Siva Kotta

SAP Functional Consultant/Business Analyst – SD/MM

adv8qs@r.postjobfree.com contact: 919-***-****

VISA: US Citizen /Resident of Raleigh NC 27613

Available after March 31st 2023

March 2023

Professional Summary:

• Senior SAP Consultant and SME specializing with eight plus (8+) years in SAP in the areas of Supply Chain Management(SCM)/ Sales and Distribution (SD), Material management (MM) and twelve (12) years of experience in business management, custom ERP Systems and Project Management.

• Consulting and functional experience in various industries: Retail, AFS, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Media and Hi-Tech industries.

• Working experience in SAP S/4 HANA 1909 and Fiori UX front end.

• Demonstrated ability to provide solutions to client requirements using SAP industry best practices and knowledge of integration across SAP ECC applications.

• Responsibility as a Business Systems Analyst to provide all the Support required by the Senior management and Business owners.

• Highly Skilled at guiding clients through blueprint workshops, re-engineering business processes, Organizational Change Management (OCM), configuration, testing, training and providing knowledge transfer(KT) to clients so they understand how specific configuration enables their requirements.

• Demonstrated ability to streamline custom development efforts, by designing technical requirements, programs, Interfaces and EDI processing, with development teams to deliver solutions on time and on budget with highest quality.

• Ability to work effectively as the team member for Sales and Distribution, Logistics Execution, material management and as part of a global team of consultants from various business disciplines and Verticals.

• Prior to SAP work experience, worked for 12 Years as Project Manager and Leadership experience in Retail and Wholesale Businesses. Knowledge of Activate and Scrum methodologies. Technical Summary:

• Experience in configuration of SAP S/4 HANA 1909 systems.

• Experience in Retail, Wholesale distribution, Hi-Tech, Fashion Industry verticals.

• Expertise in logistics processing: Order to Cash (OTC), Purchase to Pay (PTP), Make to Order. Experience in implementing SAP S4/Hana 1909, ECC 6.0 with EHP7.

• Enterprise Structure: Expertise in complete Organizational structure configuration in the areas of SD, LE and MM.

• Sales: Sales Order Processing in Inquiry, Quotation, Order, Scheduling Agreements, Contracts Involving Customer Master and Material Master. Cross Company sales, Third Party Order processing, Make To Order (MTO), Consignment Stock process.

• Pricing: Configuration of pricing procedures and associated condition tables, condition types, access sequences and condition records.

• Shipping: Outbound Deliveries, Picking, Packing, Loading, Transportation, Post Goods Issue and Serialized Material Tracking Process.

• Billing: Invoice, Credit Memo, Debit Memo and Pro-forma Invoice.

• Payment Cards: Expert in Credit Card processing, setup and Interface with PCI service providers, merchant solutions, payment card authorization, settlement process and error handling.

• Excellent knowledge of Business concepts like Customer and Product hierarchy, Order management, Credit management, Long Text determination at header and item level, Incompletion and Output determination.

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• Strong Cross-Functional integration skills of SD-LE with MM and FI/CO modules.

• Experience in designing and mapping EDI transactions: 850, 855, 856, 860, 810, 846 and 832 in ANSI XI standards and ORDERS, DESADV, INVOIC in UN/EDIFACT, European standards.

• Customized and designed EDI processes in Order-to-Cash, Return Goods Authorizations, Contract management, Chargeback process non-SAP 3rd party Distribution systems using IDOC and function modules.

• Expert in designing, writing functional specifications for custom development objects, routines and user exits. Provide help to technical team to find a BAPI and functional modules (FM) to perform the required process.

• SME on Supply Chain, Logistics, OTC, P2P, IS Retail, Fashion Industry, EDI and Middle Wares. Professional Experience:

Client: Google (Employer: Accenture Flex)

Industry: High-tech

Project Description/Scope: Reverse Logistics, Supply Chain management, Warranty Management, AUTO-RMA and many more.

Role: SAP SD MM Functional Consultant-BSA / Project Management /SME of Reverse logistics sept 2021 to Till now (Working)

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Complete end to end reverse Logistics, project Design, FSD, design approvals, SIT, UAT and Go Live

• Project management of minor and major projects

• Business requirements – Concept to final implementation.

• Working with Offshore team

• Working on Fiori apps

Achievements:

• Achieved more than 20minor projects based on the Feature requests, Bugs, Business requirements.

• Warranty management and Auto RMA, Reverse Logistics

• Working with Tech team to get the code built, evaluate and final implementation.

• Worked on new technologies like Auto receipts using the RFID scanners in places where big warehouses are not available.

• Working with other Peripheral systems like Blu-Yonder WMS systems, Cloud pubsub, Middleware, EDI etc.

Client: Chico’s, FL

Industry: Apparel and Footwear /AFS

Project Description/Scope: Implementation of EDI ANSI X12 in OTC and P2P Areas. GTIN Numbering for Chico’s articles.

Role: SAP SD MM Functional Consultant / Project Management /SME of EDI /GTIN November 2018 to Till May 8th2020

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Complete end to end EDI project Design, budget approvals, workshops, business approvals, RFQ, Vendor selection, Application valuation, Vendor agreements.

• Business Communication with Suppliers and Customers

• Getting the Business Requirements both from OTC leadership and P2P leadership. Siva Kotta SAP SD /MM & EDI – Functional Consultant Page 3 of 7

• Mapping the business requirements vs Solutions available.

• Working with all the development teams from SAP, Manhattan and OCC and True Commerce applications, in evaluating the interfaces, xml schemas and EDI maps.

• Getting the Customer Requirements and implement the interfaces like orders, deliveries, Routing Guides, Invoices.

• Understanding the current Purchase processes and managing the new interfaces to automate the complete P2P processes with EDI document flows.

• Establishing the SFTP/AS2 communication protocols, firewall permissions and Cloud management.

• Conducting the workshops for solution providers, Business Teams and liaising with Business partners.

• Developing the test scripts, testing strategies, identifying the data-feed owners, assigning the responsibilities and monitoring the progresses.

• Working with testing teams, reporting the issues, changes in the developments, mappings and retesting etc.

• Working with HP/ALM testing tool, uploading test scripts and generating the reports.

• Unit testing, regression testing, mock go live, go live and Post Go Live Support

• Go-Live plans, cut-off activities, Schedules with Go-Live, post Go-Live Support.

• GTIN –End to End implementation in several Phases from identifying the numbering methodology to final Go-Live.

• Functional Design and documentation, Workshops with Technical Teams Like ABAP and TIBCO.

• SAP production support, functional changes, RICEF documentation.

• Working with applications like Visio, Power point to create Visualization drawings, charts for team members, discussions with senior management for easy understanding of process flows.

• Responsible for implementing SAP-OTC/P2P processes, configuring and customizing various sales documents, pricing procedures, IDOC interfaces etc.

• Worked extensively in Order Management and interface from various EDI Customers. Mapping of the Orders, deliveries and Invoices.

• Master data management, IDOC Processing, clearing the failed documents.

• Intercompany Billing, Debit Memos and Credit memos Configuration

• Working with cross functional teams of MM & FICO and cross platforms of Manhattan, OCC and DOM.

• Project Implementation methodology used: Waterfall with ASAP methodology Achievements:

• Successful EDI implementation with SAP, Manhattan, True Commerce

• Successfully designed and implemented GTIN numbering in the Retail industry.

• GTIN numbering for UCC-128 labels, Label Specifications and Label designs.

• Successful implementation of SAP - EDI interfaces of franchise customers, International Suppliers from Asian countries.

• Training Key users, business heads and qualify processes

• Supported Go-Live and post go-Live on 24x7 basis

• Worked with international 3P-Logistics providers, design the interfaces with their applications and Chico’s architecture.

• SAP production support, Amazon PO creation, Logistics support etc. Client: Revlon, NC

Industry: Beauty and Cosmetics, NC

Project Description/Scope: Implementation of SAP SD, FICO, PP, MM and EWM for Revlon USA. Siva Kotta SAP SD /MM & EDI – Functional Consultant Page 4 of 7

Role: SAP SD OTC-LE Senior Functional Consultant November 2015 to Jun 2018 Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Responsible for implementing OTC process, configuring and customizing various sales documents, pricing procedures, IDOC interfaces etc.

• Worked extensively in Order Management and interface from various EDI Customers. Mapping of the Orders.

• Exclusively worked in Pricing configuration, routines, Sales deals and Promotions.

• Participated in customer requirements workshops, Blue print design, Customer Master data, configurations of Sales Docs, pricing procedures,

• Unit testing, regression testing, mock go live, go live and Post Go Live Support

• Designed and implemented Order to cash process

• Intercompany Billing, Debit Memos and Credit memos Configuration.

• Working with cross functional teams of MM & FICO

• Successfully configured SD and LE Integration with Financial Account assignments.

• Project Implementation methodology used: Waterfall with ASAP methodology

• SAP Project successful live on time.

Achievements:

• Successful SD implementation

• Successfully designed and implemented SAP OTC and supply to Retail industry.

• Successful implementation of SAP - EDI interfaces of all the USA customers at one time.

• Training Key users, business heads and qualify processes

• Supported Go-Live and post go-Live on 24x7 basis Client: Teleflex

Industry: Medical Device Industry, Morrisville, NC Project Description/Scope: Implementation of Material Segmentation introduced in ECC6.0 with Enhancement pack 7 (EHP7).

Role: SAP SD OTC Senior Functional Consultant August 2015 to September 2015 Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Understand the Business Requirements of the customer and implement the Segmentation as Proof of Concept in the Sandbox. Explored the new Segmentation process introduced by SAP through EHP7.0 (Enhancement pack 7) will be suitable to the client’s current and future requirements. Achievements:

• This is a short-term Project. POC & Document the Business Requirements

• Implementation of Segmentation on their sandbox for the client business units in US, Canada and Mexico.

• Create a prototype business model and test all the business requirements by defining the Segments, Segment Structures, Segment Strategies and wild card techniques and test with the existing business model of STO, OTC, and PIR & MTO etc.

• The Segmentation was available in AFS and Fashion management modules of SAP, which is now extended to major modules in ECC.

• Test project completed successfully and the final documentation submitted to the client. Client: Lenovo

Industry: Computer Hardware and services, Morrisville, NC Siva Kotta SAP SD /MM & EDI – Functional Consultant Page 5 of 7

Project Description/Scope: Beta Tauri-Migrating System X servers business from IBM to Lenovo in North America Geo - Business implementation in SAP, Salesforce, MMI, IBM tools like Vendavo and various 3rd party tools.

Role: SAP Functional Consultant - Geo BT/ OCM implementation Group March 2015 till July 2015

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Study and document the Organizational Change Management (OCM) requirements, implementation using SAP’s ASAP methodology from blue print to successful go-live (Jan 2016) for Beta Tauri Project.

• Working with various other architectures in the complete landscape which include MMI, IBase Database and other 3rd party tools.

• Complete Management of OCM chnges from end to end, within the scheduled time, scheduled budget and with available resources.

Achievements:

• Successfully organized two major OCM workshops:

o Complete OCM requirements for System-X –NA project. o Complete OCM requirements for CBSO- Contract Based Service Offerings.

• Participated in UAT testing of Alpha Centauri Project- Lenovo Enterprise Simple Configurator

(LESC) tool.

• Conducted Daily interlock meetings with the Team Lead and other assigned resources from various teams.

• Organized various Critical workshops to aquire the as is and future requirements and prepared the Gap

• Prime role of Manager for OCM (Organizational Change Management) from E2E.

• Attained a thorough knowledge on the complete as-is and to-be Landscape and complete flow of business processes.

• Attained authentic knowledge on complete Lenovo Business Processes to the possible extent.

• Prepared to take major responsibilities in the forthcoming projects. Other IT/Infrastructure related Jobs in USA

1. Employer: AVCON INC

Industry: Retail / Projects & Services

Role: Project Manager – Projects & Services from August 2003 till Oct2014 Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Need basis Analysis, Solution provider.

• Complete Blue Print to Project Implementation.

• Project Kick Off, Expectations summary, scheduling, Change management process.

• Technical Discussions with Customer teams, and in-house development teams.

• Complete Order Processing to project implementation, Inventory management, Accounts Receivables

• Parts management, Procurement to Pay.

• Support after implementation

• Maintaining the standards, profitability

• Managing the prime Accounts.

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Achievements:

• Implemented Order to final execution of Projects and contracts.

• Managed Procurement to Pay Process

• Managed Order to Contract implementation.

• Managed Periodic Billing.

• Managed Credit management, Accounts Receivables, Write offs.

• Cost Benefit analysis of each Project as a cost center

• Periodic Reports, Change management, Approvals and Execution of the Additions and deletions of the project over the tenure of the project.

Middle East Asia achievements:

1. Employer: Zubair Group of Companies – Muscat, Sultanate of Oman May 1992 till July 2003

Industry: High-tech / Telecommunications, Software Role: Business Manager – Projects & Services (Country Level Operations) Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Procurement of business to execution of projects

• Manage the team of professionals

• Business Development, inventory management, sales and service

• Manage Customer Support teams

Achievements:

• Managed - Huge number of Projects, business proposals and contracts.

• Managed several departments like Telecommunications (Ericson & Nokia – Professional & Consumer products), Fuji Film Products and services.

• Conducted Cost effective Management of the Projects and Service Divisions. Indian achievements:

1. Employers: Monotype India Limited/Uptron India Limited/Micro Advance/Indian Institute of Science – Bangalore India

Feb 1983 to May 1992

Industry: Printing Industry / Digital Electronics / Research Highest Role: Product Manager/Specialist –Print Media (Country Level Operations) Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Country level Manager for a team of engineers, programmers and technical helpers located all over INDIA in various regional and branch offices.

• Providing Technology and Customer support, Knowledge transfer, Project Management of Image setters, Front End Editing Terminals, Servers, Network, satellite communications, and all Prepress and Post Press Equipment and supporting software.

Achievements:

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• Successfully achieved as a country level operations manager to support the Regional Sales Managers in activities like designing the project configuration, blue-prints, product information, Technical Discussions with the end users at various levels, business promotions, road-shows etc.

• Executed in time and profitably, from end to end as a techno-commercial Project manager during the projects procurement & execution of high dollar value projects

• Established proven Customer Support network nationwide.

• Arranged National wide trainings for in-house and external users/customers. Trainings Undergone & Educational Qualifications:

SAP Training : SAP S/4 HANA 1809 /1909 and Fiori UX. Project Management : PMP training from CereerEra.

QA Tools : HP QC & QTP

Applications : MS Projects, Teams, SmartSheet, eVision, TIE-Integrator, SPEDIMAP, Seeburger, True Commerce, SharePoint, Visio, AutoCAD, MS Office, Zendesk-Ticketing, buganizer, Dejavu, Bluyonder WMS Communication Skills : Indian Institute of Management-India. Business Development Skills : TATA Institute of Management- India. Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering : JNT University, Anantapur- India. Siva Kotta

Mobile: 919-***-****

Email: adv8qs@r.postjobfree.com

VISA: US Citizen

Availability: Immediate / Apr 3rd 2023

FEB 2023

Raleigh NC

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