Raviraj Kadudas

SAP certified consultant, solution architect, Project Manager

SAP Certified Application Associate -Transportation Management (TM)8.0

SAP Certified Application consultant (SD)

Trained on SAP TPVMS

SUMMARY :

29 years of total experience

20+ years of experience in SAP (out of which 11 years on SAP ECC Transportation(LE) and 2 years in SAP TM, apart from SAP SD, SAP MM

Total SAP projects 17 (Implementations 7, upgrades 1,roll outs 2, support projects2, product development 2, Project manager 3)

Cross industry experience in Logistics industry, Pharmaceuticals, Textiles, FMCG, Chemicals, Aviation etc

Worked for IBM USA, IBM India

Was faculty for SAP academy courses for 3 batches at SIEMENS INSTITUTE

Outsourced to SAP India for Product development for Pharmaceuticals and Chemical industries

Solution Architect expertise in the areas of :

Logistics Execution processes like inbound and outbound

Transportation planning, cost calculation and settlement

Sales & Distribution processes

Subject matter expertise in the areas of:

SAP ECC Logistics execution (LE-TRA)

SAP Sales & Distribution (SD)

SAP Materials Management (MM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Freelancer

July 2011 till date

IBM Global Business Services ( India)

Project Manager & Senior Consultant - Nov 2007 to June 2011

IBM Global Business Services ( US)

Senior Consultant - Sep 2004 to Oct 2007

OBT Global Pvt Ltd

Senior Consultant - Sept 2000 to Aug 2004

Kajara Exports

Manager Exports - June 1994 to Aug 2000

Heritage Foods (India) Limited

Sr Marketing Executive - Aug 1991 to May 1994

SAP projects experience

1.Client : Etihad Airways – Abu Dhabi

Industry : Airlines

Project type : Implementation

Role : Lead Consultant – On site

Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Etihad Airways is the second-largest airline in the United Arab Emirates. Its head office is in Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi, near Abu Dhabi International Airport. Etihad commenced operations in November 2003. The airline operates more than 1,000 flights per week to over 120 passenger and cargo destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

The project involves SAP implementation in their catering division, which supplies 64,000 meals per day.

Project responsibilities:

Design process flow for Logistics & Sales

Transportation planning and cost calculation

Stock transport Orders (STO)between Plants

Batch management for procured goods

Credit Management

Integration with third party systems –(EDI –IDoc),with their Point of Sales machines

Training to the power users

Writing functional specifications for WRICEF

2.Client : Magna Power Train systems Inc - USA

Industry : Automotive

Project type : Support

Role : Lead consultant - Offshore

Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Magna is a leading global automotive supplier with 348 manufacturing facilities and 91 product development, engineering and sales centers in 28 countries. Magna is a leading global automotive supplier dedicated to delivering new mobility solutions and technology that will change the world.

Project responsibilities: Support the business in the following functionalities

Sales from Stock

Stock transport Orders (STO)between Plants

Batch tracking for sales returns

Credit Management

Enhancements to the existing processes

Writing functional specifications for WRICEF

3.Client : SRMT (Andhra Pradesh), India

Industry : Automotive

Project type : Implementation

Role : Project Manager and Lead consultant

Environment : SAP S4 HANA 1610

SRMT is three facet company providing quality service in Road Transport, Manufacturing Auto Parts & Sale of Commercial vehicles for 60 years.

SRMT wanted to implement SAP S4 HANA 1610 in their Manufacturing division, which manufactures auto parts to some of the leading Vehicle manufacturers in India. Some of the parts which SRMT manufacturers include King pin, King pin Units, Propeller shaft, universal joint shaft etc.

Project responsibilities: Support the business in the following functionalities

Project responsibilities:

Planning for project activities

Co ordination between project team and Client Management team

Status meetings and updating to management

Sales from stock

Transportation cost calculation and settlement

Stock transport Orders (STO)between Plants

Third party sales

Batch management

Integration with third party software for batch tracking (IDoc)

Credit Management

Writing functional specifications for WRICEF

Training to power users

4.Client : Haldirams ( Nagpur), India

Industry : FMCG

Project type : Functional upgrade

Role : Project Manager and Lead Consultant – On site

Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Haldiram's Food International Limited located in Nagpur Maharastra, is a leading ready to eat snack manufacturer in india, and recognized as a Star Export House

Project responsibilities:

Project Management

Intercompany process

Consignment sales

Sales from stock

Batch management

Stock Transport orders (STO)

Route determination

Integration with third party systems (IDOCs)

Transportation cost calculation & settlement

5.Client : Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India

Industry : OIL & GAS

Project type : SAP TM 9.0 Implementation

Role : Transportation consultant – On site

Environment : SAP IS OIL

The Reliance Group, is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Group's annual revenues are in excess of US$ 66 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company and is the largest private sector company in India.

The responsibilities include :

The processes mapped are Order generation on SAP ERP and mapping that to OTRs in TM and subsequent creation of Freight Units (FU) and Freight orders

Freight calculation and subsequent settlement in the ERP,

Integration with SAP ERP

Writing functional specifications for WRICEFs

6.Client :MISC Integrated Logistics SDN BHD ( A group company of Petronas) Malaysia

Industry : Logistics Service provider (LSP)

Project type : Implementation

Role : Lead LE &SD Consultant – On site

Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

MISC is a logistics company which provides logistics services to group companies of Petronas apart from other companies. We have implemented SAP ECC 6.0 version with FICO, PS, MM and SD and LE modules. LE (Transportation) is the core module in the project.

Project responsibilities:

Designing the SD &LE solution with inter company transactions.

Integration with FI and MM modules

Training to super users

Writing functional specifications for (WRICEF)

7.IBM - Project Manager & Senior SD Consultant:

Worked as Project Manager, off shore, for multiple projects. The projects I have handled are GPT Management Holdings which is a real estate company dealing in renting properties and Jason Brush, which is an Industrial brush manufacturing company and Nuvasive which is a medical equipment manufacturing company

The responsibilities include managing off shore team deliverables, having weekly status meetings, staffing, governance calls with onsite team project manger and Client project manager. From the process side, meeting different quality requirements of IBM and participate in quality audits like PMR etc

8.Client : Newell Rubbermaid - USA

Industry : Consumer goods

Project type : Implementation

Role : Senior consultant SD / LE – on site

Environment : SAP ECC 5.0

Newell Rubbermaid is a fortune 500 company manufacturing different Industrial and consumer products. The product range includes stationery items, home and family products, office products; Industrial use products etc.Newell Rubbermaid has its offices across the globe.

Project responsibilities : Worked on design and configuration of SAP Routing Guide (RTG), an SAP add on, which will determine and suggest best route based on the cost, in Sales order itself, apart from transportation planning, cost calculation and settlement. Writing functional specifications for WRICEFs

9.Client : Panasonic

Industry : Consumer electronics

Proejct type : Proof of Concept – On site

Role : Team member SAP SD

Environment: SAP Enterprise 4.70

Panasonic is one of the major manufacturers of electronics products in the world. Their product range includes Televisions, Cameras, projectors, laptops etc

Project Responsibility: Study and report impact of Revenue Recognition implementation

10.Client : Hasbro Inc., Pawtucket, Rhode Island (RI)- USA

Industry : Toy manufacturers

Role : Senior SAP SD Functional Lead Consultant – On site

Environment : SAP Enterprise 4.70

Hasbro is a toy and game manufacturing company with head quarters at Pawtucket, RI, USA. Hasbro is second largest toy manufacturer in the world. Hasbro is also publisher of world’s most popular games like monopoly, board game etc. Hasbro already implemented SAP way back in 1997 in North America, Europe. Now Hasbro decided to implement SAP Enterprise 4.70 in their Latin American operations with name as ‘Hasbro Latin America (HLA)’ to take care of operations in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, China (operations from Florida).

Project Responsibilities:

Configuration of total SD processes viz., Order to Cash, Third Party Orders, Inter company Transaction, Stock Transport Orders (STO) with SD Delivery, Employee Sales etc

Writing Functional specifications for ABAP reports

Testing the Integration with Other modules

11.Client : IBM, CT USA

Project type : Solution development

Role : Sr LE & SD Consultant

Environment : SAP R/3 4.7

IBM is coming out with its own in house developed solutions for SMB sectors for the

Pharmaceuticals and Industrial Machines and Components Manufacturing industries

Project responsibilities : As part of responsibilities configured Variant configuration, Batch management, Third party sales. Stock sales, Stock Transport Orders, Shipping, Transport cost calculation and settlement etc

12.Client : Johnson & Johnson (PSGA) Bridge Water, NJ USA

Industry : Pharmaceuticals

Project type : Support

Role : SD Lead – On site

Environment : SAP R/3 4.6C

PSGA (Pharmaceutical Sourcing Group Americas) is a group company of Johnson & Johnson, which looks after the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson products.

Responsibilities:

Assisting the users in PSGA in solving day to day problems in SAP – SD Order to Cash scenario

Configuring the missing links like creating new order types and Item categories to take care of the changed business scenarios and new scenarios

Creating new Pricing procedures to meet the requirements of new business scenarios

Configured new Delivery document types and Item Categories in LE

Writing Functional Specifications for WRICEFs

13.Client : SAP Labs China, Shanghai, China

Project type : Solution development

Role : SD Consultant

Environment : SAP R/3 4.7

SAP wants to come out with an R/3 solution, which is suitable for the SMB sector. In this regard, SAP wants to release Chemical and Pharmaceuticals industry specific products for the SMB sector, with localization, which includes country specific taxes and other legal requirements. SAP Germany has given this responsibility to SAP LABS, China.

Responsibilities: Configure the processes for

Sales from stock

Stock Transport orders(STO)

Batch Management

Routing and transportation cost calculation and settlement

Credit management etc

Indian Excise and other Taxes relevant settings in scenarios like Sales from manufacturing company, Sales from Third party, and Cross Company code sales.

14.Client : Pratibha Syntex Limited, Indore, India

Industry : textiles

Project type : Implementation

Role : Lead consultant SD

Environment : SAP R/3 4.7

Pratibha Syntex Limited is a readymade garment manufacturer who does the contract manufacturing for the brands like NIKE, REEBOK, Ralph Lauren etc

Project responsibilities:

Sales from stock process

Variant configuration

Logistics Execution process like shipping, transportation etc

Credit management

Export sales process

Power user training

Writing functional specs for WRICEFs

15.Client : Aarti Chemicals, Mumbai, India

Industry : Chemicals

Project type : Implementation

Role : Lead Consultant Sales & Distribution (SD)

Environment : SAP R/3 4.6C

Aarti chemicals is a Mumbai based chemical manufacturing company manufacturing chemicals which are used mainly in leather industries.

Project Responsibilities :

Sales order processing

Return Orders and Complaints

Credit Management

Country specific taxation ( CIN)

Batch management

Tank trailer filling

Rebates handling

16.Colgate Palmolive Pvt Ltd - India & Nepal

Client : Colgate Palmolive Pvt Ltd., India & Nepal

Industry : FMCG

Project type : Implementation & Rollout

Role : Lead Sales & Distribution (SD)

Environment : SAP R/3 4.6C

Colgate Palmolive India Limited, which manufactures Tooth Paste and Tooth Powder, wanted to implement SAP R/3 in its contract manufacturer’s viz., Sunshine Cosmetics Pvt. Limited and Crystal Cosmetics Pvt Limited in India and at their plant in Nepal.

Project responsibilities:

Sales process from stock

Logistic Execution process for Shipping

Transportation process cost and settlement

Batch management

Credit management

Stock transport orders (STO)

Educational qualifications

Graduation

B.com(Hons), Osmania University, India 1986

Post-Graduation

MBA ( Marketing) SV University, India 1991

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