Sap Management

Summary:

Around * years of SAP experience working in different industries with SAP MM/IM having 2 full life cycle Implementations.

Expertise on implementing EPB, e-Procurement process.

Implementation experience includes business requirement collection, business process analysis, gap analysis, process design, blue print, configuration, prototype, data loads, unit test, integration testing, super user training, and production support.

Clear understanding of cross-functional applications of MM, WM, PP, PS, PM, FI, SD, EDI/ in industrial scenarios.

MM Configuration- Material Master, PR, PO, Pricing, Agreements, Info records, Release Procedures, Inventory Management, GR, GI, Reservation, Transfer Posting, Stock Transfer, Consignment Settlement, Variant Configuration (VC), Invoice Verification, Account Determination, Valuation, Physical Inventory process, MRP.

Purchasing- Manufacturer part number functionality, subcontracting, third-party, consignment; External Procurement- Stock transports, requisitions, outline agreements, scheduling agreements, RFQs, quota arrangements, source lists, service entry, info records, release strategies, vendor evaluation, master records

Good knowledge in IXOS Archiving for effective management of business documents in SAP.

Inventory Management- Consignment, subcontracting, missing parts, movement types (GR/GI/transfer, movements), physical inventory (IM and WM), cycle counting, and reservations

Proficient in MM and WM core configuration, analysis, and integration points.

Worked on IDOCs and extracting data from Material Master.

Developed innovative and appropriate solutions to business and technical problems across a wide spectrum.

Provide management, guidance and supervision to large and small groups. Able to analyze and extract core issues in complex business and technical processes.

Excellent business communication and interpersonal skills.

MRP planning; Inventory Movements (movement types); Inventory Management methods (ROP, Safety stock, Period of Supply, etc); Receiving; Cycle Counts; Stock Transfer Orders

Worked on customization settings for PP Master Data namely BOM, Routings and work centers, in a discrete manufacturing environment.

Experiences:

Accenture (Client – Dow Chemical, Midland, MI) Dec’ 2018 – Present

SAP MM Consultant

SAP ECC 6.0 (Support)

Responsibilities:

Supported end users with purchasing, inventory management and invoice verification processes.

Involved in Cycle counting for the entire inventory in the Warehouse.

Identified, analyzed and processed failed IDOC's for purchase orders, inbound deliveries, goods receipt.

Involved in parallel testing for inbound and outbound processes.

Configured and modify settings for Material Master, Vendor master, Purchasing and Inventory Management.

Involved in the updating of Master data, extending master data, deletion of data in master records i.e. info record, material master and vendor master.

Worked with issues related to Master Data of raw material, finished material and packaging materials.

Worked on various issues related to Procurement to Payment cycle.

Worked with issues related to Transfer Posting and Stock Transfers.

Provided production support as a part of team in resolving tickets associated with purchasing activities and worked with Action Requests (ARs), System Incident Reports (SIRs) and Helpdesk (HD) tickets using Remedy tool.

Creating documents for the off-shore team to trouble shoot day to day issues in operations.

Accenture (Client – Dow Chemical, St.Louis, MO) May’ 2018 – Nov'’018

SAP MM Consultant

SAP ECC 6.0 (Support)

Responsibilities:

Configured the purchasing cycle- Procure to pay process

Configured and maintained Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Requisition, RFQ's, Purchase Orders, Source lists, GR and IM, Invoice Posting and Verification.

Involved in preparation of customization documents, user manuals and knowledge transfer to end-users.

Conducted business discussions with core team and business process workshops for Blue print design, identified gaps and suggested development work to overcome the gaps

Mass maintenance of material masters, PO's and Info records

Intensively involved in discussion with business team for collecting required information and data for functional design document for the RICEF (Interfaces, Enhancement and conversion) objects.

Involved in designing outbound interface to generate IDOC with specific segment for vender master.

Defined Release Procedure for purchase Requisition and external purchasing documents using 032 class types.

Involved in vendor consignment process and subcontracting process between Dow chemical and vendors.

Involved in configuration and error handling execution of IDOC & EDI 860 (change of PO data), EDI 850 (PO creation) for inbound and out bound processes.

Adopted stock transfer techniques to assist in plant to plant stock transfers and cross company stock transfers using Stock Transport Order.

Client – Atlas Copco- Auburn Hills, MI Aug’ 2016 – April’2018

SAP MM/IM Sr. Consultant

SAP ECC 6.0 (Full life cycle)

Responsibilities:

Extensively involved in solution definition phase (GAP/FIT Analysis) in obtaining requirement gathering at a detail level.

Provided solutions and suggestions on AS-IS and To-BE processes and flowchart documentation, presentation to the management teams.

Documented business process definition documents.

Participated and facilitated various work sessions and workshops during solution definition phase.

During this solution definition phase, extensively involved in Prototype, presentation, demos etc.

Involved in GAP analyses and identified a list of development objects from procurement perspective.

Participated in writing functional design (reports, interfaces, conversion, extension, forms) and configuration rationale documents.

Configured the system based on the business requirements –

Org Structure – Configured Plants, storage locations, purchasing organization (Central/Local)

Master Data- Material Types, Material Groups, number ranges, vendor account groups, number ranges etc.

Procurement - Document types, number ranges, purchasing groups, release strategy, screen layouts, movement types, account determination etc.

Inventory Management- Movement types, Reason codes, error messages etc.

Collaborated with other functional area experts to design solutions

Involved in system testing/unit testing and integration testing

Developed test scripts and various test conditions/scenarios

Provided excellent support to business for executing the test scripts

Involved in conversion and end user training activities during deployment phase

Resolved various issues related to MM modules during Go-live and after Go-live support.

Client – Teva Pharmaceutical, North Wales, PA May’ 2015 – Jul 2016

SAP MM/PP Functional Consultant

SAP ECC 6.0 (Testing and Support)

Responsibilities:

Participated in the Business Requirements Review meetings and also participated in all project-level peer reviews.

Involved in testing SAP Success Factors Employee Central Functionality.

Proactively created a risk document where ever a risk is identified.

Performed reviews for all the deliverables.

SAP PTP related application (issues), problem tickets and change tickets.

Testing the Configuration of PTP processes.

Involved in automation testing using tool HP QTP and SAP TAO.

Performed unit testing, functional testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing.

Integrated SAP MM with cross functional components with Finance, Production to design PTP scenarios.

Identified end to end processes test cases and conditions missing from the implementation scope.

Provided status reports to the leadership related to the progress of the testing.

Validated the test cases and performed updated based on the identified business processes.

Involved in Estimation Plans for Test Cases Design and Test case execution.

Defect tracking - Involved in issue resolution.

Coordinated testing between testing teams and SAP functional teams

Participated in the cut-over activities for the Go-live preparation.

Projects besides extensive background in 2 productions support and upgrade of PP, PP and MM modules in Versions 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC6.

Client – CONSOL Energy, Canonsburg, PA Jan’ 2014 – Feb’ 2015

SAP MM/IM Consultant

SAP ECC 6.0(Full life cycle)

Responsibilities:

Prepared a detailed document of AS-IS and TO-BE processes by interacting with the key users.

Configured special stock, consignment, material-storage/movement, and transfer posting.

Set up Material Management Organizational structures and global settings for Procure to pay project.

Configured Inventory Management, Purchasing, Invoice Verification.

Analyzed Business requirements and prepared feasibility studies

Identifying Material Master Data attributes. Defined new Material types and configures SAP Material Master Data.

Invoice Verification configuration for enters invoices with order reference, taxes and gross posting.

Inventory Management- managing material stock by quantity, by value, goods issue, stock movement documentation, reservation, quality inspection, physical inventory, stock transfer and transfer posting.

Administered SAP system of MM, PP and FI covering Accounting,Procurement,Sales,Controlling and Production Planning with users

Configured number ranges and the field status as per the requirements of the client.

Configured the Client level and Plant level settings for different plants

Configured the back ground stock posting for usage decision

Scheduled the Batch Jobs for Auto Release

Configured custom movement types, placement strategies, packing, shipping, decentralized warehouse, inventory management and returnable packaging.

Configured new activity groups to restrict access to users based on Plant, release authority level

Reviewed and interfaced with other functional modules – SD, FI, CO, PS, PM and PP

Configured Outline agreements- scheduling –delivery forecast, contracts- value/quantity

Design and implementation of new Business processes and Business- reengineering to accommodate market changes.

System prototyping, created test plan, technical documentation and end-user training.

Performed integration testing

Go Live and Production support

Client – Century Aluminum, Chicago, IL Nov’ 2012 – Dec’ 2013

SAP MM/IM Functional Consultant

SAP R/3 4.6C (Support Project)

Responsibilities:

Provided production support for the project

Resolved purchasing issues – PR, Outline agreements and POs.

Resolved issues related to goods receipt, goods issue, transfer posting, and stock transfers.

Worked on issues related to quantity, price, quality and automatic account determination settings

Resolved issues related to sale order & delivery.

Developed Functional Specification document for PO print output layout.

Assisted users in performing physical inventory for various stock types.

Involved in the documentation and creation of functional specifications as per changes requested by end user.

Resolved issues regarding Stock Transfers between plants and storage location to storage location within plant.

Involved in resolving issues related to put away and picking strategies.

Configure the missing organizational Structure for Materials Management

Setup the MRP process

Configure and design the material master

Setup the process for purchasing MRO Materials.

Configure the Release Strategies for Purchase orders and Purchase requisitions

Configure Subcontracting Process, Third Party Orders, Stock Transport Orders (STO), Vendor Evaluation process, Contracts

Define the process for handling P-Cards in SAP

Setup Output determination on purchase orders for E-Mail, Fax and EDI

Cycle Counting

Handled all types of Goods Receipt and Goods Issue

Computer Skills:

ERP -SAP R/3, ECC 5.0, 6.0

Programming Languages -C, C++, Java, VB, ASP

Databases -MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle

Web Technologies -HTML/DHTML, JavaScript

Others -MS Office, MS Project

Operating Systems -Sun Solaris, UNIX, MS-Dos, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP

Platforms -IBM PCs Compatibles

Education, Certification and Training:

Bachelor of Computer Science, Shah Abdul Latif University (Pakistan)1993

Project Management Training (Scrum Master)

SAP Fiori and UI5

Visa Status: US Citizen

References: References will be provided upon request

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