SAP MM/P2P Consultant

Sathyanarayanan Jayaraman

Email: ******.*********@*****.***

Phone: +1-551-***-****

Professional Summary

SAP Certified Materials Management(MM) consultant with 15+ years of IT experience.

10+ years of SAP R/3 and ECC consulting experience including 6 Full cycle implementations, 2 Roll out

projects and 7 Support projects with good understanding of Industry & SAP best practices.

Highly experienced in all stages of project life cycle performing Project Preparation, Blueprint, Realisation,

Testing, Training, Go Live and Support using ASAP methodologies and provided standard and customized

cost-effective solutions.

Strong background in gathering and effective documentation of business requirements, current and future

system study, Fit/GAP analysis, writing functional and technical design specifications, and configuration.

Worked extensively on RICEFW objects and developed complex integration between SAP and non -SAP

systems. Good cross functional expertise between MM, FI, WM, PS, PP and SD modules.

Diversified domain experience in implementing SAP projects across Automotive, Hi-Tech, Manufacturing,

Chemical, Financial service Industries with Global SAP implementation and support experience across US,

Europe and Asia including India, US, China and UK working both onsite and offsite.

An active listener with strong communication, analytical, interpersonal, and presentation skills. Strive to

meet business's needs by always providing optimal levels of support and service to the business. Perform

well in a liaison role between business users and IT staff, top level management and vendor teams, while

nurturing those relationships.

Strong Planner with good Organizational skills with demonstrated ability to master new concepts quickly,

with systematic approach, time management and ability to work effectively in fast paced environment with

a team or function independently with minimal or no supervision.

Extensive experience leading diverse cross-functional and multi-cultural teams and expert at managing

multiple projects simultaneously and adept at fast changing environments.

Skill Set

Technical Skills

SAP: SAP MM 4.6C (Certification ID - 000*******), 4.7 and ECC 6.0

Packages / Tools: HP Quality Center, Mercury Test Director 8.0, Remedy system, SMILE, SAP Tutor,

LSMW Workbench, Alloy, Case Complete, uPerform,

SAP R/3 Experience

Enterprise structure: Company code, Purchasing Organization, Purchasing Groups, Plant, Storage

Location, Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, Division.

Master data: Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, Source Lists, Customer master

Purchasing: Purchase Requisition, Quotation, Purchase Order (Subcontracting, Consignment, Third party,

Blanket and Framework orders), Contract, Output determination, Release strategy, Approval through

workflow, EDI/Idoc and External Service Management.

Inventory Management: Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Stock Transfer and Transfer Postings, Transfer

pricing, Physical Inventory with cyclic counting, Returns, Reservations and Movement Types, Advance

Shipping Notification, Inbound delivery and External confirmation control .

Project Systems: Network scheduling Profile, WBS BOM Transfer profile, Reference Point, WBS User

status, Project type, Factory Calendar

Warehouse Management: Storage type, Storage Bin, Transfer requirement and transfer order, Putaway

and Picking strategies. Bar code and RF Hand held equipments.

Valuation and Account assignment: Account Category References, Valuation Classes, Valuation

Grouping Codes, Debit & Credit Posting keys and G/L Account Assignment.

Logistic Invoice Verification: Open Text, Blocking Invoice, Invoice Release and Evaluated Receipt

Settlement, Mobius scanning of invoice, Approval of Invoice through workflow

Output determination: Applications, Message Determination Schema, Message Types, Access Sequence,

Condition Table, Condition Records and Partner Roles per Message Type.

Data Conversion: Migration experience of Master Data and Transactional Data from legacy to SAP

system using LSMW.

Technical Objects: Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Workflow and Enhancements.

Sathyanarayanan Jayaraman

Email: ******.*********@*****.***

Phone: +1-551-***-****

SAP Projects

Client: Honda R&D Inc, Raymond – OH. USA

Company: OpenLogix Corporation

Nov 2010 – Sep 2013

Role: Cross Functional Team Lead

SAP: SAP MM/WM/PS in ECC 6.0

Implemented P2P cycle for direct Procurement for automobile division and rolled out the solution to

Motorcycle division with integration to PS, SD, PP and WM

Worked on Business Process Reengineering in the area of Procurement of Service and Tangible items.

Implemented Procurement functionality for Direct materials with 12 custom material types, BOM, Batch

Management and Availability Checks.

Worked in an heavily customized Procure-To-Pay environment specifically in the areas of Material master,

Sourcing, PO Pricing and approvals.

Developed material pricing process common for Honda manufacturing and Honda R&D by developing

interface from DB2 to SAP through SAP PI and SQL Query.

Developed a way to create material master through IDOC with template material functionality.

Customized material BOM, WBS BOM creation, WBS Planning screens.

Involved in Production support for indirect procurement with T&E application.

Conducted workshops with implementation and business teams to understand the current system (As -Is

Process) and gathered business requirements, analyzed Fit/Gap between current and future systems,

delivered business blueprint documents. Identified standard SAP solution, or proposed potential customized

solutions along with transition plans to align with business's goals focusing on cost, long term plans

including less training to end users. Prepared functional specification and, mapped to SAP solution.

Worked with technical team to develop custom workflow for PR and PO approval process along with

integration of Lotus Notes email notification. Also worked on PR and PO approval through mobile devices.

Worked on Legacy tools such as Qlikview, Lotus Notes, RWD Uper form, SNAP, JUPITER ENDEAVOR,

CHOPPER, NEWS and few other legacy applications.

Involved in Project plan discussions with Business Team, Project Managers to define scope, budget,

schedules and responsible for work allocation of SAP support team and timely deliverables.

Led and driven business and IT and other stakeholders team meetings, prepared meeting minutes,

performed follow up actions, tracked open items to closure. Interaction with multiple levels of business

users across departments, vendors, and high-level Management, on a daily basis including presentations to

Steering committee for project approvals.

Company: Value Consulting

Role: Cross Functional Team Lead (ECC 6.0 – MM/FI) March 2010 – Nov 2010

Client: Honda, Raymond – OH. USA

Implemented P2P solution with MM-FI integration for indirect Procurement through Lotus notes approval,

PR creation in SAP, PR approval, auto PO creation and invoicing.

Responsible for supporting existing Procurement fu nctionality from Purchase requisition, Purchase Order,

Goods receipt to Invoice with integration to Taxware.

Worked on Business Process Reengineering in the area of External Service Management including planned

service and unplanned services.

Worked with technical team to develop custom workflow for PR and PO approval process along with

integration of Lotus Notes email notification.

Worked on RICEFW objects with extremely customized PR and PO approval, Inter -Company selling

process and enhancements around PR, PO and Logistics Invoice Verification.

Worked extensively on both inbound and outbound interface enhancements in Procurement.

Worked on tools such as Qlikview, Lotus Notes, RWD Uperform, SNAP, JUPITER and few other legacy

applications.

Scheduled and conducted business meetings, prepared meeting minutes, performed follow up actions,

closed open items, documented the requirement, mapped to SAP solution, configured in the system,

performed unit testing, integration testing and regression testing before moving the same to Production.

Sathyanarayanan Jayaraman

Email: ******.*********@*****.***

Phone: +1-551-***-****

Company: Value Consulting

Role: SAP MM/PM Consultant (ECC 6.0 – MM/PM/FICO) Feb 2010 – March 2010

Client: Copano Energy, Houston – TX. USA

Full cycle implementation of MM and PM module and its integration with existing FICO module.

Involved in Business requirement gathering, Solution mapping, Design, Configuration, Testing, Go -live

and support

Worked on complete P2P cycle with IDOC for PO and incoming invoice.

Worked on Inventory Management and physical inventory at storage location level.

Designed and implemented Preventive Maintenance system including Single cycle plan, Maintenance Plan,

Scheduling, Notification, Work order.

Worked on complete cycle of an order from Work order creation, Release, Material availability check, Cost

determination, Settlement rule creation, Release, Goods movement posting, Operation completion

confirmation with actual data, Technical confirmation, Settlement run and Business confirmation.

Configured PM and MM integration including Availability check accordingly creating Reservation or

Purchase Requisition or Demand that triggers MRP run.

Experienced in PM and CO integration in configuring settlement rule including Primary and secondary cost

element, Activity type, Allocation structure

Made changes in control key settings to include Capacity requirement for an order and worked on Capacity

Requirement Planning at Work Center level.

Worked on RICEFW objects related to Call objects alert, printing work order and workflow f or order

release and confirmations.

Configured planned and actual cost display settings.

Company: Conversion Services International

Role: Functional Lead (ECC 6.0 – MM/FI/SD) Dec 2008 – Aug 2009

Client: Lenovo – Durham – NC. USA (Uni-D Fulfilment)

Analysed and identified the impact of including additional material types under service processing.

Responsible for blueprint signoff for modifying the system as required, test, deliver and support.

Responsible for MM, SD and FI Integration.

Involved in Project plan discussion with Business Team, Project Manager and Practice Lead and worked on

MS Project.

Worked on Change control management using EPM and SharePoint tools.

Worked onsite-offshore model, and communication involved more than 6 teams in different geographies.

Provided Level 1 and Level 2 support using the support tool HP Quality Center.

Company: Conversion Services International

Role: Functional Lead (ECC 6.0 - MM/FI) Jan 2008 - Nov 2008

Client: Lenovo – Durham–NC, USA (AP Release Implementation & Support)

Full cycle SAP MM/FI ECC 6.0 implementation using ASAP methodology. Involved in scoping, As-Is,

To-be study, configuration & Development, implementation and testing and Post Production Support.

Configured Third party MM processing for customer claims processing in ECC 6.0.

Configured 3 custom material types and developed custom pricing procedu re through condition types and

calculation schemas.

Configuration includes External Confirmation Control, Pricing Procedure, Automatic Account

Determination and Tax Procedure with integration to Sabrix.

Designed and Configured Organisational Structure for both Sales and Purchase

Designed and implemented accounts payable system by configuring Valuation class, account category

reference, GL account, Cost center, Profit center and Business area.

Worked on EDI and Inbound IDOC and Outbound IDOC for PO.

Defined substitution rules for Invoice.

Worked on the Enhancements and reports

Re-designed the background job scheduling for Auto PO creation, goods receipt and ERS to avoid

overlapping and remove blockage in document processing,

Sathyanarayanan Jayaraman

Email: ******.*********@*****.***

Phone: +1-551-***-****

Claim order creation in Portal for testing.

Master data creation and troubleshooting issues, if any in CRM.

Worked on Data Conversion using LSMW for mass upload of Material master, Vendor master, Info record

and Source list and Transaction Data such as Invoice, Purchase Requisition and Pur chase Orders.

Worked with HP Quality Center for SIT and UAT .

Handled both Key user and End user trainings to senior executives.

Conducted Knowledge Transfer sessions to various other team members through SAP Tutor.

Company: Accenture Services

Role: Support Team Lead (R/3 4.6C - MM/IM/WM)

Client: Nokia, India (Offshore Production Support) May 2007 - Nov 2007

Involved in Production Support activities include analyzing customer problems, suggest solutions,

implementing changes, and test the changes in Purchasing, Inventory and Warehouse management.

Worked on material master configuration with eight material types.

Configured inventory management parameters for all goods movements like goods receipts, goods issues,

reservations, goods receipt for blocked stock, goods returns.

Defined components of Warehouse Management System like Storage type, Storage section, Storage bin

and worked with transfer requirement, and transfer orders.

Worked on Lean Warehouse Management system and created picking and put away strategies

Worked with special stock types like Subcontract and Consignment.

Documenting the entire process of getting the support ticket with necessary approval, solving the issue and

closing the ticket with proper approval from the end user.

Testing the changes in configuration, development and transporting them to next environm ent until

reaching production and documenting the entire process.

Company: Accenture Services

Role: Solution Business Analyst, MM/FI (Accounts Payable) (R/3 4.7)

Client: ABN AMRO Bank (India Roll-out) Apr 2006 - May 2007

CLAIRE India Roll out project: SAP MM (P2P) R/3 4.7 implementation using ASAP methodology along

with FI/CO functionalities. Involved in scoping, As -Is, To-be study, configuration, implementation, testing

through Mercury Test Director 8.0.

Configuring and customizing master data like material master, vendor master.

Configuring Release strategies for purchase requisition, purchase order, contract and service entry sheet.

Assisted workflow consultant in setting up workflow for PO, Invoice approval process.

Setting up screen layouts for purchasing documents like RFQ, PRs, and POs and docum ent type, number

range of them.

Setting up Purchasing Groups, Material groups, Tolerance Limits

Configuring Logistic Invoice Verification, Invoicing Plan and Evaluated Receipt Settlement.

Define Valuation class, account category reference, GL acco unt, Cost center, Profit center.

Scanning of invoice through Mobius system and attaching them with the invoice to enable physical

verification of invoice before approval.

Configuring External Service Management like Service master, Model Service Specification and Service

entry sheets, Service entry sheet approvals.

T&E solution through offline approval and document collection and auto PR creation in SAP, PO approval

in SAP and invoice and employee expense reimbursement through check printing.

Conducting unit test, integration test, functional acceptance test and user acceptance test using Mercury test

director to create test scripts, test scenarios and to execute the test and document the results.

Creating end user training manuals and training them on master data creation, entering transactional data

such as creation of purchase requisition, purchase order and approval of them. Also training them on

inventory postings and configured LIS and reports to meet the requirement.

Master data upload through LSMW batch input method.

Also have the knowledge of working on master and transactional data on accounts payable, general ledger,

cost center accounting and asset accounting.

Sathyanarayanan Jayaraman

Email: ******.*********@*****.***

Phone: +1-551-***-****

Company: Wisdom Technologies

Role: Project Lead (ECC 4.6C - MM/IM/WM) Jun 2005 - Feb 2006

Client: Sundaram Clayton, India (Production support)

Involved in Production Support activities include analyzing customer problems, suggest solutions,

implementing changes, and test the changes in Purchasing, Inventory management.

Migrating master data such as vendor and material master from legacy to SAP R/3 system.

Involved in creating purchasing group, material group, plant, material and vendor.

Worked on replenishment process integrated with MM and PP

Designed and worked with Physical inventory by cyclic counting.

Worked on automatic creation of transfer orders in background.

Assisting development team in editing the Z-programs to meet the requirements and to get reports the

reports using report painter.

Company: GST UK Limited

Role: Sr. Business Analyst, SAP MM/WM Jul 2003 - May 2005

Client: Amersham International Plc, North London, UK (Full cycle implementation)

Gathered requirements and defined scope of system changes based on approved requests submitted by the

user community.

Also held responsible for providing as -is business data relating to entire purchasing cycle, inventory

management, batch management and organizational structure.

Worked on lean Warehouse Management system.

Worked on creating picking and put away strategies

Performed feasibility studies and cost estimates for each request.

Documenting the changes required in the business process and communicatin g them to the concerned

person.

Worked on Bar coding and RF hand held equipments for outbound delivery for sales orders.

Coordinated and performed unit, integration, and user acceptance testing for enhancements.

Involved in preparing training material and training end users.

Company: GST UK Limited

Role: Business Analyst May 2002 - May 2003

Client: Amersham International Plc, North London, UK

Liaised with Client to gather the requirements and analyzed them.

Designed tables, forms and the database as well as developed Materials management module, HR related

forms including forms for Time management, Payroll, etc.

Lead Purchase and Sales module teams, which included Domain knowledge sharing and monitoring the

work done.

Preparation of customised reports using Crystal Reports 7.0

Previous assignments

Junior Engineer (Purchasing and Inventory Management), Dee Yes Industries, TN, India.

Lecturer, Valliammai Polytechnic, TN, India.

Education

2000 MBA - Master of Business Administration (Systems) from University of Madras, India

1995 B.E - Mechanical Engineering from University of Madras, India

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