SENTHIL NATHAN LAKSHMANAN

Sr. SAP SD Functional consultant

St. Louis, MO-63021

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** ***** ** ***** ********** of which 10+ years in SAP SD functional consultant, includes 2 full life cycle implementation, Enhancement Support and Upgrades.

Good working experience in Cross functional Knowledge in SAP modules like SD-MM, SD-PP, PP-MM, LE, S/4HANA TM 1909 & HANA STUDIO.

Lead design discussions to evangelize these frameworks and objectives - Governance, Data Quality, Data Wrangling, Asset Evangelism and Best Practices

Worked in BPR (business process re-engineering) projects, analyzing the existing processes and converting them to industry best practices

Participated in Blueprinting, Realization, Go-live and Post Go-live phases of projects.

Working with solution architects in designing to establish connecting client system thru middle ware system thru 3rd party vendor to customers.

Exposure to Agriculture, Chemical, Manufacturing, Supply chain management industries with an ability to comprehend their business processes and translate them to IT Products.

Worked with Order to Cash (OTC) processes at different client ends involving the complete sales cycle

Worked on different Order Fulfillment processes in a Make to Order (MTO) environment and Engineer to Order (ETO) environment

Worked on diverse billing processes depending on the business needs such as order related billing, delivery related billing including resource related billing, milestone and Periodic billing.

Experienced in leading, working and resolving B2B integration projects, EDI IDOC, XML, API to transmit Business transaction messages end to end.

Excellent experience with designing, configuring, testing and documenting relative to SD & LE module.

Experience in numerous SD Enhancements, custom user-exits or Function Modules, BAPI and BADI, SAP-EDI with idoc management and Partner Profiles

Expertise in SAP Tables, Fields, ABAP Query: Simple reports, Debugging, User exits.

Experience in Converting SAP Scripts to Adobe Forms.

Hands on experience in production support and ticket/incident handling and development of functional specifications for RICEFW objects.

Strong Leadership, Interpersonal, conflict-resolution and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Application : SAP R/3, SAP ECC – SD, LE, S/4 HANA 1909 TM

Operating Systems : Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista/7

Tools : SAP HANA Studio, POSTMAN, SQL, AS 400.

Professional Experience

Bayer Crop Science; Comp 360 Project Jul 19 to Present

SAP SD Functional Analyst / Data Steward Creve Coeur, Mo

Lead and participate in design sessions with Asset Engineers, Hub Data Stewards, Product Managers and business stakeholders that result in design documentation, business capabilities, and Identify process in lace for IT solutions.

Advocate the stewardship of asset level data that resides outside of the 360 Assets and ensure governance policies are practiced

Lead Open Data efforts, making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) to strengthen Bayer Crop Science's effectiveness in carrying out its mission

Lead trainings and discussions to evangelize these frameworks and objectives - Governance, Data Quality, Data Wrangling, Asset Evangelism and Best Practices

Collaborate with other data stewards and engineers within the team and across teams on aligning delivery dates and integration efforts

Debug ABAP Functional modules to decode the custom logics to get the transactional data from source, document complex field data Mapping specifications, integrate with asset Engineers to build Data core views, Functions, Stored Procedures in SAP HANA Studio, work with API developers to establish API messages with External partners & 3rd party vendors

Collaborate with Data Stewards, asset engineers, API developers and Business users across team to Validate data Integrity, data utilization from end to end.

Trouble shoots and support critical project deliverables analyze data conversion from SAP, Hana Studio, Kafka, API mapping, to 3rd party messages.

Represented the team at various cross team meetings and events

Focused on design and planning, sharing the results of team efforts on process improvements, utilizing my SAP functional expertise & data stewardship

Work with different Business consumers, B2B Integration partners on Delivery confirmation, Ship notification (ASN) & Invoice API’s.

Coordinated Go-Live meeting, Partner with 3rd party service providers, End customers to do smoke test to validate data flow & Data integrity.

Bayer Crop Science; P & E Enhancement Team Mar 18 to Jun 19

Sr. Business Analyst SAP OTC Creve Coeur, Mo

Jira- Review Backlog items, Provide Estimates with Mini projects and Enhancements.

Perform ABAP Debug code analysis to understand AS-IS; To Be, GAP analysis and interacting with users and clients for business Requirements.

Work with solution architects in Designing & getting approval for Design Specification and perform risk analysis to avoid Global impacts.

Performed configuration of the output determination procedures using the condition technique by maintaining output types, access sequences, condition tables and condition records.

Involved in project evaluation of S/4 HANA TM for EME region.

Design Functional Specification, Get Approval from Solution architects, coordinate ABAP development, perform functional test, UAT, and prepare training documentation.

Monsanto; B2B Project Apr 16 to Feb 18

Sr. Business Analyst SAP SD OTC Creve Coeur, Mo

Work with Business Architects, Business process owners in requirement gathering,

Working with solution architects in designing to establish connecting Monsanto system thru middle ware system, 3rd party vendor to customers.

Involve in Design discussion on transmitting Inbound outbound messages from SAP system to End customers EDI IDOC-ORDER, ASN(EDI856), INVOICE(EDI810)

Work with Scrum team-AGILE-JIRA daily Stand up, Backlog grooming, retro meetings.

Work with Data Power & Other middle ware teams to design dash boards to track inbound & outbound messages to validate failure points.

ABAP-Debug analysis to identify issues in SAP IDoc programs, trouble shoot in XML CIDX Order create, Order change, Ship notice Invoice Messages.

Develop Design plans for legacy message thru new pipeline.

Prepare training documents & Train super user, involve Go-live meetings post production -hyper care- trouble shoot issue in 3rd party mapping

Monsanto; VEG -SAP TLM & Grower Accounting Jul’ 14 to Apr 16

Business Analyst Creve Coeur, Mo

Responsible for supporting Monsanto vegetable business in TLM (Transportation logistics management) and Production Operations (Grower accounting)

Responsible for resolving issues from production support, break fix, Enhancements to improve business process.

For Enhancements Interact with super users and process owners on gathering requirements, providing high-level resolutions, Designed Functional Specification on Workflows, Reports, Interfaces, Enhancements, forms

For Production issues & break fix interact with Super users & Business users and guide them to recreate the scenario identify the root cause for the issues, perform Debugging analysis.

Work with TLM & Grower Accounting IT Engagements leads on prioritizing the change requests based on their needs, Gather requirements & estimation with cross functional team, ABAP & PI teams to overcome obstacle and meet Monthly cutovers.

Provided solution from Standard functionality, performed Configurational solution and custom enhancements to improve business process, efficiency & reduce operation cost.

For Intercompany STO used OSS functionality (MM-LE) to seek resolution for a complex scenario which cause route change unnoticing and included custom code in user exist to limit the functionality limited Divisions & to avoid Global impact.

Trouble shoots & works on various functionality on Vegetable grower

Accounting (PP-MM) a complex division; provided resolution and improved enhancements which enable effective data analytics during contracting to process orders to Purchase order scenarios.

Worked on Delivery output, IDOC (DESADV) & PI interface that interacts with the Dutch ministry application to meet Export compliance certificate and improved Efficiency, data accuracy & reduced operational cost.

Worked on Change request related LE (TLM) organization structures, SAP tables, ABAP Query’s, LSMW, Smart Forms.

Actively participated in Monthly compatibility testing, coordinate ABAP Developers, Business user from various cultural and geographical location involving them in successful Go Live, Production support, Training document preparation, conduct User training.

Monsanto; Regional Brands Aug’ 13 to May’14

Business Analyst SAP SD OTC Creve Coeur, Mo

Interact with business users to analyze the requirements and designed the functional specification for WRICEF (Workflow, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms) technical objects.

Created change Request document, Design Functional Specification for ABAP; Specification Design Sheet (SDS) for JAVA programmers to implement technical and organizational changes and in online interfaces to ECC & vice versa.

Interact with business users to gather business requirements and suggest Functional ability to Develop and manage enterprise solutions to problem that best reduces operating cost within the supply chain.

Work towards Monthly enhancements gathers requirements & Estimation with cross functional team ABAP, PI, OSB, security & JAVA teams to overcome obstacles and meet monthly cutovers.

Provided solution to utilize existing unused Fields from sales order to capture online order process; Modified Order Management report to suite Business needs.

Worked on smart forms, Customized reports, made changes and worked on enhancement to discount calculations, Order activity display and Account summary calculations.

Creation of test scenarios for unit testing and integration testing for all SD business processes, Enhancements and present for User acceptance testing and getting sign-off after successful completion of testing.

Ability to troubleshoot Production issues across many modules using Functional and Technical skills such as ABAP debugging, runtime and dump analysis.

Actively Involve in Monthly compatibility testing to check on multiple business scenarios in ECC, Front End (JAVA) & OSB to make sure functionality on Reporting, different order types, Transfer in- out process, validate the credit debit memos.

Proficiently used SAP OSS functionalities to seek solutions to difficult problems, troubleshoot complex Business process translate to SAP system & vice versa.

Developed Business Process Procedures for SAP transactions with reference to different business scenarios in online order process and provided User Acceptance as well as End User Training encompasses all aspect of SD Order to Cash Process.

Actively involved in Cut over activities prior to Go Live and Provided Go Live and Post Production support.

Basic Resources, Inc Jul’ 11 to May’ 13

Sr.SAP SD-LE Functional Consultant New York, NY

Worked in SAP SD & LE Modules, and worked through scope definition, requirements, blueprint, realization, and go –live phases.

The project scope included 'AS IS' analysis, 'TO BE' model, Gap Analysis and Interacting with users and clients for business requirements.

Configured sales order types, item categories and schedule lines.

Performed configuration of the shipping process (deliveries, picking and packing) and delivery document types.

Configured price procedures, price determination and price conditions and maintained price condition records.

Involved in monitor inbound and outbound processing of IDocs by using special reports.

Developed transport requests and moved transports from development to other SAP clients (consolidation and sand box).

Completed extensive testing with purchase orders, deliveries, shipments, sales orders, billing documents, outputs, packaging, batch selection and goods movements.

Performed configuration of the output determination procedures using the condition technique by maintaining output types, access sequences, condition tables and condition records.

Defined incompleteness procedures for sales and distribution documents.

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.

Involved in Logistics Execution, shipping/delivery configuration, defined shipping conditions, loading groups and assigned shipping points to our conditions.

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 and stages.

Configured WM Structure by Defining storage types, storage sections, storage bins, quants, doors etc.

Defined and managed several different types of storage, such as high rack storage, block storage or fixed bin storage

Defined Storage Bin Structure for all Materials by defining Template, Structure, Start Value, End Value and Increment.

Customized put away and picking strategies for fixed bin, open storage, addition to existing stock, and storage unit types (pallets)

Defined WM Movement types, Storage type search, Storage section search, Storage bin type search, Stock Placement (Put away) and Stock Removal (Picking) strategies.

Detailing blueprint phase implementation for and Gathered requirements from business units for analysis and Business process design.

Responsible for conducting day to day status meeting to discuss the issues and their resolution among fellow members.

Uploaded legacy master data and purchasing transactional data using LSMW

Work with super users for UAT testing to get final acceptance on system testing.

Success Apparel Group Feb’10 – June’ 11

Sr.SAP SD Functional consultant New York, NY

Currently Providing functional support to issues rais as tickets by the business group.

Customization of new sales/delivery/billing document types including copy controls and routines to take care of requirements & data transfer routines, item categories, Schedule lines, Blocks, Backorder processing. Consignment processing, Returns order, Batch Determination.

Configuration of Partner functions and Partner Determination procedure for customer master

Customized outputs and created special functions to send data to external groups either using EDI, ALE, Print Out or External Email address

Configured complex pricing procedures incorporated custom routines to activate/deactivate certain condition types based on the business scenario. Customize different pricing/rebate condition types using condition exclusion & access sequences. Worked closely with the FI group in setting up Account Determination

Provided functional specifications & worked closely with programmers to create smart forms for Invoice/Order Confirmation/Quotes/ Pick-Pack documents. This also involved print different texts depending on which Text Id the user chose.

Understanding new requirements, preparing functional specs, impact analysis with other modules, creating test cases & making users manuals for new functionalities added in SD.

Komatsu America Corporation Mar’ 09 – Jan’ 10

Senior SD-MM Consultant Rolling Meadows, IL

Responsible for all OTC Configuration including Pricing, ATP, Scheduling, Delivery and Billing Process, Direct Ship and Drop Ship Process, Distributor Order Entry, Valuated and Non valuated stock, Rebates, Credit Management, Subcontracting, ECATT Scripts for testing and serial numbers.

Configured the variant configuration in sales order.

Configured for Make-to-Order and Make-to-Stock Scenarios ensuring its integration with SAP R/3 in PP, MM & SD areas.

Responsible for Configuration of Sales and Production BOMs, Variant Configuration for make to order products including characteristics, classes, dependencies and Pricing.

Configured the parts sales order, equipment sales order (variant configuration), returns order, third party sales order and subsequent functions.

Configuration of the customer consignment process (consignment fill-up, consignment pick-up, consignment issue, consignment returns) for parts sales and equipment sales.

Configuration of the consignment process.

Creation of the LSMW to load the vendor material records, material master records, vendor price scales.

Creation of the configuration profiles for a materials such that a material can be configured in the sales order, purchase order and production order.

User training document preparation, user test cases preparation & Production support.

E. S. Sutton Oct ’07 – Feb’ 09

SAP SD Functional Analyst New York, NY

Active contribution throughout the project life-cycle from developing the Functional specifications, Detailed Analysis and Design, Construction, Integration and Final Implementation of the SAP system.

Customization of Sales Documents viz., Inquiry, Quotation, Sales order and configuring of schedule lines, Contracts and maintaining Copy control.

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.

Determined routes; defined routes, route determination (transportation zone, country & zone of shipment, transportation groups, with reference to weights and no weights)

Configured the billing documents, billing plan types and billing procedures-individual billing, periodic billing and collective billing. Pass on to Revenue accounts, integration with FI on revenue determination, rebates and credit controls.

Involved in configuration and production support, and addressing company specific issues in order management, delivery and billing areas (OTC) of sales and distribution.

Involved testing the configuration of Number ranges (system generated-internal), pricing and transportation configuration testing.

Prepared functional specifications, interfaces, custom reports based on user requirements and coordinated with ABAP Programmers.

Golden Touch Imports Jan’ 04 – Apr ’07

Production Coordinator-Super User New York, NY

Using SAP R/3 4.5B for managing for Creating vendors, Issue PO’s & extract reports for Order tracing analysis

Train & Manage department of 3 production assistants, Interns.

Handle Sourcing, Cost Negotiation & finalize Product specification details with Design & Deliveries with International Vendors for Men’s National brands, Lounge wears.

Find Potential Factories; guide them to the Compliance approval process, Visit for Production follow up.

Monitored Cut & sew Knits, Performance Garments with vendors by Maintaining T & A, Shipment Tracking report, WIP, QA Inspection reports & Coordinate CTL testing on required programs.

Chaiken Clothing Sep’ 04-Dec’04

Production Pattern Intern New York, NY

Create production patterns with pattern charts and cost sheets

Acquired Knowledge in Electronic pattern making using the Gerber Technology (GT)

Anett Schneider Fashions Jan’ 02 – ’Jul 03

Design Assistant Intern San Jose, CA

Create concept boards for design presentation

Generated computer aided flats/specs and fashion illustration using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

EDUCATION

West Valley college Saratoga, CA

Associate Degree in Designing, Product develo & Production May 2003

Madras University Chennai, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Textile, 2001

WORK AUTHORIZATION

U. S. Citizen.

REFERENCE

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