Raj Doddikindi

Lead SD / Vistex Consultant

PROFILE
14+ years of experience in SAP R/3 Implementing SAPSales and Distribution (OM,
Pricing, Trade Promotions, Logistics, EDI),Vistex Incentives and Paybacks, Vistex Data
Maintenance-Pricing, LES - Transportation, Materials Management, Warehouse
management and Logistic General modules.
Multiple full-life cycle implementation and Upgrades.
Expertise in Vistex Incentives and Payback Module (Contract Pricing,
Chargebacks, Billbacks, Customer Rebates, Claims processing) including Contracts,
Memberships, Composite IP, IP Types, IP document controls, pricing procedures,
claims, partner responses, EDI,Accruals, settlements and financial reconciliations.
Extensive experience in Wholesale Distribution, Food, Consumer Products, Life
sciencesElectronics and manufacturing industries
Project Management & Team Lead Experience- SAP certified.
Experienced in Implementing Customer specific Pricing and Account determination based
on business requirements.
Provided First of a kind catch weight solution for Meat Industries.
In depth conceptual & analytical knowledge in Planning, Prototyping, Customizing,
Testing, Training & Documenting SAP Lead to Cash and Vistex IPProcesses.
Experienced in creating Functional Design documents, Swim lanes, Process flow design
documents, and QRGs Quick reference guides.
Very well versed in working with BAPI,EDI and IDOC processing.
Conducted Road shows, seminars, training sessions and presentations.
Worked in aggressive schedules through all phases of development life cycle (unit,
integration, User Acceptance, QA, and regression testing).
Industries covered: Retail, Food, Consumer Products, Automobile, Agro-chemical, Life
Sciences and Electronics.

Functional Expertise:
Configuration expertise in the areas of SAP SD and MM Pricing/Promotions, Vistex
Chargebacks, Billbacks, Rebates, Agreements / Contracts, Programs, Sales deals,
Promotions, Volume Rebates, Growth Rebates, Purchasing Rebates, Sales
Incentives/commissions, Memberships GPO, Buy groups and Chain memberships, DM
Pricing, Price profiles, price catalogs, Price Books, Price maintenance
Configuration expertise in the areas of SAP Order Management, Shipping, Billing,
Pricing, Output, Availability check, Credit Management, Rebate Processing, Batch
Management, EDI, Foreign Trade, Inter Company Business Process, Returns Processing,
Procurement, Inventory and Warehouse Management.
Extensive experience in Cross-Module integration of SAP SD with MM, WM, FI and CO-
PA, BI/BOBJ and also Vistex HR/Payrollintegration
Worked in all phases from gathering Requirements, Business Blueprinting, GAP Analysis,
Configuration, FRICE Specs, Testing, End User Training, UAT, Cutover, GO-LIVE and
Production/hyper-care Support.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independent with Confidential Jan 2011 to till date

Sr. Vistex Functional Consultant

Client:Welch Allyn, Skaneateles Falls, NY (Life Sciences Industry)

Sr. Vistex Solutions Consultant - SAP ECC 6.0 (SD, OTC, Vistex IP)

Responsibilities include: Project 1:Upgrade Vistex IP software from 6OC SP1 to 60E SP1,
provide support in resolving technical issues with upgrade and data migrations
Project 2 (Sprint 1, extended solutions and enhancements in SD and IP processes):Gather
business requirements; perform GAP analysis, blue printing, solution design, configuration and
implementation of Vistex IP Billbacks for following processes.

Vistex IP/Billbacks:
1. IP Contracts Membership
a. Membership structure
b. GPO mergers
c. Performance
d. Block codes
e. Admin fee report the member ID

2. IP Contracts Administration
a. Eligibility Rules and Cross Validation
b. Tiered indirect contracts
c. Multiple admin fees
d. Admin fee exclusions
e. Agreement Requests
f. EDI 845 indirect
g. Contract tier report modification
h. Miscellaneous Contract

3. IP Rebates
a. Admin Fee (Composite)
b. MDF (Transactional, claim based settlement)
c. Misc. (Transactional, claim based settlement)
d. Admin fee exclusions
e. Contract tier report modification

4. IP Billback Reconciliation
a. Deductions and credit functionality
b. Claim lifecycle (Financial monitoring)

5. IP Claim Validation/Settlements
a. Sales tracing from distributors (EDI 867)
b. Claim validations rules
c. Address matching
d. Claim partner determination modifications
e. Winning Agreement resolution
f. Resubmissions
g. ADM
h. Auto Correction
 i. Miscellaneous claim
6. IP Reporting
a. Tiered indirect contracts
b. Admin fee exclusions
c. Contract tier report modification
d. Tier Compliance
e. Sales Report

Delivered following/currently working on:

1. Performed detailed analysis on current system to understand as-is
2. Conducted blue print workshops to gather business requirements in new process
enhancements and solution extensions
3. Worked on detailed design on possible solutions to meet the requirements and project
timelines and considering Vistex best practices for Billback.
4. Prepared detailed blue-print document to present the possible solution (to-be) for each
requirement. Also included process improvements as per Vistex Best Practice
recommendations.
5. Prepared detailed functional specifications for technical changes as well as working on
configuration specification documents for business sign offs.
6. Coordinated with offshore and onsite resources to get the development and configuration
delivered in time
7. Worked with business in parallel on building test scripts and test data for unit testing the
changes in development and pre-quality system.
8. Configured admin fee programs and contracts for maintain GPO admin fee eligibility,
qualifications, tier compliance and tier commitment (quantity and dollar).
9. Changed sales pricing procedures to include admin fee rules/conditions
10. Configured composite plan for processing periodic admin fee settlements. Built complex
formulae to validate tier compliance to calculate eligible settlement amount based on the
eligible participants and their cumulative purchases.
11. Configured Vistex deduction management to allow auto match customer
deductions/residuals with open/settled claims to clear off the A/R disputes.
12. Worked on FI reconciliation.
13. Developed a functional specification document to provide payment support document for
admin fees from composite calculation run/settlement data (correspondence)
14. Conducting additional meetings workshops for data migration planning
15. Supporting users in unit testing and addressing issues as they get reported.

Client:Waters Inc, Boston, MA (Life Sciences Industry)

Sr. Vistex Solutions Consultant - SAP ECC 6.0 (SD, OTC, SAP HR, Vistex IP)

Responsibilities include: Gather business requirements on open issues; perform GAP analysis,
blue printing, solution design, configuration and implementation of Vistex Sales Incentives for
following.

1. North America Sales Managers

2. North America Sales Employees
3. Asia Sales Managers
4. Asia Sales Employees
5. Europe Sales Managers
6. Europe Sales Employees

Delivered following:
1. Performed detailed analysis on requirements and current configuration.
2. Provided solution advise on implementing right fixes as best practice solutions
3. Modified sales incentive plan configuration as needed for employee partner assignment
at subcomponent level of each deployment code (North America, Asia and Europe).
 4. Modified subcomponent formulae to change the incentive amount calculation using
qualification rules (sales region and employee office)
5. Deactivated the approval code requirement for all the three deployment codes.
6. Activated the employee (id) as settlement partner and uploaded participant records to
process the settlement.
7. Configured new wage types, payroll profile and activated settlement of incentives
through HR-Payroll.
8. Applied moderate changes to some of the current configuration of agreement types,
Pricing procedures, deployment codes, subcomponent mapping (for all plans), as well as
participation setup to make the flow correct.
9. Developed functional specifications: to modify the commission calculation logic which
is purely built using agreement #, to correct code for missing tracking key figure (Total
settled amount) separate code for each deployment code (North America, Asia and
Europe), to correct user-exit code to map the settlement details (North America, Asia and
Europe), correct code for Europe as the logic is different compared to NA and Asia
pacific.
10. Implemented OSS note to fix settlements through Collective tracking and calculation run
documents
11. Customized calculations to handle multiple currency
12. Case I: Qualifying and payout in same currency.
13. Case II: Qualifying and payout in different currencies (multiple currency).
14. Developed functional spec to report calculation run details to read internal postings from
Vistex database and display results by employee.
15. Provided support in go-live and hyper care.
16. Prepared and delivered a detailed knowledge transfer document

Client:Greenlee-Textron, Rockford IL (Manufacturing Industry)

Sr. Vistex Solutions Consultant - SAP ECC 6.0 (SD, OTC, Vistex IP, Vistex DMP)

Responsibilities include: Gather business requirements, perform GAP analysis, blue printing,
solution design, configuration and implementation of Vistex data maintenancepricing for following
key processes.

Vistex Data maintenance pricing:

1. Annual price increase Process
a. National list price increase in USD, CAD, International currencies
2. Price Upload Process
a. List prices
b. Discounts (Quantity, Trade)
c. Special allowances
d. Freight Charges
e. Surcharges
f. Competitor Price
3. Price List / Price Catalogs.
a. Customer price list
b. Yearly published price catalogs.
4. Profitability analysis report
a. Price books
5. Price Reporting via EDI / Interface
a. EDI 832 Interface

Vistex IP Billbacks (Customer Chargebacks), Rebates (Composite):

1. Deviated claims
2. Volume rebate
3. Growth Rebates
 4. Sales history EDI 867 (reseller/distributor)

Delivered following Configuration:

Designed and configured various condition tables, access sequences, condition
types, price sheets to meet business requirements.
Designed and built multi step price increase process, which included
a. Price extract with a complex customized view profiles consisted all the analytical
information with key information from material master, pricing (List price, discounts,
Duty etc), Historical quantity and sales from COPA, current year quantity and sales
and Competitor prices
b. Offline prince increase,
c. Price uploads via price profiles and proposals,
d. Price increase summary,
e. Offline approvals and
f. Final submissions.
Configured price profiles, selection profiles, extension profiles, price sheets and price
proposals to facilitate business needs for price uploads and maintenance.
Configured and customized Special price book(s) to meet the requirement of customer
specific price list(s) in customers currency which will include customers offered list price,
special price, standard discounts, special discounts, surcharges, effective discount and
distributor net. Price books will also configured to derive the % of effective discounts and
other product relevant information such as catalog #, UPC codes, Weights, Volume and
county of origin.
Configured a customized price profiles, price sheets and view profiles to include
standard list price, standard discount and key material attributes for generating
national price lists for annual catalogues publishing for US, Canada and
international
Configured Price Books for US and Canada to allow price simulations and profitability
analysis using cascades.
Configured Master sheet and price sheet specific formulas.
Configured and customized Price requests to upload and transmit EDI 832 for customer
specific price lists.
Worked on various functional specifications for Vistex DM pricing RICEFWs to
implement customized Whirlpool specific processes to allow local enhancements,
implement local business rules, new customer facing forms, new business reports and
enhancements/BADIs for price catalogues generation using customer specific publishing
template(s), also an enhancement to implement automation in price proposal generations
once the purchase requisition is approved (manual/mass approval).
Developed multiple VOFM routines: for Pricing Requirements, condition value and
condition base value, for the different pricing procedures for US/CA Sales as well as
pricing procedures for price books.
Coordinated with offshore team for technical development and unit testing.
Configured prototypes to demonstrate following DM pricing functions: Price
requests create maintenance and upload, price sheets, Price Approval process,
Price proposals, Price catalogues and Price books for customer price lists and
profitability price analysis.
Configured Launchpad(s) for different user group based role and geography to allow
ease of access to daily operation transaction codes.
Configured Billback contracts, claim, ip document and pricing to allow validation of
customer submitted (chargeback) claim to process and settlement
Configured composite plan for volume rebates (tiered) to offer volume rebates to
Greenlee customers based on cumulative volume period-to-date and settled periodically.
 Configured composite plan (dep codes, component, sub-components, mapping, formulae
using formula builder), tracking, accruals, settlements and special enhancement / user-
exits for settlement adjustment/mapping changes.
Finished unit testing of all the end-to-end processes also helped key users in building
business test cases for UAT.
Supported business process owners in planning cutovers and data migration of US and
CANADA.
Provided support to develop custom extractors for EDW and BI for management
reporting.
Prepared and delivered knowledge transfer documents, other operational documentation
to help business to perform price uploads, and for executing other DM pricing processes.
Provided support during cutover, go-live and hyper care to take client live on Vistex Data
maintenance pricing 60D SP3.

Client:Syngenta (Leading Seed and Crop protection company), Minnetonka MN

Sr. Vistex Solutions Consultant - SAP ECC 6.0 (SD, OTC, FI, Vistex IP, Vistex DMPricing )

Responsibilities include: Provide hyper care support for customer rebates, design and implement
special enhancements in Vistex IP and enhancement in CO-PA posting from IP. Worked on
following processes

Vistex IP / Customer rebates:

1. Seed order rebates
i) Volume rebates
ii) Growth rebates
2. Seed replant order rebates
i) Volume rebates
ii) Growth rebates
3. Seed promo order rebates
i) Volume rebates
ii) Growth rebates

Vistex DMP:
1. Price Upload Process
a. List prices
b. Discounts
c. Freight
d. Surcharges
2. Price list.
a. Published price catalogs.
3. Price Reporting
a. EDI
Special enhancements:
1. Change posting date for IP accruals and reverse accruals to current date from retro/order
entry dates.
2. Provide solution as a permanent fix for COPA characteristics Destination.
3. Create/modify IP reprocessing program to Re-process IP documents only for changes
limited to IP customer rebates as well as change in customers seed certification status.

Delivered following configuration:

1. Provided hyper care support to go-live with customer rebates for replant order using
Vistex Composite IP.
2. Helped business to address data issues and correct and reprocess IP documents
3. Helped processing the annual settlements for re-plant orders.
4. Fixed various data issues by implementing special oss notes.
 5. Developed, configured and implemented solution to override the posting date of IP
accruals/reverse-accruals through enhancement.
6. Developed, configured and implemented customized solution through IP enhancement to
incorporate special COPA characteristics mapping for ship to ands ship to state. Modified
COPA derivation rule to use new IP characteristics to derive appropriate destination into
COPA posting.
7. Configured a customized various price profiles, price sheets for list prices, discounts,
freight and surcharges
8. Configured view profiles to include key material master and sales attributes for
generating national price lists for publishing for dealers US/Canada
9. Designed and Developed functional specification to develop customized program to
analyze grower, replant and replant orders for special changes, as well as growers seed
certification status.
10. Worked with EDI team to modify the development and mapping for edi price list
11. Unit tested the changes and also assisted business to test and promote new changes to
into production
12. Provided knowledge transfer to business and IT support analysts

Client:Phillips Lighting, Somerset NJ (Manufacturing, Consumer Electonics)

Sr. Vistex Solutions Consultant - SAP ECC 6.0 (SD, OTC, Vistex IP)

Responsibilities include: Gather business requirements; perform GAP analysis, blue printing,
solution design, configuration and implementation of Vistex Billbacks (Customer chargebacks) for
following processes.

SPA Rebates via manual claims upload

EDI Claims (via 867)

Delivered following Configuration:

Created and Modified the SPA contracts/Agreements to adjust the eligibility and
qualification rules
Configured sales pricing procedures to add special accrual rules from Vistex SPA
agreements to process daily accruals from dealer invoice
Configured and customized new pricing procedure for SPA claims, to adopt the
changes from sales order pricing for calculation of acquisition price
Customized existing pricing routines / requirements to adopt new changes in
SD pricing
Configured pricing exclusions for new claim pricing procedure
Assigned new pricing procedure for claims
Activated IP calendars to process the settlements periodically (collective) vs each IP
documents
Performed unit testing of EDI and manual claims
Worked with business on final testing in QA and getting final signoff for changes
Worked on migration and cutover plan for moving new changes to production

Client:Whirlpool Corporations, Central MI (Manufacturing, Appliances)

Sr. Vistex Solutions Consultant - SAP ECC 6.0 (SD, OTC, Vistex Data Maintenance Pricing)

Responsibilities include: business requirements, GAP analysis, blue printing, solution design,
configuration and implementation of Vistex Data Maintenance Pricingfor following processes.

Off invoice for US and Canada

 1. SPA General
2. SPA Buy Fairs
3. SPA Reposition
4. PACKs General
5. PACKs Buy Fair
6. Truck Load
7. Focus 90
8. Net Price
9. Net Price Meet-Comp
10. Hybrid Account
Prices
1. List price
2. National price
3. BAW
4. 40 Lot Canada

Price Simulations
1. Price Books for US and Canada

Delivered following Configuration:

Designed and configured various condition tables, access sequences, condition types,
price sheets to meet business requirements.
Designed and build price upload process.
Configuredprice profiles, selection profiles, extension profiles, price proposals to facilitate
business needs for price maintenance.
Configured Price Requests to allow business price validation and approvals.
Configured and developed workflow notification process for price requests.
Configured Price Books for US and Canada to allow price simulations / cascades.
Configured Master sheet and price sheet specific formulas.
Configured price segments with various attributes to allow business to maintain various
segments as required for price catalogues generation.
Configured and implemented price catalogue (DM Pricing functionality) for price
publications to trade partners/customers (Semi-annual).
Worked on various functional specifications for Vistex DM pricing RICEFWsto implement
customized Whirlpool specific processes to allow local enhancements, implement local
business rules, new customer facing forms, new business reports and
enhancements/BADIs for price catalogues generation using customer specific publishing
template(s), also an enhancement to implement automation in price proposal generations
once the purchase requisition is approved (manual/mass approval).
Developed multiple VOFM routines:for Pricing Requirements, condition value and
condition base value, for the different pricing procedures for US/CASales as well as
pricing procedures for price books.
Coordinated with offshore team for technical development and unit testing.
Configured block profiles, customized and activated Vistex BSPs to allow business to
perform the DM pricing operation on the web/intranet portal.
Configured prototypes to demonstrate following DM pricing functions: Price requests
create maintenance and upload, price sheets, Price Approval process, Price proposals,
Price catalogues and Price books for price simulation.
Configured Launchpad(s) for different user group based role and geography to allow
ease of access to daily operation transaction codes.
Finished unit testing of all the end-to-end processes also helped key users in building
business test cases for UAT.
Supported business process owners in planning cutovers and data migration of US and
CANADA.
 Provided support to develop custom extractors for EDW and BI for management
reporting.
Prepared and delivered knowledge transfer documents, other operational documentation
to help business to perform price uploads, and for executing other DM pricing processes.
Assisted business during UAT of end-to-end processes in DM pricing and integration with
OTC (orders and billing) for both US and Canada

Client:Ace Hardware, Oak Brook IL (Retail Industry)

Lead Vistex IP Solutions Consultant - SAP ECC 6.0 (FI, P2P, Vistex IP)

Gatheredbusiness requirements,understood the production issues,and provided GAP Analysis,

completed solution design and configured various Purchasing Rebate composite plans forend-to-
end configuration of all the Vistex processes (as applicable), user training, support testing,
cutover and go-live.

Purchasing Rebates (Composite):

General, LTL and Stop
Growth
Tiered
Flat Fee

Claims:
Chargeback (MDF, Misc)
Reverse Settlements

Delivered Following Configurations:

Document Copy controls, IP Document types, IP Pricing procedures, Condition tables,
index to address the critical issues of missing IP document creation, job performances
and other production issues with settlements and reporting
Designed and Developed Specifications for copying requirements for excluding GR/IRs
(Invoice adjustments from rebates processing), and Pricing requirements and routines
required for the fixes
Modified composite formulae and user-exits to adjust the settlement calculation for
considering adjustment amount
Configured Chargeback agreement for MDF and Miscellaneous promotions, chargeback
claim, IP, accrual and settlement.
Developed functional specifications for payment request form for Chargebacks
Designed, configured and developed a Reverse Settlement Claim process to settle the
disputes with vendors for over charged rebates.
Configured New Transaction Type, IP type, Pricing, copy requirement, FI Accrual profiles,
CO-PA Mapping, and modify the existing composite plan to process the reverse settlement (-
ves)
Developed functional specifications for multiple enhancements to add automation for claim
generation
Provided support in user testing and go-live.

Client:Cheney Brothers Inc, West Palm Beach FL (Wholesale Food Distributor)Lead

Vistex IP Solutions Consultant - SAP ECC 6.0 (SD, OTC, Vistex IP)

Responsibilities include: business requirements, provide GAP analysis, complete solution design
of chargebacks, rebates, sales incentives (spiff) and Buyer show, end-to-end configuration of all
the Vistex processes, user training, support testing, cutover and go-live.
This is a transition of custom in-house solution and manual processes to ECC 6.0 / IS-CWM and
Vistex 6.0C SP1 (Chargebacks, Rebates, Incentives).

Vendor Chargebacks
Volume rebates
Coupons
Marketing Fees
Deviated Claims

Purchasing Rebates
Flat Rebates
Fixed fund
Growth rebates

Incentives
Sales Rep commissions
Sales Spiff (Vendor paid) Claim based

Food Show / Buyer show Solution

Pre-show Vendor Chargebacks
Pre-Show Customer Rebates
Actual-Show Vendor Chargebacks
Actual-Show Customer Rebates
Post-Show Vendor Chargeback

Delivered following Configuration:

Configured complete Pricing for vendor chargebacks, rebates, Sales incentives
(SPIFF) and Foodshow/Buyer showsolution: Condition tables, access
sequences, Price sheets, enhancements and Pricing procedures
Configured IP types for Chargebacks and rebates.
Configured Pricing Procedures and Condition types, Condition Tables and Access
Sequences for IP Chargebacks and Rebates.
Addressed issues related to Pricing procedure and Account Assignment
Configuration for IP Chargebacks and rebates.
Addressed issues related to Accrual and Settlement and FI-CO postings of the IP
Chargebacks and rebates.
Configured returns process for IP Chargebacks and rebates.
Designed and Developed Specifications for copying requirements, and Pricing
requirements and routines required for the process.
Designed and Developed Specifications for rebate enhancements and validations,
Accrual and Settlement posting enhancements, Mass processing of IP Documents.
Designed and configured end-to-end buyer show which involved Vistex composite
process: Pre-Show, Actual Show and Post Show agreement types, 3 IP types for pre
and actual show transactions processing, 5 deployment codes to process pre-show
vendor chargebacks, pre-show customer rebates, actual show vendor chargebacks,
actual show customer rebates and post show vendor chargebacks respectively.
Also developed specs for multiple food show interfaces to exchange the data from
and to Vistex and third party vendor system.
Developed multiple reports for vendor and customer payment request / check
supporting documentation
Implemented outbound EDI 867 for various vendors for sending periodic sales tracing
Prepared and delivered various training documents for users for various Vistex
business processes
Client:IBM / McCain Foods Inc,Lisle IL/ Toronto CA (Manufacturing, Food)
Sr. Vistex Functional Consultant - SAP ECC 6.0 (SD, OTC, Vistex IP)

Responsibilities include: business requirements, GAP analysis, blue printing, solution design,
configuration and implementation of Vistex Billbacks and Customer Rebates for following trade
processes.

Master data
Contracts
Membership Lists (Buy-Groups, Sub Buy-groups)
EDI 845 to distributors

Billbacks
Direct customer volume rebate claim based settlement
Direct customer volume rebate Auto settlement
Direct customer Marketing funds Claim based settlement
Direct customer Marketing funds Auto settlement
Direct customer Deviated claim Claim based settlement
Indirect customer volume rebate claim based settlement
Indirect customer Marketing funds Claim based settlement
Indirect customer Deviated claim Claim based settlement
Direct customer Claw backs Auto settlement
Sales tracing (from distributor via EDI 867)

Rebates
Customer rebates
Buying Group Rebates
Growth rebates

Incentives
Sales rep incentives

Commissions
Broker commissions

Deduction Management
Customer deduction via FSCM dispute case

DM Pricing
National price list
EDI price catalogue

Delivered following Configuration:

Configured complete Pricing for billbacks, rebates, incentives and

commissions : Condition tables, access sequences, Price sheets,
enhancements and Pricing procedures
Configured Price Requests, Price proposals
Configured Price Segments and Price Catalogues for publishing national price list to
large trade customers including McDonald
Configured EDI output to generate IDOC output from Price catalogues
Developed custom IDOCs and process codes for processing EDI catalogues.
Worked with EDI team in development and mapping of Vistex IDOC to EDI 832
 Configured Bill back and rebate agreements
Configured Agreement request types for all the billback and rebate agreement types
Configured various billback claim types
Configured complex claim validation using quantity check profile to validate all the
billback claims direct and indirect
Configured Approval process for Vistex agreements and claims
Configured Document copy controls to setup the end to end billback processes
Configured Accrual and settlement profiles for all the Vistex Billback, Rebates,
Incentives and commissions.
Configured account determination and COPA value field mapping for all the Vistex
processes
Configured complex accruals and settlement process for Vistex billback and rebates
for business friendly periodic accounting true-ups for all trade spends
Configured complete end-to-end process for Re-Di sales tracing including EDI
Configured deduction management in Vistex to handle FSCM disputes/deductions
from customers via work bench
Worked on various functional spec for Vistex RICEFs (per business requirements)
which included EDI development for claims and Sales tracing as well as customer
facing forms (smart forms)
Prepared and delivered various training documents for users in different geographical
locations
Provided support for user testing and pre-cutovers

Fujitsu Consulting Aug 2004 Feb 2011

Lead SAP SD/Vistex Consultant

Client: (Multiple clients) (Manufacturing, Wholesale Food

Distribution)Sr. Vistex Functional Consultant - SAP ECC 6.0 (SD, OTC, Vistex IP)

Responsibilities: Sr. Lead Consultant for implementation of Vistex Data maintenance Pricing,
IPinvolving Chargeback, Billbacks and performance based Rebates.
Involved in rollout of Vistex Billbacks & Rebates rollout for a large Food Service Meat and
Bakery Manufacturer in Downers Grove, IL
Conducted conference room pilots, led blueprinting and business requirement and functional
design phases of the project
Designed and configured pricing conditions, Rebate types, agreements, accruals,
settlements for both Direct and Trace rebates. Designed Direct Sales rebates process to
calculate rebates for Invoices, Debit memos, Credit memos, Returns Credit Memo returns
Designed and implemented Claim workflows which gets routed automatically to the
designated persons to request approvals, for the actual claims submitted by the distributor
Responsible for configuring price procedures and other pricing elements for Claims
Processing (Expected Claims& actual claims ), IP bill back Accruals and settlement
documents
Configured Account Assignment, Accrual profiles, Settlement profiles for required postings to
FI / COPA from IP Billbacks
Configured IP types, pricing procedures, Listing/Exclusion rules, GPO memberships,
Chargeback Contracts, Rebate Agreements, LIS updates, to support various Chargebacks,
Incentive scenarios
Set up EDI 845 for Agreements and 844 & 849 for Claims
Designed and configured Claim requests to bring in the Trace Sales information to SAP
Designed and configured Sales Traces and customer master data
Designed and configured various price sheets to meet business requirements.
Designed and build price upload process.
 Configured LIS Info structures, Update Groups and Update Rules for update from the IP Bill
back processes.
Configured workflow notification process for various IP objects including agreement request/
agreements/price proposals.
Configured price profiles to facilitate business needs.
Developed Specifications for Pricing Requirements and Routines, Data Transfer
Routines, Output programs and forms for Agreements and Bill backs.
Involved in building prototypes for several Purchasing and Customer rebate scenarios for
various customers. Modeled rebate scenarios such as Volume rebates, Growth rebates,
PDAs, Co-op advertising rebates

Client: John Morrell Food Group / Smithfield Foods (Formerly Armour-Eckrich)

Lead SAP SD Support Consultant
Led 6 onsite/offshore consultants as SD Support Lead
Stabilized ECC 6.0 SD, Complete Direct Store Delivery, Transportation management
System (Nistevo), third-party system "Beltek", Trade Promotion Management system
"Blacksmith" and EDI/GEIS/Gentran
Initialized SAP application support process
Provided continuous support Order-to-Cash process for business teams in Sales,
Customer Service, Pricing, Trade Promotions, Logistics/Shipping, Transportation,
master data (SD), Supply Planning, and EDI (GEIS), Deductions, AR,
Maintained the SAP system with over 3000 users performing transactions 24/7, more
than 400 background jobs, two key third-party systems, and 40 interfaces to help John
Morrell Food Group to do over 6+ Billion USD sales a year
Provided various business solutions and implemented multiple business enhancements
to accommodate change in business process, new business rules and/or system
performance improvements to allow the client perform the transactions much efficiently
and with minimum errors
Led the SD/LE team in rollouts of the ECC 6.0 master template with local enhancements
for six major organizations of Smithfield Foods Inc.
Successfully consolidated under a single ECC 6.0 instance in the span of around two
years

The consolidated system had over 3000 SAP active users of MM, SD/LE, FI, CO-PA, PP, PM,
WM/ EWM, SAP Console, EDI, and various third party systems includes Taxware, Nistevo (TMS)
and Blacksmith (Trade Promotions)
Total of 360 plants (including 100+ 3PLs) were brought live to SAP for direct
transactions or EDI
Configured and migrated legacy pricing structure into SAP global pricing as national
price plus discounts and promotions. This made Blacksmith more productive
Configured new sales channel and pricing process for Employee Sales
Configured and implemented Broker commission process that involved new agreement
type and multiple condition types to accommodate weight based, quantity based or %
base calculation of commissions for broker. New pricing procedures. Also developed
tools to load, modify, monitor and monthly settlement of huge commission agreements.
Implemented Re-Distributors Sales History via EDI 867 into SAP to help accrue and
settle Broker commissions, indirect sales promotions and bill backs for the end
customers. Configured new debit memo type ZRED and pricing procedure to capture
the data
Configured and implemented new sales order type with 100 % discount pricing, new
pricing procedure for calculating/accruing applicable commissions and promotions
Configured and implemented new rebate processes to
Configured and implemented BDRs for customer orders via custom
solution/enhancement
 Extended Handling Unit Management to all direct SAP plants with WM rollouts to
efficiently manage warehousing through SAP Console.
Implemented carrier payment settlement process by developing custom solution with
EDI 210
Developed and implemented a custom solution for intercompany purchasing of shared
products

Client: Armour-Eckrich Meats

First rapid ECC 6.0/IS CWM in USA
Performed Gap-analysis and developed Blueprint for SD (OTC, LE)
Designed and configured sales and logistics organization structure
Defined and configured various sales order types
Configured SD/LE settings for seamless order fulfillment in variable requirements and
3PLs
Configured availability check rules to consider reservations, inbound POs and not quality
hold stock
Configured product allocation for handling big customers priorities
Configured complex pricing procedures for food service, retail and industrial
orders
Configured and activated handling unit management and auto packing to handle large
customer requirement of palletization and tractability for recalls.
Developed and implemented a custom solution ZSHIP for automatic plant
determination
Configured route determination for 10000+ customers and 16 shipping points including
3PLs.
Developed a tool to monitor outbound shipments by shipping supervisors and
transportation planners
Configured return process for customer returns
Designed, developed and implemented a new solution for pallet handing based on
customers agreement whether to ship on white wood, brown wood, returnable pallet or
rental pallets
Configured pricing for US taxes and worked on development for integration of Taxware
for automatic jurisdiction determination and sales tax calculation in sales order and
invoice.
Configured multiple rebate condition types, agreement types, and discount conditions,
sales deal types and changed the pricing procedures to accommodate these conditions
Integrated third party promotion management system Blacksmith by developing
multiple inbound and outbound interfaces.
Created new pricing procedures to mass pay and settle rebate payments to customers /
brokers
Designed, configured and implemented customized credit card payment
authorization/acceptance for one time customers
Developed LSMWs and conversion programs for extraction and loading from 4.7 into
ECC 6.0
Configured output determination for logistics and transportation EDI outputs and EDI
warehouses to process all shipping communication and postings electronically

Client: ConAgra Foods Inc

Lead SAP SD Consultant
Led a team of four SD Consultants for SAP SD, OTC, LE support project
Provided day-to-day resolution on production users, trained end-users, developed and
implemented new business enhancements (configuration/ customizing/ user-exits)
Provided support on regular master data updates for customer hierarchy, customers,
partners, routes, output conditions, prices, rebate agreements, and sales deals, and
 provided support on various third party interfaces such as TPM, Blacksmith,
Manugistics, Nistevo, RedPrairie, HUB, and SAP BO

Client: ConAgra Foods Inc

Senior SAP SD Consultant
Full lifecycle implementation of SAP SD, LE, SCM
Scope of the project was to divestiture ConAgras Meat business from their existing
business landscape of SAP R/3 4.7 and 23 other third party systems interfacing 24/7.
Worked in project definition and preparation, taking knowledge transfer from the IT Team
and business leads, AS-IS mapping, defining objectives and scope for business
blueprint (TO-BE), realization, cutover and GO-Live support
Re-configured sales areas as retail, culinary, deli, and domestic exports, and de-linked
unused sales areas from company code(s) and also re-assignment of document types to
sales areas. Configured new number ranges to avoid overlap with client document and
master data numbers in shared systems
Re-configured sales order types, delivery types, and billing types
Configured various condition tables, access sequence, and pricing conditions
Configured new pricing procedures rebate credit memos, retail, and food service orders
with new condition types and account keys
Configured new pricing procedure with addition of new conditions
Worked on Vertex (tax automation) software integration by developing various RFC,
user-exits and enhancements.
Configured new output types for transportation management
Configured the output determination procedures
Built multiple test scripts for each business and coordinated unit/interface/integration
testing
Coordinated EDI testing with EDI warehouses and transportation carriers
Developed SD Training documents for Customer Service, Pricing, Collections, and
Deduction

Client: Tyco Electronics (2 Years)

Senior SAP SD Consultant
Provided production and functional support to multiple SAP SD/OTC/LE rollouts for new
companies merged into Tyco electronics in year 2004, 2005 and 2006
Solution design, development and deployment for Tyco electronics Canada to provide
bi-annual price catalog of all components and customer combinations totaling 12
million records.
US Rollout for El-touch systems: Configuredpricing procedure changes, equipment
serialization and numbering, Designed customer dashboard for repair authorization,
warranty service and replacement process,Payment card processing (credit card
payment integration in sales orders)
Configured new order type and delivery type for RMA and corresponding incompletion
procedure
Configured new item category for warranty, configured new condition types and access
sequence, and modified and configured the Pricing procedure to include warranty price
with scales
Designed customer outputs for RMA, and warranty and service orders as per user
requirements
For Spain rollout, defined new shipping texts as per domestic requirement and
configured corresponding text determination, Designed changes in customer output
forms to implement Spanish translations for VAT conversions, Configured new billing
type for inter-company (country specific) to perform inter-Europe sales
 For Poland rollout, designed customs declaration forms for domestic export and inter-
Europe export
Configured new Polish Pricing procedures
Configured and updated auto batch determination for few delivery types

Client: The Andrew Jergens Co.

Senior SAP SD Consultant
Global implementation of SAP 4.7
Worked on configuring pricing procedures for DE/NL
Worked on implementing complex taxes for DE/NL
Configured complete logistics organization structures for DE / NL
Customized complete transportation settings for manual and EDI transportation planning
in Germany and Netherlands
Logistics/LE configuration and the EDI outputs and output determination procedures,
and loaded respective output conditions using and also shipping instructions for
customers (complete end to end text determination) for EDI and paper outputs
Coordinated master data loads and transactional data loads of customers, open orders,
product hierarchy, material determination records, CMIR, pricing records, packing
instructions
Worked with local third party warehouses on EDI setup, implementation and post go-live
support
Coordinated EDI inbound PO and outbound invoices in USA, Canada, Germany, and
Netherlands

SITA Corporation Apr 1999 Aug 2004

SAP SD Consultant

Client: APP Pharmaceuticals, Inc

SAP SD Consultant
Full lifecycle SAP implementation with c-GMP Compliance in USA and Canada
SD definition and preparation, AS-IS mapping, business blueprint, realization, cutover
and support
Configured new organizational elements, various sales document types for standard
order processing, contract manufacturing, donations, samples, EDI orders, and rush
orders and complex pricing procedures for US and Canada
Developed and configured new copy controls for orders and deliveries.
Added new document texts as well as re-configured the text determination procedures.
Configured and customized various pricing procedures and condition types
Customized the chargeback process and integrated 3P contract and chargeback system
with I-many
Configured complex returned goods authorization process using EDI orders and
standard orders.
Customized the SD EDI process for state license and DEA licenses in the processing
Configured complex credit management for wholesale and non-wholesale customers
Implemented various customer and logistic EDI transactions

Client: Armstrong World Industries

Senior Consultant
Design, development and deployment of a custom interface for dealers to access R/3
system
Configured and implemented new pricing / surcharge condition for express/rush
delivery with custom logic to calculate the rates for distributor, retailer and end
customers
Client: LSI Logic
Lead Technical Consultant
Assisted clients Portal team in the development and deployment of custom iViews for
SAP and Siebel CRM along with few custom ABAP objects such as dialog programs and
RFCs

Client: Suburban Propane Partners LP

Senior Technical Consultant
Developed and implemented multiple Workflows/ WebFlows for EBP 5.0 along with
some custom ABAP developments such as Business Object, BAPIs, RFCs, and few
EBP HTML templates to access the modified WebFlows

Client: Purdue Pharma LP

Senior Technical Consultant
Developed custom packing transaction which allowed reading weights from Scale, also
allowed utilizing SAP Packing function and print UPS labels directly on ZEBRA printers
Designed, developed, and implemented EDI transactions and ABAP development user-
exits, bar code labels, and few RFCs for weight interface

Client: Publix Super Markets Inc.

Senior Technical Consultant
Full lifecycle SAP 4.6 C implementation with IS Retail along with development of custom
ABAP Objects (Reports, Forms, Dictionary, and conversions) mainly for Sales, Shipping,
and Finance
Worked on various pricing requirement and calculation rules with complex logic written
and tested

Client: Delphi Automotive Systems

Senior Technical Consultant
Participated in implementation of SAP Console for performing all logistics functions
Developed multiple portable dialogue programs to utilize character base RF interface
(real time)
Multiple EDI interface for inbound and outbound Scheduling agreements and ASN
(DELFORD, DELINS,DESADV).

Client: American Standard Company

SAP Technical Consultant
Participated in building logistics solution for real-time ATP from shopfloor (legacy
system)
Developed custom interfaces (ALE/ IDoc) between SAP and manufacturing software
Shop Floor

Client: Exxon Mobil

SAP EDI / Logistics Consultant
Implemented various EDI transactions/ business and enhancements for transmitting
shipment advice and shipment order to customer receiving locations and warehouses

Client: Delphi Automotive Systems

ABAP/4 Consultant
 Developed multiple handheld interfaces and dialogue programs for LE/WM run through
Intermec handhelds to perform pick, pack, ship, and goods movement and
corresponding label management

Inferdata Software Pvt Ltd, India May 1998 Jun 2000

ABAP Consultant
Developed various ABAP/4 programs (BDCs, Reports, module pools, function modules,
Screen Painter, RFCs, and user exits) in MM, PP and SD for full lifecycle
implementation of SAP 3.1H

NON-SAP Experience

Jun 1994 May 1998

Development Engineer - Parason Machineries
Production Engineer - NRB Bearings
Senior Engineer of Tool Design - PMT Machine tools LTD

EDUCATION and Certification

MS in Computers
Bachelor of Engineering, Amravati University, 1994
SAP Certified in Sales and Distribution
Dale Carnegie: Organizational Leadership