Supply Chain Management

Sandeep Mahavadi

Oracle Supply Chain Management Consultant R12 and 11i Consultant – Fusion Cloud SCM – Version 11

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Professional Summary

9 years of experience in Oracle Applications in Various roles like Supply Chain Management and Software Development Life cycle implementation with requirements gathering, analysis and implementation and functional testing.

Specialized resource in Oracle Distribution Suite includes Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management and iProcurement.

Experienced with Cloud Supply Chain Management (Procurement and Order Management).

Good understanding in cross functional design with SCM/FIN modules which includes (OM, PO, INV, iProcurement, GL, AP, AR)

Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementations/Upgrades, Production Support Projects in Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS) in R12.

Involved in the Case Study, Client Presentation/Workshop with multiple platinum partners and their end clients. Presented the new features of R12 to the end client

Extensive experience in Fit/Gap Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing and Production Support of Oracle Applications.

Have done Business Requirement Gap Analysis, Assessment and upgrade/implementation on R12

Experience in implementing and testing of Order-to-Cash (O2C), Procure-to-Pay (P2P) business process.

Multiple projects implemented in Manufacturing Sector and Retail Industry.

Experience in Training on Supply Chain tracks and Preparing Student Guides and Desktop Manuals. Product demonstration and user training skills using Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK)

Experience in Application Design, Functional Design/Specification for Customization/Interfaces, Test Script Generation, Integration Testing, Training Super users and End Users.

Experience in Upgrade and Conversion/Migration of data from legacy systems to Oracle Systems (Example: Inventory on-hand conversions, Master Items conversion, Open PO, SO)

Well experienced in Multi-Org, Multi-Operating Units, Multi-Currency in Global Oracle Applications environment

Experienced with Custom interfaces between multiple systems.

Well experienced in Multi-Org, Multi-Operating Units, Multi-Currency, Projects Intercompany/Internal billing in Global Oracle Applications environment

Performed multiple CRPs, SIT and UAT for various clients. Issue/Defect resolution etc..

Merging and Roll out of different OU/Organizations into Single instance

Excellent Documentation Skills (i.e. BP080, BR100, MD050, MC50, CV010, CV040, CV070, MD60,…)

Excellent troubleshooting skills coupled with good technical knowledge. Conversant with SQL using TOAD and cloud explorer.

Have experience in Post Production Support with many clients on different project releases

Experience in Preparation of Proposals in response to clients RFQs.

Excellent Communication, Analytical, Interpersonal and Presentation skills

Excellent troubleshooting skills coupled with good technical knowledge. Conversant with SQL using TOAD

Received good feedback from multiple clients on giving best recommendations and suggesting best practices. Mentoring the client on how Oracle Apps product can be utilized according to their business needs. Involved in major decisions on product/module selection, Upgrade/Reimplementation recommendations.

Education: Have Bachelors In Technology from JNTU University, India.

Key Skills

Expertise Level: EBS - R12, 11i, Cloud SCM.

Order Management (OM), Shipping, Oracle WMS and MSCA, Inventory (INV), Purchasing, iProcurement, iSupplier and Advanced Pricing, Service Contracts, BOM, WIP.

Intermediate Level: General Ledger(GL), Account Payables(AP), Account Receivables(AR),

Sub Ledger Accounting (SLA), SQL, PL/SQL.

Activities Responsible For:

Business Process Study & Analysis, Gathering Requirement Specifications

Conducting Gap Analysis, Configuring the System & Testing and Production Support

Configuring and Carrying out Setups of the Oracle SCM modules to Multiple Phases of Implementations

Training the client’s Super users and users on the SCM Modules

Conduct & Support CRPs, User Acceptance testing of configured business application modules.

Upload of Setup data, Transactions using a tool Data Loader and thereby deploy the application for Go-Live

Providing Post Implementation support to the client’s functional Users after Go-Live on various operational and educational issues and helping them to troubleshoot problems on their own..

Handling Oracle TARs. Worked on several Critical TARs

Worked with Oracle Product development team on Cloud resolving the bugs and enhancements

PROJECTS PROFILE

Client: KV- Knape & Vogt.USA (July 2015 – Jun 2017) R12 (Application Support)

Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management, iProcurement and Oracle WMS.

Knape & Vogt has been a rock-solid resource for industry (OEMs), cabinetmakers, contractors and homeowners for more than a century. Quality materials, uncompromising manufacturing standards and intelligent engineering define our products used by millions around the world every day. We’re in the business of motion, making products that move, and move well. That means innovation, that means rethinking the way we do things, and most important, that means never, ever standing still.

We're in the business of motion, making products that move, and move well. That means innovation, that means rethinking the way we do things, and most important, that means never, ever standing still.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Troubleshooting the production issues on various applications (Purchasing, Inventory, Order Management, and iProcurement

Set up regular weekly/ biweekly / daily meetings with business to discuss on the status of open items and plan the work for the team based on the priorities.

Working with Development team to build the functionality for the new requirements and testing in DEV / QA instances before migrating it to UAT and PROD instances.

Extensively worked on preparing test scenarios, test scripts on different applications to help the users for better understanding the application

Troubleshooting and fixing the issues on Oracle Distribution Modules

Extensively Worked On Period End Activities

Troubleshooting and fixing the issues in Order management Application, Backordering, Return Material Authorization issues.

Extensively worked on troubleshooting, fixing the issues on Internal requisition, Approved Supplier list, Request in Oracle Purchasing

Troubleshooting and fixing the PO Approval issues, Stuck Purchase Orders from the Workflow utilizing the standard scripts from Oracle

Creating the Training material documents on various applications in Oracle

Creating Inter-org transfer setups for Inventory application in Oracle R12

Troubleshooting the order management, invoices, intercompany, etc. issues using SQL statements in Oracle

Training the super users by giving demonstrations on various process flows in oracle applications and helping them to understand the process in a better way

Preparing business requirement, functional design documents and working with the development team to build the custom reports in various applications in Oracle, testing the report and migrating it to the other instances

Extensively worked with Oracle on SRs to fix the issues in Oracle Supply chain management, Financials, Manufacturing areas.

Client: Nidec Motor Corporation. USA (July 2015 – Jun 2017) 11i (Application Support)

Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management, iProcurement and Oracle WMS, MSCA

Nidec Motor Corporation (NMC) is a leading manufacturer of commercial, industrial, and appliance motors and controls. The NMC product line features a full line of high efficiency motors, large and small, which serve Industrial, residential and commercial markets in applications ranging from water treatment, mining, oil and gas and power generation to pool and spa motors, air conditioning condensers, rooftop cooling towers and commercial refrigeration. It also makes motors, controls and switches for automotive and commercial markets. Brands include U.S. MOTORS®, SR DRIVES®, HURST®, RESCUE®, and ECOTECH EZ™.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Troubleshooting the production issues on various applications (Purchasing, Inventory, Order Management, and iProcurement.

Set up regular weekly/ biweekly / daily meetings with business to discuss on the status of open items and plan the work for the team based on the priorities.

Working with Development team to build the functionality for the new requirements and testing in DEV / QA instances before migrating it to UAT and PROD instances.

Extensively worked on preparing test scenarios, test scripts on different applications to help the users for better understanding the application

Extensively Worked On Period End Activities

Understanding / Reproducing / Analyzing / Troubleshooting / resolving functional issues and helping development team to resolve technical issues.

Preparing business requirement, functional design documents to develop the custom reports in various applications in Oracle.

Testing the new functionality, identifying and resolving the issues in Distribution Modules.

Providing the Test Scripts, Test Scenarios to the Business to test the business process in Oracle.

Setup meetings with the other stake holders as and when needed to resolve the data integration issues.

Extensively worked with Oracle on SRs to fix the issues in Oracle Supply Chain Management.

Client: EIS (JUL 2015 – JAN 2016) R12 Upgrade (12.2.6)

Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management – Upgrade (11i To 12.2.6).

EIS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company (GPC) and one of North America’s leading distributors of process materials, production supplies, specialty wire and cable, and value added fabricated parts supplying the electrical OEM, motor repair and various assembly markets with over 100,000 critical products from 39 branches and 6 fabrication facilities located in North America.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Carried the functional tasks in Oracle SCM (PO,INV,OM),Manufacturing(BOM,WIP) and Financial(AP,AR,GL) modules during all stages of upgrade.

Played a Key Role in working with Oracle support and development to identify and resolve issues.

Reviewed and participated in time to time discussion on existing and proposed business flows, along with documentation.

Upgrade Assessment of current business process in R11 (Inventory, Purchasing & Order management).

Impact analysis in current business process due upgrade changes/enhancements.

Business process mapping with all standard and customized modules.

Design test scripts of all sub-process identified in assessment phase.

Unit testing execution for each business process.

Assisting in developing and testing software applications.

Provided Training & Conducted Practice & Additional Business Requirements sessions.

Supported production environments and users on a daily basis by responding to emergency requests.

Resolving issues by working with Oracle Support through SR’s.

Analyzing user needs, conferring with users to improve procedures and identifying and solving issues.

Post go-live support.

Client: SunPower Corporation. USA (May 2015 – July 2015) R12

Project: SunPower- New Organization Structure for Lease – Enhancement Project.

Since 1985 SunPower has been leading global solar innovation. SunPower solar panels consistently deliver more energy and long-term peace of mind with the highest performing solar power systems available. SunPower is the solar energy choice of more homeowners and businesses around the world. Global headquarters based in Silicon Valley since 1985World's highest efficiency solar panels featuring SunPower Maxeon cell technology

Roles and Responsibilities:

Design & Implementation of Order to Cash (O2C) flow for the New Organization Structure for Lease Process with Business presentations

Preparation of Business-Process flows into Oracle-Process Flows

Define Separate Flows for Return Material Authorization and Penalty to be levied to the Dealer in specific cases as per the Business Requirement

Key Setups, Development and End to End testing to map the O2C process cycles in Oracle ERP as per business requirement for Leasing

Creation of New Accounts and Mapping of the same to ensure correct Accounting Entries in new end-to-end process and to capture changes in SunPower existing process

Customization of Financial Statement Generator Reports to capture the exact Lease Costs

Preparation of test scripts/cases and conducting User Acceptance Testing.

Detailed Technical and Functional Documentation of the Process Implemented; Preparation of setup and troubleshooting documents and User manuals.

Client: SunPower Corporation. USA (March 2015 – May 2015 ) R12

SunPower- North America Warehouse Consolidation – Enhancement Project

Roles and Responsibilities:

Design & Implementation of Warehouse Consolidation for all North America Warehouse

Disabling the existing Warehouses and enabling new Warehouse in different Operating Unit for all Order Management Transaction

Defining Intercompany Flows for shipments between Operating Units

Preparation of test scripts/cases and conducting User Acceptance Testing.

Detailed Technical and Functional Documentation of the Process Implemented; Preparation of setup and troubleshooting documents and User manuals.

Client: SunPower Corporation. USA (Jan 2015 – March 2015) R12

Inventory, Order Management and Account Receivables - Enhancement Project

Roles and Responsibilities:

Design & Implementation of Order to Cash (O2C) flow for the new Donation Order Types created to track CSR activities of SunPower.

Preparation of Business-Process flows into Oracle-Process Flows.

Setup Receivable Transaction Types and OM Transaction Types.

Defining the Document Sequence and Assigning the Sequence to the Transaction Types.

Define Separate Flows for Return Material Authorization

Key Setups, Development and End to End testing to map the O2C process cycles in Oracle ERP

Creation of New Accounts and Mapping of the same to ensure correct Accounting Entries in new end-to-end process and to capture changes in SunPower existing process

Preparation of test scripts/cases and conducting User Acceptance Testing.

Detailed Functional Documentation of the Process Implemented; Preparation of setup and troubleshooting documents and User manuals.

Client: Synchrony Financial. USA (Aug 2014 – Jan 2015) R12

Inventory, Purchasing, iProcurement and Account Payables – Re Implementation

Synchrony Financial is a consumer financial services company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States.[1]Synchrony Financial offers consumer financing products, including credit, promotional financing and loyalty programs, and installment lending, and FDIC insured savings products through Synchrony Bank, its wholly owned subsidiary.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Gathering Business Requirements from business users and preparing Business Requirement, Functional Design, BR100, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios documents.

Set up regular weekly/ biweekly / daily meetings with business to discuss on the status of open items and plan the work for the team based on the priorities.

Working with Development team to build the functionality for the new requirements and testing in DEV / QA instances before migrating it to UAT and PROD instances.

Understanding / Reproducing / Analyzing / Troubleshooting / resolving functional issues and helping development team to resolve technical issues.

Preparing business requirement, functional design documents to develop the custom reports in various applications in Oracle.

Testing the new functionality, identifying and resolving the issues in Purchasing & iProcurement.

Providing the Test Scripts, Test Scenarios to the Business to test the business process in Oracle.

Setup meetings with the other stake holders as and when needed to resolve the data integration issues.

Upgrade Assessment of current business process in R11 (Inventory, Purchasing & iProcurement).

Impact analysis in current business process due upgrade changes/enhancements.

Business process mapping with all standard and customized modules.

Design test scripts of all sub-process identified in assessment phase.

Unit testing execution for each business process.

Provided Training & Conducted Practice & Additional Business Requirements sessions.

Supported production environments on a daily basis by responding to emergency requests.

Extensively worked on troubleshooting, fixing the issues on Internal requisition, Approved Supplier list, Request for Quotes in Oracle Purchasing.

Creating the Training material documents on various applications in Oracle

Training the super users by giving demonstrations on various process flows in oracle applications and helping them to understand the process in a better way.

Extensively worked with Oracle on SRs (Service Request) to fix the issues in Oracle Supply chain management.

Client: GE Capital. USA (Feb 2014 – Aug 2014) R12

Inventory, Purchasing, iProcurement and Account Payables- Re Implementation

GE Capital is the financial services unit of the American conglomerate General Electric.[1] It provides commercial lending and leasing, as well as a range of financial services for health care, media, communications, entertainment, consumers, real estate, and aviation. It has a number of divisions, including GE Real Estate, GE Capital Aviation Services, GE Energy Financial Services and GE Commercial Lending & Leasing.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Gathering Business Requirements from business users and preparing Business Requirement, Functional Design, BR100, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios documents.

Working with Development team to build the functionality for the new requirements and testing in DEV / QA instances before migrating it to UAT and PROD instances.

Preparing business requirement, functional design documents to develop the custom reports in various applications in Oracle.

Testing the new functionality, identifying and resolving the issues in Purchasing & iProcurement.

Providing the Test Scripts, Test Scenarios to the Business to test the business process in Oracle.

Trained the super users by providing documents using VISIO flow diagrams for better understanding

Creating the Training material documents on various applications in Oracle.

Training the super users by giving demonstrations on various process flows in oracle applications and helping them to understand the process in a better way.

Extensively worked with Oracle on SRs (Service Request) to fix the issues in Oracle Supply chain management.

Analyzing user needs, conferring with users to improve procedures and identifying and solving issues.

Post go-live support

Client: ITW Signode India (May2013 - Jan2014) R12

Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management – Upgrade (11i To 12.1.3).

Signode India Limited is a Company of Signode Industrial Packaging Group, USA, a global leader in the industrial bulk packaging industry with a heritage that goes back more than 100 years.

We produce strap, stretch and protective packaging. We also manufacture packaging tools and equipment that are used to apply the bulk packaging materials. These packaging products are used to contain, unitize, protect and secure goods during warehousing and shipment. Our company is a pioneer in the industrial packaging sector with a long history of customer-focused innovations in materials, processes and automation technology that have revolutionized the sector.

With nearly seven thousand employees working in facilities throughout the US, Europe and Asia, we maintain leading positions in our businesses through our global scale, broad product portfolio and long-standing global customer relationships.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Owning all the problem/incident tickets, Service Requests, distributing work among the team for each of the above customers and setting up meetings with business to prioritize the tickets, plan for build patch deliverables and lead the support operations to provide a 100% on SLA support to all the customers.

Set up regular weekly/ biweekly / daily meetings with business to discuss on the status of open items and plan the work for the team based on the priorities.

On operational point, collect the data and work on the dashboard, status reports and work load division report and distribute the same to top management.

Role also combines the analysis and giving resolution to the business for any critical or priority incidents or problems reported as part of Application Maintenance activities.

Setup meetings with the other stake holders as and when needed to resolve the data integration issues.

Upgrade Assessment of current business process in R11 (Inventory, Purchasing & Order management).

Impact analysis in current business process due upgrade changes/enhancements.

Business process mapping with all standard and customized modules.

Design test scripts of all sub-process identified in assessment phase.

Unit testing execution for each business process.

Assisting in developing and testing software applications.

Provided Training & Conducted Practice & Additional Business Requirements sessions.

Supported production environments and users on a daily basis by responding to emergency requests.

Resolving issues by working with Oracle Support through SR’s.

Analyzing user needs, conferring with users to improve procedures and identifying and solving issues.

Post go-live support.

Client - Pitti Laminations (Jul 2012 – May 2013) R12

Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management – Upgrade (11i To 12.1.3)

India's largest and most reputed manufacturer of Electrical Steel Laminations, Motor Cores, Sub-Assemblies, Die-Cast Rotors and Press Tools. We are proud to be the largest exporter of laminations from India. We have already diversified into manufacturing of Castings, Steel Fabricated Parts and machined components stator and rotor assemblies with plans of diversifying into forgings.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Upgrade Assessment of current business process in R11 (Inventory, Purchasing & Order management).

Impact analysis in current business process due upgrade changes/enhancements.

Business process mapping with all standard and customized modules.

Set up regular weekly/ biweekly / daily meetings with business to discuss on the status of open items and plan the work for the team based on the priorities.

Setup meetings with the other stake holders as and when needed to resolve the data integration issues.

Owning all the problem/incident tickets, Service Requests, distributing work among the team for each of the above customers and setting up meetings with business to prioritize the tickets, plan for build patch deliverables and lead the support operations to provide a 100% on SLA support to all the customers.

Design test scripts of all sub-process identified in assessment phase.

Unit testing execution for each business process.

Analyze and test integration with 3rd Parties and legacy systems.

Full CRP1, CRP2 testing cycles, with issue trackers and SME’s sign of.

Full UAT testing Cycles, with issue trackers and SME’s sign of.

Assisting in developing and testing software applications.

Provided Training & Conducted Practice & Additional Business Requirements sessions.

Supported production environments and users on a daily basis by responding to emergency requests.

Analyzing user needs, conferring with users to improve procedures and identifying and solving problems.

Post go-live support

Gayathri Electro Polymers ( JAN 2009 – JUN 2012):

Role : Stores Incharge

Gayatri Electro Polymers are one of the leading organizations engaged in manufacturing and supplying an Enormous range of Electrical Engineering Products that are largely used in several industries. These include Sheet Moulding Compound, Dough Moulding Compound, Low Tension Current Transformers, and Distribution.Box, SMC Planks and a lot more. These are manufactured using optimum grade raw materials by our expert professionals. Apart from that, these products are well-known for their high mechanical strength, shock absorbency, easy installation and highly glazed surface.

Roles and Responsibilities:

To keep proper manual inventory records.

To updated daily stock transactions (e.g. Material inspection Reports Material issue to production, Vendor For Job-works)

Deal with Local vendor according production plan.

Local purchase (for Misc. Factory Items)

Generate weekly requirement for purchase department.

Maintaining all process of Raw material Store.

Finished Goods Store (dispatch material as per sale plan or instruction given by Sale.

Department, arrange vehicle from local transport union)

Handle overall stores activities at Plant

In charge for issue, receipts, documentation, warehousing, inventory, stocking and making computerized entries for the related items. Maintain inward and outward on daily basis.

Take stock on monthly basis and reconcile the same. Inform the office about new stock.

Placing indents on Supplies/Purchase Department for timely availability of material.

Physical management and proper upkeep of stock materials stores.

Conduct periodic cyclic checks and stock reconciliation.

Ensure proper documentation and process discipline among team.

Generate daily-monthly stock reports as requested by the management

Plan for upcoming goods, preventive measures and stock control Keep track of physical stock and tally with computer records.

Receive materials take care of demurrage’s, in transit damages and taking preventive measures for the safety of stocked goods

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