Maria. Kodali
**********@*****.*** Phone:646-***-****
SUMMARY
• 7 years of total IT experience
• 5 years of SAP SD Functional experience
EDUCATION:
• Masters in Computer science with Business consulting, specialization in SAP, Germany.
• Bachelors in Computer Science, India.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN:
English – Fluent
German – Basic
SAP SD
• SD: 5 years of SAP SD experience on SAP R/3, Sales & Distribution (Pricing, Picking, Packing, Shipping, Delivery, Billing, Credit and Risk Management).
• Hands on experience on customization of Sales & Distribution out of which 3 full life cycles, and 1 support project experience.
• Sales Documents: Configuration of Sales Documents, Item categories & Schedule lines
• Master Data: Customer and Material master data.
• Pricing: Configured complex Pricing, Pricing procedure, Condition types, Condition tables, and Access sequences, Condition Records. Thorough understanding of various pricing techniques.
• Hands on experience on customer master, partner functions, Shipping & Transportation. Credit management, Dispute cases, Returns and Refusals and Intercompany Business Process.
• Configuration Expertise in the Quote-to-Order-to-Cash areas of Sales Order processing including Promotions & Sales Deals, Rebates, Shipping Billing, Availability check (ATP)/ Transfer of Requirements (TOR).
• Experience in customizing Pricing.
• Good understanding of the Incentives and Payback solutions provided by Vistex.
• Good understanding of three dimensional Apparel and Footwear industry (AFS) grids.
• Understanding the complex business and working out for the compatibility with SAP and writing the Functional Specifications.
• Managed business processes in functional areas of Customer Master Maintenance, Order management, Shipping and Billing. Configured SAP Sales and Distribution module in areas of Account Groups, Pricing and Condition Techniques, Rebate Processing, Account Determination procedures, Sales Documents, Shipping Documents, Billing Documents and Copy Controls.
• Very Good Knowledge in Warehouse Management: Handling Units, Ware house Stock adjustments Returns and Refusals. Assigning warehouses to the plants, Routes and Transportation Zones.
• Understanding the process for transporting goods through external system (TME- Transportation Management Execution).
• Report generation for analysis. Used a lot of SE16 reports and also SQVI and SQ01 queries.
• Involved in all the phases of testing and provided data needed for testing by the process teams.
• A good team player and has ability to grasp things fast and act accordingly.
SD INTEGRATION
Integration with MM/FICO: Strong understanding of the SD module's integration with MM / WM and FI/CO modules.
• SDLC: Hands on experience in Project Preparation, Requirements Gathering and Analysis, Business Blueprint, Realization/Configuration, Go-Live, Production Support, End-User Documentation and Training.
• BOM: Experience with incompletion procedures, BOM, third party processing, Consignment stock process, deliveries, stock transport orders, Inter Company Business Process, Returns, Procurement and Inventory.
• Logistics: Configuration of Shipping activities - Processing Deliveries, Picking, Packing, Shipping, Route Determination, Batch Splits, Transportation planning and scheduling, Freight costs.
• ABAP: Interacting with the ABAP Developers for designing reports based on the requirements, smart forms and user exits. Good grasp of ABAP/4 debugging, SAP Data Dictionary, Development Workbench, EDI/ALE, IDocs and LSMW.
• EDI: Writing Functional specifications for the EDI Preprocessor.
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
SAP SD Pricing, Pricing Schedules, Picking, Packing, Shipping, Delivery, Inventory Management and Billing.
SAP SAP R/3 4.0A, 4.6B, 4.6C (SD, MM, FI and PP modules), SAP GUI, EDI/ALE, IDocs
Languages PL/SQL
Others PowerPoint, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS- Visio
Databases Oracle 7.x/8.0/9i with SQL PL/SQL, SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000
Environment Windows NT, Windows 95/98/2000, UNIX, MS DOS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Client: M&M's Mars Information Services, Mt. Olive, New Jersey. May07–Sept09
SAP SD Functional Consultant
Master foods USA a division of MARS incorporated manufactures and markets confectionery/ Snackfood, Petcare and Food products. This division's confectionery and Snackfood brands -- including "M&M's" Chocolate Candies, SNICKERS Bar, TWIX Cookie Bars, STARBURST Fruits Chews, and COMBOS Brand are among the world's best loved and most widely available snacks. Masterfoods USA brands also include ETHEL M Chocolates and DOVE Chocolate. In recent years, the division has capitalized on the success of its confectionery brands by launching a wide range of ice cream products.
• Worked in ATLAS project for the Customer Service department and provided SAP expertise to support all aspects of order-to-cash-flow.
• Extensively worked on very complex Master Data implemented by Mars for their biggest SAP implementation.
• Manage the design, development, configuration, and testing of functional solutions within Standard SAP Sales and Distribution.
• Lead the master data team during all the phases of testing, data migration, data conversions, data cleansing and data work flow.
• Involved in all phases of testing which includes Unit Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Business Integration Testing (BIT), Stress Testing and Regression Testing.
• Developed several test cases to support all the testing phases
• Provided data: Provided customers, and materials, KRED Vendors for the OTC team to perform their tests during all the phases of testing.
• Worked extensively on the complex Customer master design adopted by Mars. As Mar Data analyst created customers for all the different partner functions, created customer hierarchy, worked with different boxes- Global box and time zone box.
• Performed Data Validation, Data Cleansing and Data readiness. As a Validation process generated reports using SE16 and used a lot of SQVI and SQ01 queries.
• Worked tremoundsly on Excel spread sheets to massage the and validate the data
• Work closely with other SAP Core Team members to ensure proposed solutions integrate properly with SAP and support organization wide end-state business requirements.
• Knowledge of Data flow between different environments. Worked on Idocs, monitoring and sending Idocs from one system to another.
• Worked on the Upgrade project from SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0. Tested the new ECC6.0 and also provided data for the ECC.6.0 testing.
• Ability to document business requirements and develop functional and technical documentation, unit and integration test scripts and end user documentation.
• Desined and documented several presentations during the project to explain the master data changes implemented to adopt a decent way of data architecture.
• Conducted many Knowledge transfer sessions in various stages and performed user training classes and user manuals for the business users after the project went live.
• Interact with the Business process owners, Functional team members and Process team owners to gather requirements and provide master data according to their need.
• Helped in developing the Customer work flow.
• Work closely with other SAP Core Team members to ensure proposed solutions integrate properly with SAP and support organization wide end-state business requirements.
• Worked on the Order Validation Rules for manual orders and also EDI orders.
• Worked on the Pricing Procedure Determinations.
• Resolve complex data related problems and tasks.
• Created Condition Records for Cost Related Price Card (CRPC) based on specific Conditions e.g. Logistic Points, TDUs, Full Pallets, Pallet Spaces and Total Weight.
• Run through reports (ZPRICE REPORT) to display pricing or logistics information on a material or group of materials for specific region.
• Worked with Cransoft tool during data migration, data cleansing, and data conversion activities.
• Post Implementation support for the Atlas Project.
Environment: SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7, SD (Master Data, Sales, Shipping, Deliver, Billing, Pricing, Pricing Procedures, Condition Types, Condition Tables, and Orders), MS Visio, Excel, Acess, Power Point and IDocs)
Client: Nestle Globe -Nestle Purina Pet care Company, St. Louis MO. Nov06–May07
Functional Specification writer.
Nestle Purina PetCare Products is the world's largest manufacturer of dry dog and dry and soft-moist cat foods, and the leading producer of cat box filler in the United States. The flagship Purina brand is the leading brand of dry pet food in North America, where Nestle Purina Pet Products competes effectively in all retail channels.
Responsibilities:
• Played a vital role as a team member in this world’s largest implementation SAP-GLOBE Project.
• Reviewed the Business process and compatibility of the SAP system with the present Heritage legacy business.
• Studied the existing SAP system with split architecture and basics of Master data Management (MDM) that Nestle Implemented.
• Worked closely with process streams in raising FITGAPs and suggested best business practices
• Provided Functional Specifications for the FITGAPs raised in the present business system.
• Have very good experience in writing functional specifications for the customer service stream. Specifications for the Order Summary Report. Data Mapping, Detail description of the report. Pricing conditions display, Case pick rules are few of them to list.
• Functional Specifications for the Price Exception Notification via Fax/E-mail – Sapscript.
• Functional Specifications for Export document to Customs and Customers- GTS(Global trade solution) Sapscript - USDA Health Certificate, Health Certificate, Quality Control Certificate, Sanitary Certificate, Fitosanitary Certificate, Isotek (Tallow) Certificate, Order Acknowledgement, Packing List, Certificate of Origin, Phytosanitary Certificate, Certificate of Analysis, Nutrient Analysis, Certificate of Free Sale, Internal Export Document, Caricom Invoice (Caribbean Common Market), Veterinary Certificate (Health Certificate), Certificate Contents and Analysis Golden Products Litter Material, Declaration USDA, Batch Mark List/Certificate of Manufacturer.
• Adding transit time to invoice date - additional Value day’s field- User exit.
• Good knowledge and understanding of ABAP tables for mapping the legacy data fields into SAP fields for the functional specifications.
• Preparing test scripts and Test data for the Gap’s.
• Written a part of the Functional specifications for the EDI Preprocessor.
• Conducted Knowledge transfer (Customer service) interviews with Super users, Business Blueprint design and realization.
• Change impacts for all the functional specifications.
• Co-coordinating roles for the new SAP environment.
• Training super users for the functional specifications.
Environment: SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7, SD (Master Data, Sales, Shipping, Deliver, Billing, Pricing, Pricing Procedures, Condition Types, Condition Tables and Orders), MS Visio, EDI, IDocs, Gentran EDI, Vertex, Oracle 9i.
Robert Bosch Sicherheit Systems, Stuttgart, Germany Feb’05-Apr’06
SAP Support.
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services in the areas of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its more than 300 subsidiaries and regional companies in over 60 countries.
Responsibilities:
• Localized the global template according to the existing available setup.
• Provided post production support to a minimal extent support.
• Work with Customer Service in day-to-day operations.
• Troubleshoot production problems in sales and distribution, logistic execution, and warehouse management areas.
• Defined item proposal types and assigning of dunning areas.
• Involved in many End User trainings.
• Generated reports and used a lot of Ms-Excel and Ms-Word.
• Understanding Sales activity to support customer call report and flowing into Inquiry, Quotation, orders and Product proposals
• Understanding the working of Sales Process and insight into ABAP.
Environment: SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.5, SD.
ABBOTT GMBH, Germany Mar04- Dec04
SAP SD Functional Consultant
ABBOTT is a leading provider of innovative health care products. It is a global, broad-based health care company devoted to discover new medicines, new technologies and new ways to manage health. Abbott has sales, manufacturing, research and development, and distribution facilities around the world
Responsibilities:
• Configuration of master data, sales cycle which includes sales order transactions, delivery, shipping and billing.
• Maintenance of Customer Master and Material Master. Customized sales order processing for different sales scenarios from inquiry to quotation to sales order, delivery to billing.
• Extensively involved in Pricing and configured SD-Pricing. Setting of new pricing procedure, condition types, access sequences, condition tables and the determination of prices.
• Responsible for setting pricing procedure, condition types, access sequences, condition tables and the determination of prices and master conditions and pricing procedure for service procurements.
• Configured the system for the different processes in sales order processing which includes consignment stock, Rush order & Cash Sale, Rental Contracts to meet specific requirements in the business sales activities.
• Worked on third party sales and related item category groups.
• Customizing several returns scenarios by creation of new Order Types, maintained copy control procedures, Credit memo request, and Debit memo request.
• Configured Logistics - Transportation zones and Route determination.
• Resolved issues in incomplete procedure configuration for Delivery document.
• Resolved issues on shipping conditions configuration.
• Knowledge in Item category determination and creating item category groups.
• Worked on Third party sales, Intercompany sales, Account Determination procedure, Credit Management, Output Determination Procedure, Text Determination, Partner Determination procedure, Item category determination, Listing and Exclusion, Route Determination and Functional Specifications.
• Developed report to get the details of delivery documents created with reference to the sales document specific to sales organization, distribution channel and sales group
• Customized and Integrated with other SAP Modules MM, FI.
• Coordination in Screen layout design and modification for various types of purchasing documents.
Environment: SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7, SD (Master Data, Sales, Shipping, Deliver, Billing, Pricing, Pricing Procedures, Condition Types, Condition Tables, Orders and Purchasing).