I started my SAP career back in 1995 in India. And I assume, I'd have been the one of the first set of people who had an opportunity to learn and work on SAP. After my initial training in SAP for about one year, I came to US eying for a project and in all practical sense a real life experience.
My first project was with a fortune 500 apparel and leather goods manufacturer in New Jersey. I've been told to develop some sapscript, which was considered to be very difficult by the analysts from ICS consulting (later they were bought by Deloitte consulting). I completed it in a jiff and got a good reputation right away. I was
given master data load (material master and customer master) then was slowly involved in EDI and other related technologies.
My next project was at Phillips automotive electronics at Auburn, Indiana. This is a very small
town close to Fort Wayne. This was an ASAP implantation. I was involved in the master data upload and the EDI implementation. The transactions I did was the Inbound/Outbound Orders and the outbound ASN. this was a terrific experience as the customer implemented the SAP formats as such without altering a lot. This project was only 3 months and I learned a lot in this three months.
My next stop was at Nash Finch Company at Edina, Minnesota. I was working for
Ernest&Young Consulting. I was in the EDI group and focussed solely on the EDI transactions including ASN, PO, delivery and also in the preparation of the implementation guide for the EDI transactions. This was a eight month
project ans the great thing about it is that I had an opportunity to lean ice scatting. My winter experience with Minnesota was not that bad, as 1997 winter was really mild, and we were playing Tennis during the month of September.
Next assignment was at Maxtor Corporation at Longmont, Denver. I was working for Pricewater house (not PWC at that time!). I was taken as the team lead for the EDI team till the
time, they get a PWC staff to lead the team. The project was done at two places like Longmont in Denver as well as in San Jose in California. I did
almost all EDI transactions such as Orders, ASN, delivery and was worked on the workflow on the purchasing documents. I completed this project by middle of 1998, and wanted to go back to India so badly (Home sick!). the skills I leaned were a little golfing, Hiking on the beautiful Rockie Mountains. By June 1998, I booked my tickets to India and flew back.
I got in to my next project with Wicto Corporation as I got the interview done in India and flew in and joined the project after my one month vacation in India. I was in charge of all EDI
development including the workflow development and administration. I also did a lot of shell programming and did a lot of innovative things in this project. I also developed a self standing product in SAP for the purposes od divestiture. I built it based on ABAP and ALE technology. This company was later bought by another and got it name changed to CK Witco. Then got renamed as Crompton Corporation. I worked here for almost six years. the company has changed its name after another merger into Chemtura.
My next stop was to get in to a permanent position.
