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Grace Wasinda Bassey

SAP SD Functional Analyst

 

Professional Summary:

 

• SAP SD OTC /LE and MM functional analyst with 9+ years of extensive experience in SAP project & support in the areas of Sales & Distribution, Logistics Execution, Material Management and SAP EDI IDOCS.
• Expertise in implementation of SAP AFS and intercompany sales process. Delivered 2 full life cycle system implementations, rollouts and ongoing production support.
• Skilled at master data configuration- material master, plant and storage locations, inbound and outbound logistics and inventory management.
• SAP R/3 implementation experience with four full life cycle implementations. 
• Expertise in ASAP implementation methodologies involving all phases of SAP implementation lifecycle from initial project planning and scoping through Data Collection, Gap Analysis, Business Blueprinting, Legacy System Conversion (LSMW), Realization, Testing, Final Preparation, Go-Live Support, Training and Documentation.
• Expertise with definition of functional requirements, process improvement, project scope definition, configuration, Order Management, Material Management, testing, implementation and production support.
• Expertise in configuration of Order-To-Cash (OTC) business process with focus on areas of Order Management, Pricing, Available-To-Promise (ATP), Output Determination, Delivery, Rebates and Billing.
• Configured Sales order management concepts like scheduling agreements, customer contracts, third party sales and consignment stock.
• Experience in configuring and customizing Master Data such as Partner Determination, Customer & Material master data, Material Listing/ inclusion/exclusion, Material Determination, Text determination and Customer Material Info Record. 
• Experience in configuring and customizing Organizational Structures in SD, Sales Areas (Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, and Division), Organization in Shipping and Transportation, Customer and Business Partners (Account Groups, Partner Functions), and Customer-Material Information Records, Cross-Selling, Material Determination and Item Proposal.
• Expertise of Pricing by defining Condition Types, Condition Tables, Access Sequences and Condition Records along with considerable experience in processing Rebate Agreements and Tax procedures.
• Excellent Knowledge of User Exits for Sales Order, delivery and billing for manipulating header, business item, and pricing.
• Good knowledge of ABAP Debugging.
• Experience in Billing including Billing Types, Complaint Documents, Billing plan, milestone billing, Resource related billing and account determination
• Expertise in System Testing, Unit Testing of Interfaces, forms, reports, conversions, and enhancements.
• Experience in cross-functional integration with FI/CO, MM, PP, BI and  IS-Retail & AFS modules cross-functional.
• Extensively worked on Master Data Management and Data migration using LSMW and BAPI and uploaded customer master data. Worked on cutover activities, data migration and Post Go-Live Support (Production Support).
• Experience in mapping documents in SAP for EDI transactions (both inbound and outbound), Partner determination and Output Determination, Creation of Partner Profiles, IDOC extensions and IDOC types, verification of outbound IDOC and of inbound IDOC, ALE, Workflow basics and User-Exits.
• Extensive experience in Logistics Execution (LE) functions like Delivery processing (Inbound & Outbound), Picking, Packing and Goods Issue, Transportation • Configuration of shipping conditions, transportation planning, and shipments. Also dealt with individual and collective transportation chain.
• Experience in the configuration for Route Determination, which includes routes, modes of transport, shipping types, routes & stages, transportation connection points, zones, groups, and transportation routes.
• Good functional and process knowledge of SAP IS-AFS with experience Master Data, Allocation (Arun), VAS, Seasonality. Customer master data set up, allocation run and seasonality, created pricing, sales deals for respective sales area and RICEF documentation.
• Experience in preparing end user training materials and training the users. 
• Experience in working with offshore with the ability to work in a global environment. 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to act as a team member and a team leader.

 

Technical Skills:

ERP                                         : SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

SAP Skills                              : SD, MM, EDI

Operating System                 : Windows 8, 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7

Application software           : MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project)

Testing Tools             : HP Quality Center 8.0 / 10.0

 

Professional Experience:

 

Hanes  Brands  Winston Salem NC (November 2017 - Present)

Role: SAP SD Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC AFS 6.0

 

HanesBrands Inc. is a socially responsible manufacturer and marketer of leading everyday basic apparel under some of the world's strongest apparel brands. Hanes offers clothing for men, women & kids, including t-shirts, hoodies, and more. Hanes acquired Knights Apparel, a licensed apparel leader, Maidenform Brands and DB Apparel. The project was to integrate these brands to their SAP AFS system.

 

Key Functionalities:

 

• Involved in various business meetings to analyze and document the business requirements. Prepared Functional Specification Documents for the Customized Reports and Interfaces.

·         Performed Validation, Configuration, Interface mapping. functional design, and business process mapping for the project.

 

• Customization of Return order, Backorder processing, Item Categories and Schedule line Categories
• Configured sales document types, deliveries, and Billing Documents.
• Worked with ABAP team through development and testing of SD reports. 
• Worked with Infrastructure team for verifying and scheduling background jobs and Monitoring of the batch jobs that are scheduled and issues related to reports that are not generated as per user's expectation.
• Configured output determination- output procedure, output type, and partner profile for EDI ASN.
• Test and document transactions from EDI through translation to IDOC posting in SAP. Worked with EDI team in analyzing the various issues related to IDOC. Worked extensively on EDI/IDOCS 810, 850, 855, 860, 870 and 832.
• Involved in the configuration of Logistics Execution Shipping by defining the basic functions like shipping points, shipping conditions, loading groups, Transportation groups.
• Configuration of Route and maintaining the Route Determination. Configured the delivery processing, picking, packing and Goods issue and Goods Receipt. 
• Pricing customization (Pricing on SKU and Material Level, VAS Proposal, VAS Pricing conditions and Season Conditions)
• Created pricing procedure and condition types, Account determination etc.
• End User Training and support and make them understand the business process. Help the end user to Understand SAP and utilize the full strength of SAP.
• Production support: Resolved tickets and worked with business users and developers to solve the issues

 

BekaertDeslee Textiles Winston Salem NC (October 2015- Present)

Role: Lead SAP SD Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

 

BekaertDeslee Textiles is a worldwide company with branches in Europe, USA, Canada, South America, Australia Asia and South Africa; the company was established in Belgium, in 1892. BekaertDeslee textiles started in USA in 1999. BekaertDeslee textiles manufacture and produces produce stylish and smart mattress textile products. These range from mattress covers, Pillow covers and dog beds.

This was a full implementation project, which involved the implementation of SAP ECC System and later on an EDI implementation project, which involved the implementation of EDI 850, 810 and 856.

 

Key Functionalities:

 

·         Involved in all the five phases of the ASAP Methodology: Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live & Support.

·         Prepared Functional Specification Documents for the Customized Reports and Interfaces.

·         Configured the Account Groups, Partner Determination, Material Determination, Output Determination and Text Determination Procedure.

·         Customized and configured ATP check, Checking Groups, checking rules and control parameters through requirement types.

·         Configured new Pricing Procedures, which involved customization of Condition Tables, Condition Types, Access Sequences, and Condition Records for the whole Order to Cash (OTC) process.

·         Configured and Tested sales order types: Sales Documents, Sample orders Delivery Documents, Billing Documents; Master Data for Customers, Payment Terms, Incoterms, Sales Districts, Sales Office, Customer Groups, Sales Districts, Delivery priorities, Customer Calendars and Goods Receiving Hours and assigned them to the sales area.

·         Worked on Output Determination by using different Output Condition Records at the Sales, Shipping, Billing and EDI level transactions.

·         Maintained date proposal for billing plan types and assigned billing plan types to sales document types and item categories. Maintained date proposal for billing plan types and assigned billing plan types to sales document types and item categories. Defined overall rules for determining dates.

·         Defined and assigned schedule lines categories and configured schedule line determination by parameters such as item category and MRP type.

·         Applied Variant Configuration skills to customize existing business processes to fulfill diverse applications by utilizing variant tables and constraints used to enforce multiple restrictions within the configuration, Configuration Profiles, Classes, characteristics, object dependencies, variant pricing and setting up of variant tables, Class, Characteristics, BOMS and dependencies

·         Conducted and Trained end users on the SAP system and OTC flow.

·         Worked extensively on Order Management, Logistics Execution (LE)for delivery, shipments and route determination and interface to transport systems

·         Identified, Configured and maintained partner profile all the Trading partners and the corresponding message types for EDI transmission.

·         Worked with the service provider (True Commerce) to identify and review all mandatory and optional fields based on the Field mapping document provided, mapped them to the segments and fields of the corresponding IDOC structure/Basic Type in SAP (ORDERS01, INVOIC02, and DELVRY05).

·         Maintained the web-based version of transaction manager to ensure all EDI documents were mapped correctly, imported and exported correctly and in a timely manner.

·         Reviewed all the implementation guides and test files for each message type EDI 850, 810 and 856 provided by the trading partners to ensure that the IG matches the test files.

·         Maintained trading partner information in the cross-reference table for EDSDC and EDPAR tables.

·         Maintained CMIR information for all trading partners on-boarded for EDI 850.

·         Performed Unit testing and FUT testing based on the output type configuration.

·         Documented Functional specification for the development of custom tables in SAP for the UOM and quantity conversion. This was required to prevent failures of IDOCs due to different UOM being maintained by different trading partners.

·         Monitored and handled all Production support issues and Change requests from the business, reviewing/analyzing failed IDOCS and re-processing the IDOCS using WE19 and BD87.

·         Interface with Stores POS system to track daily retail transactions, store traffic details in SAP for Inventory management and financial posting.

·         Worked on SAP AFS and SD related enhancements – Pricing, Outputs, Lead time Calculations, Lead time calculation enhancements based on VAS codes, Report Enhancements, Pricing configurations, Enhancement on Allocation Run Parallel report, Text determination.

·         Providing production support for SAP OTC users on Order management process, Availability check, removing over and negative allocation, removing order incompletion, contract referencing issues and month-end billing issues.

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Remington Arms Huntsville AL, (January 2015 – September 2015)

Role: Snr SAP SD/LE  Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Remington Arms Company, LLC produces and sells sporting goods products for the hunting and shooting sports markets, as well as military, government and law enforcement markets. Founded in 1816 in upstate New York, the Company is one of the nation’s oldest continuously operating manufacturers. Remington is the only U.S. manufacturer of both firearms and ammunition products and one of the largest domestic producers of shotguns and rifles. This was a production support and enhancement project which involved the support and modification of the existing SAP ECC system.

Key Functionalities:

• Worked on functional analysis and preparing functional specs and developing for SD/LE Processes.
• Understand the Business Requirements and document the functional specification required for the enhancement to prevent the same material being added into multiple line items and worked with the technical team to provide business solutions.

·         Identify customer's business flow and gap analysis, provide recommendations in key strategic areas.

·         Worked and Configured the system for Order Management, Pricing, Deliveries and Billing

·         Involving business users in critical discussions

·         Extensively worked on LE for delivery, shipments and interface building from shipments to third-party transport systems.

·         Worked on Routes and Route determination for Shipments.

·          Develop & design functional specs and implement procedures

• Document functional specifications for interfaces, forms, and reports to support the OTC business requirement.

·         Develop and execute test cases for Order to Cash process in Sales and Distribution Module and  Executed Unit Testing, Regression & Integration Testing of OTC Configuration

·         Coordinate with the basis team to test and confirm configuration changes with users before transport to production

·         Documentation of all analysis, recommendations, configurations, enhancements, testing, and training.

·         Resolved production support tickets and performed configuration in the areas of pricing, listing & exclusion, and ATP.

• Work with the ABAPers on the logic & support to develop various layouts & reports.
• Executed FUT testing for all the new custom programs created by ABAPER’s for data migration.
• Configuration in Master data – material group, material pricing groups, commission codes, customer group etc.
• Configurations in Availability to promise (ATP), requirement type Material requirement planning, Planning time fence, checking rule, checking group, and strategy group etc. 
• Configuration in  Logistics of various functions like shipping conditions, route determination including the configuration of shipping types, modes of transport, routes, transportation groups and loading groups.

·         Actively monitoring, solving ticket and production issues, change request and incidents logged through Footprints Ticketing System from SMEs.

 

 

FLEX-N-GATE, Urbana Illinois (March  2013- November 2014)

Role: SAP SD OTC/ IS-Retail Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

 

Flex-N-Gate produces the highest quality products and systems for automotive industry. They supply bumpers, car frames, breaking system to automakers such as Toyota, Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler.

 

   Key Functionalities:

• Supported functional specifications for enhancements, interfaces, forms and reports to support the OTC business requirement.
• Developed and executed test cases for Order to Cash process in Sales and Distribution Module
• Developed and Executed Unit Testing & Integration Testing of OTC Configuration
• Coordinate the creation of test data for the system, business process, integration, volume, and regression testing.
• Coordinated with testing and basis team to test and confirm configuration changes with users before transport to production.
• Prepared Test Plans and Test Cases using business and technical specifications.
• Developed and executed test cases for Order to Cash process in Sales and Distribution Module
• Tested the SD and MM transactions for field errors, missing data, and syntax errors in all the custom programs and modified the field changes.
• Supported various B2B EDI customers' requirements for Order response (855), Order Change (860). Pricing configuration to support pricing/vertex interface for tax calculation
• Configured the Logistics  shipping by configuring the various functions like shipping conditions, route determination including the configuration of shipping types, modes of transport, routes, and stages, transportation groups and loading groups
• Responsible for developing and testing End to End scenarios like Order Capture, Order.

·         Management, Order fulfillment and order delivery.

Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, California (March 2011 – Feb 2013)

Role: SAP SD OTC Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

 

 

 

HP is a multinational hardware and software corporation headquartered in Palo Alto. It provides products, technologies, software, solutions and services to consumers, small/ medium-sized businesses and large enterprises

 

Key Functionalities:

• Team member of the Order to Cash(OTC) team through Requirements, Realization, and Go-Live phases
• Worked with client counterpart to define project scope and project plans
• Worked with OTC core team and business users to collect and document business requirements to create  Business Blueprint and Functional Specification Documents
• Resolved  issues, and communicated the  progress and status during the realization phase
• Provide expert level on-site support in order to Cash processes - Quotation to sales, Scheduling agreement/delivery to Billing, Sales return, Customer consignments
• SAP Configuration in the area of master data, Order management/Scheduling agreements, invoicing, pricing procedure/condition type configuration, copy control, partner determination, Outbound delivery.
• Support for shipping processes including warehouse management like picking, packing and output type management, Handling unit management
• Designed and configured delivery and label output determination procedures for Pick list, Packing list and Bill of lading, and work with developer for ACS Labels
• Provide support to cross-functional issues involving MM, FI-CO, PP, QM and guide technical team members ( EDI / ABAP) for issue resolution
• Developed and executed Unit Test Plan activities (plan, prepare, execute, document test results)
• Assisting with cutover and business validation activities and assigning tasks and documenting resolution for post Go-Live issues
• Worked with EDI team for EDI 810, and, 856
• Actively monitoring and addressing production issues, changes requests, problem logs and incidents logged through help desk on daily basis
• Documentation of all analysis, recommendations, configurations, enhancements, testing, and training.

General Mills Minneapolis, MN (April 2009 – Feb 2011)

Role: SAP SD OTC Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

 

General Mills is one of the largest food companies in the world, marketing in more than 100 countries, U.S. Retail includes seven divisions that market brands such as Cheerios, Yoplait yogurt, Pillsbury refrigerated dough and Betty Crocker baking products.

 

Key Functionalities:

• Developed the different phases of the ASAP methodology in correlation with the other members of the team and the project leads in planning the scope of the project, providing documentation, defining business scenarios and providing support
• Customized the enterprise structure including defining the Sales organization, Division, Distribution Channel and Business Areas, and assigned rules for Business Area Determination
• Configured the Customer Master Data, Selection of fields applying suppressed, mandatory and optional functions for Customer Master Data and defined Account Groups for Customers, Partner Functions and Partner Determination Procedure for Customer Master
• Defined Material Determination, Item Proposal, and Number Ranges.
• Pricing: Created Standard Pricing Procedure with different Discounts/ Surcharges/ Rebates using Condition Tables, Condition Types, Access Sequence and Pricing Procedure Determination. Configured Condition Exclusion for particular customer groups to get the best price. Pricing also included Material Price, Price List, Customer Specific Prices, Customer Discount and Material Discount
• Sales: Defined and Assigned Sales Document Types, Item Category, and Schedule Lines. Configured and assigned number ranges Delivery Types and Billing Types
• Defined and Assigned Account Determination Procedures, Account Determination Tables, Condition Types and Account Keys
• Processing inter-company sale and inter-company stock transfer order
• Created different movement types for defective and subcontracted materials
• Assigned Credit Limit to customers as per the company policies
• Responsible for developing and testing End to End scenarios like Order Capture, Order management, Order fulfillment and order delivery

Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas (Jan 2008 – March 2009)

Role: SAP SD Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0

Texas Instrument is a global semiconductor design and manufacturing company. Operating in over 35 countries and serving more than 100,000 customers worldwide.  

·         Requirements gathering: Worked with different client divisions for evaluating the AS-IS of the SD process and understanding there TO-BE process.

·         Involved in Team Preparing Business Blue Print Documents for the Business Processes, business Scenarios, Master Data and Organizational Units

·         Ensure timely progress of development, test & implementation activities and highlight any concerns

·         Generated knowledge about client’s business process, design, business flows and studied current business processes and its complication

·         Prepared Functional Specification Documents for the Customized Reports and Interfaces.

·         Configured the Account Groups, Partner Determination, Material Determination, Output Determination and Text Determination Procedure.

·         Configured Item Category Determination, Schedule Line Category Determination Shipping Point Determination, and Customer Materials Info Record.

·         Pricing(SD-PR): -Configured Pricing Procedure Determination with the Associated Pricing Procedures, Condition types, Access Sequences, Condition Tables, Condition Exclusive Groups and Condition Supplements.

·         Worked extensively on the integration of SD, MM, and FI.

·         Billing: Definition and assignment of billing types, invoice lists, copy controls, output control, billing duelists, rebates, Intercompany billing, Milestone billing and Periodic billing.

·         Providing post go-live help desk support, assisting and resolving end user support problems, resolving system defects, and analyzing proposed improvements or changes to the  System.

·         Involved in the cutover activities for Go Live.

Education:

          Bachelor of Arts in English Language. (BA)                          May 2001

          University of Jos (Nigeria)

 

          Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy              March 2006

          Schiller International University.  (London, England)