Sreeni Phanidapu
St Louis,MO
Summary
SAP professional with 20 years of experience in analysis, design, development, testing and documentation of enterprise business applications. Extensive industry expertise includes Chemical, Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Telecom, Automotive, and Consumer goods. Exclusive 15 years of experience as a lead Functional and Subject Matter Expert with full life cycle implementations, M&A, Divestiture, System integration, global roll outs (EMEA, LA & APAC), upgrades, and production support projects in SAP ECC and S/4 HANA
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
SAP S/4 HANA SD Consultant & SME
Bayer
08.2017 - Current
- S/4 HANA Green field Implementation project Contract-to-Cash team member
- M&A System integration project (Lift & Shift, refactor)
- Business unit divestiture end to end implementation
- System enablement for Tolling manufacturing process
- SAP Commerce cloud integration
- Material flow design workshops for new product launches are held with cross-functional IT teams, including Planning, Make, Procurement, Quality, Deliver, and Master Data.
- Responsible for serving as the liaison between business users, Global process owners and managed service partners to oversee the delivery of system enhancements.
SAP SD/LE Consultant
Monsanto
04.2011 - 07.2017
- Worked on end-to-end implementation for new business acquisitions (12 business units) into existing SAP landscape.
- Heavily worked on Sales, pricing routines, and billing user exits/enhancements.
- Designed highly customized customer specific business processes like Transfers, Allocation to ATP switch.
- Implemented Seed Product allocation by Team, Territory, Region and Brand in ECC and later in APO.
- Worked on GATP implementation for Chemical products Product allocation, Stock allowance, Location substitution and Back-order processing (BOP)
- Involved in production support to resolve issues related to GATP functionality like integration model, master data etc.
- Worked with Vistex team for Marketing programs implementation.
- Worked on cross functional projects involving MM, FI – AR, Tax integrations.
- Coordinate with master data teams like Customer, Material, Pricing.
- Worked on LE module TMS(JDA), Track and Trace implementation.
- Provided functional and technical solution design to implement the B2B, B2C, SFDC system integrations.
- Coordinate with Basis and Security teams regarding OSS notes, transports, and authorization issues.
- Coordinate with business users and client’s production support team(offshore) for quick issue resolution.
- Monsanto specializes in providing agricultural products. Their agricultural products are intended to help farmers grow crops while using energy, water, and land. They also provide seeds, traits, software, and crop protection products, thereby helping farmers improve yield. Monsanto was acquired by Bayer in 2017.
SAP SD/LE/VC Consultant
Lexmark International
01.2010 - 03.2011
- Responsible for business requirement gathering from business process owners.
- Worked on mapping the existing business process (JDE) to SAP and customized the gaps.
- Prepared the functional design specifications for custom business processes like DFM, Commissionaire process (EMEA), Intercompany (STO), dropship automation (LA).
- Configured the end-to-end business processes like Commissionaire, Service Returns.
- Creation of variant tables, variant characteristics and dependencies.
- Mapping and configuration of variant configuration in material master MRP view.
- Configured output types for sales orders, outbound delivery, and shipment and billing documents.
- Worked on configuration of custom pricing conditions, routines, formulas.
- Worked on Web orders interfaces and payment card configuration.
- Worked on SD/LE interfaces (PICK, SHIP, PGI) to 3PL partners like K&N, Dixie, DHL, Costa Oriental, Geodis, FEDEX, Penske, and Ryder.
- Configured order status update between Seibel CRM and SAP ECC.
- Worked on routes and route schedules configuration in distribution side.
- Worked on configuration of EDI transactions like 850,846,856,940,943,944,945,947,204,214.
- Developed design specifications for sales order, outbound delivery user exits.
- Lexmark’s SAP Global (EMEA, NA, & LA & APAC) implementation project is intended to replace the current JD Edwards ERP system with SAP. The replacement of these applications is needed to stay current with world leading functionality, provide efficiencies in regard to interfacing with 3rd party vendors and provide much better overall management reporting.
SAP Technical consultant with specialization in SAP SD
Panasonic Corporation of North America
04.2007 - 12.2009
- Business requirements gathering from business partners and SMEs.
- Provided a detailed strategy and work plan for the implementation of direct ship process and subcontract process.
- Prepared functional design documents for collaboration reports, enhancements and interfaces to APO.
- Prepared test scripts and UAT documents for complete end-to-end cycle business processes.
- Prepared user training documents and conducted user workshop to understand the proposed (TO-BE) process.
- Assisted users involved in cutover activities and post go-live issues resolution.
- Panasonic Computer Solutions Company - Sales BOM Business Process
- Designed functional specification documents for enhancements, conversion and interfaces.
- Developed functional design documents for changes to existing PO transmission Interfaces to factory.
- Developed functional design documents for sales order status BAPI as per B2B system requirement.
- Worked on upgrade of 4.6C to ECC 6.0 with tasks including checking adjustment transactions SPDD, SAPU, Unicode conversion using UCCHECK and checking obsolete ABAP.
- Configured output types for sales documents.
- Modified interfaces based on the organization structure changes in the new ECC 6.0 system.
- Worked on performance analysis and code review for the programs in the new ECC 6.0 system.
- Worked on pricing routines to determine pricing conditions as per new business process.
- Worked on output control routines to determine output types as per new business process.
- Worked on day-to-day support issues for clearing tickets in SD and ABAP.
- Did extensive code review as per client’s coding standards.
- Acted as bottleneck between offshore team and business users for incident resolutions and move to production in timely manner to meet SLAs.
- Coordinate with middleware teams and external customers to solve issues on time.
ABAP/4 Developer
Syntel Inc.
10.2004 - 03.2006
- Worked as SAP ABAP/4 developer for several clients from Offshore development center.
- Project: Viskase Companies Inc., Willow brook, IL, USA
- Viskase implemented SAP R/3 with MM, SD, HR, FI & PP modules having business operations in United States, Europe, South America and distributors across the world.
- Worked on day to day support issues for clearing tickets in ABAP
- Coordinated with onsite team to finish work on time.
- Developed an EDI 810 Inbound electronic invoicing interface for Wheels (www.wheels.com) customer.
- Customized inbound IDoc processing function module for WMMBXY message type
- Developed new Smart Form for return authorization.
- Project: All State Insurance, Chicago, IL, USA
- Developed an interface program to list deductions by priority. Created an extract program for remittance file extraction.
- Developed a program to update table ZBPLIST from OPC center data. Created an ALV report to list summary and detail information on check status and cancelled checks.
- Project: T-Systems Gmbh, Saarbrucken, Germany
- T-Systems implemented SAP with MM, SD, FI, CO, PS&HR modules.
- Monitored IDOC status across various systems involved in distribution. Coded user exist for the validation of the service order with special material check. Coded user exist for the validation of account types w.r.t company codes and project name.
- Created new storage locations for the plants in MM customization. Developed a purchase order info mail report. Modified all programs having upload and download function modules.
Education
Bachelor’s degree - computer science
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore, INDIASkills
- S/4 HANA Advanced ATP,ARM,Intercompany,BRF,Fiori apps
- SD,MM,PP,FI
- Sales force CRM, Blue Yonder(TM),BI
- Master data (Business partner, Material)
- ABAP,BTP,CPI,EDI/IDOC,API ,CDS,ODATA
- SAP GRC,Solution manager,ACTIVATE Methodology
- Service Now
Affiliations
- SAP Community
- SAP Professional Group
- SAP America
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Training: S/4 HANA Sales Public Cloud, S/4 HANA 1809, ABAP on HANA
Timeline
SAP S/4 HANA SD Consultant & SME
Bayer
08.2017 - Current
SAP SD/LE Consultant
Monsanto
04.2011 - 07.2017
SAP SD/LE/VC Consultant
Lexmark International
01.2010 - 03.2011
SAP Technical consultant with specialization in SAP SD
Panasonic Corporation of North America
04.2007 - 12.2009
ABAP/4 Developer
Syntel Inc.
10.2004 - 03.2006
Bachelor’s degree - computer science
Bharathiar University