Professional Summary:

Senior SAP Functional Consultant with over 9.5 years of SAP Logistics experience, primarily in SAP Materials Management (MM) which includes Inventory Management, Warehouse management (WM) and Logistics Execution System (LES) with significant exposure to the Sales & Distribution module.

Experience in the diverse industries: Manufacturing, Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Trading

Experience in Implementation, Roll out and support projects.

Good experience in performing data loads through LSMW with Batch input recording method.

Extensive experience in IT: Project Management, Systems Analysis, Business Analysis, Integration testing

Good working experience in LE reports for Warehouse management, RF screens development, New movement type enhancements, Handling Unit Management, Batch Management and Mobile Data Entry (Radio Frequency).

Strong experience in Handling unit management configuration with problem solving solutions.

Developed very complex RF transactions using screen programming which are used by warehouse operators on daily basis.

Strong experience in Functional specification design for Critical Business requirements in the areas of

Purchasing, Inventory Management & Logistics Execution.

Customization experience in various areas of IMG activities including Organization structures and process flows in Materials Management, Logistics General, Sales and Distribution, Handling Unit Management and Logistics Execution (Shipping, Transportation, WM and Radio Frequency).

Project implementation skills include Requirements gathering, AS-IS and TO-BE documentation, Functional and technical specifications, Data migration, Customization, Configuration and SAP Best practice methodologies across diverse manufacturing industries and Distribution centers.

Experience in:

- EDI Setup for Inbound (Advanced Shipping Notification) IDoc & outbound IDoc from SAP to DNS

System

- Vendor direct process with complete logic design, to perform multiple activities like Goods receipts

against the inbound deliveries

MM: Master Data such as Material master, Vendor Master, Purchasing Info records, Configuration of complete Purchasing process such as PR, PO,SA, Quotation document types, Number ranges, etc. within complete Purchase Management, Configuration of Inventory Management including creation of new movement types, Automatic account determination process, Logistics Invoice Verification, Physical Inventory process, Batch Management, Pricing Procedure configuration, Quota Arrangement process, Stock Transfers & Transfer postings, Configuration Setup of Stock Transport Orders for both Intra Company (Within same Company code) & also Inter Company with delivery & billing (Between different company codes), Integration of Handling Unit Management with Inventory Management and having full expertise with the integration of different modules like WM, SD, PP & FICO.

WM: Master Data, Put away and Picking strategies, Configuration of new storage types, Printer controls for both Pick and Put away tickets, RF queue management, Kanban replenishment, Auto TO creation, Two Step TO confirmation, stock transfers, warehouse movements, physical inventory, setting up interfaces with IM, PP and SD,customizing the production integration, describe the replenishment strategy for WM staging and set up master data and customizing for processing WM staging, storage unit management, Mobile data entry, RF transactions, integration with HUM.

SD/LE: Defining Delivery process, Delivery Types, Delivery Documents, Shipping point determination, Configuring the Shipping Point Determination like Defining the shipping conditions and Loading groups and Picking and Interfacing with WM.

PP: Master Data, Process orders & Production orders, MRP areas, MRP types, etc.

QM: Configuration of new Inspection types, Master Inspection Characteristics, etc.

Strong Experience on Customization of batch management by defining batch strategy for inventory management.

Excellent experience in writing the functional specifications of RICEFs (Reporting, Interface, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms)

Experience interacting in SAP with all levels of the company (project management, project team, super-user, and end user).

Configuring Picking and Put away strategies, Pricing procedure, Material Master, Vendor Master, Customer Master, Source List, Warehouse Management Reference Movement types, Condition Master, Output Master, Availability check, Vendor Purchasing Info records, Quota Arrangement, Stock determination.

Condition Technique for maintaining and determining the Purchase Pricing Procedure, Output Procedures (Purchasing, LE and IM), Incompletion Logs, and Partner Procedures (Sales, Purchasing, IM and LE), WM Search Strategies for Stock placement and Removal, Storage types, Storage Bin Structure mapping for creation of Automatic Bins, Automatic Account Determination, and Condition Exclusion Groups.

Strong experience in the configuration of Stock Transport order process, Procure to Pay process, WM Configuration integrated with Inventory Management.

Yard Management with Warehouse Management functionality for Vehicle Monitor (Inward and Outward movements)

Maintaining Copy Controls with Sales and Delivery, Sales and Billing, Delivery and Billing etc.

Strong experience in handling the tickets though SAP Solution Manager, CA tool & Remedy ticketing tool.

Strong Communication & User interaction skills, ability to work in Team as well as individual Player.

Technical Summary:

SAP Releases SAP 4.6C & ECC 6.0

Functional Skills SAP MM, IM/WM, LE

Academics:

BS (Engineering) from prestigious National Institute of Technology (NIT), India

SAP Experience:

Project 11 Duration: April, 2015 – July, 2015

Client Name

Bemis Company Inc. --- Neenah, WI, USA

Role

SAP Logistics Consultant

SAP Environment

SAP ECC 6.0, MM, WM, PP, PD, SD, QM,FI, CO, BW, SRM,HUM & BMS

RF Implementation & SAP Production Support:

Key Responsibilities:

Key implementation team member in the design and development of RF screens for various functionalities like Shop floor inventory inquiry, Capture Gross weight of Handling units screen, Cycle counting functionality and Material staging for pick and load with Multi pallet move functionality.

Complete Analysis, Design, Develop and Implement, Problem Solving for Business requirements

Functional Specification design and implement multiple reports such as SAP Inquiry screen report, SAP Cycle counting report, Shipping History report.

Creation of the test scripts for all the above reports

Performed Unit testing, Integration testing & Quality testing. Completed Regression testing.

Completion of UAT and implementing the Business solution.

Preparation of Training documentation, providing Power users training.

Analysis & design to the ‘Bill-To’ address logic based on the Freight terms and Inco terms to all of the 7 Bill of Ladings for Shipments & Deliveries including the Returns PO deliveries.

Day-to-day handling of Critical Production support issues mainly on Handling Units, Deliveries & Shipments, and providing resolution within the stipulated SLA.

RF screen design for Inquiry screen functionality for Mobi

RF screen design for capture gross weight functionality for Mobi

RF screen design for Cycle counting for Mobi

Involved in RF screen design for Material staging for Pick & Load functionality

Complete RF Unit, Quality & Integration Testing for Inquiry screen, Pick & Load, Capture Gross weight, Cycle counting, Material staging with Multi Pallet move functionality.

Strong experience on resolving packing issues on Handling Units issues.

Involved in Multiple Plant roll outs for BHP (Bemis Healthcare Packaging Inc.)

New plant roll out configuration for BHP plants, LE Scope definition & Scope presentation

Involved in identification of key user roles based on the existing business process

Completely responsible for Security testing of User roles in Development & Quality systems.

STO Purchase Info Records Updates (Decimal Dust Issues)

-Business Requirements & Design

-Recommended Solution Option Defined

-Identified Records to Update

-Conducted Solution Recommendation Workshop with BPIs & SMEs of different units of BNA

-Implemented Pilot solution in production with 5 materials

-Implementation of Complete solution for all the identified materials.

-Business process implementation training to PD team

Project 10 Duration: June, 2014 – Mar, 2015

Client Name

John Deere --- Davenport, IA, USA

Role

Lead Consultant - SAP MM / WM

SAP Environment

SAP ECC 6.0, MM, WM, PP, SD, QM,FI, CO, APO, BW, CRM, SRM, HR, MES, SPP

SAP Global Production Support (AMS)

Key Responsibilities:

Analysis, Design, Develop and Implement, Problem Solving for Business requirements

Strong Integration with IM/WM, SD, PP, QM & FICO modules

Brain storming sessions with cross functional Business analysts for process design and GAP Analysis.

Strong Functional specification design for Critical Business requirements in the area of Purchasing, Inventory Management & Logistics Execution, Handling unit Management, testing in configuration systems, move to Quality systems and then propose to Production systems with user acceptance test

New movement type enhancements for Business specific requirements to post to different consumption accounts for both planned and unplanned consumption for Goods issue

Worked on smart forms for pick tickets & put away tickets with the technical team by providing the necessary logic as per the business requirement

Worked on most of the LE reports for warehouse management inclusive of both Standard and customized reports

Worked on multiple customized ZLRFMD screens, Queue creation, assigning to user with specific responsibilities in the area of Logistics execution

Worked on HU managed inbound and outbound deliveries

Worked more on Shipping issues in the area of LE

Worked on different physical inventory processes like cycle counting, continuous inventory

Developed critical enhancements for Region 2 (Europe & Australia) like Vendor direct process, MRP planning run for Auto PO creation against the Sales orders coming from Dealer Network System (DNS)

Rolled over the same enhancement to other region units, Region 1 (Asia Pacific – India & China), Region 2 (Europe & Australia), Region 3 (South America) & Region 4 (North America)

Co-ordination of the onsite and offshore activities with the Global team and Offshore support team

Fit-Gap Analysis for the new complex business processes with Functional /Technical Specifications

Support the Business by developing and delivering SAP solutions within the stipulated SLA.

Developed most critical Delinquency reports at global level which are being used by all regions.

Planning and controlling all activities during the system outages including additional business process validations.

Expertise in planning with MRP areas used for specific process like standard sub- contracting process, Drop ship vendor sub- contracting process, and vendor managed inventory with consignment process.

Day-to-Day Handling & Troubleshooting of critical support issues in the areas of MM & LE through the CA support tool, Solution Manager Tracking of Break-Fix developments and SDP developments.

Developed the Gate entry system for the Goods receipt process by means of a BAPI

Impart trainings in SAP MM and WM for different levels of Business like Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Business Process Integrators (BPIs) and end users of different factories

Designing ABAP queries for quick functional reports

Solutions provided for different classes of batch job failures and troubleshooting of IDocs for different EDI issues

Creation of test scripts for the developed requirements and for new Business criticality processes

Updating and tracking the project documentation through Solution Manager Document repository management.

Tracking and proposing the Break –fixes through Change Request Management

Support the Interfaces like JDSN, WISE issues with SAP.

Project 9 Duration: Sep, 2013 – May, 2014

Client Name

John Deere

Role

Senior SAP MM / WM Consultant

SAP Environment

SAP ECC 6.0, MM, WM, PP, SD, QM, FI, CO, APO, BW, CRM, SRM, HR, MES, SPP

SAP Technical Upgrade to EHP 7.0

Key Responsibilities:

Involved in planning road map with time lines for the upgrade in a phase wise manner for all Regions - Region 1 (Asia Pacific – India & China), Region 2 (Europe & Australia), Region 3 (South America) & Region 4 (North America) without impacting the regular Production process.

Involved in the complete upgrade process for all the Phases as per the planned road map right from the Cut-over activities for specific system freeze for upgrade until completion of the process.

Planning of the Upgraded path and Non Upgraded path for the emergency change requests.

Taking the Back-up of existing Config / Development systems to Sand box systems for Region 1

Perform the upgrade in the Config / Development system and allow Sandbox system open for the support team for any High and Urgent priority configuration and development break fixes with a concept of Dual Maintenance of change requests.

With the concept of Dual Maintenance of change requests, allow the changes move through the Non-Upgraded path from Sandbox to Quality and then move to Production with the business acceptance testing.

Once the upgrade is completed in Config / Development system then perform the validations for all the business processes to check for any processes impacted due to upgrade.

The same process has been followed for the complete upgraded path with validations for every system like Config /Develop system, 2 testing systems to act as quality system for Business testing and then move to Non-upgraded Production system.

Continue the upgrade process in Non-Upgraded path like Sandbox system, Quality system and then to Production system, during this time the emergency change requests move through the Upgraded path of Config/Develop system, testing systems and then to Non upgraded Production system.

Key involvement of upgrade process for Production system during off hours of Global Business by putting the Production system on freeze / outage for a specific planned period of time there by completing the upgrade for a phase.

Behavioral observation of the Production system once it is open for Business for the day-to-day transactions and to work directly with SAP for resolution by raising OSS incidents on the critical issues reported because of the upgrade.

Involved in the upgrade process for all Regions as well as per the initial planned road map in the phase based manner towards successful completion of the technical upgrade.

Worked and resolved on the different affected enhancements & functionalities due to SAP Upgrade in a stipulated time by additional SAP note implementations.

Project 8 Duration: March, 2013 – Aug, 2013

Client Name

John Deere -- Dubuque IA, USA

Role

Senior SAP MM / WM Consultant

SAP Environment

SAP ECC 6.0, MM, WM, PP, SD, QM, FI, CO, APO, BW, CRM, SRM, HR, MES, SPP

Roll Out & Post Go-Live support of Construction and Forestry (C & F) Divisions to SAP with in Region 4 (North America)

Key Responsibilities:

Creation of the organization structure which includes creation and assignments of Plants & Storage locations, purchasing organizations, warehouse numbers, material types, vendor account groups, EDI Setup for Inbound (Advanced Shipping Notification) IDoc & outbound IDoc from SAP to DNS system

Business is completely based on the manufacturing and assembling of the parts related to Construction and Mining equipment, played key role in determining the specific mining business complex requirements.

Designed and developed a critical enhancement on Vendor direct process with complete logic design, right from taking the activity records from CWIS interface to load in SAP to perform multiple activities like Goods receipts against the inbound deliveries created from EDI 856 for MM Scheduling agreements, creation of outbound deliveries for SD Scheduling agreements, Post goods issue for the same quantity and finally create the billing document for the issued quantity. All activities done through a single program involving multiple Z-tables.

Developed specific reports to meet the complex requirements of the C & F Business.

Involved in the Post Go-Live support the Business by developing and delivering SAP solutions within the stipulated SLA.

Developing training & end user manuals for the specific Business requirements to SMEs & BPIs for supporting the SAP end user community of C&F.

Imparted trainings in SAP MM and WM for different levels of Business like Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Business Process Integrators (BPIs) and end users of C & F facilities.

Project 7 Duration: September, 2010 – February, 2013

Client Name

John Deere

Role

SAP MM / WM Consultant

SAP Environment

SAP ECC 6.0, MM, WM, PP, SD, FI, CO, APO, BW, CRM, SRM, HR, MES, SPP

SAP Global Production Support (AMS)

Key Responsibilities:

Day-to-Day Troubleshooting of critical support issues in the areas of FICO, PP & QM integrated with MM and WM

Worked on the issues based on different types of severity like Medium, High & Urgent with the SLA,

Developing training manuals for the new Business requirements to support the SAP end user community

Designing ABAP queries for quick functional reports

Worked on different report changes, smart form changes, process improvements

Managed the Master Data, vendor master and Info records for the growing operations and planning evaluation in the MRP cycle.

Customization of batch management by defining batch strategy for inventory management.

Worked on batch job failures and trouble shooting of IDocs for different EDI issues

Creation of test scripts for the developed requirements and for new Business criticality processes

Tracking and proposing the Break –fixes through Change Request Management

Support the portal issues in JDSN (Vendor master general data), WISE (Material master) issues with SAP

Supplier determination by means of Quota arrangement & Source list

Requirements Planning by means of MRP areas defined for different processes

Involved in resolving the integration issues with SAP FICO, SD, PP & QM modules

Worked in MM areas of Inventory Management, Purchasing, configuration and creation – Material Master, Info record, Vendors, Stock Transport orders, special stocks like Subcontracting Purchase Orders, Consignment orders, Purchase requisitions, Customers and Contracts.

Worked on India localization issues (CIN) to meet the legal requirements of excise regulations authorities

Worked on External services Management, Asset procurement and procure to pay scenarios.

Worked on Split valuation with Batch management (Batches managed at Plant level)

Problem solving for the new requirements of Business by means of Functional specifications, testing and moving the changes to production system with the user acceptance process.

Process adherence for SOX compliance in TCM (Transport Change Management)

Worked on changes to the Pricing procedure for additional business requirements.

PROJECT 6 Duration: November, 2009 – August, 2010

Client Name

ABMCPL & ABMCPL + Aditya Birla Group

Role

SAP MM Consultant

SAP Environment

SAP ECC 6.0, MM, SD, FI & CO

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation & Post Go-Live production support

Key Responsibilities:

Implement Facilities (design, develop, audit, test, go-live and production) utilizing ASAP methodology (Project preparation, Business Blue print, Realization, Go-Live and Post go-live production support)

Gathering Business requirements (AS-IS) and developing (TO-BE) using Configuration/ Functional /Technical Specifications

Design and Development trainings in SAP MM-IM to the core business users

Implement integration procedures between MM, SD & FICO

Analysis & troubleshooting of the tickets depending on the severity to meet the pre-defined SLA.

Implement CIN (India Localization taxes) functionality which deals with excise duties.

Using the Tax procedure – TAXINN (Condition based) the taxes have been captured.

MM: Master Data, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory & Logistics Invoice Verification, Release Procedure

Uploading of online transactional data, opening and closing balances of stocks and master data of Materials, Vendors, Purchasing Info records, Source list and customers.

Worked on Version Management for Purchase orders.

PROJECT 5 Duration: March, 2009 – October, 2009

Client Name

Sudhakar Pipes Ltd

Role

SAP MM Consultant

SAP Environment

SAP ECC 6.0, MM, SD, FI & CO

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation & Post Go-Live production support

Key Responsibilities:

Implement Facilities (design, develop, audit, test, go-live and production) utilizing ASAP methodology (Project preparation, Business Blue print, Realization, Go-Live and Post go-live production support)

Gathering Business requirements (AS-IS) and developing (TO-BE) using Configuration/ Functional /Technical Specifications

Involved in the Business Blue Print document sign off.

Design and Development trainings in SAP MM-IM to the core business users

Configuration and Implement integration procedures between MM, SD & FICO like Stock Transport Orders both Intra Company and Intercompany orders.

Implement CIN (India Localization taxes) functionality which deals with excise duties.

Involved in the cutover activities planning & Uploading of online transactional data, opening and closing balances of stocks and master data of Materials, Vendors, Purchasing Info records, Source list and customers.

MM: Master Data, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory & Logistics Invoice Verification, Release Procedure

SD: Master Data, Sales order types, Delivery types, Billing types, Pricing procedure.

Defining and Assignment of various organizational units such as Plants, Purchase Organizations, Storage Locations, etc.,

Customization of Release Procedure, Pricing procedure, Automatic account determination under Logistics Invoice Verification & Physical Inventory.

Training on CIN Customization.

Provided training to Core Users on MM & SD Module & Post go-live support

Unit testing and Preparation of User Manuals for the newly added requirements.

PROJECT 4 Duration: June, 2008 – February, 2009

Client Name

Pennar Industries Ltd

Role

SAP MM Consultant

SAP Environment

SAP ECC 6.0, MM, PP, SD, FI & CO

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation & Post Go-Live production support

Key Responsibilities:

Studying the As-Is process of the business and mapping the To-Be Process of the business to SAP in the areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management & Logistics Invoice Verification.

Defining and Assignment of various organizational units such as Plants, Purchase Organizations, Storage Locations, etc.,

Customization of Release Procedure, Pricing procedure, Automatic account determination under Logistics Invoice Verification & Physical Inventory.

Training on CIN Customization.

Provided training to Core Users on MM Module & Post go-live support

Unit testing and Preparation of User Manuals for the newly added requirements.

Helping in the Business Blue Print document preparation

Documentation of Customizing and End user manual.

PROJECT 3 Duration: August, 2007 – May, 2008

Client Name

Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited

Role

SAP MM Consultant

SAP Environment

SAP 4.6 C /ECC 6.0, MM, WM,PP, SD, FI, CO, HR

SAP 4.6 C & ECC 6.0 Global Production Support

Key Responsibilities:

Tracking and handling of tickets through SAP Solution manager

Preparing configuration and Functional specification documentation

Configuration through solution manager and all the approval process for moving the transports from Development system to QAS.

Involved in thorough testing of developments in QAS before moving changes to PRD

Day – To – Day support issues which involves the process issues & development/configuration issues in the areas of MM

Involved in the development of new Z-Reports and Modifications of existing Reports

Involved in the development of New Outputs and modification to existing outputs as and when required

Performing data loads through LSMW with Batch input recording method.

Creating SAP messages through SAP Support Portal for critical issues, evaluating OSS Notes, Implementing OSS Notes and testing after OSS Note implementation.

Interaction with Client core team for new Business requirements and training end users.

PROJECT 2 Duration: October, 2006 – July, 2007

Client Name

ITC Printing and Packing Division, Chennai, India.

Role

SAP MM Consultant

SAP Environment

SAP 4.6 C /ECC 6.0, MM,WM, PP, SD, FI, CO

SAP 4.6 C & ECC 6.0 Global Production Support

Key Responsibilities:

The Project is part of ITC’s Printing and Packaging “KOSH” initiative. The project began from scoping to Go-Live. I played key roles in designing the process, development, risk analysis and go-live cutover activities.

Extensively worked on Materials Management, Warehouse Management and Handling Unit Management modules.

Tested various integration issues with the PP, MM and FI and CO modules.

Integration maintenance between the modules of SD, QM, MM, PP, FI and CO.

Generated all the Possible Outputs and Reports.

Key User Training and prepared User manuals.

Prepared Documentation for the user manual. Go-Live and Post-Live support and helped the end users to understand the sales process integrated with Handling unit and RF.

PROJECT 1 Duration: January, 2006 – September, 2006

Client Name

Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited

Role

SAP MM Trainee Consultant

SAP Environment

SAP 4.6 C MM,WM, PP, SD, FI, CO, HR

SAP 4.6 C Global Production Support

Key Responsibilities:

Tracking and handling of tickets through SAP Solution manager

Preparing configuration and Functional specification documentation

Thorough knowledge in monitoring and processing IDOCs

Involved in thorough testing of developments in QAS before moving changes to PRD

Day – To – Day support issues which involves the process issues & development/configuration issues in the areas of MM

Involved in the development of new Z-Reports and Modifications of existing Reports

Involved in the Functional and Data Base Validations during up gradation

Involved in the development of New Outputs and modification to existing outputs as and when required

Performing data loads through LSMW with Batch input recording method.

Preparing the End user training documents and cascading the same to the business end users.

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