Candidates About

 

Venkat Kumar

 

SUMMARY

 

Ø  10 years of experience as a Senior SAP Consultant for Sales & Distribution with global clients in the telecom, hi-tech, food processing, oil & gas, aerospace and manufacturing industries

Ø  SAP experience in projects ranging from application support, technical and functional upgrades, enhancements, rollouts and full life cycle implementation

Ø  SAP Core area of Sales & Distribution, with significant experience in integration with materials management, production planning, quality management, customer service, SCM, SRM and CRM

Ø  Experience with SAP best practices, value adds, customer centric business transformation models, performance optimization, health checks and Run SAP programs resulting in high quality solutions and customer service

Ø  Proficient in ASAP methodology, SAP Solution manager, SDLC, incident management, change management, release management

Ø  Expertise in the user of incident management tools, Clarify, Remedy and Service Now, testing tools such as HP Quality Center

Ø  Geographical exposure in working with clients across multiple time zones and culturesin Asia, Middle East, Europe and North America

 

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

 

Ø  Enterprise Structure Configuration

Ø  Master Data, Customer, Material and Pricing

Ø  Pricing, Taxes, Account Assignment, Credit Management and Credit card process

Ø  Sales orders, Item categories, Schedule lines,

Ø  Scheduling agreements, quantity and value Contracts

Ø  MRP, Availability check & Transfer of Requirements,

Ø  Stock Transfer orders, Intercompany sales

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Ø  Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering – Osmania University, India

Ø  Diploma in Business Administration with specialization in Customer Relationship Management – Symbiosis University, India

Ø  SAP Certified Associate– Order  Fulfillment (ECC6.0) – SAPAG

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Client:  Apple Cupertino, CA

October 2014 – Present

Industry:  IT Services

Role: Senior SAP SD & LE Lead Consultant

Responsibilities: Production Support, Enhancements, implementation of Order-to-Cash process

 

Ø  Business process discussions & work shops with key business leads

Ø  Solution presentation to the senior leadership team

Ø  Business blueprint preparation and sign off

Ø  Configuration of quotations, contracts and sales orders

Ø  Customization, testing and roll out of complex SAP Pricing

Ø  SAP Pricing for cheese based on Commodity Price Engine

Ø  SAP Pricing for Ingredients based on market prices

Ø  SAP Catch Weight Management configuration

Ø  Pricing Integration with SFDC

Ø  Pricing Integration with CME Futures

Ø  Batch Determination for cheese and Ingredients

Ø  Route determination

Ø  Shipment & Freight Costing

Ø  EDI setup for purchase order, sales order, advance shipment notification and invoice

Ø  BI reports for OTC & LE

 

Client:  Daimler Trucks North America, OR

September 2013 – September 2014

Scope: SAP support for the OTC Process

Role: Senior SAP SD Consultant

 

Ø  Break-fix Support for the 4 SAP instances at Ecolab

Ø  Problem management using root cause analysis

Ø  Basic ABAP debugging

Ø  Sales documents – Inquiry, Quotation and Sales orders

Ø  Custom order types for inter-company sales

Ø  Custom item categories

Ø  Custom pricing for specific distribution channels

Ø  Usage of pricing routines and formulas for bottom-up pricing

Ø  Copy controls for the sales / delivery / billing documents

Ø  Hard allocation for specific customers and sales orders

Ø  Scheduling agreements and quantity contracts

Ø  Shipment costs and invoicing

Ø  Output determination for order acknowledgement, delivery and invoice

                       

Client:  Microsoft, WA

Jan 2009 – August 2013

Industry:  High tech

Scope: SAP Enhancements and Application Support

Role: Senior SAP Consultant OM (Order Management)

 

Ø  Maintained customer, vendor, material, pricing, info records, source lists, and other related master data.

Ø  Maintained Sales documents, item categories, billing, incompletion procedures, text determination procedures and output procedure.

Ø  Worked on transfer of requirements and availability check based on ATP logic.

Ø  Created item proposal for frequently occurring material combinations and common delivery quantities.

Ø  Included condition supplements and condition exclusive groups in the pricing procedure and defined upper and lower limits to restrict manual changes in the sales document during pricing.

Ø  Worked on rebates including rebate agreement type, condition type group, condition types, access sequence, condition tables, account determination, and condition records.

Ø  Worked on quantity contracts and scheduling agreements.

Ø  Worked on customer returns processing and credit memos for returns.

Ø  Worked on consignment stock process for the project scope including consignment fill up, issue, returns and pickup.

Ø  Implemented third party order processing and cross company code sales processing.

Ø  Defined and implemented dynamic credit checks according to a range of criteria and in line with company’s requirements. Also defined at what point the system carries out these checks (order, delivery, goods issue, etc.).

Ø  Maintained SD revenue account determination, created new master data of customer account assignment groups and material account assignment groups, defined and assigned account keys, assigned G/L accounts.

Ø  Provided support in the areas of delivery processing, picking, packing, automatic batch determination, shipping point determination, storage location determination and automatic route determination.

Ø  Created and executed System Integrated Test (SIT) scripts for SD, MM modules in TestDirector 8.0.

Ø  Participated in workshops and presentations; guided application to validated business processes and solutions with end user.

Ø  Developed specifications for formulas, requirements, user exits and reports to enable business processes not supported by standard SAP functionality.

Ø  Worked on data migration and did migration of customer master material master and vendor master data, info records and transaction data sales orders, and invoice documents.

 

 

Client:  Sabre Inc, TX

March 2008 – December 2008

Industry:  Travel – Airlines/Tour/Car/Hotel

Scope: SAP Application Support

Role: SAP SD Lead

 

Ø  SAP Support in the following areas:

Ø  Sales documents – Inquiry, Quotation and Sales orders

Ø  Custom order types for inter-company sales

Ø  Custom item categories

Ø  Custom pricing for intra-company and inter-company sales

Ø  Usage of pricing routines and formulas

Ø  Copy controls for the sales / delivery / billing documents

Ø  Custom availability check

Ø  Transfer of requirements

Ø  Scheduling agreements

Ø  Quantity and Value Contracts

 

Client:  Arvato Services, CA

August 2007 – February 2008

Industry:  IT Services

Role:  SAP Support Analyst

Scope: SAP Unification Project and Upgrade

Role: SAP SD Lead

 

Ø  Development and implementation of project plan for a unified OTC process across the business units

Ø  Discussions with key stake holders across business units for a common business process template

Ø  Solution development and demonstration

Ø  New functionality testing and deployment

Ø  Customization for meeting local regulatory requirements

Ø  Interfaces with third party systems using SAP PI (BADI and IDOCS)

Ø  Preparation of end user training documentation

Ø  Support for deployment, testing and validation

Ø  Post roll-out warranty support

 

Client:  Andrew Corporation, IL

January 2007 – July 2007

Industry:  Telecommunications

Scope: SAP Rollout

Role: SAP OTC Lead

 

Ø  Development of template / plan SAP for roll out across five SBU’s

Ø  Deployment of existing functionality in OTC process across SBU’s

Ø  Implemented new plants abroad functionality

Ø  Development of Intra stat and Extra Stat reports

Ø  Data Migration from legacy systems

Ø  Usage of LSMW for master data uploads

Ø  Preparation of end user training documentation

Ø  Support for deployment, testing and validation

Ø  Post roll-out warranty support

Ø  Transition of support to the off shore team

 

Client: GEWater and Process Technologies (GEWPT)

July 2005 to December 2006

Location: Europe

Scope: SAP SD Implementation and multiple rollouts

Role: SAP SD Lead Consultant

 

Ø  Implement the SD module using the ASAP methodology with the global business blueprint

Ø  Customized Solutions for meeting local EMEA business and regulatory requirements      

Ø  Solution execution, testing and deployment       

Ø  Rollouts for EMEA and Post go-live support

Ø  SAP SD core team member for complete life-cycle of implementation, right from business process requirements gathering to go-live.

Ø  Responsible for SAP SD configuration and implementation and integration with CS, PP, PS MM and FI modules.

Ø  This covered complete range of functionality including customization of SD enterprise structure, order management configuration, master data, pricing, shipping, billing, returns and output.

Ø  Configured order types for standard orders, employee orders, promotional sales, factory sales, returns, credit and debit memos. Designed and customized logistics processes such as STO and consignments.

Ø  Configured item categories, schedule line categories and ATP logic.

Ø  Pricing: Determining pricing conditions and procedures using condition techniques, access sequences and condition exclusion functionality along with customization for account determination, sales and excise tax determination.

Ø  Defined and configured custom deliveries, billing, shipping and output determination.

Ø  Copy Control configuration for sales documents, deliveries and billing documents.

Ø  Worked on variant configuration and sales BOM.

Ø  Created LSMW templates for transfer of legacy system data to SAP including customer master, material master and pricing condition master.

Ø  Conducted unit testing, integration testing, UAT and contributed to the resolution of various go-live issues.

Ø  Provided postproduction support.

 

Client: Saudi International Petrochemical Company (SIPCHEM)

Jan 2005 to June 2005

Location: Jubail, Saudi Arabia

Scope: SAP OTC Implementation

Role: SAP SD / LE Team member

 

Ø  Implement the SD module using the ASAP methodology

Ø  Discussions with the business on the OTC process

Ø  Solution mapping and sign off on the business blueprint                       

Ø  Solution execution, testing and deployment       

Ø  Post go-live support and small enhancements

Ø  Sales documents – consignment sales, inter-company sales, export sales

Ø  Scheduling agreements

Ø  Quantity contracts

Ø  Pricing – domestic sales, export sales,

Ø  Rebates – volume and value based

Ø  Batch management

Ø  Shipping Documents and Invoices

Ø  Route determination

Ø  Transportation planning

 

Client: Nashar Trading

July 2004 to Dec 2004

Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia / Hyderabad, India

Scope: SAP Application Support

Role: SAP SD Team member

 

Ø  Small enhancements and level 2 & level 3 support for the OTC process

Ø  Analysis of tickets raised by the end users and super users and allocation to respective support consultants

Ø  Monitoring SLA’s for all the critical, high and medium priority tickets in the Remedy Incident management tool

Ø  Working on level 3 issues, primarily related to customer master data, availability check, inter-company sales, third party order processing, scheduling agreements, contracts, shipment execution & warehouse management.

Ø  Working on support of issues related to integration of SD with FI, credit and risk management, account determination, value contracts and interface with CO-PA.

Ø  Discussing new requirements with the business users for new requirements.

Ø  Preparing the functional specifications for new enhancements, specifically for interfaces from Siebel to SAP for sales orders and Projects & Services.

Ø  Development of custom reports like return order tracking system, customer validation reports

                       

Client: Gulf Stabilizers Industries (GSI)

February 2004 to June 2004

Location: Hyderabad, India

Scope: SAP Application Support

Role: SAP SD Support analyst

 

Ø  Level 2 support / resolution of tickets for the SD  / LE process