Total of 6+ years of extensive experience in the field of Materials Management, including experience in

Project analysis, Customization and Implementation of SAP R/3 MM Module.

• Has completed 2 full life cycle implementation projects and also involved in SAP support and
maintenance projects.
• Excellent understanding of business processes in Logistics. Excellent knowledge of the ASAP
methodology. Experienced in Blueprinting, Realization, Testing (unit testing, User Acceptance testing and
Integration testing), end user training, Final preparation, Go-Live and project support.
• Excellent configuration skills on Organizational Structures, Automatic Account Determination, Output
Determination and Enhancement, Pricing Determination and Enhancement, Release Procedures and all
other functional aspects of MM module.
• Configured Materials Master including Material Types, definition of Views and Fields, required Number
Ranges for Material types.
• Configuration of Vendor Master including creation of Account Groups defining Fields and usage of
Partner functions. Worked extensively on Contracts, Scheduling agreements and Invoice verification.
• Expertise in configuration and maintenance of Master Data in Material Master, Vendor Master, Info
Records, Bill of Materials (BOM), Quota arrangement, Account Determination, Source List and Vendor
Evaluation.
• Configuration of Inventory Management Movement Types, Number ranges for material document of
Goods Receipt, Goods Issue and Stock Transfers.
• Experience in Purchase requisitions, PO's, RFQ, inbound and outbound movements using purchase
and sales orders, warehouse storage type, sections and bins.
• Configuration and documentation of stocks that are to be delivered to Quality Inspection in accordance
with business requirements.
• Configuration of Message types, Access sequences, Message Determination Schema for Output
Control of Purchasing Documents.
• Configuration of Warehouse Activity Monitor to supervise unconfirmed transfer orders, open transfer
requests, deliveries, interim storage stock and negative stock.
• Worked on EDI using ALE and IDOC's interfaces for inventory activities related to Purchasing and
Inventory Management between the SAP and Non- SAP systems.
• Experience in implementing MM with other cross functional modules such as SD, PP, FI/CO and QM.
• Adept in translating business objectives into functional and technical requirements.
• An effective team member with excellent communication, leadership, co-ordination and client facing
skills.
Work Experience
SAP MM Functional Consultant
Magna International
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Troy, MI
January 2012 to Present
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Magna International was founded in 1950 .Magna design, develop and manufacture automotive systems,
assemblies, modules and components, and engineer and assemble complete vehicles, primarily for sale
to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of cars and light trucks in our three geographic segments -
North America, Europe, and Rest of World (primarily Asia, South America and Africa).

Responsibilities:
• Set up the organizational structure and global settings for the MM module using IMG.
• Customization of material master record including material types, number ranges, material group,
deletion of fields and applying suppressed, mandatory and optional functions.
• Configured vendor master record; created vendor account groups, number ranges, incoterms, text
types, purchasing group, partner determination, and terms of payment and shipping instructions.
• Configuration of special stocks in inventory management for subcontracting and consignment Materials
• Setup tolerance limits for invoice verification, and processed verification, block, release of invoices.
• Defined purchase organization and storage locations, assigned purchase organization to company
code, plant, assigned plants to company code.
• Configured Material Types as per the requirements of the Client changed the field status of the material
master records as per the user requirements.
• In MM setup Business cycle of Requests-RFQ-quotations-Purchase Orders-Outline agreements,
Contracts, Schedule lines-Inventory Management-Invoice Verification.
• Configured purchasing documents like purchase requisition, source of supply, PO. Defined number
ranges for various purchasing documents. Release procedure for purchasing documents.
• Created Outline agreements, scheduling, delivery/forecast delivery, contracts- value/quantity based.
• Verified Materials Management module configuration with populating data for complete business cycle
by generating PR, RFQ/Quotation, vendor evaluation, ranking list, contracts, scheduling agreements, PO,
GR/GI, invoice verification and purchase info records
• Worked on GI/GR for Sales Orders, Stock transport orders, Inbound and Outbound deliveries
• Established the whole procurement cycle from automatic creation of requisitions through MRP run to
invoice verification.
• In Purchasing Purchase Requisitions, RFQs and Quotations, Purchase Orders, Outline agreements
(Contracts and Scheduling agreements), Info-records, Vendor Master, Payment Terms and Pricing
Procedures, Sub-contracting, Release strategy for PO and Outline agreement, Plant-to-Plant stock
transfers using stock transport orders and following functionality of SAP are configured in Inventory
Management.
• Tested all configurations for important parameters related to MM. Integrated MM with other modules FI
and SD.
• Configured WM structure by defining and creating storage types, storage sections, storage bins
manually & automatically designed storage areas, high rack storage, bulk storage, fixed bin storage &
other commonly used storage area
• Configured multiple WM and IM movement types, Picking and Put away strategies for storage type
search and section search. Configured WM interfaces with IM, SD and QM modules
• Created LSMW to load Master data like Material master, Vendor master, Material types, BOM's, Source
list Info records.
• Validated the processes by developing testing scenarios and scripts for unit/integration tests.
SAP MM/WM Consultant
TRW AUTOMOTIVE
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Troy, MI
November 2011 to December 2012
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

TRW Automotive is among the world's largest automotive suppliers and is one of the top financial
performers in the industry. TRW Automotive is a global leader in automotive safety, producing one of the
largest arrays of active and passive safety technologies. It continues to be at the forefront of
developments in vehicle dynamics, driver assist systems, foundation brakes, inflatable restraints, seat belt
technologies and the electronics and software advancements that will enhance the safety, convenience
and comfort of tomorrow's vehicles.

Responsibilities:
• Prepared business process blueprint and GAP Document.
• Involved in set up of organization structure related to MM storage locations and purchasing
organizations.
• Assigned purchasing organizations to company codes and plants. Defined and assigned reference
purchasing organization.
• Customized plant parameters for MRP and consumption based planning. Defined MRP groups and
controllers.
• Customized conversion of purchase requests to purchase orders and defined order profiles.
• Configured MM functionalities master data material masters, info records, source lists, consumption
based planning, purchasing, inventory management.
• Involved in integration testing, Go-Live preparation and Go-Live. Provided post implementation support.
• Conducted warehouse visits to visualize physical warehouse and configured the WM module interface
with MM by defining storage types, sections, and bins.
• Defined put away and picking strategies and configured automatic creation of transfer orders.
• Configured and tested WM interfaces with MM, SD, and QM modules.
• Configured warehouse activity monitor with all the critical parameters and created variants to run
different job reports in background, and assigned the variants / reports to all user profiles.
• Developed specs for multiple RICEF objects-Reports, enhancements to transactions, user exits, BADIs,
BAPIs, and enhanced standard SAP Reports.
• Defined control parameters for warehouse number, number ranges for transfer requirements, transfer
order. Set up SAP WM configuration for the new warehouse structure using automatic placement and
picking strategies.
• Defined warehouse number, shipping point& assigned warehouse to storage location, shipping point to
plant, transfer types, and movement types.
• Defined storage types, storage sections, storage bin types and storage bins structure.
• Defined put away and picking strategies for fixed bin, open storage, addition to existing stock and empty
storage bin.
SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant
Maxtor
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Milpitas, CA
November 2010 to October 2011
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Maxtor Corporation, founded in 1982 and acquired by Seagate Technology in 2006, was an American
manufacturer of computer hard disk drives, the third largest in the world immediately prior to acquisition. It
now operates as a subsidiary of Seagate. Maxtor targeted both the server and desktop market,
concentrating on disk capacity more than disk speed for desktops

Responsibilities:
• Accountable for design, development, and implementation of the end-to-end project solution, including
requirements definition, prototyping, and creation of detailed project design, functional specifications, and
test plans
• Configured Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, RFQs, Source lists. Configured Pricing
Procedure according to client requirements.
• Handled Special Purchasing types like Contracts, Schedule line agreement. Configured automatic
account determination for Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Stock Transfer and Transfer Postings and
configured various IM based Movement.
• Configured Stock Transport Orders including intercompany and inter plant Stock Transfers.
• Configured settings for Goods Issues, Goods Receipt, Reservation, Physical Inventory, Movement
Types and other relevant objects in Inventory Management. Worked on inspection lots, inspection plan
and quality info record.
• Configured Warehouse structure by defining storage types, storage sections and automatic creation of
bins.
• Worked with Master data teams in uploading the new materials into SAP. Created test cases using
CATT for data upload including conversion of required business master data from existing legacy system.
• Defined put-away and picking strategies and the system was configured for automatic generation of
transfer requirements and transfer Orders
• Regression testing and User Acceptance testing (UAT) of the automated request process.
SAP MM/WM Consultant
ASMO Greenville of N.C., INC
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Statesville, NC
August 2009 to September 2010
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
ASMO is an affiliate of DENSO, a leading supplier of advanced automotive technology, systems and
components for all the world's major automakers. The main products/business activities of ASMO involve
manufacture of Windshield Wiper Systems, Servo Motors and Radiator Fan Motors.
Responsibilities:
• Studied the organizational structure to analyze the viability of implementing SAP MM/WM.
• Discussed the feasibility and gathered information required for implementation at the client site.
• Created and maintained the material and vendor master and incorporated all existing client records of
the same into the system. Assisted in legacy system transfer of master data through LSMW.
• Configured the purchasing cycle including purchase requisitions, vendor evaluations and purchase
orders with release procedures to suit client requirements.
• Developed source lists and MRP procedures based on consumption.
• Set up quota arrangements with vendors for purchase requisitions/orders, scheduling agreements, MRP.
Prepared documents for procurement of consumable materials.
• Set up info records for subcontracting consignments to meet certain core business requirements.
• Configured the system to process goods receipts with tolerances for over and under delivery and further
carry out invoicing
• Defined goods transfer into various stock, created and confirmed transfer orders and postings.
• Adopted stock transfer order techniques to assist in plant to plant stock transfers.
• Created necessary documents required for the client to carry out the physical inventory process for
cycle counting.
• Conducted warehouse visits to visualize physical warehouse and configured the WM module interface
with MM by defining storage types, sections, bins.
• Set up RF devices for put away, picking activities & involved in the customizing of Mobile data entry
such as Verification control, RF queue management, and Bar-code settings.
• Defined put away and picking strategies and configured automatic creation of transfer requirements,
transfer orders.
• Activated Kanban replenishment system in warehouse management in co-ordination with production.
Tested the integration between MM /WM, PP, and SD.
• Coordinated with the ABAP team by preparing FDD's to develop specific user exits as required by the
client.
Junior SAP MM/WM Consultant
SAP MM
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Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

June 2008 to August 2009
Environment: SAP ECC 5.0

InfoTech Enterprises provides leading-edge engineering solutions, including product development and
life-cycle support, process, network and content engineering to major organizations worldwide. The
clients span multiple industries such as Aerospace, Consumer, Energy, Medical, Heavy Equipment, Hi-
tech, Transportation, Telecom and Utilities and include 22 'Fortune 500' and 27 'Global 500' blue chip
organizations.
Responsibilities:
• Involved in process design, gap analysis, mapping of business processes, and configuration
of SAPMM and WM modules. Conducted workshops to gather user requirements.
• Developed the functional specifications for custom developments to address gaps identified at earlier
stages.
• Analyzed, defined and implemented MM functions and transactions and coordinated the integration with
other modules in a cross-company environment. Developed and implemented material and vendor master
data conversion plans.
• Conversions for data load in SAP from legacy system using LSMW. Enhanced the purchasing views of
material master for additional fields. Defined and implemented a procurement system driven by materials
requirements planning.
• Implemented optimized purchasing strategies to create purchase orders for assigned and non-assigned
purchase requisitions. Configured Delivery Tolerances for materials received from the vendors.
• Configured and defined the warehouse management system functionality defining storage bin
coordinates and stock placement and removal strategies.
• Configured multiple WM and IM movement types and setting up the link between IM movements types
with WM movement types via reference movement type.
• Configured automatic creation of transfer requirements, transfer orders. Validated WM integration with
IM, SD, PP, and QM modules.
• Scheduling, prioritization, status updates of the various objects as per client requirements.
• Developed specifications for multiple RICEF objects-Reports, enhancements to transactions, and user
exits. Creation of test data, preparation of test plans, unit & integration testing.
• Performed Unit test, and Integration test for all customized developments. Provided post-production
support on day-to-day activities performed in SAP.
Project VI:
MM Consultant
Wipro
July 2008 to June 2009
Project Implementation of PM with MM integration of ECC 5.0 version
Position MM Consultant
Contribution
• Involved in all the phases of Implementation starting from Project preparation to Go live
• Conducting Business workshops with the core team for AS-IS analysis
• Understanding the current Business processes of Plant Maintenance related to MM like Procuring the
MRO items, inventorying them and issuing it to Plant Maintenance team
• Preparation of AS-Is document
• Conducting workshops for To-Be analysis and Mapping the current legacy business processes
withSAP processes
• Mapping all the fields/processes from legacy to SAP and the getting the required data which are
important in SAP but not available in legacy system for smooth business flow
• Preparation of Business Blue Print document and getting sign off by Business
• Identifying the ABAP developments related to MM module and getting the sign off from business
• Configuring the system related to Master data (Material Master and Info record), Procurement, Inventory
Management, MRP and Account determination
• Taking the dump from the legacy system and preparing the spreadsheets for uploading into SAPsystem
• Preparing the LSMW objects for uploading of Material Master, Info Records, Source List, Initial Inventory
upload and Price changes
• Preparing the sand box with the same configuration of Production and uploading the data
• Preparing the test scripts for Unit testing and Integration testing 1
• Identifying the user roles and authorizations and preparing them for UAT
• Conducting user training sessions
• Doing the mock cut over activities in QAS before one month of go live
• Go Live activities like, uploading the data in PRD and making the system ready
• Taking the delta dump and uploading them manually in PRD in final hours of Go live
• Post Go Live support activities

Environment SAP ECC 5.0

Education
Bachelors
Drake University -
Des Moines, IA
Additional Information
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
ERP: SAP R/3 4.0B, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0
Methodologies: ASAP Methodology
Operating System: UNIX, Windows 95/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, 8, Servers
Application: MS-Office Suite, MS-Project, MS-Visio, SQL