SAP SD / LE, Certified in SAP SD with 9 years experience

Sumanth Vijayaraghavan

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Summary

Certified SAP SD consultant with strong track record in Project delivery, Client Interaction, Team Management and Business Development (domain) experience.

Exposure to best practices in IT, working with Fortune 500 clients and Tier 1 IT companies. Currently working with Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd. for last 9 years.

Demonstrated skill in SAP SD – Solutioning, conducting Requirement gathering workshops, Blueprinting, customizing, writing Functional Specification, developing complex objects, providing client support, and knowledge on ABAP debugging for fast trouble shooting.

Strong multinational and multicultural exposure, with 2 years onsite in Europe at client location.

Work Experience

Feb 2007 – Till Date

Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.

During stint with Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd. for last 9+ years, worked on multiple projects with clients who are leaders in their industry. Following are the projects I have worked in Capgemini:

Period: Jun 2016 – Till Date

Client: Cargill – an American privately held global corporation whose major businesses are Trading, purchasing and distribution of Agricultural commodities and producing food ingredients.

Roles: Offshore Commercial Stream Lead (SAPSD)

Highlights:

Rollout of template solution for Cargill Food Business in US

Project currently at Requirement gathering phase

My responsibilities include requirement gathering, solution design for localized requirements, build and support for UAT & Post-Go Live.

Period: Feb 2014 – May 2016

Client: MBRDI (Mercedes Benz Research & Development India Pvt. Ltd.) - the client is a Captive of Daimler AG (global leader in Automotive Industry).

Roles: This was a Staff Augmentation project and my key responsibilities included:

Key Responsibilities:

Management of Delivery

Client Interaction

Responsible for team size of 60 people

Work on new requirements – proposals

Managing supply side – working with multiple BUs

Period: Mar 2013 – Jan 2014

Client: TOTAL (global leader in Oil & Gas Industry).

Roles & Responsibilities: SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Order-to-Cash, responsible for Implementation of SAP Sales & Distribution module.

Highlights:

Rollout for 4 Nordic countries – Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Successfully delivered within deadline. Smooth go-live appreciated by client.

Handled Order-to-Cash (O2C) module independently.

Implemented multiple Interfaces – for Invoicing, Order Management, delivery, etc.

Activities included – conducted detail design workshops at client location in Denmark, gap analysis, solutioning, designing Business Blueprint, Customizing & development, testing, Data Migration, Cut-over and support (pre & post go-live).

Designed and implemented complex pricing scenarios.

Period: Jul 2010 – Feb 2013

Client: MARS (global leader in Confectionary, Pet food & other food products).

Roles & Responsibilities: SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Order-to-Cash, responsible for Implementation of SAP Sales & Distribution module in UK and Netherlands business units.

Highlights:

Worked at client site (UK & Netherlands) for 2 years

Multi-vendor and multi-country team environment

Worked with development team at offshore location (from different vendor)

Designed and developed complex interfaces and reports.

Reporting directly to client IT Management team

Delivered successfully for UK & Netherlands sites

Period: Aug 2009 – Jun 2010

Client: Cadburys (global leader in Confectionary & other food products).

Roles & Responsibilities: Team Lead for Order-to-Cash, responsible for Implementation of SAP Sales & Distribution module

Highlights:

Team Lead for SAP SD module – handling team of 4 people

Simultaneous roll-out for 7 countries – with challenging deadlines

End-to-End Responsible for: Blueprint preparation and sign-off, realization (customization & development), Data Migration and validation of data migration and sign-off, Interfaces, cut-over, support and knowledge transition.

Blueprint involved preparing impact analysis between Template and legacy

Validated Data Migration for all objects using excel formulas

Awarded with cash prize and certificate for excellence in delivery

Period: Feb 2007 – Aug 2009

Client: Schneider Electric (French multinational specializing in Energy Management & Automation)

Roles & Responsibilities: Team Lead for Order-to-Cash, responsible for Application Development & Maintenance for SAP SD module

Highlights:

Team Lead for SAP SD module – leading team of 5 people

Involved in Project Transition from Capgemini Front office (France) to Back-office (Mumbai)

Involved in putting in place processes and value added initiatives for industrialization and automation

Resolved Incidents which were not solved for long time at front office – as part of initiative to transition work to back-office

Developed complex requirements

Promoted within one year of joining Capgemini based on strong performance in the project

Dec 2005 – Feb 2007

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Period: Dec 2005 – Feb 2007

Client: Shell (A major Oil & Gas and one of the largest companies in the world)

Roles & Responsibilities: Team member, responsible for Application Development & Maintenance for SAP SD module to Shell affiliates in South East Asia and Australia

Highlights:

Awarded with individual certificate for excellence in performance

Team also awarded with certificate for excellent delivery

Apr 2004 – Dec 2005

Caritor India Pvt. Ltd. (later Keane India and now part of NTT Data)

Period: Aug 2005 – Dec 2005

Client: Honeywell (American multinational conglomerate company that produces a variety of commercial and consumer products, engineering services and aerospace systems)

Roles & Responsibilities: Transitioning a customized solution built by SAP for Honeywell for their Resource related billing requirement.

Period: Oct 2004 – Aug 2005

Client: Honeywell (American multinational conglomerate company that produces a variety of commercial and consumer products, engineering services and aerospace systems)

Roles & Responsibilities: SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Order-to-Cash, responsible for Implementation of Shipment Cost Solution in SAP for their Speciality Materials site in Sealze, Germany.

Highlights:

Independently worked on implementing Shipment cost functionality at client site in Germany

End-to-End responsibility: from requirement gathering, designing, customizing, developing enhancements (with ABAP team), testing, support, go-live and knowledge transition.

Solution involved automating Shipment, shipment cost functionality and settlement through ERS functionality.

Developed reports to enable client trace back their Shipment cost to order item

Project delivered successfully ahead of schedule meeting all the project requirements to client satisfaction.

Trained the client users on the new functionality

Transitioned the support to Caritor offshore team in India as well as trained the India team

Received commendations from client for excellent delivery

Period: Apr 2004 – Oct 2004

Client: Honeywell (American multinational conglomerate company that produces a variety of commercial and consumer products, engineering services and aerospace systems)

Roles & Responsibilities: Order-to-Cash team member, responsible for technical upgrade (4.0B to 4.7 version) for SAP SD module – preparing user training documents, unit testing, integration testing and support for UAT.

NON-IT Experience

Feb 2001 – Feb 2004

Dura-Line India Pvt. Ltd.

Dura-Line is an American multinational company specializing in manufacture of HDPE ducts used in installation of fibre optic cable. Also undertaking projects from major telecom companies (TATA, Bharti and BSNL) for installation of fibre optic cables along their network.

Roles & Responsibilities: I was based as resident Manager at Hyderabad, responsible for operations and business development for Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

Achievements:

Managed multiple projects in parallel across Andhra and Tamil Nadu for installation of fibre optic cables

Successfully brought down the recoveries and large payment over-dues from clients

Involved in introduction of new products in Southern Region

Apr 1999 – Feb 2001

Dishnet DSL Ltd.

Dishnet DSL Ltd. was the first ISP to offer DSL services in India.

Roles & Responsibilities: Sales Executive, responsible for Sales of DSL services for corporate and home users. The DSL service was considered premium owing to high cost. The job required extensive cold-calling and leveraging existing customers to create prospects and achieve sales targets.

Apr 1995 – Apr 1997

The India Cements Ltd.

Cement Manufacturing company, based in South India.

Roles & Responsibilities: Graduate Engineer Trainee, responsible for ensuring project execution for assigned structures in accordance with prescribed quality standards and in strict adherence to the design. Responsibilities included managing the vendor (L&T ECC), certifying the construction and certifying the completion status for release of payments.

Education:

Masters of Business Administration (Marketing) from Oxford College of Business Management, affiliated to Bangalore University: 1997 – 1999

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from Siddaganga Institute of Technology, affiliated to Bangalore University: 1990 – 1994

Certifications:

Certified in SAP Sales & Distribution

ITIL V3

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