Project Manager Management

PANKAJ BHARGAVA

SAP IT MANAGER

203-***-****(Home)/203-***-****(Cell)

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PROFILE

Over 21 years of experience in management and development of business applications. 17+ years of ERP experience specifically with SAP projects. Worked as an IT manager and business consultant to provide solution to the various applications in the area of SAP Supply Chain Management (Procurement), SAP SNC, Logistics (WM), Quality (QM), Customer portal and Sales and Distribution. Proved ability to effectively plan, follow-through, coordinate and meet aggressive deadlines during entire project life cycle in a highly diverse and matrix environment. Demonstrated significant productivity gains by successfully streamlining existing business processes and provide cost effective solution.

SUMMARY

SAP Project Management ( 15+ years)

SAP CERTIFIED Material Management Functional Consultant (2001)

Solid ABAP skills (15+ years)

Supply Management Experience – Procure to Pay( 12+ years)

Manage distributed teams

UTC ACE Associate (Lean Six Sigma equivalent)

ITC Business Area Export Representative

EXPERIENCE

Sept 14 – UTC AEROSPACE SYSTEMS (PROJECT MANAGER- SAP/SNC)

Present Windsor Locks, CT

Managed supply management application projects as part of BPM organization within UTAS. Responsibilities include delivering and integrating business applications for one company projects. Worked as Project manager/solution architect for $8.1m SAP/SNC based supplier portal and integrating SAP GTS solution. Led requirements and blue printing sessions, created requirement/specification and test plan, involved in benchmarking and gap analysis, technical design and solution feasibility, validating backend SNC configuration. Designed interactive web based Supplier Source inspection (SSI/QM) solution for suppliers. Responsibility also included data migration, deduping and validation of SAP master data and supplier user registration. Key role deliverables:

Manage SAP based supply chain projects

Managing relationship with stake holders

Lead blueprinting, sign off events

Execute testing and training strategy

Plan Change Management Strategy

Execute support strategy

Feb 11 – PRATT & WHITNEY (PROJECT MANAGER – ECOMMERCE/PORTAL)

Aug 14 East Hartford, CT

Primary responsibilities include supporting business applications and manage projects. This position also required managing external customer interface and providing best in class service by providing them access to various customer applications, resolving customer issues, interactions and MFA. As a Project manager executed project planning that included requirements, benchmarking, customer visits/feedback, scope, custom graphical interface, technical design, data migration, testing and roll-out of new portal. Integrated SharePoint based customer portal with SAP and IBM web sphere commerce. Created support model, structure and outsourced support to low cost provider. New customer portal improved operating efficiency by 40%. This role also provided opportunity to manage eight direct reports. Other responsibilities:

Define Strategy, Roadmap & initiatives

Governance of ext. business applications

Cost center management (1.2 m)

Developed Help desk for L2 support

Manage technical document Store

Training and external communication

MAY 06 – SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (SAP TECHNO-FUNCTIONAL – MM)

JAN 11 Stratford, CT

Worked as IT project manager, supporting Supply Chain (Sourcing and Procurement) and Component manufacturing group. Responsible for SAP MM configuration changes, enhancements, design & development of new functionalities, data migration, gap analysis, negotiate software licensing and quality management. Successful projects include implementation of web based Electronic Case File management system that saved half a million in recurring cost, eSourcing for Supply Management and portal based Strategic Sourcing application bought 80% in process efficiency. Additional responsibility includes supporting export control issues with various business applications in conjunction with Sikorsky’s expansion to Europe and Asia.

eSourcing- Selected for UTC one company and received cash reward from VP/CIO

Case file management – Selected for UTC one company and received UTC reward

SAP go-live at Sikorsky and roll outs to various sites

AUG 05 – NESTLÉ (PMO SAP CONSULTANT)

Apr 06 Greenwich, CT

Worked as SAP Project manager (PMO) on Global Business Excellence (Globe) Project. This Nestlé global project include teams from Brazil, France, Canada and India to support and develop common SAP system to implement best practice. Responsible for project management, end-to-end indirect SAP procurement process design, fit gap analysis and process integration as part of global procure to pay solution. Significant achievement includes my PMO role in implementation 100 m project at Nestle waters to roll-out SAP standard solution across all SBUs. Also, worked as Procure to pay (P2P) lead. Configured organizational structure for procurement including contract management, release strategies, SRM-EBP configuration, catalog management and ESM solution. Other responsibilities includes:

Manage off shore configuration and development work effort in highly diversified environment

Manage direct reports/resources with P2P team

Prepare plans for go-live

Testing, cut over and role coordinator

Prepare training and knowledge transfer sessions for users

Analyze fits/gaps in existing solution and prepare functional specification

Run and organize Change Control Meeting (CCM) for approving GAPs

JAN 00 – PRATT & WHITNEY (SAP TECNO-FUNCTIONAL MM)

July 05 East Hartford, CT

Module lead for Supply Chain and Logistics team, responsible for delivering functional and development solutions. Responsibilities include configuration to provide functional solutions, analysis, design and implementation of interfaces, conversions and reports. Involved in 4.7 upgrade and working as coordinator helping procurement team with go live phases for delivering solutions and monitoring deadlines. Involved in scheduling of regression and integration testing and member of functional quality review team.

Involved in MM customization when new business units goes live with SAP. Activities include creation of new Plants, Storage Locations, Purchasing Organizations and Purchasing Groups. Configuration of different Document types, Number ranges, Messages and set up Release Procedures with classification for scheduling agreements and purchase orders. Configuration related to selection of standard fields and enhancing screens by adding new custom fields. Coordinate with finance to set up auto account (G/L) determination and invoices verification that includes variances and limits. Current role also include supporting GR, GI, Transfer Postings and Movement types.

Major accomplishments (Functional and Development)

Designed and developed front end interface for raw material and detail release which drives SAP goods issue of both detail components and raw material from an SAP warehouse managed storage location within the current structure of module center plants.

Designed Job shop labor process which to record hours billed by subcontractors and create service entry sheet and pass information to AP for payment and to an appropriate cost center for posting.

Designed and developed transactions for SAPConsole to replicate SAP functionality for warehousing.

Designed BAPIs for web based eOutsourcing tool to create project material procurement memo for outsource labor requirements.

Developed Bill of material Comparison, which compares by two engines with the effectivities and explodes them to the lowest level and report is published on web. Also designed Military Sales Order Explosion program to perform full BoM explosion across all plant to comply Military Contract Regulation.

Created customized user interface for MRO Configurator to help the inspector and the person responsible to determine the engine configuration and understand the part progression.

Reports: Material BoM and Production Order BoM Comparison report this involves multi-level BoM explosion and comparison, quotation comparison for government, Vendor accrual report and subcontracting report.

Designed and developed contract flow down process via user exists to pass contract information from sales order to requisitions and purchase orders.

JUN 97- IBM SERVER DIVISION (SAP CONSULTANT/DEVELOPER MM)

DEC 99 POUGHKEEPSIE, NY

Worked as a senior consultant, responsibilities includes Design, Development and configuration of tools and methods available for interfaces, reports, conversions, Data Warehousing, Workflow and SAPScripts. Conducted in-house seminars and developer training for the IBM development team members.

IDOC/ALE/EDI: Implemented out-bound interfaces for production order and material master using custom IDOC and ALE technology.

Workflow: Designed and implemented workflow for purchase order. When a line item is deleted or blocked, a workflow is sent to the responsible buyer for approval.

Data Warehousing: Involved in the design and development of an operational data store outside SAP for reporting. Attended BRIO Explorer level training.

Interplant PO Reconciliation: Designed & implemented system to receive the inbound interplant IDOCs into user table and later process them interactively based on MRP controller.

Reports: Developed various reports in the area of IM, SD, PP and FI.

SAPScripts: Modified standard PO print program to be printed on preprinted Stationary. Also developed custom RFQ, Scheduling Agreement and Contract print programs and layouts.

Nov 96- STANLEY WORKS (SAP CONSULTANT/DEVELOPER SD)

Apr 97 New Britain, CT

Worked as a member of sales and distribution team and involved in blue printing the interfaces for customer master that includes validating and converting data from legacy to SAP and related validation reports. Designed the reports for stock overview and stock requirement list, which can be down loaded to Excel. Also developed and implemented system to fulfill customer’s itemizing requirement.

Jul 95- IBM PC COMPANY (SAP SD DEVELOPER)

Oct 96 Research Triangle Park, NC

Lead a team of developers responsible for developing interface objects involving SAP objects. Designed and developed quota solution for their allocation of highly constraint items. Developments were based on User Exits, SAP scripts and analysis task for SD Customization. Also involved in development of reports in SD and MM area.

Dec 94- REICHHOLD CHEMICALS (SAP SD DEVELOPER)

Jul 95 Research Triangle Park, NC

Worked as a lead consultant in the area of Sales and distribution and Plant Maintenance. Extensively worked to support and develop methods for data transfer from NON-SAP to SAP. Worked as a lead consultant in the area of SD, MM, PM. Extensively worked on dialog programming, interactive reporting, data transfer from NON-SAP to SAP and reports. This company is one of the leading manufacturers of polyester resins, adhesives, latex emulsions, and coating resins.

Mar 93- VIKRAM ISPAT (SAP MAINFRAME SYSTEM PROGRAMMER)

Nov 94 Bombay, India

The company is one of the major sponge iron plant in India, in their SAP R2 implementation worked in the SAP group for SAP administration, performing ABAP/4 programming and analysis task for data migration.

EDUCATION

Organizational Leadership (MS), Quinnipiac University, CT

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A), University of Hartford, CT

Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A), JNV University, INDIA

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP MM, SNC, ABAP, HPQC, QM, MS Project, SharePoint, MS office, Hyperion Brio Reporting, C#, SAP BW, SAP EBP, Solution Manager, EDI/IDOC, Workflow, MQ Series, ACTA, JAVA.

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