Shankar D. Rao

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Saint Louis, MO 63146

H: 314-***-****

C: 314-***-****

abix3o@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

SAP Leader with strong functional and technical knowledge of SD,MM and PS

Modules. Certified SAP SD Consultant. Certified Six Sigma consultant.

Skilled in Business Process Analysis, Business Process Redesign, and

Configuration. Knowledgeable in Transportation Planning and Vehicle

Scheduling, GATP area of SAP APO as well as Global Trade Services in

Imports and Export business. Experience spans across Automotive, Consumer

Goods, Distribution, Telecommunication, Aerospace, Pharmaceutical and Agro

based industries.

Experience:

Altegrity Inc., Falls Church, VA Aug 2009 - Present

SAP Order-to-Cash Team Lead

. SAP SD Order-to-Cash Lead for full-life-cycle implementation ECC 6.0

in a service oriented industry.

. Hands-on configuration as per the blue print, UAT testing and

production support. Project System usage along with SD for

calculating labor cost.

. Interaction with CO team for all the cost analysis, ongoing business

requirement analysis and coordination with the overseas developers.

. Developed functional specs and configured the system to handle the

complicated contract process with equally complicated billing process.

. Designed and Configured PS process to handle resource related billing.

. Defined Project Profiles to process Time & Material and Cost Plus

contracts.

. Defined Planning Profiles for projects costs and revenue.

. Configured the system for project substitution and project types.

. Configured user fields and value categories.

. Created different DIP profiles to calculate cost for over time and non

over time employees.

. Created the functionality to handle highly complicated Resource

Related billing for Time and Material(T&M) and also for fixed price

and cost plus contracts.

. Created Projects and WBS elements in Project system to capture costs

for billing.

. Used the third party tool "Actual Labor Cost Posting" (ALC) to post

the costs.

. Developed a custom development tool to put certain cost items on hold

to prevent over/under invoicing.

. Coordinated with CO consultants to get the correct cost into sales

document and subsequent billing.

. Designed developed specs for many custom and BI Reports.

. Trained the end users and provided the needed documentation. Used

uPerform tool to develop training document.

. Managing the production issues and providing needed solutions.

Graybar Electrical, Saint Louis, MO Feb 2007 - Apr 2009

Senior Configuration Lead for Order-to-Cash Management

. Lead analyst for project upgrade

. Led a team of 3 SAP SD system analysts and 2 business analysts.

. Provided SAP 4.6C/ECC 6.0 order-to-cash management, production support

and new requirements for ongoing continuous improvement.

. Gathered all the new requirements for the improvement of business.

. Analyzed the requirements and found solutions through

configuration/programming.

. Monitored all the new required activity using "REMEDY" as a tool.

. Conducted detail tests in development and quality clients to confirm

that the changes are meeting the business requirements. Support daily

production issues and help the field staff in their operations.

. Upgraded to ECC 6.0.

. Heavily involved in pre-process which includes ramification of all

custom codes, unit testing, integration testing, batch jobs, and

archiving activities.

. Involved in evaluation of post upgrade performance.

Vistex, Chicago, IL Aug 2006 - Feb 2007

Client: Wolseley Inc. (Ferguson) Distributors, Newport News, VA

Team lead for Vistex Rebates, Sales Incentives / Commissions

. Led a team of 3 IP/SD consultants and 3 from the business to perform

scoping, planning and detail designing.

. Used SAP's industry print for wholesale distributors for gathering

information and designing the system accordingly

. Conducted, detailed design workshops and analyzed process profile, sub-

process profiles and activity profiles for Rebate, Chargeback and

Sales Incentive activity.

. Created a project document providing the details of the process

description, sub process details, change management impact,

integration aspects, functional gaps and RICEF requirements.

. Built a proto type for Rebates/ commission and chargeback modules for

management and the super users to understand the new tool to manage

incentives and paybacks.

Deloitte Consulting, St. Louis, MO Aug 2004 - Aug 2006

Client: Sara Lee International Food & Beverage

SAP SD Team Lead

. SAP - Enterprise Applications; Billing, Credit Management and Foreign

Trade

. SAP 5.0 Visioning, Scoping, Planning, Detail Designing

. Team lead for SAP SD Billing, Credit management and Foreign Trade. Led

a team of four SD consultants from the business side to work on

visioning, scoping, planning and detail designing.

. Used Six Sigma methodology and the Food and Beverage Industry print

for gathering information and designed the system accordingly.

Conducted detailed design workshops and analyzed process profile, sub-

process profiles and activity profiles for Billing, Credit management

and foreign trade.

. Wrote functional specifications for the custom developments such as

reports, enhancements, forms etc.

. Trained business support personnel to meet future needs.

Client: Bayer Material Science, Pittsburgh, PA

SAP IM MM Functional Lead

. Analysis of issues after Go Live related to SAP 5.0 IM WM

. Conducted evaluation of current process in Inventory Management.

. Proposed changes in needed to resolve the current issues.

. Developed recommendation for post-implementation process change to

maximize implementation benefits.

. Assisted client team on streamlining current new management of

inventory for Tolling Process.

. Helped client team in reconciliation of inventory.

. Trained the new hires in managing the day to today tolling process.

. Led a team of 8 resources through an aggressive timeline to clear the

entire backlog in order management.

. Lead informal training sessions as well as development of all the

training documents.

Intelligroup Inc., New Jersey, NJ Mar 2002 - Aug 2004

Client: Pratt & Whitney

. World Wide SAP Implementation encompassing SD, MM, PP, FICO, BW and

APO.

. Lead a team of 6 end users.

. Managed all the post production issues.

. Responsible for all the pricing issues from the sales operations.

. Extensively worked on RRB billing in coordination with Service

departments.

. Designed and Configured PS process to handle resource related billing.

. Defined Project Profiles to process for repairs and overhaul

services..

. Defined Planning Profiles for projects costs and revenue.

. Created different DIP profiles to calculate cost repair and overhaul

services.

. Created Projects and WBS elements in Project system to capture costs

for billing.

. Configured the system for RA analysis.

. Defined RA Keys and assigned.

. Designed the system for their repair services.

. Configure Pricing including variant pricing for the new products.

. Drove the tracking and resolution of issues as they arise.

. Running the logs for the all the batch jobs ran. Analyze the cause of

some failure in creating sales documents.

. Fix the issues by entrusting the responsibilities to the right people

and instruct the users to reprocess the documents. Create functional

specs for any pricing configuration or developmental changes that are

needed.

. Coordinated across Sales, and distribution area for smooth process.

Client: Mead Johnson Nutritional, Evansville, IN

SAP SD Team Lead

. Full-Life-Cycle Implementation SAP SD 4.6C

. Gathered report requirements.

. Analyzed and compared with the legacy system reports.

. Created functional specs for the custom development of reports.

. Tested in various clients before the developed objects were moved to

production.

. Configured the system using the LIS functionality in SAP and developed

the capability of producing the management information reports.

. Trained the end users in creating their own queries and use them as

information fro day to day activity. Documented the custom development

and the configuration made for end users use. Involved in creating

security roles and responsibility for all the users.

Client: GE Silicones, Waterford, NY

SAP SD Support Lead

. Worked as support lead analyst, fixing daily issues during the course

of business transaction. Resolved issues related to pricing, master

data, configuration, and integration with FICO and MM modules, Outputs

etc.

. Developed long term strategic transformation recommendation based on

assessment and gap analysis results. Developed enterprise reporting

system to provide the management the needed information. Responsible

for significant pieces of the solution development including

requirements definition, phasing strategy, and other key components.

Client: Steel Case Corporation, Furniture Mfg. Company, MI

Functional Analyst

. Assisted in the scoping and planning of the APO 3.1 TPVS /GATP

functionality effort.

. Developed a prototype (Proof of Concept) for Transportation Planning

and Vehicle Scheduling function and Global Availability Check (GATP)

in APO 3.1 for Steel Case Corporation. Defined the master data and

transaction data transfer rules through CIF. Made the required changes

for transportation relevant info in R3. Created Master Data,

Optimization profiles and cost profiles for finding out least cost

transportation means. Modeled Supply chain Model for smooth and

successful operation.

. Created shipments and deliveries in TPVS and published to them to

create the same in R3 for further execution.

. Worked on SAP R3 shipping functionality to create several shipping

points, route determinations, shipments and its tracking thro'

Transportation function.

. Defined and assigned the business transactions for different order

types. Maintained check modes and instructions. Maintained the ATP

groups and Field catalogue. Maintained condition table, access

sequence, rule strategies.

. In product allocation settings created profile buckets for time and

storage. Maintained the allocation objects, allocation groups and

procedure. Set the alert monitors. Checked the existing rule based

availability check defined in SAP R3. Checked the strategy group, MRP

group, planning strategy, requirement types and classes.

Endymion Systems Inc., Oakland, CA Sep 2000 - Mar 2002

Client: Color Spot Nurseries, Oakland, CA.

SAP SD Team Analyst

. Full-Life-Cycle implementation of SAP SD module. Including planning,

As-Is, To-Be analysis, design, scripting, etc.

. Analysis of legacy systems, converted all the relevant data to SAP

required Data. Mapped the data for data migration and tested the data

as it comes from SAP system.

. Analyzed fallout data, determined the reason for failure and

discovered a workaround solution

. Responsible for creation and specifications of partner functions,

assignment of partner functions to partner procedures and account

groups,

. Partner function determination in sales and billing document, material

types account groups, and text determination configuration. Specifying

and enabling text usage from customer, sales, delivery and billing

documents

. Customized copy rules for partner functions and copy rules between

sales documents, deliveries and billing documents at header and item

level and splitting rules to enable document grouping functionality

e.g. multiple sales order into single invoices

. Involved in output determination configuration for all sales orders

contracts and billing documents, transaction code configuration along

with use of area menus, and design and configuration of all order to

cash reporting from SAP. This involved the customisation of Standard

SAP reporting tools

Tenneco Automotives, Lake Forest, IL Feb 1999 - Sep 2000

Senior Systems Analyst

. SD Lead for the project Upgrade 3.0F to 4.5.B version.

. Participated in upgrade planning, analysis and implementation from SAP

3.0F to 4.5B

. Version analysis, study of new functionalities, make necessary changes

in the configuration and the master data to meet the requirement of

the new functionality of the upgraded version

. Designed and configured SAP SD variant pricing process to meet

business requirement.

. Enabled Make-To-Order Sales Processing procedure and interface of SD

functionality with production planning

. Configured pricing procedure to have the right account keys for the

right pricing condition type.

. Evaluated SAP implementation and assessment of upgrade requirements.

. Helped in setting up "Foreign Trade" Module for its overseas business

division.

. Responsible for post implementation configuration within Sales and

Distribution including Pricing Procedure and SIS, technical support,

trouble shooting and key user training as required.

. Created ABAP/4 Query Reports for use within Sales and Distribution and

Production Planning.

. Configured the ATP (Availability Check Process) process in Sales and

Distribution area for checking of the product against the ATP

quantity, against planning and the check against product allocation

that is controlled in the material master.

. Defined checking against cumulated quantity, determining checking

groups, checking groups default values, procedures relevant to

requirements of special stocks like make to order products. Controls

for ATP.

. Defined procedures for requirement class, schedule line category and

delivery item category.

. Created checking rules for updating back orders.

. Rebate processing configuration included the creation of rebate types,

rebate groups, settlement rules and verification levels. Account

determination for rebates.

. Responsible for Master Data Configuration (Making fields mandatory

optional or suppressed) and partner function determination

. Responsible for route determination configurations, list layout for

orders and deliveries, shipping point determination.

. Works with the Business Team, the Configuration team and the legacy

systems' technical team on a daily basis in resolving issues.

Mastech Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA May 1997 - Feb 1999

Senior Analyst

Client: Tellabs Inc

. Responsible for all pre analysis process, identifying the key areas in

sales, distribution and in the billing process.

. Configured the requirements as that of it's parent company Tellabs

Inc.

. Led a team of four analysts for the successful implementation.

. Monitored the activity as per the directives and reported periodically

to the management.

. All the Pre-implementation tests were conducted at several levels

before the configured objects were moved to production.

. All of the SD pricing configuration (Condition table/condition

type/access sequence/pricing procedure, pricing condition records) was

done as per the Tellabs guidelines. Though the TELLABS had its

standard pricing structure, many pricing policies were changed due to

the nature and operations of the taken over industry. Many new

customer-specific pricing procedures associated with its own pricing

condition types, access sequences were created.

Capgemini, St. Louis, MO Jan 1996 - Apr 1997

Business Analyst

Project: Manufacturing Industry

. Responsible for implementation of Oracle Financial Account Payable and

General Ledger modules.

. Responsibility included analysis of the business requirements,

participating in sessions to develop data models and verify the models

adhered to standards.

. Conducted gap analysis to find out what business requirements were and

what the existing system was offering, also a team member which was

involved in General Ledger setup (Defining Chart of Accounts, Flex

fields, security rules, journal entry source and categories.).

. As a Business Analyst, was responsible for creation of business and

functional process charts and diagrams, data models, writing

functional specifications, analyzing interfaces written and mapping

critical factors down to key performance indicators.

International Business Systems Inc, Durham, NC May 1990 - Jan 1996

Programmer Analyst

. Involved in the early process of business analysis, developed and

conducted clients workshops.

. Defined the process of identifying the data needed to support both

current and future business needs.

. Created business flowcharts, functional diagrams and organizational

structure.

. Designed and developed a database system for hospital allowing the

administration a smooth management of hospital including keeping track

of patient's information.

. Assessed the operational requirements and information needs for

finance and accounting departments for a Hotel industry.

. Presented to users the benefits of ERP.

. Designed an accounting package Oracle designer 2000.

. The application was developed using Oracle 7.2 for database and Forms

4.5 for creating users interfaces and Oracle Reports 2.5 for

generation of periodical information.

Project: Accounting

Business Manager

. Supervised fifteen accounting and administrative staff, managed their

accounts receivable and general accounting portfolios.

. Prepared monthly, quarterly and yearly accounting and employee

benefits reports.

. Analyzed the business trends and cash flows, recommended changes for

smooth management of the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software / Products: SAP (SD & MM), APO 3.1(TPVS & GATP), GTS 2.0, SAP IP

for processing incentives and paybacks, Oracle Financials,

Siebel CRM

Tools / Languages: Visual Basic, HTML, SQL, PL SQL, ABAP, Oracle Forms &

Reports

Hardware / OS: PC Hardware, Windows, Windows NT, Windows XP

Middleware / DB: Oracle 9i, UNIX, Informix, Access

General Tools: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Lotus Notes, Remedy

(Issues Management). SAP Fusion

Education

. Masters in Business Administration, Osmania University

. Bachelor of Science, Bangalore University

Certifications and Classes:

. SAP Sales & Distribution (Certified)

. SAP Project System

. SAP Material Management

. SAP GTS ( Global Trade Services)

. SAP APO (GATP and TPVS modules)

. Siebel CRM

. IP Application from Vistex

. Oracle Forms & Reports

. Oracle Financials (GL/AP/AR)

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