Candidates About

 

Saju Abraham

SAP EWM Analyst

Summary: SAP EWM 9.1 Certified Analyst with 2.5 years of SAP EWM experience, over 6 years of experience in overall WMS, Warehousing Operations, SAP SD and Logistics Execution. Currently provide end to end IT support for EWM and Sales business operations. Support MM, Production Planning, AP/AR issue resolution.

 

Configuration and setup of SAP Extended Warehouse Management version 9.1. SAP EWM-ECC Integration, Master data setup, CIF, qRFC, Storage types and sections, Packaging specifications, Process Oriented Storage Control, Advance Returns Management, replenishment, Serial numbers and batch management.  

 

Warehouse Operations experience with JDA RedPrairie Wave Management, replenishment and Inventory control.  Researching and resolving shorts for waves. Overseeing Inbound and outbound operations. Releasing orders for picking, quality inspection at outbound staging, inventory accuracy, and resolution of system issues as a super user and setting up printers. Experience with picking using voice picking.

 

Warehouse Operations experience of 1 year. WMS JDA/RedPrairie IT experience of 3 years, RedPrairie Security, User access and set up, Set up of Roles and transactions, SOD Review, SOP Writing, Change Management, Warehouse support and day-to-day issue resolution, End User Training, Development, system testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Lot, Pallet and Trailer level QM inspection process. Yard Management and RedPrairie upgrade implementation.

 

Leading teams for Systems testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as subject matter expert and automated testing tool coach in a validated environment.

 

3 years of SAP experience is in SAP SD/LES. Set up returns order processing, new Order Types, Sales area, Sales organizations, pricing structures and transportation.

 

Over 20 years of total industry work experience. Experience in Tech, Healthcare and Retail industries.

 

Warehouse Management System	SAP EWM, RedPrairie, SIMS	Automated testing tools	HPQC
ERP/Change Management	SAP SD, MM, PP	SOP Repository	GSS

 

Certification:

SAP EWM 9.1 Certified Analyst

 

Education:

MBA (Marketing)

Bachelors in Science (Electronics) – B.Sc. (Electronics)

Diploma in Computer Programming and Applications

 

Experience:

Overall experience divided into 2 sections

Section A: Warehouse and Information Technology Experience (SAP and RedPrairie experience)

Section B: Business Experience

 

 

A.      Warehouse and Information Technology Experience:

 

General Data Tech, Dallas, TX

SAP EWM Analyst, SD Support

Mar 2016 to Present

 

Sole EWM Resource on GDT SAP team for new Warehouse implementation and ongoing support. Also currently supporting Sales, MM

 

·         Provide support for business operations for SAP EWM as well SD, Quotes, Sales orders, Purchase orders, Inbound and Outbound EWM operations, Transfer Postings etc. ticket resolution. Support for AR, AP and purchasing issue resolution. EWM Production Support, resolution of tickets, issues and qRFC errors

·         End to end Testing for all new feature implementations: kits, EDI Orders, Document types, Item category combinations etc. Warehousing, Sales, Invoicing testing.

·         End User Trainings

·         Supported implementation of full functionality for new Warehouse built by GDT. Configuration and setup, SAP EWM Version 9.1 including ECC settings, EWM settings and integration points.

·         Enabled following supply chain scenarios as part of Warehouse deployment: Inbound and outbound processes for both Sales Orders and Projects, both Customer owned stock as well as GDT owned stock.

·         Internal Warehouse processes such as Transfer Postings, Quality Hold and Returns bin movements.

·         Unit and integration testing of all Warehouse scenarios for New Warehouse go live. End to end testing from Sales order through goods issue of Sales order as well as Projects stock.

·         Kits using Production planning and BOMs. End to end Testing. Ongoing Operations Support.

·         Requirements Gathering for new feature enhancements in EWM such as Cycle counting, Automation of some manual processes, HU integrity etc. Requirements gathering for Sales SAAS, various reports. Writing functional Specifications.

 

Crate and Barrel, Cranbury, NJ

Warehouse Operations

WMS Wave Management and Inventory Control (JDA, RedPrairie) Version 13.5

Aug’ 2015 to Jan’ 2016

 

·         Wave management – Investigating and resolving Short Allocations for Expedite wave orders

·         Order Cancellation, de-assign orders from wave, pick and replenishment cancellations

·         Inventory Control – maintain Inventory accuracy, creating Partial and Full Inventory moves

·         Inventory Adjustments, Audit Counting and Cycle Counting Pick Locations.

·         Resolving Inventory discrepancies and clearing Storage Location errors (frozen locations)

·         Plan for sorting mixed inventory PND locations and creating moves.

·         Providing support for pickers, reach truck Operators

·         Interacting with JDA onsite support team for system concerns.

·         Provide system feedback to management as SME.

 

 

 

 

 

Almasons, Dallas, TX

Mar’ 2015 to Jul’ 2015

SAP EWM Functional Training

 

Almasons is a market leader in the SAP EWM niche, with several implementations and the best-selling book on the subject under their belt.

 

Configuration and setup of SAP Extended Warehouse Management System (EWM) Version 9.02 to build a custom Warehouse ground up. Extensive full time 5-month training covering wide range of SAP EWM topics including:

·         Setup of SAP EWM Org elements and Master data

·         SAP ECC-EWM initial setup and Integration,

·         CIF, CIF Automation, qRFC setup and configuration (SAP ERP to SAP EWM connectivity)

·         Setup of Warehouse structure, Storage types, Storage Sections, Bins

·         Search strategy, Activity areas, Warehouse Process type

·         Packaging Specification and Handling Units

·         Inbound and outbound deliveries, Search strategy, Putaway and Stock removal indicators, Availability groups, putaway, picking.

·         Internal Warehouse movements, Physical Inventory, Warehouse Monitor

·         Process Oriented Storage Control

·         Exceptions, Wave management, Serial numbers

·         Labor Management, slotting, Value-Added Services, RF Configuration

·         EWM Yard Management and ECC TM setup and configuration

·         Batch Management

·         Quality Inspection setup and integration to ECC

·         EWM Integration to Production

·         Kit to Order and Advanced Returns Management

·         Trouble-shooting configuration related issues

 

Menlo Logistics, Cranbury, NJ

Jan’ 2015 to Feb’ 2015

 

The Menlo 3PL Warehouse manages Inbound and outbound orders several customers.

Operations responsibility:

·         Inbound and outbound operations for one of the product lines (Friedrich). Support for other Product lines as required

·         Dropping orders for picking by picking team, quality inspection at outbound staging, Scan Serial numbers. Manage workload for inbound and picking teams.

·         Preparing paperwork (BOL, Packing slip) and scheduling pickup with transportation companies

·         Confirm Inbound and outbound orders, filing paperwork

·         Inventory accuracy for product line

·         Resolution of system issues as a super user, setting up printers

 

Crate and Barrel, Cranbury, NJ

Oct’ 2014 to Dec’ 2014

 

·         Picking (voice picking)

·         Inventory Reconciliation

 

Johnson and Johnson, Skillman, NJ,

Nov’ 2011 to Sep’ 2014

Distribution Technology

Senior Technology Analyst

                                                                

RedPrairie Security Owner for J&J Consumer Sector Warehouses. Orders drop into RedPrairie WMS for processing from SAP. Good working knowledge of Inbound and outbound tasking, Inventory Control, Cycle Count, Count back, allocation, Customer Service, quality control and interfaces with other systems.

 

 

Responsibilities:

·         WMS Security tasks: Setting up transaction to Role access, setting up new users as well as establishing process and controls for User Access. Authored several SOPs and Work Instructions.

·         Process Improvements. As the owner of system Security, implemented several processes working across multiple teams to enable organization to be more SOX and GxP compliant. Introduced and implemented following processes

a.        Segregation of Duties (SOD) Review

b.       User Access Review

c.        Security Reviews

d.       Weekly Terminations and Transfers review

e.       Cross-Site Security Administrator

·         Leading teams as SME for System Testing and UAT using HPQC in a validated environment.

·         System Upgrade Project: NASCAR is an $ 18 million multi-year WMS system upgrade project. As the Security Owner, was responsible for all Security Testing across multiple releases including testing of all new and existing transactions using SDLC processes. Responsible for Security Strategy, Compliance Plan input, User Requirements, UAT Protocol, UAT Report, Compliance Report and all aspects of SDLC as applied for Security testing on the Project.

f.         Security Strategy: developing the Security Strategy that was included as part of the Compliance Plan. Setting up Role to transaction access.

g.        Leading System and UAT Security testing effort for 3 separate phases of project.

h.       Security Configuration Guide: Designed and wrote the Security Configuration Guide for Transaction association with Roles

i.         Production Verification: As the SME performed production verification of Security implementation.

·         Ongoing System changes, Security enhancements: Utilized the Change control process to enter ticket and get Change Control Board (CCB) approval. Perform Development, coordinate testing and implementation. Security Configuration performed includes screen and field level access changes and Policy settings for EMS alerts

j.         Business Configuration Guide: updating Business Configuration Guide with Configuration changes performed.

k.        Development, leading testing and implementation efforts

·         Security Configuration Specification and comprehensive Security Testing: Created GXP compliant Specification that controlled transaction access for Roles. Implemented Comprehensive Installation Qualification (IQ) and Boundary testing. These processes ensured that the Organization is more GxP Compliant from a Security testing perspective.

·         Audit Support: as the SME, was point of contact for Corporate Internal Audit as well as PwC Audits for IT as well as Finance controls.

·         Site support: Responsible for ongoing site support for the Fontana, CA warehouse. Held weekly meetings with site operations to address and resolve ongoing site support issues.

·         Process Unification: Unified processes across multiple sites in areas such as User Access and terminations.

Awards: Six Encore awards: 1Platinum, 2 Gold and 2 Silver awards for various projects

 

 

Lucent Technologies Inc, Dallas, TX

January’ 99 to September’ 99

SAP SD Consultant

 

·         Set up goods returns process for repair and damaged items

·         Saved customer over $ 3 million through issues resolution

·         User acceptance testing, end user training,

·         Coordination with Development team for custom objects

·         Go-live support and coordination of defect resolution

·         Warehouse Management support of day-to-day activity

 

Sword Group, ZACSC, NJ

October’ 99 to December’ 00 and December’ 98

SAP Consultant

 

ZACSC was an SAP Partner and provided SAP services to customers

·         Set up sales areas, Business Partners, sales offices, Master data etc in SAP

·         Logistics, sales and distribution, supply chain systems

 

Prosoft Corp, India

June’ 98 to November’ 98

SAP SD Consultant

·         As a member of the SAP SD team, was responsible for setting up initial Organizational Structure, sales areas, Master data, plants, Storage locations, Business Partners, Transportation and Pricing.

 

 

B. Business Experience:

 

Glory Infotech and Glory Consulting LLC

April’ 06 to Oct’ 2011

Self-Employed Entrepreneur

 

Entrepreneurial ventures with focus on Information Technology. Supplied customers with Computer programming and Infrastructure Personnel.

·         Grew both businesses to over $300K Annual Revenue.

·         Managed team on OFAC, AML, Compliance project for Banking customer

·         Leading a team of Info Tech Professionals on customer engagements 

 

Grom Associates

May’04 to March’ 06

SAP Recruiting and Business Development

 

Grom Associates is an SAP Partner and one of the major players in the SAP services market in the US with a turnover of about $ 100 million and over 300 consultants on various customer engagements.

 

·         Built and managed SAP Customer Relationships and Contractor relationships

·         Interviewed, short listed and supplied personnel for various engagements

 

Sword Group, ZACSC

January’01 to April’ 04

Channel and Customer Business Development

 

Sword Group, a French IT company bought out ZACSC towards the end of 2003. Sword offered a wide range of services including Strategic consultancy, development, integration and support and was looking to expand its operations in the continental US. ZACSC provided similar services to customers in the US.

·         Best Performer with over $3 Million annual business.

·         Built and managed General IT and SAP customer  and consultant relationships

 

Sonata Software, India

December’ 93 to May’ 1998

Channel and Large Customer Business Development

Sonata Software was one of the largest software distribution giants in India for major software brands such as Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM

·         Rapid growth to Area Manager and business leader.

·         Built and managed both channel Partners as well as large customer relationships.

·         Best National Sales performer award for Microsoft Product line

 

Digital World, India

June’ 93 to November’ 93

Digital world was a major supplier for hardware such as Epson printers and computer monitors.

·         Managing customer relationships and supply of company hardware products