
Anup Kumar Daruka
- SAP SD Consultant
- Sunnyvale, CA
- Member Since May 11, 2023
Anup Kumar Daruka
· 9+ years of experience as SAP SD Consultant in Manufacturing, Retail, Pharma & Healthcare industries.
· SAP Expertise includes Project, Enhancement, Support engagement, Testing and Upgrade.
· Worked as a Team lead, Anchor, coordinator and consultant in different projects.
· Worked on Project estimation, Requirement gathering, Blue printing & Project execution.
· Expertize in analyzing Business and User Requirements in association with Product Capabilities and in concert with the client infrastructure in order to offer efficient and effective solutions.
· In-depth knowledge of complete order to cash process. (Pre sales, Order, Delivery, Shipment, Billing, Returns, Consignment & intercompany sales process).
· Good understanding of integration of different modules like MM, FI and GTS with SD.
· Handled various support issues including cross module issues.
· Maintained WRICEF tracker to monitor the status of each object during project.
· Knowledge in other legacy systems like CRM, EDI, Clear Commerce, GTS, WebMethods, GBI, and Vertex etc. connected with SAP system.
· Worked on IDOC process including IDoc error solving.
· Good understanding of Batch management and serial number management.
· Worked on many special SD Scenarios: Automated Returns process, Automated PGI process, PO-SO Third party order processing, and Consignment business process.
· Good experience in SAP pricing and Master Data maintenance.
· Knowledge in Basic Debugging of the program to identify the issues/problems.
· Understanding the User requirement and Preparation of Functional Design Specifications.
· Ability to provide innovative standard and custom solutions.
· Prepared and executed test scripts using testing tool HP QC (Quality Centre).
· Managed SAP teams in Onshore / Offshore Global support model.
· Strong Team management and Leadership qualities.
· Excellent communication and presentation skills and a quick learner.
· Good knowledge in Microsoft office tools as well as Apple OS applications.
Client: Apple
Company: Infosys
Position: On-site Lead and Scalability lead
Responsibility:
Project:
· Leading “Order induction throughput improvement” project.
· Currently Apple is using call transaction to process Idocs to create orders.
· This project is to replace call transaction by BAPI.
· Completed the POC for this and concluded that we can improve the throughput by 30%.
· Currently managing the project and development.
Scalability:
· Before any product launch, company needs the current system throughput SLA numbers so that they can effectively plan the product launch.
· As a scalability lead, it is my responsibility to perform the scale test and come up with those numbers.
· I am the owner of a separate SAP test system call iPerform, which is used for these kinds of tests.
· Responsibility includes maintenance of the system as well as to make sure this system is always a current copy of production system.
· Ran MASS order to billing cycles (4 to 6 millions sales documents in a week) and other business processes to identify any kind of bottleneck or issues in between different processes or systems.
· Fixed the identified issues and make the necessary changes to production system.
· Developed many utilities to perform above task.
· P business the throughput numbers, which is very essential for new product launches.
· Improved the system performance, i.e. Order by 4x, delivery 3x, PGI by 6x and Billing by 4x.
Production Support:
· Responsible for managing the global support team for SD module.
· Provided functional support to issues related to SAP SD.
· Identified ways to reduce ticket volumes, perform ticket trend analysis to identify impacted systems.
· Ensured SLA adherence, Identify reasons and solutions for tickets that missed SLAs.
· Refined existing processes and reduced ticket retention time among different team members.
· Initiated meetings with stakeholders who contribute to majority of support tickets, Identify business concerns and manage client escalations.
· Identified internal process issues and resolves them by creating new processes.
· Identified recurring issues and proactively initiate root cause analysis and identify possible solution to eliminate root cause permanently.
· Initiated team engagements, coordinate with business users, technical teams and other interfaces for faster resolution of tickets.
· Tracked high priority and critical issues and provide emergency fixes.
· Coordinated with project teams for smooth transition during project to support handover.
· Provided training to help desk and business users, as required.
· Understood existing process and created business process flows for team reference.
· Identified limitations/constraints in the vendor’s software and suggest necessary modifications in order to meet the integration requirements.
· Gathered business requirements for integration of new spend management software from Business Process owners and build functional specifications and design document.
· Maintained necessary configuration required for integration and build interfaces for communication between two systems along with the development team.
· System Monitoring, Integration and Regression testing during upgrades.
· Provided KTs to new members regarding new projects and processes.
· Coordinate with internal teams for business events such as New Product Introduction, System Upgrades and Black Friday, back to school & Christmas sales.
· Provided complete support throughout day and night during the new product launch.
Identified and fixed a major issue with Credit card for which got high-level appreciation.
Able to identify a major network issue before a product launch and work with Apple Basis and IBM team to get is fixed.
Client: Allergan
Company: Wipro Technologies
Position: On-site lead
Responsibility:
· Provided the Application development and maintenance services.
· Managed and coordinated the global SAP SD (OTC) team at multiple locations as Team Lead.
· Maintained the agreed SLA's for resolving the reported issues.
· New Project estimation and execution till go-live.
· Created functional design specification documents.
· Maintained support & enhancement tracker and reporting.
· Provided permanent systematic solutions for long-term issues.
· Associated in knowledge transfer, hand holding and training to user community.
· Coordinated with Offshore team.
· Knowledge transfer to the new team members.
· Responsible for the onsite/offshore team performance.
SAP related process:
· Complete order cycle process (Sales order, Delivery, Billing)
· Consignment process
· Intercompany Sales process
· Extensively working on serial numbers
· Automated Returns process
· Automated Picking and PGI process
· Batch jobs maintenance and Variant configuration
· SAP SD pricing
· Master data maintenance
· Outputs determination
· Changed reports as per requirements.
· Config changes as per business requirement
· Coordinated with ABAP team for code related changes.
Enhancement projects:
· Elimination of return label printing from both SAP and FedEx output.
· Hard Error during Order Entry due to Erroneous Partner Functions.
· Smart DAR Maintenance.
· APP Juvederm Tier Calculations and Processing.
· Print specific data on packing lists for sample shipments.
· New Reports / Existing Reports maintenance.
· SAP EHP5 upgrade project.
Client: Pitney Bowes Inc.
Company: Wipro Technologies
Position: Off-shore lead
Responsibility:
· Responsible for managing the global support of SAP SD team.
· Coordination between On-site and Offshore team.
· Created and maintained process and support documents.
· Provided KT to new team members.
· Maintained the agreed SLA's for resolving the reported issues.
· Maintained trackers and presenting on weekly basis.
· Responsible for the offshore team performance.
SAP related process:
· Pre Sales order process (Inquiry & Quotation).
· Different types of Sales Order Process.
· Delivery Process including Picking & Packing.
· Transfer Order, Invoicing.
· Returns process.
· Purchase order and Stock transfer orders process.
· Batch job creation and maintenance.
· Output determination.
· Master Data maintenance.
· Changing reports as per requirements.
· Config changes as per business requirement.
· Worked with ABAP team for code related changes.
Client: Johnson and Johnson
Company: Wipro Technologies
Position: Off-shore Team member
Responsibility:
· SAP Technical Upgrade Project (SAP 4.7 to ECC 6.0) and the project involved bringing the system into a validated environment.
· Preparation of FDS (Functional Design Specification) documents for different scenarios, processes and reports for SAP SD space for business reference.
· The approach for FDS preparation involved Reverse Engineering by studying the existing Programs.
· Analyzed screens for identifying the differences in SAP 4.7 and SAP ECC 6.0.
· Maintained WRICEF tracker to monitor the status of each object.
· Identified User Requirements Scenarios (URS) from Functional Design Specification (FDS) for testing.
· Prepared simple FUTs (Functional Unit Test) Scripts covering all the process related to SD as well as based on user requirement.
· Executed the script in the new environment to find out any discrepancy.
· Developed test scripts and logged errors/defects in HP Quality Center.
· Prepared Integration Test Scripts covering cross module process (OTC, FTS, RTP, and FIN).
· Executed the test scripts in HP QC (Quality Centre).
Client: Eastman Kodak Company
Company: Wipro Technologies
Position: Off-shore Team member
Responsibility:
· Managed the global support of SAP SD team.
· Maintained the agreed SLA's for resolving the reported issues.
· Maintained the documents for future reference.
· Provided permanent systematic solutions for long-term issues.
· Provided project specific training to new joinees.
· Coordinated with On-site team.
· Prepared Timesheets, Weekly OTC report & Monthly OTC Report for client.
· Solved problem tickets as reported.
SAP related process:
· Different types of Sales Order Process.
· Delivery, Transfer Order and invoicing process.
· Returns order process.
· Project specific PO-SO process.
· Purchase order and Stock transfer orders process.
· SAP SD pricing
· Output determination.
· Master Data maintenance.
· Changing reports as per requirements.
· Config changes as per business requirement.
· Coordinating with ABAP team for code related changes.
Client: SABIC
Company: Wipro Technologies
Position: Off-shore Team member
Responsibility:
· Unit and Integration testing for customized SABIC business scenarios with cross module interfacing covering complete order to cash cycle.
· Integration Regression Testing for ECC 6.0 after Technical upgrade from 4.6 c covering below areas:
o Inter-company sales
o Credit Request Debit Request
o Customer/Material Rebate
o Complete OTC cycle
o Third Party scenario
o STO (Stock Transport order) creation via BAPI
o Financial documents for foreign trade
o Credit management
o Availability check with ATP logic & Product allocation
o Output determination
o Text determination
o Returns process
o Consignment process
o Standard Invoicing
o Intercompany invoicing
o Master data creation for regression testing
o Pricing validation.
· Prepared and executed the test script.
· Test data preparation.
· Maintained the results against each script.
· Reported errors in the processes and fixed them.
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Aug 2003 – May 2007
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Information Technology from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, India.