SAP MM/WM Consultant with 8+ years of experience

NATARAJAN KATHIRESAN Cell: +1-818-***-****

Email:***********@*******.***

Summary:

SAP MM(Certified)/WM/SRM functional consultant with 8+ years of experience in Implementation, Up-gradation, Production Support and Enhancement projects.

Experienced in Blueprinting, Realization, Testing (unit testing, User Acceptance testing and Integration testing), end user training, Final preparation, Go-Live and project support.

Expertise in Materials Management Module –

Enterprise Structure: Mapping of Organizational Structure of Company, Customizing Purchasing Organization, Plant, and Storage Location.

Master Data: Configuring Material Master, Material type, Number Range Assignment, Vendor Master.

Purchasing and Logistics: Creating Quota Arrangement, Request for Quotation, Maintain Quotation, Purchase Requisition, Purchasing Info Record, Purchase Order, Outline Purchase Agreements -- Contracts & Scheduling Agreements, Source Determination, Vendor Consignment, Subcontracting, Third Party Processing, Release Procedures of Purchase Documents, Pricing Procedure and Account Determination.

Inventory Management: Configuring and customizing Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Transfer Postings, Stock Transfer Orders, Movements Types, Returns, Physical Inventory.

Logistics Invoice Verification: Invoice Posting, Document Parking, Blocking and Release Invoices, ERS Invoice, Consignment, Automatic Settlement.

Expertise in Configuration of Warehouse Management architecture - Warehouse structure in WM system, Basic stock management, Warehouse Movements, Put away and Picking Strategies, Storage Unit Management. Physical Inventory, Delivery processing in WM, Configuration of WM and IM movement types and linking IM movement’s types with WM movement types via reference movement types, Stock Transfers, Posting Changes, Physical Inventory for Warehouse Management.

Extensive experience in configuring / customizing SAP SRM module – Organization structure, User Management, Vendor Replication, Material Group Replication, shopping cart, Process Controlled Workflow, SRM MDM Catalog.

Integration experience with SD, IM, SRM, FI.

Skills:

ERP: SAP ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, SRM 5.0, SRM 7.0.

Methodology: ASAP Methodology.

Applications: MS Office, Visio, HP Quality Center, Service Now.

Professional Experience:

Senior ERP Consultant, Cognizant US Corp, Texas USA Jan 2013 – Present

Client: Health Net Inc., Woodland Hills, CA. May14 - Present

Role: SAP MM/WM/SRM Lead Consultant, Production Support.

Experience in Configuration of MM master data, Request for Quotation, Purchase Order, Goods Movement, WM Setup, Picking/Placement Strategy Configuration, SRM Organization Structure, User Management, Workflow.

Experience in configuration of Inventory Management including Plant parameters for Inventory Management, Good Receipts.

Provide on-site support in SRM Shopping cart to Purchase Requisition, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Invoice Verification, Warehouse Management and Supplier Relationship Management.

Expertise in Automatic Invoice settlements.

Experience in Service procurement issues, enhancements in service entry sheet (mass upload and release).

Experience in WM delivery. Goods movement and Stock Transfer.

Involved in the end user training and Knowledge Transfer sessions and Production Support.

Meet with business users to gather business requirements for additional system design/enhancements and preparation of business requirement analysis/user requirement specifications.

Co-ordination activity with business users for proper handshake of issues during user testing as well as during issue resolution.

Meet with business users to evaluate and understand system changes/issue list.

Documentation of all analysis, recommendations, configurations, enhancements, testing and training efforts.

Client: Health Net Inc., Woodland Hills, CA. Sep13 – Apr14

Role: SAP SRM/MM Lead Consultant, SRM 7.0 Upgrade and SRM MDM Implementation.

Worked as onsite functional consultant in SAP SRM 7.0 technical upgrade project and resolved various functional issues during & post upgrade.

Project also included SRM MDM Catalog implementation.

Implemented Process Controlled Workflow and migrating ITS developments to SRM 7.0 Webdynpro by coordinating onsite & offshore team.

Conducted key business users training on SAP SRM 7.0 prior to UAT phase of upgrade.

Expertise in HP Quality Center during system testing phase

Ensuring smooth go live & post go live activities,

Keeping track of each phase of the project deliverables,

Updating the project status to the business owners and management on weakly basis.

Client: Health Net Inc., Woodland Hills, CA. Jan13 – Aug13.

Role: SAP MM/WM Lead Consultant, Implementation.

Conducted discussions with core business team for gathering of requirements and business process for Blueprint workshop.

Intensively involved in discussion with the Business team for collecting required information and data for functional design document for the RICEF (Interfaces, Enhancement and Conversion) objects

Configured Material types, Number ranges (External numbering) for Material master, PR, PO and changed the field status of the material master records as per the user requirements.

Experience in GAP Analysis and helped client in selection and implementation of suitable solutions.

Building Interfaces between SAP and External systems – FLO and Vendor RRD.

Experience in New Organizational Structures to support the New Business Processes.

Experience in Warehouse Management configuration (Warehouse, Storage type, Storage bin, Search Strategies-Picking & Put away).

Experience in Auto Creation of Material Master, Purchase Order via interface with the FLO/PEGA System.

Experience in Auto Creation of Sales Order, PGI & Goods Receipts in SAP via the interface with the External Vendor Systems.

Experience in Design, development and testing of functional specs for RICEF objects

Involved in Preparation and documentation of the Test Scenarios and Test Cases.

Involved in Unit Testing, Functional Integration Testing, and Regression Testing Using HP Quality center.

End user training and documentation of user manuals, training material.

ERP Consultant, Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. Aug08 – Jan13

Client: Health Net Inc., Woodland Hills, CA. Apr12 - Jan13

Role: SAP MM/WM Consultant(Offshore), Up gradation to ECC 6.0 from ECC 5.0

Worked as offshore functional consultant in SAP ECC 6.0 technical upgrade project and resolved various functional issues during & post upgrade.

Resolved SRM integration issues related to the upgrade.

Experience integration of SAP WM module with MM, SD.

Interacted with other modules of the Project team to ensure smooth integration of MM and WM functionalities with other modules like SD, SRM.

Developed comprehensive Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios and carried out Unit testing and Integration Testing.

Testing has been done for the all the ECC 5.0 Business transaction and custom objects to ensure same business functionalities in ECC 6.0 Version and tested results are documented.

Client: Health Net Inc., Woodland Hills, CA. Aug08 – Mar12.

Role: SAP MM/WM/SRM Consultant, Production Support-Offshore.

Monitored day to day production issues by using various tickets monitoring tool (Remedy, Service Now)

Provided solutions to the production issues within SLA.

Participated in all new business enhancements initiatives and requirement gathering.

Prepared functional specifications for developments and worked with technical team to complete the developments.

Performed Unit testing and integration testing for all the developments and hand over to onsite lead for UAT process

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering (Automobile)

Master of Engineering (Production)

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