Sr. Techno-Functional SAP Consultant (MM/WM/EWM/LE)

Expert knowledge of SAP ECC 6.0, HANA S/4 platforms. MM, WM, LE, RF/MDE (AII, SapConsole, ITSMobile)
Good working knowledge of all core modules such as SD, PP, QM
Good knowledge of SCM EWM versions 7.1 to 9.4
Techno-functional skills. ALE, EDI, 3PL Interfaces/Integration, DWM, ABAP debugging, high level knowledge of user/customer exits, module pools (PAI/PBO), FS/TS design, RF programming, custom reports/RF transactions
12+ years of International experience (US, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, India)
Excellent communication skills

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NARAYANAN SRINIVASAN
Sr. SAP EWM/MM/WM/LE Solutions Architect
Residence/work permit in Germany (EU Blue card)
narayanan.srinivasan91@gmail.com
+49 15124628650
+91 9751706476 (On leave)

Summary

• Over 12 years of consulting experience in the US and internationally
• Working knowledge of all SAP core modules, ABAP debugging to easily interact across other teams
• Six years in a team lead/mid mgmt. role, reporting to senior mgmt. and project stakeholders
• Strong project mgmt. skills for tracking project progress and risks (Gantt, PERT, CPM, MS Project)
• Experienced in potential pitfalls/bottlenecks affecting resources, project time-line, and scalability
• Ability to analyze and extract core issues in complex business and technical processes
• Excellent communication skills and a team player attitude

Projects
Lidl Digital, Heilbronn, Germany
SAP EWM Lead                                                                                                                                                     Jun ’17 – Mar ‘20

• Assisted Accenture team with redesigning Lidl specific inbound, outbound, physical inventory, replenishment and stock management for Forecast-to-Deploy process in the ECI LION project
• Implemented and tested custom pick-denial process by introducing pick-HU’s with compartments for several deliveries to the final consolidation area for a more optimized picking process
• Designed a custom program with a new wave type wherein pick-denials are deleted from the original wave and assigned to a new wave, to be later consolidated at the packing station
• Implemented a custom wave management report for processing different wave types, as well as custom picking report in accordance with the graphical warehouse layout and custom replenishment reports for small parts and full pallets in the reserve areas
• Assisted team members in resolving inbound and outbound queue issues (SMQ2 and SMQ1) relating to issues arising from custom developments, missing or incorrect data, insufficient stock, inconsistencies in difference analyzer, PO quantity tolerance issues, missing batches
• Modified WOCR configuration to incorporate multi-line orders from various activity areas or for 2-step picking

Environment: SCM EWM 9.4

logventus®, Walldorf, Germany
Senior SAP EWM Consultant                                                                                                                              Feb ’18 – May ‘18

• Represented Lidl Digital as a liaison on a new product line by a collaboration of SAP SE, Lidl Digital and logventus®. Provided valuable inputs to address white-spaces to ensure the solution would meet Lidl business
• As a part of the new EWM team, interacted with other EWM and TM team members in training sessions and workshops held across the street at SAP Walldorf to keep abreast of new features in both EWM and TM, and  enable ourselves to efficiently plan the roadmap ahead
• Learned about various projects that are part of the future roadmap, in collaboration with SAP Walldorf, Lidl Digital and logventus®. Acted as a go-between among the three collaborating partners
• Reviewed and modified existing EWM initial project scope documents and created new vision-of-scope guidelines, proof of concept, and capability decks

Environment: ECC 6.0, SCM EWM 9.4

Triumph International, Tokyo
SAP EWM/MFS/MM Techno-Functional Lead                                                                                                Sep ’14 – May ‘16

• Led a group of SMEs and consultants in sourcing/global procurement, provided key insights and cautioned against potential pitfalls, ensured adherence to AGILE, and interviewed potential candidates to add to the team
• Implemented a complex procurement process from SME requirements in existing Legacy process. Procurement design included historical forecast and demand, current stock and expected receipts, and future forecast and demand extrapolation using statistical analysis from available data
• Modified POSC and LOSC storage process for more efficient put-away by adding ID and pick points
• Modified RF receiving process, slotting configuration and rearrangement process, and designed order profiling
• Setup wave planning, Value added services (VAS), and serialization/e-Pedigree for outbound process
• Modified PPF configuration for inbound and outbound delivery creation, and triggering workflows
• Used warehouse monitoring tool for monitoring processes in failed status and delegated to team members
• Maintained PLC master data, setup EWM and Plant Connectivity 2.0 integration, configured telegram structures, interface types, PLCs and CPS, exception handling for EWM and PLC communication in PPF
• Configured EWM MFS integration: EWM (RFCs) PLC’s (TCP/IP): stacker cranes, conveyors, transfer cars
• Installed and setup PLC emulation in JRE 6.0 env. and tested telegram communication (data from .csv files)
• Successfully tested and implemented MFS end-to-end process in production

Environment: SCM EWM 9.1

Sipchem, Saudi Arabia (KSA)
SAP WM Functional Lead                                                                                                                                   Jan ’14 – July ‘14

• Reported directly to CTO of Sipchem and actively participated in monthly stakeholder meetings
• Wrote FS and helped developer with TS for various user-exits/enhancements in WM
• Helped PP and SD teams with demand planning, customer/vendor returns processes with ALE integration
• Solely handled requirements gathering, blueprint, configuration, testing, training and go-live support of WM

Environment: ECC 6.0, ALE

L’Oreal USA, NJ, USA
SAP MM/WM Techno-Functional Analyst                                                                                                       Nov ’12 – Jan ‘14
Designed and implemented new enhancements in a techno-functional capacity for new SalonCentric locations recently acquired by L’Oreal USA.

• Debugged issues in various existing reports, RF transactions and suggested fixes to developer
• Gathered requirements from AVP, Key Users group, for new reports and provided various solution options
• Designed and wrote FS for replenishment monitor report by TO line, freight analysis report, material holds report, hourly picking report, and delivery picking report
• Worked with IS-Retail consultants on Article master data, Site Master data, Assortment, Sales price calculation
• Created a new RF transaction for recording picking/put-away times by processor along with their status. Stored data in custom table for displaying in a report

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, Sharepoint

Nestle Purina Pet Care, MO, USA
SAP EWM/Interfaces Consultant                                                                                                                         Dec ‘11 - Apr ‘12
Worked in a team of eight consultants alongside Nestle head office team in Vevey, Switzerland. Rolled out first two of multiple N. America sites. Heavily customized EWM solution.

• Analyzed existing Nestle solution implemented at other sites to be ported to the new NPPC plants
• Setup EWM master data such as transportation units, vehicles, and yards as well as EWM structure
• Modified Yard Management solution to include yard movements for drop loads and container information for live loads. Wrote spec to include mixed pack functionality into dock and yard monitor
• Implemented planned cross docking via decision plans for Canada site. Modified push dispatch functionality to match demand and cross docking decision plan at destination plant
• Setup quality notifications and quality inspection controls in QM. Analyzed linking of the to-be-deployed QIE with QM via qRFC to enable inspection processing and conduct usage decisions in EWM

Environment: ECC 6.0, Solution Manager

Pelican Products, CA, USA
SAP Logistics Functional Lead                                                                                                                              Aug ’10 - Oct ‘11
Solely implemented the entire project. Pelican is a world leader among manufacturers of flash lights and storm/all-weather cases. Law enforcement and the military are regular customers. Pelican outsourced warehousing to a 3PL distribution center, NFI Foursite. I was brought in to revamp the landscape and redesign all logistics processes.

• Designed new landscape and redesigned existing MRP, purchasing and sales processes in order to fit to the new design. Worked with Finance to ensure SOX rules are adhered to
• Setup control cycles in order to utilize KANBAN methodology for replenishing production staging areas (PSAs) from warehouse as well as an external plant via automatic STO’s
• Designed seven custom EDI IDocs for communicating with NFI-Foursite, the 3PL warehousing system. Worked closely with the NFI team to ensure required fields in both systems are mapped and that all Govt and customer labeling/packing requirements are met. Implemented IDoc user-exit and delivery change BAPI
• Designed a complex EDI reconciliation interface that performs a two-way handshake between SAP and 3PL system and alerts concerned personnel of any EDI failure and cause. This greatly reduces daily IDoc monitoring
• Introduced new functionality to transfer demand from the DC plants to manufacturing plants. Also devised a way for consumption of forecast at the manufacturing plants by demand from the DC’s
• Redesigned pricing model on inter/intra company stock transfers to accommodate new DC plants

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, ALE, Interfaces

Honeywell ACS, MN, USA
SAP Logistics Team Lead                                                                                                                                     Sep ’09 – Jun ‘10

• Provided on-site production support for multiple go-lives across the globe and lead a team of five offshore
• Solely responsible for supporting the entire Logistics solution including IM/WM/Shipping & Transportation, with different configuration and setup for most sites, and heavily customized
• Completely redesigned the commercial/proforma invoice format in accordance with legal requirements
• Developed a user-exit in XSI (Shipping interface) to manipulate tracking numbers for multiple carriers (UPS/FedEx) before it's updated in the delivery.
• Designed a user-exit in order to prevent delivery blocks due to customer credit limit breaches if the delivery has already been picked and goods have left the dock physically.
• Implemented an enhancement point for the bulk pack functionality where, based on the sales or purchasing area, stock is delivered to customers only in multiples of lot quantities they choose

Environment: ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, GTS, 3PL tools

Philips Lighting, NJ, USA
SAP WM/RF/LE Team Lead                                                                                                                                Feb ’09 - Aug '09
Upgrade project for all LANA (Lighting and Electronics) products from 4.6c custom ABAP WM solution ‘Bin Locator’ to SAP WM on ECC 5.0 for their Mountaintop, PA and Ontario, CA warehouses. Implemented SAPConsole at one site and ITSMobile at another due to licensing, budgeting and training constraints.

• Led a team of 3 consultants and was responsible for the entire WM solution – configuration, RF/SAPConsole functionality, enhancements and user-exits as well as test scripts
• Designed integrated processes for put-away, picking and replenishment via user-exits in order to meet Operations demand of 99.8% efficiency currently achieved with Bin Locator
• Implemented picking/storage-type-search user-exit MWMTO008 along with Large/Small picking
• Implemented user-exit MWMRP001 along with LP22 replenishment by delivery demand in order to limit TR creation only upto the destination capacity
• Wrote FS for custom RF screens for putaway, picking, replenishment and non-conforming processes.  Setup RF on the ITSMobile platform for another site and used Symbol scanners.
• Implemented Dynamic Cycle counting to prevent bin blocks from open TOs or active PI documents
• Wrote FS for modifying WM pick-list in Smart-forms to include shipment, delivery, TO, material, batch numbers in barcode and human readable format

Environment: ECC 5.0, SAPConsole, ITSMobile, MDE

Adidas Group®, USA, Germany and HK
SAP MM-AFS/Interfaces                                                                                                                                   Feb ’08 – Nov ‘08
Global Procurement Solution (GPS 1.0) rollout. Traveled extensively to Germany (Adidas HQ in Herzogenaurach) and Hong Kong to gather requirements from Business, work with SD, XI and FI teams, and train users before go-live.

• Wrote functional specs for enhancements, custom screens and Z-tables, and mapping documents for 8 interfaces to 3 Legacy systems - SIM reporting system (file interface), ESC (OI and PO modules) Supplier system and ILS/FLS Planning system (XI middleware)
• Created purchasing document types, incompletion procedures, vendor account groups and partner functions
• Setup AFS pricing conditions for base prices and discounts
• Setup tax matrices for VAT and Customs duties in accordance with Adidas trade policies
• Provided XI team with detailed specs, field mappings and processing logic for converting Legacy data into IDoc format for inbound processing by SAP
• Customized IDoc types PORDCH02 and ORDERS05 to include custom fields from PR/PO/SO
• Maintained a custom ZADI_NAST table to trigger PO output from associated SO changes in NAST
• ME59N user-exit for PO type determination and copying standard texts from PR/SO to PO
• Wrote LSMW with direct input for generating inbound IDocs to update PRs, upload pricing, tax and VAT matrix

Environment: AFS 6.0/ECC 6.0, ALE/IDocs, PI/XML

Madden Communications, IL, USA  
SAP WM/LE Team Member                                                                                                                                 Sep ’07 – Jan '08
Madden Communications manages advertising and print media for several industry leaders including Phillip Morris, Kraft Foods, Miller Brewing Co., Ace Hardware and North American Co. It manages client inventory and ships all promotional items and fixtures to client's DCs and stores all over the US.

• Setup STO process with inbound deliveries via SPED message control, a new feature in ECC 6.0
• Configured output determination for outbound deliveries via WMTA message control and RSNAST00
• Setup split criteria/wave picking for deliveries

• Devised a custom packing solution using nested Handling Units to emulate previous Legacy process
• Wrote spec for a custom shipping front-end screen (ALV layout) to allow delivery splits, packing and unpacking, and labels for Small and LTL (Large) shipments with code 128 barcodes for RF scanning
• Standard RF setup via SAPConsole from scratch. Setup access points, Telnet Server, SAPCconsole
• Setup weight scales for SAP Packing Stations via RS-232 serial connection to update HU weights in outbound deliveries. Setup Packing Stations and RFC destinations

Environment: ECC 6.0, XSI, SAP Mobile Data Entry

Wolseley plc, VA, USA       
SAP WM/ALE Team Member                                                                                                                             June’07 – Sep’07
Wolseley is among the largest distributors of building equipment, with its US headquarters in Newport News, VA. Implemented decentralized WM in relation to subsystems ECC 6.0 ERP (SD, MM, PP, PM & QM), Highjump3M WMS, and a custom XI interface/converter system that acts as middleware.

• Created functional design and mapping documents for ECC-XI interface in a decentralized WM environment. Worked with in-house Highjump3M team to fit gaps and workarounds in processes
• Identified IDocs and message types for outbound and inbound processes, goods movements, inventory reconciliation and stock adjustments. Identified user-exits for custom IDocs and reduced message types
• Configured Output Determination for ALE with Message Control. Extended field catalog for new fields
• Created new process codes, assigned appropriate message types and function modules
• Presented final design, obtained sign-off from business and trained in-house SMEs on remaining tasks and go-live preparation to ensure smooth transition before rolling-out

Environment: ECC 6.0, ALE IDocs, PI/XML, Legacy interfaces

Siemens Power Generation, FL, USA             
SAP MM/WM/SD Production Support                                                                                                             Dec’06 – May’07

• Provided production support for MM-IM, MM-PUR, WM and SD modules. Resolved tickets, break-fixes, and priority 1 issues in a timely fashion
• Implemented WM-PP interface to simulate production operations with PSAs, work centers and routings
• New design for shipping/handling hazardous materials that cannot be handled at the local site – consolidated/drop-ship order process with item category re-determination and finance postings via user exit
• Implemented Storage Location Control with automatic transfer posting to prevent stock picks from GR area
• Setup BOM explosion for kit orders and G/L account determination for new order types

Environment: 4.7C, WM, MM, Sharepoint

Life Technologies (formerly Applied Biosystems), CA, USA       
SAP WM/RF Team Member                                                                                                                               May’06 – Dec’06
Delivered a custom packing solution that interfaces SAP with WorldLink carrier via Intermec CK-31 handheld computers for a streamlined, RF-enabled shipping process for the Austin plant at Ambion, recently acquired by Applied Biosystems, a pharmaceutical company in an FDA regulated industry.

• Requirements gathering, blueprinting, and configuration of 7 warehouses for the Austin plant
• Implemented WM configuration, SD batch determination, separate picking and put-away strategies for SU and non-SU managed storage types, new WM movement types for automatic fixed bin replenishment programs, TO split profiles for picking areas, PI via cycle counting, shipping/production interface, and print control
• Wrote functional spec for IM/WM pick list for production order, Shipping (Core) and custom (Oligo) pick tickets, packing lists and Proforma invoice (Commercial invoice for international shipments)
• Wrote functional spec for the custom packing program, TO confirmation, RF interface, and WM inventory load
• Setup WM-PP material staging, production scheduling profiles, supply areas, and BOM updates
• Configured output determination for outbound deliveries vais WMTA message control in RSNAST00
• Configured MDE for RF devices, SAPConsole and Georgia Softworks Telnet Server to interface with SAP
• Performed cutover tasks via BDC to create number ranges, interim and permanent bins
• Wrote and executed unit/integration test scripts for WM business processes
• Lead user training, gave presentations and provided comprehensive production support for 8 weeks

Environment: 4.7, WM, RF (MDE)/SAPConsole Administrator, LE

Education

M.S., Computer Science
Texas A&M University, CC, USA

B.S., Physics
WV Wesleyan College, WV, USA

Languages
English (Fluent), German (Speaking)