SURENDRA R. BIRJE

Edison, NJ *****, 932-***-****

ac1at8@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/surendrabirje SENIOR SAP CONSULTANT

Cross-functional experience with integration between various modules of SAP / business Results-oriented senior SAP consultant and team leader with extensive ERP and SAP hands-on implementation experience in Petrochemical, Agro Chemical, Consumer Goods, Life Science, Electronics, Media, and Health Care Insurance industries. SAP AG Germany Certified, Solutions Consultant in MM/IM/P2P and Master Data Governance (MDG). Possess vast international consulting experience across Europe, China, India, US, and South America, including business experience at senior-management level in supply chains of multinational companies and managing latest business processes.

Led more than 10 end-to-end SAP-project implementations from blue printing to go live. Addressed business process reengineering, where necessary. Quick in understanding client’s pain points, making them comfortable in discussions and in being essential to client. Fluent in English, Hindi, and Marathi, and proficient in French. Expertise includes:

Master Data Management/ Governance Materials Management (MM) P2P & IM Six Sigma Methodology Supply Chain Business Processes Microsoft Office & Project Programming SAP Modules: Materials Management (MM), Procure to Pay (P2P), Inventory Management (IM), Warehouse Management (WM), Solutions Manager, External Services Management (ESM) & Master Data Management / Governance (MDM / MDG)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IBM, multiple US cities / states 2008 – 2015

Managing Consultant, SAP MM / WM / QM / Master Data and Data Migration Worked on international projects in China, Europe, and US as lead MM / WM consultant using Ascendant ASAP methodology. Implemented SAP best practices for Procure to Pay, Conducted inventory management, ESM, and master data management. Recommended best practices for business processes as standard across all companies across globe. Developed data charter for SAP-data mapping with legacy systems. Executed migration of legacy data to SAP systems. Addressed pain points of client related to online business reporting. Removed master data and redundancy rom multiple reports.

Led requirement gathering in business-blue-print phase and preparation for realization phase, resulting in successful go live of project with minimum issues.

Conducted workshops on various business processes with client team members, arriving at desired solutions and resolving issues / working out alternatives.

Organized Fit Gap analysis and built solutions required standard business processes and enhancement for accommodating client-specific processes and making them standard across company, if standard SAP processes did not suffice.

Defined data mapping, conversions, and loading templates for complete migration from legacy system to SAP using LSMWs, helping in correct data mapping, transformation and loading from legacy data.

Guided client-business SMEs on warehouse management, including layout, standard storage types, sections, areas, bins, picking, and put-away strategies, assisting in implementing standard best practices in warehouse management and reducing inventory-management transaction time.

Discussed with client top executives and designed organizational structure suitable for company’s business, assisting in establishing global standards and common-business practices and terminology across all companies and locations of client.

Addressed serial number and batch-management-implementation consideration, generating ability to track products from cradle to grave and compliance management.

Explained and implemented classification to client project personnel, product hierarchy, material groups, various material statuses, facilitating product classification for reporting purposes, profitability, and status tracking.

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Set up and configured vendor master completely, aiding in vendor-master specific-field-level usage of master data in management reporting.

Designed and configured PO and PR Release strategy as per client’s requirement, streamlining and standardizing / controlling expenditure authorization at specific-monitory levels as desired.

Explained the MDM and MDG processes to the client and implemented as per requirements. VERINON TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD, Andover, MA 2005 to 2008 Data Architect / Senior SAP Solutions Consultant

SAP MM Senior Lead Consultant and Data Architect

Implemented best practices for master-data management as data architect and for business processes as standard across all companies across globe. Removed master data and process redundancy.

Set data charter as guidance for data mapping with legacy systems and migration to SAP systems, resulting in standardization of work processes and time saving.

Defined and set up Vendor Masters from legacy systems, removing multiple masters from different systems.

Set up classification data for material masters and vendor classification, helped in classifying different materials as per requirement in different processes, management reporting, and quick search, and driving different business-accounting requirements and processes.

DOW AGRO SCIENCES INDIA, Mumbai, India 2000 to 2005 Senior Manager – SAP MM / PP / SD Subject Matter Expert Served in lead role for SME and consultant in implementation of MM and SD modules with forecasting, MRP, SOP, demand, management, and distribution-resource planning; configuration of all Purchasing and IM functionalities; and mapping and configuring organization structures from MM point of view. Oversaw full life-cycle implementation of SAP MM module.

Implemented best practices in procurement and warehousing / inventory management, reducing total procurement and inventory-management cycle time.

Procured requirements for production, keeping in mind best price and just-in-time inventory.

Designed business-object reports to extract data online from SAP, resulting in drastic reduction in inventory- turnover time, improved cycle count with decreased inventory losses and better inventory tracking, just-in-time procurement of raw materials and packaging supplies for production, and excellent inventory and supply-chain visibility.

DE NOCIL DOW AGRO SCIENCES JV, Mumbai, India 1998 to 2000 SAP Core Team Member / SAP MM / IM / WM Subject Matter Expert Oversaw full life-cycle implementation of SAP MM module with procurement, WM, order management and IM. Carried out SAP Implementation across 20 distribution locations / warehouses and manufacturing sites across 5 locations. Worked closely with other modules on integration aspects. Worked as a Product distribution manager till SAP process stabilization. Prepared user manual and trained end users in Procurement, IM, distribution logistics and Order Management. Provided post implementation support.

Performed readiness assessment and documentation of as-is and to-be processes and Gap Analysis.

Guided client on best practices to be implemented to achieve substantial savings.

Led extraction, monitoring, and upload of master data and inventory and other accounts and production data from legacy system.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

Certified SAP MDG Consultant in Master Data Governance, SAP USA, Dallas, TX, 2014

Certified SAP MM Solutions Consultant – SAP AG Germany

Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

Certified COBL Programmer

Certified Industrial safety and Hazardous Goods Transportation consultant

Bachelor of Science (BSc), (Honors), Chemistry, Physics, Pune University, Pune, India SURENDRA R. BIRJE

Edison, NJ 08820

ac1at8@r.postjobfree.com 932-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/surendrabirje ADDENDUM

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

DE NOCIL, Mumbai, India

Senior Procurement and Distribution Manager

NOCIL Agrochemicals Division, Lote, India

Senior Materials and Administrative Officer

INDIAN ARMY, India

Captain

Commissioned Officer

Specialized in leadership and teambuilding, logistics and supply chain management, and flexibility and decision making under pressure.

ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Certified SAP Solutions Consultant in SAP MM and SAP MDG, SAP AG Germany

PG Diploma in Exports and Imports Management in Foreign Trade – Imports and Exports, Indian Institute of Exports Management, India

Certificate in Materials Management, National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering, India

Certificate in Managerial Leadership and Team Building, National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering, India

Quartermasters Course in Warehousing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Indian Army Ordinance Corps, India

Certificate Course in Creativity and Dream Management, Tata Institute of Management Studies, India

Certification in Six Sigma, Dow Chemicals, India

Certification in Fire Commander’s Course, RISC SIPM the Hague, Malaysia

Certification in COBOL Programming, Computer Society of India

Post Graduate in Industrial Safety in Fire and Safety in Chemical Industry, Government Board of Technical Education, Maharashtra, India

IBM Internal Certifications:

BLG0440 SAP Materials & Service Master data

BLG0453 SAP Outbound Processing

BLG0214 Core Consulting Global Blue Consulting

BLG0447 SAP Material Requirement Planning and Physical Inventory

BLG1052 SAP RFID enabled Supply Chain

BLG0467 Cultural Awareness and Communication

BLG0446 SAP Inventory Management

GBS4174 SAP Industry Solution Utilities – Module 1

GBS4181 SAP Industry Solution Utilities – Module 2

PM54G Project Management Orientation

BLG0453 AP Outbound Processing

BLG0467 Cultural Awareness and Communication

AP Outbound Processing (ERP459)

SAP Material and Service Master Data (ERP401)

Group Facilitation Techniques

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SAP Business Analytics Overview

Communication Skills for Resolving Conflict (English)

Project Management Orientation

SNC processes

CAMSS – Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Security and Social networking KEY COURSES & TRAINING

SAP Certification as MM Solutions Consultant

SAP certification in MM solutions consultant

SAP Certification in MDG consultant

Six Sigma Certifications and implementing Six Sigma projects

Foreign Trade – Imports and Exports

Materials Management

Managerial Leadership and Team Building

SAP modules MM, QM, WM

Business Objects reporting

SAP Solutions Manager

U perform tool

“Winshuttle” data conversion and data loading tool

COBOL programming

Data base management

Smart City Consultant UK

SURENDRA R. BIRJE

Edison, NJ 08820

ac1at8@r.postjobfree.com 932-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/surendrabirje PROJECT ASSIGNMENT HISTORY

AVIALL A BOEING CO.

An Aviation spare parts distributor

Team member of Procure to Pay team on certain new initiatives / process designs and also working on AMS support activities for resolving ECC and EWM interface errors and educating end users on avoiding process errors. Master data cleansing and defining MDG process.

BIO RAD

A Life Science Company

Global Vendor Master Team Captain.

Vendor master fields level definition and guide the client IT team in mapping to multiple legacy systems like JDE and BaaN. Guide and oversee Data extraction, cleansing, conversion and data load into SAP. Address all WRICEF related to Material Master and Vendor Master . Implementing Material master data governance Help MDG team in approval workflows.

Worked on Sunshine act and conflict minerals act for designing SAP solutions for the same. GREEN MOUNTAIN

A Coffee Manufacturer and distributor

Business transformation Project; Material Master data lead and implementing MDG. ESTEE LAUDER

A Cosmetics Manufacturing and Marketing company

MM consultant with the direct Procurement team on the roll out of SAP to its companies in Switzerland and Japan. Addressed Procurement and Third party (sub contract) manufacturing processes and Inventory management. GTS PUERTO RICO

An Insurance company of Blue Cross Blue shield

MM consultant. Worked as lead Procure to Pay and Inventory Management Lead at $2.0-billion multi-line insurance company in Puerto Rico.

Discussed and defined Enterprise structure and Master data definition covering baseline and detail configuration of all procurement, inventory management, LIV and Enterprise Structure objects including Automatic Account determination.

implementation of External Services management from scratch since the client did not have the same in their legacy system.

Defined Master data Enterprise structure, Release strategy for PR and PO, classification.

Carried out Blueprinting of processes with the client and created the PDDs and configuration documents for the same and related objects.

WESTCON

IT security and related products distributor

SAP Implementation across USA, Canada, Europe, ANZ, Brazil

Worked as MM Team lead with responsibility for implementing procurement, Inventory Management and EDI processes. Master data cleansing and master data management.

Executed Processes involved MRP, Forecasting, Batch Management, Split Valuation, Procure to Pay processes, Classification, Integration with SD, FICO and WM.

Designed a special MRP program as per client’s requirement. STARKIST

The Tuna company

MM Procure to Pay, Inventory Management process lead and Data Conversion Lead. SANYO NA

Consumer Goods Company

MM lead for Procurement and Inventory Management modules. Birjes Solutions Pvt Ltd. 2015 till date

After leaving IBM in Feb, 2015 returned to India for family matters . Registered a PVt LTD company in India to persue free lance consulting activities and trading in electron goods. Got a Samsung and Tata Teleservices dealership

/ franchise and established the company business and business processes. ow as director of that company and the company is now run by my two MBA sons.

I still have a valid H1B visa available for C to C transfer with valid I 140. SURENDRA R. BIRJE ac1at8@r.postjobfree.com PAGE TWO PROJECT ASSIGNMENT HISTORY (Continued)

IMC

Global Automotive Spare parts Distributor

Business Processes Validation

Lead and Conduct Business Process Validation Workshops to: (a) Confirm the standard list of Business scenarios and Business Process Procedures, (b) Identify additional BPP (Business Process Procedures) and FRICE (Forms, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements) requirements beyond those pre-configured with the Express Solution.

SONY HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Entertainment Company

SAP Assessment

Carry out an analysis of the functional requirements and existing business processes in JDE systems / other third party systems and carryout a “Fit Gap Analysis.”

Designed interfaces between SAP and front end systems. GAMRO

Life Science Company

Data Conversion Specialist

Data Conversions and Data Migration Specialist MM, PP, IM. BUNN

International Brand Coffee makers

Data Conversion Specialist.

MINDRAY

A medical devices manufacturing company. Implementation in USA and China. Lead MM / WM / IM Consultant.

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