Ulka Rathi

**** ***** **** ***

Marietta GA *****

919-***-****

Profile

Summary:

SAP exper over 20+ years of experience.

SAP Senior Presales Procure to Pay and SCM

Successfully bid on

On Premise to cloud S/4 HANA transformations for insurance, manufacturing and public sector industries.

●Federal Contractor as PMO 2 projects

●Account executive 1 Project

●Worked as SAP Project Manager for 3 projects

●Worked as cutover lead for one project

●Worked as Continuous improvement Lead/Change Management lead and PMO in 2 projects

●Worked as Principle Consultant for 7 Greenfield and Upgrade projects

Functional Competency

Presales and commercial estimations 4 years

Solution Manager 4 years

Solution Architect 10 years

PMO 10 + years

Procure to Pay 16 years

Logistics 20 years

SOP 2 years

IBP 2 years

Mm/SD 4 years

Core competencies:

Sr SAP MM/SRM consultant and a Program Manager who has played an integral part in I

Implementing and supporting SAP Projects.

As a Sr SAP consultant, I have implemented MM and its integration with FI/CO, PS,PM,SD,PP and FM applications over the past 14 years. During the consultation, I have developed many end-to-end business processes within SAP environment. Just to name a few, are Procure to pay (MM, PP, SD, SM, WM), equipment refurbishment & equipment servicing (MRO), Equipment buying (MM, PM, FM) asset management (MM and AM), project stock handlings( MM, PS, FI), rework handling (MM, PP), product development, versioning and revisions handling in MM, Third party customer order execution (MM, SD), intra company transactions (MM, FI, SD), Logistics in material transportation (MM, TPM).

HIGHLIGHTS

1.Over 23 years of IT experience

2.Worked for global templating in Solution Manager SAP procure to pay, order to cash, design to operate and strategie to policy processes for various implementations

3.7 full life cycle implementation experience in SAP MM and MM integration with PM, FI/CO/AM, PS and SD/PP

4.For 4 SAP projects worked as team lead..

5.Experience in SAP MM – Purchasing (P2P/ Procure to pay), Inventory Management, MRP, External Service Management, Contract Management including government contracts in public sector environment, Material Master, Valuation, Warehouse Management, and Invoice Verification.

6.Expertise in Integration of MM with PM, FI, PS, Budgeting, PP and SD and SME for end-to-end process mapping for clients. E.g. procure-to-pay, refurbishment process, asset management.

7.Involved in over 7 End–to–End SAP implementations right from blue print, gap analysis to customizations, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Go-Live, Post-Live Production support, User training and Documentation.

8.Experience in SAP in versions from SAP 2.2E, 3.1H, 4.0B, 4.5B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0

9.Functional Upgrades: SAP 4.6 - ECC 6.0, SAP 3.1H – SAP 4.0B and all other SAP versions starting from 2.2E up to ECC 6.

10.Hosted various workshops and seminars for Solution Blue Print development and Project Scoping.

11.Extensive experience in End User training & Documentation.

12.Excellent verbal, written communication and good presentation skills.

Education Details:

Master of Computer Science (MCS)

Bachelor of Computer Science

Client Experiences

Atos Syntel ( Apr 2021 - Sept 2022)

Sr PreSales Consultant

Responsible for complete RFP solutioning for S/4 Hana Transformation bids.

Bids worked : 6 for Greenfield, AMS, Rollout and Upgrades of various sizes and SAP solutions

SAP solutioning for Manufacturing, public sector, insurance, chemicals

Participated in internal cost estimations tools design and development

Bids Won : 6

Sysmind LLC (Sept 2018 - May 2019)

Contractor to TCS America

Dupont Make Lead

Responsible for decommissioning of Canada instance after HANA DB conversion

Presales S/4 HANA for SPECCO manufacturing division S/4 Transformation

AGCO : SharePoint farm transfer to Dupont, IT asset management

Cap Gemini LLP (Sept 2015- Feb 2016)

Post go live support and year end support for Freeport LNG

S/4 HANA testing.

Accenture SCM Manager (Apr 2013 - Jun 2015)

Client: Hess Corp

Role : Supply Chain Leader in S/4 Transformation and SAP reimplementation

Team 6 onsite 12 offshore

Responsible for Procure to Pay and Maintenance Processes impmentation

Client : Schlumberger

Role Ariba Specialist

Responsible for Ariba integration and implementation solution architecture and Prototyping for Field service division

Category management

Client: Cano Petrolium

Role: Account Executive

Project : Post –go live support for exiting SAP IS- Oil environment

Client: IBM

Project /Client : Schneider Electrics, Lexington,KY (Sept 2010 – Dec 2010)

Role: Module Lead

From 1836 to today, Schneider Electric has transformed itself into the global specialist in energy management. Starting from its roots in the iron and steel industry, heavy machinery, and ship building, it moved into electricity and automation management. After 170 years of

history, Schneider Electric has become today the solution provider that will help you make the most of your energy. Discover its transformation below.

Project: 3rd go-live support for the 3 locations – Lexington, Nashville, Cider Rapids

Responsibility

I was responsible for 3rd go-live support for MM, SRM and WM modules, optimization for procurement process where I was successful in increasing efficiency of procurement office by 200% by adopting Scheduling agreement and also introduced standard pricing for metal including maintenance of variable pricing. I was also responsible for setting up silver buying process.

Thinking Minds Inc, Atlanta,GA (Nov 2008 – Feb 2010)

Role: Program Manager

Thinking Minds is 12 years of Information Technology services provider. It also included SAP consulting experience coupled with our SAP-exclusive focus has allowed them to become experts across the entire SAP landscape including niche skill areas. We offer a wide variety of customized SAP solutions built around your specific needs. Over 350+ experienced SAP Consultants deliver value through "Quick Win" solutions. Continuous development of best practices through SAP CoE. Proven industry knowledge and lower costs with flexible delivery models

Projects:

Integration of Payment Gateway with Bank CBS for NEFT, RTGS, CTS (Oct 2009 – Present)

For Indian client of Thinking Minds wanted a solution to handle bulk NEFT/RTGS transactions. So we have developed a payment gateway for it. It captures the transaction directly or through erp and processes neft/rtgs fund transfer. Payment gateway talks to RBI/Bank system for doing these transactions.

Integration of payment gateway with Bank Gateway for VBV (Verified By Visa) – (Jan 2009 – Sept 2009)

This project was done in 3 steps

1.Passing the PIT testing, in order to be a VISA merchant.

2.Then developed a VBV component which takes the card transaction details and, verifies it with VISA Directory URL, and gets back the auth result from VISA. This result goes to bank via gateway, and also it takes vbv password from user to Bank CBS/switch which verifies the user authentication. If that’s verified then the bank gives response to payment gateway. And payment gateway sends the transaction to settlement bank. Settlement bank then passes the result to payment gateway.

3.And payment gateway passes the result to SAP.

Automatic Cheque/check Clearing :

Prototype of Integration of payment gateway with check scanner is implemented.

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for team selection, mentoring project.

●Prioritize projects

●Interface between team of business experts and the project managers

●Deploy projects

●Pre-Sales

●Product Lifecycle Management

I have helped establish the brand of IndiaPay and maintained positive relationship with multinational banks.

North Carolina Department of Transportation (Public Sector Implementation)

, Raleigh NC (Apr 2007 – Oct 2008)

Role: Team lead

NCDOT has a huge SAP R/3 implementation setup covering the divisions of Railways, Aviation, Bicycle & pedestrian, DMV, Ferry, Highways, and Public Transportation.

SAP implementation for Rail division has started with the blueprint of procurement, inventory management and plant maintenance module. I had responsibility to implement SAP R/3 for Rail division as SAP MM Consultant and the production support. The implementation should turn into the ROI of 4Mil per year and provide business transparency and better control over the vendor operated operations at Rail Division. The objective of the project was to replace existing vendor operated Material Management System and save money on third-party software maintenance and bring all the operations under the hood of NCDOT’s SAP practice.

Responsibility:

Rail Division SAP Implementation – As team lead.

Production Support

Upgrade SAP R/3 4.0B to ECC 6.0

Solution verification and template for transportation management

Transportation Management (SCM 5.0) Initiative

NCDOT has 304 plants including fuel depots and physical warehouses and vendors in the widespread geographical area of North America and Europe, Australia.

This generated the need for saving the freight cost and manages better transportation logistic for internal material movements and external material movements.

Project initiative for transportation management

●Calculated freight charges for internal plant to plant movement for Fuel and non fuel inventory

Calculated and projected ROI based on freight charges verses cost of TPM implementation. Gave 3 years projections for breakeven analyses

Interphase Corporation, Dallas, TX (Nov 2006 – Apr 2007)

Role: Team lead

About : Interphase Corporation (NASDAQ: INPH) is a diversified information and communications technology company, committed to innovation through the process of identifying, developing and introducing new products and services. The Company delivers customers best in class solutions for connectivity, interworking, packet processing, electronic manufacturing services, and electronic engineering design services. Clients of the Company’s communications networking products include Alcatel-Lucent, Emerson Network Power, Fujitsu Ltd., Genband, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, and Samsung.

Project: This was complete end-to-end project of implementing SAP All in One solution and its successfully completed in the time given.

Responsibilities:

●Team Lead with team of 3 business superusers, and 2 sap workflow developers.

●Set up of Organization Structure related to plants, Storage locations and Purchasing Organizations.

●Mapping of AS-IS processes with TO-BE processes, creating EUP’s for respective MM business processes which includes procure-to-pay, inventory management with configurable material and non configurable material, consignment stocks handling, vendor returns, customer returns, setting up procurement workflow, and invoice verification

●Master Data: Creating master data conversion plan, issuing the appropriate programming instructions for data conversion programmers, testing of data conversion programs for material master, vendor master and inventory etc.

●Configuration and Customization of Material Master, Vendor Master.

●Purchasing: Configuration and Customization of Purchasing including release strategies using the complex approval matrix, output types including printing and emailing Pos to vendors, setting up the condition records and tolerance groups for vendors, using the procure-to-pay workflow.

●Inventory Management: Configured Goods receipt, Good issues, Transfer postings and stock transfers, Reservations, Reporting in Inventory Management.

Day & Zimmermann, Philadelphia, PA (May 2006 – Nov 2006)

Role : Team Lead

Day & Zimmermann has 5 main business units.

1.Engineering and construction

2.Advanced Manufacturing : Manufacturing for defense services

3.Nuclear power plants

4.Process and heavy industrial projects

5.Talent and Outsourcing services

Project

Implement SAP R/3 for Engineering and Construction business unit at GreenVille, SC

SAP R/3 business process maintain and change Corporate Procurement

Responsibility

Team lead with 3 business super users and one ABAP developer. Mapped process for project procurement for DZII, PO email to vendors, Procurement Requisition Release for hundreds of DZII plants.

Managed inactive plants in order to stop the requisitions from being created for the inactive plants. This was very interesting scenario in such a large SAP environment where they have over 230 plants maintained in the SAP R/3 and over a period of time they wanted to eliminate old plants but still be able to use the history data but prevent any new operations using those plants. This problem was there since couple of years

●Day & Zimmermann awarded the Best SAP Consultant of the month title on accomplishing this.

Thinking Minds.Com India Pvt Ltd & Thinking Minds Inc Aug 2000 – Apr 2006

Role : Technical Director, VP/CTO

Projects – Selective Brands, Technozone, 6Cmail, PeopleSoft – Web based admission for Grad and Undergrad, Peoplesoft – SQR based interfaces, Peoplesoft application development, SilverSea,

Responsibility :

Project Management, Pre-sales, Product Lifecycle Management

Accomplishment

Started with a startup company with team of 3 developers and built team of 40 developers

Got projects repeatedly from same clients

Used technology developed by Arsdigita Inc, Java, Oracle, .NET

Siemens Information Systems Ltd. Dec 1996 – August 2000

Role : Lead SAP MM consultant in the projects:

Projects

1.S Kumar’s Group of Company

2.Siemens Central database Project ( MM Team Member)

3.Private Networks Project

4.Electronic High-tech Components Project

5.Siemens Ltd.

Responsibility :

Implement Purchasing, External Service Management, Inventory and Invoice Verification for clients of Siemens

Project

Industry Experience snapshot:

Sr. No.

Name of the Organization

No of years

Role / Designation

Department / Function

1

IBM

1

Managing Consultant

GBS

2

Thinking Minds Inc

2

Program Manager

Executive member

3

NCDOT

2

Contractor (From Thinking Minds Inc)

NCDOT-ITS

4

Systech Integrators

2

Contractor (From Thinking Minds Inc)

5

Day & Zimmerman

1

Contractor (From Thinking Minds Inc)

Corporate procurement & Construction Business

6

Thinking Minds Inc & Pvt Ltd

6

VP, Director

Executive Member

7

Siemens Information Systems Lts

5

SAP Consultant

ITS

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