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Akash Vinayak Pawar

Navi Mumbai

Summary

SAP Functional Consultant with 6+ years of work experience, a proven track record of improving systems stability, enhancing user experience, and reducing defects through comprehensive implementation, configuration, test planning, and execution. Strong technical skills, combined with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization. Demonstrated impact through optimized workflow processes, improved system functionality, and user satisfaction in previous roles.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

SAP Functional Consultant - Associate

Cognizant Technology Solution
05.2021 - Current

Project - PGE TCoE Blanket (May 2021 - May 2025)

Project Description: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest utility companies in the United States. Based in Oakland, the company is part of PG&E Corporation.

Role, Responsibilities, and Skills:

SAP Material Management

  • Defined enterprise data structure, such as company code, controlling area, plant, and purchasing organization.
  • Configured and maintained requests for quotation, purchase orders, and vendor management.
  • Processing stock transfers and special stocks in inventory such as subcontracting and vendor consignment.
    Uploading the material master, vendor master, info record, and initial stock from the legacy system to SAP for all areas/locations.
  • Configuration of document types and number ranges for PR, RFQs, and POs.
  • Developed and configured the business procedures in the Material Management module of SAP.
  • Maintenance of client-specific number ranges in all relevant master data, material master, vendor master, purchasing, and inventory documents.
  • Configured pricing procedures with purchasing, inventory management, and invoice verification.
  • Performed inventory management tasks, such as goods receipt, goods issue, transfer posting, stock transfer, and physical inventory check.
  • Gather the requirements and complete the functional specification document.

SAP Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS)

  • Creating Specification Types, Specifications, Characteristics, Classes, Value Assignment Types, Property Tree.
  • Worked on corrective action notification, injury SEMS incidents, and motor vehicle SEMS incidents.
  • Assigning VAT and property trees to specification types.
  • Creating generation variants and assigning templates.
  • Create phrases and phrase sets.
  • Conducted integration testing, user acceptance testing, and post-implementation testing.

Project - Merck K-RFP - HC LEAN ERP FRAN (June 2025 - Present)

Project Description: Merck is a global science and technology company, with a history dating back to 1668. It operates in three main sectors: Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics.

Role, Responsibilities, and Skills:

SAP Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS)

  • Worked on Basic Data and Tools: Specification Management, Phrase Management.
  • Creating Specification Types, Specifications, Characteristics, Classes, Value Assignment Types, Property Tree.
  • Assigning VAT and property trees to specification types.
  • Creating generation variants and assigning templates.
  • Create phrases and phrase sets.
  • Worked on DG Master using DG filling, DG distribution, DG checks, and DG documents.
  • Configured substance volume tracking for export scenarios.
  • Conducted integration testing, user acceptance testing, and post-implementation testing.

SAP MM Functional Consultant

WEBHUB Technology, Pune
01.2019 - 04.2021

Project - Design and Develop SAP ERP System for Food Retail Business Organization.

Role, Responsibilities, and Skills:

Associate SAP MM Consultant – Materials Management (January 2019 – November 2019)

  • Design, customize, configure, and test MM.
  • Analyzing and ensuring the quality of the data collected.
  • Materials Management (MM) master data configuration - material master, vendor master, purchase info record, and source list.
  • Integration of the MM module with the finance (FI) and sales and distribution (SD) modules.
  • Preparation of cut-over activity. Post-implementation maintenance and support.
  • Update and maintain all SAP MM functional documents.
    Train the end-user core team in identifying issues and fixing them, to make them self-sustainable after the go-live support.

Project - Design and Develop SAP ERP Structure for a Commercial Business Organization.

Role, Responsibilities, and Skills:

SAP MM Consultant – Materials Management (February 2020 – April 2021).

  • Analyzed, prepared, and mapped the MM organization structure.
  • Developed and configured the business procedures in the Material Management module of SAP.
  • Maintenance of number ranges in all relevant master data, material master, vendor master, purchasing, and inventory documents.
  • Split valuation configuration is done for materials procured externally from the domestic and international markets, and in-house produced.
  • Conduct workshops to gather requirements, to explain the to-be solution to business users, and to train end-users.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering -

PILLAI HOC College of Engineering
Mumbai
07-2018

Diploma of Engineering -

Re Vera Institute Of Technology
Kharghar, Navi Mumbai
04-2015

Higher Secondary Certificate -

Karmveer Bhaurao Patil College
Navi Mumbai
02-2013

Secondary School Certificate -

MGM High School, Nerul
Navi Mumbai
03-2011

Skills

  • SAP Material Management
  • SAP Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS)
  • SAP Ariba
  • SAP Supply Chain Management
  • HP ALM
  • JIRA
  • Defect Management and
    Tracking
  • Quality Assurance
  • Test Management
  • Team collaboration
  • End-user training

SAP Competencies

SAP Material Management skills: (SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 7)

  • Enterprise structure (configuration and assignment of client, company code, plant, purchasing organization, and purchasing group)
  • Material master (configuration and assignment of material type, number range, and material group), vendor master (configuration and assignment of vendor account group and number ranges), vendor creation
  • Source list, info record
  • Purchasing: configuration of internal and external purchasing documents, document type, number ranges, screen layout
  • Procurement: RFQ, outline agreement, service PO, return PO, optimized PO
  • Special procurement: subcontracting, consignment, pipeline, stock transport order, returnable transport packaging
  • Inventory management: movement type, reservation, physical inventory, initial stock entry, transfer posting
  • Configuration of split valuation: valuation category, valuation type
  • Pricing procedure: condition table, access sequence, condition type, calculation schema, schema determination, vendor schema
  • Release strategy with classification

SAP Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) skills

  • Product safety: creating property tree structure, specification management, phrase management, report management, substance volume tracking, and WWI templates
  • Dangerous goods management: creating DG master, DG checks, DG documents
  • Incident management: create and manage incidents, manage investigations, and task management
  • Acquired knowledge in both standard and custom processes in SAP EHS
  • Creating generation variants and assigning templates
  • Dangerous goods and Hazardous substances filling and distribution management

Career Highlights

  • Received the Cognizant MLEU Top Guns 2023 Award for exceptional contributions to project outcomes
  • Recognized as Employee of the Month at a PG&E account level for the successful delivery of NPAEs and project requirements, along with end-of-year support, with zero production leakage
  • Achieved client recognition for the successful completion of multiple projects, including the Unfier Project and Win-11 Migration Project
  • Played a pivotal role in the delivery of the Small Business Administration project, the Alpine project, and the Regionalization Project
  • Developed and optimized test plans to align with business objectives and project requirements

Timeline

SAP Functional Consultant - Associate

Cognizant Technology Solution
05.2021 - Current

SAP MM Functional Consultant

WEBHUB Technology, Pune
01.2019 - 04.2021

Bachelor of Engineering -

PILLAI HOC College of Engineering

Diploma of Engineering -

Re Vera Institute Of Technology

Higher Secondary Certificate -

Karmveer Bhaurao Patil College

Secondary School Certificate -

MGM High School, Nerul
Akash Vinayak Pawar