Supply Chain Sap

Joel Samuel

SAP PLM/PDM Functional Analyst/Lead

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

Ph # 770-***-****

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Professional Profile

Summary:

. Have 5+ years of IT experience, which involves 4+ yrs as a Business

Planning Analyst, in SAP's PLM and PDM modules at Hewlett-Packard

(ESSN India Supply Chain) and + yrs as a SAP Lead (Hewlett Packard

Supply Chain IT).

. Have good experience in working as a Team Lead in various projects.

. Currently working as SAP On-boarding Lead for HP Supply Chain IT for

Manufacturing Deployment projects.

Work Experience:

. Have two full life cycle experience in SAP's PLM/PDM with strong

understanding of business requirements, business process flow,

document management system, and engineering change management.

. Have one full life cycle implementation experience in On-boarding

supplier in SAP ECC 6.0, which includes creation of vendor, setting up

of EDI connectivity in SAP.

. Responsible for preparing the scoping documents, conducting workshops,

and status meetings to have timely progress of development, test, and

implementation activities.

. Participated in business and technical design sessions with the

product engineers and demand planners to plan and implement business

proposals.

. Experienced in gathering requirements, designing and creating process

flow diagrams translating them into functional specifications to

ensure quality, timelines, and completeness of enhancements

. Experienced in configuring and customizing BTO (Build to Order), KMAT

and CTO (Customized to Order), BOMS to integrate with the engineering

drawings for the respective materials through Document Management

System.

. Experienced in configuring Multi Level Bill of Materials both in

Master Data and in Plant level.

. Experienced in creating the Material Master and Engineering Change

Master.

. Responsible for creating Class and Characteristics and assigning the

dependency rules for the newly configured parts.

. Experienced in working with SAP Business Warehouse and APO systems,

monitoring process chains to run periodic loads.

. Experienced in working with standard and custom Info Cubes, Info

Objects, InfoSource, ODS, Multi providers.

. Worked on job schedules for loading stored data from R/3 tables into

ODS (Object Data Source objects through PSA (Persistent System Area)

to perform detailed level reporting. Creation and extraction of

reports with Business Explorer (BEx).

. Experienced in working with Seeburger.

. Involved in unit testing, integration testing, regression testing and

load testing.

. Good conceptual knowledge in ABAP, Batch Data Communication (BDC's),

LSMW, SAP Scripts and Smart Forms, Data Dictionary, ALE and IDOC's.

. Conceptual knowledge in Recipe Management and underwent an internal

training session on the same.

. Involved in knowledge transfer, coordinated with the offshore

development team to provide requirements, code review, test scenarios,

and test cases.

. Possess excellent communication, presentation, analytical and problem-

solving skills, to identify, investigate, analyze, define, and

document business requirements, always willing to work in challenging

environment.

Core Competencies

Process Definition

Project Planning

Resource Management

Team Building

Program Facilitation

Process Implementation

Project Management

Change Management

Professional Experience

Client: Hewlett-Packard Aug '10

- Till Date.

Role: SAP IT Lead (Supply Chain-SD,MM)

Manufacturing Deployment for HP-Notebooks (Onboarding Team):

This project involves, On boarding of Supply Chain vendors to the HP's SAP

platform. Project activities include a full-life cycle implementation of

planning, analysis, design, construction, testing, implementation, and

support of solutions developed in SAP. The various SAP modules include

configurations in Sales & Distribution, Production Planning, Materials

Management, Financial Accounting, and Controlling.

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Responsible for planning and implementing as per business proposals.

Ensure technology solutions are designed, tested and documented,

enhanced and corrected according to the operations standards and

expected service quality.

. Responsible for preparing the scoping documents and involved in

integration of project plans. Manage work packages to ensure project

deliverables are met.

. Responsible for creation of Vendor set up in SAP and setting up of EDI

connectivity with the Vendor.

. Responsible for setting up of various functional module configurations

that include Partner Determination, Order, Pricing, Delivery and

Billing.

. Responsible for Plant, Shipping point setup with respect to the new

Vendor.

. Responsible for customizing and creating process chains in SAP's

APO/BW system, required for forecasting and demand planning of the

parts.

. Responsible for generating the Open orders and Shipment information's

in SAP's Business Warehouse through Business Explorer (BEx).

. Responsible for designing, implementing and supporting IT integrated

business solutions to focus primarily around SAP Suite of

applications.

. Involved and worked closely with onsite and offshore development and

testing teams.

. Responsible for timely progress of development, test, implementation

activities and highlight any concerns in status meetings.

. Responsible for leading productive team meetings, generate meeting

minutes, and follow up on key action items.

. Responsible to assess resource needs, develop contingency plans,

coordinate actions, and work to involve all appropriate owners within

HP to provide a solution in a timely fashion.

. Involved with unit testing, integration testing, regression testing,

and load testing.

Client: Hewlett-Packard May '10

- Aug '10

Role: SAP PLM Functional Analyst

PROJECT I: ESS-EMR PRMO (Marlin):

ESS (Enterprise Storage & Servers) Marlin has a tax advantage arrangement

and is critical to maintaining and protecting the substantial tax savings

annually. In support of this pursuit ESS / EMR is migrated the current

remanufacturing process to the new location. Deployment of this operation

will occur by extending SAP infrastructure to PRMO in the form of a unique

plant with shipping points and establishing the standard IC financial

transactions between current process and the new plant.

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Involved with the manufacturing team to understand the new products

and their documentation strategy (manuals).

. Involved in assigning Product/Part numbers and registering the same in

the Master data through PSR (Product Sales Readiness).

. Responsible for creation of Dependency Rules for the newly configured

parts.

. Involved in the creation of material master data and extending the

material master views of sales, purchasing, MRP and storage location

for the EMR parts at the new location.

. Responsible for creating the Class and Characteristics for

configurable materials.

. Responsible for determining and setting up of RoHS status value for

the respective materials.

. Responsible for mass copy all identified EMR BOMs for go-live to be

copied down to the lowest level (excluding PCA level BOMs) from the

current plant to the new plant.

. Responsible for creation of #STD materials and extension of the same

to the plant.

. Involved in integration and user acceptance testing using HP Quality

center Testing Tool.

. Involved in production support and maintenance.

PROJECT II: Tax Advantage Manufacturing (TAM) Model:

Tax Advantage Manufacturing Model involves the financial flows for HP

orders fulfilled by the vendor through a tax advantage intermediary. HP

utilizes a Tax Advantaged Manufacturing (TAM) model by using a financial

intermediary for HP products manufactured by the contract manufacturers,

bound for the US. Under this model, profits on products manufactured by

contract manufacturers bound for the US are reduced, thereby resulting in

cost saving.

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Participated in the business and technical design sessions for

analyzing the business requirements and documenting the business

specifications to meet the PDM requirements.

. Responsible for the creation of master data for all the desired

products.

. Responsible for extension of the material master views of Sales,

Purchasing, MRP views, and Storage location to the new plant location.

. Responsible for setting the conversion rules for the material master

in the new plant.

. Created the functional specifications, process design flow, and the

technical design specification to match the business requirements.

. Provided support for the offsite developers and assisted them to

complete the MM data validation report to support the Non-Valuated

materials.

Client: Hewlett-Packard Mar '09

- Jan '10

Role: SAP PLM Analyst /Team Lead

Evolution Marketing & Remanufacturing (EMR):

EMR project involves structuring and configuring BTO (Build to Order) & CTO

(Customized to Order) Bill of Materials for HP remanufactured server units

taking into consideration the life cycle of any server unit from the

scrapped parts by leveraging all such scrap parts to and as a refurbished

server unit.

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Involved in the implementation and customization of Product Life Cycle

Management (PLM) solutions.

. Involved with the manufacturing team for the kick-off meeting to plan

and implement business proposals. Ensure technology solutions are

designed, tested and documented, enhanced and corrected according to

the operations standards and expected service quality

. Involved in resource management calculating the number of full-time

employee required.

. Responsible for configuring and setting up of BTO (Build to Order),

KMAT BOMS to integrate with the engineering drawings for the

respective materials.

. Involved in the configuration and managing the document managing

system in the SAP R/3 to hold all the engineering drawings [DIR, DRW].

. Responsible for design and testing of all the BOM reports related to

the production orders.

. Created effective business documents and translated them into

functional design documents for manufacturing of materials.

. Involved in framing the inventory path for purchasing materials that

are maintained in the internal warehouse and assigning the vendor

based information details to different plants for which the material

is procured.

. Responsible for routing creation of materials by sequence, needed for

manufacturing with the help of the work centers given by the

manufacturing engineers.

. Integration and testing of the developed modules and prepare detailed

documentation.

. Involved in working with factory engineers and manufacturing engineers

at the plant, providing functional support as well as technical

assistance to ensure the successful flow of business processes.

. Production support and maintenance (Onsite) in PDM Distribution,

Material Master overview, creation of material master data and

assigning the MRP profiles

Client: Hewlett Packard Nov '08 -

Dec '09

Role: PDM Analyst/Team Lead

Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM):

OEM Direct Shipment is a process that comprises of several HP server parts

that are not manufactured by HP in-house but outsourced to different

contract manufacturers wherein HP

reserves the designing rights while an HP approved contract manufacturer

does the actual manufacturing. This process of OEM direct shipment involves

creation and managing of all such parts in SAP followed by extending all

the structured parts to the designated manufacturing lines.

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Responsible for analyzing business requirements and configuring SAP

systems to meet the overall design for new product set up.

. Worked with the technical team to discuss the workflow, data

management and system environment details and plan phases in

development.

. Involved in leading and managing variant configuration for various

Blade Servers. This includes setting up of variant tables, class,

characteristics, BOMS, and dependencies.

. Involved in generation of various MIS reports for managerial reviews

and decision-making.

. Involved in setting up of required configuration process for the end-

to-end process of material requirements and planning.

. Responsible for configuring Bill of Materials for make/buy products at

the plant level maintaining BOM changes made as per the drawing

changes of a material.

. Involved in creating the flow diagrams for all the process, performed

the gap analysis to identify the gaps, and suggested the ways under

which can be implemented in SAP systems.

. Involved with the clients to create the functional specifications for

all the process that needs to be implemented.

. Scheduled weekly statuses, open discussion periods to ensure client

requirements and comprehensive prototype design.

Client: Hewlett-Packard

Dec '08 - Nov '09

Role: PDM Analyst

Product Life-Cycle Management (PLCM):

Product Life Cycle covers all the phases that a given product would

undergo during its given life

span and the support and service offerings/agreements aligned to it as it

moves through the various phases of its life. This data include - status,

event dates, and ancillary data (Replacement Product).

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Involved in analyzing requirements during requirement gathering and

design phase, forecasting and estimating future requirements.

. Responsible for analyzing the life cycle status of the SKU's in

accordance with the respective region.

. Involved in developing the use cases for pricing and other market data

flows, transmission of analytics data from a data mart to upload the

pricing information in the corporate pricing list.

. Member of the corporate PLC team working towards the enhancement of

the PLC tool to incorporate the enterprise storage and servers life

cycle data.

. Involved in decision making with the demand planners in regards to

life cycle status of the products.

. Responsible for conducting weekly status meetings with demand planners

to make sure project was on track and deadlines are been met.

Prioritized work efforts for demand planners when necessary.

Client: Hewlett-Packard

Aug '06 - Oct '08

Role: PDM Analyst

Product Data Management (PDM):

Product Data Management involves creation and modification of Bill of

Materials for HP servers and storage units at the corporate level followed

by maintaining/extending the same at the plant level. Maintenance of Bill

of Materials at the plant level includes the creation and incorporation of

Engineering Change Orders, if any.

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Responsible for changing MRP controller from sub-assembly to phantom,

and associate the different team to fill the required material view

like MM, sales org BOM and routing and make the item active statues.

. Involved in extension of the CTO and BTO Bill of Materials from the

master data to the plant level.

. Responsible for PRT (Production Resources Tool) creation in Material

Master (MM01) with material type prods and assigning the material in

routing to the planning and engineering team.

. Worked with factory engineers and manufacturing engineer's users on a

daily basis, providing functional support as well as technical

troubleshooting assistance to ensure the successful flow of business

processes.

. Involved in testing classification tool by customizing with help of

mercury test instant.

. Involved in production support and maintenance (Offshore) in creation

of a new material, which was requested from the design engineering

team and extended to other plant and storage location as per the

request.

Client: Hewlett-Packard

July '05 - June '06

Role: Business Analyst

Operational Database:

Analyzing and forecasting of HP enterprise servers and storage products

using various sources like Business Objects, Business Explorer and BOSS to

get the shipment details, orders, forecast, pricing and backlog data for

the current business quarter and forecasting the details for the next

quarter.

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Involved in designing and setting up database for the company to

manage its tenants and properties.

. Determine user/business/functional requirements and designed workflow

processes and diagrams using Microsoft Visio and other Microsoft suite

applications.

. Experienced in building queries for reporting, data analysis, and

problem solving.

. Developed systematic, technical and user manuals with illustrations.

. Identified training requirements and organized internal training

sessions for motivating the team.

. Involved in extracting and generating monthly and quarterly financial

and other business reports using various tools such as BOSS for the

next quarter.

. Responsible for maintaining and analyzing various business related

data such as gross purchase, sales, profit, and expenditures. This

helps management in budgeting and taking strategic decisions.

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