Name			: Nitin Suresh Koppikar
Contact numbers	: 
 USA  - Contact phone -  (1)- 281 404 5478 
 India - Office phone -  (011)- 91- 22- 28331278 
 India - Cell phone -  (011)- 91- 9820619731 
Email			: nkoppikar@rediffmail.com
SAP Modules - SAP SD Certified consultant, ABAP/4, MM, FI-CO, PP + APO, BW, Workflow.. I am a Techno-Functional SAP SD consultant
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I hold a US Green Card & hence do not sponsorship to work in the USA.

Renumeration expectation: $95/hr on a W2. 12% more with 1099

SAP Skills :
More than 10 years of experience in SAP software implementation, configuration and programming and SAP 4.7 upgrade.
Extensive knowledge of ABAP/4 programming.  Project Lead for design and development.  Supply Chain/Pricing application development technical team lead.  17 years of industry experience, with over 13 years in developing Business Application Software.

* SD Core Team member for the SAP 4.7 upgrade project & other SAP rollouts around the world
SD 
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* Worked on Configuration SD configuration (including new Sales Organization setup, new plants, shipping points, storage locations, material & customer configs, Pricing, Product inclusion/exclusion,packaging etc)
* Shipping Processes, Cash sales, Service material handling, third party drop ship scenarios, credit management, outputs setup are just a few areas I have worked in.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Can interact well with users
* International SAP experience (Worked in US & Europe for 8+ years)
* Background jobs creation.

ABAP/4
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* Reporting (Interactive, Classical, Customizing standard reports).
* RFC calls to pass pricing data across two SAP systems.
* ALE configuration to interact between two SAP systems.
* Data migration (Batch input using BDC and ODC using Call Transaction).
* Creating data dictionary objects (Tables, Views, Structures, domains, and matchcodes).
* Developing new transactions using screen painter, ABAP/4 and Menu painter.
* Creation and use of function modules.
* User-exits.
* Upload and Download of data from and to PC.
* SAP Script.
* Creation of sequential files and retrieval of data.
* Conducted ABAP/4 training and mentored juniors


Certification
* Certified SAP-SCM-Order Fulfillment (SD) Solution Consultant in ECC 5.0 
* APO (APO010 and APO215)
* SAP Workflow (BC600 and BC610)
* Business Warehousing (BW200)
* Sales Information System (SIS)


SAP Clients
* TYCO Electronics
* Compaq Computer Corporation 
* GE Lighting
* Siemens Information Systems

IT Skills - Hardware and Software
* IBM ES 9000, IBM PC 486, HP9000, Compaq Proliant NT Servers, Novell LAN
* SAP R/3, R/2, Data Dictionary, ABAP/4, SD, MM, FI-CO, PP, RV, RF, RM, COBOL II, MVS/ESA, TSO/E, JCL, CICS, DB2, Oracle , SQL Server, Visual Basic, Foxpro, ASP, VBScript, HTML, MS Project,  Primavera Team Play , Team Player and UNIX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

* July 2001  onwards            TYCO Electronics            Harrisburg, PA
Project Lead/Senior ABAP/4 Programmer-Analyst - Technical (SD, Basis, MM) 
Design & Development of Outbound & Inbound EDI interfaces for Order Confirmation & Delivery notes intimations & MV Contracts creation. GENTRAN is used mas data mapping. Member of the SAP SD Core team for the SAP 4.7 upgrade project.
Also involved in ATP enhancements related to reports, BDCs & Userexits. Extensively modified various ATP related userexits.
Porduction support for various reporting & interface issues.

* April 1997 to June 2001	Compaq Computer Corporation	Houston, TX
Project Lead/Senior ABAP/4 Programmer-Analyst - Technical (SD, FI-CO, Basis, MM) 
Design & Development of an integrated SAP Worldwide-pricing environment, dealing with SAP-SD, SAP-MM & SAP-FI-CO modules. My duties as a technical team leader involved studying functional requirements, translating them to specifications, developing the ABAP/4 programs, setting up the SAP configuration data and setting up Unit acceptance test plans (UAT). The environment was SAP R/3 (versions 3.0 to 4.0) under Window NT. The following are some details of my work in various modules: -
Sales & Distribution (SD)
* Price list analysis report using various pricing procedures and pricing conditions.
* Generate price lists using pricing procedures, sales areas and customer information.
* Developed BDC & ODC programs to populate pricing condition tables using transaction VK11.
* Configured ALE environment using IDOCs and message types to distribute pricing data across two SAP environments.
* Developed sales analysis reports: By Customer, By Sales office, By sales group, By Brand and By Material.
* Interactive and classical reports to analyze invoice documents by sales organization, document types and customer. The interactive reports helped display line item information and order information.
* Open and closed sales order status report.
* Shipments report by Material type, Material & Customer.
* Developed reports showing demand and supply in the SAP supply chain environment.
* Developed and Orderability report in SAP indicating which products can be sold in different sales organizations.
* Involved in activating a user-exit to split Invoice documents into two separate finance documents. The SAP enhancement is SDVFX001. Based on the SD document category, the FI document type would be set to invoice or credit memo. This is done for most specific material types except configurable material types & IRs  (Internal Revenue) document types.
* Developed custom SAP module with multiple screens, menus, tables and 15 reports to enable price-forecasting functionality. I extensively used the Screen painter, Menu painter and  Data dictionary components of the ABAP/4 work bench. This was one of the biggest custom-pricing modules created by Compaq to replace some of the legacy and manual systems in place. I took part in studying the requirements, user interaction, generating specifications, work to develop data extract programs from SAP SD (& FI modules) to feed this application. I was involved in user documentation & later provided training to users.
Finance (FI)
* Interactive reports showing Gross profit margin analysis. Reports allowed drill downs to show pricing condition records, cost, burden and sales allowances. 
* Financial Net Units Billed (FNUBs) analysis reports to analyze SD invoices and corresponding FI documents.
* Revenue analysis interactive reports showing revenue generated under various profit centers (sales organizations) with an option to drill down to sales invoice level. This report could be restricted to cost centers, profit centers or document types.
Basis
* Design custom tables, match codes, help views, lock objects and indexes.
* Facilitate Change and transport (CTS) functionality in SAP to transport ABAP/4 objects  from one instance to another.
* Set up RFC destinations.
* Set up batch jobs to run on a periodic basis
* Performance analysis of long running programs. Succeeded in reducing run times of many programs significantly.  
Materials Management (MM)
* Reports to list materials new stock keeping units (SKUs) and display their status and date of introduction.
* Developed BDC to update status of  SKUs to active so that it could be made available for setting up for order management.
* Participated in using the direct input data load program RMDATIND to load materials into SAP.

* Nov 1996 to April 1997	Siemens Information Systems (SISL)	 	 Mumbai, India

SAP Consultant (Senior Analyst/Programmer) - Implementation of SD MM PP FI-CO modules. Siemens was implementing SAP for its medical systems division. I was a senior member of the SAP technical team. I was involved in writing specifications, developing transactions, reports, BDCs and data interfaces. I was also involved as a part of the quality assurance team. The environment was SAP R/3 3.0 under Unix operating system. The following are some details of my work in various modules: -
Sales & Distribution (SD)
* Configuration of Sales areas, Document types, Pricing procedures & Condition tables.
* Maintained user-exits to Sales Order program SAPMV45A to perform a custom table update before saving the sales order.
* Developed a transaction ZMRC, for adding a new functionality for capturing Enquiries made by prospective customers. This is the first transaction to be run to capture customer information. The transaction includes interfaces to a windows based application from where data is retrieved. It also creates a Quotation for the user, before handing control to the standard SAP transaction VA22.
* Sap script - Created layout sets for Sales Quotations for Export Customers 
Materials Management (MM)
* Developed interactive reports, using which the directors of Siemens could look at purchase orders of their interest. Most reports had links to the Purchase order transaction.
* Direct input data load: -Developed programs in FoxPro to generate flat ASCII files to be moved to create master materials data in format required for direct input program RMDATIND. Later worked  to load this data into SAP using RMDATIND.
Finance (FI-CO)
* Activated user-exit  in module SAPMF02D which gets triggered while saving changes to customer. We recorded changes in custom tables for customer on whom order blocks were placed.
* Developed cost comparison report. Actual against Budgeting cost comparison for a posting period.
* BDC to change GL account posting for changing cost centers entries posted from a non-SAP system. (FB02).
Production Planning (PP)
* Report to generate Production Order input/output report.
* Work Order Report

* Jan.1995 to November 1996     General Electric (Lighting)		London, UK

SAP Consultant (Senior Analyst/Programmer) - Implementation SIS, RV, RS and RF modules
Conversion of SAP R/2 Version 4.3H to 5.0D.
The Project is being carried out at London, UK. My duties as a team leader/ senior developer involved me in the following areas
* Converted the programs from 4.3H to 5.0D environments.
* Run SAP provided conversion tools for these programs.
* Check each program for clean compilation.
* Testing programs in 5.0D environment.
* Worked as a Team lead for the offshore phase of this project for around 6 months. I had 10 people in my team.
Sales Information System (SIS) maintenance 
I was responsible for the SIS sub module of RV module. My responsibilities included setting up relevant Sales documents and VSTA related tables, so as to capture consolidated information on Orders and Invoices generated by the SAP system. I had to resolve any discrepancies that arose from the VSTA structures. Also developed a number of ABAP/4 reports to report from the data consolidated into the VSTA structures and extract reports from SAP RV & RF documents: -
* Monthly and year to-date Sales qty & value by Company/Sales rep/Customer/Product
* Invoice & credit notes analysis for the 6-sigma team.
* Summary of Orders, Invoices and Delivery notes by company allowing selection of Customers, Products, Product families & Sales representatives.
* Daily shipment report depicting the region wise turnover of the company in Europe for the month & year to-date in local all USD currencies.
* Programs to extract data from SAP for the Data Warehouse applications.
* Sales by channel code & Sales region.
Basis (RS)
* Responsible for creating new tables, modifying table structures. 
* Developed a custom transaction, ZASR, to generate adhoc sales reports using sales entities like Sales rep, Sales district, customer, product hierarchy, product & channel code.
* Sep 1994 to December 1994      Bank of Boston 			Boston, USA
Analyst/Programmer
Bank Reconciliation System. As an Analyst/Programmer, my role involved studying the existing system in two branches and suggesting a common CICS/VSAM application across the two branches. The work also involved defining FCT, PPT & PCT entries and writing some CICS/VSAM programs & modifying existing programs.
* Sep 1993 to August 1994      General Electric Company 		Schenectady, USA
Analyst/Programmer
I maintained the Retirement Benefits' System. I dealt with user requirements and solved their problems related to the system. There were a lot of enhancements to be made to the Online & Batch system. As an Analyst/Programmer, my job involved maintaining and writing new CICS/DB2 & VSAM programs. I also wrote a lot of batch programs & coded and modified a lot of JCLs.  This application ran on an IBM 3090 system under MVS operating system.
* June 1992 to August 1993      American Software Inc.(ASI)		Atlanta, USA
Analyst/Programmer
Worked as team leader and senior developer on two conversion projects. The first one was to convert a Purchasing system from CICS-VSAM environment to CICS-IDMS environment. The second application was converting an Employee Expense System from CICS-IDMS to CICS-DB2 environment. My duties included interacting with the client, getting requirements, development, mentoring and also quality assurance. This application ran on an IBM 3090 system under MVS operating system.  My team had up to 8 programmers. Most of the work was done offshore using a 64 KB satellite link.
* May 1990 to June 1992      Glaxo  (India) Limited

Productivity Executive (Systems)
Gathered requirements, designed, developed and implemented many applications under Unix, Novell LAN & Windows 3.0 operating systems. I was involved in the complete life cycles of three major applications, Employee Expenditure System, Inventory Management System  and Marketing Information System. These applications were developed using Focus, Oracle forms 3.0 and Foxpro softwares. They have interfaces to Glaxo's central consolidating mainframe computer. I worked as a team lead and senior developer during this tenure.
* July 1987 to April 1990	Godrej and Boyce manufacturing Company Limited.

Production Planning and Computer Applications Engineer
Gathered requirements and designed and developed an Production Planning and Control system using Foxbase+ software. This application catered to the top 20 high cost materials and traced them from raw material to finished product status. It generated work orders and purchase orders in data extract files to be loaded on to other legacy applications. I was the lead developer on this project. In my early days here, I worked as a Production Planning and Control Engineer.
* August 1985 - June 1987	 Nelco Ltd.
Production Planning and Control Engineer
I worked as a materials  planning engineer for Nelco's computer manufacturing department. 

EDUCATION:
	Post Graduate Diploma I Software Technology
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
Diploma in Mechanical engineering