Gokul Thiru

Senior SAP SD/EDI Consultant **** Luke Court, Antioch, TN

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Summary:

** ***** ** ** ********** with 8 years of SAP SD, LE, MM and EDI functional Consultant with full life cycle implementation as well as enhancement and support projects with strong functional background.

Demonstrated history of working in Auto, Oil & Gas, Electronics, Agrochemical, Roofing Biotechnology, Multinational Distribution, Building Solutions & Air Springs industry.

Expertise with business process analysis, complete system configuration, requirements and gap analysis, integration testing with modules like FICO, MM, LE, CRM and FIORI with SD.

Extensive experience in recognizing and capturing the business requirements and converting them to functional & technical specs

Performed Production support by fixing issues as per Service level agreement, handling development requests, enhancements and modifications.

Working experience in ALE/EDI-IDoc/BAPI/Proxy/File/XML/HANA Sidecar Interfaces, ALE enhancements, IDoc extension & reduction. Extensive experience in mapping IDoc & EDI Document formats and monitoring message exchange.

Worked on integrating the SD interfaces with middleware like IBM WebSphere Process Server (WPS), SAP PI/PO, Gentran and Sterling Integrator.

Effectively collaborate with the business organizations and Technical/Development teams to identify the root cause of problems and propose solutions.

Ability to develop Test scenarios and expected results based on the user/system requirements. Execute test scripts and resolve the errors.

Expertise in Master Data configuration including Material Master, Customer Master, Pricing Master, Output and text determination master data.

Configuration experience involving Enterprise Structure, Sales Documents, Sales item category, Shipping point determination, account determination, partner determination, text determination and output determination, Availability check, customer and material master data set up.

Worked on Pricing, account groups setting, Condition technique, Rebate, Consignment Process, Deliveries, shipment configuration, and Billing.

Good Knowledge on working with intercompany billing sales, intra stock transport order intercompany stock transfer order processes, export process.

Worked extensively in ABAP/4 with ALV, BAPI and SmartForms/SAPscript.

Configured Business Framework rules (BRF) in Sales order User exists at Header, Line, Schedule and Save.

Intricate experience with SAP technical upgrade project.

Good working Experience in User Exits and BADIs, and experience using ABAP/4, BDC, LSMW data migration tool and Dialog Programming.

Worked closely with project team members, end-users, management and Basis to provide long-term solutions to the business requirements.

Experience in developing training curriculum and deploying intensive training for end-users.

Sharp in understanding existing business processes with attention to details, good communicator, team player and a nice personality.

Professional Experience:

Client: Bridgestone/Firestone, Nashville, TN Oct 2018 to till date

Role: SAP SD/LE Team Lead

Company: Fujitsu America

Manage a team of 11 – 3 Onsite and 8 Offshore with different specialization like Vistex, Warranty, EDI, Monitoring along with core SD/LE resources.

Developed OTC road map for the quarter/annual incorporating critical milestones, future plans like S/4HANA implementation

Analyzed and recommended business process improvements across multiple landscape based on latest technology.

Suggested new tools towards automation and performance improvement without impacting the business.

Oversee the design and development of projects/ enhancement in SD landscape involving Interfaces through middleware for different applications.

Maintain compliance with all standard policies along with JSOX process (Japanese Sarbanes–Oxley Act)

Developed and delivered business user training for new features & applications.

Formulated automated test script recommendations to senior IT leadership and QA team for significant reduction in project/enhancement cost and production issue.

Working with SAP Hybris developer to replace existing Bridgestone order portal and extend existing output functionality to minimize cost.

Part of weekly Change Advisory board (CAB) to monitor all the approvals of Enhancement request, projects and production changes.

Working on new initiative to implement RPA in all Bridgestone system and getting trained in UI Path tool.

Client: Bridgestone, Nashville, TN Sep 2012 to Sep 2018

Role: Senior SAP SD Consultant

Company: Fujitsu America

Involved in Configuration/Code Change/Production support for addressing company specific issues in order management, delivery and billing areas (OTC) of sales and distribution module.

Worked on setting up order processing through third party system like Entirenet, Costco.com, Amazon, IVR and other third-party system

Configured Available to promise setup in SAP to call JDA OP for integrated distributed planning.

Worked on the configuration required for ALE/EDI, like Partner Profiles, Inbound and Outbound Message Controls for sales orders, scheduling agreements, invoices, shipments and deliveries

Maintained the setup and corrected IDoc’s for EDI 850/855/860/862/830/810/856/858.

Sales/Services provided by dealer to customer was configured in SAP in form of debit/credit memo process which is a high-volume process.

Setup the process to upload PDF’s + Invoice information into third party system for a special business requirement.

Created a BAPI to activate real time authorized to buy call from customers using pricing procedure techniques.

Worked for the full lifecycle implementation from scoping, project preparation, business blue printing, realization, go-live.

Involved in the GAP analysis and blueprint creation of the business process.

Designed and configured master data according to the business needs.

Defined number ranges for customer master record and the sales document.

Configuration of various Account Groups as per customer classification, and defined partner functions, Maintaining Partner Determination Procedures in various objects such as Customer Masters, Sales Document Header & Item, delivery, billing docs etc.

Configuration of Route and maintaining the Route determination. Configured the delivery processing, picking, and packing and Goods issue functions.

Integration with MM and FICO on Creation of Third Party Order Processing, Inter-Company Order, and Inter-Company Stock Transport Order, Revenue Account Determination and Credit Management.

Configured transportation planning, shipping points and Shipping point determination as per the storage locations and plants. Also, worked on defining transportation zones and document settings.

Configured Customer master, material master, contract management and pricing.

Configuration of Third Party Order processing, Delivery and Billing.

Defining and controlling of different order types, order reasons, item categories, item category groups and schedule line categories.

Created Standard Pricing Procedure with different Discounts/ Surcharges/ Rebates using Condition Tables, Condition Types, Access Sequence and Pricing Procedure Determination.

Configured Condition Exclusion for particular customer groups to get best price. Pricing also included Material Price, Price List, Customer Specific Prices.

Configuration of Shipping and Transportation activities – Processing Deliveries, Shipping Information & Analysis, Batch Splits, Transportation Planning and Scheduling, Route Determination – defining route, modes of transport, shipping types, routes, stages and transportation zones.

Set up Sales & Distribution Organizational structure and various basic functions in S&D: Partner Determination, Pricing, Master data, Inquiry, Quotation, Sales Order, Delivery, Billing Documents, and Invoice.

Configuration of Consignment Fill Up, Consignment Issue & Consignment Pickups Orders and processes.

Configured shipment costs processing by defining the shipment cost types, item categories and number ranges for shipment costs.

Configured output determination to meet specific requirements.

Defined and assigned text types in customizing for sales and distribution, so that the end user can enter quotation and Inquiry texts.

Worked on Setting up Copy controls and Incompletion procedures.

Provided support through root cause analysis, break fixes, enhancements and customizations.

Worked as a liaison between users, business owners, and technical team.

Designed functional and technical specifications to guide programmers in developing the code.

Involved in Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Functional Integration Testing, Volume Testing and Performance Testing. Preparation of Unit Test Plans and Integration of Test Plans. Execution of test plans and result recordings. Tested the configurations, enhancements and customizations rigorously before sending to UAT.

Supported all the LE interfaces for Shipment creation, Picking process through Highjump, Deletion of unplanned deliveries, PGI, Custom Brokers,

Client: Monsanto, St. Louis, MO Aug 2012 to Sep 2012

Role: SAP SD Data Archiving Consultant

Company: Stockell Consulting

Identified tables and business objects which are legal according to the business data retention requirements.

Used standard archiving object under transaction code SARA to perform the archiving process.

Scheduled background jobs to write archive files for Sales Documents in production mode

Deleted the Sales documents once the file has been successfully archived in the storage location.

All the processes were tested in Quality system and followed the approval process before production execution.

Client: Bridgestone, Nashville, TN Jan 2012 to Aug 2012

Role: SAP SD/BI Business Analyst

Company: IBM

Designed functional and technical specifications to guide BW developer in developing the code.

Extensively worked on Query Designer and WebI to create Queries to forecast Material, Customer, Sales, Orders, Billing and delivery analysis using Restricted Key Figures, Calculated Key Figures, Variables, filters and exceptions.

Developed reports on SAP Business Objects(BOBJ) and Scheduled to run by Daily, Weekly, Monthly and quarterly

Build query on the Universe and scheduled the output report to all Users through Email

Designed reports in Analyzer and Advanced analyzer according to the User Requirements.

Tested all the functionalities once the development is completed.

Created Cab request to move the changes from Quality to Production.

Created defect on HP Quality center according to the Business needs.

Involved in documentation and end-user training

Client: Maxum Petroleum, Oklahoma City, OK Dec 2011 to Jan 2012

Role: SAP SD-Data Migration Analyst

Company: Utopia

Gathered conversion requirements from key stakeholders and translates them to a comprehensive data solution design.

Worked on mapping, conversion, validation, look up and enrichment of legacy data into SAP format.

Uploaded the data using LSMW – Standard batch/ Direct Input methodology

Provides the Business and Power Users with the pre-load and post validation documents on source data and transformation.

Extensively worked on performance tuning to minimize the data load process time.

Client: Tech Data, Clearwater, FL July 2011 to Nov 2011

Role: SAP SD-Data Migration Analyst

Company: Utopia

Designed development specifications to guide BODI developers in developing mapping integration.

Worked extensively on Customer Master, Material Master and Sales Orders in uploading using LSMW

Maintained and updated conversion plan for Data team.

Developed and maintained processes, requirements, and documentation for data conversion activities and objects.

Coordinated with the offshore team to load the data into SAP.

Led data conversion team meetings to maximize communication for all data conversion activities.

Ensured all requirements for data conversions objects were tested, completed, and delivered on time.

Mapped legacy systems fields and tables in SAP to map Sales order and returns conversions.

Translate business requirements into SAP functional and configuration requirements.

Participated in end user training.

Company: Fitness Technologies, Hackensack, NJ Nov 2009 to June 2011

Role: Information Technology Specialist

Maintained the Company’s Order Management System which is a Generic solution that allows Fitness Technologies to deliver products to end-user efficiently and inexpensively.

This has a web enabled User Interface, which in turn provides integration of embedded pages, navigation function and the order track systems.

The Entire System Handles Inventory, Billing, Order Management, Account Management, Administration and provisioning.

Uploaded products into other sites like Amazon, eBay and used automatic shipping labels to process order immediately.

Used Google AdSense and AdWords to market products and added promotional rate as additional strategy.

Education Master of Science in Computer Science, May 2011

Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, May 2009

Anna University, Chennai, India

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