Arvind Shukla

Objectives

A challenging position as SAP Consultant / Project / Implementation Manager with a progressive company that effectively utilizes acquired expertise and experience.

Skills

• SAP SD

  Advanced
  Years of Experience: 8 years
  • SAP SD

• SAP LE

  Advanced
  Years of Experience: 4 years
  • SAP LE

• SAP GTS

  Advanced
  Years of Experience: 4 years
  • SAP GTS

Work Experience

• Business Advisor/Manager

  2003 June - 2008 December
  BearingPoint
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

   Spearheaded the pursuit of $500K engagement with WR Grace (USA). As the project manager and GTS lead managed a team of over 7 consultants for their SAP GTS implementation in Version 7.2. Advised client on their compliance issues and delivered an on-time within budget solution for their North American operations.

   Lead a team for UFA, Calgary for their IS Retail plus IS Oil and Gas implementation in SAP version ECC 6. Designed, configured and supported their very complex order to cash processes involving retail, bulk and construction businesses including sale of oil and gas products. Designed and configured their retail/bulk pricing and billing structure with contract billing and down payment and invoice list requirements. Involved in every step with integration to FI/MM /PS modules.

   Successfully lead and delivered a compliance management solution involving GTS version 7.1 and EH&S modules. Responsible for designing and configuring LE module for EMD Chemicals (Merck Chemicals). Managed complete data migration project for SD/LE/GTS elements including customer master and hazardous material master data.

   Implemented Quality Management (Certificates), Pricing, Revenue Recognition and LE processes including the complete Rail Car Management package, Shipment cost management and FCX module in a SAP 5.0 implementation for a leading fertilizer and mining company (Mosaic).

   Led a team of 12 professionals in a leading chemicals company (Air Products & Chemicals) for their SAP implementation for their South European (Spain, Italy & Portugal) operations. Responsible for a complex order to cash and GTS implementations. Designed and setup complex pricing and billing structure. Involved in setup of EDI interfaces with key customers.

   Managed a support engagement for a leading gaming software company (Konami). Lead a team for issue resolutions and enhancements pertaining to SD/SM-LE/MM/FI/CO activities covering several sub-modules from order-to-cash, service contract management to shipping and transport planning.

   Lead SAP Order to Cash and Foreign Trade implementation for Maytag Corporation covering complex requirements contracts, pricing and billing processes involving European partners and third party entities. Developed Foreign Trade forms where necessary and designed license and preference compliance requirements.

   Successfully conducted extensive workshops for KLA-Tencor to evaluate their enterprise solution requirements. As team lead for SD was instrumental in influencing their choice of SAP for their enterprise management and GTS for their compliance requirements.

   Engaged as key business designer with TSI Instruments to re-engineer their entire order to cash business flow including foreign trade processes involving compliance issues with sensitive meters exported by the client.

• SAP SD Lead

  2002 October - 2003 May
  IBM / Pearson Technologies
  Toronto, New Jersey, United States

  The responsibility includes setting up the team, getting knowledge transfer and work allocation. Day to day activities involve, creating a database of issues from the users, allocating the issues to the team members with expected date of completion of the task, monitoring the progress in resolving the issues and finally approving the resolution. Creating functional specification for new reports and enhancements. Configuration changes. Involved in imparting training the users on Sales order management, Output & Pricing determination and Delivery creation. Involved extensively in Mass maintenance of Price, Batch and Material substitutions. Monitoring batch jobs and reporting.

• SAP SD Functional Consultant

  2001 July - 2002 October
  Chevron Texaco Corporation
  San Ramon, California, United States

  Engagement required setting up of master data: customer, material determination, product proposal, Material listing/Exclusion. Configure logistics chain in relation to SD involving Sales Inquires, Quotations, and sales order Management. Configure the Order management – with custom order types, item categories, schedule lines, and copy control for sales documents, specifying different copying requirements. Define incompletion procedures for sales document types by specifying the mandatory fields at header, item and schedule line level. Define pricing procedures, document and customer pricing procedures as per the business requirement. Define new condition tables, access sequences, and condition types for the new pricing procedures. Separate prices set up for regular customers and OEM customers, by defining different price groups.

• SAP – SD Consultant

  1999 August - 2000 November
  Cyberworld Solutions
  Oakbrook, Illinois, United States

  Configuring and customizing the global and general settings in the Sales and distribution module, defining the organizational structure, map the settings and activated the organization in SD Module. Configured foreign trade scenarios. Population of Customer Master data. Business Process study and map to SAP standard. Setting up of Product proposals, material determination to boost the sales of allied items. Availability check and transfer of Requirements (Made to stock and made to order items) Special billing types for inter company orders. Configured Output determination parameters for Sales, Shipping and Billing documents.

• General Manager

  Russotrade
  Moscow, Russian Federation

  Identified products for the market, sourced and evaluated suppliers locally and world wide, negotiated contracts, monitored shipments and facilitated customs. Created sales targets and strategies to achieve maximum turnover for maximum return on investments. Directed all financial, budgeting, operating, compliance, purchasing, marketing, human resource, public relations and administrative functions. Ensured timely execution of all financial reporting, operating forecasts, cash flow planning, new project evaluation, banking and taxation, legal, regulatory, advertising, cost/pricing and related activities. Monitored and controlled credit facilities, approved expenditures and liaised with bankers, government officials, vendors and other concerned agencies. Analyzed competitor pricing and formulated pricing strategies, product mix discounts and special combination values. Managed, controlled and monitored total logistics from locating customers, taking orders, sourcing products, placing orders, negotiating orders, supplies and shipping services to attain maximum profits, monitoring shipments for quality and timely deliveries.

Academic Background

• Master's Degree

  Lucknow University
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Major: Business Administration