SAP SD Functional Consultant

Jaganathan Ranganathan, Roles: Senior SAP Consultant/Team Lead/Manager

DOB: 20-May-1967

Professional Profile

Overall 24+ years of experience in IT Software industries, which includes 5 full years of project management with the strong Configuration, Techno Functional experience in SAP R/3, S/4 HANA Sales and Distribution Modules (Sales/Pricing/Delivery/Billing), SAP S/4 HANA Financial Accounting Configuration and integration knowledge, SAP Archiving, SAP GTM Global Trade management, CRM Salesforce, SAP IS-OIL TD/TSW/TAS, Decentralized WMS, Strong knowledge in Logistics execution (LE) process of Shipping and Transportation from SD Module, Warehouse Management of MM module, SD-FI revenue recognition and Cross-Functional Customizing in MM.

Integration of SAP SD-FI, SD-MM & SAP with Non-SAP systems. SAP Fiori Application, SAP ABAP Programming Basic/Debugging Skill.

My Skill Set at Leadership / Management:

Have an experience of managing the multiple projects with competing priorities.

To develop and monitor the project schedules and timelines to identify and meet critical mile stones.

Ability to deliver the project based on the budgeted cost and to track the budget.

Ability to create the project documents as necessary to detail.

Ability to do remote project management teams through different geographies.

Education:

Certified MySAP SCM Order Fulfillment Consultant. [Certification#000*******]

M.Sc. Statistics - 1991, Presidency College, Madras University, India.

B.Sc. Statistics - 1989, Presidency College, Madras University, India.

Core Competencies :

SAP R/3, S/4 HANA Sales and Distribution (SD). Course Completed @ SAP Asia Pte Ltd.

Order to Cash Process ( Integration with FI, MM)

SAP S/4 HANA Financial Accounting (FI), Course Completed @ SAP Asia Pte Ltd..

Record to Report ( FI-GL, AA, AP and AR ), All external(Balance Sheet, Income Statement)/internal reporting.

SAP R/3, S/4 HANA Material Management (MM).

Procure to Pay ( FI Integration ).

Summary

Employer Name

Designation

Country/Location

Start Date

End Date

Mriga Asia Pte Ltd

SAP Freelance Consultant

Singapore

July-2021

Till Date

Mriga Tradings

Solution Consultant Legacy System

Singapore

Jan-2015

Jun-2021

SAP Freelance Consultant

SAP Trainer

Singapore

Apr-2014

Dec-2015

IBM Singapore – Contract through ICS.

SAP Consultant

IS-OIL TAS

Singapore

Oct-2013

Jan-2014

Geco Asia Pte Limited

SAP GTM settlement/Revenue Recognition Consultant

Singapore/USA

Oct-2012

Jun-2013

IBM India Pvt Limited

Senior Advisory Consultant

IS-OIL TD/TSW/TAS

India/Bangalore

July-2008

Oct’2012

PGI Info Tech

SD/MM Functional Consultant

Singapore

Dec’2007

June’2008

Ness Global

Senior Consultant

Singapore

Mar’2004

Nov’2007

Cadence Design Systems

SAP SD/MM Support Consultant

USA/California

Jan’2003

Feb’2004

Intellimark(Cadence Design Systems)

SAP SD/MM Support Consultant

USA/California

Nov’2001

Dec’2002

MAT Systems(Cadence Design Systems)

Consultant SAP SD

USA/California

July’1999

Oct’2001

Apar Infotech

ERP Consultant

Singapore

Jan’1997

Jun’1999

Birla Consultancy and Software Services

Software Engineer

India/Mumbai

Apr’1993

Dec’1996

Experience and Accomplishments

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Financial Accounting – Greenfield Implementation.

Client – Mriga Asia Pte Ltd Singapore.

Duration: July’21 – Till date.

Role: SAP Freelance Consultant

Project Name: Migration from non-SAP to SAP SD

Team Size: 1 Senior Consultant, 2 Functional consultants reporting to the lead, 2 Seniors staff from Client.

Responsibilities:

. Studied the legacy system business processes & prepared the blueprint document.

Listed the GAP Identified the GAP, duplication of jobs and unwanted code logic in the legacy system.

Prepared the data migration plan.

Hands on with SAP SD/MM Customization

Study conducted to replace & automate the functionality of the existing business processes with SAP S/4 HANA functionality in billing and payment area.

Finalized the business requirements & its documentation after discussion with functional head, sectional heads.

Finalization of the report’s requirement, layouts (high level).

Finalization of user’s id, authorization profiles & its documentation and Business blueprints sign off.

As a Part of the project initiative, the entire team was trained in SAP S/4 HANA Financial Accounting module by SAP.

Non-SAP Trading system, Client – Mriga Tradings Singapore. Jan’15 – Jun’21.

Role: Senior Consultant – Define and document the business process required for the company’s Trading business.

Project Name: Implement the new business process for the company Mriga Tradings Singapore.

Team Size: 1 Senior Consultant, 2 Company’s IT Support Staffs.

Responsibilities:

Stream lined the business process specific to the client requirements. Mriga is a medium size company that trades fresh fruits and vegetables from Asian countries.

I have prepared the templates for the Request for Quotation, Purchase order and payment to vendors.

Customization around SD, FI integrations

List the import documentation procedure, like managing custom requirements, Suppliers, Liner and Clearing agent.

Documented the steps to follow the import tax payment, Container clearance, Haulier arrangements to reach the warehouse.

Due to minimum budget availability, the company used Web-based application and some standard MS Words, Excel templates for their business execution.

Additionally Customer management process was defined to send the Delivery Note along with goods delivery, then sending out the e-invoices through the emails. For month end closing, I prepared and sent out the SOA for each customers.

Upon payment receipt, the balance for each customer gets updated in the Book. Mriga Followed this custom made business process before upgrading their business to the next level by year 2021.

SAP R/3 ECC6.0, SAP SD Freelance Trainer. Apr’14 – Dec’15.

Role: SAP SD Consultant. Location: Bangalore/Chennai - INDIA.

Project Name: SAP SD project life cycle and realization phase Hands-on.

Team Size: 1 Sr. SAP SD Trainer, 1 Training assistant.

Responsibilities:

a.ASAP methodology.

b.Detailed discussion on each phase of the project implementation.

c.Provided the deliverables of document templates on each project phase.

d.Hands on with SAP SD/MM Customization.

e.Detailed discussion on Hypercare /Support model.

SAP R/3 ECC6.0, Client – Shell Eastern Singapore. Oct’ 13 – Jan’14.

Role: SAP IS-Oil Consultant OTC. ICS subcontract with IBM Singapore.

Project Name: SAP IS-Oil TAS – Leo Silver Implementation Project at Gantry.

Team Size: 1 Project Manager in Singapore, 4 Functional Leads (OTC/FICO/PP/PM),4 IS-Oil Functional consultants reporting to the lead, 1 ABAP Technical.

Responsibilities:

-To implement the EDI/ALE IDoc interface between GSAP and Gantry.

-Prepared the To-be process document for the Business Implementation Workshop & Sign-off.

-Prepared the interface requirement design document for the Gantry interface & Sign-off.

-Following is the list functional design document Prepared for each Gantry interface.

Sales Order from CH-GSAP to Gantry Omega TAS.

Load details from Gantry Omega TAS.

Purchase Order from CH-GSAP to Gantry Omega TAS.

Unload details from Gantry Omega TAS.

Stock Transfer Order from CH-GSAP to Gantry Omega TAS.

Unload details from Gantry Omega TAS for STO.

SAP R/3 ECC6.0, Client – Bunge Singapore, USA. Jul’ 12 – May’ 2013,

Role: SAP GTM Settlement Consultant SD/MM/FI. Geco Asia Pvt. Ltd. Singapore.

Project Name: SAP GTM - Global Trade management.

Team Size: 1 Project Manager in USA/Singapore, 3 GTM Functional Leads (Contract / Execution / Settlement), 3 GTM Functional consultants (Contract / Execution / Settlement) reporting to the leads.

1 ABAP Lead with the team of 5.

Responsibilities:

- Blueprint document preparation & sign off

- Preparing the functional design documents for the GAPS being captured during the blueprint.

- Requirement gathered on FORMS

1. Commercial invoice

2. Debit Note

3. Credit Note

4. Pro forma Invoices

- Requirement gathered on REPORTS

1. Settlement report

2. Volume report

Customization/configuration during the realization phase.

Working with KUs to test the functionality and get the signed-off

Completed the internal test Phase-I/Phase-II for Singapore and Miami-USA with KUs at Miami office.

Customization around SD, FI integrations.

Maintain the Project Document solution manager tool.

Working with HPQC tool to capture the Defects.

Trained the KUs on standard GTM settlement process and the GAP functionalities.

Additional Note:

Worked on the some of the functionality in SAP GTM system like Creation of Master and Pricing contracts. Parcel workbench functionality to create a Vessel/Project, Parcel/EP, Nomination, Execution of Purchase, Sales contracts. Vendor settlement, Sales Settlement processes. Created a contract WAP using TS. Duplicate the existing contracts while creating a new one.

SAP R/3 ECC6.0, Client – Sara Lee International, Netherland.

Nov’ 11 – May’ 2012, Roll: Team Lead cum Project Manager, IBM India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore.

Project Name: Archiving Finnegan - Archiving H&BC Company Code data of OTC/PtP/FICO objects, Structures in SAP R/3 and Development in Non-SAP environment Crystal/Web/Micro Strategy.

Team Size: 1 OTC Archiving Senior Consultant, 1 PtP Archiving Senor Consultant, 1 FICO Archiving Senior Consultant, 1 ABAP Technical Consultant, 1 Basis Consultant.

Responsibilities:

To Manage the Financials and Forecast sheet.

Plan the KTs for new Joiner.

Prepare and maintain the project plan,

preparing the weekly status report and share the same to all the stake holders in the project.

Schedule and manage the weekly status review call with all the stake holders.

Monitoring the risk and mitigate them,

Managing the consultants to complete their deliverables within the schedule.

Reviewing the Unit, UAT scripts and test results before approving the changes to move into production environment.

Upload all the documents into RPM tool.

Additional Info:

Archiving OTC objects, Procure to Pay and FICO objects were completed for the initial 6 countries. The remaining 9 countries archiving started after receiving the business approval.

SAP R/3 ECC6.0, Client – Sara Lee International, Netherland.

Mar’ 11 – April’ 2012, Role: Offshore coordinator, IBM India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore.

Project Name: Archiving SSC - Merger project (Multiple companies to one company)

Team Size: 1 MM Senior Consultant, 2 FICO Senior Consultant, 1 HR Senior Consultant, 1 ABAP technical Consultant.

Responsibilities:

Preparing the weekly status report and share the same to on-site project manager.

Schedule and managing the weekly status review call with on-site project manager.

Monitoring the risk and mitigate them when required,

Managing the consultants to complete their deliverables within the schedule.

Reviewing the Unit, UAT scripts and test results before approving the changes to move into production environment.

Upload all the documents into RPM tool.

Additional Info:

Project went live on April '2011 and received the client appreciation.

SAP R/3 ECC6.0, Client – Sara Lee International, Netherland.

June’ 11 – Sep’ 2011, Role: Team Lead cum Project Manager, IBM India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore.

Project Name: BIMBO - Fixed Asset Migration Project. (Sara Lee International to BIMBO Spain system)

Team Size: 2 Fixed Asset Senior Consultants, 1 ABAP Technical Consultant, 1 Basis Consultant

Responsibilities:

To Manage the Financials and Forecast sheet.

Plan the KTs for new Joiner.

Prepare and maintain the project plan,

Preparing the weekly status report and share the same to all the stake holders in the project.

Schedule and manage the weekly status review call with all the stake holders.

Monitoring the risk and mitigate them,

Managing the consultants to complete their deliverables within the schedule.

Reviewing the Unit, UAT scripts and test results before approving the changes to move into production environment.

Upload all the documents into RPM tool.

Additional Info:

Project went live on Sep'2011 and received the client appreciation. Project closure report was signed-off by Customer Sara Lee International.

SAP R/3 ECC6.0, Client – Sara Lee International, Netherland.

Oct’ 11 – Feb’ 2012, Role: Team Lead cum Project Manager, IBM India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore.

Project Name: Archiving the C&T Company Code data of OTC/PtP/FICO objects, Structures in SAP R/3

Team Size: 1 OTC Archiving Sr Consultant, 1 PtP Archiving Sr Consultant, 1 FICO Archiving Sr Consultant, 1 ABAP Technical Consultant, 1 Basis Consultant.

Responsibilities:

To Manage the Financials and Forecast sheet.

Plan the KTs for new Joiner.

Prepare and maintain the project plan,

preparing the weekly status report and share the same to all the stake holders in the project.

Schedule and manage the weekly status review call with all the stake holders.

Monitoring the risk and mitigate them,

Managing the consultants to complete their deliverables within the schedule.

Reviewing the Unit, UAT scripts and test results before approving the changes to move into production environment.

Upload all the documents into RPM tool.

Additional Info:

So far we have completed the archiving of OTC, PtP objects. FICO is currently running the archiving of COPAA/COPAB/COPAC objects in Live environment. Scheduled completion date is by Jul'2012.

SAP IS-OIL TD/TSW/TAS R/3 4.6c, Client - British Petroleum Downstream, USA.

May’ 10 – May’11, Role: Senior Advisory Consultant, IBM India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore.

As an ISOIL SME, Managing the group of OTC, Distribution consultants to support the production system and solving the issues in production environment within stipulated SLA period.

Hands on experience with ISOIL exchange processes.

Initiate, planning, execution and closure of KT session on StRC, StCC process.

Work with incident management.

Working Knowledge on IS-OIL concepts/business processes.

Managing buy back process related issues.

Working knowledge on Formula & Average Pricing and OTC issues.

Handle various interfaces between SAP system and other non-SAP systems.

Exposure on IDOCs, Batch Jobs, Function Modules, BAPI, EDI Good Knowledge of Process mapping on SAP system, Gathering the requirements from business process and preparing the documentation.

Enhancements/Implementation of new interface in BP IS-OIL SAP application to the external system.

List of Enhancements/New Interfaces

Customer master data extract from SAP to CRM-Seibel system.

Invoice layout changes.

Override the invoice calendar dates to avoid the delay in credit to the customer account.

Enhancement on duty drawback interface to remove the hard-coded messages with system messages.

Incorrect posting date issue in Account document.

Incorrect US state tax calculated for exempted states.

Duplicate allocation of customers caused the credit issue at terminal (lifting).

SAP IS-OIL TD/TSW/TAS R/3 4.6c, Client - Shell Petroleum Downstream, USA.

Jul’ 08 – April’10, Role : Senior Advisory Consultant, IBM India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, India

As a Group Lead, Managing the group of OTC, Distribution and CRM functional consultants to support the production system and solving the issues in production environment within stipulated SLA periods.

I have a strong knowledge on SAP SD/OTC functional areas. About CRM TSM (Trade Spend Management), I have managed the CRM TSM, TPM (Trade Promotion Management) team in IBM Bangalore project. I wish, I will take any opportunity to work on CRM TSM, TPM as well. I am a very senior consultant.

Have worked on SAP GTM, SAP IS-OIL global implementation projects without prior experience.

End user support in accordance with standard support processes.

Initiate, planning, execution and closure of KT session on StBC process.

Working with incident management and change management.

Working Knowledge on IS-OIL concepts/business processes.

Working Knowledge on TAS, TPI, SAP Trader’s and Scheduler’s Workbench (SAP TSW), TD Shipment areas.

Working knowledge on concepts like 3rd party process, Aviation, Retail business.

Knowledge on credit management, Auto GR back-to-back processes.

Working knowledge on Formula Pricing and OTC issues.

Experience with rebates, credit card processing.

Handling various interfaces between SAP system and other CAPs.

Knowledge on various enhancements in distribution and HM.

Exposure on IDOCs, Batch Jobs, Function Modules, BAPI, EDI Good Knowledge of Process mapping on SAP system, Gathering the requirements from business process and preparing the documentation.

Exposure on various testing environments.

Interacting with Architect, PFP, Application Specialist and Technical personnel.

SAP ECC 5.0, Client - ST Logistics.

Dec’ 07 – Jun’08, SAP SD/MM Functional Consultant, PGI Info Tech. Singapore.

ST Logistics is one of the largest companies in Singapore. As a SD Functional Consultant, I have worked on this project to integrate the POS system which sell the service men's apparel and foot ware items across the island into SAP system. Service men from tri-services ARMY/NAVY/AIRFORCE can buy items from any outlet. All the sales transactions are captured in POS systems and interface to SAP Sales and Distribution module.

In SAP SD module, Creation of sales documents, Deliveries and Billing process are automated, and the COST and revenues are recognized accordingly.

As Is Study Phase:

Study the business processes & prepare the blueprint document.

Identification of master, source data.

To Be Study Phase:

Study conducted to replace & automate the functionality of the existing business processes.

Finalized the business requirements & its documentation after discussion with functional head, sectional heads.

Finalization of the report’s requirement, layouts (high level).

Finalization of user’s id, authorization profiles & its documentation and Business blueprints sign off.

Master Data Creation Phase:

Creation of the customer master sales area.

Maintenance of material master sales area.

Mapping table data to determine the Business area, profit centre and internal order Number.

Master data to upload in development server & further upload in production server after testing.

Customizing, Configuration Phase:

Business process realization as per the BBP in SAP system.

Testing of various transactions and processes; expected results versus actual results, and reasons for differences.

Identification and testing of mission critical business process scenarios.

Integration testing with various modules SD to MM, SD to FI & SAP SD to the external system.

Go Live Preparation Phase:

Prepare the final list of transport request to PRODUCTION system.

Cut Over Strategy and Check List for GO LIVE.

Extract the Custom mapping table data.

Post Implementation Support:

Hand-over training sessions for HP Support Team.

Responsible for the smooth functioning of SD module during warranty period.

SAP Help desk support for 24x7 on call.

Awards / Recognitions

Bravo Award Certification - Year 2002

Presented by Global IT Operation Vice President - Cadence Design Systems, California – USA

Global Mission Critical AOS Certificate - Year 2001

Presented Jointly by IT Director, IT Manager - Cadence Design Systems, California - USA

Certificate of Appreciation - Year 2000

Presented by Global IT Group Director - Cadence Design systems, California – USA

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