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Gnanendera Varma

SAP WM/IM/MM Functional Consultant 

Professional Summary

 

·         8+ years of experience in SAP MM/WM/IM functionality with 3 full life-cycle implementations, upgrade and support projects using ASAP methodology in various Industrial environments.

·         Expertise in all aspects of SAP implementation projects, including requirement gathering and analysis, business process design, configuration, preparation of functional specifications for ‘RICEF’, testing, documentation, user manuals, end-user training, post-production support, hand-holding and troubleshooting in SAP MM/IM/WM.

·         Expertise in Materials Management/Purchasing: Material Master Records, BOMs, Work Centers, Standard Values Activity Types, Routings, Planned and Production Orders, all MRP functionality, Interfaces, Batch jobs, Purchase Order Creation, Change and monitoring, Goods receipt, Invoice Receipt, Subcontracting, Third-party, Consignment, Outline agreements, RFQ, Quota Arrangements, Source lists and Info records.

·         Expertise in Inventory Management: GR, GI, Stock Transfer Orders, Stock Transport Orders, Transfer Posting, Movement types, Physical Inventory, Vendor Returns, Stock Determination and Reservations.

·         Expertise in Warehouse Management: Warehouse structure in WM system, Basic stock management, storage location control, put away and Picking Strategies, Inbound and Outbound deliveries, Capacity check, Two-Step picking, Negative stocks and Zero stock check, Warehouse Movements, Cross-Docking, Handling Unit Management, Storage Unit Management, Mobile Data Applications and Transportation.

·         Configuration of message types Access sequence, Message Determination Schema for output control of purchasing documents.

·         Expertise in data migration from Legacy system to SAP using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW).

·         Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong analytical and problem solving skills.

·         Excellent project management, conceptual, analytical, communication and team building skills with commitment and energy to define and deliver a quality solution.

·         Ability to analyze and extract core issues in complex business and technical processes.

·         Experience in implementation, version upgrades and Production support.

Tarkett S.A., Florence- AL.                                                                October 2016 – Till Date

Role: SAP WM/IM/MM Consultant.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0. 
Full life cycle implementation. 

Responsibilities:

·         Worked extensively in a full life cycle implementation and gathered requirement through business process and conducted various workshops for business blueprint design and conducted functional gap analysis.

·         Designed and configured WM organizational elements storage location, warehouse number, storage type, storage section, storage bin’s.  

·         Customizing and configuring Material Types, Number Ranges and Field Selections in Vendor Master, Material Master 

·         Maintaining customization of Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders and Info Records 

·         Configured material master including number assignment, screen sequence and fields configuration 

·         Configured and Extended material views to make them subject to Batch Management and Split Valuation for proper maintenance of inventory

·         Customized MM functionalities: Master Data Material Master, Service Master, info records, source lists, Consumption Based Planning, purchasing, and Inventory Management. 

·         Configured purchasing organization, purchasing groups and pricing & other Purchase functions.

·         Configured the Inventory management of goods at the points of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks viz. consignment, third party, and sub-contracting.

·         Configuring document types for purchasing documents like RFQ, purchase requisition, purchase orders.

·         Configuration of storage type search strategies for put away and picking based on the business design for receiving and delivery process. 

·         Configured the system for automatic and manual creation of TR’s(transfer requirement) and TO’s(transfer orders)

·         Worked in master data conversions for data load in SAP from Legacy system using LSMW 

·         Configured Inventory Management parameters for various inventory movements like Goods receipts without purchase order, plant-to-plant and storage location-to-storage location etc. 

·         Configured settings to use barcodes and assigned barcodes to the warehouse numbers

·         Documented necessary transactions for end users in co-ordination functional/business analysts.

·         Involved in regression and integration testing and identified and fixed various issues to ensure the current processes worked as expected with the new release.

 

 

 

Shell Global, Houston- TX.                                                      July 2015 – September 2016     

Title: SAP WM/IM Functional Consultant lead.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0. 
Full life cycle implementation.

Responsibilities:

·         Involved in requirements gathering and prepared Business process documents.

·         Configured Warehouse (WM) Organization Structure for the plant.

·         Activated Storage unit management for required storage type based on material.

·         Configured WM-PP interface for issuing goods towards production from storage bins and credits transfers requirement for production orders.

·         Configured Picking and put away strategies for the inbound and outbound goods flow into the Storage types and Bins.

·         Defined Staging areas, Doors for staging and Loading the Pallets during picking.

·         Setting up Automatic TO for replenishing fixed bins as a back-ground job which Runs in regular intervals.

·         Configured Staging areas and Doors determination for Deliveries into TOs.

·         Configured Cross docking solution for all the warehouses.

·         Configured Dynamic Cycle counting for all the storage types as a part of physical inventory process.

·         Coordinated with Basis for activating service, which connects between the RF devices and SAP server Via ITS mobile.

·         Prepared Functional specifications for custom RF Screen developments, which involve Truck Building, Bin to bin transfer, Goods receipt for Production, Material Staging and loading.

·         Configured RF menus in all the warehouses for using RF Programs and usage of RF monitor for monitoring all the Queues.

·         Prepared Functional specifications for custom RF Screen developments, which involve Truck Building, Bin to bin transfer, Goods receipt for Production, Material Staging and loading.

·         Involved in Unit Test, Integration Test, and User Acceptance Test.

·         Involved in Cut over activities, Go-Live process and promptly resolved post implementation issues for initial stabilization.

·         Managed monthly cycle counts, year-end physical inventory counts and reconciliations.

 

 

 

 

 

Applied Industrial Technologies, Pittsburgh PA.                   April 2014 to June 2015

Role: SAP WM/IM/MM Consultant.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0. 
Full life cycle implementation.

Responsibilities:

·         Gathered business requirements in SAP Retail and MM created a working document for mapping the various processes relevant for interfaces.

·         Developed Functional Specifications based on the business requirements and interaction with the subject matter experts, developers and users.

·         Worked on material master, vendor master, Source list, info record, Conditions, messages

·         Configured Procurement to Pay cycle (P2P) and Configured Material Master, Product data Master (PDM), Purchasing documents to realize defined functional requirements

·         Setting up the entire purchasing cycle with purchase requisition, purchase order with contracts & scheduling agreements for transactions processing as per the business requirement.

·         Involved in creation of BOM for complete knock down process(CKD) Strategy.

·         Configured new Pricing Procedures, Condition Types, Access Sequences, Accesses and Condition Tables for automatic Pricing

·         Customizing and configuring Stock Transfer Orders (STO) for transfer of stock between the plants. Responsible for setting all the parameters: supplying plant, receiving plant and shipping point determination.

·         Worked on movement types.

·         Worked on Product support. The scope of support includes resolution of problems logged by the end users. Committed duration and application of Support Packages.

·         Worked closely in an integrated environment with Retail & WM teams in configuring and testing various integration scenarios.

·         Carrying out GUI, Functional testing, UAT, Upgrade testing, Integration testing.

 

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Waltham, MA .                        October 2013 – March 2014

Title: SAP WM/IM/MM Consultant.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 4.7.

Upgrade and Support. 

Responsibilities: 

·         Involved in AS-IS and TO-BE workshops to gather business requirements to map the existing legacy system into ECC 6.0 system. 

·         Carried out GAP analysis and produced Business Blueprint documents. 

·         Customized the system for automatic selection of vendors through source determination process; automatic creation of purchase orders from purchase requisitions.

·         Configured storage types with and without Storage unit management and Handling Unit Management.

·         Initially define the scope for RF (RFID and barcode) technology, gathering requirement, arranging workshop with business. 

·         Configuration of RF queues for mobile data entry (MDE) for goods receipt/goods issue, put away, picking. 

·         Worked on put away process to make goods receipt process fully automatic by developing a RF transaction for preparation of put away process with HUM. The specific transaction will be integrated in the RF Menu (transaction LM00)

·         Designed and configured shipping parameters for warehouse - Specifying picking locations, and processing outbound deliveries through shipping points. 

·         Configured and determined shipping points, routes and transportation processes.

·         Executed end to end shipping environments developed from SAP deliveries to shipments along with their relevant outputs.

·         Supported live sites for the Process Improvement & Issue Resolution. Created OSS notes for quick resolution of SAP issues.

·         Worked extensively on Bug Fixes, participated in Unit testing & User acceptance testing.

·         Monitored the Altiris helpdesk and resolved the tickets based upon the client SLA Priorities.

·         Involved in functional testing, Upgrade testing and Integration testing.

 

Alliance Softech Pvt. Ltd Delhi, Delhi.                                             July 2011 – August 2013

Title: SAP MM/WM Consultant.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 4.7.

Upgrade and Support. 

Responsibilities:

·         Responsible for configuration/customization of Material Management/warehouse Management activities including analysis of AS-IS and TO-BE documents.

·         Customized warehouse structure with storage unit management.

·         Implemented Storage Unit Management to suit client’s business requirement in the warehouse.

·         Defined various storage unit types and assigned to Storage bins.

·         Defined movement types for warehouse and interfaced them with IM movement types using Special movement indicators.

·         Set up Organizational Data Configuration related to MM storage locations and purchase organizations. 

·         Worked on Configuration of the Materials Management module, such as defining and assigning various components of company and Material Master Data, Info Records, Source Lists, Purchasing, and Inventory Management.

·         Customized the Conversion of Purchase Request to Purchase Orders, and Defined Order Profiles.

·         Configuration of Purchasing Organization, Purchasing Group, Storage Locations, Material Types, Material Groups, and IM Movement Types.

·         RFQ/quotation entry and analysis/PO/automatic, vendor known/unknown, conformation, and release procedures.

·         Worked on Creating outline agreements – scheduling (delivery/forecast delivery), Contracts (value/quantity based).

·         Worked on Determine Pricing Procedures and set up Release Procedure for purchasing documents.

                                                                     

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Hyderabad, INDIA.                                     June 2009 – July 2011 

Title: SAP MM Consultant.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0. 
Full life cycle implementation.

Responsibilities:

·         Creation of Master data, which includes the material master, Vendor master, source list and Info Records.

·         Configuration of document type settings for PO, RFQ, Contracts agreements and assignment of number ranges.

·         Creation of PR’s, PO’s, Stock Transport Orders, Goods Receipt & Invoice Verification.

·         Processing Goods Receipts, Goods Issue, and Transfer Postings for Inventory Management.

·         Module Integration with FI, CO and SD modules.

·         Responsible for troubleshooting the issues in the system and providing support

·         Responsible for day-to-day documentation process.

·         Involved in documentation of Unit Test, Integration Test, and User Acceptance Test.

                          

Education: Bachelors in Aeronautical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad.