Srinivas Achyut Dasari Ph no: 603-***-****

SAP SD Functional Consultant Email-ID: acys7w@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

Over Six years of functional experience in SAP Sales and Distribution module as a functional analyst which includes one Full Life cycle implementation.

Significant experience in SD customization, both technical and functional and knowledge of related integration experience on MM and PP.

Worked on several business processes for the whole OTC process (Order to Cash) including quotes and inquires etc.

Interaction with all levels, management to end-users, to define needs and objectives.

Able to swiftly and accurately define strategies to reduce workload and increase data accuracy and workflow efficiencies.

Experience in requirements gathering for EDI interfacing and knowledge of IDOC’S, EDI’S and their processing.

Experience in working with EDI message types 850, 856 and 810.

Proficiency in pricing applications including condition types, pricing procedures, access sequences, accruals, scale pricing, commissions, custom pricing tables, etc.

Assisted in developing pricing strategy, configuration and provided maintenance for complex make-to-order production environment.

Possesses solid analytical capabilities to evaluate issues or new business requirements.

Excellent presentation, written and interpersonal skills that include procedures and technical material, report/proposal preparation and oral presentation.

Aptitude in translating business processes and business requirements into system enhancements.

Effectiveness in analyzing processes for possible future system improvement and suggesting possible alternative solutions.

Experience with process and best practices within logistical areas and ability to leverage SAP functionality to support those best practices.

Test Management status reporting, preparation and execution using Solution Manager.

Effective communicator with excellent skills in making Business Presentation, Documentation, writing and developing business reports and technical specifications.

Strong communication skills and ability to work in cross-functional teams. Personal qualities include the ability to work with, lead and motivate various personalities to accomplish cross-functional project goals by being as a team player and fostering a team environment.

Software Skills:

ERP systems : SAP R/3 ECC 6.0.

SAP : SD, MM and PP.

SAP related Tools : SAP Solution Manager.

Operating Systems : MS DOS, Windows 98/XP/Vista/7.0, Mac OSX Mountain Lion.

Databases : My-SQL, Oracle, MS Access

MS Office : Word, Excel, Power point, Visio, Project

Professional Experience:

Client: Scotts – Miracle Gro, Marysville, OH Industry: Fertilizer and Seed

SAP Module: SAP SD Period: Mar 2014 – Till date.

Role: Support & Enhancements

Company: Scotts – Miracle Gro., is the world’s largest marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products.

Responsibilities:

Thoroughly understood the business process and business scenarios in their established Enterprise structure for OTC.

Supporting SD module and working on enhancements and integration projects.

Working on Master data Issues

Altered Item category configuration for EWM scenarios

Worked with developer to make changes for customer expected price

Altered item category configuration for non-billing relevant scenario

Created new incompletion procedures for item categories and also added new fields.

Worked with issues in reports

Created new LSMW recordings for updating customers, condition records and sales orders.

Worked in MASS transaction for updating orders and customers

Worked on text and partner determination issues.

Worked with developer and enhanced customer expected price concept for LUMF type BOM items.

Worked on Material Listing or Exclusion issues.

Worked on Upgrade project for analysis, testing and support.

Working currently on tax ware upgrade project.

Wrote functional specifications as per the business requirements for Technical team.

Working with off-shore developers for custom development and yearly projects.

Involved in Test Planning and Test Script (Scenario) preparation and reviewing the Functional Unit Test, End to End Integration Test Case and Regression Test.

Validating the Test Scripts and Requirement coverage with the Configuration Documents.

Managing off-shore development team for ongoing major and minor releases

Managed unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Involved in the creation of ‘Z’ functionalities, user exits and configurations with Technical consultants.

Identified training needs and conducted training sessions to core users by functional team on new solutions.

Client: Waters Corporation, Milford, MA Industry: Chemical Instruments

SAP Module: SAP SD Period: Sept 2013 – Feb 2014.

Company: Waters Corp., a publicly traded corporation holds worldwide leading positions in complementary analytical technologies - liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, rheometry and micro-calorimetry. Specifically, the company designs, manufactures, sells and services ultra performance liquid chromatography instruments.

Responsibilities:

Joined for production support as SD consultant and also working on development projects.

Thoroughly understood the business process and business scenarios in their established Enterprise structure for OTC.

Working on several yearly development projects and also handling day to day issues in production.

Worked on issues with several custom reports and made required enhancements.

Worked on issue for a Group condition scenario.

Worked with EDI team and analyzed to figure out the root cause for Credit memo issues.

Corrected issues for EDI output type determination and maintained new condition records.

Worked with developer on enhancing the function module for Port connections in SAP for EDI.

Handled Issues with Freight and its conditions.

Worked on issue for summing of the sub-items for variant materials in outputs.

Worked on Japanese tax changes for existing contracts in the system.

Prepared test cases for BAPI’s by manually creating them for developer to automate the process.

Wrote functional specifications as per the business requirements for Technical team.

Working with off-shore developers for custom development and yearly projects.

Involved in unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Involved in the creation of ‘Z’ functionalities, user exits and configurations with Technical consultants.

Identification of training needs and training to core users, prepared customization document and user manual.

Client: SAP America, Newton Square, PA Industry: Software

SAP Module: SAP SD Period: Oct 2012 – Aug 2013

Responsibilities:

Joined with SAP, as SAP SD pricing consultant and worked remotely and onsite for Versata’s Patent Litigation project.

Trained by SAP to work on R/3 and ECC systems for remediating Hierarchical Access sequences (HA) to sequential Accesses (SA) according to their Versions and enhancement packs.

Worked with several customers throughout the globe for remediating their systems from Hierarchical to Sequential access sequences.

Travelled to customer sites to discuss the process for converting the access sequences and also the functionality changes being made to the system.

Analyzed customer systems and developed and documented the procedure for remediating the HA accesses used by customer accordingly.

Conducted meetings and workshops with customer to discuss all the vulnerabilities as per the analysis of their systems after conversion.

Worked on complex scenarios and did conversions both manually and automatically with the help of Reports and OSS notes developed by SAP.

Worked on split access sequences scenarios with the reports developed by SAP.

Configured new condition types as well as assign newly converted accesses to their respective Condition types.

Worked with performance team for performance measurement before and after remediation of access sequences.

Used Pre-step optimization note to improve the performance of the system and also documented the recommendations from performance team for performance improvement.

Performed unit testing before and after the conversion.

Client: Sulzer Pumps, Brookshire, TX Industry: Pumps

SAP Module: SAP SD Period: April 2012 – September 2012.

Company: Sulzer Pumps., a Switzerland based company is one of the world's leading pump manufacturers, recognized for excellent product, quality and reliability. It has 22 manufacturing locations and has widest network of service centers to support customers around the clock in operation of pumping and rotating equipment.

Responsibilities:

Short term Production Support Project on SD.

Understanding the company's enterprise structure and entire OTC process.

Worked on efficiency projects and day to day issues in the company.

Assisted in creating new Pricing procedure for a new service plant.

Worked on commissions for service agents.

Setup several condition types, condition tables and access sequences for Accruals.

Customized Reason for rejections by Sales order types with help of a developer.

Worked on rounding issues in pricing for different condition types.

Gathered requirements for developer for custom templates and custom transactions.

Worked on the issues with outputs and made required changes.

Created new output types and maintained condition records for them.

Prepared functional specifications and also coordinated with ABAPer for customizing commissions in SD module.

Wrote functional specifications as per the business requirements for Technical team.

Involved in unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Extensive collaboration with Technical Consultants for developing Technical Specifications.

Prepared end user Self-Help documentation with detailed steps and screen shots for all the issues and enhancements that are successful.

Trained end-users for the new enhancements and custom transactions developed.

Resolved day to day issues for SD module and providing production support.

Client: Waters Corporation, Milford, MA Industry: Chemical Instruments

SAP Module: SAP SD Period: July 2011 – March 2012

Company: Waters Corp., a publicly traded corporation holds worldwide leading positions in complementary analytical technologies - liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, rheometry and micro-calorimetry. Specifically, the company designs, manufactures, sells and services ultra performance liquid chromatography instruments.

Responsibilities:

Joined for production support as SD junior consultant and handled issues in SD/MM/PP.

Thoroughly understood the business process and their business scenarios in their established Enterprise structure for OTC.

Worked on complex business scenarios for pricing and handled several issues with Pricing and also assisted in implementing new promotions.

Solved issues with copy control requirements to various sales documents and deliveries.

Handled issues with partner determination.

Handled issues with number ranges.

Handled issues with condition types and created new condition types, access sequences, condition tables

Worked on Condition Exclusions and also configured best price strategies for choosing the best condition type and best condition record.

Configured Route Determination, modes of transport, shipping points with delivery companies.

Handled issues with billing documents inter- company billing, proformas etc.

Handled issues with Global contracts which are involved with the customer hierarchies

Handled Issues with Freight and its conditions.

Implemented Free goods, Cross-selling and Dynamic product proposals and several other promotions

Developed the concept of coupon codes in SAP R/3 SD module with the help of a developer.

Created new conditions and access sequences for new materials and customers for Listings/Exclusions.

Worked on sales order blocks and delivery blocks for some scenarios as requested by business users.

Worked on Availability check and transfer of requirements from sales order in Make to Order scenario.

Made several changes to Credit/Risk management settings and also created new Risk categories.

Handled issues with Customer service contracts.

Gathered requirements and created specifications and logic for developer for a new complex Audit report.

Involved in the creation of ‘Z’ functionalities, user exits and configurations with Technical consultants.

Identification of training needs and training to core users, prepared customization document and user manual.

Unit and integration testing were performed.

Client: Orchid Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Chennai, India Industry: Pharmaceutical

SAP Module: SD (Trainee) September 2008 – Aug 2009

Company: Orchid Pharmaceuticals Ltd., is a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with established research, manufacturing and marketing capabilities across multi-therapeutic domains and successful in creating niche products and laying manufacturing platforms which further leads company to attractive growth and enviable heights. In which I worked as a trainee for PP module.

Responsibilities:

Full cycle implementation in SD module.

Thorough study of Process Requirement documents for Sales and distribution.

Involved in Configuration of Customer Master Data and Material master data.

Worked on pricing, assisted in configuring Price procedures, condition types, condition tables and access sequences

Worked on Logistics Execution functionalities like Delivery processing, Picking, Post Goods issue and Billing.

Preparation of documents on explaining how the required processes can be effectively handled in SAP (Either by Standard SAP transactions or by User exits, developments).

To manage the process, a thorough study of SD process in SAP was done.

Preparation of documents & training for end users.

Interacted with the users to thoroughly understand the requirements and expectations.

Post Go Live support for SD module in all the areas and related integrated modules MM and PP.

Tracked the defects and worked on solutions to issues.

Education:

Master of Science: Information Systems, Southern New Hampshire University, NH, USA.

Bachelors of Technology : Computer Science Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, INDIA.

References: Available Upon Request.

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