Personal information
Last name Pappachan
First name Latha
Home location Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Date of Birth 27 April 1972
Nationality Dutch
Email *****.*********@*****.***
Mobile +31-617******
I have a wide experience of 13 years in SAP SD/MM modules and was working at Philips
Health care as Senior SCM consultant for the past 8 years.
I started in Philips with Support and slowly graduated to handling projects and change requests.
Have experience working on “Scrum” (Agile methodology) for project release & delivery. This
involves regular Interaction with the Business Analysts & tech leads for gathering information on
CR’s.
Analysis and review of the Business requirements,Change request assessment & Estimation
based on the user stories is part of daily job.
In my work I have always closely worked with the Business process owners, customers,
development team and offshore support colleagues.
Complete customization and creating functional design documents is always part of my core
action in any project
I have been a part of world wide roll out of a major harmonizing project for Healthcare handling
changes, user support and training.
I am also a QA officer approving functional design documents and transport request using
Solution manager
Computer Skills
SAP SD, MM, PS, EDI, Interfacing with SAP and Non-SAP applications,OTC
SAP 4.6B, SAP ECCo 5, SAP ECC6.0 .
MS office, MS project, MS Visio,Lotus Notes,Clarity
Professional Experience
Philips Health Care, Eindhoven ( Through Mahindra Satyam) Nov 2005 to Aug 2013
SAP-SD/MM/PS Consultant -Order to Cash ( O2C) November 2005 to Aug 2013
- Handling Projects, Change Requests in a quick and qualified manner, Enhancements,
Creating functional designs, Interacting with programmers and business and offshore.
- Responsible for solving incidents. Have resolved close to 100 incidents
- Complete Customization .
- Specialized in EDI and Interfacing with SAP and Non-SAP Applications
- Process changes and new functionality implementation like: EDI invoicing for
Customers, Harmonization of the process and order types.
- Working extensively on interfaces with factories and other third party applications
- Performing Unit, Integration-, regression testing
- Training key and end users .
- Giving On site after-go-live-support, offshore co-ordination etc .
- Latest projects handled : ECC 6.0 Upgrade, Digital Signature for Portugal
- Working as a Quality officer approving functional design documents and changes.
General Motors Singapore (Mahindra Satyam) August 2005 – October 2005
SAP-SD/MM Consultant
- Implementation of ETA ( Expected Time of Arrival ) application for the Overseas
Distribution center located at Singapore
- Preparation of Test scripts for the User.
- Documentation and User training.
- Preparation of User Manual
- Post live support
Mahindra Satyam September 2004 – July 2005
- Working with internal Sales team providing Quotation, helping with the Bidding etc
- Requirement study for new proposals, resourcing etc
Nortel Network, USA ( Mahindra Satyam) June 2003 to July 2004
SAP Logistics Consultant
- Solving Severity 2 and Severity 3 issues within short duration
- Providing assistance for Severity 1 issues.
- New business scenario study, analysis and configuration in SAP for Sales process,
Logistics Execution, Transportation, Stock Transfer, Third Party scenarios, etc
- Providing Functional specification for development of reports and enhancements.
- User support on day-to-day basis and issue resolutions.
- User support on major enhancement and changes.
Apple Computers INC ( AG Technologies for Infosys) June 2002 to May 2003
SAP Logistics Support Consultant
- Solving Priority 2 and Priority 3 issues within hours by logging into the production server
directly.
- New business scenario study, analysis and configuration in SAP.
- Providing Functional specification for development of reports and enhancements.
- User support on day-to-day basis and issue resolutions.
- User support on major enhancement and changes.
- Unit Testing, Scenario testing & Integration testing
- Regression Testing
- Preparation of Test scripts for UAT
ASCOM Switzerland ( Datamatics ) March 2001 – December 2001
SAP SD consultant/Team lead
- Leading a team of 3
- Building a Report for transfer of SAP Database into MS Access for developing reports for
their FI / CO and SD module for all their cost centers in Customer Specific Format.
- Data Testing & validation, Cross functional activities
- Data Validation
- Report Testing and implementation
- Conducted interactive sessions with the user to give user training
- Training the end-user and the senior managers on SAP functionalities
Wipro Infotech, Bangalore ( Big Systems ) January 2000 - February 2001
SAP SD consultant
- Implementation of Sales & Distribution Module of SAP R/3 4.6 B version across the
country end to end
- Customization and processing of Sales .
- Customization and processing of Logistics Execution
- Customization and processing of Transportation, Shipping, Stock Transfers, SD-MM
Interfaces etc.
- Variant configuration in terms of SD module in Wipro was Make-to-Order using Variant
Configuration.
- Report Generation
- User Training and trouble shooting the operational problems faced by them
- Customer Support
- System Documentation
GEA Energy System, Chennai ( Pragathi Infotech ) April 1998 – December 1999
- Implementation of Project System and Sales & Distribution Module of SAP R/3 3.1 H
version along with other modules end to end.
- Analyzing Business Processes and procedures of the existing system.
- Determining level of fit of SAP based on the customer requirement.
- High-level understanding of business requirements and their mapping to SAP.
- Integration Testing
- User Support and training
NON SAP experience
Manikya Plastichem April 1994 - March 1998
Project Lead/Sales Officer
- Leading a team of 3 Engineers and 6 workers
- Project selling of company's product to Industrial, Government, and Public sector in the
southern part of India catering in the areas of raw water transportation, effluent treatment
plants both intake and disposal, corrosive chemical transferring etc.
- Setting up Dealers & Distributor network in States of Tamil Nadu & Kerala for Industrial
and Agricultural sectors catering to the retail market.
- Tendering, Price Estimation, Product costing, Technical Evaluation, Order Acceptance,
Planning for Production and Dispatch, Sales Analysis, Budgeting, Product Promotional
Activities.
Education/courses
1998 – 2000 Several management courses (presentation skills, Communications skills )
1993-1995 Honors in System Management ( NIIT, Mysore )
1993 –1995 Masters of Commerce, Mysore University
1990-1993 Bachelor of commerce, Bharathidasan University
2013 – Preparing for Prince 2 certification
Other information
SD experience: 13 years ( overall SAP experience)
MM experience 3 years
PS experience 2 years
Languages:
- English Fluent
- Dutch : Intermediate
- Other Indian Languages –Fluent
Profile: Positive Thinker, Enthusiastic, Flexible, Team player, Good communication skills,
Quick adapter