Profile Summary

Accomplished SAP Solution Architect and Sr. Advisory Consultant with around 10 years of work experience in technology and consulting domain.

Proficient Consultant in SAP MM, VIM (OpenText), Ariba/SRM, SAP custom solutions.

Basic knowledge on SAP BI, SD, FI and ABAP program debugging.

Designed 3 SAP custom solutions and implemented in 7 countries for European client.

Highly experienced in requirement gathering, solution designing, fit-Gap analysis, Key improvement indicators, implementation and project delivery and maintenance.

Experience in 2 Roll out, 3 SAP implementations, 4 support/ SAP upgradation.

CSM, CSPO, CSP, KMP1, KMP2, PMP certificated consultant in agile methodologies.

Professional Experience

IBM Solution Architect & Sr. Advisory Consultant Jul 2015 – Till date

Client: Arlafoods – One Arla

Project Type: Enhancements and Support

Role: Solution Architect and Sr. Advisory Consultant

Duration: Oct 2017 - till date

Working as a Solution Architect and Sr. Advisory Consultant for Arlafoods client in Vendor Invoice Management, Procure to Pay, Members relationship management and Milk Quantitative Registration SAP Modules.

Designing new business reports in SAP for client’s operations and rolling out in different countries.

Leading team of around 11 members for the delivery of process improvements.

Responsible for quality review of technical and functional objects which facilitated highest standard delivery of project.

Strong command on ITIL processes.

Working in cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration between all the client’s modules.

Supporting Procure to Pay, Finance, Sales and Distribution, Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Loans Management, Quality Management modules of SAP.

Working closely with IT team to enhance the product features and implement them in client’s landscapes.

Preparing for the new releases for the solution and preparing the rollout plans for the new countries for Arlafoods.

Insightful experience of understanding business processes, analyzing requirements, finalizing the business scenario, implementation, business rollouts and support activities.

Leading the testing team to automate the business processes for improved product lifecycle.

Performs Fit-Gap analysis to identify the business gaps, driven workshop sessions to highlight the KPI for project success.

Client: Arlafoods – Members Relationship Management SAP

Project Type: Roll out in 5 countries

Role: Solution Architect and Sr. Advisory Consultant

Duration: Jan 2017 to Oct 2017

Worked as a Solution Architect and Sr. Advisory Consultant for Arlafoods Members Relationship Management Solution in SAP.

Designed and own Members Relationship Management SAP based solution for consumer goods industry for the clients in IBM.

Implemented the solution in 7 countries for the client and managing the new business requirements with implementation and support teams.

Good understanding of Procure to Pay, Finance, Sales and Distribution, Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Loans Management, Quality Management.

Worked closely with IT team to enhance the product features and implement them in client’s landscapes.

Preparing for the new releases for the solution and preparing the rollout plans for the new countries for Arlafoods.

Insightful experience of understanding business processes, analyzing requirements, finalizing the business scenario, implementation, business rollouts and support activities.

Leading the testing team to automate the business processes for improved product lifecycle.

Client: Arlafoods - Members Relationship Management SAP

Project Type: Implementation in 2 countries

Role: Solution Architect and Sr. Advisory Consultant

Duration: Jul 2016 to Jan 2017

Worked as a Solution Architect and Sr. Advisory Consultant for Arlafoods Members Relationship Management Solution in SAP.

Designed and own Members Relationship Management SAP based solution for consumer goods industry for the clients in IBM.

Implemented the solution in 2 countries for the client and managing the new business requirements with implementation and support teams.

Good understanding of Procure to Pay, Finance, Sales and Distribution, Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Loans Management, Quality Management.

Worked closely with IT team to enhance the product features and implement them in client’s landscapes.

Preparing for the new releases for the solution and preparing the rollout plans for the new countries for Arlafoods.

Insightful experience of understanding business processes, analyzing requirements, finalizing the business scenario, implementation, business rollouts and support activities.

Leading the testing team to automate the business processes for improved product lifecycle.

Client: Arlafoods – Vendor Invoice Management SAP

Project Type: Implementation in 7 countries

Role: Solution Architect and Sr. Advisory Consultant

Duration: Dec 2015 – July 2016

Worked as a Solution Architect and Sr. Advisory Consultant for Arlafoods Sweden, for Vendor Invoice Management SAP implementation by OpenText.

Designed and implemented custom reports for vendor invoice management SAP module for the client.

Implemented the solution in 7 countries for the client and managing the new business requirements with implementation and support teams.

Prepared functional configurations for the functional teams to configure and custom programs/reports for the technical teams to implement.

Working closely with project teams, development team and testing team to drive new requirements gathering, user acceptance testing and sign offs.

Client: Arlafoods, Denmark & Sweden – Milk Quantitative Registrations SAP

Project Type: Implementation in Denmark and Sweden

Role: Sr. Advisory Manager

Duration: July 2015 – Nov 2015

Worked as a Solution Architect and Sr. Advisory Consultant for Arlafoods Denmark & Sweden, for designing Milk Quantitative Registration solution.

Designed and implemented custom reports for the solution to register the incoming raw materials from the vendors and processing them according to the needs.

Implemented the solution in 2 countries for the client including 23 custom programs.

Prepared functional configurations for the functional teams to configure and custom programs/reports for the technical teams to implement.

Worked closely with project teams, development team and testing team to drive new requirements gathering, user acceptance testing and sign offs.

Infosys Ltd Sr. Associate Consultant May 2013 – Jul 2015

Insightful experience of understanding business processes, analyzing requirements, finalizing the business scenario, implementation, business rollouts and support activities.

Hands on experience in entire range of SDLC like as-is process, goals analysis, GAP analysis, business blueprinting, realizations, writing specifications, configuration, testing, documentation, end-user training and support.

Worked closely with the manager to prepare cutover plans, list all the activities, establish the timelines of the activities and testing the changes done after the cutover plan.

Experience on four end to end enhancements for some business processes with responsibility of integration testing, system testing and user acceptance testing along with creation of functional requirements and user requirements specification documents.

Responsible for detailed problems and incident resolving along with the root cause analysis for the issues and making configuration or development changes in SAP.

Hands on experience in Idoc monitoring and reprocessing failed Idocs for interfacing the documents to ECC, as part of support activity.

Professional expertise in independently configuring and customizing SAP MM Module.

Good understanding of Master Data Management comprising Material master, Vendor master and Purchasing Info Records.

Understanding of procurement cycle in Material Management consisting of purchase requisition, RFQ, purchase order, goods receipt and invoice generation.

Basic understanding of invoice postings and reversal of invoice documents in the system.

Worked on CRM system for creation of purchase orders and other goods receipts.

Responsible for documentation of End User Training Manuals and configuration guides along with arranging and coordinating for the knowledge transfer to the business processes to the new joiners.

Working as a pre-sales consultant for a project to map the business requirements for Health Care client for SAP modules.

Responding to RFP's and RFI's for clients across borders and local and also across core modules.

GLIM, Chennai PGPM course Apr 2012 – Mar 2013

Joined Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai for PGPM in IT/Operations (Major) and Marketing/Finance (Minor).

Infosys Ltd Sr. System Engineer Feb 2009 – Apr 2012

Got trained in SAP MM module along with the concepts of inventory & warehouse management modules.

Knowledge of Configuration of MM Organizational unit and assignment to overall structure.

Hands on experience in Warehouse & Inventory Management with understanding of Stock transfer orders, inbound deliveries, storage units, physical inventory and warehouse management system.

Knowledge of warehouse and distribution business processes and best practices in Retail Industry.

Understanding of configuring WM Structure by Defining storage types, storage sections, storage bins, etc.

Responsible for problem solving and determination of issues for resolving the incidents.

Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution.

Inx Infotech Business Analyst July 2008 – Feb 2009

Got trained in gathering and documenting requirements for the business from the client.

Direct the business requirements to team and deliver requirements on time as per client’s expectations.

Help the management in taking new innovations to the client in terms of enhancement requests.

Helped in preparation of business manuals and test documents.

Testing the business application and reporting the defects and bugs to the technical team.

Analyze and interpret data to identify trends, patterns and opportunities for the business and clients.

Communicate analysis and interpretation to appropriate audience.

Academic Achievements

Qualification

Year

School / Institute (Board / University)

Marks PGPM

2013

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai

3.32/4

B.Tech

2008

M.M.E.C., Mullana, Ambala, Haryana

76.43%

12th

2004

Govt. Model Sr. Sec. School, Sec 19C, Chandigarh

80.8%

10th

2002

D.C. Model Sr. Sec. School, Sec 7,Panchkula,Haryana

79.8%

Co-curricular Activities

Conducted a market research on the consumption patterns of the mobile phones by the customers and analyzed the data using the business analytics tool like SPSS.

Undergone an exploratory empirical research with TCS for understanding the consumer’s perception and behavior for using microblogging as a platform in academic studies and portals.

Extra-curricular Activities

Participated and won state level and inter corporate level Badminton championships.

Held the responsibility of wise-captain of cricket team in college level tournaments.

Held the position of coach and manager of Badminton team at Infosys Ltd, Chandigarh.

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