Management Supply Chain

S U N I L K U L K A R N I M B A

847-***-**** **08, Sand Island Court Naperville, IL 60564 ***********@*****.***

PMP Certified SAP Consultant – FICO, SCM

Secret Clearance from Department of Defense

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Profile:

• Presently involved in multibillion dollar, global implementation of SAP Project at US

Army Project.

• 25+ Years of Strategic Management Consulting in Finance, Global Supply Chain

Management and IT consulting with 10+ Years of SAP Configuration, Development and

Process Improvement & SME experience.

• Extensive experience of 10 full life cycle experience with cross functionality expertise in

number of industry verticals.

• Extensive experience configuring, customizing and implementing SAP FI/CO Module with

integration with DFPS, MM, SD, WM, and PM modules in Solution Manager Environment

under ASAP, AGILE Scrum and AGILE Kanban Methodologies.

o Strong hands on experience on SAP FI- GL, AR, AP, SAP BI, and SCM. Fund

Accounting, Funds Management, Grants Management, Position Budget and Control,

Budget Preparation, and Product Costing.

o General Ledger with New GL integration (FI-GL): Consolidation with new GL,

Account groups, GL master records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting

keys, automatic account determination, intercompany automatic account posting,

sales/use tax assignment, account display, number ranges, document types, tolerance

groups.

o Accounts Payable: Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank accounts,

check lots, reason codes, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit

memos, closing procedures, integration with MM, Logistics Invoice Verification.

Prepared and posted weekly and monthly journal entries for Accrual of WIP and cost

associated with jobs. Thorough understanding of Accrual accounting

concepts/methods and sound financial analysis proficiency with international

experience.

o Accounts Receivable: Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment

terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system,

account systems, credit management, closing operations, sales order, and integration

with SD for OTC Process.

o Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA): Configuring and customizing the basic

settings, maintaining Cost Center hierarchy, Master Data maintenance, Activity type

Planning and assigning, Posting and Reporting, Period-end-closing and Year-end-

closing.

o Profit Center Accounting (PCA): Configuring and Customizing the basic settings,

maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers,

distribution and assessment of costs, budgeting, planning and development of

Reports.

o Asset Accounting: Depreciation Areas, The chart of depreciation, fixed assets,

setting up of Master Data, Asset transactions, Periodic processing in FI-SL,

Information System. FI Enterprise Structure: Chart of accounts, fiscal year, posting

period, company code, business areas, functional areas, and sales and tax.

o Internal Orders: Internal order configuration, order settlement configuration, PA

settlement structure, Order planning and Budgeting, Cost Element/Cost Center

Accounting: Planning, cost centers, cost center hierarchy, cost elements, statistical

keys, activity type, assessment, distribution, reposting and integration with MM.

o Funds Management, Funds, Sources and Application of Funds, Create and

maintain Funds Centers, Budget Structures, Payment Process and interfaces.

• Hands on experience of working with Key Stake Holders of PMO Personnel, Team Leads

and Functional Consultants at GFEBS, AESIP, LMP, GCSS Army, LOGSA, DFAS and other

DOD Organizations

• Involved with SAP America to develop Business Process Procedures, Configuration Steps

and High Level Designs for ‘EDGE’, an off-the-shelf SAP package for small and medium

industries.

• Assistant Professor with reputed management schools like Keller Business School of DeVry

University, New York Institute of Technology, & American Intercontinental University in the

US, teaching International Business, Global Supply Chain Management, Strategy &

Management, New Product Development, Quality Management, Entrepreneurship,

Decision Science, etc.

• Extensive experience configuring, customizing and implementing SAP FI/CO Module with

integration with DFPS, MM, SD, WM, and PM modules in Solution Manager Environment

under ASAP, AGILE Scrum and AGILE Kanban Methodologies.

Academic Credentials:

• MBA, Finance and Strategy & Management – Kellogg School of Management of

Northwestern University, Chicago.

• MBA, Operations Management, Marketing Management and General Management –

Karnataka University.

• BS, Mechanical Engineering – Government Junior Technical School

SAP Training & Certification:

• FI/CO: AC040, AC200, AC201, AC202, AC205, AC405, AC412, AC415, AC605 & AC610

and Public Sector Funds Management: IPS910

• DFPS (Defense and Public Sector Module)

• CRM: CR100, CR300, CR600, CR700, CR410, CR500 & CR580.

• Order-to-Cash: SCM605, SCM610, SCM615, SCM620 & SCM650.

• Procure-to-Pay: SCM510, SCM515, SCM525, SCM550, SCM521, & SCM683.

• Logistics Execution: SCM630, SCM510 & SCM610.

Project Management Training & Certification:

• PMP Certification – Project Management Institute

• Project Communication, Management, and Leadership – Global Knowledge

• Project Management Concepts & Applications Workshop

Agile, Six Sigma & Security + Training & Certification

• Agile – Kanban Methodology – CC Pace

• Lean Agile Methodology and Scrum Master Training – CC Pace

• Six Sigma Fundamentals and Essentials

• Security Plus Certification – CompTIA

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Career Synopsis

Computer Science Corporation

Client: US Army Logistics Modernization Program (LMP)

Principal, Solution Architect

Dec’ 2013 – Present

Presently leading Ammunition AIT Team to stream line the process with Ammunition Inventory

Management, Warehouse Management and enhance the Extended Warehouse capabilities for efficient

management of Ammunition for US Army with Cost Center accountability and financial integration

with GFEBS for Financial Management and LOGSA and GCSS Army for Ammunition Management.

Northrop Grumman Information System

Client: GCSS Army, Richmond, VA

Team Lead - Oct’ 07 to Dec’ 13

Presently, I am working with a team of 20+ consultants/SMEs of Finance Team and Master Data

Team for the implementation of standard SAP modules along with DFPS (Defense and Public Sector

Module).

Finance Integration/Finance Module:

• POC for design and development of interfaces with GFEBS and FCM for Cost Centers,

Funds Centers, and Finance master data updates.

• POC for process development for obligation and de-obligation fulfillment.

• Worked on Enterprise structure in SAP for Company, Company Code, Credit Control Area,

Business Area, Functional Area, FM Area, Segment, Plants, Locations, Divisions, Sales

Offices, Sales Groups, Storage Locations, Purchase Organizations, Shipping Points, Loading

Points, and Transportation Planning Points.

• Configured Posting Period Variant, open and close posting periods, document number

ranges, document types, tolerance ranges, line item controls, maintain fast entry screens for

G/L account items, inter-company automatic account posting, sales/use of tax assignment for

OTC Process. Defined Tolerance groups for employees.

• Worked on General Ledger integration with New G/L accounts for Profit Center

Accounting and for timely reporting. Worked as group with Procurement team for the

whole improvements of the P2P process with RTP.

• In Accounts Payable, Outgoing Payment Program configuration, Vendor and Intercompany

Payment using In-House Cash, Payment using Direct Debit, Commission and Royalties

payments, Check, ACH and Wire payments, Interface with bank through EDI, Employee

Down Payments, Vendor Down Payments, Partial Payments, Credit Notes.

• In Logistic Invoice Verification, Two Way Match - Three Way Match Invoice

Verification, Automatic Account determination for MM and FI, Set tolerance limit for

Invoices, Set Check for Duplicate Invoices, GRIR Clearing and Account Maintenance, EDI

Invoice Postings.

• Worked on new assets for different asset classes, created new screen rule layout at the asset

master data level and at the asset class level, defined validation/substitution rules to

maintain the scrap value of products that sell at a certain price in certain cost centers,

defined substitution rules to change the depreciation area for certain company codes where

depreciation rule is different than normal depreciation rule maintained for other company

codes and similar asset class.

• In Funds Management, created Funds, Sources and Application of Funds, Created

and maintained Funds Centers, created Budget Structures, worked on Payment

process and Interfaces.

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CO Module:

• Assigned new company code to controlling area, maintained cost center standard

hierarchy, created primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups, cost centers,

cost center groups, cost element attributes. Maintained default account assignments and

automatic account assignments, Configured activity types, assessment and distribution

cycles.

• Worked with development team on master data, standard hierarchy, substitutions, and

assignments and designed specification for different business requirements in profit center

accounting reporting

Additional Responsibilities for Wave 1:

1. POC for Non-Standard Material Request process to develop a new process and manage

cross functionality requirements with integration testing with trading partners to ensure

smooth operation across multiple business modules and coordination amongst multiple

trading partners for flow of data as part of Material Master.

2. Working with ASA(FM&C) Team for FFMIA, AAA and SFIS Compliance activities for

GCSS Army Project and POC for Audit Readiness.

3. POC for Project Schedule Review and Updates to Project Plan.

4. POC for Change Requests (CRs) Process: Cost Estimation, CCB approval, Code

development, Testing and CRB approval activities.

5. POC for Unit Tests, Integrated Tests for all the interfaces with Trading Partners and Pilot

Program to provide demo to Government.

6. POC for Help Desk break/fix issues pertaining to data, process and design changes and

improvements across many DoD organizations.

7. POC for Risk Identification, Review and identifying appropriate Mitigation Plan.

8. Directly responsible for Customer, Vendor, Equipment Master and interface designs.

9. IDOCs management and processing to post changed/updates to Finance, Customer, Vendor,

Material and Equipment Master Data.

10. Extensive experience working on HP Quality Centers to develop test scenarios for Cross-

Functional Requirements.

Vital Images, Inc,

Minneapolis, MN

SAP MM Team Lead - May’07–Sept’07

Vital Images is one of the leading medical software manufacturing companies in the world, having

operations in North America, Europe and Asia. This project was a rapid implementation of packaged

SAP solution in 16 weeks.

Responsibilities:

1. Successfully conducted User Review sessions to identify the business requirements as part of

blue print phase.

2. Carried out Fit/Gap Analysis, RICEFW inventories for high level design.

3. Configured material group and defined hierarchies with plant, storage locations and

purchasing groups.

4. Master Data Management of Materials Master and Vendor Master Records.

5. Worked on PRs, Contracts, RFQs and different types of POs

6. Configured account assignment category to buy assets under balance sheet account without

expensing cost centers.

7. Designed and developed a unique seven-level Release Strategy at Purchase Requisition stage

and five-level Release Strategy at Purchase Order stage to ensure strict control on the

expenses budget.

8. Created automated document output for PO, once it is released at the final step in the normal

work flow.

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9. Worked on 2-way and 3-way invoice verification for invoice processing.

10. Successfully worked on Cross Functionality Requirements and worked on FI/CO integration

for parking and processing invoices, release of blocked invoices, parking and processing of

credit notes, and advance payments to vendors.

11. Worked on creating company codes, cost centers and uploading budget for cost centers as

part of FI/CO integration.

12. Successfully completed and ‘Go live’ and provided after ‘Go Live’ support.

Accenture, LLP

Client: AT&T

Sr. Consultant, SAP MM/WM - Sept’06–May’07

After the merger with Bell South and Cingular, AT&T is one of the largest telecom industries in the

world. As a result, the vision of AT&T was to develop uniform operating system across the group by

implementing SAP ECC 6.0 system and solution and migrate all AT&T legacy supply chain

applications to SAP solution. The SAP Supply Chain Legacy Replacement (SCLR) program will

consolidate 20+ legacy systems on a single platform, creating enterprise-wide visibility to the $42 B

asset base.

Responsibilities:

1. Designed and architected business process flows to develop SAP solutions for the company

warehouses on a global basis and created MS Visio Diagrams.

2. Identified and validated business requirements to support internal and external users &

partners.

3. Developed business requirements and technical requirements using Best Business Practices

of SAP.

4. Completed fit/gap analysis and developed RICEFW documents and ARIS Models.

5. Participated in design and development of functional specifications for interfaces and

conversions.

6. Based on Process Knowledge and Expertise, defined and recommended workarounds and

business process changes to improve manufacturing and warehouse efficiencies.

7. Drove consistency and integrity of SAP configuration across core business processes.

8. Successfully created Test Scenarios with the help of SMEs.

9. POC for Unit Test, Integration Tests and Cross-Functionality Tests. Participated in issue

resolution process to resolve the issues.

10. Successful completion of ‘Go Live’ and provided O & S to the project.

Northrop Grumman Information System

Client: CDC, Atlanta.

SAP MM Consultant - July’06–Sept‘06

Center for Disease Control & Prevention is a Federal Government agency, responsible to the

distribution of human vaccines all over the U.S. and the territories, Guam Islands. NGIT won this

contract of developing a seamless Supply Chain System to handle the distribution of vaccines worth

$1.5 B. (Project scope changed due to many new requirements identified during blue printing

phase and ultimately project was shelved due to funding issues).

Responsibilities:

1. Developed business processes and conducted User Review sessions to develop Functional

Design specs, and Cross Functional requirements, Fit/Gap Analysis and RICEFW inventory.

2. POC for overseeing Cross Functional Requirements and Integrated tests.

3. Completed setting up of organization structure related to MM Storage locations and

purchasing organizations.

4. Worked on Vendor Master and Material Master with price updates and MRPs.

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Rhein Chemie

Chardon, OH

SAP Consultant –MM/WM - Jan’06–July‘06

Rhein Chemie is a chemical manufacturer supplying over 4,000 custom-made active ingredient

preparations and chemical specialties to number of rubber, lubricant, polymer and polyurethane

industries. More than 9,000 customers in 120 countries trust in products manufactured by this

subsidiary of Bayer AG.

Responsibilities:

1. Successfully worked on business processes and mapping the requirements.

2. Customized the plant parameters for MRP and consumption based planning.

3. Defined MRP groups and controllers and customized the conversion of purchase

requisitions to purchase orders.

4. Worked on basic and lead time scheduling, strategy group and strategy group to MRP Group

assignment; define MRP controllers, plant parameters, lot size calculations, planning

horizons, material availability in blocked and stock in transfer, basic date determination,

storage location MRPs.

5. Successfully created strategy for Consumption Based Planning, Purchasing, and

Inventory Management to the client’s satisfaction.

6. Worked on Purchasing: Purchase Requisitions, RFQs & Quotations, Purchase Orders,

Outline Agreements (Contracts & Scheduling agreements), Info-Records, Vendor Master,

Payment Terms and Pricing Procedures, Sub-Contracting, Release Strategy for Purchase

Order & Outline Agreement, Plant-to-Plant Stock Transfers using stock transport orders.

7. Successfully managed to work on Inventory Management: Goods Receipt, Good

Issues, Goods Returns, Transfer Postings and Stock Transfers.

8. Defined Put Away and Picking Strategies and the system configuration for automatic

generation of Transfer Requirements, and Transfer Orders.

9. Worked on GI/GR for Purchase Orders, Sales Order, Stock Transfer and Transfer

Posting.

10. Successfully completed ‘Go-Live’ and provided O & S after ‘GO Live.’

International Paper, Inc.

Stamford, CT

SAP MM Consultant - April’05–Dec’05

International Paper has significant global businesses in paper and paper distribution, packaging and

forest products, including building materials. The company has operations in nearly 40 countries and

exports its products to more than 120 nations.

Responsibilities:

1. Provided O & S after ‘Go Live’ to work with post-production issues.

2. Resolved many issues related to MM pricing, valuation and account assignment and output

determination for Purchase Requisitions, purchase orders, and GR slips.

3. Solved many tickets related to IM and WM movement types, control parameters, picking and

put-away strategies, and replenishment control.

4. Configured determination of storage type using storage type search for some WM movement

types.

5. Successfully made some critical changes business logic and design with some additional

enhancements to improve the processes.

Senco Products, Inc.

Cincinnati, OH

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SAP MM Consultant - July’04- March’05

Senco Products is a leading provider of fastening systems. Distribution to the end customer is carried

through a number of independent dealers, buying coops, master distributors and high volume

retailers. Senco maintains its primary operations in Cincinnati, Ohio with satellite operations

worldwide. Senco’s distribution operation comprises of 5 distribution centers; where the products are

shipped from the Cincinnati Warehouse.

Responsibilities:

1. Developed and mapped the business requirements.

2. Completed fit/gap analysis with SAP modules and develop RICEFW inventory.

3. Worked on PRs, Contracts, Outline Agreements, RFQs and various types of Pos and

Accounts Payables as part of ‘Procure-to-Pay’ Process.

4. Configured multilevel release strategy for PRs and POs.

5. Configured automatic document output for RFQs and POs.

6. Designed and developed functional specifications for reports, interfaces, conversions, and

enhancements.

7. Developed functioning of order picking process in the Warehouse.

8. Analyzed the various material handling options and recommended a new rack layout for

better transportation efficiency.

9. Completed configuration for prototyping Conference Room Pilot, successfully.

10. Supported ‘Go Live’ and supported the issues after ‘Go Live.’

FLUOR DANIEL

Greenville, SC

SAP MM Consultant - Jan ’04–June’04

Fluor Daniel is the engineering, procurement and construction division of Fluor Corporation. Fluor

Daniel serves a variety of industries: infrastructure, chemicals, manufacturing, consumer products,

life sciences, microelectronics, pharmaceuticals, mining, oil and gas production, petrochemicals,

pipelines, refining and power.

Responsibilities:

1. Involved in project definition, preparation, AS -IS requirements mapping.

2. Successfully identified business requirements through conducting User interviews and

requirement analysis sessions and developed business flows.

3. Successfully carried out Fit/Gap Analysis and developed RICEFW inventory with client

acceptance.

4. Developed High Level Design.

5. Accomplished the development and management of Materials Master and Vendor Master.

6. Successfully managed cross functionality requirements by integrating with WM,

PP, SD and FI/CO modules.

7. Involved in Documentation of all processes for SAP production implementation.

8. Successfully carried out Cross Functional Testing for the completion for ‘Pay-to-Pay’ cycle:

RFQ, Quotation, PR, PO, GR, GI and IV and Accounts payable, which is an integration point

with FI, Forecasting and scheduling agreements.

9. Configured and successfully completed Conference Room Pilot Program.

10. Completed ‘Go-Live’ successfully and provide O & S after ‘Go Live.’

Polo Group

Conglomerate (Chicago)

VP- Corporate Planning - 2001-2003

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Polo Group is a conglomerate based in Chicago, started as a regional construction company with a

meager turnover of $15MM to become one of the major players in Chicago land area. I helped the

group to find the niche and developed five new start-ups for the group by horizontal diversification

and undertook the management of two start-ups: Polo InfoTech, and Polo Wireless, and developed

and managed them successfully. The result: Parent company posted a combined turnover of $75

MM and both start-ups under my leadership posted the first year combined turnover of

$12MM.

• Initiated and managed successfully an organizational and cultural change for $15MM

regional company based on Strategic & Competitive Analysis and SWOT Analysis.

Transformed the company based on the core competencies and by starting five new start-ups.

Firm became one of the top “Inc 500” companies in the U.S within 3 years with a combined

turnover of $75 MM.

• Managed customer relationships during significant period of corporate change. Transformed

the firm’s internal dynamics effectively through ‘Change Management Strategy’, which

resulted into higher customer retention and overall growth of 46%.

• Managed Polo Wireless – for developing wireless infrastructure for Public Schools &

Libraries under Federal Government’s E-Rate Funding Program.

• Managed Polo InfoTech - for Technology Consulting for SAP ERP Practice with

companies like: Nike Corporation, Maytag Corporation, Kubota Tractors, Novartis

Nutrition, Eli Lilly Company, Pearson Technology, Scotts Company, Steelcase

Corporation and Lord Corporation.

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