Vinayak Malunavar
- SAP SD Functional Consultant
- Santa Clara, CA
- Member Since May 11, 2023
Candidates About
Vinayak Malunavar
SAP SD Functional Consultant
3430 Warburton Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95051 | (C) 408-930-1456 | vmalunavar@gmail.com
Professional Summary
· 7+ years of experience with 5.6 years as SAP functional consultant with touch points in Global Implementation, Rollouts, Support projects and Renewable energy consulting
· Involved in multiple life cycle implementations of SAP SD
· Involved in enhancement & roll out of SAP SD projects
· Worked in SAP production support environment, Worked on EDI/IDoc’s, BDC sessions & Work flow
· Hands on experience in SAP OTC, Pricing, Rebates, Shipments Processing, Returns, Credit Management, Third party, Intercompany and Consignment Sales process, GTS Compliance management
· Good understanding with integration modules like SAP MM, FI, GTS, APO & CRM
· Having business exposure in domestic and international environment catering to FMCG, Energy, FMCD, and Manufacturing Industries.
· Basic Knowledge on ABAP debug, user exits, BADI & BAPI
Technical Skills
ERP Systems: SAP R/3 - ECC 5.0 & ECC6.0
SAP- SD (Sales & Distribution)
SAP- GTS (Global Trade Services)
SAP- CRM
Work History
1) Infosys Technologies Limited – Santa Clara, CA 01/09/2012 – Present
Role: SAP SD Functional Consultant
Project 1: Support & Maintenance
Client: Apple Inc.,
Responsibilities:
ü Working on one of the biggest Landscape of SAP by meeting a strict SLA adherence, Bug fix & Ticket analysis which involves extensive knowledge on SAP domain & cross functional modules
ü Involved in Configuration, Maintenance & enhancements of Number ranges, maintenance related to OTC process & bug fixes
ü Key member in performing event based pricing activity
ü Perform trend analysis to identify process and system improvements
ü Handling Tickets on Day-to-Day business and interacting with down stream
ü Extensively worked on SAP Order Management
ü Involved in modifying the existing Pricing procedure for SD with customer/material master data
ü Point of contact for month end, quarter end and year end issues
ü Test plans for Delivery Processing and billing, invoice documents and tested them manually. Performed Integration Testing and unit testing, and documented bugs, (test director)
Project 2: Enhancements
Client: Apple Inc.,
Responsibilities:
ü Participating in design reviews to understand new requirements
ü Understand the Business Requirements and work with the technical team in designing and documenting test cases
ü Configuration of Organization Structure like Sale Org, Division, Distribution Channel, Sales Offices
ü Configuring SD Documents types, Partner functions, Condition types, pricing procedure, Billing documents types, Account determination, output types
ü Looking after Master Data related configuration and issues for Customer Master, Material Master
ü Besides working on Baseline activities for new countries going live, also worked on defect and Change request raised through support process
ü Preparing various testing scenarios for User Acceptance Testing (also conducting Unit testing and Co- coordinating system integration testing team
ü Ensure timely progress of development, test & implementation activities and highlight any concerns
ü Provided support for problems arising out of upgrade and various country roll-outs
ü Provide Functional/Technical specification to ABAP team for Development of Reports / User Exits
ü Configured Output determination for sales document, Deliveries (Outbound Delivery, Shipment, Shipment Costing) and Billing documents
Project 3: Upgrade & Support
Client: Apple Inc.,
Responsibilities:
ü Map the ECC Upgrade assessment and plan, Includes Creation and Execution of Test Scripts
ü Performed Unit testing and Integration testing, UAT and all the SD issues generated from the user testing
ü Created Customer master data, Material master data, Customer – Material Information record and Customer group
ü Set Up the configuration for type matching functionality in sales order
ü Worked on Shipping, Delivery and Billing related customization including Routes, Deliveries, Picking, Packing, Goods Issue and Goods Return
ü Worked with SAP in getting template for the load program to load to variant tables
ü Evaluate all Z custom programs and validate in upgraded system
ü Worked on Order to Cash cycle configuration with features like Condition records, Bill of material (BOM)
ü Responsible for supporting all areas in SD after upgrade Go-Live
ü Worked closely with ABAP team through development finding user exits, BADI’s, BAPI and testing of SD reports
ü Involved in troubleshooting SD problems through research, re-creating the problem and developing, executing and validating test scenarios, test scripts and test results
2) ITTI Pvt. Ltd– Bangalore, India 05/2011 – 12/2011
Role: SAP Consultant
Project 1: Support & Maintenance
Client: Hindustan Unilever Limited
Responsibilities:
ü Handled Data migration from SAP and third party Terra process
ü Resolving the day to day issues related to allocation, pricing & Delivery
ü Open order and Shipment extraction from Inventory collaboration hub and R3 on day to day basis
ü Validation of OTC process cycle
ü Handling Wallop & Allocation process on a weekly basis
ü Analyzing the problem to provide solutions to the user generated error and incidents
ü Minor bug fixes, Performing RCA on reoccurring issues
ü Involved in Core User and Super User Trainings
3) Global Network Solutions- Bangalore - India 11/2009 – 05/2011
Role: SAP Consultant
Client: Homag Group
Project 1: Support, Maintenance & Enhancements
Responsibilities:
ü Problem Analyzing and Handling Tickets on day to day basis
ü Involved in route cause analysis in order to prevent issues which are of repetitive in nature
ü Bug fixes, Performing RCA on reoccurring issues
Project 2: Project Implementation
Responsibilities:
ü Business Requirement Gathering through a series of meetings with SMEs.
ü Blue printing the business process, and presented the Blue print to the project steering committee comprised of top management
ü Prepared a detailed document of AS-IS study and developed the detailed TO-BE processes to suit the company’s operations.
ü Did the gap analysis of the requirements.
ü Handled & Configured master records & various procedures in SD scope
ü Involved in preparation of Technical Specifications, review of Routines & User Exits, Preparing Training Material, and Documentation of Pricing, Rebate Management
ü Interactions with cross Functional consultants
ü Configured Output determination for sales document
ü Experience in Deliveries (Outbound Delivery, Shipment, Shipment Costing) and Billing documents
ü Preparation of test cases, development of Training documents & end user training
ü Involved in cut over activities for Go Live
ü Handled post production support for a warranty period
Functional Experience (Non-SAP)
1) Auro Mira Energy Company (P) Ltd- Chennai - India 05/2008 – 10/2009
Role: Engineer Power
Client: Private & Public Sectors
Responsibilities:
ü Responding to RFI, RFQ proposal including a substantial technical component
ü Exposure to Renewable Energy Consulting
ü Consultation to various MNC’s including IT, Manufacturing and Govt organization
ü Coordinating with cross-functional project teams to reduce lead-time
ü Involved in executing the project
ü Developing marketing strategies to address the changing customer base and market dynamics
ü Negotiating with customers in the process of establishing or expanding the projects
ü Providing solutions to the Small and Medium scale industries
Education
ü Post Graduate Diploma: Business Administration with marketing specialization: IGTC -2006 to 2008
ü Bachelor of Engineering: Electronics & Communication: 2002 to 2006
Certifications
ü Certified German Language Specialist from Goethe Institute
ü Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Holder from Bench mark
Accomplishments
ü Featured in Indian newspaper “The Hindu” for my achievements & contribution in the field of Renewable Energy Consulting in Tamil Nadu
ü Achieved a record Renewable energy sales worth 6cr amount for 7 consecutive months
ü Handled various NPI launches, Events (BLACK Friday, RED Friday) by improving the system stability to cater across the geography