1/12/2019 Resume: Pradeep Raj, SAP SRM Lead

Pradeep Raj

• Over 5 years of experience as an SAP SRM and CCM Lead Functional Consultant with over 6 years in the I.T industry.
• Extensive knowledge of SRM MM and ERP functionality
• Experience working with SAP customers worldwide on their implementations/support when working with SAP Labs.
• Resolved over 300 customer issues in SRM and CCM domain.
• Working experience with major SRM customers in the U.S, Asia, Australia and Europe.
• Worked on all SRM versions starting from SRM 3.0 to SRM 5.0.
• Worked with CCM 1.0 and CCM 2.0
• Decent technical exposure and trained on ABAP, ABAP OO in SAP LABS
• Experience in customization and enhancements.
• Implementation with ASAP methodology and SAP Solution Manager.
• Well versed in Integration of SRM with MM, Project systems, cFolders and FICO.
• Integration of SRM with CCM
• Senior member of my-SAP SRM product development and support team in SAP-LABS. Responsibilities involve interaction with consultants and custom
• Sub Modules configured and implemented: External Requirements, Shopping cart, Bidding Engine, SUS with classic and extended classic scenarios
• Industry Exposure with SRM: Oil, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications, Consumer Products & Utilities/Energy, Metals, Automobiles

Professional Experience

Client: International Paper Company, U.S.A Feb 2008 - Current

Role: Senior Lead Consultant
Team Size: 10
Contributions:
• Catalog Content management (CCM): CCM configuration and handling supplier integration scenarios. Schema and category maintenance, Uploading an
• Provided expert consulting, the source of supply being unavailable and created situations for shopping cart transfer.
• Leading the team of 6 members.
• Organization model analysis and configuring the Organization structure according to the business model.
• The issues were complex and integrated with MM-SRM with classic scenario.
• Strategic Sourcing and Alert management were involved.
Application Environment: SRM Version 5.0; SAP: ERP 470 to ECC 6.0; CCM 2.0

Client: Pennsylvania comm., U.S Aug 2007 – Feb 2008

Role: Senior Consultant
Team Size: 5
Contributions:
• Expert on demand for customer in handling the hierarchy items transfer from ERP system to SRM.
• Catalog management: Defining and implementing the BADIS: /CCM/Approval_BADI, /CCM/CHAR_Validation – To redefine the characteristics etc. SSO m
• Configuring the workflow and customizing it for n step approval.
• Shopping cart transfer issues with integrated MM system handled.
• Defining and configuration of Workflow. One step, two-step and N step approval configurations with knowledge on workflow BADIs.
• Reporting with BW analytics.
• Integration with ERP with BAPI, RFC and Idocs

Application Environment: ABAP; SRM Version 5.0; SAP: ERP 470 to ECC 6.0; CCM 2.0

Client: Consol Energy; U.S.A Mar 2007 – Aug 2007

Role: Senior Consultant
Team Size: 10
Contributions:
• Consolidating and presenting goods and services. Maintenance of OCI, Master catalog management, schema definitions, publishing and maintaining
• Development and working on planned procurement for External requirements with strategic sourcing.
• Issues handled which are faced during upgrade and support pack implementations
• Remote consulting for the customer for resolving the issues for external requirement transfer to SRM in strategic procurement scenario with di
• Updating Partner deletion from purchase requisition in to SRM.
• Vendor link configuration, Vendor analysis with management.
Application Environment: SRM Version 4.0 and 5.0; SAP: ERP 470 to ECC 6.0; CCM 2.0

Client: Petrobas, Brazil June 2006 – Mar 2007

Role: Senior Consultant
Contributions:
• Expert on demand for plan driven and strategic sourcing services.
• CCM: Uploading Contract catalogs. Automatic transfer of Shopping carts bypassing souring for contact items.
• Integration with Supplier Self Services (SUS) and ROS
• Issues handled related to external procurement and strategic sourcing.
• Major issues with report bbp_get_status_2 were handled
• As Petrobas is not using BADIs, lot of custom implementation done for customer through pilot notes and CUF.
• Enhancements using Screen variants and transaction varients
• Customer specific development for SRM MM integration scenarios.
• Replicating and creation of Users. Creating roles and authorization objects (PFCG). External User creation in SRM (Bidding and SUS).
Application Environment: SRM Version 4.0; SAP: ERP 470. ABAP and Object Oriented ABAP; CCM 2.0

Client: Huboo.com; Paris, France Jul 2005 – June 2006

Role: Senior Consultant
Team Size: 10
Contributions:
• Provided expert consulting on issues where customer faced problems in Plan driven Procurement.
• The issues were shopping from old purchase orders and template was enabled with Search in Archive functionality. Disabled the feature for the
• Integration of SRM with MM, Finance and Project systems. Account determination, budget check, External Procurement etc.
• Involved in setup to define the operational hierarchy. Controlling via attribute maintenance with purchasing organization, purchasing group, p
• CCM configuration for catalog procurement. Maintaining the Trex engine and developing custom transfer through BADI
Application Environment: SRM Version 4.0 and 5.0; SAP: ERP 470 to ECC 500, ABAP and Object Oriented ABAP; CCM 1.0

Client: ONGC, India

Role: Senior software Engineer Feb 2003 – Jul 2005
Team Size: 5
Contributions:
• Expert Services for the customer in Bidding engine and Live Auction.
• Helped customer implementing custom four-stage bidding.
• Migration of the customer for using SAP Live Auction
• Major configuration and custom developments done for the customer being in SRM 4.0, the public sector scenarios are covered.
• Product and Category replication from external systems. Filter Configurations for Initial download and delta downloads.
• Cross Application setting: Printing, attachments, vendor links, info records, contracts and Archiving
• Technical Configuration: External and Internal ITS installation and publishing templates.
• Supplier Enablement: Configuration and access to SUS via BSP URL, Supplier registration, Service procurement with Supplier Integration. SAP N
• Catalog Content Management (CCM): Consolidating and presenting goods and services. Maintenance of OCI, Master catalog management, schema defin
Application Environment: SRM Version 4.0 and 5.0; SAP: ERP 470 to ECC 500, ABAP and Object Oriented ABAP; CCM 1.0

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1/12/2019 Resume: Pradeep Raj, SAP SRM Lead

Client: 53 Bank, USA Aug, 2002 – Feb, 2003

Technology: Java, J2EE
Webservers: WSAD 5.1 and RAD
Team Size: 15

Description:. IB is an Internet banking application developed in CeFS presentation tier, Financial Fusion Business tier and DB2 backend. The applicati

Contributions:

• Developing application for alert handling in web based technology

• Exploring and adopting new web based concepts like Struts
• Requirement gathering and documenting the Requirement specifications.
• Analysis and design of the modules and providing the guidelines to the developers.

Role: Software Engineer April, 2002 – Aug, 2002

Client: EDC, USA
Duration:
Technology: Java, J2EE
Webservers: WSAD 5.1 and RAD
Features developed: Subcontract, Storage Location, Plant Maintenance
Team Size: 15

Description: EDC is a social service organization in the US with its wings spread all over the world. The aim of the project is to aid the employees o
Contributions:

• Analysis and design of the modules

• Requirement gathering for the client specific scenarios like Plant management, Storage location and subcontracts.
• Data synchronization and modeling using MS-SQL.
• Developing the application using JAVA-J2EE technology.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering, the National Institute Of Engineering, Mysore.

Training Courses Attended

Course Name Description

SAPSRM mySAP SRM Solution Overview
SRM200 Supplier Relationship Management: Enterprise Buyer Overview
SRM210 mySAP SRM EBP 3.5 & 4.0 Configuration
BC410 Programming User Dialogs
BC430 ABAP Dictionary
BC400 ABAP Workbench: Foundations and Concepts.
SAPTEC mySAP Technology Solution Fundamentals
SCM500 Basis of Material Management
WebDyn Webdynro usng ABAP

Other Achievements

• Demo of SRM product: integration of SRM with Project system in ‘Demo-Jam, SAP- Summit 07’.
• Part of SRM 6.0 Functional validation for the client SAP Labs. Validated self-service and plan driven procurement scenarios.
• Attended the Premiere business event SAP Summit 06 as an expert in SRM Area.
• Integral part of Organizing committee in SAP TechEd 07.
Trained in SAP-AG Germany by senior SRM colleagues. Duration: Oct 2006

Member number:10117
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