SAP SD/OTC S* HANA Consultant – Karthik Kapula

Summary:

Senior SAP SD/Retail/OTC/MM consultant nearly 9+ years of experience from implementation, enhancements, support, testing and providing business solutions in the functional areas of Sales & Distribution.

Worked extensively in Variant configuration designing the complex models.

Part of S4 HANA activate methodology implementation project team.

Experienced in SAP-AFS Implementation in two major brands.

Involved in RPA (Robotic Process Automation) implementation of Profit center/cost center and site.

Business partner creation along with customer master & vendor master configurations

Business partner grouping defining and assignment to the customer master & vendor master account group & Number range configurations

SAP ACTIVATE Methodology implemented for the System conversion From ECC 6.0 to S4 HANA 1709 version

Worked on conversion of customer to Business partner master data as part of preparation phase.

Actively involved in business requirement workshops in explore phase.

Worked in 3 Full Life-cycle implementation Projects and 1 support project.

Expertise in AS-IS analysis and TO-BE design solutions.

BRF+ Methodology to determine output in the billing documents and PO document

Worked closely with Business Management and Be Modeling and GAP Analysis.

Coordinated with ABAP Team in development and tested the RICEFW.

Logistics Execution (LE) & Supply Chain Optimization: Delivery split rules at creation, delivery due list, output configuration, copy control, picking, packing, batch-determination, bar-code scanning, shipment processing, route determination, shipping instructions, shipping conditions, output determination and Warehouse Management.

Configuration experience in SD: Master data such as customer master data, material master data & conditional master data, enterprise structure definition & assignment, order to cash cycle (OTC) such as order management, delivery, shipping & billing, intercompany process and ATP.

Worked on Developing/Executing test scenarios and test cases. Hands on experience in Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and Quality Assurance, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Go-Live, Data Migration/Data Record, and Post Production Support.

Functional expertise: Pre-sales activities such as inquiry and quotation, and major business activities such as Pricing, Billing, Shipping, Transportation, Availability check (ATP), Credit Management, Partner Determination, Output Determination, Bill of Materials and Variant Configuration.

Worked on LSMW, IDOCS, EDI and ALE in mapping and converting data formats for various fields in SD Scenarios.

Worked extensively on new pricing procedures using condition table, access sequence, condition types, condition Technique and assigning condition types to pricing procedures & various business requirements, conditions records upload pricing masters billing types.

Billing: Configured SD Billing function such as Billing Document Type collective billing, periodic billing, and billing according to customer schedule, Pro forma Invoices, inter-company billing, and delivery related billing, contract billing, credit memo and debit memo.

Professional Work Experience:

Tapestry - MckinSol, North Bergen, NY Sep2018 – Till Date

SAP SD/OTC/Master Data S/4 HANA Consultant

Customization of Super BOM & Super Task lists for Variant Materials, Using of Variant Conditions for determining Surcharges & Discounts in Sales & Distribution & Purchasing

Given extended support in the SAP SD/MM module related Issues and developments in case of business urgency.

Working on Agile Methodology for planning, designing and implementation, which includes Pre-Feasibility Study, Initial Preparation, Requirement Gathering Workshops, Business Blueprint Design, preparing Functional Specifications Documents (FSDs), taking Sign-offs, Configuration.

Design, configuration of Master Data elements in MM/SD.

Middleware & Groupware: Replicate Products Master Data, Business Partner Master Data, Pricing Condition & Transactional master data form R/3 to FICO.

Worked on RPA (Robotic process Automation) Site_Customer_Vendor Creation.

Created business scenarios on customer data extraction, vendor master and logon.

Strong process improvement, Data Governance, Master Data synchronization, Data rules for Global implementation and track consistency in maintaining the policies and procedures of various Industrial Clients.

Customer Master data extracting, cleansing, data loading and data validation for master data to prepare for the S4 Hana implementation.

Involved from Realize phase till Run stage on the S4HANA Project 1709 versions

Business partner creation along with customer master & vendor master configurations

Business partner grouping defining and assignment to the customer master & vendor master account group & Number range configurations

SAP ACTIVATE Methodology implemented for the System conversion From ECC 6.0 to S4 HANA 1709 version

Design, implement, and deploy SAP HANA solutions to achieve defined business goals. This position

provides leadership and oversight of the SAP S/4HANA group within newly defined SAP Transformation Organization.

Worked on Copy controls, Item category, Schedule line category, Sales doc types, delivery types and billing types to configure the new process for the client

Ability to drive the HANA support process and ensure compliance of project standards and deliverables.

End-to-End Implementation as SAP S/4 Consultant on S4 HANA Simple Logistics including FIORI interface and customization.

Configuration of the different types of Dependencies for controlling the selection of variants for the configurable material.

Variant functions for checking & maintaining the consistency of values in the tables for the variant materials was done.

Also used Variant Tables as part of pricing methodology.

The Interface is built to handle the Variant configuration data that will be passed from the OMNI (Legacy) Configurator to SAP VC. This is a very complex interface as it needs to handle huge complex configuration across two systems.

Worked on ALE IDOC issues & interface Developments between 2 different sap systems.

Worked on Simple Logistics/S4 HANA technologies and able to strategize with our clients on their HANA migration and Suite on HANA and ERP migration strategies.

Effective requirement gathering, Gap Analysis, Solution design, BBP documentation, and Sign off with Core team.

Involved in complete life cycle of a data migration from DEV TO PROD.

Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP using AIO methodology and also LSMW.

Worked on SAP implementation with International/Domestic clients with Process involving Batch management

Involved in data migration from various corporate systems and interacted with end users and functional consultants.

Developed sales order upload program to create multiple sales orders for the client requirement

Involved in the Form changes, custom report creation, Interfaces, Enhancements, User exits & Routines in sales related objects

Ensuring PO, GR and IR reconciliation between the payment ERP system and other Affiliate systems.

Working with AP Business team to resolve issues related to duplication, reversal and GR/IR mismatches.

Support to end-users in creating the purchase documents, posting Inventory Documents (GR, GI, PI etc. Using different Movement Types) for Materials.

Sulzer Chemtech, Houston, Texas

SAP SD/LE Consultant Jan 2018 – Aug 2018

Worked on Support tickets and interfaces as part of the SAP SD consultant

Worked on three major enhancement small projects and prepared Functional specifications for small and major enhancements from raw business requirements

Involved with SAP Unit Testing for workflow process for SD & MM modules and also with other testing teams.

Master Data Configuration: Created material groups. Item Category

Groups and their assignments, Setup quantity, value, valuation control, and valuation area grouping and valuation classes.

Implemented end-to-end OTC processes for new business group and Configured the relevant sales, delivery and billing document types, item categories, copy control routines, pricing and schedule lines.

Configuration experience in SD: Master Data such as customer master data, material master data & conditional master data, enterprise structure definition & assignment, order to cash (OTC) cycle such as order management, delivery, shipping and billing.

Production support for OTC (order to cash) SAP processes for US operations.

Implemented common sourcing plan to improve supply chain efficiencies and leverage of clients.

Assisted the test lead in development of application Test Plan and User Acceptance Test Plan along with the Business users and OTC Cycle for SAP ERP.

Providing resolution to production issues for SAP SD Partner Determination Procedure, account assignment and automatic account determination and integration with FI module as per business requirements.

Created and performed unit and integration testing of various scenarios as per the business requirements.

Configured Order to Cash (OTC), Material Determination, Account Determination, Route Determination, Contracts, Agreements and Rebates Processing.

Interacted with the Business Process Owners and involved in workshops on various business processes such as OTC, Deliveries, Billing and special stock processes.

Overall responsibilities for all aspects SD/LE components, providing user training and support for various teams in OTC process also, part of the Distribution team involved in Configurations.

Revenue account determination and integration of SD/OTC

Executed testing across various areas such as SAP FICO, SD, MM to prove the requirements

Worked on various Enhancements related to Sales Orders, Deliveries and Billing areas of OTC cycle. Creation of Sales Documents like Sales order, Rush Order, Cash Order, Scheduling Agreements, and Contracts.

Worked on Logistics Execution (LE): shipping points, route configuration, leg determination, shipment types, shipment cost.

Worked on setting up standard EDI functionality and resolved issues with EDI IDOC Processing.

Domtar, Fort Mill, SC Aug 2016 – Dec 2017

Senior SAP SD/Retail Consultant

Worked on the Order Fulfillment, Order Processing and Logistics Execution of the requirements.

Worked with our database team to design an improved internal data warehouse for freight payment and operational activity

Responsible for the effective use of all master data procedures to ensure that all information systems and services met the company standards and end user requirements.

Designed, developed and led the implementation of a custom freight payment application

Worked closely with the Logistics division of the company to create various Condition Types for generating the Freight Charges shipping to various countries from US and Canada.

Revenue account determination and integration of SD/OTC

Configured the Shipment Types, Transportation Planning Points, Transportation Groups, Shipment Cost Types, Shipment Cost Calculation and Shipment Cost Settlement.

Configured pricing procedure, condition types, access sequences, and condition records.

Worked on ATP and configured different types of Availability checks.

Configuration and business process design for Transportation sub module, third party Drop shipment, intercompany process, Stock transfer orders, wholesale distribution and One to one process.

Boat Shoe Company, New York, NY, USA Apr 14 – Dec 15

Senior SAP SD Consultant

Configured entire Order to Cash (OTC) process including Sales Order Types, Item Category and Schedule Line Category Determination.

Co-ordinated and led the Master Data conversion effort

Supporting Market Acceptance Testing and supporting cut-over and live.

Configured Sales Documents Types, Standard Order, Returns Order, Credit Memo and Debit Memo asper the customer’s specific requirement

Worked on Taxation related to Germany and France such as Maintain Tax indicators for Customers, Assign Account Keys for Tax condition types, and Maintain VAT Registration number to Customers.

Tested set up of special business processes for the new organization: third party order processing, stock transport orders, cross company order processing.

Configured and Customized Billing documents and Billing methods and rules.

Worked on Rebates including Rebate Agreement Type, Condition Type Group, Condition Types, Access Sequence, Condition Tables, Account Determination, and Condition Records.

Assigned customization of requirements class and requirements type to support the various production order types

Customized IMG settings for various OTC - sales documents: sales orders, new pricing procedures inbound/outbound deliveries, billing, invoices, STO, return processes.

Worked on setting up standard EDI functionality and resolved issues with EDI IDOC Processing.

Takeda Pharmaceutical (offshore) Nov 12 – Mar 14

SAP SD/LE Consultant

Handled support tickets on daily basis and resolved the tickets as per the SLA.

Have resolved various incidents related to Sales Order, Delivery, Invoice.

Managed pricing structures which included unique condition types, pricing procedures, pricing tables, condition tables, access sequences and involved in adding new fields to pricing catalog.

Design Custom solutions - Order consolidation tool to optimize the truck utilization, mixing materials in Shipment, Automation in order management to reduce number of touches

Custom solution to ensure the dates are synchronized from shipment to STO

Tools for monitoring material quantity cuts, mass upload routes.

Worked on various Enhancements related to Sales Orders, Deliveries and Billing areas of OTC cycle. Creation of Sales Documents like Sales order, Rush Order, Cash Order, Scheduling Agreements, and Contracts.

Involved in complete ORDER-TO-CASH (OTC) process, including sales order processing, billing, credit control documents and cash collection (FI-AR).

Tested Clients various OTC process, Drop-Ship, Will-Call, Telemarketing.

Worked on Rebate configuration, account determination and pricing procedure for rebate.

Order-Delivery- Shipment configurations for international shipments which include Document types, Copy control, Output determination, Pricing.

Custom solution designing involved requirement routines for outputs, pricing Solution parameterization to keep it country specific and reduce negative impact of other markets

IDOCs: Design, configure and deploy new IDOCs. Enabling all interfaces for the newly configured entities.

Maintained Distribution Model for logical systems.

Maintained conversion rules for receiving and sending systems.

Drive data cleansing and data verification approach Perform unit testing for standard as well as customized migration tools and reports

Made Configuration changes in Service notifications, Service Orders, Customer repair orders and resource related billing.

Implemented enhancements like custom fields on the SM order, Maintenance items etc. to meet the client's business requirements.

Biocon, Bangalore, India Sep 2010 – Aug 2012

SAP SD Consultant

Involved in Gathering of requirements from Business users.

Created Key Decisions, Business Requirements and Business Scenario documents.

Performed GAP analysis and created solution papers for the gaps that were identified.

Conducted solution validation workshops with Business users.

Configured organizational elements, created sales documents type, delivery & billing types.

Configured pricing procedures based on the business process.

Configured Third party, STO, Intercompany Process.

Performed extensive coding on user-exits.

Developed functional specifications for web forms, reports, interfaces and conversions.

Involved in Testing process, cutover activities and support.

Technical Summary:

SAP Releases

SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0. /7.3/7.5

Technical Skills

SAP ABAP Reports/Debugging/ServiceNow

Functional Skills

SAP Sales and Distribution/Logistics Execution/Materials Management/ 6.0/7.3/7.5OTC

Productivity Software

SAP Solution manager, HP ALM, Microsoft Office Suite, ADOBE Acrobat

Educational Details:

B.E in Information Technology from JNTUKakinada2010 (India).

Masters in computers and information systems /2017/New England College/NH-USA)

Certified UiPath Advanced Developer

Certified Open SAP - SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation in a Nutshell 2019 Edition.

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