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