SAP SD/MM/LE/WM Functional Consultant

RAJIV KUMAR

SAP SD/MM/LE/WM R/* Functional Consultant

Tel # 267-***-****

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I have 25 years of experience in implementing SAP R/3 SD & MM Module including 8 Full life cycles of implementations of SAP R/3 4.7, 4.6C, 4.0B and ECC 6.0. In addition, I have completed 5 full life cycles in implementation of S4 Hana Sourcing & Procurement 1709, 2025 release using Activate Methodology. My ECC SAP R/3 implementation experience using ASAP Methodology covers all phases of the SAP R/3 implementation life cycle, which includes business process design and configuration, data conversion, designing test plans and conducting users training programs. I have functional knowledge in OTC & in MM Purchasing, Goods Movements, Invoice Verification and with Finance & Controlling like G/L Accounts AP, AR, Cost Center and Profitability Analysis I have excellent communication skills and a team player. I also have configured Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration & Quality. I have expertise in working with PI, & integration with CIG. As a functional Lead I have managed multiple teams to meet project goals and deadlines at Viskase Companies, Clearon Corp, Upfield, Bristlecone ULTA Beauty, R&B Foods Inc & Chico's

Releases - 4.0 to 4.7, ECC 6.0, S4 HANA 1709, 2025

Tools - Solution Manager 7.0 EHP1

Methodologies - ASAP, Support Processes

Domain General - Knowledge of configuration, customizing, Integration & Transactions

Industry Sectors - Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Retail SAP R/3 FUNCTIONAL SUMMARY:

• Configuration experience of Customer Order Management cycle, Pricing, Organizational structures, Credit management, and Inter Company Sales Process.

• Interaction with clients to ascertain the requirements to carry out analysis and design and to meet the end user requirements.

• Undertaking gap analysis leading to changed business processes and SAP customization requirement specifications.

• Thorough understanding of SAP SD & MM module configuration, support & maintenance functions as well as the integration with FI

• Ability to create informative documentation for all configuration completed and end user documentation on how to perform daily and periodic routine functions and required maintenance items.

• Provided EDI support for customers, Internal users and EDI vendors. I am well versed with troubleshooting IDOC failures and EDI configuration of customers and Partner profile set up

• Performed integration testing for SD.

• Migration experience of SD master data from legacy to SAP system using conversion programs- LSMW/CATT

• Customized enhancements through User Exits.

• Demonstrated good interpersonal, communication, team building, issue resolution, project coordination

& leadership skills

• Configured Inventory Management of goods at the point of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks such as consignment, pipeline, stock transfers, third party and sub-contracting.

• Logistics Execution: Warehouse managed delivery, Route Determination, shipping documents, pick/pack, PGI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Viskase Companies Inc

Viskase is a global corporation based out of Lombard, Illinois, that supplies plastic, cellulose, and fibrous film and packaging to the food service industry, including casings for processed meats such as hot dogs and sausages.

Lead SAP Business Analyst

SAP S4 MM/SD/LE/PP

April 2025 till present

Responsibilities

• Worked with business partners in MTO defining business requirements & developed Functional specifications.

• Configured a Hybrid strategy group for planning MTO materials, Item Category for Sales Order with Special Stock requirement shown as E

• Lead Cross Functional team overseeing configuration across OTC, MM & PP and RICEF development.

• Configured MM Organizational elements in S/4 HANA: Purchasing organization, plant, and storage location

• Configured Material Master, business partner, partner schema, purchase requisition, purchase order, inventory management movement types, vendor evaluation, and subcontracting process in S/4 HANA

• Proficient in customization of purchasing documents like purchase requisitions, purchase orders, MIGO for document type, number ranges, the definition of views and fields, and item category as per business requirements

• Configured released strategies for Purchase Orders, Purchase Requisitions using Flexible workflow

• Involved in Master Data Governance project ie, Data cleansing, standardization of characteristics and data quality improvement.

• Worked along with Master Data team to set up info records, source lists and Vendors

• Configured STO and tested different various Business Scenarios.

• Configured Third Party Procurement process and tested sales order creation with newly configured Item category.

• Configured new Routes and Transportation zones for new customers.

• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification for i.e., 3-way match and 2 -way match.

• Educated the business process owner for the functionality of SAP consumption-based planning and implement re-order point planning MRP. Worked with BPO on expected results after MRP run by setting up appropriate MRP parameters (i.e. planned delivery time, MRP type, Lot size, Minimum and Maximum Lot size, Rounding values, Safety Stock)

Clearon Corporation

SAP S4 MM/SD/LE Functional Lead

June 2021 till March 2025

Responsibilities:

• Ensure proper functioning of IT Systems for Business Operations (SAP) at Clearon Corporation.

• Managed availability and smooth functioning of IT Systems (SAP) for Business Operations such as, SAP, EDI, and Business Warehouse and manage IT system integrations, management, maintenance, and monitoring.

• Managed the client relationship and improved operational efficiency by 10% with Kloud Data SAP vendor for User Access, Master Data management, L2/L3 production support tickets, Change Management and Development for RICEF Objects.

• Ensure smooth transition of Functional Specifications which are to be developed by Kloud Data.

• Worked with 3PL Freight forwarder on Logistics Execution Deliveries, Shipments, Route Determination

• Deployed Release Strategy and streamlined Import PO Process for Purchase Orders in SAP.

• Managed 10 resources in an Offshore Global Delivery Center supporting the S4 Hana Implementation

• Configured and tested STO’s for various scenarios.

• Demonstrated SAP S/4 Hana standard Purchase requisition/ Purchase order process, Subcontract PO process, PR/PO approval process, Return vendor process, outline agreement process, goods movement and invoice verification.

Upfield

SAP S4 Hana 1709 MM/LE Functional consultant

January 2020 – May 2021

Upfield is a global consumer giant which recently implemented S4 Hana 1709 and went live on April 1st, 2020.

• Worked on resolving issues with Inventory reconciliation between S4 Hana 1709 and WM systems for 3 PL warehouses.

• Troubleshooting Goods Issue, Goods Receipt & Stock Adjustment IDOC failures.

• Working with Delivery team and 3PL to resolve EDI 945 Shipment Confirmation, EDI 947 inventory adjustment, EDI 846 Stock reconciliation, EDI 947 Change in Batch Status and EDI 856 In-transit update issues. EDI 860 Purchase Order Change request & 865 PO Change Acknowledgement.

• Involved in preparing instructions and Training for Customer Service Representative for Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Mixed Batch pallet id, Batch id, Wrong Pallet labels & Missing Batch in S4.

• Worked on Automating Inbound deliveries for Ventura. EDI 943 (Shipment advice from In-bound delivery and EDI 944 GR confirmation against In-bound delivery.

• Implemented Batch Management at Upfield for Consumer products Bristlecone

Ariba SCC S4 Hana\MM Functional Lead

January 2019- December 2019

• Responsible for gathering functional requirements for PO Collaboration project and integrating Ariba SCC through CIG.

• Configuring Quality Notifications Q6 for Customer Complaints and Q7 Vendor complaints for Defect Resolution.

• Worked on setting up off PO Collaboration process ie, Order Confirmation, Ship Notice(ASN) and Invoice for Buyer and working with Buyer integrator.

• Worked on Ariba CIG setup for SAP ECC and Ariba system integration.

• Configuring Ariba SCC for Order Confirmation, Ship Notice and Invoice

• Well versed with EDI configuration and Idoc types relating to Order Confirmation, Ship Notice and Invoice.

• Tested End to End Process relating to Ariba SCC PO Collaboration.

• Worked with 3PL Freight Forwarder on Logistics Execution i.e. Shipping, Route Determination & SAP Transportation Management.

• Created BPP Documents & Functional Design documents. Calumet Specialty Products Partners LLP

Employer: Accenture

SAP MM/IM S4 Hana 1709

September 2017-December 2018

• Acted as liaison between client and functional teams/support groups. Interacted with the business supply chain stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand their problems & needs.

• Worked with Stake holders on S4 Hana post go live support in the areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management, Subcontracting, Third Party, consignment, External Procurement- Stock Transports, Requisitions, info records, Shipments, Receiving and Master Data.

• Participated in planning and coordinating all phases of Full Life cycle.

• Worked with 3PL Freight Forwarder on Logistics Execution ie Shipping, Route Determination, & SAP Transportation Management.

• Trouble shooting MM production support issues related to S4 Hana Sourcing & Procurement.

• Performed root cause analysis to determine process or solution deficiencies. Escalated defects and duction issues for remediation.

ULTA Beauty

Lead SAP Analyst

SAP R/3 ECC Version 6.0

Bolingbrook IL

February 2016- August 2017

• Served as IT System Matter Expert (SME) for the Merchandise Planning Systems within SAP.

• Provided overall functional and technical guidance, leadership and solid execution of Merchandise Planning projects and processes

• Provided Functional and Technical Design oversight and coordination of activities across multiple teams and areas in support of SAP Master Data, (Purchase Info Records, Source Lists), Inventory Management, Purchasing, MRP requirements planning, Forecast and Replenishment Planning, Pricing and Delivery processing.

• Lead end-to-end design from project conception through deployment; manage solution design reviews, project gateway approval, security deployment and overall project’s solution design.

• Lead project team’s Functional, Technical and configuration responsibility for SAP modules to support ULTA’s Merchandise Planning systems ie JDA Space and Floor Planning.

• Integrated 3PL Freight forwarders by testing EDI transactions for Delivery and ASN. Defined strategies for storage type, bin search, put away and removal strategies

• Configured organization structure of warehouse management i.e. warehouse, storage type, storage section and storage bins.

R&B Foods Inc

MT Prospect, IL

SAP R/3 SD ECC Version 6.0

January 2015 – January 2016

I am currently an SAP Order to Cash project lead for Ragu & Bertoli global SAP implementation. The client manufactures famous Ragu brand of pasta sauce and Bertoli which makes white sauce As a lead of the core team for SAP R/3 OTC implementation I am involved in the following activities

• Translate business requirements into SAP functional and configuration requirements.

• Providing high level estimates for design and implementation efforts. The work included defining various organizational units (sales organization, distribution channel, division etc) & assigning them to each other to accurately reflect the organization structure.

• Creation of new SD Order type, item categories & schedule line categories to map the Customer requirements.

• Configuring Route Determination, shipping point, & transportation zones.

• Worked with 3PL Freight forwarders i.e. carrier selection & optimization integrated with SAP TM.

• Worked with Shipment and Transportation costs.

• Project lead for setting up of Canadian plant in ECC & Configured Batch determination for Canadian plant.

• Configuring pricing procedures with associated condition types, condition tables, access sequences for automatic pricing during sales order processing and billing stage.

• Testing Sales Order scenarios for fuel surcharge, supply chain efficiency and promotion condition types

• Provided EDI support for customers, internal users and EDI vendors. I am well versed with troubleshooting IDOC failures and EDI configuration of customers and Partner profile set up. Chico's FAS Inc.

SAP R/3 MM ECC Version 6.0

July 2013 – December 2014 Fort Myers, Florida Area Chico’s is a prominent women’s clothing retailer nationwide. I am involved as a Sr Manager for IS RETAIL MM. My roles and responsibilities are given below.

• Responsible for Full life cycle implementation of MM Module: business blueprint, realization, final preparation and finally go live & support using ASAP methodology.

• Managed & Hired resources for implementing and supporting the IS Retail implementation.

• Mentored Resources and set up goals and deadlines for the project.

• Planned departmental expense and managed capital budget for the IS Retail project.

• Set up plant parameters for inventory management, tolerance limit on goods issues and receipts.

• Configured MM Module such as defining and assigning various components of the company and material master data, info records, source lists, purchasing and inventory management.

• Worked on GI/GR for Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Stock transport orders, Inbound and Outbound deliveries.

• Worked extensively on all scenarios of Stock Transfer Order and Stock Transfer.

• Configured Purchasing process including RFQ/Quotation, Contract, Scheduling Agreement, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order and special procurement processes.

• Configured goods receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks such as consignment, third party and sub-contracting.

• Carried out spilt valuation of materials based on valuation category and valuation types, eg high quality and low quality.

Target April 2012- June 2013

SAP R/3 MM ECC Version 6.0

Target is a prominent retailer expanding into Canada with new stores scheduled to open in 2013.I am involved in an IS Retail implementation project involved in production support. Roles & Responsibilities

• Subject Matter expert in core material management processes in SAP IS Retail functionality

• Configured and worked on production support tickets dealing with Assortment Management, Listing, Article Hierarchy, Merchandise Category, Layout modules and layout module versions.

• Configured Retail pricing, Promotions, Markdown rules and types and Bonus Buy functionality.

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting Batch job failures for Article Hierarchy, Merchandise Category Hierarchy, Article Master and Vendor Master.

• Configured Article Master Data (Article groups, Article types, field selection groups) and Vendor Master Data (Account groups, field status for vendor account groups, partner determination schema, partner functions) Site Master data and Site Grouping.

• Configured partner profiles for Advance Shipping Notification (856) Purchase Orders (850) Purchase Order/Change/Cancel, Purchase Order Confirmations (870).

• Worked with the master data team on updating Purchasing info records and source lists.

• Worked with Master data team on developing a BPP for Master Data Retail Article checklists which would be used as a template and a reference document for the master data team to create new articles.

• Created reference articles for Stores and Distribution channels.

• Configured core MM processes in P2P cycle RFQ/Quotation PR, PO, goods receipt.

• Configured Inventory Management of goods at the point of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks such as consignment, pipeline, stock transfers, third party and sub-contracting.

• Completed SIT Testing for Purchase Orders, Stock Transfer Orders, Inbound and Outbound deliveries.

• Worked on Logistics Invoice verification i.e., 3-way match and 2-way match.

• Configured and utilized movement types, cycle counting in the physical inventory, and posting the cycle count variance.

• Transitioned knowledge of fresh SAP IS Retail implementation from Delivery team to support team

• Identifying design gaps and proposing solutions.

• Coordinating sessions working closely with offshore team.

• Troubleshooting MM Automatic Batch Determination issues.

• Attending and restoring production issues within defined SLA.

• Identifying & deployed fixes in production within defined SLA.

• Worked with offshore resources to complete development tasks.

• Participating in Release meetings with development and Business teams. Cargill

SAP R/3 SD ECC Version 6.0 May 2011 – March 2012

Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. I served as a design lead at Cargill.

Responsibilities & Contribution:

AS SAP SD Team Member my responsibilities in Order to Cash arena.

• Troubleshooting SD related configuration tickets and working on resolving defects.

• Configured Pricing Procedure and conditions according to Business requirements.

• Prototyping, Configuring, Testing, Extensive Key-user Training.

• Customized and configured GTM contracts, Quantity, Value and Service contracts The following components in SD are covered.

Master Data – Customer, Material, Pricing conditions, Scheduling Agreements, & Return Orders.

Order Processing – Order Types such as Inquiry, Quotation, Special Sales orders, and Consignment sales.

Logistics Execution – WM managed Delivery, Picking, Packing, Shipping Document, and PGI.

Configured Billing Document Types & Delivery Document Types and copy controls for Billing & Delivery documents.

Basic functions – Pricing, Account determination, Partner determination, Output determination, Text determination.

CGI, Chicago October 2009 - May 2011

SAP R/3 FI ECC Version 6.0

CGI is a leading Canadian Information Technology Solutions provider. I am a Lead Analyst at CGI leading the team responsible for implementing and supporting IS Retail Implementation. Here are my responsibilities

• Configured financial accounting global settings like company code, company, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, document number ranges, field status variant, field status groups, and tolerance limits for employees.

• Configured chart of accounts (Global & Local), GL account groups and retained earnings account.

• Configured and customized General Ledger, creation of G/L accounts, screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, financial statement version, validation and substitutions.

• Supported in setting up company codes, chart of account, positing variants, fiscal year variants, foreign currencies, cost element accounting, cost centers accounting, internal orders, and profit centers.

• Provided configuration support in SD, MM integration for account determination, material movement setup, and inter-company billing.

• Configured Automatic payment program – sending Co code, payment co. code, payment methods at country level, house banks, ranking order, account amounts levels, check lots. Made requirement settings for check printing, cash discount and Defined reason codes for void checks.

• Accounts Payable Vendor Masters, Incoming Invoices, Payment Program, check management, Down Payment, Recurring Entries, Invoice Verification, MM Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR Clearing

• Accounts Receivable Customer Masters, Incoming Payments, Handling of Discounts & Rebates, Detailed Revenue Account Determination (SD), Credit Management, Dunning, Correspondence, Clearing open Items.

• Provided configuration support in MM integration for account determination using OBYC, OMWB

• Configured MM interface relating to invoice verification and account determination

• Assisted in testing transactions for GL, AR, AP, CO, CCA on training client for individual transactions. Prior Experience

Heartland Farms Mar 08 – Oct 09

City of Industry, CA

Magellan GPS Inc Oct 07 – Mar 08

San Dimas, CA

Tellabs Oct 05 – Sep 07

Naperville, IL

Medrad Inc Jan 04 – Sep 05

SAP SD / MM Functional Consultant

Indianola, PA

Bosch Rexroth Corp. Aug 02 – Dec 03

SAP SD Internal Consultant

Hoffman Estates, IL

System Experience

SAP MM / IM S4 Hana 2025, 1709 / SAP R/3 ECC Version 6.0 / SAP R/3 FI ECC Version 6.0 / SAP R/3 SD Version 4.7 / SAP R/3 Version 4.6c

EDUCATION:

Adelphi University, MBA,1999

Delhi University, Bachelor of Arts, 1997

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