Candidates About

 

Ipsita (Ipsy) Banerjee

Summary:

·         Over 12+ year of industrial experience which includes 4+ years of SAP MM implementation experience

·         Completed 2 end to end implementations

·         Knowledge of business processes in various (chemical, manufacturing, and retail) industries.

·         Knowledge of Solution Manager.

·         Hands on experience of MM module with integration and cross functional application experience of various other modules like MM-WM, MM-SD, and MM-FI

·         Profound knowledge of ASAP Methodology all the way from Business blue printing to Go-Live & support

·         Conducted Business Meeting to evaluate the business requirements and to analyze the GAPs.

·         Developed and tested various scenario based specification for RICEF objects.

·         Developed functional specification to interface SAP with other various external systems in Logistic.

·         Effectively analyzed and mapped complex business process using Best Business Practices.

·         Worked in LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench) for migration of data from legacy systems for master data such as Material and Vendor Master Records.

·         Extensively involved in customizing the MM organization structure.

·         Configured plants, purchase organizations, reference purchase organization, purchasing group, intercompany and intracompany STO. Maintained release procedures for purchasing requisitions, purchase orders.

·         Developed functional specification for PO acknowledgement via e-mail & EDI notification.

·         Worked extensively with master records by maintaining different types of material, industrial sectors and user departments for material master.

·         Configured vendor master with the creation of different account group, usage of partner functions, payment terms and different number ranges accordingly various business scenarios.

·         Configured new document type for external purchasing documents such as purchase order (third party sales order generated POs and plant maintenance order generated POs), Stock transfer order, Release order for Contracts & Scheduling Agreement.

·         Created documentation for End User Training using solution manager.

·         Effectively involved and developed testing strategy for the System Functional Testing, Unit testing, Integration testing & Regression testing

·         Knowledge of Ariba

·         Experience using several implementation tools and aides like, Microsoft Visio Business Process Modeler, Microsoft Project, M.S PowerPoint, SharePoint, NetMeeting for Teleconferencing and presenting SAP Demos and Presentations remotely.

 

Sap Experience:

 

Project: -  AXALTA Coating Systems (August 2017- Present)         

Role: SAP MM Consultant (SAP Implementation Project)

SAP FC Implementation from ORACLE 9i

·         Worked in the SAP MM team helping with SAP MM Data Object transformations – Vendor Master Files (LFA1, LFB1, LFBK, LFM1 tables).

·         Transformation of Outline Agreement Files (for all material types), Purchase Information Records (including Consignment Info Records & Subcontracting Info Records), Source List for Uploads.

·         Worked in the team responsible for business process mappings, plant operations from RTP perspective, creating Systematic Set up and configurations For Plant & Purchasing Organizations, Purchasing groups, Inter-company & Intra-company STO setups, Consignment Orders, Subcontracting Orders, Quota Arrangements (which was eventually deemed not relevant for the project), Third Party Sales Orders.

·          Was involved in Integration testing with WM, PP, SD, and FI.

·         Did onsite End-User Training

·         Involved with Cutover activities, and Go-Live.

·         End-user support Post Go-Live (Hypercare)

                                                                                                                                             

Project: - Axalta Coating Systems, Glen Mills, PA (Jan 2016 – Dec2016)

Role: SAP MM Consultant                                                                                                                                                       

Full Cycle Implementation

·         Worked closely with business members of Procure to Pay business functions (Purchasing, R&D, Supply Chain Planning, Inventory Management) to facilitate effective solution implementations and provided knowledge transfer of system functionality to Super Users, Subject Matter Experts and end users.

·         Analyzed business process gaps and identified solution alternatives and guidance to business and IT stakeholders for selecting the best solutions for closing the gaps.

·         Worked closely with ABAP developers to define programming requirements and test programming solutions.

·         Provided production support for SAP MM and integration points with FI/CO, SD, QM, and PP modules.

·         Worked closely with end users to prioritize and managed completion of support tickets. Tracked and reported MM support metrics.

·         Managed projects assigned through the full project lifecycle including managing and coordinating the work of consultants when necessary.

·         Lead discussions with the business to analyze, configure and model processes in SAP.

·         Modified, tested and validated system configuration. Prepared detailed functional specifications for development activities including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms.

·         Built and executed unit testing, integration and regression testing (build test cases, perform tests, and make changes to configuration or processes based on results).

·         Documented and controlled all changes made to production systems via change control process.

·         Extensively involved in configuration of Purchasing organization, purchasing group, STO setup, PO doc

·         Used functional knowledge in MM, WM, SD, Logistics, and LSMW to solve issues. 

·         Set up batch jobs and Variant configurations for various business groups

·         Provided post-production support on day-to-day activities performed in SAP

·         End user training and documentation of user manuals, training material.

 

Project: - Saint Gobain, Valley Forge, PA (Feb 2015– Nov 2015)

Role: - SAP MM Consultant                                                                                                                       

Support, Integration and Enhancements

·         Involved in various integration projects and tasks. Involved in day to day business support activities.

·         Based on Business requirement worked on various Enhancement, Forms, Reports, and Interfaces and in new developments for fundamental business requirements like Legal Entity Changes to accomplished SAP integration Project.

·         Captured business requirements during business process workshop

·         Captured various AS-IS business flows to analysis the GAPs with TO-BE business requirement.

·         Worked with the Implementation team which involved in working with the Organizational structure, master data setup authorizations and IMG hierarchy based on the legacy system structure.

·         Worked on SD – MM integration for sales order process.

·         Developed various functional specifications for Enhancements, Forms and Reports and closely worked with ABAP team to meet business requirement for Support and Integration purposes.

·         Based on Client user requirement worked with ABAP team to develop various custom (Z type) reports.

·         Day to day troubleshooting of user requirements in STO, Transfer Orders Confirmations, Billing, Delivery, Purchasing Documents, BOM, Master Data updates including Account Groups, Partner functions, Number ranges, Account determination, Invoicing, AP and Archiving.

·         Worked as test lead in development of application Test Plan and User Acceptance Test Plan along with the Process Owners and Business users.

·         Carried out Unit testing, Integration testing and solving error during User Acceptance test by Business users.

·         Extensively involved in the preparation of end-user documents and provided knowledge transfer through numerous training sessions to Process owner, Power user and End-Users.

·         Provide Inventory Cutover and Post GO-Live support to continue flow of Outbound and Inbound Processes.

 

Project: - Limited Brands, Columbus, OH                                                                                                                     Jan 2014 – Aug 2014

Role: - SAP MM Consultant                                                                                                                                    

Full Life Cycle Implementation

·         Involved in discussions conducted with core business team for collecting data and requirements for Blueprint workshop.

·         Involved in designing, testing and support activity for development of functional specs for RICEFW objects.

·         Defined functional specifications for the Release Procedures of external documents (Purchase Orders) and Purchase Requisitions for Procurement using 032 class types and with classifications.

·         Extensively involved in configuration of Material master record, vendor master record, Master Data for Vendor, Materials and Bill of Materials (BOM), Recipe management.

·         Involved in Customized plant parameters for material requirement planning (MRP), consumption based planning and MRP information of material master is dumped to the legacy system from SAP.

·         Configured account groups for field selections, number ranges and partner functions for vender masters.

·         Determination and assignment of Partner Schema to document types (PR & PO) and account group (vendor).

·         Used functional knowledge in MM to solve issues in data loads. 

·         Involved in procure-to-pay (P2P) processes for Purchase Req, Purchase order, goods receipt and Invoicing.

·         Involved in Preparation and documentation of the Test Scenarios and Test Cases.

·         Involved in Unit Testing, Functional Integration Testing, Business Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing.

·         Provided post-production support on day-to-day activities performed in SAP

·         End user training and documentation of user manuals, training material.

 

Acindo Group LLC. North Brunswick (Jan 2003 – Nov 2014)

Role as Business Analyst / Project Manager

·         Designed procurement software that efficiently handled full procurement cycle including but not limited to RFI / RFP / RFQ, requisitions, and purchase orders for goods, services, and contingent workforce. The system was designed to handle complete procure-to-pay cycle along with an approval system for the vendor management team. Features included complete procurement cycle, vendor entry, source list, goods and service list, order history, time entry, delivery confirmation, invoice generation, interviews and vendor agreements.

•        Designed the web based (Java, J2EE, Tomcat server) and mobile (Android) procurement software for minority businesses, Website design and implementation for insurance with DNA, in-house candidate tracking software (PHP), etc.

•        Responsible for requirements gathering, writing business requirement specifications, process flow documentation.

•        Led process improvement focus team.

•        Conducted daily monitoring of onshore and offshore development team.

•        Worked in the QA team and with development to track bug fixes. 

•        Developed user documentation and as well as scripts for functional usability testing.

•        Managed team size of 5 members to 30 members.

 

 

 

 

Role as Director, Sales & Marketing, Client Services, Strategic Planning

 

•        Created a more responsive and market-driven organization that resulted in the increase of revenue from $4M to $16M in 6 years.  

•        Directly responsible for the successful management and operation of the Sales & Marketing department, the product   implementation   team   and   the   client service managers. This included business analysts, project managers, and client relationship managers of over 20 clients

•        Integrated the technical support, client relationship management, and product implementation teams to create synergy and improve communication, resulting in significant improvement in the customer experience

•        Implemented changes to the recruiting processes to understand client requirement, speaking to and screening of candidates, candidate submission

•        Improved call management and candidate tracking methodology by approx. 40%

•        Conceptualized, designed, and led the software development team for candidate tracking and vendor management systems.

•        Managed client services team to develop and implement a shared knowledge base tool, internal communication regarding client status and history improved to 98%

•        Provided sales presentations to clients which outlined company services

•        RFI, RFQ, RFP and live reverse auctions using several procurement systems including Ariba Buyer.

•        Managed client services, sales, and account management departments and provided reports to Investors

 

Education:

Bachelor of Science: A.M.I.E. / B. Tech in Electronics & Telecommunication, Institution of Engineers  

PDP, Business Management from Tuck University (Dartmouth, New Hampshire)

 

Six Sigma Green Belt