Project Manager Sap
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Suleman Piracha
SULEMAN PIRACHA PMP
CINCINNATI, OH 45249
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OBJECTIVE
Skills
Lead SAP contract or full-time position requiring strong SAP implementation,
leadership experience and interpersonal skills
14+ years in R/3
- FI-AP
- FI-AR
SUMMARY - FI-GL
- FI-AA
Over 20 years of hands on SAP experience - CO-CCA
- CO-IO
Over nine years of Project Management experience
- CO-PC
Experience in leading large diverse project team of up to 25 professional - CO-PA
Multiple full cycle implementation Experience - EC-PCA
SAP hands on expert level of experience in major modules –FI (AP, AR, GL, AA), CO - PS
(CCA, CEL, PC, IO, PA), PS, EC- PCA, and SD(OTC)/MM(PTP)
SAP R/3 SD
Data conversion and cutover activities experience
SAP R/3 MM (procure to
Strong knowledge of integration points between different modules payment)
Experience in Production Support Solution Manager
Experience as Project Leader, Team Lead, and Integration Testing Lead
SAP R/2(Eight Years):
Experience with Test Director (Automatic Testing Tool)
RA, RF, RK, RM, RV
Experience with Solution Manager
Experience in developing and implementing SAP user authorization concept Technical:
- ABAP IV
SAP experience with release R/3 2.XX thru 4.7, and ECC 5.0/6.0
- COBOL
New GL and BW exposure and IM exposure - ASSEMBLER
ABAP IV Experience - JCL
Experience in international projects with implementation experience in France, - CICS
Other:
Germany, Spain, Italy, Benelux, Scandinavian, and UK
-MS Office Suite
Tax configuration experience for the Europe (VAT), USA, Canada and Mexico -Lotus Notes
-Visio
- Languages:
- German
EDUCATION - English
- Basic Spanish
MBA
Certifications
MA Economics
BS
PMI Certified
SAP Certified
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CERTIFICATION
PMI Certified Project Manager
SAP Certified Consultant
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
06/2004 – Present
Independent SAP Consultant
Projects
High-Tech Company 07/2008 -Present
San Jose, CA
Project Manager
Leading SAP rollout to the Netherlands with FI/CO, SD, MM, Variant Configuration and revenue
recognition functionalities; managing all project phases, deliverables and consulting team;
documenting project scope, and blue-print documents; specification for data conversion of
materials, BOMs, Vendors, Customers.
Configured:
Procure to payment cycle (MM-Purchasing)
Fixed Assets with Inter-Company Asset Transfer
Inter-Company Transactions
Cost-Center Accounting
European Taxes (VAT) in FI and SD/MM modules
Intrastat Reporting
Goodrich
San Diego, CA 01/2008 – 06/2008
FI/CO Consultant
Duties included:
Configuration of CO-PA module:
Create operating concern
structure-Characteristics, Value Field s
Valuation Strategy
Flow of actual values from SD
PA transfer structure
Testing and writing profitability reports using report painter
Provide reporting requirements to BW team
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Configuration in PS
project profile
settlement rules
allocation structure
Provide training and configuration assistance to CO-PC /ML consultant
Magna Automotive, CAN 11/2007 – 12/2007
FI/CO Consultant
FI/CO consultant on a Template Roll-Out Strategy project for Magna, an automotive client,
Duties included: Building and creation of a project in Solution Manager, creation of a Global
Template, creation of scenarios in FI/CO, and Plant Maintenance areas, assignment of
configuration steps for automotive industry in the above mentioned areas. Roll-out strategy
and documentation of distribution of template and BC-Sets
Henkel Corporation, CT USA 02/2007 – 09/2007
Lead FI/CO Consultant
Lead FI/CO Consultant for Henkel, international consumer goods manufacturer in CT. The
duties included:
Project management for the payment automation project
Fixed assets configuration and conversion for a business
Project System (PS) configuration for a business
Settlement of project to Assets
User support in AP/AR/GL, SD (Order to Cash)/MM(Purchase to Pay)
Develop CATT Procedures
Develop custom reporting tree
Norandex, Cleveland, OH 07/2006 – 12/2006
Lead FI/CO Consultant
FI/CO lead consultant for SAP ECC 6.0 blueprinting project for Norandex, a building material
distribution company in OH. Conducted workshop for new. SAP organizational hierarchy;
prepared and conducted workshops in above mentioned modules to gather business
requirements; documented requirements
Southco, PA, USA 04/2006 – 07/2006
Lead FI/CO Consultant
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FI/CO lead consultant for a Blueprint phase project for Southco, a hardware (e.g. lock/latches)
manufacturing company in PA, US. Duties included: Developing overall Organizational
Hierarchy (including SD/MM); conducting workshops to gather requirements for
above mentioned modules; building prototypes in IDES system release ECC 5.0
Gategourmet, Zuerich CH 01/2006 – 03/2006
Project Manager
Project Manager for German rollout, and for further rollout planning for Gate Gourmet, a
food catering company in Switzerland.
Ajinomoto, Fort Lee NJ 07/2005 – 12/2005
Project Manager
Project Manager for SAP release upgrade from 4.0B to 4.7 for Ajinomoto, a food processing
company in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Duties performed: Project planning & execution;
configuration of FI (AP, AR, GL, AM), CO (CCA,CEL, IO, PC, PCA, PA), SD(Order to
Cash)/MM(Purchase to Pay); Issue resolution in the above areas; Integration Testing
planning & Execution; User authorization based on segregation of duties; Manage
third-party vendor.
Ajinomoto, Chicago IL 12/2004 – 07/2005
Project Manager
SAP Project Manager for implementation of SAP-PCA, SAP-CCA, and production support in
the areas of FI /CO, SD/MM and PP-PI for Animal Health business of Ajinomoto.
Duties included: Configure FI-AM, and correct errors of the initial implementation of fixed
asset; plan and configure profit center accounting for Animal Health Business;
Restructure profit center accounting for other businesses; Production support in FI(AP, AR, GL,
AM), CO(CCA, PC, PA, IO), EC-PCA, and Material Ledger; US and Canadian Sales Taxes(GST,PST,
QST)
Ashland Chemical Company, OH USA 07/2004 – 12/2004
SAP Consultant
SAP production support consultant for Ashland Chemical Company in Ohio. The SAP modules
covered: FI(AP, AR, GL, AM), CO(CCA, IO, PA, PC with Material Ledger), US Taxes; SD (Sales
Order, Billing, Pricing, Condition Types, Account Determination); Customer Rebates, Cost
Center Substitutions/Validations ; MM (Purchasing, Goods Receipt, Invoice Receipt, Account
Determination); Enhancements, New Functionalities
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Bayer Healthcare Tarrytown, NY
(10/2001-05/2004)
IS Manager
Projects 01/2004 – 05/2004
Project lead on a resource related billing project .The functionality was to bill customers based
on the hours spent by engineers on a project. Duties included: Plan and control SD related
activities (order types, billing types, item categories); configure pricing and other SD
functionality; configure resource related billing functionality; write specifications for the
technical and EDI team, configure output determination; plan and conduct integration testing
01/2004 – 05/2004
FI/CO Manager for Pan-European SAP implementation, based in Germany. Duties included:
Lead FI/CO team of up to 25, including direct reports and consultants; help set up shared
service center in Barcelona Spain and Call Center in Dublin, Ireland; configuration check and
coach FI/CO team consisting of AP/AR, AM, GL/Taxes, Bank Reconciliation, CO-
CCA, CO-PCA, CO-IO, CO-PA; Project planning for the new countries to be rolled into SAP;
Testing planning & execution (using test director), Issue resolution of integration testing, and
user acceptance testing; check integration with SD and MM and resolve cross-functional
issues; revenue recognition process; Liaison between Business, Shared Service Center and
configuration team; responsible for the production support for the rolled out
countries; Taxes for all European countries
Independent Consultant (07/2000 – 09/2001)
Projects
Chiron Pharmaceutical, CA USA 05/2001 – 09/2001
FI/SD Consultant
SAP FICO/SD consultant for international roll-out. Duties included: configuration of SD, A/P,
A/R, G/L and Fixed Assets (AA) with Project System (PS) functionalities in SAP 4.6 release for
European subsidiaries including France, Italy, Germany, UK, Spain and Portugal; configured
Taxes (VAT)and inter-company transactions for all of the above countries; creation of condition
records; configure order types, item categories, billing types, and account determination; unit
and integration testing of business processes; data migration of Vendor, Customer master and
vendor/ customer open items
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Bose Electronic Company, MA USA 02/2001 – 04/2001
SAP Consultant
Configuration and testing of integration of retail functionality for the FI/CO, SD, MM, CO-PA
and PCA modules; configuration and testing of integration of POS functionality for FI/CO, SD,
MM and CO-PA modules; Service/Repair orders with resource related billing; Issue
resolution
Ajinomoto NJ USA 07/2000 – 12/2000
Project Manager
The scope of the project was to split one Legal Entity into seven legal entities. Duties included:
project planning, and execution; configuration of SAP FI, CO-CCA, CO-PC/PP-PPI, PCA, Fixed
Assets(AA), SD and MM, modules; reorganization of organizational hierarchy; configuration
of sales order, billing, and Invoice Output determination; configuration and testing of Euro
conversion; specification and guidance for data split/transfer; configuration and testing of sub-
contracting functionality in MM
Phaedra Software Solutions, Inc.
College Station, TX, USA
Senior Principal Consultant (08/1997- 6/2000)
Projects
DaimlerChrysler Corporation, MI USA 03/1999 – 06/2000
SAP CO Consultant
Configuration of Internal Orders(CO-OM), mapping of business scenarios to SAP, testing;
configuration and implementation; Configuration of freight costs allocation from consolidation
point to plants based on the weight (tons) of freight and designed automating the posting of
weights to the receiver cost centers.
Philips Automotive, CT USA 06/1998 – 11/1998
FI/CO Consultant
Production support and configuration of Cost of Sales reporting.
VALEO Automotive MI USA 06/1998 – 01/1999
FI/CO/SD Consultant
Overall status evaluation of the project; configuration and Testing of Product Costing (CO-PC);
configuration of Project System and testing of ‘Make to Order’ business process in SD;
configuration of CO-CCA and uploading of cost center distribution from excel
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spreadsheet
Borden Chemical OH USA 12/1997 - 05/1998
FI/CO Consultant
Configuration of CO-PC/PP-PPI, account payables, MM-procurement and Invoice
Verification areas; changing fiscal year variant from a non year-dependent fiscal year variant to
year-dependent FY variant; configuration of Sales/Purchase Taxes for the U.S and Canada;
implementation of Fixed Assets for the U.S. Plants; configuration/Reporting in Project Systems
ThyssenKrupp-Budd MI USA 09/1997 - 11/1997
OSRAM MA USA
Project Manager
Leading a new transaction in Sales & Distribution area for ThyssenKrupp-Budd; development of
a customized outbound EDI transaction for OSRAM. The responsibilities included, project
planning, developing specs for the programmers and testing of the new functionality.
Technology Solutions Company (TSC)
Chicago, Il, USA
Senior Principal (03/1996-07/1997)
Projects
Philips Automotive, IN USA 12/1996 - 07/1997
FI/CO/SD Consultant
Configuration and implementation of A/P, A/R, G/L, Fixed Assets(AM), CO-CCA, CO-PC, CO-IO.
Also, developed Organizational hierarchy in FI/CO, SD, and MM. Worked on the integration
between SD, MM, and FI/CO.
Technology Solutions Company 09/1996-11/1996
Worked on an internal Quick SAP-Implementation Methodology project.
Borden Chemical OH USA 06/1996- 08/1996
SAP CO Consultant
Prototyped Cost Center Accounting and Product Costing (CO- PC) for Borden Chemical in
Columbus Ohio. This included: Development of cost center hierarchy; configuration of cost
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center accounting, including cost center planning, cost center allocations (Assessments,
Distribution), allocations based on statistical key figures; configuration of product cost
planning and overhead costing sheets; configuration of Sales & Use taxes
Systems Bio Industries WI USA 03/1996-06/1996
SAP FI/CO/MM Consultant
Analyzed customer requirements; developed implementation scope for FI/CO; performed
gap analysis, prototyped procurement (MM), financial accounting (FI), cost center
accounting, and product costing (CO-PC) for Systems Bio Industries in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
This included configuration of purchasing functionality including, material, and vendor master,
goods receipts/goods issues, payment terms and invoice verification; account payables
vendor payment; account receivables; general ledger with chart of accounts, journal posting,
and recurring entries; cost center accounting with cost with cost center hierarchy, cost center
expense allocation (distribution, assessments), allocation based on statistical key figures, and
costing sheet for overhead costs allocation; product costing and process order costing
Applied Integration Services (AIS)
Milford, OH, USA
Senior Manager (10/1994-02/1996)
Projects
James River VA USA
Lead SAP FI/CO Consultant 09/1995 - 02/1996
Designed and tested cost center accounting system (CO) for James River, Richmond Virginia.
Responsibilities included: Directing team member in the documentation and mapping of
business processes (Elementary Business Processes) into SAP; Splitting of legacy G/L Account
file (full qualified accounts) into SAP files (G/L accounts, Cost Centers, Projects etc.);
preparation of cost center upload from Excel spread sheet into SAP; configuration and testing
of cost center allocation; directing and helping team members in other areas (CO Internal
orders, Profit Center Accounting)
Marion Merrel Dow, KS USA 12/1994 - 08/1995
Lead FI/CO/MM Consultant
Designed and configured cost center accounting and product costing(RK) in R/2 5.0C;
configured bank reconciliation functionality (FI); configured inventory splitting (purchased vs.
own produced) in RM; created custom movement types (RM); developed strategies for release
conversion without using SAP conversion utilities; wrote specs for ABAP/IV for data conversion
(SBDC) from 5.0C to 5.0D. Tested ABAP programs and ran in productive environment;
downloaded cost centers from 5.0C into PC, and uploaded from PC into SAP 5.0D with the help
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of own developed ABAP programs; transactional data for cost centers was loaded through
General Ledger postings with the help of SBDC; Integrator between RM, RK, and RF teams
DuPont de Nemours
Bad Homburg, Germany
Senior Systems Analyst/Project Manager 10/1990 - 09/1994
Part of the center of expertise team in Bad Homburg, Germany. I was country coordinator for
Spain, UK, France and Switzerland. Project Manager for fixed assets module; configured and
implemented fixed Asset for Spain, U.K, France, and Switzerland; Led a Europe-wide project of
release conversion from 4.3 to 5.0C; Led, designed and implemented user authorization
concept for DuPont Europe; designed and tested cost center accounting system, including
inter-company cost center allocations; supported European subsidiaries in financial
accounting system (RF) including fixed assets
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
Ruesselsheim, Germany
Systems Engineer 01/1985-09/1990
Developed financial applications for EDS internal Accounting department, using Cobol, CICS,
and JCL; customized; customized MSA software for German requirements (01-12/1986)
In-house SAP training in RB (basis), RM(MM), and RF/RK(FI /CO)modules (01-05/1987);
Production support in RM for a cable manufacturer in Germany. Responsibilities included:
ABAP program development, modification of source codes, and screen layouts to implement
functionality enhancements (06/1987-03/1988)
Worked as a liaison between EDS, and finance department of GM, Germany; Responsibilities
included: Prototyping product costing(RK) functionality for General Motors, Europe; Analysis of
customer (GM-Finance) requirements for enhancements of financial systems:
Maintenance of the existing systems
Integration of new GM plant into the existing EDP-Systems
Learning, testing and implementation of Wizard system(04/1988-09/1990)
United States Army
Contracting Agency Europe (USACAE)
Frankfurt, Germany
Programmer 09/1984 - 11/1984
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Designed and implemented a purchase requisition system consisting of 34 program on WANG
VS 100 system using Cobol
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
SAP R/3 (Release 2.2 F, 3. 0C, 3.0F, 3.1H, 4.6C, ECC 6.0)
11/20 – 11/22/2006 New General Ledger
12/04 – 12/08/2000 BW release 2.0
07/27 - 07/29/1998 Configuration of Project System
07/20 - 07/23/1998 Project System
03/24/-03/27/1997 Fixed Assets training at SAP Ottawa/CAN
09/1996 FI/CO 3.0 Delta Course
05/1996 - 07/1996 SAP certification in Sales & Distribution (SD) at
SAP Boston/USA
09/1995 - 10/1995 FI (A/P, AR, GL) Jump Start training at SAP/Boston
04/1995 Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) training at SAP/Philadelphia
09/1994 Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) and overview of Fixed Assets
(FI-AM) training at SAP Walldorf/Germany
SAP R/2(Release 2.1, 3.3, 4.3, 5.0C)
02/1991 Fixed Assets (RF-FA) at SAP Walldorf/Germany
06/1990 RF (A/P, A/R, G/L) training at SAP Walldorf/Germany
01/1987 - 05/1987 SAP training in RB/RM/RF modules at EDS,
Russelsheim/Germany (In-house training)
System Analysis/Programming
06/1985 - 08/1985 EDS internal technical training (Cobol, Assembler, JCL) at EDS
Spijkenisse/Netherland
04/1984 - 07/1984 Organization Programmer training at Control Data Institute,
Frankfurt, Germany
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