ASHISH TRIPATHI

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Orlando – FL 32825

317-***-**** Residence

309-***-**** Cell

COMPETENCY AND SKILLS

 Core Knowledge Areas: Business Process Management, Process Redesign, e-Business Design, Solution Architecting, Business Case Creation, Requirements Management, Project & Program Management, Strategic Planning, Client Relations, Cross-functional Teaming, Data Migrations, Business Development,

 Industry Subject Matter: Pharma, Manufacturing, Retail, Digital Imaging, and Entertainment.

 Process Areas: Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Planning, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay and Financials

 Solution Areas: CRM, SAP, Oracle, Vantive, Remedy, Custom Application

 Others: Software Development, Software Selection Process, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Performance Measurement, Total Quality Management, Delivery Lifecycle Management.

PROFILE

 Experienced SAP Manager with a BIG four consulting background handling big accounts.

The responsibilities include P&L ( Upto $13 Million/Annual), SOW, SLA, Client relationship, Delivery Management and AO based Application Development

 Around 12 years of SAP experience out of which one year has been as user and Consulting experience of around 10 years including SAP global consulting services at SAP, Germany, Waldorf and St.Ingbert as a product support specialist.

 Six Full Life Cycle Implementation Experience. Client includes Ciba Vision, Eli Lilly, Kodak, Nikon, Saint Gobain and Caterpillar

 Expert in Solution Architecturing large and complex engagements

 Expert working in various implementation methodologies like Accenture Delivery tools, ASAP, client specific methodology etc

 Expert in RICEF Estimation, Resource Planning, Development and Delivery

 Expert in Business Process estimation, resource planning, configuration and customization

 Expert working with remote teams based across various continents

 Expert in working with various delivery models like onsite-offshore, onsite-onshore etc

 Supervisory experience handling multiple technology teams upto 80 people.

 Experience working in SD, MM, FI, CO, CS, EHS, WM and IM SAP modules.

 Experience working in IS-RETAIL and IS-AUTO, CRM and Mobile Sales

 Experience working in AO based support projects

 Experience working in various CMM level projects and helped projects get assessed.

 SAP Configuration experience in SD, MM and FI modules

 ABAP/4 experience in module pool programming, reports,data integration, SAP script, EDI, IDOC, BAPI, ITS and various enhancements available in SAP

 Good exposure to plan & execute all phases of software life cycle starting with Requirement study, Analysis, Design, Development, Quality/Integration testing, Implementation, Training, Support & Maintenance.

 Responsible for Selecting and tailoring the SDLC for the Project, defining the process model, Estimating, Planning, tracking and Risk Management.

 Excellent track record in Intellectual Ability, Ability to perform quality work under pressure, interpersonal and communication skills.

OFFICE APPLICATIONS

• MS Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Access, Acrobat, Lotus Notes

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

• Java J2EE, VB, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Oracle, SQL

OS, NETWORKS AND SOFTWARE

• Unix (Sun Solaris, IBM), Windows NT/95/98/2000/ME/XP,

EDUCATION

• Pursuing EMBA from university of Buffalo.

• B.E (Chemical): Bachelor of Engineering - First class (1997), University of Poona, India

• Microsoft Certified Professional

CERTIFICATIONS

• Training on IS- Retail in Satyam Technology Center, Hyderabad.

• Training on B2B procurement and business connector in SAP India, Bangalore.

• Training on ABAP Performance Tuning in SAP America, Foster City USA.

PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Employer: Accenture ( Nov 2006 till Dec 2008)

Project-1

Role: Unit Lead and Program Management

Client: Siemens Power Generation

Project Title: IT Value added AO

Environment: Various

Experience: Oct 2007 till Dec 2008

Employer: Accenture

Unit lead for 25 person unit with teams located in Orlando, USDC ( Cincinati & Houston) and IDC ( Pune). The client sites are spread across Trenton, Orlando and Houston. This is a outsourcing contract and the responsibilities included:

 Manage the Overall Delivery and client relationship of the project

 Manage various team including SAP functional, ABAP, Custom Apps ( VB, Oracle and Java) and Lotus Notes

 Designed and implemented Work Process model for each team.

 Worked with CFM to generate montly Invoices, forecasting and contract reporting. The responsibility also include presenting Invoice to the client and collecting payment

 Designed, defined and implemented time reporting policy for the whole team. Monthly reconcilaition of the ARTES( Accenture ) v/s CATS( Siemens) tasks and hrs against each team member

 Designed and implemented new resource request process. Worked with the ESM, USDC, IDC, Contractor Exchange and ASC teams for staffing new resource requests

 Designed and implemented weekly workload forecasting for each team member.

 Facilitate, document and circulate action items of status meetings for each team

 Conduct weekly status reporting to client leads and bi-weekly status for Steering committee.

 Annual Performance Management for the leads and the direct reportees

 Occasional travel to delivery centres ( USDC and IDC)

Project-2

Role: SAP Retail Solution Architect

Client: Home Depot

Project Title: US Core Retail Implementation

Environment: SAP ECC 6

Experience: August 07 till Oct 07

This project was initiated to understand the scope, estimation and cost of implementing SAP’s Core Retail solution for 66 DC’s and 2200 Store roll-out of THD. This included Large scale Business Transformation, hardware replacement and rolling out new SAP solution.As a SAP Retail Solution Architect, Ashish was involved in the following activities.

 Lead estimation of SAP retail solution using Accenture’s SAP bottom’s up estimator. This also included estimating Business Intelligence, legacy modification, Middleware development, SAP Portal and data reconcilaition

 Retails process modelling for Merchandizing, Store Operations, Supply chain and Financials

Processess

 Process mapping of Industry Standard Retail process to that of THD processess

 Identify the reusability of the solution developed as part of THD Canada implementation

 Worked with Directors, THD SME’s, VP’s to determine solution costs, provides input on pricing and competitive messaging. Ensures solution value drivers are reflected in the client value proposition.

 Makes independent decisions, which have major day-to-day impact in area of responsibility, and may influence direction of other areas.

 Accountable for results of work to both Accenture and client.

 Worked on finalizing the POSDM and R/3 integration of data.

 Article Master migration, data conversion, data cleansing

 Worked on several POS interfaces design, development, testing of Shrink ( User defined adjustment WMMBI02), Store Goods Movement ( Stock Status adjustment WMMBID02),

Store Goods Receipt ( STO Receipt WMMBID02), Non-Sales Transaction PO ( Shipment notification DELVRY03)

 Designed, Configured,Developed and Implemented RTV ( Return to Vendor functionality)

 Worked on the defining and implmenting the complete Receiving process in the warehouse using PKMS and its integration with SAP.

 Worked in Inbound Sales Audit data and its integration with FI.

Project-3

Role: Order to Cash Business Process SME & Project Estimating Lead

Client: Hallmark Cards Inc

Project Title: Horizon

Environment: SAP ECC 6

Experience: March 07 till July 07

Accenture was brought in to do planning and assessment in order to define the roadmap for the client's major Business Transformation plan, which included a large footprint SAP implementation, encompassing multiple modules across different Business processes.

 Worked as Business Process Expert in Order to Cash Area - responsible for defining the Level three Process Model.

 Developed and led client workshops on various Order to Cash areas and defined its integration with other process areas like Record to Report, Material to Inventory etc

 Performed Fit/Gap for all the requirement generated during blueprinting.

 Responsible for developing the inventories and estimates for implemenation, and in charge of coordinating all the RICEF scope across all the modules.

 Skilled in using Accenture Bottom Up Estimating Model for Process, RICEF's and other assumptions.

Project-4

Role: Deployment Lead & SAP Go-Live SME

Client: Chico’s

Project Title: Columbus

Environment: SAP ECC 5

Experience: Dec 06 till Feb 07

 Defined , developed pre go-live activities using Microsoft Project Server

 Supported go-live activities

 Provided Functional Expert Assistance on various Retail areas such as POS, IM, purchasing, Master Data, Allocation and Replenishment, Sales Audit.

 Identified, redesigned, and resolved numerous critical issues related to key busines process design

 Coordinated development, testing with various teams including client, third-party.

Employer: BearingPoint ( March 05 till Date Oct 06)

Project-5

Role: Program Manager and O2C Team Lead

Client: CIBA VISION

Project Title: OpEx

Environment: SAP version 4.7

Experience: April 2006 till Nov 06

 Helping out the client with finalizing the global template for their Global rollout in the following business process area of Order to Cash. Order Processing, Intuitive code and Master Data, Distribution, Pricing, Billing and Taxes, Custom enhancement and forms.

 Involved in setting up the Centre of Excellence team to support the affiliates which are already live on SAP.

 Manage the entire Order to Cash functionality from the delivery perspective, and also meet the client expectations in terms of supporting their SAP implementation.

 Weekly reporting to Steering Committee on the current design and take appropriate approvals for the major change requests.

 Steering Committee reporting on a monthly basis including CIO, CFO on the progress and major issues reported, if any during the transition and support.

Project-6

Role: O2C Team Lead

Client: Eli Lilly Company

Project Title: GBIP Project Implementation

Environment: SAP version 4.6C

Experience: March 2005 till March 2006.

 Involved in requirement gathering from the Lilly’s Affiliate based in Italy.

 Configuration of custom pricing procedures, condition types and access sequences and

Requirement.

 Configuration for various functionalities in Account Receivable, Customer Account, Incoming Invoices/ Credit memos, Incoming Payments, Dunning, Open Item Clearing, Bill of exchange and Credit Management, Lockbox and EBS.

 Handled complete GMP as well as data scrambling projects for O2C.

 Multi-tasking, interacting with various Lilly’s client arcoss globe.

 Assisting Lilly’s Configurators in various configuration activities like product allocation, Pricing

and Various requirement for Outputs.

 Preparaing functional Spec related to, Dunning letter, Inbound AR interface, AR outbound intercace and EBS..

 Preparing test plan, documentation, helping affiliate in IIT, FIT etc.

 Working on documentum and test director, running test scripts.

 Working on Global Trade Service (GTS) and setting up the test data and supporting the affiliates ( Spain and Germany) for the IIT testing.

 Co-ordinating with various technological teams like Corporate EDI, Application development etc.

 Involved in project management, configuration, testing, and support of various functionalities in SD.

 Managed and provided configuration support for SD from Quote to Cash.

Employer: Mascon Global Ltd ( Nov 2002 till Feb 2005)

Project-7

Role: IT Program Manager

Client: Eastman Kodak Company

Project Title: SAP Support

Environment: SAP version 4.7

Experience: June 2004 till Feb 2005.

Responsibilities include:

 Lead a team of 80 people and worked as Program Manager at Eastman Kodak Company. The responsiblities include Identifying and understanding the business process, designing and documenting new Project like B2B, B2C , CRM,HR, EHS and also some of the enhancement of the existing Objects

 New Resource Request, Recruitment, Training, Selection and Hiring, Resouce management, Performance Tracking etc.

 Working with the CFM team to generate monthly Invoices, forecasting and contract reporting

 Manage the overall SLA’s of the contract

 Handling multiple implementation teams from architect level as well as hands on project plans.

 Multi-tasking, interacting various clients arcoss globe, Assisted Implementation Teams on reviewing the requirement from both Technical and business needs.

 Assisting Kodak Designers in various configuration activities like, EDI, IDOC, MM/SD/ interfaces.

 Providing production, new development, enhancement support to World wide users and business teams of Kodak.

 Managing and co-ordinating with various technological teams like Syncra, Stress, etc.

Project-8

Role: Technical Program Manager

Client: Nikon

Project Title: SAP Implementation

Environment: SAP version 4.6C

Experience: Nov 2002- May 2004.

Responsibilities include:

 Lead a team of 15 ABAP developers and 6 Configurators at Nikon Inc. The reponsiblities include helping in the Project Blueprint, Identifying and understanding the business process, designing and documenting various the templates like functional Spec, Technical Spec, Unit test procedure,

Review forms etc.

 The major modules in this Project includes SD,SM,MM,FI/CO,IM and WM.

 Worked on designing various outbound and inbound interfaces design which includes file transfers, IDOC’s , BAPI’s , Web Interface, SD enhancements for Listing and Exclusions and Customer Info record.

 New Resource Request, Recruitment, Training, Selection and Hiring, Resouce management, Performance Tracking etc.

 Working with the CFM team to generate monthly Invoices, forecasting and contract reporting

 Manage the overall SLA’s of the contract

 Designed a complicated CMAP interface and report which involves mapping of Nikon Chart of Accounts (1000) to the Japan Chart of Accounts for amounts for Year To Date.

 Worked on SAP script Objects such as Invoice, Checks, AR statement, Purchase Order Etc.

 Conversions LSMW objects for Master data, Transactional data, Historical data and Balances.

 Complete configuration and testing of Lockbox and EBS functionality.

 In Pricing Procedures involved in customization and configuration of Condition Tables, Condition Types, Access Sequences, Condition Records.

 Configured Pricing, Credit Management functionality. The knowledge of risk profile of the customers was obtained from the Accounts and Sales personnel of the `company and accordingly, three risk categories were defined.

 Configured to carry out credit checks throughout the sales order cycle. The Checking Rules were defined to design System reaction to credit checks under different situations.

 In Billing Procedure involved in customization and configuration of Inter Company Billing, Revenue recognition, Rebate agreements, Integration with Accounting.

 Controlled the flow of documents as per business needs through copy control and document changes.

 Configured Text determination procedures. Specifying and enabling Text usage from Customer, Sales, Delivery and Billing Documents.

 Configured Output Determination for all Sales Orders Contracts and Billing Documents.

 Configured EDI for inbound and outbound invoice, delivery, shipment, and sales order transactions.

 Provided Post Production Support of SD functionality of the service provider system, this included trouble shooting in the sales area, and the maintenance of all master records such as material master and customer master.

Employer: Satyam Computer Ltd ( July 1997 till Oct 2002)

Project-9

Role: SD Consultant and Onsite Co-ordinator

Client: Saint-Gobain Abrasives

Project Title: SAP –AS400 Integration

Environment: SAP version 4.6C

Experience: July 2002 till Oct 2002.

 The responsiblities include requirement gathering , understand the business process , help in functional design and technical design.

 Working on conversions(LSMW), interfaces both inbound and outbound, User-Exits , Sap-script and reports. The modules include SD,MM,FI and WM.

 Have designed various SD interfaces like Sales Order Create, Change, Delivery Create, Change, Invoice Create, Change, Shipment create. Used BDC and BAPI depending upon the requirement.

 Vertex SAP integration. Client wants to maintain all the rates for Sales Order Doc and Billing Doc in the vertex software where rates are maintained based on the Jurisdiction code.

 Outbound Invoice data to legacy system: Designed a technical solution to send the daily invoices to the legacy system through a flat file for the AR reconciliation.

 Outbound EDI interfaces. Configured the SAP system for outbound EDI interface for Invoices and Order Acknolwdgement. Used the standard basic IDOC types INVOIC02 & ORDERS05.

 Working on setting up RF console , Mobile Data Entry and interfacing of wireless RF devices with SAP.

 Working in detail on handling units (internal & external), assigning serial number to HU, GR, GI, Picking, Packing etc.

Project-10

Role: SD Consultant

Client: Caterpillar Inc

Project Title: SAP –Crossworld Integration

Environment: IS-AUTO-SAP version 4.6C and crossworld

Experience: April 2001 till June 2002.

 Worked in the design team of solution center of Cat Logistcs at Morton Peoria.Cat logistics have their own Clients worldwide like KODAK UK , DIAMLYER CRYSLYER DUBAI, GENERAL MOTORS, US CELLULAR, FORD.

 Used IS-AUTO specific tables like MATERIALID to store the long material numbers. Also used function modules which were IS-AUTO specific like WS_DELIVERY_UPDATE_2 which had additional patches for IS-AUTO.

 Designed a new sub- moduled Inventory Count which is a part of Warehouse and Inventory Mgt module of SAP.Caterpillar wants the count to be handled in a different way. The material and bin for which the count is done should not be blocked while the counting process is taking place. This functionlity is used universally by CAT for all its clients.

 Modified the standard SD copy control routine RV50C902 to accommodate the client requirement of spliting deliveries.

 Have extensively worked on cross-world specific interfaces. Have designed interface solution for Sales Order, Purchase Order, Delivery, ASN, Shipment confirmation, receipt confirmation, Invoice (SD), Vendor Invoice (MM).Have also used BAPI’s , Call Transactions and BDC’s in the design for the above mentioned interfaces.

 Worked on the design and development of the Forms for Purchase Order and Invoices.

 Worked extensively on various user-exist in MM, SD and WM to trigger the Outbound interfaces. Also used changes pointers for some interfaces like Material Master.

 Worked on the testing, code review and evaluation of the quality for the custom based solutions which are being developed here. Also have designed varios custom tables, parameter tables and structures for Client specific needs.

 Co-ordinating between client facing teams in Belgium, France, UK, Dubai on one side and developers, gateway (crossworld) people on the other side.

Project-11

Role: Team Leader

Client: DuPont Asia Pacific

Project Title: R/3 Application support and WEB site development.

Environment: JSP, Sql Server 7.0, Netscape application server

Experience: July 2000 till Feb 2001.

 Developed a website for DuPont Asia Pacific which is database driven. Involved in developing website for DuPont Asia Pacific. It’s a database driven website which contains all the information required for the Dupont paint dealers in the Asia Pacific region. It includes application searches, User administration module and the data updation module

 Worked for EPICENTRIC to Web enable their application in R/3 using JSP.Used the JRFC’s which is given by SAP in version 4.6B.

 Development of Detailed Design Document, Code development, Unit Testing, Integration Testing & User Documentation of Report and Interface programs related to FI, MM, SD & WM functionalities.

 Designed total interface solution between R/3 3.0F & R/2 to R/3 4.0B systems using IDOC, RFC, FTP and BDC methodologies. This interface solution was for financial documents posted in R/2 & R/3 to R/3, monthly balance carry over to R/3 and load budget information into CCA.

 Modification to SAP Std. List viewer RQMELL10 by adding purchasing group and MRP Controller and SAP Std. Reports RFDOPR10, RFDAPO00 & RM06EWE0. Development of report for daily ending inventory versus the Kanban levels using SAP Graphics.

 Development Internet application components for product catalog, online stores, sales and purchase order creation.

 Design HTML templates for SAP transactions, to access SAP business data on Internet, client side scripting using Java Script.

 Developed the interfaces in SAP using middleware’s like Access Builder.

 Worked on B2B procurement and SAP’s business connector.

Project-12

Client: SAP Germany

Role: Consultant.

Experience: August 1999 till June 2000.

Worked with various SAP Clients in Europe, some of them are-

Project-12A

Client: JSL Denmark.

Project Title: IDOC (WMMBID02) Inbound processing function Module

Environment: ERP - SAP (IS – Retail) Ver. 4.0 B

Designation: IS-RETAIL & Cross Application consultant.

 Have worked on assignments for SAP global consulting services at SAP retail solutions in Germany as an IS-RETAIL & cross application consultant.

 Was involved in implementation of release notes for version upgrade.

 Modified article master transaction by adding customer specific fields.

 Have worked on SAP’s online store for INFRASERV HOECHST, Germany

 Have worked on SAP’s retail store for SAP retail solutions, St.Ingbert, Germany.

 Configured SAP system to post rough goods receipt to external system (Siemens Nixdorf) and to process goods receipt coming from Siemens System with inbound processing.

 Inbound processing function module for IDOC WMMBID02 was changed to allow goods receipt creation with reference to rough goods receipt.

Project-12B

Client: KMT Germany.

Project Title: Article Master Customization (Dialog Programming)

Environment: ERP - SAP (IS – Retail) Ver. 4.0 B

Designation: IS-RETAIL & Cross Application consultant.

 Article master screens specific to user requirement were modified, new modules were created.

 Layout of the basic data screen was changed and additional fields were added to gather information about material and these additional fields are only accessible to MM user group alone. This included validation of the addiontional fields data with the given code.

 Sales view screen was changed and, additional fields were added to gather information about delivery date.

Project-12C

Client: VENDEX FOOD GROUP. Netherlands

Project Title: Development of customer Specific Reports

Environment: ERP - SAP (IS – Retail) Ver. 4.0 B

Designation: IS-RETAIL & Cross Application consultant.

 Designed and Created a new report by which contract orders are released from the allocated purchase orders. The program selects all allocated PO in the given date range and searches the contract associated with them. When a contract is found, the errors, which are created in transaction, ZWAKO had to be sent to the distribution list in the R/3 SAP-Office depending upon the purchase organization in the purchase order.

Project-12D

Client: Metro International, Italy

Project Title: Modification of the Purchase Order Printout.

Environment: ERP - SAP (IS – Retail) Ver. 4.0 B

Designation: IS-RETAIL & Cross Application consultant.

 Modified the standard program SAPFM06P and the form MEDRUCK for the purchase order and RVADOR01 for the sales order.

 The client wanted new fields to be incorporated and certain texts to be included which were in Italian. The purchase order included cross-docking and collective purchase orders. The delivery dates had to be checked, as there was more than one PO.

Project-12E

Client: Infraserv Hoechst, Germany.

Project Title: Modification of the purchase order printout

Environment: ERP - SAP (IS – Retail) Ver. 4.0 B

Designation: ABAP/4 & Cross Application consultant.

 Modified the standard purchase order programs ZM06PF02 and added few function modules and subroutines to enable the program to recognize the customer address and the unloading point.

 Added few more fields in the layout as well as modified the tables such as EKKN, EKPO, and EKKO.

Project-13

Role: ABAP/4, Programmer

Client: Visteon Corporation

Project Title: R/3 Application Development

Experience: February 1999- July 1999

 Have worked as a team member where in the responsibility included writing custom reports both basic and interactive ones. Modified and copied SAP standard reports in the functional areas such as SD, MM and FI.

 Developed custom transactions were in lot of dialog programming was involved. Used multiple screens and table controls.

 Worked on FTP of the files as well as downloading and uploading of the data from R/3 to excel and text.

 Worked on SIS and LIS for data retrieval and display. Used the Standard information structures given by SAP such as S001 (Customer), S004 (Material), and S055 (Shipment materials). Have working knowledge of maintaining Update Rules, Characteristics and Key Figures.

 Worked on SAP scripts, designed and developed custom based layout and forms. Copied and modified SAP standard programs for different orders like Sales Orders and Purchase Orders.

 Also used standard SAP programs like RSTXLDMC to Upload TIFF files to SAPscript texts.

 Maintained texts in different languages using standards text transaction SO10. Used standard print program RVADEK01 for writing print programs as reference.

Project-14

Role: ABAP/4 & Cross Application Consultant

Client: GFCL India

Project Title: Interface Project

Experience: July 1997- Dec 1998

 Configured the SAP system to develop retail functionality of the business into SAP retail, ensuring information flow across the enterprise and to evaluate cross-application technologies like ITS, BAPI, and EDI.

 Client application and active-X Server components:

 Developed front end applications in Visual Basic (5.0) using SAP's BAPI Active-X control, Active-X function control, Active-X table control to access the SAP business functionality in the areas like sales (sales order creation) and materials (material availability check, getting details etc.).

 Customizing of EDI was done to test the inbound and outbound processing of IDOC with the help of EDI test tool.

 Configured inbound/outbound profiles and message control.

 SAP system was configured to implement SAP internet application component, effective and efficient communication, and enhancing integration of transactions beyond the limits of applications.

 Purchase requisitions - created template and role resolution programs, which integrates with MM application customizing.

 Sales orders – developed a template to create any type of sales order online from internet.

 Purchase order-.developed a template to create any type of purchase order online from internet.

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