Candidates About

                 

               Ranjith Kumar                                                                          

Had 5+ Years of experience in SAP SD, Order to Cash(OTC) and Logistics Execution(LE) which includes 2 full life cycle implementations and 3 Support projects in the configuration, customizing and delivery of cost-effective and high-performance technology solutions to meet challenging business demands. 

OBJECTIVE

I believe in strong value system, total solution & commitment is what I strive to provide my clients & perform my service with professionalism. I wish to always remain expert in ERP field & my values help me attain my goals of being the most valued Consultant.

PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT

v Had 5+ years of experience in SAP as SAP-SD FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT with sound knowledge of business processes.

v Proficient in Sales & Marketing activities ensuring wider market reach & penetration of unexplored market segments. Proactive leader in devising strategic business plans for the achievement of organisational objectives.

v Expertise in identifying customers needs, establishing business concepts, optimizing resources for enhancing operational efficiency.

v Insightful knowledge of SAP (SD) entailing business process analysis and design, GAP analysis, integration with other modules etc.

v Deft in imparting training to corporate on SAP-SD. Well versed with integration of MM, PP & FI/CO modules.

v An effective communicator with skills in devising & implementing innovative strategies & contributing towards positive growth of the company. 

v Successfully contributed my knowledge towards completing the projects in time with desired results.

 

SAP SD SKILLS

 

v  Involved in full life cycle end to end implementations and support projects of SAP R/3.

v  Understanding business process, study and analyse workflow. 

v  Conducting gap analysis, assess scope of studies & suggest solutions through ERP.

v  Handling configuration of various documents, order type, delivery type, item category, and billing type.

v  Worked on Transportation, Route Management and determination (LE).

v  Integration with FI, MM, PP& CO modules, integration / unit testing, End users training, Post Go-live support.

v  Defining SD organizational units and assigning them in customizing.

v  Creating master data for customers, materials, CMIR (customer –material info record) and condition master.

v  SD Process: Category (creating sales documents. Controlling them using document type in IMG. Item determination) item level.

v  Excellent in various Business Processes like OTC, Third party, IPO, MTO, STO, Intercompany STO and Consignment Process.

v  Schedule line category at schedule line level

v  Shipping process: From delivery to PGI.

v  Extensively worked on EDI IDOC (inbound, outbound, mapping with third party logistics service providers’ WM system, message type, segment extension, IDoc monitoring, posting)/ ALE(distribution model maintenance, logical system, ports, partner profiles. Manipulated data in Idocs, Analyzed and Solved Idoc errors.          

v  As per the Client requirements customization done in Copy Controls.

v  Worked on Credit management and Availability Check.

v  Billing process: billing types and various Functions (e.g.: credit/debit memos, Returns,  cancellation)

v  Pricing: Using condition technique i.e.: Procedure, condition types, access sequence, condition tables and condition records, pricing procedure determination.

v  Knowledge on formula based of CIN configurations like factory sales, depot sales, exports and deemed exports.

v  Good analytical, problem solving, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, written and verbal-business writing skills.

 

 

SAP WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Client – RIECO Industries Ltd, Mumbai, India

                                                                                                                (Aug-2014  to  July-2015)

 

Role – SAP SD/OTC/LE Functional Consultant

(Production Support SAP R/3 ECC 6.0)

Client Profile:

RIECO Industries Ltd. Established in 1975, RIECO Industries Ltd is the spearheading company out of the group of 7 companies. RIECO has been a pioneering name in the field of Air Pollution Control and specializes in the engineering and design, manufacturing and erection, installation and commissioning of nuisance Bag filters, Bag houses and entire dusting systems, Electrostatic precipitators and Scrubber systems. And SREs covers a range of products from Air Classifying Mills (ACMs), Universal Mills, Micropulverizers, Cutters and Crushers.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø  Resolving the day to day problems of users, customer satisfaction as a top priority.

Ø  Analyze the issues, searching for the root causes & solve the issues.

Ø  Interaction with the client for process clarification.

Ø  Worked on issues relating to Sales Order processing, delivery, billing, Item Categories, Schedule Lines, Copying Control, Number Ranges, Account determination & Availability check.

Ø  Support activities include new configuration & modification of existing configuration as per the requirement.

Ø  Analyze technical modifications to SAP Idoc processing to determine best  use of user exits and  customizations.

Ø  Resolution of EDI/IDOC for the inbound and outbound interfaces.

Ø  Monitored all inbound and outbound EDI transaction processing. Analyzed, identified and tracked all exceptions and errors processing.

Ø  Provide guidance to the user to solve user generated errors.

Ø  SD/LE Consultant with emphasis on enhancements and production support and worked on Logistics Execution (LE) configurations for Shipping, Picking, Packing and Delivery Scheduling.

Ø  Configured  new LE functionality to handle, Transportation Planning Points, Shipment Types (Inbound and Outbound Deliveries), Shipment Cost Documents, Shipment Cost Pricing, and Shipment Cost Settlement including automatic Account Determination.

Ø  Provided consulting to MM and FICO consultants for resolving LE issues from Transportation Planning configuration to Shipment Cost Settlement process.

Ø  Worked as a Key member in SD configuration for Order management, Pricing and Credit Management.

Ø  Resolved  issues regarding sales, delivery, shipment, billing, pricing, credit management and Output determination.

Ø  Configured  Standard Automatic Functions during Sales Order Processing like Pricing, ATP,Transfer of Requirements, Inter-company Sales Orders and Invoicing.

Ø  SD integration with MM in Material Requirement Planning related to Available to Promise (ATP) and Product Allocation.

Ø  Maintained  SD revenue account determination, created new master data for customer account group and material account group.

Ø  Configured  Sales Document Types, Item Categories, and Schedule line categories, account group assignments for Inquiries, Quotations.

Ø  Pricing control issues involved pricing procedure determination, pricing error.

Ø  Configured  the settings for SD, the availability check against product allocation to ensure that the actual requirements are compared to the planning product allocation through the full allocation stage/period.

Ø  Configured all Text Types and Partner Functions as required to handle the Order-to-Cash process.

Ø  Worked on Standard reporting tools, updated the existing process documents, Validated test scenarios and created ASAP test documents for end user testing.

Ø  Participated on weekly status meeting with management.

 

Client: Steer Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, India

                                                                                                                      (Jun’13– July’14)

 

Role: SD/OTC Consultant

(Full Life Cycle implementation ECC 6.0)

Client Profile:

The STEER pharmaceutical industry is a group of commercial enterprises engaged in discovery, manufacture and sale of drugs. The industry plays a central role in public health. It produces a steady stream of medicines needed to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases. STEER’s pharmaceutical extruder is robust and can be used to manufacture granules, pellets, immediate and modified release tablets, transdermal and bioadhesive films and implantable reservoir devices.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø  As a SD Consultant with the live implementation core team.

Ø  Participated  in the full life cycle implementation of the project including blue-printing, requirements gathering, configuration, enhancements and testing.

Ø  Configured the baseline configuration of the Organization structure and prepared documentation.

Ø  Review, Analyze and Evaluate business system and user needs. Responsible to Design, Configure, Test and arrange release of developments for SD module.

Ø  Study of the company's structure and documentation and participating in workshops to give final shape to the Business Blueprint.

Ø  Work with project team with regards to functional specifications, configuration, and quality assurance scripting. Prepared high level and low level functional specification documents for the business processes.

Ø  Prepared  the detailed document of AS-IS study, Prepared TO-BE documents after studying the business process of the client and performed GAP analysis.

Ø  Pricing control configuration involves setting up different pricing procedures using condition technique and assigning them to sales area.

Ø  Defining and Assigning the Enterprise Structure for SD including Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, Divisions, Sales Offices, Sales areas.

Ø  Configured Customer master, Material master and CMIR data.

Ø  Configured Partner Functions and Partner Determination Procedure for Customer Master.

Ø  Develop detailed cutover task plan for EDI and ALE implementation.

Ø  Analyze technical modifications to SAP Idoc processing to determine best  use of user exits and  customizations.

Ø  Resolution of EDI/IDOC for the inbound and outbound interfaces.

Ø  Monitored all inbound and outbound EDI transaction processing. Analyzed, identified and tracked all exceptions and errors processing.

Ø  Test and document transactions from EDI through translation to IDoc posting in SAP, inbound and outbound.

Ø  Worked on Sales docs and Item category, schedule line determinations.

Ø  Configured the Availability Check with ATP by defining checking groups, checking rules for availability check in sales orders and deliveries and defined Material block for other users.

Ø  Configured Pricing Procedure, and defined pricing scales based on the requirement.

Ø  Worked extensively on Batch Management that includes batch determination, batch split, batch classification and batch strategies.

Ø  Monitoring of the batch jobs that are reschedule and issues related to reports that are not generated as per user’s expectation.

Ø  Configured automatic batch management and Revenue, Reconciliation account determinations.

Ø  Configuration  of various Account Groups as per customer classification, and defined partner functions, Maintaining Partner Determination Procedures in various objects such as Customer Masters, Sales Document Header & Item, delivery, billing docs etc.

Ø  Configured custom order types, OTC (Order to Cash) related delivery and billing type for a specific material characteristic billing variant configuration and Multi level BOM.

Ø  Integration  with FICO including revenue account determination, new account keys, and configuration of credit management and set up the credit authorization process.

Ø  Extensively involved in Order to Cash implementation.

Ø  Configured the Credit Management through setting up of Credit Control Area and automated Credit Control Checks.

Ø  Worked on Order management, Consignment process and Third party processes.

Ø  Configured credit, Invoice correction request and debit memo processes.

Ø  Good exposure with MM and FI Modules.

Ø  Provided Post Go-Live support and end user training.

Ø  Performed Unit/Integration testing of various transactions of the SD module.

Ø  Worked  with ABAP programmers in enhancement work for pricing and output determination over standard SAP configuration using communication structures

Ø  Worked with User-exits and provided valuable inputs in designing customized reports.

 

Client: Jost’s Engineering Company Ltd, Pune, India

                                                                                                                    (Jan’12– May’13)

 

Role: Associate SD Consultant

(Full Life Cycle Implementation & Production Support ECC 6.0)

Client Profile:

Jost’s has been partnering growth over a range of business verticals across India for over a hundred years now. Driven by our vision of being at the forefront of India's industrial

development, we help empower Indian industries with cutting edge technology in our chosen business areas - material handling, industrial finishing and engineered products. Today, our track record of many engineering firsts and pioneering breakthroughs, and a slew of national and international performance awards, is ample testimony to the continuing excellence of our endeavors.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø  Involved  in several project phases such as business requirements, developing business process procedures, design specifications, configurations, testing and go live.

Ø  Preparing  Business Blue Print Documentation for Sales Orders, Delivery and Billing Processing.

Ø  Completed  AS-IS process mapping for Sales and Distribution Processes. Finalization of TO-BE processes based on recommendation.

Ø  Involved in Business Process Management and Gap analysis.

Ø  Participated  in the Functional/Technical team meetings during the Project preparation, blueprinting/design, realization, and testing and cutover phases.

Ø  Definition and Assignment of Enterprises Structures like the Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, Division, etc.

Ø  Configured the settings for SD, the availability check against product allocation to ensure that the actual requirements are compared to the planning product allocation through the full allocation stage/period.

Ø  Master data uploads includes customer master, condition record for pricing and route determination updating using LSMW.

Ø  Coordinated with Test Analysts to develop Testing scenarios, UAT, Functional Testing, Regression testing, and Interface Testing.

Ø  Resolved issues raised by the end users after analyzing and discussing the issue with and upon approval from them.

Ø  Monitored all inbound and outbound EDI transaction processing. Analyzed, identified and tracked all exceptions and errors processing.

Ø  Communicating with team leadership regarding status and impact of issues.

Ø  Documented the User manuals and Configuration docs and Issues resolution docs.

Ø  Extensively worked on Order-to-cash management, Availability check, and Transfer of requirements (TOR).

Ø  Test and document transactions from EDI through translation to IDoc posting in SAP, inbound and outbound.

Ø  Configured the Pricing Procedure to setup a ‘minimum order value discount’, for specific document types and a group of customers and customer material combination

Ø  Worked on ALE and I-Docs.

Ø  Configured Sales Document Types, Item Category Group, Item Categories, ATP, Schedule Lines, Billing Types, and Copy Control for sales documents.

Ø  Worked on Credit management, credit control, credit group for customer, automatic and dynamic credit checking.

Ø  Configured Standard Automatic Functions during Sales Order Processing like Pricing, ATP, Transfer of Requirements, Inter-company Sales Orders and Invoicing.

Ø  Worked in pricing area of setting up a new condition type, condition exclusion, calculation type and routines as per business requirement.

Ø  Worked on Special processes like Third Party transactions, Rush Orders, Cash Sales and Consignments.

Ø  Worked closely with technical and functional consultants of other modules to resolve cross - functional issues.

Ø  Resolved issues regarding sales, delivery, shipment, billing, pricing, credit management and Output determination.

Ø  SD integration with MM in Material Requirement Planning related to Available to Promise (ATP) and Product Allocation.

Ø  Worked  with Infrastructure team for verifying and scheduling background job and worked closely with ABAP team through development and testing of SD reports.

Ø  Provide guidance to the user to solve user generated errors.

Ø  Worked on SD issues relating to pricing, document types, copy control & intercompany sale.

Ø  Responsible for Documentation for change request on solution provided for operational issue or any enhancement.

Ø  Involved in Credit management, output determination issues.

 

Client : Nike, Inc    Bangalore,India                                                (Jun 2010- Dec 2011)                                                                                                  

 Role : Associate SAP SD/AFS Consultant                                                                                                                                     (Production support SAP R/3 4.7)

Client Profile:

Nike, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and worldwide marketing and selling of footwear, apparel, sports equipment, accessories and services.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø  Analyzing the problem to provide solutions to the user generated error and incidents. Resolved tickets and worked with business users and developers to solve the issues.

Ø  Resolving the day to day problems of users, customer satisfaction as a top priority.

Ø  Analyze the issues, searching for the root causes & solve the issues.

Ø  Interaction with the client for process clarification.

Ø  Configured Customer Master, Customer Material Information Records, and Condition Records.

Ø  Involved in configuration of additional requirement in output determination and text determination procedures.

Ø  Apparel and footwear (AFS) business process: Third party order, and order to cash process for rush order, stock order, contracts and Returns.

Ø  Worked on copy control routines for carrying out necessary data to populate from sales document to delivery and billing.

Ø  Worked on the design documents for Drop ship process, Event Planner and Resolved all the open issues related to SD- LE and supply chain management.

Ø  Carried out Configuration of Inter Company Transfer billing and resolving the issues related  to Stock Transfer Orders.

Ø  Configured new LE functionality to handle, Transportation Planning Points, Shipment Types (Inbound and Outbound Deliveries), Shipment Cost Documents, Shipment Cost Pricing, and Shipment Cost Settlement including automatic Account Determination.

Ø  Issues related to delivery processing, automatic batch determination and shipping point determination.

Ø  Monitored all inbound and outbound EDI transaction processing. Analyzed, identified and tracked all exceptions and errors processing.

Ø  Test and document transactions from EDI through translation to IDoc posting in SAP, inbound and outbound.

Ø  Order management issues involved standard orders, rush orders, contract,credit memos, debit memos.

Ø  Issues related to configuration of availability check with ATP logic.

Ø  Pricing issues involved pricing procedure determination, access sequence maintenance and condition record.

Ø  Worked on configuring material pricing group, customer hierarchy and product hierarchy.

Ø  Configuration of Route and maintaining the Route determination. 

Ø  Configured the Material determination, Cross selling and Item proposal in SD.

Ø  Worked on revenue account determinations and maintaining account keys for different condition types.

Ø  Customized Contracts and configured contract related business process.

Ø  Worked with ABAP team in enhancement issues in sales order and billing.

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

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