Praveen Nara

(331) 308-0064
praveen.sap360@gmail.com

Experience Summary:
 Around 10 Years of experience in SAP SD configuration of business processes in SAP R/3. Strong experience in 3
full life cycle implementations. Experienced in ASAP methodology of SAP implementations, Rollouts, Upgrade &
amp; Support projects with phases: Blue Printing, Project Preparation, Realization, Testing, and Go-Live
Cutover.
 Profound experience on SAP-SD with Basic Functions, Sales Order Management, Integration with MM, FI, WM
modules. Proficient with Order to Cash (OTC) Process configuration and implementation in SD, excellent
experience in Pricing, Revenue recognition, Credit Management, IDOC Processing, Available-to-Promise,
Rebates, Lists, and Account assignment, Agreements and quantity contracts.
 Experienced in SAP Customer Service (CS) with Service Processing Business Processes, Service Contracts, and
Resource Related Billing (RRB).
 Worked as a Team Lead & Subject Matter Expert in SAP SD (OTC/ QTC), MM (PTP), Logistic Execution (LE) and
Service Management (SM/ CS). And Additional Experience in SCM, 3PL, IM, TM, PP, FI, GTS and Data Migration.
 Experienced in Managing offshore & Multi – cultural teams and have been an active lead and a team member in a
variety of successful SAP implementations.
 Experience in Order to Cash (OTC) of SD, Aftermarket of SM & CS, Shipping and Transportation of LE and
Procure to Pay (PTP) of MM module.
 Strong understanding about Reports, Interfaces, User Exits and Script Forms. Worked o
 Proficiency in developing functional specifications (FRICE/ RICEF), Spec Designing, Gap Analysis, Technical
Documentation, interacting with the Business Owner & End User Training and Data Conversion of Master Data.
 Extensive SAP Data Migration experience using tools like LSMW, Winshuttle and EDI/ IDocs.
 Lead of SAP Data migration team and worked on data migration for SAP- MM, IM, PP, SD and QM modules.
 Excellent knowledge in ATP (Available to Promise) which includes MRP, GATP, Product allocations, customer
hierarchies, product hierarchies, info structures etc.
 Extensive experience of working on Order Management, Deliveries, Shipment, Interfaces to & from the External
Warehouse systems Shipping and Billing.
 Extensively interacted with ABAP Programmers to develop custom solutions for business requirements & debugging.
 Extensive experience in using LSMW & Winshuttle tools and developing the use of EDI/ IDOC’s, managing the
trading partner implementation process, interfacing EDI with internal applications.
 Extensively used the SharePoint & Solution Manager (ChaRM) for change management and document repository.
 Proficient Interpersonal Communication, presentation & organizational skills. Expertise on necessary computer
applications like MS-Office, MS-Visio, MS-Project.

Educational Qualifications:
 Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India - 2012.
 Certified Application Associate in SAP S/4 HANA SALES UPSKILLING.

Professional Experience:

Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey March 2020 – Current

SAP SD Integration Consultant
Responsibilities:
 Responsible for defining the Scope of the Release, Business Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Cutover, Go-Live and
Continuous Support.
 Mapped business requirements into SAP and identified gaps, completed Functional and Technical design documents
to resolve GAPs that were identified during fit-gap analysis.
 Conducted the scoping /design workshops for the businesspeople. Explaining the sap process to the businesspeople,
finding out their business process and documenting the gaps.
 Responsible for designing the solutions for Order to Cash (OTC) enhancements.
 Responsible for developing functional specifications based on the business requirements and interaction with the
business model experts, developers, and users.
 Configured different pricing conditions and pricing procedures and designed the logic for requirement routines and
formulas.
 Provided post-production support by helping to resolve Emergency and Urgent tickets and monitoring reports as
required by client and handling customization and configuration of enhancement related issues.
 Involved in training of system for Super Users and involved in preparing Job Aids according to the requests from the
super users.

BAYER Crop Science, Saint Louis May 2018 – Feb 2020

SAP Software OTC/LE Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
 Consult with possibilities and constraints of requirements with Product Owners, Business Representatives. Prepare
Functional docs mentioning in-depth Configure and Code level changes and test cases get approval from Solution
Architects.
 Make standard or custom Configuration changes in related to Sales Doc types, Pricing, Invoicing, Batch jobs and
Interfaces as per client requirements.
 Worked on a trial version of the Business Process for HANA implementation on Could.
 Overview the Functional Specs, test cases to Off-shore ABAP developers and help them on initial testing. On
Integration assignments, team-up with Vistex, Salesforce, Finance, CRM, logistics and other internal application
teams.
 Perform various testing is in multiple environments and help Business in UAT and Regression testing.
 Conduct Training sessions to Business Users on newly implemented SAP software functionalities and provide
Knowledge Transfer sessions to Support team.
 Independently, worked on debugging, resolving issues and bugs related to newly enhanced objects.
 Designed and configured organizational structures, order management, billing, output, availability checking and
transfer of requirements, delivery processing and a rather complex listing and exclusion process.
 Customized Master Data and Condition Master, according to the business requirements.
 Worked on Export Documents of GTS (Certificate of Origin, Commercial Invoice, Packing List Shippers letter of
Instruction and Manufacturing Declaration).
 Customized Sales order types such as Orders, Free of Charge Deliveries, Return Orders, Contract Management and
Billing Types such as order related Invoice, Delivery related Invoice, Proforma Invoice, Intra company Invoice and
Inter-company Invoice.
 Worked on CRM module related assignments on customized reporting reports.
 Customized Condition types, Access sequence and Pricing Procedure determination.
 Assigned Account groups, Sales areas and assigned hierarchy types for Pricing by sales document type. Created
order reasons for sales documents, defined Item Categories and schedule line categories.
 Interacted with ABAP team for Preparing Reports to meet Top Management requirements and enhancements / user
exits by explaining need by writing functional specification

PACCAR Inc., Bellevue, Washington March 2017 – April 2018

Sr. SAP SD Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
 Responsible for defining the Scope of the Release, Business Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Cutover, Go-Live and
Continuous Support.
 Mapped business requirements into SAP and identified gaps, completed Functional and Technical design documents
to resolve GAPs that were identified during fit-gap analysis.
 Conducted the scoping /design workshops for the businesspeople. Explaining the sap process to the businesspeople,
finding out their business process and documenting the gaps.
 Responsible for designing the solutions for Order to Cash (OTC) enhancements.
 Responsible for developing functional specifications based on the business requirements and interaction with the
business model experts, developers, and users.
 Configured different pricing conditions and pricing procedures and designed the logic for requirement routines and
formulas.
 Provided post-production support by helping to resolve Emergency and Urgent tickets and monitoring reports as
required by client and handling customization and configuration of enhancement related issues.
 Involved in training of system for Super Users and involved in preparing Job Aids according to the requests from the
super users.

Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN July 2016 – Feb 2017

SAP SD/EDI Consultant
Responsibilities:
 Lead an EDI Replacement project (EDI# 810, 850 & 855), replacing a legacy mainframe system with IBM Sterling
Integrator from SAP end.
 Analyzed business requirements, investigated all possible solutions, provided recommendation to business owners.
 Configured Ports (RFC & ALE) & partner profiles (WE20). And worked with basis team in setting up logical system &
RFC destination.
 Migrate existing EDI transaction sets and maintain current formats.
 Worked in conversion activities for various pricing & output condition records migration & updating of Legacy data into
SAP.
 Worked on updating status of field service technician process with service notification.
 Worked on enhancement of various SAP billing output condition records.
 Responsible for the conduct and documentation of various phases of testing like Unit tests, Integration Tests,
Regression testing and UAT in HPQC 10.0
 Inbound IDOC’s: Worked on various EDI profiles, determined user exits to derive SAP custom customer number,
material number and populate additional fields on Sales order header/ Item Screen.
 Outbound IDOC’s: Developed mapping document for IDoc’s to send additional data as per customer requirement.
 Responsible for creating maps for processing inbound and outbound data and integrating that data into the clients
claim adjudication system.
 Uploaded all functional documents in the Solution Manager (SM) as per the project plan.
 Involved in unit, string, integration and user Acceptance testing for website, ECC & interface platform in HP ALM.
 Prepared functional spec (RICEFW) for Change Request (CR) after discussing with business and provided a detail to
development & PI team to develop an interface, enhancement and report development.
 Business process analysis, requirement gathering and blue printing for the Change Request Management (ChaRM)
processes within BMS organization. The processes included SLA Management, change request ticket creation and
disposition, change management etc.
 Worked on change control process and full life cycle from initiation of project to Go-Live & hyper-care support.

MGP Ingredients., Atchison, Kansas Dec 2015 – June 2016

SAP SD/LE Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
 Service notifications, Returns and Repairs processing using repairs procedures.
 Configured Billing type, Rebate processing, partial and final settlement. Account Assignment and Credit Management.
 Set copy control requirements to various sales, deliveries and billing documents.
 Setting up the entire purchasing cycle with purchase requisition, purchase order with contracts & scheduling
agreements for transactions processing as per the business requirement.
 Helped design billing solution for engagements utilizing SAP's best practices.
 Involved in processing incomplete orders, partner functions setup, out processing and copy controls
 Batch Management: Determining batches for sales orders and deliveries.
 Created business process test cases parameterized data in the Excel. Performed End-to-End integration testing
 Worked on globally covering Export Compliance, Export / Import customs declaration and Self filing for multiple
regulations
 Configured warehouse management structure, pick-put away strategies, storage types, TR, TO, stock transfers,
inbound & outbound process and goods movement process.
 Setting up the entire purchasing cycle with purchase requisition, purchase order with contracts & scheduling
agreements for transactions processing as per the business requirement.

Procter & Gamble Bangalore, India Jan 2012 – Nov 2015

SAP SD Consultant
Responsibilities: -
 Created Partner functions and assigned them to the existing Partner determination procedure as per business
requirement.
 Defined pricing lists and assigned to the sales area and defined the condition types.
 Created customized condition records for the pricing procedures and customized the sales order entry.
 Interacted with core team members to identify and understand business requirements, Process flow, and participated
in development of business blueprinting for Sales and Distribution.
 Interacted with ABAP team to get the required output format for Shipping Labels, Order Acknowledgements
containing shipping instruction details and configured output determination.
 Configured delivery of goods, output determination; Lean Warehouse configuration (WM), physical distribution,
picking, packing and billing processes.
 Configured the Variant Configuration and defined Object Dependencies, Classes and Characteristics.
 Provided Production support for various issues regarding return process, shipping process and inventory,
Procurement to Pay (P2P) process, reverse logistics, Order to Cash (OTC) reversing PGR /PGI, Billing, and Credit
Management etc.
 Resolved Production Issues in OTC cycle, due to Pricing, Plant, and Shipping Point determination, Label/Forms
printing, Material Extension, Revenue Recognition, Reverse Logistics, Purchase Order (PO) and Customer Extension.
Provided post-implementation support.
 Imparted complete Knowledge Transfer to Super User and process specific end user training based on job roles
(Trained users in export documentation using SAP).