SAP SD Advisory Consultant

Prakash V S K Sreeram

SAP SD (Order to Cash) Certified Consultant

SAP S/4 Hana Sales Certification

Ph: +1-631-***-****

Email: adk5rd@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

As SAP SD (Order to Cash) certified consultant, I have 18+ years of functional experience including around 13+ years of SAP SD (Order to Cash) experience. Hold 1 life-cycle implementations and 4 support projects on small to medium to large global roll-out implementations and post-implementation hyper care. Functional experience includes sales management, logistics management and credit control including integration of SD-MM, SD-LE and SD-FI.

Working currently as an On-Site Functional SD Consultant for GBG (Global Brands Group)

Worked for Estee Lauder project in Roll-out projects at New York.

Experienced in blue printing and driving design / fit-gap workshops for requirements gathering.

Experienced in preparing business process design documents

Experienced in preparing functional specification documents

Provided consulting on Level 1 to Level 4 and As-is / To-be / BBP/ Realization / Go-live support & Production

Involved in requirement gathering and documented for data, assessment, cleansing, alignment, source to target mapping, data gap analysis, data standardization and harmonization, data transformation, and data validation

Experienced in preparation of EDI Mapping documents, IDOC developments, Partner profile configuration related to IDOC’s

Knowledge on communication protocols FTP, SFTP, OFTP

Defined & assigned organizational units in Sales & Distribution, Materials Management, Logistics-General & Logistics-Execution

Created process dependant Organizational Units that best suited the Business Scenario of the client

Configured & controlled Availability Check, Transportation Scheduling, Back Order Processing

Experienced in Delivery, Shipping Point Determination & Route Determination, STO (stock transport order processing), batch and intercompany sales

Customized Blocking Reasons, Business Pricing & Incompletion Logs

Customized Sales Order types, Delivery Types & Billing Types focusing on business needs

Created Material, Customer and Vendor Master Data’s

Deep understanding of Condition technique setting in pricing, Taxes, Agreements, Free goods, Material Determination and Rebate Agreements

Experienced in using LSMW for mass data maintenance and uploading data

Hands-on experience in configuration EDI

SKILLS

SAP

SD-SLS: Sales Order processing / Availability Check / Incompletion Log / Delivery / Transfer Order / PGI & Billing / EDI Knowledge.

SD-SHP: Shipping Point & Route Determination / Transportation Planning

SD-BIL: Billing Types

SD/MM-BF: Creation of Material / Customer Master Data / Material / Account & Output Determination using Condition Technique & Special Orders like Cash Sales / Rush Order & Consignments / Intercompany Sales

Definitions & Assignments: Definition & Assignments of Organizational Units like Company Code / Sales Org / DC & Div / Plants & Shipping Points

SAP R/3: SAP 4.7 / ECC 5.0/ECC 6.0

MM-IM: Goods Receipts / Good Issues / Transfer postings / Cross and Intra Company Stock Transport Order

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Date

Company Name

Role

Aug-2019 – Till date

May 2015 – Aug-2019

IBM India Pvt Ltd., On-Site

IBM India Pvt Ltd., Offshore

Advisory Consultant

Advisory Consultant

Sep 2014 – Mar 2015

Srindu Soft, UK

IT Consultant

Nov 2010 - Sep 2014

IBM India Pvt Ltd.,

Senior SD – EDI Consultant

June 2007 - Nov 2010

ITC Infotech

Senior Order to Cash consultant

Dec 2004 – Apr 2006

Discovery Mankind Pharma

Area Sales manager

Jun 2004 – Dec 2004

Panacea Biotec

Sales manager

May 2002 – May 2004

Emcure Pharmaceuticals

Sales Representative

Dec 2001 – May 2002

Mano Pharmaceuticals

Sales Representative

SELECTED PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Client / Project

GBG (Global Brands Group) – Development Project

Duration

Aug 2020 – Till date

Team Size

25

Position

SAP Senior SD Consultant and Team Lead

Summary

Global Brands Group Holding Limited (GBG) is one of the world’s leading branded fashion accessories, footwear, and apparel companies. GBG design, develop, market, and sell products under a diverse array of owned and licensed brands, such as Calvin Klein, Juicy Couture, Frye, Spyder, Kenneth Cole, Reiss, Sean John, All Saints, Jones New York and many more. Our focus is to bring these brands to new levels, expanding their category penetration and global reach.

Responsibilities

Participating in Workshops as an SD consultant to gather requirements from Business.

Gathered the requirements from the business users to prepare functional spec for reports and new enhancements.

Responsible for analysis of current business process, providing technical specification to the technical team and see to it the object is completed for any further developments.

Responsible for implementation, covering the complete range of functionality Pricing, shipping, billing, returns, and output.

Working with Business for pricing objects to define new pricing scenarios and reports.

Preparing SOP’s and guide business to follow the process which got newly implemented.

Responsible for timely resolution of end user queries posted in the help desk and if necessary, proactively discussing critical issues with Senior Consultants.

Preparing documenting the standard problems caused to the process.

Knowledge of IDOCS process and involved in re-processing the IDOCS and finding the problems involved in processing them

Supporting order management, outbound deliveries, and the billing functions

Define and configure condition tables and access sequences to implement different sales process

Client / Project

Estee Lauder – Application Development

Duration

Aug 2019 – July 2020

Team Size

20-25

Position

SAP Senior SD Consultant

Summary

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is an American manufacturer and marketer of prestige skincare, Make-up, fragrance, and hair care products. The company owns a diverse portfolio of labels, distributed internationally in up-market department stores, and has its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York

City. Estee Lauder brands/products: Aveda, Bobbi brown, Clinique, Darphin, Estee Lauder, Too Faced, Becca & Glam glow etc.

Responsibilities

Responsible to handle Enhancements / work request / Project Implementation as per the requirements and handling them as per the deadlines after thorough integration testing

Responsible for preparation of Functional Specification documentation to the respective Enhancements and user training documents for future reference

Responsible to carry out developments and enhancements to cater existing and new business requirements

Provided instant solution to the client / end user on run time errors based on the severity of the issues

Responsible for customization of changes required by the client as a part of their continuous efforts in fine-tuning of existing objects and configuration

Responsible to support the whole world operations of Estee Lauder

Responsible to liaise with SAP online support to resolve issues

Responsible to support users for new projects while testing the projects through HPQC tool

Communicated with Master Data team for the missing master data and get the creation / updates of master data

Working with business to gather the requirements and get the required configuration as well as developments to be completed

Preparation of test cases as per the deployment markets business scenarios

Responsible of design solutions for gaps and writing of functional specifications for the associated objects

Responsible of design solutions for interface gaps and prepared interface mapping document based on the solution to meet the requirements of the integrating systems (SAP and Legacy systems)

Client / Project

Estee Lauder – AMS support

Duration

Jan 2016 – July 2019

Team Size

80 - 100

Position

SAP Senior SD Consultant

Summary

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is an American manufacturer and marketer of prestige skincare, Make-up, fragrance and hair care products. The company owns a diverse portfolio of labels, distributed internationally in up-market department stores, and has its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York

City.

Estee Lauder brands/products: Aveda, Bobbi brown, Clinique, Darphin, Estee Lauder & Glam glow etc.

Responsibilities

Responsible to handle change request / work request / change ticket as per the requirements and handling them as per the deadlines after thorough integration testing

Responsible to handle P1, P2, P3, P4 incidents from Offshore

Responsible for preparation of relevant documentation to all the concerned end users. So that they can solve the problems on their own in future

Responsible to provide solutions for change ticket if requested by the user or found needed at the time of handling the tickets

Responsible to resolve the problems (Issues / Queries / Fixes) encountered by users during transactions and also understanding the new changes suggested by them and accordingly customizing

Responsible to carry out developments and enhancements to cater existing and new business requirements

Provided instant solution to the client / end user on run time errors based on the severity of the issues

Responsible for customization of changes required by the client as a part of their continuous efforts in fine-tuning of existing objects and configuration

Responsible to support the whole world operations of Estee Lauder

Responsible to liaise with SAP online support to resolve issues

Client / Project

APMM Maersk Line – MLIT Project - Rollout

Duration

May 2015 – Jan 2016

Team Size

40 - 45

Position

SAP Senior SD Consultant

Responsibilities

Responsible for Marketing Build Team and continuing for support for this Global DnD project

Responsible for delivering the configuration work assigned to OC team for the deployment

Also, responsible to prepare FS and Design documents co-ordinating with On-site team lead

Responsible for executing and delivering Unit testing and Integration testing as per the deadline

Responsible to resolve the issues raised during Unit testing, Integration testing and FUT in close collaboration with onsite and regional teams as well as other teams

Responsible of design solution for gaps and writing of FS for the associated objects

Responsible of design solutions for interface gaps and prepared interface mapping document discussed with EDI team based on the solution to meet the requirements of the integrating system (SAP and Legacy systems)

Client / Project

SHS – Support and Development Project

Duration

Sep 2014 – Mar 2015

Team Size

10

Position

Senior SD Designer

Responsibilities

As an SD Consultant my role is handling the issues, which are posted in the help desk, and extending my support as a team member for the production Support team

Worked with the post implementation support team as a core member

Responsible for analysis of current business process, providing technical specification to the technical team and see to it the object is completed for any further developments

Working with pricing to define new pricing conditions

Responsible for timely resolution of end user queries posted in the help desk and if necessary, proactively discussing critical issues with Senior Consultants

Documenting the standard problems caused to the process

Knowledge of IDOCS process and involved in re-processing the IDOCS and finding the problems involved in processing them

Responsible for implementation, covering the complete range of functionality master data, shipping, billing, returns, and output

Supporting order management, outbound deliveries, and the billing functions-maintained customer, material, pricing, info records, source lists, and other related master data

Define and configure condition tables and access sequences to implement different sales process

Defined and Assigned Transportation Zones and Routes

Defined and Assigned Routes and Route Determination Procedures

Client / Project

BAT (British American Tobacco) - Rollout

Duration

Apr 2013 – Sep 2014

Team Size

150 -160

Position

Senior Order to Cash consultant

Responsibilities

Responsible for Marketing Build & Design Team and continuing for Support of this Global project

Preparation of test cases as per the deployment markets business scenarios

Responsible for delivering the CSDs and CVDs single handedly for Deployment’s

Responsible for delivering the configuration work assigned to OC team for the Deployment

Also responsible to prepare process design documents, FS and Design Documents

Responsible for executing and delivering Unit testing and Integration testing

Responsible to resolve assigned defects raised during Unit Testing, Integration testing & Functional Unit testing in close collaboration with design and regional teams as well as other teams

Responsible of solution design for BAT UK and Exports, Poland, South African Markets

Responsible for preparing the Configuration documents of Enterprise Structure for BAT UK and Poland

Responsible for collecting the configuration value documents for BAT UK and Poland and finalizing the configuration specification documents

Responsible for Interface mapping for Poland

Facilitate configuration values collection sessions for use in configuration specification documents

Responsible for proposing solutions to client’s business requirements for BAT UK and Poland

Responsible for Preparation of configuration documents

Responsible of design solutions for gaps and writing of functional specifications for the associated objects

Responsible of design solutions for interface gaps and prepared interface mapping document based on the solution to meet the requirements of the integrating systems (SAP and Legacy systems)

Responsible to coordination with the offshore development and configuration/build teams for walkthrough and functional unit testing

Client / Project

GAMBRO Renal Products – Implementation and Support

Duration

Nov 2010 – Apr 2013

Team Size

25 - 35

Position

Functional Team Lead – SD and EDI.

Responsibilities

As a Functional Team lead responsible for SD & MM configurations, developments, and issues

Responsible for submitting monthly work sheets to the management

Responsible for tracking all the issues under SD & MM modules

Responsible to provide daily and weekly updates to client in the weekly meeting

Responsible to co-ordinate with each and individuals for the issues which are long pending

Responsible to communicate with the client to get the information if team member got stuck on the issue

As an SD Consultant my role is handling the issues, which are posted in the help desk, and extending my support as a team member for the production Support team

Worked with the post implementation support team as a core member

Responsible to complete the configuration and maintain new entries of Foreign trade Exports and Imports data

Re-configuration of various documents like Sales documents like Inquiry, Quotation, Sales Orders, and Delivery, customized their utilities as per the end user request

Responsible for analysis of current business process, providing technical specification to the technical team and see to it the object is completed for any further developments

Worked with pricing to define new pricing conditions

Responsible for timely resolution of end user queries posted in the help desk and if necessary, proactively discussing critical issues with Senior Consultants

Documenting the standard problems caused to the process

Knowledge of IDOCS process and involved in re-processing the IDOCS and finding the problems involved in processing them

Worked on partner profile configurations related to outbound and inbound IDOC’s

Responsible for preparing and submitting EDI mapping documents from functional side to EDI team

Responsible for debug and validate the developments related to EDI

Knowledge on EDIFACTS, FTP, OFTP, SFTP protocols

Worked as a first point of contact for GAMBRO EDI / IDOC related issues

Responsible to analyse the issues related for the incoming or outgoing messages through GxS system

Responsible to analyse issues and raise a defect to GxS team to correct the configuration

Responsible for implementation, covering the complete range of functionality master data, shipping, billing, returns, and output

Supporting order management, outbound deliveries, and the billing functions-maintained customer, vendor, material, pricing, info records, source lists, and other related master data

Define and configure condition tables and access sequences to implement different sales process

Defined and Assigned Transportation Zones and Routes

Defined and Assigned Routes and Route Determination Procedures

Client / Project

Indian Tobacco Company – Support Project

Duration

June 2008 – Nov 2010

Team Size

250 - 275

Position

SAP Order to Cash – Logistics consultant

Responsibilities

To support users by solving the issues which have come during month end activity like secondary sales entry using custom program

Prepared the SOPM’s (Standard Operating Procedure Manual) for Master Data Management and circulating to the business with the proper approvals

Configured customer hierarchy and product hierarchy

Involved in creation of specification and development of in-house Reports

Co-ordinate with ABAP consultants for new developments

Customizing activities like creation of plant, Shipping point, Sales office, Sales group, Sales District & New division

Worked on IDOC developments

Worked with Technical team to develop the requirements related to IDOC’s

To resolve authorization issue for users by handling the relevant authorization objects & values

To upload master data developed new LSMW projects

Responsible for creation of new queries through SQVI for analytical purpose

Keep abreast of advances of available technologies and best practice: liaise with solution architects and team members to identify and exploit new opportunities.

Responsible to resolve daily issues raised by users in sales order process

Client / Project

Caterpillar EOMP (Engine Order Management Process) – AMS Support

Duration

June 2007 – June 2008

Team Size

35 - 45

Position

Order to Cash Consultant

Responsibilities

Responsible to handle change request / work request / change ticket as per the requirements and handling them as per the deadlines after thorough integration testing

Responsible for preparation of relevant documentation to all the concerned end users. So that they can solve the problems on their own in future

Responsible to provide solutions for change ticket if requested by the user or found needed at the time of handling the tickets

Responsible to resolve the problems (Issues / Queries / Fixes) encountered by users during transactions and also understanding the new changes suggested by them and accordingly customizing

Responsible to carry out developments and enhancements to cater existing and new business requirements

Provided instant solution to the client / end user on run time errors based on the severity of the issues

Responsible for customization of changes required by the client as a part of their continuous efforts in fine-tuning of existing objects and configuration

Responsible to support the whole world operations of Caterpillar Inc.,

Responsible to liaise with SAP online support to resolve issues

QUALIFICATIONS

Level

Subject

College / University

Pass out Year

Degree

Bachelor of Science Maths, Physics & Chemistry

Andhra University (India)

April 1999

MBA

Marketing

Magnus School of Business

Sep 2007

TRAINING

Conducted

SAP Supply Chain Management – Order Fulfilment training conducted by SAP AG Authorized training partner, Siemens Information Systems (I) Ltd

Certification

SAP R/3 SD Certified (ECC 5.0)

SAP S/4 Hana Sales Certified (1809)

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