Patel Harshad

Email: acfinb@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 630-***-****

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Profile:

. Overall 7 years of SAP R/3 implementation experience as an SAP Sales

and Distribution (SD & LE) Consultant with good understanding of

business logic and flow.

. Main areas of expertise in configuration management, implementation,

Testing and Production Support.

. Up gradation of projects which includes Testing, analyzing results,

modifying configuration.

. Involved in two full life cycle implementations.

. Worked on various project phases till Go-Live & Production Support

including Configuration, Master Data Setup, Data conversion, upgrade

testing, Interface Testing & End user Training.

. Worked with the developers in providing them functional specifications

for custom reports, interfaces, conversion, enhancements and forms

(RICEF).

. Functional configuration experience with expertise in Configuration

Management, Pricing, Order Management, warehouse Management with

handling unit management, Shipping and Transportation.

. Experienced in SD integration with MM/WM/FI/CO.

. Worked extensively on user Exits.

. Blueprint design for SD & LE Functionality using ASAP methodology and

good knowledge in Aries flow charts useful in Blue print designing.

. Experience in BAPI, ALE, IDOC and Interfaces with Legacy and other

third party software.

. Good Understanding of both business processes and technical

development.

. Assist in the coordination and implementation of new system

initiatives.

. Good team player and Communication with Strong communication and

organizational skills, able to work independently

SAP SD skills:

. Enterprise structure: Extensive experience in configuring the

Enterprise Structure in SD by interfacing with other modules by

defining sales organizations, distribution channels, sales offices,

sales groups, Plants, shipping points, loading points, and

transportation points.

. Master Data: Expertise in migrating Customer Master, Material Master,

Vendor Master, Routes, Route schedule, condition records for outputs,

pricing. Master data for sold-to party, ship-to party, bill-to party,

payer, plant customers and customer groups. Also, experience in

creating Material Master Views for Classification data, Sales

organization data, sales and general plant, Accounting, MRP,

Purchasing, Storage views and Warehouse data view and created Customer

Material Information Record.

. Sales Process: Expertise in configuring Order Management process like

Inquiry, Quotations, Orders, and Contracts, Item/Product Proposal,

Item Categories, Schedule Line Categories, ATP check.

. Billing/Invoicing: Expertise in defining Billing Document Types,

Billing Plans, Pro forma Invoices, Credit memo and Debit memo.

. Expertise in configuration with BOM.

. Experience in Intercompany and Intra company stock transfer orders.

. Pricing: Familiar with defining Condition Types, Condition Tables,

Access Sequences, Condition exclusion groups Pricing Procedures and

VOFM Routines.

. Output Controls: Expertise the configuring the output controls using

output determination for printouts and EDI for sales orders, shipping

and Transportation

SAP SD/ LE skills:

. Shipping and Transportation: Expertise in configuring Picking,

Packing, Delivery, Shipment Cost / Freight, Freight Account

Determination and Freight Payment, Transportation planning and

scheduling.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems MS-DOS, MS Windows 9X, 2000, XP,7.

ERP SAP SD, LE, MM, PP, FI/CO,VC

Databases ORACLE 7.x, MS Access, SQL

Languages ABAP, C, C++,VB.

Management and MSWord, Excel, Project, LSMW, CATT, BDC

Project Tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Ericsson Inc. Plano, Texas

SAP SD Functional Consultant March 2012 - Present

Implementation and support

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that

makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction,

manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is

headquartered in San Rafael, California.

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

* Worked as a Business Systems analyst in Product and Pricing team. As a

team we worked on implementing functionalities involved in Book to Bill

cycle.

* Configured different material types, material groups, item categories and

item category groups.

* Created Characteristics, Classes, Configuration profiles, dependencies as

per business requirements

* Implemented an automated way of creating materials (by custom program and

tables) with selection of few characteristics. The business user had the

capacity to create large number of characteristically different SKUS

(materials) with few selections and push of a button.

* Worked on a pricing tool called Strawmann, modified the pricing

calculations and attributes for changes in business rules.

* Configured elements of pricing which included Material Price, Price List,

Customer Specific Prices, Customer Discount and Material Discount.

* Implemented an automated way (by custom program and tables) of pricing

SKUS with price points generated from Strawmann. The business user had

the capacity to "price-SKU" match large number of SKUS and system would

create condition records with respective prices.

* Worked on configuring condition tables, access sequences, condition types

and pricing procedures, Pricing Routines, and Pricing Formulas.

* Configured Billing Documents Types, Deliveries related Billing, Periodic

and Milestone Billing.

* Worked on designing and developing a model for promotion discounts as per

business requirements. Configured condition type groups, sales deals and

promotions.

* Coding dependencies using the dependency editor.

* Worked on designing and creating an automated mechanism of assembling

BOMs in the system. For all the skus created the user was given

capability to automatically assemble create BOMs using flexible matching

criteria and patterns.

* Worked closely with the business users to gather requirements as input

for the creation of complex reports (Bundle price comparison report,

discount conditions report, promotions report, Material characteristic

report etc.).

* Worked with ABAP team in setting up validations in the Sales order entry

using custom tables and user exit changes.

* Worked on the configuration required for EDI, like Partner Profile,

message controls etc.,

* 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.

* Developed and Executed Unit Testing & Integration Testing. Carried out

End-user training for the Business users.

PepsiCo Plano, Texas

SAP SD/LE Functional Consultant July 2011 - Feb 2012

Implementation and support

PepsiCo is an American multinational beverage corporation and

manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage

concentrates and syrups.

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

* Configured new order types, Item Categories, schedule line categories,

delivery types, pricing and billing and also worked on master data entry.

* 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 (Multiyear report, Zero Suppression

report, Sales report etc.).

* 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.

National Grid

SAP SD Functional Consultant Syracuse, NY

Full life cycle implementation. July 2009 - May 2011

The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission

network in Great Britain, connecting power stations and major

substitutions and ensuring that electricity generated anywhere in

England, Scotland and Wales can be used to satisfy demand elsewhere.

Responsibilities/ Deliverables:

* Responsible to Evaluate, Design, Configure, Test and arrange release of

developments for SD module for Brand division.

* Gathered requirements and created functional specifications for

conversions, interfaces and enhancements. Configured prototype for SD

module based on business requirements.

* Configured the SD module by setting up the overall organization structure

design, document types, item categories, master data, usage of condition

step, copy control of sales document types to billing and delivery

documents.

* Defined business requirements, documented Functional Requirement

Specification (FRS) and completed configuration activities for the SD

module for their "order to cash" processes including order management,

delivery processing, invoicing, and cash application.

* The work involved defining various organizational units like Sales

Organization, Distribution Channel, Division, Sales Offices, Sales Group,

Sales District & assigning them to each other so as to accurately reflect

the organization structure.

* Configured customer master account groups and define the screen layouts

general data view, company code view and sales data view.

* Configured vendor master account groups and define the screen layouts

general data view, company code view and purchasing data view.

* Maintained material master data views and gathered the materials master

data rules from different teams

* Working closely with technical team to identify program enhancements for

Brand division.

* Configuration of Partner Determination, Text Determination, In-completion

Procedure, Copy control, Routes, Shipping, Returns, Third Party Sales,

Credit Management etc.

* Configured leg determination for shipment cost document and process

routines for different scenarios.

* Configuration of Pricing Tables / Access Sequences / Condition Types,

Pricing Procedure determination, Pricing Routines.

* Configuring Intercompany billing for Sales orders for two different

company codes.

* Configured Invoice, Debit/Credit Memo and rebate agreements in Billing.

* Configured LE Transportation (shipment types, shipment cost document,

activity profiles for shipment).

* Worked on the configuration required for EDI, like Partner Profile,

message controls etc.

* Performed Integration testing with other modules like MM, WM and FI.

* Configured various output types and configured various output determining

procedures.

* Designed the modification of the packing list by creating a custom layout

to include business requirements, and prepared guidelines for the

technical team to work on it.

* Modified several other reports and layouts depending on the new business

requirements and generated documentation for these modifications. Also,

mentored ABAPERS to complete the assigned tasks by explaining them the

process, purpose and the task.

* Involved in testing and debugging of all transactions during Unit

testing.

* 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.

* Developed and Executed Unit Testing & Integration Testing of OTC

Configuration.

* Conducted End Users Training in Sales and Distribution Module.

Applied Materials

SAP SD Functional Consultant Santa Clara, CA

Implementation and support project. April 2008- May 2009

Applied Materials is a capital equipment producer serving the LCD

display, Glass, WEB and solar manufacturing industries.

Responsibilities/ Deliverables:

* Involved in various business meetings to analyze and document the

business requirements related to Logistics business for the Client.

* Worked on configuring the Shipping Points, Shipping Types, Shipping

conditions

* Configured the entire Route determination for the Client scenarios by

defining the various Routes and maintaining the Stages

* Configured the Freight Codes and Freight codes set for the Transportation

* Configured various Transportation groups and Transportation zones as per

the Client requirement in maintaining the Route determination.

* Configured the Storage Types, Picking areas, Storage conditions and the

Picking Location assignments.

* Configured various delivery types and item categories and also the item

category determination in deliveries.

* Defined the Data rules, Tariff zones and assignment of Tariff zones for

Shipment costs.

* Configured the Shipment cost types and defined the Number ranges for

Shipment costs

* Defined various Shipping Types, Transportation Connection points and

maintenance of the Stages for the routes.

* Configured the Transportation zones, Transportation groups and

maintenance of Country and Transportation zones for the shipping points.

* Configured the condition tables, output types, access sequences and

Procedure for Output determination for Shipments.

* Configured Legal control services, Sanctioned party list screening and

Customs Management.

* Configured document types, Item categories and also specified copy

controls.

* Configured Embargo check service.

Office Depot Inc Boca Raton, FL

SAP SD Functional Consultant August 2006 - August 2007

Full life cycle implementation.

Office Depot is the world's largest office products company. They

are committed to making it easy for their customers around the globe

to buy a wide range of office products, including supplies,

technology, furniture, and business services.

Responsibilities/ Deliverables:

* Involved in preparation phase study with Core team members.

* Studied the legacy system and prepared the detailed document of AS-IS

study.

* Involved in studying and understanding user requirements, analyzing the

business processes, preparing the BPML (Business Process Master List) and

Site Assessments.

* Worked on Customer Master Data Configuration and configured the Sales

Areas by defining the Sales Organizations, distribution channels,

divisions, sales groups and setting up the Sales areas.

* Configured the various Sales document types for Inquiries, Quotations and

Sales Orders.

* Configured the Pricing procedures by defining and configuring various

condition types, condition tables, access sequences and condition

records.

* Configured the LE shipping by configuring the various functions like

shipping conditions, route determination including the configuration of

shipping types, modes of transport, routes and stages, transportation

groups and loading groups.

* Worked on Cross-selling, Material determination and Item proposal.

* Integration of SD with MM and FI.

* Configured the billing documents, billing plan types and billing

procedures - individual billing, periodic billing and collective billing.

* Involved in testing and debugging of all transactions during Unit

testing.

* 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.

* Developed and Executed Unit Testing & Integration Testing.

* Conducted End Users Training in Sales and Distribution Module.

Educational Qualifications:

* M.S.(Computer Science), Illinois Institute of Technology

* B.S.( Electrical Engineering), Sardar Patel University

. U.S. Citizen

. References upon request.

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