Candidates About

Srini Peddigari

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

 

• Materials Management Functional Analyst/Developer with 10 Years of Experience in SAP R/3; ECC implementation, customization, configuration & upgrades in various industries.
• Expert in all aspects of the SAP implementation process, business process analysis, system configuration, testing, end-user and project-team training, and production support.
• Profound experience in SAP Material Management Procure to Pay (PTP) & Request to Pay (RTP) processes, with Sales & Distribution and FI integration.
• Master Records - Worked extensively with master records by maintaining different material types, internal and external number assignment, configure material groups, configure partner schema, assign partner roles to vendor, material group, and user departments for material master and defined payment terms for vendor master, Info record.
• Purchasing – Configured and customized Purchase Requisition, Purchase Orders, Setting of Document Type, Source Determination, Number Assignment for Internal and External Purchasing document. Configure release procedure with/without Classification. Settings for special procurement process including Subcontracting, Vendor consignments and pipeline.
• Strong experience in designing and implementing solutions in Inventory Management(IM), Logistic Invoice verification (LIV) & Vendor invoice management (VIM).
• Expert in Data Migration using LSMW.
• Expertise in SAP upgrade, production support, rollout & enhancement from business analysis, testing, cut-over & migration, go-live assistance till post implementation support.
• Spearheaded the SAP Platform Standards and Governance for HPE Services SAP Environment. Lead Architecture Review Board. Core member of SAP Platform Design Forum with focus on adopting the SAP Best Practices.
• Have knowledge of SAP’s modern technologies like S/4 HANA
• Defined S4HANA (Single ERP) design review and approval Process for HPE.
• Technical Lead for critical projects during Hewlett Packard Separation (SMO and DMO).
• Competently managed SAP R/3 development projects from offshore and onsite locations.
• Have 8 years of Project Management experience that includes projects managed using Waterfall & Agile-Scrum.
• Safe Agile Practitioner & flavored development methodologies (Waterfall, Scrum, Agile framework).
• As Advisor/Master @ HPE/DXC, Engaged in Project Resources Estimation, Resource Allocation based on On-shore/Offshore model, Resource Management, Conflict/Issue Resolution and oversee Production Support.
• Designed and prepared training materials for Super and End Users, problem reporting processes and best practices to resolve the production issues without significant down time of system.
• Experience with diverse, multi-disciplined business professionals, strong interpersonal and project management skills.
• Excellent communicator, with emphasis on meeting the client’s SAP requirements, capable of making professional presentations and quick learner with an ability to rapidly adapt to emerging technologies.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

 

• SAP ERP ECC                          :  R/3 4.6, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0
• SAP Modules                           :  MM, SD and FI/CO
• Tools                                        :  Visio, MS Project, Power point, Word, Excel
• Programming Languages        :  ABAP (Debugging Skills)
• Operating Systems                  :  Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista
• Test Management Tool             :  HP QC, ALM 11

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

 

Organization	Duration	Designation / Role
DXC. Technology	Apr 2017 onwards	SAP MM Solution Architect - Architect Review Board. Core Member - SAP Platform Design Forum. Project Lead and Senior SAP consultant for Procurement Projects.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Houston, Texas	Dec 2015 – March 2017	MM Functional SME - HP Separation Projects SMO, DMO & SDMO. Tech lead for Global software supply chain Business.
Hewlett Packard Ltd., Houston, Texas	Feb 2011 – Nov 2015	SAP MM Lead - SAP Upgrade, P2P, VIM
Bell Helicopter Textron, Fort Worth, Texas	Feb 2010 – Jan 2011	SAP MM Functional Lead - SAP Solution Center Production Support
Hewlett Packard Ltd., Houston, Texas	Jan 2008 – Jan 2010	SAP MM Consultant

 

KEY ROLES PERFORMED:

 

• SAP MM Solution Architect/Advisor – >1 YEAR
• SAP MM Functional Lead/SME – 6 years
• SAP MM Functional Lead – 1 Years
• SAP MM Consultant - 2 years

 

RECOGNITIONS:

 

• Awarded HP EGIT Quality Excellence Award
• HP CIO Excellence Award
• HP Recognition for Successful SAP ECC EHP6 Upgrade

 

Immigration STATUS :   USA Citizen

 

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

 

Employer: HP/HPE/DXC, Houston Texas                                                          Feb ’11 – Current

SAP MM Functional Analyst

SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

 

About HP/HPE/DXC: HP was one of the leading and largest manufacturers of Enterprise servers, Desktops, Laptops, Printers and imaging products. HP serves everyone from consumers to small and mid-sized businesses to enterprises to public sector customers with an extensive portfolio of market-leading solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of each customer segment. HP had revenues of over $120 Billion per year. It has one of the world’s largest implementation of SAP. HP has separate set of SAP systems for master data, order management, parts supply chain, services and Finance. HP underwent in to HPE/HPI in 2015 and HPE/DXC in 2017. DXC is a IT Consulting Company providing technical IT Services to HPE, HPI, Micro Focus and Internal DXC IT.

 

Project: SGI Business Integration

 

• Role: MM Technical Lead for Project

·         Involved in business discussion for defining scope of the work in SAP and helped Procurement and Finance team decide the scope of the project.

·         Prepared application design document with functional specification for Procurement Process.

• Configured Material master & Vendor master
• Worked on Vendor Evaluation, RFQ/ Quotation/Quotation Entry and analysis.
• Configured new PO doc types and mapped them to varied procurement processes.
• Configured Purchasing process including Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders.
• Defined PO Release strategies and implemented PO Release Procedures.
• Worked on pricing procedures based on the client’s requirements using the condition technique through the creation of new condition tables, access sequence & condition types assigning them to customized pricing procedure.
• Configured Valuation and Account Assignment including definition of Valuation Control, grouping of Valuation Areas, definition of Valuation Classes, Account groupings and Automatic G/L Account Assignment.

·         Actively Participated in integration testing and quickly resolved issues during User acceptance testing and gained business confidence.

·         Prepared user manuals, Flow diagram for ETE business process and provided web-cast record for live demo.

·         Participated in Go live activities and manual task list in production environment.

 

Project: Micro Focus

 

• Role: Technical Lead for Project – Extraction of BLOBS (Binary Large ObjetcS)
• Lead the team to design a solution to extract > 600,000 BLOBS from Software Contracts, Associated Quotes and Invoices
• Delivered all the BLOBS via firewall to MF File Share Server.
• Supported UAT and Warranty defects resolution.
• Managed the Move to Production of solution and supported the warranty that recorded zero defects.

 

Project: HPE divestiture project (DMO-Everett)

 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise divestiture was announced in 2016. HPE divestiture included spin-off Enterprise Services(Compass) to CSC and formation of DXC Technology. HPE SAP Instances were cloned for Spin-off (DXC). Nearly 145 interfaces with 130 partners were successfully migrated, most of the interfaces had to be rebuild and in some cases even middleware were changed, amounting to fresh designs.

 

• Overall Architect in finalizing the strategy of procurement processes separation which are Compass portfolio specific to cloned SAP instances and cleansing of Compass portfolio data in HPE SAP instances.
• Met and mutually agreed with all SAP MM Compass SMEs on their disposition and solution.
• Prepared the Application Design Document and Functional Specification for Compass Procurement Data cleansing in HPE SAP instances.
• Lead HPE Service SAP Platform design/solution forum for all portfolio procurement process on HPE Services SAP disposition.
• Managed & integral part of one of the most critical teams that managed interfaces between SAP and various partner systems, depending on the post-split dispositions of each system
• Spearheaded testing of all procurement processes across all the portfolios on the integrity and success of split/migration programs.

 

Project: DMO – GSSC

 

• Role: Technical Lead and SME for Global Software Supply Chain (GSSC) Portfolio.
• DMO is responsible for splitting Enterprise services from HPE and I was lead the split of Global Software Supply Chain (GSSC) Portfolio from HPE to DXC. Technology. GSSC is the software supply chain business of HPE, which dealt with software manufacturing (HP software and 3rd party software), licensing and delivery. This business had revenue of over $40 million per year.
• Moving the GSSC business to new SAP boxes and new company codes
• Converting internal order flows to HPE to Trade order flows
• Coordinated set-up of FI master data
• Set-up flows with master data systems, non-SAP OM and production planning systems and Finance system

 

Project: HPE and HPI Split (SMO)

 

Hewlett Packard Company underwent a split into two companies i.e. Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc., HP Service SAP Instance had planned to clone the System into two. HP Service SAP had 7 Business Portfolios which were split between the cloned SAP instances. There were approximately 180+ Partner systems (upstream & downstream) with 270+ various interface connections which were established in the new cloned system.

 

• Overall Architect in finalizing the strategy of procurement processes split which are specific to each portfolio across two company instances
• Lead HPS Service SAP Platform design/solution for procurement on HPS SAP disposition.
• Met and mutually agreed with all SAP MM SMEs across portfolios on their disposition and solution.
• Liaised with external vendor SNP and successfully coordinated in the data migration/data deletion between the existing and cloned SAP instances.
• Spearheaded testing of all procurement processes across all the portfolios on the integrity and success of split/migration programs.

 

Project: SMO – GSSC

 

• Role: Project manager and SME for Global software supply chain
• SMO project is responsible for splitting HP in to HPE and HPI, which is one of the largest split. I managed the movement of GSSC business from HP’s systems to HPE systems.
• Prepared the Application Design Document and Functional Specification for GSSC Portfolio Data cleansing in HPI SAP instances.

• Spearheaded testing of all GSSC processes across in HPE Instances on the integrity and success of split/migration programs.

 

Project: IGSO – VIM Implementation

 

SAP Vendor Invoice Management implementation as part of Accounts Payable Workflow Program delivering new workflow for Procure to Pay process including OCR (Optical Character Recognition) automation functionality for Vendor Invoices and overall integrated solution from invoice scanning to processed Invoice driving operational efficiencies, reducing manual indexing activity, increasing invoice turnaround time, enhanced reporting and visibility of Invoice status.

 

• As Project Architect for the implementation of this SAP Add on to our EG SAP Platform I took care of ensuring that the right decisions were taken from an Architecture & Design perspective and in keeping with Platform standards and without impacting baseline solutions when it came to integration of the solution and its supporting components.
• I ensured that any custom developments were scrutinized to assess their validity and understand the reason why a standard alternative was not available. Assessed any potential risk impacts to existing business process and system design providing guidance and direction to this development team who were new to working on our Platform.

 

Project: HP Services SAP Platform Standards & Governance

 

EG SAP Platform ARB & PDF/TDF (Process & Technical Design) Review Forums. Having 1 code base, 5 IT/DS Teams (with 800 SAP ECC Developers & 100 SAP BW Developers) doing concurrent development to provide innovative solutions to their respective business partners across 10 business portfolios where any breakdown in the SAP environment would impact HP’s Total Revenue and disrupt those business portfolios it is therefore clear why the Platform Reviews of Architecture, Design and Configuration & Code are required.

 

• Established Architecture, Platform/Process & Technical Design review and approval processes as part of the SAP Platform Standards & Governance project.
• Spearheaded the ARB Forum with weekly reviews of architectural changes implemented to address ever evolving business processes transformations.
• A key MM Subject Matter Expert Reviewer on our EG Platform Process & Technical Design Review Forum and also in ARB (Architecture Review Board) Forum, I have provided in-depth accurate design analysis and recommendations that are widely accepted with the reviews being in safe hands after receiving a good balance of scrutiny and support to all the Development teams and guided them on making the right solution decisions.

 

Project: HP – Upgrade ECC 6.0 EHP4 to ECC 6.0 EHP6

 

HP Service SAP upgraded their Enterprise Business platform from ECC 6.0 EHP4 to ECC 6.0 EHP6 and enabled 38 New Business Function for future scalability.

• I was Functional Lead and collaborated upgrade activities with Project Team consisted of SMEs from 7 portfolios, onshore and offshore development team.
• Activated 38 New Business Functions, coordinated and tested the impact on baseline.
• Assisted in Upgrade of all the system in the landscape (Sandbox, Development box, 4 Testing Instances, 4 Regression Instances and 4 Production Instances).
• Coordinated with SAP AG for issue resolution.
• Worked with Production Release Team on Hour by Hour schedule.

 

Client: Bell Helicopter Textron, Fort Worth, Texas                                           Feb’10 – Jan’11

SAP MM Functional Consultant/Project Management

Project: P2P Bell - SAP Solution Center Production Support

SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

 

• Onsite PM Coordinator at Bell Facility representing STI (Satyam Technology Incorporated, USA) providing P2P (Procure to Pay) production support.
• Provided development support as requested by the Bell SAP Solution Center team and also performed the role of POC between onsite and offshore team, Responsibilities included but not limited to Identification of potential defects and bugs for immediate fix and assign enhancements, to Mahindra Satyam consultants based on interaction with the SAP/Business team. Served as query resolution for the offshore team by coordinating with the Bell team. Ensured timely delivery of resolutions and reports to Bell. Carried out Integration Testing in Quality Testing System for all deliverables due to ITAR issues. Provided weekly status reports to Bell SAPSC IT Team Manager.
• Developed Vendor Master Interface between SAP and ARIBA (I-168/I-175). Enhanced the data flow with vendor status, PIEA and Annual Cert Expiry date columns and non-generation of duplicate DUNS numbers.
• Delivered E-146 i.e. development of SAP Vendor Master update with Legacy Vendor Number in search term for easy flow to ARIBA and MRP Legacy systems.
• Configured New Tooling PR i.e. ZNBF for creation manually and linked it to ZBEC, ZB01, ZB02 PO doc types. Provided functional specifications for changes to I-136 Interface that sends the PRs' to RAPIDS Repository
• Configured ZBPO print output to automatically default when PO print Preview is viewed and routed it for printing on a local printer.
• Suggested solution for outbound ORDERS05 Idocs intermittently losing the format @ E1EDP19 segment. Resolved the special character "#" interference in transmittance of PO header and item clauses to suppliers.
• Worked with SAP Basis team in setting up the e-mail distribution list (t-code - SO15) for ARIBA PO outbound IDOCs fallout error notification.
• Created ZNB5 tooling PR report for VISIPRISE to report any new PR’s or any changes to existing PR’s of type ZNB5 (tooling) since the previous query 
• Created EWIN report for SAP Buy Parts for downstream rejection of parts so that the parts can be linked with the supplier for repairs or replacement.

 

 

Client: H P, Houston Texas                                                                               Mar’09 – Jan'10

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Project: EDS Integration – Mixed Orders

SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

 

• Gathered Client’s Business requirements for implementation of Mixed Orders Project.
• Drove the Prototype model for the required business process in SAP and presented to business team as part of design blueprint approval.
• Developed/coordinated Application Design Documents for Contracts, Quotes, PR, PO as per the Business Requirements
• Coordinated with developers in construction of SAP solutions for EDS – HP Integration business processes i.e. Sell With, Sell to, Sell Through, interface development between TSG IT System (Compass) and upstream Solutioning Systems (Watson, eZConfig, Ezprs, Eclipse) and downstream Supply Chain Systems (Fusion, Velocity, Vista)
• Worked on SD master data like customer master, master data for sold-to party, ship-to party, bill-to party and customer groups.
• Configured account groups for Customer Master: field selection, assignment to partner functions, definition of new partner functions and partner determination
• Configured Account Groups for Trade Purchasing Vendors (com2), Accounting Vendors (MAVE, ZAVE, XAVE, PAVE, MAVR, CAVR, and EAVR etc.), Intercompany Purchasing Vendors (ICVN), Intercompany Accounting Vendors (FIIC, ZICV).
• Defined number ranges for vendor master, Customer Master.
• Set up the vendor and customer master in Development and Test boxes for Unit testing, SIT and BIT/UAT.
• Developed Buyer and Seller Relationship Matrix including the Company codes, Sales org, Sales Division, Distribution Channel, Purchase Orgs, Purchase Groups, Selling and Buying entity codes.
• Defined PR, PO document types (YI1, YI2, ZMBS), Configured Pricing procedure ZS0000 with List Price, MOU Price, TAC price
• Worked on PO split development based on upfront Sales Orders, Ship to Party, Watson ID and the Solution ID
• Setup WWAS PR Release approvals
• Involved in PO/SO idoc mapping for i SAP flow.
• Delivered VISTA PO Output Solution to communicate Compass with VISTA supplying System for volume products procurement.  
• Prepared the Test Scripts for different scenarios (Sell With, Sell to, Sell Through) for upload in Test Lab and execution.
• Spearheaded the Unit testing and SIT testing via Quality Center (QC). Generated reporting documents on SIT testing status for SIT/BIT Monitoring Teams.

 

 

Client: H P, Houston Texas                                                                               Jan’08 – Feb’ 09

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Project: IGSO/GPSC – Release 6.0 & 7.0

SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

 

• Participated in two full life cycle project implementations – IGSO Release 6.0 and Release 7.0
• Supported the SAP implementation roll out in 46 countries across the globe – Americas, EMEA and APJ Regions.
• Developed Application Design Documents for business processes in scope and delivered the Solutions.
• Implemented Solutions for Several Business processes for Intercompany Replenishment of good materials, Sell back of good and defective materials, CSN Labor Payments and Adjustments, 3rd Party and External Procurement.
• Configured Enterprise Structure - Company Codes, Purchasing Organizations, Purchasing groups, MRP controllers, Plants, Storage locations.
• Configured External & Inter Company purchasing Vendor and Accounting Vendor Master Data - Account groups, number ranges.
• Setup Inter Company, CSN and External Vendors and corresponding Accounting Vendors in DVL, NTX.
• Configured Vendor - Customer (EDSDC, EDPAR) relationship for Inter Company Procurement process. Configured the relationship between CSN Customers and Vendors.
• Implemented ALE distribution model between NT4 and NTX, PPC and PXX for Info records, Scheduling Agreements, Source List Flow.
• Involved in Vendor ALE setup Between SRS and NTX (Test box), QXX (Dual Test Box), PXX (Production Box).
• Setup Customer and Vendor conversion rules, partner profiles
• Configured PO output condition records.
• Implemented Release Strategies for Purchase Requisition and Purchase Orders.
• Created new condition types, condition record, condition table, access sequence & new intercompany PO/SO pricing procedure.
• Worked on configuration of Inventory Management: Number Assignment, Field Selection (Goods receipts, Goods issue/Transfer postings).
• Configured Inventory Management parameters for all Goods Movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, Stock Transfers and Transfer Postings.
• Actively participated in unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, and resolved issues during testing phase.
• Dual Testing Environment Set up – User ID, Password setup for SRS connection to QXX.
• Quality Center coordinator for Test scripts execution and reporting to the management.
• Actively participated in RTP Activities, TR, SR Validations, Manual Tasks performance
• Post GO-Live Production Support and IM Tickets management via HP Service Center

• Involved in End user training and development of Business Process Procedures Training documents.

 

ATTRIBUTES:

 

·         Persistent and focused.

·         A creative and lateral thinker.

·         Able to assimilate and organize information from a wide variety of sources.

·         Able to work effectively in a group, sharing facilities, information and enthusiasm.

·         Disciplined work habits.  

·         Able to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.

·         Helpful and encouraging of others.

·         Friendly and outgoing.

EDUCATION:

M.S, UAS, Bangalore, India.

AWARDS RECEIVED:

• Gold Medal in M.S.
• Professional Achievement Award, Public Speaking Award &Technical Presentation Award.
• Received awards from Minister of Citrus & transport, Belize; Governors of Quintana Roo and Tamaulipas States, Mexico for technical co-operation and achievements.