Pinkalkumar Masalawala
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AriZona Beverage Co.
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United States
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Food and Beverage Services
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300 - 400 Employee
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Sap Solutions Architect
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Dec 2019 - Present
• Design and implement MM/PP business processes for New Manufacturing facility at Keasbey-NJ, New Co-packers set up/integration at Texas/California/Florida, New distribution/warehouse set up, New products, and online sales through company portal Drink Arizona/Amazon in existing system for business expansion. • Explore/Implement new business functionality/process in S/4 HANA environment, Upgrade existing system from ECC 6.0 to S/4 HANA & research new functionality in latest S4 HANA version. • Set up and automate inter/intra company business processes for different business entities • Analyse existing business process and identify the scope for automation. Show less
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Avid
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Sap Business System Analyst
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Jan 2013 - Nov 2019
• Represents MM & PP in business initiatives taken for organic and inorganic growth, understating system landscape, participate in project preparations, help to define overall project scope, workforce requirement & Lead SAP Delivery. Ex – Acquiring Orad Inc – Adding 70 million USD in revenue stream • Design and implement all P2P, PP & export processes, SAP integration with 3rd party system & extend existing business controls for acquired company. • Participate in long term global procurement strategy Ex - Workday implementation & integration with SAP for indirect procurement through Web-methods. • Lead, manage & execute projects to improve bottom line Ex - Repairing process, Spares Planning, Subscription, GSA pricing, VMI -Vendor Managed Inventory, Master Data Management, S/4 HANA implementation preparation, Moving SAP ECC 6.0 to Microsoft Azure & Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for vendor invoice, Upgrade SAP-Omnify interface to new middleware Workato, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) implementation for vendor and customer master record. • Design and implement new business model in SAP as per market requirement defined by business for growth. Ex - Alliance Partner project like selling vendor hardware, software, professional services and customer support on Avid portal, New product launch, Direct Order fulfilment through EDI. • Respond to urgent business decisions taken for long term partner relationship. Ex – Moving 3rd party logistic from Matson to Expeditor & Expeditors to PGL global like process integration with very tight project schedule. • Drive & manage SAP change control, represents SAP in IT change control, define IT controls, help to define business process controls, IT controls monitoring and represent SAP in internal & third-party audit. • Support existing business process issues, implement process improvement, bug fixes, small developments, Quarter end, lead year end activities & define workforce requirement Show less
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Wipro
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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SAP MM/WM/SRM consultant
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Jul 2007 - Jan 2013
Responsibilities: • Drive day to day operations with offshore team on 24*7 delivery model with aggressive Service Level Agreement (SLA) Norms, manage work plan, handle tickets -SIRs, Drive Monthly-Weekly meetings with Production support leads and, Drive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for high business impact & recurring issues. • Responsible for productivity improvement by exploring new SAP functionalities, suggesting process improvement, implement permanent solution for recurring business issues & developing advance monitoring system. • Create & implement the change request developments and Liaise with all necessary third parties to coordinate change building, testing and implementation in accordance with schedule for SAP MM & SRM. • Responsible for business requirement analysis, preparation of specifications as per requirements, development/enhancements, preparation of test cases, reviews, unit testing, integration testing, implementation and post-production support. • Worked on incidents, interfaces, System investigation request and other third-party systems like ECOutlook. AMPAPS and other warehouse system for aforesaid modules. • Responsible for year-end activities, process improvement, problem management, value adds & value register. • Participated in requirement gathering workshop & Involved in design of PTP scenario Procurement of non-stock material though SRM Kodak specific PO-SO scenario Return to vendor, Consignment and Free goods scenario Physical Inventory process Achievements • Received 2 progressions, one promotion & proposed lot of business process changes in 4 years. • Have been handling multiple modules (SAP MM, SAP WM, SAP SRM, SAP PP, SAP APO, SAP PLM & EDM) as onsite lead in critical situation. • Got 2nd price in company level SAP utility & tool development competition. • Trained offshore team and increased team efficiency which helped organization to achieve non-linear growth. Show less
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Essar Steel
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Mining
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700 & Above Employee
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Procurement Engineer
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Jan 2005 - Jun 2007
•• Actively participated in requirement gathering workshops & helped team in project preparation activities like business documentation, business impact analysis and overall project scope. • Prepared AS-IS business process for raw material (for Gas and Iron ore) and production consumables procurement scenarios and gathered the requirement for other procurement process. • Participated in all TO-BE workshops for Procure to Pay processes, identified RICEF, done gap analysis and written functional specifications for Form. • Helped team in designing Purchase approval, Inventory management & invoice verification processes. • Done configuration for purchasing enterprise structure, Purchase Requisition, RFQ/Quotation, Purchasing info records, Source Lists, Purchase Orders, Pricing Procedure, Release procedure Goods Receipt, physical inventory and Invoice Verification. • Prepared test scripts, lead unit-integration testing, batch job set ups, cut-over activities & post Go-Live support as business matter expert. • Responsible for procurement of maintenance parts, vendor development and vendor evaluation for HBI plant (world largest Hot Briquette Iron plant). • Designing purchasing & inventory reports & help team as SAP super user to define the strategy for next financial year. • Reduction of overall Purchasing cost to the company by combining common items and negotiating long term contracts to achieve economy of purchase Show less
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Paushak Limited
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India
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Chemical Manufacturing
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100 - 200 Employee
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Engineering Officer
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Feb 2001 - May 2002
• Involved in Customer Development, order execution, planning & Inventory control of trading products. • Handled spares planning & inventory control of mechanical equipments. • Planned & supervised the maintenance of rotary/stationary equipment as shift in charge. • Technical correspondence and labor management • Involved in annual mechanical budget preparation & vendor development. • Involved in Customer Development, order execution, planning & Inventory control of trading products. • Handled spares planning & inventory control of mechanical equipments. • Planned & supervised the maintenance of rotary/stationary equipment as shift in charge. • Technical correspondence and labor management • Involved in annual mechanical budget preparation & vendor development.
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Education
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Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
Master's degree, Materials Engineering -
Bhavnagar University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Engineering