SAP IS-Retail, Freelancer Consultant

HCL AXON
SAP IS-Retail, Senior Consultant
11.2009 - today
Implementing Company: Shoprite Holdings-South Africa
• Complex project with 50+ legacy applications.
• Biggest Retailer in Africa with 1500+ stores.
• Part of this implementation from last 5 + years.
• Gone through all phases of project like Design, Build, Testing, Go-Live, After Go-Live support.
• Responsible for designing and delivering 15 + interfaces & 15+ Functional specs.



Tata Consultancy Services
SAP IS-Retail Solution Architect
03.2014 - 12.2014
Implementing Company: Marks & Spencers United Kingdom
• One of the largest global food & apparel retailers.
• Very complex landscape with over 200 + Legacy applications.
• Part of SAP HANA project.
• One of the initial implementations of HANA.
• Responsible for understanding fairly complex solution.
• Involved in designing Assortment Planning (AP) & Product Lifecycle Management(PLM) integration projects.
• Working as Solution architect on international SAP instant.
• Working on couple of other projects like UPC Recycling, Channel Islands etc.
• UPC recycling is a fairly complex project involving runtime calls to HANA through SAP ECC.
• Responsible for solutioning entire project with number of Bespoke programs.



Capgemini
SAP IS-Retail Consultant
05.2013 - 12.2013
Implementing Company: Al-Futtaim
• Full life cycle implementation of SAP MAP-OAPC
• Biggest Retailer in United Arab Emirates.
• Only consultant working from SAP IS-Retail side.
• Gone through all phases of project like Design, Build, Testing, Go-Live, After Go-Live support.
• Responsible for designing and delivering Operational Assortment Planning Cycle(OAPC)
• Responsible for building an interface in between BI & OAPC.
• Also responsible for building fairly complex reports on Markdown Planning



Vishal Ratail Ltd
Project Manager & Solution Architect
04.2008 - 11.2009
Implementing Company :- Vishal Retail Limited
• Identifying need of Stratgic Planning, Merchandise Planning + OTB Planning, Store Planning ,& Assortment planning.
• Designing Assortments accordingly.
• Exploring MAP functionalities available in SAP.
• Exploring integration of BI-MAP with SAP IS-Retail system.
• Preparing BBP for planning process.
• Dividing planning into 4 plans 1) Strategic Plan 2) Store Plan 3) Merchandise Plan 4) Assortment Plan.
• Configuring 1) Strategic Plan 2) Store Plan 3) Merchandise Plan 4) Assortment Plan in BI-MAP
• Blue Printing for Operational Assortment Planning & Control (OAPC) functionality in SAP IS-Retail.
• Worked on Aggregation levels, Filters, Planning Functions, etc
• Unit Testing of Configured plans.
• End to End Integration testing of MAP.
• Uploading of planning data from legacy system in BI-MAP.
• Implementing Slow Seller Management functionality.
• GO-Live preparations & going live.



Transweave Solutions
Subject Matter Expert
08.2007 - 03.2008
• Scheduling discovery sessions with different clients.
• Engaging into fulltime business workshops with CEO & other business users.
• Understanding complex business processes in Fashion & seasonal merchandising.
• Understanding legacy system.(Upto extent)
• Configuring demonstration scenario for MAP.
• Configuring demonstration scenario for SAP IS-Retail & OAPC engine.
• Demonstrating capabilities of SAP MAP & SAP IS-Retail.
• Documenting BPP (Business Process Planning) & performing fit gap analysis.
• Explaining importance of functionalities & its use in store replenishment.



NIIT Technologies Limited
SAP-Consultant
02.2007 - 08.2007
Implementing Company:-Future Group

• Working as CRM & IS-Retail Lead Consultant
• Worked on CRM B2C E-Commerce Scenario & IS-Retail as backend
• Development Support & Roll Out Implementation of IS-Retail
• Interacting with client, collecting there requirements, designing and delivering according to clients expectations.



Siemens
SAP Consultant
0.2005 - 0.2007
Implementing Company:-Hindustan Times Ltd (SAP IS-Media) Implementation Project

• Working with a team of SD & MSD Consultant
• End To End Life Cycle Implementation
• Studying As-Is process.
• Preparing & Presenting BBP (Business Blue Print).
• Performing GAP analysis.
• Making IMG Configurations for Circulation and Subscription ( IS-MSD) & SD
• Preparing FS for Z reports & implementing important developments pertaining to IS- MEDIA.
• Activating user exits with help of ABAP team.
• Testing developments and getting them signed off.
• Collecting Master Data from 17 different sales locations
• Deciding upload strategy of master data (Either by LSMW or BDC)
• Performing unit test/Integration test . Preparing documents for same.
• Helping core team to prepare End User Manuals
• Integration testing with PP,MM, FI,CRM (Campaign Management & Tele Sales)
• Deriving GO-LIVE strategies(Parallel Run, Total Cut Off, Phase wise implementation, Total go-live)
• Responsible for all deliveries