1) How many years of experience do you have with SAP?

What modules have you

worked with and which modules are your strongest?
I have 5+ years of SAP implementation and support experience. In all I have 7+
years of IT experience. I have worked in SAP SD/LE/MM/WM modules of SAP and I
am familiar with SAP FI/PP modules as well. I have very good working knowledge of
integration points of these modules.
My strongest modules are SAP SD/LE/MM/WM
2) How many SAP implementations have you participated in?
I have participated in 3 SAP implementation projects and multiple production
support projects.
3) What are the responsibilities of a functional consultant in an implementation
project?
Following are the main responsibilities that I have performed as a functional
consultant in each phase of the implementation project
- Project Preparation Phase
o Participated in the AS-IS study
o Defined a general scope, high level project plan, project team, general
change management plan, risk and mitigation plan
o Created project deliverables like
AS-IS document
Data flow document
Use Cases
Templates and Interfaces
o Took the signoff from the Core Team on the AS-IS document
o Responsibilities pertaining to project management
Estimated effort required for the project, the number of resources
required
Updated the sub-level task in the project
Attended the status meetings to update the team about the module I was
responsible for.
Created change management, risk and mitigation, dependencies.
Maintained all documents needed to get the SOX audits
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Project Blue Print Phase

o Prepared the guideline document about how the requirement gathering will
be done for example prototyping, interview, and story board.
o Conducted the workshop to show the stakeholders the functionality of the
current system.
o Performed the fit gap analysis. For each gap suggested the SAP best
practices to achieve the desired functionality.
o Suggested architecture level solutions to solve problems

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Identified all the integration points of SAP SD/LE/MM module with other SAP
modules and non- sap systems.
Subject Matter Expert for SAP SD/LE/MM module
Some of the project deliverables that I created were
TO-BE document
Functional requirement document for each configuration
Functional requirement document for each RICEF object and then
coordinated with the technical team to help them create the technical
design document
Created the functional test case scenarios and test cases and linked them
to each functional requirement to define test coverage
Responsibilities pertaining to project management
Administered the share point website to make sure the latest approved
project documents were uploaded by the team members.
Provided the Work Break Down hours for each identified RICEF object and
configuration. Effort in hours for unit testing and getting more resources
onboard if required or releasing the resources.
Coordinated getting sign off on business blue print document from the
core team.
Coordinated getting sign off on the functional requirement document and
signed off the technical requirement documents.

Project Realization Phase

o Was responsible to configuring the system using the functional requirement
document and unit testing the functionality.
o Completed the realization phase using iterative SDLC methodology.
o Performed the functional testing
o Coordinated with the BASIS team to transport all the configurations to the
test environment
o Responsibilities pertaining to project management
Managed user acceptance testing and got the sign off from the core
team.
Was responsible for facing the SOX check and balance audits.

Pre-Go Live Phase

o Was responsible for using LSMW to upload the master data in sandbox,
development , testing and production environment
o Performed some of the cut- over activities
o Created all the user training documents and conducted user training
o Responsibilities pertaining to project management
Took final signoff from the implementation team.
Faced the SOX audits to get approval from the SOX audit team. This was
critical for release.

Go Live Phase
o Coordinated with the basis team to transport the configurations to production
environment

Responsibilities pertaining to project management

Attended all the release related meetings to make sure the whole team
was ready to implement the project in production
Was the on call person on the day of project go-live day and attended all
the weekend meetings to make sure the system was stable.

4) What are the responsibilities of "CORE TEAM" and "FUNCTIONAL TEAM" in an

implementation?

CORE TEAM: Consists of subject matter experts, company business process

owners/experts, end users representatives and super users.
FUNCTIONAL TEAM: is the team that consists of contractual consultants and
full time employees that implement this project most of these resources are
released after the project go-live.
Responsibility of CORE TEAM

Responsibility of FUNCTIONAL TEAM

Project Preparation Phase:

this phase is driven by the core

team
module wise as -is study
as is process flow
gather information on
drawing / templates
number of templates being
used and what will be needed
going forward
identify reports
as is documentation and sign
off

During this phase of project

preparation the functional team is
trying to understand the current asis scenarios from the core team

Deliverable and artifacts: AS-IS

document signed off by SME,
Business Process Owners
Business Blue Print Phase:

to be documentation sign off

(this is the guiding document
for all next phases)
sign off on how much data will
be used for user acceptance
testing and functional testing

This phase is mainly driven by the

functional team

prototyping and conducting

workshops for requirement
gathering
designing the to be process flow
the fit gap analysis and

documentation
identify and document all the
RICEF(W)

Deliverables or artifacts:

Functional Specifications
Document
Technical Specifications
Document
Functional Test scenarios and Test
cases
To be documentation
collision list

Realization Phase:
This phase is mostly done in iterations and each iteration consists
of configuration of RICEF objects and standard configuration, Unit
testing by Functional Team, Integration Testing by Functional team
and user acceptance testing by the CORE team

Perform the user acceptance

testing with increasing amount of
test data and sign off each
iteration.
The final testing is the end to end
testing carried out by the SME,
Business Process Owners and core
team with all master data.

configuring all the RICEF objects

configuring all the standard
configurations mentioned in the
blue print document
perform the unit testing
SOX Compliance check and
balance
training needs and all related
documents

Pre-Go Live:

cut over activities are monitored

setting up of sandbox , dev ,

testing and prod environment is
carried out
perform the cut over activities
upload all master data in
sandbox, development, testing
and production environment and
all configurations are transported

Go-Live

stabilize the system

Move the delta master and

transaction data created during
the span of cutover period.

Troubleshoot production issue

5) Explain briefly about the last project you worked on. What was your role in the that
project?

In my current project I am working as a Lead Consultant for moving the OTC

and LE process of a group of HP products from legacy non SAP system to SAP
system. It is a HP global roll out for the countries USA, United Kingdom,
Canada, Mexico and Australia.
As a part of the functional team I am responsible for conducting workshops
with stakeholders for requirements gathering and drafting the functional
requirements documents. I am using SAP implementation best practices to
make architecture level suggestions and designing the business blue print as
well as reviewing and signing off the technical requirements document. I am
also working with the testing team to finalizing test cases for functional,
integration and User Acceptance testing. Configuring the SAP system and
writing requirements for the RICEF object development after the hybrid fit
gap analysis. Coordinating with the SAP Abap team for RICEF implementation
and testing. I serve as a point of contact for all questions and clarification
regarding SAP SD/LE integration points with SAP MM/WM/FI/CO and PI and
other questions related to the module.
I am responsible for handling the
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Scope Management
Requirements Management
Schedule Management
Quality Management
Resource Management
Communications Management
Project Change Management
Risk Management

6) Project management is critical to success in this role. What are some of the
projects that you handled in your current or previous role?

I have been handling project management tasks for last 3 positions that I
have held.

7) What was the tool you used to create a project plan?

I have used Microsoft Project to create project plan
8) Please describe the last configuration project you worked on.

My current project with HP is a full lifecycle implementation project. I am a

lead consultant for configuration of the sales and logistics execution module.
In this project I have configured sales area, sales documents, pricing
procedure, copy control routines, shipping point, shipping conditions,
delivery type, picking packing, goods issue, route determination, shipment
pricing, billing, contracts, milestone billing.
9) Please describe a time when you had to resolve an issue. What was the issue and
what steps did you take to resolve?

When I was working in Allstate as a senior consultant for one of the minor
release we had an issue in which proper change request was not created by
one of the consultant and due to SOX non-compliance we were not being
allowed to move the changes to production and this was a critical production
issue.
I accepted that as a team we had made a mistake and had
to write a request email to the director to allow us to make changes so that
we become SOX compliant and be able to move the changes to production.
The root cause of this mistake was a
communication gap between our internal release coordinator and the
consultant. I made sure that we include all the details in the internal release
guidelines for the team. Creation of Change Request was no longer an
assumption and was discussed it in each release meeting.
10)

What is one thing you are most proud of in your career?

In my current project with HP I am responsible for migrating pricing for some

of their products from an old legacy non SAP system to the SAP system. In
the analysis phase I found that the company was trying to replicate the exact
workflow from the legacy system to the SAP system. The current approach
was under utilizing the pricing features that SAP has to offer and would most
likely cause a performance bottleneck in future.
I created a proof of
concept in SAP sandbox to show that they can reduce their pricing master
data maintenance in SAP system by moving away from the price list concept
in the legacy system and implementing them as discount conditions.
I facilitated the required meetings between different stakeholders and
business process owners to accept the implementation change