
Naveen Kumar
- SAP SD/SCM / Vistex Lead
- Mason, MI
- Member Since May 06, 2023
Naveen Kumar
SAP SD/SCM/Vistex Lead
Professional Summary
· 15 years of SAP SD/LE & MM Module experience.
· 2 years of SAP CRM Experience.
· 3+ years of Vistex-IP/DMP experience
· 10+ years of experience as a Team Lead
· 7 full life cycle implementations experience.
· 8 application enhancements/upgrade and support projects experience.
· Localization functional experience on (Argentina, Chile, MX, China, India and Brazil)
· Strong Integration experience in CRM, Vistex, MM, FI & PP, FSCM modules.
· Interface experience with EDI/iDoc, PI, eFacture, E-Invoice, Clear-Commerce & Cyber-source.
SAP Projects:
Company: Dart Container (December 2013– Till date)
Position: OTC/FSCM/VISTEX ERP Team Lead
SAP Environment: ECC 6.0
Location: Mason, MI
Key Responsibilities:
· Working as OTC Team Lead for North America, UK, BR & Argentina geographies
· Design and configure OTC business processes
· Working with Business Relationship Managers on Change management
· Managing Offshore OTC team
· Process Owner Communication / Liaison
· Managing Track and other deliverables
· Preparation migration plan of bundle release
· Configured Rules based ATP checks, Product allocation, Transportation & Shipment Scheduling and Backorder Processing
· Clear understanding of cross-functional applications of MM, PP, and SAP APO in industrial scenarios.
· Intensively involved in discussion with the Business team for collecting required information
· Data for functional design document for the RICEF (Interfaces, Enhancement and Conversion) objects.
· Working on Vistex DMP on managing Price sheet, Price Book, formula builders and Migrations
· Developed several Custom programs for global price changes and updating open Sales Order updates.
· Developed multiple custom programs to send multiple notifications to customers.
· Designed custom programs to support Dart specific MTO process.
· Managing critical, high and emergency changes
· Work on CR estimations and manage ETA.
· Work allocation/task distribution and follow up
· Manage weekly reports
SAP Projects:
Client: Bose corporation (September 2013– Dec 2013)
Position: Senior OTC Consultant
SAP Environment: ECC 6.0
Location: Boston, MA
Key Responsibilities:
· Worked on MTO subcontracting process for Ireland country
· Worked on custom enhancement to develop MTO-MTS hybrid process
· Worked on Agile/Scrum methodology using Sprint sessions
SAP Projects:
Client: Apple Inc. (Feb 2012 – September 2013)
Position: Project Lead
SAP Environment: ECC/CRM
Location: Cupertino, CA
Key Responsibilities:
· Working in ECC/CRM environments on B2B and B2C Retail Project implementation for Australia and Brazil.
· Configured Payment gateway as Boleto for Brazil Retail Store.
· Customized and configured Credit Cards, Procurement Cards and Debit Cards and relevant assignments.
· Enhanced the logic of Function Modules and Custom Includes in ECC for Authorization and Fraud check for Retail CRM Orders.
· Creation of Custom pricing conditions and developed logic thru pricing routines in CRM system for Wire Transfer Sales Orders to avoid Credit Management check in ECC.
· Modified the Fraud check Logic in CRM User-Exit to clear the middleware blocked Order queue.
· Working on Copy Control (Quotation & Order).
· Exposure on WUI and BDoc.
SAP Projects:
Client: Apple Inc. (Feb 2012 – September 2013)
Position: OTC consultant
SAP Environment: ECC (Credit Management)
Location: Cupertino, CA
Key Responsibilities:
· Working as a Project Lead on Credit Management Project for APAC, EMEA and AMR.
· Reviewed BRD (Business requirement document) and Coordinating with SME’s.
· Prepared FS and testing scenarios.
· Restructuring Apple Credit Management; introducing Multiple Credit Control Area, Risk Categories and respective assignments.
· Customized Automated Credit Management.
· Attending Daily status Call with Global SMEs.
· Coordinating ABAP team to develop Custom Logic for Credit Routines.
· Testing coordination includes (Performance testing, Regression testing, Integration testing and UAT)
· Developed a new interface with home-grown GMACC system to update Customer Master Data.
· Developed Custom Program to automate the Credit release procedure based on the incoming Payment status.
· Schedule multiple Jobs for Credit release program.
· Updating of existing open SD documents with new Credit Management setup.
· Preparing User Manuals and KT documents.
· Provided Credit Management Project related KT to support team.
· Responsible for CR (change request) and respective approvals.
· Responsible for Project warranty support.
· Responsible for Play back sessions
· Apple Customers are in scope (B2B, B2C, One time Customers, Wire transfer Customers)
· Developed Credit Bypass Routines for Wire Transfer and One time Customers based on Successful authorization.
ECC to AOS (Apple online store) enhancements:
· Worked on Credit Cards enhancement projects include; modifying authorization RFC & FM.
· Settlement User-Exists modifications.
· Cyber-source and Clear-Commerce Authorization mappings.
· Prepared Functional specifications and test scenarios.
· Attended meetings with SME’s
· Attended Playback sessions
SAP Projects:
Mosaic (May 2010 – February 2012)
Position: Application Support team Lead (AST)
SAP Environment: ECC 6.0 SD/LE/MM
Location: Tampa, FL
Key Responsibilities:
· Intensively involved in discussion with the Business team for collecting required information and data for functional design document for the RICEF (Interfaces, Enhancement and Conversion) objects.
· Worked in GAP Analysis and helped client in selection and implementation of suitable solutions for the entire RICEF object for direct materials and indirect materials.
· Configured Material types Number ranges (External numbering) for Material master, PR, PO and changed the field status of the material master records as per the user requirements.
· Involved in Designing outbound interface to generate IDOC with specific segment for vendor master.
· Defined Release Procedure for Purchase Req. and external purchasing documents using 032 class types.
· Adopted stock transfer techniques to assist in plant-to-plant stock transfers and cross company stock transfers using Stock Transport Order.
· Implemented inter-company stock transport orders to facilitate material transfer within companies and also cross-companies.
· Distributing helpdesk tickets; working on all high priorities and critical tickets
· Working with ABAP team to complete the developments, User-Exits, interfaces and enhancements related changes.
· Providing End user day-to-day supports on SD and LE issues.
· Working on pricing routines and custom pricing development.
· SD lead for the ‘Rollout’ project team responsible for the design, configuration, customization, test script creation, unit testing, integration testing (in QC) and go-live activities in the order management and billing processes
· Effort estimation of the business requirements in consultation with the SME’s and business process owners; tracking of project activities in the SD area of the ‘enhancements’ project
· Scoping, Blueprint, Mapping AS-IS: TO-BE, Configuration, Testing, User Training, Go-Live activities and Post Production Support
· Liaison with the cross-module team leads for extended business processes in SAP with cross-module linkages
· Development of functional specifications and co-ordination with the ABAP development team for the RICEF objects such as Output Smart-forms (Invoices, Order Acknowledgement), new Z programs and modifications to user-exits etc.
· Looking after Production support activities for North America including Helpdesk Tickets and Change request (Break-Fix, Enhancement & Standard Change). Looking after testing activities in HP Quality center.
SAP Projects:
Mosaic, Tampa, Florida (May 09 – April 2010)
Position: Team Lead
SAP Environment: ECC 6.0 SD/LE
Project Name: Neptune
Key Responsibilities:
· Functional lead for the Mosaic ‘release’ activities in the SAP functional area for India and LA business operations for rollout and production support.
· Liaison with the business users in LA and India for identification, scoping and subsequent sign off for the business requirements as per the respective change requests; monitoring and escalation.
· Configuration of the SD functional requirements in the customizing client as per Mosaic landscape, documentation of the configuration changes in the Solution Manager
· Development of functional specifications (RICEF’s, user exits) for custom requirements and getting them approved from the business through formal sign off’s
· Co-ordination of the development activities between the distributed ABAP team in (multiple locations); resolution of defects during testing of ABAP developments
· Processing goods movement with Handling units
· Configured Customer and Material Rebate Management, which includes; Rebate agreement type and respective copy control assignment, Billing condition type. Maintain Rebate Material/Customer Condition records, Rebates condition techniques, Account determination for Rebate condition, maintain access sequence for Rebate condition and retroactively updating of Old invoices with Rebate and further enhancements.
· Maintenance of Freight Master data, monitoring inbound and outbound deliveries queue, Configuration and designing of Shipments (individual and collective), Shipment cost documents, Freight P.O and Service master sheet.
· Shipment costing Pricing procedure and respective enhancements, Warehouse replenishment and manual movements.
· Configured ATP/Allocation which includes; Define allocation procedure and allocation objects and establish link within info structure, product allocation procedure, configured of Requirement Class and requirement type & Planning type. Worked on Backorder processing and rescheduling, configured availability check checking group.
· Responsible for unit and integration testing in QC (HP Quality Centre) including preparation of the test scripts for the business scenarios and set up of the test data in the respective system landscapes; support to the business during the UAT testing
· Set up of production master data for release go-live activities as part of the cut over plan
· Identification of SAP ‘roles’ required for new and existing transactions post changes in the system; submit requests for the creation of a new test id’s and roles wherever required
SAP Projects:
Weyerhaeuser, Seattle, Washington (Sept 08 – May 09)
Position: Team Lead
SAP Environment: ECC 6.0
Project Name: Enhancements and support.
Position/Role: Team Lead
Location:- Mumbai-India
Key Responsibilities:
· Worked on Problem Management, Incident Management, and Change Request Management.
· Resolved issues raised through OVSD ticket system tool as per SLA requirements in terms of response as well as closure times
· Taking approvals in CAB meetings for Change request.
· Worked in L3 Level team and resolved High priorities and complex change request issues.
· Mapping requirements for production issues and work orders from the business users; impact analysis forms, configuration, customization, conducting unit and integration testing with business user sign offs; ensuring movement of changes into the production environment as per Cadbury’s change control board (CCB) process
· Coordinating with Tech team for debugging issues, RICEF objects and Enhancements and custom requirements. Monitoring Daily Team Members Activities
· Assigning Tasks to team members & Monitoring Status of all assignments
· Preparing and modifying Functional Test Plans & Functional Spec.
· Testing of entire Change request and upload test plans into HP Mercury QC.
· Preparing daily report including Change request and Helpdesk tickets.
SAP Projects:
Client: Vishal Mega Mart, Gurgaon, India (Mar 08 – Aug 08)
Employer: Vinculum Solution Ltd
Position: Lead Product
SAP Environment: ECC 6.0 SD/LE
Position/Role: Team Lead
Key Responsibilities:
· Worked on Problem Management, Incident management and Change management
· Worked on Tickets and Change request as per SLA time frame.
· Worked on L3 level team and responsible for critical requirements
· Worked on MM and FI integration scenarios
· Worked on RICEF and custom development requirement with ABAP team
· Worked on market to cash scenario.
· Worked on MTO scenarios.
· Worked on Intercompany Sales and Intercompany stock transfer scenario.
SAP Projects:
Employer: Crompton Greaves Ltd, Mumbai, India (Nov 07 – Mar 08)
Position: Lead SD Consultant
SAP Environment: ECC 4.7 SD/LE
Project Name: LE implementation
Project Type: Implementation
Team Size: 2
Position/Role: Team Lead
Key Responsibilities:
· Scoping, Blueprint, Mapping AS-IS: TO-BE, Configuration, Testing, User Training, Go-Live activities and Post Production Support.
· Shipping Point Determination, defining Shipping Conditions, working with Delivery Lists and Outbound Delivery Monitor
· Customizing Delivery Types and Delivery Item Categories and their determination for in-store pick up, regular delivery, Copy controls & custom routines
· Route Definition and Determination, Delivery/Transportation Scheduling
· Incompleteness determination at both delivery header and item levels.
· Determination of delivery outputs and serial number profiles
· Proposed the logic and set up batch jobs for Back Order Processing (V_V2) and Delivery creation (VL10B/G/H) in background.
· Vendor Invoice and Freight P.O settlement
· Reversal of Vendor Invoice
· Custom reports.
· Identifying Roles and Objects
· Service Orders, replacements & warranties.
· Service Contracts and Contract profiles.
· Pricing in Service contracts.
· Credit check on Service Orders.
· Service related Billing.
· Serial number handling in repair processing.
SAP Projects:
Employer: M/s Gupta Synthetics, Surat, India (Oct 05 – Oct 07)
Position: SD consultant
SAP Environment: ECC 4.7 SD/CIN
Project Name: GSL
Project Type: Implementation
Position/Role: Team member
Key Responsibilities:
· Handling SD area covering Pricing, outputs, Interfaces and ABAP report development
· Providing support on managing Helpdesk tickets and Change request (CR)
· Attending approvals meeting to for CRs
· Functional team member for the GSL ‘Implementation’ activities in the SAP functional area for India business operations including CIN module.
· Liaisons with the business users in India for identification, scoping and subsequent sign off for the business requirements.
· Configuration of the SD functional requirements in the customizing client as per GSL landscape, documentation of the configuration changes in the Solution Manager
· Development of functional specifications (RICEF’s, user exits) for custom requirements and getting them approved from the business through formal sign off’s
· Co-ordination of the development activities between the distributed ABAP team in (multiple locations); resolution of defects during testing of ABAP developments
· Responsible for unit and integration testing in QC (HP Quality Centre) including preparation of the test scripts for the business scenarios and set up of the test data in the respective system landscapes; support to the business during the UAT testing
· Set up of production master data for release go-live activities as part of the cut over plan
· Identification of SAP ‘roles’ required for new and existing transactions post changes in the system; submit requests for the creation of a new test id’s and roles wherever required