PROFILE
14+ years of experience in SAP R/3 Implementing SAPSales and Distribution (OM,
Pricing, Trade Promotions, Logistics, EDI),Vistex Incentives and Paybacks, Vistex Data
Maintenance-Pricing, LES - Transportation, Materials Management, Warehouse
management and Logistic General modules.
Multiple full-life cycle implementation and Upgrades.
Expertise in Vistex Incentives and Payback Module (Contract Pricing,
Chargebacks, Billbacks, Customer Rebates, Claims processing) including Contracts,
Memberships, Composite IP, IP Types, IP document controls, pricing procedures,
claims, partner responses, EDI,Accruals, settlements and financial reconciliations.
Extensive experience in Wholesale Distribution, Food, Consumer Products, Life
sciencesElectronics and manufacturing industries
Project Management & Team Lead Experience- SAP certified.
Experienced in Implementing Customer specific Pricing and Account determination based
on business requirements.
Provided First of a kind catch weight solution for Meat Industries.
In depth conceptual & analytical knowledge in Planning, Prototyping, Customizing,
Testing, Training & Documenting SAP Lead to Cash and Vistex IPProcesses.
Experienced in creating Functional Design documents, Swim lanes, Process flow design
documents, and QRGs Quick reference guides.
Very well versed in working with BAPI,EDI and IDOC processing.
Conducted Road shows, seminars, training sessions and presentations.
Worked in aggressive schedules through all phases of development life cycle (unit,
integration, User Acceptance, QA, and regression testing).
Industries covered: Retail, Food, Consumer Products, Automobile, Agro-chemical, Life
Sciences and Electronics.
Functional Expertise:
Configuration expertise in the areas of SAP SD and MM Pricing/Promotions, Vistex
Chargebacks, Billbacks, Rebates, Agreements / Contracts, Programs, Sales deals,
Promotions, Volume Rebates, Growth Rebates, Purchasing Rebates, Sales
Incentives/commissions, Memberships GPO, Buy groups and Chain memberships, DM
Pricing, Price profiles, price catalogs, Price Books, Price maintenance
Configuration expertise in the areas of SAP Order Management, Shipping, Billing,
Pricing, Output, Availability check, Credit Management, Rebate Processing, Batch
Management, EDI, Foreign Trade, Inter Company Business Process, Returns Processing,
Procurement, Inventory and Warehouse Management.
Extensive experience in Cross-Module integration of SAP SD with MM, WM, FI and CO-
PA, BI/BOBJ and also Vistex HR/Payrollintegration
Worked in all phases from gathering Requirements, Business Blueprinting, GAP Analysis,
Configuration, FRICE Specs, Testing, End User Training, UAT, Cutover, GO-LIVE and
Production/hyper-care Support.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Responsibilities include: Project 1:Upgrade Vistex IP software from 6OC SP1 to 60E SP1,
provide support in resolving technical issues with upgrade and data migrations
Project 2 (Sprint 1, extended solutions and enhancements in SD and IP processes):Gather
business requirements; perform GAP analysis, blue printing, solution design, configuration and
implementation of Vistex IP Billbacks for following processes.
Vistex IP/Billbacks:
1. IP Contracts Membership
a. Membership structure
b. GPO mergers
c. Performance
d. Block codes
e. Admin fee report the member ID
2. IP Contracts Administration
a. Eligibility Rules and Cross Validation
b. Tiered indirect contracts
c. Multiple admin fees
d. Admin fee exclusions
e. Agreement Requests
f. EDI 845 indirect
g. Contract tier report modification
h. Miscellaneous Contract
3. IP Rebates
a. Admin Fee (Composite)
b. MDF (Transactional, claim based settlement)
c. Misc. (Transactional, claim based settlement)
d. Admin fee exclusions
e. Contract tier report modification
4. IP Billback Reconciliation
a. Deductions and credit functionality
b. Claim lifecycle (Financial monitoring)
5. IP Claim Validation/Settlements
a. Sales tracing from distributors (EDI 867)
b. Claim validations rules
c. Address matching
d. Claim partner determination modifications
e. Winning Agreement resolution
f. Resubmissions
g. ADM
h. Auto Correction
i. Miscellaneous claim
6. IP Reporting
a. Tiered indirect contracts
b. Admin fee exclusions
c. Contract tier report modification
d. Tier Compliance
e. Sales Report
Responsibilities include: Gather business requirements on open issues; perform GAP analysis,
blue printing, solution design, configuration and implementation of Vistex Sales Incentives for
following.
Delivered following:
1. Performed detailed analysis on requirements and current configuration.
2. Provided solution advise on implementing right fixes as best practice solutions
3. Modified sales incentive plan configuration as needed for employee partner assignment
at subcomponent level of each deployment code (North America, Asia and Europe).
4. Modified subcomponent formulae to change the incentive amount calculation using
qualification rules (sales region and employee office)
5. Deactivated the approval code requirement for all the three deployment codes.
6. Activated the employee (id) as settlement partner and uploaded participant records to
process the settlement.
7. Configured new wage types, payroll profile and activated settlement of incentives
through HR-Payroll.
8. Applied moderate changes to some of the current configuration of agreement types,
Pricing procedures, deployment codes, subcomponent mapping (for all plans), as well as
participation setup to make the flow correct.
9. Developed functional specifications: to modify the commission calculation logic which
is purely built using agreement #, to correct code for missing tracking key figure (Total
settled amount) separate code for each deployment code (North America, Asia and
Europe), to correct user-exit code to map the settlement details (North America, Asia and
Europe), correct code for Europe as the logic is different compared to NA and Asia
pacific.
10. Implemented OSS note to fix settlements through Collective tracking and calculation run
documents
11. Customized calculations to handle multiple currency
12. Case I: Qualifying and payout in same currency.
13. Case II: Qualifying and payout in different currencies (multiple currency).
14. Developed functional spec to report calculation run details to read internal postings from
Vistex database and display results by employee.
15. Provided support in go-live and hyper care.
16. Prepared and delivered a detailed knowledge transfer document
Responsibilities include: Gather business requirements, perform GAP analysis, blue printing,
solution design, configuration and implementation of Vistex data maintenancepricing for following
key processes.
Responsibilities include: Provide hyper care support for customer rebates, design and implement
special enhancements in Vistex IP and enhancement in CO-PA posting from IP. Worked on
following processes
Vistex DMP:
1. Price Upload Process
a. List prices
b. Discounts
c. Freight
d. Surcharges
2. Price list.
a. Published price catalogs.
3. Price Reporting
a. EDI
Special enhancements:
1. Change posting date for IP accruals and reverse accruals to current date from retro/order
entry dates.
2. Provide solution as a permanent fix for COPA characteristics Destination.
3. Create/modify IP reprocessing program to Re-process IP documents only for changes
limited to IP customer rebates as well as change in customers seed certification status.
Responsibilities include: Gather business requirements; perform GAP analysis, blue printing,
solution design, configuration and implementation of Vistex Billbacks (Customer chargebacks) for
following processes.
Responsibilities include: business requirements, GAP analysis, blue printing, solution design,
configuration and implementation of Vistex Data Maintenance Pricingfor following processes.
Price Simulations
1. Price Books for US and Canada
Designed and configured various condition tables, access sequences, condition types,
price sheets to meet business requirements.
Designed and build price upload process.
Configuredprice profiles, selection profiles, extension profiles, price proposals to facilitate
business needs for price maintenance.
Configured Price Requests to allow business price validation and approvals.
Configured and developed workflow notification process for price requests.
Configured Price Books for US and Canada to allow price simulations / cascades.
Configured Master sheet and price sheet specific formulas.
Configured price segments with various attributes to allow business to maintain various
segments as required for price catalogues generation.
Configured and implemented price catalogue (DM Pricing functionality) for price
publications to trade partners/customers (Semi-annual).
Worked on various functional specifications for Vistex DM pricing RICEFWsto implement
customized Whirlpool specific processes to allow local enhancements, implement local
business rules, new customer facing forms, new business reports and
enhancements/BADIs for price catalogues generation using customer specific publishing
template(s), also an enhancement to implement automation in price proposal generations
once the purchase requisition is approved (manual/mass approval).
Developed multiple VOFM routines:for Pricing Requirements, condition value and
condition base value, for the different pricing procedures for US/CASales as well as
pricing procedures for price books.
Coordinated with offshore team for technical development and unit testing.
Configured block profiles, customized and activated Vistex BSPs to allow business to
perform the DM pricing operation on the web/intranet portal.
Configured prototypes to demonstrate following DM pricing functions: Price requests
create maintenance and upload, price sheets, Price Approval process, Price proposals,
Price catalogues and Price books for price simulation.
Configured Launchpad(s) for different user group based role and geography to allow
ease of access to daily operation transaction codes.
Finished unit testing of all the end-to-end processes also helped key users in building
business test cases for UAT.
Supported business process owners in planning cutovers and data migration of US and
CANADA.
Provided support to develop custom extractors for EDW and BI for management
reporting.
Prepared and delivered knowledge transfer documents, other operational documentation
to help business to perform price uploads, and for executing other DM pricing processes.
Assisted business during UAT of end-to-end processes in DM pricing and integration with
OTC (orders and billing) for both US and Canada
Claims:
Chargeback (MDF, Misc)
Reverse Settlements
Responsibilities include: business requirements, provide GAP analysis, complete solution design
of chargebacks, rebates, sales incentives (spiff) and Buyer show, end-to-end configuration of all
the Vistex processes, user training, support testing, cutover and go-live.
This is a transition of custom in-house solution and manual processes to ECC 6.0 / IS-CWM and
Vistex 6.0C SP1 (Chargebacks, Rebates, Incentives).
Vendor Chargebacks
Volume rebates
Coupons
Marketing Fees
Deviated Claims
Purchasing Rebates
Flat Rebates
Fixed fund
Growth rebates
Incentives
Sales Rep commissions
Sales Spiff (Vendor paid) Claim based
Responsibilities include: business requirements, GAP analysis, blue printing, solution design,
configuration and implementation of Vistex Billbacks and Customer Rebates for following trade
processes.
Master data
Contracts
Membership Lists (Buy-Groups, Sub Buy-groups)
EDI 845 to distributors
Billbacks
Direct customer volume rebate claim based settlement
Direct customer volume rebate Auto settlement
Direct customer Marketing funds Claim based settlement
Direct customer Marketing funds Auto settlement
Direct customer Deviated claim Claim based settlement
Indirect customer volume rebate claim based settlement
Indirect customer Marketing funds Claim based settlement
Indirect customer Deviated claim Claim based settlement
Direct customer Claw backs Auto settlement
Sales tracing (from distributor via EDI 867)
Rebates
Customer rebates
Buying Group Rebates
Growth rebates
Incentives
Sales rep incentives
Commissions
Broker commissions
Deduction Management
Customer deduction via FSCM dispute case
DM Pricing
National price list
EDI price catalogue
Responsibilities: Sr. Lead Consultant for implementation of Vistex Data maintenance Pricing,
IPinvolving Chargeback, Billbacks and performance based Rebates.
Involved in rollout of Vistex Billbacks & Rebates rollout for a large Food Service Meat and
Bakery Manufacturer in Downers Grove, IL
Conducted conference room pilots, led blueprinting and business requirement and functional
design phases of the project
Designed and configured pricing conditions, Rebate types, agreements, accruals,
settlements for both Direct and Trace rebates. Designed Direct Sales rebates process to
calculate rebates for Invoices, Debit memos, Credit memos, Returns Credit Memo returns
Designed and implemented Claim workflows which gets routed automatically to the
designated persons to request approvals, for the actual claims submitted by the distributor
Responsible for configuring price procedures and other pricing elements for Claims
Processing (Expected Claims& actual claims ), IP bill back Accruals and settlement
documents
Configured Account Assignment, Accrual profiles, Settlement profiles for required postings to
FI / COPA from IP Billbacks
Configured IP types, pricing procedures, Listing/Exclusion rules, GPO memberships,
Chargeback Contracts, Rebate Agreements, LIS updates, to support various Chargebacks,
Incentive scenarios
Set up EDI 845 for Agreements and 844 & 849 for Claims
Designed and configured Claim requests to bring in the Trace Sales information to SAP
Designed and configured Sales Traces and customer master data
Designed and configured various price sheets to meet business requirements.
Designed and build price upload process.
Configured LIS Info structures, Update Groups and Update Rules for update from the IP Bill
back processes.
Configured workflow notification process for various IP objects including agreement request/
agreements/price proposals.
Configured price profiles to facilitate business needs.
Developed Specifications for Pricing Requirements and Routines, Data Transfer
Routines, Output programs and forms for Agreements and Bill backs.
Involved in building prototypes for several Purchasing and Customer rebate scenarios for
various customers. Modeled rebate scenarios such as Volume rebates, Growth rebates,
PDAs, Co-op advertising rebates
The consolidated system had over 3000 SAP active users of MM, SD/LE, FI, CO-PA, PP, PM,
WM/ EWM, SAP Console, EDI, and various third party systems includes Taxware, Nistevo (TMS)
and Blacksmith (Trade Promotions)
Total of 360 plants (including 100+ 3PLs) were brought live to SAP for direct
transactions or EDI
Configured and migrated legacy pricing structure into SAP global pricing as national
price plus discounts and promotions. This made Blacksmith more productive
Configured new sales channel and pricing process for Employee Sales
Configured and implemented Broker commission process that involved new agreement
type and multiple condition types to accommodate weight based, quantity based or %
base calculation of commissions for broker. New pricing procedures. Also developed
tools to load, modify, monitor and monthly settlement of huge commission agreements.
Implemented Re-Distributors Sales History via EDI 867 into SAP to help accrue and
settle Broker commissions, indirect sales promotions and bill backs for the end
customers. Configured new debit memo type ZRED and pricing procedure to capture
the data
Configured and implemented new sales order type with 100 % discount pricing, new
pricing procedure for calculating/accruing applicable commissions and promotions
Configured and implemented new rebate processes to
Configured and implemented BDRs for customer orders via custom
solution/enhancement
Extended Handling Unit Management to all direct SAP plants with WM rollouts to
efficiently manage warehousing through SAP Console.
Implemented carrier payment settlement process by developing custom solution with
EDI 210
Developed and implemented a custom solution for intercompany purchasing of shared
products
NON-SAP Experience