PROFILE SUMMARY

Bageerath Cheryala is a Functional Consultant having 11 years of IT

experience in SAP SD and Vistex functional areas. He also possess

experience in implementations and support projects with good communication

skills (Written and Verbal). Also, was a lead consultant with handling a

team of 3 people within the SAP module.

. Good team handling skills and understanding over client business

requirements and design the system to incorporate the business

processes.

. Good understanding over technical areas to design specifications and

meet the technical requirements of clients with coordination with

technical team.

. Implementation exposure on Vistex sub modules such as customer

rebates, billbacks, chargebacks, purchase rebates and sales incentives

payments to the employees. Rebate reduction on claims processed.

. Experience in defining contract management based on the business

requirement viz monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annually based on

the settlement process.

. Experience on SD basic functions, order management, billing process,

revenue management, integration of SD with MM, FICO, COPA, WM and

Vistex

. Configuration of Sales Documents (Quotation, Inquiry, Orders, Credit

Memo Request, Stock transport orders, Contracts) Delivery and Billing

Documents, experience in configuring OTC process, Outputs, material

determination, partner determination, account determination etc.

. Expertise in Pricing:-Customization of Pricing in Sales and

Distribution by Defining Pricing Procedure, Condition Table fs Access

Sequence, and Condition type using Condition Technique. Created Price,

Freight Cost, Rebate Discount and Tax Condition Types as per the

Business Requirements

. Good knowledge on SAP ABAP with understanding over appending

structures, BADIs, VOFM routines, EDI/IDOC, function modules,

userexits, ABAP Queries for quick reports and customer reports.

Experience on LIS info-structures

. Successfully handled the role of Onsite Coordinator to gather business

requirement and send across to offshore and make it complete.

. Good experience on fast moving consumer industry and soft sales of

products, pharma industry and steel industry.

TECHNICAL SKILL SET

VISTEX: Implementation experience on Vistex and the sub modules like

customer rebates, billbacks (customer payments), sales incentives and

chargebacks. Having experience in customizing complex composite scenario

and traditional transactional model.

SAP SD: Core Area of experience, have fair experience on SD configuration

(basic functions) with integration to FI, MM, WM, CO-PA and Vistex, also

experience in LIS, ABAP queries and basis STMS activity.

SAP ABAP: Can build structures; append structures, debugging custom

programs, knowledge on IDocs.

SAP WM and BI/BW: Trained in WM and BW/BI 7.0

EDUCATION

Master's in Business Administration (MBA) with specialization in Marketing

and Human resources

PROFESSIONAL SAP EXPERIENCE

Vistex Inc.

Oct 2014 till Date

IP Functional Consultant

H&E Equipment Service Industry

IP Sales Incentives Process - SAP Enterprise 6.0D - SP3

Customer is an equipment service industry provides services in the

earthmoving and construction equipment business. These services are widely

spread across Houston and Louisiana. They were already using Vistex since

past 2 years and need new functionality in their incentive payments to

their sales personal.

As a consulting working on building the new functionality to accommodate

new business requirements towards sales incentive payments in the composite

design to the sales personal in the organization.

Key responsibilities include:

. Building new plans without disturbing/hampering the existing design.

Plugged in the new functionality without change in the GUI for the

users so that, they see no difference in the routine day to day

activities.

. Worked on new condition types, access sequence, condition tables to

incorporate the new logic of considering branch (sales office) into

the agreement rules.

. Worked on custom functionality in the composite design for building

the new logic, had to modify the include programs ZXIPSIU03 and

ZXIPSIU26.

. Worked on formula builder for composite design for sales incentives

payouts to the sales employees.

. Involved in Unit testing, User acceptance testing and integration

testing along with client team to make sure everything is working as

expected without any damage to the existing process.

. Made correction across the entire incentive process old and new to

keep the system in sync across. These corrections include layout

changes to the tracking screen, variant definitions, etc.

Pactiv Food Service and Packaging Industry (Manufacturing and Distribution)

IP Billback and Customer rebates processes - SAP Enterprise 6.0E - SP1

The Customer is a very large food service and packaging industry

manufacturer implemented SAP at various manufacturing divisions in the U.S

wide. Customer has various rebate programs each differently designed for

each of his distributors or end customers. Complex rebates scenarios are to

be implemented, the project focuses on the IP Billbacks module

implementation at various sites across US divisions.

As a consultant working on the change requests with the help of the lead

consultant and also working on rebates program for growth and marketing.

Was also part of UAT and development on new change requests.

. Configuring LIS, matrix types and also working on growth and marketing

programs. Defining new condition types for growth agreements, new

pricing procedures for the same.

. Working on new change requests during the part of implementation done

by the core team of Vistex. Worked on agreement requests for customer

rebates.

. Worked closely with the technical team and client team to understand

and share the information to the technical resource to get the changes

done successfully as requested by the client.

. Change requests like GTIN issue, territory level issues (Territory

Management). To consider sold to party at territory level and flow the

same into the claims, TRs and subsequent IP document types.

Bridgestone USA - Fujitsu Consulting Feb

2013 to Oct 2014

Lead IP Functional Consultant

. As a Vistex lead consultant, taking care of all the Vistex related

issues on customer rebates and billbacks processes, working from

offshore and interacting with clients on a need basis and also weekly

to update the status of work.

. My interaction goes with clients directly; I will gather business

requirements, monitor ticketing tool (Remedy), and have discussion on

upcoming issues if any.

. Worked on custom executable reports which are used as the day to day

activities, batch jobs, agreement workbench, transaction register

workbench, claim workbench, billback workbench and customer rebates

workbench.

. Preparation of functional specification documents and give complete

inputs along with the pseudo code in the document for technical

resource to work on development.

. Responsible as an individual contributor for vistex lies in all

activities, issues, resolution, response, updates to the client and

management.

. Worked on BADIs related to customer rebates, billbacks, claim

documents, Transaction Register document, and agreement workbench as

per the business requirements to meet the business needs.

. Having understanding and experience on setting roles to the users and

also worked on transportation management system (STMS) from different

systems to move the configuration.

. Worked on quick viewer reports for user specific and global ABAP

queries for users to run the report on their own based on the

selection criteria and output of the report.

. Worked on pricing related issues where we need to write a VOFM routine

for calculating different values by each scenario and make sure each

scenario goes into resulting the right pricing value.

CCE - Belgium - CSC India Pvt Ltd

Mar 2012 to Dec 2012

SD Vistex Lead Consultant

. Configuration of complete customer rebates as per the client

requirements. Configured formula builder for customer rebates

composite processing for tiered or retro rebates processing.

. Worked on integration of Vistex with standard SAP modules such as SD,

FI, and COPA, also created value-fields for mapping Vistex pricing

condition types to flow into COPA. Created new info structures for

customer rebates composite processing, new update groups for each info

structures.

. Configuration of customer rebates settlement process monthly,

quarterly and annually using settlement calendars and in contract

management.

. Developing monthly, weekly reports using BW extractors with the help

of BW consultants.

. Worked on creating sales info structures and update groups to send the

transactional sales and invoice data into the info structure for

reporting.

. Worked on designing the functional specification documents for custom

requirements and custom reports and provided complete information to

the technical resource to meet the requirement for Vistex and SD.

. Worked on integration of SD with Vistex, as source documents for

vistex is SD invoice documents.

. Having understanding and experience on setting roles to the users and

also worked on transportation management system (STMS) from different

systems to move the configuration.

. Worked on partner functions for defining different partners and also

worked on text determination to customers. Also, worked on copy

control for text data to flow from sales documents to delivery

documents,

. Coordinate with onsite counter-part and get the information on SD-LE

configuration for Belgium

. Debugging, trouble shooting and providing functional specification

documentation to the technical resource.

Univar (USA) - Deloitte Consulting LLC

Apr 2011 to Mar 2012

SD - Billing

Univar USA is the leading chemical distributor in the United States,

providing more chemical products and related services than any other

company in the marketplace. Our wide distribution network, with locations

coast-to-coast, helps guarantee fast, reliable service to Univar's

customers.

. I was part of blue print phase where I was more particularly working

on billing part of SD module, where I was interacting with client team

and onsite counterpart.

. Worked on functional design specification documents for technical

resource to fill the gap and meet the customer requirements.

. Was also part of configuration of dispute management of FSCM module

integrated with SD billing, where I had to configure new billing

documents, new dispute types for the customers.

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (US operations) - Answerthink

Mar 2010 to Mar 2011

Vistex and SD Senior Consultant

Established in 1984, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (NYSE: RDY) is an emerging

global pharmaceutical company. As a fully integrated pharmaceutical

company, our purpose is to provide affordable and innovative medicines

through our three core businesses:

Pharmaceutical Services and Active Ingredients, comprising our Active

Pharmaceuticals and Custom Pharmaceuticals businesses;

. Worked on resolving issues related to customer rebate IP doc creation,

accrual and settlement batch jobs.

. Created a new ABAP Query for obtaining the date from claim request

documents and also created a t code for the ABAP query that was

created so that user can directly use the t code to access the query.

Another ABAP query for generating net sales using VBRK and VBRP tables

for users for quick check

. Day to day transactional data issues are resolved in customer rebates

and billbacks. Addition of new condition types for exclusion in the

customer rebates pricing procedure.

. Worked with technical resource in modifying the sales and Vistex

reports and also in developing the new reports.

. Involved in modifying the sales reports used in SD module such as net

price report. Creating new tax category for customer master for

country US. Debugging the custom reports.

. Worked on Account Determination: created a condition table with an

order reason, item category.

. Worked with technical resource on a BADI definition name

/IRM/BADI_IPCR_ALL for customer rebates processing, other BADI for

Billback claims /IRM/BADI_GCR_ALL.

Wasserstrom (Columbus) - Answerthink Jul

2010 to Aug 2010

Vistex Consultant

Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, The Wasserstrom Company is the world's

leading restaurant supplier and distributor of foodservice supplies and

equipment. Since 1902, Wasserstrom has provided foodservice operators with

high quality products, like kitchen supplies and catering supplies, from

the industry's leading manufacturers.

. Designed new purchase rebates composite process with calendar plan in

contrary to fiscal year plan which was already developed.

. Setup all the cutover activities for the purchase rebates composite

plan to move to PRD system, monitoring and helping users in successful

completion of weekend accrual and month end settlement process of

customer rebates and Chargebacks.

. Scheduled new background jobs for daily IP doc creation, weekly

accrual and monthly settlement of Chargebacks and customer rebates.

. Run program RV80HGEN to generate routines. This program need to be run

during off peak hours as his may lead to inconsistencies when run in

busy hours.

. Created new fiscal year variants (quarterly, half-yearly, annual

calendars) for different models in purchase rebates composite

processing.

. Created new ABAP query for calculating Chargebacks, creation of new

info structures for purchase rebates composite processing.

. Adding new fields in the pricing condition table so that the field can

be used in pricing for purchase rebates processing.

MSN Laboratories Ltd - Answerthink Dec

2009 to Feb 2010

SD Consultant and Single point of contact

MSN Group is one of the fastest growing manufacturers of Active

Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and finished dosages in India.

Established in the year 2003, MSN Group comprises of four API manufacturing

plants, one finished dosage facility and a dedicated Technology development

center.

. Interacting with end users, core users to discuss, gather and finalize

the requirements, analyze the requirement and send the requirement to

the respective module expert.

. Worked on condition base value routine for a tax condition type: state

taxes were hardcoded in the routine.

. Worked on condition exclusion so that discount condition type can

overwrite all other relevant discounts to meet the required criteria.

. Created a new sales document type with new pricing procedure for

different sales process.

. Worked on a script with technical consultant to display the print

output as desired for a purchase order.

. Worked on message attributes in sales order to check PO number and

quantity change after delivery is completed, in this case system will

throw an error message and stops further processing.

Neuland Laboratories Ltd - Answerthink Sep

2009 to Feb 2010

SD consultant and Point of Contact

Neuland was incorporated in 1984 by Dr. D. R. Rao for the manufacture of

Salbutamol Sulphate, with mere 40 employees. It has started its commercial

production of Salbutamol Sulphate in the year 1986. It has since grown to

become one of the most reliable API source for Pharma Industry with

addition of more products in course of years.

. Being a point of contact need to manage all the issues and segregate

them to respective teams and module.

. Worked on outputs for invoices, working along with the technical

resource to design the output print as required by the client.

. Preparing the specs to develop the new custom SD reports and helping

technical resource to understand the business process.

. Create a new discount condition type to accommodate a special discount

to customer by customer group.

. Created new material group and made mass update using MASS

transaction.

Hi-Tech Pharmacal - Answerthink Nov

2008 to Aug 2009

Vistex Consultant

Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co., Inc. (NASDAQ: HITK) is a specialty pharmaceutical

company developing, manufacturing and marketing branded and generic

prescription and OTC products for the general healthcare industry.

Specializes in liquid and semi-solid manufacturing; niche in sterile

production and offers over 100 generic and branded products to

approximately 100 customers

. Worked on two sub concepts of the IP module (Incentives and Paybacks),

they are Customer Rebates and Billbacks.

. Configuration of complete customer rebates and Billbacks models as per

the client requirements. Created new claim request documents for

Billbacks processing. Configured formula builder for customer rebates

composite processing for tiered or retro rebates processing.

. Worked on integration of Vistex with standard SAP modules such as SD,

FI, and COPA, also created value-fields for mapping Vistex pricing

condition types to flow into COPA. Created new info structures for

customer rebates composite processing, new update groups for each info

structures.

. Developed new data structures for customer rebates composite

processing, and configuring new partner functions for SD and Vistex.

. Created new condition types and pricing procedures for various

scenarios of customer rebates and Billbacks with reference to the

sales pricing procedure.

. Issue in pricing while flowing pricing values from sales document to

Vistex IP doc, hence added new condition types from SD pricing

procedure to Vistex pricing procedure.

. Development of new reports like settlement detail and summary reports,

accrual detail and summary reports, claim aging reports etc

Wasserstrom Columbus - Answerthink Aug

2008 to Oct 2008

Vistex consultant

Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, The Wasserstrom Company is the world's

leading restaurant supplier and distributor of foodservice supplies and

equipment. Since 1902, Wasserstrom has provided foodservice operators with

high quality products, like kitchen supplies and catering supplies, from

the industry's leading manufacturers.

. Configured customer rebates transactional model this include pricing,

partner determination, account determination, condition type

configuration for agreements.

. Configured customer rebates composite processing with deployment code

configuration, mapping, and participant assignment.

. Configured different IP document types for customer rebates and

billbacks, maintained copy control based on the source document

criteria and based on various programs does client have.

Sysmex America Inc. (off-site) - Answerthink

Jan 2008 to May 2008

SD consultant

Client profile: Sysmex is a global leader in the design and development of

high-quality, reliable and innovative clinical diagnostic hematology,

coagulation and urinalysis equipment and information management systems.

. Worked as an associate from GDC (off site) gathering requirements from

US onsite consultant. Configuration of Text determination from

customer master data to billing document.

. Configuration of Output determination for sales orders and invoices to

trigger immediately after saving the documents. Configuration of

Material determination

. Water marks on output forms, worked on pricing procedure per the

business requirement with creating new price and discount condition

types.

. Worked on revenue account determination, configuration of credit

management

Trinity Packaging Corporation - Answerthink Sep

2007 to Dec 2007

SD consultant

Trinity Packaging Corporation has been satisfying customers' packaging

needs with quality products and excellent service for more than 80 years.

Privately owned, Trinity has kept pace with the needs of its customers

through constant upgrades and innovation at its manufacturing locations in

Virginia and Pennsylvania.

. Worked on an enhancement, prepared technical specification.

. Configuration of Credit management oldest open items due.

. Worked with technical consultant on a credit management enhancement.

Used a badi BADI_SD_CM for changing the existing functionality of

oldest open items block in automatic credit check process. The new

functionality to consider only those documents as open which do not

have any down payments or partial payments. (Accounting documents, DZ,

AB etc.)

. Created a new sales document type for a specific business process

i.e., product launch.

Motorola (Symbol) - Patni Mar

2007 to Jul 2007

SD Consultant

Motorola has been committed to innovation in communications and

electronics. Motorola has achieved many milestones in its 75-year history.

Motorola pioneered mobile communications in the 1930s with car radios and

public safety networks. They made the equipment that carried the first

words from the moon in 1969. Motorola led the communications revolution

with the first commercial handheld cellular phone in 1983 and the first all-

digital high-definition television (HDTV) technical standard in 1990.

Today, as a global industry leader, excellence in innovation continues to

shape the future of the of the Motorola brand.

. As we were under SLA, we have to solve the tickets (issues) and tasks

in the stipulated time on priority.

. Interacting with the client requestors to clarify any queries

regarding the functionality etc.

. Resolving the tickets, testing it in dev system, preparing test

documentation.

. Used helpdesk tools Peregrine and Clarity. Peregrine was a general

helpdesk tool used to fix the issues, whereas Clarity is used for any

enhancements.

. Interaction with the technical team to fulfill the technical

requirements.

. Creation of test documentation for the clients for each task.

Sales Experience:

Worked as Branch Executive for ICFAI University (Institute of Chartered

Financial Analysts of India) Hi-Tech City Branch

Mar 2005 to Jan 2006

. Involved in sales of all the products of ICFAI University to the

corporate employees.

. Involved in presales like promotions by organizing events (KIOSK) at

various IT companies and explaining them about the importance of

various graduate, masters and PG diploma programs.

. Enrolling the students in to the various educational programs.

. Interaction with most of the HRs and Admin managers of various

organizations across Hi-Tech city for obtaining permissions to

interact with their employees to promote the educational programs that

are available in our University.

Worked as Rural Sales Promoter for Gadwal Division with HINDUSTAN LEVER

LIMITED (India's largest FMCG Company)

Jun 2003 to Feb2005

HLL is an FMCG company marketing and manufacturing over 400 products across

India. It has targeted all types of consumers (low class, middle and high

class). The wide ranges of products are subjected to Indian market. HLL is

the world's largest FMCG Company with its headquarters in US, which is

called as Unilever. The products of HLL cover 80% of the Indian market.

. Appointment of Shakti Dealers from each village where the population

is 3000 and above.

. Analyzing the market and people for appointment of dealers.

. Hard core sale of products of Hindustan Lever Ltd.

. Bringing orders from dealers and putting in front of distributors.

. Extensive traveling to rural areas for finding prospect villages.

. Analyzing the requirements of the villagers.

. Organizing meetings and demonstrations in the villages about the

products and dealerships of Hindustan Lever ltd.

. Various modes of sales like direct sales, retail sales and dealer

sales.

. Motivating the dealers and initiating in the sales. Visiting the

dealers twice or thrice in a month.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Bageerath Cheryala

Gender: Male

Work Authorization: H1b Valid until May 2017

Address: Schaumburg IL, 60195

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