10 years of SAP Experience

Summary of Qualifications:

I have over ** years of experience implementing SAP at Fortune 500 companies, I am currently employed full time at General Motors LLC and have an experience of working at Department of Defense United States Navy. I have been part of 6 successful go-lives working for IBM at the NAVY ERP. The experience includes but not limited to Deployment, Data Conversions, Master Data Maintenance, and ABAP Development as an Techno Functional resource, Configuration, Archiving, and SAP Business Objects Development. The modules include Material Management, Procurement, Order Fulfillment, Inventory Management, Sales, and Distribution.

Lead large scale MM/IM/WM implementation for US Navy’s ERP project including over 160+ US Navy Sites

SAP development activities, configuration, data conversion, testing, and deployment

Manage development teams. Coordinated projects tasks and timelines and managed project scope

Establish and execute development standards, procedure, and templates for reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancement, forms, and workflow.

Material Master Analysis and maintained test data for purchasing groups, Purchase requisitions, purchase orders, contracts, materials types and transfer posting.

Formulated and developed data migration strategies and work plans.

Assisted with GAP analysis and supported new technical processes.

Utilized ETL and DQ tools for SAP ERP data migration activities and rollouts.

Implemented SAP migration action plans and managed various legacy environments.

Coordinated with data team members to create Data Migration Strategy.

Executed processes for loading control of data migration activities.

Establish and execute development standards, procedure, and templates for reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancement, forms, and workflow.

Blueprinting, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support

Able to work with cross-organizational teams to gather business requirements, identify GAPs, derived deployment plans. Communicate project health status including resources/budget to all key stakeholders.

IDOCs, Workflow, ALV, LSMW, EDI, RFCs, Reports, Workflow, SAP upgrade, Post Go-Live Support & User training

Performed requirement analysis, business case design, gap analysis and training

Coordination of UAT: Perform unit testing of changes (configuration and custom development) and also regression testing of that may be impacted by the change

Responsible for planning, design development, configuration, testing and implementation

Working in all facets of SAP implementations applying ASAP methodologies: process mapping, design, configuration, gap-fit analysis, testing, documentation, training, data migration, functional co-ordination for the project and post-implementation support.

Worked in Full life cycle implementations, Rollouts, Support and Upgrade projects.

Extensive experience in configuration for Material Management

Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects

In-depth knowledge in configuration, implementation, ASAP methodology, system design and development and gathering user requirements

Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports

Evaluated customer’s needs, defined and established new standards, implemented changes, planned different transitions and tested functionality in order to fulfill organizations’ needs.

Documented test cases, managed changes and addressed cost concerns to organizations.

Valuating a client’s requirements and then proposing adequate and effective solutions.

Purchasing document. Configure Release Procedure with/without Classification. Settings for special procurement process including Subcontracting, Vendor consignments etc.

Experienced in setting up Release Strategy and customized Vendor Evaluation Process.

Performed complex data mappings for number of conversion and interface objects.

Developed Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) programs for converting the Master and Transactional data into SAP. Used Batch Data Communication, IDOC Message Types, and Business Application Programming Interface in LSMW programs. Utilized ABAP programming within LSMW programs to implement complex business rules.

Experience with APO full life cycle implementation.

Developed Technical Functional Specifications (TFS) documents for configured objects.

Developed techniques within SAP Data Services to faster retrieval of the data from SAP.

Performed the conversion of millions of records and resolved the errors as a result of data conversion

Experience with APO full life cycle implementation.

Go live support for post Implementation issues from NAVSUP/NAVSEA Post implementation support and trouble shooting.

Trained users, prepared training materials, prepared guidelines, assisted users and supported technical staffs on the implementation of SAP

Responsible for data migration and conversion activities such as extracting, transforming, migrating, validating and reconciliation of data. Provide guidance to internal IT key users to design and develop data loaders/templates to fit the business requirements

Develop validation programs to cross check all the data before and after the data loading

Identify problematic areas and conduct research to determine the best course of action to correct data

Proactively identify project risks and create feasible solutions. Escalate cross-functional issues and identify SMEs required for resolution.

Lead Reviews for transactional data for SAP enhancements, defects, and project implementations

Worked closely and effectively with project Team members from other functions as well as end use stakeholders.

General Motors LLC (2013-Current)

April 2016- Current

Tax Technology Lead

As a tax technology team member my job responsibilities include

1.Tax requirements and Sabrix Configuration for Global SAP and Non SAP GM Projects for example:

India GST

2.Sabrix configuration and integration with SAP

3.Manage Tax helpdesk- Help with processing invoicing with Tax issues and Sustain operations

4.Work with GM suppliers to educate on Tax Requirements

5.Developed SABRIX Tax training document for General Motors User Base.

6.Configuring rules, rates, messages, and other items specific to US state taxing authorities

7.Configure Sabrix inbound and outbound data from SAP

8.Upload and download tax and configuration data

9.Perform configuration, diagnostics, and troubleshooting in Sabrix and between Sabrix and SAP

10.Model transaction scenarios and view results

11.Tax Authority Configuration

12.Support vendor-charged tax and accrual functionality for procure-to-pay process and sales flows listed below.

13.Sabrix/SAP integration experience for transactions below:

a. Procure-to-Pay - Purchase orders - AP invoices and Credit Memos - Applying tax exemptions to AP and PO transactions - Comparing vendor assessed tax on AP invoices to the tax determined by ONESOURCE

b. Order-to-Cash - sales orders - AR invoices and credit memos - Applying tax exemptions to AR and OM transactions

Feb 2013-April 2016

Manager SAP Global operations –Purchasing/Finance

ECC Lead for SAP purchasing operations at GM and my responsibilities is to provide sustain support, break fix and Minor enhancements to 17 Global application worldwide

Daily activities include:

Ticket Resolution on all issues related to SAP RTP

Material master maintenance

Vendor master maintenance

APO/CIF Schedule agreements/PO/PR/Sales orders

Updating and configuration Material master

Correspond with supplier for Payment related issues

Established process for break fix changes, operational changes and urgent Enhancements

Identify configuration issues and fix depending on business requirement

Monitor and resolve EDI/IDOC issues

I am one of the leading ticket closers on SAP Ops team

I understand all aspects of GM RTP-Purchasing business process and the issue faced will user on a daily basis

I am very confident and have very good understanding of SAP master and transactional data to support the RTP/Master data business requirements

Department of Defense-Navy ERP

Mar 08- Feb 2013

Deployment/ Data Management/Production Support (MM-SD-SCM-APO-BW)

Navy ERP is an integrated business management system that updates and standardizes Navy business operations, provides financial transparency and total asset visibility across the enterprise, and increases effectiveness and efficiency. Navy ERP uses Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software SAP for Navy to unify, standardize, and streamline all its business activities into one complete integrated system. As a member of the Data Management team involved with implementing Financial and Single Supply solution to Navy System Commands NAVAIR, NAVSUP, NAVSEA, SPAWAR, ONR, and SSP by replacing multiple legacy systems and providing Production/Sustainment Support.

I was a very proud member of the Navy ERP team which is responsible 8 extremely successful Go lives for the single supply solution Navy has implemented. Responsibilities include developing data mappings for master data objects like Material Master, Customer Master, Vendor Master, Cost Centers, Activity Types, Cost Elements, Funds, Funds Centers, and transactional data objects like Sales Orders, Credit and Debit Memo Requests, Price Updates, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Goods Receipts, Invoice Receipts, and Service Entry Sheets. Material master maintenance/cleanup/archiving/ updating and support for the customer are part for my daily job activity.

Helped develop ABAP programs and developed LSMW programs to convert the legacy data into SAP. Utilized SAP Data Services to pre-validate the data by building complex business rules for and data clean up in the production environment. Involved in the development of Navy ERP Data Conversion Strategy along with the cutover checklist and data load execution sequence and dependencies. Other responsibilities include pre-validation of records, executing ABAP/4 programs, developing and executing and LSMW programs to process or load records for conversion into SAP. Also, develop and execute ABAP/4 queries and viewer to generate vendor master, material master, sales orders, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, service entry sheets, goods receipts, invoices and the crosswalks associated with those objects. SAP Senior Consultant – Master Data maintenance and Data Management Resource

Work activities

The Project team owns all the conversion activities at Navy ERP for Go lives. As a member of the Data Management team performed the load of master data and transactional data in Navy ERP SAP systems. Resolved the errors by logging the defects into Test Director.

Converted over 120 million records successfully into SAP from Various legacy systems.

Involved in the creation of the data conversion plan/strategy for Mater and Transactional data.

Developed more than 40 LSMW programs as part of the data conversion and correction which were used in every deployment and production as data correction.

Worked with SAP super users to develop, implement and maintain master data, including vendors, info records, source lists, plants, BOMs, routings and MRP, among others.

Developed and delivered requirements and project scope documents, business process design and configuration.

SAP Notes implementation and Patch update experience

Works with users to troubleshoot and solve complex problems escalated from the support team, making system changes as necessary.

In charge of ECC/APO Master data Validation process for the NAVY ERP. Created Business process procedures to help legacy validate data in the APO/SCM environment such as Material CIF, PLANT CIF, VENDOR CIF, INFO RECORDS CIF, CONTRACTS CIF, SALES ORDER CIF, PR& PO CIF, and STOCK CIF.

Applied and tested various forecasting methods and compared results

Performed unit testing and integration testing

Conducted end user training and updated the technical documents Involved in the subcontracting bill of material creation process.

Point of contact for all BI/BW validation. Assisted legacy validate all the converted data in the BW environment

Created and managed various project plans to support configuration activities, execution of data load process, integration string testing, mock test cycles, and cutover activities.

Contributed in the development of the Navy ERP Master Data and Transaction Data Load plan for SAP MM (Material Master, Purchasing, Inventory Management), SCM (APO) and BW, defined configuration, cross-reference table, extract file, and validation process in SAP

Participated and coordinated in a requirements definition process for their assigned business functional areas (MM, SD, BW AND SCM) which will involve confirming and adapting master data field definitions and population rules and determining and confirming the data migration approach, methods and plans.

Created the cross application Data load plan and managed the execution of business transactions to validate data loads and business transactions.

Document the approach for each data object by (Business object) completing the Data Object Migration Process Design (strategy) Documents.

Involved in the process of FTP and FTE Procuring data, validation and testing

Created BPP's for Planning master data maintenance procedures, created format of layouts for extract requirements

Daily activities at NAVY ERP

Master data maintenance (changes to fields on the MARA,MARC,MARM,MGLN table via MM02/MM17/MASS/LSMW

Material archiving

LSMW development (created over 30 LSMW's which are used in Production today by SMD team/IM Team/OF and SD team. LMSW's also supporting High Priority material extension tickets.

UOM changes

Bill of material update and changes

Very complex family and supersession chain maintenance manual fixes

Info record maintenance to support PO errors

WFM NAVSUP Reorg updates

Material price updates

Material extensions

Material valuations

Validation reports for the customers

Navy Supersession chain maintenance

Po conversions

Vendor extensions

PepsiCo, Chicago, IL Dec’ 06 – Mar’ 08

SAP APO CIF DATA TRANSFER support

Responsibilities:

As an APO functional consultant, responsible for business process study and requirement gathering

Developed scripts for validation of ciffed object

Created many customs queries and data set for CIF validation

Delta reports and CIF trouble shooting via the CIF cockpit.

Configuration and troubleshooting CIF

Creating and maintaining master and transactional data integration models

Worked on design of Independent Demand, custom planning object structure and planning area

Determined and created new Characteristics and Key figures based on the business requirement

Configured custom planning books and data views for various business roles

Applied and tested various forecasting methods and compared results, created various forecast profiles for forecast generation in background

Developed custom macros to perform complex calculations and alerts

Performed Like Modeling, Phase in/out for the new products in the different markets

Created forecast profile, release profile, Location split table and Product Split table

Setup CVC generation based on actual sales data captured in infocube

Performed unit testing and integration testing

Conducted end user training and updated the technical documents

Extensive use of OSS notes to improve system performance

Delta report configuration/Run/analysis to identify the data issues between ECC/SCM

Prepared a detailed document of AS-IS, by interacting with the key users.

As an APO functional consultant, responsible for business process study and requirement gathering

Worked on design of Independent Demand, custom planning object structure and planning area

Determined and created new Characteristics and Key figures based on the business requirement

Configuration and troubleshooting CIF

Configured custom planning books and data views for various business roles

Applied and tested various forecasting methods and compared results, created various forecast profiles for forecast generation in background

Developed custom macros to perform complex calculations and alerts

Performed Like Modeling, Phase in/out for the new products in the different markets

Created forecast profile, release profile, Location split table and Product Split table

Setup CVC generation based on actual sales data captured in info cube

Performed unit testing and integration testing

Conducted end user training and updated the technical documents

Extensive use of OSS notes to improve system performance

Education: BBA FINANCE – Oakland University

Achievements:

1.Represented United States of America National Cricket Team 1999-2006

2.National Cricket Selector for the United States of America ( Part time Voluntary non paid job )

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