Sap Sales

Career Overview

IT Professional with over ** years experience, 14 of which are in SAP.

Worked as an Application Consultant in the capacity of Team Lead, Techno

Functional Analyst and Senior Developer.

> Experience in SAP modules of SD, MM, PP, LE, SM, QM and Inventory

management using SAP Web Console and RF Scanners with specialization

in Physical inventory.

> SAP full life cycle implementation experience includes gap analysis,

blue printing, configuration, data conversion, development, training,

unit and integration testing, documentation, go live implementation

and post go live support.

> As a Technical Team Lead was involved in managing team members,

tracking development to meet deadlines, coordinating with functional

analysts and end users to gather business requirements, develop

technical specifications, delegating tasks, testing and system

integration.

> Techno Functional experience includes customization, configuration and

mapping of business objects, gathering business requirements and

developing functional specifications, participating in unit and

integration testing, documentation and user training.

> MIS Lead for Physical Inventory including designing and development of

enhancements to physical inventory process, user training using WebEx

technology, creating/updating training manuals, providing onsite

technical and functional support to various plants.

> Performance Tuning Team Lead experience includes working with SAP

Basis team to improve performance of various transactions, reports and

batch jobs, performance monitoring using SAP tools (Work Load monitor

and Run time analyzer), review reports to identify transaction,

reports, batch jobs with issues and provide solutions to performance

tune them.

> Data Conversion Lead experience includes coordinating efforts required

to migrate data from various legacy systems into the new SAP system,

develop and manage go live conversion and cutover plan creating

detailed mapping between old & new data elements.

> Non SAP experience includes design and development in Visual Basic and

C.

Areas of Proficiency

> SAP ERP versions - 3.1G, 3.1H, 4.6C, 4.7

> SAP Modules:

SD - Customer Master, Quotations, Orders, Contracts, Pricing

MM - Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Requisitions and

Purchase Orders

PP - Make to Order and Make to Stock Production orders, Bill of

Materials (BOM) and Routings

LE - Customer Deliveries, Interplant deliveries, Shipments and

Handling Units

FI/CO - Invoices, Production order Settlement process

QM - Notification and Inspection Lots

IM - Transfer posting, Good Issue and Good receipts, Physical

Inventory, Cycle counting

> Technical Areas:

RF Scanner technology using SAP Web console and Georgia Soft Works,

SAP Script, Smart Forms, BDC program, Menu painter, Screen Painter,

ABAP Query, Dialog programming, Legacy System Migration Workbench

(LSMW), Data Transfer Workbench, ALE, EDI, IDocs, BAPI, BADI, SAP

Query, Quick Viewer, ALV.

> Other Software:

Visual Basic v4.0/3.0, C

> Database:

Oracle v7.x, Ms Access 2.0/1.1, Btrieve 6.15

Experience

Ryerson Inc, Lisle, IL Feb 2004-July

2011

A leading distributor and processor of metals in North America; offers an

unparalleled range of products, leading processing and fabricating

capabilities.

Application Architect

Joined the Project Breakaway team during the Realization phase and led the

data conversion team for the successful rollout of SAP to the various

plants. Gained expertise in SD, MM, PP, LE, QM and Inventory Management

using SAP Web Console methodology for RF Scanners. As Technical Team Lead

for Production support, supervised a team of 10 people to help resolve day

to day production issues.

. Designed, developed and tested data conversion load programs for

material master, purchase requisitions, forecast data, work centers,

bills of materials, routings, batches, material documents. Developed

and managed go live cut over plan and organized conversion runs during

integration and implementation phase.

. Customized standard SAP reports for inventory management. Developed

custom reports to track work in process materials, buy out materials

and outside process stock.

. Designed and developed auto extension functionality to extend

materials on fly when quotation, sales order or a contract is created

or changed which avoided the need to extend the material beforehand to

unwanted storage locations.

. Designed and developed transactions to create interplant deliveries,

inbound and outbound deliveries. Also designed and developed the

application to store the work in process coil information and created

work in process tag that will be printed on Zebra printer.

. Designed and developed custom smart forms for work in process tag,

pull list, inventory and customer specific shipping tags. Also

involved in setting up output determination and access sequence for

customer specific shipping tags.

. Designed and developed user exit to automatically lock goods movement

for the specific plants during the physical inventory weekend.

. MIS Lead for Physical Inventory including designing and development of

enhancements to physical inventory process, user training using WebEx

technology, creating/updating training manuals, providing onsite

technical and functional support to various plants.

. Led a Performance Tuning Team which included working with SAP Basis

team to improve the performance of various transactions, reports and

batch jobs, performance monitoring using SAP provided tools, review

SAP Early Watch reports to identify transaction, reports, batch jobs

with issues and provide solutions to performance tune them.

. Led a team of 5 people in the implementation of Custom RF transactions

required for successful inventory management using SAP Web Console

methodology. Transactions developed were Cycle counting, Physical

inventory, Transfer Posting, Good Receipt for Purchase orders to

receive coils and Load confirmation on the Shipments. Responsibilities

included were designing, developing, configuring, testing and user

documentation.

IBM Global Services, Chicago, IL Feb 2003-Nov

2003

The world's largest business and technology services provider.

Technical Consultant

Involved in development and support for various clients. Key modules were

SD, MM, FI/CO and PP.

. Involved in the design, development, testing and documentation of data

conversion programs, LSMW and developed BDCs for master and

transactional data uploads.

. Developed interfaces to download sales history to Access database, and

material consumption data to flat files using BAPIs and RFCs.

. Customized smart forms and print programs for billing documents in SD

and balance confirmation form, account statement in FI-CO.

OCE-USA, Inc, Chicago, IL May 2001 -Feb

2002

A global leader in digital document management and delivery technology

offering software solutions, digital printers, copiers, plotters and

scanners.

Data Conversion Coordinator/ Programmer Analyst

Responsible for coordinating the data conversion from legacy system (AS400)

to SAP. Involved in estimating timeframes, functionality and managing

deadlines, coordinating various functional and technical teams towards

implementation. Key modules worked on were SD, MM, LE and FI/CO.

. Coordinated with business leaders for data cleanup in the legacy

system.

. Developed conversion plan and organized conversion runs during

integration and implementation phase.

. Involved in QA activities including functional specification review,

technical specification review code review and unit testing.

PPC, Syracuse, NY Apr 2000 -Jan

2001

A family-owned company and is a division of John Mezzalingua Associates,

Inc. PPC designs and manufactures connector technology products for

telecommunications, satellite, and wireless industries.

Technical Consultant

Technical Team lead for data conversions and custom development. Joined

team during the blue printing phase and was involved in coordinating,

tracking and reporting requirement changes across various layers of

development. Key modules worked on during this project were SD, MM, PP, FI-

CO, HR.

. Developed conversion plan and organized conversion runs during

integration and implementation phase. Provided detailed technical

specifications and monitored master and transactional data uploads.

. Developed technical specifications based on user requirements,

involved in conducting QA sessions, unit testing and knowledge

transfer.

. Provided detailed technical specifications and developed batch input

programs for QM information records and unit of measure group.

. Involved in enhancements and development of SAP Scripts and print

programs for accounting, purchasing and inventory functions.

. Developed inbound and outbound interfaces for incentive bonus pay in

HR and for Sales order history in SD as well as handled dialog

programming for updating info types in HR.

. Wrote user manual giving step-by-step instructions to perform master

and transactional data uploads.

Hartford Computer Group, Inc., Schaumburg, IL Apr

1998 -March 2000 A provider of financial computer

systems and networks.

Technical Consultant

Joined team during post implementation phase and was actively involved in

resolving day to day production issues. Gained knowledge in SD, MM and SM

modules.

. Developed classical and interactive reports in the areas of Sales,

Commission, and Purchasing.

. Technical design and development of Interfaces in the areas of debit

memo creation process, settlement process and changing the status of

the settled orders

. Customized SAP Scripts and print programs for billing document, goods

issue in SD and service contracts in SM.

. Screen development and dialog programming for maintenance of ADD-ON

tables.

. Conducted performance tuning for various programs using SQL Trace and

Run Time Analysis.

Cybertech Systems, Inc, Oakbrook, IL Jun 1997 -

Mar 1998

A consulting company that specializes in a range of remote SAP Post-

Implementation Support Services.

Technical Consultant

Involved in in-house development and troubleshooting for the SAP R3 system

implemented by Cybertech at various client sites. Responsible for

understanding requirements, troubleshooting bugs and designing fixes. Key

modules worked in were SD, MM, FI/CO as a part of the off site development

team.

. Designed, developed and customized reports in FI like Financial AR

aging, AP history, AP open items and in SD like sales volume reports,

open orders report, document flow report.

. Wrote system enhancements and user exits in SD.

. Customized SAP Scripts and print programs for billing, bill of lading,

labels and checks printout.

. Wrote several BDC programs to change shipping address purchase orders

delivery block, carrier, priority and reason for rejection on orders

and delivery notes.

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, India Nov 1996 -

Jun 1997 A major automobile manufacturer of utility, passenger and

commercial vehicles.

Technical Consultant

Part of the implementation team working in SD, MM areas. Developed data

conversion programs for master data load of Customer, Vendor and Material.

Customization of SAP Scripts and print programs for Billing and Sales

Orders. Developed customer maintained tables, structures, views, data

elements, domains, and match codes. Developed interface for cost center

modification.

Previous Technical Consultant positions Prior

to 1996

Design & Development (non-SAP) in C, Visual Basic and Oracle.

Education

. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from University of Bombay,

India.

Residency

. US Citizen

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