PRADEEP SIVAGURUNATHAN

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Summary

Over 14 years of experience in SAP Fashion Retail processes which includes Project experience in Fashion Management retail, manufacturing, chemical, automobiles and services industries

SAP S4 HANA, SAP FMS, SAP IS Retail, SAP IS Auto, SAP Certified with implementation and support experience

IT operations management, organizational change management, system implementations, roll outs and onsite-offshore resource management.

Conducting workshops to gather the business requirements, analyzing the client’s as-is business process and mapping it to to-be business processes by identifying the gaps.

Meeting with business process owners and departmental heads to identify the business requirement.

Preparing business process documents, functional requirement specifications (FRSs) with dataflow diagram for all of the business processes to be included in FRSs.

Prepared functional specification for the development of Reports, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement, and Forms. Prepared unit test scripts and checklist to be included in the functional specification.

Responsible for team deliverables as per SOW, providing RCA for incidents and risk management

Application Knowledge

SAP S/4 Fashion

SAP FMS

SAP Is- Retail

SAP SD (Certified)

SAP Is-Auto (VMS)

SOLMAN

HPQC,QTP

Microsoft Certified Professional

MS Office Suite

SAP VC

Listing, assortments, layout modules, exclusion, rack jobber modules

Pricing, promotions, bonus buys, merchandise category, article hierarchy, POS outbound profile, change pointers

Procure to pay process, replenishment, store to store transfers, inventory management

Integration with .com website, article, localized pricing etc.,

IS Retail specific master data setup including article master, site, ref site, POS data, vendor master, info records etc.,

Interface with multiple third party tools using XML services, EDI and flat file transfers. Third party tools like WMS (Manhattan Associates), JDA (assortment management), PPM (Promotion manager), EPISYS (Labeling) etc.,

Order to Cash business process spanning Order Management, Sales Documents, Item Categories, Schedule Line Categories, Availability check (ATP) Pricing, and Output determination

Variant configuration, BOMs, Variant pricing, dependency nets for inferring values and procedures for setting soft defaults, making characteristics invisible and setting values.

Quotation, orders, special orders, SF& I orders, third party orders, return orders and RTV return orders.

Pro forma invoice, billing plan, invoice, credit memo

Integration or order processing with design systems like WTS, CADQUEST, 20-20, depot direct

Data migration tools like LSMW, eCATT etc.,

Technical proficient on debugging and user-exits. Good understanding of ABAP codes.

SAP S4 1909

Retail Lead - Luxottica Retail – Mason, OH – Sep 2019 – Till Date

SAP S4 HANA 1909 Fashion Management

Conversion of existing FMS system to retail system. Multibrand and over 14k stores across the globe.

Customer Vendor Integration – Roadmap for conversion to BP

Impact analysis on Integration to other systems like POS, ECOMM etc.,

Identify impact areas and prepare the roadmap for conversion

Design and implement roadmap for separate org for e-com businesses

SAP S4 1809

Pricing and Promotion Lead Consultant – Levi’s Inc – SFO,CA – Jun 2019 – Sep 2019

SAP S4 HANA 1809 Fashion Management

Global green field implementation of S4 HANA 1809 with model company. The initial rollout is for Mexico.

Responsibility

Workshop As and Workshop Bs using Model company and Activate methodology

Retail Pricing and Promotion design

Leading design sessions, identifying gaps and RICEFs

Integration design with POS

Migration plan for objects and pricing and promotions

SAP S4 1709

Pricing and Promotion Lead Consultant – Tapestry Inc– New York/Newark – Jun 2018 – Jun 2019

SAP S4 HANA 1709 Fashion Management

Global green field implementation of S4 HANA 1709 across 3 brands Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman.

Responsibility

Harmonization, design, configuration and development of pricing module across brands in different geographies

Creation and enhancement of retail pricing types

Migration of MSRP and Markdown prices

Design, configuration of promotion and bonus buys module

Migration and validation of existing data from different systems and regions

Integration of pricing, promotion and bonus buys different POS systems (CS2000, Micros, Aptos) using SAP services

SAP FMS

Procure to Pay Lead - Luxottica Retail – Mason, OH – Dec 2017 – Jun 2018

Oakley Migration Project Dec 17 – Jun 18

FMS, AFS, Fiori

Oakley Migration Project is to migrate from Oakley FMS system to Luxottica FMS system for North America Europe and Asia stores. Over 500 stores in 5 countries.

Responsibility

Master data migration including site master, article master, promotion and bonus buys

Design and migration of variant articles, generic articles, service articles, PIRs, cost condition, site classification, merch hierarchy etc.,

Article, promo and bonus buys integration with POS and POSDM

SAP IS RETAIL

Merchandising/COM Team Lead - The Home Depot– Atlanta – Dec 2010 – Nov 2017

The Home Depot is one of the largest diversified wholesale distributors in the United States, with more than 2000 locations in the United States and Canada offering products and services for building, improving, and maintaining homes, businesses and municipal infrastructures. The Home Depot had sales of $81.5 billion and has been recognized by FORTUNE magazine as the No. 1 Most Admired Specialty Retailer.

Responsibility

SAP IS Retail Merchandising functional area includes Merchandise distribution, Push – Pull, Allocation table, collective PO, assortment planning, listing exclusion, promotion, pricing, article master, vendor master, article hierarchy, competitive shopping etc.,

Lead a team of onsite and offshore consultants for project deliverables and change management.

SAP Master data setup in article, site, ref site, supply source, customer, vendor, info record etc.,

SAP OTC functional area include quotation, order, third party procurement,

Requirement gathering, business blue print, development, unit testing, integration testing and go live of upcoming projects on SAP IS Retail Merchandising functional area.

Working with cross-functional teams.

Identifying and prioritizing change requests for defects and maintenance releases

Follow up testing and go-live phases for smooth data migration

To interact with client and Gathering detailed requirements from functional and business owners.

Projects in SAP IS Retail

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Article Master Portal (AMP) Jan 17 – Nov 17

SAP, UI5, hYBRIS

AMP project is complete transformation of the way business was submitting change requests in SAP. The Merchant Assistants (Mas) were given direct access to hYBRIS/UI5 front end application where they can view the existing data and submit change requests, requests once submitted will be processed in SAP in batchs.

Users can submit single change, mass change and as well as upload using excel. Users will receive status updates till the request is successfully processed. Additionally there were dashboards for the users and Data Management Teams(CDMG) to see the requests submitted/ processed and in error status.

Project was done in agile methodology with 6 sprints. As a lead consultant, was responsible for design to delivery of all applications in this portal.

The portal included the following applications

Article change/status change

Pricing/ Promotions/ Multiplier

PIR create/ change

Customer Order Management (COM) 2.1 Jan 16 – Sep 16

SAP, UI5

The Customer Order Management system for store associate was simplified with a UI5 frontend. Website like design with article, customer and cart. The goal was to create quote with lesser clicks and minimal associate training. Further to the success of COM2.0 business invested in complete package to include end to end Customer Order Management. (Order change, staging, Return, Rework, QOB, Deliveries, Dashboard). Area of responsibility include

Article lookup, BIN search

Near store lookup

Install Articles build in front end (Variant Configuration)

Rapid DC -Jan 2015 – Dec 2015

SAP, SAP F & R, Manhattan WMS

The Home Depot Canadian Distribution Centers were changed to Rapid DCs where the maximum time of product storage is 48 hrs for 90% of products. This involved discovery, process reengineering and co-ordination with thirdparty vendors.

Responsible areas include

Merchandise Distribution, Push – Pull Strategy,

Allocation type, Allocation rule, Distribution Profile, Site Profile

Cross Dock, SLS, Flowthru

Collective PO based on STO and Sales order

Customer Order Management (COM) 2.0 - Oct 2014 – Jan 2015

SAP, UI5

The Customer Order Management system for store associate was simplified with a UI5 frontend. Website like design with article, customer and cart. The goal was to create quote with lesser clicks and minimal associate training.

Article: single field article search (description, article number or UPC), image display, Configuring install (variant configuration) articles.

Customer: Adding/ editing customers, customer quotes/ order, staging quotes

Cart: Order simulation, quantity change, configuration change, simplified header/item discounts, simplified delivery types.

SAP JDA Integration – Feb 2014 – Sep 2014

SAP, JDA, XI

Space planning is done in JDA. Assortments in SAP are automatically created based on JDA space planning. Manual assortment maintenance in SAP reduced. Daily article feed sent to JDA and daily assortment feed received from JDA.

Shelf capacity is received from JDA and transferred to F&R system for accurate replenishment.

Current POG, Future POG, Clearance POG, Holding POG

Article lifecycle Automation – Dec 2013 – Mar 2014

SAP

Status and RP type changes for many scenarios were automated. Under Development(UD) to Active (A), Clearance (C) to Discontinued(D) and Discontinued (D) to Exit(E). Appropriate RP types are also updated. Business process for each lifecycle change is identified and automation put in place. The data maintenance effort was drastically reduced.

Eco Fee Project – Jul 2013 – Nov 2013

SAP, POS, XI, BI

Many provinces in Canada charge Eco Fee for non-eco-friendly products. The project addressed the following eco fee processes.

Eco fee data maintenance, Eco fee chargeable/non chargeable, Eco fee article – fee relationship.

Eco fee calculation in SAP, website and POS

BI Eco fee sales report based on which Eco Fee are paid to concern government departments.

Pay by Scan – Mar 2013 – Aug 2013

SAP, POS, BI

Pay by Scan is an industry accepted merchandising type that allows the retailer to remove the cost of inventory, the cost of inventory management, warehousing, and replenishment while pushing the responsibility of that inventory, the inventory mix and ultimately the shelf management back onto the Vendor.

Vendor managed articles such as live goods and magazines are paid per POS scan. With this project the pay by scan article handling were automated. These articles are held in rack jobber module for each vendor. EDI 852 sent to vendor daily. Invoice is generated based on sales

Electronic Supplier Buying Agreement (ESBA) – Jan 2012 – Feb 2013

SAP, SAP Portal

Online tool that allows vendors to submit an SBA for approval electronically. Online tool accommodate amendments to an existing SBA. Addition/maintenance of Addendums to SBA (e.g. Supply Chain). Automatic creation of the vendor and related cost conditions in SAP. Electronic Storage and easy retrieval of the documents (including historical SBAs and Addendums). Workflow tool to ensure appropriate completion, sequencing, and approval of key milestones in the SBA process.

Website integration with SAP – Jan 2011 – Dec 2011

SAP, XI, Nurun, STIBO

Integration of .ca business with SAP. SAP will be system of records. Article (EDI 832), price/promotion, market, assortment information sent to website. Creation of new business channel and site. Direct ship, 3PL, BOPIS and BORIS. Localized assortment and pricing to show accurate store pricing in website.

Infosys Technologies Limited

SD Consultant – MBV Team - Daimler AG – Singapore– Apr 2008 – March 2010

Daimler AG is one the key and biggest accounts for Infosys that covers the support of SAP and other related systems across the globe for Daimler markets. It uses the SAP Wholesale Template (SWT) designed on SAP IS Auto with Vehicle Management System. SWT was implemented in Mercedes Benz Vietnam (MBV).

Responsibility

SD consultant for full life cycle of the project i.e., form process confirmation, business blue print, GAP analysis, realization, unit testing, user acceptance test, migration and post-go live support.

Creating new interface for data flow to COMSYS system.

Confirming to knowledge management and change management processes.

As migration coordinator prepared migration document.

Worked on LSMW for data migration.

Trained key user and supervised end user training.

Crating few custom reports for sales team.

Patni Computer Systems Limited

SAP Consultant – Order to Cash Team -Rohm and Haas- – Mumbai – Feb 2007- Feb 2008

Rohm and Haas is a global pioneer in development of innovative technologies and solutions for the specialty and performance materials. The company’s technologies are found in a wide range of markets including building and construction, electronics, food and retail, household and personal care, industrial process, packaging, paper, transportation and water. Based in Philadelphia, has more than 100 facilities with operations in 27 countries including India.

Responsibility

Production support consultant in Order to Cash (OTC) process area handling issues relating order, delivery and billing including consignment process, third party orders, intercompany sales etc.,

Creation and modification of batch jobs for deliveries and invoices

Creation of new plant work flows

Testing for enhancement related issues

Interacting with cross-functional teams

Raising OSS messages incase we need SAP’s assistance.

Provide solution for queries logged by the client

Advise users on how to perform specific processes or tasks within the system

Configure SAP - current and new functionality

Exposure of creating test cases using SCATT

Additional responsibility to review and enhance the Monthly Build and Weekly Build Testing for OTC (Order to Cash) functional area.

Exposure to Mercury Quality Centre 9.0 (Test Management Tool) and Quick Test Professional (Functionality testing tool)

Siemens Ltd

Executive – Marketing – Siemens Ltd – Chennai – July 2004 – Dec 2006

Responsibility include Customer relations, negotiating technically and commercially acceptable solutions for products in the Power Transmission & Distribution areas including tendered businesses, market study, interface with Works, MIS, etc.

Execution of the order, involving interfacing with factory, client and consultant for various milestones like drawing submission, drawing approval, inspection and dispatch.

Responsible for spares and services business in southern region

Knowledge of taxation in India. Excise Duty, Sales Tax, Form-C etc.,

Milestones

‘On the Spot award’ for excellence in project deliverables

Awarded 3rd prize for the project titled “Automatic Generation of Spares Offer” at ‘All India Trainee Engineer Seminar’.

Acquisition and execution of the largest regional order of the year - 2005.

Participated and won many prizes in inter college events

Academics

SAP – Order Fulfillment Certification

81%

Jan 2007

Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics)

74%

Apr 2004

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