RATNAKAR WAIKAR

1303-Gokul villa, Sec 36, Kharghar ● Navi Mumbai, Pin: 410210

● Email: [email protected] ● Contact No.: +91 8080 731709.

Sr. Executive-Projects ● Process Specialist ● Manager - IT Applications ● Sr. EWM

Consultant

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Professional Experience

12+Years of Progressive and broad experience Which 3 years of SCM,3PL Experience,3 Years
of Business Process Improvement & IT Experiece and Six + years of SAP SCM, EWM
experience including implementation, customization, development, integration, testing and
application support of SAP R/3, ECC 6.0, SCM EWM 9.1, MM and SD Integration.
General Skills:

 Logistical Management experience with business analysis, SAP Configuration,

Implementation, Rollouts and Application Management
 Strong understanding of business processes, practices in 3PL Automotive, Packaging
and Building Product industry with respect to Supply chain management.
 Very well acquainted with the configuration and maintenance of SAP goods receipt,
and goods issue processes. Ability to develop requirements definition, overall analysis
and design of SAP SCM EWM systems, cutover activities and production support.
 Integration Skills with legacy via IDOCS and QRPF queue processing.
 Familiar with interfacing and using Radio frequency devices (RF) as well as the SAP
console to perform transactions on the warehouse floor, bar coding and handling units.
 Configuration of Enterprise structure by defining plants, purchase organizations,
storage locations, storage sections, bins, etc. Extensive post implementation support
knowledge.
 Strong Troubleshooting skill to resolve the user problems post go-live. Strong post
implementation user training capabilities. Able to prepare User Application Manuals
and reference documentation.
 Participated in the creation of functional specifications and the execution of roll- outs
for manufacturing, distribution, and 3PL.

Projects Summary:

Role : Sr. EWM Consultant

North Shore Technology. JUN 2016 – Till Date

BAJAJ AUTO LTD

SAP EWM - (Extended Warehouse Management) - Production Support JUN 2016- Till Date

Bajaj Auto Ltd. is India’s largest manufacturer of two- and three-wheeler vehicles.
They have built a new physical warehouse at Waluj, Aurangabad to distribute spare parts
across India and abroad. There are Upto 2000 deliveries a day,300-500 vehicles inbound &
outbound in a day are handled.EWM solution is integrated with highly automated with
Conveyor Systems, Pick to Light, Sort by Light, Multi Order Case Picking, Consolidation and
Sortation Systems provided by Bastian Solutions along with their WCS System – Exacta Order
 RATNAKAR WAIKAR
1303-Gokul villa, Sec 36, Kharghar ● Navi Mumbai, Pin: 410210
● Email: [email protected] ● Contact No.: +91 8080 731709.

Case Picking, Auto Sorting. it has streamlining Bajaj’s distribution Process and greatly
improve part availability.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Optimized Outbound process with wave management, re-mapped and process IDOCs,
Proxies, QRFC for Pick to Light and Sort by light system by integrating SAP EWM with
WCS System.
 Optimized Export outbound process with wave management and Delivery splitting
solution
 Optimizing inbound process by Auto VAS Order confirmation.
 Configure of Storage type search strategies for Put away, picking and replenishment
for newly added storage type based on the Business requirement for receiving and
delivery and replenishment process.
 Handling production daily support issues related to Inbound, Outbound, Replenishment
Wave, Interfaces, Problem solving for recurring SAP EWM issues involving
configuration and/or processes.
 IDOC Error handling- working on different error message types so as to research them
and process successfully, checking the IDOC mapping so that the required corrections
are made, searching the IDOCs for order numbers and resolving the failed ones.
 Analyse failure reasons for different batch jobs which are running in background,
Queues stuck in Error and give solution to Key users.
 Interacted with the technical consultants in developing the technical specifications to
make use of and update the customized tables
 Writing Functional Design specifications for Customized transactions.

Manager– IT Applications

Arshiya Ltd. JAN 2011 – Jun 2016

Arshiya created India's first Free Trade & Warehousing Zone sprawls 165 acres near the
JNPT port near Mumbai and 135 acres near Delhi. It is offering various service such as
International Forwarding, Transportation and Handling, international standard bonded
warehousing in FTWZs for imports, exports and re-exports, pan India Rail freight services and
terminal network, and domestic consolidation and deconsolidation in Industrial & Distribution
Hub.

Projects:

SAP EWM - (Extended Warehouse Management) - Production Support & Rollout Feb 2014-
Jun-2016

Roles & Responsibilities: .

 Developed customised billing solution for based on the based on the inbound and
outbound internal Activities carried out in warehouse
 Day to Day warehouse operation and Billing related incident resolution.
 Created a document library to support on-going operations enabling faster issue
Resolution
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1303-Gokul villa, Sec 36, Kharghar ● Navi Mumbai, Pin: 410210
● Email: [email protected] ● Contact No.: +91 8080 731709.

 Monitor Master Data (Customer Master/Material Master/Price Master) interfaces,

handled issues related to RF, put away & stock removal strategies.

 Deliver consultancy advice to business units with regard to process

improvements and/or capabilities of systems for new enhancements and
releases

 Master data such as Vendor Master Updating, Material data updation, Info record
updation
 handling issue related different types of purchase orders including standard,
consignment, and stock transport orders.

 Physical Inventory Posting

SAP EWM - (Extended Warehouse Management)- Implementation Oct 2011- Feb-2014

 Attended Solution Mapping phase for Inbound, outbound & internal process at Arshiya
Warehouses.
 Involved in Business Requirement Gathering for setting up a new warehouse.
Understanding the AS-IS Business Process of the current distribution facility by
Interacting with the Key business users.
 Configure Layout of Warehouse structure, Storage types and put away and Picking
strategies.
 Actively involved in ECC-EWM Integration Configuration, Defining Storage Location,
Stock Type, Configuration of availability group, PACI,,Stock Removal Rule, Storage
Type Search Sequence, Work Order Creation Rule
 Prepared Integration Test Scripts for Inbound and outbound process, carry out the
testing, Identifying the bug and get it resolved.
 Training the users for carrying out their warehouse activities and using the warehouse
monitor to view outbound and inbound transaction results.
 Testing and documenting the reports and training the users to make them understand
the functionality of the reports.
 Writing Functional Design specifications for Customized transactions.
 Involved in Preparation for Cut over Activity Before Go live.
 Go-Live and Post Live Support and helped end users in understanding the process.
 RATNAKAR WAIKAR
1303-Gokul villa, Sec 36, Kharghar ● Navi Mumbai, Pin: 410210
● Email: [email protected] ● Contact No.: +91 8080 731709.

Cyber-WARE – Production Support JAN 2011- Sep-2012

Cyber-SCM suite is a web-based application / solution for the Warehousing & Distribution,
business. It incorporates Inbound & Outbound transaction, Cross-Docking Inventory
Management and Location Management, warehouse and freight settlement; It also
incorporates finance functionality for billing & Invoicing, documentation, data management,
supply chain integration, shipment tracking, and reporting processes.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Act as the primary business liaison to business segment through facilitating communication
between development, QA, Product Management, and technical Operation.
 Perform Process Mapping to Understanding clients supply chain operations, identify the
GAP, Prepare Customer requirements, specifications, business processes and
 Providing Business Scenarios for development of any new feature or change in the
Business process.
 Participate in review/testing of product & new features / functionality releases to ensure
that the requirements were interpreted correctly.
 Master Data Management.
 Manage post mortems for all major incidents to a satisfactory conclusion
 Manage the Incident SLAs, Key Performance Indicators where appropriate, with
Accurate reporting to key stakeholders.

Process Specialist –

Infosys LTD June 2010 - Jan 2011

Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Maintaining existing web applications and associated databases, proactively interacting
and understanding the requirements and validating them.
2. Enhancement in Existing Application
3. Provide timely functional releases so as to meet fast changing business requirements

Projects:

WTS (Work Tracking System) Jun-2010 to Aug 2010

WTS is work tracking systems that provide great flexibility to team leads and Manager in
managing their resources proactively. It offers various feature such as Time stamp for various
activities like meeting, training, productive time. Work allocation and tracking, Real time
usage dashboard, Absenteeism tracking.

Q Blog (Sep 2010 to Dec 2010)

This application basically used by the Quality team members to share ideas, best practices,
knowledge within their team. Once idea is submitted email-notification is being sent to all
team members. Upon reading article team can submit their feedback about article

Sr. Executive – Projects (DAMCO)

 RATNAKAR WAIKAR
1303-Gokul villa, Sec 36, Kharghar ● Navi Mumbai, Pin: 410210
● Email: [email protected] ● Contact No.: +91 8080 731709.

Maersk Global Services Centre – A. P. Moller Group Aug 2005 – Jun 2010

Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Driving Process improvement project in the organization . Streamline and simplify current
processes to achieve reliable and reproducible results.

SAA E2E Project: Internal

 Perform AS-IS processes mapping along with time study for TOP 5 Retail Clients
Export Documentation Processes within Origin office, Warehouse and GSC.

 Undertake variance analysis of actual performance v/s target levels to understand

Successes and areas of improvement for Logistic Export Documentation processes.

 Perform data mining / detailed and extensive analysis on Management Information

in order to identify, priorities and implement opportunities for performance
improvement and/or to enhance customer experience.

 Assist process team to implement TO-BE process. Create a template for preparing
base case and measure improvement after change.Support system development,
testing, post implementation support. Involved in functional Testing of software
application.

Achievements:

Received Director Award for Successfully Migrating Export Documentation Process of Client
WALMART successfully.

Educational Qualification

Masters in Information Management

Mumbai University May 2015
Jamanalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies

B.Sc – Computer Science May 2003

Mumbai University Higher Second Class
S.K.Somaiya College of Art Science &commerce