Project Manager Supply Chain

Uma Mahesh Udata

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Beaverton, Oregon

Phone: 360-***-****

Permanent resident holder for USA and Canada.

Experience Summary:

Project Management and Business Analyst Consulting Experience:

. SRM consultant as a Business Analyst and Project Manager with an

excellent back ground of SAP supply chain systems, generic supply

chain systems with the good purchasing functional experience and

knowing the history of SRM systems evolution and indirect materials

procurement methods (Ariba, Aspect technologies catalogs, i2, B2B,

Market places and IBM collaboration frame work in good old days to

address the indirect procurement for big companies) and the evolution

of SAP SRM (Commerce one -> EBP- SRM- SRM-> Catalogs to SRM 5.0 ->SRM

7.0).

Primarily as a Project Manager worked with architects and solution

managers of SAP and attended many SAP - Tech-eds and SAP sapphires

conferences many times and hence quite familiar with SAP Portals and

related Net Weaver technologies. Secondarily familiar with SAP

Landscapes and Pipes, have been involved into many SAP projects.

Hence, As a PM confident and comfortable working with teams to develop

SAP Projects.

. Senior Professional over 14 years of SCM IT Operations, Technology

consulting and management experience and ensures complete

responsibility for the function. Over the years worked as a SAP/ERP

Program Manager, Project Manager involved in multiple engagements

across USA, India, Europe, South Africa, Australia and Asia Pac

(Onsite/Offshore Model) with fair understanding of Net Weaver/XI

technology basics, MDM, SRM of MYSAP concepts, VSAP, ASAP,

Blueprinting methodologies.

. Big 5 consulting policies and end user experience includes interaction

with senior management from the project implement and support stage.

Project management exposure includes business strategy development,

worldwide business/ technical lead for quantified business case

justification, blueprinting, and system development methodologies.

. Set up of Customer competency centre for developing core competence of

the project team, training and production support. Managed relations

with ERP vendors for product support information, Issue resolution and

upgrades. Supported 50 to 100 person teams which included consultants

and customers.

. Good crisis management skills. Set up of Customer competency centre

for developing core competence of the project team, training and

production support.

SRM Functional Business Analyst:

. Configuring SRM in Extended Classic Scenario for Self Service

Procurement, Plan Driven Procurement, Sourcing, Contract Management,

Bidding Engine, Catalog Integration, and Supplier Self Service.

. Managed and Performed SRM system configuration for Sandbox,

Development, Testing and Production Systems.

. Configured/tested the Procurement processes in EBP & integration with

R/3 using Extended Classic Scenario.

. Exposure to BRF for work flow, SRM Portal configuration and SRM MDM

Catalog system.

. Understanding of SAP ASAP implementation methodology and expertise in

maintaining status and documentation in SAP Solution Manager

Professional Experience:

. He has served for Companies like Siemens Services, HP, Cap Gemini

Ernst & Young, and Cap Gemini. Clients are Intel, HP, IBM Storage Tech

Division, Alcatel, Samsung, LG, Philips, HP, Tellabs, and Mentor

Graphics Titan, Asian Paints, and Hindustan Petroleum etc.

. Over 14 years of IT/Operations/supply chain consulting experience with

SAP Logistics core modules like MM and PP, new dimension modules like

SRM, SCM, MDM. This includes 9-10 yrs of experience in SAP ECC 6.0,

SAP R/3(4.6, 4.7), SAP SRM (5.0,4.0), MDM and Catalog Content

Management.

. As a ERP,SRM,MDM,SCM Business Analyst and consultant at Big 5 and HP

over a period of time involved into Analysis, Design, scaled up to

Project manager and Architecture level with respect to configuration

of SAP MM,SRM,PP for Procure to Pay( P2P) and Plan to PO business

cycles. Complete understanding about Material Master, Vendor Master,

Customer master, Vendor management, RFQ, Purchase Order generation,

Goods Inward note preparation, Account Payables and Posting to the GL.

Can analyze and understand the end to end processes involved from SAP

MM to SRM, SCM, and EDM considering the latest technology MDM master

data management as a reference.

. Extensively worked on solutions of SAP SRM, MDM, SCM, BW, Logistics

and SCM with consulting background like strong business analysis,

client facilitation, project coordination, business requirement

identification, presentation, problem solving and documentation

skills. Ability to communicate technical and business concepts to

technical and non-technical audience. Ability to create and document

ideas and solutions.

. Working on ECC 5.0 and 6.0 of SAP in all the latest assignments and

road map developments in consulting environment. Involved into the

evolution of SAP 4.6, 4.7 enterprise versions to ECC 5.0 and 6.0.

. Previously served for HP, Cap Gemini, and CGE&Y as a full time

employee and worked as a consultant in Intel IT (ESD/MDM) domain.

Supported 50 to 100 person teams which included consultants and

customers.

. International consulting experience in countries like Singapore,

Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Italy, France, Netherlands, Belgium,

Germany, UK, Canada, USA, South Africa, and New Zealand before

settling in USA.

. Areas of exposure: P2P (MM, SRM), SAP-PP- SCM, MDM, BIW and PMI, ASAP

methodologies.

Education :

1. MBA -Operations Mgt. with major in Manufacturing and Logistics. April

1994- may 1996

(NITIE, Bombay, India), Best/Top rated School for Ops and Mfg mgt

in India.

(www.nitie.edu)

2. Bachelor of Science in Production Engineering, April 1989 -April 1993.

(Osmania University. Hyderabad, India)

3. CPIM-APICS, USA.

4. CSCP, APICS, USA.

5. PMP, PMI Certification.

6. Enrolled and working on Integrated Technology Management & MBA at

Portland State University, 2007

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

0. Consultant Lead Intel, Hillsboro, OR

March 2008-Till now

1. Manager, Supply Chain/Logistics Practice, SAP Consulting Div. of Cap

Gemini, USA Sep 2006 -March2008

2. Supply Chain/Logistics Practice, Systems Analyst, Process consultant

II and Project Manager, Consulting wing of HP (USA and India),

Mar 2003-Aug2006

3. Manager, Supply Chain/Logistics, Consulting Div. of Cap Gemini Ernst

& Young.(USA and India) Feb 2001-Mar 2003

4. Associate Consultant, Sr. Consultant, Siemens Services.(USA and India)

Feb 1999 -Feb 2001

5. Computer Sciences Corporation Milpitas, (Erstwhile, Covansys Inc.

Presently part of CSC) CA USA, Jul 1997 -Feb 1999

6. Sr. Engineer, Materials Planning of Tata Motors.(Biggest Truck Mfg co.

in Asia) India Jun 1996 -Jun 1997

7. Summer Project Internship, British Gas. India Jan 1996-May1996

8. Project Trainee Internship. FIAT Automobiles Ltd. India Oct 1994

-Dec1994

9. Planning Engineer, SAMKRG Pistons, India May 1993-Apr1994

Professional Experience:

Intel - Hillsboro, Oregon Consultant, Aug 2009 - July 2, 2010:

SRM 7.0 Upgrade Experience:

As part of a forklift upgrade, SAP positions the advantages of SRM 7.0

coming from three key areas: procurement excellence, services procurement

and foundational enhancements. From a procurement excellence perspective,

SRM 7.0 will provide unified access and information across a purchasing

environment and SAP ERP information. It will provide a single view for all

purchase orders and queries and will consolidate SAP ERP and SAP SRM

business objects (e.g., supplier or part information will be an object both

within SAP SRM and SAP ERP, allowing users to work within different SAP

applications and access the same information). Additionally, SAP positions

SRM 7.0 as enabling a centralized operational contract repository across

both ERP and SRM, offering a single, consolidated contract type/object that

will enable easier access and management.

Role I, As a Project Manager:

- Provided overall QA for Build to Go-Live of the SRM 7.0 Upgrade

Project

Review project status at weekly and inform the status to Program

Managers and Stake Holders

Resolve identified issues

Selection of project management tools and templates, including

Intel proprietary tools

Weekly project governance

Manage schedules, costs, resources, scope and overall risks

Work closely with PMO office on Issues and Milestones.

Define risk and mitigation plans

Provide methodology and implementation guidance

Assist with preparing Steering team communication

Quality management

Resource planning

Status reporting

Issue identification, resolution and escalation to SAP America.

Role II, Served as a SRM Procurement Business Analyst:

SRM 5.0-MM of ECC and SAP R/3 4.6 and MDM supplier master and SRM

catalogs related Master Data) in supporting indirect materials

procurement pipe that is being handled by SRM with dual back end of

ECC and legacy R/3 MM Systems with the upstream supplier Master Data

Management systems.

Could get hold of complete spectrum of SRM landscape linking other

MDM, dual back end of ECC and R/3 4.6 systems multiplied by DEV,

Production, and QA environments. Understood the real missing elements

and functionalities versus real issue with the SRM 5.0

Every issue and concern of business side has been well documented and

articulated to all the stake holders and resolved.

Familiarized the SRM systems and real issues and work abounds to

business and IT support and out sourced IT supported teams.

Meticulously tested and verified the compatibility of the code changed

by SAP Inc development teams before implementing the OSS notes.

Always given hand hold, easy reach and comfort to ABAP and BASIS teams

to check/verify the functionality changes due to the code changes so

that they do not haggle around functional affects due to small little

changes on Data, Code and SPRO settings.

Have been involved through variety of roles stabilizing and sustain

phases of SRM systems. Heavily supported, fixed the bugs and fixes and

more over worked and Coordinated with SAP America and ABAP/BASIS/

Finance/support and Business teams in resolving the extended classic

SRM issues in post stabilization and sustain and support production

phases.

Achievements:

1. Single handedly stabilized, supported and resolved many of the

issues around SRM 5.0 systems during certain phases and due to

full time employee turnover at client side.

2. Successfully articulated the issues and coordinated between

Business and tech team and SAP Company's SAP global Support

teams support team.

3. Have created highest no of OSS messages and SDN clarifications

on issues in resolving and stabilizing the SRM 5.0 systems.

4. Provided all the quick fix tips to the tech and business teams

with respect to PO's and Shopping carts related issues.

5. Quite familiar with SAP global Support teams and SAP product

management teams.

6. Coordinated with IT support teams of different countries (Coasta

Rica, Israel, Malaysia, USA and India).

7. Received good appreciations from the managers of IT and

Business.

8. Collated all kinds of SRM related books and training related

materials to understand the issues and limitations at broader

level and make them aware of to the teams to gain the confidence

on the application.

9. Contract has been extended multiple no of times irrespective of

cost related and out sourcing related pressures.

Hi Tech Client, Santa Clara, CA Jan 2009 -July 2009,

Role: Functional Business Analyst - SRM/EBP SAP ECC / SRM 5.0-

EBP/SUS/CCM 2.0/BW-3.5/BI 7.0.Configured/tested the Procurement

processes in EBP & integration with R/3 using Extended Classic

Scenario. Provided - expertise in Self Service Procurement (Direct and

Indirect procurement, Plan driven procurement, material procurement,

Account Assignment) in SRM. Worked on Supplier Selection Process and

replicated the Business Partners from EBP to SAP SUS.Configured the

Shopping Cart functionalities, defined web services for CCM,

Organizational structure, vendor org, purchase groups and assignment

of responsibilities, approval workflows, defined and set up the

roles/authorizations to meet the business requirements. Production

Support / Error Analysis and resolution of help desk tickets in the

following areas of SRM: SRM transactions using the Extended Classic

Scenario, Component planning for PM orders, Troubleshooting sourcing

cockpit, quantity issues, Plan driven procurement, Processing POs and

implementing "Best Practices", Maintained conditions and contracts for

vendors. Customized Sourcing by product category and purchasing

group. Extensively took part in Unit testing, System Integration

Testing, Functional Testing, different stages of Application

Implementation Life Cycle.

Intel, Consultant, Mar 2008 - Dec 2008:

Business Analyst:

SAP MDM, SAP SRM 5.0 MDM integrating with legacy R3 and SAP ECC 6.0:

Worked as a MDM Systems Analyst and MDM test lead in one of the MDM

assignments/engagements at Intel, Hillsboro. That is design, analysis,

and construction and support phases of the project. It involves

hosting of 90K supplier/vendor data base into Teradata application

using SAP MDM and SRM business logic and suppliers related

information. This application is being developed by Intel

collaborating with SAP & Teradata. I had closely worked with

materials, inventory, Accounts payables and Procurement teams of Intel

and assist with gathering conversion requirements. I have been

involved into developing ETL and cleansing procedures as well as

perform unit tests, integration, UAT and end to end tests with system

owners. As this MDM will be record of origin and host all Supplier

related master data for SAP P2P ( Supplier name, No, Add, Company

Codes, Purchase Org, Supplier Duns no, Fraud check, Approval, Bank

Info, Tax, etc.. ) and Planning related Data for all the Planning

engines. As this data moves over to R/3 4.7 legacy systems and ECC 6.0

on publishing either through XML format via I-Docs or manual uploading

through Excel. Supplier data is the record of origin in Supplier/P2P

pipeline. Data is consisting of Vendor contractual terms, searching of

duns no. Taxes, Payment terms, Company codes, Purchase Orgs, Bank

info. creating of new vendors, approvals, and data gathering for

contract agreements. The phases involved, development of the

application, Unit testing, Integration testing, Cons testing, UAT and

Production.

. Highlights: 1.Received many applauds from Program manager, Project

managers, Business Users, Product manager, Account manager of the

Intel Vendor for relentless quality of delivery in UAT phase and

simulation of go-live phases.2. Had worked at the tune of 12-13 hrs a

day consecutively for 3 months without any break in the weekends for 8-

9 consecutive weekends to meet the stringent targets and supported

super users of 3 different time zones in 6-7 countries (USA, Malaysia,

Singapore, Israel, China, Philippines and Costa Rica).

Cap Gemini, USA, 06/07 - 01/08, Consultant, Analyst & Lead on multiple

engagements.

Project Manager:

. Mentor Graphics, Wilson Ville, OR: Involved in road map development

for ECC 6.0 migrating from 4.6b, supported in areas like P2P (MM,

SRM), Unicode Conversion, Comparison between ECC 5.0 Vs ECC 6.0

. JIM Beam, KY: Involved and supported in an ongoing project for

Supplier Master Data, Logistics Modules Master Data, Dada Analysis,

Testing and Migration related activities.

. Tell Labs. Chicago, IL: Involved into a Proposal and solution

development for SAP upgrade project. Study of present systems and

functionalities and effort estimation required for upgrade,

Involvement of end to end ECC 6.0 upgrade pursuit and supporting of

related activities. Study of SAP 6.0 upgrade related spectrum of

activities and Unicode conversion.

. Adidas. Portland, OR: Worked on a Plan to Purchase solution

development for apparel business with the supply chain team.

. Nike, Beaverton, OR: Business Systems Analyst: Involved in Plan to

Purchase Proto development with SAP Professional services. Focus on

business integration that includes defining and documenting to-be

supply planning business processes in collaboration with global and

regional business unit managers. Focus on planning processes and

tools, have a strong understanding of systems and end-to-end business

processes and be able to perform business process definition, system

configuration and solution design.

HP Services, India and USA (03/03 - 06/06) Consultant and Project Manager

Business Systems Analyst:

HP-ESG/IPG/, SAP- Procurement Functional Consultant: Gained Experience

with all aspects of procurement module of SAP due to the maintenance of

customization of Master Records such as Material Master, Vendor Master.

Worked on maintaining the Purchasing Records, which includes Purchase

Requisitions, RFQ, Quotation, Purchase Orders, Outline agreements, and

purchasing info records. Configured vendor master records, created

account groups based on the type of control required, defined usage of

partner functions and vendor sub-range functions. Maintained the terms of

payments for vendors, vendor sub-range functions and shipping

instruction. Configured split valuation for raw material with origin as

valuation category and local and imported as the valuation types

assigning number ranges for material types. Customized the Release

procedure with classification for purchasing Requisitions with account

assignment as per the approval hierarchy of the company. Defined new

material types apart from the standard material types as per the

requirements for the client and created several valuation classes and

account category references, changed the field status of the material

master records as per the user requirements. Maintained the automated

purchase ordering process to a great extent by using assigning and

processing Requisitions based on Info records, and extensive use of

scheduling agreements. Designed test scripts and performed integration

testing in Purchasing, Inventory management and Physical Inventory.

Worked with end users to provide instructions on required and optional

data elements. Prepared the user documents for the MM module, giving

presentation and demos.

. Project Manager:

. HPS-IT-EMEA, Bristol UK /India Environment : SAP R/3(PP, MM):

Providing Development and support to HP's SAP MM/PP implementation

(4.6C) for their contract and managed service business. Preparing the

business blue print in purchasing and production areas. Conducting

training workshops in MM & PP, Modeling the procurement processes.

Supporting the go-live and production issues.

. HP-IGSO/CPE BW- US, Analyst and Project Manager: Supported a worldwide

24X 7 SAP BW applications Support and development on site and off

shore model. Incubation of a project, recruitment and resources

development, delivery and development of support and resource model.

. Hyundai, Malaysia, as a Subject matter expert advisor, for the

selection of Logistics solution Hyundai motors Malaysia. Lead the team

for supporting HP's SAP MM/PP implementation (4.6C) for their contract

and managed service business.

Ernst & Young & Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. (USA and India), of 2000-2003,

Sr. Consultant.

Some of the clients served and services delivered as following.

. Titan Watches, India: As a lead, Involved into redesigning and

development of supply side of SCM (MM and PP) with the help of new

dimension modules like APO and SRM using SCOR methodology. Assemble to

Order, two plants with Multi level distribution centers, defining of

safety stocks, defining of lane costs, critical material procurement

planning, Configuration of DP and SNP, Prototyping Capable to Match

(CTM) and Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI). The demand forecast is then

fed to SNP for generating constraints based (capacity, resource, time,

cost, customer priority, channels, region) feasible and optimal plan.

The plan is valid for multi-site operations and it also takes care of

transportation and distribution optimizations. Raw material

procurement planning, Bottle neck resources planning, lot size

planning, setting for finite scheduling and PPDS pegging strategy.

. HPCL, India: Current state analysis of DRP, MPS, MRP and Raw Materials

Planning. Involved in to the implementation of the MFG (DRP, MPS,

MRP&CRP) Module, Product Data Management, Cost management, Material

Planning, Shop Floor Management, Resource and Capacity Planning, Work

Orders. Involved in MFG, Inventory Analysis and Designs and Project

Management at HPCL Implementation Project on different phases.(To-Be,

CRP, ICRP testing phases, Set Up Manuals, User Manuals, Transaction &

Training Manuals, Data Sets Preparation, Key User Training) of the

Lubes segment of HPCL.

. IBM, Storage Tech Division, San Jose. USA: Served on Business release

2 & 3, that is Integration between SAP and Active Data Warehouse of

SCM solution and SAP R/3 Production Planning data bases.

. AFC, Atlanta, USA: Analysis of planning environment in evaluation of

supply chain Solutions.

. Philips, Eindhoven, Netherlands: Master Planning Implementation,

Process improvement of Master Planning processes followed by

customization and Integration between Production Planning and

Distribution Planning of R/3 and i2 of Electronics operations

template.

. Alcatel, France and Italy: Master Production Planning, Study of

Alcatel TND Business activities, Design of Business process

activities, Modeling and Documentation of AS IS, TO BE and SCOPE for

Master Planning, Modeling and Prototype development and Gap Analysis,

Resolving the issues between Forecast netting and Master planning

Installation of ELOPS data sets and Training of Super users.

Siemens Services, Mid 1999-2000, (Associate Consultant, Sr. Consultant in

Logistics/Supply Chain)

Some of the clients served and services delivered as following.

. LG Electronics, Switching Systems Division, South Korea: MRP Options

evaluation (MRP run and Raw Materials planning) PP Vs FP and SCP.

Study and Design of Business process activities and followed by an

implementation.

. Samsung Electronics, Seoul, South Korea: Template evaluation and

Preliminary Modeling, Logic development, Orientation of CED template

solution at Samsung Electronics

. Asian Paints, India: It was an End to End supply chain planning in

Plan to Purchase Order and Production Order implementation. Involved

in blue printing, modeling, and prototype development, developing

feasible and acceptable plans. The implementation covered are Annual

planning, Master planning, deployment Planning, Inventory planning and

Materials Planning. Release 1 supported Annual Planning, Master

Planning and Distribution Planning and Release 2 supported Inventory

Planning and Materials Planning.

Computer Sciences Corporation Milpitas, (Erstwhile, Covansys Inc. Presently

part of CSC) CA USA, (1998- Mid 1999) Supply Chain/Logistics Consultant,

. Worked on multiple assignments in Logistics modules and SCM solutions

that ideally address integrated supply chain management solutions in

late nineties. Later on, started working on corporate trainings, pre-

sales and proto type developments for integrated SCM solutions.

Eventually, I have worked on various SCM projects. These projects were

delivered along with professional services group. Some of the clients

include Samsung, PeopleSoft Corporation.

Tata Motors, India, (1996- 1997) Sr. Engineer- Materials and Planning

(Logistics)

. Worked at Tata Motors involved into purchasing and purchasing systems

of Materials (Direct and Indirect materials).

. Worked as a sr. production planning engineer on multiple projects,

vehicle cost evaluation system, work ordering and material requirement

system, master production scheduling system and ancillary development

projects such as guiding suppliers on quality systems and productivity

improvement programs.

Internships, while doing MBA in Operations/Supply Chain Management.

. British Gas. India, 1996: Developed a Productivity Measurement &

monitoring system, This assignment involved Study and analysis of

activities of gas division, the existing system and MIS, Design of

Productivity Measurement and monitoring systems for all the

departments and vertically to the division as a whole and

incorporating with MIS.

. FIAT Automobiles Ltd. India, 1994: Developed MRP model for FIAT-UNO

project. Preparing Master production schedule to calculate

requirements for Materials along with recommendations to release

replenishment orders to Shop floor and Procurement.

SAMKRG Pistons, India (05/93 - 04/94) Planning Engineer.

. Worked as a planning Engineer in Production planning and control,

smoothening. Timely execution, Fulfillment of OEM orders and Scheduled

dispatches and Interfacing between sales and production, Handling of

Customer Complaints.

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