Saima H. Sultana

ab99ej@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 773-***-****

Lawful Permanent Resident in USA

Summary

A techno-functional SAP professional with a blend of business expertise,

academic background, and technical proficiency

. Over Thirteen years of industry experience in a versatile, international

SAP implementation environment ( London, India, China, France, South

America, etc.)

. Sufficient knowledge on Leading SAP Projects

. Extensive knowledge of leading and functioning 5 full-cycle SAP projects

. Extensive knowledge on Foreign currency, European tax, Foreign business

processes

. Extensive knowledge of Agile approach

. Extensive knowledge on Project Management

. Extensive knowledge of SRM approval Workflow

. Extensive knowledge of FICO module functionality

. Extensive knowledge of SRM 5 and 7.0 MM and ERP functionality

. Extensive knowledge of SRM 7.0 upgrade,

o Extensive knowledge of ECC 6.0 Purchase requisition approval workflow

. Extensive knowledge of ECC 6.0 Web Dynpro component

. Sufficient knowledge on ABAP debugging

. Extensive knowledge of agile/iterative methodologies

. Efficiently networked with the users to understand business processes

for system GAP analysis and proposed short and long term business

solutions

. Have a strong knowledge of business processes across all finance

applications - from bringing the raw materials in the door, to shipping

the final product, to sales reporting with major strengths in Finance

areas including: material/product master, procurement, asset accounting,

Project Accounting, SRM, Workflow, and custom reporting

. As a team member developed proficiency in business blue print

documentation, customization, and configuration and an in-depth

understanding of business processes related to SAP Financials modules (

FI-AP, FI-MM, FI-PS FI-AS) and the related MM and CO integration (CCA,

PCA) and Project Systems

. Excellent communication skills developed through corporate training on

people skills such as Decision-Making, General Management, Team Building

and Negotiations

. Excellent interpersonal skills with problem solving abilities, effective

in working independently and an exceptional team player.

. Able to develop innovative and appropriate solutions to business and

technical problems across a wide spectrum of environments and manage them

to completion

. Strong functional and technical IT skills such as SAP ABAP debugging

. Strong configuration skills in SAP SPRO

. Able to easily adapt to technology changes such as mainframe to SAP

client server and migration to SAP ERP from other legacy ERP systems

(PeopleSoft and Oracle)

. Proven ability in process improvement and in providing exceptional

customer service such as:

o SAP system was not validating vendor master records prior to saving

when creating the master record. Researched and provided new

functionality to domestic and international sites which reduced errors

within vendor master records. Used a an user exit called USER EXIT

EXIT_SAPMF02K_001 to populate the SAP fields in LFB1 and LFA1 tables

using one of SAP main programs: SAPMF02K. This user exit is for

"Checks Prior to Savings" by finding the global variable (T-LFB1) from

the main program "SAPMF02k". This enhancement significantly reduced

user time to create vendor master records and reduced errors by no

longer requiring manual user validation prior to saving vendors.

. Followed IT SOX procedures for writing system documentation, accessing

live production environments, and master data change coordination.

. Attention to detail and ability to prioritize multiple tasks

. Contributed to SAP ERP version upgrade activities

. Strong in analyzing business specifications and expertise in developing

Test Plans, Test Procedures and Test Cases.

. Unit Tested FICO and MM functionality and performed issue resolution

during User Acceptance Testing for these modules.

Education

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Master of Science in Information Systems

June, 2003

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

June, 1998

Oracle Certification Courses

Oracle Basic Database 1 - Basic database programming

Oracle Basic Database 2 - Intermediate database programming

Oracle DBA 1 - Basic database programming

Oracle DBA 2 - Intermediate database programming

Other Training Courses

SRM 7.0 training with SAP

AdvanceSoft International in-house SAP ABAP programming training

AdvanceSoft International in-house SAP functional training on MM and FICO

(FI-GL, CO-CCA) modules

Functional and Technical Skills

SAP Technical experience with system performance tuning

SAP functional maintenance and support of tables and configuration

SAP technical maintenance of standard and customized programs

PC Skills

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access, Outlook)

Windows XP

Internet Skills

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

Microsoft NetMeeting 2.0

Professional Experience

Thomson Reuters

July 2006 - Present

Eagan, MN

Lead System Analyst

Environment: SAP 6.0, SRM 5 and 7

Lead Functional, Solution Architect and Project Manager Responsibilities

. FICO

o Responsible for integration with MM module

o Responsible for purchasing, material management requirement

gathering, configuration and testing.

. FICO - Cost and Profit Center Accounting Configuration

o Configured various cost and profit center configuration such as

assigning CC to Profit center, creating cost element attributes,

defining cost center groups, etc

o Configured various profit center set up such as creating a

profit center and account groups, assigning profit center in

cost center

. FICO - General Ledger Configuration

o Configured various General Ledgers steps for various finance

projects such as creating G/L account

. SD

o Configured, tested and gathered requirements in Sales and

Distribution area. Knowledge almost all areas of SD module

. PP

o Responsible MRP projects including MRP runs for manufacturing

. MM

o Responsible for purchasing workflow, purchase order and

purchase requisition configuration, bug fixes, design,

requirement gathering, and writing specifications.

. PS

o Responsible for project system functionalities

. FI-AM

o Responsible for asset module functionalities including

configuration and testing

. Project Management Responsibilities

o Responsible for managing SAP projects. Able to maintain project

manager responsibilities for several projects. Provided project

status, maintain deadlines, etc. Maintained agile approach for

several projects

. Functional Lead Responsibilities

o Delivered solutions for 100+ SAP projects, provided status

report to management, assigned work assignments and responsible

for overall quality of deliverables

. Solution Architect

o Responsible to review all Finance technical solutions before

and after implementations

. SRM 5.0 and 7.0

o SAP SRM senior system analyst responsible for gathering

requirements, design of SRM enhancements, implementation and

configuration, Testing and production support for various

clients in a multi-tenant SAP SRM Hosted solution

o Responsible for gathering requirements, design of SRM

enhancements, implementation and configuration, Testing and

production support for various clients in a multi-tenant SAP SRM

Hosted solution

o Responsible for the design and implementation of a Global Roll-

out of SAP SRM 5. Self-Service Procurement scenario was

implemented and included external catalogs and punchout catalogs

. SRM Approval Workflow

o Responsible for SAP SRM approval workflow maintenance.

Ongoing workflow design decisions and maintenance

. SRM 7.0 Upgrade

o Worked on SRM upgrade 7.0. Managed responsibilities from the SRM

senior analyst responsibilities including POWL configuration,

setting for Organizational plan within SRM: Create or change Org

units, Maintain attributes of Org units, Define purchasing

organizations and purchasing groups

o Business configurations like setting up of organization

structure with relevant attributes, creation of product

categories and replication of vendors from R/3 with maintenance

of their Business Partner data

o Configuring POWL queries for different set of users

. SRM and ARIBA Catalog

o Configuration and tested ARIBA catalog for SRM 7.0

. ECC 4.6c and 6.0

o Responsible for deploying SAP ERP system version 6.0

o Finance functional team member responsible for business

blueprinting and writing functional specifications for FICO and

MM business requirements for Thomson Reuters project lead

review/approval

o Performed gap analysis interacting with business users to design

and implement appropriate solutions for process and system

functionality gaps

o Analyzed potential functional and technical solution

alternatives and reviewed solutions with project team to meet

business needs

o Functional lead for the development process of each interface,

and was responsible

for complete testing and submitting of jobs for schedule set up

o Used computer applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel to

write the functional and specifications

o Responsible for SAP Purchase requisition approval workflow

maintenance. Ongoing workflow design decisions and maintenance.

Single point of contact for FI-CO and Workflow issue tickets

o Responsible for Production planning configuration including

deactivate workflow on MRP requisitions, MRP configuration etc.

o Responsible for HR projects such as data conversion and

configuration

Technical Responsibilities

. LSMW (Data Conversion)

o Wrote FI technical design specifications for custom programs

such as various SAP LSMWs (Legacy System Migration Workbench)

for master data loads: assets, projects, purchase orders,

vendors, HR employees, material masters, Cost and profit centers

and PO output records

o Assisted developers in writing technical specifications for SAP

ABAP objects needed per business requirements

. Data Upload Experience

o Conversion team member in charge of conversion load for G/L

accounts, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, purchase orders,

material masters, Fixed Assets, other master data - utilized

existing and new LSMW's

Configuration Responsibilities

. Purchase Order Configuration

o Developed and deployed new processes and configuration to meet

business needs

Configured purchase order in SPRO Transaction such as Created

plant codes and assigned to the company codes and purchasing

organization, Assigned initial period for materials to plants

and set the tax indicator for plants, Created purchasing groups

and assigned printing device to the purchasing groups

o Created condition records for automatic print output

o Modified purchase order layout based on the business

requirement.

. Accounts Payable Configuration (FI-AP)

o Configured FBZP steps for various banking projects

o Implemented a streamlined global banking and liquidity

structure

. Asset Accounting Configuration (FI-AA)

o Configured various asset configuration steps for various

projects such as define depreciation area, asset class, assign

chart of depreciation area to company code

. Material Master Configuration (MM)

o Configured various Material Masters steps for various projects

such as defining output format of material number, maintain

field selection for data screens, defining number ranges for

each material group, creating material characteristics and

assigned it to material class

. FICO - Cost and Profit Center Accounting Configuration

o Configured various cost and profit center configuration such as

assigning CC to Profit center, creating cost element attributes,

defining cost center groups, etc

o Configured various profit center set up such as creating a

profit center and account groups, assigning profit center in

cost center

. FICO - General Ledger Configuration

o Configured various General Ledgers steps for various finance

projects such as creating G/L account

. SAP HR Module Configuration and Data upload

o Configured various HR configuration steps to set up personal

records for employees in TR

o Assisted to resolve employee data upload from Peoplesoft to ECC

6.0 and SRM to SAP

. Interface Experience

o Designed functional and technical specifications for system

interfaces

o Worked on asset, project, SRM to SAP interfaces. Responsible for

interface between 3rd party tool to create project and assign

those project numbers in SAP asset module.

o Resolved IDOC errors related to interface

o Responsible for SRM to SAP IDOC error bug fixes

. ABAP Debugging Skill (SAP Developer)

o Able to debug ABAP programs and indentify defect in the code

o Able to read and understand ABAP logic

. Web Dynpro

o Responsible for Web Dynpro projects. Designed and delivered

multiple projects using Web Dynpro components. Implemented a web

portal using web dynpro tools and delivered many functionalities

related to assets, projects and SRM

o Used agile/iterative methodologies for the project

. Unit Testing Responsibilities

o Identification and execution of appropriate test scenarios

o Developed test scenarios (screen-shots), created test data

(description of expected result and actual result) for unit

testing

o Team member in development of test procedures for unit testing

and test cases according to business requirements

o Involved as a team member in unit testing existing LSMW's

o Performed integration testing and regression testing for

interfaces, custom reports, functional configuration

QA and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Responsibilities

o Interacted with business analysts to design and implement user

test cases for QA and UAT

o Provided support for User Acceptance Testing handling multiple

priorities - Resolved tickets for QA and UAT simultaneously and

provided training to the business user during UAT

o Participated in weekly meetings to resolve technical issues

identified during the testing process

Hypercare Support Responsibilities (Post Go-live)

o Provided post go-live functional support to the business users

as liaison between user and technical teams

o Provided production support for major custom enhancements to FI

and MM applications

o Support included review of the existing enhancements and process

improvement.

o Primarily responsible for daily post go-live support of the SAP

FICO and MM module issues

Wells Fargo, San Francisco, CA

Implementer: Bearing Point

Jan 2006 - April 2006

Environment: SAP 4.5B, 4.7 ABAP/4, Finance, Project System, Real Estate

ABAP Programmer

Upgrade from 4.5 to 4.7

FI-Reports

o Created a report where it will display customer's real estate

contract detail

Used BAPI_RE_CN_GET_DETAIL and BAPI_RE_BE_GET_DETAIL

To get contract's business entity lease manager and business

requirement

Details

o Extracted data from Bsik, Bsak and Bseg in order to provide

vendor entries by

PC and GL account. Wrote a report where it will display

the GL balances

o Wrote a report where it will display generated project related

information

That combines project, purchasing, invoice and payment into

one report. Converted

various SAP Standard reports into ALV reports.

Project System and MM Data Upload

o Resolved few defects in Purchase Order Upload program.

o Resolved one defects in the Project System Upload program.

Project System - Interface

o Wrote a report where it will display project system structures,

Budget, Plan

And actual of each project system structure. This report also

download

The data as a .txt file and sends e-mail to person responsible

for Project

Report

Lanxess Corporation, Pittsburg, PA Jan 2004

- Dec 2005

Environment: SAP 4.6B, ABAP/4, FI

ABAP Programer

FI-Reports

Wrote a report to calculate monthly discount paid by customers. Then

calculate late discount days and compare those days with bank clear date.

FI - LOCKBOX PAYMENTS

(Automated Pay Run)

Wrote a report where it will extract all the payment proposals, run the

payment proposals in F110 transaction code by BDC session and then delete

the proposals and update REGUV table.

Payment History Report (LOCKBOX AND EBS AND CHEKS)

Written three reports where it will display all the checks came through

lockboxes, display any alternate payers and also customers any residuals or

credit memo.

CO

Uploaded and Creation/Change of Cost Center Master Data Records from an

Excel-Sheet (CSV-Format) into SAP. Cost center outbound interface to

Maximo (Legacy System). The extract program retrieves the required fields

from the cost center table CSKS and interfaced to Maximo through MQ Series.

(putMQ.ksh)

interface files.

Functional Responsibilities

o Finance functional team member responsible for business blue

printing and writing functional specification for FICO and MM

business requirements

o Team member participating in defining and writing functional

specifications for Procurement, MM, and FICO for project lead

review/approval

o Performed gap analysis interacting with business users to

design and implement appropriate solutions for process and

system gaps

o Analyzed potential alternatives and reviewed technology

solutions with project team to meet business needs

o Assisted in the development of code/development specifications

o Designed and created functional and technical specifications

for system interfaces

o Functional lead for the development process of each interface,

and was responsible for complete testing and submitting the

jobs for schedule set up

o Used computer applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel to

write the functional specifications

Technical Responsibilities

o Participated in technical design specification for a technical

report to display customer's real estate contract detail. Used

BAPI_RE_CN_GET_DETAIL and BAPI_RE_BE_GET_DETAIL to get

contract's business entity lease manager and business

requirement details

o Assisted developer to write technical specifications for ABAP

objects needed per business requirements

o Wrote a program to calculate the total contract days and

remaining contract days and used ALV for output

o Participated in technical discussions and provided input to

write a report to display

the FI-GL balances and a report to display

overall project related information that

combines project status, purchasing, invoice, and

payment information into one

report

o Wrote a report to display project system structures, and

budget, plan and actual values of each project system structure

- this report also downloaded the data as a .txt file and sent

an e-mail to person responsible for the project reporting

Identification and execution of appropriate test

o Developed test scenarios (screen-shots), created test data

(description of expected result and actual result) for unit

testing.

o Involved as a team member in FI - Testing:

o Performed integration testing and regression testing. Provided

support for User Acceptance testing. Provided production

support and system enhancements to SAP FI/CO users. Team

member in development of test procedures and test cases

according to business requirements

o Interacted with business analysts for designing and

implementation of user cases and test plans

o Provided post go-live support to the user

Business users and technical audiences

o Provided functional support by being the liaison between

users and technical teams.

KLA-Tencor, Milpitas, CA

Nov 2004- March 2005

Role: SAP ABAP Consultant

Environment: SAP 4.6C, ABAP/4, GTS, SD, MM, FI, SCM

Technical Specifications

Wrote Technical specifications for all the objects below.

FI-AP

Written a technical specification and written a program where it will

display purchase history for one time vendor and displayed the output by

using the ALV.

MM

Written a Manager's summary report where it will display quarterly actual

verses target Inventory stock and output displayed by using the ALV.

Written a Work in Process program where it will display cost analysis

report by plant and company code and output is also displayed by using

custom ALV.

SM

Written a program to calculate the total contract days and remaining

contract days and used ALV for output.

User Exits:

Added 3 fields in transaction code KSB1 and KSB2 by using the

EXIT_SAPLKAEP_003 and EXIT_SAPLKAEP_001 and extended the structure for

these user exits.

SAP GTS (Global Trade Services) SAP Export Module

Written a program to display the current status of the Export and Import

shipment.

Perrigo, Allegan, MI

Oct 2004- Nov 2004

Role: SAP ABAP Consultant

Environment: SAP 4.6C, ABAP/4, PP, QM, SD, MM, Microsoft XP

FIAP / Dialog Programming

Added 10 different custom fields in Transaction code XK01 to update vendor

master Data.

PP

Written a program where it will show Inventory Total in Demand minus

available quantity.

PP (Interface Programming)

Written a program in Form select_material: removing (set to comment) the

join to table dbvb (Planning File Entry, MRP Area) in select statement.

PP-BOM

Written a program to load the PP-BOM data from the tab delimited file to

the Legacy System Hospira.

User Exit (QM)

Written a code in the User Exit which will trigger during the creation of

Sample record for MB31, MB01. Every creation of new Goods Receipt the

Sample record will be created for these Transaction code.

Validations

Revised and written ABAP Report requirements and Functional Verifications

for FDA regulations.

Abbott Laboratories, Lincolnshire, IL

Aug 2004 - Sept 2004

Role: SAP ABAP Developer

Environment: SAP 4.6C, ABAP/4, FI/CO, SD, MM, Windows 2000

FICO/Enhancements/User-Exits

Used a USER EXIT EXIT_SAPMF02k_001 to populate the SAP fields in LFB1 and

LFA1 tables using the enhancement SAPMF02k. This user exit is only for

"Checks Prior to Savings" but by finding the global variable (T-LFB1) from

the main program "SAPMF02k" of the enhancement SAPMF02k; this user exit is

used to change input parameters.

Encapsulation

Encapsulated conditions from main program by adding functionality in custom

transactions called "ZBAFI". For encapsulation the main program called

custom created function module 'ZBAFI_GET_USEREXITS' is used and routine is

only called to hide conditions from Brazil office.

Test

Developed LLD (Psuedocode of code), test scenarios (screen-shots),

Migration Form and created test data (description of expected result and

actual result) for unit testing.

FDA Regulations

Received training from ABBOTT for FDA (21 CFR Part 11- Introduction).

Created and reviewed ABAP report and the reports comply with Food and Drug

Administration rules (CIT GXP and 21 CFR Part 11-Introductions). Developed

few technical specifications for FIAP module based on FDA Part 11 rules.

Code Review

Reviewed two ABAP reports for a Junior Programmer

.

The Walt Disney Company, Burbank, CA

June2001 -July 2004

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified

worldwide entertainment company with operations in five business segments:

Media Networks, Studio Entertainment, Parks & Resorts, Consumer Products

and the Internet Group (formerly known as GO.com).

Role: SAP ABAP Developer

Environment: SAP 4.6C, ABAP/4, HR, FI/CO, SD, Windows 2000, Oracle 9i

MM - Reports

Designed report to compare standard cost to new Quote: Mbew, Makt, Mara

tables were used with ALV features using function REUSE_ALV_LIST_DISPLAY

Enhancements

Programmed in sales order user exits in SAPMV45A (MV45AFZZ) using

userexit_save document to store the original goods issue date and delivery

dates when they are changed. Created a separate function module and used it

in the user exit for SD module.

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