EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

IT Professional offering background of over 15 years, including 12 years as an SAP Sales & Distribution Functional Consultant, with involvement in 2 end-to-end implementation projects using ASAP methodology. Strong skill in integration with other SAP modules, as well as other key interfaces. Highly collaborative in working with business users, technical teams and various key stakeholders to determine and deliver on needs. Experienced in wide range of industries, including telecom, retail, and oil/gas. Areas within SAP SD/OTC include pricing, sales order process, delivery and shipment/transportation. Integration with SAP CRM 7.0 and Sales Force to handle Sales Management, Service Management and Marketing. Extensively worked on EDI IDOC (inbound, outbound, mapping with third party logistics service providers’ SD system, message type, segment extension, IDoc monitoring, posting)/ ALE(distribution model maintenance, logical system, ports, partner profiles.

Professional Experience:

SAP Sales & Distribution Functional Consultant

United Salt Corp Houston, TX 06/2015-Present

Implemented a remediation SAP project within Salt, Chemicals and Oil & Gas industry environment, which included various configuration aspects, end support for business users involved in handling master data and transactional data, and training documentation utilizing SAP leading practices.

Configured various scenarios including Route Determination, Pricing, Material Text Determination, ATP Check and Common Distribution Channel along with relevant support documentation.

Provided remediation and end-user support at corporate and plant level to handle transactional data including scenarios to handle incomplete deliveries, backorders, incomplete sales orders and reports.

Supported the Customer Master Data and Material Master Data teams to handle Sales Text, Unit of Measure, Transportation zones, Ship to/Bill to Partner Functions and Item Category Group.

Tested the whole EDI IDOC, X12 Webmethod comparison for ASN, Invoice and Order with the help of the Business Process Owners and the Subject Matter Experts.

Monitored all inbound and outbound EDI transaction processing. Analyzed, identified and tracked all exceptions and errors processing

Trained users at corporate/plant level to use SAP leading practices including scenarios for Sales Order creation, Delivery and Shipment process, COA (Certificate of Analysis), Pricing methodology, RMA and Return Process and Billing Process; created training documentation uploaded to SharePoint.

Integrated with OTC, FTM and P2P teams to handle integration issues including MRP and Account Determination under a task-based environment, and provided weekly status to the PM and Client.

SAP Project Systems(PS)/OTC Consultant

Seimens Energy Orlando, FL 10/2014-04/2015

Completed pre-design phase for project analysis and PCR (Project Change Request) for an energy client using SAP Project Systems utilizing WBS elements within SAP. Provided cost evaluation/logical resolution for various PCRs created by the client for their customized tool (eFMT) to handle service management for its customers.

Designed functional requirements for implementation of Webdynpro and ABAP changes to the existing customized eFMT tool to handle Maintenance Operation Schedules, Parts and Repairs program and Master data for Super BOMs to handle material master for the Steam/Gas Energy Turbines.

SAP Production Support Role (WM/SD/MM)

McNeil (Subsidiary of J&J) Washington, PA 08/2014-10/2014

Validated data for handling various test cases related to Warehouse management, SAP OTC cycle and purchase orders within a production support environment.

Handled data validation using a dry run related to WM, OTC and MM scenarios as part of the Supply Chain Management process for the ongoing Life Sciences project.

Recorded correct data under the specific test case following validation and released to the relevant business user for approval via a wet run on the test case scenario.

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Thomson Reuters Eagan, MN 03/2014-07/2014

This was a full life cycle SAP implementation to handle Subscriptions and Sales Order process under SAP ECC 6.0/EHP6 environment for US legal industry. Subscriptions were created as Value Contracts under SAP to handle bundling of various online legal products.

Attended blueprint sessions, landscaping process for Sandbox, development, QA and Production environments with regular seminars, presentations, daily/weekly status onsite and offshore meetings. Designed functional specifications using standard templates to include all the SAP objects and customization functionalities for the project.

Integrated with business, functional and technical work groups to implement online legal products using Variant Configuration and SSC engine.

Configured customized media level rules to determine pricing, MYR (Multiyear renewals) of subscriptions, Multi location agreement (MLA) for the same customer and Federal government transactions.

Unit tested scenarios which included renewals and multiyear renewals, multi location agreements, deals attached to multiyear subscriptions to offer customer or material specific discounts.

Handled Tax determination using Sabrix a proprietary of Thomson Reuters product.

Designed flow of process which included document flow originating in Sales Force as an opportunity, creating a quote in SAP CRM which created a quote under SAP ECC further creating a Sales Order using order capture process. Subscriptions were generated in reference to the Sales order. A customized contract info process created variables used in multi year renewal, MLA, deals and agreements under the Sales order. The KMAT material was configured using Variant configuration characteristics including number of attorneys for a law company which provided necessary entitlements for the customer.

SAP SD/CPE/CWM Consultant

Perdue Farms Salisbury, MD 04/2011-12/2013

This was a full life cycle enhancement implementation for a migration project from SAP ECC 6.0 EHP4 to EHP6 version. Primarily handled SAP SD/OTC Configuration within OTC area specializing in Commodity Pricing Engine (CPE) to handle daily market pricing quotes for Catch Weight Material (CWM)/Non Catch Weight Material and integrating it within the regular pricing for wholesale, international, Supermarket/Deli market distribution. EDI/IDoc mapping and configuration was managed for internal and external customers.

Conducted blueprinting, landscaping process for Sandbox, development, QA and Production environments with regular seminars, presentations and daily/weekly status meetings. Designed functional specifications using standard templates to include all the BADI and customization functionalities for the project.

IS-OIL was utilized to handle formula and average pricing for commodities based on daily market quotes under EHP4 under a JAVA based Engine. Migrated from EHP4 to EHP6 under ECC 6.0 to implement Commodity Pricing Engine (CPE) which is an independent fully integrated ABAP BADI based pricing engine utilizing CPE formulas for market pricing as master data under EHP5/EHP6.

Carried out Commodity Pricing for commodities for price quotes from stocks helped creating pricing formulas as master data and the resulting pricing in the documents sent to condition types.

Configured Commodity Pricing Engine (CPE) with CPE mutually exclusive condition types of calculation type Q which were assigned to a CPE formula/Term Key alphanumeric identifier with each Term Key assigned to a Term rule.

Create detailed mapping specifications for 810, 812, 850, 855, 856 maps for EDI messaging.

Directed ABAP technical team in implementation of custom ABAP routines for special EDI processing. (ORDERS, ORDRSP, ORDCHG, INVOIC, DESADV, SHPMNT, SHPCON, WHSCON, DEBMAS, CREMAS, MATMAS, WMMBXY, MBGMCR).

Configure and load SD EDI profiles, output determination, distribution models and workflow assignments.

Each of these rules was BADI driven using various CPE routines. All these BADI’s were classified under Formula Assembly (FA) or Formula Evaluation (FE) modules. BADI’s were defined under the main BADI Enhancement Spot LOG_CPE_FA_FE.

Coordinated with the ABAP team to customize these BADI’s to meet specific customized needs for the client and implement them under various landscapes using Transport requests. One of the major customization was to handle future market pricing to handle it under the OTC process under Sales Order Creation, customized logistics process, delivery with PGI, MIGO process, Catch weight management for CWM enabled material and SD billing to handle orders with future market pricing to throw a relevant error message and consider these orders when the market data was available in future.

Maintained Condition records for CPE pricing using VCPE_MD with Key combination of Formula Key/Material/Sold to/Program Group(based on a Partner Function)

Resolved many critical issues on production support for business users.

Catch weight management (CWM) was utilized to handle Case to pound conversion during shipping process for actual pricing/billing perspective based on weight of the shipment rather than number of cases with standard weight.

Conducted extensive Unit testing using HP Quality center for the CPE pricing/OTC process as part of the main SD team. Designed test cases for the business users to handle Integration testing.

Integrated with MM, FI/CO, Logistics and regular Pricing team to streamline usage of CPE Pricing condition types under regular Pricing Procedures and maintaining these condition types under various Pricing procedures.

Participated on various enhancements and customization work under the main ongoing TPM (Trade Planning Management) project to handle various Market Research/Vendor Commission reports and addressed business user’s needs.

US Federal Employee

US Postal Service (NJ/MN) 07/2006-02/2011

Assisted in configuring SAP SD organizational structure to handle the logistics process for a US Federal agency as a SAP logistics business Partner.

Set the configuration enterprise structure and Sales document types like order, delivery and billing.

Customized copy control and pricing for sales order to delivery and billing.

Participated extensively in pricing with various pricing conditions for different scenarios.

Defined Shipping Points, Shipping Conditions and Loading Groups and worked extensively on routes.

Configured shipment creation and shipment confirmation on doors.

Customized document pricing procedure, defining account assign key for revenue accrual and defining G/L, creating requirement routine and assigning to copy control for billing.

Implemented ETE intercompany billing process on SD and MM area configuring document type to billing type and testing.

Integrated closely with FI people on monthly and quarterly end processes and account receivables.

Designed various configuration activities on variant configuration like

oSet up of configurable material

oCreating all characteristics for hot rolled steel products from billets.

oSet up BoM and its object dependencies.

oCreated configuration profile on production order side.

oSet up of variant configuration item category and material type loading for products for structures.

oSet up of various batch job like delivery due list, billing due list etc. with correct shipping job precedence.

Complete end to end transportation management with automatic leg determination with logistics business partners UPS/FEDEX.

Workflow settings for approval and authorization levels.

Configured cash sales, rush orders, contracts (Quantity & Value) and Scheduling agreements.

Designed contracts and implemented business requirement for enhancements.

SAP R/3 SD Consultant

Dialogic Corp (Subsidiary Intel Corp) Parsippany, NJ 12/2005-05/2006

This was an implementation for SAP SD under SAP R/3 environment for a US Telecom Client.

Configured the item category determination for deliveries and sales order for cross company sales.

Designed conditions and exclusion and maintained the entire condition record upload.

Billing Procedures set up- invoices, credit memo, debit memo, rebates, individual & collective billing, invoice split.

Defined Shipping types, Transportation zones and Transportation groups

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

Configured copy control requirements to various sales documents and deliveries.

Created process flow design and approval.

Created functional specification guiding technical specification for workflow template change.

Technical specs for BADI change.

UAT and integration testing.

Final sign off activities for payment and handover.

Software Developer

Audible Inc.(Subsidiary of Amazon Corp) 04/2004-10/2005

Designed and developed software for an online retail marketplace.

Designed and developed Oracle objects (Stored Procedures, Cursors, Triggers, Packages and Views) using PL/SQL blocks.

Generated SQLPLUS reports on a weekly and monthly basis.

Subscriptions requests handled through a Web browser from the Audible Home Page to insert new records/update existing records to reflect the new customers and the Subscription buying process.

Designed and developed the driver in C++ to parse the data sent from the client to be broken into fields and sent to the respective Oracle table/view with a SQL query. Embedded SQL was used under a Pro *C precompiled environment.

Debugged and maintained existing C++ code using tools like gdb.

Telecom Software Developer

Ericsson (formerly Telcordia / Bellcore) Piscataway, NJ 04/2001-03/2004

Designed and developed software for a Telecom Client.

Worked with OPSINE and Transport(Development groups) to design and develop Network Element Drivers in C, C++ under HP-UX/Stratus with VOS using fault tolerant systems belong to the Continuum Series(600 and 1200) to support manual and flowthru orders requested by the clients to provision, delete, Rearrange values of different parameters.

Generated various macros(.cm) and batch processes in VOS to automate procedures like execute bind files to generate .pm files and builds, copying and moving files between different modules and disks and creating links utilizing the advantages offered by Stratus to preserve different environments(like the Development and Production) on different modules as a part of quality control to be able to recycle source back to the development environment after testing it in the Production environment.

Played a lead role for design and development of the Network Element Driver for NLC NLEVEL3 and to maintain the Network Element. The design documentation with the hierarchy of C++ classes used along with main functions included was generated using Rational Rose/Adobe Framemaker.

Developed Dialog manager files to send TL1 commands to multiplexer devices.

TRAINING:

SAP SD, CRM and MM modules under a SAP IDES environment.

SAP leading Practices for US Federal Agency.

Telecom Standards using IEEE standards.

C, C++, UNIX, KSH, AWK, Oracle PL-SQL, OO Programming, SCM (Build Management)

SAP HANA (SAP LABS USA)

AFFILIATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:

Computer Science, NIIT

BS Sciences, Garhwal University

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