Surya Shashank Kuruganti

• Leading SAP S/4 HANA implementation with emphasis on Procure to Pay (P2P), Order to Cash (OTC) and supply chain planning.
• Configured material types with number ranges, valuation classes, and field selections to ensure accurate procurement and accounting integration as well as purchase document types and pricing schemas.
• Conducting Fit-to-Standard workshops in SAP Fiori, ensuring alignment of MM and planning processes with business needs.
• Developing functional specifications, test plans, and UAT scenarios for procurement and inventory operations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (application development, infrastructure, and support) and Phoenix business process owners (EAM, procurement and supply chain) to implement transformation projects, providing functional analysis, driving experiments, and contributing input to determine the best solutions.
• Partnering with OCM teams to provide end-user training, adoption programs, and change champion support with heavy emphasis on P2P and SAP EAM.
• Working closely with different project managers to validate talking points and provide information on the necessary deliverables during Sprints.
• Coordinate with third party procurement vendors to delivery integrated Procurement/MM solutions.

• Complied with all established business transition protocols and standards while proficiently executing day-to-day activities for client, GlobalFoundries.
• Assisted value stream leaders for R2R, MM and OTC with sprint activities and PBIs list on design and building new systems to standardize across warehouses.
• Supervised value streams as change manager and provided information and progress status to weekly meetings with Organization Change Management team.
• Created newsletters with different business financial areas to provide key stakeholders with information.
• Exposure to S/4 HANA sandbox to assist specific chosen end-users with functionality in OTC.
• Configured

• Supported SAP MM operations and integration with SD, Procurement, WM in ECC and S/4 environments.
• Delivered functional support for Goods Movements, Physical Inventory, STOs, Batch/Serial Management, and Logistics.
• Created functional design documents, change requests, and UAT cases for planning and procurement enhancements.
• Collaborated with client cross-functional teams to provide resolutions for any incidents submitted and reported in Service Now.
• Logged and resolved incidents in ServiceNow, providing SLA/OLA reporting to leadership.
• Assisted with ABAP team to debug errors in transactions and develop enhancements.
• Tested MM/PP enhancements in SAP S/4 HANA sandbox, validating new workflows prior to deployment.
• Analyzed workshop materials that client had set up that outlined current as-is processes, implementation mapping and potential future statements required for client's market and government requirements.

• Executed 3 Life cycles implementations of SAP ECC including Mexican & Canada business migrations with strong MM/WM/Procurement/PP involvement
• Managed SAP Business Transformation Team, with responsibility for staffing, training, mentoring, coordinating, and supporting career growth for people on this team.
• Defined requirements, created technical specs, coordinated UAT with business stakeholders, and cohering to best practices for cross module practices,
• Supported MRP configuration, ATP checks, BOM creation, and production order processing.
• Frequently collaborated with business analysts to ensure solutions were implemented, post Go-Live.
• Worked with cross-functional teams for successful design, configuration, integration testing of SAP ECC implementation.
• Set up batch management (picking processes and SLoc set up) and serial number assignment for manufacturing and logistics processes.
• Designed and delivered training programs and job aids for procurement, inventory and sales distribution functions.
• Collaborated with IT leaders, PMO, and consulting teams on configuration, integration testing, and hypercare.

• Acted as SAP functional analyst and site liaison to ensure post–go-live adoption, retraining, and issue resolution.
• Prepared sites for deployment through readiness validation, QA testing, and UAT support; created test scripts, job aids, and training materials.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams and subject matter experts as Change Champion to roll out systems and processes through organization.
• Configured Material Master and Vendor Master settings such as material statuses, field selection groups and batch management.
• Maintained Vendor Account Groups (domestic, foreign, one-time) and assigned reconciliation accounts to support financial postings.
• Identified gaps and conduct system testing per newly developed and modified defined testing scripts.
• Worked collaboratively across various levels and functions to resolve and prevent issues.
• Learned future processes, functional operations, and ultimately partner up with internal Business Subject Matter Expert (SME), who provided direction.
• Trained and supports Ops employees in SAP, MM, WM, LE, SD, PP for successful go live.
• Served as front-line resource to assist end users through User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and support to answer questions; resolve problems at specific site / location.
• Site specific responsibilities

- Validating site-specific data & resolving issues.

- Ensuring the Univar Solutions Template will meet local business needs and adapting as necessary.

- Identifying key reports / metrics for site management to monitor project execution.