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Abhishek Kumar

Union,KY

Summary

11+ years of experience in SAP and MDM Field. Consulting experience includes various SAP and MDM projects (Development, Support & Enhancement). Industry exposure with SAP MDM, SAP MM, Data Quality and MDM: Consumer Electronics, Agribusiness, Healthcare, Consumer Goods & Retail. Strong knowledge in Material, Vendor, Customer S/4 HANA Implementation and Migration Managed development projects with business requirement collection, business process analysis, gap analysis, configuration, data load, unit test & integration testing. Analysis of information system requirement, evaluating end user requirements, custom designing solutions and troubleshooting any problems in the process. Hands on experience in configuration, customization, master data maintenance, process testing & trouble shooting in SAP and MDM tools knowledge of SAP S4/HANA modules interfacing, SAP tables and transactions, functionalities like Organization structures, sales organization, customization of Global MDM, Material Master (MM), Vendor Master Managing Support projects including incident management, change management, bug fixes, enhancement, service management (SLA’s) Plan, align, manage, and execute Supply Chain activities to enact product changes through multiple ERP applications including MDM and SAP on new product introductions as well as revisions to current products. Possess good communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team as well as individually to manage Clients and Projects.

Systems professional with extensive experience delivering impactful solutions in technology sector. Known for fostering collaboration and driving projects to completion with focus on results. Reliable and adaptable, possessing strong analytical skills and deep understanding of system integration and process improvement.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr System Analyst-S/4 HANA

Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM)
11.2022 - Current
  • Providing deep functional & technical expertise for applications & products supporting one or more process areas
  • Partnering with Process Analyst(s) to participate in the preliminary investigation for project solutions requests, requirements gathering, collecting data from a variety of sources, evaluating, and interpreting data, and drawing conclusions on solution options.
  • Supporting S/4 HANA implementation team in developing, validating, and implementing business specific use cases and test scripts related to Material master.
  • Leading data conversion activities and coordination with E2E team to gather requirement on data migration
  • Writing detailed functional and technical designs for reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, and/or workflows, partnering with development teams as needed
  • Working with Process Analyst(s) to identify system configuration needs and perform system configuration as needed.
  • Collaborating with other IT delivery teams to ensure efficient and effective design, development, and implementation of end-to-end solutions.
  • Working with the Solution Leader and Process Analyst to support the development, maintenance, and communication of solutions roadmap for application(s) that service the business process.
  • Providing technical expertise required to resolve escalated issues.

Sr. Consultant MDM

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation
05.2018 - 11.2022
  • The purpose of the MPI web service is to provide a real time interface allowing user to manage and retrieve data from MPI.
  • Gathering client requirements, analysis of the requirements estimates
  • Creating design and documentation based on the requirement.
  • Analyzing different source attribute and providing system support as in required.
  • Data cleansing & data analysis and regenerating reports
  • Direct Data Quality activities
  • Review Master Data Management approach, outcomes, and activities
  • Work with other Data Owners to resolve data issues and dissonance across business units.
  • Second level review for issues identified by Data Stewards and Perform Data Stewardship using IBM Data Stewardship portal
  • Evaluated clients' needs and created plan of action to provide solutions.
  • Troubleshot issues by understanding issue, diagnosing root cause and coming up with effective solutions.

SAPMM/MDM Functional Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation
08.2017 - 05.2018
  • Prolink represents the foundation of the PepsiCo ISCP strategy and will be a key enabler of the Supply Chain operating model by standardizing ISCP processes and tools for the entire Sector.
  • Created source to target mapping document.
  • Changed Common format view document to accommodate MDM program changes.
  • Set up product hierarchy code for demand planning attributes required for all SAP NON PIRT markets
  • Analyzing all relevant attributes required for DP.
  • Functional testing
  • Coordinating team level meeting will all markets leads and identifying all requirements.
  • Data cleansing & data analysis
  • Delivered high-quality results by implementing best practices in functional consulting methodologies and tools.
  • Conducted gap analyses to identify areas of improvement in existing systems or processes, leading to increased productivity and user satisfaction.

SAPMM/MDM Functional Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation
01.2016 - 07.2017
  • The FLNA Master Data Management Release 3.1 project is the first of three releases within R3 and is part of a multi-year program that will replace the FLNA Master Files systems in several work streams.
  • Created Functional design and source to target mapping document.
  • Prepared Material Master Data maps for all the relevant fields and specifications for Material master (screen layouts) conversion.
  • Configured the Material Master records and customized the screen layout for Materials with relevant field selection.
  • Material master maintenance using MM02 & MM03 transaction.
  • Material Creation using Winshuttle.
  • Managed master data for Material Master, Vendor Master, Customer Master, Info Records, and BOMs.
  • Maintaining IDOCs and sending into MDM from SAP.
  • Worked on table template editor for data migration in Teradata MDM UI.
  • Updated reference data tables and created reverse mapping to synchronize incoming source data into global MDM.
  • Performed code set mapping for mater data based on 1WS(GS1) code changes and requirement.
  • Worked on MDM common format view to enable changes based on requirement.
  • Monitor matching and survivorship jobs and troubleshoot error and reporting to MDM technical.
  • Wrote test cases as per business requirement and completed AT/SIT and supported business users to complete UAT.
  • Responsible for testing SAP BOBJ material reports post migration to 4.2.
  • Performed gap analysis between legacy system master data and SAP master data (material).
  • Writing functional specification for customized programs/reports and enhancement testing and transportation.

MDM Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation
02.2015 - 12.2015
  • The product master data will contain all product related information.
  • Involved in Data Extraction from Oracle and flat files using Informatica.
  • Working on Informatica – Source Analyzer, Mapping Designer, Mapplet, Transformations, and Workflow Manager.
  • Created and tested mappings, workflows from source to stage and stage to landing tables.
  • Using Informatica Analyst tool analyzing source data and creating IDQ profiles and generating score cards.

SAP MDM Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation
07.2012 - 01.2015
  • The PDS service is in principle a data hub service in which people data is collected, stored, merged and distributed to various subscriber systems (both send & receive and internal & external).
  • Created functional and technical documentation based on the requirement.
  • Created Workflows and adapted validation and assignment based on business rules defined by business to complete the data load and syndication process.
  • Created Input/output ports & Remote systems in Console for data load synchronization between repositories.
  • Created Import and Export map in Import manager, updating value, key and field mapping.
  • Designing the Data Manager as Matching Tool by creating Transformation, Rules & Strategies on it.
  • Export & Import of Repository Schema and Updated maps based on XSD.
  • Developed End user training material & power point presentation.
  • Support Activities: Interfacing: Daily monitoring of proper running of all interfaces, dispatching of error reporting to the countries and/or downstream systems, identification of technical error causes and guide resolution process.
  • Worked on fixing structural, value and Import exceptions.
  • Troubleshooting various import operations and syndication operations from MDM to different systems.
  • Executed Bulk upload of different categories of employees such as NAC+, Contractors, and M&A.
  • Global Data Synchronization (GDS): Handle Product & vendor data, by adding the data, followed by registering and publishing the data globally.

Education

Masters Certificat Program - Supply Chain Management

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

Bachelor’s In Technology (B. Tech) -

Cochin University of Science & Technology

Skills

  • SAP data analysis
  • Change Request Management in SAP
  • Experience with SAP S/4HANA implementation
  • Experience with SAP ECC 60 implementation
  • Data quality assessment
  • Teradata
  • IBM Infosphere
  • SQL
  • Oracle
  • MS Visio
  • Experience with SAP Netweaver Master Data Management
  • Informatica Developer
  • Informatica Analyst
  • Microsoft Word
  • Teradata SQL editor
  • Excel
  • SOAP UI
  • PowerPoint

Timeline

Sr System Analyst-S/4 HANA

Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM)
11.2022 - Current

Sr. Consultant MDM

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation
05.2018 - 11.2022

SAPMM/MDM Functional Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation
08.2017 - 05.2018

SAPMM/MDM Functional Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation
01.2016 - 07.2017

MDM Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation
02.2015 - 12.2015

SAP MDM Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation
07.2012 - 01.2015

Masters Certificat Program - Supply Chain Management

Michigan State University

Bachelor’s In Technology (B. Tech) -

Cochin University of Science & Technology
Abhishek Kumar