Resume

Alok Laddha

SAP HCM EHP* Certified Consultant

Email: abx732@r.postjobfree.com

Cell : +91-834*******

Professional Experience Summary

About 10 Years of IT Experience, including 8+ years as a Functional SAP HCM Consultant. Acquired latest EHP5

certification in 2012.

Skilled in complete life-cycle of SAP HCM implementation from requirement analysis, problem definition, solution

designing, implementation, configuration, packaged application testing and documentation, as well as post

deployment support and maintenance.

Areas of Expertise in SAP HCM

Experience in Personnel Administration (PA), Organizational Management (OM), Time Management (TM),

Payroll (PY), Training and Event Management (TEM), Travel Management, Personnel Development,

Recruitment and ESS/MSS, KSA Payroll and Time Management.

In depth understanding and use of ASAP approach for implementation.

Strong Exposure to every phase including Business policy Blue print preparation, GAP Analysis, SAP

configuration design, Scenario Mapping, Testing, Go - Live and functional support to ESS users and Power

users, production stabilization.

Experienced in definition and working on Schemas for Payr oll and Time Management, PCR’s for various

Business requirements.

ESS and integration of ESS with Payroll, Personnel Administration, Travel Management and Time

Management.

Negative and Positive Time Management using Time Evaluation Driver.

Web Based Recruitment Solutions.

Strong understanding of data migration activity and subsequent testing for PA, OM, Payroll and Time

Management for various business requirements.

HR Module team leader responsibilities -Responsible for client interfacing, mapping of requirements to SAP

solutions, production support issues, Daily/Weekly status reporting, issues resolution, weekly defect details,

trainings for client employees and overall coordination between TCS and customer for SAP HR

Contributor to several business proposals, invo lved in presales support, panellist for recruitment activities at

TCS for SAP.

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Assignment Details at TCS:

Project Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) SAP HCM Implementation, Dubai

Customer Al-Futtaim Group, Dubai

Period Oct-2012 to Apr-2013

Project Scope Working as SAP HCM Solution Architect cum Project Leader for Kingdom of

Description Saudi Arabia (KSA) SAP HCM implementation based on EHP5 and KSA

Localization component.

Role and

Responsibilities Solution Architect Responsibilities:

Working on KSA localization functionality available on SAP EhP5

Conducting workshops with users to understand business processes and

requirement gathering

Exploring functionality of KSA Localization and creating prototypes

Providing and Reviewing solutions

Reviewing client deliverables documents like BBPs / User Manual /

Configuration documents etc.

Providing effective solutions as per SAP standard best practices and as per

standard KSA Localizations

Project Leader:

Project Planning, Tracking and reporting project plan progress to client and

TCS management

Resolution of various issues during implementation phase

Proactive Risk Management

Project Management Activities

Customer Management –All customer interactions for project execution

Team management, assignment, appraisals, engagement and all related

activities.

Solution SAP ECC 605-Localization (LOCHRSAE)

Environment

Highlights All project milestones completed ON TIME despite various execution

challenges

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KSA SAP HCM Localization implementation 1 time by TCS for KSA

Value addition by providing the solution considering the SAP Best-Practices

Played dual role as Solution Architect and Project Leader and successfully

completed project within budget and on time.

Development of Team Management and mobilization skills through this project

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Project Support for HCM modules (Payroll, Time Management, Personnel

Administration, Organizational Management, PD, e-Recruitment etc) for several

customers as part of Shared Services Team

Customer Multiple clients as part of Shared Services-Voltas, HDFC, DSCL, Avaya Global (for

Support) and GSFC, Ginger, JKLC (for Implementation)

Period June-2011 to Sep-2012

Project Scope Worked as SAP HCM Module Lead and provided support to various clients on different

Description sub modules of SAP HCM

Role and Working as Module Lead for SAP-HCM

Responsibilities Working on SAP EhP5 functionality

Analysing the problems to provide solutions to user generated errors and incidents

Interacting with users to get detailed information on tickets.

Providing effective solutions with in the resolution time based on the severity levels

under support SLAs.

Understanding business process enhancements of clients and gathering the

information about business demands.

Providing functional specifications to guide the developer’s teams and customizing

the solutions according to the client requirement.

Configuring and testing the requirements of the cl ient, preparation of test scripts for

users.

Client-site as well as remote support

Solution SAP ECC 604 & 605

Environment

Highlights Value addition by providing the solution considering the SAP Best-Practices

Catering to varied clients requirements arising out of many different SAP-

implementations, industries and scenarios has helped in building sound domain and

technical expertise.

Module Leader role facilitated development of managerial and soft-skills in additional

to techno-functional competencies.

Development of Team Management and mobilization skills

Project Springboard, Australia

Customer Spotless, Australia

Period Mar-2010 to May-2011

Project Scope Spotless was founded in 1946 as a dry cleaning business and has expanded to include

Description several business units such as Managed Services, Food Services, Laundry Services,

Painting Services, Cleaning Services and Braiform (Retailer Services).

The project scope covers creation of Master design/ Data Structure documents (in

phase 1) for the identified scope such as Organisational Management, Personnel

Administration, Skills Management, Roistering and Scheduling, Billing/Costing

Arrangements etc based on the SAP industries best practices.

Role and Requirement Analysis to provide best suitable Solution to customer

Responsibilities To conduct workshops with end users

SAP system Demo

Preparation of Master design / Data Structures / Functional Specifications

Blueprint Preparation

Prototyping of the identified scenarios

Configuration

Solution SAP R/3 Enterprise version 6.0

Environment

Highlights Exposure to an all services based implementation.

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Value addition by providing the solution against SAP Best-Practices.

Project Techno-Functional Upgrade for Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC),

Gujarat

Customer Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC), Gujarat, India

The GSPC Group is headquartered in Gujarat and is amongst India’s several leading

energy groups. The group is engaged across the Energy Value Chain through a wide

span of Oil & Gas activities. The Government of Gujarat owned GSPC group comprises

of following companies.

(i) Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(GSPC):

GSPC has grown from operator ship of small fields in Gujarat into an expansive oil and

gas exploration and production company across India and overseas within just a decade.

The company has recently drilled its 50th onshore well, which is a landmark considering

the fact that GSPC has been an Operator only since April 2000. Its rise in the

hydrocarbon sector was helped in no small measure by the Central Government's

opening of the sector to private participation in the early 1990s.

(ii) Gujarat State Energy Generation Ltd.(GSEG):

GSEG is repositioning Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Group's edge in creating

better value in the core gas/ energy business chain through a strong, focused, and

successful electric utility business in Gujarat. GSPC Group's integrated business model

combines the physical ownership and control of power generation and natural gas assets

with energy and fuel management. GSEG manages the electrical utility with Adv anced

power generation and management practices, and improve the efficiency of power supply

to Gujarat Electricity Board.

(iii) Gujarat State Petronet Limited (GSPL):

GSPL, a Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation subsidiary, has taken a lead in developing

energy transportation infrastructure in Gujarat and connecting major natural gas supply

sources and demand markets. GSPL is the first company in India to transport natural gas

on open access basis and is a Pure Natural Gas Transmission Company.

Period Feb 2008 to Nov 2009

Project Scope (i) Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(GSPC):

Description SAP was implemented for GSPC business, but with time, there were a lot of new

requirements, enhancements for unavailable business scenarios, and problem areas.

With this project, the business requirements have been re-mapped and have been re-

implemented in ECC 6.0.

The project scope covers re-implementation of Personnel Administration, Organizational

Management, Payroll and Negative Time Managem ent modules and implementation of

Recruitment via Enterprise Portal, Appraisals System on portal, Training & Event

Management on the web portal, and Travel Management modules in SAP HR on ECC

6.0. It also includes organizational processes re -engineering to follow industry’s best

practices.

(ii) Gujarat State Energy Generation Ltd.(GSEG):

Gujarat State Energy Generation Ltd. has its business mapped and implemented in SAP

and has been upgraded to ECC 6.0.

The project scope covers upgrade of Personnel Administ ration, Organizational

Management, Payroll and Negative Time Management modules in ECC 6.0. It also

includes organizational processes re-engineering to follow industry’s best practices.

(iii) Gujarat State Petronet Limited (GSPL):

Gujarat State Petronet Ltd. also had its business mapped and implemented in SAP and

has been re-implemented in ECC 6.0.

The project scope covers re-implementation of Organizational Management(OM),

Personnel Administration (PA), Negative Time Management (NTM) and Payroll (PY)

modules and implementation of Recruitment (RC) via Enterprise Portal, Appraisals

System on portal, Training & Event Management (TEM) on web and Travel Management

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(TM) modules in SAP HR on ECC 6.0, following the client’s business processes. It also

includes organizational processes re-engineering to follow industry’s best practices.

Role and Worked as Team Lead and guided the team for various sub modules of SAP -HR

Responsibilities using ASAP Methodology.

Data gathering, preparation of process flows & development of AS-IS & TO BE

models. Identification of Gaps & finalization of Business Blueprint.

Worked on ESS and integration of ESS with Payroll, Personnel Administration,

Travel Management, Time Management.

Implementation of SAP HCM sub modules - Personnel Administration (PA),

Organizational Management (OM), Payroll-India (PY), Negative Time Management

(PT), Recruitment (RC), Training & Event Management (TEM) and Personnel

Development (PD).

Organizational Management:

Created objects like organizational units, jobs, positions, tasks and work center using

expert mode and simple maintenance

Created the relationships among the objects

Maintained number ranges and evaluation path

Created the plan version

Created integration with PA with integrated switch PLOGI ORGA in T77S0

Personnel Administration

Defined Enterprise Structure, Personnel Structure and Pay scale Structure

Maintain number ranges for employees using feature NUMKR.

Customized personnel actions and the reasons for change in personnel actions and

Infotypes menu.

Configured the features, TARIF and ABKRS to default the basic pay wage type, pay

scale type and area, and payroll accounting area, respectively while creating the

basic pay info type.

Configured the features PINCH to default the administrator groups and the

organizational key.

Defined Info groups and assigned them to personnel actions to enter structured

information of employees in the system.

Time Management:

Configured Public Holidays, Holiday Calendar according to client requirements

Configured the Break schedules, Daily work schedules, periodic work schedule and

maintained work schedule rules

Maintained the features like SCHKZ and TMSTA to default work schedule Rules and

Time management Status.

Configured different attendance/absence types and time quotas

Configured counting rule and deduction rule as per the client requirement.

Payroll

Created pay scale structure consisting of elements Pay scale type, Pay scale area,

Pay scale group, Pay scale levels and also Payroll Area .

Defined Employee subgroup grouping for PCRs and CAP.

Maintained feature ABKRS, LGMST and TARIF.

Defined payroll periods and date modifiers for each pay roll accounting area.

Creating different wage types and defining their characteristics, and their valuation

rules for the payroll accounting.

Defined Valuation of WT using indirect evaluation module

Configured Wage Type Permissibility by Infotypes basic pay, recurring payments and

deductions.

Configured wage types 0008, 0014, 0015 and 0267

Configured IT0045 for Loans

Configured statutory social contributions like PF and ESI

Configured tax and statutory info types from 580 to 591.

Posting Payroll results to Financial Accounting

Worked on schema IN00 using payroll driver HINCALC0

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Worked on customized PCRs and Schemas.

Training & Event Management :

Configured Training Calendar

Configured Business events

Configured the trainee and trainer type with Resources

Create the trainee evaluation method

Design the workflow for the Training request

Recruitment :

Recruitment procedure

Configured Media type

Configured Recruitment Instruments

Configured actions related to Recruitment process

Configured Application status

Configured Applicant Groups and Applicant Range

Configured Applicant activity and Status

Generation of various letters like Interview Letter, Offer Letter etc

Integration with the Recruitment portal

Integration with Organizational Management and Personnel Administration

Travel Management:

Implementation of Travel Management (TR) sub module of SAP Human Capital

Management includes following:

Configuration of Travel Requests

Configuration of Travel Expense Types

Configuration of wage types related to the Travel

Integration of the Travel Management with FI/CO

Integration with Web Portal

Performance Management:

Implementing new Performance Management functionality, OSA (Objective Setting

and Appraisals)

Configuring SAP HR and SAP Enterprise Portal to achieve desired functionality in

Performance Management.

Configured Performance appraisals with criteria groups & criterion details as well as

configured form & assigned different status with workflow details.

Quality and Testing:

Designing and implementing SAP HR solutions to achieve defined business goals

and help clients achieve high performance.

Supervising business diagnosis and planning activities.

Designing and executing test plans and gap analysis to ensure that business

requirements and functional specifications are tested and fulfilled.

Preparation & Execution of the Test Scripts Successfully for quality testing as well as

integration testing.

Evaluating the results according to the expected and actual results.

Documenting the Procedure for each Test Script.

Involved in System Testing, UAT support & defect solving process.

Data Migration:

Worked on data Migration to transfer data from old client to new client with the new

company code.

Transferred the data for Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Payroll

and Time Management.

ALE/IDOCs for Data Transfer

Data Mapping for Infotypes

Testing of ALEs

Verification of the Transferred Data

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Solution SAP R/3 Enterprise version 6.0

Environment

Highlights Leading the HR team and responsible for client interaction, mapping of requirements

to solutions on SAP, production support issues, Daily status report, issues report,

Weekly status report on project status, weekly defect details, trainings for client

employees and overall coordination between TCS and customer for SAP HR.

Development of Team and team mobilization skills

Project

Reimplementation of SAP-HR- Time Management for Kingston General hospital,

Kingston

Customer Kingston General Hospital, Kingston

Kingston General Hospital (KGH) is a well-established government owned hospital in

Kingston, Canada. For KGH, SAP 4.6C was already configured along with some

interfaces which existed for third party applications.

As per KGH requirement, system was to be upgraded to ECC 6.0 from 4.6C system,

organizational structure needed to be changed as per the revised structure and

accordingly new rules for the different unions which were not configured, needed to be

configured on the system. Also needed to automate some processes and implement

modifications in the interfaces as per new requirements.

Period Mar 2007 to Jan 2008

Project Scope Implementation of Time Management for SAP HR and issue resolution for HR (PA,OM)

Description

Role and Setup public holidays and holiday calendar .

Responsibilities Defined break schedules, daily work schedules, period work schedule and work

schedule rules.

Generated monthly work schedules.

Defined Absence & Attendance Types and counting rules (T556C) for absence &

attendances.

Defined the Absence quotas.

Defined Base entitlements for absence quotas generation.

Defined selection rules for absence quotas generation.

Maintained RPTQTA00 for absence quota .

Maintained info types like 0007, 2001, 2002, 2006 & 2012.

Maintained features like SCHKZ, TMSTA and QUOMO.

Worked on Time Evaluation TM04 Schema, edited PCR’s a ccording to the client

requirement.

Maintained Tables T555A, T555Y, T555Z for Time Type Creation, Assigning time

type to Pair type and to differentiate the unpaid break

Time Wage Type Generation using T510S Table

Testing

Client-site and remote support

Solution SAP R/3 Enterprise version 6.0

Environment

Highlights Configuration of Time Management module including Time Evaluation. Provided solutions

for resolution of pain areas, issue enhancements for Time and HR.

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Project Business Blueprint Preparation

Customer Zydus Cadilla Healthcare Limited

Period Jan-2007 to Feb-2007

Project Scope Cadila Healthcare Limited (CHL), based at Ahmedabad (Gujarat), is involved in

Description production of pharmaceutical products (APIs and Formulations), for domestics a nd export

(Regulated and Non-Regulated) markets.

The main project objectives and business drivers behind Zydus (CHL)’s decision to go for

implementation of an ERP solution were:

Standardised package that represents the best business practices

Ability to match the competitors and the International Markets in process

maturity and reporting. Streamlined and Seamless business processes

Ease of being able to integrate other systems into a standard system once it is

stable

Using SAP Best Practices as a baseline would mean implementation will be

faster

Role and Requirement Analysis

Responsibilities Study of Legacy systems and applications

Preparation of business blueprint

Solution SAP R/3 Enterprise version 6.0

Environment

Highlights In-depth understanding of migration from legacy systems and applications to SAP

Value addition by mapping existing processes to SAP Best-Practices

Project Support for HR modules (Payroll, Time Management, Personnel

Administration, Organizational Management) in for multiple customers in Shared

Services Team

Customer Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation, Southern Cross Fertilizers: Australia,

SpiTech:Phillipines

Period June, 2006 to Feb, 2007

Project Scope Maintenance and Support for routine SAP HR functions

Description

Role and Worked as Module Lead for SAP-HR

Responsibilities Analysing the problems to provide solutions to user generated errors and incidents

Interacting with users to get detailed information on tickets.

Providing effective solutions with in the resolutio n time based on the severity levels

under SLAs.

Understanding business process enhancements of clients and gathering the

information about business demands.

Provide functional specification and guide the developers team while developing and

customizing the solutions according to the client requirement.

Configuring and testing the requirements of the client, preparation of test scripts for

users.

Client-site as well as remote support

Solution SAP R/3

Environment

Highlights Catering to varied clients requirements arising out of different SAP -implementations,

industries and scenarios has helped in building sound domain and technical

expertise.

Module Leader role facilitated development of managerial and soft -skills in additional

to techno-functional competencies.

Development of Team Management and mobilization skills

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Major Assignments at DCM Sriram Consolidated Ltd. (DSCL) prior to TCS.

Project Lifecycle Implementation for Payroll, Personnel Administration and Time

Management

Customer DSCL Sugar, Loni and DSCL Sugar, Hariawan

Period Jan-2006 to May-2006

Project Scope DSCL was in the process of expansion by commissioning two new independent sugar

Description plants at Loni and Hariawan, Uttar Pradesh which are rich sugarcane producing

areas of India.

This involved all phase’s right from analysing the requirement for the massive

manufacturing setup to post-implementation support.

Role and Requirement Analysis

Responsibilities Design

Full life cycle implementation as SAP HR Functional Consultant with focus in

Personnel Administration, Time Management and Payroll

Configured Enterprise structure, Personnel structure and Pay scale structure.

Maintained the features NUMKR, PINCH and IGMOD

Configured the Payroll area and Control record

Configured the personnel actions and reasons for personnel actions by going to

PA40 like Hiring, Transfer, Change of payment data, Change of Position and

Termination

Written Dynamic Actions

Maintained the Master Data as per the Client requirement

Configured the features ABKRS, TARIF and LGMST

Configured wage types for Basic pay-IT0008, Recurring payments and

deductions-IT0014 and Additional payments-IT0015

Configured Absence Valuation for paid and unpaid absen ces

Configured time wage type valuation using v_512w_b

Configured IT0267 for Off cycle payments

Maintained Processing, Cumulation and Evaluation classes

Configured IT0045 for Loans

Configured statutory social contributions like PF and ESI

Configured one day salary deduction and professional tax

Configured retirement benefits like Gratuity and Superannuation.

Configured tax and statutory info types from 580 to 591.

Worked on schema IN00 using payroll driver HINCALC0.

Posting Payroll results to FICO

Testing

Post Implementation support and User Training

Both on-site and remote support

Solution SAP R/3

Environment

Highlights Lifecycle Implementation exposure

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Project ESI/ PF Management System

Customer DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd., Kota

Period Nov-2005 to Jan-2006

Project Scope Application developed single handed in ABAP for local contractor cell to manage the

Description ESI (Employee State Insurance) and PF (Provident Fund).

The project takes care of all processes including hiring of contractors, work ers under

the contractor, their wages, and periodic contribution to PF and ESI.

To supplement usefulness and user friendliness various reports to monitor and view

data were added including those for statutory compliance.

Role and Requirement Analysis

Responsibilities Design

Configuration

Testing

User Support and Training

Solution SAP R/3, ABAP

Environment

Highlights Large number of reports were developed to enhance usability of the application

Single-handedly responsible for deployment of the same

Project Positive Time Management Implementation

Customer Shriram Alkalis and Chemicals, Jhagadia (Bharuch, Gujarat)

Period Aug-2005 to Oct-2005

Project Scope For the chemical unit of DSCL in Bharuch, Time Management was being done

Description through separate applications on different platforms and packages. They were

becoming obsolete and did not support dynamic growth of the unit and change

management efficiently.

Time Management was fully integrated with SAP, thereby creating single platform for

all HR activities.

Role and Requirements Analysis and Design

Responsibilities Setup public holiday calendars and factory calendars.

Define break schedules, daily work schedules, period work schedule and work

schedule rules.

Generated monthly work schedules.

Defined Absence & Types and counting rules (T556C) for absence &

attendances.

Defined the Absence quotas.

Defined Base entitlements for absence quotas generation.

Maintained info types like 0007, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2011.

Maintained features like SCHKZ, TMSTA and QUOMO.

Configuration

Testing

Post-Implementation Support

Both on-site and remote support

Solution SAP R/3

Environment

Highlights Lifecycle Implementation Exposure

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Project Health Center Integration

Customer DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd., Kota

Period Jun-2005 to July-2005

Project Scope This project involved integration of the organization health center with SAP.

Description

Role and Requirement Analysis

Responsibilities Design

Configuration

Testing

User Training and Support

Solution SAP R/3, ABAP

Environment

Highlights Large number of reports were developed to enhance usability of the application

Single-handedly responsible for deployment of the same

Project DSCL Support

Customer DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd., Kota

Period Jan-2005 to May-2005

Project Scope Maintenance and Support for routine SAP HR functions

Description

Role and Requirement Analysis

Responsibilities Design

Configuration

Testing

User Training and Support

Solution SAP R/3

Environment

Highlights Understanding of basic SAP HR processes

Industry Domain exposure, acquired as a result of handling business processes

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Career Profile

Dates Organization Role

26-June-2006 till date TATA Consultancy Services Sr. SAP HCM Consultant

03-Jan-2005 to 5-June-2006 DCM Shriram Consolidated,Ltd-Kota SAP-HR Consultant and ABAP

Developer

16-Feb-2004 to Dec-2004 Sobhasaria Engineering College, Lecturer, Computer Science and

Sikar, Rajasthan IT

Qualification

Degree and Date University/Board Major and Specialization Aggregate

Percentage

Bachelor of Engineering University of Rajasthan Computer Science & 67

(1999-2003) Engineering

Senior Secondary( Class Board of Secondary Physics, Chemistry, 74.46

XII) (1998) Education, Rajasthan Mathematics, English,

Hindi

Secondary (Class X) Board of Secondary Science, Maths, Social 84.36

(1996) Education, Rajasthan Science, English, Hindi

Personal Detail

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Date of Birth 1 April, 1981

Nationality Indian

Permanent 108, Agrasen Bazar, Old Dhan Mandi, Kota-324006, Rajasthan

Address

Present 1435/2, Sector-2B, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Address

Contact (M)+91-834*******

Details

Email abx732@r.postjobfree.com

Address

Marital Status Married

Passport Details

Name as Relation Passport Date of Issue Expiry Date Place of Issue

on ship Number

passport

Alok Self F7965012 05-JUL-2006 04-JUL-2016 Passport Office, Jaipur

Laddha

Date: May, 2013 ALOK LADDHA

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