Candidates About

 

Tata Reddy Ravada

SAP MM/IM/WM/EWM Consultant

RANGE OF EXPERIENCE

§  Have 11.5 Years of work experience in the areas of IS-OIL, Chemicals, Consumer Products, and Automotive & Industrial Equipment.

§  Have 8 years of experience in SAP which includes worldwide Implementation, Rollout & supports for the clients like SHELL-IS OIL, DELPHI, Calgon Carbon Japan, AGCO, and AGCO parts etc…

§  Has a strong conceptual understanding of SAP—Material Management (MM) and moderate knowledge on Warehouse Management (WM) and Basic Understanding on Extended Warehouse Management

§  Have knowledge in different processes of Purchase to Pay, Order to Cash, skills include knowledge of Business scenario testing, Gap Analysis.

§  Integration skills with SD, FICO, PP, QM,PM

§  Have knowledge on Mobile Data Entry/Label Management

§  Have worked  interfaces SINBAD,FRED, HUBWOO, VERTEX, TRACK

§  Offering Global offshore support to functional issues in MM/WM

§  Has rich experience in handling the Global Clients

§  Played the role of SAP MM Subject Matter Expert for IBMs 'SHELL' Project

§  Experienced in leading implementation and post go-live support teams

§  Knowledge on Incident/Change/Problem Management Process on Service Manager, Service center, Service Now and Citrix Tools

§  Coordinating in applying Kepner Tregoe (KT) methodology to solve issues.

§  First Contact Restoration (FCR) focal point for MM to improve restoration rate.

§  Audited business deliverables for SOX compliance and involved in discussions towards SOX automation tool.

§  Coordinating as Change Management Focal Point between all stakeholders and drafted documentation on key areas and brainstormed on improvements.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

§  M.E (Industrial Egg) from Andhra University, Vishakapatnam with 71%

§  B.Tech (Mech), from Nagarjuna University, Guntur with 74%

 

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 

§  TATA Consultancy Services: Assistant Consultant .September 2012 – Till Date

§  DELL International Services India Pvt Ltd : ERP Advisor .January 2011 – September 2012

§  IBM India Private Limited: Senior Application Consultant, November 2007 – January 2011

§  Accenture Services Pvt.Ltd. Software Engineer. May 2007 –October 2007

§  Deccan Ferro Alloys Pvt. Ltd: Asst Engineer  from January 2004 –May 2007

 

 

 

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

 

§  GATE SCORE 84.25%  and AICTE –SCHOLARSHIP

§  TOP PERFORMAR AWARD FROM SHELL & IBM—in recognition of consistent outstanding performance.

§  THANKS AWARDS FROM SHELL & IBM-in Appreciation of out of the ordinary assistance

§  Silver Awards FROM DELL – in recognition of who have shown outstanding achievement and have  had an impact for one business segment which positively affects the Business Unit's Fiscal Year Initiatives

§  Received the Customer Delight Award From TCS & DELPHI-In recognition of high CSI

 

 

 

TRAININGS ATTENDED

 

§  SAP Logistics Solution Architecture – in house Training 5 Days

§  MDE/LM- In house Training 10 days

§  SAP WM—In house Training 7 days

§  SAP SRM - In house Training 7 days

§  SAP-Work flow, Nomination, BSP, IS-OIL- In house Training 7 days

§  SAP- EDI, ALE/IDOC -In house Training 3 days

 

 

 

 

SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE – SAP

 

List of SAP Projects:

§  Rollout, Support and Enhancements for DELPHI Account: Assistant consultant for logistics –MM/WM

§  Implementation for Calgon Carbon Japan Account: Enterprise Planning Advisor

§  Rollout, Support and Enhancements for SHELL Account: Senior Application consultant for logistics –MM/WM

§  Implementation & Roll-out AGCO Parts account: Software Engineer for support of logistics –MM for worldwide clients

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights of SAP Projects:

 

 

Client	Delphi-Rollout/Enhancements
Organization	TCS
Role	MM/WM/eWM Consultant
Position	Team Member
Period	September 2012-Till Date

§  Analyze the IT Service Requests and Allocation of Service Requests to concerned Team

§  Review and validate the estimation of Service Requests submitted by Team Members

§  Delivery Plan Preparation for approved IT Service  Requests

§  Following up with the concerned Team Members to meet the delivery on time

§  Developed various reports on Purchasing, Inventory and Invoice verification.

§  Created different forms for various business requirements.

§  Created a new warehouse and assigned various entities.

§  Individually handled plant rollouts.

§  Major process improvements done on various existing processes including bug-fixes.

§  Extensively done testing of the business process at various levels.

§  Conducted performance optimization of various reports and transaction

§  Imparted MM training to junior consultants.

§  Mentoring the MM Team Members

 

 

 

Client	Calgon Carbon Japan
Organization	DELL International Services India Pvt Ltd
Role	MM Consultant
Position	Team Lead
Period	January 2011-September 2012

 

§  Worked as an Active Team lead in all phases of Implementation

§  Coordinated with Off Shore team with Onsite Project Manager and Client Team.

§  Reporting the Daily delivery activities to Onsite Project Manager

§  Prepared Functional Design Documents as per the client requirement for the different RICE components

§  Involved in data migration of Master Data from legacy to SAP R/3 system

§  As Is/To Be, business blue printing, prototyping, detailed configuration, training, documentation, testing, data uploading, go-live implementation, after go-live support

§  Worked in MM areas of Inventory management, Purchasing, subcontracting, third-party, consignment,  Stock transports, requisitions, service entry, info records, release strategies, master records

§  Implementation and configuration experience in MM Requisition to pay (Procure to pay) cycle, Split valuation, External Service Management, Logistics Invoice Verification (MIRO), MRRL (ERS), Output determination and pricing procedures

§  Testing and post implementation support of various areas in MM

 

Client	SHELL-ERP-GDMT/Projects
Organization	IBM India Private Limited
Role	MM/WM Consultant
Position	Team Member
Period	November 2009 to January 2011

 

§  Developed a new program to automated process in the Chemicals GSAP and US Magellan systems that allow the Final Invoice and the Delivery Complete indicators (Item Invoice tab) to be checked automatically whenever the IR qty matches the PO qty on a Material Purchase Order.

§  Deactivation of Warehouse facilities from Existing Business in China

§  Testing and post implementation support of various areas in MM/WM related to the client business process.

§  Sourcing Maintenance Tool has been developed  into the Magellan/Luminon SAP environments as well as into the Chemicals GSAP environment

§  Designed and Supported HuWoo Middleware Upgrade from BIZTALK to XI  Project

 

 

 

 

 

Client	SHELL- ERP-Chemicals & Magellan - Support
Organization	IBM India Private Limited
Role	MM/WM Consultant
Position	Team Member
Period	November 2009 to January 2011

 

§  Offering Global offshore support to functional issues in MM/WM

§  Integration testing of a new company code setup for US Magellan.

§  Monitor IDOC failures and supported resolution process

§  Worked with OSS notes related to system problems and coordinated with technical team to implement those notes

§  Configured new material types as per requirements of client and created several valuation classes and account category references

§  Present responsibilities include handling the daily tickets as per the agreed SLAs

§  Handling new enhancements through GDMT request.

§  First Contact Restoration (FCR) focal point for MM to improve restoration rate

§  Delivery of Enhancement objects - Analysis, Solution Design and testing.

§  Resolving all identified issues and tracking the progress through a self-developed log

§  Created more than 10 plants for procurement purpose

§  Reviewed ageing issues and suggested measures to resolve them

 

 

 

 

§  Client	§  SHELL- GSAP - Support
§  Organization	§  IBM India Private Limited
§  Role	§  MM Consultant
§  Position	§  Team Member
§  Period	§  November 2008 to December 2009

 

§   Liaising with GSAP support team in terms of post-production support

§  The priorities comprises of interfaces trouble shooting in Procurement, inventory and invoice verification modules of SAP

§  Basically handling priorities issues from the user in terms of correction and also resolution

§  Conducted Process Review, Project Health Check Review and Internal Audits

§  Created more than 20 plants for the GSAP for different countries

§  Responsibilities include handling the daily tickets as per the agreed SLAs

 

 

 

 

§  Client	§  SHELL- ERP-SOPE - Support
§  Organization	§  IBM India Private Limited
§  Role	§  MM Consultant
§  Position	§  Team Member
§  Period	§  November 2007 to January 2011

 

§  Involved in the KT (knowledge transfer) process and prepare the documentation

§  Present responsibilities include handling the daily tickets as per the agreed SLAs

§  Basically handling priorities issues from the user in terms of correction and also resolution.

§  The priorities comprises of interfaces trouble shooting in Procurement, inventory and invoice verification modules of SAP. .

§  Involved in designing the Test Strategy for Integration testing

§  Handling new enhancements through GDMT request.

§  Remote configuration of purchase requisition set-up for entire china business.

§  Intercompany stock transport setup for the region of Dubai and Oman.

§  Worked extensively on Stock Transport Order and Stock Transfer

§  As a Functional consultant in Weekly reporting to management and the status of work and client feedback

§  Delivery of Enhancement objects - Analysis, Solution Design and testing.

§  Approaching problems by structuring own work to meet deadlines and quality expectations.

§  Functional analysis of the specifications provided by the user and preparing the FD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Client	AGCO/AGCO Parts – Implementation/Roll-out
Organization	Accenture Services Pvt.Ltd
Role	MM Consultant
Position	Team Member
Period	May 2007 to October  2007

 

 

§  Responsible for full cycle implementation of MM module: project preparation, business blueprint, realization, final preparation and finally go live & support using ASAP methodology

§  Set up of organization structure related to MM & their respective assignments

§  Managed master data for Material Master, Vendor Master, Customer Master, Info Records, Source Lists, and BOMs

§  Configured Inter and Intra company stock transfer

§  Assisted technical team to develop interface for inventory movements with SAP and other legacy systems

§  Performed configuration enhancements for MM module (Purchasing, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory, and Invoice Verification) to meet the Business needs for the plant

§  Worked on GI/GR for Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Stock transport orders, Inbound and Outbound deliveries

§  Configured the Inter & Intra company stock transfer and handling of special stocks and special procurement types like Sub-contracting, and Consignment

§  Configured Logistics invoice verification with over and under limits, and established ERS (Evaluated Receipt Settlement) for preferred vendors

§  Performed unit testing and integration testing for custom transactions

§  Worked with end users and prepared training material for Purchasing and Inventory Management process

§  Customizing of Master data like Material Master, Vendor master, BOM, Work centers, Routings

§  Co-ordination with technical team for customization of newly developed processes

§  Configured documents and prepared user Procedure Manual

§  Trained key users on Business Scenarios

§  Preparation of Functional Specifications, development Specifications and Test Cases

§  Configuration and maintenance of the system, replication of Data

§  Post implementation supports to end users to solve their day today problems they face while working on SAP system.

§  Approaching problems by structuring own work to meet deadlines and quality expectations.

§  Handling the RFCs (Request for Changes which includes enhancements of standard SAP)

§  Analyzing and discussing the Client requirements.

§  Preparing the Functional Documents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE – NON SAP

 

Deccan Ferro Alloys Pvt .Ltd: January 2004 – May 2007

 

§  High degree of Professional Knowledge and proven competence in the areas of, Material Planning, Purchase, Stores, Inventory Management & Control.

§  Should have wide experience in Negotiations and Drafting & Monitoring of Contracts,

§  Consolidation of Purchase requisitions from user departments and Process for procurement

§  Issuing RFQs and selecting L1 Vendors

§  Follow–up with vendors for prompt supply of materials

§  Co-coordinating with finance department for vendor payments

§  Part of team in vendor evaluation programme

§  Monitoring the stock position & Re–order level of C-class items for procurement

§  Participated in quality improvement program for incoming materials

 

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER INFORMATION

 

Languages                                            : Fluent in English and Telugu

                                                           

Technical Details:

 

Operating System:                                : Windows 8, Windows 95 / 98, Windows NT / 2000,                  

Communication Softare:                      : Lotus Notes ,Out-look

ERP Packages:                                                             : SAP R/3 MM (4.7E, 4.6C), ECC 6.0

Application Packages                           : MS Office Application,