Prabhakar V

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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Have more than seven years of experience working in the areas of SAP Materials Management (IM/WM) module, which include implementation, support and roll out projects in variegated Industrial environments.

SKILLS INVENTORY

Expertise in design, analysis, and configuration of SAP MM, IM, WM and Purchasing modules with good knowledge of cross-functional modules such as Financial and Controlling (FI/CO), Sales and Distribution (SD), Quality management (QM), Plant Maintenance (PM), and Production Planning (PP).

Expert in Gap-analysis-As Is/To be, Business Blue printing, Cut Over Plans, detailed configuration, training, documentation, testing, data uploading, GO-Live implementation, after go-live support.

Involved in techno-functional activities, which include preparation of functional specification, and guiding ABAP/4 team in generating reports using ABAP workbench.

Designed and configured SAP Materials Management (MM) with integration to Financial Accounting and Controlling (FICO), Sales/Distribution (SD) and Warehouse Management (WM) /Inventory Management (IM) and Transportation (LE-TRA).

Worked on projects involving ECC (PP/MM/WM), APO, BI, PI, Workflow and 3rd party integration.

Trained end-users in SAP – MM module and possess good written and documentation skills.

SAP R/3 EXPERTIZE

SAP R/3 Material Management/Warehouse Management Module: Analysis, Design, Customizing, Configuration, Implementation and Production Support.

Experienced in configuring MM-Procurement (Purchase order processing, various types of purchase orders, Approvals, Vendor evaluations, Outline agreements).

Inventory Management, MRP, various Movement Types, Sub-contracting, consignment, 3rd party processing, Stock transport orders, Account determination for goods movements and Invoice Verification IV.

Warehouse Interfacing, warehouse structure, basic stock management, warehouse movements, goods receipts, goods issue, stock transfers.

Logistics Execution: Stock Transfer, Posting Changes, Physical Inventory.

Experience with interfaces between SAP and external systems via iDocs.

Experience working with technical modules XI/PI, EP (Enterprise Portal), and workflow.

TOOLS/METHODS

SAP R/3 versions 4.7, ECC 6.0, APO, ABAP/4, MS-SQL Server 2000, MS Access 2000, Windows 2000, XP.

CERTIFICATION

SAP MM Certification

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology

(ECE), Jaypee University, Noida

CLIENTS

Nestle

Shell

Saudi Aramco

Tata Chemicals

BHEL

CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

SAP MM (P2P) Consultant

Nestle, Sustain Project, Glendale, CA September 2013 – Present

Nestlé is the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company. As the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company, Nestlé is the worldwide leader in product categories such as soluble coffee, infant nutrition, bottled water, condensed and evaporated milk, ice cream, as well as chocolate and malt drinks, and culinary. The Group is also a co-leader in pet care.

Understanding the Client's Business Process and handling the issues related to MM and WM Module.

Handling issues related to whole cycle of Procure to pay process right from the stage of purchase requisition until the vendor invoice.

Dealing with Change Requests and making the required customization changes.

Attending to the End-user queries and resolving the issues based on the priorities assigned.

Helping the market to understand the Nestle GLOBE process and procedures.

Part of the GLS (Global Landscape Simplification) project where systems are migrated from SAP R/3 to SAP HANA.

Contract, Purchase order and External Services management.

Release procedure for Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders using release strategy with classification and Updated Release Procedure for Purchase orders as per the new values.

Providing support on interface issues (SAP and external systems) involving Idocs.

Master Records Creation and maintenance of Purchase Info Records, Source List, Vendor Master, Pricing conditions.

Worked on master data management and replication of Material master and Vendor master to different boxes in the landscape.

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Tata Chemicals North America (TCNA), Rock Away, NJ January 2013 – August 2013

Formerly known as General Chemical Industrial Products, TCNA, became a part of Tata Chemicals in 2008. Tata Chemicals (TCL), a part of the global Tata group, is one of the world's leading chemicals companies, with a widespread portfolio of household products, industrial chemicals and agricultural inputs. TCL has operations in the US, UK, Kenya and India.

Involved in configuration of material management activities like new release procedures, dual messages for purchase orders, new purchase document types, new condition types, account determination for some of the transaction keys.

Configuration of Release procedure for Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders using release strategy with classification and Updated Release Procedure for Purchase orders as per the new values.

Configuration of screen layout for purchasing documents.

Configuration of inventory management process.

Realized post discount scenario and G/L account assignment for the claims receivables.

Worked on reservations and printing of material issue vouchers with reference to the reservations for goods issue.

Configured stock determination during goods issues.

Understanding the Client's Business Process and handling the issues related to MM and WM Module.

Dealing with Change Requests and making the required customization changes.

Attending to the End-user queries and resolving the issues based on the priorities assigned.

SAP MM-HPM Consultant

Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery (SASREF), Al Jubail January 2012 – December 2012

SASREF is one of the world’s largest and most technologically advanced refineries. SASREF is a full conversion refinery at maximum crude intake as it includes (HCU) Hydrocracker Unit, (VBU) Visbreaker Unit, and Thermal Gas-Oil Unit (TGU).

Understanding the Client's Business Process and handling the issues related to MM and HPM Module.

Dealing with Change Requests and making the required customization changes.

Attending to the End-user queries and resolving the issues based on the priorities assigned.

Configuration of MM Organizational structure as part of HPM (Hydrocarbon Product Management) implementation.

Involved in Master Data Setup such as Material Master, vendor Master and Pricing related master data.

Involved in functional process flow such as Nominations and tickets creation with reference to contracts.

Realizing procurement scenarios for different products based on the business requirement.

Involved in the month end activities with respect to IS Oil.

Developed inventory related reports such as monthly refinery mass balance for IS Oil.

Worked with formula pricing where price quotations will come from OTIS (Online Trading Information System).

Worked closely with other technical modules such as Workflow, XI and EP (Enterprise Portal).

Worked on various MM workflows, which involve complex business processes.

Provided support on MM issues involving XI interfaces for both upload and download scenarios.

Worked with SAP Solution manager and the corresponding change request management.

Worked on major custom developments such as vendor performance and Pre-Qualification Vendor.

SAP MM-IM Consultant

Tata Chemicals Ltd. Mumbai, India November 2010 – December 2011

Tata Chemicals Limited is a global company with interests in businesses that focus on LIFE: Living, Industry and Farm Essentials. Tata Chemicals is the world’s second largest producer of soda ash with manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. The company’s industry essentials product range provides key ingredients to some of the world’s largest manufacturers of glass, detergents and other industrial products.

Dealing with Change Requests and making the required customization changes.

Worked on new Enhancements for customized reports.

Attending to the End-user queries and resolving the issues based on the priorities assigned.

Coordination with technical team in case of mass uploads and getting it done as per user requirements.

Incorporating changes in release strategies in accordance with the changes in DOA.

Implemented service hiring process as part of the process improvement.

Involved in taking end users training and preparation of end user documents.

Testing the custom developed transactions and reports Rationalization of custom made reports. I.e. to study the existing custom made reports and suggest suitable standard reports, if available, else trying the possibilities of clubbing the reports.

Implementation of MRP (Reorder Point Planning) and automated PO processing from MRP run.

Extensively worked on texts for various purchasing documents.

Configuring pricing procedure in accordance with the new requirements like addition of new condition types (Discount and Freight etc.).

Worked on exits (BADI) related to RFQ, PO and Down Payment.

Provided Technical/Functional specifications for reports and guided ABAP developers.

Worked on new custom stock reports as well as purchase reports and incorporated changes in the existing Z reports.

Involved in Year-end Activities like number range maintenance (Material documents and Excise documents) and verification of period end closing etc.

SAP MM-WM Consultant

BHEL Corporation, Hyderabad, India March 2009 – October 2010

BHEL Hyderabad, one of the manufacturing divisions of BHEL Corporation. The product profile of BHEL, Hyderabad encompasses Steam Turbines up to 150MW, Gas Turbines up to 275MW, matching Generators, Pumps, Heat Exchangers, Centrifugal Compressors, Pulveriser, Oil Rigs, Gear Boxes for Gas based application, Switchgear.

BHEL, Hyderabad is equipped with state of art IT infrastructure and IT enabled systems with large Engineering computerization, High speed fiber optic network, High end enterprise UNIX servers, e-commerce, ERP/SAP for Gas Turbines, e-procurement, Web based performance evaluation feedback to vendors, e-performance evaluation etc.

Responsible for base line configuration & final configuration.

Configuration and creation of new material types.

Defining Material Master: (Number assignments, Descriptive & Control data, assigning Material types, Purchase data, and Purchase group).

Providing solutions to users in MM / WM and providing configuration changes whenever required in the following areas.

Customizing of WM elements including WM Master Data, Storage types, Storage Section, Storage bin, storage areas, strategies - put away and picking, Storage Unit management, parameters for control of TR/TO.

Master Records, Creation and maintenance of Purchase Info Records, Source List, Vendor Master, Pricing conditions.

Involved in the Master Data set up for Vendor Master, Material Master, Source List, Purchase Info records.

Involved in preparation of help documents for the customized programs.

Extensively worked in subcontracting process.

Customizing of parameters for all purchase documents like RFQ, Quotations, Purchase Requisitions and Purchase orders.

Preparation for Unit testing of SAP Functionalities.

Developed Test Cases and solved issues along with core team members at the time of UAT phase.

Unit testing, Integration testing of full cycle from PR to Payments for all business processes.

Preparation of Integration testing Plan / Result recording.

Integrity checking with other modules such as SD and FI/CO.

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