SAP Solution Architect/ COE Lead

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SAIKAT BHATTACHARJEE

Professional Profile

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SAP ECC supply chain management experience in entire 14 years in leading and managing SAP implementation in large scale.

Presently working as a SAP COE Lead and Solution Architect in Johnson and Johnson managing and leading entire SAP implementation, Materials Management, Warehouse Management, Logistics Execution, Logistics, Production Planning and Sales- Distribution, Finance and Costing and master data management.

Has strong business knowledge in entire supply chain including Product Costing, IM-GL tie out

Recently did Brazil SAP implementation with Nota Fiscal 3.1 Version

Saikat has more than 14 years of SAP implementation experience in SAP ECC supply chain management in Automobile, Food & Beverages, Pharmaceutical and Petrochemical industry. He did one end to end SAP implementation for SAP Brazil in Cooper, one end to end SAP implementation for Coca Cola North America bottling plants, six end to end lifecycle SAP implementations for Johnson & Johnson including US region order to cash project (sales order management), Crossroads (planning/manufacturing/procurement/ finance) and global Depuy supply network and demand planning (Advance planning optimization). Saikat did two end to end life cycle implementation for Haldia Petrochemicals Limited in supply chain management.

Saikat was also worked in global Back to Basics project for Latam and Mexico roll out project of Johnson & Johnson supply chain management.

Saikat has extensive hands on experience in entire supply chain management process design, leading process design workshop and designing AS-IS / TO-BE process. Saikat led the entire fit-gap workshop in supply chain management and has vast experience in cross functional / integration knowledge. Saikat has in depth business and techno-functional expertise in planning, manufacturing, procurement, inventory-warehouse management, quality management, plant maintenance and sales order distribution. Additionally, Saikat has worked on master data design, build and deployment both from conversion and ongoing project deployment stand point.

As a senior resource Saikat has responsibility to lead the blue printing workshop decomposing the entire supply chain into RICEF object. Saikat has in depth development experience of integration of each functional area including financial area and generate numerous reports through BW.

SKILLS HIGHLIGHTS

Saikat did implementation of SAP Brazil for Cooper standard with Nota Fiscal 3.1 version and has extensive experience in Brazil specific localization including tax and nota fiscal. He has extensive experience in repetitive manufacturing for automotive including handling unit management, bill of materials, rate routings, back flush.

Successfully completed implementation projects and developed the business process starting from requirement gathering, configuring the system, enhancing and custom development based on the business need.

Saikat led the entire blue printing phase for the process design work shop and has extensive cross functional expertise for his in depth supply chain process knowledge.

Saikat has in depth experience in configuring and developing the material master, vendor master and customer master global template. He did configure product hierarchies, material status, sales status, screen sequence, field selection group, material type, material group, MRP type, MRP controller, EAN/UPC/GTIN, UOM configuration including ISO code.in the material master. In vendor and customer master he did also configure, account group, partner schema and partner function. Additionally, he did configure international address version, Inco terms, payment terms. He worked on pricing, partner determination, stock transport order, sub-contracting, consignment, release strategy of purchasing process including scheduling agreement and contract. He designed the entire purchasing process of global template building for J&J including source determination, output determination. He also implemented active ingredient management, batch master functionality.

Saikat has also worked on inventory management and warehouse management design and development. He did the configuration of warehouse management functionality including put away, stock removal, printing transfer order, goods receipt and goods issue slip. He has also developed the radio frequency operated hand device enhancement for physical inventory, cycle counting, and stock transfer. Saikat did the entire warehouse configuration starting from defining movement type, transfer order, physical inventory, cycle count, and storage type / storage section/storage bin search strategy. Saikat also configured the storage type, storage section, number range.

Saikat also worked on sales order management and shipping-logistics. He did work extensively on sales order pricing, consignment, sales deal, contract, partner determination, output determination, listing/exclusion configuration and development. He designed entire third party process and consignment business. He has extensively worked on material determination, customer material info record, and consignment contract also. Saikat has configured routes, route determination, free goods pricing – condition type, access sequence, condition table, pricing procedure. He did also work on availability check part of ATP calculation and GTIN mapping. Saikat has extensive knowledge in billing and FI integration from AR side.

Saikat has successfully designed the supply network planning and demand planning process flow including setting up core interfaces (CIF), building transport load build and transportation lane. He successfully completed the integration build for other non- SAP systems to bring the inventory extract, process order, purchase order, sales order, and transfer order, advanced shipping notification extract to SAP SNP system. His experience includes setting up of the necessary system design for heuristics run.

Saikat did the design for entire requirement planning including configuring the MRP type, MRP controller, special procurement type, MRP Lot Sizing procedure, defining rescheduling horizon, available stocks, planning horizon, planning rescheduling. He did the initial master data set up build in terms of bill of materials, master recipe, work center, resources, kanban control cycle, WM control cycle. Saikat did the entire process order configuration and development also including integration and defining inspection lot and usage decision for quality management functional area.

In addition he has extensively worked on SAP BW to process Sales Order history, one time forecast and Customer Order as part of implementation. He developed multiple reports as part of the data verification and data reconciliation in SAP BW; he performed batch job set ups sequencing the activity to maintain dependency of one activity with other. He also did the risk analysis for failure of any batch job and impact analysis of the successive jobs.

Extensive hands on experience in data maintenance additionally used LSMW and SAP certified Winshuttle tool for mass data maintenance and data integration.

Exposure in financial areas in terms of defining customer credit master and internal order apart from the FI integration. Well versed with SAP Ascendant methodology, SAP Solution Manager and HP quality center, ConsolCM6 process, and SDLC process, Software Development Methodologies (Waterfall and Agile.).

Saikat has in depth understanding of repetitive manufacturing process starting with bill of materials (BOM), rate routings, and production back flush.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client

Johnson and Johnson through TCS

Employer

V-Soft Consulting Group Inc

Duration

June 29th, 2015 to Till Day

Role

Center of Excellence Lead/ Solution Architect

Location

Bridgewater, NJ

Duration: June’2015 to Till day

Role: CoE Lead/ Solution Architect SAP in supply chain SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (Global SAP Implementation Project LER/CANADA/JAPAN)

Saikat is working in Johnson and Johnson as center of excellence lead in supply chain and solution architect in entire supply chain area. Saikat is involved in overall solution designing and solution architecture of the global deployments.

There are three projects are going on primarily in parallel on the same global template platform which Saikat is owning the solution design of business process and identifying the common process. He is driving and leading the entire project in terms of delivering the solution and meeting the each milestone of the project.

Saikat is involved in Product costing for manufacturing plants and distribution centers of Depuy Business. Saikat is leading the entire project in terms of system build, sequencing of transports, finding out interdependency across three deployments and sequencing of changes for landscape building.

Managing and leading the entire process areas Finance/ Costing/ Sales/Manufacturing/ Procurement/ Warehouse functionality towards mapping the business process, designing the SAP best practice for pharma industry. Saikat leads the entire project management towards accomplishing the all project deliverables including design, development, testing, defect management, cutover and final go-live/ hyper care support.

Client

Cooper Standard Automotive

Employer

Cooper Standard Automotive

Duration

February 10th 2014 to June, 30th 2015

Role

SAP Supply Chain Management Lead Analyst

Location

Auburn, Indiana

Duration: Feb’2014 to June, 2015

Role: SAP Lead Analyst in supply chain SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (SAP Brazil Wave A1 project)

Saikat is working as supply chain lead analyst in Cooper Standard Automotive. He did successful SAP implementation for Brazil plants fulfilling all legal requirement of Brazilian government SEFAZ. That includes Brazil tax and nota fiscal version 3.1 for Bahia (Camacari City), Minas Gerais (Varginha City), and Sao Paulo (Atibaia City) regions.

He did all the design, configuration of Brazil specific localization and nota fiscal. He has in depth knowledge in materials management, warehouse management, logistics execution, handling unit, production planning area and also integration with other functionalities including sales-distribution and finance.

Client

Coca Cola through Capgemini

Employer

Titan Technologies Inc.

Duration

October 23rd 2013 to February 7th, 2014

Role

SAP Supply Chain Management Lead Consultant

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

Duration: Oct 2013 to Feb 2014

Role: SAP Supply Chain Lead Consultant in supply chain SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (CONA project)

Saikat had worked in Coke for North America bottling plants SAP implementation. The first phase went with consolidated and united. Saikat did entire design and implementation of SAP solution delivery including integrating with other ERP systems and JDE system of consolidated.

Saikat was key resource in demand operation inventory planning team to focus on supply network planning and demand planning objects. He designed all the DP info cubes in terms of demand forecasting and BW reporting purposes.

Saikat had designed the core interfaces, ERP interfaces including middleware, mapping the JDE systems with ERP systems. He set up all the batch jobs in terms of scheduling different process and dependency analysis.

Client

Johnson & Johnson through IBM

Employer

IBM India Private Limited

Duration

August 28th, 2007 to October 18th, 2013

Role

SAP Supply Chain Management Lead Consultant

Location

Kolkata, India and Piscataway, NJ

Duration: June 2012 to October 2013

Role: Senior Configurator in supply chain SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (Back to Basics Project)

Saikat is working as a senior configurator for the global BtB Latin America and Mexico roll out project, doing material master configuration which includes configuring screen sequence, new material master view addition, material group, division, d chain spec status, plant specific material status, international article number, universal product code, global trade item number, unit of measure, ISO code, material type. He did also configure vendor master and customer master account group, schema, partner profile and number range.

Saikat did the major sales order configuration including sales order pricing, listing / exclusion, output determination and availability check.

Additionally, as lead consultant he is focussing on the gathering business requirement, configuration and writing functional development specification on procure to pay area of BtB project for Latin America and Mexico roll out. Involved in development of new objects and functional testing of end to end business scenario. Extensive knowledge on subcontracting, stock transfer, consignment, pricing and has configured the system for Mexico and Latam global roll out.

Saikat is also designed and configured the SAP sales functionality in this project including pricing procedure and development of interface and numerous complex reports.

Data Conversion Analyst– SAP R/3 ECC6.0, SAP NetWeaver 7.3, - (Back to Basics Advanced Planning Optimization Project)

The Back to Basic – Planning Optimization (APO) program is implementation of J&J global solution for Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP) across different J&J franchises. It is a multi-year phased rolled out of the solution.

Data conversion is a critical factor in ensuring data integrity and supporting a successful Btb-APO implementation. If the required data is not complete and converted correctly, the system will not function as intended, and will not enable the stakeholders to perform business activities. Presently working in Data Conversion area.

Primarily, responsible for developing the data conversion strategy involving the data owner of respective franchises. Additional responsibility in terms of using winshuttle tool for mass data maintenance and conversion from legacy system.

Doing the conversion of master data (material master, customer master, cross reference) and transactional data (sales order, customer order, inventory, production order, purchase order, ASN). Have also laid down the data verification and reconciliation strategy.

Process Integration Lead SAP R/3 ECC6.0, SAP NetWeaver 7.3, - (Back to Basics Advanced Planning Optimization Project)

Design the process flow for complete supply network involving different non SAP legacy systems, Master data management (Siperion), Business Warehouse, Demand Planning and Supply Planning systems. Developed critical interfaces and build process flow diagram of the entire supply planning.

BW Functional Consultant SAP R/3 ECC6.0, SAP NetWeaver 7.3, - (Back to Basics Advanced Planning Optimization Project)

As a SAP business warehouse functional consultant to develop the design and architecture of the overall system landscape and data flow management. BW is being used in this project as a data warehouse in terms of communication with SAP ECC, SAP SNP and SAP DP. Interfaces and conversion objects are built for the data flow from Master Data Management (Siperion) and also to data extract from different legacy system.

In addition to above have developed numerous reports in BW as a part of post conversion verification tool. These reports will be used in terms of reconciliation among all the systems.

Duration: Aug’09 till June’12

Role: IM/WM Consultant – SAP R/3 ECC5.0 - (Crossroads Project,)

In September 2006, the Medical Devices & Diagnostics (MD&D) sector made the strategic decision to move to a shared manufacturing system on a single instance of SAP. This shared platform supports MD&D’s Operations strategy as well as J&J’s enterprise IT strategy. It will enable greater leverage of people, processes and systems throughout MD&D.

The goal of the Crossroads Program is to create the most effective combination of business processes, technology, data and people to enable efficient global production and inventory management within the MD&D sector. Beginning with OCD and DePuy, Crossroads team is working to harmonize production, inventory management, quality and costing business processes and data for MD&D across seven franchises on a worldwide basis. Presently, Ortho clinical diagnostics, Depuy Mitek, Depuy Codman and Depuy Ortho went live on Crossroads system.

Being an IM/WM consultant have been assigned in this project as Team Lead, Cutover Lead and Business Analyst in onsite team to take care of Techno-functional activity in US region order to cash integration project.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Senior Configurator - Worked as a senior configurator responsible for 90% of SAP configuration in master data, purchasing, sales order management, inventory management, warehouse management and logistics execution area. He was also developed critical interface between Crossroads, USROTC system and between USROTC and MARC warehouse management system. Worked extensively in complete design and development of consignment business, subcontracting, third party sales, intra/ inter company stock transport order, purchase order release procedure and on pricing.

Developed many custom reports and deliver after detail functional testing.

Business Analyst- Being a landed resource and subject matter expert, executed client facing role which includes attending meetings with process owner, understanding the business requirement and providing the solution after analyzing the fit-gap. Involved in all design change discussion with business owners. Involved from the day-1 of Crossroads in discussion of design finalization. During Crossroads implementation Saikat worked in manufacturing side of it involving material requirement planning, implementing active ingredient management, batch master functionality, enhancing RF functionality, determining put away strategy and enhancing good receipt slip print out. In addition Saikat also did set up bill of material, work center, storage bin and WM control cycle, KANBAN control cycle as part of the master data build and conversion of it.

Cutover Lead - working as a Cutover lead in Crossroads project both in deployment 1 and deployment 2. Synchronization of inventory between WMS and OTC. Based on this DC finished goods inventory in Crossroads is uploaded and necessary adjustment is made at respective legacy system.

With Crossroad go-live consignment business of Depuy Codman franchise went live in US region order to cash platform. Therefore, inventory conversion is one of the major activities as part of the consignment business transition.

Responsible for conversion of all the master data which includes both material master and batch master.

Techno Functional Consultant- As a techno functional consultant responsible for configuration of new objects in Master Data, Purchasing, Sales Order Management, Logistics Execution and Warehouse Management area. He is also responsible for development of new objects which require enhancement and custom development.

Involved in technical development including programming in ABAP, debugging for root cause analysis. Co-ordinated with the offshore team for providing necessary project guidelines and knowledge transfer for development activity. Responsible for defect resolution by root cause analysis and recommending the options. Developed number of interfaces and reports. Additionally responsible for end to end testing including all supply chain systems.

Exposure to use HP Quality Center tool for testing activities which includes test script identification, modification of existing script, writing new script, execution and raising defects.

Team Lead: Work as project coordinator and involved in multi team discussion to meet the deliverables on time. Represented as the single point of contact for any deliverable.

Involved in coordination and leading end to end testing during all testing phases eg. Functional unit test, system test, business simulation test and user acceptance test.

Knowledge Transfer to offshore team and new joinees: Taken the initiative for knowledge transfer to offshore team and new joinees. The knowledge transfer session includes overall design of Crossroad systems, development of new object, interface, functionality of each interface and object and overview of overall changes in design and impact on existing functionality.

Duration: January’08 till Aug’09

Role: SD/ MM Consultant – SAP R/3 ECC5.0 - (J&J US Region OTC Project,)

Johnson & Johnson, through its operating companies, is the world's most comprehensive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, to the consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices and diagnostics markets. The fundamental objective of Johnson & Johnson is to provide scientifically sound, high quality products and services to help heal, cure disease and improve the quality of life. This is a goal that began with the Company's founding in 1886.

The US Region Order to Cash (OTC) program within Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices and Diagnostics division (MD&D) is a program aimed at developing a regional Order-to-Cash solution within the US Region in support of multiple franchise operating companies within MD&D. Today, MD&D maintains discrete OTC systems that are aging and having lack of required functionality to sustain business growth. US Region Order to Cash (OTC) program is one initiative to standardize and to harmonize its processes and configure these into one system which encompass redesign of business process reflecting individual operating companies and its external best practices. US Region Order to Cash (OTC) program was planned for implementation of 12 franchises Operating Company in three phases – Deployment 1, 2 & 3. Currently the project is in production support and following franchises went LIVE on US region OTC SAP system.

D1 deployment: ASP, BWI, Depuy Spine and Depuy Mitek

D2 deployment: Ethicon, Endo, Cordis

D3 deployment: OCD, Depuy Codman

Responsibilities:

Senior Configurator- Worked on this project as a senior configurator in Sales and Distribution and Inventory Management area. He did the complete design of DC replenishment area and order fulfillment. Extensive work on logistics execution as well and build numerous EDI interfaces through web methods middleware. He worked on majority configuration object including pricing procedure, output determination, material determination, listing/ exclusion. He did design the entire consignment business as well.

Process design consultant- Extensive business knowledge in process flow design and was involved in designing end to end order to cash scenario. Involved starting from blue printing workshop and understood the complete AS-IS business. Then he started leading the fit-gap analysis workshop. Recommended the business solution in sales cycle and implement the same in each deployment.

Senior Developer - Worked in USROTC project from its first deployment and functional input was given for development of new object starting from functional specification release to transport movement. Worked extensively in interface, enhancement and custom report in inventory management, purchase order, consignment, material master, logistics execution and sales order area. Did root cause analysis of the issue and with his debugging skill he identifies the actual issue. Developed number of ABAP development for some of critical reports.

Ascendant Methodology was used in the project to finalize the scope of the project and through work break down structure he did complete end to end business process analysis. Brought down the project requirement into number of objects. Through Ascendant the project deliverables were tracked and was involved as a single point of contact for any new object development. Excellent programming concept worked and put ABAP skill to improve the performance of execution.

Test Lead- Worked as a test lead in the USROTC project and lead the team for identifying the test script, execution and defect logging though HPQC tool. Conversant with HPQC from testing perspective: Used HP quality center for various testing activities. Write test scripts, test script execution and raising the defects. Involved in defect resolution process starting from root cause analysis to fixing the defect.

Client

Haldia Petrochemicals Limited

Employer

Haldia Petrochemicals Limited

Duration

July 2nd, 2001 to August 27th, 2007

Role

Deputy Manager- Materials

Location

Calcutta, India

It is naphtha-based mega Petrochemical complex with a state of art Technology and infrastructure. It is jointly promoted by West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation, the Chatterjee Petrochem (Mauritius) Co ltd. and Tata group with an investment of $2 Billion.

Since June’2001 to Aug’07 in SAP Supply Chain Management implementation

Project: SAP Supply Chain Implementation

Saikat did the two life cycle end to end SAP implementation for Haldia Petrochemicals Limited. He worked as a lead solution consultant to demonstrate the existing AS-IS process and led the fit gap analysis workshop.

He did the entire supply chain roll out for plant maintenance, materials management, manufacturing, procurement, sales and inventory management. He did implement the entire country India version for Haldia Petrochemicals for excise duty and tax benefit. He did also implement the import and export functionality in SAP.

He did the entire solution architecture diagram and designed the process flow diagram. He did design the entire bill of materials of functional location, equipment and material. He did majority configuration and development in plant maintenance including notification, maintenance/ service order, completion confirmation. During cutover, Saikat led the entire site readiness in terms of coordinating with business for closure of process transactions and maintaining cutover sheet analyzing the dependency of each task. He developed numerous conversion object part of initial load.

In addition to that Saikat has extensive experience in domestic procurement, import, vendor management, contract management and vendor development. He has strong negotiation skill set for big turnkey projects. He has also worked on operation and maintenance of naphtha cracker and naphtha cracker associated units (Butadiene extraction unit, Benzene extraction unit, C4 hydrogenation unit, and pyrolysis gasoline hydrogenation unit) during commissioning and operation.

EDUCATION

B.E. (Power Plant Engg.), Jadavpur University, Calcutta, INDIA, 2001.

TECHNICAL TRAINING

SAP Production Planning from SAP, Lombard, IL, USA- Aug’2014

Undergone training on Supply Chain Management from Indian Institute of Materials Management – June’2007

Undergone training on Total Quality Management (TQM) – Jun’2004

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