SAP SD Consultant

AMIT POPTANI

SAP SD Consultant

E-mail: **************@*****.*** Cell: +1-647-***-****

7+ years of IT experience in handling SAP Implementation, Rollout, Enhancement and Support projects

Skill Set

Order to Cash Process

Procure to Pay Process

SAP SD/MM/WM Configuration

Shipping Transportation Billing

Variant Configuration

ALE/EDI IDOC Interfaces

Inter Company, Consignment

Rebate, Credit Management

Claims and Returns Process,

Delivery Scheduling, Availability Check, Backorder Processing

LSMW, SAP Data Archiving

IT Skills

ERP systems: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, S/4 HANA 1610, 1709

Project tools: SAP Solution Manager, HPSC, BMC Remedy, Service Now, JIRA, MS-Office, MS Outlook, IBM Lotus Notes, ALM

Canada Immigration

Status: Permanent Resident

PR File No: T602045422

Landed on 17th May 2018

Current Citizenship: INDIA

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications Engineering, (2005-2009)

IES-IPS Academy, Indore, India

Affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, India

Profile Summary

Amit has total 7+ years of IT experience as SAP functional consultant. He has lead, managed and worked on full lifecycle SAP implementations, rollouts, enhancements, change management, and application management service projects utilizing SAP SD/MM modules.

He is expert in mapping business processes in SAP ERP, configuration and implementing the SD integration areas with MM, LE, and FI modules.

He has worked on multiple SAP projects for industry verticals like Paper Manufacturing (UPM Kymmene), Automotive (Volkswagen AG), Power & Electrical (Eaton), and Professional Legal Services (Baker & McKenzie, Abreu Advogados).

He is also certified as SAP Application Associate in Order Fulfilment ECC 6.0 Ehp 5, E2E SAP Change Control Management using Solution Manager 7.1, and ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management.

Proficient in ASAP, Agile and Scrum implementation methodologies, and familiar with SAP Activate methodology.

Exposure to SAP EWM and SAP S/4 HANA Simple Logistics, good knowledge and hands on experience in new features and delta changes.

Accomplishments

Adept in business requirements gathering, planning, design, configure, test and implement SAP solutions within sales, procurement and logistics area.

Successfully Implemented green field SAP project for professional service industry in US and Portugal utilizing Resource Related Billing (RRB), DIP profile.

Managed implementation project for a new company code, Inter-Company billing, SD-FI integration, and pricing solution at onsite location Japan.

Implemented Order related Invoicing solution, defining new Organizational entities in SAP, set up Credit/Debit process utilizing SAP Fiori Apps.

Analyze Change Requests (RFC), Evaluated cost, effort and provided estimation on timelines to customers.

Ability to draft functional specifications, process design documents and guide technical team in development of business solution as per requirement.

Experience in handling user reported incidents, service requests, application maintenance and global support projects in a 24/7 environment within Sales and Distribution, Material Management and WM module.

Lead SAP data archiving, quarterly release projects within application management service scope.

Planned and involved in business user acceptance test phases. Performed system integration testing and guided end user in completing test cycle.

Effectively collaborated with business users, and project team to investigate and resolve functional and technical issues.

Maintained project related documentation, process and user training manual

Professional Experience

TIETO India Private Limited Pune, India

SAP Functional Consultant (SD/MM) April 2016 – January 2018

Client: UPM Paper ENA and Asia

UPM is the world's leading producer of graphic papers and a supplier of a wide product range that includes magazine, newsprint, and fine papers

Project: Global SAP Support on Paper Sales and Procurement Role: Team Member

Provide application support on issues to business key users within SAP sales, procurement, and logistics area

Worked on incidents, service requests, problems and handle changes requests from analysis to implementation

Implemented business solutions in the area of Order Fulfilment, Variant Characteristics, SD/MM Pricing, Procurement, Stock Transport Order and ALE/EDI Interfaces

Worked on the migration of custom ABAP reports from ERP to HANA version

Maintain IDOC partner profiles, master data including customer, material, pricing, output, and control tables

Managed weekly and monthly release schedules, coordinated deployment with functional and technical teams

Prepared and presented incident and change requests status report to customers in weekly calls

Participated in SAP S/4 HANA Simple Logistics 1610 training with hands on experience on sales solutions

Project: SAP Invoicing Solution Implementation Role: Project Lead and Co-ordinator

Implement SAP Order related Invoicing solution built on SAP Fiori Apps and GUI

Define new organisation elements like Company Code, Sales Org, Plant, Shipping point and its assignments

Define and set up new sales and billing document types, pricing procedure, G/L account determination, IDOC distribution model.

Maintained custom routines in pricing, output and developed archiving solution for invoice documents

Set up workflow for credit and debit memo request approvals before generation of final memos.

Project: SAP Business Data Archiving Enhancement Role: Project Lead

Prepared detailed project plan with timelines, scope and efforts for quality and production system data archiving.

Verify content repository settings and archiving object configuration, advice vendor to perform the archiving runs

Monitored and analyzed archiving runs in test, production system and validated results

Provide status update on project progress and suggested improvement proposals to increase archiving efficiency

Received appreciation to drive the project with complete ownership and achieve customer expectations.

EATON Technologies Private Limited Pune, India

SAP Analyst October 2015 – April 2016

Client: EATON Electrical

Eaton is a global technology leader in power management solutions that make electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power operate more efficiently, effectively, safely and sustainably.

Project: EATON Global SAP Support Role: Module Lead (SD/CS/GTS)

Mentored a team and handled AMS project involving development, maintenance of SAP applications.

Assist business users and resolve queries on SAP functional and technical issues within the SAP applications.

Worked on problem management area to provide the workaround and permanent fix for recurring incidents

Prepared change management process, approval and escalation workflows to streamline the support process

Participated in SAP CS and GTS training and provided support to business users on applications on CS and GTS

IBM India Private Limited Pune, India

Package Solution Consultant SCM July 2013 – October 2015

Client: VOLKSWAGEN Group

Volkswagen Group is a German multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany It designs, manufactures and distributes passenger and commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and engines

Project: VW Group Poland EWM Support handover Role: Project SPOC (SAP SD)

Involved in project handover to support for EWM business application at onsite location Kassel, Germany

Understood SAP EWM functionalities and evaluated the process changes in existing landscape with SD-WM

Documented AID’s and configuration manuals, prepared integration test scenarios for SD-EWM interface

Delivered knowledge transfer sessions to the offshore support team on new and delta functionalities

Project: VW Group JAPAN New Company Code Role: Project Lead (SAP SD)

Conducted business workshop to gather business requirement and held discussions on proposed solutions with the customer at onsite location Toyohashi, Japan

Prepared detailed project plan with activities, timelines, effort estimations, and cross module dependencies

Configured enterprise structure elements, document types, copy controls, item categories, pricing procedure, and custom routines

Designed and configured Intercompany billing process, pricing procedure solution and Vendor invoice receipt through EDI

Participated in Integration testing, user acceptance testing and sign off phase with customers

Prepared system for Go-Live and manual instructions during cutover phase

Project: VW ET2000 Global SAP Support Role: Team member

Managed, worked and delivered SAP enhancement projects on enterprise applications including SD/MM and Logistics Execution for the client Volkswagen Group Germany

Handled Global business support on Sales, Procurement, and Logistics for L2, L3 level and guided business users in resolving the process issues and service requests.

Implemented Delivery document split functionality on the criteria of Dangerous Goods UN number for Volkswagen Group Singapore

Involved in VW Brazil AMS transition project and gained an understanding of VW Brazil Sales processes and pricing solutions built on Nota Fiscal documents

TATA Consultancy Services Limited Gujarat, India

Systems Engineer March 2010 – July 2013

Client: Abreu Advogados Portugal, Baker & McKenzie USA

Project: SAP LMS Implementation & Support Role: Team member (SAP SD)

Participated in requirement gathering workshops and documented business AS-IS and TO-BE, gap analysis.

Involved in project kick-off, business blue printing, realization, final preparation and go-live project phases.

Define and assigned new SD enterprise structure, new sales and billing document types, item categories, schedule line categories, Plant and Shipping point determination, G/L account determination and pricing procedure set up.

Created business configuration (BC) sets to deploy the end to end process functionalities in production system

Designed output smart forms in Portuguese language and configured sales and billing output procedures

Uploaded legacy master data using LSMW and BAPI’s

Client: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Internal)

Project: SAP Legal Management Solutions Product Development Role: Team member (SAP SD)

SAP Legal Management Solution (LMS) is integrated ERP software built on WebDynpro to cater the needs of legal industry. LMS product utilizes SAP SD, PS, HR, FICO core modules to manage customer billing, cost management and legal case history.

Designed customer master entry, legal case matter, draft and final bill transaction screens using WebDynpro

Configured SD enterprise structure, assignments, sales and billing document types, determination rules, Item categories, schedule Line categories, Copy control settings, pricing procedure, Revenue and Account determination, DIP profile

Implemented Inter-Company Billing, Credit Management, and Rebate process for customers.

Configured Billing Request Editor for Resource Related billing scenarios in SAP SD using DIP profile

Set up IDoc types and partner profiles, configured distribution model and LEDES based e-billing for customer invoices

Maintained activity based costs, HR master data, CATS2 and CATS7 applications rates, output, tax and pricing records

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