Chandra Sekhar

410-304-8089
[email protected]

Professional Summary:
 11+ year of IT experience with 10+ years of SAP Solution and Production Execution experience in S/4
HANA and (R/3, ECC 6.0), Worked on supporting, upgrades and Implementation. Possessing a successful
track record of US wide roll outs, including configuring IMG with user community, understanding client
requirements, documenting the project processes and GAP analysis to Go-Live and Post-Live Production
support.
 Proficient in Involving on various stages of an implementation right from Business Blueprint to Post-Go-
Live Production support using the ASAP methodology.
 Expert in working on SAP Supply Chain Management Solution Architect – MM, PP, WM, LE, WM
 Experience in the full cycle of Procure to pay (P2P) process.
 Excellent integration experience with SAP, MM and FICO modules.
 Expert in Configuring Account determination, Pricing Procedure and Output determination.
 Configured Material Types, Interchangeable Inventory, Account groups and Document types.
 Knowledge on Configuration of SAP Extended Warehouse Management (WM) – Master Data, Global
trade Management(GTM), Functional and Document Data, SAP ERP and SCM/EWM Integration, CIF,
Delivery Document Integration, EWM Inbound Processes, EWM Outbound Processes and Internal
Processes, WM RF Framework, Warehouse Activity Monitoring, Batch and Serial Numbers in WM, WM
Structural Elements like Warehouse Process Types, Supply Chain Unit, Storage Type and Roles, Storage
Sections, Activity Areas, Work Centers, Staging Areas, Bins and Bin Structure.
 Extensive experience in SAP ECC MM module production support activities
 Experience in working with Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order and
Contract.
 Proficient on working with special Inventory management processes like Consignment and Sub-
contracting.
 Exposure to involving on Cross module integration of SD with material management (MM), warehouse
management (WM), finance (FICO), production planning (PP), logistic execution (LE) on various issues.
 Expert in working on Configuration of WM and IM movement types and linking IM movements types
with WM movement types via reference movement types.
 Expert in Retail Master Data, Assortment and Listing, Merchandise distribution, Retail Pricing &
Promotion.
 Experience on Performing data migration and conversion from legacy systems to SAP through LSMW,
DTW.
 Proficient on Assisting in functional architecture design for S/4 HANA migration scope.
 Expert in Testing scripts for test cases. Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance
Testing to WM module.
 Exposure to Training super users and end users to adopt the integration of current and SAP system.
 Expert in Working on various enhancements related to WM, PP, STP and LE& IM.
 Ability to manage tasks independently with minimal or no supervision.
 Result oriented, self-motivated, ability to work in multi-tasking and changing environments.

Skills Summary:
 ERP: SAP R/3 (versions ECC 5.0 & ECC 6.0), SAP R/3 (MM, IM, SD)
 O/S: Windows 2010/2007/NT, XP
 Packages: MS Office, MS Visio, Quick Books, Quick Books Pro

Professional Experience:
Thrivent Financial, NC Aug 2023 - Present
SAP MM, WM Consultant
Responsibilities:
 In IM, configured GR so postings were made to appropriate Stock Status such as Unrestricted-Use,
Quality Inspection, and Blocked Stock or GR Blocked Stocked.
 Configured and customized core SAP S/4 HANA WM processes, including inbound and outbound delivery
processing, goods receipt, goods issue, and physical inventory. Developed and implemented custom
warehouse processes, mapping business requirements to optimize operational efficiency.
 Designed and configured warehouse process types, storage bins, storage types, and storage section
indicators to improve warehouse layout and streamline picking, put-away, and inventory management
processes.
 Configured and implemented SAP Warehouse Management (WM) solutions for multiple clients,
including warehouse structure setup, storage types, sections, and bins, and auto-creation of Transfer
Orders and Transfer Requirements.
 Customized storage types, bin types, and WM movement types, and integrated them with IM movement
types to enhance the inventory management process.
 Worked extensively on consumption-based planning, invoice verification and MRP including MM
Customization, enhancement.
 Configured and optimized Material Management (MM) and Inventory Management (IM) processes in
SAP S/4 HANA for Make-to-Deliver (MTD) cycles, improving material flow from production to delivery
and ensuring seamless integration with Production Planning (PP) and Warehouse Management (WM)
modules.
 Implemented automated solutions for MTD in MM/IM by configuring material movement types, goods
issue, goods receipt processes, and stock transfers, which resulted in improved production planning
efficiency and accurate inventory tracking.
 Enhanced cross-functional collaboration within MTD processes by integrating MM/IM with Sales and
Distribution (SD), enabling accurate material availability checks, order fulfillment, and real-time
inventory updates during production execution and delivery phases.
 Configuring MRP and customizing experience in MM in Purchasing, CBP, Inventory management, Logistic
Invoice Verification and vendor evaluation.
 Extensive hands-on experience with ALE/EDI IDOC functionality for procurement and logistics processes
(850, 855, 846, 856 ASN, 940, 856SC, 810, 945), as well as developing and managing SAP-to-3PL
interfaces via BAPI, RFC, and custom objects.
 Configured custom enhancements and functional modifications to meet specific business needs during
the Greenfield transition, ensuring seamless integration with legacy systems and third-party applications.
 Retail Pricing: Control parameter for pricing, define the access sequence, condition tables,condition
types, pricing, maintained pricing types, Maintain Purchase Price Determination
 Sequence, Maintain Sales Price Determination Sequence, Texts for List Fields, Define List Variant and
Assign Items, Control Data for Pricing Table, Development for dual MRP.
 Coordinate with the technical team for the issues requiring comprehension of functional Requirements.
 Involved in to execute the Unit testing and integration testing for new IBM migration server and ECC 6
Up-gradation.
 Integrated SAP SD with MM and WM to enable seamless material availability checks, order fulfillment,
and real-time inventory updates during production execution and delivery phases.
 Configured pricing procedures, condition types, access sequences, and sales price determination
sequences to support dynamic pricing models. Maintained control parameters for sales pricing aligned
with client-specific business rules.
 Configured and executed serialized inventory processes for Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Transfer
Postings, and Physical Inventory, ensuring accurate tracking at the item level.
  Enabled seamless integration of serialization with Warehouse Management processes, including put-
away, picking, and transfer orders, by customizing storage type and bin determination.
 Customized inbound/outbound deliveries and automated order selection processes for improved
efficiency in staging, picking, and shipping operations, ensuring accurate customer deliveries.
 Handled complex goods movement scenarios, including inter-warehouse stock transfers, consignment
stock, stock in transit, and transfer posting between storage locations.
 Configured shelf-life expiration date (SLED) for warehouse stock when goods are received.
 Customization of Access sequence, condition records and business rules understanding client’s business
process.
 Customized Invoice Verification with Vendor-wise tolerance limits as per the business.

Charter Communications, Negaunee, MI Jan 2022 - Jul 2023

SAP HANA Consultant (MM, LE, IM, WM, P2P, PM)
Responsibilities:
 Worked on Production orders, Goods Issue, Goods receipt and Physical Inventory Document.
 Worked closely with Technical Consultant for required enhancements as per the project demand and
customization according to client requirements.
 Involved as SAP WM functional consultant in project LRP to assist in the District SAP Procurement &
Finance implementation project.
 Configured and maintained PM master data, including Functional Locations, Equipment, Bill of Materials
(BOM), and Maintenance Task Lists.
 Install S/4 HANA application in a three-system landscape.
 Tested scripts for test cases. Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing to
PE module.
 Streamlined the creation, planning, and execution of maintenance work orders (corrective, preventive,
and breakdown maintenance) in SAP PM.
 Conducted detailed analysis, designed, customized, and configured SAP EAM/PM and QM modules to
meet complex business requirements. Facilitated workshops to gather and document customer needs,
and developed product modifications to align with client objectives.
 Designed preventive maintenance plans using task lists and maintenance items, ensuring timely
scheduling and execution of maintenance activities.
 Managed integration points between SAP PM, QM, MM, ensuring seamless cross-module data flow and
process efficiency. Identified and resolved configuration gaps, issues, and provided work-around
solutions.
 Integrated SAP PM with MM (Material Management) for spare parts procurement and consumption, and
with SAP CO for cost tracking of maintenance operations.
 Configured maintenance budgeting and cost management processes in PM, integrating with SAP CO for
real-time cost reporting.
 Training super users and end users to adopt the integration of current and SAP system.
 Scope includes complete full life cycle implementation of Warehouse Management (WM) with active
interfaces with Inventory Management (IM) and Shipping (LE).
 Worked on RICEF objects in multiple area. Understand client business requirement and map them to SAP
functionalities and prepared functional specification design documents for enhancement.
 Created Test script, Test plan and Business components in HP ALM for the MDG scenarios.
 Experienced with Data Quality Management Metadata Management, Master Data Management, Process
Modeling, Data Dictionary, information Stewardship, Data Profiling, Data Quality, and Data Model
Standards.
 Improved inventory accuracy and traceability through serialization during warehouse transactions,
facilitating compliance with industry standards and audits.
  Configured and executed serialized physical inventory documents to manage cycle counting, stock
adjustments, and discrepancy analysis effectively.
 Extensive experience in Cross-Module integration of MM with PP, SD and Master Data.
 Responsible for post-production support to identify errors in processing day to day transactions.
 Master data management for PE including shelf-life, batch determination, classification, and
reconciliation etc., Also worked on master data maintenance for material master for configurable
materials and interchangeable inventory.
 Worked on SAP HANA, Simple Logistics, Simple Manufacturing, and Prototyping of S/4 HANA for rapid
deployment supportability and knowledge transfer.
 Designed and implemented payroll processes, integrating Time Management with Payroll (PY) to
streamline salary calculations, tax deductions, and benefits administration across multiple regions
 Configured Employee Self-Service (ESS) and Manager Self-Service (MSS) portals, allowing employees and
managers to efficiently manage personal information, leave requests, and team approvals.
 Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate SAP HCM with SAP FI/CO for accurate labor cost
tracking and financial reporting.
 Worked on production execution Fiori application for inbound delivery, staging, goods receipt and
picking, packing, and shipping to customer location.
 Worked on production order release strategies, availability check for components, scheduling of the
production order, printing shop floor paper i.e., time tickets, move tickets and material pull lists, defining
production schedulers, scheduling profiles etc.

Ditech Fort Washington, PA. May 2019 - Dec 2021

SAP LE MM WM LE Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
 Prepared functional specification documents for interfaces, reports, forms and enhancements. Tested
the RICEF’s developed by the ABAP people.
 Manage and transport HANA content using studio.
 Provided solutions for client’s supply chain process primarily in materials management.
 Developed an Interface program to generate an IDoc whenever a new vendor is created or whenever an
existing vendor data is updated. Based on the change pointers mechanism, the data is captured into an
IDoc and sent to PI.
 Created an extension to restrict contracts from being used by a business unit for which the contract was
never intended based upon account assignment category and document type.
 LSMW for WM Inventory & Bin Loads includes the legacy SU number conversion.
 Responsible for performing MM/STP related configuration in the SAP S/4 Hana system and providing
functional specifications, test data, test cases for relevant ABAP developments.
 Assisted in functional architecture design for S/4 HANA migration scope.
 Hands on experience using LSMW in data conversion, field mapping and uploading data from legacy
system to SAP. Hands on experience in creating functional specifications RICEFW objects, USERS EXISTS,
BAPI’s, BADI’s and ALE. Assisted for the development of interfaces between SAP and Non-SAP System
such as ARIBA.
 Responsible for complete design and configuration of WM structure and setup master data for all
Warehouses and Distribution Centers and customized the following WM elements: Master Data Putaway
& Picking Strategies, Replenishment, Print Control, Interfaces [IM, Shipping].
 Configuration/Customization in the area of AP, AR and GL Master Data, configured Chart of Accounts and
Account Groups in General Ledger.
 Configured automatic account determination for seamless integration of financial transactions with
material movements, ensuring accurate financial postings and reporting.
 Customized invoice verification processes, setting vendor-specific tolerance limits and ensuring
compliance with business requirements for Accounts Payable.
  Worked on cross-functional integration to enable financial tracking of procurement, inventory valuation,
and sales processes, improving cost analysis and reconciliation.
 Worked on a requirement to create a custom transaction code which will allow copying indirect material
contracts across company codes and plants. For creating, changing, or displaying a contract standard t-
codes will be used.
 Added a new tab on the header of PO (ME21N and ME22N). The Purpose of this enhancement is to
introduce split PO for progress payments; splitting PO line items as per milestones based on the
document type and GR check.
 Worked on an enhancement automatically perform mass change of purchasing group to material group
assignment for purchase orders and contracts. These assignments are maintained in table custom table
through a custom transaction.
 Worked on an enhancement to automatically create sales order for offload steel after the good receipt
posting is completed via interface.
 Worked on an enhancement to prevent applications from sending erroneous data to Gentran. EDI flags
were maintained to identify if the vendor is EDI enabled or not. Flags are applicable to EDI, 850, 860,
820, 822 and 810.

DXC TECHNOLOGY Hyderabad, India Apr 2016 - Feb 2019

SAP MM/WM/SMP/Fiori/S4 HANA Consultant
Responsibilities:
 Created a framework for organizational structure of Business Processes to be integrated with SAP
system.
 Captured business requirements during business process workshop and conducted GAP analysis.
 Prepared Business Process documents using standard templates and created BPL 1 and 2 to create and
manage Vendor Master, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, and RFQ.
 Configured purchasing documents and defined number ranges for various purchasing documents,
picking orders, goods movement docs.
 Worked on various enhancements related to WM & SMP
 Defined conditions in purchasing process and added Contracts, Quota Arrangement and Scheduling
Agreements to assist in source determination.
 Set up screen layouts for purchasing documents like Purchase Requisitions, Request for Quotations,
Quotations, and Purchase Orders.
 Configured settings for Goods Issues, Goods Receipt, and Movement types in Inventory Management as
required by business logistics.
 Integrated mobile applications with SAP backend systems using SAP Mobile Platform (SMP) or SAP Cloud
Platform, improving real-time data access and task execution.
 Customized mobile user interfaces (Fiori) to enhance user experience and ease of use for maintenance
technicians performing tasks on-the-go.
 Enabled real-time data synchronization for field engineers, ensuring seamless data updates to the SAP
system via mobile devices, reducing manual data entry and errors.
 Configured mobile applications to enable work order creation, updates, and closure directly from mobile
devices, increasing field efficiency.
 Configured end-to-end supply chain processes, including procure-to-pay (P2P), make-to-deliver (MTD),
and inter-company stock transfers, ensuring seamless material flow and efficient logistics.
 Managed master data for material, vendor, and customer records, ensuring data quality, compliance, and
accuracy for efficient procurement and inventory management.
 Customized Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to align with consumption-based planning and
demand-driven procurement, ensuring optimal stock levels and timely replenishment.
 Implemented mobile solutions for asset tracking and inventory management, enabling field users to scan
barcodes or QR codes to access equipment and spare parts information instantly.
  Configured offline functionality for mobile users, allowing them to access work orders, task lists, and
equipment data without network connectivity, with automatic data synchronization once online.
 Created specs for custom modifications and worked with ABAP team on user exits.
 Prepared documentation for mapping rules to migrate Vendor master through LSMW and worked with
ABAP team to write functional specs and delivery field mapping including transformation rule.
 Prepared test scripts and performed Unit test ad Integration test.
 Extensively involved in the preparation of end-user documents and provided knowledge transfer through
numerous training sessions to power user and end-users.
 Provided post-production support to end users.

Cameo Service Corporation Ltd, Hyderabad, India Sep 2014 - Mar 2016
SAP MM WM PM SCM Consultant
Responsibilities:
 Configured movement types in IM and WM and created new custom IM movement types and interfaced
them with appropriate WM movement types.
 Configured various types of maintenance notifications (malfunction, maintenance requests, activity
reports) and defined workflows for their processing and approval.
 Configure and document all warehouse activities to ensure Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
compliance. This includes strict tracking of materials, serial numbers, and batch information.
 Implemented FMEA processes in SAP PM for risk assessment and failure prevention by defining
equipment failure patterns and implementing proactive maintenance strategies.
 Used LSMW, CATT to transfer master data from legacy system to SAP. Also, worked on BDC. Got involved
with SAP Data migration team and worked on data migration for SAP- MM and QM modules.
 Created functional specifications for Inbound EDI 810 (Invoicing), 850 (Purchase Order), 820 (Payment
advice),855 (Order Response), 856 (Advanced Shipping Notification) and RICEF objects (Reports,
Enhancements). Set partner profiles, tested IDOCs, generated list of IDOCs.
 Developed custom reports, segregated vendor evaluation reports by geographic area. Also developed
forms for pick list, production list and TO.
 Configured calibration management processes within SAP PM, enabling compliance with industry
standards for equipment calibration and integration with quality management.
 Serialized Inventory Goods movements, IM & WM involving Goods Receipt, Goods Issue and Transfer
Posting and also Physical Inventory.
 Set up SAP WM to monitor conditions in specific storage types for temperature-sensitive materials,
ensuring storage compliance for pharmaceuticals that require refrigeration or controlled room
temperature.
 Configure SAP WM to handle serialization, ensuring each unit is uniquely identifiable. This is essential in
pharma for traceability and regulatory compliance.
 Customized Physical inventory documents and posting of the difference quantity for carrying out physical
inventory using cycle counting.
 Created source lists and MRP procedures based on consumption. Defined and implemented a
procurement system driven by MRP with requirements based on sales orders, production orders,
reservations, and BOMs. Set up quota arrangements with vendors for purchase requisitions/orders,
scheduling agreements, MRP.
 Integration with SAP MM for seamless end-to-end processes from procurement to sales, including
quality inspections at different stages.
 Implemented inter-company stock transport orders to facilitate material transfer within companies and
cross-companies.