July –2014 to Mar-2015

Lead Consultant Procure to Pay (P2P) with iModules (e-Sourcing, Purchasing, iSupplier, Contracts, AME & iProcurement)

Summary of Role:  As a Functional Consultant developing few complicated enhancements to meet the business requirements. Enhancements spans from Purchasing, Inventory, PO Pricing, Interface to Order management, & Shipping. I am involved in Purchasing, iProcurement, iSupplier Portal, Sourcing, Pricing, Inventory and Costing modules. Involved in identification of business process scenarios, gap analysis, Customization, Creation of test scripts, CRP testing and implementation.

Contribution:

·               Understanding and Gathering the requirement from business super users and document the same in Business requirement & analyzing the Gaps. Responsible for Customizations.

·               Set up of buyer less procurement process for frequently procured items through the internal catalog for iProcurement requisitions. Set up of ASL’s for iProcurement-requisitioned items with release generation method “Release using Create” enabling auto generation of Blanket Releases, Standard Purchase Orders against the Blanket Agreements and Catalog Quotations

·               Restriction of Desk Top receiving for iProcurement requisition (expense) items by User Departments. All items are received at Stores and then issued to User Departments outside the system.

·               Set up of ASL, Sourcing Rules, and Assignment Set for Inventory Min Max Planned Items with release generation method “Automatic Release” for auto generation of Blanket Releases and Standard Purchase Orders.

·               Chose Group by option as “Vendor” to pick up the requisition lines through scheduled “Create Releases” program before the end of the day to optimize the Purchase Order costs. (Reduced number of Purchase Orders creation)

·               Customization of Chart of Accounts LOV’s in iProcurement by configuring Regions in AK Developer and referring the custom views.

·               Customizations of Descriptive Flexfields in iProcurement check out process by configuring the POR_ATTRIBUTE_1 and 2 to suit the requisitioning process specific to business process.

·               Setting up Content Zones to restrict access to items based on the item category to users based on the business requirements. Restriction of Express and Power check out process to selected users.

·               Modification of PO workflows attributes enabling the auto generation of Purchase Orders for iProcurement Requisitions.

·               Configuring the position based Requisition and PO hierarchies for approval management as per the Procurement Policies.

·               Set up the internally sourced items to check out from iProcurement as requisition and then interfacing the Requisition Line /s through Move Order API to the Inventory Organization from which the item is being sourced.

·               Set ups for Conference Room Pilot (CRP) for Business Champions and core team members.

·               Document interface, views and report requirements and testing of customizations.

·               Set-ups for UAT and registration of all custom components during UAT in Test instance.

·               Carried out User Training adopting the “Train the Trainer” methodology.

·               Preparation of Conversion strategy documents and carrying out conversion activities prior to Go live.

·               Custom Solution Design for Payable Invoice for over receipt quantities, Automatic substitute identification and replacing the line in Purchase Order after booking the PO and also before doing ASN.

·               Provided production support for those divisions, which have implemented Oracle and supported implementation initiatives of new divisions.

·               Provided solutions to all the business requirements and set up the same in the system and help the business users to understand the system and also involved in conducting CRP.

·               Custom Back-to-Back process for a ATO item to meet the business requirement

·               Developed Auto-reservation solution Design to meet the Business requirement

Allied Health Science, Westlake Village, CA

Jul 2013 to Jun 2014

Lead Consultant P2P (Purchasing, iProcurement, iSupplier Portal, Sourcing, Contracts & Customization for Back to Back Procurement and Auto Reservation process)

Summary of Role:  As a Functional Consultant implementing Purchasing, iSupplier, Sourcing & iProcurement. Involved in identification of business process scenarios, gap analysis, configuration, Creation of test scripts, CRP testing and implementation.

Contribution:

·               Involved in setting up meetings with Business user to gather Requirements.

·               Gap and Fit analysis done based on the business requirements.

·               Functional Consultant for Oracle implementing Purchasing, iSupplier, Sourcing & iProcurement modules.

·               Purchasing setups and Order Management interface designs. Setup Payment Terms, PO Lookups, Purchasing Options, Buyers, Financial Options, Transaction Reasons, Receiving Options, Suppliers, Sourcing Rule, Position Hierarchies and Employees.

·               Setup of iSupplier portal external web link (Web Server URL’s), supplier registration access, Attribute mapping to custom responsibilities (ICX_SUPPLIER_ORG_ID, ICX_SUPPLIER_SITE_ID, ICX_SUPPLIER_CONTACT_ID), default application responsibilities for Invitation & Approval. Defining Supplier Management Groups, Conversion of Contacts & Address for suppliers.

·               Menu and function exclusion for different iSupplier custom supplier responsibilities & internal view responsibilities. Flag external responsibilities with profile options.

·               Developed strategy for iSupplier user management by BG, Registration and approval management process developed, Defining Supplier Management groups in HR security profiles. Helped to create stripped registration page links for OU based or supplier group based hyperlinks on the external web pages by encrypting the organizations.

·               Setting up Response Rules in e-Sourcing such as ‘Negotiation is restricted to invited suppliers’, ‘Suppliers are allowed to respond to selected lines’, ‘Suppliers are allowed to provide multiple responses’, ‘Buyer may close the negotiation before the Close Date’.

·               Rules setup for Negotiations / Bids, to allow supplier to see other supplier's contract terms, notes and attachments, allow supplier to select lines on which to respond, Require full quantity setup, Allow multiple responses from suppliers, Allow multiple rounds of negotiation, Suppliers are required to lower the line price when submitting a revised response, allow manual close before the Close Date, Allow manual extend when the negotiation is open

·               Supplier Sourcing / Auction training: Creating bids, Acknowledge participations, Messaging services, viewing bids by Active, Disqualified, Awarded, Rejected. Auto-refresh setups, bidding Monitor, bidding by spreadsheet, view bid history, Analyze Bids, Award the bid. Buyer may manually extend the negotiation while it is open Auto extend settings, Negotiation Settings in Oracle Sourcing.

·               Setup of Negotiation Tools like, Reusable Attribute Lists, Price Factors, Reusable Price Factor Lists, Reusable Invitation Lists, Abstract and Forms, Setup Negotiation Terms and Conditions, Negotiations Configuration & Creating templates.

·               Implemented Back to Back orders in Configured scenario.

·               Custom Pricing component with formula, DFF, PTE designed for adding the freight for drop ship orders.

·               Implemented the transit time calculation using internal locations, regions and zones.

·               Involved in the Creation of test script documents for CRP and UAT.

·               Providing functional inputs to coordinate between client and Technical consultants related to application issues.

·               Captured the business processes in form of scenario matrix for testing various process alternatives followed as part of Bill of Material/Work in Progress/Costing/Quality and Planning.

·               Involved in importing of item cost from legacy system.

·               Successfully completed 2 CRP’s and 1 UAT. Production support and user training.

Honeywell, Pittsburgh, PA.

Functional Consultant

Jan 2012 to July 2013

Functional Consultant – Procure to Pay (SCM)

Upgrade Project to Oracle application from 11.5.5 to 11.5.10

Summary of Role:  As a Functional consultant involved in Functional testing for up-gradation project from 11.5.5 to 11.5.10. Responsible for the preparation of business documents like MD50 and TE50.Coordinated with the teams of third party system integrations, automated testing and QA testing. Enhanced the existing processes/ functionality in distribution / Mfg areas.

Contribution:

·               Completed an upgrade of Oracle Application 11.5.10.using AIM project management methodology.

·               Captured the business processes in form of scenario matrix for testing various process alternatives followed as part of order management/shipping/Purchasing/Inventory.

·               Designed and tested various test business case scenarios, unit testing and integration testing for various business flows.

·               Validated Setup steps for Inventory like Inventory Organizations, Source Types, Item Templates, Category Sets, UOM, Classes and Conversions.

·               Involved in the design of the Labels for the client for the inbound and outbound activities

·               Involved in Assigning tasks to pickers, according to various business practices in UAT Server.

·               Enabled the system to allocate material for picking (directed picking) by using Picking Rule.

·               Enabled the system to suggest the label format and information content that are used to print a given label (compliance labeling).

·               Developed process for weekly global supplier audit review on new/updated suppliers and sites

·               Express Receipts disabled in Receiving for all orgs to meet the quality requirement

·               Cycle Count report improvements – sort sequence, added planner code and location reference

·               Improved logic on Open PO Summary Report regarding unapproved and cancelled PO’s

·               Discrete Job Routing Sheet customization to get all the information in one place.

·               Custom query to show item sourcing and ASL setup, to enable users to debug issues related to it

·               Setup Kanban Pull Sequences, (Supplier & inter-org) and expense item setups. Customization to identify Kanban spikes

·               Supplier Load into oracle, sourcing rules, supplier categories, sourcing assignments defined

·               Communicating forecasted demand to suppliers with a customized report & process

·               Miscellaneous Transactions, orphan supply/demand, WO variance Alerts developed.

·               Open Internal Requisition query customization

·               Training users on using the standard global process for supplier returns

Dana Automotive, MI

Functional Consultant

Feb 2011 to Jan 2012

Implementation / Post Production Support of Oracle Apps Supply Chain (Mfg & Dist)

Summary of Role: As Implementation Analyst handling all business flows implementation for BOM, WIP ENG, PO, OM, Shipping, Advance Pricing, Inventory & Costing. Automotive Parts is one of the highly customized environments with third parts tools/Legacy system, which integrates to oracle ERP.

Contribution:

·               Implemented Item Cross References to enable substitution item and cross-reference during Order entry.

·               Created Item templates for the Purchasable items.

·               Setup the Planner codes as per business requirements.

·               Min-Max Planning Processes successfully created at Sub inventory level as per BR document.

·               Involved in process analyzing & scoping business requirements for internal sales order cycle and implemented the same

·               Involved in material transfer from one sub inventory to other sub inventory using data loader.

·               Analyzed the Reservable attribute functionality during picking process of a item (picking the item from source sub inventory to staging sub inventory)

·               Responsible for doing the SIT testing & Regression testing

·               Attending Weekly Oracle Meeting for reviewing and prioritizing the on-going Service Requests.

·               Interaction with the DBA & Technical Consultants.

·               Troubleshooting and solving the issues related to Oracle Distribution Modules and Warehouse Management.

·               Working closely with end-users/clients through complex problems.

Purchasing (PO):

·               Designed custom reports for Oracle purchasing (PO), some of them are listed below:

o        Inactive Po: Report showing all PO where there has been no movement for ‘X’ days.

o        Report to capture the PO’s, which are received but not yet delivered in WMS Enabled organization.

o        Report to capture the Return to Vendor PO’s.

o        Unprocessed approved requisitions: Report listing all approved purchase requisition that have not been auto created into a Purchase Order.

o        Incomplete PO’s: Report showing all the Open purchase order for a particular time period.

·                                                                         Customization of sourcing complete auction workflow to update all the sourcing documents i.e. ASL, catalog quotations as an attribute to ASL, sourcing rule, assignment set and Lead Time. Therefore, when the Plan runs for the existing demand, PO can be automatically rolled out.

Bills Of Materials (BOM):

·               Designed functional specifications for BOM extract for changing the PL locations (9 Level)

·               Exploded BOM for planners to upload to excel.

·               Phantom Item, OSP resource definitions, Routing, Department Definitions

·               Post Production Support Post Go-Live:

o   Adhere to SLA’s based on the Severity of the Help Desk Tickets.

o   Respond to Tickets assigned to Manufacturing and Supply Chain Queue in the Manage-Now Help Desk system.

o   Coordination with 25 Branches (Internally Produced) and be available to provide support on SEV1 issues 24X7 if the production is stopped or unable to mail the product due to system issue.

o   Active participation during switch over from IBM Manage-Now Help desk System to BMC Service Express system to address all Business Users issues.

·   Actively resolve SWAT defects (Root Cause defects) with a 60 day focused approach.

TVS Motor Company, India                                               

Functional Consultant

May 2010 till Feb 2011

Upgrade from 11.0.3 to 11.5.8

Summary of Role: As a Functional Consultant, Implementing / Upgrade Oracle Inventory, Oracle BOM, WIP, MRP, PO & OM. Established and drove Conference Room Pilots (CRP) from start to finish. Conducted system integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), user training on new module. Coordinating closely with Technical development team, functional testing team for the smooth delivery of the component.

Contribution:

·               Performed setup for Routing, Routing Attachments, Bills, Item Cost, Cost Sub Elements, Different Costing Processes depending on item type, Employee Setup, Setup and Migration from 11.0.3 to 11.5.8, Defined Work in Process Parameters, Accounting Classes, Profile Options, Production Lines, Repetitive Assemblies, Schedule Groups, Labor Rates, Shop Floor Statuses, Planning Parameters, Demand Class, Planners, Forecast Sets, Forecast Rule, MDS, MPS, MPS Options, MRP, MRP Options,

·               Gathered requirement for Item templates by classifying items like Purchased Item, Reference Item and Supercede item accordingly created templates for them by enabling suitable attribute

·               Setup Planners, Buyers, Categories, Unit of Measurement.

·               Set up new user responsibilities for different org based on the end user

·               Setup suitable descriptive flex fields for the item based on the Inventory Organization.

·               Set up Assignment set, Sourcing Rules and the Approved Supplier list.

·               Set up of Purchasing options, Receiving Options, Financial Options, and Ship-to Location.

·               Set up PO vendors, vendor sites, and Descriptive flex fields to capture additional information.

·               Assist users in creating Standard Purchase order and Blanket agreement.

Following are the custom components developed along with PREP implementation,

·               Purchase Order Integration from ERP to O2S (Order to settle) system through Optio system based on the transmit code. Where the Po information is communicated to supplier, and supplier communicated to buyer through O2S system, enhance real-time demand is visible to Supplier in Online.

·               Incorporated Logic for Approving the PO for special charges items –Expense types though customization of approval assignments.

Dena Bank, India                                               

Functional Consultant

Apr 2009 till May 2010

IT Business Analyst / Production Support with Site implementation

Summary of Role: Support Analyst handling all business cases for Order Management, Bills of materials, Work in Process, Shipping, Purchasing, Inventory, Costing. Single Point Contact for Hungary/Amsterdam Warehouse operations, it is one of the highly customized environments with third parts tools/Legacy system, which integrates to oracle ERP.

Contribution:

·               Functional support for Oracle Inventory, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Order Management, Warehouse Management and Advance supply chain-planning modules.

·               Lead the team in the Production Support for Oracle Distribution Modules.

·               Ensuring Issue-Free Inventory Period Closing for 4 Inventory Organizations.

·               Application Consultant for INV/PO/BOM/WIP/MRP.

·               Complete setup of out-side Processing created.

·               Implemented complex Bill of Material with multiple options and models.

·               Implemented ATO within Order Management.

·               Approval Hierarchy for approving the PO is successfully created. (Change from Job Based to Position Hierarchy)

·               Successfully troubleshoot Standard Purchase Order, Blanket PO and PO Releases.

·               In shipping, setting up Grant & Roles according to Business User roles, Shipping Parameters, Pick Release Parameters, Shipping Transaction Parameters, Delivery Parameters, Bill of Lading, Packing Slip, Shipping Document Sets, Pick Slip Grouping Rules & Release Rules.

·               Doing the necessary setups in the test instances (CRP, UAT, etc.) and giving Demo to the Champion Users and End users where required.

·               Design and implemented interface programs to load Purchasing Data from old system to Oracle Application 11.

·               Configured the business process in the Test Instance and testing of various business scenarios.

Environment: Oracle Applications 11.5.8, TOAD, Oracle 8i

Modules: Order Management, Inventory, Purchasing, Bill of Material & work in progress.

MRF Limited - R12.1.3

Nellore,India.

August - 2008 till April- 2009

Business Analyst (Inventory, BOM, WIP, Quality, PO and Order Management)

Summary of Role: As a Business Analyst, supported Implementation of Oracle Inventory, Oracle BOM, WIP, PO & OM. Coordinated closely with Technical development team, functional testing team for the smooth delivery of implementation.

Contribution:

·               Engaged in Requirement gathering (BRD), Solution Design (Process Documents) for Inventory and Order management.

·               Framing key questionnaires in order to understand the current state of process/subprocess of the client’s supply chain.

·               Mapping responses to above questionnaires on varying levels of maturity model.

·               Developing Data Collection templates for Data gathering requirements.

·               Understanding and Gathering the requirement from business super users and document the same in Business requirement & analyzing the Gaps.

·               Identified the process and mapped the business requirements with process flow charts and setup documents

·               Created setup documentation for Inventory, Bill of materials, Work in Process and Cost

·               Worked with shop floor super users to identify and define Departments, Resources, Operations and Routings for BOM items

·               Kept to a very aggressive schedule and limited customizations to a minimum to ensure a successful implementation on scheduled go-live date.

·               Preparing the test cases and TE040 documents

·               Extensive unit and integrated testing

Computer Exposure:

ERP Software: Oracle Application 11i & R12 e-Business Suite

Supply Chain & Manufacturing: Oracle Purchasing, iProcurement, Sourcing, iSupplier, Order Management/Shipping, Oracle Configurator, Oracle Inventory, Advance Pricing, Bill of Material, Work in Progress, Engineering, Costing, Material Requirements Planning, Advance Supply Chain Planning, Warehouse Management System & Supplier Scheduling.

AOL:  System Administration, Application Developer, Oracle Alerts, and Oracle Workflow Admin.

ERP Methodology: AIM

Oracle Applications: Versions R12/11i (11.5.10/11.5.9/11.5.8).

Databases: Oracle RDBMS (Oracle 10g/9i/8i/8/7).

Utility tools : Toad, SQL Developer.

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL.

Hardware/OS: Linux, Sun Solaris 5.5, Windows.

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Projects, MS Office & Microsoft Visio.