Erp Consultant Independent

KondaNagesh

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Seeking challenging assignment in business analysis, SAP Implementation and training.

PROFESSIONAL ABRIDGEMENT A SAP professional with over 28 years of experience, inclusive of:

•Over 18 years of SAP MM,,WM,PP,SD,FI/CO.APO,Ariba and SAP project implementations and support in domestic and international projects.

•Worked with Ariba implementations in 2002 and 2003 with Ariba offshore development centre at Bangalore, India and global client sof Ariba. Worked on Ariba implementation with Mother dairy in 2017.Also working as Ariba project Manger too, including S4 hana SAP implementation

•Worked on S4 Hana project at Srilanka in year 2016.

•Worked with multiple pharma industry clients

•Initial 11 years of core industry experience in Material Management, Logistics Management, Project Planning and execution in Utilities, Construction, Mechanical manufacturing domains.

•Worked as subject matter expert for many support and maintenance projects and global rollovers in Whirlpool, Rapidigm (India) Ltd.

•Worked in different countries such as India, Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA, Hong Kong,Shanghai, Nepal,

Srilanka etc. Worked with Global teams with different time zones, cultural teams etc. At Saudi Arabia Interacted with Saudi Aramco at Alkabhor and worked with Arcellor mittal at Jubail in the year 2011.Worked with Etisalat in year 2012 at Abhudhabhi for spend performance management implmentatipn

•Working as Free lancer from July 2010 to January' 2020.

•Pursued higher education in strategic management from 11M (Indian institute of Management), Lucknow and completed the programme in March2014.

•Completed assignment-Worked for Surya Nepal (ITC Group Company) for an implementation project in user training phase from August 2013 to September 2013.

•Worked for SAP India in India, for a training assignment for an IBM client for a month assignment June to July 2013.

•Worked with MPG Bis PVt LTD, Gurgaon for presales activity for steel industry and manufacturing domains.

•Worked with Wipro Infotech for Arcelor Mittal client in the Steel industry domain.

•Worked as an Independent consultant with Aricent Holdings LTD, In the mobile industry domain, Gurgaon(lndia)

•Quality experience in ERP (SAP) implementation, including understanding & mapping of business processes, analyzing client requirements, assessing & selecting the most viable business solution, finalizing business scenario and implementing ERP systems.

•Hands on experience in conducting As-Is Business Process Analysis, Designing of solutions, mapping into SAP system, Configuration and Testing.

•Track record of successfully completing 6 full cycle implementations, 1 upgrade, 2 rollout, 3 interface development and number of support / maintenance and enhancement projects.Having exposure to preparing training documents and completed end user training in all the six full cycle implementations. Around 3 years experience in end user training, latest being completed in ITC, Surya Nepal etc.

•Sound knowledge of SEI CMM level 5 processes, worked as SEPG member and SQA member. Demonstrated excellence in leading the global projects involving MDM and SAP systems.

•Have worked with different partners such as suppliers, business teams, with different cultures, different countries, and different time zones in different working models such as offshore, off-site, and on-site and combination models.

•A focused leader with polished communication skills and expert analysis, relationship management and coordination skills. High adaptability to changing business environments.

•Countries visited: USA, Hongkong, China, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Srilanka etc.

CAREER MILESTONES

•Successfully worked on IT strategy of standardization of all the countries in Asia SAP systems.

•Played a major role in implementing multiple projects under this program and saving a huge business benefit and provided a standardized IT platform.

•Spearheaded few business process engineering and standardized business processes.

•Distinction of implementing many processes like phase in phase out processes in SAP R/ 3 etc.

•Proficiently achieved savings worth a few million dollars by proposing new business processes, optimization and proper implementation of the business processes.

SKILL SET Managerial

-Project Management -Strategy Planning

-Set up of IT Roadmap

-Operations Management -Start up Planning & Business Growth -Process

Standardisation

-Organisational Visioning -Drafting Blueprint

-Process Reengineering

-Organisational Restructuring -Value Engineering -Cost Reduction

Techno-Functional

-SAP Implementation -As-Is / To-Be Analysis

-Solution Identification

-Vendor Development -IT Infrastructure Set up

-Data Migration

-Go-live and Post Go-live -User Acceptance Testing

-End User Training

-Technical Support -Technical Documentation

-Quality Assurance

Technical

SAP SAP R/3 MM, PP, WM, Fl /CO, SD and QM Modules.

Exposure to APO,

31. MDM, Xl systems. Version 3.1H, 4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7

Languages Exposure to ABAP/4

Tools Visio, Microsoft office. Clarify ticketing Visio, lotus notes,

Microsoft office, and same time

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Tenure Company Name

Freelancing assignments

Senior Project manger Toyota Bangalore from February 2020 to ongoing

Which is being implemented by Wipro

September 2019 to October 2019 Tide water Inc (usa) Manger SAP Solution Manger

July 2017 to August 2019 Miliken company Pune. SAP snior consultant and subject matter expert.(SME roles)

Designation

March 2017 to August 2017 Mother Dairy SAP Senior Logistics and Ariba

Consultant

Oct2016 to Nov 2016 ADC consulting Sap Senior MM consultant

March2016 to August 2016 Vcentric technologies (Arvin client on S4 Hana) lead Consultant

DEC2014 to DEC 2015 Birla White Cement Lead SAP Consultant

June2014 to July 2014- Gruma client Lead SAP Consultant

October 2013 to December 2013 Vansberg Pharma client Domain Consultant

August2013-Sept2013 Surya Nepal (ITC group company) Lead SAP MM Trainer JUNE 2013-JULY2013 Acute Ltd (for SAP India) Lead Sap trainer

Sep2012-DEC2012 Plus point Services Solution Architect

March 2012-April 2012 MPG Bis Ltd. Solution Architect

March 2011- Nov 2011 Wipro InfoTech. (Arcelor Mittal variant configuration) Manager (SAP MM lead) (Saudi Arabia)

August 2010-Nov2010 Aricent Techonologies Prinicipal consultant. July 2010-July 2010 Wipro technologies Senior Trainer-SAP MM

Permanent Positions

Apr2005 -June 2010 Whirlpool of India Senior Manager

Apr2004 - Apr2005 Vishay Corporation, Senior Consultant MM/ WM

Aug2001 - Mar2004 Rapidigm (India) Ltd. Project Executive

Aug2000 - Ju12001 Nizam Computers Senior MM Consultant Sepi998 - Ju12000 Navayuga InfoTech Pvt. Ltd. ERP Consultant (SAP)

Domain Industry experience

SAP MM

Octi988 - Aug1998 A.P. Engineering Services

Manager (Engineering)

Oct'87 - Oct'88 Bharat Dynamics Ltd., Hyderabad

Junior Technical Assistant

CAREER CONTOUR

March 2019 Ten days online MM training assignment

Pharma Major company from August 2018 to January 2019 SAP MM consultant in improving batch management,inventory management,inventory valuation etc processes in ECC.

NTPC August 2017 to July 2018 SAP senior prinicipal consultant MM module - ECC is utilities for improving the processes implementation of same and end user training

March 2017 to August 2017 Mother Dairy SAP Senior Logistics Consultant —As a senior logistics consultant for Mother dairy project worked in implementation and improvement of logistics process for Mother dairy and implementation of Ariba procurement system.

Oct2016 to Nov 2016 ADC consulting Sap Senior MM consultant—Working for ADC client for different abroad projects

March2016 to August 2016 Vcentric technologies (Arvin client on S4 Hana ) SAP MM lead Consultant. Full cycle green field Implementation of S4 Hana project at Srilanka .Conducting as is study to be study configuration and testing of system user training etc

December 2014 to December 2015---BirIa white cement full cycle SAP implementation-Role SAP MM lead including CIN implementation and Partial project manager role of 12 to SAP implementation. Working on split valuation, inventory management, procurement processes etc.

July2014n to September 2014 -Gruma client for the SAP dms rationalization and change in business organization structure.

June2014 to July 2014

•ITC India on July 2014 at Gurgaon from June 2014 to July 2014.

Apri12014 to May2014---

•Conducted a training program for SAP MM module for a corporate at Delhi April 2014 to May2014.

Worked for an implementation project for end-user training for ITC, India.

August 2013 to September 2013.

Worked for an implementation project in user training phase in ITC Nepal from August 2013 to September

2013

June 2013 to July 2013

SAP India training programme for IBM client for MM module.

October 2012 to December 2012

Project Description An implementation project for the Spend Performance Project implementation for the Etisalat client leading player in telecommunications. Entertainment broadcast domain. Helped the SRM consultant for the business blueprint preparation of the SRM implementation.

March 2012 to April 2012.-With MPG BIS PVT LTD.

Worked as a freelancer for providing presales activities for SAP implementation in Steel and Manufacturing domain.

March 2011 to November 2011 —With Wipro Consulting(Wipro Infotech Ltd). Domain-Steel Industry.

Worked as a Solution architect, business consulting, and SAP implementation for Arcelor Mittal Client at Saudi Arabia. Worked from client side for implementation of variant configuration and rationalisation of Material master records.

August 2010 to November 2010 -With Aricent technologies as a Solution architect for the global SAP implementation and roll out of the SAP systems.

•Domain -Mobile applications technology -professional services

•Lead the Business blueprint finalization phase for the Frog Design in Sanfrancicso, USA with the face to face meeting with the Frog Business team.

•Implemented in the SAP MM global roll outs for the countries Vietnam and China.

July 2010 for Wipro technologies as a SAP MM trainer

Worked as a trainer and trained Wipro employees in SAP MM module as a free lancer.

Apr'05 till June 30 2010 with Whirlpool Corporation, Gurgaon, India. As Senior Manager

•Demonstrated excellence in leading the procurement projects and product development projects, supporting the MM/WM/ PP related applications in SAP system.

Worked on Country India version(CIN) and got trained from SAP consultants implemented the same in India Whirlpool implementations and supported CIN application in India and enhancement features from time to time basis. The processes implemented are excise invoice in procurements process in sub contracting process, cenvat utilization, and additional excise duty. Etc.

Latest saving program is about 2 Billion USD million on which we already saved about 250 million USD.

•Successfully worked on the full cycle implementation of Whirlpool of India in SAP 4.7 modules in Asian client. This is a reimplementation of the project from SAP 4.0b to 4.7

•Modules implemented are MM, PP, SD, and FI/CO SAP interface to Magic care.

•Worked as MM/WM/PP Asia Lead.

•Worked on implementing supporting, release strategies, with work flow, without workflow etc.

•Proficiently led the implementations of MDM to SAP interface with Xi integration for Global product Hierarchy updating from MDM systems to Asian systems, North American, Latin America and European systems.

•Major role in the activation of serial number management implementation for China operations.

•Project Manager of the Demand planning implementation of the APO in India.

•Distinction of implementing various projects by saving lots of cost by driving offshore and on-site model driving implementations within time and budget.

•Actively worked on the full cycle implementation of the Whirlpool Hong Kong with the module implemented are MM, WM, SD, FI/CO in SAP 4.7.It has an interface by name CDS customized build software which is integrated to SAP.

•Actively implemented external service management, Evaluated receipt settlement, invoice verification processes etc.

Apr'04 — Apr'05 with Vishay Corporation, Pune

As Senior Lead Consultant MM/ WM

•Successfully worked on the roll out project for implementation of SD, MM, PP, WM modules.

•This project was implemented in China; the execution was carried over totally at offshore.

•Distinction of working on the Vishay Sampling Center Project, Sandeigo.

•Attended the project kick off and AS IS study at Sandeigo.

•Proficiently worked on the Security Basis Project, in creation of Role creation, role updation, adding roles user master record, complying user master records, and generation of roles for the SOX compliance project.

Aug'01 — Mar'04 with Rapidigm (India) Ltd., Pune/Noida

As Senior Functional Consultant

•Actively worked in the post implementation support teams for Sanyo Semiconductor Corporation (New Jersey), Sandieogo processing center, Cross roads Micro pump, Aera technologies, Steel Scape, Prairie materials, Inficon, PSC scanning, Levis, Merator Wabco, Dofasco, Flash, Cooper tools, Sanyo UK, Sanyo logistics, AEI, projects, etc.

•Sucessfully worked on the interface development of the Ariba suite (buyer7.1) with the SAP4.6c.

Involved in the testing of the interfaces etc.

•Proficiently worked on the Flash full upgrade project from offshore.

•Worked on Cross roads etc for SAP upgrade from 3.1 i to 4.6c.

•Distinction of heading the testing team for the SAP practice which tests all the projects of SAP practice.

•Played a major role in developing some reports with the help of Abap team, and providing different solutions through changes in IMG (CUSTOMIZATION) in the area of MM, SD, PM, FI/CO, PP, PM Modules.

Kev Proiects Handled: Title: ARIBA, USA

Role: Senior Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3(différentes versions). Ariba Buyer (8.1) different builds.

Summary: The project required providing transparent interfaces with the industry leading ERP solutions to meet market demands and provide added convenience for users of the Ariba Suite (who are leaders in enterprise spend management). These features are being designed for inclusion in its next release.

Responsibility: Involved in the following activities:

•Preparing documents to assist in requirement gathering, design, development, and deployment, and Unit test, system test for the Payment Pull feature to enable the interfacing of the Ariba Buyer product with SAP MM module basically referring to Purchasing, Inventory Management, and Invoicing.

•Populating financial modules (payment related information) to Ariba buyer product. Involved on System test (that is acceptance, Alpha test, Beta test) of Ariba Buyer (version

8.1) of Builds with different versions SAP system on the PO Push feature at Ariba, IDC, Bangalore.

Title: PSC Scanning; USA Role:

Senior Functional Consultant

The modules involved are Sales and Distribution, Controlling, Customer Service, Materials Management/ WM.

Summary: The objective of the project was to provide Post-implementation support to the end -users at PSC scanning. The organization is one of the global leaders in the scanners manufacturing.

Title: Prairie Materials Inc., USA Role: Project

Manager

Environment: SAP R/ 3.

Summary: The chief objective of the project was to provide post - implementation support to the end users at Prairie Materials. The tasks were concerned with the SD module, Financials and its integration with MM. Some of the configurations made involved Sales Order generation, generation of quotation to be passed over to MM, blocking of G/L accounts by the combination of company code and business area. The project involved configuration to enable cash discount payment for 3rd party Purchase Orders.

Title: Sanyo Semi — Conductor Corporation, USA Role: Functional Consultant (MM, FI, SD) Environment: SAP R/ 3.

Summary: The project was about providing post-implementation support to users at Sanyo. The tasks involved configuring changes in balance sheet creation (FI), configuration of changes for creation of new valuation types (MM), creation of storage locations (SD), freight vendors' payment, and materials availability check (SD).

Title: Micropump

Role: Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/ 3

Summary: The objective of the project was to provide post implementation support for the R/ 3 4.6C system at Micropump. The project was to create a SAP script for displaying the details of the Production Order that has already been confirmed. Modules worked on are PP and SD. Here, the main tasks were associated with the creation of Purchase Order and configuration of status profile.

Title: Steelscape, USA Role:

Functional Consultant.

Environment: SAP R/ 3

Project: Post - implementation support of PM module. The project involved providing support to end-users at Steelscape, configurations were made in the Plant Maintenance module. Moreover, testing of the layout set for plant maintenance order was also done.

Aug'OO — Jul'01 with Nizam Computers, Hyderabad

As Role: Project Manager (Training), Senior MM Consultant

Title: Training to SAP MM Consultants

Environment: SAP R/ 3 4.6b

Summary: The project involved automatic Re-order planning & other planning strategies. It also involved customization of live scenarios, configuration of live scenarios, integration of MM with FI, SD, PP, providing technical specifications to the ABAP consultants, exploring 4.6b IDES. Apart from these, there were quite a few prototype projects on 4.6b.

Sep'98 — Jul'OO with Navayuga Infotech Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad As ERP Consultant (SAP)

Project: Implementation of MM module Environment: SAP R/3 3. lh Role: Involved in the following activities:

•Implementing the MM module.

•Designing & configuring the MM Module with total functionality such as Enterprise structure, Master Data such as; Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchasing of materials, services; Inventory Management such as; stock transport orders, subcontracting, Consignment stock, stock handling etc; Vendor Evaluation, Forecast based planning,

Valuation of materials, Identification of different reports, Invoice verification, etc.

•Working on PS, MM, QM, FI/CO and SD integrations developing specifications for 12 reports and testing their output as per client's needs.

•Solid hands-on experience in SAP-MM/PP/SD/FI/CO Component. Worked in Ariba, SRM,SPM,APO

•Few example processes are mentioned below

•Purchasing

•Inventory Management,

•Logistics Invoice Verification,

•Physical Inventory,

•Material Valuation,

•Material Requirements Planning (MRP),

•External Services Management

•Exposed to SAP modules. Few e.g. of business processes exposed

•Standard & Third-Party Sales Order Processing,

•Billing,

•Consignment Processing & Returns, Schedule Agreements,

•Credit Memo & Debit Memo Processing,

•Export Control, Quotation Processing,

•Customer Returns,

•Pricing, Rebate

•Procure to pay process

•Order to cash process

•Inventory Handling, storage, batch management, shelf life, serial number management etc.

•Very good knowledge in Human resource management processes such a recruitment, training, employee leave, payroll processes

Lead the testing department and understand the testing process such as test planning, translation of requirements into test cases, creation of simple, complex, regression scenarios, and execution of test scenarios, management and reporting of defects and test results.

Strong understanding of release and change management process

•Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

•Excellent work standards, highly motivated, team player, action oriented with continuous improvement mindset

•Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with vendor teams and internal customers

APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING Apprentice ship training in the Bharat Dynamics Ltd.

EDUCATION

•Completed Strategic Management program from 11M Lucknow MBA (operations research) from IGNOU -project work need to be done Advanced Diploma in Management from IGNOU in .1993. Diploma in Operations Management from IGNOU in 1994 Diploma in Management from IGNOU in 1992.

•Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Programming from Setwin Institute of Management and Computers in 1991.

•Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from Osmania College of Engineering in 1990.

•Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Government polytechnic, State board of technical education -1983.

KNOWLEDGE PURVIEW

•Functional as well SAP integration knowledge of LO, SD, PP, FI/CO, PM, modules and their interfaces.

•Knowledge of multiple versions of R/ 3 like 4.7, 4.6c.4.5B, 4.0b, 3.1h, 3.1 i.

•Intensive MM /PP knowledge like Master Data, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Invoice Verification, BOM, and Production orders, MRP etc. and mapping the business processes into SAP system.

•Had exposure to BI system, and APO systems.

•Aware of SEI CMM processes, core team member of SEPG, was involved as a SQA member SAP practice.

TRAINING PROGRAM ATTENDED

•Training for 35 days in planning module SAP 4.7, which includes AP03.1 From SISL, authorized training partner for SAP in August-2004.

•Project management training from registered educational partner of Project Management institute-PMI in June, 2004 and 2008.

Awards received.

Received many awards in different organizations.

Few of them are

Best business solution for procurement cost reductions from Whirlpool.

Best team implementation CIN Enhancements from Whirlpool

Appreciation from KPMG for the efficient SAP solution for auditing activities.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Contact Address :Lbnagar,Hyderabad, India

Year and Month of Birth August 1965

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