SAP SD Functional Analyst Resume

Title
SAP SD Functional Analyst

Primary Skills
SD,pricing,shipping,billing,VC,LSMW,ABAP queries,integration
w/MM/PP,FI/CO,LE,WM,credit&A/R,data table extractions

Location
US-NC-Charlotte (will consider relocating)

Posted
Jul-22-09

RESUME DETAILS

SAP SD FUNCTIONAL / TECHNICAL / BUSINESS ANALYST / CONSULTANT

Highly skilled and deeply knowledgeable SAP systems process Sr. level professional
with over 10 years intensive SD experience designing, implementing, and administering
order-to-cash supply chain processes requiring diverse, often complicated solutions.
Proficient at enhancing automated processes and business platforms through swift,
insightful analysis of business needs. Proven track record in leading a variety of multi-
faceted projects to successful and timely completion.

SAP Variant Configurator · SAP SD Customization · Project Leadership

Training · Programming Strategies · Documentation Development · Data
Migrations(LSMW)
Workflow Efficiencies · Workload Reduction · Pricing Configuration · Shipping · Billing
Credit/AR · ABAP Queries · BDC's · MM, PP, FI, CO, LE and WM Functions
ATP Process Modification · Discrete Manufacturing · Reporting · Customer Service
Business Processes in Manufacturing, Operations, Logistics · Consumer Products
Master Data Management · Sales Tax Configuration · SIS · Data Mining/Extraction

Assets and Qualifications:

· Sr. level professional who is motivated by the challenge of design solutions for complex
business initiatives.
· Resourceful problem solver with significant experience in SD customization, both
technical and functional, and the related integration with MM, PP, LE, FI/CO and WM.
· Experience with three full ERP/SAP implementation lifecycles including requirements
analysis, blueprinting, designing, structuring, testing, documenting, user training and
deployment with deep understanding of the SAP methodology.
· Knowledge of sales and use tax configuration in both SD and FI with associated G/L
assignments.
· Interaction with all levels, management to end-users, to define needs and objectives.
· Translate requirements into process flows and blueprint documents.
· Able to swiftly and accurately define strategies to reduce workload and increase data
accuracy and workflow efficiencies.
· Strong skills in master data and transactional data migration using LSMW.
· Proficiency in pricing applications including condition types, pricing procedures, access
sequences, accruals, scale pricing, commissions and custom pricing tables. Provided
pricing configuration and support for complex make-to-order production environment.
· Familiarity with database tables and data extraction.
· Possesses solid analytical capabilities to evaluate issues or new business requirements
· Excellent presentation, written and interpersonal skills that include procedures and
technical material, report/proposal preparation and oral presentation.
· Aptitude in translating business processes and business requirements into system
enhancements.
· Effectiveness in analyzing processes for possible future system improvement and
suggesting possible alternative solutions.
· Experience with process and best practices within logistical areas and ability to leverage
SAP functionality to support those best practices.
· Successfully creating project deliverable templates and standards.
· Execution of the planning and management of application design and architecture
activities.
· Extensive experience in development and maintenance of Variant Configurator
including classification, configuration profiles and object dependencies.
· Knowledge of transportation logistics such as transportation zones, route definition,
transit times, transportation rates based on volume, quantity, location, weight, et al.
· Test Management status reporting, preparation and execution using Solution Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CENTURY FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, LLC, Hickory, North Carolina • 1998-2009

Leading Furniture Manufacturer with 2000 employees generating annual sales of over
$500M.

PROJECTS:

Upgrade -- SAP R/3 3.1h to 3.1i:

SAP SD lead analyst for upgrade conversion from R/3 3.1h to R/3 3.1i for Century
Furniture Industries and Expressions Custom Furniture Inc.
Performed all integration testing, process documentation and user training.
Roll-out encompassed six manufacturing plants which involved production processes for
make-to-stock and make-to-order consumer goods.
Activities required customized configuration for item categories, schedule line categories
and development of Variant Configurator for complex multi-level configurable products.

Upgrade -- SAP R/3 3.1i to ECC 5.0:

SAP SD lead analyst for upgrade conversion R/3 3.1i to ECC 5.0 for Century Furniture
Industries and Highland House Inc. Performed all integration testing, process
documentation and user training. Ensured zero loss of efficiency and accuracy through
creation of effective functional and integration testing and training templates.
Roll-out involved five manufacturing plants.

New Implementations:

SD liaison to project team for full lifecycle implementation for Century Furniture
Industries located in Hickory, NC. The company manufactures custom make-to-order and
make-to-stock furniture products supplying retail stores worldwide.

· Assisted in project mapping for implementation from legacy system to SAP R/3 3.1i.
· Advised on and tested functionality for Variant Configurator as it pertained to company
requirements.
· Participated in gap analysis and strategic planning in the role of in-house consultant
having in-depth, hands-on knowledge of customer service and SD processes.
· Managed team of over 20 order-entry and clerical personnel in re-entering existing
legacy sales orders into SAP.
· Participated in project for re-papering existing legacy production orders with SAP
generated production orders.
· Assisted with data cleansing and data reconciliation between SAP and legacy systems
· Co-authored new company price lists to better integrate with SAP pricing methodology.

SD lead analyst in full lifecycle implementation for Expressions Custom Furniture Inc., a
subsidiary company, located in Tupelo, MS. The company provides custom make-to-
order furniture for approximately 35 franchise stores across the US.

· Collaborated with management and users concerning the business requirements for
mapping and gap-analysis of new SAP functionality.
· Developed and wrote design specifications and technical architecture solutions from
business requirements.
· Configured sales and use sales tax in SD and FI to facilitate correct G/L postings.
· Created new sales organization, distribution channel and division.
· Automated financial disbursement process through setup of inter-company billing
between Expressions and Century that eliminated manual financial postings.
· Designed and maintained Variant Configurator including classification and object
dependencies that supported complex order-entry and pricing requirements which
encompassed complex custom options.
· Defined settings in Variant Config profiles and item categories to support custom sales
order BOM's and BOM explosion in sales order for parent/child products.
· Devised and supported the pricing model which included custom option pricing,
promotional pricing, freight and commissions.
· Maintained customer and material master data settings to support order-entry, shipping
and billing functions.
· Creation of freight transportation rates based on weight, volume or quantity and routes.
· Authored all documentation of technical and functional processes relating to SD.
· Provided user acceptance testing and training. Company was able to create sales orders,
ship and invoice with little or no interruption upon go-live.

SD lead analyst in full lifecycle implementation for Highland House Inc., a subsidiary
company, located in Hickory, NC. The company brought with them several hundred
established retail accounts with sales revenues in excess of $250M.

· Overall management of Data Migration and conversion activities including the

extraction, transformation and upload via LSMW of data from the Company's legacy
environments into SAP.
· Interacted with management and users to develop their business mapping and required
SD processes including all pricing functionality in addition to enhancements and optimal
usage of Variant Configurator.
· Configured sales and use sales tax in SD and FI to facilitate correct G/L postings.
· Defined the testing strategy for ensuring adherence to methodology, change control, and
compliance requirements.
· Overall management of Integration Testing including Preparation, Execution, and Issue
Resolution.
· Authored all documentation of the functional processes and provided user training. The
company performed at 100% efficiency at go-live.

Functional Enhancements:

· Formulated new ATP strategy by alignment of standard MM and SD settings in

conjunction with SD user exit to fit the company's rigid requirements for calculation of
available-to-promise dates.
· Spearheaded elimination of monthly general journal entry corrections by devising an
effective programming strategy to facilitate retail pricing vs. wholesale pricing utilizing
pricing procedures in combination with user exits.
· Cut blocked billing documents caused by tax code errors by 98% through reconfiguring
tax jurisdiction settings and authoring a user exit to force a tax jurisdiction code in sales
orders in addition to training on alternate tax class setting required in sales orders.
· Delivered significant reduction in manual look-ups for custom options and exceptions
by using internal messages and pop-ups created through combination of Variant
Configurator and SD user exits.
· Facilitated tax jurisdiction for states with nexus and developed tax pricing structures in
both SD and FI with associated G/L assignments.
· Automated financial disbursement process through setup of inter-company billing
between Expressions and Century.
· Streamlined the mode for 3rd party shipments by configuring 3rd party billing
processes.
· Assigned customization of requirements class and requirements type to support the
various production order types.
· Designed and maintained Variant Configurator for three separate companies, including
classification (class type 300), characteristics and values, object dependencies and
constraints, configuration profiles and configuration tables that supported complex order-
entry and pricing requirements in addition to make-to-order sales order BOM's, routings
and BOM explosion in sales order for parent/child products. Supplied support for
approximately 30 diverse product lines all with unique applications for variant
configuration.
· Implemented configuration of order type, item categories, schedule line categories and
custom pricing function to allow the entry and tracking of special sales orders during the
semi-annual furniture market and the disbursement of product post-market.

Production Support:

· Provided support for company's expanding requirements through creation new

distribution channels, divisions and company codes for external showrooms located
across the country.
· Orchestrated customized pricing functions by employing pricing procedures, custom
pricing tables and access sequences to eliminate manual pre-pricing of complex product
with multi-option configuration.
· Created numerous BDC's for data uploads into custom pricing tables.
· Supported business objectives by providing numerous statistical reports by creating and
utilizing ABAP queries and maintaining SIS structures.
· Spearheaded development of data warehouses to support the company's e-commerce
website portal by authoring numerous ABAP queries pertaining to sales analysis,
financial analysis, outside sales rep's reports, marketing and pricing analysis,
international sales among others.
· Extensive use of LSMW for master data and transactional data uploads that eliminated
the need for an ABAP resource to write BDC programming.
· Performed role of troubleshooter, successfully identifying system inconsistencies and
implementing optimum business solutions through programming and business process
enhancements.
· Spearheaded supply chain processes within SAP environment, demonstrating a
comprehensive understanding of price, inventory, and range management.
· Responsible for pricing configuration and Variant Configurator programming for
diverse, make-to-order product lines with variable base, options, and promotional pricing.

· Performed role of troubleshooter, successfully identifying system inconsistencies and

implementing optimum business solutions through programming and business process
enhancements.
· Planned and adjusted configuration of SD as required including implementation of new
partner functions, text fields, transportation zones, shipping points, means of
transportation, foreign trade, new pricing requirements, promotion codes, custom pricing
tables, material determination, customer-material info records, listings and exclusions,
output determination, order reasons, order types, copy control, EDI configuration, MRP
and availability checks configuration, item categories and schedule line categories,
intercompany and 3rd party billing among others.
· Interfaced with credit department to reconfigure settings for automatic credit control.
· Created, maintained, supported and monitored numerous processes including pricing
modules, order entry, shipping and billing functions and SIS structures.
· Managed pricing structures which included unique condition types, pricing procedures,
pricing tables, condition tables, access sequences, commissions, accruals, customer-
specific pricing, freight calculations, G/L assignments, sales tax, promotional pricing,
intercompany and 3rd party billing and other special pricing requirements as determined.
· Managed payment terms for customers and vendors.

TRAINING/SELF-DEVELOPMENT
SAP Classification and Variant Configurator Training, Atlanta, Georgia
SAP SD Training, Dallas, Texas
Computer Programming Courses including RPG & COBOL, Florida Technical College

COMPUTER SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

SAP ECC 5.0 • SAP ABAP programming · MS Excel and MS Word
1. Sales Over view:

o Process in Sales and Distribution

o Basics in Sales and Distribution transaction

o Sales doc structure

o Presales process to complete sales doc.

o Sales transaction and its basics

o Sales Organizations and enterprise architecture.

o Sales org's units and its contents creation and assigning

o Org units in sales process and objectives:

2. Enterprise overview and creation with cross module overview:

o Overview of Enterprise structure and its relation ship with MM and FI view

o Transaction process and its relation ship.

o Relation between Fi and SD.

o Creation of org structures in Sales area and its corresponding units.

3. Sales order creation and understand the business needs and

information process and its relation.

o Sales order processing from the SAP point of view.

o Information process in sales view: Where and how the sales order is being

processed.

o Understand and create Business partners and master data.

o Automatic information process in sales view :: e.g.: plants

o Exploring business process in sales order.: changes to sales order docs

o Understand the sales process blocks.

4. The behavior and control of sales docs with sales doc types.

o The business objectives and its importance.

o Function and process in controlling and customizing sales doc types

o Business process in sales and its functions

o phases in sales and its doc category types and how to control sales doc types

o Doc types functions

o Customizing doc types for sales process and assigning to specific sales areas.

o Process and functions and customizing of the sales doc types.

o Sales doc types and its comparison

5. Modifying the sales doc types with item category according to the business

needs.

o Key Process in determining and customizing the item categories and its

examples and its purpose.

o Item category functionality overview, and variation, and its outcome.

o Creating of Item category and linking them to customized sales doc types.

o Item Categories and item Category Determination.

o BOM : Bills of materials in sales doc and its purpose in sales process

o How to create and process with different functionality and its rules.

6. Sales document and item schedule control.

o The nature of the doc type and its categories: schedule line and its

functionality.

o Exploring schedule line categories.

o The process and functions in creating and linking schedule line categories to

sales doc types.

7. The flow of screens in sales and data transformation from doc type to doc

type.

o Understanding of doc flow and completion status of the doc process.

 o Copying control in Sales docs and its usage.

8. Special Business sales process and its transaction.

o Order types, output types, and how delivery is planned if certain goods are to

be free or priced.

o Consignments: business process and its various special issues in business

process.

o The nature of the order type and the business requirements. Fill-up, pick-up,

issues, billing.

9. Document process in Incompletion.

o What are the impacts of incompletion rule and its behavior in sales docs.

o How to customizing the incompletion for a given sales doc.

o Controlling the Incompletion log.

o At what level it is used and how.

10. What and who are business partners and its determination.

o How to configure the business partners and its business needs.

o Partner functions and nature of relation ship.

o Partners in sales process.

o Customers Master and Account Group.

o Role of partner function per account groups.

o Partner determination and its procedures.

o Partner determination for sales docs.

11. Outline agreements and its overview.

o Understanding of outline agreements.

o Sales doc types for different outline agreements.

o How to schedule outline agreement.

o Quantity contract.

o Messages about open outline agreements.

 o How the data is activated for contracts; and

o how to determine the dates for these kind of contract agreements

o Creation and exploring them to complete the process in agreements.

o Scheduling agreements, Rental contract, value contract and Partners

authorization to release.

o Customizing for item categories in the value contract.

12. Material Determination.

o Material inclusion and mat Exclusion

o Creation of Material Determination Master Record

o Procedure in condition technique listing and exclusion

o Hands on material determination and product selection and material Listing

and material Exclusion.

13. Free goods and its sales process.

o Understanding business process and needs in free goods concept overview

o Exploring free goods and customizing free goods.

o Hands on free goods process. Condition technique, free goods master data,

free goods calculation rule.

o Enjoy SAP Reward: Sales Scenarios. Test your skills.