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PRASHANTHI KOTHA

Summary

Experienced SAP SD Functional Consultant with over 10 years of expertise in design, configuration, and implementation projects, global rollouts, AMS, and enhancement projects in ECC and S4 Hana. Adept at leading teams and managing complex projects to achieve strategic objectives. Demonstrates a strong ability to develop efficient processes, maintain high standards, and align efforts with organizational goals. Recognized for a collaborative approach and unwavering commitment to excellence.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Engineer

Maersk GSC India PVT Ltd
10.2023 - Current
  • Coordination with O2C product owners, developers, engineers, and scrum master to design, test and deliver project
  • Anticipate business and customer needs, create and use customer journey maps and develop deep knowledge of the markets in which the product operates
  • Work closely with overall development teams embracing Agile way of working, contribute to the planning, execution and review of each sprint and work with the team to refine and improve the development process
  • Responsible to help evaluate product progress and be accountable for each stage of the development process and the final go live and hyper care
  • Architect new APIs for Integration with external systems through EDI, AIF or SFTP for different upstream Telikos, TAC and ILSE
  • Lead project activities from mobilization through execution and delivery, including resourcing, budgeting, risk and issue management, presentations to steering group
  • Integration of different upstream to SAP – Order creation, order updates, Invoice creation and invoice cancellation, acknowledgements to different systems
  • Worked in User exits, BAPIs, FMs and billable API mapping, IDOC- adding new fields, output configuration – IDOC, Forms, Mail and Special function, new Z table creation, BRF+ table creation, Configuration of sales area, business area, reason for rejection, order types, billing types

Team Lead

IBM India PVT Ltd
06.2021 - 10.2023
  • Leading AMS SD team
  • Supporting two systems parallelly and ensuring seamless delivery
  • Supporting ECC and S4 systems for EMEA and APAC
  • Onsite Coordinator – all the new requirement from Client and Business to any module in AMS would be addressed to me
  • I will segregate and assign tasks to respective teams
  • S4 Hana SD transition lead – coordinating and ensured checklist, KT on S4 processes, documentation is provided to AMS
  • Worked on S4 Hana sales processes like Direct shipment, Scheduling agreements, third party orders, returns, credit, debit, consignment processes, Cross Dock process, sales forecast, and planning through info structures and IDOCs
  • Enhancement on re-prioritizing deliveries and shipments during special holidays
  • Worked on critical SAP functionalities like bypassing digital signature for invoices, credit notes, and debit notes, analyzed and implemented SAP notes
  • Enhancements in print forms (outputs), IDOCs, Email outputs, ALE outputs
  • Worked on new reports, queries, Fiori apps enhancements
  • Coordinating with OPC team for new job setup in ECC and S4 system
  • Knowledge on Customer master creation, material master, CMIR, segmentation
  • Creation of contact person and updating mail ids to trigger mails from outputs
  • Supporting P2, P3 incidents and ensuring SLA is met and solved issues on time
  • Coordinating and driving communications with different teams, vendors on priority issues and driving to closure
  • Solution manager for Transport creation, checks and hyper care defects
  • Month end invoice monitoring
  • Daily job monitoring, VFX3 monitoring, IDOC Monitoring
  • Transport QA checks approvals to move changes to production
  • Factory calendar extension, creation, and year end maintenance
  • Fiscal Year activities like job monitoring, open order – product hierarchy updates, invoice monitoring and clearing stuck invoices
  • Working on data extraction through queries and sap reports and sent data for demand forecast and planning
  • Ticketing tool - Service now
  • Working on change requests, minor and micro projects
  • FS & TS repository refreshens by updating existing FS & TS with new developments or configurations in S4 and uploading in Solman
  • Good hands-on experience in MM and worked on SD + MM integration in S4 Hana
  • Weekly meetings with Client and Management on Team deliverables, metrics, and achievements
  • Reduced ticket count and suggested automation for master data
  • Client: Panasonic

Team Lead

Accenture Solutions PVT Ltd
11.2018 - 06.2021
  • Played SME role for all the new requirements – interacted with different business and third parties across the globe to understand their requirements and performed thorough analysis and provided solution
  • Provided estimations for the projects with detailed Cost for the objects in the project and responsible for getting approvals from client for the project estimation
  • Handled projects from blue printing phase till Go Live and support handover
  • Prepared High level design document, Functional specification documents, test cases, test strategy document, maintained HP ALM with the test cases
  • Managed delivery of assigned projects and supervising team members projects
  • Performed prototyping for critical projects and delivered with zero defects
  • Prepared Catalogues for the configuration processes in OTC as a reference to the team for future projects
  • Worked on E-Invoicing projects, legal requirements, EDI Customer Onboardings, Forms, enhancements, reports
  • Provided detailed requirements in FS and scheduled walkthrough on the requirements and clearly explained the objects to ABAP team
  • Coordinated well with other teams like B2B, IPaas, PI/PO, project specific third-party systems and ensured smooth project delivery
  • Prepared neat User manual and assisted business users during UAT
  • Provided detailed KT document to Support team on the handled projects
  • Provided KT to new joiners in team
  • Received appreciations from Client managers and business for all the projects delivered
  • Received appreciations for handling project estimations effectively, proactive communication on the projects, handling clients, on time project delivery, supporting peers in the team whenever required
  • Performed Lead review to the projects handled by team members and supported in solutioning
  • Client: Mondelez International Inc

Senior Engineer

Wipro Technologies PVT Ltd
12.2014 - 07.2018
  • Handled projects from RT team: 3 Amigos phase3, India DC, AC CBM, APAC CVM, Brazil IW phase1 & 2, Battery compliance, Lightening, Mexico Delayed Billing, AC logistics, Korea Direct Ship
  • Testing of changes relevant to SAP CS, SD and MM modules
  • Interaction with projects team from the design phase and sharing the existing test cases to the projects team
  • Pro-actively scheduling scoping calls to understand the business requirement and arrive on the object level scope for testing
  • Parallelly handled critical project and collaboratively worked with different modules and ensured on time delivery
  • Worked on Service Notifications, Contracts as part of CS
  • Worked on Subcontracting process, Inter and Intra STO’s as part of logistics
  • Validated output types, pricing, rebates as part of testing
  • Timely communicated on the defects, got it fixed and performed Retest
  • Executed the relevant & critical test cases in HP ALM for the object changes as part of project & warranty fixes
  • Maintained Repository freshness by updating existing test cases with the project changes post Go Live
  • Providing Induction to the team & leading AppleCare team
  • Client: Apple Inc

Education

B. TECH - Electronics and Communication Engineering

GVPCEW
Andhra Pradesh, India
05-2014

Skills

  • SM: Service notifications, Repairs, Service orders, Return orders, tasks, status, contracts
  • SD: Third Party, STO's, Intercompany Sales, Consignment, Cash order, Rush order, Product Allocation, Credit Management, Rebates, Direct ship, Scheduling Agreements, Credit and debit process, Free goods Determination
  • Worked on Pricing procedures, material listing, exclusion, batch job setup and monitoring, revenue account determination, factory calendar creation and year end calendar maintenance, Creation of BRF tables and enhancements,
  • Output type: Smart Forms, Adobe forms, email, print, EDI and ALE IDOCs, special function
  • Design product specific and reusable solutions
  • Upstream Integration to SAP
  • Middleware: PI PO, B2B , Ipaas, Azure
  • E invoicing and Customer onboarding through EDI
  • Configuration of enterprise structure definition, assignment for S4, order types, delivery type, billing type, credit, debit and worked on determinations
  • Worked on User exits, Function modules, Classes, BAPI's BADI's, Fiori App enhancements, WRICEF objects, Billable API, proxy mapping, JSON mapping
  • ABAP debugging skills
  • Tools: Bruno, Postman, Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow, SAP Solution manager, Central station ticketing tool, HP ALM

Certification

  • SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Sales 2022
  • SAP Certified Associate - SAP Activate Project Manager
  • SAP Certified Associate - Billing and Revenue Innovation Management Usage to Cash

Accomplishments

  • High Performer (Accenture)
  • Functional Expertise with high Quality Delivery (Accenture)
  • Proactiveness and timely delivery (Mondelez)
  • Exceptional performer (Wipro)
  • Outstanding Contribution (Wipro)
  • Execution Excellence (Apple)
  • Gained Client Trust and confidence (IBM)
  • Star Award (Maersk)

Personal Information

Visa Status: H1B Visa Holder

Timeline

Software Engineer

Maersk GSC India PVT Ltd
10.2023 - Current

Team Lead

IBM India PVT Ltd
06.2021 - 10.2023

Team Lead

Accenture Solutions PVT Ltd
11.2018 - 06.2021

Senior Engineer

Wipro Technologies PVT Ltd
12.2014 - 07.2018
  • SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Sales 2022
  • SAP Certified Associate - SAP Activate Project Manager
  • SAP Certified Associate - Billing and Revenue Innovation Management Usage to Cash

B. TECH - Electronics and Communication Engineering

GVPCEW

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