Gowri Shanker Kandala

 Gowri Shanker K SAP MM S/4 HANA Functional Consultant Mobile: -- SUMMARY: Over 10+ years of extensive work experience and expertise as an SAP Materials Management/Procure to Pay Functional Consultant. Worked in variety of industry sectors with three full life cycle Implementations, Rollouts, Production Support and Enhancement, and Up-Grade projects Master Data for Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, Source List, Quota Arrangement. Procure to Pay (P2P) process like Purchase Requisition, Request for Quotation (RFQ), Source determination and Vendor selection, Purchase Order (PO), Scheduling Agreement, Contracts, Goods Receipt and Invoicing. Release Procedure (defining release groups, release codes, release indicators, release strategy). Pricing Procedure (defining condition types, access sequences, condition tables, condition records and calculation schema). Inventory Management: Goods receipt, Goods issue, Stock transfers, Sub-contracting, material handling, Automatic Movements, Movement types, Material documents. Physical inventory both for warehouse managed and non-warehouse managed storage locations. Batch Management and Determination (created characteristics, classes, and assigned class types). Stock Transport Order (STO) at intercompany as well as intracompany level. Automatic Account determination, Vendor Recon account, GR/IR clearing account, mapping valuation classes to GL account. Stock Transfers, Physical Inventory Procedures, Transfer Requirements, Transfer Orders, Automatic TO Creation. Bill of Materials (BOM) for use in subcontracting and sales and distribution. MRP (Reorder Point Planning, Lot –Size Calculation, Planning Run and Planning Results). Automatic Output Determination (Condition Records, Procedures, Output types and Access Sequences). LIV Logistics Invoice Verification Invoice receipt for goods received and ERS. MGMS (Management of Goods Movement and Storage) processes like delivery creation, handling unit movement, creation of inventory documents, transfers postings. Special stocks procurement types such as consignment, subcontracting, pipeline, third party and Returnable Transport Packaging materials. SAP IM: Goods Movement, Movement Types, Stock transfers, Physical Inventory, IM-RF Integration, Bar Codes, Labels, Inventory tracking, Serialization MM-SD Integration - Delivery, Billing, Handling Units Management, Inter-Company STO. MM-FI Integration - AP Invoicing and Pricing, Automation Account determination. MM-IM/WM - Transfer order, Transfer request, Storage unit management, Physical inventory, Goods Receipt and Goods issue. Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills and analytical and problem-solving abilities MM-PP Integration - Planned orders, Production orders, Batch management, MRP. Post Go-Live support for inventory transactions coming from legacy system through IDocs for Purchase Order, creating Inbound/Outbound delivery, shipments, troubleshoot and fixed failed IDocs Education: Master’s in computer science, Texas A & M University, Commerce, Texas - 2016 Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering, AIIT, Hyderabad, India – 2009 TECHNICAL SUMMARY: SAP MM Procure-to-Pay, External Services Management, Subcontracting, Third-party, Consignment, GR, GI, Transfer posting, Movement types, Transfer Posting, Stock transfer, Invoice verification, Account Determination, Valuation, Physical inventory, SLED, LIV and MRP Other Tools Solution Manager, CA ticking tool, MS Office 97, MS Project, Windows 95/98/2000, XP, NT 4.0, Power Point, ERP Packages SAP S4 1709, ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0 Business Analysis Materials Management, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory, Warehouse Management. Data Migration Data extraction, data cleansing and data loads using LSMW, Custom programs Integrations SAP MM-IM, MM-WM, MM-SD, MM-PP, MM-FI, MM-QM, MM-PM integrations. EXPERIENCE: Energy Transfer, Dallas, TX Nov 2021 - Present SAP MM S/4 HANA Consultant Responsibilities: Requirements gathering, business process mapping, identifying gaps, and creating RICEFW objects for the gaps. Worked on standardization of SCM related SAP business processes, work on master data such as Material Master, Business Partners, Purchasing Information Records, Contracts, Source Lists, Bill of Materials, Quota Management etc. Worked on configuration of building blocks in SAP Enterprise Structure, Materials Management, Quality Management, Production Planning (BOMs & MRP) and Sales & Distribution following SAP recommended best practices in SAP while adhering to Activate SAP Implementation Methodology. Worked on establishing SCM organization structure in materials management of SAP such as Plants, Storage locations, Purchasing Organizations, Purchasing Groups, Sales Organizations, Distribution Channels, Divisions, Sales Groups, Shipping Points, Loading Groups, Sales Offices, Sales Areas etc. Worked on standardization of SCM related SAP business processes, work on master data such as Material Master, Business Partners, Purchasing Information Records, Contracts, Source Lists, Bill of Materials, Quota Management etc. Expertise in Handling MASS updates, designing interfaces, Releasing Transports, Release strategies, LSMW, Workflow, Scheduling Batch job and Designing Reports. Configured, executed implementation and testing of Master Data Objects & business processes using FIORI applications in S4 HANA 1709 and 1809 versions. Perform various testing scenarios such as unit testing, integration testing and assist users for User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Played a key role in establishing Business Process Procedures and user guides. Provide support and training to business users whenever required. Thyssenkrupp Materials, Southfield, MI Nov 2018 to Oct 2021 SAP MM S/4 HANA Consultant Responsibilities: Gather business requirements from end users. Mapping client business process to SAP business processes (As-Is & To-Be). Configuration of plants and storage locations and assignment of plants to company code and storage location to plants. Customization of material master views for Purchasing, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, and Materials Requirement Planning. Creating outline agreements, Contracts and Scheduling Agreements. Implementation of procurement processes with FI integration to maintain material master, vendor master and info record. Converting unassigned Purchase Requisitions into Purchase Orders, Scheduling Agreement Delivery Schedule Lines, and RFQs. Setup the print, fax and e-mail output determination. Inventory Management Process including Goods Receipt, Damaged Goods/Discrepancy Goods Receipt from Production, Inter-warehouse transfer, Storage Location to Storage Location Transfer, Provision for Stock. Worked on goods receipt based and purchase order-based invoice verification, invoice blocks, releases, and memos. Air Liquide, Branchburg, NJ. May 2015 to Oct 2018 SAP MM Consultant Responsibilities: Worked on release strategy, partner functions, output determination, order types, item categories, and organization structure. Utilized, established, and configured full procurement functionality from Automatic PR creation to invoice verification, including PR/PO cycle, stock transports, Source determination, scheduling agreements, contracts, request for quotes, pricing schemas, shipping notifications for all stock categories and special stocks like consignment, third party, and sub-contracting. Definition of Condition types, Access sequences, Calculation schema, Scheme groups and Schema Determination for Pricing in Purchase Orders. Worked on Functional specs. Work with data owners to understand the legacy data, gather requirements, and produce detailed mapping documents. Worked on interface product information from SAP ERP to 1SYNC configuration of stock transfer order, inter company stock transfer orders. Involved in various stages of an implementation right from project preparation which includes project plan and scope, business blueprint, gap analysis to customizations and go live. Experience in stock transfers using stock transport orders, inter and intra company orders. Gathering enterprise business requirements in the areas of material management through interaction with end users. Worked on purchase requisition, source of supply, vendor selection, quota, RFQ, Quotation, Purchase order, purchasing groups, terms of payments, source list requirements. Creation of Material Master Record for different Material Types, Purchasing Organization, Purchasing Groups, Purchasing Info Record and Source List. Variyas Global Solutions, Hyderabad, India Jun 2012 to Apr 2015 SAP MM Consultant Responsibilities: Worked with the Business stakeholders and gathered business requirements Configure, Develop, Customize, Test solutions to satisfy global business requirement in line with SAP Best Practices. Worked on master data, material master, vendor master, purchase info record and special procurement process Involved in the support of the execution of their strategies most effective process. Directly involved in the stakeholders and project resources to find the holistic solution for conversion. Highly involved in the simplification process. Looked in the features that are available in the system, functionalities add-ons, obsolete and interface with other system. Verified the Post Conversion configuration and made sure it was as required. Engaged in training of the end uses and creations of training documentation for future refers. GSS InfoTech, Hyderabad, India Feb 2010 to May 2012 Systems Engineer Responsibilities: Extensively worked on server build, Configuration and Administration of Sun/HP/Dell servers from scratch with OS Linux (Red Hat, HP UX & SuSE).  Performed configuration, monitoring, support, tactical planning of rollouts, migrations, and day-to-day management of the HP server infrastructure. Created File systems from local storage as well as NFS partitions for application portability Performed day to day LINUX/UNIX administration such as user accounts, logon scripts, directory services, file system shares, and permissions etc. Installed operating system patches, packages, system customization and documentation. Associated with DBAs for installation of Oracle database (RAC) on Linux servers & for tuning, backup and restore. Installed, configured, and maintaining services Apache, Web servers. Development of Scheduled tasks and UNIX shell scripting to maintain and automate the Build process cron jobs. Installation and configuration of Redhat Device Multi patching, Redhat Satellite Servers and Centos Linux.    Environments: Linux, Agile, Scrum, Bash, Apache, Tomcat, SQL