Sales Sap

Sanket Patel

Sr. SAP SD Consultant

Email: ******.***@*****.***

Phone: (484) 326 - 9721

S UM MARY

• Over 8 years of experience as an SAP R/3 functional consultant, experienced in various facets

of the Sales and Distribution (SD), Logistics Execution and Materials Management modules

i ncluding Analysis, Design, Implementation, Customization, Development, In tegration,

Testing and Training of SAP R/3 (ECC 6.0,ECC 5.0, 4.7, 4.6C, 4.6B).

• Completed 3 full life cycle implementations with conventional and ASAP methodology.

• Integral perspective of typical project challenges facing members of implementation teams due

to diverse project roles, including: Senior Business Analyst, Testing Coordinator, Configuration

Specialist. Creative, pro-active team player with strong ability to achieve quality results within

business and technical teams.

• Experienced in configuring Master Data, Document Types (Sales Order Types, Delivery

Documents, Billing Documents, Credit and debit memo, etc.) including special order types

(Third Party Processing, Consignment Processing, Inter-company billing, Revenue

management, Revenue Recognition and inter-company stock transfers), Availability Check,

C redit Management, Material Listing/Exclusion, Rebate processing, Deliveries, Picking,

Packing and Shipping.

• Experienced with Customer Order Management (Order-To-Cash) and make-to-order business

p rocesses in manufacturing, Consumer products, and food industry.

• Experience in the configuration of basic functions including partner determination, output

determination, text determination, account determination, material substitution, and free

goods determination

• Experience working in SAP Materials Management (SAP MM) Components including

Purchasing, Pricing: STO with & without SD Delivery and Billing, Consignment orders,

Output determination, Messages, Reports, Credit/Debit Memos, etc.

• Worked extensively on multiple projects on Order Management Shipping, Warehouse

M anagement and Transportation.

• Hands on Vistex expertise (transactional/composite) for charge backs, bill backs and customer

rebates.

• SAP Technical expertise includes ABAP, BDC, ALE, EDI, IDoc, User exits, RFC, BAPI, BADI,

and Data Dictionary Objects.

• Implemented various customer EDI t ransactions, multiple ALE t ransactions and, Processing

routines and Message control configuration.

• Experience in Design, Configuration, Testing and Support in ALE, EDI, and IDoc interfaces

w ith Legacy systems within the company and third party soft wares.

• Designed and developed Technical, Mapping Spec’s for various EDI t ransactions like EDI 850,

810.

• Experience in integration with legacy systems and technical consultants for interface design.

• Documented several end user t raining manuals and imparted functional t raining to offshore

and end-users at the client site using InfoPak tool.

• Worked with ASAP methodology and with SAP Solution Manager.

• Knowledge of vertex integration with SAP SD for US taxes.

ACADEM IC QUAL IF ICAT ION

• Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering, India

TECHN ICAL SKILLS:

SAP Modules: Sales & Distribution (SD), Materials Management / Purchasing (MM

Logistics Execution (LE – formerly shipping), Financials (FI/CO) and

Warehouse Management (WM), PP (production planning) EDI.

Most recent version: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

SAP Reporting Tools: ABAP/4 Workbench, Logistics Information System, ABAP List Viewer, SAP

Query, SAP Smart Forms

M ethodologies: ASAP (SAP)

I ndust ries: Logistics; Pharmaceutical; High Tech Manufacturing; Industrial Gas,

Welding, and Safety Supplies

P ROFESSIONAL EXPER IENCE:

Airgas, Radnor, PA J uly 13 –

A pril 14

SAP SD consultant

I mplementation project

Designed and implemented a custom Price Maintenance Request (PMR) System to meet customer

related price maintenance requests.

Implemented the PMR as an SAP based solution to process day to day price maintenance business

requirements.

Developed the PMR with integrated workflow for automated updating of price records into SAP via

standard BAPI.

Collected business requirements for strict adherence to development life-cycle requirements in the

form of functional and technical specifications.

Completed comprehensive unit testing, regression testing, and full project life cycle integration

testing in the development and quality environments.

Provided hypercare support post go-live for implementing break-fixes, custom enhancements, and

PMR Configuration related change requests.

Provided detailed project training to business users as part of User Acceptance Testing.

Participated in an SAP enhancement pack upgrade project for upgrading from SAP ECC 6, EHP 4 to

E HP 6 with a support package - Stack 7.

Reviewed SAP OSS Notes and Side Effects to identify the impact of SAP ECC 6, EHP 6 on the client’s

Order Management business processes.

Based on the new functionality of SAP ECC 6, EHP 6, compiled a list of custom programs and tcodes

for unit and integration testing of order to cash processes.

Provided on-going production support for SAP related enhancements, custom forms, custom reports

and break fixes.

Supported cross-functional process teams such as WM, FI, SCM, MM, and Security and Controls for

resolving production issues involving key integration points with OM/SD.

Prepared Functional Specification Documents, Training documents, and Test scripts for Customized

Reports, Forms, Enhancements and Workflow.

Syncreon, Auburn H ills, M I Feb’12 –

J une 13

SAP SR OTC consultant

I mplementation project

Employed ASAP methodology to generate project plans for new implementation in Canada/ North

America locations.

Conducted full life cycle implementation project using SAP R/3 version ECC 6.0.

Developed and documented AS-IS/TO-BE business processes, configuration scripts, and other

associated technical specifications from end user requirements.

Customized the enterprise structure including defining Sales organization, Distribution Channels,

D ivisions and Business Areas.

Configured the Customer Master Data and Defined Account Groups for Customers, Partner

Functions and Partner Determination Procedure for Customer Master.

Defined Material Determination, Item Proposal and Number Ranges.

Created Standard Pricing Procedure with different Discounts, Surcharges and Rebates; using

Condition Tables, Condition Types, Access Sequences and Pricing Procedure Determination.

Carried out Batch Management involving the configuration of Batches, Batch Levels, Batch

Determination and specifying the units of measure.

Configured Condition Exclusion for particular customer groups to get best price.

Configured elements of pricing which included Material Price, Price List, Customer Specific Prices,

Customer Discount and Material Discount.

Defined and Assigned Sales Document Types, Item Category and Schedule Lines.

Configured and assigned number ranges, delivery types and billing types.

Configured Billing Documents Types, Deliveries related Billing, Periodic and Milestone Billing,

Collective Processing of Billing Documents, Individual Invoices, Collective Invoice, Invoice Splits and

I nvoice Lists Billing Plans.

Involved heavily in the design and setup of the Logistics Execution aspects of the project, carrying out

t he configuration of Shipping Points, Routes and Route determination, Delivery Types, Shipment

Types, Leg Determination and Goods Issue.

Defined and Assigned Account Determination Procedures, Account Determination Tables, Condition

Types and Account Keys.

Prepared Functional Specification Documents for the Customized Reports and Interfaces.

Integration with MM and FICO on Creation of Third party Order Processing, Inter-Company Order,

and Inter-Company Stock Transport Order, Subcontracting, Revenue Account Determination and

Credit Management.

Worked with ABAP programmers by writing detailed Functional Specification for User Exits, Custom

Reports, Workflows, Interfaces, Enhancements and Forms.

Created Documents for Training and testing purposes. Training Documentation includes Business

Activity Scripts and Activity Profiles which Define and Describe in Detail Functionality from

Creating a Quotation to Billing.

Hands on experience with e CATT tools like SCAT and LSMW for data migration and batch input.

Conducted End Users Training in Sales and Distribution Module

Configured EDI settings with regards to Inbound and outbound IDOC.

L’Oreal, Berkeley Heights, NJ J an 11 –

J an’12

SAP Lead Configurator, OTC

Implementation project

• Managed a functional team of four members as an Order Management team lead.

• Configured new order types, Item Categories, ATP, schedule line categories, delivery types, pricing

and billing and also worked on master data entry.

• Configured SD OTC business processes utilizing SAP R/3 version ECC 6.0.

• Worked in various SD functionalities like text determination, output determination, Availability

Check, material determination and designing new functionalities as per business requirements.

• Designed Copy Control Routines to facilitate copying necessary data from sales documents to delivery

and billing.

• Involved in problem solving and configuration related to EDI inbound (850,856,867) and outbound

(850,855,810).

• Configured new pricing procedures, Pricing Routines, and Pricing Formulas to meet the business

requirements.

• Strong experience in configuration of LE Shipping and Transportation. Delivery document types,

Delivery Item Categories, Shipping Point Determination, Route Determination, MRP and TOR,

Availability Check.

• Worked extensively on the creation of Shipment documents, Shipment cost documents, calculation of

shipment costs using collective shipment and Shipment costs settlement.

• Worked closely with the business users to gather requirements as input for the creation of complex

reports

• Worked on various change requests and enhancements which involved using BAPI’s to create sales

order (credits/debits) in SAP from the external system data which had files from US and Canada and

also have strong knowledge in creating and monitoring batch jobs

• Created Batch Management to schedule Billing Due List automatically and Output Determination

Procedures for billing documents.

• Configured various credits and debits memo requests for the corresponding billing types

• Involved in unit testing, integration testing and regression testing and end to end testing. Also

involved with the business users during Customer Acceptance testing and also trained them.

Hospira I nc, Lake Forest IL

Nov’09 – Dec’10

SAP SD Techno-Functional Consultant

Support project

• Worked on the configuration of Sales Order Management - Order types, Standard order, Contracts,

B ill of Materials (BOM), Serial Number Management, Item categories, Free of charge, Schedule Line

categories for small time enhancements and fast track tickets.

• Defined P ricing Procedure for handling various discount structures based on customer specific

agreements. Volumes and value of order Configuration of billing function involving Document types,

I nvoices, Credit memos, Debit memos and Revenue Account Determination for daily user tickets.

• Assignment of order types to a different sales area and creation and assignment sales groups

• Configuration of the Business cycle in Sales & Distribution involving order management, Credit

management and Automatic Account Determination.

• Set up batch jobs for various processes involving month end activities.

• Setting up calendars as year-end activity.

• Defined Third party processing both through the plant and vendor and actively interfaced with MM

consultants for conditions in purchasing.

• Worked on integrating applications using A LE Configuration (partner profiles, segments) and

handling and extension of existing IDOC types.

• Created test scenarios for unit testing and integration testing for all SD business.

3M, ST Paul, M N Oct ’07

– Oct’09

SAP SD Lead Functional Consultant

Implementation Project

• Participated in the initial requirements workshop and document the blueprint for playback and sign-

off Process.

• Translated AS-IS business process requirements into TO-BE SAP functional and configuration blue

p rints to provide high-level estimates for design implementation efforts. Performed GAP analysis.

• Set up organization structure and master data in SD that included the Customer Master, Material

Master, and Partner Functions.

• Gathered Vendor Master Data and Material Master Data requirements for Order Management

Team. Extended Materials to Plants, various storage locations and their respective Sales Areas

• Defined number ranges for customer master records.

• Configured shipping conditions and shipments.

• Implemented Pricing Configuration like creation of Condition Tables, Access Sequence, Condition

Types and Pricing Procedure to meet client business requirements. Extensively worked on

Promotions, Sales deals and Rebates.

• Implemented SD Billing function such as collective billing, periodic billing, and billing according to

customer schedule, inter-company billing, and delivery related billing, contract billing, credit memo

and debit memo.

• Configured various sales documents types like Standard order, Returns Order, Cash sales, Rush

order, Credit Memo and Debit Memo.

• Configured Incompletion Procedures, Copy Control, availability check (ATP), Delivery blocks and

t heir status.

• Configured credit management, defined credit control area and risk category and performed dynamic

credit control check.

• Configured new document types and process flows to accommodate evaluation orders, sample orders,

contracts and consignments.

• Migrated huge volume of Master data from Legacy system into SAP by using LSMW.

• Configured and set up product hierarchy, organization structure and item categories.

• Provide onsite field support to help resolve technical support issues and answer customer questions.

• Participated in the preparation of end-user documentation, test scripts, and training.

• Imparted functional knowledge with SAP ABAP team to develop Reports and Enhancements as per

t he client requirement.

• Configured the end-to-end order management processes that included partner determination, text

determination, and output determination procedures.

• Co-ordinate with off-shore team in India for implementing the Functional specifications and technical

objects

APP Pharmaceuticals, Schaumburg, I L

M a r’05– May 07

SAP SD functional consultant

• Worked as a primary consultant in implementing O rder to Cash . Primarily on Enhancement

projects - Mid size Projects.

• Maintained price relevant master data in customer master record and material master record.

• Set up Separate prices for regular customers and dealers by defining different price groups.

• Configured the condition types, access sequence, and the pricing procedures, and worked with

formulas for alternative calculation types.

• Configured custom sales, billing and delivery document types to suit the business requirements.

• Involved in Logistics Execution Configuration like warehouse management, shipping and

T ransportation activities. Configured delivery processing, picking, packing, shipping point

determination and storage location determination.

• Involved in Variant Configuration and Vistex testing

• Configured Output determination procedure, text determination and partner determination.

• Configured change pointers on custom tables to send an IDOC from SAP to legacy system whenever

data was changed in these custom tables.

• Interfaced with ABAP4: Technical support (giving program specifications) for ABAP/4 developments

and worked on various kinds of User exits, enhancement development.

• Loaded Master Data (Customer Master Records/Material Master Records) from Legacy system into

SAP by using LSMW.

• Responsible for 24X7 production support in an onsite / off-shore model for application support

covering the user groups all the 3 continents with a single instance in North America.

• Involved in unit testing, Integration testing, regression testing and User acceptance testing by using

Mercury quality center and U perform. Prepared test scripts and user manuals.

Hydro Aluminum, Sidney, O H

J an 04 - Feb 05

SAP SD Functional consultant

Testing Project/ Support

• Provided training, functional expertise, presentations, and trouble-shooting support on SAP SD

• Involved in unit testing, Integration testing, regression testing and User acceptance testing .

Prepared test scripts and user manuals.

• Trained in managing off-shored large scale call-center operations and processes such as Activations,

Customer Service, Billing, Training, Sales and Retention for a telecommunications company.

• Worked with offshore team as a liaison for script execution.

• Created and executed test scripts in HP quality center.

• Ran automated test scripts using TAO..

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