HARSHA VARDHAN

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Mobile: +1-226-***-****; Email: acuc5r@r.postjobfree.com

•A skilled, project oriented SAP consultant has 5 years of functional experience as an SAP MM functional consultant in the field of Materials Management and expertise in project analysis, Customization and implementations of SAP MM

•Involved in 3 full life cycle implantation projects as per ASAP methodologies on SAP ECC 6.0

•Hands on experience in Requirement Gathering and Analysis, Translating Business requirements to SAP process flows, Process optimization SAP solution design, Business Blue print (BBP), Business Process Procedure (BPP), Business process Master List (BPML), Gap analysis to customizations, Unit and integration Testing, GO-live and Post live support.

•Functional Specification Document (FSD) and testing RICEFW objects.

•Extensively worked on Material Management such as Master data, procurement process, Release strategies, Material and service contracts, Inter and Intra stock transfer orders, scheduling Agreements, MRP, and Valuation and Account determination and Special procurement process like Sub-contracting, Third party, Consignment.

•Experience in Inventory Management configuration includes, Goods receipt, Goods issue, Invoice verification, Goods movement, Storage locations, Field selections, Output Determination and Physical inventory.

•Purchasing configuration includes Purchase orders, Purchase requisition, Outline Agreements, Bill of material (BOM) and Request for Quotation’s, not limited with this, but also Vendor Master, Purchasing Document types, Number ranges, Release strategy and Purchasing Groups.

•Extensive knowledge on cross-functional applications of MM/WM/PM/SD/FI in Industrial scenarios.

•Well knowledge on Process mapping, workarounds and technical development specifications.

•Strong team player with leadership, interpersonal, presentation skills and communication skills. Excellent problem resolution skills with ability to work under pressure in highly visible role. Logical thinking, analytical mind and an open mindset.

Hitachi Solutions Ltd., Calgary, AB

SAP MM Functional Consultant Dec’14 – Mar’16

•Lead the team of SAP consultants of varies modules including 3 SAP MM/WM consultants.

•Co-ordinate and distributes work to the offshore support team and also providing proper guidance to them whenever needed.

•Determined Functional requirement definitions through analysis of current (AS IS) and targeted business process (TO BE) Materials Management and Warehouse Management modules, and its components including Inventory management, Purchasing, Physical Inventory, Logistics Invoice Verification, etc.

•Planned and Lead Workshop on specifications like Technical Design Development (TDD), Functional Specification Document (FSD) reports based on the end user requirements

•Worked on Master Data like Vendor Master (XK01), Material Master (MM01), Purchase Info Records (ME11), Source List (ME01), Output Condition Records, and Purchasing Condition Records.

•Worked on Account Determination, Price Determination, Schema groups.

•Configured Enterprise structure like company Plants, storage location

•Worked on Material Types, Material Groups, Number Ranges and Vendor Account Groups

•Configured the Release strategies for Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order.

•MRP: Configured new MRP Groups and New MRP profiles.

•Inventory Management: Stock transfers between storage locations, plants and company codes. Transfer postings for stock types. Goods receipt for purchase orders, orders, reservation and other goods receipt. Goods issue to Cost Centre, Return deliveries and Reservations.

•Integration of MM to other modules like SD, FI/CO and WM, EWM to suit business requirements.

•Warehouse Management: Warehouse structure, Put away and Removal strategies, storage types, storage Bins, Transfer order, Number ranges.

•IR & Account payables: Performed 3 way matches for invoice verification, tolerances for invoice verification, planned and unplanned delivery cot, holding of invoices and release of invoices. Enter GL Account postings, Credit memo and subsequent adjustments.

•Experience on configuration of EDI and creation on IDocs

•Pro-actively participated in all phases of Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) on Unit Test, Integration Test, Regression Test and UAT.

•Conducted successfully Pre-production performance testing

•Conducted the Requirement workshops with the clients to do the FIT-Gap analysis.

•Participated Cutover Preparation and Go live support for an end user.

•Handled Tickets with Security level 1 & level 2

•Solved trouble-shooting issue log using BMC remedy software and resolved issues.

•RICEFW–Customizations for Reports, Interfaces, Conversion, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow.

•Documentation and conducting Training for the core team, Key users and business process owners

FUJIFILM, Toronto, ON

SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant Aug’13 – Oct’14

•Organizing and leading workshops to gather and validate business requirements.

•Worked with technical team to design the interfaces which is going to use for communication between SAP and legacy system.

•Setting up Enterprise structure of Plants and storage Locations.

•Configuration and Customization of material master, creating new material types, valuation classes and account category references.

•Configured vendor master data. Defined different business partners, account groups, number ranges and terms of payment, incoterms, shipping instructions, text types and purchasing groups.

•Worked on external service management by maintaining Service master, Number ranges, Service entry sheet and Messages.

•Configured Release strategies for Purchasing Documents through out.

•Configuration and customization of Purchase requisitions, purchase order and purchase information records and MRP controllers.

•Involved in Configuration of Inventory Management like Goods receipt, Goods issue, return delivery and stock transfers and Reporting in inventory management.

•Automatic determination of GL accounts and mapping Valuation class to material types.

•Defined the various WM Org structure data such as Warehouse Number, Storage Type, Storage Sections and Picking Areas.

•Involved in Configuration of SAP PM module & the organization structures in Plant Maintenance like Maintenance planning Plants, Maintenance plants and functional locations.

•Configured & Defined storage/Functional location, equipment’s, BOM.

•Creating and updating of Master Data for SAP PM for Technical objects/Task lists/ Maintenance plan.

•Defined Master data in Plant maintenance & Customer service.

•Created Notifications, Activity types, Causes, Damages.

•Defined Warranty types, Categories and Number ranges for Warranties.

•Created various types of orders, like Planned Order, Service Order, Break Down Maintenance order, Schedule Maintenance order, Refurbishment order, Predictive Maintenance order etc.,

•Data Migration through LSMW.

•Analyze and Document all aspects of WM and MM to identify improvement opportunities, risk and malfunctions and challenges to maintain support and identify areas of optimization.

•Prepared Functional Specification Documents (FSD) for output determination.

•Responsible for configuring and integration of MM with WM, SD, PM and FICO

•Created the testing data for User acceptance testing and Integration testing and conduct the testing with end users.

•Documented the whole test results, defect status during the testing-FIT GAP reports.

•Timely resolution of the issues/Tickets in Purchasing and inventory management by adhering the clients commitments & change request policies.

•Taking proactive measures regarding critical issue to resolve them within a short time or to avoid the problem before they occur.

•Provided Post Go-live support- new change requests and Cutover planning report.

•Handled Trouble Tickets Resolution, Solved the tickets at Higher and lower level priority.

•Prepared User-training documents and also trained new end users.

•Responsibilities included Post implementation product support in MM module to the end user specific problems and depending on the new business process procedures.

Curtis Electronics Manufacturer, Canada

SAP MM Functional consultant Jun’12 – Jul’13

Followed ASAP Implementation methodology and designed the business process phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.

Configure Enterprise structure related to MM – Created storage locations and Purchasing Organizations.

Assigned purchasing organizations to company codes and plants.

Configured new material types as per requirements of client and created several valuation classed and account category references.

Customized on Document types, Number ranges for purchasing documents, Release Procedures for Purchase

Worked on External service master and Service entry sheet.

•Customized on Document types, Number ranges for purchasing documents, Release Procedures for Purchase

•Worked on External service master and Service entry sheet.

•Functioned on movement types, pricing procedure and invoice Verification and GR/IR.

•Monitoring tickets in support queue and driving them to resolution within BMC remedy

Bi-weekly meeting with the business for reviewing monthly forecast process.

Working closely with cross-functional teams on the project dealing with data transfer.

•Active participation during Integration testing phase in preparing test data, Maintaining Error log and resolving bugs to stabilize the seasonal procurement functionality.

•Carrying out GUI, Functional Testing, UAT, Upgrade testing.

•Participated for Go-live and Post implementation support.

Electrozad Supply Company Ltd., Canada

SAP MM Functional consultant May’11 – May’12

•Set up an Organizational structure related to MM- Plants, storage locations and Purchasing Organizations.

•Worked on integration of MM with WM and PM on sub-modules like warehouse numbers, storage types, Bins, Functional Locations and Equipment and Bill of Material (BOM)

•Plan and lead workshops on the business requirement gathering sessions.

•Worked with workflow team and monitored customer messages.

•Developed Functional specifications based on the business requirements and interaction with the subject matter experts, developers and user.

•Worked closely in an integrated environment with Retail & WM teams in configuring and testing various integration scenarios.

•Customized on Document types, Number ranges for purchasing documents, Release Procedures for Purchase

•Co-ordinate with team members on Suggestions, Clarifications and for Quality work

•Update the latest information across team members and inform the team members follow some of the standard guidelines.

•Prepared End–User Training Documentation and provided End User Training for clients

Suresens Inc., Canada

SAP MM Functional consultant Jun’10 – May’11

•Configured Master data settings for MM like Material Master, Vendor Master, Service Master, Info record and source list.

•Developed an interactive list for plant wise Purchase Requisitions.

•Customized different Purchasing documents such as PR, RFQ and PO’s. Preparation of contracts, scheduling agreements, quota arrangements, external service management, release procedures and pricing conditions.

•Created the end-user documents for the MM module and presented them.

•Co-ordinate with team members on Suggestions, Clarifications and for Quality work

•Update the latest information across team members and inform the team members follow some of the standard guidelines.

•ERP: SAP ECC 7.0

•Modules and sub Areas: Material Management/WM

•Programming Languages: Basic C, Java and Matlab.

•Applications Software: Advanced Ms word, Excel (Spreadsheet), Power Point

•Operating systems: Windows 98, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and Mac OS Yosemite

•Networking skills: CAN Bus technology, LAN, WAN, OSI model and knowledge on Cryptographic methods, EOI, Cloud computing

•Futuristic Applications and Software Skills: Blackberry Software Flashing, Internet of Things (IoT) and Enterprise Platform for Smartphone technology

•Data base: MS-Access, SQL, NetWeaver

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