PHANIKRISHNA DEVANA
Hyderabad,TG
Summary
Phani is highly competent and customer focused professional with over 10+ years’ experience as Lead SAP solution architect and functional consultant in SAP MM, WM and in Supply Chain areas and currently working as Sr.Product manager in GE Vernova.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr SAP Product Manager
General Electric Company
07.2023 - Current
- Over all product ownership of SAP sourcing & Procurement and logistics operations.
- Gathering and Analyzing business requirements, proposing SAP solutions, collaborating with stakeholders, conducting feasibility assessments, and providing input on scope, timeline, and resources.
- As a CAB Member, Validate the design and effort estimates: carefully Reviewing and verifying proposed design solutions and effort estimates to ensure alignment with organizational standards and requirements.
- Taking decisions on change requests based on feasibility, impact on existing systems, budget, and alignment with business objectives.
- Thoroughly reviewing and approve project documents, including user requirements, design documents, functional/technical specifications, ensuring adherence to standards and requirements.
- Led weekly change request stand-up meetings for multiple business requirements.
- Document new features and strategies as well as user stories and criteria for acceptance.
- Monitor and manage incidents, problems, and service requests.
- Level 3 Support for AMS: Providing level 3 support for Application Management Services (AMS), resolving complex issues, investigating problems, and implementing solutions.
- Working experience in service delivery through third party contractors/vendors and a passion for running smooth operation.
Sap Operations Specialist | Project Manager
Veolia Water Technologies
06.2020 - 06.2023
- As an operations specialist handling multiple sourcing projects.
- Having ownership on sourcing blueprint of SAP MM WM PP QM PM Modules.
- SPOC for support operation teams led by IT vendor.
- Managing the workshops with brilliant fulfillment teams and engineering teams for executing proof of concepts (POC).
- Collaborating closely with agile teams to ensure that effective technology solutions are built.
- Providing technical assistance, guidance for all technologies across multiple product teams.
Application Development Senior Analyst
Accenture Services Pvt.Ltd
02.2019 - 06.2020
- Contributed on production support for procure to pay process in Caltex.
- Contributed on Agile methodology with scrum as a frame work.
- Responsible for keeping SLA’s and delivering the resolutions in a quality manner.
- Hands on functional activities of automation. Such as monitoring and reporting.
- Proactively drive the design and development in the sourcing area by ensuring the quality, user experience and cost efficiency of implementations.
- Requirements gathering from business and supporting with the test scenario definition.
- Was Responsible for functional specification documents preparation for Build objects.
- Daily monitoring of batch jobs and Idocs.
- Post resolution of high impacted issues, responsible for KEDB preparation.
- Hands on HPQC ALM and SNOW(service now) ticketing tools.
- Distributing the work to all team members and continuous follow-up activities.
SAP MM WM Functional Consultant
Tieto Software Technologies
01.2016 - 02.2019
- Worked on production support for Purchasing, Inventory management, where house management and Invoicing.
- Supported 3 Different Countries having different processes as per Local Requirements which include Asian, European countries.
- Carrying out Maintenance activities which include designing functional specifications, Test document and user training documents based on requirement from client. After successful deployment of build parts uploading of functional specifications to solution manager.
- Delivering Knowledge transfer (KT) sessions to the team members after successful
- deployment of business releases/weekly releases.
- Worked with ticket tool SNOW (Service now).
- Worked with change request management (CHARM).
- Handled issues related to IDOc interfaces and workflows.
- Handled the issues related to Inventory Management like Goods Receipts, Goods Issue, Transfer Posting and Physical Inventory.
- Handled the issues related Optimized purchase order (Automatic PO Creation) for the PR’s created from Fiori Tool.
- Also individually supported third party application KOFAX for purchasing document archival.
- Actively participated for application health checks during application ramp-down and ramp-up. Also involved in DB and OS upgrades.
Graduate Engineer Trainee
GKC Projects
01.2014 - 12.2014
- As in a Role of Trainee, I’m responsible for procurement planning for GKC projects Limited.
- As per the scope of planning understanding the material requirements of the production and to create the purchase requisitions in SAP.
- Responsible for making RFQ’s.
- Converting the PR’s to PO’s.
- Negotiating the Price with local vendor’s.
- Involved with Inventory department for receiving the Goods and with Invoice team for payment clearing.
- Daily work report to immediate manager
Education
B.tech - Electrical Engineering
Chirala Engineering College
Chirala, India03.2013
Skills
- Operations Management
- Application Portfolio Management
- Change Approval Board (CAB)
- Project scoping and Planning
- SAP MM WM ARIBA
- Sourcing and procurement
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Prioritization and Execution
- Interpersonal Communication
- SOX compliance
- S/4 Hana
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Telugu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Sr SAP Product Manager
General Electric Company
07.2023 - Current
Sap Operations Specialist | Project Manager
Veolia Water Technologies
06.2020 - 06.2023
Application Development Senior Analyst
Accenture Services Pvt.Ltd
02.2019 - 06.2020
SAP MM WM Functional Consultant
Tieto Software Technologies
01.2016 - 02.2019
Graduate Engineer Trainee
GKC Projects
01.2014 - 12.2014
B.tech - Electrical Engineering
Chirala Engineering College
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