing/Exclusion, SIS, Rebate processing, Contracts, Deliveries, Picking, Packing and Shipping, Sales Information Structures.

• Logistics Execution: Shipping Point determination, Route determination, Shipments, Availability Check and TOR, Material Listing/Exclusion, Picking, Packaging and Handling Units, Transportation, etc.

• Experience creating basic reports in ABAP for data loads and working on User Exits, interfaces, RFCs.

• Prepared user manuals, training documents, test scripts for system, integration and validation testing. Have been involved in the complete testing cycle and bug fixing.

• Provided post-implementation support and end-user training.

• Excellent communication skills and a team player.

EDUCATION

MS Electrical Engineering

BE Electronics and Communications Engineering

SUMMARY OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Date: 12/09 – till date

Title: SAP SD BSA

Company: NuVasive, Inc, San Diego & Memphis, CA & TN

SAP Version: ECC 6.0

• Extensive production support to resolve day-to-day production issues related to Order to Cash (OTC) that are created as Altiris tickets by the users and involving extensive user interaction on a regular basis to explain the process and resolve SD and MM related issues.

• Tested and made configuration changes to Zero Cost Inventory process for Charge sheet orders to automatically write up and then write down inventory with the end balances hitting COGS (dr) and Billable Batch (cr). The process validates for a material and entered/default plant – if zero, change the plant to one where a non-zero plant is present for the material.

• Undo configuration on BCR (Business Change Request) to not include Item Category Group ZORM for the entire consignment process which includes the Consignment Fill-up, Issue, Returns and Consignment Pick-up. Involved looking into the materials and item category groups and item category assignment configuration.

• Created Copy Control from Sales Document (ZKR) to Billing Document (ZF2) for cases where there is a consignment related material on a Charge Sheet Order (ZCSO) and it needs to be returned via a consignment return sales doc type (ZKR) and ensure the ZKR has a Del. Blk. Worked on Copy Requirements, Data Transfers routines, Item Category Assignment, Schedule line category assignments, sales document types, etc.

• Testing and documenting for the entire text determination process from Sales Order  Delivery  Billing and the respective output type. As part of project Phoenix I had to test for each Text ID and the output type it is assigned to and prepare a matrix so each Text ID is accounted for and if a user wants a text id to be displayed on a different output type then it would be convenient to refer to the matrix.

• Created new order reason codes for sales doc types ZKA and ZRE and also new rejection reason Z3 for sales doc type 9SE2.

• Configured Batch Split process for various sales doc types like ZSTK, ZKB, ZKA, ZRE, etc by taking into account Delivery Type, Item Category Group, Usage (CHSP) and Item Category based on the business requirement. The Batch Split would occur at the delivery level and as batch no.s would be available as a drop down to the main item.

Date: 06/09 – 12/09

Title: SAP SD BSA

Company: James Hardie Building Products, Mission Viejo, CA

SAP Version: ECC 5.0

• Created Copy Control from Billing Documents ZTPD (Third Party Distribution) to Sales Document ZTDR (Transfers, Diversion and Direct Return) and from Billing Document ZTPR (Third Party Distribution Return) to Sales Document ZTD (Transfers, Diversions and Direct Order) as part of the OTC process.

• Created Enhancement to change the Horizon period in credit management screen OVA8 to only check for Risk Categories for the last two weeks instead of the defaulted Months options by SAP also tried using SIS.

• Part of configuration team for a pilot project for Lowe’s where JH ships all materials from its DC in Florida to final Lowe’s stores in east zone for LTTL order which is currently not the case. This is achieved when an EDI PO received from final Lowe’s store has the DC address and store address in Customer master and the DC number is populated in Purchase order no. field in Order data tab and the store number is store in Train Station field in Customer Master.

• Various custom enhancements to the Sales Order Additional Data B tab to account for the interface with Manugistics which provides the pickup no.s and the shipment information for ASN.

• Sending multiple ASNs (Advanced Shipment Notices) as part of Logistics Execution to email addresses provided in General Data section in Address tab based on output type ZESN and Delivery type ZLF and created Order, Delivery and Shipments (VT01N), in Shipment completed Planning, Check-in, Loading Start, Loading End and Shipment Completion after which viewing the transmission requests via t-code SOSB.

• Enhancement for hard error message if the PO no. pre-exists on an order within 365 days for the particular Ship-to. Display a W type message if the PO# exists greater than 365 days for a particular Ship-to. If the order is a Third Party Return Order then ignore existing orders that are Third Party Purchase Orders.

Date: 08/08 – 06/09

Title: SAP OM BSA Consultant

Company: Honeywell Aerospace & Defense Phoenix, AZ

SAP version: ECC6.0

• Open Consignments Fill Up Sales order loading into SAP from AVS for both Landmark and Storefront. To convert Open Sales Orders for Storefront we need to create a Contract for the same and for Landmark create a Sales deal. Order Type used was ZRPR and Sales Office 1014 with Item Categories ZR06, ZRD6, IRRE, ZSTE and ZDSE.

• Loading Sales order returns into SAP from M-R&O Legacy system ROMACS, ensuring that the Billing Block is set to prevent automatic invoicing in LSMW when using ZRE Order type.

• Minimum Billing history process managed in CHAMPS (legacy system) environment comparing contractually agreed to min hrs of flight to actual reported hrs, then auto-create an invoice, per contract, for any deficiency using custom table YOM_MBH.

• Sales Order Rentals conversion for the Core Due (as outbound shipment has already been done) scenario. Taking into account line items with Item Category ZAXF, ZCR (Core Return), ZEBR (Engine Bank Rental). Legacy sales order number would be captured using the “Your Reference (IHREZ)” field in SAP at the Header Purchase order tab for the APUs, TPEs and TFEs rentals which are based on Aerospace and Defense industry specific standards.

• Worked extensively with CDTs (Central Data Team) namely the ETL team and LSMW teams during and after MTP to validate fallouts and correct the records and provide updates during daily meetings as part of the OTC update.

• Extensive work with COE (Centre of Excellence) team for required changes and participated in post production meetings to resolve SIRs and SEV1 tickets.

• LSMW to update Customer Master Records changing Sales Office, Sales Group and Customer Groups with Transaction Recording creating project, subproject and object structure via t-code LSMW.

• Worked on Sapscript and Smartforms to make changes to the Purchase Order, Credit for Subcontractor Return and Sales Order.

Date: 09/07-06/08

Title: Sr. SAP SD Consultant

Company: Brown Forman Corporation. Louisville, KY

SAP Version: ECC 6.0

• Involved in the entire order to cash (OTC) process, right from creation of inquiry, quotation, purchase order, sales order and outbound delivery to sales invoice or billing.

• Configured sales, delivery and billing procedures based on requirements.

• Configuration of Inter-company billing, Delivery-related billing, Invoices based deliveries, Credit & debit memos.

• Pricing configuration via condition technique and also pricing included Material Price, Price List, Customer Specific Prices, Customer and Material Discount.

• Batch Determination via the manual process (using t-code MSC1N) and changes in MMR and maintaining stock view MB1C and view via MMBE and raise sales order to view changes related to MM configuration.

• Availability check configured based on requirement class, Requirement Type, Plant and Checking Group defined in Material Master (to determine whether to create Individual or Collective requirement).

• Maintained Output determination for different types of SD outputs.

• Download and upload of numerous reports like ZPP0017, ZPP002, ZQM001, ZPP010, etc to change from existing US version to Mexican version using t-code SE63 to convert from English to Spanish and testing, debugging, trace analysis, dump analysis where required for go-live and unit and regression testing for each report.

• Extensive Performance tuning and debugging of existing reports to accommodate for Mexican money and weight conversion from Dollars to Pesos and Lbs to Kgs using Function Modules.

Date: 01/06-07/07

Title: SAP SD Functional Consultant

Company: IBM. RTP, NC

SAP Version: ECC 5.0

• Completed AS-IS process mapping for Sales and Distribution Processes.

• Finalization of TO-BE processes based on recommendation and the best practices suggested by SAP R/3.

• Study of the company’s structure and documentation and participating in workshops to give final shape to the Business Blueprint.

• Participated in the Functional/Technical team meetings during the preparation, blueprinting/design, realization, and testing and cutover phases.

• Definition and Assignment of Enterprises Structures like the Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, Division, etc.

• Defining and Assigning Number Ranges for sales, delivery and billing documents.

• Created customers master records centrally with appropriate account assignments and partner functions and also created Material Master Records and Customer Material Info Records.

• Configured Sales Document Types, Item Categories, and schedule line categories, account group assignments for Inquiries, Quotations, Scheduling Agreements and Partner Determination in the Order to Cash (OTC).

• Configured Standard Automatic Functions during Sales Order Processing like Pricing, ATP, back order processing, Availability Check, Transfer of Requirements, Inter-company Sales Orders and Invoicing, Credit Management, Delivery Schedule, rebates, Route Determination, Batch Determination, ALE and EDI.

• Created BOMs for various configurable materials using the Item Category Groups ERLA and LUMF.

• Worked on production related issues with regards to Logistics Execution on Route Determination, Pricing Condition type change, Sales, Delivery Billing document changes, etc.

• The Item category group used for the packaging material type was VERP and the material group used from the Basic Data 1 tab.

• Resolved numerous Sev1, 2 and 3 production related issues and extensively involved in configuration changes in the war room.

Date: 11/05-01/06

Title: SAP SD Consultant

Company: Thomson Grass Valley. Grass Valley, CA

SAP Version: 4.6C

• Defined and created condition records, condition types, pricing procedures

• Configuring Special functions: Item proposal, free goods, and text control and output determination.

• Changes to Material Determination, Shipping Point determination, Route Determination in the LE area, etc using the condition technique where applicable.

• Interacted with ABAPers to develop functional specifications for master data transfer and user exit changes applicable during sales order processing like user exit SAVE_DOCUMENT_PREPARE.

• LSMW to update Customer Master Records changing Sales Office, Sales Group and Customer Groups with Transaction Recording creating project, subproject and object structure via t-code LSMW.

• Participated with cross teams for conducting unit, system testing and integration testing.

Date: 03/05-11/05

Title: SAP SD Consultant

Company: PolyOne Corporation. Avon Lake, OH

SAP Version: 4.7

• Configured the system for different processes in sales order processing, which includes Rush Order and Cash Sale and Inter-company Sales Order and Invoicing to meet specific requirement in business sales activity.

• Created Item Proposal for different material combinations that were frequently ordered and delivered in certain quantities.

• Established incompletion procedures for the sales orders to input key fields for reporting.

• Configured processing of free of charge orders via changes to item categories.

• Determination of sales price with shipping point by adding component ZZVSTEL to KOMP structure.

• Created Rebate Agreements based on specific customers using the condition technique.

• Configuration of Consignment stock process for the project scope including Consignment Fill Up, Issue, Returns, Pick Up.

• Created Outline agreements – scheduling delivery/forecast delivery, contracts – value/quantity based.

• Created functional specifications for all ABAP interfaces, user exits and custom reports.

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Date: 07/04-03/05

Title: SAP SD Consultant/Variant Configuration

Company: American Meter Company. Horsham, PA

SAP Version: 4.7

• Configuration of sales order processing with respect to Inquiry, Quotation, Order.

• Maintained Master data relating to customer master, material master, customer account groups, partner determination procedures, third party, inter-company sales.

• Maintained Item categories settings like automatic item category determination, schedule line categories, and contracts process.

• Created and tested Bill of Materials for various configurable materials using the CS01 and CS12 transaction codes respectively.

• Created and changed existing pricing procedures, condition tables, access sequence and records for automatic pricing and maintained pricing procedure determination, condition exclusion groups, graduated scaling where applicable.

• Maintained Material Determination, Material listing and exclusion process, Invoice and billing process, account assignment, sales incompletion logs, credit management, ATP, Availability Check and TOR and Inter-company Sales Order, rebates, Third Party processing and credit card processing.

• Worked on Variant Configuration, creating characteristics, tables, pre-conditions, selection conditions, routings, dependency nets, constraints, classes and configuration profiles for various meters like AL425/AC630, AM250, AL800/1000 and all Rotary meters.

• Copy control settings for sales, delivery and billing documents.

• Preparation of Unit test Plans and Integration Test Plans. Execution of test plans and result recordings. Preparation and maintenance of System Validation documents.

Date: 05/04-06/04

Title: SAP SD Consultant (With FI Integration)

Company: The Scotts Company. Marysville, OH

SAP Version: 4.6C

• Provided production support for order to cash (OTC) in valuation and control.

• Created Infosets, User Groups and Queries to identify Parked Documents with Account Assignment Purchase Orders using the tables RBKP, RBSELBEST and EKKN for generating the General Ledger, Cost Center and Order Number for different invoice document numbers.

• Created Transaction and Screen Variants for transactions like FB50 (G/L account documents) to hide some fields with default values.

• Maintained customer, vendor, material, pricing, info records, source lists, and other related master data.

• Solved issues related to Pricing like condition exclusion in case of multiple records for a discount in credit memos.

• Modification of pricing communication structure and add fields in the catalog.

• Changes to the Availability Check, ATP, back order processing and Transfer of Requirements process to make it more efficient during sales order processing.

• Customization of new SD Order type, item categories & schedule line categories to map the requirements of customized Third Party solution with respect to SD and MM integration.

• Maintained Output determination for different types of SD outputs.

• Fixed the problem of blocking the printing of order confirmations for the orders on hold due to credit limit.

• Account Determination procedure to facilitate proper interface between SD and Fl.

• Maintained SD integration with FI in the case of Service related Revenue Recognition based on Delivery.

Date: 03/04-05/04

Title: SAP SD Support and Maintenance Consultant

Company: Moen Inc. Cleveland, OH

SAP Version: 4.5B

• Changed shipping functions, Shipping Point determination, routes, picking and packing, delivery types, shipment types and shipment activity profiles in the Logistics Execution module.

• Configured Credit Management functionality by defining credit groups and assigned to sales and delivery documents and set system for automatic credit control check.

• Created pricing reports to produce a list of specific condition records list of all currently valid customer-specific prices for different customers.

• Interacted with ABAP team to develop functional specifications and worked on transfer of master data from legacy system and identified critical interfaces such as user exits.

• Worked on resolving production support problems related to sales order processing, shipping and billing.

• Customized LSMW for data uploading from flat files to SAP Import data into SAP in Batch Input / Direct Input or BDC (user-defined) file format

• Allocation of relevant SD jobs requests from Remedium queue and providing of detailed feedback to the client on the status and progress.

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Date: 04/03-03/04

Title: SD Consultant

Company: Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN

SAP Version: 4.0B

• Participated in the AS-IS and TO-BE study, which included the business mapping.

• Carried out gap analysis and proposed alternate options wherever applicable.

• Gathering Business Process flows by conducting workshops and interacting with process owners.

• Followed the Business process flows with the functional specifications and close interaction with technical team.

• Defined and mapped sales organizations, sales areas, sales offices/ groups, distribution channels, divisions, shipping points, loading points, shipping conditions and shipping points.

• Customization and Creation of Customer Material Information Records, Material Master Records.

• Configured sales, delivery and billing procedures based on requirements.

• Created delivery, pick and post goods issue and process delivery due lists.

• User exit for upgrades and the specifications for field modifications, delivery/billing blocks and error/warning messages during order processing.

• Pricing: Condition Tables, Condition Types, Access Sequence, Pricing Procedure and Pricing Procedure Determination and Condition Records for respective condition types.

• Working on ALE & EDI and RFCs for the creation of sales orders from the WE19 transaction code instead of using the regular VA01.

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