Raghavender Karuna

  • Lead Oracle Procurement Consultant / Oracle EBS functional consultant
  • Springdale, OH
  • Member Since May 27, 2023

Candidates About

 

RAGHAVENDER KARUNA

Professional Summary

A graduate in commerce/accounting and has around 12 plus Years’ experience as Oracle EBS functional consultant and proven hands on experience in Implementation, upgradation, testing and production support of Oracle EBS Finance &SCM Modules.

 

Extensive experience in the Functional aspects of Oracle Applications 11i, Release 12.

 

Eight plus years of experience in GE Energy, Power & Water and Oil & Gas implementing, upgradation and providing functional production support on Supply chain & Finance applications with high-level of customer satisfaction.

 

Extensive experience on Oracle Supply Chain Manufacturing Applications consulting including order to Cash and Procure to Pay, drop shipment, Internal sales order & back order process executed critical projects as Functional Analyst, Functional Lead, Onsite lead.

 

Familiar with business planning, requirement gathering, design, setup & configuration, creation of testing strategy, test planning, creation of test data and test cases, leading UAT/SIT and day to day user interaction.

 

Adept in reviewing and analyzing the \'as-is\' business scenarios, processes and activities, evaluating end user requirements and custom designing solutions and troubleshooting any problems in the process

 

Strong Interpersonal skills, self-motivation, and quick adaption to new applications and technologies.

 

Education: Bachelor of Commerce/Accounting, Osmania university, 2002


TECHNICAL SKILLS

·         Oracle E-Business Suite: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Finance & Projects - 11i, Release 12.0 and Release 12.1

·         Database: Oracle 8i/9i/10g

·         Programming Languages: SQL, Plsql

·         Operating Systems: Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP), UNIX

·         Tools: SQL developer, TOAD,

 

 

 

Client Name:

OPW- A Dover corp

Role

Oracle Procurement Consultant

Duration

Onsite: Aug-2017 To Till date

Team Size

Project: 5

Modules:  PO, INV, OM, AR, AP

 

Project details

 

OPW A Dover company recognized around the world as the industry standard in fluid handling equipment, OPW is revolutionizing fluid handling operations globally by optimizing safety, efficiency, reliability and environmental sustainability through innovative fluid handling and information management solutions.

 

As a Procurement Consultant to support procurement functions and maintain all aspects of purchasing, negotiations, strategy, tool and process implementation for procurement related to goods and services as well as vetting vendors and establishing and implementing quality control procedures, and researching requirements challenges, provide end user trainings.

 

·         Coordinate with business clients, support the application and implement the process.

·         Worked with the business to come up with the future business process Configured.

·         Performed the setups for Purchasing, OM, Shipping, AR, INV modules.

·         Delivering on cost reduction commitments through the identification, development and execution of strategic sourcing initiatives.

·         Developing, implementing and maintaining procurement policies and review on a regular basis to ensure relevance and conformance with best practices and ensure compliance with internal and regulatory policies

·         Analyzing user needs, conferring with users to improve procedures and identifying and solving problems

·         Analyze and test integration with 3rd Parties and legacy systems.

·         Purchasing Cycles Flow was thoroughly and extensively tested as part of ‘Accounting To Financial Reporting’ during regression testing to analyze the impact before moving custom objects into production.

·         Flow Testing for SCM Modules (PO, OM, BOM, INV, PO, AP &AR) to make sure flow is working without any issues

·         Regular interaction with the Technical Managers, Unix Administrators, Database administrators, Network Administrators, Application Users – all belonging to different departments and divisions to ensure application running without issues.

  • Identifying the Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) of the issue logged by end users and reduce the redundancy of the same issues providing permanent fix.

·         TAR management with Oracle. Logging service requests with oracle and actively following up with Oracle to get addressed on the requests on priority basis.

·         Monitoring the Exceptions & Diagnostic reports in advance during month-end, qtr end & year end to diagnose the issue and resolve it.

 

 

Client Name:

GE Oil and Gas

Role

Lead Oracle Procurement Consultant

Duration

Onsite: Jun-2015 To Jul-2017

Team Size

Project: 10

Modules: OM, INV BOM, PO, AP, AR, , PJM, PA

 

Project details

 

GE Oil & Gas is a world leader in advanced technology equipment and services for all segments of the oil and gas industry, from drilling and production, LNG, pipelines and storage to industrial power generation, refining and petrochemicals. GE Oil & Gas also provides pipeline integrity solutions, including inspection and data management, and designs and manufactures wire-line and drilling measurement solutions for the oilfield services segment.

 

The project involved in r12 upgradation of Oracle EBS Finance& SCM, production support and major enhancement of Oracle EBS SCM, extending existing functionality, coordination with Oracle EBS Product team and researching GE requirements challenges, provide end user trainings, build QA efforts for major integrations and enchantments across Order to Cash modules including OM, Shipping, Inventory, AR and GL

 

 Responsibilities:

·         Discuss business solutions with Business Analysts, resolve existing problems and improve the application stability.

·         Responsible for coordinating all aspects of material flow and part delivery within the organization.

·         Manage the activities of workers engaged in performing, verifying and keeping records of incoming and outgoing shipment.

·         Supervise the activities of employees relating to the ordering, receiving, storing, inventorying, issuing, and shipping of materials, supplies, tools, and part.

·         Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for Inventory and Purchasing modules of the organization’s business system.

·         Responsible for reporting Materials related metrics to the organization.

·         Train, lead, and develop team leads and members to ensure organizational goals and objectives are met.

·         Analyzed material for shortages and expedited from mfg. locations.

·         Supported warehouse inventory control and assisted with barcode labels.

·         Involved in Month, quarter and year end books closure activities and resolved production issues to ensure the books are closed without any issues.

·         Liaison between business Stakeholders, implementation partner, offshore it team and other cross functional teams

·         Preparation of end user manuals and provide training on functional process and navigation flows

·         Involved in assessment of R2 upgradation and led end to end upgradation team including Oracle Apps DBA, Technical Developers, users and QA team

·         Created an end to end testing strategy for major integration and enhancement project, prepared UAT/SIT test cases and coordination with offshore team

·         Coordination with functional and technical team as part of QA requirement preparation of traceability matrix, QA KPI’s, defect creation and closing across O2C/P2P

·         Coordinate with business clients, support the application and implement the process as per specifications provided

·         Led CRP, UAT, SIT sessions as part of upgradation project, Prepared QA strategy, coordination with internal QA team to estimate and execute testing efforts and team for end to end R12 upgradation project

·         Requirements gathering and analysis, cost estimates, preparing design documentation, design reviews, development, testing and deployment of application enhancements.

·         Reviewing the technical design deliverables during pre-code migration into non-Prod environments as part of quality control.

·         Preparation of integration plan document and submitting for Customer sign-off and implement revisions and comments. Identify the applications involved in deliverables and perform end to end regression testing to ensure system working with no impacts.

·         Preparation of test Scripts and assisting in the execution of testing scenarios

 

 

Project Name:

GE Oil & Gas R12 – Enhancement & production support

Client

GE Power & Water

Role

Oracle SCM Consultant

Duration

Onsite: Jul-2013 APR-2015

Team Size

Project: 20

Modules: OM, INV BOM, PO, AP, AR, , PJM, PA

Functional Skills

Oracle Applications ERP Modules

 

Project details

 

GE Power & Water now GE Power is an American energy techniques company, owned by General Electric.GE Power is the largest energy techniques and selling energy company in the world.

 

Support Responsibilities:

 

  • Onsite Lead and responsible for testing efforts thought out the project including creation of testing plan for patch testing, how to test new enchantments, regression test plan, coordination with offshore QA team, providing internal QA team and reporting business stakeholders
  • Build end to end QA efforts for end to end R12 upgradation process including integration testing with third party applications
  • Analyzing the issues, driving the team for long-term fix.
  • Issue resolution and case closures on Service now tool.
  • Working on Change requests and production issues in Project costing, project billing, project Management.

·         Preparation of end user manuals and provide training on functional process and navigation flows

  • Actively involving in Ticket review calls with client and providing daily status on the issues reported by the users.
  • Leading a team and helping them in their issues driving them for fixing issues at the earliest to meet the deliverables.
  • Effective and proactive monitoring of issues
  • Playing a crucial role in Month end activities and ensured critical issues resolved.
  • Trouble-shooting setups in oracle project costing, project billing. Project management, project manufacturing. Identifying the Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) of the issue logged by end users and reduce the redundancy of the same issues providing permanent fix.

·         Period close activities for Sub-ledger and GL modules handled independently at customer base location and a SPOC for SCM, Finance & projects modules.

 

 

Project Name:

GAMS East Charlie Oracle ERP 11i – Support & Enhancement

Client

GE Energy,

Role

Oracle P2P/O2C Consultant

Duration

Apr/2010—Mar/2012

Support Responsibilities:

  • Onsite Lead and responsible for testing efforts thought out the project including creation of testing plan for patch testing, how to test new enchantments, regression test plan, coordination with offshore QA team, providing internal QA team and reporting business stakeholders
  • Working on enhancement requests and production issues in P2P/O2C including GL.
  • Actively involving in SR management with Oracle for Production support issues.
  • Leading team and helping them in their day to day issues and driving them in fixing the issues within stipulated time.
  • Actively involving in Case review calls with Client and updating latest status.
  • Played a crucial role in Month, Quarter and year end activities and ensured that all critical issues are resolved.
  • Identifying the Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) of the issue logged by end users and reduce the redundancy of the same issues providing permanent fix.
  • Involved in SIT (system integration testing) and tested the complete process cycles for the new releases.
  • Prepared Application setup and Process flow documents. Understanding the business flows and writing the test cases.
  • Involved in all key client interactions and providing updates on the issues reported during testing.
  • Trouble-shooting setups in oracle General Ledger, Payables and Receivables and projects.

 

Project Title: Oracle Applications R12 - Development

Client

Helpage India

Role

Oracle EBS Consultant  

Organization

Birlasoft

Duration

Apr 2009 – Mar 2010

Team Size

5

Modules: AR, AP,GL PA, PO, INV

 

Project Details:

 

Help age India -Non Profit Organization (NGO), Non-Governmental, Charity Trust India working for elderly through various programs in the area of Social protection aged services and small grants programmed. It supports grassroots NGO’s across the country working for the welfare of the aged. Process of implementing Oracle Financials and projects with a view to streamline its business processes and leverage the benefits of a truly integrated ERP System.

 

Implementation Responsibilities:

 

·         Worked with the client in understanding the business process to prepare the business requirement definition document.

·         Preparation of AS IS and TO BE Process Documents.

·         Map business requirements to Oracle Applications, Design and provide solutions.

·         Preparation of BR-30 Mapping and BR-100 documents.

·         Complete all functional setups as required for implementation of Oracle R12 modules.

·         Conducted end-user meetings to review current business processes and requirement gathering.

·         Assisted in Multi-org setups and Responsible for implementing multiple operating units and inventory orgs.

·         Part of the team responsible for Set up of Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Receivables, Oracle Payables and documentation of set up

·         Defined the Multiple Set of Books, Accounting Periods, Automatic Posting, Journal Sources, journal Categories, Suspense Accounts and Summary Accounts

·         Created and posted journal batch, defined Mass Allocation Formula, opened and closed periods, run trail balance report

·         Performed complete analysis and development of various FSG reports

·         Created security rules as per the company policy and cross validation rules to avoid incorrect accounting

·         Defined transaction types, payment terms, transaction source, auto accounting and invoicing rule, approval limits, receipt classes, receipt source, payment methods, banks, customer profile class and setup system options in AR.

·         Collaborated with the AP team for payment terms, suppliers, distribution sets, invoice approvals, expense report templates and tolerances.

 

Project Title: Oracle Applications 11i – Enhancement & production support

Client

GE Altair Filter Technology (GE ENVS RTS)

Role

Oracle EBS Consultant

Organization

Birla soft India Ltd

Duration

Jan 2008 – Jan-09

Team Size    

4

Modules: PO, OM, AR, AP, PA, PJM, BOM, GL

 

 

 

 

 

Support Responsibilities:

·         Functional support for Project accounting, Project Manufacturing and   Purchasing.   Inventory

·         Involved in project closure and period end closing activities of project module.

·         Generated the project documentation user manual and organized user training to ensure their productivity.

·         Preparation weekly status report on Business change requests and update them progress status on requests.

·         Co-ordinated with the technical team on customized reports as per the request from Business.

·         Supported production environments and users on a daily basis by responding to emergency requests.

 

 

 

Project Title: Oracle Applications 11i –  Support

Client

Arrow Electronics

Role

Oracle EBS Analyst

Organization

Mahivar Inc

Duration

October 2006 – October 2007

Team Size    

5

Modules: GL, AP, AR, PO

 

Support Responsibilities:

 

·         Functional support for General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables and Purchasing.

·         Involved in accounting period opening and Ending closure activities.

·         Review the organization business objectives, understanding the business process and evaluating the feasibility of business.

·         Generated the project documentation and organized user training to ensure their productivity.

·         Assisting in System Administration activities like creating users, responsibilities, menus, data groups and report security groups.

·         Worked with the technical team on customization of Existing Reports and development new reports

·         Issue tracking and resolving.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title : Oracle Applications 11i - Support

Client

State Street, USA

Role

Oracle EBS Analyst

Organization

Mahivar Inc

Duration

November 2005 – August 2006

Team Size    

5

 

Support Responsibilities:

 

·         General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Account Receivable Cycles Flow was thoroughly and extensively tested as part of ‘Accounting To Financial Reporting.

·         Supporting daily operation for all Financial Modules.

·         Involved in business scenario’s preparation and testing the same with application.

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