Sales Project

Materials Management Functional Consultant with *+ Years of Experience in

SAP R/3 implementation, customization & configuration in various industries

along with 11 years of Non-SAP IS and functional experience.

. My diverse experience includes involvement in all aspects of the SAP

implementation process, business process analysis, system

configuration, testing, end-user and project-team training, and

production support.

. Expertise in the SAP Material Management, Sales and Distribution and

integration knowledge with FI-CO.

. Hands on experience on Enterprise/Organization Structure, procurement

of stock, and procurement of consumption, Pricing (PO/SO), Discounts,

inbound and outbound Delivery Processing, Shipping & Transportation,

variant configuration, account determination, Vendor Master, Material

Master Data, Purchasing Info Records, Contracts, Scheduling Agreement,

Source List & quota arrangement for optimized purchasing processing,

Partner Functions, Output determination, Experienced in specials

procurement like stock transfers using stock transport orders,

intercompany PO/SO orders, subcontracting and vendor consignment.

. Experienced in Inventory Management (IM) module with expertise in

configuring new Movement types, GR, GI, Transfer Posting, Physical

Inventory (IM and WM), and Reservations subcontract order through

delivery

. Expert in LIV, defining invoice document types, number ranges and

defining blocking reason for invoice, setting up tolerance for invoice

block, setting up of check double invoice.

. Experienced in ERS configuration from MM perspective. Setting up

master data as ERS prerequisite and message determination for

settlement document.

. Experienced on IDocs and EDI. Good knowledge on various IDocs like

Shipment notice and Inventory extracts Strong knowledge on EDI/ALE

messaging: IDocs, Partner profile and port configurations connection

between SAP-SAP and SAP-Non-SAP systems..

. Diverse SAP experience covering different aspects such as planning,

Business Analysis, business blueprint, design, Prototyping,

Configuration and development, unit testing, integration testing, Go-

Live, Super User Training, End-User training, support and continuous

development.

. Worked extensively on automated procurement process through

centralized contract, Intercompany purchase orders, Strong

understanding of the MM module's integration points to the SD, PP and

FI/CO modules.

. SD - Configured Sales Orgs, Customer Master setup, Buyer Seller

Relationship, VOE2 and VOE4 entries, Customer Linkage to CSN Vendors,

Configuration of Inter Company Sales Order Pricing Procedures.

. SD Master Data: Experienced in configuring/maintenance of master data

such as Organizational Units, Customer, Material records and various

condition records. Experience in master data cleansing and working on

speeding up of batch jobs. .

. SD Pricing: Expert in configuration of complex pricing procedures and

associated condition types, access sequences, condition tables,

requirement routines.

. OTC/QTC: Order Management, Sales Documents, Item Categories, Schedule

Line Categories, Pricing Procedures, Delivery and Billing Documents,

Availability Check, Transfer of Requirements, Copy Control, Material

Determination, Output Determination, Account Assignment

. Experience with FI integration for inventory valuation during various

inventory movements, Account determination, split valuation.

. Mercury ITG: Worked in Mercury ITG for raising and maintaining Change

Requests (CRs) and Design Change Requests (DCRs)

. Worked in Mercury Quality Center for maintaining requirements, test

plans, executing tests and raising defects.

. Strong background in gathering the business requirements, preparing

the business workflows, design & specification documentation.

. Designed and prepared training materials for Super Users and End

Users, Help desk set up and problem reporting processes and best

practices to resolve the production issues without significant down

time of system.

. Experience with diverse, multi-disciplined business professionals,

strong interpersonal and project management skills.

. Excellent communicator, with emphasis on meeting the client's SAP

requirements, capable of making professional presentations and quick

learner with an ability to rapidly adapt to emerging technologies.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Consulting Firm: ADEA Solutions, Irving, Texas

Client: H P, Houston Texas

Mar'09 - Current

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Project: EDS Integration - Mixed Orders

SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

. Gathered Client's Business requirements for implementation of Mixed

Orders Project.

. Drove the Prototype model for the required business process in SAP and

presented to business team as part of design blueprint approval.

. Developed/coordinated Application Design Documents for Contracts,

Quotes, PR, PO as per the Business Requirements

. Coordinated with developers in construction of SAP solutions for EDS -

HP Integration business processes ie Sell With, Sell to, Sell Through,

interface development between TSG IT System (Compass) and upstream

Solutioning Systems (Watson, eZConfig, Ezprs, Eclipse) and downstream

Supply Chain Systems (Fusion, Velocity, Vista)

. Worked on SD master data like customer master, master data for sold-to

party, ship-to party, bill-to party and customer groups.

. Configured account groups for Customer Master: field selection,

assignment to partner functions, definition of new partner functions

and partner determination

. Configured Account Groups for Trade Purchasing Vendors (com2),

Accounting Vendors (MAVE, ZAVE, XAVE, PAVE, MAVR, CAVR, EAVR etc.),

Intercompany Purchasing Vendors (ICVN), Intercompany Accounting

Vendors ( FIIC, ZICV).

. Defined number ranges for vendor master, Customer Master.

. Set up the vendor and customer master in Development and Test boxes

for Unit testing, SIT and BIT/UAT.

. Developed Buyer and Seller relationship Matrix including the Company

codes, Sales org, Sales Division, Distribution Channel, Purchase Orgs,

Purchase Groups, Selling and Buying entity codes.

. Defined PR, PO document types ( YI1, YI2, ZMBS),Configured Pricing

procedure ZS0000 with List Price, MOU Price, TAC price

. Worked on PO split development based on upfront Sales Orders, Ship to

Party, Watson ID and the Solution ID

. Setup WWAS PR Release approvals

. Involved in PO/SO idoc mapping for i SAP flow.

. Delivered VISTA PO Output Solution to communicate Compass with VISTA

supplying System for volume products procurement.

. Prepared the Test Scripts for different scenarios (Sell With, Sell to,

Sell Through) for upload in Test Lab and execution.

. Spearheaded the Unit testing and SIT testing via Quality Center (QC).

Generated reporting documents on SIT testing status for SIT/BIT

Monitoring Teams.

Consulting Firm: ADEA Solutions, Irving, Texas

Client: H P, Houston Texas

Jan'08 - Feb' 09

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Project: IGSO/GPSC - Release 6.0 & 7.0

SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

. Participated in two full life cycle project implementations - IGSO

Release 6.0 and Release 7.0

. Supported the SAP implementation roll out in 46 countries across the

globe - Americas, EMEA and APJ Regions.

. Developed Application Design Documents for business processes in scope

and Delivered the Solutions.

. Implemented Solutions for Several Business process for Intercompany

Replenishment of good materials, Sell back of good and defective

materials, CSN Labor Payments and Adjustments, 3rd Party and External

Procurement.

. Configured Enterprise Structure - Company Codes, Purchasing

Organizations, Purchasing groups, MRP controllers, Plants, Storage

locations.

. Configured External & Inter Company purchasing Vendor and Accounting

Vendor Master Data - Account groups, number ranges.

. Setup Inter Company, CSN and External Vendors and corresponding

Accounting Vendors in DVL, NTX.

. Configured Vendor - Customer (EDSDC, EDPAR) relationship for Inter

Company Procurement process. Configured the relationship between CSN

Customers and Vendors.

. Implemented ALE distribution model between NT4 and NTX, PPC and PXX

for Info records, Scheduling Agreements, Source List Flow.

. Involved in Vendor ALE setup Between SRS and NTX (Test box), QXX (Dual

Test Box), PXX (Production Box).

. Setup Customer and Vendor conversion rules, partner profiles

. Configured PO Out Put condition records.

. Implemented Release Strategies for Purchase Requisition and Purchase

Orders.

. Created new condition types, condition record, condition table, access

sequence & new inter company PO/SO pricing procedure

. Good Understanding on Combined sales orders, combined deliveries,

combined billing, split orders, split deliveries and Split invoicing.

. Actively participated in unit testing, integration testing, regression

testing, and resolved issues during testing phase.

. Dual Testing Environment Set up - User ID, Password setup for SRS

connection to QXX.

. Quality Center coordinator for Test scripts execution and reporting to

the management.

. Actively participated in RTP Activities, TR, SR Validations, Manual

Tasks performance

. Post GO-Live Production Support and IM Tickets management via HP

Service Center

. Involved in End user training and development of Business Process

Procedures Training documents.

Consulting Firm: Weidbee Inc. Houston, Texas

Client: United technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT

Jul'06 - Jan' 08

SAP MM Functional Consultant

SAP R/3 4.7

. Completed beginning-to-end R3 4.6 software implementation for all

areas of MM-Purchasing, Inventory Management, and Invoice

Verification.

. Actively involved in Project Initiation, Business Blue Printing,

Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live and Post Go-Live support

stages of project.

. Responsible for team formation, project goals, management resources,

project schedule, recorded key decisions, and gathered business

objective requirements. product design, developing, testing and

training.

. Worked on RFQ, Quotation, Vendor Source Lists, Purchasing Info

Records, Purchasing, Make to Stock, Make to Order, Purchase to Order,

Subcontracting, Purchase orders.

. Integrated variant configuration in Classification, Material Master,

Bill of Material, Conditions, Purchasing, Costing, MRP, and Production

Order Applications.

. Worked on Master Data like Material Master, Vendor Master, Pricing

Conditions and configured Automatic Account Assignment. Configured

all areas of Inventory Management including -

Receiving, Inbound delivery, Goods Issues, Transfer Movements, Batch

Management and Physical Inventory.

. Configuration of Enterprise Structure for MM related activity.

. Created Master data which includes Material, Vendor, Purchase Info

Records and also customizing the same as per the client's requirement.

. Configuration and creation of Purchasing Documents, which includes

Purchase Request (PR), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Order

(PO) and Contracts.

. Creation of Number Ranges for all the Material Management Documents.

. Configuration of inter plant stock transport order.

. Inventory Management - Managing materials stock by quantity, by value,

goods issue.

. Stock movement documentation/Reservation/Quantity inspection/Physical

Inventory.

. Units of Measure, Special Stock, Consignment, Material Storage,

Transfer Posting.

. Invoice Verification - Entering Invoices with order reference.

Consulting Firm: Weidbee Inc. Houston, Texas

Client: USA Mobility Inc, Alexandria, VA

Jan'05 - Jun'06

SAP MM Functional Consultant

SAP R/3 4.6C

. Set up of Organization Structure related to MM Storage locations and

Purchasing Organizations.

. Configured Reference Purchasing Organization and assigned different

purchasing organizations and purchasing groups.

. Carried out split valuation of materials based on valuation category.

. Configured Material master with default data for purchasing documents

using purchase value keys.

. Configured vendor master records.

. Set up and maintenance of conditions and price determination in the

purchase of materials.

. Set up release procedures for purchasing documents and link it to work

flow.

. Generated document outputs through messaging for RFQ, PO and invoice.

. Set up the Plant parameters for inventory management, Tolerances on

Goods issues and receipts, automatic creation of PO's.

. Configured the Physical inventory settings and carried out physical

inventory at storage location level.

. Participated in integration and user acceptance test for several MM

scenarios.

. Prepared integration and user acceptance test scripts in mercury

interactive tool.

. Prepared user manuals and trained users as part of Go-Live

preparation.

Consulting Firm: Chemtex Inc. Port Arthur, Texas, USA

Mar '03 - Dec'04

SAP MM Functional Consultant

SAP R/3 4.6C

. Configured MM Organizational Structure for plants at multiple

locations. Involved in baseline configuration of creation and

assignment of Plants to Company Code, Storage Locations to Plants.

. Created Purchasing Organizations and Purchasing Groups. Created

material master records for different material types.

. Configured Info records, Source list and Quota arrangements,

Purchasing Requisition, Source of Supply, and Vendor Evaluation.

. Activated purchase requisition, purchase order release strategies

according to new requirements.

. Purchase order Processing: Order types, Item categories, RFQ,

Contracts & schedule line agreement.

. Configured Inventory Management Parameters for all Goods movements

like Goods

Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, GR for blocked stock, Goods

returns etc.,

. Created storage locations automatically for different Movement types

with Goods

issue/Transfer posting and Goods receipt.

. Created Engineering Change Request (ECR), converted ECR to Engineering

Change Order (ECO), Maintained Change Master Record, Objects with

reference to a Change Number, automated processing of Business

Transactions using ECR, Processed Object Types namely BOM, Task Lists,

Documents, Materials, Classification System Objects, Variant

Configuration objects etc. with reference to a Change Number.

. Customized Physical Inventory documents and posting the difference

quantity for carrying out physical inventory.

Client: BayTek International, Corpus Christi TX

July '99 - Feb '03

Software Engineer

. Worked directly with clients in procurement department to develop

system requirements and design/identify solutions.

. Involved in designing of system with user team & developed functional

specifications.

. Designed the Database schema using ER-Diagram and created several

tables, relationships, Queries, Reports in Oracle.

. Prepared UML data model and Component structure diagrams using MS

Visio 2003.

. Provided product support by researching and recommending products

needed to provide the infrastructure for the System.

. Implemented customized error handling.

. Conducted code reviews with other developers.

. Responsibilities included Identification and communication of

technical problems, processes and solutions, update, repair, modify,

and expand existing software.

CREI, Belize, Central America.

Feb'97 - Jun'99

System Analyst

. Organized 30 years of data relevant to Citrus Fruit and Processing

Procurement, Citrus growers, land, commodity grown, and cost incurred

returns etc.

. Involved in aerial mapping of the citrus growing areas, soil,

rainfall, diseases, pests etc.

. Developed database and its integration with Geographic Information

System.

. Created a normalized database, functions, triggers, stored procedures

using Microsoft SQL.

. Trained the technical staff to use and maintain the database, GIS.

. Established nation wide citrus growers community communication centers

via strategically located multi clients systems that were connected to

a server with database- GIS.

. This Unique and State of Art database helped producers to maximize

their profits by 40% with better understanding of their holdings and

prudent use of inputs.

Ministry of Agriculture, Belize, Central America

Jan '95 - Jan '97

Developer

. Spearheaded Advanced Development Program (ADP), a project funded by

the Minister of Agriculture.

. Was involved in the whole lifecycle of the project starting form

requirements gathering to designing, developing, testing, and training

the users.

. Developed functional requirements documents, design description

documents, unit test, regression testing.

. Used the visual basic programming at the front end which was linked

with the Access database and got the information on population

hierarchies of Belize.

. Created classes DLL (Dynamic Link Libraries), functions, methods.

. This VB application provided the information on different social

scenarios in the region like heavily populated with children, heavily

populated with women etc.

. Coordinated the maintenance and enhancement of application.

. This project resulted in a program that helped in the elevation of

Socio- Economic status of Belize Citizens.

CGA/NAREC, Belize, Central America.

Feb '92 - Dec '94

National IS Coordinator

. Coordinated Implementation of The United Nations, FAO funded project

on "Enhancement of Major Agriculture Industries IS Requirements".

. Lead a team consisting of experts (National & International) with

diversified Agricultural industrial knowledge to assist the United

Nations consultants in assessing the IS needs of respective

Industries.

. Assessed the Information Systems requirements of Citrus Industry

(Production and Processing).

. Blue printed the Business process of Citrus Fruit Procurement for

production of FJOC for International Markets.

. Developed a statistical tool to forecast the market demands,

production and processing of Value Added Citrus Products.

. Streamlined the Procurement and maintenance process of Citrus

Processing Plants.

. Spearheaded a Pilot Project on Procurement of fruit and equipment in

the Processing Industry.

ATTRIBUTES:

. Persistent and focused.

. A creative and lateral thinker.

. Able to assimilate and organize information from a wide variety of

sources.

. Able to work effectively in a group, sharing facilities, information

and enthusiasm.

. Disciplined work habits.

. Able to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.

. Helpful and encouraging of others.

. Friendly and out going.

EDUCATION :

M.S, UAS, Bangalore, India.

AWARDS RECEIVED:

. Gold Medals in M.S.

. Professional Achievement Award, Public Speaking Award &Technical

Presentation Award.

. Received awards from Minister of Citrus & transport, Belize; Governors

of Quintana Roo and Tamaulipas States, Mexico for technical co-

operation and achievements.

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