Senior SAP Project Manager
kaar Technologies
Total years of experience :12 years, 11 Months
Managed all types of SAP projects from Prepare Phase to Deploy phase using Activate methodology. Responsible for S/4 HANA 2022 Conversion Project. Handling multiple projects with a team size of 30+ including Project Managers, SAP ABAP, Basis, FI/FM, SD, MM, PM & TM. Successfully manage stakeholders to build strong business relationships and deliver highly complex and potentially programmatic systems and solutions. Design and manage the process/Project governance. Proactively advocate for business requirements and ensure appropriate delivery on time and within budget. Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including clients, project sponsors, and team members. Communicated project progress and issues to stakeholders, including presenting reports and status updates. Ensured that the SAP implementation meets quality standards and that deliverables meet client expectations. Conducted meetings to identify the scope and blueprint sessions for gathering requirements to identify all GAPS/RICEFWs needed by the business. Guided the organization through project prep, gap analysis, realization, training, and go-live. Managed unit testing, functional testing, test script preparation, integration testing, cutover preparation schedule, and go-live preparations. Developed training courses, materials, process flow diagrams, and change journeys for different types of users. Schedule assignments, monitor, review, and report project status regularly to manage project risks and ensure successful project delivery. Tracking and delivering projects on time. Evaluate (time / cost / quality) & change requests. Lead and facilitate as required in RFP, SOW, Project Plans, documentation as per Customer requirement.
▪ Managed end to end Roll-out of SAP solution across multiple countries.
▪ Lead the team for implementing the SAP related customizing and developments by understanding the integration framework to connect SAP with business partners, develop functional / technical specifications and partner system design to implement end to end solutions across extended enterprise.
▪ Proactively advocate for business requirements and ensure appropriate delivery on time and budget.
▪ Understanding the complete business process in Finance, Material Management, Sales & Distribution, Production Planning, Human Resource, DMS & QM.
▪ Gathered project requirements through interactions, meetings, and walkthroughs with potential application users and to develop business requirements documents (BRD), functional requirements documents (FRD) and user mock-ups.
▪ To provide support in Creation of RFP / RPQ / Statement of Work, SLA, Legal Terms, Contractual & Commercial terms.
▪ Driving kick off meetings, Business requirement gathering, Development and go-live as per the agreed timelines.
▪ Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
▪ Lead geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams, including collaborations with third-parties.
▪ Responsible for estimating the resource requirement and arriving at the budgeted cost; tracking the project commercials.
▪ Ensure change management, incident management and problem resolution are executed within ITSM framework and defined SLAs are met.
▪ Conduct performance appraisals of team members.
▪ SPOC for ITGC / SAP / Microsoft Audit by external auditors. (Big 4 Auditors).
Clients: - Sony, ESSAR Oil & Gas, Shapoorji Pallonji Group & Mahindra Tractor
•Developed project plans, defined timelines, and set milestones.
•Managed a team of SAP consultants and developers, including assigning tasks, task completion, and training.
•Developed and managed project budgets, track expenses, and ensured the project is completed within the budget.
•Identified potential risks and developed contingency plans to mitigate them.
•Build and maintained relationships with stakeholders, including clients, project sponsors, and team members.
•Communicated project progress and issues to stakeholders, including presenting reports and status updates.
•Ensured that the SAP implementation meets quality standards and that deliverables meet client expectations.
•Provided training to end-users to ensure they are able to use the new system effectively.
•Identified opportunities for continuous improvement and make recommendations for future projects.
Managed all projects from the blueprint to the realization phase using ASAP and Activate methodologies.
•Responsible for implementation, rollout, and support for S/4 HANA 1909 & ECC 6.0 EHP7.
•Implementation and configuration experience in SAP interfaces (IDOC / ALE) with LFS 400 WMS system.
•Conducted meetings to identify the scope and blueprint sessions for gathering requirements to identify all GAPS/RICEFWs needed by the business.
•Guided the organization through project prep, gap analysis, realization, training, and go-live.
•Managed unit testing, functional testing, test script preparation, integration testing, cutover preparation schedule, and go-live preparations.
•Conduct various Testing phases like Unit testing, System testing, volume testing and integration testing.
•Conduct UAT with Business users.
•Take the sign off each phase from Department Head
•Developed training courses, materials, process flow diagrams, and change journeys for different types of users.
•Data migration cockpit in S/4 HANA1909 LTMC & LSMW knowledge and expertise.
• Configured sites for retail operations.
•Configured the physical inventory settings and carried out physical inventory at storage location level.
•Configured Material Group Hierarchy.
•Configured quantity & value update parameters for all movement types for inventory.
•Legacy System migration through LSMW creation and execution for article creation, Vendor Creation, Info record, listing and source list.
•Release Procedure Configuration based on document type, Order value and Site for Purchase Order.
•Merchandise Category Maintenance by reassigning MC of articles with the requirements of Clients.
•Working on the Logistics execution, goods receipt, and goods issue process.
•Worked on purchase pricing procedure and schema maintenance.
•Customizing and setting up Release Procedures with and without classification for all purchasing documents.
•Creation of functional spec according to the requirement of the end user and delivered to the ABAP team.
•Imparted end-user training to the staff for effective use of the application.
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Information Technology
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