Kaushal Shah SAP SA
Kaushal Shah SAP SA
Work Experience - Total: 25.10 Years IT: 23.1 Years SAP CRM: 20.11 Years (as of 25/08/2023)
Objective
I’m a skilled, dedicated, highly motivated SAP Solution Architect and
certified SAP CRM Sales and Service consultant with a successful track-
record, including the design and delivery of multiple strategy definition
and business transformation projects. I bring to the table my knowledge
of business administration, my core field sales background at Canon &
my vast experience of working on variety of small, medium and large
SAP CRM implementations. I’ve over 20 years of SAP Consulting
experience (22+ years in IT, 25+ years in total) and have worked in
various senior roles during my SAP career which have included: Solution
Architect, Subject Matter Expert; Team lead; Functional consultant and
Technical consultant.
Certifications
• SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Service Cloud 1811 (Sep 2019)
• SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Sales Cloud 1811 (Jan 2020)
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Achievements
• Received various awards at Logica: Member Recognition Award for contribution to ProAction programme (Peritus initiative)
– Oct 2015, Diamond award (GOLD category) for outstanding contributions to SAP CRM support – Jan 2010, SAP Star
Award for “Excellent support of EDF Energy’s SAP CRM project ICE” – July 2008, SAP Star Award for high level of
contribution to the British Waterways CRM project (nominated by GCCM, SDM and TL) – April 2008, SAP Star Award for
“excellent work in resolving 6 months outstanding issues and making a vast impact on CRM support area” – Oct 2007
• Received various awards at IBM: “IBM India Customer Dedication Award” – March 2006, “IBM – Nestle Loyalty Award” –
Jan 2006, special performance bonus (IBM AMS High Performers 2005-2006) on 30.Nov.2005
• Chosen as a member of Case-2000 (Canon Academy for Sales Excellence)
• Awarded Medal for Scholastic Performance, Third Rank in PGDM (96-98)
• Awarded Medal for The Best Student of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (96-98)
• 2nd Rank in Program for Diploma in Management Studies at Ahmedabad Management Association
Strengths
Problem solving, Leading by example, Analytical ability, Logic building, System design, Database design, Innovative nature,
Quick learning, On-the-job learning
Employment History
Organisation & Location Designation Job role From To
TCS UK SAP CRM Subject Matter Expert SAP CRM SME Oct 2021 Till Date
HCL Axon Managing Consultant Mature SAP CRM team lead April 2018 Oct 2021
CGI (previously Logica) Lead consultant – SAP CRM SAP CRM team lead Sept 2007 April 2018
Birmingham, UK (since July 2008)
Accenture Team Lead SAP Consultant Dec 2006 Aug 2007
IBM Global Services Consultant SAP Consultant Jul 2003 Dec 2006
Kolkata, West Bengal, IN (Base) / Croydon, UK (Apr 2004 to Dec 2004) / Vevey, Switzerland (Jan 2005 to Dec 2006)
Vanguard Technologies (India) Technical Consultant SAP Technical Sept 2002 Jun 2003
Pvt. Ltd. Consultant
Applitech Solution Limited Sr. Programmer Software Development Aug 2001 Sept 2002
Apr 2000 Aug 2000
Talent Infoway Limited Project Manager Software Development Sept 2000 Jun 2001
Canon India Limited Sales Executive Selling Copiers & Faxes May 1998 Apr 2000
Education
Post Graduate Diploma in Management 1996-98
CGPA: 3.447 (80.2%) - Nirma Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN.
Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) 1991-95
Result: First Class with Distinction - Percentage: 76.53% - Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology - Nadiad, Gujarat, IN.
HSC (Science) (Year 12, equivalent to UK A-Levels) 1990-91
Result: First Class - Percentage: 70.38% - K.G.Trivedi Sadhana Vinay Mandir - Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN.
SSC (Year 10, equivalent to UK GCSE’s) 1988-89
Result: Distinction - Percentage: 84.71% - K.G.Trivedi Sadhana Vinay Mandir - Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN.
Personal Details
Gender : Male
Family : Married, 2 kids – 21 and 18
UK visa status : British Passport
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Projects
TCS UK (www.tcs.com/who-we-are/worldwide/uk)
Version, [Client], Duration Worked on Role Location
SAP CRM 7.0 CRM customer management, SAP CRM Southampton (UK)
[Kingfisher Plc] service requests, call list, WebUI Functional
Oct 2021 to now Consultant
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Accenture (www.accenture.com)
SAP–ISU / CRM Implementation (CRM / ISU ABAP, BSP, CIC SAP CRM Bangalore (India),
Custom Development, BSP Development) Consultant Mumbai (India)
[Singapore Power]
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SAP Project Details
Organisation: TCS UK
Client: Kingfisher PLC
Brief: Kingfisher plc is a British multinational retailing company headquartered in London, England. It has over 1,300 stores in
nine countries, and its brands include B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt and Screwfix. Different countries historically used
different IT systems. Kingfisher has gone live with a global SAP solution (Easier template), and different country operations
(banners) are slowly coming onboard. The Easier template solution includes SAP CRM 7, SAP ECC, SAP BI and other
complimentary SAP and non-SAP solutions, to support Kingfisher retail business.
Main responsibilities:
• Own and drive requirement workshops with the business teams from various brands and banners
• Design and Configuration:
o CRM 7.0 customer management, service request, WebUI, customer migration, ERMS, email templates,
customer mass updates, IDoc developments, OData service developments (customer search API),
opportunity creation, call list management
o Onboarding a new banner (BDRO, BDFR, CAPL, CAFR etc.) to Easier CRM
o Integration with SAP and non-SAP systems via BODS, IIB and iPaaS
o New bespoke functionalities to support business processes – Bon de passage
o GDPR customer archiving solution – manual & automated
• Designing & Authoring Functional Specifications for CRM customer management, B2B tradepoint enhancements, price
file update automation, customer search API, Nitecrest file split for UK & IRE, mass customer updates using LSMW &
IDocs, Bon de passage, real-time customer creation via third party trigger,
• Actively managed large scale customer migration to a live system
• Provided CRM support for Embrace migration of SAP systems from HEC to cloud platform
• Delivery responsibilities:
o Design documents, functional specifications, configuration notes, test execution documents
o Solution delivery, post go-live support
• Business stakeholder engagement and management
• Represent the changes in CAB, coordinating Transport build list preparation and execution with Change Management
and Basis teams, for all cutovers and go-live
• Executed UT, SIT and supported UAT & Regression Testing, User Training
• BAU Knowledge Transfer
• Manage hyper care support after go-live for all the CRM solutions delivered
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o Status reporting for Design, Build and Test.
o Statement of work review and compliance
• Senior stakeholder engagement and management, including director level stakeholders
• Manging definition & execution of Redbooks during cutover to each environment as well as production go-live
• Represent the change in CAB, coordinating Transport build list preparation and execution with Change Management
and Basis teams, for all cutovers and go-live
• Executed UT, SIT and supported UAT & Regression Testing, User Training
• BAU Knowledge Transfer
• Manage hyper care support after go-live for both release 1 & release 2
Client: LeasePlan
Brief: LeasePlan is one of the world’s largest fleet management specialists. Established in the mid-1960s, LeasePlan is nowadays
comprised of 32 entities across the world, with its HQ in the Netherlands. Every LeasePlan subsidiary uses their own set of
systems and software. But with new owners in 2016, the company took an initiative to implement one global leasing
solution across all countries, based on a successful SAP Leasing solution their Australia subsidiary had implemented. Wave
0 was implemented for a selective customers of LeasePlan Netherlands. Wave 1 with global template solution and
localisation gaps is being implemented for LeasePlan Netherlands and Norway.
Main responsibilities:
• Contributed towards architectural framework for base AU template to adapt it to CRM 7.0 global template design
• Review, feasibility & design of localisation gaps
• Main stakeholders included NL Business Process Leads and Project Management
• Delivery responsibilities
o Planning gap design & delivery schedules
o Representing team in Agile stand-ups
o Status reporting for Quotation, Contracts and Pricing Gap Design, Build, Test and Playbacks
• Workshops with business representatives
o Discuss & progress gaps
o Playbacks to obtain business signoff
• Design & Configuration
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o CRM 7.0 WebUI
o Core leasing transactions including MLA, quotations (new & used cars), contracts (new & used cars), change
processes (MLCs), change quotes & contracts, termination, CRM billing
o IPC Java pricing, writing requirement and value formulas as per requirements.
• Supported pre-UAT & UAT stage.
• Worked with other teams (BP, ECC, Services, Insurance, Rentals etc.) to collectively progress gaps & build a fully
comprehensive leasing solution.
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Client: Land Registry
Brief: Land Registry (officially known under the Land Registration Act 2002 as Her Majesty's Land Registry) is a British
Governmental organisation created in 1862. Land Registry is responsible for publicly recording interests in registered land
in England and Wales and reports to the Ministry of Justice. Land Reg SAP CRM solution consist of Employee Interaction
Centre based on CRM 2007, which is used for catering to Land Reg’s internal HR requirements.
Worked on: CRM 2007 IC webclient, EIC (employee interaction centre), date/SLA configuration, service tickets, ERMS, email
preview for EIC scenario, email related workflows, time recording, employee data protection, upgrade to CRM 7, data
extraction from CRM 7 to Oracle service cloud.
Client: InBev
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Brief: InBev is the largest brewer in the world. It was created by the combination of Interbrew and AmBev in 2004. The
company employs more than 85,000 people worldwide, has over 100 breweries in 30 countries and sells to 130 countries
across six operational regions. LogicaCMG is responsible for management of the company’s European and global
headquarters’ application services, its western European applications spanning eight major markets in Europe, central and
eastern Europe and InBev’s new SAP-based European ERP system. CRM is a major component of InBev SAP landscape.
Worked on: CRM 4.0 & CRM 5.0 sales, CIC winclient, mobile sales, middleware, master data, pricing, call lists, opportunities.
Organisation: Accenture
Project: Singapore Power ISU-CRM implementation
Client: Singapore Power
Brief: Singapore Power Ltd., one of the largest utility companies in Southeast Asia with 2.5 million customers, has chosen the
SAP Utilities Customer Care and Service solution to manage its billing and customer care operations. Singapore Power is
upgrading their ISU & CRM systems. Currently we are in phase A.
Worked on: CRM 4.0 CIC winclient, ISU integration, contract accounts, customer info bespoke BSP screen development (to
display address, financial, blocks & locks, contract account data, installations, billing history, payment history, meter
reading data etc.), action definition to create a BAR (billing adjustment request) in ISU system from CRM (calling ISU BOR
method), activity reassignment report, action definition to remove person responsible from activity, activity assignment
report (for batch job)
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Duration: 42 months
Tools & Technologies: SAP-CRM Mobile Sales, SAP-CRM Mobile Service, Mobile Application Studio, VBA, MS SQL, Win 2K
Role: Technical Consultant
Team size: 5
Duration: 9 months
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