Abhishek Pandya

Email: acwbzw@r.postjobfree.com

***** ***** *** ****, *** Antonio

TX, USA -78258

Cell: +1(480) 498 - 0105

Summary of Experience & Qualifications

** ***** ** ******* ********** and 11 Years of experience as an Oracle JD Edwards Functional consultant

Excellent people management, team management skills

Major focus area is Oracle JD Edwards, Sales & Distribution module, PTP, OTC (Order Management, Procurement,

Advance pricing, Inventory Management, EDI)

Oracle certified specialist for JD Edwards implementation

Comprehensive experience in implementing Sales, Distribution module in Energy & Resource, Consumer &

Industrial Products industries. Managed different teams in different project environments integrating with other

teams

Experienced in different types of projects Implementation, Upgrade, Production Support, Validation projects and

Testing. Involved in all types of project implementation activities like Conducting workshops, requirement

gathering, customizations, testing, functional designing, training, support activities

Other experience includes setting up of new business, right from the initial planning to successful functioning of the

business

Possesses excellent communication, interpersonal and project execution skills

Worked with Capgemini consulting, Systime (KPIT) & Deloitte consulting

Visa H1B

Certifications

Oracle-JDE EnterpriseOne Distribution Implementation Specialist, Oracle Certified

Software / Products:

J D Edwards OneWorld Xe, and Enterprise one 8.9/8.10/8.11/8.12/9.0/9.1 - Expert in Distribution &

Logistics PTP, OTC, (Inventory Management, Sales Order Management, Purchase Order Management,

Advanced pricing, EDI)

Hardware / Operating Systems: Windows & DOS

General Tools: Microsoft Office Expert (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

Education:

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (2001) Management Information System (MIS)

Institute of Management Development & Research (IMDR), Pune Maharashtra India. (2 years full time)

Bachelor of Commerce, Accounts

Pune University (Maharashtra) India. (3 years full time)

EXPERIENCE:

Prodware Solutions, NJ (Feb 2015 Till Date)

ISS Facility Services, San Antonio, TX April 2015 Till

Date

Client is one of the worlds leading facility services company with operations in more than 50 countries. This 75

billion dollar company has more than 530,000 employees.

Title: JDE Distribution Functional Lead

Project Description: Implementation of EDI and process enhancement in procurement

Role involves understanding of client business, requirement gathering, designing the processes for outbound and

inbound EDI. EDI mapping of data fields, resolving issues related to updating tables for incoming EDI. Custom report

designing. Documentation, process enhancement for purchase orders. Helping client in item master related issues.

Customization of purchase order entry program.

Key Responsibilities:

Designing procurement process

Streamlining the items to restrict item master to a specific catalog items, automatic defaulting of account

numbers on the purchase order detail line based on different categories for which item is procured.

End to end implementation of EDI 850/855/861/810

Process enhancement for purchase orders

Custom report designs, item master clean up

Whataburger, San Antonio, TX Feb April

2015

Client is American regional fast food restaurant chain.

Title: JDE Distribution Functional Lead

Project Description: Implementation of EDI and support of procure to pay

Role involves understanding of client business, requirement gathering, designing the processes for outbound and

inbound EDI. Handling the clients customers, vendors and third party for successful mapping of data fields and flow

of different documents (Purchase order, ASN, Invoice etc.) Providing solution on JDE procurement module. Preparing

process flows and conducting design workshops. Creation of detail functional documents on process and requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Single point of contact for Customers, vendors and third party for EDI solution

Successful implementation of EDI 850, 855, 810

Providing support for procurement module

Creation of Detailed functional documents, EDI process documentation

Deloitte Consulting (Feb 2011 Dec 2014)

CR Bard, Tempe, AZ Oct 2014 Dec 2014

Client is manufacturer of Medical Equipment.

Title: JDE Distribution Functional Lead

Project Description: Implementation of JDE E1 9.1

Role involves understanding of client business, conducting meeting with business leads and confirming the business

process and requirements. Requirement gathering across all different divisions. Preparing process flows and

conducting design workshops for all the divisions. Creation of documents for clients signoff on process and

requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Managing team of BAs and technical consultants

Conducted fit/gap analysis based on consolidated requirements

Conducted design workshops, proof of concepts and design walkthrough workshops for upper management

and end users

Designing the solution for service and equipment related business requirements using JDE distribution

module

Creation of testing scripts and providing training to super users

Johnson & Johnson, West Chester, PA Sep 2013 Sep 2014

Client is one of the worlds leading producers of surgical products.

Title: JDE Distribution Functional lead

Project Description: Validation Project.

Role involves managing team of functional consultants, work assignment, project planning & execution. Validation of

the implemented processes as per the GXP guidelines, User requirement gathering, creation of system testing scripts

and UAT as per the client CSV SDLC documentation guidelines. Creation of UAT cases.

Key Responsibilities:

Project lead for successful delivery of project, leading team of BAs to get the quality work done on time

Planning and execution of different aspects of validation project (Team management, work assignment, UAT

plan) Successful completion of project on time

Requirement gathering, meetings with client SMEs

Creation of System testing and UAT scripts as per CSV guidelines

Validation of the implemented processes as per the GXP guidelines

Chevron, San Ramon, CA June 2013 Sep

2013

Client is one of the worlds leading producers of Oil & Gas.

Title: JDE Distribution Functional Lead

Project Description: Inventory Integrity Clean-up & implementation Initiative

Role involves understanding the issues faced by end users in different locations and resolving Inventory integrity

issues, bringing the inventory and finance table in sync, building of the Asof File right from starting of business almost

12 to 14 years, implementation of the 7 step custom inventory integrity process, building of training material and

training of end users, customization of integrity reports for 19 countries. Conducting meetings with end users in

different countries to understand their problems and bridging the gap between end user and support team seating in

corporate office. Trained users to follow the guild lines set by corporate office.

Key Responsibilities:

Leading team of Chevron managers and BAs

Designing the custom application for customer requirements

Creation of training documentation. End user training / finding solutions for old integrity issues

Implementation of 7 step inventory integrity process. Solving Inventory integrity issues as per clients

customization

Trained Chevron managers on JDE inventory module so that they helped on project work

Conducted design workshops, provided solution for inventory clean up and user training

Ralcorp, St. Louis, MO Dec 2011 May 2013

Client is one of the worlds leading producers of private-brand foods and food service products that are sold under

individual labels of various retailers, restaurants and other food service customers.

Title: JDE Distribution Functional Implementation Offshore team lead

Upgrade Project

Project Description: The project involves upgrade to JDE 9.1

Role: Role involves providing solutions to client, designing, testing, setups, and support to onsite team in the upgrade

project. Worked on order management, advance pricing and transportation, providing solutions and designs to cut

down on customizations and use JDE standard functionality. Creation and execution of testing plan, customization of

EDI which does lots of work by itself and hence cuts down on human intervention. Creation of custom data migration

tools. Customization of order entry program. Creation of unit test scripts. Invoice modifications.

Advance pricing modifications to bring down number of adjustments.

Key Responsibilities:

Assisted with upgrade of Distribution applications from JDE 8.12 to 9.1

Design and configure new functionality for sales and pricing, advance pricing

Worked closely with onsite lead to develop proof of concept configurations and design workshops.

Developed a deep understanding of client processes and used the same while helping the team with testing

Wrote functional specifications for custom programs and reports

Customization of EDI, Order entry program, invoice as per client requirements

Creation and execution of testing plan. Cutover planning / UAT

Creation of functional design documents for data conversion tools & EDI

Land OLakes Inc, Minneapolis, MN March 2011 Nov

2011

Client is one of the worlds leading agricultural supplies, as well as state-of-the-art production and business services.

Client is leading marketer of dairy-based food products for consumers, foodservice professionals and food

manufacturers.

Title: JDE Distribution Functional Implementation Team Member

Implementation Project

Project Description: The project involves upgrade to JDE 9.1

Role: Role involves providing solutions to client, testing, setups, and support to onsite team in the upgrade project.

Worked on testing and enhancement of customized programs, creation of test scripts and UAT cases.

Key Responsibilities:

Gathered IT requirements for JD Edwards E1 9.1 Sales and Distribution modules.

Implemented procurement, sales, and inventory modules in JD Edwards

Worked on redesigning credit management application that sits on top of standard JD Edwards. The

application helped the client in significantly reducing the credit that they were issuing to the customers

Assisted programmers in understanding other functional requirements and did integration testing to insure

that the environment would work correctly after go-live

Designing the custom application for customer requirements

Testing / documentation of objects. UAT planning and execution

Systime Computers (Now KPIT) (Jan 2007 Feb 2011)

Weatherford, Houston, TX Aug 2007 Feb 2011

Client is one of the worlds largest diversified upstream oilfield service companies. It has approximately 33,000

employees in over 100 countries, and 87 manufacturing facilities supporting 730 service bases. The company provides

one of the industrys broadest portfolios of services and products: drilling, evaluation, completion, production and

intervention.

Title: JDE Distribution Functional production support lead

Project Description: The project involves providing functional production support to the client user, providing

solutions to user remotely from offshore.

Key Responsibilities:

Managing team of functional consultants (BA) and monitor the progress, assignment of work among the team

members

Direct interaction with the user and providing solutions for the issues raised by user, guiding them for

business process flows.

Coordination with onsite process owners for reporting flaws in the newly implemented process in the system

and working towards the resolution of the issues.

Providing live production support via phone and email. Solving month end, year-end issues.

Replicating issues and guiding users to perform transactions correctly and as per the guidelines. Maintaining

SLA norms.

Getting SQL queries executed in system when required. Helping the team members to solve issues and

reporting their progress to client on weekly basis.

Issue analysis, issue simulation and troubleshooting.

Providing solutions to users and provide help to understand the latest developments in the business process

and navigation.

Live production support in sales order, procurement, inventory and service rental modules. Maintaining SLA

norms, status reporting.

Well Site International, India Jan 2007 Aug

2007

Client is engaged in the business of manufacturing and supplying various precision machined components and finished

products for the oil and gas industry and in wide range of general engineering products.

Title: Onsite Implementation Team Lead

Project Description: The project involves implementation of Enterprise 8.11 at client site.

Key Responsibilities:

Role involves understanding the business process of client and suggests changes with respect to enterprise

system.

Responsible for implementation of Sales as well as procurement module.

Requirement gathering

Configuration of system for sales and procurement modules, mapping of existing business process to the

enterprise system

Conduct workshop with client business team

Identify and configure the best possible solution for the requirements

Demonstrate the capabilities of the new system and perform tests for validation

End user training, post go live support

Capgemini Consulting (Mar 2005 Jan 2007)

JK Papers, India Sep 2006 Jan 2007

Client is a largest producer of branded papers in India. Client has one of the largest distribution networks in paper

industry.

Title: Onsite Functional Consultant Team Member

Project Description: The project involves implementation of JD Edwards 8.10

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for System and User Level support

Responsible for advance pricing setups and other system setups

Responsible for end user training and post go live support for sales order management.

Prepare functional specifications for development and modifications.

Preparing Test cases & Reporting project status

Implementation of sales order processing, regular coordination with functional and business owners for

understanding of business.

Collecting data and providing user level support. Created a team of new users and trained them on JDE and

got the backlog transactions entered in the JDE system from legacy system.

Worked on MIS reports testing.

Praxair, India July 2006 Sep 2006

Client is one of Indias largest industrial gas suppliers. It has a national presence and serves its clients through variety

of supply modes such as on-site gas through pipeline, liquid gas installation at client site and through packaged gas

cylinders

Title: On site Functional Consultant Team

Project Description: The project involves upgrade form world soft to one world.

Role: Was responsible for support to go live activities. Providing assistance to the team in menu creation and end user

training.

Key Responsibilities:

Provided support for go- live activities

Menu creation, end user training

Analysis of the key user requirements such as functionality, performance of system & reporting project status

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) Mar 2005 June

2006

Client is a major public sector downstream petroleum organization in India involved in refining, storing and marketing

petroleum products catering to the fuel needs of retail and industrial customers.

Title: On site Functional Consultant Team Member

Project Description: The project involves implementation of Oracle JD Edwards ERP Package - Distribution,

Purchase, HR modules in 400 Locations

Role: To understand the business process and resolving issues, related to sales order management arises during

implementation. Prepare functional specification documents for new developments. Testing planning and execution,

providing solutions for the issues during implementation. Testing of solution in different environment to check if fix is

working properly with the high level of customization done in the system. Directly working with head of sales

department from client side to resolve all the existing issues and new developments and changes.

Key Responsibilities:

Analysis of the requirement, replication of the issues and providing solution.

Understand the report requirement of client and analyze feasibility of using standard/customized reports to

match requirement

Develop Functional Specifications for new development and document changes in the existing ones

Resolution of implementation issues related to sales order management, transportation management

Analysis of the key users issues such as performance; malfunctioning of the application/UBE etc. Project

status reporting.

Business Owner Sep 2001 Jan

2005

Role: Owner of the business. Responsible for end to end solution for starting up coffee bar outlet (on the lines of

Starbucks & Barista) and managing all the areas for running this business. Started the very first coffee bar in the state

right from scratch to a fully functional business. From planning phase to go live, I have single handedly executed all

the business areas. Sight selection, interiors, equipment purchasing, vendor selection, staff recruitment.

Brand launch, brand management, advertisements. Team management, organization of different events to enhance

sales. Managed finances, operations and marketing.

Worked on business tie ups, vendor management, customer relationships.

Over all managed each and every thing end to end for building up the business and then for successful running of the

business.

Key Responsibilities:

Planning For opening a first ever coffee bar in the entire state

Conducted survey to know people awareness about coffee bar and their likeness

Designing Interiors, operations, advertisements

Recruitment and training of staff

Brand launch Press conference, hoardings across city, local media advertisements, brand management, team

management and event organization.

Managing all the areas like Finance, Marketing, and Operations.

Business tie ups, vendor management

Enhancing customer experience, educating them on coffee

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