Vijayalakshmi Nedunchezhiyan

  • Senior SAP Functional Analyst
  • Chicago, IL
  • Member Since Apr 09, 2023

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Vijayalakshmi Nedunchezhiyan

         SUMMARY:

      Over 5 years of SAP SD Functional experience in the complete customization of Sales & Distribution which includes 2 full life cycles.

      Worked on all phases of SAP projects including end to end which includes project preparation, requirements gathering, business blueprint, design, realization, testing, preparation for go-live, go-live and post implementation support. Good understanding of ASAP implementation methodology.

      Worked on ATP and Transfer Requirements.

      Configuration, Customization, Enhancements, Production Support and Coordination Aspects of SD Master Data.

      Experience creating and maintaining master data elements, such as customer master, pricing conditions, material master, BOM, vendor master.

      Pricing: Pricing procedure, Condition types, Condition tables, and Access sequences, Condition Records, Condition Exclusions and Condition Supplements. Thorough understanding of various pricing techniques.

      Hands on experience on customer master, delivery processing, partner functions, Shipping & Transportation. configuration of the Billing Procedures - Individual Billing, Collective Billing, Invoice Split Processing and Inter-company billing and credit management.

      Configuration Expertise in the Quote-to-Order-to-Cash (QTC),Order to Cash(OTC) areas of Sales Order processing, pricing, Shipping, Billing.

      Configured SAP SD module in areas of Account Groups, Pricing and Condition Techniques, Account Determination procedures, Sales Documents, Shipping Documents, Billing Documents and Copy Controls.

      Knowledge about SOLMAN Solution Manager.

      Expertise in Detailed Test Planning, Creation and execution of test plans for System testing.

      Integration testing, Regression testing and UAT to verify functionality of applications.

      Worked on IDOC extensions and IDOC types, verification of outbound IDOC and of inbound IDOC, ALE, Workflow basics and User-Exits.

      Have good working knowledge on ALE/ EDI configuration

      Excellent Management skills in coordinating development and testing teams.

      Attention to detail and ability to work in tighter schedules and on different applications.

      Good at communication and interpersonal skills backed up by sound professional ability to work independently as well as a team member, in a dynamic/multi-task environment.

 

     

 

      Technical Skills:

 

 

SAP-Primary Module

 

Sales & Distribution

 

 

SAP

 

ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

 

Core Areas

 

Order-to-Cash areas of Sales Order processing, Quantity Contracts, Shipping, Billing, Pricing,Item Categories, Copy Controls, ATP/Transfer of Requirements, Stock Transfer Order Process, Consignment Process, Credit memo, Debit memo

 

SAP ABAP

 

Debugging, Report, Good knowledge of IDoc & ALE,EDI configuration, LSMW, Enhancements-User Exits/Customer Exits.

 

Others

 

PowerPoint, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS- Visio

 

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

Abbvie- Chicago, IL                                                                              July 2013-January2015

 

Abbvie, is a pharmaceutical company specializing in medical production and research based                       pharmaceuticals.

 

Role              : Senior SAP Functional Analyst                                                       

Environment : ECC 6.0

Project Type : Roll out And Support                                                                                    

 

Responsibilities:

 

     Managed and documented all business requirements.

     Reviewed SD functional and technical specifications and BPP (business process procedure).

     Created new Customer Account Groups, Partner Functions, Access Sequences And Pricing Procedures.

      Set copy control requirements to various sales, deliveries and billing documents

      Configured Inbound/Outbound delivery and Contracting business scenario.

      Configured different billing types to meet the business requirements .

      Creation of Delivery Documents, Picking and Goods Issue, Shipping and Routing to Billing and Incoming Payments

      Worked with the Technical team in identifying and solving some of the issues related to business including writing the functional specifications and debugging of ABAP Programs.

      Handled Change Requests and executed CRF (Change Request forms) tests.

      Maintenance of Customer Master and Material Master. Customized sales order processing for

      different sales scenarios from inquiry to quotation to sales order, delivery to billing. Worked on     credit limit and Availability checks

     Developed Enhancements with the use of User Exits, to message User when they are entering free of charge item.

     Experience on IDOC configuration with the message type DEBMAS. Also have done enhancements to standard IDoc (E1KNA1M) by adding additional fields to it according to business requirement.

      Gathered test conditions by working with Operating Companies onsite.

      Interacted with development and functional teams to improve the functionality of testing.

      Involved in all phases of testing which includes Unit Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT),

      Business Integration Testing (BIT) and Regression Testing.

      Raising Issues if the actual results are not as the expected results and taking screen shots of the SAP screens for further analysis using the screenshot (Camera icon) functionality present in Mercury Quality Center.

  • Mentoring the offshore team on various process of implementation and Support of SAP SD area.

 

 

 

 

 

Tennant Co – Minneapolis, MN                                                               May 2012-July2013

 

Tennant, is a worldwide manufacturer of indoor and outdoor environmental cleaning solutions and              specialty floor coatings.

 

Role                : SAP Functional Analyst         

Environment   : ECC 6.0                                                                                

Project Type   : Implementation And Production Support

                                                                                       

 Responsibilities:

 

      Assisted in Implementation based on ASAP methodology with phases-Project preparation, Requirements gathering and analysis, Business Blueprint, Configuration, Testing, Data migration, Go-Live.

      Worked on third party sales and related item category groups

      Customizing several returns scenarios by creation of new Order Types, maintained copy control procedures, Credit memo request, and Debit memo request.

      Worked on different pricing scenarios.

      Configured Logistics - transportation zones, route determination and delivery address configuration in master data.

      Good hands on experience working on  enhancements-User Exits/Customer Exits, IDoc .

      EXIT_SAPLV60B_001:Changed the header data in the structure acchd .Used this exit to influence the header information of the accounting document .Business requirement was to change created on date ,time and the name of the person who created it before releasing the document to accounting.

      Testing the Sales order transaction type for Order to Cash, Standard Sales order, Contracts-quantity, Complaint process like Returns, Credit memo request, Debit memo request, and Invoice correction request, free of charge delivery,  Consignment, stock transfer order process and tested necessary settings for sales document types, and assigning sales document types to sales area and tested order reasons for sales documents and tested number ranges to sales document types.

      Tested item categories, item category groups and item category determination, schedule line categories and schedule line category determination.

      Data Conversion from legacy system to SAP of Customer Master: General (KNA1), Company Code (KNB1),Sales Data (KNVV), Transactional Data: VBAP, VBAK, VBEP.

      Other responsibilities include testing the output forms as per the requirements. Providing post Go-Live support by liaising directly with support and to ensure that the resolution of issues / incidents are dealt with in accordance with defined Service Level Agreements.

 

 

     ConvaTec Inc, Skillman, NJ                                                                           july 2011-May 2012

 

ConvaTec is a global medical products and technologies company, offering products and services in the areas of wound and skin care, continence and critical care; and infusion devices.

 

     Role             : SAP SD Functional Business Analyst

     Environment:ECC6.0

     Project Type: Full cycle implementation

 

      Responsibilities:

 

      Involved in following phases-Project preparation, Requirements gathering and analysis, Business Blueprint, Configuration, Testing, Data migration, Go-Live.

  • Analyze process and configuration issues as they occur in the SAP Production system.

·         Meeting with the users, gathering requirements, understand the requirements and expectations and converting the requirements into Functional Design Documents.

·         Configure sales order types, item categories, schedule categories, Incompletion log procedures, copy control routines, pricing requirements .

·         Define pricing condition tables, access sequences, pricing condition types based on various levels of Product Hierarchy.

·         Configuring Promotions, sales deals, Condition type groups, Assigning condition type/tables to condition type group, and Assigning condition type groups to sales deals.

·         Worked on copy control configuration, data transfer routines, copy requirements.

·         worked on Transfer of requirements/Availability Check, ATP configuration.

·         Configuration of Inter-company sales transaction.

  • Worked on configuration of Third party sales.

·         Provided second and third level technical support to provide resolution to a problem and implement configuration changes and enhancements to SAP.

·         Communicating with the end-users and Business Analysts thus resolving production issues.

·         Created test scripts and prepared test plans for the execution of UAT testing.

·         Creation of test scenarios for unit testing and integration testing for business processes, forms, reports, conversions and enhancements and getting the sign-off after successful completion of testing.

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

 

   WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES ,India

   Schneider Electric                                                                                               aug 2010-May 2011

     

   Schneider Electric India Pvt. Ltd (SEI) is a 100% subsidiary of Schneider Electric Industries SAS, a        global specialist in energy management.

 

 Role             : SAP SD Functional  Analyst

 Environment:ECC6.0

 Project Type: Roll OUT Project

 

Responsibilities:

 

      Worked as a part of Business Requirement Analyst.

      Handled Change Requests and executed CRF (Change Request forms) tests.

      Excellent understanding of Order to cash Process of all the phases starting from creation

     of quotation, creation of sales order using quotation, Credit limit and Availability Checks.

      Creation of Delivery Documents, Picking and Goods Issue, Shipping and Routing to Billing and Incoming Payments.

      Reviewed SAP R/3 and SD functional and technical specifications and BPP (business process procedure).

      Managed and documented all business requirements.

      Configuration of master data, sales cycle which includes sales order transactions, delivery, shipping and billing.

      Maintenance of Customer Master and Material Master. Customized sales order processing for

      different sales scenarios from inquiry to quotation to sales order, delivery to billing.

      Configured Inbound/Outbound delivery and Contracting business scenario.

      Set copy control requirements to various sales, deliveries and billing documents.

      Created new Customer Account Groups, Partner Functions, Access Sequences And Pricing Procedures.

      Interacted with development and functional teams to improve the functionality of testing.

      Manually testing of SD module includes quotes, pricing, shipping and billing, delivery priority, shipping conditions, and delivery plant.

      Gathered test conditions by working with Operating Companies onsite.

      Raising Issues if the actual results are not as the expected results and taking screen shots of the SAP screens for further analysis using the screenshot (Camera icon) functionality present in Mercury Quality Center.

      Implemented and involved in QA lifecycles like Test plan, test case design and test case

      Implementation, test execution, defects and bug tracking and test result reporting.

      Involved in all phases of testing which includes Unit Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT),

      Business Integration Testing (BIT), Stress Testing and Regression Testing.

 

 

G4S Security Systems India Pvt Ltd.,                                                           July 2009-Aug 2010

 

G4S India is world's leading international security solutions group. G4S India offers wide range   of services like Secure Solutions,security systems,aviation security.etc.

 

Role: SAP Junior Consultant

Environment: SAP 5.0

Project Type: Roll Out                                                                                                              

 

Responsibilities:

 

     Enterprise Hierarchy Planning and Customization

·         Configured components related to Sales Orders, Deliveries, and Billing modules.

  • Determination of Shipping Point, Plant and Shipping Location.
  • Configuration of Partner Determination, Text Determination, Account Determination and Output Determination.
  • Worked on Availability Check using ATP Logic, Transfer of Requirements, Free Goods.
  • Worked on the creation of Customer Material Info Records (CMIR).

     Defining common sales organization, distribution channel and Divisions.

     Customized Material Master and Extended Materials for Plants, Sales organizations, Storage Locations.

     Defined Partner Functions and maintained Release procedure.

     Created, Configured & Customized Master data for Business partners and Item Proposal.

     Definition of different Sales, Delivery and Billing documents.

     Configuration of Incompletion Log for sales, delivery and billing documents.

     Configuration of pricing procedure with necessary condition types, access sequences, condition tables and fields.

     Configuration of Copy control of Sales, Delivery and Billing document.

     Developed and created Test plans, test cases and test scenarios.

     Conducted Integration testing for SD (Sales Orders, Deliveries, Billing, and Shipping) MM (Purchase Orders), and FICO modules. Testing included Order Management/Pricing/Billing.

     Knowledge about Credit management.

      Configured the Customer Material Master Record.

      Configured account determination, text determination, shipping point determination.

      Configured components related to Sales Orders, Deliveries, and Billing modules.

      Created sales documents viz. Header, Item, Schedule Lines .

      Partner functions and Partner Determination Procedure for Customer Master.

      Tested new item categories group, item categories, schedule line categories and other assignments associated with them.

 

Education:

Bachelor of  Information Technology : Anna University, India.