SRINIVASA POTHINENI
Canton,MI
Summary
Senior Certified SAP SD/Vistex Professional Highly accomplished senior IT professional with 19 years in SAP SD, OTC/Q2C, Vistex, S/4 Hana and Warranty Implementation and Production support projects 10+ years of experience with additional roles as Vistex Implementation Consultant, SAP SD and MM Functional Analyst, SAP SD Business Analyst, Sr ERP Analyst, SAP S4 HANA post production support experience. Azure migration to cloud. 4 years with S4 HANA, with 1 implementation (Brown field), ECC 1 Green field implementation. Manufacturing experience for more than 10 years in addition to Pharma, Medical devices, High tech, Automotive, FMCG, Retail, Direct sales, Food Distribution and Agriculture Education details: Bachelor’s degree from Andhra University, PG Program in Cyber security from Texas McCombs school of Business.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SAP S/4 HANA SD/Vistex Functional Lead-Green Field Implementation S/4 Hana-V/4 Vistex
Client:QuidelOrtho corp.
Remote
02.2025 - Current
- Drive the project functional team in all stages of implementation
- Guide the Business team in UAT and all test cycles.
- Co-ordinate with Vistex team in greenfield implementation
- Co-ordinate with project team in all stages of implementation
- Participate in Business blueprint sessions with business and capture all requirements needed for Green field implementation.
- Guide and lead development team resources in development and implementation for the requirements and enhancements.
- Be the key resource for QO Chargeback and bill back process in Vistex
- Analyzed system performance data to identify areas for process improvement and optimize resource allocation.
- Collaborated with IT teams to integrate with cross functional teams, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
SAP SD/Vistex AMS Support
Mckesson Corporation
Dallas, TX
08.2023 - 02.2025
- Lead the work involved in evaluating, selecting, designing, and implementing new features and systems for SAP SD, Contracts, Chargebacks, Billbacks, Rebates, Incentives.
- Resolved issues around Azure cloud migration post production issues
- Understand and resolve production support issues around OTC, Vistex Charge backs/ MDM such as Vendor Master, Customer Master, Material Master, and the syndication processes.
- Involve in design technical solutions that operate efficiently in high transaction volume scenarios.
- Proven problem-solving skills
- Assess a specific business scenario and develop an appropriate technical approach to support the desired business outcomes.
- Create technical/functional work specification.
- Demonstrated solutions to interested parties such as Business SMEs, partners from other McKesson Technology teams.
- Knowledge of Agile, SAFe and/or SCRUM methodologies.
- Thorough knowledge of Order to Cash processes; especially item substitution and pricing Technical Skills:
- Experience with SAP ABAP programming tools including Object Oriented programming with ABAP Objects, ABAP Workbench, BSP Workbench, Webservices, Conversions.
- Enhancement experience with BADI, New Enhancement Framework including Enhancement points, Sections, and spots.
- Worked on EDI idoc resolutions majorly, 849,867,869.
- Familiar with SAP Business Workflow, OSS Notes, BAPI, RFC, ALE, EDI IDOCs, Query Painter, Menu Painter, Screen Painter, Object Model ALV, SAP CCMS Printing, Transport Management and Debugging.
- Experience with running performance tools like Runtime Analysis, Code Inspector, SQL Trace, System Log
SAP SD Lead and Offshore Team Coordinator
Astellas Japan (Pharmaceutical Manufacturing)
09.2022 - 07.2023
- Daily support of business user activities through maintenance of S/4HANA global application OTC/Q2C
- 12 Resources offshore and onsite
- Hands on Configuration in OTC area
- Configure Sales order types, Pricing procedures.
- Responsible for Minor enhancements including design and/or build of new functionality.
- Adhere to the processes and standards of a global organization including Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Japan, India, China and United States
- Stakeholder relationship management with the business and within IT
- Proactive identification of issues to eliminate incidents.
- Trend analysis of frequently Problem management and root cause analysis of frequency
- Interact and collaborate with global, regional, and local business users as appropriate, to better understand the business and its priorities, and represent their requirements within SAP.
- Partner with the IT teams in assessing and prioritizing business requirements and drive the development of business cases and system solutions.
- Monitor pipeline of requests by way of incidents, standard additions/changes to configurable parameters and work orders for job execution
- Work and resolve production support issues around Quote to Cash area.
- Analyze ticket queues using designated tool for ticket tracking.
- Negotiate and track parameters and issues details, assign team members or to other functional areas as required, designating on call task to team members to cover multiple geographical time zones..
- Client: Zoetis (Pet Health Care Manufacturing)
ERP Delivery Lead/Solution Architect
Zoetis (Pet Health Care Manufacturing)
09.2020 - 08.2022
- Lead a team of 4 people offshore and onsite OTC and Vistex
- Requirement gathering for enhancements in OTC.
- Built Bill pay and Bill Trust interfaces.
- Resolved many OTC issues.
- Worked on Vistex condition contracts.
- Map OTC-Vistex fields and provide Functional specs for Implementation team.
- Worked on various enhancements related to Zoetis web portal.
- Worked on Vistex sales commissions settlement process.
- Responsible to resolve sales OTC production support issues.
- Coordinated to build/design and test various interfaces with PI, SI, AppDev and OTC Teams
- Led a team of ABAP developers 2 onsite and offshore to ensure deliverables are executed.
- Worked on open text integration also experienced in RICEF.
- Worked on Service contracts.
- Implemented Bill pay process and OpenText archiving process.
- Provided ETA for all the assigned defects and enhancements.
- Discussed all the outstanding issues with team provide status updates to client business team during client calls.
- Achievements:
- Resolved many OTC and Vistex defects and enhancements.
- Successfully implemented SD rebates BillPay and Bill Trust portals project
- Successfully implemented AR statements to Zoetis portal project
- Worked on sales incentives and claim settlement issues.
- Customer rebate agreements, BI reports
SAP OTC and Q2C Lead
Auropro systems
03.2020 - 09.2020
- Resolved SAP SD, MM and Vistex issues.
- Led a team of ABAP developers 3 onsite and offshore to ensure deliverables are executed.
- Configured entire life cycle of SD Area
- Worked on 1809 version of S/4 HANA and V/4 Vistex
- Troubleshooting Q2C, resolved many defects and enhancements.
- Worked on Revenue Recognition
- Revenue Recognition Rules
- Time based revenue recognition
- Service- based revenue recognition
- Billing Related
- Provided ETA for all the assigned defects and enhancements.
- Discussed all the outstanding issues with team, provided status updates to client business team .
- Resolved issues around Quote to Cash, EDI, customer master data, ATP, Material Master Data
- Wrote functional specs, delegated, and worked with development team in converting it to technical specs.
- Worked on Foreign trade issues in sales order.
- Worked on down payment sales orders, contracts and sales orders, split criteria sales orders, agreements, Material UOM issues in sales orders, Lot number issues in billing outputs, credit card preauthorization issues.
- Resolved credit card/payment card issues and worked on credit management settings...
- Client: Nutrien, Loveland CO (Fertilizer Manufacturing) Employer Auropro systems
SAP OTC Lead
Auropro systems
03.2020 - 05.2020
- Worked on Enhancements in Q2C area
- Worked on 1809 S/4 Hana version in OTC process.
- Resolved SAP SD and Vistex support issues.
- Worked on Revenue Recognition
- Led a team of ABAP and Functional resources 2 onsite and 6 offshore to ensure deliverables are executed.
- Worked and resolved production support issues around Quote to Cash area.
- Provided ETA for all the assigned defects and enhancements.
- Discussed all the outstanding issues with team provide status updates to client business team during client calls.
- Worked on ATP issues, prepay/Credit card sales orders issues, UOM, Batch issues in sales orders.
- Achievements:
- Resolved many SD defects and enhancements.
- Worked on prepayment sales orders, contracts and sales orders, split criteria sales orders, agreements, Material UOM issues in sales orders, Lot number issues in billing outputs, credit card preauthorization issues
Senior ERP Analyst
Dart Container, Mason MI
03.2016 - 02.2020
- Translated conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team and Executive Management
- Guided business users and IT team members on SAP Vistex functionality and Configuration
- Performed system configuration within the SAP modules.
- Gathered requirements for new development objects and write Functional Specifications
- Led agile solution teams including business and IT personnel to configure and develop SAP solutions.
- Supported modules within SAP SD, Vistex including custom delivered programs.
- Provided timely reports on Distributors bill back settlements.
- Worked and resolved production support issues around Quote to Cash area.
- Troubleshoot inbound and outbound interfaces.
- Integration experience in FSCM Credit management
- Led offshore team and resolve production support issues as per the SLA.
- Identified business requirements, Design and develop RICEFW object work with the developers and functional resources.
- Performed functional unit testing (FUT), string testing and integration testing.
- Achievements:
- Successfully implemented Dart De Mexico Vistex project
- Successfully implemented SOH (Suite on Hana)
- Successfully enhanced implemented Vistex objects as per business requirements
- Saved more than one million dollars after enhancing Vistex bill back functionality.
- Streamlined Vistex billback settlement process.
- Worked on Vistex Sales promotions and Sales incentive issues, SOH implementation, partner determination issues, Sales order enhancements, EDI error resolution, MM/SD/FI integration issues.
- Resolved Sales order issues, EDI related issues, AFS Interface issues.
SAP Vistex/SD/ MM/ Consultant
Openbox Solutions
03.2014 - 03.2016
- Worked as SAP SD/MM/VISTEX functional.
- Participated in requirement gathering workshops to get full requirement.
- Involved in all phases of implementation.
- Upgraded Vistex version 6.00 C to 6.00E
- Worked on Vistex incentives and sales rebates, QTC issues, partner determination issues, pricing and sales commission’s computation.
- Client: Sysco Corporation Houston TX, (Wholesale Food Products)
SAP SD/MM Team lead
Monotype Imaging Boston MA
03.2014 - 03.2016
- Company Overview: Software product manufacturer
- Supported and resolve project issues around OTC area.
- Configured sales documents, contracts and Responsible for writing functional specs.
- Worked on Revenue Recognition
- Revenue Recognition Rules
- Time based revenue recognition (Smooth and Day to day)
- Service or event-based revenue recognition
- Billing Related
- Revenue Recognition Due List
- Billing and GL Account integration
- Worked on BRIM Subscription sales order process.
- Worked and resolved production support issues around Quote to Cash area.
- Configured subscription contracts/sales order types.
- Worked on subscription Invoice split based on item currency.
- Worked on revenue recognition.
- Client: West-Ward Pharmaceutical
SAP Manager / SAP Architect
AVON PRODUCTS INC., White Plains, NY
03.2012 - 03.2014
- Retail industry end to end implementation.
- Conducted requirement gathering workshops with stake holders.
- Led Functional teams in the project.
- Configured validation, gap analysis and resolution, component and integration testing, troubleshooting and break fix support.
- Worked on ecommerce integration issues.
- Developed Functional Specification as per requirements and worked on FRICE (Forms, Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement)
- Unit tested and Integration tested with Mercury Test Director.
- Set up master data as part of consolidation.
- Configured Vistex Sales Deals, Contract Management, Incentives, Master Data, Billing and Payment Resolution.
- Worked on reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements (RICEF) integration.
- Resolved Egain (Email sending application) issues.
- Posted implementation support to end users to solve problems faced while working on ERP system.
- Worked on CRM-Web-UI- Transaction launcher, Ecommerce portal.
- Environment: SAP ECC 6.00, SAP CRM 7.00, IBM E-commerce, & Oracle
SAP SD Lead Business Analyst OTC
WIPRO LTD, San Diego, CA
04.2010 - 03.2012
- Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 VISTEX, SAP CRM 7.00
- Employer: Prodii link Solutions: Period Sep2007 to March 2010, Apposite solutions Sep2007 to March2010
Senior SAP SD Analyst
JOHN DEERE, Moline, IL
09.2008 - 03.2010
- Environment: ECC 6.0, SAP Enterprise portal, SAP CRM
- Worked on SAP Portal registration process
- Resolved warranty claims and warranty implementation.
- Parts return process
- Worked on service orders
SD Functional Consultant
GENERAL MOTORS (GWM), Flint, MI
09.2007 - 08.2008
- Part of warranty implementation project
- Resolved warranty claims
- Parts return process
- Worked on service orders
SAP SD Consultant
DELOITTE CONSULTING Pvt. Ltd., India
01.2006 - 09.2007
- Client: Warner Brothers, Burbank, CA
- Client: Bayer Health Science, manufacturing, Team Lead OTC
- Client: Rohm & Haas USA – OTC Production Support Team Member
- Employer: VANGUARD TECH (I) PVT.LTD Bangalore
SAP SD Consultant
Samtel Color Limited, India
05.2005 - 01.2006
Education
PG Program - Cyber security
Texas McCombs school of Business
01.2023
Bachelor of Arts - undefined
Andhra University
Vizag, AP01.1984
Skills
- User acceptance testing
- Business analysis
- Product management
- Requirements gathering
- Experience with SAP technologies
- Cross-functional coordination
- Team communication
- Software implementation
Certification
- SAP C/4HANA Business Processes: Lead-to-Cash
- Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q1/2019)
- Integration –The Key to the Intelligent Enterprise
- Intelligent ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- SAP Sales Cloud
- Https://eportfolio.mygreatlearning.com/srinivasa-pothineni
Languages
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Telugu
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
SAP S/4 HANA SD/Vistex Functional Lead-Green Field Implementation S/4 Hana-V/4 Vistex
Client:QuidelOrtho corp.
02.2025 - Current
SAP SD/Vistex AMS Support
Mckesson Corporation
08.2023 - 02.2025
SAP SD Lead and Offshore Team Coordinator
Astellas Japan (Pharmaceutical Manufacturing)
09.2022 - 07.2023
ERP Delivery Lead/Solution Architect
Zoetis (Pet Health Care Manufacturing)
09.2020 - 08.2022
SAP OTC and Q2C Lead
Auropro systems
03.2020 - 09.2020
SAP OTC Lead
Auropro systems
03.2020 - 05.2020
Senior ERP Analyst
Dart Container, Mason MI
03.2016 - 02.2020
SAP Vistex/SD/ MM/ Consultant
Openbox Solutions
03.2014 - 03.2016
SAP SD/MM Team lead
Monotype Imaging Boston MA
03.2014 - 03.2016
SAP Manager / SAP Architect
AVON PRODUCTS INC., White Plains, NY
03.2012 - 03.2014
SAP SD Lead Business Analyst OTC
WIPRO LTD, San Diego, CA
04.2010 - 03.2012
Senior SAP SD Analyst
JOHN DEERE, Moline, IL
09.2008 - 03.2010
SD Functional Consultant
GENERAL MOTORS (GWM), Flint, MI
09.2007 - 08.2008
SAP SD Consultant
DELOITTE CONSULTING Pvt. Ltd., India
01.2006 - 09.2007
SAP SD Consultant
Samtel Color Limited, India
05.2005 - 01.2006
Bachelor of Arts - undefined
Andhra University
PG Program - Cyber security
Texas McCombs school of Business