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Vinesh babu - SAP MM WM LE PP Functional consultant

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Location: Houston, Texas, USA

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Vinesh Kumar Mandivarapu SAP MM/WM/PP Consultant Email ID:[email protected] Contact: + (832) 241 8822 ________________________________________ Summary: 8 years of IT experience as an SAP MM/WM/PP Functional Consultant with 4 Full life-cycle implementations. Experienced in Blueprinting, Realization, Testing (Unit Testing, User Acceptance testing and Integration testing), End User training, Final preparation and Go-Live and support. Industry experience in SAP implementation in various areas, such as Semiconductors,Retail, Aviation,Mining, Food& Beverage, Utility and Manufacturing industries. SAP MM (Materials Management): Configuration of MM Organizational Elements Plant, Purchasing Organization, and Storage locations. Skilled in configuring Material Master, Vendor Master, Partner schema, Purchase requisition, Purchase order, Pricing schemas. Expertise in designing scenarios like Outline Agreements, RFQ, Source list, Info records, Quota arrangement, Vendor evaluation. Purchasing: Implementation and configuration experience in MM Procure to Pay (PTP) cycle, Cross Company and Intra-company Stock Transport orders, Subcontracting, Customer and Vendor Consignment &Third-Party Orders. Configuration of Release Strategy for all purchasing documents like PR, PO, RFQ and Contracts as per business need. Inventory Management: Proficient at Inventory Management, especially at customizing of Goods Movements, Stock transfer, Goods receipt, Goods issue, Reservation, Transfer posting, Physical Inventory- Annual, Continuous and Cycle Counting process. Worked on Handling Unit Management, Batch Management. SAP WM (Warehouse Management): Extensive experience in configuration of warehouse structure, Storage Types, Storage Bins, Movement Types, Transfer order, Transfer Request, Posting Change Notice, put away and Picking strategy, Inbound and Outbound Deliveries,Cross Docking, SU Management, Physical Inventory-- Annual, Continuous and Cycle Counting process. SAP Retail: Extensive experience in Article Master, moving objects to Retail system from the Core ECC system, Interfaces from web applications. Expertise in AFS domain. Expertise in integration of MM and WM with other modules like FI, SD, PP, QM. MM-FI: Experience in Split valuation, Account Determination, Logistics Invoice Verification (MIRO), Output determination and pricing procedures. MM-IM/WM: Physical Inventory, TR-TO, GR-GI, SU-HU Management. MM-SD: Worked on MM-SD integration with Delivery and Billing, Shipping, and transportation, Picking and Packing. MM-PP: MRP, BOM, Back Flush, Auto Goods Receipt, Planned Order, PR-PO with MRP run. Data migration expert - legacy to ECC 6.0 using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) using Direct batch input and Batch recording input methods. Expert use of SAP Apps tools including the Information Systems Reporting Tools [SAP Query (SQ01, SQ02, SQ03)], ABAP Workbench Utilities Quick Viewer (SQVI). Implementation and configuration experience with SAP R/3 4.6C, ECC 5.0, 6.0 and S/4 HANA. Experienced in Unit, Integration, and user Acceptance testing in SAP MM-WM modules. I have proficiency in Spec Designing, Gap Analysis, Technical Documentation, interacting with the Super Users & End User Training, Reporting and Data Conversion and uploading of Master Data, Go-Live implementation and after go-live support. Understanding & Analyzing customer s AS-IS Business Processes and mapping TO-BE processes. SAP MM/WM MM-PUR, MM-IM, MM-LIV, LE, WM Other Tools Solution Manager, JIRA, MS Office-Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Outlook, Project, MS Visio, SharePoint, Radar, SQL, GENERIX, TEKDAN, Service Now, Coupa ERP Packages SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, SAP S/4 HANA (1909 & 2021), SAP IS Retail. Business Analysis Materials Management, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory, Warehouse Management, Production Planning, New Product Introduction (NPI) SAP Interface tools ALE, IDOC, EDI Data Migration LSMW Testing Tool HPQ ALM (Expertise), Panaya (Basic) Integration SD, PP, FI and 3PL Integration. TECHNICAL SKILLS: PROFESSIONAL SKILLS: Client: CenterPoint Energy May 2023 - Present Role: SAPLead Analyst Location: Houston, Texas Responsibilities: SAP to Coupa Integration using Oracle SOA as middleware. Worked on end-to-end Source to Pay (S2P) cycle and Procure to Pay (P2P) cycle. Responsible for Co-ordinating Business stakeholders, SAP team, middleware team and Coupa team. Worked on data & field Mapping between SAP & Coupa. Worked on data migration steps like Extraction, Transformation, Preload validation, Data loads and post-load validations. Responsible for 2-way Match and 3-way match for Invoice verification. Set up for output determination- message types, output type, logical path for all PO types. Responsible for Master data Maintenance like Material Master, Vendor Master. Responsible for creating Outline agreements, work orders, Contracts, service orders, Purchase Orders, Goods receipts, Advance shipping notifications and Invoices. Worked on various IDOC message types like COSMAS, CREMAS, REMADV, DESADV, INSDES, HANMOV, RECADV and INVRPT etc. Worked on various BAPI like BAPI_PO_CREATE1, BAPI_PO_CHANGE, BAPI_ACC_INVOICE_RECEIPT_POST, BAPI_CONTRACT_CREATE etc. for interfacing SAP with Coupa. Troubleshooting and re-processing of failed IDOCs. Led Unit, Integration, System Integration testing (SIT). Prepare test plan, test scripts and test cases. Log defects in ALM and work with development team to fix bugs and re-test to ensure Integration working as expected. Support & assist end users in UAT Testing phase. Responsible for training end users on new interface between SAP & Coupa along with training documentation. Client: PepsiCo October 2021 April 2023 SAP MM / PP SME Location: REMOTE Responsibilities: As part of Make-to-deploy team, involved in SAP S/4 HANA 2021 implementation for one of the PepsiCo s division, Frito-Lay North America (FLNA) plants, across North America using SAFe Agile methodology. Primary liaison between business stakeholders and development team to translate business requirements and achieve them successfully. Conducted workshops with business stakeholders as SME to explain all the fields in MRP 1view through MRP 4 view and its functionalities with recommendations so that business can make decisions on what values to be maintained for each field. Conducted workshops with business stakeholders and end users to explain how S/4 MRP works and help mapping business Planning using S/4 MRP. Worked on Auto TECO (Technically Complete) Process Orders enhancement. Worked on interim state interface between S/4 Material Requirement planning (MRP) to legacy system. Responsible for writing Business Requirement documents, Functional Specifications, follow up on development and testing. Responsible for ABAP report design to overview all the MRP 1 through MRP 4 views of a Material Master in a single report. Worked on analytics report called Production planning Material analysis Dashboard, which includes 3 tabs to overview BOM, Stranded Inventory, Inventory Levels. Lead Long term Planning (LTP) proof of concept (POC) involving creation of Planning scenarios, executing LTP and copying LTP results to Active version from inactive version, Capacity Levelling. Handled unique business Scenarios across Direct Materials like Finished goods, Semi-finished, Raw Materials/Ingredients and Indirect Materials like Spare Parts, Non-essential, Operational parts. Configured new custom MRP Type, MRP Controllers, Range of Coverage Profile, MRP Area Profile and MRP Areas for Storage Locations to support business requirement. Hands-on with Transport Request (TR) process for configuration. Releasing TR, copying/ transferring to other clients in the same environment & then moving config to another environment like QA and pre-PROD. CHARM process proficiency. Expertise in Production Master Data (PMD) Workflow involving creation of Group BOM, extending components to the plant, creating Engineering change Number (ECN), creating plant BOM, Approving BOM, confirming resource, creating Master Recipe and Production Version which results in change plant specific Material Status to Costing Required (CR) from BOM Required (BOM) and makes ECN status to Inactive. Responsible for maintaining BRF+ table settings according to the Workflow design. Worked on New Product Introduction (NPI) workflows. Excellent collaboration with all the cross-value streams like Master data Governance (MDG), FTS, RTR, Ariba Supply chain collaboration. Client: Imerys Carbonates June 2021 October 2021 Location: Sylacauga, Alabama SAP Analyst Responsibilities: Actively present the software for the execution and validation during the rounds of testing in the build phase and UAT s. Support the Wave leads during preparation, go live and up to 3 months after go-live. Planning, configuring, Analyzing Equipment master, Bill of materials, work orders in the tabwareSoftware. Providing end users with appropriate assistance through a ticketing system. Analyzing As-Is business process with To-be business process. Manage and coordinate projects involving several actors of information systems: hosting, network,applications, systems, security. Work on Tabware software enhancements, build, develop, test, and deploy. Analyze and visualize the reports of Asset management system s software and do requiredevelopment for better performance. Design, test, deploy, validate and analyze software simulation on pipeline and Instrumentationdiagrams, Process Flow Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams, File Design, software ProgramSpecification and Design Document. Interacting with other technical staff in researching and interpreting technical data. Responsible for developing Functional Specifications, Software configuration and all requireddocumentation. Client: Danone North America Location: White Plains, New York SAP Integration Lead January 2020 May 2021 Description: Danone is a multinational food-products corporation based in Paris and founded in Barcelona, Spain. It is listed on Euronext Paris where it is a component of the CAC 40 stock market index. Some of the company's products are branded Dannon in the United States. Responsibilities: SAP traceability toolcalled Guardian Integration with 18 3PLs WMS System through 20 locations of North America. Responsible to work with 3PL partners to develop the system Integration between Danone WMS and 3PL WMS. Responsible for developing Functional Specifications, SAP MM/IM configuration. Hands on experience on OpenText Middleware. Able to pull raw file and check on EDI segments. Assist in deployment and support of IS/IT applications. Responsible for troubleshooting failed incoming and outgoing IDOCs. Leading Unit, Integration and simulation/UAT testing. Conducting workshops with 3PL partners to explain Danone Inbound, Outbound, Warehouse, Quality business processes and EDIFACT conversion. Worked on Repacking, Intra-company flow, reception, customer delivery, pallet transformation, customer return, scrapping, stock counting, lowcode stock, Mother-Daughter link business processes. Worked on Inventory upload for testing purpose using LSMW. Worked on DESADV, INSDES, HANMOV, RECADV and INVRPT messages. Conducting weekly calls with 3PL partners and help in progressing development of system Integration. Conducting weekly calls to follow up on testing. Hands on experience on TEKDAN WMS. Able to do Production declaration, creating new SSCC/Pallet ID in TEKDAN. Hands on experience on GENERIX WMS, doing put away, picking, shipping processes. Worked on S/4 HANA Upgrade project as testing lead. Providing support for Go-live locations. Service now as a ticketing tool. Client: General Electric Aviation (GE Aviation) Location: Cincinnati, Ohio February 2019- December 2019 SAP MM/IM Consultant Description: GE Aviation, a subsidiary of General Electric. GE Aviation is among the top aircraft engine suppliers and offers engines for most commercial aircraft.GE Aviation is a world leading provider of commercial, military and business and General Aviation Jet and turboprop engines and components as well as avionics, electrical power, and mechanical systems for aircraft. GE has a global service network to support the services. Responsibilities: Involved in Implementation, Enhancement, roll-out projects parallelly. Handled POC and SIT for couple of Implementations. Worked on Inventory PO and Repair PO. Implementations overs Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul. End to end Implementation involved in the areas like Forecasting, Sourcing, Shipping, Vendor Quotes, Receiving, Warehousing, picking rules, Pick and Issue. Involved in IDOC Reprocessing. Worked on message types of ORDERS, ORDCHG. Also worked with custom programs to send enormous number of Purchase Orders to 3rd party application. Worked on Implementing BEAT project, which is to avoid huge taxes in case of Overhauling. Worked on MM Configuration for multiple plants globally. Involved in Solution Design and Implementation Solution for On-Wing Support. Worked on sub-contracting procurement process. Worked on custom movement types for multiple business process. Expertise in writing Solution Document, Functional Specs, and training documents. Expertise in ABAP Debugging. Responsible for Data migration of open PO s and materials from Legacy Systems using LSMW. Lead offshore team with development and testing for the enhancement project. Involved in Unit, Integration Testing. Worked along end users for UAT, Regression and Performance testing. Involved in MM- PP Integration. Also worked in few of Production and engineering module. Creating Disposition, engine serial number, WBS Element, which all required for sub-contracting procurement. Client: Limited Brands Location: Reynoldsburg, Ohio August 2018- January 2019 SAP Retail, SAP MM/WM/IM Consultant Description: L Brands, Inc. is an American fashion retailer based in Columbus, Ohio. Its flagship brands include Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works, and La Senza. Responsibilities: Project Summary: Since Limited Brands was a Retail company, all the orders were placed through Mainframe at present. This implementation is to have separate Order Management System called ACTIVE OMNI to place orders and maintain the order. Inventory update in SAP WM will be done via flat file in PKMS to IDOC of SAP. Involved in complete end to end Procure to Pay, OTC and RTC Processes. Worked on POS Work Bench to get PIPE Validations. Involved in tracking down the Invoice table and order table to confirm the Invoice is closed or open. Processing SALES POSTING Validation in SAP and documenting end to end. Raising defects in JIRA in case of any errors and keep track of them. Expertise in Master Data Management. Was responsible for processing Put-away, picking, packing, Inbound delivery, Outbound Delivery, Handling Unit, Shipping processes. Leading offshore team. Been in part of testing team. Involved in Unit, Integration testing, UAT & regression phases. Update every test scenario in HP ALM. Running & Passing test case scenarios in ALM. Responsible for Integration of SAP MM with SCM using core interfaces. Creating and maintaining the hundreds of orders in Active Omni according to the scenarios. Worked on all types of orders in RETAIL system, like, CCC orders, Web Orders, SOOS, Returns, BORIS- Bought Online Return in Store, exchanges. Understanding of behaviour, business process of each type of order. Closely working on all kind of Promotions, how Appeasements will work, Post Shipment, Pre shipment. Responsible for Invoice Verification. Working closely with leadership team regarding all business processes. Client: Apple Inc., Location: Sunnyvale, CA May 2018 July 2018 SAP Retail, SAP MM/IMConsultant Description: Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. Responsibilities: Worked on Master Data changes, Stock Transport Orders, Returns/Scraps, Variances, Store Transfers and Battery rules Worked on bringing HAZMAT/ Dangerous goods info into Retail system from ECC Core system. Worked on Delivery Split functionality based on Battery regulation indicator for store transfers. Involved in workshops with the business team to understand the process and identify Gap Analysis between To-Be design and SAP Business Processes, and made recommendations for Process Improvement Worked on Mobile solution global implementation for retail store inventory processes - GR, Store transfers, goods movements, and Physical inventory processes. Set up new report in a web application to show the deleted line items on the store transfer order because of Battery rules. Written design documents for all the business process like Return processes, Store transfer orders, Delivery Split, Article Fetch, Interfaces. Involved in Standard SAP IDOC error handling process which will trigger a workflow to the user. Worked closely with the technical teams and delivered technical solutions. Lead offshore team. Supported as Lead position, involving in the coordination with the Off-shore team in India. Conducting regular meetings with the offshore team and get the work done. Acted as middleware for Business and offshore team. Worked on Functional Specifications for most of the business processes. Worked on Production Support project as well, resolving all level of tickets. Goods movement Interface implementation between SAP and non-SAP system. Involved in Determination of Mode of Transportation. Configured three modes of transportation: Ground, Air, Ocean based on Regulation type. Created and maintained Battery Characteristics for all the products in Retail. Involved in the modification of Functional Module to fetch Battery Characteristic fields in ARTMAS from MATMAS. Responsible for building up the IT Test scripts. Worked on Baseline, Performance testing with the Performance team to move the changes made from development to testing system. Involved in Cutover Planning. Worked in iOS Application called Backstage. Client: Analog Devices Location: Norwood, MA July 2017- April 2018 SAP MM/WM /PP Consultant Description: Analog Devices, Inc., also known as ADI, is an American multinational semiconductor company. Analog Devices specialized in data conversion and signal processing technology. Responsibilities: Worked closely with the technical teams and delivered technical solutions Responsible for creating test cases for Unit & Integration testing Provided functional and system support for business process Defined put away and picking strategies for fixed bin and empty storage bin Responsible for inbound and outbound delivery processes Worked on Material Procurement, Service Procurement, Sub-contracting Procurement Process, Contract Process, Third Party Purchase Process and Procurement Release Strategy Process. Responsible for Integration of SAP MM with SCM using core interfaces. Analysed, validated, and documented system and business requirements Identified gaps in business operations and suggested solutions Reconfigured interim storage types, interface between IM-WM, reference WM Movements, internal WH movements Enabled warehouse managers to plan the cross-docking process by decisions. Analysed and tested Message Transmission data like IDOC from and to SAP ECC Recommended operational improvements based on tracking and analysis Defined functional specifications for the Release Procedures of External documents (Purchase Orders) and Purchase Requisitions for Procurement using 032 class types and with classifications Conducting meetings with key business users to collect information on customized business processes and user requirements Set up automatic TO Creation for transfer of material using standard Reports Set up Shelf-life expiration date (SLED) Check, and picking based on materials with shortest remaining shelf life for specific movement types during the Goods receipt process. Processed Inter and Intra company Stock Transport Order Developed the Third-party process of Shipping goods directly to end customer depending upon the business requirements developed functional specs Identified and reported system bugs to SAP development team Tested and documented all IM movement types, Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Physical Inventory, Accounting Document types for goods movement. Tested and documented Physical Inventory process for Cycle Counting Involved in Customized plant parameters for material requirement planning (MRP), Consumption based planning and MRP information of Material Master is dumped too the legacy system from SAP via Interfaces Tested and documented end-to-end OTC, RTC processes and Procure to Pay cycle. Involved in PP: BOM, Work Center, MRP, Capacity Planning, and Demand Planning. Configured Warehouse structure for RF devices and Mobile Data Entry for various movement types in Warehouse Manage testing cycles, include test plan creation, development of scripts and coordination of user acceptance testing Client: Ingram Micro Location: Santa Ana, CA July 2015 June 2017 SAP MM / WM / PPConsultant Description: Ingram Micro Inc. is the world s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing, and logistics company. IM Global project brings Ingram warehouses and Business systems worldwide into new ERP SAP system. Responsibilities: Responsible for implementation and support of Material Management / Warehouse Management Module. Performed analysis from end-to-end perspective in the SAP system of the existing processes in place, identifying the programs, applications that are impacted/needed changes, performed testing as needed to validate the implications to existing process. Was responsible for conversion of vendor/material master data along with open IM and WM balances. Customization of material types, Purchasing process and movement types in IM and WM. Worked on report creation according to the business requirements. Configured and customized WM business process put away/picking strategies, Handling unit, storage unit and goods movement integration with IM, PP. Responsible for Integration of SAP MM with SCM using core interfaces. Worked on Purchasing, Confirmation control keys, Inventory management inbound delivery, Release strategy, Subcontracting, Consignment, Transfer orders, Service Entry sheets. Configuration of warehouse storage types, storage sections, storage bins, RF menu path and Screens and functions. Configured automatic creation of transfer requirements, transfer orders. Defined and implemented a procurement system driven by materials requirements planning. Performed cutover planning and execution in MM and WM modules, specifically uploading master data in the production environment. Performed gap fit analysis, identified application requirements according to the client s business process requirements, and suggested enhancements like User Exits and BADIs. Created and implemented optimized purchasing strategies to create purchase orders for assigned and non-assigned purchase requisitions. Was responsible for the EDI process, especially with respect to partner type, partner profile, message type, Inbound and outbound parameters, for Purchase orders (850), Order confirmation (855), Order shipping notification (856), and Invoices (810). Performed scheduling, prioritization, status updates of the various objects as per client requirements. Provided post-production support on day-to-day activities performed in SAP. Assisted in training the end users with the creation of BPPs. Education: B.TECH , JNTU K, 2014, Mechanical Engg. 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