Supply Chain Business Process

Ramakrishna Ampolu (Permanent Resident)

S/*HANA Sales Certified Consultant **********@*****.*** 513-***-**** Cincinnati, OH

LinkedIn: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ramakrishna-ampolu

Professional

SAP S/4HANA OTC certified consultant with around 18 years of comprehensive experience in SAP Sales and Distribution (SD), Supply Chain management, Purchasing (MM-PUR), Production Planning (PP) and Warehouse management. Expert in end-to-end two SAP project implementations, global rollouts, enhancements, and production support. I am skilled in business process design, SAP system configuration, and integration of multiple SAP modules to drive business process efficiency and enable complex product configuration for mass customization. Proficient with bridging business and technical teams to deliver high-impact SAP solutions for industries including manufacturing, automotive, consumer goods, and retail.

Core Competencies

●Order-to-Cash (OTC) Implementation & Support

●Delivery, Shipment & Billing including debit memo and Credit memo processing

●S/4 HANA Condition Contracts Management and Settlements

●Credit Management (FSCM)

● S/4 HANA AATP application functionality

●Pricing: Configured different Pricing scenarios including Sales Promotions, Condition Exclusions, and Free Goods

●Downpayments/Milestone Billing process

●Cross-functional Collaboration, 3rd Party, Inter company, STO

●Sales and Operation Planning (SIOP) and Forecasting (SAP standard Flexible planning)

●ABAP Programming and Debugging experience

●Production Planning in the areas of Work Centers, Routings, Bill of Materials, Capacity planning and Material Requirement Planning.

●Extensive experience in SAP modules such as MM, PP, WM and FI

●Experience in both MTS and MTO business scenarios

●Strong knowledge on RICEF, LSMW, ABAP Query, EDI/IDOC’s, Troubleshooting, and Support

●Creation of user manuals, training materials, training sessions to educate end users on the SAP Sales and Distribution and other integration modules

●Ability to lead cross-functional teams and collaborate with stakeholders across departments.

●Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and technical reporting skills.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Nagarjuna University in Guntur, India

Training and Certifications

●SAP Certified Associate - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023, Sales

●Certified in SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM Sales) from Siemens

●Production Planning and Control training at SAP Training Center at SAP America

●Project Management Program (PMP) certification from Xavier University

●Six Sigma Red Belt Certification

●Basics of Supply Chain Management from APICS

Professional Experience

Senior SAP OTC / SCM Functional Consultant [Sep 2008 to Oct 2024]

Company: The Harris Products Group, A Lincoln Electric Company, Mason, Ohio

●Served as the primary SAP primary contact for the Harris Products Group division of Lincoln Electric, assisting a broad swath of functional users, including inside sales, product pricing, order fulfillment, invoicing, finance, and business analytics.

●Acted as the business relationship manager for Harris Products Group’s North American facilities, accurately capturing and documenting functional requirements to ensure IT system enhancements meet all business needs.

●Involved overall configuration of organizational Business Configuration (OBC) services

●Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather detailed requirements for OTC processes.

●Led the design and implementation of the SAP SD module, including configuring sales order management, delivery, picking, packing, billing, and other logistics functions for a global manufacturing company.

●Very good experience with EDI Mapping, Testing and Troubleshooting for all inbound and outbound transactions like 850, 855, 856, 810, 940, 945, etc.

●SAP SD configuration areas include Sales Order processing including Export and Intercompany Sales, billing, interface with 3rd party ordering system, Available to promise (ATP), SAP tiered pricing, Consignments and copy controls.

●Integrated Variant Configuration (VC) with SD for configurable products, reducing manual intervention by 30% and increasing order accuracy for custom product variants. Involved in building models, testing, and migrating new and modified model data using ALE to Quality and Production systems.

●Developed and maintained Super BOMs and Super Routings, ensuring seamless production planning for variant products.

●Manage day-to-day updates and accuracy of pricing master data in the ERP system to ensure consistency across all pricing-related transactions.

●Maintain and update pricing structures, customer-specific pricing, and rebate information within the system.

●Configured the Pricing in Variant Configuration helped the team with Data Migration and testing

●Provided support SAP WM module processes, including goods receipt, storage, stock removal, packing, and shipping, improving overall warehouse efficiency.

●Led the SAP enhancements associated with Harris Products’ recent Spotlight Strategies Project, a major transformational initiative that enabled Harris to achieve the highest profit margins under Lincoln Electric ownership: customer and product classification, tiered pricing/freight charges, order fulfillment prioritization, and analytics/reporting for "quads."

●Played an integral role in the integration of several key Harris acquisitions, including Carthage, TN; Gordonsville, TN; and Florence, AL. Served as the primary liaison with corporate IT to ensure that the unique needs of these sites were properly addressed during integration.

●Led the system upgrade activities every year including module testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing in the ALM HP Quality center to validate system performance for all our HPG plants.

●Very good experience with designing functional specifications and developing different RICEFW objects by coordinating with technical teams.

●Spearheaded the implementation of milestone billing in SAP, including setup and configuration for Sales Orders, Projects, Billing Plans to meet client-specific billing requirements.

SAP SD/CRM Functional Consultant: [Jan 2008 to Sep 2008]

Company: Global Soft Solutions

●Configured customized document types, item categories, and pricing procedures for different scenarios.

●Involved in configuration of order to cash complete process including third party scenarios.

●Configured all CRM sales scenarios for campaigns, leads, territories, opportunities, quotations, and sales orders in CRM 2007.

SAP SD Functional Consultant: [Aug 2007 to Dec 2007]

Company: EDS

●Configured Master data like Customer masters and Material master data.

●Configuration of Sales, Delivery and Billing documents and Shipping point determinations.

●Configuration of pricing procedure determination, Rebate process.

●Involved in designing functional specifications for few custom reports

SAP SD/CRM Functional Consultant [Jul 2006 to Feb 2007]

Company: IBM Global Services

●Involved in the implementation of Rockwell project and captured business requirements in CRM presales activities.

●Involved in preparing the functional and technical specifications for the business processes and customization based on the gathered requirements

●Involved in the configuration of sales master data and sales order types, Sales document item categories, Item category groups, access sequences, condition types and pricing procedure.

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