Summary

Motivated Technical Enthusiast with over 10 years’ experience with designing and developing EDI/EAI, B2B and Middleware solutions. Proven track record in generating ideas to improve process design and streamline delivery to enhance customer satisfaction and drive profits.

Highlights

Experience in EDI, SAP and Middleware systems with diverse knowledge in analysis, design, implementation & testing

Extensive EDI and Supply Chain Business Analysis and other technical hands-on experience in team and individual environments

Hands-on experience in various EDI integrations with SAP and other B2B systems

Expert in studying current architecture interfaces and landscape and coordinate

and communicate effectively with multiple application stakeholders

Created functional requirements documents, developed mapping specifications, created and implemented test plans on all types of tests including unit, system integration and user acceptance

Responsible for the EDI implementations, optimizations & enhancements in SAP PO B2B and Sterling File Gateway / Sterling B2B Integrator & Sterling Gentran for Unix/Windows

Expertise in interfacing with the customers, vendors, internal business units, IT and technical development teams, gathering and documenting their business requirements and implementing and guiding the approved solution

Experience in integrating both SAP and Non-SAP systems involving synchronous and asynchronous exchange of messages using SAP Net Weaver Process Orchestration 7.5

Implemented integration flows for both A2A and B2B scenarios that included message mappings, operations mappings and route channel configurations in SAP PO

Experience working with various Supply Chain transactions in SAP ECC 6.0 and hands-on creating partner profiles, maintaining cross-reference tables, IDOCs, purchase orders, invoices, deliveries, customer master, material master in SAP ECC 6.0

Develop and maintain EDI mappings for various formats (EDI to XML, EDI to CSV, EDI to flat file, EDI to ODBC and vice versa) in Enterprise Service Repository

Working with 3rd party EDI onboarding portal such as SPS Commerce, True Commerce and self-service portals like Amazon’s Vendor Central and Walmart’s Retail Link

Involved and led a migration project of the client's EDI environment from Sterling Gentran to Sterling B2B Integrator

Led a Managed Services Team that included providing 24X7 on-call production support

Configured EDI systems to accommodate special handling scenarios such as drop ship orders, stock transfers, inventory advices, sales forecasts from customers, 3rd party message processing, remittances from major US Banks, Benefits Enrollments interfacing with Health Care providers

Extensive knowledge with ANSIX12 transactions such as 850, 810, 856, 940, 945, 860, 855, 852, 846, 820, 832, 204, 990, 214, 834 & EDIFACT transactions such as ORDERS, DESADV, INVOIC, CONTROL, INVRPT, REMADV

Implemented and onboarded new EDI partners and system integrations utilizing Managed File Transfer (MFT) tools like Sterling File Gateway utilizing static and dynamic routes

Strong experience in Business Process Modeling Language in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

Extensively worked on SAP Suite Adapters, Mailboxes, AS2 setups, Web services, FTP client services, SFTP client services in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

Knowledge of setting up configurations in Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager

Maintained SAP partner profiles, master data tables and other cross reference tables to enable EDI processing

Hands-on experience in ALE/EDI processing, output condition records configuration, IDOC generation and Workflow management in SAP ECC 6.0.

Experience in Shell scripts and Batch scripts to automate documents flow in Gentran server for Unix/Windows

Familiar with Cloud concepts and Azure components

Strong analytical thinker with innovative problem solving and critical thinking approaches to trouble shoot challenging data centric problems

Technical Summary

B2B Tools

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator 5.2, Gentran integration Suite (4.0 & 4.2), Gentran server for Windows 5.1, Gentran server for Unix (6.0 & 6.2), Sterling Secure Proxy, Sterling Control Center, SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration 7.5

Databases

MS SQL 2005, MS SQL 2008, Oracle 10

EDI Standards

ANSIX12 & EDIFACT

Communication Protocols

AS2, FTP, SFTP, Web Services

VAN’s

ICC NET, Sterling VAN, nuBridges, GXS OpenText

Other Software

Cleo Lexicom AS2, Procomm plus, EDISIM, Mendelson AS2, VL Trader, HP Quality Center, Control-M job scheduler

Mapping Tools

AI Mapper, Visual Mapper, SI map editor, Enterprise Service Repository in SAP PO 7.5

Scripting Languages

Unix Shell, Perl

Managed File Transfer

IpSwitch MessageWay 8.1, Sterling File Gateway, Cleo Lexicom

ERP

SAP ECC 6.0

Projects Overview

B2B/EDI/Middleware Managed Services

Duration : April’2015 till date

Role : EDI Lead Consultant

Organization : Sunera Technologies Inc.

Client : The Hershey Company

The mission of this engagement is to provide a competitive edge with a robust, scalable and cost-effective managed service that harnesses the power of customer’s trading partner platform. B2B and EDI Managed services for customer includes Construction and maintenance of transactional maps, Business Partner Management, Management and monitoring of alerts, Immediate incident reporting,

Responsibilities:

Work closely with various internal teams like Warehouse Management System, logistics, Order to Cash, Suppliers etc. and be responsible to handle communication between EDI and boundary systems

Configure and Support Managed File Transfer platforms that connects external EDI partners and internal application systems

Implement and support various secure transmission protocols such as AS2, FTP, SFTP, FTPs, Web Services etc.

Analyze customer EDI specifications and liaise with internal teams as well as trading partners to perform mapping of all EDI documents

Analyze complex business and technical problems related to the implementation of new technology and/or the customization of existing technologies

Create and maintain EDI maps in SAP Process Orchestration 7.5 and responsible for B2B partner onboarding and implementing EDI

Consolidate existing EDI mappings to best practice standards and Improve efficiency by Reducing EDI operations and maintenance costs

Create and maintain onboarding documentation to provide to customers and vendors to easily interface with existing EDI solution

Lead the EDI services engagement including documentation, testing, implementation support, and workflow management

Analyze complex business and technical problems related to the platform enhancements and customization of existing technologies

Work closely with network and firewall teams to onboard new electronic partners onto EDI environment

Monitor the health of EDI systems daily and thereby expand opportunities to increase the use of EDI throughout

Work with development and configuration of REST APIs and SOAP calls using SAP and Oracle’s Cloud platforms

Apply functional and technical expertise with the development team to architect new platform enhancements within the software to satisfy business challenges

Work directly with customer’s electronic partners and conduct meetings to understand their business requirements

EDI Platform Modernization

Duration : September’2017 to July’2019

Role : EDI Architect/SME

Organization : Sunera Technologies Inc.

Client : The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company currently uses the Sterling Gentran Server for Unix EDI solution for B2B integration with their SAP system. This is a legacy platform that has been in place for over 10 years, and the software and hardware are out of support. Due to the risks of this legacy system, a strategic decision has been made by Customer to replace the existing EDI platform with SAP Process Orchestration (“PO”) as part of the Electronic Data Interchange (“EDI”) Platform Modernization project.

Responsibilities:

Document and maintain a company-wide EDI solution for interacting with customers, suppliers, banks, distribution centers as required

Create and maintain onboarding documentation to provide to customers and vendors to easily interface with new EDI solution

Responsible for management of EDI solutions to conduct automated, electronic business with customers, vendors, and banking institutions

Review code and technical approaches for problem solving to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met in an effective and high-quality manner

Work with SAP transport mechanism tools like CTS and Solution Manager and migrate various objects/templates to higher environments

Programming User Defined Function UDF in Message Mapping, Lookup implementation in UDF or in standard functions: RFC Lookup, SOAP Lookup and JDBC Lookup

Configure EDI partners, identities, agreements in B2B Cockpit of SAP Process Orchestration

Setup ECC partner profiles, cross-reference tables, IDOC condition record maintenance and IDOC monitoring

Develop mapping templates and message mappings for various EDI transaction sets like 850, 810, 856, 855, 940, 945, 875, 880, 852, 830, 879, 820 and 997

Lead the EDI enhancement projects including documentation, testing, implementation support, and workflow management

Partner with other technology and project teams to work with business executives and end users to conceptualize new application projects, recommend implementation strategies

Drive best industry practices and standards for EDI and B2B in an SAP environment

Supply Chain Optimization

Duration : August’2014 to April’2015

Role : EDI Analyst

Organization : Cognizant Technology Solutions

Client : Warner Bros Entertainment

The mission of this project is to help achieve organizational competitiveness and business effectiveness for one of a leading manufacture in North America – Warner Bros. EDI for Supply Chain Management helps improve flexibility and in turn competitiveness by changing their operations strategy, methods and technologies. As part of this engagement, EDI enabled integration between various Supply Chain systems within organization was achieved.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Requirement analysis, understand business needs and convert them to technical solutions

Monitored performance of B2B Integrator and installed hot-fixes and patches to the server

Developed Mapping Requirement Specification (MRS) document for various business partners.

Developed EDI maps in Sterling Integrator map editor for different transaction sets of both Inbound and Outbounds including various file formats such as XML, Oracle flat file, CSV, X12, ODBC.

Created Trading Partner Envelopes, code list tables, mailboxes in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

Debugging translation errors and modifying production maps and document findings to trading partner.

Design business processes that helped to achieve multiple business requirements

Provide day to day support including training to business users and customers to resolve issues related to EDI

Develop interfaces ensuring code is written according with documented software development processes and standards

EDI Managed Services

Duration : December’2010 to August’2014

Role : EDI Analyst

Organization : Aspire Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Client : Johnson & Joshnson

Responsibilities:

Handling various Production support tickets in SAP CRM

Setup AS2 communication for new trading partners in Sterling Integrator

Coordinate with trading partners to resolve issues in EDI transmission

Handling SAP workflow messages and notify the groups responsible

Develop mapping requirement specification templates

Developed Unix based scripts to perform various tasks

Handle map change requests and coordinate with OpenText (formerly GXS)

On-Boarding new EDI partners to Hershey: Setting trading partner profiles in SAP, trading partner management in Gentran server for Unix.

Working with third party testing portals like SPS Commerce, Direct Commerce

Involved in EDI testing projects with SPS Commerce with companies like Walgreens, Dollar Tree, Lidl Supermarkets, Shamrock Foods, Big Lots Inc, etc.

Establishing AS2/FTP communication with external trading partners and internal departments.

EDI to IDOC & IDOC to EDI mapping development using Visual & AI mappers.

Addressing daily production issues pertaining to translation/transmission.

Maintaining & mapping external GLN#’s to internal account #’s and vice versa.

Coordinate with trading partners to resolve EDI issues and respond to queries.

Work with SAP transactions such as BD87, WE02, WE05, BD87, VF03, VA03, WE20, VOE2, XD03.

Involved in migrating EDI platform over to SAP Net Weaver Process Orchestration

SLA based production support and led a team of 4

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