GANGADHAR SAP

  • SAP SM/CS & SD FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT
  • Sunnyvale, CA
  • Member Since May 11, 2023

Candidates About

                         

Gangadhar      

SAP SM/CS & SD FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT


SUMMARY:

§  10 years of implementation experience in SAP Service Management/Customer Service and Sales and Distribution in designing, developing business models to deliver strategic solutions.

§  Experience in business mapping and configuration of core Service Processes - Service Notifications, Repair Orders, Service Orders, Field Service, Resource Related Billing, Warranties and Contracts

§  Working experience on ASAP Methodology and in the Entire Project Phase Cycle – Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live, and production Support.

§  Configured Resource Related Billing (DIP) for Quotation and Billing Requests, to suite various business requirements.

§  Worked on Sales Order cycle, Item Categories, and Material Types

§  Working experience in defining technical object Master Data - Work Centers, Functional Locations, Equipment, Serialization Management, Installed Base, Maintenance Task Lists, Planned maintenance and Catalogs

§  Experience in working with Repair Order involving scrapping procedure and internal and external repairs and billing related to repairs order.

§  Expertise in working with Service Contracts, Pricing Procedures, Billing and Settlement.

§  Experience in Configuring the Standard SD business processes: Order to Cash, Rush Order and Cash Sales

§  Configuring Special business process in SD: Consignment Process,Third Party Order Processing and Stock Transport Order process

§  Basic Functions: Partner Determination, Output DeterminationFree Goods, Material determination, Material listing and exclusion.

§  Configured Item Categories, Schedule lines and Deliveries

§  Good knowledge and understanding of the other SAP core modules.

§  Strong analytical, project management, documentation, interpersonal, organizational, technical, administrative, and conflict resolution skills.

§  Played a major role in Unit/Integration/User Acceptance testing and documentation.

§  Experience in preparation of user training documents, knowledge transfer to end user and resloved user issues

§  Ability to provide sound direction to ABAP and BASIS resources for client specific requirements execution and facilitation.

§  Working experience in ABAP debugging.

§  Rich integration knowledge in configuring interfaces like SM/CS-SD, SM/CS-MM, SM/CS-FICO, SD-MM.

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Professional Experience:

CLIENT 1: Apple, Sunnyvale, CA, USA


Jan’16- Till Date

 

Environment:

SAP ECC 6.0

 

SAP SM Consultant

 

  • Currently working in the Testing phase of the project
  • Prepared Data for testing the processes
  • Worked on the Highly customized environment

§  Involved in system integration testing (SIT) & User Acceptance testing (UAT)

§  Involved in Performance testing

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CLIENT 2: ABB, Sunnyvale, CA, USA


Jun’15- Dec’15

 

Environment:

SAP ECC 6.0

 

SAP CS/SD/GTS Consultant

ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies.

  • Currently working in a Full Cycle implementation project
  • Onsite Support to business for SD, CS and GTS related module
  • Prepared Control Sheets for mapping the legacy fields to ECC
  • Showcased POCs for TO-BE processes
  • Using GATE methodology in project implementation

§  Worked on the Complex Sales Order process

§  Prepared functional specification documentation for the WRICEF

§  Involved in system integration testing (SIT) & User Acceptance testing (UAT)

§  Involved in training the Super Users

 

CLIENT 2: GE Industrial Solutions, Plainville, CT, USA


Mar’13- Jun’15

 

Environment:

SAP ECC 6.0

 

SAP  CS

Solution Architect

GE is a Global Company with operations in more than 100 countries

  • Currently working in a Global Rollout Project
  • Responsible for Service Processes Rollout
  • Conducted Work Shops for gathering the AS-IS processes
  • Showcased POCs for TO-BE processes and finalizing the Processes
  • Created and configured different Service order types, Service Notifications, Repair Orders and Contracts.

§  Configured DIP profiles for creating the Quotations and Billing Requests using  resource related billing

  • Prepared Control Sheets for mapping the legacy fields to ECC
  • Configured the technical objects:  Equipment and Functional Locations
  • Closely working with the PS team for ETO process
  • Involved in designing the integration points between CS-PS, CS-FICO, CS-SD

§  Prepared functional specification documentation for the WRICEF

§  Involved in system integration testing (SIT) & User Acceptance testing (UAT)

CLIENT 3: GE Energy, Lewistown, PA, USA


Oct’11- Feb’13

 

Environment:

SAP ECC 6.0

 

SAP  CS Functional

Consultant

GE is a Global Company with operations in more than 100 countries

  • Worked in full life cycle of the project.
  • Responsible for Global Implementation of 8 company codes in 2 phases
  • Prepared the BC SET as the base configuration for Global implementation
  • Involved in Deployment of one of the 4 Global company codes.
  • Created and configured different Service order types, Service Notifications, Repair Orders and Contracts.
  • Configured Warranty and Extended Warranty
  • Configured Service Notification with extensive action items to carry out the services functionality.
  • Involved in designing a custom screen in the Notification to incorporate multiple Materials for a single Notification.
  • Configured required master data: Equipment, Functional location and Installed Base
  • Worked with the flat rate billing and resource related billing

§  Configured DIP profile to suite client’s repair and service business processes for resource related billing

§  Responsible for delivering the Reports to the client.

§  Prepared functional specification documentation for the WRICEF and responsible for getting the sign off from the Business.

§  Prepared Detailed Test Scripts for all the scenarios of the Business.

§  Responsible for SITs, UATs, Regression Test and Load/Performance Tests.

  • Provided Onsite Training for the Super Users.

§  Involved in the Technical and Business Go-Live cutover activities.

 

CLIENT 4: Brock Groups, Houston, TX


Jan’10-Sep’11

 

Environment:

SAP ECC 6.0

 

SAP  CS/ SD Functional

Consultant

Brock provides value-added service to their clients by bundling services, implementing management processes, providing an engineering philosophy to work assignments, and measuring and improving performance.

  • Worked in full life cycle of the project.
  • Conducted workshops in discussing the client’s business process.
  • Prepared the Business blueprint document
  • Created and configured different Service order types and Contract type
  • Configured technical objects: Equipment and Functional Locations; as per business requirement
  • Configured Service Notification with extensive service catalogs
  • Worked with the billing in repair process for flat rate billing and resource related billing

§  Configured DIP profile to suite client’s repair and service business processes for resource related billing

  • Configured the quotation process for the repair
  • Worked on Warranty for the Equipment

§  Responsible for delivering the Reports to the client.

§  Worked on writing the functional specifications for the custom reports

§  Arranged work shops to get the requirements from the client

§  Discussed with the design team about the reports requirements and requested changes according to the report requirements

§  Worked with the technical team in developing the reports

§  Worked with BI team in designing the BI environment for the reports.

§  Prepared functional specification, technical specification and end user documentation

§  Created test scripts to conduct the testing

§  Conducted unit testing and integration testing for SM/CS process cycles with integration of MM, SD and FI/CO.

§  Prepared BPP (Business Process Procedures) and user training documents

CLIENT 5: Canberra, Meriden, CT


May’08 -Dec’09

 

Environment:

SAP ECC 6.0

 

SAP  CS Functional

Consultant

CANBERRA, an AREVA Company, is the worldwide leader in nuclear measurements and manufacturer of Radiation Monitoring Systems.

§  Involved in the Post Production support for the Client

§  Configured new item categories as per the client’s requirement.

§  Configured new Service Order type to capture the cost involved in the services which are sold in the regular sales order.

§  Worked in solving the pricing related issues.

§  Involved in mass change to customer master data.

§  Configured the system to create settlement rules automatically in the service orders.

§  Worked in resolving the issues related to copy controls.

§  Discussed the verified the Configuration of the Resource Related Billing process.

 

CLIENT 6: Intermec Inc., Everett, WA


Oct’07 - Apr’08

 

Environment:

SAP ECC 6.0

 

SAP SM/ CS Functional

Consultant

Intermec Inc. (NYSE:IN) develops, manufactures and integrates the most sophisticated tools for the fully coordinated supply chain.

§  Involved in the Testing phase of the project

§  Closely worked with the end user in testing the system operation

§  Prepared the test scripts for the unit test and integration test

§  Involved in solving the issues raised during testing

§  Closely worked with the technical team to setup KIOSK.

§  Helped the KIOSK team to resolve the data issues

§  Worked in creating the technical data for the BI reports

§  Worked with the clipper ship interface

§  Prepared BPP (Business Process Procedures) and user training documents

§  Involved in training the end user

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CLIENT 7: 6th Avenue Electronics, Springfield, NJ


 

Jul’06- Sep’07

 

Environment:

SAP ECC 6.0

 

SAP SD Functional

Consultant

6th Avenue electronics is a retail industry for the consumer electronics. And they have branches in New Jersey and New York.

§  Involved in the Full Life cycle of the project

§  Attended workshops for requirements gathering for the clients Business process includes OTC, Cash Sales, Contracts and Consignment process

§  Involved in configuring the Sales Documents: Inquires, Quotations, Sales Orders and Contracts

§  Configured Output determination.

§  Involved in Pricing Procedure configuration and determination

§  Prepared Functional Specification document for forms including Sales Document, Quotation and Delivery Confirmation.

§  Involved in training the end user

§  Prepared the test scripts for the unit test and integration test

§  Worked on ALE/ IDocs

§  Involved in solving the issues raised during testing and Post Production Support

§  Involved in Cutover related activities

 

 

CLIENT 8: Training and Internal Project


Mar’06 -  Jun’06

 

Environment:

SAP ECC 6.0

 

SAP SD/CS Functional

Trainee

 

§  Involved in the training of SD and CS

§  Worked on an internal project

§  Configured Sales related processes

§  Created new Document types, Item Categories and Pricing Procedure

§  Involved in testing and solved tickets raised during testing

§  Prepared BPP (Business Process Procedures) and user training documents

 


 

Software Expertise:

·         ERP Packages: SAP R/3 3.1, 4.7 and ECC 6.0

·         Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/Xp/7/8

·         Software tools: MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio & Front Page

 


Education:

MS in Electrical Engineering, Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ, USA