Candidates About

Bharat Rudrapati

SAP SD/OTC/LE/EDI Functional Consultant

 

Summary

·         Over 9+ years of various industry experience as a SAP SD/OTC/LE/EDI Functional

Consultant.

·         3 full life cycles implementation using ASAP methodology from Business Blueprint, Requirement Gather, Realization and Finalization to Go-live & Support.

·         Experience in SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) module integration with FI, MM, WM, PP as a functional consultant.

·         Expert knowledge on Order to Cash (OTC) processes.

·         Functional expertise: Pre-sales activities such as inquiry and quotation, and major business activities such as Pricing, Billing, Shipping Configuration, Transportation, Shipping cost, Contracts, Availability check (ATP), Credit Management, Partner Determination, Output Determination, Tax Determination within SAP/ integrated with Vertex, Material Determination, Bill of Materials, Batch Management and Variant Configuration.

·         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 and Cash sales order.

·         Experience in Order Change Management (OCM) includes Production Orders, Planned Orders, Change Profiles, Creation of Release keys and Profile for Materials.

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

·         Expert resource for customizing allocation of Free-of-charge items, and customization for Free of charge delivery, Invoice Correction Request, Return Orders, Credit Memo and Debit Memo.

·         Expert in the customization of customer master data, material master data and data sharing among sales organizations.

·         Extensively worked on Transportation Management System for Transportation planning and Shipments in SAP.

·         Variant Configuration: Hands on experience on Super BOMs, Super Routings, Profile Configuration, Object dependencies, Constraints and Pricing.

·         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 and Analysis of Pricing.

·         Billing Experience: Configured Billing Documents based on Billing Types and Item Categories, Intercompany Billing, Rebate agreements Customized Invoices, Revenue Recognition, Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR), Resource Related Billing, Billing types, Billing plans, Milestone billing, Periodic billing and Self Billing.

·         Credit and Risk Management: Good knowledge in the configuration of Credit Control Area, Credit Data and Credit Groups. Direct experience of customizing Dynamic credit check process and payment guarantee procedure. Good understanding of credit card processing.

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

·         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, CATT, Solution Manager and eCATT, interfaces including RFC and BAPIs.

·         Implemented various customer EDI transactions using ANSI standards. Worked on Generating of mapping documents between 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 and IDoc to X12 mappings wise versa.

·         Involved working on EDI IDoc inbound, outbound, message type, segment extension, IDoc monitoring, posting, logical system, ports and setting up partner profiles.

·         Experience with EDI Transactions, IDOC configuration, IDOC Types and Verification of Inbound and Outbound IDOC’s.

·         Hands-on experience on system & manual integrations using EDI/ALE, IDoc interfaces 214/404/810/830/862/850/856/910.

·         Expertise in preparing functional specs, knowledge management documents and conducting knowledge transfer sessions to business users.

·         Excellent communication, time management, and interpersonal skills.

 

SAP Functional Skills

 

·         Configuration: Experienced in all SD aspects, including defining & assigning Enterprise Structure, Master data, Pre-Sales, Sales Order processing, Logistic Execution (Shipping, Delivery) with Billing-Invoice (Order to Cash Process), and Condition Techniques.

·         Master Records: Creation and maintenance of Customer Master, Material Master, Vendor Master & Customer Material Information record.

·         Sales Documents: Sales Document Header, Sales Document Item, Sales Documents, Schedule Line, Contracts, and Scheduling Agreements.

·         Pricing: Condition table, Condition type, Access sequence, Pricing procedure, and Condition record.

·         Order Management: Creation of Sales documents - Inquiry, Quotation, Sales order (standard order, rush order, cash sales, service order, returns), Deliveries (outbound & inbound), Billing, Invoicing, Credit memo, Debit memo.

·         Configuration and implementation of SAP LE process, covering the complete range of functionalities like master data uploads.

·         Special Functionalities: LE Shipping and Transportation, Variant configuration (VC), Free goods determination, Material determination, Output determination, Text determination, Partner determination, Account determination, Resource Related Billing, Revenue Account determination, Batch Management, Availability Check, Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Make to order (MTO), Stock transport order (STO), Available to Promise (ATP), Copy Control, Cross Selling, Listing/Exclusion, Log of Incompletion and Credit Management.

 

SAP Technical Skills

 

R/3 SAP SD LE EDI

 

ASAP Methodology, Gap Analysis, Business Process Procedures (BPPs), Order to Cash (OTC), Shipping and Transportation of Logistics Execution (LE), Condition Techniques, Pricing, Availability check and Transfer of Requirements (TOR), Shipping Point Determination, Billing, Reporting, Partner Determination, Account Determination, Output Determination, Text Determination, Revenue Recognition, Route Determination, Condition Exclusion, Material Listing/Exclusion, Material Determination, Make to Order (MTO), Variant Configuration (VC), Inter-Company Stock Transfers (STO), Dynamic Product Proposal, EDI, IDocs, ALE, Master Data, Batch Management, and knowledge of basic ABAP Debugging.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

 

Client: Sasol Chemicals, Houston, TX                                                              May 2017 – till date

Role: SAP SD LE EDI Consultant

Industry: Chemicals

Environment: ECC 6.0

 

·         Involved gathering requirements, preparing blue print documents, design documents and development objects.

·         Involved in developing list of objects and planning tasks.

·         Extensively worked on setting up Customer Master, Material Master, Customer Material Info Records.

·         Worked on Pricing Procedure, Access Sequences, Condition Tables and Field Catalogs setup and Pricing Conditions.

·         Extensively involved working on SAP EDI IDoc's for Sales Order, Delivery and Invoice Documents.

·         Worked on Copy Controls for Sales Order, Delivery and Invoice Documents.

·         Worked on Batch Management setting up batches, stock posting and maintaining characteristics.

·         Worked on developing requirements and routines with the help of ABAP resource. Provided detailed functional specs.

·         Extensively worked in EDI transactions from setting up Output Types, Output determination, Inbound/Outbound Configuration, Setting up Partner Profiles and IDoc to X12 Mappings.

·         Worked on FTP servers to load Inbound/Outbound files.

·         Implemented multiple inbound and Outbound IDoc's for Freight Forwarders (Kuehne Nagel, BDP) and Warehouse (Frontier).

·         Worked on IDoc messages 850, 856, 810, 214, 404 and 910.

·         Provided functional specs and logic for developing custom fields and screens in Sales Order, Delivery and Invoice documents.

·         Worked on SAP Field Mappings, Functional Specs and ANSI X12 mappings.

·         Worked extensively with Middle ware team Kleinschmidt provided IDoc- X12 mappings.

·         Worked on Partner Determination, Text Determination, Output Determination, VLPOD, Setting up Partner Profiles and IDoc configuration (IDoc type, Message Type, Process code).

·         Implemented 3PL solution for tendering process with third party company Transplace.

·         Worked on Stock Transport Orders for 3PL solution.

·         Involved in Cutover activities, Product Support and Post Go Live.

 

 

Client: Dow Chemical Company, Saginaw, MI                                                April 2016 – April 2017

Role: SAP SD EDI Consultant

Industry: Chemicals

Environment: ECC 6.0

 

·         Interfaced with Project Manager, Team Lead and Customer/Clients to effectively complete implementation deliverables.

·         Influenced project team discussions, decisions and direction for OTC cycle.

·         Helped manage cross-functional implementation issues and interdependencies for OTC process.

·         Configured order to cash (OTC) process flow includes inquiry, quotation, sales order, deliveries, post goods issue, billing and release to accounting.

·         Configured components related to Sales Orders: Sales document types, Item categories, Schedule Line Categories, Document flow, Copying controls, Contracts and scheduling agreements, Incompletion logs.

·         Configured Pricing (Price configuration, Condition technique, Condition types, Access sequence, Condition records, Special functions, customer hierarchy for pricing, special condition types), Taxes, as well as credit/debit notes.

·         Interacted with ABAP team members and providing them with table names for developing user exits for special pricing conditions.

·         Maintained copying control from Sales / Delivery / Billing documents for OTC Process flow.

·         Configured output determination for sales document, Deliveries and Billing documents.

·         Configured delivery processing, picking, packing, automatic batch determination, shipping point determination and storage location determination.

·         Configured Inter-Company and Third Party Sales Order Process.

·         Extensively worked on Revenue Recognition for both Time-based and Event-based.

·         Created and customized billing documents and billing methods and rules. Added enhancements to the billing plans types.

·         Worked with the third party Transportation Management System to plan all the Shipment and Transportation Planning in the TMS and interfaced the same with the SAP with the help of the Messaging (RFC), so that once the planning is done in the TMS the Shipment is sent back to SAP to carry on with the Transportation process in SAP.

·         Configured consignment processes like consignment fill-up, consignment issue, consignment pick-up and consignment return.

·         Worked on configuring IDOC inbound and outbound parameters for Sales Order, Delivery and Billing Documents.

·         Extensively worked on EDI interface includes 214/404/856/850.

·         Worked on configuration of Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, PO EDI (850, 860), Third Party Orders, Inbound Deliveries, Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Goods receipt and Goods issues.

·         Worked on mapping field to EDI Middleware PI.

·         Created Test Cases and Test Plans in HPQC. Executed for any defects.

·         Involved in unit testing, system integration testing, performance testing, user acceptance testing and regression testing.

·         Provided production support by trouble-shooting problems that were encountered by users and super users.

 

 

Client: Avnet Inc., Phoenix, AZ                                                                           Aug 2015 – Mar 2016

Role: SAP SD OTC LE Functional Consultant

Industry: Distributor

Environment: ECC 6.0

• Responsible for gathering requirement analysis and development of the application through interactions with business process owners in relation to legacy and current systems.
• Configuration of SD Enterprise Structure and initial customization as per business needs.
• Worked closely with the marketing and account receivable departments along with the ABAP team members to gather and verify requirements for the customer master.
• Configuration of OTC Process: orders, returns and credit/debit memo requests.
• Configured and customized exclusive Pricing Procedures with Price, Costs, Surcharges, Discount, Freight, Profit Margin using Condition Technique.
• Interacted with developers to design reports, Smart forms and User-exits.
• Worked on Variant Configuration, linked classes, items and BOM, configured ‘configurable materials-BOM’, variant pricing and dependencies.
• Worked on rebates, material determination, out-put determination using condition techniques.
• Worked on Tax Determination integrated with Vertex.
• Worked on Order Change Management (OCM) for Production Orders and Planned Orders.
• Configured and customized new Sales, Delivery and Billing document types, Number ranges.
• Maintained Copying controls for Sales, Delivery and Billing documents.
• Logistics configuration for shipping such as goods issue for outbound deliveries.
• Configured outbound delivery documents, delivery item category, and item category determination rule.
• Configured shipping point determination by customizing shipping conditions, loading groups, and by defining organizational structures in the logistics.
• Configuration of Route and maintaining the Route determination. Configured the delivery processing, picking, packing and goods issue functions. Worked on route determination by customizing the modes of transport, shipping types, connection points, stages, transportation zones, and shipping conditions.
• Revenue account determination: Dependencies for Revenue account determination, assignment of account keys and G/L accounts. Worked with FI/CO team to streamline revenue recognition.
• Defining all determination procedures with condition techniques.
• Third-Party transactions (Direct ship process), Rush Orders and Cash Sales.
• Master data customization of customer master data, customer account groups, partner determination, partner types, access sequences and procedures.
• Worked on defining transportation zones, transportation planning points and document settings.
• SD/FI Integration: Revenue account determination, G/L accounts, accounts keys.
• Close interaction with the users and programmers.
• Active participation in workshops and group meeting.

Client: Freescale Semiconductor, Chandler, AZ                                                 Jan 2015 – July 2015

Role: SAP SD EDI Functional Consultant

Industry: Manufacture

Environment: ECC 6.0

 

·         Extensively involved working on preparing functional specs and gathering requirements.

·         Involved configuring the enter price structure based on the requirements from legacy systems.

·         Hand on experience on mapping the customer master and material master fields in SAP from Mainframe systems.  

·         Worked on pricing conditions, pricing Procedure, Access sequences, condition tables and field catalogs setup.

·         Extensively worked on Pricing determination, Output determination, Tax determination integration with Vertex, Account determination and Material Determination.

·         Configured the inbound and outbound partner setup in Partner profiles for triggering outbound and inbound IDOC’s for customers and vendor.

·         Extensively worked on complex scenarios Auto post for vendor account triggering of multiple level Intercompany IDOC’s on company level for customer and vendor.

·         Worked on Advance Ship notifications (ASN), Proof of delivery (POD) and Proof of receipts.

·         Extensively working on Sales order Interface mapping with legacy Mainframe system.

·         Involve developing custom fields in Customer Master, Sales order and Invoice interacting with ABAP resource and prepared functional specs.

·         Configured Sales document types, Delivery types and Billing types based on the requirements and done relevant settings.

·         Involved working on configuration and testing of Self Billing scenario.

·         Worked on IDOC types ORDERS05, INVOIC01 and INVOIC02 and triggered output types for Sales orders and Invoice documents.

·         Monitored inbound and outbound flow for Sales orders, Shipments, Invoices to check for error notifications and reprocessed accordingly.

·         Prepared test cases and executed unit test, user acceptance test and system integration test.

 

 

 

Client: Mondelez International, East Hanover, NJ                                            June 2014 – Dec 2014

Role: SAP SD EDI Functional Consultant

Industry: CPG (Consumer Product Industry)

Environment: ECC 6.0

 

·         Involved working on gathering requirements and prepared functional specs.

·         Extensively worked on Pricing, Delivery and Billing, Rebates, Copy controls, Account determination, Pricing determination.

·         Involved working on Rebate agreements, Credit memos and Debit memos.  

·         Worked on shipping cost, transportation, picking, packing, billing, route determination and output determination.

·         Extensively worked on Intercompany Billing and Available to Promise (ATP).

·         Worked on Solution Manager for updating the functional and technical specs that are approved.

·         Worked on EDI- 850,830,855,860,865,856,810, etc. from SAP ECC 6 system interfaced with middleware XI.

·         Tested the Functional Specifications to carry out the development works so that proper interface is developed between the TMS and SAP for ORDERS05, SHIPMT05, EDI 204, 214 and EDI 990, Invoice 810, ASN 856.

·         Monitored all inbound and outbound EDI transaction processing. Analyzed, identified and tracked all exceptions and errors processing.

·         Resolution of EDI/IDOC for the inbound and outbound interfaces.

·         Worked on Order Change Management (OCM) includes customizing settings for Sales Orders, creation of planning strategies and release keys.

·         Worked on 3PL system interfaced to SAP. Involved triggering batch jobs in Control M.

·         Extensively worked on HPQC uploading/updating test cases and performed manual test run for test cases execution.

·         Monitored inbound and outbound flow for Sales orders, Production Orders, Shipments, Invoices to check for notifications and resolve error messages.

·         Prepared Unit Test, System integration test documents and test scripts.

·         Involved extensively on Regression Testing of customized objects.

 

 

Client: Nissan North America., Franklin, TN                                                     Sep 2013 – May 2014

Role: SAP SD OTC Lead Functional Consultant

Industry: Automobile.

Environment: ECC 6.0

 

·         Extensively involved in co-ordination with Business analysts and business users for requirement gathering and understanding.

·         Worked on preparing Requirement understanding document and provided sessions to users on solutions proposal.

·         Extensively working on SD: Customer Master Data, Material master data, Pricing, Delivery and Billing, Rebates, Copy controls, Account determination, item category determination, Pricing determination, Tax determination integrated with Vertex, Bill of Materials, Variant configuration and Text determination.

·         Configured Condition tables, Access Sequence, Condition types, Pricing procedure and condition records as per business requirement.

·         Configured Billing documents, Sales documents, Debit and Credit memos.

·         Worked on Variant Configuration includes dependencies like precondition, selection conditions and procedures. Involved working on both multiple and single level.

·         Created work centers, rate routings, production versions and material masters. Performed material master related changes.

·         Involved working on Product allocation includes Availability check during Sales order entry, Statistic groups for customers and Materials.

·         Worked on Partner Determination, Revenue account determination and rebate agreements.

·         Created custom deliveries, shipping cost, dispatches, transportation, advance returns, picking, packing, billing, route determination and output determination.

·         Analyzing the errors, searching for the cause of error, provided corrective solutions and suggested for preventive actions to avoid re occurrence.

·         Conducted training and knowledge transfer to business users and offshore team.

·         Worked with integrated of FI, MM, PP and Main Frame system.

·         Involved working on SOX environment.

·         Worked on Solution Manager on creation of Urgent corrections and Transports. Migration of Urgent corrections to Quality system for testing.

·         Worked on generating EDI documents like, 850,830,855,860,865,856,810, etc. from SAP ECC 6 system and compared them against corresponding EDI documents from production legacy system in order to have minimal trading partner impact.

·         Monitored inbound / outbound flow of production orders, shipments, invoices to check for workflow notifications and resolve error messages.

·         Extensively involved using LSMW workbench for updating customer master and material master.

·         Prepared Unit Test, System integration test documents at testing phase.

·         Extensively worked on Regression Testing of customized objects.

·         Worked on Preparing functional specifications and detailed design documents.

·         Worked on cut-over activities and provided post go-live support.

 

Client: Micron Technology., Boise, ID