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Sivakrishna Upputuri

Summary

Over 8+ years of functional experience working on SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) and Material Management (MM) modules and good knowledge of integration modules such as WM and FI. Working experience in Manufacturing, Pharma, Automotive, and Retail industries. Proficiency with comprehensive Creation, Configuration, Training, Documentation, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios. Worked on all phases of ASAP/Activate Methodology of implementation-Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization Documentation, Final Preparation, go live, and support. Several SAP SD functions, such as master data components, sales order management, delivery scheduling, delivery processing, shipping, billing, and account determination, have been configured and customized. Experience in order to cash flow cycle (OTC) and customization of inquiry, quotation, sales order, delivery, Shipment, and billing. Customized Sales order types such as Orders, Free of Charge orders, Return orders, and Billing Types such as order-related Invoices, Delivery-related Invoices, Proforma invoices, and Inter-company invoices. Expertise in configuring Master Data and Bill of material (BOM). Worked on Pricing: Configuration of Condition Types, Condition Tables, and Access Sequences, Determining and Maintaining Pricing Procedure, Creation of Condition Records. Experienced in Procure to Pay cycle (P2P cycle) - Purchase requisition, Purchase Order, Request for Quotation, Contract, Scheduling Agreements, Partner Determination, Goods Receipt and Invoice Verification. Configured Material types, defining attributes of material types, Configuring Account Groups, and creating Number ranges for the material and the document types. Provided functional specifications for various programs and output kinds following business needs while collaborating with the ABAP team. Participated in GAP analysis, finding gaps in the business process and meeting the needs of the new process to the old one. Evaluate client requirements and ascertain the details of project teams. Coordinated client requirements with internal departments and suppliers for the timely completion of projects. Generated and communicated production needs to suppliers through everyday meetings. Ability to work in a quality-focused environment, balancing multiple projects, and delivering results within prescribed schedules and deadlines. Documentation and Training end users.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

SAP SD/MM Consultant

PTC
Wexford, Pennsylvania
09.2022 - Current
  • Participated in the project's Go-live phases, training, testing, realization, and requirements collection while preparing business process documents
  • Expertise in Gap analysis As-Is/To-Be, detailed configuration, training, and documentation
  • Creating business process documentation for sales and distribution activities
  • Experienced in setting up the organizational structure for SD and MM nodes
  • Created the functional requirement specifications (FRSs) for project-related enhancements
  • Created dataflow diagrams for each business process that will be used in the FRSS
  • I worked on creating procedures for pricing, configured pricing procedures, condition types, and access sequences, and built custom pricing tables
  • Configuration of all determinations (item category, Partner, Text, etc.)
  • Configuring the purchasing, moving of goods, pricing, material master, and invoice verification
  • I worked on configuration and maintenance of master data for Material Master, Vendor Master, Source list, Info Record, Bill of Materials, and account determination
  • I configured material types and number ranges (External numbering) for Material master, PR, and PO and changed the field status of the material master records as per the user requirement
  • I documented the entire configuration and was involved in the end-user training Knowledge Transfer session and Production Support
  • Performed regression testing and volume testing and documented the procedures
  • I worked on change requests that were identified as part of the testing phase.

SAP SD/AFS Consultant

Marchon Eyewear, Inc
Melville, NY
11.2021 - 05.2022
  • I worked on creating the delivery output's generic partner profile
  • Created the functional specifications to set up the colors, patterns, and grid conversions
  • I configured the size conversions and sent them to the 3PL system while working as an AFS consultant
  • I collected the business requirements and created the functional specification documents
  • To monitor the testing process, test logs and scenarios were created
  • Actively involved in the business daily to collect needs and carry out testing
  • I worked on the business requirements and uploaded the requirements documents and test logs to the Teams files
  • Conducted workshops and training for users
  • Developed the test cases that end users would need to complete the UAT
  • Executed the regression, integration, and unit testing
  • Maintained the TEXTs to be sent to the 3PL system while working on the value-added services
  • IDOC extensions were worked on in order to convey the extra fields to the 3PL system
  • I worked on the interface for the material extraction.
  • I worked on the upgrades and modifications to the SAP and 3PL system interfaces.

SAP SD/MM Consultant

Merck
Albany, GA
09.2020 - 11.2021
  • SD Enterprise Structure: Responsible for setting up baseline configurations of the organizational levels during the SAP implementation project, including definition and assignments of Sales Organization, Distribution channel, Division, Sales office, and Sales group
  • Master Data for customers, Materials, and Customer-Material Info Records
  • Item Category and Schedule Line Category Determination
  • Customizing and creating various sales document types, delivery documents, and billing documents.
  • Set up Master records (vendor, material, and Customer), Organizational structure, and global settings
  • Configured Material Master and Bill of Material and Good Receipt, Goods Issue, and Transfer Posting Material Requirement Planning and Quality Management
  • I worked on creating production orders in detail: order confirmation, availability checks, and release automatic Issue and Receipt of Goods
  • I worked on the processes for batch master, source determination, batch split, quota organization, and selection strategy
  • Developed contracts (value and quantity), scheduling, delivery forecasts, and outline agreements
  • I worked on setting up number range settings for Material Master and Vendor Master, as well as screen layouts for a variety of standard and customized document types
  • Configure and test crucial inventory management (IM) movement types such as quality, sales orders, scrap, stock transfers, transport orders, planned orders, goods receipts against purchase orders, and goods issues against production orders
  • Configure the release procedure for purchasing documents like the purchase request and Purchase Order
  • Experienced in creating, developing, recording, and assessing system test plans, scenarios, procedures, and cases based on the specifications and features of product releases
  • Created and documented test plans and test data for functional and regression testing, Unit testing & UAT.

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Humanetics
Farmington Hills, MI
03.2018 - 08.2020
  • Gather the requirements and understand the business process
  • Held one-on-one meetings to gain a deeper understanding of the requirements of the business
  • Playback sessions on business requirements and design workshops were attended
  • Preparation of BBP documents and FS documents and signoffs
  • Participated in the design scope lock sessions
  • End-to-end system configurations based on business process and enterprise structure
  • Collaborating on the modifications in the changes with developers
  • Hands-on experience in SD variant configuration and pricing
  • Walkthroughs and KTs to the Developers for development and testing Define and assign the configurations for OTC-related configurations
  • Collaborating with developers on the modifications to the changes
  • Checking the master data for accuracy
  • Addressing and prioritizing the fixing of the faults found during the testing phase
  • Prepared LSMW for uploading price master data as well as data for the cutover activities
  • Provide support to the UAT business user
  • The project go-live schedule was followed when changes were transferred to production
  • Provided Go live with support.

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Firstsource Solutions Ltd
India
07.2015 - 02.2018
  • I participated in a variety of business meetings to look into and record supply chain management-related business requirements
  • Involved in end-to-end Full life cycle implementation
  • Experienced in setting up the organizational structure—defining and Assigning plants to a company and storage locations to plants
  • Configured sales document type: inquiry, quotation, order, and shipping
  • Configured the determination with item category groups and item categories
  • Added new sales, delivery, and billing document types to the configured order-to-cash business processes, along with copy controls and routines to handle requirements and data transfer procedures
  • Expertise in configuring Master Data, pricing determination, and Bill of material (BOM)
  • Developed specifications for several RICEF objects, including improved SAP standard reports, user exits, transaction upgrades, and reports
  • Logistics Execution (LE): Shipping and Transportation: Configured outbound delivery documents, picking, packing, Goods Issue, and transportation
  • I worked on the ATP check as per the client's requirement and configured and tested the ATP Check
  • Experienced in post-production hypercare and production support
  • Addressing and prioritizing the fixing of the faults found during the testing phase
  • End-user training and preparing the user manual.

Education

Bachelor of Electronics And Communication Engineering -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
India, Kakinada
06-2015

Timeline

SAP SD/MM Consultant

PTC
09.2022 - Current

SAP SD/AFS Consultant

Marchon Eyewear, Inc
11.2021 - 05.2022

SAP SD/MM Consultant

Merck
09.2020 - 11.2021

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Humanetics
03.2018 - 08.2020

SAP SD Functional Consultant

Firstsource Solutions Ltd
07.2015 - 02.2018

Bachelor of Electronics And Communication Engineering -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Sivakrishna Upputuri