Candidates About

 

Manish Kumar

SAP-SD/OTC Functional Consultant

 

Professional Summary

¨      Over 12 years of industry experience in SAP. Hands on experience of working in 11 SAP projects of which 5 full life cycles implementation using ASAP methodology: from Business Blueprint, Realization, Finalization, to Go-live & Support.

¨      Nearly 7 years of experience in SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) module and integration of SD with MM, PP, FI/CO, IM and WM modules as a functional consultant.

¨      Strong knowledge on order to cash (OTC) processes with experience in configuration of various business processes like designing, configuring and customizing S & D functionalities.

¨      Expertise in Sales & Distribution (SD) - Sales Order Processing (OTC), master data configuration, Availability Checking, Pricing, Revenue mapping with GL accounts, Sales Promotion and Sales Deals, Contracts & Rebate agreements, Returns, Output Determination, Product proposal, Free goods, Purchase Orders, Purchase Requisitions, Stock Transport Orders, Outbound and Inbound Deliveries, Picking, Packing, Transfer Order, Goods Issues, Goods Receipts, Billing, Batch Management, Variant Configuration, Route Determination, Inventory Management , Warehouse Management, Sales Information System (SIS).

¨      Good understanding on 3^rd Party Logistic (3PL) sales process, Intercompany sales, Sub-contracting, Stock Transfer Order (STO).

¨      Pricing Experience: Configuration of Condition Types, Condition Tables and Access Sequences, Determining and Maintaining Pricing Procedure, Creation of Condition Records, defining pricing scale (absolute and percentage scaling), special pricing functions such as Condition Exclusion, pricing analysis and running pricing reports.

¨      Strong understanding on SD & FI-AR integration and have extensively worked on SD and FI integration setting up the Account Determination procedure to support in monitoring and handling payments in to various Cash Accounts and Account Receivables (AR).

¨      Billing: Worked on diverse billing processes depending on the business needs such as order related billing, delivery related billing including resource related billing, milestone and Periodic billing.

¨      Master Data: Expert in the customization of Customer, Material and data sharing among sales organizations.

¨      Strong working experience of SAP Data Conversion using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench), BDC, BAPI, RFC, eCATT. 

¨      Worked on ALE-IDoc, communicating outbound and inbound Idocs in-between SAP R/3 system and the middleware application to interface with the front end order management system like e-Commerce Systems - Hybris.

¨      Expertise in SAP Tables, Fields, ABAP Query: Simple reports using SQVI, Debugging, User exits.

¨      ABAP program debugging, creating functional and technical program specification, creating user exits for sales order, delivery and billing, and creating user requirements for copy controls, creating customized fields and tables and user exits for adding customer specific information to SAP table.

¨      Production support: GOLIVE Hyper-care, Application Maintenance support, Production & customer Support on usage of application as per Service Level Agreements with Support tickets, issues, Change requests, enhancement projects, unit testing, coordination with offshore/onsite Global support teams & end-user trainings.

¨      Experienced in all stages of System Development Lifecycle from business process improvement, requirements gathering, design, construction, testing, implementation and support.

¨      Experienced in full cycle implementation using ASAP methodology. This includes blueprinting, Gap analysis to convert AS-IS to TO-BE system.

¨      Excellent team-player of system implementation, open to new ideas and concepts, self-motivated, able to work under pressure and delivery timely and quality results, and able to communicate effectively at different levels.

¨      Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, time management, involved in interacting with core team, dealing with end-users in conducting workshops, documenting specifications.

 

Technical Skills:

¨      ERP Systems SAP R/3 4.6C ECC 5.0 ECC6.0

¨      Operating systems Windows NT, Windows 2007, Vista, XP, 95 

¨      Project tools SOLMAN, SharePoint, MS Office Suite, Ms-Project, Ms Outlook, Mercury Load runner, HP Quality Center 10.0, Manual Testing Techniques

 

Technologies :	S4H Simple Logistics, SAP R/3 ECC EHP 7.4, ECC 6.0, SAP CRM 7.0 EHP, Vertex, Paymetric.
SAP Functional Modules:	SAP OTC Logistics-Sales & Distribution, Logistics Execution, Transportation, Variant Configuration, Materials Management, Customer Service, Data Migration. S4HANA Migration, SAP Solution Manager - ChaRM, CRM- Sales, Service, Marketing, Interaction Center, E-Commerce with Web UI, Middleware & ABAP.
Middleware:	Mulesoft, Dell Boomi, BizTalk, SAP-PI, DataHub.
Software Methodologies & Tools:	ASAP, Agile, Scrum Master lead, ARIS, Service Now, Remedy, MS Office, MS-Visio, Lotus Notes, Language tools, HPALM (Quality Center), LSMW & CATT.

 

 

Professional Experience:

Client: Rodan+Fields, LLC                                                                                                                  (JUL 2016 –Till Date)

SAP OTC Functional Consultant

Description: Project ReHabit is an End-to-End implementation of SAP Project to execute & Integrate SAP R/3 ECC, HYBRIS E-Commerce, VERTEX, PAYMETRIC, 3PL WMS, Global commissioning Engine (GCE) & other 3^rd Party Legacy systems through MULESOFT & DATAHUB Middleware systems for End-to End OTC Business Process simultaneously for USA, Canada & Australia.

 

Responsibilities:

¨      Gathered & Analyzed OTC requirements from R+F Business Leadership through Meetings, Workshops, Questionnaires and Brainstorm sessions.

¨      Proposed & finalized design model for OTC process involving HYBRIS, SAP, VERTEX, PAYMETRIC, 3PL, GCE & RFO.

¨      Prepared AS-IS, TO-BE & GAP Analysis document to feed the inputs for Business Blue-Print.

¨      Identified WRICEF & key interfaces to integrate Hybris, ECC and 3PL systems & Prepared Business Blue-Print.

¨      Designed, Mapped & Prepared functional Specs for the integration of ECC & HYBRIS Systems through DataHub, ECC, 3PL Systems & 3^rd Party systems through MuleSoft system.

¨      Integrated ECC & HYBRIS for Sales Orders & Return (RMA) to flow through IDOC “BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2”, Order confirmation thru Idoc ORDERS05, Delivery thru DELVRY07.

¨      Configured SAP ECC System with Order Types, Delivery Types, Billing Types to process Sales, Returns, Credit and Debit Memo Process. 

¨      Integrated ECC & VERTEX by configuring Pricing Procedure to calculate taxes from VERTEX.  

¨      Integrated ECC & PAYMETRIC by configuring Payment Cards to provide Authorization in Sales Order & Invoice. 

¨      Configured Output types & Procedures to Process IDOCs thru EDI in Sales Order, Delivery, Invoice and Settlement.

¨      Configured & implemented Available-To-Promise (ATP) Check in Sales Orders for Availability check.

¨      Configured Material Determination procedure to determine SKU’s for the corresponding Product catalogues.

¨      Customized SAP ECC to accommodate Custom solutions for Plant determination in Sales orders, Custom fields required for other systems.

¨      Provided custom solutions for Pricing – Tax on Consultant (Wholesale) price, Price Calculation without Tax for Australia, Price date for Legacy Returns, Credit Memo and Charge Back.

¨      Designed Solutions for the Reverse Logistics with Return Merchandized Authorization (RMA), Return Orders with/without Actual Material Returns, Credit Memo to refund Customers.

¨      Integrated ECC and 3PL Systems (DHL, OHL, DDC & FDM) through MuleSoft with EDI/IDOCs - 940 & 945.        

¨      Worked on integration of SAP SD module with MM & FICO Modules.

¨      Led the effort of the testing for UAT with the Business users, Testing Teams, Security teams & developers.

¨      Coordinated with Development (ABAP) teams Onsite & Offshore for the enhancements as well as development of interfaces for the SAP R/3.

¨      Coordinated & led the Sales & Distribution cut-over activities along with other module teams.

 

Environment: SAP ECC 7.4, HYBRIS, PAYMETRIC, VERTEX, 3PL-WMS, Data Hub, Mellissa system, Mule Soft, APCERA, SFDC.

 

 

Client: Novartis (Alcon)– Fort Worth-TX                                                                                               (Nov 2014 –Aug 2016)

SAP OTI/OTC Functional Consultant

Description: The “IRIS” program aims new IT Strategy, defined as priority of consolidation of Novartis ERP landscape to one ERP platform with three integrated SAP instances in support of company agility and shared services.

The project consists of a Global Template Design and Build is the stage where the global and common processes and data are defined and prototyped. Ownership and governance were also defined.

 

Responsibilities:

¨      Conducted workshops & meetings with Alcon Business Leads, Users to understand existing Business processes and gather the functional requirements for the SAP OTI (OTC) module implementation.

¨      Worked on enhancement/User Exits for Sales Order, payment cards, delivery blocks, Invoices, invoice output and billing blocks.

¨      Worked on OTC process in Sales order management with Availability check (ATP). 

¨      Involved in master data structure enhancements for material listing and exclusion, substitutions, output determination, jurisdiction code etc. 

¨      Involved in enhanced route determinations to satisfy different shipping conditions.

¨      Designed and worked on Enhancement of Pricing procedure (US) to calculate gross price, copy control, rounding rules and defined tolerance limit for the EDI orders; custom price for Stock Transfer Orders etc.

¨      Designed and configured Pricing routine for tax, discount/surcharges based on different business conditions.

¨      Designed and configured enhancement to apply Promotion code in Sales Order for those customers that satisfy different defined conditions.  

¨      Designed and developed functional specification for automatic creation of GTS Proforma from Delivery. 

¨      Designed and developed functional specification for Shipment under Quarantine to Affiliates based on parameters maintained in the custom RPA (Regulatory Product Assortment).

¨      Worked on FS for output forms – Order Confirmation (US), Invoice Output (UK, US and CA) act as an interface to the StreamServe system for further communication with the customer by means of fax, printout or email.

¨      Involved in the design of ECC to HYBRIS: Serial Master via PI middleware system.

¨      Worked on BOM price allocations to components based on ASP.

¨      Designed the program for Automatic creation and process of Returns Orders run through batch job.

¨      Involved in end-to-end Full life cycle implementation, responsible for developing documentation and understanding the business processes.

¨      Coordinated with Development (ABAP, PI) teams for the enhancements as well as development of interfaces for the SAP R/3 and other systems.

¨      Provided the Sales & Distribution cut-over activities along with other module teams for the US Go-Live

¨      Provided GOLIVE Hyper-care support and regular application maintenance support for the US and CA.

 

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 CRM 7.0 (EHP 3), PI-7.3, Hybris.

 

Client: Fruit Growers Supply Company, CA                                                                                          (Apr 2014 – Oct 2014)

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Description: This project is to implement Point of Sales (POS) solution that works with the SAP ECC application and provides traditional functionality as well as advanced order management capabilities. Built and deployed on the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform, the POS application is easy to deploy through SAP portal technology or a browser and features real time inventory visibility across the supply chain. It helped organizations leverage live reporting of their business activities – an invaluable benefit for store operations and management reporting.

 

Responsibilities:

¨      Involved in various business meetings to analyze and document the business requirements related to POS.

¨      Responsible for business requirement collection in the area of Sales, Billing and Interfaces.

¨      Configured sales document type’s inquiry, quotation, order, shipping for the POS.

¨      Configured the links with item category groups and item categories.

¨      Custom pricing conditions, pricing procedures and item categories are configured.

¨      Developed custom billing documents and custom layout sets.

¨      Configuration of Customer master, Customer texts, Pricing, Material Listings and Exclusions, Output condition, condition records

¨      Configured partner functions, condition types and output messages.

¨      Expertise in identifying user exits for enhancement, wrote functional specifications.

¨      Extensive contribution in data migration and data loads by using LSMW.

 

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP Netweaver EP -7.3.

 

 

 

Client: American Water Inc. - NJ                                                                                                             (Sep 2013 – Apr 2014)

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Description: This project is to implement SAP ECC involving sales & service processes using SAP SD, CRM Service Module for American Water.

 

Responsibilities:

¨      Conducted workshops & meetings with American Business Leads, Users to understand existing Business processes and gather the functional requirements for the SAP ECC Sales & Distribution module.

¨      Did the due diligence of the Business requirements and designed the Business process flow for the gathered Business and Functional Requirements.

¨      Designed Business processes and associated scenarios which include SAP SD Order-To-Cash process. 

¨      Prepared AS IS, TO BE and GAP Analysis documents and formulated the business blueprint.

¨      Configured the Make-to-Order Sales order containing the items which will generate the items required for the Production or procurement.

¨      Provided solutions for the result analysis with CO integration to monitor the

¨      Configured the Sales Order, Service Order which include Transaction types, Item categories, Copying control, Partner processing & Text Types.

¨      Functional specifications for SAP SD Project conversions, BW reporting to fill the gaps in the standard functionality.

¨      Coordinated with Development (ABAP) teams for the enhancements as well as development of interfaces for the SAP & third party system to send the order confirmation using ORDERSP message type.

¨      Provided GOLIVE Hyper-care support and regular application maintenance support.

¨      Led the effort of the testing for UAT with the Business users, Testing Teams & Security teams.

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Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, CRM 7.0, SolMan 7.1, Agile Methodology

 

Client: Sanofi – Bridgewater-NJ                                                                                                     (March 2011 – Aug 2013)

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Description: This project is to support SAP ECC Sales & Distribution module, and integrated with other modules like MM, FI/CO, T&E, HR for Sanofi.

 

Responsibilities:

¨      Worked on the Production support to support SAP SD module on usage of application as per Service Level Agreements with Support tickets, issues, Change requests, enhancement projects, unit testing & coordination with offshore/onsite Global support team’s end-user trainings,

¨      Did the due diligence of the Business requirements of the change requests from time to time and redesigned the Business process flow for the SAP Sales & Distribution module.

¨      Configured the Individual purchase order scenario to support the procurement of the products manufactured by the third party.

¨      Supported the SD Processes of Order-To-Cash (OTC) with Availability check (ATP), Consignment stock process, Cross company sales & Third party sales.

¨      Supported the SD pricing solution with campaign pricing solution in concurrence with SAP CRM.

¨      Supported the EDI Idocs monitoring, Error handling, batch jobs & successfully solved the issues.

¨      Supported the issues in Batch determination & batch split in the deliveries.

¨      Coordinated with Development (ABAP, PI, Portal) teams for the development of interfaces for the SAP ECC and other systems.

¨      Supported the Configuration of Inquiry/Quotation/Sales Orders/Deliveries/Billing Docs including transactional settings and item category settings (Copying control, Partner/Text/Date determination & other Controlling Parameters).

¨      Performed the unit & integration testing and change request releases to production from time to time.

¨      Training end users and troubleshooting day-to-day problems for SD module transactions.

 

Environment:  SAP ECC 6.0, Netweaver-EP 7.2, HPQC, CharM.

 

 

Client: Novartis Global– Bangalore -India                                                                                    (Sep 2009 – Feb 2011)

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Description: Novartis is one of the largest healthcare companies in the world and a leading giant among pharmaceutical companies based in Basel, Switzerland. The main goal of this project is to implement SAP solutions for HR policies and processes across the Novartis businesses worldwide and to create one global transactional SAP system for Personnel Administration Organization Management and the Administration of 3rd parties.

 

Responsibilities:

¨      Conducted meeting calls with the Novartis Business owners for the requirement gathering & understanding of the client’s business processes & scenarios involving automation.

¨      Formulated the business blueprint in concurrence with AS IS, TO BE and GAP Analysis. 

¨      Configured Material Master, Pricing, Purchasing, Goods Movement and Invoice Verification.

¨      Customized plant parameters for MRP and consumption based planning and defined MRP groups and controllers.

¨      Customized Pricing comprising Complicated price configuration, Condition technique setting in pricing, Condition records, Special functions, Special condition types, Statistical condition types, account determination, Taxes, Agreements, Free goods and rebate. Worked on Inter-company pricing and stock transport orders.

¨      Provided Functional specifications for RICEF’s identified in OTC Business processes which include Sales Order Management, Delivery, Billing, Returns & 3PL Logistics integration with ECC.

¨      Designed solution for the SAP SD framework to achieve the 3PL Logistics integration with ECC by EDI 850, 940, 945, 810 & 856.

¨      Designed Solutions for the reverse logistics with Returns & repair processing, Replacement Order, Free of charge delivery, Standard order with Service Charge.

¨      Worked on EDI for the credit/Debit Memo adjustments with 812 & 820 for the Returns Management.

¨      Designed & Implemented Enterprise Structure, Transaction types, Item categories, copying control, Partner/Text/Date determination and Order fulfillment (Availability check, Delivery, PGI, Billing) for the SD Orders.

¨      Worked on the SAP SD integration with MM & FI Modules & Supported with End-to-End integration testing.

¨      Integration Transfer of requirement from sales orders to MRP (MM), Credit management, Accounts Receivable (FI).

¨      Provided solution for the movement of inventory with serialization procedure and serial numbers usage in OTC and returns.

¨      Coordinated with Development (ABAP, PI) teams for the enhancements as well as development of interfaces for the SAP R/3 and other systems.

¨      Coordinated & led the Sales & Distribution cut-over activities along with other module teams.

¨      Provided GOLIVE Hyper-care support and regular application maintenance support.

¨      Developed functional specifications to a report that gives existing stock for a material, the report should have subtotal of the stock for each storage location and the grand total of the stock and the end of the plant.

¨      Worked with Master data team in solving their issues.

¨      Performed regression testing, volume test and documented the procedures.

¨      Customized client specific reports and specifications for SAP scripts.

¨      Coordinated user training and knowledge transfer to users as well to super-users.

¨      Developed test scripts and testing data and performed testing.

Environment: SAP ECC SD, MM, FI/CO Modules.

 

Client: OMV AG  - Bangalore INDIA                                                                                                        (Apr 2009 – Jul 2009)

SAP ABAP/CRM Consultant

Description: OMV (formerly "Österreichische Mineralölverwaltung", ÖMV), is an integrated international oil and gas company, headquartered in Vienna. It is active in the upstream (Exploration and Production) and downstream businesses (Refining and Marketing as well as Gas and Power). With group sales of EUR 36 bn, a global workforce of around 25,500 and a market capitalisation of EUR 7 bn (end of 2014), OMV is one of the largest listed industrial companies in Austria.

 

Responsibilities:

¨      Worked in BAPIs to create Account, Contract, Lead, Activity management etc in CRM.

¨      Worked in building configuration, master data for CRM sales, configuring rules for loyalty Management.

¨      Configured Compaign Management with Workflow for CRM marketing.

¨      Developed Module Pool (Dialog programming) developments to Extract Business Partners from Targets Groups (CRM Marketing) and update the installation of ISU using RFC

¨      Worked extensively in CRM middleware to customize the BDoc and extracting the data from ECC to CRM box and vice versa for configuration, master and transaction data.

 

Environment: CRM 7.0 Service & Interaction center, BI, SAP ECC.