Career Summary

Over ** Years of experience in SAP as Solution Architect, Module Lead and Functional Consultant with Configuration, Testing, Migration & Training responsibilities.

* **** ******, * **obal Roll-outs & 3 Supports projects in Chemical, Engineering, Pharma, FMCG, Housing, Services & Trading

Core competency in Production Planning (PP). Extensive experience in Materials Management and Warehouse Management, Shipping & Transportation, Sales & Distribution (SD), Quality Management (QM) as well. Excellent integration experience with Financials Controlling (FICO)

Logistics processes for Global scale multi-plant, inter-company, intra-company, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash and Plan-to-Produce processes in Make-to-Stock, Make-to-order, Batch, Mass and Continuous industries.

Soft Skills: A self-motivated, result oriented hard-worker with Budget, Quality and Schedule in mind. Flexible and quick learner with excellent analytical, communication and negotiation skills.

Skills and Tools

Front End : Persona, GUIXT with Naurtech Browser & VB 6.0

Project Quality : SAP Solution Manager, HP Quality Centre (HPQC), Win/ Load Runner & WinShuttle

Near-Native Apps : Intelligroup’s Data Archiving, OpenText Modules

Methodology : SAP’s ASAP, ARIS Tools Set, Rational’s UML

Languages & DB : ABAP, HTML, ASP, Oracle, SQL Server & MS-Access

Interfaces : RFC, ALE, IDOC, SAP PI, MES & EDI

Project Management : MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, MS-Sharepoint & Lotus Sametime

Education, Training & Memberships

SAP Certification in MM and SAP Record of Achievement in S/4HANA Use Cases, Ariba & Business Networks

ABAP Training in SAP Academy, Philadelphia, PA & BrainBench Certification on Project Management.

Bachelor’s degree from India

Honorary member of Institute of Materials, London, UK and Society of Plastics Engineers, USA.

Professional Experiences

Canada General Tower, Cambridge, ON Aug’15 – Till Date

SAP Supply Chain Architect (PP/QM/MM/WM)

Conducted Blueprint workshops SCM processes

Designed and configured SCM processes

Production Supply processes for Cambridge, Canada and Changshu, China Manufacturing Plants

Designed PP processes for manufacturing and Re-Manufacturing.

Developed Custom Transaction for Production Order Confirmation.

SOP/ Long-term Planning and MRP Processes.

Stock transfers with processes for 3PL

Complex Stock Transfer processes for Contract Manufacturing and Sub-Contracting

Complex Intercompany Processes

Internal Warehouse processes such as Physical Inventory, Scrapping, Posting changes etc.

Designing RF transactions.

Completed three Integration Cycles and UAT with zero defects.

Developed cutover strategy and plan.

Assisted in developing Training Materials and Delivery

Completed 3 cycles of Integration and UAT. Completed the Conversion and Go-live Prep.

Trained the end users.

Successfully overseen the go-live and post go-live support.

London Hydro, London, Canada, $14m, ECC 6.0/ IS-U Apr’14 – Aug’15

SAP Supply Chain Architect (MM/QM/PM)

Independently leading the new project to design, configure, test and deliver the processes on

Quality Management (QM), Plant Maintenance (PM) and Device Management of IS-Utilities based process for Meter Testing and Certification of

oNew meters Sealed

oNew Meters unsealed

oUsed meters for Re-testing

oCertification for other Hydro companies as the ISO 9004 certified facility.

Custom development for interfacing Meter Test Console with SAP QM-IDI.

Custom development for Printing Inspection Certificate.

Completed Security and Authorization and design of conversion program.

For Client owned meter testing, currently working on establishing the new processes, governance, policies, standards for Customer, Material, Vendor and Price masters using MDM.

Implementation of Warehouse and Yard processes

Procurement and Vendor Evaluation Process

Inventory Dashboard for Tracking meters in its life cycle.

CGI, Regina, Canada Jun’13 – Mar’14

SAP Supply Chain Architect (MM/QM/PM)

Responsible for setting up CoE for SaskTel in SCM area.

Responsible for leading the SCM team of consultants to provide support to SaskTel

I did a major Business analysis study of SaskTel Business Process, reviewed IT landscape and presented the recommendations and Roadmap for their top executives.

After reviewing the current process and post go-live issues, currently in the process of completely re-architecting the overall solution leveraging more of Standard SAP process and preparing Business case with cost-benefit analysis.

Presales presentation and participate in bidding process with many clients

Illumiti Consulting Inc, Toronto, Canada Jun’12 – Jun’13

SAP Supply Chain (SCM) Solution Architect

Working with SAP Global Delivery in Developing and Implementing SAP’s Rapid Deployment Solution (RDS) for Heavy Equipment Industry for the first time encompassing features that are in IS-Aero Defense and IS-Auto such as below:

Material Supersession: As the Supersession module is part of IS-Auto and not severable, developing the custom solution to take care of Discontinued and Alternate parts in terms of ATP, MRP, Porting transactions history of a material to Superseded etc.

SO fulfillment using GATP like: As GATP is an APO feature, developing similar solution such as Enhanced Search, Nearby Plants in ECC.

Long Term Planning and S & OP processes for regular models and certain Service Parts

Regional Level MRP, MRP at Batch Level, MRP across plants, Dynamically determine whether a Plant is to be planned in a Regional level planning (i.e. MRP across Plants) or Local Level MRP, MRP areas etc.

Parts Issue, Receipt, Back flush CRM Service Order.

Serial Number based Equipment 2 Step GR with Freight capitalization

Integration the whole solution with CRM with several Enhancements

Vendor Consignment with Freight capitalization or expense depending on the Return or withdrawal.

Procurement through Stock Transport Process-Intra and Inter Company

Full and Lean Warehouse Managed Solution for Equipment, Parts and Service.

Sanofi Aventis, Toronto, Canada Mar’10 – May’12

SAP Supply Chain (SCM)/ PP-PI Lead Consultant

Sanofi Pasteur is a France based market leader in Vaccines manufacturing Pharma company.

Supply Chain Project Lead for the technical upgrade from 4.6c to ECC 6.0 in 2010

Supply Chain Project Lead for Functional upgrade within ECC 6.0 and North American Consolidation in 2011

Supply Chain Project Lead for Siemens MES Implementation interfacing with SAP in 2012

Completed Business Process Re-Engineering study with an objective to reduce cycle time for various processes, Material movements analysis, Scope for electronic documentation, Labor capability analysis, Business Value analysis, automation of some of the current processes etc. and also implement the following:

oMES, Electronic Quarantine and Barcoding using Handling Units & North American Consolidation

Prepared Questionnaires, conducted walk-throughs and interviews, drafted ARIS process-flows.

Developed road-map, Roll-out strategy encompassing SAP modules PP-PI, MM, QM, SD, WM & PM.

Designed Batch Specific Unit of Measurement with Split Valuation to manage vaccines batches with varying potency of each batch.

Led a project for Process automation with Siemens automation and developed processes using xMII interface.

Supported PP-PI/QM/SD/MM/WM processes.

Participated in monthly planning to review Long Term Planning, S & OP results and release production calendar.

Sandoz Pharma, Montreal, Canada Mar’09 – Mar’10

SAP TechOperations (SCM) Lead Consultant (PP/MM/WM/QM)

Global roll-out using Sandoz methodology for Pharma under ECC 6.0

Responsible for Manufacturing Execution (PP-PI), Warehousing (WM & PP-PI), Quality & Batch Management (QM/ PP-PI/WM) processes.

Worked with APO consultants for Supply Chain Planning (APO & PP-PI),

Conducted Blueprint workshops, Designed pharma specific process and configured. Also wrote all the Function Specs for development and interfaces.

Designed processes for creating unconstrained Forecast, Adjusted Forecast, Determination Replenishment level, Release Forecast to ECC & SNP, Creating Independent Requirement from DP, RCCP, MPS & MRP Run to create PR, PO/STO & Process Orders.

Worked with APO consultant for configuring DP components, which include, Key Figures, Characteristics, Planning Area, Planning Object Structures, Planning Books, Views, Macros, Alerts, Alert Profiles, Activities, Jobs and Selections etc.

Designed processes for Long Term Planning simulation and Run.

Customization for linking Sales Order and Process Order for the MTO process and Intercompany process.

Process Order for Filling, Blending, Mixing, Bulk Production, Packaging, Rework & Repackaging, R & D etc.

Designed and developed RF transactions for a) Put away from PO, b) Put away from Process order, c) Return from Production, d) Staging for Production, e) Shipping f) Loading g) Inventory count, h) GI2Cons i) Bin2Bin

Designed QM process for Produced, Purchased, Stock Transfer, Returns, Reprocessing & Repackaging, etc.

Batch Management configuration for Batch determination in Process Order, Sales Order and TO, Batch Release

Integrated WM with Quality Management (QM) for Sampling, Releasing from Quality, Posting changes and Storage location transfers.

Automated process for Intercompany and Intra-company processes.

Wrote Functional Specification for Master data load & Inventory Load and executed the data load.

Wrote the test scripts Operational Qualification (OQ) & Performance Qualification (PQ).

Prepared the training materials and currently delivering training.

I was trained in Pharma documentation processes and conventions, using Lotus notes DB as repository.

Weyerhaeuser, Seattle, WA Jul’07 – Feb’09

Senior SAP Consultant (PP Consultant)

Participate in all the activities within development and implementation.

Analyze the current system and business processes and create AS-IS documentation.

Create TO-BE blueprints documentation which include new processes, process re-engineering, and streamlining based on SAP standard business practices.

Based on TO-BE documentations, conduct a prototype and develop a working solutions specific to the requirements of the Business Process Owners.

Completed all functional configurations and background jobs set-up and document all the solutions made.

Developed a complex VC model using Object Dependency editor and also Sales BOM with Costing.

Conduct unit testing to test the effectiveness of the solutions made.

Prepare test scripts, test scenarios, test data, and conduct integration testing with the Business Process Owners to ensure proper configuration and compliance to the Business Blueprints.

Ensure security controls are configured in the new solution.

Develop ABAP program specifications with data dictionary to meet special requirements of the clients and coordinate with the ABAP Development Team for program development.

Ensure all testing are successful and completed according to the testing methodology.

Take lead in the clean-up and migration of master data and open transactional data from the legacy system to the new SAP solutions.

Prepare Users’ manual, Process manual, Training manual & training program, and conduct Users Acceptance Testing.

Prepare Integration Test Plan, Acceptance Test Plan, and Go-Live Implementation Plan.

Conduct service management support after the Go-Live which include but not limited to re-configurations, provide authorization access to new SAP user, conduct user training to new users, troubleshoot of any issues, and OSS updates.

Interfaced with 3rd party tool for Reman.

Honeywell Aerospace, Phoenix, AZ/ Greenville, SC Oct’06 – Jun’07

Lead Consultant (PP/MM)

Implementing the Global Template design to locations

Implemented Material Variant, Object dependencies, Variant Table, Functions, Variant Pricing, Order BOM for MTO, MTS & ETO scenarios.

Material master setup related to PP, Super Bill of Materials/ BOM & Super Routing/ routing

MRP, scheduling and Capacity Requirement Planning & capacity levelling

Production order execution.

Implemented KANBAN.

Implemented Repetitive (REM) in 4 plants & Discrete Manufacturing in 1 plant integration with MM.

Implemented MTS scenario for auto component mfg facility and MTO Die Mfg plants.

Data migration using LSMW for Material Master, Routing with Long text, BOM, etc..

Well versed with cut over strategies & After Go-Live support.

Migration of variant configuration from development system to production system using ALE.

Support & maintenance of variant configuration objects with ECM.

One of the important processes developed is staging Raw Materials for production orders with close integration of WM-PP-QM. Debated between Kanban based process and standard Staging process. Successfully designed and implemented the process using standard Production Supply Areas (PSAs) with Pick parts and Release order parts.

A challenge faced was to stage components to the Supply area based on Control cycle of Phantom and not based on control cycle of components.

Identified flaw in SAP design, worked with SAP OSS and got the code developed by them and implemented the same.

Used Mercury Quality Centre to manage testing cycles and defect tracking.

Toyota Tsusho America, Georgetown, KY Feb’05 – Oct’06

SAP Logistics Business Analyst Lead

Duties and Responsibilities as Project Leader, Business Systems Analyst, Test Team Leader & Test Analyst

Project Leader

Responsible in project planning of all the phases of systems development life-cycle,, cost-benefits-analysis,

time management, leading the project team, execution of the plan, Go-Live, to roll-out implementation

Conduct initial meeting with the IT Manager, Business Process Owners, and the Department Managers to define the scope of the project and to determine the extent of systems requirements within the organization.

Conceptualize the scope of the project and its system requirements, and prepare Project Management Plan. Project Management Plan includes the duration and timetable of the project, identify the activities within the scope, and identify responsible departments and persons to perform each activity.

Conduct presentation of Project Management Plan to IT Manager, Project Team, and concerned Business Process Owners including Department Heads.

Conduct investigation and evaluation of the current hardware and software available, network and communication tools available within the organization.

Prepare and document progress reports and minutes of the meeting for every meeting and discussion held, and submit to Corporate IT Manager.

Manage the activities of the team members such as Analyst/Programmers and Systems/Network Specialists.

Conduct roll-out implementation

Business Systems Analyst

Identify and document business requirements, conduct business and technical studies, design, develop and implement information systems business solutions, and provide advice on information systems strategy, policy, and management and service delivery.

Analyse and evaluate the existing processes of the departments and division and conduct process re-engineering with the concerned Business Process Owner to align with any revision or enhancement to the system.

Create documentations of procedure, processes, work instructions, and related business forms and reports.

Conduct reviews, evaluation, study, and selection of independent third party vendors to assess quality assurance practices, software products and information systems.

Test Team Lead and Test Analyst

Define testing strategies of overall testing requirements and producing a rigorous test project plan.

Perform tests to ensure that the system meets the defined quality requirements and passes client acceptance test.

Define and manage the effective execution of the test plan. Test plan that include component test, integration test, regression, systems test, pilot test, and users acceptance test.

Agree and establish an ongoing release mechanism for testing and implementing changes that might occur within the project.

Define and agree acceptance criteria for the system deliverables.

Provide guidance to test team members on developing user acceptance criteria.

Coordinate test planning and preparation activities, including working with end-users and developers to set test schedules.

Lead in the preparation of detailed test plans.

Assist and advice test team members during their preparation for the tests.

Ensure all pre-requisites are completed before performing tests.

Act as moderator during reviews and inspections for error detection.

Classify and record all problems identified during reviews, inspections, and tests.

Seek consensus on all items to be recorded as defects or problems.

Record and document tests.

Consolidate test results documentation and test reports and discuss with test team members.

Ensure the reviews, inspections, and tests are on schedules.

Follow-up on problem resolution.

Independently managed

oCarrying-out SAP Roll-out to other warehouse facilities.

oLevel 2 support for all Logistics Modules Viz. PP, SD, MM & WM.

oManaged Basis activities like Archiving, Performance monitoring & Improving, Fine tuning programs including coordinating with SAP RPO.

Coordinated with Global roll-out team representing the interests of Toyota Tsusho America

Managed 3rd Party Warehouse Solution (Psion RF application) and SQLServer and IDOCS processing.

Successfully rolled-out the processes to SD, MM & WM processes to Battle Creek, MI and San Antonio, TX and trained the users. Subsequently provided on-going support.

Implemented SAP MRP solution with Scheduling Agreement.

Re-designed and automated the shipping process for three business lines to reduce the load on the system, ease in processing and increased productivity

Trouble-shoot many production related issues

Successfully implemented the SAP Archiving project.

Worked with SAP OSS team for resolving various issues as well worked with SAP Consulting team for both onsite and off-shore development.

Forest Pharmaceuticals Inc, St. Louis, USA Jan’04 – Feb’05

Logistics Execution Functional Consultant

Implemented PP module and its related interfaces with other modules (SD, FI/CO, MM, and QM).

Implemented Demand Planning using planning strategy 40 (planning w/ final Assembly).

Configured deterministic MRP & Consumption based MRP.

Implemented Scheduling, Capacity Planning & levelling using planning table.

Implemented Long Term Planning

Implemented SOP: Flexible planning based on customized info structure.

Integration: Participated integration workshop to SD, CO, MM & FI. Sorted integration issues discussing with client & module expert consultant.

Documentation: Prepared Business Blue print, user training manual, customization document, test scripts.

Training: Trained super users and assisted them to handle support call and troubleshooting.

Process analysis and mapping, gap analysis, consulting, user training, customisation, process, integration, post go live support and documentation.

Well versed in LSMW for data migration & SAP queries for reporting.

Akzo Nobel Coatings, Inc., Pontiac, MI, USA Feb’03 – Dec’03

Lead WM Functional consultant

Configure Production planning Module

Configured Discrete Mfg process w/ Variant configuration

Configured MTO process with assembly order processing

Maintained all VC objects like dependencies, Super BOM, Super Routing.

Configured Material variant functionality.

Implemented MRP, CRP & Capacity Levelling.

Implemented Batch Management, Batch derivation & Batch determination strategy.

DSQ Software Ltd., Chennai, India. (SEI CMM Level 5 Company) Apr’98 – Feb’03

PP/ QM Upgrade/ Support Lead consultant

SUPPORT:

Analyzed the business requests from various countries including ‘how-to’ and information inquiries

Work order management, Call tracking and reporting

Root cause analysis to identify and eliminate recurring problems

Designing the project deliverables like specifications, test plans and scripts etc.,

Determining the effort for implementation of various modules duly considering the customization

Change Control / Request and configuration management

Developing test plans according to the defined CMM Level 5 Software testing procedures

Developing User Acceptance test plans for fulfilling the business needs.

Deliverable management and Verification-Sign-off from client

Upgrade: Business Analyst for Upgrade of Logistics from 3.1H to 4.6C

Conducted As-Is Business process study and identified the potential/ relevant new functions for the client using ARIS Toolset. After helping client to finalize the Delta functions, conducted technical evaluation and prepared a ASUs for Logistics Modules.

Accordingly identified, created/ modified the following:

Executable programs, Includes, Classes, Module pools, Function blocks etc.

Customer programs, Customer includes & function blocks

Customer exits, SAP scripts & Interfaces

DDIC objects Transparent tables, Pool tables & Cluster table

Updated the Security profile and Training Documents for Delta processes.

PP/QM Configuration:

Upgrade from 3.1H to 4.7

Responsible for SAP-PP & Integration with PS. Discrete Manufacturing with MTO.

Implementation of addition functionality like ECM, capacity planning & levelling.

Development of production order layout.

Live & post live support, upgrade & its related interfaces with other modules (MM WM, PS). It did include support, business process improvements for streamlining and resolving issues, consulting.

Development and Design of number of new Reports using ABAP and ABAP Query, training and all activities related to PP & MM modules required for upgrade.

Configured QM module related functionality like defining QM master data: setting in material master, catalogs, MICs, inspection plan, Inspection Methods & sampling procedures,

Result/defect recording for procured & manufactured items.

Configured quality notification & certificates.

Well versed with QM reporting.

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