Srinivas Vemulapalli

 

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Mallesh Yarlagadda

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Summary of Experience:

 

More than 14 years of functional experience in Engineering Industry including more than 12 years of SAP Design, Configuration, Testing, and Implementation experience

Worked on 8 full-cycle SAP implementations including an upgrade

Team lead and Team member on different projects.

Highly experienced in Procure to Pay (P2P) business Process that includes Master Data, Purchasing, Inventory Management, and Invoice Verification.

Knowledge in Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

Implemented Plant Maintenance and ISU/CCS modules

Integration knowledge in cross-functional areas like APO, PP,SD and WM

Global experience with multinational implementations in multiple plant environments.

 

Education:  PhD in Mechanical Engineering, IIT, Bombay (India)

 

Professional History:

                                                   : Executive Consultant, Oct 1998 --

                                                   : SAP Consultant, Apr 1998 to Oct 1998

                                                   : System Manager, Nov 1993 to Mar 1998

 

Detailed Experience: 

 

Client : Provided on request                                                  Nov 05 to ---

 

The Project is a global implementation and spread all over the world, involved in the US, Japan and Europe Implementation. Spread over five full cycle implementations.

Lead the Purchasing process team and implemented SAP to the utmost satisfaction of the client.

Key player in the integration team and instrumental in the design of integration scenarios.

As part of the integration team member interacted with PLC, MP, OTC, FMB, APO and GTS teams and gained hands on experience on the integration touch points.

Identified the integrated business scenarios for integration testing and created the test scenarios and did the testing.

Configured and demonstrated the end to end Inter Company and Intra company stock transport order and other special procurement process.

Configured and tested the return to vendor process and subcontracting process with delivery functionality.

Worked with Inbound delivery and outbound delivery for Purchasing and sales process.

Designed single level and multi level Subcontracting process using MRP areas.

Created new pricing procedure to address the major PPV issue.  Extensively worked on Price determination process: defined condition types, access sequences, calculation schemas, and schema determination using condition technique.

Configured the system to address the Intrastat and Extrastat requirements.

Tested the end to end process from MRP run to stock placement/issue in the bins against a stock transport order.

Worked with Shipping point determination and stock placement/removal strategy.

Liaison for new initiatives such as SRM, ICH and third party applications

Involved in the Project preparation and blue print phase of SRM module

Configured the ECC client and demonstrated SRM functionality to the client.

Used solution Manager for configuration objects.

 

Client : Provided on request                                                  Nov 03 to Nov 05

 

Developed the Global Purchasing model.

Conducted design workshops with the client and captured the business requirements.

Streamlined the client procurement process and configured purchasing master data elements and introduced Contracts, Scheduling agreements, purchasing info record, source lists and quota arrangement.

Configuration of the new document types for purchase requisitions and Purchase orders to meet the specific needs of data conversion and interfaces.

Configured the Purchase requisition and Purchase order release strategy.

Establishing the whole procurement Cycle from automatic creation of Requisitions from MRP run to automatic PO creation.

Created new message conditions and message determination for purchase orders.

Worked with different message determination schema and transmitted POs using EDI and IDOC functionality.

Introduced version Management for Purchase requisition and Purchase orders

Configured MRP types, special procurement Keys, Maintenance of Plant parameters, and lot sizes.

Account determination for materials management with integration of FI/CO module.

Developed an interface which interfaces with SAP and ARIBA for Creating PO’s in SAP.

Actively involved in the Purchase Order conversion and Purchase info record conversion.

Developed CATT programs to load master data.

Documented various documents such as PDD (Process definition document), BPP (business process Procedure), COE (configuration object element), DCD (Data Conversion Document), IDD (Interface definition document) and RDD (Report definition document) in the ascendant methodology.

Identified the cut-over activities and planned the cut-over plan

Part of the hyper care team and resolved the issues and closed the tickets in the much shorter time and gained the satisfaction of the end users.

Smooth knowledge transfer to the AMS (Application maintenance and support) team

Trained the client team on the configuration and execution of the business process.

 

Provided on request                                                              Jan 03 to Nov 03

 

Device Management lead for the SAP IS U/CCS application.

Configured Device management, Materials Management and Plant Maintenance modules to meet the client specific requirements.

Involved in the master data conversions from legacy system to SAP.

Developed a key interface (ITRON) to upload and download the meter readings from and to SAP.

Developed the test plan and did the unit testing and integration testing of the business scenarios.

Identified the cutover activities and executed the activities on time and as per plan.

Prepared trouble shooting procedures as part of Go-Live prep

Helped the client team in preparing the training materials and helped in the end user training.

Smooth knowledge transfer to the client

Prepared the CATT programs to load the master data.

 

Provided on request                                                               Jan 02 to Dec 02

 

Participated in the business assessment workshops and analyzed the business process for Materials management and Plant Maintenance modules.

Provided SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for the major integration points between Materials Management and Plant Maintenance modules.

Provided SOP for the major business process in Materials Management and Plant Maintenance modules.

Responsible for trouble shooting client request for services and suggested the best practices. 

Configured the client system and provided configuration scripts.

Introduced the Subcontract process to the client.

Configured the system to create Purchase requisitions through plant maintenance orders.

Demonstrated the functionality of contacts and scheduling agreements.

Involved in documenting the training scripts and performed end user Training Created the Test Scripts and tested all the business process.

Worked on the interfaces and data conversions for the upgrade and tested to the client satisfaction.

Provide expertise in resolving post implementation issues.

 

Provided on request                                                                                      Mar 01 to Nov 01

Developed project plan and lead the e-Commerce application for the client.

Plan work-shops to collect the process/ functional requirements

Developed the test cases and completed the unit testing and integration testing.

Involved in the preliminary architectural design of SAP-Brodvision integration.

Knowledge transfer to the client

 

Provided on request                                                                  June 00 –Dec 00                

Developed the demo system for the NAVSEA proposal and part of the proposal winning team.

Involved in the design and configuration of the SAP Plant Maintenance and Materials management module mini project.

The solution included the SAP Plant Maintenance, Financial and Controlling, Materials Management, Project Systems, Quality Management, Materials Management Document Management and Capacity Planning Modules. Schedule optimization was supported by i2.

Prepared the Master data required for the prototype.

Involved in the preparation of testing procedures and unit testing

Presented the MM and PM scenarios to the client and received the appreciation from the client.

 

Provided on request                                                               Nov 99 to Mar 00

 

Configured the Materials Management module in the areas of material master, purchasing, inventory management and invoice Verification.

Responsible for fit/gap analysis between 4.0 B to 4.6 C.  Developed SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for the major business areas in Materials management such as Purchasing, Inventory Management and Logistics Invoice verification.

Configured the 4.6c system to meet the additional Procure to pay requirements and developed the configuration scripts.

Reviewed and modified the Release strategies in 4.6C for the effective approval of purchase requisitions.

Resolved the issues related to Procure to Pay and introduced Scheduling agreements, Framework orders and Logistic Invoice verification to better suit the business requirements.

Configured output determination by creating new message types, access sequences.

Provide expertise in resolving post implementation issues.

Prepared the CATT programs to load the master data.

 

Provided on request                                                                           Feb 99 to Oct 99

 

Assisted in ASAP implementation of Material Management module for a Textile industry.

Identified the issues and prepared the GAP      

Configured the Purchasing module and did the unit testing.

Unit testing of Purchasing, inventory management functionality.

End to end testing of the business scenarios

 

Provided on request                                                               Oct 98 to Dec 98

 

Configured Materials Management module as per the business requirements.

Designed and developed Scripts for various Business Processes.

Prepared Test cases and Involved in integration testing.

Train the end-user by sharing the deep understanding of the new tool.

 

Other Information:

SAP Solution Manager

Worked with Ascendant and ASAP Project Methodologies

SAP training: SRM, PLM, WM, PP, PM and MM modules


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