Indraneel Patil

  • SAP SD & VMS Consultant
  • Milwaukee, WI
  • Member Since Mar 14, 2023

Candidates About

 

Indraneel Patil

Profile Summary:

·         SAP SD certified consultant with over all 10 years of experience and 7 plus years of extensive experience as SAP SD functional consultant.

·         Experience in business process analysis including blue-printing, gap analysis and creating as-is and to-be documentation. Experience in writing Functional specification Documents and working with Technical consultants to get Technical specifications.

·         In-depth understanding of techno/functional challenges with expertise in managing business process development, configuration, client management and enterprise wide business transformation.

·         Experience in using different implementation methodologies including ASAP and SAP Solution Manager.

·         Hands-on experience with SAP SD module (ECC 6.0) with emphasis on Customer Order Management, Order to Cash (OTC), Pricing, Billing and Shipping process flows in Automotive, Consumer package goods, Food manufacturing & Cosmetics industry.

·         Expert in IS auto module Vehicle Management Services (VMS). Worked extensively on variant configuration, variant pricing, and creation of new matrix actions. Expert on intercompany sales process and outbound logistics.

·         Expert on creating interfaces for SAP EDI 810, EDI856 & EDI 850.Also expert in EDI issue related for production support.

·         Extensive experience in SAP SD configuration, customization and cross-functional integration with FI, MM and WM modules. Experience in Procure to Pay (PTP) team activities. 

·         Wide experience in ranging across Implementation and upgrades engagements. Worked as a Functional consultant in Rollout assignments, both onsite and offshore.

·         Functional expertise: Sales orders, inquiry and quotation, and major business activities such as Pricing, Billing, Shipping, Transportation, and Availability check (ATP),Partner Determination, Output Determination, Bill of Materials, Revenue Recognition, VMS.

·         Technical proficient on debugging and user-exits. Good understanding of ABAP codes.

·         Proficient in customizing different Sales Orders such as Standard sales order, Rush sales order, Cash sales order.

·         Expert in Shipping Point Determination, Route Determination, Transport and Delivery Scheduling, Backward Delivery Scheduling, Partial and Complete Delivery, Subsequent Outbound Delivery Split and Grouping of Deliveries..

·         Expert in the customization of customer master data, material master data.

·         Pricing Experience: Configuration of Condition Types, Condition Tables and Access Sequences, Determining and Maintaining Pricing Procedure, Creation of Condition Records, Special Pricing Functions such as Condition Exclusion. Also hands on experience in Variant pricing and variant configuration.

·         Billing Experience: Configured Billing Documents based on Billing Types and Item Categories, Customized Invoices. Expert in integrating billing to Accounting and Controlling.

·         Knowledge on third party sales process and intercompany sales. Good understanding of intercompany pricing and billing procedures.

·         Production support, experienced in unit testing, system integration testing, performance testing and user acceptance testing, and regression testing

·         Experience in data cleansing and data conversion using tools like LSMW, BDC and interfaces including EDI/IDOC, RFC and BAPIs.

·         Engaged in Pre sales activities that include customer presentations, preparation of RFP and work estimates for Proposals.

·         Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.

·         Experience in leading the test cycles, writing Test scenarios and executing test cases in HPQC (Unit, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing).

 

Educational Background:

·         PGDM in Marketing & Systems from Balaji Institute of Modern Management, Pune.

·         Bachelor of Engineering in Civil from Government College of Engineering Pune.

·         Diploma in Civil Engineering from Sou Venutai Polytechnic, Pune

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

 

ERP

SAP ECC 6.0, Solman, CRM system, Vistex, VMS &  SAP CS.

Net Weaver Technologies

Interaction Center Web Client, Enterprise Portal.

Tools

 

Remedy, HP Service Manager, HP Quality Center, Service Now

 

Key Achievements:

·         Project Legos for Hershey was awarded as best project in Hershey in 2015

·         Bravo award in Infosys in 2014

·         Cleared Engineering Civil services for state of Maharashtra in 2005

·         Pune University Ranker in 2002

·         Maharashtra State board of technical education Ranker in 2001

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Harley Davidson Motor, Milwaukee, WI                                                              March 2016 – Till date

Role SAP SD & VMS Consultant

Harley Davidson is iconic American motorcycle manufacturer. They have manufacturing plants across US, India& Brazil. Of the total 7 plants 3 of them are running on SAP. Every year one plant migrates to SAP.

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

·         Participate in business discussions and meetings for gathering and reviewing business requirements, creating functional specification documents, assisting the technical team in the creation of technical specification documents.

·         Trouble shooting daily problems faced by OTC business across globe.

·         Analyzing and providing solution for critical system issue which lead to stoppage of assembly line at plant level. Solution needs to be provided in hours’ time.

·         Configuration and developing changes in system for legal smart forms and other legal requirement of each country.

·         Working on different process like Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management & Process improvement  

·         Proposing process improvements and making required changes in SAP systems in order to reduce incident count.

·         Helping FI team to settle the quarter end closing.

·         Analyzing problem ticket to find root cause for same.

·         Leading team of 8 consultant from Offshore

·         Working on the monthly release schedules to identify the changes that should be going in for each release with alignment to what has been prioritized by the business.

·         Customized reports related to OTC process through SAP Query

·         Worked on Logistics Execution (LE) functions like Delivery Processing (inbound and outbound processes), Picking, Packing and Transportation.

·         Worked with various goods movements of handling units like Good Issue, Goods receipt and other movements like reversals & general goods movements posting.

·         Developed new condition records and maintained them for various condition types for different pricing procedures as per Business requirements.

·         Trouble shooting changes for variant pricing for bikes.

·         Configuring output access sequences for proposed changes suggested by business.

·         Worked on interface changes to populate pledging indicator for few select customer in SAP customer master data.

·         Config changes in VMS SPRO to maintain new actions and required action matrix for archiving actions.

·         Worked on adding new condition type for Harley AUS pricing procedure in order to have proper COPA account determination.

·         Worked on maintaining VC for new bikes and model year.

·         Enhancement to multiple Z reports which are used by business.

·         Worked on material determination, out-put determination using condition techniques.

·         Solving issue related to make to stock & make to order parts.

·         Changes in sales order user exit for validating changes in sales orders.

·         Worked on PO pricing changes & PO/STO related issues.

·         Good exposure on Global dealer portal changes.

·         Worked on issues intercompany invoices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avon Cosmetics Company, Rye, New York                                                                               Nov 2015 – Feb 2016

SAP SD & Vistex Consultant

Avon, is an American international manufacturer and direct selling company in beauty, household, and personal care categories. Avon had annual sales of $10.0 billion worldwide in 2013.

 

Roles & Responsibilities (Mini Project “Rain Check”& Enhancements):

  • Driving business acceptance testing phase
  • Documenting business requirement and functional specification for change request
  • Providing effort estimate for change request after analyzing requirement
  • Solving defects raised by business during BAT.
  • Discussing and proposing new solution to business users.
  • Changes in order user exit for determining requested delivery date from predefined z functionality table.
  • SPRO changes for addition of reason of rejection for Vistex Agreements.
  • Providing resolution to production issues for SAP SD & Vistex.
  • Provided detailed solution for new functionality for charge backs process.
  • Preparing weekly reports on number of open defects, incidents, solved incidents and sharing same with higher client management.
  • Worked on many issues on SAP SD Pricing and routine changes.
  • Worked on issues related to ATP.
  • Worked on info structures and related issues.

 

Hershey Company Hershey, PA                                                                                               July 2015-Oct 2015

The Hershey Company is one of major chocolate manufacturer in United States entered in agreement to sell partner products along with its own products. The partner products would be packed along with Hershey products and delivered to client location. Partners would be notified weekly on status of orders, deliveries, invoice amounts and status on inventory.

                                   

Roles & Responsibilities (Project “Legos”):

SAP SD Consultant

  • Conducting business blue printing sessions, gap analysis and preparation of business requirement, solution options & functional design document.
  • Proposing solution options to client’s application managers and business super user. Once approved finalizing the solution and business design.
  • Following up the with technical team for TS review and approvals.
  • Performing Unit testing on the objects which are developed.
  • Preparation of test cases for OTC and securing approval from Business users.
  • Helping testing team during system integration testing.
  • Fixing bugs detected during SIT.
  • Reviewing and finalizing business acceptance test cases.
  • Fixing bugs during business acceptance test cases.
  • Securing business approval on UAT.
  • Carrying out the technical cutover& actual go live activities.
  • Added new pricing condition types for US pricing procedure.
  • Worked on changes in existing pricing calculation routines.
  • Worked on Order & billing user exist to populate new Z_tables.
  • Designed new z_reports for internal business users.
  • Setup email functionality and batch jobs to weekly share the reports to business.
  • Developed new program to maintain partner master data, shipping charges data & administration data.
  • Setting up new BOM material for Hershey and its partners.
  • Hyper care support after go live.
  • Securing project sign off and billing milestone.

 

P&G US, India.                                                                                                                         April 2015 till June 2015

SAP SD Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Conducting business blue printing sessions, gap analysis, and preparation of business requirement, solution options & functional design document.
  • Proposing solution options to client’s application managers and business super user. Once approved finalizing the solution and business design.
  • Following up the with technical team for TS review and approvals.
  • Performing Unit testing on the objects which are developed.
  • Preparation of test cases for OTC and securing approval from Business users.
  • Helping testing team during system integration testing.
  • Analyzing bugs detected during SIT.
  • Reviewing and finalizing business acceptance test cases.
  • Analyzing bugs during business acceptance test cases.
  • Securing business approval on UAT.
  • Carrying out the technical cutover& actual go live activities.
  • Creating new conditions records to adjust the changes in system.
  • Creating new condition types.
  • Changes in Military pricing procedure for P&G US.

 

P&G Europe, India.                                                                                                      September 2014 - May 2015

SAP SD Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Worked as Focus Areas Lead for Logistics Area for project Harmonia.
  • Conducting business blue printing sessions, gap analysis, and preparation of business requirement, solution options & functional design document.
  • Proposing solution options to client’s application managers and business super user. Once approved finalizing the solution and business design.
  • Following up the with technical team for TS review and approvals.
  • Performing Unit testing on the objects which are developed.
  • Preparation of test cases for OTC and securing approval from Business users.
  • Helping testing team during system integration testing.
  • Fixing bugs detected during SIT.
  • Reviewing and finalizing business acceptance test cases.
  • Fixing bugs during business acceptance test cases.
  • Securing business approval on UAT.
  • Carrying out the technical cutover& actual go live activities.
  • Worked on Load builder LEO changes.
  • Configure new output type, maintain condition records.
  • Designing smart forms for various shipping documents for 8 Europe countries.
  • Changes in delivery user exist.
  • Activating intercompany invoicing for sales areas in SPRO.
  • Designing new ASN EDI functionality.
  • Box preparation for UAT & SIT.
  • Helping master data team to setup new materials.
  • LSMW for extending current materials to new sales org.
  • Changes in interfaces for transportation management system.

 

P&G Global, India.                                                                                                                   August 2013 - May2014

Sr Associate Consultant SAP SD

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Worked as Offshore functional lead for designing pricing workflow with SAP Netweaver.
  • Conducting business blue printing sessions, gap analysis, and preparation of business requirement, solution options & functional design document.
  • Proposing solution options to client’s application managers and business super user. Once approved finalizing the solution and business design.
  • Following up the with technical team for TS review and approvals.
  • Performing Unit testing on the objects which are developed.
  • Preparation of test cases for OTC and securing approval from business users.
  • Helping testing team during system integration testing.
  • Fixing bugs detected during SIT.
  • Reviewing and finalizing business acceptance test cases.
  • Fixing bugs during business acceptance test cases.
  • Securing business approval on UAT.
  • Carrying out the technical cutover& actual go live activities.
  • Designed multiple functional modules which would communicate with Net weaver and SAP ECC.
  • Worked on developing program using standard calendar setting in SAP and stand function modules for calendar.
  • Designing program which would fetched current pricing details of existing materials.
  • Changes to condition types to display text when condition records are updated in backend.

 

P&G US, India.                                                                                                                         May 2013 - Aug 2013

Sr Associate Consultant SAP SD

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Worked as Offshore functional lead for designing Interfaces.
  • Conducting business blue printing sessions, gap analysis, and preparation of business requirement, solution options & functional design document.
  • Proposing solution options to client’s application managers and business super user. Once approved finalizing the solution and business design.
  • Following up the with technical team for TS review and approvals.
  • Performing Unit testing on the objects which are developed.
  • Preparation of test cases for OTC and securing approval from Business users.
  • Helping testing team during system integration testing.
  • Fixing bugs detected during SIT.
  • Reviewing and finalizing business acceptance test cases.
  • Fixing bugs during business acceptance test cases.
  • Securing business approval on UAT.
  • Carrying out the technical cutover& actual go live activities.
  • Developed interface for EDI 810, EDI 850 & EDI 856 for existing customer which wanted to migrate on EDI.
  • Analyzing which PI maps can be reused, changed or new. Providing additional rules to PI.
  • Providing mapping details to PI.
  • Changes to existing FM to update the new fields required in IDoc.
  • Maintaining partner profiles.
  • Maintaining standard EDPAR table.

 

P&G Europe, India.                                                                                                                  March2013 - April 2013

Sr Associate Consultant SAP SD

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Worked as Offshore functional team lead.
  • Conducting business blue printing sessions, gap analysis, and preparation of business requirement, solution options & functional design document.
  • Proposing solution options to client’s application managers and business super user. Once approved finalizing the solution and business design.
  • Following up the with technical team for TS review and approvals.
  • Performing Unit testing on the objects which are developed.
  • Preparation of test cases for OTC and securing approval from Business users.
  • Helping testing team during system integration testing.
  • Fixing bugs detected during SIT.
  • Reviewing and finalizing business acceptance test cases.
  • Fixing bugs during business acceptance test cases.
  • Securing business approval on UAT.
  • Carrying out the technical cutover& actual go live activities.
  • Design the vendor interface to provide details of consignment stock.
  • Modifying the standard FM for IDoc creation.
  • Modifying standard IDoc to share  required fields to vendor

 

P&G US, India.                                                                                                                         Feb 2012 - Feb 2013

Associate Consultant SAP SD

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Worked as Offshore functional team member.
  • Conducting business blue printing sessions, gap analysis, and preparation of business requirement, solution options & functional design document.
  • Proposing solution options to client’s application managers and business super user. Once approved finalizing the solution and business design.
  • Following up the with technical team for TS review and approvals.
  • Performing unit testing on the objects which are developed.
  • Preparation of test cases for OTC and securing approval from Business users.
  • Helping testing team during system integration testing.
  • Fixing bugs detected during SIT.
  • Reviewing and finalizing business acceptance test cases.
  • Fixing bugs during business acceptance test cases.
  • Securing business approval on UAT.
  • Carrying out the technical cutover& actual go live activities.
  • Worked on designing functional modules.
  • New shipment type configurations.
  • Designing of shipment and load carrying reports.
  • Worked on Z t-code for delivery creation which would create deliveries based business criteria. Changes in delivery user exit.
  • Changes in shipment user exit.
  • Changes in PO user exit to add validation while saving PO.