Candidates About

 

Kunjal Patel

Þ      16+ years of Implementation, Upgrade, Boltons and consulting experience

Þ      3 Years with Global Consumer Giant, 3 Years EWM experience with IBM- 20 months with Global Consumer Giant - 2 years with Accenture-

Þ      4 EWM Projects,

Þ      Good communication and verbal skills

Þ      Proven leadership abilities

Þ      Excellent resource as team lead or team member

Þ      Vanilla, Bespoke and Bolt on Integration

Þ      Management and outsourcing experience

Þ      Wide range of industries, applications and skills

Þ      Agile, Waterfall, RDS. ASAP,  Six Sigma, Solution Manager methodologies

Þ      Project management experience with leading, scoping, staffing, resource handling, coordinating go live support, coordinating Maintenance Support, Cut over activities etc.

Þ      Worked for several multi-national corporations in USA and Europe

 

I have specialised in SAP EWM, WM MM IM LO LE activities, blue printing, designing, building, testing, deployment, training cutover, go live and post go live support experience in Vanilla, Bespoke, Upgrade of SAP Implementations.

I have led my last 5 implementation projects as

 

·         36 Months EWM Lead Consultant for Global Consumer Giant in London

·         18 Months EWM Lead Consultant for IBM at Retail Client in London

·         2 Months WM Consultant for Atos at Grocer

·         EWM Lead consultant for Toy maker Outbound Processes, Blue printing and realisation,

·         EWM Lead consultant for IBM Global Consumer Giant  Roll out to Norway Project,

·         WM project (Textron)  with MFS  handling 6 resources 4 onsite and 2 offsite,

·         MM and Logistics Team lead for PepsiCo Sub Team Lead (PepsiCo) for MFG Prod having 4 onsite and 6 offsite resources,

·         Onshore Lead for P& AP and OTC modules (Newpage) leading 4 offshore resources.

 

I have proven leadership experience and have used and gained Project Management, Six Sigma skills. I have also used Solution manager, ASAP, Six Sigma and Accenture   best practices for Implementing SAP solutions. I have followed and widely used SAP best practices from the Blue printing phase to creating business scenarios and on to end user documentation and training material. I have now worked on several large SAP R/3 implementations including PepsiCo phase 3 which was phased over 6 years and was the biggest SAP Implementation for SAP, Accenture and PepsiCo in North America. I have very good understanding of SAP R/3, particularly MM, WM, IM, LO and LE integration modules. I have extensively worked on RICEFs and have been involved in designing, building, testing, deploying EDI interfaces for more than 5 years. I also have some experience with the PP, Sales Order processing and FI modules. I have also written Functional Specification, FMDs for RICEF objects.

 

Project Experience

 

Global Consumer Giant (Coco Cola) Client Lead EWM Consultant for ASRS integration Nov 16 Current

to site with 28000 pallets in ASRS. 2 pallets produced in 90 seconds. Capacity to fulfil 250 outgoing shipments per day and 150 incoming + pallets from Production. Design Build Test and Integrate ASRS solution for a Hybrid warehouse including LOSC, POSC and combination. ASRS WCS integration, IDOC interfacing with third party via MII, Integration of Production line into ASRS. Hybrid warehouse with shipping from ASRS and Conventional. Site using yard management. Labour management.

Commissioning and Go live support. Hypercare support.

 

Global Consumer Giant (Coco Cola) Client Lead EWM Consultant March 2015 to – Sept 2016

for Palletiser to Receipt and Palletiser to TU loading, LM Labor Management and Reporting for all GB warehouses 7 in total including ASRS, Hybrid and Conventional Warehouses.

 

Blue printing, Build, Localization, Cutover, Hypercare Support SAP EWM 

·         Multiple Enhancement to Integrate Production- pallets to Palletiser and subsequent delivery creation, GR, and Putaway in EWM resulting in rfc GR to ECC.

·         Call off of  raw materials to Production line using PSA.

·         Multiple enhancements for Loading from Production line Palletiser to the TU.

·         RF enhancements to capture Processor and confirmation times for all RF related execution Processes including raw materials.

·         Use of Agile Methodology

·         Requirements gathering Workshops for Palletiser to Loading, LM purposes.

·         Designed and Build – Palletiser to loading, RF screens to enhance LM, Daily Dashboard report, customising monitor, and providing a comprehensive report in the monitor to give the warehouse a view of the executed work and the upcoming workload.

·         ECC EWM Integration for Document Type Item Type for Loading from Palletiser.

·         Configuring Storage Type, Putaway, WT Generic, Avail Group.

·         Loading from palletiser process for batch managed FGs

·         Configuring Wave Management, WOCR, Activity area, POSC for Loading from palletiser

·         Configuring LOSC for ASRS related configuration

·         Use of LOSC and POSC, Broken POSC

·         Deactivating LM for Unwanted processes i.e. Yard Management.

·         Integration of Shipment into TU and Yard Management

·         Configuration of Wave for Prestage and Direct Load from Palletiser(production )to TU

·         Configuring Process Type Det Indicator for LM related activities as part of Proto typing

·         PACI, SRCI and Search strategies

·         Design and Build– Responsible for Loading From Production to Truck scenarios using Doc Type, WPT, PACI, SRCI, Search strategies, Queues, Activity areas Enhancing of PPF, use of BADi, Changes to RF screens to accommodate mixed activities in RF execution,

Changes to TU PPF based on statuses, Enhanced BAdi to remove entries of Z tables.

·         Build – Responsible for Development of RF objects to accommodate RF changes to screens.

·         Unit and Integration testing of entire LM functionality including objects and reporting.

·         Cross Processes Settings for Exceptions Codes, Resource management, Warehouse Orders WOCR, Warehouse Process Types, LOSC + POSC.

·         Design discussion for Prestage Bin determination

·         Design and Build for Raw Material processes for products in Bulk storage

·         Design discussions for ASRS for mixed pallets and partial Pallets.

·         Design And Build - Labor Management Activation for all internal Processes.

·         Design And Build - Labor management design for ASRS and Hybrid sites

·         Design And Build – Travel Distance Calculation

·         Design And Build – Engineering Labor Standards

·         Build Changes to complex enhanced RF screens to adapt LM

·         Bulk structure

·         Bin Master use of XYZ coordinates.

·         Edges and Node definition for Manhattan calculations.

·         Upload of XYZ coordinates for TDC Euclidean and Manhattan TDC calculations.

·         Design and Build a custom Productivity report, configuring the Monitor to include reporting nodes for Productivity for Shift, Teams, Processor to include all activities for LM and Bonuses.

·         Testing of Roll out functionality across all processes End state and Interim solution.

·         Providing support for Training data.

·         ASRS – Testing of Messages to ASRS including MD and transactional data.

·         Designed and configured Customised Nodes and functions in Monitor to provide daily Dashboard for entire metrics for the warehouse.

·         Hypercare and Post Go Live support for EWM and Interim sites.

·         Enhancements to Post Go Live Implementation to meet Go Live challenges

·         Handholding and supporting end users in their daily activities Post Go Live through multiple warehouses.

 

Retail Client(Marks & Spencer) Lead EWM Consultant for IBM

 

Blue printing, Build, Localization SAP EWM                                              Aug 2013 to Feb 2015

·         Requirements gathering Workshops and Blueprinting for eSAP Implementation for Clients International Operations.

·         Led EWM Workshops for Clients Global and Localization Templates

·         Documented BPDD and Visio flows for the EWM solution

·         Designed the HHT transactions for Inbound/Outbound and Internal Operations Processes

·         Build – Responsible for configuring the entire EWM solution.

·         Build – Responsible for Development of CIF objects to sync Master Data, object to execute HHT transactions for the Outbound Process

·         Unit and Integration testing of entire functionality including objects

·         Train the testing team to test the functionality for SIT 1 and SIT 2

·         Responsible for Data Loads – All Master data from ECC to EWM

·         Responsible for all Master Data uploads in EWM for Phase 1

·         Hyper care support for the EWM solution for Phase 1 and Phase 2

·         Responsible for KT to Support team and smooth transition from Project to Support.

·         Handheld Terminal Integration for all warehouse operations using ITS Mobile Ongoing.

·         Outbound process configured using POSC.

·         EWM ECC Integration

·         Configuring Organisation Objects

·         Product data attributes for PACI/SRCI

·         Product data attributes for Replenishment

·         Used Product and HU WT for Simple and Complex Putaway

·         Integrating EWM to Event management

·         Build of Sandpit, Dev and Quality environments.

·         Prototyping DU as part of HU

·         Configured POSC and LOSC processes for Inbound and Outbound

·         Configured VAS in GR and GI

·         Built Packaging Specifications

·         WOCR, Activity Areas, Queues, Resource management and HHT implementation.

·         Built Sandbox, Dev, Test environments.

·         Implemented Cross Dock Merchandise Distribution

·         Implemented Standard Internal Operations Processes for Replenishment and PI.

·         Cross Processes Settings for Exceptions Codes, Resource management, Warehouse Orders WOCR, Warehouse Process Types, LOSC + POSC.

 

 

Brakes Brothers

 

Solutioning and Blue printing SAP WM                                           Nov 2012 to Feb 2013

·         Requirements Gathering  Workshops and Blueprinting for SAP Reengineering

·         Feasibility study and Workshops for SAP EWM for Brakes

·         Prototyping SAP WM solutions for Reengineering solution

·         2 step picking, Near Bin Picking, Voice Integration Blue printing and Solution prototyping

·         FBPL, DPBL and other bespoke picking solutions for Velocity Based Network solutions.

·         Prototyping Multiple pick strategies using Route, Route Range etc for Sales STOs

 

 

EWM solution for 3PL                                                             Mar 2012 to June 2012

·         Business Blueprinting for 3PL.

·         Led team for Blue printing and design workshop sessions for Inbound / Outbound Processing.

·         ERP-EWM CIF integration for Master data.

·         Configured organizational elements (warehouse, storage type, storage section) in the EWM system and established relationship between them.

·         Configured Yard Management eg checkpoint and Yard bins for S & R activities.

·         Dock scheduling & Availability and assigning Marshalling areas to Docks

·         Customized WPT`s for inbound and outbound processes.

·         Configured Auto creation of the warehouse order for Inbound process.

·         Implemented standard Putaway strategies empty bin, addition to exiting stock, general storage

·         Customized process codes for short receivables and exception code for manual bin entry during the warehouse task confirmation.

·         Configured WOCR based on the 3PL`s requirement.

·         Designing of Inbound solution for 3PL phase 1

 

 

Lego Denmark                                                                      Feb 2011 – Dec 2011

EWM lead consultant for Outbound Processes

Lego:
Lego is revamping its IT infrastructure and moving onto Global ERP platform. The project is implementing EWM solution to leverage the best of Breed Supply chain solutions. Lego expects to use EWM for its production, warehousing and distribution activities at all 5 locations.

Responsibilities:

 

Responsible for Outbound processes and interfaces to /from for HBW integration

Responsible for Outbound process and RF Screen enhancements.

Involved in organisation structure discussions

Configured Org structure, OD, ODR, WPT, ODo, Packing Groups, TU, Door,  

Worked on ERP-EWM integration for Master data integration

Testing the build environment for EWM sandbox, dev and quality environments

Designed, Documented, Tested and Implemented Inbound from Production to HBW and non HBW Putaway locations

Customised WPT for inbound from Vendor

Designed, Documented, Tested and Implemented strategy for PSA locations for rework

Designed, Documented, Tested and Implemented Addition to stock WO use of exception code using BADI(on RF)

Implemented Cross Docking fom Inbound/Production/return

Designed, Documented, Tested and Implemented replenishment strategies for (2/3 Step) Picking

Designed, Documented, Tested and Implemented enhancement to create TU/Shipment for STOs Depending on Push or Pull Deployment in Galaxy/EWM. Complexity increased with the use of phased deployment to sites where one Site is Legacy and other is EWM.

Designed, Documented, Tested and Implemented RF Screen enhancement to change cross dock door

Designed, Documented, Tested and Implemented RF screen enhancement to change Source Destination Bins

Designed, Documented, Tested and Implemented RF Screen enhancements to change weight and volume on Hu and HU Type or to facilitate direct loading to lane

Designed, Documented, Tested and Implemented RF Screen enhancements to change pick quantity

Designed, Documented, Tested and Implemented RF screen Enhancement for picking for Production Order /Delivery adding fields Ship to /Production Order and WPT.

Implemented RF Screen for Unloading by ASN and use of HU scan to assign TU to Door and create WT for putaway of the inbound delivery.

Implemented Function Module in Badi Addition to existing stock to avoid use of exception code on RF.

Unit and Integration Testing of the RF screens and the interfaces (WT Create, Confirm, Cancel, Update) between EWM and HBW.

Made the necessary configuration settings to establish integration between ERP and EWM

Created the organisational elements (warehouse, storage type, storage section) in the EWM system and established relationship between them

Configured Warehouse storage types, storage sections, Door, Staging lanes, Activity areas.

Assign WPT and SRCI on Product Masters for Replenishments strategies

Configuring Delivery types, item types, movement type, warehouse process type etc for FIFO in HBW

Configure Delivery types for posting changes to create Inbound/outbound delivery for packaging etc

Configure Delivery types, items types, warehouse process types.

Involved in configuring and test activities for the build
Designing and Writing functional specifications for Interface from EWM to HBW to transmit WT data

Created and Maintained Location and Product master data for EWM.

 

 

 

 

Global Consumer Giant Sweden and Norway                                                        Feb 2010 – Oct 2010 Stockholm/Sweden

EWM lead consultant for IBM

CCDS:
CCDS Sweden and CCDN Norway are implementing SCM EWM with an automated warehouse ASRS system ACTIW. The Norway implementation is going to leverage the Sweden solution. As a lead EWM consultant I am analysing the Swedish solution with the Business to define the Norway TO BE Solution with ASRS. One big difference in the two solutions is Sweden doesn’t have a ASRS (Automated storage and retrieval system) like Norway does

Responsibilities:

·         Analyse Sweden EWM Solution and leverage it to the maximum possible with Norway’s solution.

·         Norway EWM Solution to be automated with ASRS ACTIW WCS.

·         Lead PDD for Norway Solution with Solution and Technical Leads

·         Gap Analysis for the TO BE Solution
Configuration Scope for Norway solution

·         Lead discussions with ACTIW for TO BE solution and interface and messaging between the two systems.

·         Provide inputs for system sizing and performance issues for the TO BE solution

·         Provide RICEFW objects Functional Specifications.

·         Involved in workshops with Business for the to be solution.

·         Design Inbound and Outbound solutions

·         Functional Specifications for Interfaces to and from ACTIW third party ASRS system

·         Enhancements to kick off PPF to ACTIW

·         Reports to synchronise the inventory and status in the two systems

·         Configuration of movement types, delivery types, process type to allow different picking strategies for same product in same activity area.

·         Design Outbound for different order types including Standard, Rush, FSV, Transport loads, Repack, Rework and customer returns.

·         Implement CIF Integration model for ECC to EWM Master Data

·         Configure Delivery types for posting changes to create Inbound/outbound delivery for empties etc

·         Configure Delivery types, items types, warehouse process types.
Designing and Writing functional specifications for Interface from EWM to ACTIW to transmit WT data

·         Configured Warehouse storage types, storage sections, Door, Staging lanes, Activity areas.

·         Assigning staging lanes to Doors

·         Configuring WPT for Replenishments

·         Configuring Delivery types, item types, movement type, warehouse process type etc for LEFO, FEFO and specific SSCC ID requests

·         Designing process flows for Inbound/Outbound and Replenishment

·         Configuring 2 step and 3 step picking for outbound deliveries

·         Writing FS for reports and forms.

·         Part of team for Blue printing and design workshop sessions for Inbound / Outbound Processing with process oriented storage control Layout oriented process control

·         Designed Process flows for Outbound orders

·         Led design sessions for process flow for different outbound orders

·         Wrote multiple FS for Integration between EWM and ACTIW bolt on application

·         Made the necessary configuration settings to establish integration between ERP and EWM

·         Created the organisational elements (warehouse, storage type, storage section) in the EWM system and established relationship between them.

·         Configured Delivery types, item types, activity areas, Warehouse process types etc to handle different outbound orders scenarios

·         Configured Posting changes and inbound delivery into EWM deliveries, WT and WO to create Putaway tasks

·         Planned and Dynamic Cross Docking using Movement type for Fast moving products.

·         Configured PPF to send WT information to ACTIW for WO.

·         Wrote FS for Reports to compare data integrity between two systems.

·         Prepared DRP (Disaster recovery Plan) for two systems and scheduled shut down and synching data when both systems are back up.

·         Used exception codes for eg to confirm SSCC at a different destination.

·         Created and Maintained Location and Product master data for EWM.

·         Loaded Product Master, Customer Master, Packaging specification for build into Dev, Q and Production system

·         Implement Putaway and removal storage control strategies.

·         Configured Packing stations and printers at packing station.

 

Greenlee Textron                                                                  June 2007 – Oct  2008
Chicago/IL

Project lead
Textron:
Greenlee Textron is a unit within Textron. They moved from a traditional warehouse to a state of the art fully automated WCS (warehouse control systems) using SAP WM. I led and successfully implemented the project within extremely tight deadlines and deliverables.

Also provided post implementation support for 6 months.

Responsibilities

·            Team -3 Functional 4 ABAP resources and 2 offshore resources.

·            Held Work shops to define Blue printing and identify business requirement.

·            Developed business scenarios to meet business process requirement.

·            Developed Project plans for Project deliverables, project scoping and staffing.

·            Built Project Plans for Build, Cut Off and Go Live Support to support delivery timelines and budgets.

·            Identified Gap fit scenarios.

·            Identified and staffed resource needs.

·            Led the Development and building of FSD and FMD Documents.

·            Developed and designed the testing scenarios.

·            Led Blue printing and design workshop

·            Designed Process flows for Sales/PO orders

·            Led design sessions for process flow for different Sales/PO orders

·            Wrote multiple FS for Integration between WM and Exacta WMS bolt on application

·            Created the organisational elements (warehouse, storage type, storage section) in the WM system and established relationship between them.

·            Planned and Dynamic Cross Docking using Movement type for Fast moving back ordered parts.

·            Configured PPF to send WT information to Exacta for WO.

·            Wrote FS for Reports to compare data integrity between two systems.

·            Prepared DRP (Disaster recovery Plan) for two systems and scheduled shut down and synching data when both systems are back up.

·            Prioritising TO for Exacta to do specific tasks ahead of others.

·            Developed customised RF flow screen for RF guns.

·            Configuring Wave transfer orders

·            Create storage bin master data using a template.

·            Implement Putaway and removal storage control strategies.

·            Configured Packing stations and printers at packing station.

·            Integration into 3PL like FedEx and the provision tracking numbers online and into SAP documents.

·            Configuration experience in Defining Plant, Shipping Point, Slo