Senthilnathan P.

Senthilnathan P.

Senior SD Consultant

Coimbatore , India

Experience: 20 Years

Senthilnathan

Coimbatore , India

Senior SD Consultant

55020 USD / Year

  • Immediate: Available

20 Years

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About Me

IT professional having close to twenty years in SAP technology with rich and varied experience in Solution Design, Functional configuration in SD / MM modules, Team Management and Project Management Four Full Lifecycle implementations, Upgrades and R...

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I was a Senior SCM consultant that managed configuration, testing and deployment for the roll out project. Handled number of localizations for Latin America and Eastern Europe. Reporting to project management team on progress, technical challenges, time lines and scope changes.

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Designed Solutions for localizations of process in SD / MM functional areas and worked on new interfaces to country specific third party systems Worked extensively in pricing procedures and order management interface through IDoc Worked on Delivery Logistics functions and output through IDoc interfaces. Also Output through Open Text application is also being done. Configured special business processes such as Intercompany, make-to-order and Third party processing Worked on various developments handled by a ten member team as a lead and ensured optimal solutions are delivered for multiple locations from offshore Co-ordination with Testing teams on scenarios and scripting for UAT Provided daily updates and Demos to Business Process experts in the regions for the approval process. Maintained documentations as per clients policies and updated in Solman system Assisted in UAT through defect tickets through HP-ALM tool and ensured timely resolutions with the team Part of Hyper care team and extended post go-live support for the operations using Incident Change number resolution system. Involved in writing project proposals, with project schedules and cost estimates. Involved in developing detailed project plan and monitor the progress with specific focus on cost, schedule and scope Involvement in S/4 Hana applications trial system configurations tasks for future consolidation Adhere to Agile methodology to complete User stories based on defined Sprints planning and reported through Rally / VSTS tool

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Configured Intercompany billing process to supply Food products from another plant in different company code to the US plants. Intercompany pricing configuration and invoice done Supply chain process automation done for inter-plant transfers from Sales Order creation, PR / PO, stock transfers and billing using SO stock scenario involving integration of MM and SD functionalities Review of Development process, QC process, Configuration management, Design documents and review of Development Objects; Reasons for Defects, Scope creep; Timeline evaluation; Presentation of the findings with suggestion for remediation Managed projects with ten member team with deliverables within aggressive deadlines Involved in Customer support for SD on Order management, Pricing and Delivery processing, billing along with handling enhancement requirements Involved in setting up of IDOC configuration for Inter-company Billing to automate invoice receipts and credit memos in the buying plant and company Configured Release procedure for purchasing documents for certain document types Customizing in Purchase pricing access sequences, condition types, calculation schema and schema group Designed test scripts and test data plan for UAT User training and reference documentation

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  • Configured Intercompany billing process, Supply chain process automation done for inter-plant transfers involving integration of MM and SD functionalities
  • Review of Development process, QC process, Configuration management, Design documents

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New Configurations done for SD order and Purchase pricing Developed LSMW for data loads of material master, customer master and other relevant data for the newly configured plant Set up revenue interfaces with FI and interface with Plant maintenance processes Intercompany invoicing set up done for the new plant Provided User training documents for operations and Post deployment support being done Provided New Enhancements requirements analysis and solution design activities for RICEF Implemented GST and updated pricing procedures for a multinational client

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Functional design, Configurations, testing and deployment in SAP SD/MM areas. Technical specifications and offshore project management involving offshore team. User Support and enhancements support.

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Allied legal contract forms with approval features were developed. Designed various customized process and programs to post bag charges, delay time compensation, Carrier subsidies, Carrier tips and gasoline subsidies to HCM module from the media SD and MM modules Worked with the Ad-insert and Street sellers team to develop entirely custom oriented process for the client to start with forecasting, confirmation and postings of data based on historical data Configured Sales Order types, billing types and follow up processes and forms for client billing for subscription deliveries and by-drop deliveries and corresponding pricing conditions and interfaces with BW system Designed user interfaces to upload data to create materials master data and to do GR / GI of polybags and rubber bands that go with the newspapers and to post the material charges to HCM for appropriate wage type deductions. Provided customized reports to check inventory of supplementary materials in MM Designed various customized process and programs to post polybag charges, delay time compensation, Carrier subsidies, Carrier tips and gasoline subsidies to HCM module from the MM module Project Managed roll-out functions for various plants as scheduled and aligned development works for delivery from Offshore within the time through effective deployment of resources Sales and Distribution / M-SD functional area contribution: Involved in AS-IS and TO-BE Process, BPP, functional design, configuration, full cycle implementation and acceptance testing of Custom oriented media processes. Roll outs done for multiple plants cross the USA Co-ordination with the IP team on technical evaluations, developments and testing of various Z objects. Exposure to testing tools and Techniques Experience in technical code review and fine tuning with Developer team to enhance users operational efficiency Worked closely with host application teams and ABAP development team to develop external interfaces with SAP through XI to update periodical data from external systems into SAP Configured various Info-types / Wage-types in HCM for Distribution Carrier master data and for different types of postings from media SD and MM module interfaces Involved in process set up, user acceptance testing, integration testing of various Client specific objects in the new implementation process Developed User training scripts and handled Corporate training for super Users / trainers on transactions and configurations. Coordinated with super user / training team to develop manuals for business processes and procedures. Set up and maintenance of the training client data using Gold client feature Production user support in daily operations, Carrier settlement, Compensation postings to HCM, Billing and process improvement Designed LSMW objects to upload data into various transactions Enhancements design for various user requirements in MSD / SD / HCM applications to improve operational efficiency and overall experience of the users Designed customized automated process to post settlement data from MSD to HCM and FI modules via batch processing. Collaborated with the super user teams to implement enhancements for continuous improvement of processes to minimize user efforts and increase process efficiency Developed learning documents and error resolution logs for processes Materials Management functional area contribution: Involved in Project preparation: Blueprint stage for AS-IS and TO-BE Process study preparation along with GAP Analysis of Business processes of the organization Involved in configure MM module comprising Purchasing organization elements – Plants, Storage Locations, Purchasing organizations, MRP controllers etc. Defined and maintained, Material types, number range Material Master and Purchasing Info records Worked on inventory management area like configuring goods receipts, goods issues, plant parameters and physical inventory documents Configured various Info types / Wage types in HCM for Distribution Carrier master data and for different types of postings from MM module interfaces Automated GR of polybags from vendors using file upload process from RFID system for operational efficiency. Automated GI of polybag materials through custom transaction to distribution service providers on chargeable or non-chargeable basis with special codes

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Involved in Customer support for SD on Order management, variant configuration, pricing and Delivery processing along with handling enhancement requirements Sales and Distribution functional area contribution: Worked on Rental – Exchange process enhancement in SD with Service management interfaces for rental pool processes and asset management Supply chain process interfaces with Dealers to automate Sales Order creation using intermediate document configurations and application link methods Configured Intercompany billing process to supply avionic products from another plant in different company code to the vendor Airbus. Intercompany pricing and invoice done Key member in Team meetings for enhancements, Process testing, Documentation and User training activities. Requirements analysis and design of Custom reports for users to list open orders and Order status

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  • Responsible for Functional spec review , Tech spec/design and review, Unit Test & UAT test plans, User Training and critical Support during the process on the job
  • Organized User acceptance testing and provided Corporate training to Super Users training on basic configurations and transactions in Order to Cash process

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Configurable materials such as washing machines with various color, loading types, drum sizes etc were configured for variant configuration. Applicable class, characteristics, values and dependencies for sales order BOM explosion and pricing was done using variant pricing conditions for variant key in SD variant pricing SD Contribution: Defined configuration and set up Customer master and Material master for order processing Order process set up for export orders from main export branch and standard orders for some subsidiaries. Set up availability check and transfer of requirements parameters and scope of check. Creation of Billing automatically based on Inbound Idocs Transportation in LES including transport planning, creation of shipments, creation and automatic determination of routes, transport cost calculation with different legs of shipment process Organized User acceptance testing and provided Corporate training to Super Users training on basic configurations and transactions in Order to Cash process

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Part of the team that involved in study of the as-is organizational and business setup, process and sales requirements and mapping the business scenarios to SAP. Involved in the configuration and proto-typing of the business scenarios Responsible for configuration set up of the Subscription order types, shipping order types, shipping point and goods receiving point determination, SD pricing and billing Master data set up for subscribers, carrier routes, geo structures and address data Single copy and home delivery route determination for order processing and deliveries Project documentation done and involved in user training in subscription Order processing and billing

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Worked in the areas of shipping and transportation with configuration settings for different shipping types, modes of transport, routes and route determination for container ships, tanker trucks and plastic containers, grouping of deliveries, individual, collective and transportation chain, planning and transport scheduling Design and configuration of Output messages and form design and testing Testing of processes and documentation for training. Handled training of super users

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Involved in the study of the customizing requirement based on as-is situation in Sales and Distribution in the areas of Sales Cycle, Communication Medium (EDI, fax/paper), customer contracts, make-to-order process, Availability check process ,Credit/margin check, Sales order blocks required, texts in SD documents Design of Z reports spec and Development co-ordination, code review, Unit testing and test scripts preparation. Follow up with Users for UAT and documentation of results

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Worked with setting up of Sales Document types, Item Categories and Sales Areas Customized reports design, code analysis and debugging / performance testing

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