Chandra Rachala

SAP SD Consultant at Remington Arms

In-depth knowledge with 3 full life cycle implementations including gap analysis, business blue print, realization, testing, go-live and support Worked on various projects, inclusive of configuration, Master data setup, Interface testing, Data conversion and End user testing Worked with Enterprise Structure in SD module and assigning it with other modules. Good knowledge in creation of Customer Master Data, Material Master Data and Customer-Material Info records. Dealt with account group control and configuration Customization of Sales Documents viz., Inquiry, Quotation, Sales order and configuring of schedule lines, Contracts and maintaining Copy control Worked on SAP SD Variant configuration Very good experience and knowledge on SAP SD foreign trade. Experience working on Foreign trade outbound processing system in SAP system and maintenance of SD foreign trade data. Familiar with all the scenarios of Foreign trade outbound processing system. Experience working on Inter-company Sales and STO. Good experience in configuration of Order-To-Cash (OTC) business process with focus on areas of Order Management, Pricing, Available-To-Promise (ATP), delivery, rebates and billing Configured Sales order management concepts like scheduling agreements, customer contracts, third party sales and consignment stock. Worked with Transfer of Requirements, Output determination, text determination and credit management Extensively worked/created new pricing routines and communication strategies. Designed/implemented Business pricing procedures by talking to business experts and from blue prints. Created/maintained Account assignment groups. Extensively worked on pricing user exits. Excellent expertise in pricing including condition technique, data determination, VOFM routines, Pricing IDOCS. Familiar with the integration points of MM, WM, LE and FICO Good Knowledge of IDOC, ALE, Master Data Distribution, IDOC development, partner profiles, distribution model. Good knowledge about ABAP, ABAP Objects, User Exits, Authorization Objects. Very good Experience in creating reports. Experience working with WM module Experienced in configuring Physical Inventory process, Cycle Counting, Print Controls and integrating WM-IM Movement Types. Expert in designing Sales Order Processing, Production Supply and Replenishment using KAN-BAN and Continuous Inventory Processes using WM standard and custom transactions. Extensive experience in Logistics Execution (LE) functions like Delivery processing ( In bound & Out bound), Picking, Packing and Goods Issue, Transportation Configuration of shipping conditions, transportation planning and shipments. Also dealt with individual and collective transportation chain Experience in configuration for Route Determination, which includes routes, modes of transport, shipping types, routes & stages, transportation connection points, zones, groups and transportation routes Good command over English both verbal and written. Will deal situation in a systematic manner and will definitely exhibit efficiency at work

Work Experience

SAP SD Consultant
Remington Arms - Greensboro, NC October 2011 to Present
Production Support (ECC 6.0) Responsibilities: Primarily responsible for production support, resolved several Foot Print tickets. Involved in support for numerous Production problems in SD and Cross-Functional Applications. Maintained Open Production Tickets and Solved All Tickets as per Service Level Agreements. Worked on the, Sales Orders, Tax determination, ATP, Pricing, Output determination, Shipping, Billing, EDI and EDI Workflow. Involved in Unit, String, Integration and Regression testing of Order-to-Cash transactions. Tested Different Variants of Functionalities including, Storage Location, and Material Determination, Product Substitution Shipping Condition Determination, Price list Types and Pricing Conditions. Worked on the Quality center (HPQC) and Solution Manager to maintain and monitor the Production tickets. Trouble Shooted any issues related to of Master Data and Interface Problems. Order Management: - Customized Item Categories and Schedule Lines and New Sales Order Types for Consignment order process Defined and Assigned Number Ranges for Sales, Delivery and Billing Documents. Involved in pre-process testing (i.e. unit testing) and testing the results in other areas getting the user acceptance at every phase and user training. Worked extensively with customized order types and condition types. Corrected incorrectly set-up variants. Investigated issues with billing blocks and pricing conditions. Material determination, listing/exclusion configuration. ATP configuration. Configure mass maintenance of Sales orders allowing customer service department to make mass changes in sales orders.

SAP SD Consultant - Operations and Logistics BA

CHEP USA - Orlando, FL February 2011 to September 2011
Upgrade & Production support (ECC 6.0) Responsibilities: Primarily responsible for production support, fixing any issues that arise, and documentation of the issues and solutions. Worked on STO or PO between Plants (Stock transfer order and purchase order creation), Goods Receipts, and Goods Issue. Resolved various tickets related to SD Foreign trade. Worked on writing functional specification for outputs to various legacy systems for inbound and outbound deliveries. Have written FDD and Functional specification documents for integration of SAP with Siebel and Portal and TMS Tested various business processes for SAP upgrade, developed and executed test plans (regression testing, new development, positive/negative tests) Worked on an end-end business environment with new Sales, delivery and billing document types inclusive of copy control, partner determination and text determination procedures. Good understanding of the change control process, experience working on the Rev-trac Change/ Transport managements which includes documentation of FDD's functional specs, technical specs etc.

 Tested various business processes for the upgrade from ECC 5.0 to 6.0 Worked on output determination; shipping labels, order acknowledgements containing shipping instructions, gross weight etc, packing lists, Bill of lading (inclusive of shipper, consignee and product descriptions) Worked with the Technical team to identify the User Exits/Functional modules to send data across the legacy system using EDIs and prepare technical specification. Worked on the Quality center (HPQC) and remedy to maintain and monitor the Production tickets. Prepared the Test Plans and Test Cases for Order management and Cross- interface Functionality. Worked on Logistics Execution, shipping/delivery configuration, defined shipping conditions, loading groups and assigned shipping points to our conditions.

SAP SD Consultant
Hewlett-Packard - Houston, TX November 2009 to January 2011
Implementation (ECC 6.0) Responsibilities: Implementation as per ASAP methodology - Scoping, Project preparation, Business Blue Printing, Realization, Go-live. Configured Pricing, Account Determination, other Basic Functions, Sales, Shipping and Billing. Used standard order types for the following Sales Order, Return Order and debit/credit memo. Create and Maintain customer account types as per business requirements Reviewed business blue printing documentation and writing detailed functional and technical specification. Involved in implementing the Foreign trade export scenario involving a Letter of credit purpose. Maintained the Foreign trade data required for SD documents such as sales order/ASN, Bill of lading, commercial invoice, export packing list, shippers export declaration, shippers letter of instructions. Worked with copy control, incompleteness procedure, availability check (rule/scope of AC) delivery blocks, condition for delivery blocking, transfer of requirements Reviewing business blue printing documentation and writing details functional and technical specification. Identification of profitability analysis criteria and drivers to use to transfer costs from business process EDI - Experience with ASN's. Able to trouble shoot any problem related to EDI's using transactions WE02, WE05, WE11, WE19, WE20 and BD87. Supported Unit testing, Integration testing and developed test scripts along with possible fixes for the test failure scenarios. Trained end users on different business scenarios and prepared user procedure manual. Provided support on SAP environment, suggested technical solutions and solved specific issues.

SAP SD Consultant
Volkswagen - Chattanooga, TN September 2008 to October 2009
Upgrade and Support (ECC 6.0) Responsibilities: Developed road map for upgrade of reports, interfaces and SAP script layout sets in SD. Involved in gathering of business user requirements and created Functional requirements for the same. Configured the Variant configuration for sales documents. Maintained the necessary master data and condition records required for variant configuration. Analyzed the impact of business transactions and custom programs on upgrade and ensured that the programs function well in the upgraded system. Sound understanding of Business and SAP configuration for Kanban replenishment in production

 Strong knowledge of configuring Storage Bin Types, Bin Structure, Storage Type Indicators, Section Indicators and use of these in defining search strategies. Worked on Exporting to Third country foreign trade scenario. Maintained required data for the SD foreign trade. Provided technical support and problem resolution to the existing 4.5A user community. Responsible for the effective use of all master data procedures to ensure that all information systems and services met the company standards and end user requirements. Involved in detailed examination of version changes and configured SD module master data. Enhanced the business functionality by incorporating and configuring new BADIs Worked with LSMW to upload Customer master and Material Master Data. Worked with the Technical team to identify the User Exits/Functional modules to send data across the legacy system using EDIs and prepare technical specification. Worked on the Quality center and remedy to maintain and monitor the Production tickets. Prepared the Test Plans and Test Cases for Order management and Cross- interface Functionality. Involved in Unit, String, Security, Integration and Regression testing of Order-to-Cash transactions. Integration of SD with MM, PP, WM and FICO. Planned for data migration from legacy system to production system Data transfer of material master, customer master, standard prices, discount structures from legacy system to production system Provided End user Training on different business scenarios and Post Production Support.

SAP SD Consultant
MeadWestvaco - Richmond, VA July 2007 to August 2008
Life cycle implementation (ECC 5.0) Responsibilities: Implementation as per ASAP methodology - Scoping, Project preparation, Business Blue Printing, Realization, Go-live. Configured Master Data, Pricing, Account Determination, other Basic Functions, Sales, Shipping and Billing. Generated Price list using pricing procedures, sales areas and customer information. Extensively worked on account keys, creating/Maintaining/configuration of condition tables for revenue account determination. Created Z condition types like buying commission, close out price, Royalty etc. To design the order to cash process for streamlining the business process from sales perspective. Extensively interacted with business users to understand the business process to develop to-be process. Formulated the TO-BE processes from several sessions with the core team members. Identified and addressed the Gaps with SAP through Gap Analysis. Set up the organizational structure for sales and distribution. Review the business requirements and propose SD blue prints to meet the requirements Order types, accounts groups and item category. Shipping and transportation; shipping conditions, types, loading groups, route determination, transportation planning and scheduling Involved and configured Inter-company sales and STO, Deliveries and Billing for the plant in china. Worked on setting up Pricing conditions and Billing documents for Inter-company sales. Worked with the Technical team to identify the User Exits/Functional modules to send data across the legacy system using EDIs and prepare technical specification. Studied the pricing structure and mapped it to SAP by defining new pricing procedures. Worked on EDI 850 Orders inbound IDOC and Order response including billing related IDOC's using Mercator as middle ware for the integration between SAP and Legacy system.

 Integrated with Warehouse Management to synchronies the inventory from SAP to ALOG legacy system using interfaces (IDOC) Prepared the End User documentation and Project documentation using DOORS system. Worked on setting up Serial number profiles Complete configuration of Batch Management in Sales and Distribution

SAP SD/ consultant

Applied Materials - San Jose, CA December 2006 to June 2007
Support (ECC 5.0) Responsibilities: Participated in project life cycle, analyzing existing business processing requirements and determined the enterprise structures, business units/locations as company codes Responsible for integration of SD module with LE Key player in providing production support, user training and problem resolution in almost all areas of SD functional module Extensively worked on Order management including customization of contracts, schedule line agreements, Cash sales, Rush orders, Item categories, Schedule line categories etc Worked on Availability Check through checking groups and controlling the availability check by defining its limitations and extents Defining purchase organization and assigning them to company code, assigning plants to company code Experience in Material Determination using condition techniques and material listing Vendor creation, purchase order and moving stocks to preferred storage location. Worked with Transfer of Requirements and Transfer Order generations Experience in execution of stock placement in Warehouse managed system using put away and picking strategies Also familiar with Inter company stocks transfer and Intercompany sale Worked on an end-end business environment with new Sales, delivery and billing document types inclusive of copy control, partner determination and text determination procedures Worked on scenarios of pricing agreements and configured the pricing procedure determination as per requirements Performed Unit testing and Integration testing, UAT and all the SD issues generated from the user testing

Up gradation & Support

Reynolds and Reynolds - Dayton, OH January 2006 to October 2006
ECC 5.0) Responsibilities: Involved in preparation of the project, upgrade presentation, go-live and support Setting up enterprise structure in SD with respective assignment to meet and satisfy business requirements Setting up number ranges (external) from legacy system to Sales documents, material and customer master records Full configuration of SAP system for Order-to-cash process flow, and Logistics Execution Interface in the process. Credit management overview, restricting and providing access to credit check as required. Classification of credit risk category and groups, LIS/SIS Pricing and Transportation Issues: Configuration of new pricing procedure by maintaining condition types and access sequences with condition tables for pricing procedure determination

 SD-MRP - Based Pricing The business attracts MRP Pricing when materials are formulated & sold but also includes trading for which MRP Pricing is not applicable. Both formulated & traded material sales area is determined to a single pricing procedure and customizing a single pricing procedure to support MRP and non-MRP pricing calculation using step calculation, Conditional access, and Routines. Involved in Logistics Execution, shipping/delivery configuration, defined shipping conditions, loading groups and assigned shipping points to our conditions. Dealt with consignment process order type (fill-up, issue, return and pick-up), and the later process of Order to cash (billing) familiar with Goods issue, goods receipt and billing documents Configured the billing documents, billing plan types (dead line billing) and billing procedures-individual billing, periodic billing and collective billing. Pass on to Revenue accounts, integration with FI on revenue determination, rebates and credit controls Familiar in output determination; shipping labels, order acknowledgements containing shipping instructions, gross weight etc, packing lists, Bill of lading (inclusive of shipper, consignee and product descriptions) Involved testing the configuration of Number ranges (system generated-internal), pricing and transportation configuration testing.

SAP LE Consultant
Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals - Chennai, TAMIL NADU, IN October 2004 to November 2005
Life cycle implementation R/3 4.6 Responsibilities: Developed the different phases of the ASAP methodology in correlation with the other members of the team and the project leads in planning the scope of the project, providing documentation, defining business scenarios and providing support. Requirements gathering: Worked with different client divisions for evaluating the AS-IS of the Logistics process and understanding their requirements for transportation, Freight Costing, 3PL, optimization of loads based on LTL/ TL and parcel shipments. Conducted workshops and showed demos of the system for explaining the solutions for different scenarios. Developed the Enterprise Structure of the company by working in coordination with the staff of MM, PP, WM, FI and CO which included defining the company, creating several company codes, defining Credit control areas, Business areas, Sales organizations, Purchase Organizations, Plants, Storage locations, Warehouses, Distribution Channels, Divisions, setting up Sales areas and making the relevant assignments. Created and maintained the Vendor master records for the associating Forwarding Agents and setting up Carrier ratings. Defined Workflow for creating deliveries, shipments and associated it through the client authorization matrix. Configured Shipping points and Shipping point determination as per the Storage locations and Plants. Also, worked on defining transportation zones, transportation planning points and document settings. Routes and Route Determination by making individual considerations to the business needs and accordingly making the usage of the Weight factor. Studied the client freight claims process and forwarded a functional specification for the required specification. Provided a proof of concept, developed and delivered solutions for product tracking and tracing capabilities

Education

B. Tech in Industrial Engineering JNTU - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, IN

2003