Summary:

•** +years of professional experience in SAP MM, LE/WM, SD, Master Data Management & Migration and FI Integration.

•3 Years Industry experience in Oil and Gas & Financial Operations.

•SAP Consulting Industry experience in Pharmaceuticals, IS Retail, Energy, Medical Devices, Manufacturing, Travel, Telecommunications and Public Sector.

•Worked in SAP Projects spanning across USA, UK, Europe and Asia

•Deep subject matter expertise in Supply Chain Management spanning Procurement, Inventory Management, Manufacturing Operations, Distribution, Sales and Planning acquired through project experience, SAP & APICS Certifications.

SAP ASAP methodology and Solution Manager

•Completed five successful full life cycle implementation projects as well as system upgrade and support projects using ASAP methodology and the Solution Manager.

•Applied various elements of ASAP methodology, including process mapping, design, configuration, testing, documentation, training, data migration, and functional coordination for project and post-implementation support.

•Implemented and tested Solution Manager Transaction codes SOLAR01 and SOLAR02, including uploading, managing and monitoring status of project documents.

SAP Materials, Inventory, Warehouse Management & Logistics Execution and Sales (MM, LE/WM, SD)

•Configured the organizational structure for Materials Management and warehouse Management as per business requirements – Plant, Storage location, Purchase Organization, Warehouse, storage types, storage section, storage bin types, storage bins.

•Created, configured, customized and maintained objects to support maintenance of master records and transactional documents such as PR, PO, RFQ, Inventory/Stock Purchases, Consumable Purchases. Worked on Purchase release procedures for approvals, Pricing using Condition technique, Document Type, and Sources Determination.

•Managed materials using Batch Management with FIFO, LIFO & SLED and number Assignment for Internal/External Purchasing documents.

•Managed Materials on Serial Number Management.

•Configured Release Procedure with/without Classification. Implemented settings for special procurement types such as Subcontracting, Vendor consignments, pipeline, third-party logistics, cross-docking, direct store distribution, and Stock Transport Orders (STO) and sub-contractor procurement.

•Experienced in setting up Release Strategy and customized Vendor Evaluation Process.

•Configured Stock Transfer between Storage Locations using Stock Transfer Order (STO), picking strategies and new movement types for Goods Receipt and Goods Issued.

•Configured Inter-company stocks transfers and associated SD / FI integration.

•Performed Posting, Blocking, setting up tolerances inventory indicator, Releasing Invoice, Physical Inventory and Transfer posting.

•Possess strong functional experience in customizing, implementing and integrating SAP MM Inventory Management with modules such as WM, SRM, QM, FI, SD, LE, and RF Mobile Data Entry.

•Implemented Inventory Control and Management as well as created and released reservations, negative stock, unplanned Goods Issues, and physical Stock Transfer types, such as Company to Company, Plant to Plant, Store to Store, Storage Location to Storage Location, and Material to Material.

•Experienced setting up organizational structures for WM for storage and Automatic and Manual bins creation, bin types and dynamic bin settings.

•Maintained, and posted Goods Receipt/Issue, transfer posting, stock transfer, stock transport order, Batch Management, movement types, physical inventory and cycle counting.

•Effective in posting stock differences, annual inventory count and cycle counting, control parameters for TO, TR, inbound and outbound deliveries, and shipment planning.

•Configured Inbound and Outbound processes using Deliveries, shipments and Route determination.

•Configures Handling Unit management with and without WM using SSCC Numbering.

•Worked with EDI/ALE/IDOCs (partner type, partner profile, message type, Inbound and out bound parameters) for PO, ASN, material master data, Goods Receipt, IM posting, Outbound delivery, Picking, Packing, Goods Issue etc.

•Configured the organizational structure for Sales and Distribution as per business requirements – Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, Division, Shipping Point

•Configured Sales documents to support the processing of different Sales processes such as contracts, sales orders, consignment order, consignment issue and returns

•Configured shipping processes such as Delivery types, item categories, shipping points, routes & staging, shipments to support the outbound sales and associated returns.

•Configured different billing types to support the invoicing of the sales documents

•Account determination for FI integration to support the account posting corresponding to the goods movements against deliveries and account posting corresponding to Invoices

SAP Master Data

•Created, configured and maintained the Material Master, Vender Master, Info Record, Source list, customer master, customer material Info-record, Pricing conditions and Output conditions.

•Configured material group, storage locations, warehouse numbers, storage type, purchasing group, storage bins.

•Created account group, assigned partner function, created and assigned a number range to the account group, and defined payment terms with the Vendor Master and customer master.

•Worked on LSMW design and build for data loads of master data objects.

•Defined templates and rules to collect the master data to be loaded in to SAP.

SAP End-User Training

•Wrote end-user manuals and documentation and conducted live training sessions.

•Delivered remote training using online meeting tools, such as Go-to-Meeting, Microsoft Live Meeting, and WebEx.

Integration

•Knowledge of complete business cycle for Supply Chain Management Process as well as international customs logistics management.

•Knowledge of FI Accounting and tax integration with logistics processes

•Experienced in end to end process integration for Supply Chain Management including Raw Material Sourcing, Procurement, Production Planning, Finished Goods, Inventory Management, Order Fulfillment, Delivery Processing, Returns Management, and Invoice Verification.

•Knowledge of SRM processes and how it integrates with MM

•Involved in projects implementing Fiori Apps by building services using SAP Gateway

Education

National Institute of Industrial Engineering, India

Masters in Industrial Engineering – 2006

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering -2002

SAP Certifications

Certified in SAP Supply Chain Management – Procurement (MM-Module)

Certified SAP SRM (SRM 5.0) Consultant

Certified in SAP Logistics Execution (SAP ECC 6.0) which also includes Warehouse Management

Certified in SAP Sales & Distribution (SAP ECC 6.0)

APICS Certifications

Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)

Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)

PMI

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by scoring “Proficient” grade on 4 out of 6 Process Groups and “Moderately Proficient” on the other two.

Technical Skills

Operating System

Windows95/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/10, Mac OSX

SAP Environment

SAP R/3 ECC 6.0/4.7/4.6C (MM/WM/IM/SD), SRM 5.0, ESOA, SAP FIORI using Gateway services, LSMW Data Migration

Packages / Project

MS-Office Suite, MS-Project, MS-Visio, ARIS, Smart Draw, Lotus Notes, Quick Book, MS-Access.

Tools

Developer 2000, Data loads, HP Quality Center (Mercury), Remedy, uPerform

Methodologies

ASAP and Solutions Manager

SAP Interfaces

EDI/ALE/IDOC, Proxy, Webservices, RFC, PI/PO, B2B MW like Data Power or GxS

Work Experience

Jan 2016 to Present

GlaxoSmithKline – Raleigh, USA (Pharmaceuticals)

SAP Logistics Consultant

Role Description:

I was responsible for the MM, SD, LE/WM template design, changes, configuration, writing functional specifications, testing, user training and Interface workshops. I am also responsible for managing the work stream deliverables and delegation to the members of the team that are onsite and offshore in addition to being responsible for the weekly reporting of the deliverables of the entire team.

Responsibilities:

Rich experience in full cycle implementation cycle involving project implementation using ASAP methodology on SAP ECC 6.0.

Gathering business requirements, providing solutions to problems was responsible for wip, finished goods, resale materials data upload and creation in SAP.

Coordinating with all the respective teams like FICO, WM, PP, OTC, F2P regarding the cross work-stream solution design, configuration, end-to end testing.

I was involved in creating test scripts for Procurement, Sales and Distribution, Internal Warehouse and 3PL Processes.

I am involved in designing the 3PL interfaces, writing interface specifications along with conducting mapping workshops, testing and user training.

I was involved in providing training and training material to the business users.

Post Go-live support included inheriting the design and fixing the process gaps in certain cases, revisit of the whole design and then working on activities to bring the design closer to business by doing the full life cycle of analysis, design, configuration, testing, implementation & support.

Prepared detailed project documentation such as functional specifications, configuration documents, and test scripts.

Implementation of root cause analysis and incident management and configuration of SAP

Worked in Procure to Pay (P2P) and Warehouse Management (WM) by integration of MM, QM, PP and SD (Logistics modules).

Responsible for template changes for SAP WM/MM.

Designed and written functional specifications for Reports, Interfaces, Forms, conversions, Enhancements and Workflows.

Responsible for Cut-over plan, data migration plan, training plan, testing plan, Post Go-Live support plan.

Supported WM applications involving Handling Unit management with SSCC Numbering.

Worked on Warehouse Management Interfacing (warehouse structure, basic stock management, warehouse movements, goods receipts, goods issue, stock transfers and replenishments).

Responsible for Quality, Risk and compliance approvals for the solution and associated documentation.

Maintaining and managing the project documentation, approvals and associated change processes on Solution Manager.

March 2015 to Jan 2016

Smyths Toys – Galway, Ireland (Retail)

SAP Logistics Lead Procurement, DC & Store Logistics (Employed by Itelligence UK)

Description:

I was involved on the SAP IS-Retail implementation at smyths toys through the phases of business Process workshops, Roadmap for Realization, Configuration, Integration Testing, Go-Live and Post Go-Live Support. Responsible for the areas of Replenishment, DC & Store logistics, Webstore Integration, Fiori App design, 3PL Logistics and Store scanning solution.

Responsibilities:

•Rich experience in full cycle implementation cycle involving SAP IS-Retail implementation using ASAP methodology on SAP ECC 6.0 – IS Retail solution.

•Post Go-live support included inheriting the design and fixing the process gaps

•Prepared detailed project documentation such as functional specifications, configuration documents, and test scripts.

•Implementation of root cause analysis and incident management and configuration of SAP .

•Worked Domestic and Import retail procurement / Replenishment.

•Designed and configured DC replenishment and Distribution Processes.

•Implemented Stock allocation /transfer process from DC to stores to ensure 100% availability all the time.

•Responsible for setting up the state of the art webstore with integration to SAP ECC for real-time stock status and order status, changes, delivery and billing.

•Designed and wrote specifications for logic /UI for Fiori Apps for management Dashboard reporting and approvals.

•Designed and implemented store scanning solution for faster receipts at Store.

•Designed the e-procurement portal and implemented the solution using SAP Gateway services.

•Responsible for solving day-to-day tickets.

•Prepared detailed project documentation such as functional specifications, configuration documents, and test scripts.

•Responsible for Cut-over plan, data migration plan, training plan, testing plan, Post Go-Live support plan.

•Changing the custom program as per the requirements of the business users. Testing in development and quality systems before moving the change to production environment, creating RFC, software design documents updating RS, remedy etc.

January 2013 to March 2015

Wilkinson UK (Retail)

SAP Logistics Lead Procurement, DC & Store Logistics (Employed by HCL Axon UK)

Description:

I was involved on the SAP IS-Retail implementation at Wilkinson through the phases of business Process workshops, Roadmap for Realization, Configuration, Integration Testing, Go-Live and Post Go-Live Support. Responsible for the areas of Replenishment, DC & Store logistics, Store Allocations, Vendor Rebates, Promotions and FI Integration.

Responsibilities:

•Rich experience in full cycle implementation cycle involving project implementation using ASAP methodology on SAP ECC 6.0 – IS Retail Solution.

•Post Go-live support included inheriting the design and fixing the process gaps in certain cases, revisit of the whole design and then working on activities to bring the design closer to business by doing the full life cycle of analysis, design, configuration, testing, implementation & support.

•Prepared detailed project documentation such as functional specifications, configuration documents, and test scripts.

•Implementation of root cause analysis and incident management and configuration of SAP.

•Responsible for retail procurement, DC and store logistics including store allocations.

•Responsible for the whole of retail rebates management using condition contracts functionality (WCOCO).

•Handled the promotions interface design using service (WESOUT).

•Designed and implemented physical inventory processes both at DC and Store.

•Handled 3PL and DC warehouse interfaces with ALE/IDOCS, Web Services, Proxies using PI.

•Led and delivered the change requests in the procurement area.

•Worked with onsite-offshore team to proto-type and deliver the RICEFWs in new areas of condition contracts and allocations.

•Responsible for Cut-over plan, data migration plan, training plan, testing plan, Post Go-Live support plan.

•Responsible for integration with FI/CO module for account determination.

•Involved in Retail Interface design and development on messages for Orders, Receipts, Inventory management and Physical Inventory.

June 2011– December 2012

Alere – Global Template & Roll out US, UK & Europe (Medical Devices)

SAP Procurement, Warehouse Management and Planning Lead (Employed by HCL Axon UK)

Description:

Alere is a medical devices company and due to lot of take-overs in different countries is involved in consolidation and process optimization across all its entities .I was involved in this business transformation program to optimize supply chain process mainly focused procurement, planning, 3PL Logistics and warehouse management.

Responsibilities:

•Rich experience in full cycle implementation cycle involving project implementation using ASAP methodology on SAP ECC 6.0.

•Prepared detailed project documentation such as blueprint, functional specifications, configuration documents, and test scripts.

•Implementation of root cause analysis and incident management using clients tool of APSE.

•Worked on SAP Procurement, Planning, Warehouse Management and 3PL Interface functionality using ALE/IDOCS. Implemented the solution based of Plants abroad functionality.

•Functionalities handled include Requisitions, Purchase orders, Multi-level MRP planning, Inventory Management and Warehouse Management. Special design around Kits procurement, sales and planning.

•Designed and managed interface developments for a new third party managed central warehouse for the whole of European Operations.

•Was responsible for complete warehouse management system configuration, new process design, development and implementation, writing functional specifications, testing and post go-live support.

•Responsible for defining new warehouses, defining storage sections, storage types, storage unit types, storage bins.

•Responsible for setting up the automatic transfer orders for transfer requirements/ posting change notices based on various movement types and storage types used in the warehouse.

•Managed efficient material movement across warehouse management using appropriate strategies for the put-away & picking to search for storage bin. .

•Designed, developed and successfully implemented a customized stock transport order process involving HU’s and SU’s (handling unit management & storage unit management), across plants from different countries to replace the existing process that uses scheduling agreements for STO process.

•Experienced in collecting data for EDIs required in the business process. Worked extensively in EDIs for processing of PO (850-IB/OB), shipping notifications (856) and Payment Advice (820).

•Configured WM Interfaces (IM-WM special movements, PP Staging & KANBAN replenishments, QM movements to storage types & External systems).

•Configured and tested WM integration with MM and SD Modules.

•Blueprint, Configurations and Testing phases, Data Migrations.

•In a span of 2 years – Greenfield implementation and roll-outs across UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Swiss, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Spain, US and Canada done. Also implemented SAP interfaces for a new third-party managed central warehouse to supply whole of Europe.

•Prepared detailed project documentation such as blueprint, functional specifications, configuration documents, and test scripts.

•Trained users for go live and provided after go-live support.

•Responsible for Cut-over plan, data migration plan, training plan, testing plan, Post Go-Live support plan.

December 2010 - May 2011

Vodafone UK – European Roll-Outs (Telecommunication)

SAP MM Consultant (Employed by HCL Axon UK)

Description:

•Pan-European global template roll-out. I was responsible MM solution along with CATS integration for contractor procurement / Service Procurement.

Responsibilities:

•Solution Design and configuration.

•Processes handled included Intercompany, Indirect procurement and Self-Billing processes.

•Implementations in UK, Ireland and Egypt.

•Worked in build of MM-CATS solution for contractor procurement.

•Worked on RICEFW, UAT support and Change Requests from previous releases.

•Successfully supported Go-Live and Post-Go Live.

•SRM support for self-service procurement Scenario.

•Set up organizational structure for procurement.

•Carried out GAP analysis between existing business requirements and standard SAP solutions. Performed Business Process Re-engineering and delivered PowerPoint presentations to help explain the procedure and get consensus on efficient alternatives.

•Responsible for customization of MM modules and integration with SD, HR-CATS and FI modules.

•Prepared process definition documents (PDD) and RICEF documents.

•Developed and implemented material and vendor master data conversion plans.

•Performed customizing of master data including Material Master and Vendor master.

•Developed functional specifications for custom reports for material stock reports and on-time delivery analysis.

•Defined product divisions and material groups and assigned them to industry sector, material types and set their corresponding number ranges.

•Configured purchasing documents and defined number ranges for various purchasing documents, picking orders, goods movement docs.

•Configured and implemented batch management with the class, class type, and characteristics for selected materials.

•Created new movement types in inventory management as per business requirement.

•Prepared documentation for mapping rules to migrate master data through LSMW. Worked with programming team to write functional specs and delivery field mapping, transformation rule etc.

•SAP Functional Support & knowledge of SAP Modules (SD,MM).

•Prepared test scripts and performed Unit test & Integration test for all custom developments.

•Extensively involved in the preparation of end-user documents and provided knowledge transfer through numerous training session to power user and end-users.

•Provided post-production support on day-to-day activities performed in SAP.

Dec 2008 - May 2010

European Medicines Agency, UK (Public Sector)

SAP MM/SD Work stream Lead (Employed by SAP UK)

Description:

European Medicines Agency is a European Union Public sector Agency responsible for providing market authorization for medicines being introduced by Pharmaceutical companies in European Market. It is a green field implementation where I led the SAP MM / SD work streams during the design and realization phases.

Responsibilities:

Leading SAP MM & SD Business Print Workshops, Configuration, Testing and RICEFW. Handles direct procurement, Indirect Procurement & service procurement scenarios including complex responsibility workflows based on the budget responsibility.

Worked on Public sector procurement with complex framework contracts and tendering processes and managed an SD Resource.

Worked integration with Funds Management to manage procurement Budgets.

Responsible for creating RICEFW functional specifications.

Created and tested LSMW for data loads of master data and open transactional data.

Co-ordinated RICEFW development, testing and acceptance between onsite and offshore teams.

April 2008 – November 2008

Zimmer, Indiana, USA (Medical Implants)

SAP MM Functional Consultant (Employed by SAP America)

Description:

Zimmer is implementing SAP ECC for its distributor Logistics. I am responsible for MM Module Implementation specifically for realization and testing phase.

Responsibilities:

SAP ERP End to End Implementation to replace the Inventory Management and Distribution System of Zimmer Distributors.

Functionalities handled include all Procurement Scenarios - Direct, Indirect and Services.

Procurement from Zimmer Manufacturing, Stock Transports between Distributors, Physical Inventory, Handling Unit Management, Batch Management, Serial Number Management.

FRICE Function Specifications and Testing.

Business Process Configuration, Integration Testing.

IM standard configuration during Realization phase based on Business Blue Print (BBP).

End to end procurement process for-Stock & Consumables, Info Records, Source Lists, Quota Arrangements and Framework/Blanket orders.

Configured additional purchase order document types required by business to place orders with vendors.

Configuration of valuation/pricing elements including price control, account category reference for valuation class by Material Type.

Definition of Message types, Access sequences, Message Determination Schema for Output Control of Purchasing Documents.

Configuration and documentation of stocks that are to be delivered to Quality Inspection in accordance with business requirements.

Configuration of reverse logistics unique to medical implants business using the Handling unit management and packing instructions.

Coordinated with ABAP team for RICEFW and also created End User Training Documentation.

October 2007– March 2008

Japan Tobacco International, Germany/India (Manufacturing)

SAP MM Functional Consultant (Employed by SAP India)

Description:

JTI is rolling out its Global Template and I was responsible for the MM functionality roll-out in India.

Responsibilities:

Configured material management module to meet the organizational structure for the client's specifications and their business processes.

Worked with the management during the blueprint stage in creating business process and procedures based of Global Template.

Defined plants, purchase organization and storage locations, assigned purchasing organization to company codes and plants, assigned plants to company code.

Configured the material master records and customized the screen layout for materials with relevant field selection.

Configured source list, purchase info records, outline agreements, purchase requisition, RFQ, purchase order for the existing materials and their respective vendors.

Configuration of ‘Procure to Pay” process.

Implemented various functionalities in inventory management like goods receipt, good issues and transfer postings in inventory management.

Inventory Management configuration of relevant movement types.

Procurement Scenarios covering both Standard and Custom developments to provide functionality for Domestic, Imports and Service Tax Procurement inclusive of country india requirements for Excise, VAT, CST and Service Tax.

Configuration, Integration Testing, Go-Live and Post Go-Live Support.

Implemented test scripts and conducted extensive testing for quality assurance.

Lead and participated in several re-engineering initiatives in the implementation of best known manufacturing productivity improvement practices and design issues to meet client requirements and to provide customized solutions for increased efficiencies and mitigating potential risks.

Trained end users in MM functionality.

NON SAP Experience:

April 2003 - May 2004

Reliance Industries Ltd, India

Assistant Manager – Refinery Procurement and Maintenance

Responsibilities:

Refinery and Petrochemicals Plant Maintenance and Materials Management.

Capturing the daily Spare Part Procurement, Consumption and Maintenance activities on SAP R/3 implemented.

Resource Management.

Planning and Budgeting for Material Spares and Services.

Audit and Compliance.

Inventory Management Project executed as a part of SAP implementation at Indian Petrochemicals Ltd.

Handled independent charge of temporary supply distribution in a major shutdown at Jamnagar Refinery- India, which is one of the biggest refineries of the world.

As a Six Sigma initiative, Re-engineered the bagging line and reduced the downtime by 40% thereby enhancing the reliability.

June 2002 - February 2003

ING Bank Ltd, India

Management Trainee

Responsibilities:

Banking Operations and Loan Review.

Customer Relations and Networking.

Trained in Banking Processes and Statutory Compliance Procedures.

Built a service quality enhancement and Waiting time reduction Model for the branch by using the principles of queuing theory and multi-tasking.

Benchmarking characteristics identified to measure the customer satisfaction.

April 2005 - June 2005

Citibank Investment Bank, India

Management Intern

Responsibilities:

Process Mapping and Re-engineering.

Operational Efficiency Improvement.

Optimal Capacity determination and Service Capability enhancement.

Improvement in Branch Operational Efficiency by 6%.

Achievements

Outstanding achievement award and Top Talent award while working at SAP India.

Consistently rated exceeding expectation with all the employers.

Excellent client references over the years and across US, Europe and Asia.

Received Gold Medal for standing first in Post-Graduation College.

Received Gold Medal for standing first in Graduation College.

Received Chairman’s Medal and Pranlal Patel Award for being the “Best Student” during Post Graduation.

Awarded “Best Outgoing Student” award at Post Graduate and Graduate college for Outstanding performance in academics, Sports, Curricular and Extra-curricular activities.

Mobility

Valid H1B Visa to work in USA.

UK Citizen – Full EU Mobility and Work authorization.

Overseas Citizen of India – Full India Mobility and Work Authorization.

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