Candidates About

 

       M. Prema                                                                           

                                                                                                   

Government of India Certified professional for EXIM                                     

SAP SD Certified Consultant                                                                                                      

SAP India Trained GTS Consultant

ü  Total 12 years of experience in Sales, Business Development, SAP consulting as well as Team Management with different organizations.

ü  8 years of SAP experience which includes 6 years of experience in GTS, Sales & Distribution module.

ü  Good Exposure in working in RFP’s for Cognizant in GTS module recently engaged in a Dubai Based petrochemical company for GTS rollout project.

ü  Good Experience in Customs Management, Compliance Management processes.

ü  Good Business Knowledge in Global Trade Practices.

ü  Government of India trained and certified professional for Export and Import business processes.

 

ü  Solely Responsible for Building GTS competency in the Organizations i am working with.

ü  Conducted Numerous Trainings for handpicked Consultants with Foreign Trade Background SD & MM and trained and placed them in GTS Projects successfully.

ü  Experience in working with Middle ware systems – Tibco, Liaison, BizTalk systems

ü  Experience in working with EDI – Signals in OtC process 850 (order Creation), 855 (Order Ack), 856 (ASN).

ü  Experience in working with GTS Customs Declaration EDI signals – Customs Declaration and Ack back from Customs Authority.

ü  2 years End User Experience in Pepsi.

ü  Exposure in working with Global Trade Practices across the different Foreign Trade Zones in APAC, EMEA, Americas.

ü  Member of Internal SOX Audit Group in CSC.

ü  Participated in project quality initiatives – ISO 20K.

 

Senior Associate                                                                                                                 Oct 2011 – June 2015                                                                                                   

Cognizant Technologies, Chennai                                                                              

 

Senior Consultant, SAP SD                                                                                                Apr 2010 – Oct 2011

    HCL, Chennai

 

Business Consultant, SAP SD                                                                                      Mar 2007 – Mar 2010

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Chennai

 

 

Business Development Manager                                                                                 Feb 2004 - Sep 2006

Pepsi

 

Business Development Mangaer                                                                                 Aug 2000 - Oct 2003

Belgan Technology (P) Ltd,

 

 

Masters of Business Administration (MBA), 1998 - 2000

 

University: Barathidasan, Tiruchirappalli, India

Specialization: Marketing (Full Time)

 

Bachelors Degree in Arts (BA), 1994 - June 1998

 

University: Bharathidasan, Tiruchirappalli, India

Specialization: English (Full Time)

 

 

·         SAP R/3 Modules     :   Sales and Distribution (SD)

SAP Certification     :   mySAP Supply Chain Management - Order Fulfilment  

Siemens Information Systems Ltd., (SISL) Chennai, - August Batch (2006)

 

·         SAP GTS Training – Conducted by SAP India – Bangalore Apr (2013)

 

·         Government of India Certified Professional for – Export and Import Processing –

           March (2014)

 

·         Asset – Advanced Systems and Software Engineering Training Certified by CSC (2009)

 

• Experience in handling SAP Business users across globally APAC, EMEA, US
• Good Exposure in working with Global Trade Services Customs and Compliance Management.
• SPL screening – Customer, Vendor, Employee Screening functions – Working with MK Denial service provider.
• Embargo checks.
• Studying the client’s Global trade practices and perform the enhancements in SAP GTS System in line with any changes to the Compliance regulatory changes for the Legal Units.
• Analyze customer requirement and recommending the best practices.
• Exposure in handling customs communication EDI for GTS Modules in SAP.
• Good Exposure in EDI transmission in Inbound and Outbound Idocs 850, 855,856 signals and GTS Customs Inbound and Outbound IDocs.
• Good exposure in Customs Handling in GTS – Import and Export Declarations.
• Rick Experience in handling Interfaces, worked on EDI - Cross walk mappings with TIBCO and Liason Teams.

·         Experience in handling Global Trade Services (GTS) module, in line with US Commerce export compliance.

• Worked with middleware interfaces ­ - TIBCO,Biztalk, Liason systems for ECC and GTS Interfaces – MK Denial

Cognizant  Technologies                                                                                          

Project # 1                                                                                                            June  2015

Microsoft

 

^{Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. It is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world's most valuable companies.}

Client: Microsoft

Geography covered: North America

Modules: GTS (Global Trade Services)

 

Responsibilities:

·         Conducted the Technical interview for GTS and building a core team of GTS Module for Microsoft.

·         Primary point of contact and Lead for GTS Module.

·         Successful demo to client on GTS customs and TM Module interface

·         Presented various demo for GTS Customs and Compliance

·         Good Client handling skills.

 

Project # 2                                                                                                    Mar 2014 – Mar 2015

Sanofi

^{Sanofi US is a leading global healthcare company that discovers, develops, produces and markets innovative therapies to help protect health and enhance people's lives. Along with the other U.S. affiliates, Genzyme, Sanofi Pasteur, Merial and Chattem. It works to prevent and treat the diseases of today, as well as those we may face tomorrow. Sanofi US, with headquarters in Bridgewater, New Jersey, employs more than 16,900 professionals throughout the country.Ranking 5th Largest company in world for prescription sales.}

Role: Senior Associate - SAP

Client : Sanofi

Geography covered: North America, APAC, EMEA

Modules: SD + GTS (Global Trade Services)

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Primary point of contact and Lead for GTS Module for our new client Sanofi.

·         Sanofi has global presence in pharmaceutical space and has GTS (global trade services).

·         Good Client handling skills.

·         Client interactions, presentations for various topics in GTS and in SD.

·         Interfaces with Global Trade Team, Compliance Team, AES, – MK Denial (SPL Check), Embargo and Licence management. Good working knowledge of Customs Declaration, Export and Import scenarios with AES.

·         Handled Training sessions for Global services team users on Customs Management

·         SPL Data Archival

·         Working with Middle wares and Broker Interface See burger for customs filing and receive the acknowledgement back from them.

Project # 3                                                                                                  Oct 2011 – Feb 2014

 

Merck

^{Merck & Co., Inc. is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Merck headquarters is currently located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. The company was established in 1891 as the United States subsidiary. It is currently one of the world's seven largest pharmaceutical companies by market capitalization and revenue.}

Role: Senior Associate - SAP

Client : Merck

Geography covered: Americas, EMEA, and APAC

Modules: OTC + EDI + GTS (Global Trade Services)

 

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Merck has global presence in pharmaceutical space and has GTS (global trade services). Interfaces with Global Trade Team, Compliance Team, AES, – MK Denial (SPL Check), Embargo and Licence management. Good working knowledge of Customs Declaration, Export and Import scenarios with AES.

·         Worked on the outputs to Customs Authority – Commercial Invoice, Packing Slips and other Outputs to Customs.

·         Handling Major and Minor enhancements in the live system on OTC D&L , EDI and GTS spheres.

·         Rick experience on working with integration teams like TIBCO and Liason systems.

·         Work on Enhancement projects, initiating change management processes.

·         Worked with various functional groups to optimize the tasks & activities carried out in Sales, Delivery and Billing Processes.

·         Good exposure in handling various EDI signals - Inbound and Outbound signals to GTS Customs Management

·         Experience in handling Global Trade Services (GTS) module for Sales and Delivery validations in line with US Commerce export compliance.

·         Good Experience in working with the Global Compliance Team and Global Business Team for the issues related to SPL, Embargo Checks complained with Sox processes.

·         Good Exposure to Compliance Management, Customs Management and AES interactions.

·         Conducted numerous training in GTS to build GTS Competency for the Organization.

 

HCL Technologies                                                                                            Apr 2010 – Oct 2011

Project # 1

Modus Link

^{ModusLink Global Solutions, Inc is a leader in executing value chain strategies to drive the supply chain, aftermarket and e-Business processes of the world’s largest technology and consumer goods companies. ModusLink’s profit-optimized, sustainably designed value chains can maximize your cost, time-to-market, customer satisfaction and revenue objectives. They have global footprint of more than 25 solution centers in 14 countries with the complete range of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), financial and account management services — and seamless integration with the full scope of supply chain activities.}

Role: Senior Consultant

Project: Modus Link

Geography covered: Americas, EMEA, and APAC

Modules: SD + EDI + GTS (Global Trade Services)

 

Responsibilities:

 

 

·         Ensure Production support in Offshore operations.

·         Handling Production support incidents on SD, EDI and GTS spheres.

·         Worked with different business users across geographies Americas, EMEA and APAC.

·         Prioritizing and performing analysis and resolution of the incidents on daily basis.

·         Worked with various functional groups to optimize the tasks & activities carried out in Sales, Delivery and Billing Processes.

·         Good exposure in handling various EDI signals - Inbound and Outbound signals in SD, MM, FI application Idocs.

·         Experience in handling Global Trade Services (GTS) module for Sales and Delivery validations in line with US Commerce export compliance.

·         Worked on Compliance Management.

·         Participated in project quality initiatives - ISO 20K.

 

Computer Science Corporation                                                           Mar 2007 – Mar 2010

Project # 1                                                                                   

Application Technology Support Group (ATS) – India and US Business units

 

Role: Business Consultant

Project: Implementation & Support

Modules: SD, MM, HR and FI

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·    Implemented the Business processes in SAP System.

·    Interaction with Business Users/ Owners India and US Business Units.

·    Understanding the new Business requirements and mapping in SAP System.

·    Preparing Functional Specs, Impact analysis, customization, creating Test Cases & sign offs.

·    Coordination of all related activities concerned to SD Module like legacy data, interfacing SAP.

·    To make functional specifications for the ABAP developments required.

·    Coordinate with the Technical Consultant while development and testing of requirement.

·    Creation of Unit / Final Integration Test Scripts.

·    Integration with other modules such as MM, HR and FICO.

·    Member of SOX audit group in CSC and responsible for Internal Audit.

·    Handled the tickets raised in the tool “REMEDY” with regards to SAP Production issues.

·    Conceptual knowledge in Basis –Jobs, Authorization objects, Roles and User Profile.

 

Project # 2

 

First Consulting Group (FCG)

 

Role: Business Consultant

Project: Rollout & Support

Modules: SD, MM, HR and FI

 

Responsibilities:

§  To configure, test and rollout SAP R/3 for First Consulting Group.

§  Understand the new sales and distribution processes for the new company code.

§  Configuration in SAP based on the business process knowledge acquired.

§  User acceptance and system integration testing.

§  Developments of non standard reports and other ABAP developments

§  End user training and post go-live support

 

Pepsi Foods                                                                                                Feb 2004 – Sep 2006

 

Ballaji Agencies is one of the Leading Pepsi Distributors in South India.  Focusing on BSD (Bottle Soft Drinks), Water and Soda.

 

Role: Business Development Manager

 

Responsibilities:

 

Business Development and Sales Activities

 

• Independent charge of Sales, Marketing & Business Development activities
• Distribution Management – Involved in distributing Pepsi Range of products
• Focusing Retailers and Wholesalers and Direct customers
• Tie up parties – Agreement
• High volume outlet concentration
• Delivery Handling
• Handling Outlets problems and addressing it
• Conducting weekly sales review meetings
• Involved in training  sales force

 

SAP End User

 

• Billing Transactions
• Logistics – Load in and Load out
• Inventory Management
• Maintaining and Adding new Customer

 

Belgan Technologies Pvt ltd.,                                                                               Aug 2000 – Oct 2003  

                                                   

DOT COM Company

Role: Business Development Manger

 

Responsibilities:

• Handled sales team as well as technical team to support the marketing initiatives.

·         Lead the sales team and achieved the set sales target.

·         Lead generation, presentation, proposals, delivery and installation.

·         Increased the business volume by identifying key trends in the business environment and implemented business development initiatives