1. Devesh V. Apte
Cell: + 91 8087502760
Mail: deveshapte@gmail.com
SAP-SD Professional
Professional Summary
Evolve as a full-fledged ERP Consultant with sound base of Electrical Engineer having almost
13 years of industry experience including 08 years in SAP SD & CRM Sales.
 In SAP Practice for the past 8 years in Sales and Distribution supporting a Fortune 500
company in Production and Application maintenance. Worked on live SAP implementations
like SKF Bearings (Germany/Sweden),Raymonds Ltd, Vinergy International (both in
Mumbai), Thomson Displays (Poland which was a Global Implementation) and one
SAP Support Project with Caterpillar USA till date.
 Working as a Team Lead / Project Lead in SKF Bearings SAP Implementation with IBM
India Pvt Ltd since May 2013 in Germany/Sweden till date.
 Worked as a Team Lead / Project Lead in Caterpillar EOMP with IBM India Pvt Ltd since
March 2007. Worked as a Onsite Coordinator for a duration of 2 years in USA.
 Deployed SAP solutions to support migration projects and roll-out of SAP-centric solutions.
 Managed requirement gathering, designing, coding, and test plan development initiatives.
 Post-implementation IT application support as per customer requirements.
 Worked extensively in Sales & Distribution processes and cross modular functionalities like
CRM sales using internet sales application
 Worked on Business Blue Printing with Thomson Displays at Poland.
 As a sales and marketing professional, recruited, trained and motivated sales personnel,
participated in corporate marketing activities, devised incentive policies for sales personnel.
 Attended training programs and built up good communication, analytical & Techno-
Commercial skills.
 Good at Team work & team Building.
SAP Sales & Distribution expertise covers:
 Business Blue Printing – Understanding Industry process and Mapping them in
SAP. Gap Analysis, Solution Preparation and Presentation to Client.
 Sales Cycle – Inquiries, quotations, Sales Orders, Deliveries, Post Goods Issue,
Billing, Release to Accounting, Returns Processing.
 Master Data: - Creation & maintenance of Customer master, Material Master,
Condition records, Customer Material Info record & relevant Configuration.
 Sales documents: - Item categories, Inquiries, quotations, Contracts, Scheduling
Agreements, Standard orders, copying controls.
 Basic Functions :- Pricing procedure with condition techniques for prices,
discounts, free goods determination, material exclusion & listing, output types &
determination, Availability check & transfer of requirement, Partner Determination,
rebates, Partner Determination with partner types & Configuration
 Shipping :- Delivery item categories, delivery types, copying control from sales
documents to delivery documents, shipping point determination, Picking , Manual
Packing.

2.  Billing: - Billing document types, Automatic Account determination with & without
CO assignment, posting revenue to accounting.
 Techno-functionality: -Exposure to ABAP Debugging & ALE/IDocs monitoring.
 LSMW: - Exposure to data migration tool like LSMW.
 Cross Application Customizing: Knowledge of integration between Sales &
Distribution, Material Management module and Finance module. Also worked on
CRM 5.0 sales module along with Internet sales application.
Education
Degree University Year of Passing
B.E. (Electrical) Pune University 2001
Experience
Organization Designation Duration
IBM India Pvt. Ltd , Pune
Senior Application consultant
March 2007 till date
AAKIT Technologies Pvt. Ltd,
Mumbai
SD consultant January2006 till
February 2007
Reliance Infocomm Ltd., Pune Assistant Sales Manager December 2001 till
December 2005
Languages ‘ C ’
User Interface SAP GUI
Domain Knowledge SAP 4.7 /6.00 SD Module - Sales & Marketing
Tools & Utilities MS Office, Microsoft Outlook , Lotus Notes
Operating System Windows 95/98, Windows 2000 ,XP & Windows 7
Technical Skills
Projects &Trainings
Sr.No Title Location Organized by Duration
1 E- Mail writing and
Business Communication
Pune IBM
1 Day
2 E CATT Pune IBM 1 Day

3. SAP Projects Summary:
1. Project Name: SKF GMbH
Client SKF Germany / Sweden
Role F2F Team Lead / Project Lead / Onsite Coordinator
Organization
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Working in
Duration May 2013 Till date
Team Size 20 Members
About the Client:-
SKF is the world's leading manufacturer of bearing and lubrication equipments, Seals and
variety of Engineering Products Globally. SKF has a headquarters in Sweden which supports
Global sales market.
About the Project:-
SKF GMbH is a SAP Implementation project with ECC 6.0 & CRM 7.0 as a front end with CRM
WebUI as a user interface.
Contribution:-
 Involved in Project preparation, Blueprint phases.
 Involved in Base line customization and realization in development stystem based
on the process requirements.
 Wrote SAP SD functional specifications and test scripts which involves complex
integration with Legacy Systems.
 Developing requirement documents, Design documents and Test Plan and to
maintain good repository of the test plans and integration test plans.
 Mapping these Processes in SAP.
 Base Line configuration of CRM Sales Server.
 Middleware Monitoring for failed Order / Master data Ques.
 Involved in Configuration of different business process such as sales from Sales
unit, Third Party Sales, Global ATP using interfaces to Legacy Systems.
 Sales order backlog upload by using LSMW (BAPI)
 Managed requirement gathering, designing, coding, and test plan development
initiatives
 Performing the complete testing cycles of manual testing, negative testing and end-to-
end regression cycles for the releases
 Analyzing the incidents and problem tickets that are triaged by the business and
change advisory board for the monthly releases.
 Integration testing Lead.

4. 2. Project Name: Caterpillar EOMP
Client Caterpillar USA
Role SD Team Lead / Project Lead / Onsite Coordinator
Organization
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Working in
Duration March 2007 Till date
Team Size 20 Members
About the Client:-
Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel
and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. CAT has a
headquarters in USA which supports Global sales market.
About the Project:-
CAT OMP is a support project with ECC 6.0 & CRM 5.0 as a front end with Internet Sales
application.
Contribution:-
 Onsite Coordinator for a period of 2 years (Oct 2010 till Oct 2012) performing different
activities related to Incident tickets, Change tickets & project management. During this
tenure, was a SPOC from IBM to manage all the Client deliverables.
 Performing a role of change control manager from IBM to track yearly change tickets &
execute the same on agreed time lines.
 Executed couple of projects (Vocational Truck, Tier4 Process) independently which involve
project management as well as consulting role like setting up new EDI interfaces,
coordinating with offshore development team & status reporting to Client folks.
 As a SD / CRM consultant, worked on High complex Change as well as incident tickets to
give quality deliverable as per the contractual SLAs.
 Participated in business development meetings with Client along with US Account
manager so as to generate new business to IBM (last year we got 2 new PCRs like
MOMP, Exodus).
 Worked with client folks to generate a Knowledge Repository for new team members
which helped them to get up to the speed ASAP.
 Active participation in project management activities which include facing the corporate
audits related to quality deliverables.
 As a team lead, conducting Weekly Brian storming sessions on critical issues so as to
educate the team to perform their tasks efficiently.
 Active participation in SAP upgrade to ECC 6 in the year 2009 which involve integration
testing in SD as well as CRM Sales module.
 Monthly status reporting to Client steering committee & working on action items from the
same.

5. 3. Project Name: SAP Implementation at Raymond’s Ltd
Client Raymond’s, Thane
Role SD Consultant- Functional Analyst
Organization AAKIT Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Duration Oct 2006 – Feb 2007
Team Size 60 Members
About the Client:-
Raymond, a brand name in textile industry which manufactures fabric at five different locations
within India & large exports business worldwide.
About the Project:-
 Integrated solution for the various business units within the company
 Adopting the Best Business Practices
 Increase in customer and user satisfaction
 Standardization across the organization
 World class reporting, resulting from improved data collection, database and
reporting tools
 Providing a sophisticated systems environment which gives state-of-the-art
distribution functionality, enables the sharing of data across departments, enabling
Internal efficiencies and as well as the flexibility to rapidly enter new markets and
channels
The scope of implementation:-
Finance, Controlling, Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, Production Planning,
Enterprise Portal and BW. The methodology adopted for my SAP implementation is
Accelerated SAP covering following phases: Project Preparation, Business Blueprint,
Realization, Final Preparation, and Go Live & Support.
Contribution:
 Analyzing Business Processes and procedures of the existing system.
 Configuration of CIN process.
 Configuration of different business process such as sales from Trading, Rebates,
Consignment Sales.
 Configuring Lean Warehouse management , Returnable Packaging
 Design of Layout of invoice and Preparation of Functional specification for Smart forms.
 Testing - Unit testing, Integration testing, and End-to-End testing.
 Preparation of functional specification of technical development and Monitor process of
ABAP Development.
 Sales order backlog upload by using LSMW (BAPI)
 Post Go Live Support

6. 4. Project Name: SAP Implementation at Thomson Displays
Client Thomson Displays , Poland
Role SD Consultant- Sr.Associate
Organization AAKIT Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Duration May 2006 – Sept 2006
Team Size 50 Onsite team members
About the Client:-
Thomson Displays is a well known brand for Picture Tube manufacturing having presence in
Global Market.
About the Project:-
my SAP ERP was implemented for a leading FMCG company. The company manufactures
color picture tubes at four manufacturing locations. The objectives for implementing the
solution were:
o Integrated solution for the various business units within the company
o Adopting the Best Business Practices
o Increase in customer and user satisfaction
o Standardization across the organization
o World class reporting, resulting from improved data collection, database and reporting
tools
o Providing a sophisticated systems environment which gives state-of-the-art distribution
functionality, enables the sharing of data across departments, enabling internal
efficiencies and as well as the flexibility to rapidly enter new markets and channels
The scope of implementation was: Finance, Controlling, Sales and Distribution, Materials
Management, Production Planning, Enterprise Portal and BW. The methodology adopted for
my SAP implementation is Accelerated SAP covering following phases: Project Preparation,
Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, and Go Live & Support.
Contribution:
 As team member for SAP SD I was responsible for collecting all inputs regarding all SD
business Process.i.e. AS IS preparation, Finding Gaps and Preparing BBP.
 Conducted Design Workshops with End User and IT Analyst for Mapping of Process and
GAP analysis.
 Preparation of Functional Specifications.
 Being the SD consultant onsite was instrumental in cementing the decision of Thomson
and SAP India as a vendor for the whole operations.(That Include other countries like Italy,
Mexico, France).
 Appreciated for the pro active initiatives and work done by the client & received the
appreciation mail from the client. The Biggest Challenge was to understand the process
details from End user who knew only Polish language with a little flavor of English.
As a team member was responsible for,
 Analyzing Business Processes and procedures of the existing system
 Mapping these Processes in SAP.
 Root causes Analysis for the cases.
 Interacting with the client and analyzing business process/requirements
 Day to Day reporting to Client on the behalf of team.
 GAP Analysis and FS as Deliverable.
 Preparation of training Documents for end users
 Conducted Training workshops for end users.
 Lead Coordinator for Master data uploads using LSMW technique

7. 5. Project Name: Vinergy International Ltd, Mumbai SAP end
to end Implementation project.
Client Vinergy International Ltd, Mumbai
Role SD consultant
Organization AAKIT Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Duration Jan 2006 – May 2006
Team Size 6 Modules: SD, MM, FI/CO, WM.
About the Client:-
A professionally managed, rapidly expanding Distribution & Marketing Organization. Major
distributor of BPCL for distributing petroleum products across Indian Market.
About the Project:-
The core-competence of the company lies in supplying qualitative petroleum and chemical
products and meeting the targets. The company decided to implement SAP to meet its current
business requirements.
The scope of the implementation was: Finance, Controlling, Sales and Distribution, Materials
Management, HR and Payroll.
As a team member, was responsible for,
 Analyzing Business Processes and procedures of the existing system
 Prepare Business Blue Print documents
 Configured different document types in SD and Pricing Procedures
 Customize purchasing rebates
 Customization for transportation
 Provide Post Go-Live support

8. Functional Experience:
Organization: Reliance Infocomm Ltd, Pune ( Contract )
Role: Asst. Sales Manager
Duration: Dec 2001 to Dec 2005
About Organization
Reliance Infocomm Ltd is one of the leading Telecom Solution Provider Company in India. The
products are distributed in wired line as well as wireless solutions in all the telecomm circles
across India. Reliance Infocomm is pioneer company to use Fiber optic network for telecom
services across India.
Responsibilities
 Appointed dealers and managing sales of Reliance India Mobile – Landline through
the Dealer Network
 Reliance India mobile sales in corporate accounts and individual accounts
 Sales of FWP/FWT (Landline) in Corporate accounts and SMEs
 Acquisition of buildings and space & power permissions for the networking of
Reliance’s basic telephony services
 Conducting surveys to build customer profiles and identifying buildings-of- interests
for the database creation of Reliance’s basic telephony network
 Preparation of MIS reports which were utilized by top management to get the daily
market information
Personal Details:
Name Devesh Vishnu Apte
Email Id deveshapte@gmail.com
Passport No. J4401524
Valid Up to: 07/2011
Valid Up to: 06/2021
Type of Visa holding (if any) L1 USA Valid Up to : 15-05-2013
Address for Correspondence
Flat No- A103, A J Classic, Karvenagar, Pune
411052 (India)
D. O. B. 15th May 1980
Contact Numbers +91- 8087502760
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