Project Functional Consultant
Resume:
Curriculum Vitae.
Name : Nagarajan Govindaraman.
Email : ********@*******.***
Summary:
ORACLE Functional - Purchasing, Internet Procurement, iSupplier Portal,
Inventory, Order Management, Advanced Pricing, Quality Management, Release
Management, Install Base, Service Contract, Accounts Payables, Internet
Expense and Accounts Receivables
Nagarajan is a highly experienced functional consultant of Oracle E-
Business Suite. His expertise lies in 'Procure to Pay' and 'Order to Cash'
Business Flow having solid project implementation experience in more than 5
full life cycle projects and some upgrades and support assignments. He is
also conversant and has project implementation experience in Oracle
Manufacturing and Supply Chain modules - BOM, WIP, and MRP.
Nagarajan has good understanding of Oracle Financials and Costing with
sound knowledge pertaining to integration of purchasing and manufacturing
with Financials in terms how inventory and WIP transaction impact the
accounting. Nagarajan has skills in SQL and PL/SQL and a good understanding
Workflow, which he effectively and frequently employs for issue resolution
and providing functional support for customizations. He also well versed
with AIM Methodology and Agile / Scrum.
Nagarajan's major strengths are strong hands-on functional experience,
sound conceptual knowledge of business processes and Oracle products, good
problem solving skills and an excellent team player. Further he has
experience in implementing large projects right from the Initial Analysis
phase to Design and Configuration, User Training and finally System Testing
and Post Production Support.
His typical tasks in such project would entail:
- User Requirement gathering.
- Solution Design
- Initial Configuration of system to map process in Oracle
- Gap Analysis and Gap Resolutions
- Conducting various iteration of CRP (Conference Room Piloting)
- Final System Configuration and Documenting Requirements documents and
Design Document
- Unit Testing and System Testing and creating test scenarios and test
scripts
- Functional Design for Interfaces and Conversion and documenting
function specifications.
- Coordinating with Technical team for successful development of
Interfaces and Conversion programs including unit testing.
- User Training
- Post Production Support.
- Issue resolution before and after Go Live.
Professional Experience:
FEB 2013 - MAY 2014 Starbucks Coffee Company Sr Functional
Analyst
Project : China ERP Deployment
Role : Functional Consultant
Modules : PO, AP, OM, AR, INV and QP
This was extending the Global Solution to China operations and going thru
the full implementation cycle of Design, Development and Configuration,
Test Planning and Execution and Deployment including Data Conversion. The
project provided a unique opportunity to implement multi language
capabilities, Multiple Time Zone functionality and a custom solution with
Advanced Pricing to handle managed Landed Cost requirements, besides making
multiple trips to China and working with Starbucks and Accenture partners
in China.
FEB 2012 - DEC 2012 Starbucks Coffee Company Sr Functional
Analyst
Project : Tazo ERP Deployment
Role : Functional Consultant
Modules : PO, AP, OM, AR, INVand QA
This was extending the Global Solution to a new Product Line Tazo Tea and
going thru the full implementation cycle of Design, Development and
Configuration, Test Planning and Execution and Deployment including Data
Conversion.
MAR 2008 - DEC 2011 Starbucks Coffee Company Sr Functional
Analyst
Project : Starbucks GBSS Project R12 and R11i
Role : Functional Consultant
Modules : PO, AP, OM, and QA
GBSS Oracle implementation is part of the Starbucks overall GBSS program
and it involves Implementation of Oracle e-Business suite of applications
in a Phased manner, in multiple geographical regions - EMEA, APAC and North
Americ. GBSS is a huge business transformation program aimed at providing
standard, global systems and processes built around Oracle EBS platform.
This would enable Starbucks to add even more muscle to its back-office
engine through which Starbucks employees (known as Partners) can run a
successful and growing corporation more efficiently.
Nagarajan is a Senior Functional Analyst on this project in the P2P track
and his work entailed:
- Designing of Global Procurement Processes across Starbucks numerous
businesses in EMEA and NA Region.
- Designing the procurement process and Inter-company sales process
across legal entities with Transfer pricing for Green coffee
solution.
- Designing of Integration with Third Party Logistics Providers for
Warehouse Management
- Designing of Integration with Oracle Transportation Module
- Implementation of Quality Module for Green Coffee Sampling and Weight
Variances.
- Functional Design and Specifications for numerous Interfaces,
Extension and Workflow customization.
- Test Cases Development and Execution
- Development of User Training Aids and Manual
- Go Live Cutover Planning and execution
- Post Production Support
The project went live on April 4 2011 and Nagarajan was on the project
until end of the year for Enhancement and Post Production Support.
OCT 2006 - MAR 2008 Jibe Consulting Principal
Consultant
Project : Captaris Inc - Oracle Apps 11i Apps
Role : Functional Consultant - New Implementation
Modules : PO, AP, INV, OM and AR
Nagarajan was the Lead functional Consultant in a prestigious project in
Seattle. It is a new 11510 implementation with Financials, Distribution and
CRM modules. Nagarajan was the Lead Distribution Consultant covering Order
Management, Advanced Pricing, Inventory, Purchasing, Internet Procurement
and a few functionalities in BOM and WIP module. He was also assisted the
CRM consultant on the team to implement Install Base and Service Contract
module. The project offered an opportunity to him to implement new
functionalities with regards to OM integration with Service Modules,
Revenue Recognition for Support Service, complex pricing scenarios for
Service items and form personalization.
AUG 2003 - SEP 2006 Software Solution Group Senior
Consultant
Project : Clearwire Inc - Oracle Apps 11i Apps
Role : Functional Consultant 11i upgrade project
Modules : PO, AP, INV, OM, Costing and PA
Nagarajan was the functional consultant for this 1159 to 11510 upgrade
project. His role entailed developing upgrade test scripts for the above
modules, executing various cycles of unit and integration tests of the
system per the script, issue resolution during the upgrade process and
exploring new functionality in 11510 and interacting with the users for
their implementation for example multiple AP tolerances and enabling java
based workflow mailer.
Project : Reddot Corp - Oracle Apps 11i Apps
Role : Functional Consultant 11i project
Modules : PO, INV, OM, RLM and QP
This is a new implementation of Oracle 11510 with a scheduled roll out of
Financial and Distribution in April of 2006. Nagarajan was the Distribution
Lead Consultant and worked closely with five super users from Reddot. His
role in the project was as under:
- Understanding current business practices in Purchasing, Inventory and
Order Management
- Designing and configuring Oracle to meet all key requirements.
- Conducting multiple iterations of CRP and refining the system design
continually.
- Finalizing functional specs for various interfaces, customizations and
data conversions.
- Supporting EDI Transactions in OM and AR
- Training Super User and Documentation
The project was challenging in terms of very tight schedules and non-
standard processes prevalent in the auto ancillary industry plus Nagarajan
had to learn, understand and implement a new module - Release Management.
Project : Centerpointe Research Institute - Oracle Apps 11i Apps
Role : Functional Consultant 11i project - Production Support
Modules : OM, QP, AR, AP and IPayment
The client was having serious issues revolving around Credit Card
Prepayment like duplicate charges to Customers, reconciliation between
Oracle AR, Verisign and Bank Account, Return / Refunds and poor
productivity in Order entry. The resolution involved determining the root
causes - which in this case were design flaw in OM Workflow customization,
Oracle bugs and Verisign software bugs. After fixing the bugs and
stabilizing the system, Nagarajan helped the client in reconciling their
accounts and cloasing the accounting periods. Other tasks involved Setting
up advanced pricing promotions and improving order entry process.
Project : GE Oil & Gas - Oracle Apps 11i Apps
Role : Functional Consultant 11i project - Production Support
Modules : PO, SSP5 (iProcurement), AP, OM, AR, PA and INV.
The client went live on Oracle 11i in July of 2004, but had major issues
like Accounting Inaccuracies, back log of transactions, inadequate training
of users, lack of productivity, technical issues related to Oracle and
Interface programs with legacy systems etc. Nagarajan roles included
understanding the issues and finding their root cause and suggest remedial
actions like data fix / cleaning, changes in process / setups, oracle
patching and user training
Project : AT & T Wireless - Oracle Apps 11i Apps
Role : QA Consultant
Modules : Procure to Pay - Purchasing, Inventory and Accounts payables.
As a member of the QA team, Nagarajan played an important role in the
successful implementation of a third party Archiving Tool. He had to learn
the Archiving Tool, develop test conditions and test script and go thru
multiple iteration of the archiving cycle, each bring up a new set of
issues, which were resolved by working together with the full team
consisting of functional consultants and technical resources.
Other assignments included day-to-day change requests in PO, AP, FA and PA
Modules.
Project : GE Oil & Gas - Oracle Apps 11i Apps
Role : Functional Consultant 11i project
Modules : Order Management, Inventory and Account Receivables.
In this new 1159 implementation, Nagarajan was solely responsible for Order
Management, Inventory and Accounts Receivable modules.
JAN 2001 - JUL 2003 Oracle Corporation Principal
Consultant
Nagarajan as member of Oracle Consulting Team was involved in several
projects as under:
Project : Boeing Corporation - Oracle 11i Apps and i-procurement
Role : Functional Consultant for the upgrade project.
Module : Purchasing, i-procurement, Inventory and Account
payable.
This was an upgrade project from 11.03 to 11.5.7 and Nagarajan supported
the client in PO, INV, Internet Procurement and AP modules. He role in the
project included exploring and implementing new functionalities, Issue
resolution by researching Metalink or by managing TARS (for software bugs)
with Oracle Support, user testing, setups and workflow changes. He also
demonstrated the functionality of I-Supplier Portal including ASN / ABSN
creation and PO Promise date change and acknowledgment.
Project : Anderson Hay- Oracle Apps 11i Apps
Role : Functional Consultant 11i project
Modules : Procure to Pay - Purchasing, Inventory and AP.
This was new 1158 project with Purchasing, Inventory, Order Management
(with Configure to Order), Financials, BOM, Engineering, WIP and MRP.
Nagarajan was responsible for Purchasing and Inventory activities and
setups. He played a vital role in supporting BOM, Engineering, WIP, MRP,
Order Management and Costing.
Project : America Pacific Corporation - Oracle Apps 11i Apps
Role : Functional Consultant 11i project
Modules : Procure to Pay - Purchasing, Inventory and AP
This was a chemical company implementing Oracle 11.5.8 with the following
modules - Financials, Purchasing, Inventory, Order Management, OPM and EAM.
This was a full life cycle implementation using fast forward methodology,
which involved Business Process Analysis, Initial Design, Conference Room
Piloting, gap analysis, final design and setup, user training and final end-
to-end testing. Nagarajan was responsible for Purchasing, Iprocurement and
Inventory. The client used all the functionality of Purchasing and
Inventory - Web Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Blanket Purchase Orders,
Planned Purchase Orders, Sourcing, Purchasing Alerts, Inventory Planning
and Replenishment, cycle counting and Inter Org Transfers. Further he
gained valuable understanding of OPM - OPM Organization and its relation to
Oracle Apps Organization entity, OPM Item Master and its approval mechanism
and Manufacturing Accounting Controller. On the EAM side he worked on
purchase requisitions for EAM work orders (with Shop Floor Destination
type) both from Core Apps and Internet procurement.
Project : Starbucks Coffee - Oracle Apps 11i Apps
Role : Functional Consultant 11i Production Support and
Customization.
Modules : Procure to Pay - Procurement and i-procurement.
This was initially a post-production support role, where the client faced
problems in Purchasing Document Open Interface (PDOI), Item Import
interface program, Oracle Purchasing Alerts and some of the Internet
Procurement functionality. The client was not able to import expense
purchase orders and they were getting error during item import. Both were
raised as a P1 TAR, however the issue was mainly setup or data related and
Nagarajan was able to resolve the issue immediately.
The client was impressed by Nagarajan's problem solving ability and sound
understanding of Oracle system. They extended his role to PO customization
projects, which required functional scoping and defining functional
specifications, providing support to technical developers and unit testing.
He also was given the task of writing validation functions and procedures
under the direction of the Technical Lead. The customization projects were
as under:
1. Form Modification to allow change of Ship to Organization in a PO
giving due consideration to it impact to Requisitioning, Receiving,
Planning, Accounting and also previous form modifications. This
entailed gathering the functional specs to determine under what
circumstances to allow the change (for example disallow if a record
exist in the receiving interface table), what needs to be updated
besides the PO tables (for example the MRP tables) and a through
testing (about 40 conditions)
2. Developing a New API for PO update and control actions like cancel,
freeze, close etc. Here again we had to determine under what condition
the API could change a value of fields (for example the price cannot
be changed if there is receipt or the qty cannot be reduced beyond the
receipt / invoice qty) and impact on other table like PO History
(Archive), Action History and MRP tables.
Project : Honeywell Corporation - Oracle Apps 11i Apps
Role : Functional Consultant for the upgrade project.
Modules : Procure to Pay - Purchasing, Inventory, Accounts Payable and
iExpense
This was an upgrade project from 11.5.2 to 11.5.6 and Nagarajan supported
the client in the PO, INV, BOM, Engineering and AP functionality and was
mainly involved in issue resolution in PO approval workflow, AP accrual,
iExpense, Inventory transactions and performance issues in BOM.
Project : Sony Electronics San Diego - Oracle Apps Ver. 10.7
Role : System testing, Data conversion and Migration
Modules : Purchasing and Inventory.
Nagarajan's involvement in this project was mainly providing support before
Go-Live - unit and system testing, issue resolution and custom report
testing in Purchasing Module.
May1995 - Dec 2000 Different Companies SAP R/3 MM
Consultant
Nagarajan was the Lead SAP Consultant in multiple full life cycle projects,
his expertise mainly being in functional design of the systems in the
distribution area.
Sep 91- Apr 95 Hoechst India Asst. Materials Manager
Involved in day-to-day purchasing and materials management and planning
activities.
Jan 84- Aug 91 Godrej, India Planning Executive
Involved in manufacturing related activities in light engineering company
in India.
Training : Oracle 11i Business Suite - Purchasing, Internet
Procurement, Inventory, BOM,
WIP, MRP, Order Management, OPM, EAM, AP and
GL.
: SAP MM Module, QM Module and PP Module
Education : 1. MMM - Masters in Management from Bombay University in
1984
2. Bachelor of Technology from Institute of Technology, BHU
in 1982
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