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Gaurav Pansari

Denton TX, *****

Cell# 316-***-****

Email- ********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Gaurav is having around 11 years of SAP experience delivering various solutions in the field of Retail, Aerospace & Defence, Manufacturing and Utility industries using SAP ECC, MDM, IS-Retail, IS-AD & iMRO Solutions. He is a trusted consultant in solution designing, process integration, project delivery and management. During the consulting tenure he has worked in various region across the globe including North America, Europe & Asia Pacific.

Gaurav has been part of 3 SAP implementation (end-to end) in iMRO / IS Retail/ ECC; 1 upgrade project; many roll outs projects and various support/maintenance projects for various clients. . He has undertaken program level solution designing, process integration, data maintenance and delivery leadership roles in various SAP Projects. He is comfortable working hands-on as well as leading the teams towards delivering an integrated solution.

SKILLS PROFILE

Process

Engineering & other co-related process areas covered in CMMi (level 3)

Technology

ERP (SAP), Web applications (ASP), MPP, JAVA, JSP, HTML XML

SAP

ABAP/ Proxy / HR/ WM/ MM/ MDM/ IS Retail/ FICO/ SD/ IS-AD iMRO/ PM/

SAP Hybris/Screen Persona/ IDE(Eclipse/web) etc.

People

•Excellent Communication and Client management skills.

•Overall leadership roles in a number of projects.

•Global roll-outs involving diverse groups of people from consulting teams.

•Management of Onsite/Offshore resources.

Languages

English, Hindi

SELECTED PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Client

AN Connect, Dallas TX, USA

Duration

Oct’14 – Dec’15

Domain

Retail

Background

ANconnect partners with Anderson Merchandisers to provide an end-to-end solution for managing your products’ success from the factory to the register. ANconnect’s heritage of delivering within SKU-intensive and high-turn categories has allowed us to establish efficiencies throughout the supply chain.

Responsibilities

Interaction with Business and consulting teams during the conceptualisation phase.

Involved in various designing and reviews (FS/TS/Code) during the detail design phase of the requirements.

Complying with various processes defined internally and at client side as well.

Work load assignation between team members.

Deliverables

I have been responsible for the work comes as part of this new SAP IS-Retail implementation

which includes the integration of SAP SD/MM/WM/FI & integration with third party tools

like WMS/Lawson/AS 400 etc. Some of my deliverables are as mentioned below.

-Various LSMW projects/BDCs/other conversion programs were designed/tested to upload the SAP master data in the system such as

Master Data (e.g. Article/Customer/Vendor/Site/Partner profile/Class & Characteristics etc.)/ Condition Records (e.g. PIR/Sales Prices/Vendor Price/Output conditions etc.)/ Initial Inventory Load/ Conversion programs(e.g. to load SO/PO/Credit Memos etc.)

Extensible uses of MASS transaction for data load/maintenance work.

-Various data cleansing (master/transactional) tasks were performed to make system as per business scenarios.

-Various IDOC (such as ARTMAS/REMADV/INVOIC01/ORDER05/CREMAS with change pointers etc.) and proxy message (in XML) (e.g.- Inventory load/Article Master/Customer/Vendor etc.) were used(enhanced / custom creation).

These objects were processed on regular basis to maintain clean data across the system (SAP & legacy).

-Various interface programs were developed/delivered such as Credit Memo for scrapped goods/ EDI810 Inbound Vendor Invoice verification/ Credit Memo for return PO/ Return PO from WMS/ AR Invoice from SAP to claims/Changes consignment price to SAP price/ Inbound ASN/ Receipt of Work Orders/PO Confirmation on Initial Receipt/ PIX Goods movement in SAP/Reverse PO Outbound via EDI855 etc. as per business requirements.

-Various forms were developed such as ‘Cheque Form for BoA’/Invoice/PO(in SAP Script/ Adobe Forms) etc.

-Various enhancements (through BADI/user exits/enhancement framework) have been done in the system such as Additional fields on Article Master/ restriction on ATP check/ various restriction on PO & SO etc.

-Designed a complete new application on Web Dynpro for customer specific business process to handle various stages of Article Master processing.

-Have created various user training documents/references & deliver the training in workshops to enable users to complete their tasks as per system design.

All RICEFs were delivered based upon IS-Retail/F&R/MDM/WM/MM/FI/SD etc. modules.

Client

Dow Corning Corporation (Maintenance and Support), Midland MI, USA

Duration

Nov’13 – Sep’14

Domain

Manufacturing(Chemical Industry)

Background

Dow Corning is a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, Dow Corning offers more than 7,000 products and services via the company’s Dow Corning and XIAMETER brands. Dow Corning is equally owned by ‘The Dow Chemical Company’ and ‘Corning Incorporated’. More than half of Dow Corning’s annual sales are outside the United States. Dow Corning’s global operations adhere to the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care initiative, a stringent set of standards designed to advance the safe and secure management of chemical products and processes.

Responsibilities

Interaction with Business and Process owners during the conceptualisation phase.

Involved in various reviews (FS/TS/Code) during the detail design phase of the requirements.

Onsite-Offshore co-ordination.

Escalation/issue(both customer/team) handling

Complying with various processes defined internally and at client side as well.

Involved in core FI/AR & AP/SD related work.. Handled all the billing related issues while aligning with CSR.

Handling the SD Pricing related issues across the landscape.

Involved in GAP analysis and various documentation of various business process

Work load assignation between team members (onsite-offshore).

Deliverables

I have been working as the team lead, managing the onsite/ offshore teams for the ongoing support projects. As part of major deliverables I was responsible for all SAP process which are generating the various outputs from SAP to either vendors or to customers.

There have been various SLA level defined which needs to be meet (under the Application Maintenance service model) to support the business. Needs to complete the various break/fix (as per SLA) after co-ordinating with various business consulting team to resolve various tickets raised by end-users.

Client

Cessna Aircraft Company (iMRO Implementation), Wichita KS, USA

Duration

Jan’12 – Oct’13

Domain

Aerospace and Defence

Background

Cessna Aircraft Company is the leading designer and manufacturer of light and midsize business jets, utility turboprops and single engine aircraft, having sold and delivered more aircraft than anyone else in history – 190,000 and counting. Cessna is having its presence in more than 25 countries across the globe.

Responsibilities

Interaction with Business and Functional owners during the conceptualisation phase.

Involved in various reviews (FS/TS/Code) during the detail design phase of the requirements.

Onsite-Offshore co-ordination.

Work load assignation between team members (onsite-offshore).

Escalation/issue(both customer/team) handling

Complying with various process defined internally and at client side as well.

Knowledge transfer to client technical team with the integration aspect of overall design.

Deliverables

I have been responsible for the technical work for all the RICEF’s identified during the initiation phase of this project. As a part of tech lead I have been involved in feasibility analysis, managing the work load, planning the deliveries based upon various phases of the project and technical design/development of the objects.

Interaction with technical team of this product (iMRO) to resolve the issues based upon project requirement is another responsibility assigned to me. Primarily I have been involved in various objects as mentioned below.

-Involved in blueprinting phase of this project.. Have created various POC (proof of concepts) & provide support in initial design phase.

-Worked on the variant configuration of various articles as per the business needs.

-Various interfaces were designed to establish communication between SAP and Lawson (legacy system) using SAP Proxy.

-Various IDOC (such as MATMAS/ORDER05 etc.) and proxy message (Lawson price feed) were used (enhanced/custom creation).

These objects were processed on regular basis to maintain clean data across the system (SAP & legacy).

-Various enhancements were developed to cater the project requirement within the product along with standard SAP.

-Configured WBS elements, networks and various business scenarios in Project System to capture the total cost of various work orders getting created for different scenarios.

-Designed and developed reports to capture all the open WBS and their corresponding information such as WBS/Networks/Work Centre details/Cost/open period/customer details/WO details etc.

-Designed and developed reports to close all the open WBS based upon the information processed by Finance team.

-Developed Standard/Template WBS, Networks & Operative Projects for customer projects, proposals.

-Various enhancement related to FI/CO & HR has been delivered based upon the business requirement.

-Various conversion programs (such as Material/ Customer/Plant master & initial load (Work orders/notifications/Sales Orders) etc.) were also developed for initial and further data maintenance.

-Worked on data migration/cleansing activities during various phase of the project.

-Have created various user reference manuals for various process and deliver the trainings to various users to have the knowledge of their business process as per system design.

-Worked on various workflow objects based upon business requirement..

-Handled all JAVA related issue which were related to web integration with SAP. This is one of most critical area from business user point of view.

All RICEFs were developed based upon SD/PM/MM/FI/HR etc. modules.

Client

Linde-BOC Group (Maintenance/Support/Upgrade),

New Jersey, USA/ Munich, Germany & India

Duration

Jun’ 07 – Dec’11

Domain

Manufacturing (Gases)

Background

Linde Gases operate in over 30 countries. With product range of gases and associated equipment and services is huge. Its customers are diverse – ranging from steelmakers to hospitals, research scientists, publicans and people wanting helium balloons for a private party. I have been involved as the member of development, support, roll-outs and upgrade projects.

Responsibilities

Interaction with functional consultants and business users during the problem analysis and resolution process.

Involved in various peer reviews during the designing and development of the objects.

Complying with various process defined internally and at client end as well.

Involved in the transport catch-up activities and provide the resolution instantly in case of their failures.

Work load assignation between team members.

Onsite-Offshore co-ordination.

Escalation/issue(both customer/team) handling

Mentoring to all new team members.

Process monitoring and get them compliant within the project(Enhancement and Support teams).

Problem management, analysis and resolution.

Deliverables

I have worked on various objects in development, roll-outs and upgrade projects. Concise of them is below.

Project E-Channel: This was an interface project. Various interfaces were designed to establish communication between SAP and IBM Web sphere with the help of SAP Proxy (ABAP/PI).

Project Crossbow: This was a roll-out project where I have worked upon various DDIC, ALV reports (classical and interactive), Module Pools, BDC etc. to design various HR related business process. On completion of project I was also involved in providing the knowledge transfer to support team.

I have designed the BDC program for HR master data load/ various new custom program to enter the work hours by end users to log their plant timings etc.

Project Lift: This was another roll-out project where I have worked upon DDIC, reports, user exits etc.

Modified report for customer credit limit control, as per business requirement while entering customer credit limit thru FD32 screen, system should check user and user limit to giving credit to the customer.

Developed report for Asset accounting to display Depreciation keys for each fiscal year period in FICO Module.

Project SLING: This was another roll-out project in which I have co-ordinated with the client starting from the planning phase till sign-off of various objects. I have worked upon various DDIC, ALV reports, forms, user exits etc.

Standard IDOC(ORDER05) was enhanced to capture the initial business requirement..

Project Upgrade: I have worked in upgrade project of the client system from 4.6C to ECC 6. Post upgrade issue resolution was the primary responsibility so that region specific go lives could be possible on time. I have worked on many technical and functional applications (both standard and custom) of client and resolved various process related issues successfully.

Project Support: I have worked as the team lead for the support project for this client. As part of my responsibilities I have to manage an onsite/offshore team along with various SLA’s to be meet to support business process. I was also responsible for co-ordinating between client’s technical delivery team and various other business consulting team to support the project.

I have also been involved in the development and enhancement of various application related work separately where I have got the exposure in DDIC, ALV reports, user exits, Idoc extension, SAP Scripts, Dialog programming, BDCs, Performance tuning, Interfaces related objects.

Client

Dan River Inc.- Virginia, USA/ India

Duration

Mar’06 till Jun’07

Domain

Manufacturing(Textile)

Background

This is one of the leading name in market research, outsourcing, finance etc. They also occupied the US based manufacturing company named as Dan River Inc. Which is a leading manufacturer and marketer of textile products for the home fashions and apparel fabrics markets. The company designs, manufactures and markets a coordinated line of value-added home fashions products consisting of bedroom furnishings such as comforters, sheets, pillowcases, shams, bed skirts, decorative pillows, and draperies for the adult, juvenile, and institutional markets. I was the member of development, support and roll-out projects.

Responsibilities

Technical specification analysis by performing the gap analysis between the business requirement and technical document.

Development of new objects & enhancing the existing once.

Issue closure rose after unit/end user testing for the developed objects.

On-call support for critical production systems within business hours on rotational basis.

Problem management, analysis and resolution.

Creating the end user training documents and provides them training as and when required.

Deliverables

I have worked on various objects in development, roll-outs and upgrade projects. Concise of them is below.

Baker Hospitality: This was one of the critical roll-out project where I have worked upon various DDIC, classical and interactive reports/ALV, BDCs, user exits etc. On completion of project I was also involved in providing the knowledge transfer to end users by creating the relevant training documents.

Worked on various conversion programs to load the initial master data(such as customer/ material/sales order load etc.). Few other BDCs recordings were also developed to load the data in various custom transactions.

Developed a program to copy GL master data from source company to target company code.

Best Manufacturing: This was another roll-out project where I have developed various conversion programs, reports, DDIC objects.

I have also been involved in the development and enhancement of various application related work separately where I got the exposure in DDIC, ALV reports, user exits, BDCs, Performance tuning related objects.

Worked on various conversion programs to load the initial master data(such as customer/ material/sales order load etc.). Few other BDCs recordings were also developed to load the data in various custom transactions.

Company

S Solutions Pvt Ltd, India

Duration

Dec’04 till Mar’06

Domain

Manufacturing

Background

S Solutions Pvt Ltd is a business consulting company providing enterprise solutions and ERP implementation/support for past many years. It is professionally managed company run by SAP certified consultant.

Responsibilities

Part of my responsibility includes technical solution along with training to users.

Deliverables

I have worked on various objects in development, roll-outs and upgrade projects. Concise of them is below.

Development of various objects like DDIC, reports and enhancing the existing custom programs based upon requirements raised by end users.

Developed conversion programs to upload the data into the system and provide support in case of any failures.

Provide instant re-solution to issues faced by end users for their routine business activities on production system.

Maintenance of knowledge repository.

Various training related documentations to end user of several custom programs/applications etc.

QUALIFICATIONS

Level

Subject

College / University

Degree

BE(IT)

RJIT, Gwalior (in 2004)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Date

Company Name

Role

Dec’15 – till now

Connexions Data

SAP Consultant

Oct’14 – Nov’15

Qtech Consulting

SAP Consultant

Jun 07 – Sep’14

HCL Technologies Ltd

Lead Consultant

Mar’06 – Jun’07

Colwell & Salmon Communications Pvt Ltd

Associate Programmer

Dec’04-Mar’06

S Solutions Pvt. Ltd

SAP Consultant

TRAINING

Conducted

-iMRO Academy for Cessna Aircraft Company.

-Delivered various training sessions to different user/business groups in

Dow Corning and AN Connect Projects.

-Internal training sessions on ‘Implementation of PM Smart’ and usage

of MPP(MS Project).

Undertaken

-Digital Transformation Across the Extended Supply Chain – In a

Nutshell (Jan’16).

-Diploma in Digital Marketing (Jan’16).

ACHIEVEMENTS / AWARDS

MVP Award

Have received this award for my work in Cessna Project in US.

Livewire Award

Have received this award for my work in the Linde Project to lead the CMMi implementation within the project and successful implementation of PM Smart in the project which becomes the milestone for other projects within the HCL.

Certificate of Appreciation

Have received few certificate of appreciation from client(Linde Inc) for successful go-live on upgrade project etc.

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