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Vijay Pilli

Senior SAP and Management Lead

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Summary of Experience and Qualifications

Senior Lead/Manager with a total of 18 years of experience in IT. Profile also includes Big 4 work experience with IBM

Global Services and Deloitte Consulting. Worked in various capacities on SAP as a Functional, Architect, Master Data

and Governance (MDG), Pre Sales, and Project Management consultant. Well versed with applications such as

Microsoft (Office, Project, and Visio) and networking technologies, useful in project management, sales/pre sales

initiatives and user training/support. Thorough understanding and experience in implementing Quality Assured

projects, with Change control and SAP recommended ASAP/ValueSAP methodologies. Worked in Major Oil,

Healthcare, Tire, Food and Medical industries – Consumer Products. Experience and knowledge in developing global

template based rollouts and using SAP Best Practices and Industry solutions for High Tech Electronics, and

Manufacturing industries.

Areas of Expertise

1. Sales & Distribution: Master Data – Customer and Material, MDG Master Data Governance. Bill of

Materials (BOM) and Variant Configuration (VC), Customer Master, Partner Functions, Credit Card

Processing, Condition Technique, Customer Hierarchy, Catch Weight Management, Handling Units,

Accounts Receivable, Sales Area, Pricing date, Pricing, Billing, Revenue Recognition, Vertex integration,

batch management, Available to Promise (ATP), Global (G)ATP, APO and PP integrations, one time

customers, Open Orders, Billing due list, Open A/R, Payments, Dunning, Number ranges, Reporting

Materials Management: Vendor Master, Partner Functions, Material Master, Accounts Payable,

Reconciliation, Catch Weight Management, Handling Units, batch management, Product/Material

Hierarchy, one time vendors, requisitions, goods receipts, inventory management, Number ranges, Units of

Measure (UOM), Batch Management, Movement Types, Reporting

Financials: Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General ledger, Payments, Dunning, Consolidation,

Reporting

Warehouse Management: Storage bins, transfer requirements, transfer orders, cycle counting,

physical inventory, Storage types, picking areas, Number ranges, Units of Measure (UOM), Batch

management, Movement Types, Goods Issue and Goods Receipt, Material staging

Technical: LSMW, CATT Scripts, Batch Jobs, Debugging, ABAP, Smart forms, SAP Scripts, Interfaces,

User exits, Function Modules, BAPIs, RFCs

Other: Order to Cash (OTC), Procure to Pay (PTP), FI Integration, MM Integration, Master Data,

Unit/Cycle/Integration and End user testing, Architecture, Design, Blueprinting, Interfaces, BW/BI

Reporting, Coordination, Uploads, Security, Authorizations, Roles and Profiles, End User training,

Organizational Units, Sales Org Hierarchies, Change Management, Business process improvement, and

many more.

Employment History

Independent Consultant Jan 2009 – Current

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Deloitte May 2008 – Jan 2009

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Independent Consultant Sept 2006 – April 2008

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Osprey, a division of NIIT Technologies Aug 2005 – Sept 2006

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Ciber Inc. Oct 1998 – Aug 2005

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SRB International July 1998 – Oct 1998

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Optimum Solutions, Singapore July 1997 – July 1998

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Project Experience

Consulting: Coca Cola North America Atlanta, Georgia

Senior SAP Lead SD Master Data; Since July 2013.

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Client: Is one of the world’s leading companies engaging in manufacturing, distributing and marketing

of non alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. Client also has a good market share in

Energy/Sports drinks, coffee and water business. The company has annual revenues of over $24

Billion.

Project Description: Part of the MDG team implementing SAP for the CONA (Coke One North

America) Project in consolidating several instances of SAP from different bottlers to Coca Cola

Enterprises.

Role:

As part of the Master Data Governance team, was responsible for Data Enablement design

and development of Data Load tools

Responsible for design and configuration of Equipment Master Data

Data loads and validation

Create test scripts and validate with different work streams for Master Data

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, ASAP Methodology, MS Sharepoint, Winshuttle

Consulting: Halliburton Houston, Texas

Sr.SAP SD – Opportunity to Cash; Sept 2012 to May 2013

Project BattleRed – Order to Cash excellence.

Client: Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) is one of the world's largest oilfield services companies with

operations in more than 70 countries. It has hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands, and

divisions worldwide and employs over 60,000 people. The company has dual headquarters located in

Houston and in Dubai.

Halliburton's major business segment is the Energy Services Group (ESG). ESG provides technical

products and services for petroleum and natural gas exploration and production. Halliburton's former

subsidiary, KBR, is a major construction company of refineries, oil fields, pipelines, and chemical

plants. Halliburton announced on April 5, 2007 that it had finally broken ties with KBR, which had been

its contracting, engineering and construction unit as a part of the company for 44 years

Project Description: Project Battle Red is a program to fundamentally review Halliburtons’ field

Opportunity to Cash and supporting processes to simplify and improve through business process

reengineering and better use of technology. This project has more than 20 teams working in different

streams.

Role: As part of the DMG – Data Migration and Governance team, was responsible for designing and

delivering a best practice solution to create and maintain Halliburton’s WELL and RIG master data in a

repository for their transactional use. The role required designing a solution in ECC utilizing standard

SAP processes and building enhancements to support this new solution. Implemented the

CREATE/CHANGE process and required role creation in the organization and deriving their roles and

responsibilities. Responsible for Material Master (Material Determination) and Equipment Master

enhancements including receiving data from external systems via EDI/ALE and processing in ECC via

IDOCS. Was involved in price book maintenance for pricing records. Responsible for writing

Functional Specs and reviewing and approving technical specifications, configuring SAP SD Master

Data and working with onsite and offshore technical team for development and testing efforts.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, BI Reporting, Microsoft SharePoint

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Consulting: Cardinal Health Dublin, Ohio

Order To Cash SD Master Data Lead/Architect; October 2009 to July 2012

Project MBT – Order to Cash Transformation. Outsourced through IBM Global Services

Client: Cardinal Health, Inc. is a Fortune 18 company that improves the cost effectiveness of health

care. As the business behind health care, Cardinal Health helps pharmacies, hospitals and

ambulatory care sites focus on patient care while reducing costs, improving efficiency and quality, and

increasing profitability. Cardinal Health employs more than 30,000 people worldwide.

Medical Segment

In addition to delivering medical surgical products to ambulatory care centers, physician offices,

clinical laboratories and hospitals across the U.S. and Canada, the Cardinal Health Medical segment

also manufactures high volume replenishable products such as gloves, gowns, surgical drapes,

scrubs and fluid management products. In addition, the Medical segment includes Cardinal Health’s

surgical and procedural kitting operations that assemble all necessary single use surgical products

and apparel for specific procedures into one kit, allowing clinicians to focus on the patient.

Project Description: Project MBT – Medical Business Transformation – was initiated and funded by

the business to replace their 15 year old SAP 3.0 implementation. Their need evolved as business was

unable to perform some key functions for their customers and suppliers and had to adopt several

workarounds. Project MBT is initiated to enhance their Customers experience and collaborate more

with their suppliers in selling their products. The scope of this project had different teams driving OTC,

FIN, PTS, STS and CTC functionality. The project required us to do a thorough AS IS system study by

conducting workshops and documenting the current processes and later conduct TO BE workshops

and build a solution which does not impact any of the business divisions majorly.

Role: Responsible for SAP Customer and Material Master Data design, Interfaces and Conversions

related to this data for SYNC to other internal/external systems via IDOCS (EDI/ALE), MDM

Governance, GS1, HIPPAA, FDA other regulatory compliance requirements; CMIR (Customer Material

Info Records), All SD Output Determinations, All SD Text Determinations; Available to Promise (ATP),

Partner Determination; Product Hierarchy, Customer and Sales Rep Hierarchies; EDI mapping. Design

of Web Dynpros with integration into SAP Adobe forms. Produced all PDD, PFL, FSD, CSD, FUT,

related documents for all functional roles above. Complete financial integration with general ledger,

profitability, costing, accounting and COPA reporting. Also playing a business liaison role in

conjunction with the business leads, established process for CREATE/UPDATE/DELETE (CRUD)

functions with integrated workflow and SOX compliance. Conducted workshops for requirements

gathering. Conducted SME interviews for AS IS and TO BE reviews and proposal. Demonstrated

prototype solutions in several areas for business approvals. Conducted cross team integration

sessions. Documented BI requirements for non ECC reporting requirements.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager 7, MS Sharepoint, Mercury Test

Director, ClarifyCRM Case Management, BI Business Intelligence

Client

Name

Consulting: Medtronic 18000 Devonshire St, Northridge, California 91325

Timefram

Sr.SAP SD Consultant – Testing & Security Delivery; Feb 2009 – Sept 2009

Project Athena – Quote to Cash excellence

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Client: Medtronic Inc., (NYSE:MDT), is a medical technology company which is changing the face of

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Chronic disease by creating therapies to help patients. Six major businesses focus their efforts around

a condition or therapy type: Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management, Spinal and Biologics,

CardioVascular, Neuromodulation, Diabetes, and Surgical Technologies. With 38,000 employees and

partner locations in 120 countries, Medtronic continues to ‘Alleviate pain, Restore Health and Extend

Lives’.

Project Description: Project Athena focuses around moving some ‘Order to cash’ related functionality

from SAP to the new GE Centricity system. There are several interfaces that are built to keep both

systems in sync. The scope of this project includes functionality for New Patient Registration

(Customer Master), New Pump Order, Supplies, Upgrades, Exchanges, Returns and several others.

Many ancillary systems like Thoroughbred, IVR (Instant Voice Response), CATs (Lead generation)

have been closely tied into the SAP system for accomplishing different functions.

Role: Responsible for SAP Functional Testing and security analysis for creating SAP roles for different

department. Planning, scheduling, resource plan and executing SAP Functional Unit and Integration

Testing. Managed the project plan for Functional Testing, Component Integration Testing and Role

Management functionality.

Technical Environment: SAP 4.6c, HP Quality Center, GE Centricity

Client

Name

Consulting: Federal Aerospace and Defense @ DELOITTE Charlotte, NC

Timefram

Order To Cash Manager; 9 months April 2008 to January 2009.

A solution development project for the Federal government.

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Project Description: With emphasis on the Navy department, this project was to create a structure for

the federal government to operate and streamline its procuring, manufacturing, repair, logistics and

financials applications.

Role: Interviewed Navy officials and developed the business process print for process repository.

Streamlined processes to map to SAP transactions for the SD module in the areas of reimbursable

orders, maintenance and repair contracts, down payments, service related billing and pricing.

Responding to RFP’s. Conducting workshops and business case reviews. Liaison in business

development efforts.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Deloitte EVD and EDM Methodologies, E rooms

Consulting: Curosys Solutions Inc. Hyderabad, India & Dubai UAE

Delivery Head; 8 months – Sept 2007 to Apr 2008.

Clients in the Foundry/Casting, Real Estate and CPG industries.

Uppal Ferrocast Limited: One of the leading casting suppliers to BHEL, India.

Vasudeva Realtors: An ISO 9001 company which has constantly seen success in the Indian

real estate market. Have built and executed over 20 projects in the last 15 years. Partnering

with Downtown Property Management Inc., Cincinnati – client is looking at a major

breakthrough in the subsequent years and planned to implement SAP for it’s growing needs.

Nandi Dairies – Dairy: Leading branded diary products leader in the southern India region with

revenues over 100 million. Also pioneer in 8 other industries with a group affiliation.

Worked with several other clients in business development efforts including NTPC (National Thermal

Power Corporation), NALCO (National aluminum company), and IMFA (Indian Metals and Foundry

Association).

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Project Description: Major initiative of implementation was to move some of the business functions

from a manual process to a system mapped process. Also to reduce turnaround time delays’ and

improve customer satisfaction and a timely delivery of products.

Role: Architecture of the entire SAP implementation strategy with infrastructure, interfaces, network,

hardware and landscape design. Implementation teams selection and leadership development

programs for project managers. Implementation of effective Change Management and Quality

controls and effective user training procedures. Project Charter, planning and executive steering

committee setup with weekly meetings. Guidance in SAP implementation using ASAP methodology

framework.

Executive management meetings and coordination with SAP India to develop Industry solutions in all

the industries above. Business development team handling with managed budget/revenue. Business

liaison.

Responding to RFP’s. Conducting workshops and business case reviews.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Jira defect tracking, Microsoft Project, ASAP, Used over

20 process improvement tools like Affinity diagrams, cause and effect diagrams (fishbone),

Gantt charts, flow charts, force field analysis, etc.

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Client: Coca Cola North America Atlanta, Georgia

Client

Name

Senior SAP Lead Quote to Cash; 12 months – Sept 2006 to Sept 2007.

Timefram

Client: Is one of the world’s leading companies engaging in manufacturing, distributing and marketing

Reference of non alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. Client also has a good market share in

Energy/Sports drinks, coffee and water business. The company has annual revenues of over $24

Billion.

Project Description: Part of the OTC team implementing SAP for the Minute Maid division.

Role:

Gather requirements, solution architecture, functional design and implementation of Sales

Organization Hierarchies (SOH) for the clients’ organizational structure.

Develop solution which can be used for global deployment across multiple organizations and

countries.

Proposed and configured the customer hierarchy of the entire organization. A flexible design

made to globally deploy the model for different business units of Coca Cola.

Prepared functional specs and semi technical architecture solutions for implementing SOH.

Document and design SAP BW/BI Reporting requirements

Analysis for integration into Order Management, Pricing and Billing, Cost Center and Profit

Center determination procedures.

Part of the Master data team and involved in Customer, Material, and Vendor master attributes

for SOH.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, Lotus Notes, ASAP Methodology, SAP BW Reporting, HP

Vantive and Quality Center

Employer: Osprey Systems, A div of NIIT Technologies Charlotte, North Carolina

Client

Name

Sr.Delivery Manager; 15 months – Jun 2005 to Sept 2006.

Timefram

Client: A $400 million dollar company in the US with operations in 26 countries. Serving SAP and

other clients in implementation, training and hosting services. A premier SAP Partner for software re

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selling and implementations.

Project Description: Best Practices solution development as a global template. Support of existing

clients.

Role: Training, Configuration, Business development, Production Support, Demo Presentations, site

surveys, scope analysis, proposals and other pre sales activities. Project client liaison, onsite offshore

coordination for development and support activities. Coordination with SAP America in development

and workshop activities. Attending Sapphire and ASUG meetings. Part of the best practice solution

development (Ready to Run) with SAP India and other SAP partners. Developed template based

solutions for Global Deployment in different countries.

Configuration related to Organization, Customer and Material Master data, pricing, billing, interfaces

and integration with other modules. ATP scenarios for Manufacturing industries with APO and PP

integration. Financial integration for General ledger and accounting.

Responding to RFP’s. Conducting workshops and prepare business cases. Liaison in business

development efforts.

Leads and Clients worked with: Radiator Specialty, Lorillard, Carolina Turkeys, Genesis Conferencing,

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Airsep, Groz Beckert and many more.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, SAP ECC 6.0, E rooms, ASAP Methodology, SAP Best

Practices for High tech electronics manufacturing.

Client: Conagra Foods Omaha, Nebraska & Irvine, California

Client

Name

Senior SAP SD/MM Consultant; 25 months – Feb 2003 to Apr 2005

Timefram

Client: One of North America's leading packaged food companies, serving grocery retailers, as well

Reference as restaurants and foodservice establishments. The company employs more than 40,000 people and

has annual revenues of $15 billion. Client offers dozens of famous brands in the wholesale and retail

market for consumer use.

Project Description: SAP Support and implementation for Order to Cash processes. As part of the

implementation, the project required several instances of SAP to be merged together (Bumble Bee,

Grocery, Food Service, etc Divisions). The study of AS IS processes was critical to the TO BE design

and how the transformation solution was to be built.

Role:

Responsible for handling pricing, invoicing, orders, billing, reporting, and interfaces

Worked closely with developers to develop extracts for conversions

Supported – Pricing, Customer/Material Master data validation, Volume Based Rebates,

processing claims/contracts, shipments, Handling Units, Catch Weight Management,

orders/invoices, Pricing/promotions, trade agreements, accruals, deductions, returns, charge

backs, product substitution etc.,

Customizing in most areas of SD module along with key integration elements of MM and FI

modules (Revenue Recognition and Sales Tax with Vertex). Multi level BOM configuration

Availability Check

Customizing in the areas of all Master Data related to SD and MM modules – Customer,

Vendor and Material Master Data.

Go live, cutover activities and post implementation support with the project management team

Technical Environment: SAP R/2, SAP R/3 Ver 4.7, ValueSAP and ASAP Methodologies

Client: Continental Tire North America @ IBM Global Services Charlotte, NC

Client

Name

Senior SAP SD/WM Consultant; 52 months – Oct 1998 to Feb 2003.

Timefram

Client Description: Client rounds out tire production across the Atlantic for its German parent. The

North American subsidiary of Germany based tire and automotive component manufacturer makes

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tires for cars, light and heavy duty trucks, motor homes, SUVs, and agricultural and industrial vehicles

(such as dozers and loaders). In addition to Client branded tires, the company also produces other

private brand tires that can be found in North America.

Project Description: SAP support and upgrade implementation

Role:

Managed existing SAP applications in the SD, MM and WM modules with on call support 7/24

Availability Check/Availability to Promise (ATP)

Creating and maintaining lotus notes databases

Customizing in Pricing and Billing with Revenue recognition in FI. Calculation of Sales taxes.

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Allocation and credit card processing of accounts receivables.

Variant configuration architecture of classification objects, object dependencies, BOM

structures (with MM), configuration profiles, variant tables and variant pricing

Customizing in most Master data definitions – Customer/Vendor and Material Masters.

Worked on variant configuration for different models. Worked on different types of

dependencies like preconditions, selection conditions and procedures

Configuring the products using different types of dependencies for controlling the selection of

variants (KMAT/VKON) for the configurable material. Variant configuration at both multi level

and single level

New plant add on customization for inter company process

Supported Y2K rollover changes and testing and go live

Introduced, architected and implemented new SAP interface techniques for managing

warehouse applications in Freight and logistics management with 3rd party providers

Technical Environment: SAP R/2, IBM Lotus Notes, SAP R/3 4.6b

Client: Mobil Oil Singapore

Client

Name

SAP SD/ABAP Consultant; 10 months – Oct 1997 to Aug 1998.

Timefram

Client Description: Client was one of the world's biggest integrated oil companies before it was

acquired by an even bigger one. Last reported revenues of $46.3 billion in 1998. The company had

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proved reserves of 7.6 billion barrels of oil equivalent and sold its products at 15,000 gas stations

worldwide. It also ran a fully integrated chemicals operation, whose products included petrochemicals,

wood and polymer building materials, and plastics, and other products.

Project Description: SAP R/2 support and upgrade

Role:

Maintenance of SAP R/2 ABAP/4 programs

Upgrade project of ABAP/4 programs of V2, R4.4 to V2, R5.0, and program maintenance like

modifications of reporting forms or changing relative segments/tables

Gathered requirements from end users to develop custom applications as required

Configuration, development and testing of new applications.

Extensive use of ABAP/4 and JCL programming on the need and job being done as to

whether it is an export/import of data from/to production/test. Worked mainly on the RV (Sales

& Distribution) module

Implementation of RIGHTFAX server in the mainframe and interfacing for various applications

in the RV output processing

Technical Environment: SAP R/2 on Mainframes – ES/9000

Older Experience: (1993 to 1997)

Hutchison Telecom, Hyderabad, India

NIIT Technologies, Hyderabad, India

Pasura, Hyderabad, India

Roles: Faculty, Lab Instructor, Data entry operator, Programmer, Paging Service Officer

Technical Environments: Mainframes, Dbase, Foxbase, Foxpro, DOS and Windows 3.1, Unix, Novell

Netware, Pascal, Fortran, C, C++

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Systems Experience

Software / Products: SAP R/3 (Releases 3.1H thru 4.6C), SAP ECC 5.0, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP CRM

5.0 (Training Only), GE Centricity

Methodologies: ValueSAP 3 phased approach Discovery and Evaluation, Implementation

(includes ASAP in this Phase), Operations and Continuous Improvement

Development Tools / Languages: Cobol, C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, Focus 4GL, Dbase/Foxbase,

Foxpro as part of the college curriculum. Well versed with other generic applications, utilities

and tools.

Hardware/Operating Systems: ES/9000, OS/390 on IBM Mainframes and PC based DOS, Windows

3.1, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/2003/Vista, Unix and Linux environments

Middleware/Databases: IBM DB2, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, MS Access and MS SQL

General Tools: Microsoft Office Including Project, Visio and Sharepoint. Mercury Test Director,

HP Quality Center in testing tools. HP Vantive for help desk support tool. ERooms for Project

Management from EMC2. Winshuttle for Data Migration/Loads.

Education

• Graduate in Computer Sciences

Professional Affiliations / Certifications

7. Deloitte – Yellow Belt Six Sigma Certified

8. Member of the ASQ Community for Six Sigma practitioners

9. Member of the PMI Network for Project Management practitioners

10. Member of SAP SDN – SAP’s developers network portal

Training

11. Microsoft Server Administration/Management

12. Networking and Internet Security

13. SAP Basis/ABAP Workbench – Overview only

14. IBM Mainframes – Development

15. SAP CRM 5.0 and SAP FI/CO

16. SAP Ready2Run – Best Practices Implementation, SAP North America

17. Demo2Win – Demo Workshops by SAP North America

Presentations

18. Team Motivation, controls and time management

19. Career Building, goal setting and looking forward

20. SAP Implementation Methodologies. Quality tools and roadmaps

21. Business development, SAP Sales and Pre sales

Foreign Language Skills

22. Telugu, Hindi and Tamil

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