Abdusalam Nellayaputhen

Leading Material Management team in the company.

Supporting all Material Management related issues in the corporate company having 13 company codes and 38 plants.

Successfully completed more than 20 major MM projects across the companies by coordinating with internal SAP consultants, business teams, and offshore consultants, including SAP S/4HANA Migration, SAP S/4HANA EWM Implementation, SAP Signavio, Business Partner Mapping, Classical Vendor Evaluation, and S/4HANA Supplier Evaluation in Fiori Apps.

Planning all projects professionally through Project Preparation, Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live, and Support phases.

Analyzing, designing, and preparing business blueprints professionally for each project, while convincing the business about the advantages of proposed solutions.

Preparing user training manuals in LMS (Learning Management System) and providing professional user training.

Preparing monthly Material Management achievement reports and presenting them to the SAP Project Manager and MM business team, while gathering future business requirements.

Brief of Completed Major MM Projects:

1. SAP S/4HANA Migration Project
2. SAP S/4HANA EWM Implementation
3. SAP Signavio Implementation
4. VAT Implementation
5. MRP (Material Requirement Planning) Implementation
6. Procurement of External Services
7. SD-MM-FI Integration for Transportation Services
8. Vendor Down Payment Process
9. Revamping of PO Pricing Procedure
10. Rollout of 5 Company Codes and 6 Plants
11. Classical Vendor Evaluation in ECC6
12. Supplier Evaluation with Fiori App in S/4HANA
13. Revamping of Material Types and Material Groups
14. Procurement of Travel Tickets
15. Purchase Requisition Release by Workflow
16. Purchase Contract Implementation
17. BI/BO Reports
18. Batch Management
19. Physical Inventory Batch Input
20. RFID with Mobile Application
21. Procurement Optimization and Acceleration

Joined the company during the SAP ECC implementation phase and actively
participated in the end-to-end implementation process. As an internal
consultant, my key role is to bridge business and SAP implementation team as
follows: Gather MM Business Requirements:
Meet Stakeholders and collect requirements for: Approval process, Material
planning, Reporting, Stock visibility, Service procurement
3. Material Master Data and Vendor Master Data Preparation
Clean and standardize Material Master data. Check Material descriptions,
UOM, Material groups, Valuation classes, Reorder points, Purchasing data,
Remove duplicates and inactive materials. Validate vendor master records,
Remove duplicate vendors, Classify local/foreign/service/one-time vendors
4. Define SAP Organization Structure
Support setup of design Company Codes, Plants, Storage Locations,
Purchasing Organizations, Purchasing Groups
5. Blueprint Participation
Explain real procurement and stores process to implementation team, validate
future SAP MM process, Suggest best practices and controls.
6. Configure / Recommend MM Controls
Release strategy for PR/PO approvals, Automatic account determination,
Number ranges, Pricing procedure, Output forms.
7. Inventory & Warehouse Preparation
Review current stock balances, Plan stock migration, Define storage locations /
bins, Prepare physical inventory before go-live.
8. Testing Support
Prepare test scenarios for PR, PO, GR, Return to vendor, STO,
Subcontracting, Service PO, Invoice verification, Perform UAT with users. Reporting Requirements
Identify required reports for Entire MM Process
10. User Training
Train End users with professional user manuals.
11. Cutover & Go-Live Support
Upload masters, Upload opening stock, Open PO migration, User support
during go-live.

• Receive Purchase request from various department like Sales, Project, H.R
etc.
• Determine Source of Supply
• Send RFQ by E-mail/Fax to manufacturer/Suppliers.
• Receive quotation from manufacturers/Suppliers by Fax/Email.
• Negotiate price /payment with manufacturer/ supplier
• Thoroughly compare received quotation and request.
• Confirm with manufacturer/Suppliers the quoted items are exactly as per the
request and specifications.
• Clarify with manufacturer/Suppliers if there is any unclear matters in
specifications, prices etc.
• Create Quotation Comparison if there is more than one source.
• Vendor Selection according to price, Payment term, Delivery Period etc.
• Get approval from the purchasing Manager and Dept. Head / Project
Engineers.
• Prepare Purchase Order, send to supplier and receive order confirmation.
• Give strong instructions to suppliers about packing, mode of shipments and
stick on time shipments etc.
• Monitor all the purchase orders, enlisting shipment schedule and follow up
with suppliers.
• Advise account department to Prepare L/C, T/T, and monitor all the clauses
in L/C whether those comply with both ourselves and suppliers terms.
• Advise account department to Prepare L/C amendment application to bank if
required.
• Follow up with manufacturer/Supplier to ship the goods within delivery period
• Inform overseas manufacturer / Suppliers to arrange shipping documents and
other documents required for Saudi Customs Clearance.
• Mobilization customs-clearing agent for timely clearance/release/delivery of
the shipment on arrival
• Instruct warehouse staffs to Receive and inspect goods whether it meets as
per the requirements.
• Receive report from warehouse staffs and Reporting to manufacture/
suppliers for the missed and damaged items and to negotiate with
manufacturer to get compensation for the same.
• Monitor PO cancellation, Returns, Return delivery and Subsequent delivery.