SAP MM Consultant, Team Lead Resume

Title
SAP MM Consultant, Team Lead

Primary Skills
SAP MM, IM, WM

Location
US-OH-Cincinnati (will consider relocating)

Posted
Mar-16-09



Team Lead - SAP Functional (Materials Management, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, Plant Maintenance), with 10 years of IT experience and 8 years of SAP experience. Experience in working as Subject matter expert and Business Analyst with International clients with Multi-Cultural background. Adept in implementation, system integration, system upgrade, post go-live support and in providing in-depth knowledge of end-to-end business processes related to Supply Chain and technology integration.

Competency: SAP Materials Management (R/3 4.6C & SAP ECC 6.0), SAP Inventory Management, SAP Warehouse Management & Logistics. Sound knowledge in SAP Plant Maintenance

SAP Experience - Overview

Number of SAP Implementations : 4
Number of SAP Upgrade Projects : 1

General Skill Set
- Hands-on Configuration experience in SAP Materials Management (MM), Inventory Management (IM) & Warehouse Management (WM)
- Played the role of SAP MM Subject Matter Expert for Accenture's 'High Performance Process Excellence' project
- Excellent Communication & Client facing skills
- Rich experience in full implementation cycle involving,
- Project implementation using ASAP & hybrid methodologies on SAP 4.6C to ECC 6.0
- Business blue printings - Requirement definitions, system/process mapping & solution design
- Gap Analysis, workarounds & technical development specifications
- Design, development and testing of functional specs for RICEFW objects
- Data management -- strategy, discovery, gathering, conversion and validation
- Build team supervision
- Test Phase Planning (Unit/Assembly/Integration/UAT) involving test script creation & resource allocation
- Cut-over activities including knowledge transfer & Train-The-Trainer Planning
- Site readiness and Deployment Planning
- Resource planning and allocation
- Contingency Planning
- Quality Assurance and Peer Reviews
- Excellent skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
- Experience in working with HP-Mercury QTP testing tool
- Solid understanding of ABAP programming logic
- Experience in designing custom SAP IDocs and working with Standard ones
- Extensive documentation skills for RICEF
- Sound experience in On-Shore/Off-Shore model in Implementation and Upgrade Projects
- Rich Integration experience of MM with other modules such as FI, WM, SD and PM.
- Experienced in complex integration projects involving more than 4 legacy applications (Web, Mainframe, Client-server)
- Experienced in leading implementation, upgrade and post go-live support teams (4 -- 20 resources)







Experience & Projects undertaken:

NewPage Corporation, WI, Accenture Feb '08 -- Nov '08
(Paper Manufacturing and Forest Products)

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation
Lead SAP Procure to Pay
Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities
- Successfully complete blue-printing, configuration/realization, integration test cycles, data conversion and cut-over activities
- Organized and facilitated Business Process workshops to define as-is and to-be processes for Procure-To-Pay processes involving representation from 7 manufacturing sites from different geographical locations.
- Designed MM and WM process in SAP for 7 manufacturing site
- Oversee Plant Maintenance Business Blueprints & Configuration documents
- Define Organizational Unit hierarchy and their assignments
- Configure Materials Master including Material Types, definition of views, required Number Ranges for Material types etc.
- Configure Purchasing Info Record, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Scheduling Agreement, Contract, Quota Arrangement involving definition of Document Types, Number Ranges, Screen Layout etc.
- Definition of Message types, Access sequences, Message Determination Schema for Output Control of Purchase Orders
- Workflow configuration for Release procedures and Invoice verification
- Definition of Condition types, Access sequences, Calculation schema, Scheme groups and Schema Determination for Pricing in Purchase Orders
- Define Input Tax configuration for purchasing
- Configure Valuation and Account Assignment including definition of Valuation Control, grouping of Valuation Areas, definition of Valuation Classes, Account groupings and Automatic G/L Account Assignment
- Lead and guide Off-shore team during Build and Unit test phase
- Project management and metrics reporting for Go-Live
- Test Lead for the project which involves developing test strategies and plan scheduled execution
- Lead Data conversion which involves developing Data Conversion strategies and executing Mock data loads
- Cut-over strategy and Planning


NewPage Corporation, OH, Accenture Oct '07 -- Jan '08
(Paper Manufacturing and Forest Products)
Lead SAP Sourcing

SAP Upgrade
Technical Environment: SAP 4.6C to SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities
- Led the initiative to develop and implement strategies for SAP Upgrade project
- Conduct Due-Diligence workshops
- Develop SAP Landscape Strategy involving Dual-Maintenance planning and release
- Unit/Assembly/Integration Test planning
- Implementing Auto-Sourcing, Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS) and Consignment scenarios
- Design and map standard and custom EDI/IDocs (Custom IDocs for Purchase requisition, Reservation and Receiving Label & Bin Label for Barcode printing)
- Implementation of Subcontracting scenario
- Preparing functional specifications for the RICEF objects
- Create and maintain SAP Batch Jobs
- Develop ABAP Queries for consolidation reporting
- Lead Off-shore team in Test execution
- Manage Project issue logs and drive to meet project milestones
- Working with SAP on generic bug fix and custom enhancements specific to clients.


NewPage Corporation, MD, Accenture Feb '07 -- Sep '07
(Paper Manufacturing and Forest Products)
Solution Architect / Project Lead

MRO Procurement Outsourcing Project with custom IDocs and interfaces
Technical Environment: SAP 4.6C

Responsibilities
- Conduct Due-Diligence and Project Feasibility Study
- Develop Project plan and present to Client Executives and stake holders
- Design Interfaces which included Custom IDocs for Purchase Requisition and Reservation
- Design Interface for Requirements, Goods Movements (Receipt, Issues), Physical Inventory and Material Master
- Design custom movement types for the interfaces
- Build strategy for all batch jobs for complete system automation
- Lead Off-shore Functional team in configuration
- Design Test Plans and supervise execution of the same
- Prepare Cheat Sheet and documentation for Post Go-Live Support
- Weekly status reporting to Client


NewPage Corporation, OH, Accenture July '05 -- Jan '07
(Paper Manufacturing and Forest Products)
SAP Business Analyst & Delivery Lead (Procure-To-Pay)

SAP 4.6C Implementation and Post Go-Live Support
Technical Environment: SAP 4.6C

Responsibilities
- Design Business Process repository and define procurement business requirements
- Worked with the IT and procurement team members to prepare the solution design documents for each phase of the project.
- Definition of Organizational Unit hierarchy and their assignments
- Vendor Master configuration including creation of Account Groups and usage of Partner functions and Partner Schema determination and their assignment to document types and account groups.
- Definition of Release Procedures for Purchasing documents
- WM configuration involving Storage Types, Storage Section, Storage Bins
- Extensive work in Transfer Requests, Transfer Orders, Stock Movements & Putaway Strategy
- Logistic Invoice verification configuration (LIV) involving System Messages, Vendor Tolerance Group, Planned Delivery Costs etc
- Configurations for standard and custom movement types including screen layout definition and number range assignment
- Workflow configuration for Release procedures and Invoice verification
- Definition of Condition types, Access sequences, Calculation schema, Scheme groups and Schema Determination for Pricing in Purchase Orders
- Responsible for defining Off-Shore timeline, work plan and resource allocation
- Responsible for Off-Shore Deliverables in SAP MM/IM/WM/PM maintenance & enhancement activities
- Propose Value-Add solutions to the Client
- Creation and maintenance of SAP Batch Jobs
- Development of ABAP Queries
- Design Mapping, LSMW for Legacy Data conversions & Data Migration.
- Understanding of ABAP programming algorithms and logic
- End user training and documentation of user manual, training materials


OTE Group, Sultanate of Oman Jan '04 -- June '05
(Electronics & Home Appliances)
SAP 4.6C Implementation and Post Go-Live Support

Senior Business Analyst
Technical Environment: SAP 4.6C

Responsibilities
- Studying existing business process in the context of materials management and deciding to-be processes to suit the client objectives and to be mapped to the SAP system
- Definition of Organizational Units and their assignment
- Carried out GAP analysis and completed the study of system deficiencies with regards to SAP delivered functionality
- Configuration of Materials Master including Material Types, definition of views, required Number Ranges for Material types etc.
- Vendor Master configuration including creation of Account Groups and usage of Partner functions and Partner Schema determination and their assignment to document types and account groups.
- Configuration of Purchasing Info Record, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Scheduling Agreement, Contract, Quota Arrangement involving definition of Document Types, Number Ranges, Screen Layout etc.
- Configuration of Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) , Reorder Point based planning (ROP) & Consumption based planning
- Implementation of Stock Transport Order (STO) scenarios
- Implementation of Batch Management for inbound shipments
- Prepare Functional Specs for RICEFs
- Develop Design templates for legacy data mapping and developed LSMW for data migration
- Directly involved with Assembly, Integration and authorization testing


Bahwan Automobiles, Sultanate of Oman Aug '02 -- Dec '03
(Automobile Distributor)
SAP 4.6C Implementation and Post Go-Live Support

SAP Business Analyst
Technical Environment: SAP 4.6C

Responsibilities
- 'As-Is' Process mapping for Materials Management Processes
- Finalization of 'To-Be' processes based on the Q & A Db and SAP best practices
- Definition of Organizational Units and their assignment
- Understand and translate Business requirements to SAP configurable objects
- WM configuration involving Storage Types, Storage Section, Storage Bins
- Extensive work in Transfer Requests, Transfer Orders, Stock Movements & Putaway Strategy
- Design Mapping, LSMW for Legacy Data conversions & Data Migration
- End user training and documentation of user manual, training materials
- Design, development and testing of functional specs for RICEFW objects
- 3rd party contract vendor negotiations
- Develop Test Strategies and plan scheduled execution
- Cut-over activities including knowledge transfer & Train-The-Trainer Planning

Oman Trading Establishment, Sultanate of Oman Jun '01 -- Jul '02
(Automobile Distributor)

Purchase Executive

Responsibilities
- Planning and ordering of Automotive Spare Parts
- Maintain Inventory levels, Availability and Service levels as per company norms
- Principal interaction for technical clarifications & Pricing Issues
- Quotation analysis & Price Comparisons
- Price negotiations with Vendors & Forwarding Agents
- Defining Terms of Payment & L/C Clauses
- Branch Planning
- Disposal of Slow-moving Inventory
- Co-ordinate Principal Visits
- Prepare Ordering Forecasts & Business Plans
- Verify Incoming Vendor Invoices

Windsor Graphics Pvt Ltd Jan '00 -- May '01
(www.WindsorYellow Pages.com)
Website Development & Post Go-Live Support

Consultant
Technical Environment: HTML, Active Server Pages (ASP), JavaScript, VBScript, Visual Basic

Responsibilities
- Work with Marketing department to understand market requirements
- Propose and present website strategies to client
- Design and build web and client application
- Train business users in client application maintenance
- Develop user manual for client application
- Maintenance and updates to web and client application

Moss Technologies Pvt Ltd Aug '98 -- Dec '99
(www.MossTechnologies.com)
Web Hosting & Software Development

Software Engineer
Technical Environment: HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, Visual Interdev, Macromedia DreamWeaver

Responsibilities
- Develop prototypes for client presentation
- Prepare functional requirements based on client requirements
- Design web site
- Build client application for updating website
- Develop online tutorial
- Maintenance and updates to web and client application
Education
Bachelor of Engineering

Referrals: Available from previous clients upon request

Certifications
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