Rajaram RAVI
Melbourne
Summary
17+ years of strong and extensive experience in SAP in various modules PTP, P2P and Quality Management as a Lead Consultant, and map a end to end solution design. Providing End-to-End solutions for complex business process with various scenarios in the areas of procurement and production process. Strong Expertise in P2P process in mapping the various procurement processes in SAP across industries and invoice processing. Worked on rollouts using global templates and worked on localization requirements for procurement process. Good knowledge in SAP Product costing with its integration on Labor, machine activities, Overheads, Order costing and settlement. Sound knowledge in Procurement process, Integration of P2P-PTP-RTR modules and worked on Product costing for discrete manufacturing. Proven experience in testing of process, preparation of test scripts, test plans, bug fix, defects resolution, integration testing with all modules. Experience in interface of SAP with third party systems using EDI , IDOC for Purchase orders, shipping notifications and goods receipts. Experience in Interface with SAP for manufacturing process, Interfaces for barcode management and RF scanning. Proven experience in conduction workshops, demonstrations, case studies, training to users and good presentation skills. Working as a part of Pact IT division from Melbourne for more than 6 years and successfully completed many assignments with Pact.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
SAP Manager–Manufacturing
PACT group holdings Australia
Moorabbin, Victoria
02.2022 - Current
- Worked on Interface with SAP to 3rd party transport management system for shipment notifications through EDI Interface for Overseas purchase and carrier portal interface.
- Leading the SAP team on support, Projects and manage the Project timelines, deliverables and track the project costs.
- Managing the SAP landscape, for patching, DRP exercise, system refresh and ensuring the system is secure and safe.
- Working on MES interfaces with SAP , SAP rollouts, merger , migration to SAP.
- Successfully completed a MES interface with Industry 4.0 Symbiont- SAP for a contract manufacturing facility for production of Bulk concentrate and raw materials issue as per recipe.
- Working on SCM, forecast based MRP, Forecast accuracy , Lag reports for optimising the SOP based planning, inventory optimisation.
- Working on 3PL , 4PL Warehouse interfaces for a automated warehouse facility , with AGV, RORO and SAP.
- Configured Plant maintenance for preventative maintenance, maintenance plan, spare part procurement for a pilot project.
- Working on a rollout for recycling plant set up and interface with the Industry 4.0 interface with SAP
- Setting up of new configuration needed in the areas of PP, MM, QM for the business requirements.
Lead Consultant -Manufacturing
Leaders IT services Pty Ltd
Moorabbin, Victoria
02.2020 - 02.2022
- Support day-to-day support for inventory management issue, procurement and production related issues.
- Configured Plant maintenance for preventative maintenance, maintenance plan, spare part procurement for a pilot project.
- Working on a rollout for recycling plant set up and interface with the Industry 4.0 interface with SAP
- Setting up of new configuration needed in the areas of PP, MM, QM for the business requirements.
- Configured SAP standard Dangerous goods profile for the handling of raw materials and hazardous chemicals.
- Worked on material master, BOM, routing, Cost estimate, cost collectors, production version automation request using SAP, Assyst tool through web interface.
Lead Consultant -Manufacturing
HCL services Australia Pty Ltd
Melbourne, Victoria
12.2014 - 01.2020
- Support issues on day-to-day support for batch management, Label printing, Barcode scanners inventory management issue, procurement and production related issues.
- Working on interface with Sky-connect, In-touch and support issues.
- Lead the team and manage SLA’s monitoring of ticketing system for Incidents and assigning to team.
- Working on MRP issues, setting up for Plants, MRP controllers, demand management, Planning strategy, batch management, Barcode Interfaces.
- Implemented Quality Management for the Plants for contract chemical manufacturing. Implemented for Procurement, Production cycles. Sample procedures, 100% inspection, Fixed lots sampling.
- Worked on forecast based models, integration with S&OP, forecast based COPA versions, demand management and materials requirement planning.
- Training to users, user manuals preparation, and functional specifications preparation.
- Coordinating with technical team for development of reports and enhancements in MM PP and QM
- Implemented Customer NCR in Quality management with integration with HTML and SAP
Senior Business Consultant –P2P
HP Global soft Pvt Ltd
01.2013 - 09.2014
- Configuration of new plants, new PO document types, modifications to existing pricing procedures
- Configured Invoice plan, multiple accounts assigned PO process, down payment through MM route.
- Integration with Internal orders, WBS element, capex procurement and capitalization of assets.
- Working on enhancements for customer requirements - Enhancement of MIGO for capturing Serial Numbers, Warranty start date and end date details.
- Worked on interface of SharePoint to SAP for Purchase requisition creation in SharePoint to SAP on a batch mode process.
- User training and assistance in month end reporting, data analysis for G/L balances, Asset depreciation postings and ROE analysis.
- Lead the team, coordination with various interfaces team, to map new business requirement for the existing Business, Business consulting, solution architect for the new requirements.
- Working on change requests, system audits, quality documentations, day-to-day support issues and issue monitoring on service manager SM9 tool.
Senior Consultant P2P
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd
03.2011 - 01.2013
- Mapping the process of Procurement Process in integration with Investment management for budgetary control and allocation of funds as per budget consumption based on procurement. Capitalization of assets and amortization based on useful life is the key objective of the Project.
- Involved right from requirement gathering and business Blueprinting for the whole process of procurement of films, events, serials, real time shows.
- Integration of this process with investment management for budgetary control and capitalization of the contents with asset management. Customized the entire Amortization process of the acquired assets based on categories of assets.
- Configuration of the MM process for procurement and capitalization of assets and automated the process of capitalization through GR process.
- Integration of FI and investment management with MM for hierarchy of Internal orders, budgetary control.
- Configuration of Purchase organization structure PO document types, pricing procedure for domestic and imports purchase. Release strategy for POs, GR enhancement for capturing asset details, budgetary control on POs.
- Testing of the scenarios and defects resolution for UAT and designed the cut over for the master upload, inventory upload, Info records and open PO upload.
Sr. Consultant P2P
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
12.2011 - 06.2012
- Company Overview: Hitachi Global Services Ltd is a Leading Manufacturer of Hard disk, External Memory drives, and other memory storage devices with a global presence. Intercompany stock transfer with Markup values, Over/under variances to arrive at the true inventory cost across the supply chain at every supplying and receiving end is the project objective.
- Requirement gathering and business process Configuration for Intercompany Stock Transfer for getting true Inventory Value, Uplift, Over/under variance and intercompany profit.
- Worked on routines with ABAP team for copying the unit valuation from the master data of the materials and flow through the PO conditions.
- Worked on new pricing conditions for capturing the over/ under variances, mark up values to pass on through multiple supply chains to arrive at real inventory cost.
- Worked on special procurement key for stock transfer settings supplying plant and order type assignment.
- MM - FI Integration for Intercompany stock transfer posting. Configuration of OBYC settings for the inventory movements and assignment of G/L sales pricing for the uplift, mark up revenue.
- Preparation for Go-Live for upload of open PO’s, Deliveries, re-pricing of PO’s as per date controls and short closure of PO’s
Sr. Consultant – PP QM
Cardian BCT
04.2011 - 12.2011
- Company Overview: Cardian BCT is a leading manufacturer of Pharmaceutical accessories, equipment majorly focused on Blood banks, transfusion medicine and cellular therapies. This project is for Implementing SAP and rollout of SAP across various geographies.
- Onsite Off shore coordination in the Configuration of PP and QM process mapping, gathering the requirements, conducting workshops, setting the QM configuration, training, testing and master uploads.
- Creation of factory calendars, work center shift definition, capacity setup for work centers and assignment of activity types, cost centers and costing parameters.
- Worked on MRP parameters settings at plant level, MRP controllers, schedule margin keys, planning horizon, number ranges, planned order to Purchase requisition conversion, BOM, routing settings.
- Worked on availability to promise ATP, MRP elements fixed receipts, issues, safety stock, planning calendar, planning horizon, factory calendar, scheduling parameters Lead time scheduling for production orders.
- Worked on creation of inspection types, setup codes, defect codes, catalogues, Quantitative and qualitative attributes for the inspection parameters.
- Worked on Quality notifications, defect classes, object codes, follow on actions, inspection methods, sample procedures.
- QM codes mapping for Quantitative, Qualitative attributes, Usage decision, Inspection setup, Master inspection characteristics, Tolerance, Inspection points, sampling procedures, Inspection types for, Production and Procurement.
Sr. Consultant –MM & Taxation
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
06.2009 - 03.2011
- Requirement gathering and business process Configuration for India Pricing and Taxation
- Configuration of tax procedure, pricing procedure, access sequence and condition types for freight and input tax conditions.
- Creation of Tax codes for Input, service tax, Extended withholding tax configuration, payment terms.
- Worked on MM related issues on purchase , stock transfers and non stock purchase.
- Unit testing and integration testing for tax procedures, pricing and EWT (TDS for suppliers) and invoicing.
Consultant –MM PP
CHEDDA Electricals and Electronics Pvt Ltd
07.2009 - 05.2010
- Company Overview: A client is a leading manufacturer of Automobile Electronic components (Coils and Relays). Client is also leading supplier to Auto Manufacturer viz. Hero Honda, TVS. The scope of project involved End to End Implementation of SAP ECC 6.0. (MM, SD, PP, FI, CO, QM modules)
- Business Blueprinting and Gap Analysis as per the BRD for automobile component process with respect to Make-to-Stock strategy.
- Configuration of organization structure, Plant, storage location, purchase organization, shipping point and assignments.
- Configured the pricing procedures, condition types for delivery costs, access sequence and maintenance of tax procedure.
- Configuration of Production scenarios, Master data BOM, Routing, Scheduling, MRP settings, Make to stock strategy, Production orders type and integration with CO, MM modules.
- Setting for MRP parameters, MRP controllers, capacity planners, standard value keys, MRP strategy groups and assignment in material masters.
- Work center configuration for standard value keys, order types, order dependent parameters, control keys, production scheduling profile and availability to promise.
- PP order costing, overhead rates maintenance, costing sheet for absorption costing, activity types and rates, maintenance of costing types, cost component structure and settlement profile of orders. Maintenance of consumption accounts, work center-cost center integration and cost
- Master data upload, cut over strategy and planning for Go-live preparation, Hyper care and month end support.
Consultant –MM, PP,QM
Bristecone India Ltd
08.2007 - 06.2009
- Requirement gathering and business process analysis (ETO Scenario)
- MRP Settings, consumption-based planning for C class items, Account Assigned PO Settings in integration with PS WBS elements.
- Configuration of procurement process for WBS elements, down payment, inventory management for project stock and issue to production.
- Worked on creation of inspection types, setup codes, defect codes, catalogues, Quantitative and qualitative attributes for the inspection parameters.
- Worked on Quality notifications, defect classes, object codes, follow on actions, inspection methods, sample procedures.
- Results Sets, UD code creation and QM settings for Procurement, Inspection certificates, Inspection points, master inspection characteristics.
Consultant –MM, PP, QM
Common Helpdesk
Mumbai, Maharashtra
08.2007 - 12.2008
- Company Overview: Support for various clients across industries in the domain of automobile, iron and steel, polymer, and project-based industries.
- Support extended in the area – New Developments for MIS reporting, Purchase and Service Tax Register, Budgetary Application for Tax Procedures, Transactional and Operational Support.
- Master data upload for new material codes, BOM, info records, source list, tax codes, condition records and Mass changes for Masters
- Worked on month end, year-end activities, physical inventory and books closing support.
- Hands on Experience in MRP, mapping the Production process, make to stock, make to order, configuring the production process for discrete manufacturing.
- User training for the day-to-day issues on completing the transactions, new process mapping and training on useful T codes and reports development. Worked with ABAP team for FRICE objects for mapping business requirements.
- Worked on creation of inspection types, setup codes, defect codes, catalogues, Quantitative and qualitative attributes for the inspection parameters. Partial acceptance, full acceptance, rejections with defects.
- Worked on Quality notifications, defect classes, object codes, follow on actions, inspection methods. QM -returns to vendor, rejections.
Consultant –MM &PM
Mahindra Logisoft Business solutions India Ltd
01.2007 - 06.2007
- Company Overview: SAP DMS is hosting of Dealer Management Solution on a centralized server and access for Mahindra Automotive sectors Dealers all over India through EP Portal. Successfully implemented and rolled out SAP DMS with Accounting & Financials, Sales & Distributions, Costing, Inventory management, Customer Service & Support.
- Roll out of SAP DMS at Dealer places, Meeting with Dealers, Mahindra core users and Core Team members, Training the Dealer End Users, Master data Uploading, testing the transactions, Onsite Support for Dealers, Collection of new Requirements and mapping in SAP.
- PM related configuration for Equipment, Functional location, object codes, maintenance order types, preventive maintenance type cycles, measuring points, notification types for break down and regular maintenance.
- Spare parts management, issue to work orders, calculation of labor Hrs and activity rates, settlement of orders.
- Equipment master, serial number profile assignment, class and characteristics assignment for color, engine model, chassis parameters.
- Setup of maintenance plans, spare parts BOM, maintenance orders , and training the users at Dealer sites.
- Upload of material masters, Work centers, BOM, maintenance Operations task list, functional serial numbers.
Production /Procurement Engineer
Domain Experience Acme Pumps
08.2000 - 12.2006
- Procurement Planning Vs Production orders, working out Bill of materials, Purchase orders for Procurement, Subcontracting, Testing of Assembly, arrangements for Pumps for Dispatch.
- Shop-floor Inspection, Daily shift maintenance for workers, Production planning based on requirements, Quality standards and quality control, documentation as per ISO regulations.
- Shop floor In-charge & coordinating in maintenance for all shop floor machines.
Education
BE - Mechanical Engineering
Madurai Kamaraj University
01.2000
Skills
- Proficient in SAP production, materials, and quality management
- Additional Modules Supported: Product Costing, Plant maintenance SAP PM Plant maintenance, PS Project Systems
- Versions worked : SAP 47 E, ECC 50 & ECC60
- Testing Tools : HP Quality center
- Interfaces Worked : Sky connect, SAP- Sharepoint, SAP to BizTalk, SAP to Intouch, Mattec , OFS, MEX , Esker, E2Open, Symbiont,
- Tools- MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, MS- Project), SM9 service manager & SAP Tutor
Training
- Learning on S/4 HANA for SAP MM, PP, MRP live, and IBP for supply chain management.
- Completed training on EWM on S/4 HANA to update my skills in the new dimension areas.
Timeline
SAP Manager–Manufacturing
PACT group holdings Australia
02.2022 - Current
Lead Consultant -Manufacturing
Leaders IT services Pty Ltd
02.2020 - 02.2022
Lead Consultant -Manufacturing
HCL services Australia Pty Ltd
12.2014 - 01.2020
Senior Business Consultant –P2P
HP Global soft Pvt Ltd
01.2013 - 09.2014
Sr. Consultant P2P
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
12.2011 - 06.2012
Sr. Consultant – PP QM
Cardian BCT
04.2011 - 12.2011
Senior Consultant P2P
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd
03.2011 - 01.2013
Consultant –MM PP
CHEDDA Electricals and Electronics Pvt Ltd
07.2009 - 05.2010
Sr. Consultant –MM & Taxation
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
06.2009 - 03.2011
Consultant –MM, PP,QM
Bristecone India Ltd
08.2007 - 06.2009
Consultant –MM, PP, QM
Common Helpdesk
08.2007 - 12.2008
Consultant –MM &PM
Mahindra Logisoft Business solutions India Ltd
01.2007 - 06.2007
Production /Procurement Engineer
Domain Experience Acme Pumps
08.2000 - 12.2006
BE - Mechanical Engineering
Madurai Kamaraj University