Dynamic leader with track record of success as Business process consultant/Analyst, SAP S4hana, P2P (IM/MM), WM, ARIBA and Coupa (P2P) Functional Consultant. Expertise              in offering consulting services for multinational companies. Creatively address complex problems with conflicting priorities to meet business strategies and exceed stakeholder expectations. Proven credential of always exceeding customer expectations and earning high overall client relationship rating.

More than Thirteen years of experience handling multiple responsibilities in different industries and domain. Focus during last TEN years have SAP P2P(IM/MM), WM and Coupa and related technologies.

 SAP experience in FOUR Implementation, and TWO Rollout projects. Experience includes Ownership of solution offering, execution of solutions, managing delivery team, system configuration, technical developments; system testing, user training, documentation and post go live support. SAP expertise includes extensive knowledge in Procurement, Inventory Management, Contracts and Release Strategy. This is backed with 5+ years of rich functional experience in Procurement, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management and Shop floor activities.

 

Certification

·               Basics of Supply Chain Management (BSCM) with Association for Production and Inventory Management (APICS)

·               ARIBA SPEND MANAGEMENT from ARIBA University

·               Coupa P2P from Coupa software

·               Coupa Implementation from Coupa software

 

Experience Summary

·               TEN years of SAP experience in S4Hana, P2P(MM/IM),WM, ARIBA spend management and Coupa P2P and Coupa Sourcing as Solution Architect, Project Lead, Team Lead, Module Lead, solution consultant and Core user backed with 5+ years of strong domain experience in Automotive and process manufacturing industry

·               Experience in FOUR Implementation Projects, and TWO rollout Projects and consulting assignments. Consulting responsibilities included Business process mapping and modeling, Solution Architechting, system Configuration, System enhancement, Integration testing, User training and Hyper care support in MM/IM and WM.

·               Experience in solution recommendation using Robotics process automation and achieved significant FTE reduction.

·               Expertise in Business process modelling and Solution Architecting tools like DOORS and MEGA

·               Experience in planning and managing all activities related to complex business or technical projects; Assemble, organize, and lead multifunctional project teams; Develop resource strategies, budgets, staffing models, tools, and support plans necessary to execute the project

·               Worked on projects in diverse industries – FMCG, Wholesale Distribution, Energy & Petrochemical, Healthcare, Engineering and Construction, Railway and Automobile with focus on P2P(MM/IM) and WM business process

·               P2P(MM/IM) and WM expertise includes baseline configuration of Master Data setup, Purchasing, Reverse Logistics, Inventory management, Invoice processing and warehouse management along with integration with FI, CO, PM, SD.

·               Experience in Seamless integration of Third-party/inhouse warehouse management system, with SAP and vendor ERP system for RMA process using TIBCO and Seaburger

·               Experienced with user exits and enhancements in P2P(MM/IM) and WM including preparation of functional specifications and coordinating with technical consultants for RICEF developments

·               Well versed with ASAP implementation methodology including project documentation including business blueprint, Configuration documents, test scripts, Authorization Matrix etc

·               Published many White Papers in SAP SDN

·               Domain expertise in Warehouse Management, Inventory Management, Budgeting and costing  and Procurement

·               Graduate Mechanical Engineer from BMS College of Engineering in First Class with Distinction from Bangalore University

·               Excellent communication, problem solving & analytical skills, and efficient team player and team lead

 

 

SAP Experience

 

Company profile:

L&T Infotech is one of the leading software development organizations, a division of Larsen & Toubro.

Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) is one of Asia’s largest Technology, Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing conglomerates. Their key businesses include Engineering & Construction, Heavy Engineering, Electric & Electronics, Machinery & Industrial products and IT & Engineering services.

Engineering & Construction (E&C) division is the biggest segment in Larsen & Toubro’s business portfolio. E&C carries out turnkey projects in core industry sectors globally.

 

Project Summary:-

Si No	Project	Client	Role	Location	Period	Duration
1	P2P transformation and Sourcing Roadmap 2020	P&G, USA	Solution Architect/ Project Lead	Geneva/ Cincinnati	March 2013 to till date	3yrs
2	ECC 6.0 Implementation and Rollout	Ingram Micro Inc	Business process expert P2P (MM/IM) & WM	Santa Ana, CA, USA	Jan 2011 to Feb 2013	2+ yrs
3	ECC 6.0 Implementation	Indian Railway	Module Lead P2P (MM/IM) & WM	New Delhi, India	March 2010 to Dec 2010	1yr
4	ECC 6.0 Implementation	Larsen & Toubro Ltd	Team Lead P2P (MM/IM) & WM	Mumbai, India	Nov 2009 to March 2010	5 months
5	SAHL Rollout	Saudi Aramco	Team Lead P2P (MM/IM)	Khobar, Saudi Arabia	Jan 2009 to Oct 2009	1Yr
6	ECC 4.6 Rollout	Chevron Corporation	Solution Consultant P2P (MM/IM)	Manila, Philiphines	Oct 2007 to Dec 2008	1+ yr
7	Implementation	EK Kanoo	Core team Member P2P(MM/IM) & WM	Manama, Bahrain	Jan 2006 to Dec 2006	1 yr

 

Project Details:-

 

Project: Multiple Sourcing projects- Coupa Implementation for indirect spend, Ariba Evaluation for direct spend, S4Hana discovery, Robotics process automation, Credit Digitization, Contract lifecycle management, Price Management, Cost Saving tracker

Role: Solution Architect / Project Lead Sourcing, P2P (MM/IM)

 

Company profile: Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500, American MNC, which manufactures a wide range of consumer goods. P&G's operations are categorized into 3 Global Business Units which include Beauty Care, Household Care and Health & Well-Being.

Project Profile: Strategic initiative to standardize sourcing business process to align with organizational IT vision 2020. Simplify Standardize and Automate Contracting, Price management and Credit management process.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Identifying opportunities for business process simplication and automation (Robotics Process Automation) with GPOs and LPOs

·               Business processes modelling using a variety of tools and techniques (DOORs) and conducting Design thinking workshops of global user

·               Assessing the potential benefit to the organisation of specific technologies, products, methods and techniques. Investigating these in detail, recognising further avenues of research and identifing early users

·               Liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and technology constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and work flow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery

·               Research, development or testing of new products/Solution which are of interest to the organization

·               Responsible for the preparation of ROM/Financial Estimates for the provision of products and/or services in accordance with organisation's Policies and procedures

·               Planing detailed level requirement, highlevel design and collaborating with third party Vendors/Service providers to deliver the solution

·               Lead the project and Work closely with selected vendor to ensure transition of requirement, evaluate and Signoff requirement and design

·               Ensuring project is in right track throughout the lifecycle, Testing and ensuring delivery meets the requirement and design

·               Lead BAT

·               Work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus

·               Working on multiple projects in solutioning and guiding delivery team in ensuring business requirements are correctly addressed by project team in line with IT Visison

·               Business process mapping and system configuration and POC of Rebate Management, Advanced Returns

 

 

Significant achievements:

·               Reduced credit resolution and recovery period from average 192days to 20-35days

·               Eliminated unsolicited credit of USD 150 MM per year by setting Process standard

·               Reduced 7FTEs globally from credit organization with Robotics Process Automation

·               Reduced 12FTEs globally in sourcing organization by simplified contract management process and Robotics process automation

·               Solution highlight would be Responsive UI, Mobile First approach, BPM Workflow and BRM & BRF+ rules engine

·               Involved in AS-IS study, the blue printing of business processes, configuration, realization and Testing

 

 

Project:Project IMG - ECC 6.0 Implementation

Role:Lead Consultant – P2P (MM/IM) & WM

 

Company profile:

Ingram Micro, USA world’s largest technology distributor & a leading technology Sales, Marketing & Logistics Company. This fortune 100 company distributes and markets IT products from computer hardware suppliers, networking equipment suppliers, and software publishers.

 

Project Profile:

This project is implementation and rollout of SAP ECC 6.0. Project scope includes rollout of Global template all the countries.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Business Process owner for global templates, Purchasing, Consignment Procurement and Reverse Logistics and Warehouse Management. Mapping business process, conducting workshop and designing the global template

·               Custom application development in SAP for business processes to operate through user friendly screens and workbenches

·               Seamless integration of Third-party warehouse management system, with SAP and vendor ERP system for RMA process using TIBCO and Seaburger

·               Business process study by interaction with the core team members and end-users

·               Involved in AS-IS study, the blue printing of business processes, configuration, realization and Testing

·               Supporting Local wave teams for rollout and FIT/GAP analysis.

·               Development of Interface with legacy system DBL and Excel upload with TIBCO and Seeburger

·               Co-ordination with technical team for application development as per the Business Requirement

·               Involving in Training of client’s Project Team members and users

·               Business process mapping and system configuration of consignment, Procurement and Vendor master

 

 

Project:Project ROAMS (FMMLMS) - ECC 6.0 Implementation

Role:P2P Lead responsible for providing solutions MM/IM/WM

 

Company profile:

Indian Railways is the one of the largest Public Sector Undertakings under the aegis of Government of India. It ranks as one of the busiest rail networks in the world, transporting over 18 million passengers and 3.0 Million Metric Tonnes of freight daily. It is one of the world's largest commercial or utility employers, with more than 1.5 million employees. Diesel locomotive sheds are the front line units for the maintenance of diesel locomotives that run on 24x7 basis.             

 

Project Profile:

This project is implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 in Locomotive Sheds and Wagon Depots. The scope includes high end integration of Smart Cameras, Kiosks, PDA, RFID, E-pen and portal.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Mapping business process and designing the application to operate through user friendly KIOSK, PDA, RFID and E-PEN

·               Custom application development in SAP for business processes to operate through user friendly screens

·               Business process study by interaction with the core team members and end-users

·               Involved in AS-IS study, the blue printing of business processes, configuration, realization and Testing

·               Development of Interface with legacy system MMIS (Material master information system)

·               Co-ordination with technical team for application development as per the Business Requirement

·               Involving in Training of client’s Project Team members and users

·               Business process mapping of Procurement, Inventory management, Stock transfer, warehouse management and master data

·               Base line settings carried out like configuration of Plant, Purchase Organization, material type, Global setting of UOM, Purchasing group, Payment Terms, Payment Methods,  Date Formats, Factory Calendar, storage location, material group.

·               Configuration Automatic Account determination for Logistics transaction.

·               Assignment of number ranges to material master, vendor master, material document, purchase orders and purchase requisition.

 

Project:Project PRISM - ECC 6.0 Implementation

Role:P2P(MM/IM) Lead responsible for providing solutions in Material/Service codification application

 

Company profile:

Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) is one of Asia’s largest Technology, Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing conglomerates. Their key businesses include Engineering & Construction, Heavy Engineering, Electric & Electronics, Machinery & Industrial products and IT & Engineering services.

Engineering & Construction (E&C) division is the biggest segment in Larsen & Toubro’s business portfolio. E&C carries out turnkey projects in core industry sectors globally.

 

Scope of this project included implementation of ECC6.0 along with BI7.0 and Portal in MFF business unit in the E&C division. Portal based new application is developed to generate unique material / Service code based on the selection parameters.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Leading a team in the design, development, training and post go live support.

·               Configuration of variant  - class and characters for code generation

·               Functional assistance in development of portal based application.

·               End user training, training evaluation and training documentation

·               Cutover strategy planning to meet the project milestone and post go live hyper care support.

 

Project:Project SAHL - ECC 6.0 Implementation - Rollout

Role:P2P (MM/IM) Consultant responsible for providing solutions in P2P process

 

Company profile:

Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia is the leading oil corporation in the world and has the largest crude oil reserves and production. Saudi Aramco also operates the world’s largest single hydrocarbon network, the master gas system.

 

Saudi Aramco Health care link (SAHL) is an internet accessible ARAMCO application developed on SAP that links all contracted medical facilities over the kingdom with Saudi Aramco Health care system to process Aramco patient’s information, approval and billing. SAHL is rolled out in 24 locations in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Base line settings carried out like configuration of Plant, new material type, Purchasing group, currency, Date Formats, Factory Calendar, storage location, material group, Global setting of UOM

·               Assignment of number ranges for material document, purchase orders, purchase requisition and contracts.

·               Master data set up like vendor master data, Material Master.

·               Identifying the SAHL configuration requirement for MDF and preparing configuration document

·               Understanding the local business process at contracted medical facilities and mapping the process feasible to SAHL

·               Effectively handling the user resistance and Change management issues at MDF

·               Assessing the training requirements at MDF and preparing the training strategies.

·               End user training, training evaluation and training documentation

·               Cutover strategy planning to meet the project milestone and post go live hyper care support.

 

Project:Internal Training

Role:MII Consultant

 

Company profile:

L&T Infotech is one of the leading software development organization, a division of Larsen & Toubro.

 

The scope of the training included subject overview training and working on a POC for simulation of business processes for Procurement and Production Planning.

 

Responsibilities:

·               POC for Material Inventory Dashboard (real time goods receipt / goods issue auto update report which fetches material data and shows in graphical view along with restricted vs non-restricted stock pie chart)

·               Solution of Purchase Order (PO) based on material and percentage of completion on selection of PO (Shows real time completion quantity from a OPC simulator)

·               Created SPC chart with simulator data

 

 

Project:Project Olympic - ECC 4.7 Implementation - Rollout

Role:P2P(MM/IM) Consultant responsible for providing solutions in P2P process 

Company profile:

Chevron Corporation, USA is world’s fourth largest non-government energy company. Chevron is engaged in every aspect of the oil & gas industry, including exploration, production, Refining, Marketing and Transport; chemicals manufacturing & sales; and power generation.

 

Project Olympic is one of the largest GLOBAL CLIENT implementation project, The scope of this project included Implementation of “SAP Global Client” in 19 countries

 

Responsibilities:

·               Base line settings carried out like configuration of Plant, Purchase Organization, material type, Global setting of UOM, Purchasing group, currency, Payment Terms, Payment Methods,  Date Formats, Factory Calendar, storage location, material group.

·               Creation of new condition types and adds it to purchasing calculation schema.

·               Configuration Automatic Account determination for Logistics transaction.

·               Assignment of number ranges for material document, purchase orders and purchase requisition.

·               Vendor Auto load, a web based tool configuration for vendor creation/Change request and approval process.

·               Functional assistance in configuring ALE – Master data distribution model

·               Functional assistance in configuring Workflow settings with technical team

·               Lead Role in Master Data team for conversion and migration activities.

·               Coordination with the business users to ensure the effective data migration from legacy system to meet the requirement of all the business interfaces.

·               Validation of the data to meet SOX compliance pre loading and post loading.

·               Building Test script for Unit testing, Business process Integration testing and Localization testing to ensure all the business process are tested prior project GO-LIVE

·               Remediation of all the issues/defects created during Testing using defect tracking tool MERCURY

·               Training the trainer and end user.

 

Functional Experience

 

Company profile:

EK Kanoo BSC is the leading exclusive automobile distributor in Kingdom of Bahrain for Toyota, Lexus, Volvo and Citroen. Kanoo Automotive Equipment is division of EK Kanoo BSC dealing with garage Equipment.

 

Role: Core team member Implementation - Senior Logistics Executive

 

Responsibilities:

·               Independently handling Planning, Procurement (IMPORT & Domestic), Warehouse Management and after sales service of Garage Equipments.

·               Inventory Management from receipt to issue of Garage Equipments, this involves defining part master, maintaining on hand balance, planning inventory replenishment, cost estimation and vendor returns.

·               Co-ordination with sales team for Order Management which is scheduling delivery and installation, and effectively maintaining install base for warranty and extended warranty service.

·               Handling customer complaints, investigation of root causes and suggesting and implementing corrective action.

·               Worked as coordinator for MM,IM and WM business process for implementing ERP in the organization

 

 

 

Company profile:

ALBA is the largest modern aluminum smelter in the world having production capacity of more than 830,000 tons per annum. The company has won number prestigious awards.

SMC is UK based company, one of the leading manpower outsourcing company supplying the manpower to many government and corporate clients in GCC.

 

Role: Logistics Executive

 

Responsibilities:

·               Procurement of Engineering Materials, Raw Materials and special purpose tools, Inventory management and Vendor development

·               Maintaining relationship with vendors to deliver the material on time as per schedule

·               Maintaining monthly material consumption report

·               Consolidating the Export delivery schedule for effective EOQ

·               Verifying and preparing monthly stock report

·               Releasing purchase requisition as per requirement and raising purchase orders for approved PR

 

 

Company profile:

dC Auto Parts (P) Ltd is Group Company of ALCEL GmbH Germany. The company manufactures engine valve guides and exports predominantly to Germany.

 

Role: Logistics Engineer

 

Responsibilities:-

·               Ensuring all the production is done as per the approved control plans and engineering drawings.

·               Raw material planning for the Month considering the production plan.

·               Monitoring Inventory continuously to keep optimum level of inventory

·               Carry out ABC analysis to track the inventory

·               Finalizing the process flow for parts and assembly

·               Selection and development of vendors for various parts of Conveyors.

·               Machinery Maintenance planning to avoid breakdown and to meet ISO requirement.

·               Analyze, document and implement corrections for process failures.