Sap Manager

VENKATA RAO CHAMA

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

Harrisburg, PA 17111, USA

Tel: +1-862-***-****

> Over 15 years' IT experience in Business Analysis, configuration, Quality

Assurance, Systems Development, B2B, End User Training coupled with

experience in Process industries from Shop Floor Engineer to Managerial

positions.

> Extensive SAP experience in PP, PP-PI, MM, SD, PM, HR, WM, QM, EHS, SEM,

CRM, APO, BW, LIS and FI/CO.

> Experienced in the validation and implementation of 21 CFR, 29 CFR and 40

CFR, including 21 CFR Part-820, Part-211 and Part-11.

> Detailed knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

methodologies.

> Diverse experience of Business Process Analysis in the Pharmaceutical

Industry - Production Planning, Materials Management, Sales and

Distribution, Plant Maintenance, Warehouse Management, Logistics in

Supply Chain Management and Systems Implementation, verification &

validation for FDA regulation in providing excellent background

> Strong organizational and project management skills together with the

ability to multi-task.

> Excellent analytical skills, in-depth experience in business process

analysis and affiliated with numerous Professional Associations around

the globe.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: MQC, Silk, LoadRunner, QuickTest, TestDirector, HP

Quality Center,

ClearQuest, Toad, SQL Talk, PVCS, PR Tracker, Remedy

Application Software: SAP R/3 4.7, 4.6C, 4.5B, ASAP, SAP 4.0B, 3.1H, ECC

5.0, ECC6.0

Languages: ABAP/4, Visual Basic, C, Java, JSP, EJB, J2EE, SQL*PLUS,

PL/SQL

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB6, DB400, MS Access

Operating Systems: Unix, AIX, Windows 2000/NT/XP, DOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DePuy Synthes of JnJ, FL

02/13 - till date

SAP CSV Consultant.

DePuy Synthes is the world's most comprehensive portfolio of orthopaedic

products and services for joint reconstruction, trauma, spine, sports

medicine and cranio-maxillofacial therapies. DePuy Synthes Companies are

also a global leader in neurological solutions with products and services

for neurosurgery, neurovascular, spine and cranio-maxillofacial therapies.

. Working as Computer System Validation Consultant to comply all company

policies and Quality Assurance procedures in the revalidation of SAP and

Non SAP systems of GxP, 21CFR Part 820 & Part 11 and FDA requirements in

regulated manufacturing environment for various systems.

. Coordinated with Business Owners and Subject Matter Experts in preparing

documentation for the processes involved in the manufacturing of

specialized medical devices in various modules of SAP to meet the

business process flows of supply chain management and order to cash

including service management.

. Developing, routing for review and approvals from Business Owners and

SME's for Compliance Plan (CP), User Requirement Specifications (URS),

System Test Protocol (STP), Coordination of Test Execution, preparing

System Test Report (STR), Traceability Matrix and Compliance Reports (CR)

to meet FDA regulations.

. Developing various business process scenario test scripts for testing IQ,

OQ, PQ.

. Developed scripts, tested and verified 21CFR Part 11 assessment the Audit

Trails in business process scenarios to meet FDA requirements in

regulated environment for cGMP.

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, Linux, Windows NT, Oracle 9.2, Document

Locator, ALE/EDI, IDOC's, RFC, SQL Server, ABAP/4,

Cardinal Health Inc, OH

03/11 - 10/12

SAP QC Lead - Mfg.

Cardinal Health, Inc. is a Fortune 19 company that improves the cost-

effectiveness of healthcare. As the business behind healthcare, Cardinal

Health helps pharmacies, hospitals and ambulatory care sites focus on

patient care while reducing costs, improving efficiency and quality, and

increasing profitability. Cardinal health is manufacturing various types

of nuclear medicines.

. Working as SAP QC Lead, managing production support existing plants as

well as new implementations and managing testing teams onsite &

offshore.

. Development of project plans, time estimation of project tasks,

tracking progress and handling any deviations from the plan,

communication of project status / issues.

. Developing, review and updates in Developing Installation

Qualifications (IQ), Operational Qualifications (OQ) and Performance

Qualifications (PQ) for FDA regulated environments. Process

manufacturing related in the system and process improvement efforts;

maintained proactive interaction with the plant operations teams,

functional teams and development teams to understand business

practices to aid in system configuration for full cycle implementation

of ECC 6.0

. Leading the onsite/offshore teams by coordinating with Subject Matter

Experts (SME's).

. Coordinated with members of Overseas Delivery Center (ODC- India) &

Italy Delivery Center (IDC - Rome) on various types of SAP business

applications, testing and FDA verification and validation projects.

. Performed business process functionality by gathering and documenting

the functional requirements of internal business users with test data

analysis, and facilitated the integration of business functions in the

test execution and managed issues resolution.

. Guidance in 21 CFR Part 11 assessments to meet the FDA regulations.

. Addressed operational problems, concerns, and questions posed by users

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Linux, DB6, BW, Windows NT, IBM

Rational Clear Quest & IBM RMT, SAP Solution Manager, SharePoint,

ALE/EDI, IDOC's, SQL Server, ABAP4,

Braskem PP Americas., Phil, PA

09/10 - 12/10

SAP PPPI Lead - Mfg.

Braskem is one of the leading thermoplastics resin producer in Latin

America. In the international expansion process acquired PP assets of

Sunoco Chemicals - 4th largest polypropylene producer in U.S. With this

acquisition, it has become the 3rd largest polypropylene player in the

world.

. As a functional lead, developed Sunoco production plants system into

Braskem PP Americas' production system.

. Reviewed business process documents and configured production plants

including PI Sheets for the Process Orders.

. Walked through various master data, BOM, Resources and Master Recipes

with CPO's and BPO's for various types of Process Management in

Production Management.

. Validated with the business users various data analysis for business

operations.

. Involved in integration and functional testing various cycles as well

as user acceptance testing for the deployment activities.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SunOS, Oracle, BW, Windows NT, SAP

Solution Manager, SharePoint, ALE/EDI, IDOC's, SQL Server, ABAP4,

DuPont Inc., Wilmington, DE

07/08 - 01/10

SAP Functional Lead - Mfg.

DuPont, operating in more than 70 countries, offers a wide range of

innovative products and services for markets in agriculture, nutrition,

electronics, communications, safety and protection, home and construction,

transportation and apparel.

. As a functional lead, responsible to develop the functional design

based on blue print for technical development

. Gather functional requirements from various global business units to

meet their business application.

. Walk through with CPO's and BPO's for discussions in various

functionalities with resources (WC's), Recipes for Process Orders in

Production Management.

. Coordinate with BW technical team for the development of ODS, queries

and reports.

. Reports shows detailed performance of the entire process orders in

each plant as well as each line's to constantly improve performance.

. Validate with the MFG CPOs/BPOs for various data analysis for business

operations.

. Involved in functional testing, integration testing as well as user

acceptance testing for the deployment activities. Coordination with

onsite/offshore (Germany) teams.

Environment: SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.6C, AIX, BW 3.5, Windows NT,

DB6, SharePoint, ALE/EDI, IDOC's, SQL Server, ABAP

Coty Inc, Sanford, NC

03/08 - 06/08

SAP Production Operations Consultant

Coty is a leader in global beauty products and the world's largest

fragrance company. It is a leading manufacturer in signature fragrances,

delivering extraordinary fragrance and beauty products to consumers

worldwide.

. As Production Operations Consultant undertook complete responsibility

for PP & PPPI modules of SAP in manufacturing (SCM) team.

. Review and evaluate the blueprints for ECC 6.0 implementation of

FI/CO, OTC and SCM (manufacturing) and liaison with Manufacturing /

Operations team for BOM, Work Centers, Routings, Production Orders to

implementing their business operations. Various inventory movements

before technically closing of PO's.

. Walkthrough of clients manufacturing process functionality and

gathered functional requirements and configuration of PP & PP-PI

modules as per design.

. Developed Business Process Design (BPD) documents in SAP Solution

Manager, based on blueprints and actual operations.

. Identified various interfaces, enhancements and gaps to meet their

business operations in their shop floor operations.

. Coordination with various team members to meet over all project

integration points.

. Guidance and suggestions given for FDA regulations to meet 21 CFR Part

11 assessments.

Environment: ECC 6.0, OS400, DB400, Windows XP, Citrix, SAP

Solution Manager, ALE/EDI, IDOC's,

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), NJ

05/07 - 02/08

Project Functional Test Lead - SCO

The Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global pharmaceutical company manufacturing

drugs and health care products. The business operations of Order-to-Cash

(OTC) and Supply Chain Operations (SCO) were upgraded to SAP ECC 6,

interfacing various legacy systems. The SCO consists of Planning, PP,

PPPI, QM, IM/WM, Barcoding, Intercompany, EHS, HR and Costing modules of

SAP. Accenture was engaged to develop and manage a Testing Center of

Excellence (TCoE).

. As a Functional Test Lead, managed SCO and related systems and

process improvement efforts; development of project plans, time

estimation of project tasks, tracking progress and handling any

deviations from the plan, communication of project status / issues.

. Maintained proactive interaction with the client to understand

business practices to aid in system configuration for full cycle

Global implementation of ECC 6.0

. Led the onsite/offshore teams by coordinating with Subject Matter

Experts (SME's).

. Coordinated with members of Indian Delivery Center (IDC) & Manila

Delivery Center (MDC) on various types of testing projects in BMS -SAP

and other application projects.

. Performed business process functionality by gathering and documenting

the functional requirements of internal business users with test data

analysis, and facilitated the integration of business functions in the

test execution and managed issues resolution.

. Guidance in 21 CFR Part 11 assessments to meet the FDA regulations.

. Addressed operational problems, concerns, and questions posed by users

Environment: SAP Upgrade ECC 6.0, AIX, Windows NT, TAO, Mercury

Quality Center (QC), Oracle 9.2, ALE/EDI, IDOC's, SQL Server, ABAP4,

SharePoint

Commonwealth of PA, PA

02/07 - 04/07

IES - Senior Consultant

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania developed Commonwealth Information Center

(CIC) providing directory assistance and information services for the

Commonwealth. Integrated Enterprise System (IES) is Pennsylvania's pace

setting project to streamline and standardize key business processes, which

was integrated with MySAP.com.

. Reviewed and walkthrough of the Functional Design Specifications (FDS)

in PP & PM of SAP R/3 and prepared gap analysis.

. Developed interface approach strategy documentation.

. Provide Subject Matter Expertise in UAT scripts in flows / concerns to

meet the business processes in Plant Maintenance including MM, PP,

FI/CO and HR modules.

. Coordinated and monitored of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and ensured

that End User requirements are met.

. Prioritized issues and allocated development cycles to ensure timely

and quality deliverables

Environment: SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.6C, AIX, SRM 5.0, Windows NT,

Oracle 9.2, Mainframe, ALE/EDI, IDOC's, SQL Server, ABAP4,

OfficeMax, IL

05/06 - 10/06

SAP R/3 Enterprise : QA / OPS Consultant

OfficeMax is one of the nation's premier company in supplying OfficeMax

Brand Products, Technology Features Clearance and Furniture Features

through their 900 Retail Stores as well as Distribution Centers. It has its

own very large Logistics Operations to meet their demand in Supply Chain

Management.

. Coordinating with Business Process team, Development team, Functional

team to develop business processes scenarios for converting into QA

testing scenarios.

. Developed, tested and validated test cases of the IDocs and EDI

transactions in order processes and interface with one system to

another system for ASN's in logistics systems.

. Lead the team for development and test execution of various test

scenarios from Corporate Central Warehouse Management System

(Corporate System) interfaces with various decentralized Warehouse

Management Systems (PowerMax) including RFID.

. Designed customizations, fit gap analysis, interface/conversion

mapping, pre- production business testing, and related documentation

and deliverables

. Developed project test plan and test cases to meet the business

processes.

. Prepared test metrics during the execution phase for the Touch Point

review meetings.

Environment: SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7, Telnet SAP R/3 for RF, SunOS

5.4, Windows NT, Oracle 9.2, WebMethods/EDI, SQL Server, ABAP4,

J & J HCS Inc., NJ

11/05 - 04/06

SAP Consultant: Business Analyst

Johnson & Johnson is the world's most comprehensive and broadly based

manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related

services, for the consumer products in first aid, pharmaceutical, and

medical devices and diagnostics markets through its operating companies.

. Gathered requirements from key Production Planning and Manufacturing

end users and translated them into an effective system design, while

considering and anticipating organizational impact.

. Analyzed Solution Approach and gap analysis and translated these

requirements into Business & Technical Requirements, System Feature &

Design, and Integration & System Test Plan documents.

. Walkthrough and discussed various PDD's and BPPs for developed OQ, PQ

business process with functional teams and business process owners.

. Participated in technical analysis and issue resolution of Production

Planning and Manufacturing system problems and data issues.

. Review User Requirement Specifications (URS), Functional Requirement

Specifications (FRS) with BPPs, VFS, PDDs, traceability matrix and

developed documents in Documentum for review.

. Developed and implemented 21 CFR, Part 11 assessment as well as Audit

Trail in PQ business process scenarios in FDA regulated environment.

. Vast experience in writing, reviewing and executing computer

validation documentations in OQ integration scripts and PQ business

process scripts.

Environment: SAP R/3 5.0, ECC 5.0, SRM, Windows NT, Oracle 9.2,

EFT/WebMethods/EDI, Lockbox, SQL Server, ABAP4,

Centex, CA

04/04 - 10/05

SAP Consultant

Centex Corporation is the nation's premier company in building and related

services: Home Building, Home Services, Financial Services and Construction

Services. It ranks consistently among the largest multi-market, single-

family home producers.

. Coordinated and lead the entire phase of the project which included

initial operations analysis, business process re-evaluation, testing,

training, conversions, customizations and documentation and

implementation of modules

. Developed and tested procurement system for placement of orders with

release procedures and pricing conditions.

. Validated AR/AP components for customer credit check, payment terms,

interest calculation, payment methods, accounting documents, and AR

/AP reports.

. Review design documents and unit testing, functional testing,

integration testing and regression testing plans, develop system test

plans to test new products/features.

. Coordinated the trained core-team members and end users for post

implementation support.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, AIX, Windows 2000/NT, SQL Server, ABAP4,

Oracle 11i

Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc, CA

04/03 - 03/04

SAP Validation Consultant

Watson Pharmaceuticals is a leading specialty pharmaceutical company

focused on developing, manufacturing and marketing generic pharmaceutical

products utilizing various drug delivery technologies.

. Worked as Validation Consultant to comply all company policies and

Quality Assurance procedures in the revalidation of cGLP/GMP, 21 CFR Part

11 and FDA requirements in regulated manufacturing environment computer

validations and qualifications.

. Developing and documentation of User Requirement Specifications (URS),

Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) with BPPs, PFDs and maintain

traceability matrix.

. Developing various business process scenario test scripts for testing IQ,

OQ, PQ protocols.

. Developed and implement 21 CFR, Part 11 assessment and Audit Trail in OQ

business process scenarios in FDA regulated environment with cGMP.

. Executed Validation Test Scripts for various modules PM, MM, SD & WM and

OTC.

. Developed and executed End-to-End (E2E) business process scenarios, PM &

P2P

. Tested various interfaces between SAP, Telnet SAP with Radio Frequency

(RF devices) and Infoship with UPS/FedEx and update Infoship details into

SAP. Full cycle implementation.

. Interacting with the team in the execution of protocols and gathering

test data to assure data is gathered and recorded in accordance with cGMP

requirements.

Environment: WindowsNT, AIX, SAP R/3 4.6C, ABAP/4, Oracle, LotusNotes

APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS, CA

05/01 - 03/03

SAP QA Lead

The Applied BioSystems business is focused on research, (pharmaceutical and

biotechnology) and standardized testing equipment, forensic human

identification and food testing equipment. They are leaders in

manufacturing and distribution of wide range of technologies to genetics,

protein analysis, high-throughput screening and bioinformatics challenges.

Implemented SAP R/3 - MM, SD, FI, SCM, SEM and CRM to enhance their

business.

. Worked as SAP QA Lead in design, development of test plan and test cases

in complete testing of various stages of Web, Client/Server and ERP.

. Developed test plans and test scripts for various business processes for

testing.

. Applied the principle of 21 CFR Part-820 for validating regulatory

stipulations pertaining to medical devices.

. Involved in validating compliance of digital signature implementation

with 21 CFR Part-11.

. Testing security, user maintenance and reports for consistency.

. Validated the IDocs and EDI transactions in order processes and pricing.

. Developed and tested scripts for Personnel Administration (PA),

organizational management, benefits, ESS, payroll accounting and time

management in HR processing interfacing with FI/CO, PM, PS, MM, SD, BW &

SEM and mySAP HR.

. Test Director is used for organizing and managing the entire testing

process and execution.

. Developed and tested manually, test cases for various business

transactions, end-to-end scenarios for functional testing, system

testing, Integration & UAT testing.

. Planned the automation scripts for regression testing using WinRunner and

QuickTest.

. Designed detailed functional and test plan based upon the critical

business processes.

. Lead team for Stress/Load Test on selected test cases to check the system

performance.

. Co-coordinated Load testing and identified the bottlenecks using

LoadRunner.

. Prepared test metrics during the execution phase for the control board

review.

Environment: WindowsNT, Oracle, SAP R/3, ABAP/4, TestSuite 7.5, TOAD,

TestDirector

Virtual Purchase Connection, Inc., CA

03/00 - 04/01

QA Lead

VPC is a Business-to-Business electronic payment and information service,

designed to support commercial transactions on the Internet. It combines

the speed and efficiency of credit card processing with the fraud

management controls. It is safe, secure, has electronic identification and

authorization, which efficiently and inexpensively facilitate on-line

purchases.

. Worked as QA Lead to Develop and implement QA test processes and

procedures for e-Commerce B2B application in Web environment.

. Analysis of Business and Functional specifications and formulation of

test plans.

. Monitored defect tracking in TestDirector and follow up with testers and

developers.

. Developed business process scenarios related to VPC for Wells Fargo and

Fleet Banks.

. Co-ordinate with developers, Business Analysts, managers and testers to

resolve the issues.

. Prepared test metrics during the execution phase for the control board

review.

Environment: WindowsNT, Linux, Oracle, Java, JSP, EJB, J2EE, Weblogic

DOW CHEMICALS, MI

10/98 - 02/00

SAP Consultant

Dow Chemical is a world leader in the manufacture of silicon-based

materials. Various modules of SAP R/3 was implemented - Supply Chain

Management, SD, MM, HR, PP-PI, PM, FI/CO, APO, EH&S, CRM and BW to enhance

their business.

. Performed fit/gap analysis, pre-production business testing,

interface/conversion mapping, and related documentation/deliverables

. Tested comprehensive end-to-end work centers, routing, process orders,

and warehouse solutions with optimized structures for reporting and

analysis.

. Developed various test cases for procurement of maintenance, repairs and

office supplies consumable (MRO) for individual department accounts.

. Tested purchasing system for placement of orders with release procedures

and pricing conditions. Pricing procedure with new Condition Types

discounts and rebates.

. Set integration between warehouse management system and Inventory

Management, which drastically reduced on hand balance of materials in

valuated inventory.

. Performed process analysis, solution design, build, test, delivery, and

post production support

. Supervised QA team for development of automated scripts using Mercury

Interactive Tools

WindowsNT, Oracle, SAP R/3, ABAP/4, Mercury Automation tools, SQL Talk

CADBURY SCHWEPPES LTD.

03/96 - 09/98

SAP Business Analyst

Cadbury Schweppes is a leading food manufacturing company that implemented

SAP R/3 (SD, MM, and PP & FI/CO). Specific tasks performed on this project

were to validate transaction processing in the SD and MM modules.

. Involved in Business Analysis (gap analysis), design, development, test

and deployment of PP module in SAP along with MM, SD & FI/CO for various

business transactions.

. Carried out PP module configuration, solution design, process analysis,

and implementation

. Developed and tested various types of multiple BOMs, and variant BOMs.

. Configured and tested multi plant structure and production data, work

centers setting such as standard value parameters, work center data,

supply areas, capacity planner and work centers.

. Availability checks according to ATP Logic for production by lot size

calculations.

. Configured for routings, data for operations, material types, Planner

Groups. Setting for Master Planning, MRP, Scheduling Parameters, and MRP.

. Interacted with the developers and functional team members to fix the

issues in other modules for full cycle implementation.

Environment: SAP R/3 (SD, MM, PP & FI/CO).

BREAKFAST FOOD ZAMBIA LTD.

09/92 - 12/95

Project Manager

Breakfast Food Zambia Ltd. is one of the largest manufacturers of processed

foods of all types of breakfast food cereals (Quaker patent) and infant

food.

. Managed day-to-day operations of the company, as an expatriate manager

actively operating all departments such as Materials Management,

Production Planning, Sales & Distribution, Plant Maintenance and Finance

& Accounts departments and reporting to the CEO.

. Supervised supply management for the central warehouse, company stores,

and points of sales. Oversaw inventory, key manufacturer accounts, and

product delivery.

. Responsible for imports & exports of raw materials as well as trading

goods.

. Handled various documentation Quotations, LC, Import/Export License,

inspection, shipping and clearing government duties.

. Increased productivity by using MRP and CRP to consistently meet long,

medium, and short-range goals thereby increase profitability by

optimizing inventory investment.

. The process plant operations and control systems are working with DCS

(Distributed Control Systems), PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) and

SCADA.

. Improved DRP by managing all aspects of the supply chain and all other

departments of production, plant maintenance, finance and project

management.

. Implemented occupational safety and health administration, IH&S as per

Governmental Hygienic Rules for Environmental Health & Safety in the

company.

. Designed, developed and implemented the system, which is a menu driven,

on-line management, control system that automated the entire production

process.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering

Professional Member in APICS

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