SAP SD Functional Analyst Resume

Title
SAP SD Functional Analyst

Primary Skills
SAP SD, Project Management

Location
US-IL-Chicago (will consider relocating)

Posted
Jan-29-09


• Over 12 years of IT experience, 9 years in Software programming, Business Analysis, and Project Management and 3 years in SAP -- SD consulting
• Worked with business process Project Manager in requirements gathering, blueprinting, implementing SAP configuration, creating testing plans, documenting, training end users, supporting post go-live
• Responsible for client relationship, team building and end-to-end project delivery using onsite-offshore model
• Managed overall North America and Europe operations and streamlined processes of a horizontal practice division
• MBA in International Business and Certified Project Management Professional

Project Details:

Project: Cutter & Buck Inc, Seattle, WA, Jan 2008 -- Nov 2008
Role: SAP SD Functional Consultant

Cutter & Buck offers high quality, classic men's and women's apparel.
• Provided on-going issues support and analyzed business processes and requirements to understand and offer appropriate solutions
• Configured various Account Groups as per customer classification, defined partner functions, maintained partner determinations procedures in various objects such as Customer Masters, Sales Document Header and Item, delivery, billing docs.
• Configured customer master and settings for field selection of customer master data.
• Configured and created OTC (order to cash), consignments, deliveries, invoicing, inter-company sales
• Prepared Unit Test Plans and Integration Test Plans, executed them and recorded the results
• Interacted with power users fore requirement understanding and user training
• Prepared training documents for future users
• Post implementation support and trouble shooting, followed up on initial user problems and resolved them by correcting customization problems

Project: Visteon, Belleville, MI, Feb 2007 -- Dec 2007
Role: SAP SD Functional Consultant

Visteon Corporation is a leading global automotive supplier that designs, engineers and manufactures innovative climate, interior, electronic and lighting, electronics and pwertrain controls.
• Analyzed business process requirements and documented how the company shall be configured in R/3 system using ASAP methodology
• Created prototype of the enterprise structure to make sure that all the requirements are accommodated in R/3 system
• Designed and configured customer and material master data according to business needs
• Customized Order to Cash process
• Created Sales Documents like Inquiries, Quotations, Sales Orders and Service Orders
• Involved in Creation of Number Ranges, Account Groups, Partner Determination Procedure, Text Determination Procedure, Account assignment and Automatic Account determination and integration with FI module as per business requirements.
• Tested frequently used Transaction Codes by end user
• Provided post production support

Project: Huntsman Chemicals, Salt Lake City, UT, Jan 2006 -- Nov 2006
Role: SAP SD Functional Analyst
Huntsman is a global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and commodity chemicals.
• Gathered requirements using ASAP methodology, prepared Business Blueprint document, defined business process design and Gap Analysis
• Configured Master Data elements such as business partners, conditions and messages
• Defined partner determination procedures and control business partners in the master data and business process
• Customized the sales documents to extract the document data as default values from various sources like customer master, material master and other sales and distribution documents
• Redesigned the constituent chemicals pricing procedures
• Designed and implemented process for adding freight charges in the delivery note for parts shipments
• Configured Availability Check processes
• Identified Sales to Cash unit test scenarios. Defined the tester roles and responsibilities
• Prepared Integration Testing Plan and recorded results
• Worked with ABAP team to implement changes in pricing and also in data migration
• Part of Go-Live team and coordinator for business development after Go-Live.

Project: Advanced Solutions Group (ASG), Cognizant Technology Solutions, Teaneck, NJ Feb 2005- Dec 2005
Role: Global Operations Manager
Advanced Solutions Group is an internal horizontal practice that offers services including technology planning, application development and performance engineering to manage and deliver high impact systems integration and enterprise solutions. ASG is a dedicated group of highly experienced professionals with skills in Architecture and Technology, Project/Program Management and Testing.
• Improved operations efficiency by creating tools to generate operational dashboard, revenue targets forecast, resourcing forecast, and P&L summary reports
• Facilitated global weekly Sales Pipeline calls with industry services leads monitoring the process from prospecting to closing
• Reviewed ASG monthly P&L with all industry services leads to ensure that they met revenue targets, customer profitability, practice profitability and account targets
• Worked with account teams in estimating, price modeling, answering RFPs, writing proposals, resource loading and costing for key vertical accounts
• Created 2006 Budget (revenue target of $140M) with input from COO, Director and industry services leads
• Monitored, tracked and controlled utilization and cost allocation of resources. Improved utilization by 15% from previous year by streamlining and closely controlling allocation process
• Improved communications and transparency within and outside the group by creating ASG PMO portal

Project: Equilend UDB to DB2 migration, Northern Trust, Chicago, IL. March 2004 -- Feb 2005
Role: Project Manager
Equilend System addresses the needs of securities lending professionals by providing an open, global, standards based system that allows lenders and borrowers of securities to transact with each other through a secure hub.
• Ensured communications and technical support for the project team both onsite and offshore (15 members)
• Facilitated requirements meetings between client and offshore resources, ensuring that different view points, ideas and issues were addressed and resolved
• Avoided project delay due to limitations in client system capacity by identifying and redesigning two functionalities of system. This saved 480 man-hours for the client

Project: Product Development, CCC Information Services, Chicago, IL. July 2000 -- March-2004
Role: Developer/Project Lead
Product development involved creating interfaces and connecting various insurance companies and repair facilities to Claims Routing System -- EZNet, and also enhancing EZNet System.
• Responsible for client relationship, project management, business analysis for designing and developing new releases for clients including StateFarm, Geico, Safeco, AllState, and GMAC
• Collaborated with Project Managers in order to coordinate enterprise-wide interfaces and to deliver projects on fixed time and fixed cost basis
• Analyzed, designed, developed and implemented multiple fast track releases with frequently changing priorities
• In addition to project deliverables, developed a defect control system that helped testers/developers find cause of defect quickly, reducing testing/development cycle time by 15%
• Generated business of $2.5 M over the course of four years
• Awarded for technical analysis and delivery excellence

Project: Company Code and Y2k Conversion, CCC Information Services, Chicago, IL. Jan 1998 -- June 2000
Role: Developer / Project Lead
Company Code expansion and Y2K conversion for CCC's core EZNet system.
• Coordinated work between onsite (3 members) and offshore(20 members)
• Involved in client interaction, analysis of EZNet System, and implementation of the system
• Instrumental in building a long and cordial partnership between CCC and Cognizant bringing in many other development projects

Project: Manugistics, Chennai, India April 1996- Dec 1997
Role: Support Engineer
Manugistics developed and marketed Resource Planning and Supply Chain Management software around the world.
• Learned the process flow of the system
• Involved as Support Engineer, fixed issues with quick turnaround time reducing customer complaints

Education:
Master of Business Administration (MBA - International Business) -- DePaul University, Chicago, IL -- April 2005
Master of Technology (Mechanical Engineering) -- Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India -- Jan 1996
Bachelor of Engineering (Production Engineering) -- Marathwada University, Nanded, India -- July 1994

Certification:
Sun Certified Java Developer
PMI certified Project Management Professional

Technologies: SAP R/3, mySAP, ABAP, J2EE, Java, XML, DTD, COBOL, CICS, MQ Series, Mercator, BEA Weblogic, Vitria, FTP, LU62, TCP/IP communications, Oracle, DB2, IMS DB/DC, IDMS, XML parser, SAS, FileAid, CA-7, PANVALET, Syncsort.

Employment History:
Cognizant Technology Solutions, 2 years in Chennai, India & 10 years in Chicago, IL & Teaneck, NJ
Freelance Consultant since November 2006

Immigration Status: Permanent Resident of U.S.A. (Green Card Holder)

Certifications
Sun Certified Java Developer
PMI certified Project Management Professional



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