Vijay, Anand

SAP Project Manager, CA

E-mail: aczjxg@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: 858-***-****

Summary of Qualification and Experience

Strategic IT leader with over eight years’ hands on ERP project management, eight years in SAP Supply chain consulting & support, and operational work experiences. Focus on delivering Projects & Programs performance and continuous process improvements using PMP, Agile Scrum Master(ASM), ITIL, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, and CMMI-maturity Level 5 skills. Multiyear years of holistic project management experience in leading complex projects across business domains, which includes: Sales & Distribution, CRM, Finance, BPC, Purchasing, Supplier Relationship, Advance Planning, Production Planning, Plant Maintenance, and Quality. Deep understanding of IT applications and service lifecycle requirements, strategy, design, transition, operation, and continuous improvement.

Interact with sponsor, stakeholders, development teams, quality, business analysts, product managers, support teams, cross-functional business teams and global process owners. Develop the overall project and program plans and update change requests, execute and control the project, conduct project progress meetings, balancing project constraints, schedules and ensure the smooth delivery of the business solution and all deliverables. Proficiency in project management processes, which includes: stakeholder management, develop project management plan, project scoping, validation, control, plan scheduling, cost management, budgeting, develop & manage project team roles and responsibilities, resolve conflicts, team trainings, communication management, risk plan, RFI, RFQ, RFP’s, SOW preparation. Close project activities across all project management process groups to formally complete the project, phase, update lessons learned, measure customer satisfaction, contractual obligations, and handover project deliverables to the operation team. As a customer facing manager, built trusted relationships with stakeholders in a global matrixed organization. Supported many management, consulting, transition, validation roles for SAP and integrated applications. Maintains regular client communication and satisfaction, ensuring opportunities and challenges are addressed in a timely manner. Extensive experience in project management delivering cross industries ERP projects on various SAP modules, which includes: Implementation-4, Support-7, Rollouts-7, Testing-3, and Upgrade-1. Skills in managing techno-functional global project team size of fifty . Various consulting and management experience that spans several industries including life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, airlines, banking, retail, entertainment, services, consumer goods, textile, paper products, high-tech, and apparels. Major ERP projects delivered using ASAP/SDLC methodologies: Crestron, Purdue Pharma, Nestle, SAP Labs, Intel, DirecTV, Coach, Singapore Airlines, Applied Materials, Rabobank, Jobanputra Group, PC Industry, and Samuel Hubbard Shoe Company, etc. Built and lead multicultural, cohesive and collaborative virtual teams from various LoB, functions and geographic (onshore, offshore, and nearshore) locations. Engages with the customer to ideate on new or innovative solutions and worked closely with the team to architect, and prototype solutions that solve customer most complex business problems. Strong management and consulting skills, and be able to mentor and coach to the team members in support of opportunity delivery cycles. Deeply engaged with customer strategic projects, actively participating in customer meetings and serving as an evangelist and leader for the team. Served in many innovations, workshops that aim in identify solutions that provide added value. Exceptional in customer service, relationship, communications, documentations, negotiations, and vendor management. Lead and managed services for ASM, ADM, and capital projects.

Designed and implemented “SAP Object Based Delivery Model” which improves projects efficiency by 17% and automates processes, policies, and change management by accelerating ROI and lowers TCO. Demonstrated SAP practice capabilities and business growth in the form of innovations and value addition. Industry certificates and awards: Certified Bullet Proof Manager from Crestcom, Java certified, Certificate of achievements: PMP, CAPM, Agile Scrum Master(ASM), ITIL, Six Sigma Green Belt, and Quality Champion in CMMI-maturity level 5. PMI member. Above and Beyond performance awards for “Inspirational & Outstanding Contribution Beyond the call of Duty” at Cognizant. Vijay is a US citizen, he holds a bachelor’s degree in “Computer Science and Engineering” from Karnataka University, India.

Vijay, Anand

SAP Project Manager, CA

Computer knowledge and education: Windows, Unix, and Citrix. RDBMS: Oracle, MSSQL, and MS Access. SAP applications worked on: SAP supply chain modules, major in SAP SD, AR, and Integration of SD-MM-FI. Knowledge of Other SAP areas: CRM, Purchasing, Inventory, WMS, SRM, CRM, PP, APO, BO, S/4 HANA, ABAP, BAPI, Basis, Security, IDOC, ALE, APIs, adapters, BDC, Batch jobs, Fiori, and Lumira, etc. Knowledge of Other SAP integrated applications: EDI, E-Commerce, Magento, AWS, Cloud, On-premise environment, SaaS, VMware, Salesforce, BI-360, Plum River, and Interfaces. Ticket Management systems used: Peregrine, Service Now, Service Desk, Global Event Management, and Magic, etc. Quality Management systems used: Six Sigma, CMMI, C2.0 proprietary Tool, and internal Audit Tool. Trainings attended: Total Quality Management, Delivery Management, Risk Management, and many more. Compliance knowledge: SOX, FDA, GMP, and cGMP. Professional Experience

Project Management & Consulting- Independent (Mar2014 - Current) Positions: IT & ERP Project Management

Lead IT and ERP Project Management, Consulting, IT Governance, and Integrated Applications. Projects:

Samuel Hubbard Shoe Company (Retail)- Support Project – Project Management And Supply chain consulting role- worked with stakeholders and business leaders to oversee IT, ERP and integrated applications (SAP B1, eCommerce, Open source, B2C, B2B, BI360, EDI). Other responsibilities includes: existing business process improvement, vendor selection, transition, AWS-EC2 cloud migration.

Crestron (High-Tech)- Presales and consulting role- Rollout project for Europe, Russia, Dubai and Africa – Consulting Project Manager, Lead workshops, requirement gathering, business blue print, fit gap analysis, and solutions recommendations.

Applied Materials (Manufacturing)- Presales role- Supply chain consulting/pre-sales for their GATP order fulfilment challenges

OMNIX International (Transportation)- (Support)RFP preparation and presentation for their HCM requirement.

Pharmaceutical- Support project for Europe. OTC consulting support for global template rollout. Cognizant Technologies and Solutions, USA (Apr2005- Feb2014) Positions: Sr. Manager-Projects (Projects Delivery & Operations), Consulting Manager, Principal Consultant, OTC Competency Lead NA, and Sr. Consultant.

Orchestrates the execution of ERP project management, customer solutions. Lead and managed multiple concurrent projects, transition, program, client portfolio, and account management activities. Fluently managed ITIL core processes: incidents, problems, requests, projects with critical, high, medium, and low priorities. Technical Landscape worked on: SAP 3.0B, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7E, ECC 6.0, CRM, APO, BI, EP, Modules: SD-MM-FI, CO, XI/PI, PP, PM, QM, Basis, Security, ABAP, Interfaces, and Databased: MS-SQL, DB-Oracle, OS-Unix, OS-HP, OS-Sun Solaris, etc. Projects:

DirecTV (Entertainment/Service), USA (Jul2013 – Feb2014), Support Project- Played dual role of pre-sales and project management. Lead Agile project management and account as a cluster lead for techno functional towers, which includes: supply chain, CRM, BPC, HCM, Basis, ABAP. Managed hostile transition and releases.

Purdue Pharma (Life Sciences), USA (May2008 – Oct2013), (Support, Testing, Upgrade & Rollout Project)- Lead governance of IT & SAP CoE portfolio. Managed SAP techno-functional towers, Cloud transition, HR, ITIL (Service- Now), BPC, Oracle, Security and SharePoint applications. Major ERP projects delivered: Material Control project, Hubwoo E-Invoicing, SAP ECC upgrade, Gentran upgrade, Chase Pay source, ProCal- SAP Interface, Vision Tracker Reporting, Interface with CARS MED and CARS IS, and Amex P- card, SRM integration with Huboo for direct material purchase, eCatt automation(Testing), ECC+SRM+BI- Upgrade, and rollout to Australia. SAP HR implementation project: Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Payroll, Compensation Management, Benefits, ESS/MSS, Learning Solution. Demonstrated Practice capabilities and business growth in the form of innovations and value addition: Adobe Forms, eCATT with Solman, Enterprise Portal capabilities, RFID, eSourcing &Contract Life Cycle Management, Internet Sales, BPC, Business Objects, and Mobility, etc.

Coach (Retail), Japan (Feb2008 – May2008), Rollout Project- Project Manager and Principal Consultant for SAP SD, MM and WMS towers. Responsible to understand the third-party WMS business processes, requirement Vijay, Anand

SAP Project Manager, CA

gathering and design inventory management using the SAP best practices and cost effective solutions for stock transfer and goods returns to Tokyo plant.

SAP Quality Benchmark, India, (Dec2007-May2008), Implementation- As a CMMI quality champion lead CMMI best practice to design industry benchmark metrics for SAP AVM and ADM projects to measure performances.

Rabobank ( Banking & Insurance), Netherlands, (Aug2007 – Jan2008), Implementation & Rollout Project- Lead to build SAP data migration strategy, Designing Data Migration & cutover strategy from Legacy systems to SAP, consulting for direct material purchase for internal employee use, analyze the existing As-Is Data Migration flow of non-SAP (Zylab, Raboshop, Tiffany, Ultimo, DLP, Bestelregister) applications, etc.

Nestle (Consumer Goods), USA, India (Jan2006–Aug2007), Global Support & Rollout- SAP SD Consultant and Lead- Functional and technical support for SAP Order to Cash. Responsible to cross train virtual teams. Addressing, Identifying, Analyzing and Resolving SD/AR/MM issues. Monitoring and scheduling of SD/AR Batch Jobs, custom table maintenance. Supported on RICE to cater new business requirements, resolve order and delivery related Mercator errors, monitoring FEDI/Lockbox for bank payments and month end billing activities.

PCS Computers Pvt. Ltd (Manufacturing), India (July2005–Dec2005), Implementation Project- Managed the client through workshops, design, realization, testing, documentations, and go-live support.

CRM 4.0 Testing at SAP Labs(Testing), India (July2005–Oct2005), Test and analyze different scenarios of MY SAP CRM release 50A, create different testing scenarios in CRM portal and SAP backend, testing of business process in Channel Management and Internet Sales. Create reports on testing, and provide trainings to SAP team. Ygyan Consulting Sdn Bhd, Malaysia (A Cognizant Company), Contract through HCL Technologies, Malaysia (May 2004 – Apr2005), Global Support and rollout project, Position: SAP SD Consultant and lead role. Project:

Intel Corporation (Discrete Manufacturing), Malaysia, Global support role for SAP Sales & Distribution and integrated modules, Purchase, WMS, AR, and APO. Responsible for worldwide production support and rollout projects. On calls to resolve critical, high, medium and low priority issues as per SLA’s. Maintain logs in Global Event Management System tool. Maintenance of Corporate Commit Procedure (proprietary Intel process for GEO hubs), Email-Queues, and Queues, Configuration, deploy enhancements and migration of transport request.

Maintenance and configuration of Customer Master, condition records and organizational data. Monitoring and support for IDOC and ALE failures. Support for Web order management and indirect support for EDI Interfaces and all inbound and outbound applications from and to SAP, and TIBCO, etc. Ygyan Consulting Pte. Ltd., Singapore (A Cognizant Company), Contract through Accenture, Singapore (May2004 – Apr2005), Global rollout project, Position: SAP SD Consultant. Project:

Singapore Airlines, Singapore, Responsible to design and perform rollout to the various geographical regions: EMEA, Europe and USA. Support successful rollout implementation of passenger billing for 11 overseas Stations

(Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Los Angles, Rome, Saigon, Vancouver, Zurich, Phuket and Medan).

Involved in workshops, requirement gathering, business blue print preparation, solution paper for passenger billing, functional specification, configuration, testing. regression testing using Mercury Tool, data cleansing, pre- load and post load verification. Help Desk support for initial 45 days. Aakit Technologies, Africa, (Jun2003 – Dec2003), Implementation project: SAP SD/MM Lead Consultant Projects:

Jobanputra Putra Textiles & Paper Products, Uganda - Implementation of 5 overseas stations: Uganda, Rwanda, UAE, Kenya and India) at Africa and India.

Workshops presentations, requirement gathering, gap analysis, design, customization and testing of business processes. Provide function help to the ABAP team in creating custom reports.

Configuration of enterprise structure, upload of customer master, and material master.

Configuration of sales documents (inquiry, quotation, Order, billing, credit notes and debit notes, condition tables, condition types for determination procedures. Testing and validation of final configuration, validation of uploaded data from the legacy system to SAP R/3. Go Live post production support. Axios Infotech, India ( Sept2000 – May2003), Support project: SAP SD Consultant and Trainer Vijay, Anand

SAP Project Manager, CA

Project:

Glass manufacturing, Bangalore, Sub contract support project: Training & Support SAP Testing for a glass manufacturing customer.

Prepared training materials and conducted training for the end users. Post production support. Sales and Distribution business domain experiences in IT Hardware & Solutions Selling Quantm Net Technologies Limited, Regional Manager, India (Jul1999 – Aug2000), IBM Partner

To acquire, develop, and manage sales and technical team for southern India, Participated in RFP’s, Government bids, corporate sales.

Solution architecture for DAS, NAS, SAN, Backup Management and supply of facility management solutions. VFM Systems, Branch Manager, India (Aug1997 – Jun1999), Software Training and solution selling

Provided software training on C, C++, Java, Advanced Java, Microsoft Products and networking products

Developed new business, sales hardware products, networking solutions to corporate and government accounts Zenith Computers Limited, Account Manager, India (Jun1995 – Jul1997), Sell IBM, HP and Zenith brand of computers

Corporate and institutional account management, to appoint JVP (Joint Venture Partnership) & ZAR (Zenith Authorized Resellers) to sell IBM, HP & Zenith brands of computers and networking solutions.

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