Sayan Saha
- SAP Principal Consultant
- Cupertino, CA
- Member Since May 06, 2023
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Sayan Saha
SUMMARY
Ø 14 years of functional experience with approximately 9 years in SAP SD/LE/GTS Configuration and implementation.
Ø A proven Team Player with excellent communication skills and able to quickly establish sound client relations.
Ø Involved in 4 full life cycle implementations.
Ø Experience with diverse industry environments ranging from Consumer Electronics, Chemicals, Food Distribution & Packaging, Oil and Gas and Automotive.
Ø An experienced Consultant used to working within challenging multivendor Environments.
Ø Awarded “IBM Service Excellence Award”
SAP R/3 Expertise
Diverse SAP experience covering various facets of SD, LE, GTS & IS - Oil modules including business blueprint, design, development and implementation, end-user training and support.
Ø In depth understanding of SD functionality from the developer’s and client’s perspective to
extend business content based on requirement.
Ø 2 Full Lifecycle SAP SD Implementations.
Ø 2 SAP upgrades from ECC 4.7 to ECC 6.0
Ø Experience in Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Distribution Industry.
Ø Experience in preparing the Functional Specifications.
Ø Proficient in ensuring that the Business Goals are achieved in the Project Lifecycle.
Ø Effective translation of the business needs into Functional Requirements. Skilled in eliciting user
demands and translating them to Data, Functional, Quality and Usability Requirements.
Ø Integration experience by configuring Master Data, Sales, Billing and Pricing.
Ø Configuration of Mater Data, Pricing, Availability Check, Transfer of Requirements,
Delivery Scheduling, Credit and Risk Management.
Ø Functional configuration and mapping of Idocs.
Ø Well versed in end-to-end scenario testing, Unit, System Integration, Performance and User
Acceptance Testing.
Ø Integration with LE, MM, EHS, PP and FI modules.
Ø Extensively worked with HPQC testing tool.
Ø Expertice in LSMW, E- CATT
Ø Strong analytical/problem-solving abilities coupled with team facilitation skill.
SAP GTS Expertise
Ø 2 Full Cycle implemention experience with Global Trade Systems
Ø Rolled Out GTS 8.0 to India.
Ø In depth knowledge in Compliance, Customs Processing
Ø Experience with setting up required configuration for Export/Import processing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
INFOSYS Limited
Client: Apple Inc, Cupertino, CA 31st Dec 2014 – Till Date
Role: Principal Consultant
Project Description:
· Providing Techno – Functional Expertise to Apple in a highy competitive multi-vendor ecosystem.
· Managing the Apple SD track in terms of Consulting, Recruitment, Sub Contractor Management.
· Managing expectations of Apple Management in terms of timely delivery of resources, Quality of resources, training of resources etc.
· Managing Infosys expectations in terms of Apple Recruitment, Client Management etc.
· Managing a team of 45 consultants on an Onsite – Offshore model.
KPIT Infosystems
Client: PACTIV Food Packaging & Services, Chicago, IL Oct 2014 – 30th Dec 2014
Role: Managed Services Lead & Functional Lead
Project Description: VISTEX Territory Management Deployment
Working as a Managed Services Lead & Functional Lead and overlooking the ECC development & fine tuning in response to VISTEX implementation. Role involves managing 9 consultants (Functional & Technical) involving both offshore & onsite. My role requires that I interact with the Director of IT & other senior leaders to establish a smooth development & deployment of the required objects.
Client: CST Brands Inc., San Antonio, TX April 2014 – Oct 2014
Role: Managed Services Lead
Project Description: Divestiture of Valero Inc and CST Brands
Worked as a Managed Services Lead and overlooking the divestiture and transition of Valero SAP environment to CST SAP environment. Role involves managing a team of 7 consultants (Functional & Technical) involving onshore and offshore resources. My role requires I interact with the Director of SAP & other senior leaders to establish a smooth relationship for the present & future project plans.
Client: Maines Paper and Food Services, Conklin, NY Mar 2013 – April 2014
Role: Senior OTC Consultant & Team Lead
Project Description: Roll Out of ECC 6.0 for Darden Restaurants (Food Distribution)
Worked as a Solution Architect for the Darden Roll Out. Darden group of companies owns the restaurant chains like Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze etc. The supply & distribution of this chain has been outsourced to Maines Paper and Food Services. Currently, the processing of Sales & Distribution functions are on a AS 400 Mainframe system known as I - Kitchen. I am currently involved in designing the SAP enterprise structure for Darden & the functionality required for getting Darden onboarded to SAP.
Responsibilities:
Ø Designing & Configuring the Order Management functionality for Darden ordering from 3rd party interface known as I-kitchen
Ø Indentifying list of Interfaces both inbound and outbound to and from SAP from various Applications.
Ø Preparing Functional Design for the interfaces which is needed to adapt to the new System.
Ø Designing & Configuring the Pricing for Darden Product Invoice
Ø Designing & Configuring the Custom Invoice functionality requied for Cross Company Reference.
Ø Unit testing of modified interfaces for various applications.
Ø Co-ordinating the Testing efforts for Integration cycle.
Ø Managing the defects and working on successful closing and testing of defects.
Client: PACCAR Inc. Bellevue, WA Sept 2012 – Feb 2013
Role: Senior OTC Consultant
Project Description: Implementation of R/3 with Brazil Localization
Working as part of a 5 member team for SAP OTC implementation for North America & Brazil localization. The scope includes SD Order to Cash process Blueprint, configuration, Pricing & Billing.
Responsibilities:
Ø Configuring Order Types, Item Categories, Pricing etc.
Ø Indentifying list of Interfaces both inbound and outbound to and from SAP from various Applications.
Ø Providing list of OTC interfaces for the Production System and analyzing the impact connecting to various 3rd party interfaces existing within PACCAR current landscape
Ø Preparing Functional Design for the interfaces which is needed to adapt to the new System.
Ø Unit testing modified interfaces for various applications.
Ø Co-ordinating the Testing efforts for Integration cycle.
Ø Managing the defects and working on successful closing and testing of defects.
IBM Global Services
Client: Avantor Performance Material, Center Valley, PA March 2012 – Aug 2012
Role: SAP SD/GTS Lead
Project Description: Implementation of ECC 6 & GTS 10.0
Working as a SAP Sales and Distribution Lead & managing a team of 5 consultants for implementing SAP for North America in the 1st phase. The next subsequent phases would be Europe, China & India. The scope involved SD Order to Cash processes, Pricing, Logistics Execution, Billing, EHS & Global Trade Systems.
Responsibilities:
Ø Preparing configuration documents for R/3 & GTS
Ø Configuring the R/3 system ranging from Order Types, Output determination, Pricing Procedure etc.
Ø Configuring GTS system for Compliance & Customs Management
Client: Air Products & Chemicals Inc., PA January 2010 – March 2012
Role: SAP SD - LE/GTS Lead
Project Description: New Enhancements & Ongoing Support of Present Lanscape
As part of the Sell-Fulfill Team his role was to implement new functionalities on the current landscape & maintaining the support model for the present landscape. Sayan was managing a team of 11 consultants within an offshore & onshore delivery model. During his tenure in Air Products & chemicals he has implemented different functionalities of which some are detailed below:
ECC 6.0 Upgrade Project
Sayan has been involved in 2 upgrade projects & this was the 2nd of them. This was an upgrade from ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0 & he was actively involved in the testing process & implementation of various upgrade notes as part of the upgrade team.
Portugal Invoice Certification Project
Portugal Government had introduced a law in 2010 that all commercial Invoices including Credit & Debit Memos need to be digitally signed & organizations operating in Portugal need to abide by the same. This was a project of nearly 480 hours & he had single handedly managed this project from the design & configuration point of view. This successfully went live in Dec’2011. This included modifying user exits in billing space, configuring the output types of several billing documents, kernel patch updates, implementing around 60 SAP release notes, implementing SAP Crytolib version 5.5.C for ECC 6.0.
Formula Pricing Enhancement Project
Air Products & Chemicals operates in a very volatile market where prices of chemicals & gases fluctuate frequently. In order to provide the customers with the most competitive price, we had Formula Pricing implemented. This was not a standard SAP provided formula pricing functionality which is provided as used in IS – Oil but this was more driven by complex algorithms being put in place via condition types & pricing routines. There were issues with Formula Pricing not getting calculated correctly from the government indexes & need was to get is re-designed & a better solution to be put in place. Sayan was instrumental in providing the solution to the client which involved deriving the prices from the contract directly & not modifying the price at the order.
Agents Plus Application Streamlining Project
Agents Plus is more of a Customer Relationship software developed on Microsoft .NET technology & is used by customers to enter orders from the portal. This software derives all its data from SAP & finally creates transactional data in SAP. Sayan was instrumental in rectifying numerous flaws in this software in the process in which it derives its data from SAP. Designed primarily based on BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface) Sayan has been instrumental in providing valuable design knowledge as to how the BAPI’s could be modified & the ABAP design can be fine tuned to get the correct transactional data. Sayan has received numerous client appreciations on the same.
GTS Roll – Out Country India Project (GTS 8.0)
Sayan has been instrumental in rolling out the Global Trade Systems to country India single handedly in the areas of Customs Management, Compliance Management & Sanction Party List. This is an area which requires in – depth understanding of Foreign Trade processes & thereby the configuration knowledge in GTS. Sayan has worked on GTS 7.0 & 10.0 versions.
Contracts Management & SM Module
Sayan has worked extensively on Service Management Module & Contracts & its varied functionalities ranging from setting up of Master Contracts, Quantity & Service Contracts & their validity extensions & billing. Sayan has also worked on complex pricing involving Contracts. He has been involved in working Contract functionality involving extensive customization in user exit MV45AFZZ.
Client: StatOil Hydro, Norway October 2008 – Jan 2010
Role: SAP SD & IS - Oil Business Analyst
Project Description: New Enhancements & Ongoing Support of Present Lanscape
Working for client StatOil Hydro in their Global SAP roll out project as SAP SD IS-Oil functional consultant. Worked as a part of Hyper care team supporting CSO( Customer Support)and (SCLO) Supply chain and logistics Org. Post Go-Live Part of the Distribution and involved in Configurations, Integration, testing. Been responsible for imparting the super user training during the Confirmation tests and the LES1 and LES2 (Live Environment Simulation tests) prior to the Go Live.
Some of the enhancements done during this project have been detailed below
ECC 6.0 Upgrade Project
Sayan has been involved in 2 upgrade projects & this was the 2nd of them. This was an upgrade from ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0 & he was actively involved in the testing process & implementation of various upgrade notes as part of the upgrade team.
SAP Smartforms Streamlining:
Sayan is adept in analyzing smart-forms & debugging the smart-forms if need be. He had enhanced & modified over more than 10 different smart-forms in the Order Management & Logistics space during this tenure. He also has in-depth experience with SAP scripts
Client : British Petroleum August 2007 – September 2008
Role: SAP SD IS - Retail Consultant
Environnent : SAP ECC 4.7c/ECC 5.0
Project Description : New Enhancements & Ongoing Support of Present Lanscape
As part of the BP Merchandizing team, he was responsible for day to day error resolution, resolution of business cases arising out of transactions taking place at the BP Connect stores.
Responsibilities:
Ø Worked on EDI interfaces for Sales Order processing from POSDM
Ø Communicating with client & super users and providing them resolution within a specified timeline so that business as usual is not hampered.
Ø He had to handle analytical problems, escalations and other issues regarding the application.
Ø He had to provide critical reports to business for decision making purpose.
Business Background
Ø ICI India Limited: (March’ 07 – August’07)
In ICI, Sayan worked as Branch Manager, Jharkhand. He was in charge of marketing activities of ICI for the entire Jharkhand Region.
Ø Pfizer India Limited: (Mar’01 – Mar, 05)
In Pfizer, Sayan worked as a Professional Service Officer, Delhi Region. He was in charge of Sales & Marketing of products & services for Pfizer India Limited. During this phase he was also a part of the Core Business Team for the SAP implementation
Ø Organon India Limited:
Professional Service Officer, Delhi Region: (Mar’00 – Feb’ 01)
Educational Background
Ø Masters in Business Administration (full time), ICFAI Business School, Kolkata (2005 – 2007)
Ø B.Sc (Physiology Honors’), Calcutta University INDIA, 1996 - 1999.
Awards
Ø IBM Service Excellence Award 2011
Ø 1sr Prize in USHUS (Christ Church College) 2006
Ø Gold Medal in School Sports in 1996