Varaghamurthy Chakravarthy Kannan, SAP Functional Consultant

Varaghamurthy Chakravarthy Kannan

SAP Functional Consultant

DMI ANZ Pty Ltd

Location
Australia
Education
Master's degree, Master of Computer Applications
Experience
23 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 11 Months

SAP Functional Consultant at DMI ANZ Pty Ltd
  • Australia
  • My current job since March 2016

Conduct Business Analysis in Seasons5 (D’Olive) Quality Suite Resorts
•Thorough understanding in Knowledge areas and their tasks, tools and techniques
•Monitor, organize and evaluate information submitted by the project manager
•Edit and proof read RFPs and project related documents
•Assist team at all times and met the project deliverables on time
•Make certain that client needs are met as the project evolves
•Help prepare project proposals, time frames, schedule and budget
•Monitor and track project progress
•Handle issues that arise in project
•Conduct meetings and Coordinate with technical, functional teams for project documents and monitor deliverables

Senior SAP at IBM
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 2010 to December 2011

Client: Ericsson, Sweden
•Manage severity 3 and severity 4 tickets in Supplier Network Collaboration SNC Vendor Manufacturing Portal (VMI), PO Collaboration scenarios SAP MM module in Purchasing, Inventory Management and Logistics Invoice Verification
•Process IDOCS in various scenarios and solve errors
•Support Ericsson customers at all times using ticketing tool
•Monitor problems for XML messages and give solution to the errors
•Very familiar with web screens of SAP Supplier Network Collaboration (Customer View and Supplier view)
•Operate tickets which involve master data in Supplier Network Collaboration
•SAP IDOC, SAP XI Interface to external systems monitor and support experience
•Create warehouses and attach to the plants which solve the configuration related tickets
•Generate warehouse management master record
•Handle tickets which has problem in Transfer orders and Transfer requirements
•Assist users to identify the stock between IM and WM
•Help users to prepare the stock lists and Bin status report

Consultant at Food Processing, Oils and Petrochemicals
  • December 2011 to September 2011

Implementation and Support Project (MM/WM)
Responsibilities
Client: Al Safi DANONE
•Responsible for SAP Warehouse Management implementation
•As Is Study about the present physical warehouse structure and related complex business processes like Put away, Stock Removal, Stock transfers, Physical Inventory
•Project Plan and Design, Business Blue Print preparation
•Configure Warehouse structure, Creation of Master Data like Storage type, Storage section and Storage bins with structure, Search strategies
•Compose training document for Transfer requirement, Transfer order and Transfer order confirmation for the business processes
•Work project in ASAP methodology
•Unit and Integration testing with SAP Quality Management & Production


Client : Saudi Paper Manufacturing
•Responsible to implement SAP MM with Purchase requisition and Purchase order Release Strategy and SAP WM module
• SAP MM integration with SAP PP for batch management and SAP FICO for Automatic account determination and asset procurement during implementation.
•Gather requirements from the business and prepare Blue Print documents
•Accountable for Key Data Structure documents which are highly complex
•In charge of SAP MM configuration, Unit and Integration testing and User Acceptance training
•Train business users towards implementation
•ASAP methodology used in the project

Client : Saudi Aramco
•Lead Consultant in Saudi Arabia for Saudi Aramco Supply Chain Management projects on the user issues
•The responsibilities include to collect requirements from proponents and Aramco Project Manager, Kick-Off meeting arrangement, Producing Business Proposals to client and get their acceptance for Realization, Testing and Post Production support with Implementation schedule
•Manage SAP MM and SAP Supplier Network Collaboration related complex issues and development
•Operate projects in Agile methodology

Client : Muntajat Petrochemicals and QAPCO
•Muntajat SAP post implementation training and support for Q Companies
•Guide users in SAP MM/SD Module in post implementation support in QAPCO Company for MM and SD cycle
•Resolve user issues in Procurement, Inventory and Invoice verification in SAP MM and in SAP SD module related issues in Sales and Distribution cycle
•Develop reports based on user requirements in SAP MM and SAP SD
•Follow ASAP methodology in the projects


Client : Saudi Arabian Amiantit Company
•Handle Procurement to Pay process in MM and QM module of 20 Company codes and 40 plants in Development, Quality and Production Landscape as single MM Consultant
•Manage configuration changes and Incident tickets in ticketing tool
•Worked in SAP BI/BW and developed reports in MM and SD module
•Responsible for SAP MM integration with SAP PP and SAP FICO modules
•Train end users on various transaction codes in Purchasing, Inventory and LIV in MM
•Solve day today problems of end users in SAP and enable smooth business
•Implement PO Release Strategy Workflow with 4 release levels
•Organise Master and Transaction data related problems and errors
•Execute Purchase order by email
•Put into practice Materials Requirement Consumption Based Planning(MRP) which avoids to create Purchase Requisition manually
•Influence my knowledge in Inventory control
•Apply ASAP methodology in projects
•Solve tickets in SAP Quality Management issues

Consultant at Bangalore Airport - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempegowda_International_Airpor
  • August 2008 to May 2010

Client: Bangalore International Airport
•SAP Roll Out project in Central Industrial Security Force
•Devise test specification
•Prepare Functional Specification for user defined reports and execution
•Construct user manual preparation
•Develop release request and move the request to Quality and Production servers with Basis team

Consultant at Siemens - www.siemens.co
  • January 2007 to August 2008

Client: BBC United Kingdom
•BBC Springbok Support Project
•Manage Incident Management tickets and Production Failures in SAP MM and SAP Supplier Relationship Management Module (Classic Scenario)
•Use Support Works and OSD Remedy ticketing tools in BBC
•Excellent knowledge in Processing Intermediate documents (IDOCs)
•AS IS study Business Process

Consultant at Siemens
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2006 to December 2006

Client: Alembic Pharmaceuticals
•Application Support in SAP Materials Management module
•On-site coordinator with users and solved their problems in SAP MM
•Trained business users in Procurement, Inventory management and Invoice verification
•Directly Coordinate with Users in On-site and solved their ticketing problems

Mechanical Engineer at Larsen and Toubro
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 1996 to December 2005

Client : Audco Valves
•Project : Implementation of SAP MM Module
Environment: SAP R/3 Version 4.6C
•As Purchase executive and super user in materials procurement department supported core team members during and after implementation, responsibilities include the following
•Experience in Sales, Procurement, Quality and production departments
•Document test cases for Integrity testing and Implementation
•User manual preparation and user training
•Material codification in line with existing code logic
•Define the material based on the operational sequence
•Unit and Integration testing
•Applied ASAP methodology in implementation

Consultant at Saudi Arabia group of Companies
  • to

Client: Electronics for Imaging, Inc - USA
•Handle complex integration projects in SAP MM, SD, FICO modules in Agile methodology for intercompany sales.
•Create Z reports by modifying the standard transaction code reports like ME2M, ME2N, MMBE
•Redesign the Contract Manufacturing Portal project which involve SD and MM Module
•Developed BI/BW reports in MM, SD modules
•Solve user error tickets using ticketing tool

Education

Master's degree, Master of Computer Applications
  • at University of Madras
  • December 2004

Specialties & Skills

Psychology
Science
Business Ideas
Materials
BUDGETING
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
BUSINESS PROCESS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
EDITING
FUNCTIONAL
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
MEETING FACILITATION
QUALITY