RAJIV KUMAR

SAP SD/MM R/* Functional Consultant

Tel # 267-***-****

ad3zeu@r.postjobfree.com

I have 22 years of experience in implementation of SAP R/3 SD & MM Module including 4 Full life cycles of implementations of SAP R/3 4.7, 4.6C, 4.0B and ECC 6.0. In addition I have completed 2 full life cycle in implementation of S4 Hana Sourcing & Procurement 1709 release using Activate Methodology. My ECC SAP R/3 implementation experience using ASAP Methodology covers all phases of the SAP R/3 implementation life cycle, which includes, business process design and configuration, data conversion, designing test plans and conducting users training programs. I have functional knowledge in OTC & in MM Purchasing, Goods Movements, Invoice Verification and with Finance & Controlling like G/L Accounts AP, AR, Cost Center and Profitability Analysis I have excellent communication skills and a team player. I also have configured Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration & Quality. Have expertise in working with PI, & integration with CIG. As a Functional Lead I have managed multiple teams to meet project goals and deadlines. at my client ULTA Beauty, R&B Foods Inc & Chico's

Releases - Releases 4.0 to 4.7 Enterprise version and ECC 6.0

Tools - Solution Manager 7.0 EHP1

Methodologies - ASAP, Support Processes

Domain General - Knowledge of configuration, customizing, Integration & Transactions

Industry Sectors - Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Retail SAP R/3 FUNCTIONAL SUMMARY:

• Configuration experience of Customer Order Management cycle, Pricing, Organizational structures, Credit management, and Inter Company Sales Process.

• Interaction with clients to ascertain the requirements to carry out analysis and design and to meet the end user requirements.

• Undertaking gap analysis leading to changed business processes and SAP customization requirement specifications.

• Thorough understanding of SAP SD & MM module configuration, support & maintenance functions as well as the integration with FI

• Ability to create informative documentation for all configuration completed and end user documentation on how to perform daily and periodic routine functions and required maintenance items.

• Provided EDI support for customers, Internal users and EDI vendors. I am well versed with troubleshooting IDOC failures and EDI configuration of customers and Partner profile set up

• Performed integration testing for SD.

• Migration experience of SD master data from legacy to SAP system using conversion programs- LSMW/CATT

• Customized enhancements through User Exits.

• Demonstrated good interpersonal, communication, team building, issue resolution, project coordination

& leadership skills

• Configured Inventory Management of goods at the point of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks such as consignment, pipeline, stock transfers, third party and sub-contracting.

• Logistics Execution: Warehouse managed delivery, Route Determination, shipping documents, pick/pack, PGI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Clearon Corporation

IT Manager Business Operations (SAP)

June 2021 till current

Responsibilities:

• Ensure proper functioning of IT Systems for Business Operations (SAP) at Clearon Corporation

• Managed availability and smooth functioning of IT Systems (SAP) for Business Operations such as, but not limited to, SAP, EDI, and Business Warehouse. Manage IT system integrations, management, maintenance, and monitoring.

• Manage the relationship with KloudData SAP vendor for User Access, Master Data management, L2/L3 production support tickets, Change Management and Development for RICEF Objects.

• Ensure smooth transition of Functional Specifications which are to be developed by Kloud Data

• Following ITIL methodology to implement Service Lifecycle at Clearon

• Deployed Release Strategy and streamlined Import PO Process for Purchase Orders in SAP.

• Provided Guidance and instructions to users on various aspects of SAP.

• Advocated change and influenced others to adapt new functionality.

• Managed & Supervised 10 resources for supporting the S4 Hana Implementation

• Prioritized issues based upon relevance, urgency, and importance. Upfield

SAP S4 Hana 1709 MM consultant

January 2020 – May 2021

Upfield is a global consumer giant which recently implemented S4 Hana 1709 and went live on April 1st 2020.

• Worked on resolving issues with Inventory reconciliation between S4 Hana 1709 and WM systems for 3 PL warehouses.

• Troubleshooting Goods Issue, Goods Receipt & Stock Adjustment IDOC failures.

• Working with Delivery team and 3PL to resolve EDI 945 Shipment Confirmation, EDI 947 inventory adjustment, EDI 846 Stock reconciliation, EDI 947 Change in Batch Status and EDI 856 In-transit update issues.

• Involved in preparing instructions and Training for Customer Service Representative for Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Mixed Batch pallet id, Batch id, Wrong Pallet labels & Missing Batch in S4.

• Worked on Automating Inbound deliveries for Ventura. EDI 943 (Shipment advice from In-bound delivery and EDI 944 GR confirmation against In-bound delivery.

• Worked on Updating Inventory Adjustment logic to transform the EDI reason code from 3PL to the right movement types in S4. Since go live there has been variations on how/when DC’s send inventory Adjustment messages to S4.

Bristlecone

Ariba SCC Supply Chain Collaboration\MM Functional Lead January 2019- December 2019

• Responsible for gathering functional requirements for PO Collaboration project and integrating Ariba SCC through CIG.

• Configuring Quality Notifications Q6 for Customer Complaints and Q7 Vendor complaints for Defect Resolution.

• Worked on setting up off PO Collaboration process ie, Order Confirmation, Ship Notice(ASN) and Invoice for Buyer and working with Buyer integrator.

• Worked on Ariba CIG setup for SAP ECC and Ariba system integration.

• Configuring Ariba SCC for Order Confirmation, Ship Notice and Invoice.

• Well versed with EDI configuration and Idoc types relating to Order Confirmation, Ship Notice and Invoice.

• Tested End to End Process relating to Ariba SCC PO Collaboration.

• Worked with 3PL Freight Forwarder on Logistics Execution i.e. Shipping, Route Determination & SAP Transportation Management.

• Created BPP Documents & Functional Design documents. Calumet Specialty Products Partners LLP

Employer: Accenture

SAP MM/IM S4 Hana 1709

September 2017-December 2018

• Acted as liaison between client and functional teams/support groups. Interacted with the business supply chain stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their problems & needs.

• Worked with Stake holders on S4 Hana post go live support in the areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management, Sub contracting, Third Party, consignment, External Procurement- Stock Transports, Requisitions, info records, Shipments, Receiving and Master Data.

• Participated in planning and coordinating all phases of Full Life cycle.

• Worked with 3PL Freight Forwarder on Logistics Execution ie Shipping, Route Determination, & SAP Transportation Management.

• Trouble shooting MM production support issues related to S4 Hana Sourcing & Procurement.

• Performed root cause analysis to determine process or solution deficiencies. Escalated defects and duction issues for remediation.

ULTA Beauty

Lead SAP MM Analyst

SAP R/3 ECC Version 6.0

Bolingbrook IL

February 2016- August 2017

• Served as IT System Matter Expert (SME) for the Merchandise Planning Systems within SAP.

• Provided overall functional and technical guidance, leadership and solid execution of Merchandise Planning projects and processes

• Provided Functional and Technical Design oversight and coordination of activities across multiple teams and areas in support of SAP Master Data,(Purchase Info Records, Source Lists), Inventory Management, Purchasing, MRP requirements planning,Forecast and Replenishment Planning, Pricing and Delivery processing.

• Lead end-to-end design from project conception through deployment; manage solution design reviews, project gateway approval, security deployment and overall project’s solution design.

• Lead project team’s Functional, Technical and configuration responsibility for SAP modules to support ULTA’s Merchandise Planning systems ie JDA Space and Floor Planning.

• Integrated 3PL Freight forwarders by testing EDI transactions for Delivery and ASN. Defined strategies for storage type, bin search, put away and removal strategies

• Configured organization structure of warehouse management i.e. warehouse, storage type, storage section and storage bins.

R&B Foods Inc

MT Prospect, IL

SAP R/3 SD ECC Version 6.0

January 2015 – January 2016

I am currently a SAP Order to Cash project lead for Ragu & Bertoli global SAP implementation. The client manufactures famous Ragu brand of pasta sauce and Bertoli which makes white sauce As a lead of the core team for SAP R/3 OTC implementation I am involved in the following activities

• Translate business requirements into SAP functional and configuration requirements.

• Providing high level estimates for design and implementation efforts. The work included defining various organizational units (sales organization, distribution channel, division etc) & assigning them to each other so as to accurately reflect the organization structure.

• Creation of new SD Order type, item categories & schedule line categories to map the Customer requirements.

• Configuring Route Determination, shipping point, & transportation zones.

• Worked with 3PL Freight forwarders i.e. carrier selection & optimization integrated with SAP TM.

• Worked with Shipment and Transportation costs.

• Project lead for setting up of Canadian plant in ECC & Configured Batch determination for Canadian plant.

• Configuring pricing procedures with associated condition types, condition tables, access sequences for automatic pricing during sales order processing and billing stage.

• Testing Sales Order scenarios for fuel surcharge, supply chain efficiency and promotion condition types

• Provided EDI support for customers, internal users and EDI vendors. I am well versed with troubleshooting IDOC failures and EDI configuration of customers and Partner profile set up. Chico's FAS Inc.

SAP R/3 MM ECC Version 6.0

July 2013 – December 2014 Fort Myers, Florida Area Chico’s is a prominent woman’s clothing retailer nation-wide. I am involved as a Sr Manager for IS RETAIL MM. My roles and responsibilities are given below.

• Responsible for Full life cycle implementation of MM Module: business blueprint, realization, final preparation and finally go live & support using ASAP methodology.

• Managed & Hired resources for implementing and supporting the IS Retail implementation.

• Mentored Resources and set up goals and deadlines for the project.

• Planned departmental expense and managed capital budget for the IS Retail project.

• Set up plant parameters for inventory management, tolerance limit on goods issues and receipts.

• Configured MM Module such as defining and assigning various components of the company and material master data, info records, source lists, purchasing and inventory management.

• Worked on GI/GR for Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Stock transport orders, Inbound and Outbound deliveries.

• Worked extensively on all scenarios of Stock Transfer Order and Stock Transfer.

• Configured Purchasing process including RFQ/Quotation, Contract, Scheduling Agreement, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order and special procurement processes.

• Configured goods receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks such as consignment, third party and sub-contracting.

• Carried out spilt valuation of materials based on valuation category and valuation types, eg high quality and low quality.

Target April 2012- June 2013

SAP R/3 MM ECC Version 6.0

Target is a prominent retailer expanding into Canada with new stores scheduled to open in 2013.I am involved in a IS Retail implementation project involved in production support. Roles & Responsibilities

• Subject Matter expert in core material management processes in SAP IS Retail functionality

• Configured and worked on production support tickets dealing with Assortment Management, Listing, Article Hierarchy, Merchandise Category, Layout modules and layout module versions.

• Configured Retail pricing, Promotions, Markdown rules and types and Bonus Buy functionality.

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting Batch job failures for Article Hierarchy, Merchandise Category Hierarchy, Article Master and Vendor Master.

• Configured Article Master Data (Article groups, Article types, field selection groups) and Vendor Master Data (Account groups, field status for vendor account groups, partner determination schema, partner functions) Site Master data and Site Grouping.

• Configured partner profiles for Advance Shipping Notification (856) Purchase Orders (850) Purchase Order/Change/Cancel, Purchase Order Confirmations (870).

• Worked with the master data team on updating Purchasing info records and source lists.

• Worked with Master data team on developing a BPP for Master Data Retail Article checklists which would be used as a template and a reference document for the master data team to create new articles.

• Created reference articles for Stores and Distribution channels.

• Configured core MM processes in P2P cycle RFQ/Quotation PR, PO, Goods receipt.

• Configured Inventory Management of goods at the point of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks such as consignment, pipeline, stock transfers, third party and sub-contracting.

• Completed SIT Testing for Purchase Orders, Stock Transfer Orders, Inbound and Outbound deliveries.

• Worked on Logistics Invoice verification i.e., 3 way match and 2 way match.

• Configured and utilized movement types, cycle counting in the physical inventory, and posting the cycle count variance.

• Transitioned knowledge of fresh SAP IS Retail implementation from Delivery team to support team

• Identifying design gaps and proposing solutions.

• Coordinating sessions working closely with offshore team.

• Troubleshooting MM Automatic Batch Determination issues.

• Attending and restoring production issues within defined SLA.

• Identifying & deployed fixes in production within defined SLA.

• Worked with offshore resources to complete development tasks.

• Participating in Release meetings with development and Business teams. Cargill

SAP R/3 SD ECC Version 6.0 May 2011 – March 2012

Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. I served as a design lead at Cargill.

Responsibilities & Contribution:

AS SAP SD Team Member my responsibilities in Order to Cash arena.

• Troubleshooting SD related configuration tickets and working on resolving defects.

• Configured Pricing Procedure and conditions according to Business requirements.

• Prototyping, Configuring, Testing, Extensive Key-user Training.

• Customized and configured GTM contracts, Quantity, Value and Service contracts The following components in SD are covered;

Master Data – Customer, Material, Pricing conditions, Scheduling Agreements, & Return Orders.

Order Processing – Order Types such as Inquiry, Quotation, Special Sales orders, and Consignment sales.

Logistics Execution – WM managed Delivery, Picking, Packing, Shipping Document, and PGI.

Configured Billing Document Types & Delivery Document Types and copy controls for Billing & Delivery documents.

Basic functions – Pricing, Account determination, Partner determination, Output determination, Text determination.

CGI, Chicago October 2009 - May 2011

SAP R/3 FI ECC Version 6.0

CGI is a leading Canadian Information Technology Solutions provider. I am a Lead Analyst at CGI leading the team responsible for implementing and supporting the IS Retail Implementation. Here are my responsibilities

• Configured financial accounting global settings like company code, company, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, document number ranges, field status variant, field status groups, tolerance limits for employees.

• Configured chart of accounts (Global & Local), GL account groups and retained earnings account.

• Configured and customized General Ledger, creation of G/L accounts, screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, financial statement version, validation and substitutions.

• Supported in setting up company codes, chart of account, positing variants, fiscal year variants, foreign currencies, cost element accounting, cost centers accounting, internal orders, and profit centers.

• Provided configuration support in SD, MM integration for account determination, material movement setup, and inter-company billing.

• Configured Automatic payment program – sending Co code, payment co. code, payment methods at country level, house banks, ranking order, account amounts levels, check lots. Made requirement settings for check printing, cash discount and Defined reason codes for void checks.

• Accounts Payable Vendor Masters, Incoming Invoices, Payment Program, Check management, Down Payment, Recurring Entries, Invoice Verification, MM Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR Clearing

• Accounts Receivable Customer Masters, Incoming Payments, Handling of Discounts & Rebates, Detailed Revenue Account Determination (SD), Credit Management, Dunning, Correspondence, Clearing open Items.

• Provided configuration support in MM integration for account determination using OBYC, OMWB

• Configured MM interface relating to invoice verification and account determination

• Assisted in testing transactions for GL, AR, AP, CO, CCA on training client for individual transactions. Heartland Farms March 2008 - October 2009

City of Industry, CA

SAP R/3 SD Version 4.7

Heartland farms is Southern California’s leading Dairy & Beverage producer. I am involved as a SAP functional lead person for gathering functional requirements. I am responsible for

• Developing and documenting business requirements.

• Configuration experience in SD (including order/shipment processing, billing, pricing and rebates, DSD (direct store delivery)

• Extensive knowledge of SAP master data including Material, Customer, Vendor and GL and chart of Accounts.

• Worked with DSD process handheld device Norand. DSD backend system and DSD connector cockpit.

• Configured Visit Plans, Visit lists in DSD functionality.

• Training personnel on Route settlement process

• Lead person for coordinating integration testing process, Working with business users to develop test plan, test scripts and testing scenarios for their functional area.

• Migration experience of SD master data from legacy to SAP system using conversion programs- LSMW

• Prepared Training material and Documentation for sales order process cycle,

• Prepared Power point presentations for Sales order processing, Delivery processing and Customer Master.

Magellan GPS Inc,

San Dimas, CA October 2007- March 2008

SAP R/3 SD Version 4.7

Magellan is a leader in the consumer, survey, GIS and OEM GPS navigation and positioning markets. Magellan went live on SAP on August 1st 2007. I am involved as a SAP SD Team Member, responsible for Order to Cash production support.

• Mapping Business processes, Scenarios and Rules into SAP

• Preparing Functional specification for enhancing SD Credit memo calculation.

• Configured and Created Rebate Agreements for testing of SD credit memo calculation.

• Coordinating with other team members like FI/CO & MM.

• Making end user presentation on specific scenarios. The following components in SD are covered;

Master Data – Customer, Material, BOM, Pricing, Etc

Order Processing - Third party order, Return order processing Standard order processing and complaints processing, Inter-company sales process, Free of charge Delivery Sales, Shipping & Billing.

Basic functions - Availability check, Transfer of Requirements, Output, Account Determination, Material Determination and Copy control.

• Worked extensively on IDOC’s Worked on EDI Process (X.12: 830,862,850,855,856,810)

• Testing configuration changes in Quality before moving to Production.

• Extensive knowledge in partner profile, message types and output determination with respect to EDI messages, sales order, invoice delivery and shipping notifications.

• Worked extensively on resolving Delivery related IDOC failures.

• Trouble shooting for Sales Order Management, Distribution, storage locations, shipping, Billing, copy controls and maintenance of master records such as Customer master, condition records for pricing

• Configured output determination for customer invoicing. Tellabs, Naperville, IL October 2005 – September 2007 SAP R/3 SD Version 4.7

Project Description:

Tellabs manufactures Telecom equipment which enable service providers to deliver high quality, voice, video and data services over wireless networks around the world. I have been involved in System and Integration testing following the Tellabs Enterprise Applications Testing process to assist Tellabs with Vertex Testing. My responsibilities included:

• Preparation of test strategy documents, requirements testability analysis, integration and system test plan and test scripts.

• Worked with Variant Configuration with a Make to Order scenario.

• Estimate system tests cases, timeliness and documentation of system.

• Requirement satisfaction matrix and manual validation of test results.

• Generation of test result summary reports, executing tests and reporting defects using Clearquest software.

• Conducting performance testing and UAT testing through development of manual test scripts for SD test scripts.

• Network monitoring and result analysis.

• Create & maintain all order types such as OR and EDI orders.

• Release and confirm production orders.

• Create deliveries and PGI deliveries.

• Create invoices and Pro forma invoices.

• Follow up on account assignments, which are finance, check points in manual SD test scripts.

• Worked on EDI process 850, 855, 856, and 830.

• Analyze and monitor business processes from order entry through delivery shipping and billing to ensure effectiveness.

Medrad, Indianola PA Jan 2004 to Sept 2005

SAP R/3 Version 4.6c

SAP SD/MM Functional Consultant

(Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Project Description:

MEDRAD manufactures and supplies surgical products and Medicines. As a part team responsible for full implementation of SAP SD, I have been involved with the following:

• Redesigned /re-engineered SAP 3.1 to 4.6c Order to Cash Process.

• Designed and configured clients SAP Organization Structure; to include new company code structure, New Sales areas and Plants.

• Configured MM organizational structure like creation & assignment of company, company code, plant, storage locations & purchase organization.

• Maintained Customer Account Groups, Partner, Text and Tax determination procedures.

• Configured SD modules in setting up document types, item categories. Scheduled line categories, and copy control of sales document types to billing and delivery documents.

• Configured sales documents including Quotation/Inquiry, Orders, Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Delivery, and Billing types.

• Configured Customer Master, Material Master, Vendor Master, Condition Master, and customer - material info master records according to business requirements.

• Configured Movement types in Inventory Management module.

• Configured Material Types & Control Data, Material Groups

• Configured Release procedure with classification for purchase requisitions & purchase orders.

• Created & Maintenance of all Master Data like MM with Different field selection, Vendor Master with different account group, Info record, Source List and Vendor Evaluation.

• Creation of all Transactional process like PR & RFQ, Maintain RFQ, PO, Scheduling Agreements, Delivery Schedules, Contracts, Service Orders, GRN, MIRO, Reservation, GI etc.

• Configuration & Customization of Purchase Requisitions,Purchase Orders, Outline Agreements, Service Contracts, Conditions, Purchase Information records & Quota Arrangements.

• Processed Transfer postings, Stock Transfers into SAP systems.

• Configured Return order processing orders, Credit / Debit memos and accounting.

• Configured Rebate agreements in Billing.

• Involved in Pricing Configuration and revenue account determination (VKOA) LE-Shipping and resource related billing.

• Configured Third party sales order process.

• Worked with Revenue Recognition.

• Configured Automatic Account Determination

• Configured Credit management i.e. simple credit check and dynamic credit check.

• Configured Checking Groups and Checking Rule for ATP.

• Documented Order to Cash process and user training.

• Migrated data from legacy systems to SAP Systems: Material, Customer, Vendor, Customer Hierarchy and Source Lists.

• Demonstrated High quality consulting effort that added to client’s satisfaction ratings and enabled team to establish credibility with key customer executives.

• Performed Quality Assurance and integration testing. BOSCH REXROTH CORP. Hoffman Estates, IL Aug. 2002-Dec. 2003 SAP SD Internal Consultant Version 4.6c

Project Description:

BOSCH REXROTH Corp. is a Manufacturer of industrial hydraulics, machinery drives and controls. Bosch Rexroth was in the beginning phases of implementing full functionality with SAP across their business sites in the US, Canada and Mexico. As one of two SD team members within internal SAP Regional Competency Center (RCC), responsibilities encompassed all project aspects within SD module and business functionality at all sites to be implemented over the next 3-4 years. Successfully implemented pilot site in Bethlehem, PA on January 6, 2003. In May, second implementation in Fountain Inn was rolled out, SC, scheduled to go live on March 1, 2004. Implemented 4.6c using a global template developed by Bearing Point especially for Bosch Rexroth. Responsibilities included:

• Collected business requirements and generated requirement specifications sets for sales and distribution during Business Blueprint phase. Identified gaps, analyze gaps and suggest solution to address gaps.

• Developed, Implemented, and refined business process for sales department and developed flowchart using MS Visio.

• Cooperated with SAP consultant to analyze, prototype, test and implement SD functionality using SAP IMG.

• Configured Enterprise structure, such as Company code, Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, plant, and storage location.

• Developed, coordinated and monitored implementation plan and training schedule with SAP consultants

• Configured shipping process (delivery type and item category) and route determination (such as departure zone and transportation group).

• Setup and tested business scenarios in SD module, including billing, pricing, delivery, credit memo, debit memo, and output.

• Conducted Profitability Analysis and Mapping.

• Customized enhancements through user exits.

• Worked on BOMs explosion.

• Prepared and upload master data to SAP R/3 using BDC.

• Developed 3 levels user-based and web-based training documents using InfoPak and MS PowerPoint.

• Created and provided end user training to key users in various sub-modules of SD.

• Provided daily support during go-live and post go-live. EDUCATION:

Adelphi University, MBA,1999

Delhi University, Bachelor of Arts, 1997

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