SUMMARY:

• Over 18 years of experience in logistics & operations with 18 years of experience in SAP configuring the Production Planning & Variant Configuration modules.
• Expert in the Integration of PP & PP - PI with MM, SD, QM & WM
• Strengths include Production Order Management, Variant Configuration, iPPE, MRP, Procurement, Inventory Management, Variant Pricing, MTO, MTS, WM, Archiving, Product Costing, Supply Chain Management and Quality Management.
• Extensive Project management and Implementation experience adhering to ASAP methodology and best practices in Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Gap Analysis, Blueprinting, Testing, and Training.
• Well versed with ASAP methodology and the utilization of SAP Solution Manager
• Worked in Production support and ticket resolution management.
• Extra-ordinary communication and documentation skills.
• Completed six full cycle PP implementations and Production support in US, from designing core business process to post Go-Live support, in Computer manufacturing, High Tech, Pharmaceutical, Chemical & Furniture industry.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95/98, Windows 3.11 and DOS

Database: Oracle 7.x / 8, Microsoft Access

Packages: ASAP 4.5, MS Office, Visio 4.5, MS Project & Power point

ERP: SAP 4.6C, 4.0B, and 3.1H

Others: Front Page, Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer

Languages: ABAP/4, SQL, PL-SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Huntersville,NC

Configuration and Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the sessions to collect the requirements from business in the Compounding and SFS business areas and prepared the Business Blue Print for the Variant Configuration module.
• Designed and developed the required Characteristics, Classes, Object Dependencies and Variant Tables for the KMATs. Involved in the writing the custom specifications for the pFunctions. Worked with the developers in building the pFunctions and custom tables to build the custom logic for 40,000 Configurable Compounding and SFS KMATs.
• Supported Pricing for Configurable Materials and all the required integration with the Sales & Distribution Module.
• Configured ALE for sending the Variant Configuration Master Data from development client to required test clients. Involved in developing the Training Material for the users in Variant Configuration module.

Confidential,Moline, IL

Configuration and Implementation

• Lead the design team in using the iPPE for product modeling to get the BOMs in R/3 for configurable products like Tractors, Harvesters and Loaders.
• Worked on custom development to use the standard ALE mechanism to transfer the PVS structures (iPPE) from one client that into another.
• Writing test scripts to do the full testing of PVS structure conversion to R/3 BOMs.
• Supported the users in designing the configurable models for the finished products that included Super BOMs, Routings, Object Dependencies.
• To support the Global Design and Build anywhere concept for the customer the following developments were done:
• Engineering BOM is modeled in Design client and it is sent to production clients and created as Manufacturing BOM with modified BD30 Transaction.
• Designed the automatic ALE functionality for characteristics & classes from the Design client to various Production clients.
• Developed custom filter in PPE transaction to support selection of specific parts in a finished product.
• Involved in the creation of new PDM HANA Client which consisted of only the Design Data. This process involved in collecting the selective data from the existing client and transferring to the PDM client though SLO (System Landscape Optimization) process and then Archiving this data in the existing clients.
• Involved in the design of various reports for iPPE like Multiple filter report, Linkage report, characteristics detail list for a material, Configuration errors in iPPE for SFN etc.

Confidential,Farmington,CT

Configuration and Implementation

• Lead the Production Planning team from Blueprint phase to Go-Live. Responsibilities included in setting up the Business processes, Master data, Configuration, Testing, Designing of Interfaces and Training the users.
• UTC’s carrier division has a complex manufacturing environment being supported by a large number of legacy systems. This phase of SAP implementation included the processes in Flexible Planning for forecasting finished products, Order entry to customer delivery of both Make-To-Order & Make-To-Stock products. Due to the complex nature of the products only first level BOMs were in this phase. The custom built interfaces were used to transfer the data from SAP to legacy MRP systems for the lower level components.
• Plants used tact times and sequencing of the products to achieve the desired production rates. This was supported in SAP with complex sequencing interfaces to arrange the orders on the shop floor either in ascending or descending fashion as required by the schedulers.

Confidential,Pottsville,PA

Configuration and Implementation

• Lead the PP and Variant Configuration teams and integrated SAP with Optivision (Honeywell product for Paper Mills). Designed the interfaces to communicate between SAP & OptiVision. The business required for supporting both the MTO & MTS scenarios to meet the different customer needs. Used Configurable materials to support the MTO environment and built the different order needs through configurable profiles.
• Responsibilities included setting up Master data like Material Masters, Classes, Characteristics, Configurable profiles, Object dependencies, BOMs and Routings. Setup Variant Pricing conditions to charge the customers based on the choices made in the orders. ALE was used to transfer the VC data from the master client to different clients in different phases of the project.
• Developed specific reports to compare the transactional data between SAP & OptiVision and used these reports to verify the both the systems were in sink.
• Developed interfaces for exchanging manufacturing related data between SAP & OptiVision to do goods movements in SAP.

Confidential,Atlanta, GA

Configuration and Implementation

• Lead consultant for the Implementation of SAP Best Practice PP-PI
• Completed the Business Blueprint and Realization collaborating with business representatives to capture business requirements and GAPs
• Modification of best practice configuration to meet business requirements
• Functionality covered included make to stock strategies, for independent product lines. Integration with Batch Management for FDA regulated products, QM for In-process inspections
• Provided overview of PLM-RM recipe management to meet business requirements for formula management
• Responsibilities include setting up the Master data, Configuration and training. Designed and developed interface to transfer the forecast from Demand Solutions to Demand Management in SAP.

Confidential,Attleboro,MA

Configuration and Implementation

• Setting up of Master Data like Material Masters, BOMs, Resources and Recipes.
• Configuring MRP and Production Order management.
• Worked on capacity planning for Resources.
• Interfaced the SAP with LIMS.
• Developed scripts for Integration testing.
• Involved in Training and prepared training manual for the end users.

Confidential,Jasper,IN

Configuration and Implementation

• Worked as SAP Analyst in the areas of PP and Variant Configuration. Kimball is leading furniture manufacturer with a make to order environment. The environment called for a large number of configurable materials to meet the various choices available during the order entry.
• Responsibilities included setting up Classes, Characteristics, Configurable profiles, BOMs and Routings. Setup variant pricing conditions to charge the customers based on the choices made in the orders.
• Involved in the development of function modules in Variant Configuration to simplify the object dependencies and optimize the total configuration of the configurable materials. Responsible for setting up ECM/ECR to control the product changes on the shop floor.
• Worked on different Make-To-Order & Make-To-Stock strategies to meet the business requirements.
• Participated in the Archiving project for the PP and MM Objects like Production orders, Purchase Orders, Material Documents and Materials.
• Participated in integrating the Production Planning with the Sales & Distribution module and setting up of Production orders, Capacity Planning and MRP. Involved in the product costing of the Configurable materials using valuated sales orders. Participated in the Variant pricing of the Configurable materials in Sales Orders to charge the customers based on their options selected in the Sales Orders.
• Involved in the development of the training materials using Infopak and end user training.
• Actively participated in Integration testing and service pack testing.

Confidential,RTP,NC

Configuration and Implementation

• Configured Process Order Management
• Interfaced Variant Configuration with PP-PI to create Process Orders (Assembly Processing).
• Configured Availability Check, Standard Value Keys, Production Schedule profile & Process order types.
• Involved in the Master data for PPPI - Material Master, Batches, Resources, and Recipes.
• Creation of Configurable Material & its Profile
• Creation of Variant Tables & Functions
• Creation of Object Dependencies
• Creation of Super BOM & Recipe for the Configurable Material
• Configured LTP to simulate the capacity situation based on the Forecast plans.
• Interfaced the forecast data from BPS to Demand management
• Developed scripts for Unit & Integration testing.
• Developed training documents through RWD Info pack & Simulator.

Confidential,Redwood City,CA

Configuration and Implementation

• Created a configurable material.
• Created characteristics and classes and assigned to configurable material.
• Customized the configurable profile to meet the requirements of the configurable material.
• Created object dependencies.
• Configuring and capturing the details of Basic data like BOMs, Work centers & Routing.
• Later to use this Basis Data for Production Orders.
• Configure two types of Production Orders - one for Normal Orders & Other for Reworks.
• Goods Receipts and Goods Issue posting.
• Posting a return delivery with reference to the purchase order.
• Configured a reservation for Goods Issue.
• Configured stock transfers and Transfer posting.

Confidential,Pittsburgh, PA

Configuration and Implementation

• Actively involved in Configuration and Customization of MRP - Maintain MRP Plant parameters, Special Procurement Types, Parameter for defining Basic dates and detailed scheduling, BOM explosion control, ATP (Availability check for the Components), Conversion of Planned Order to Purchase Requirement and Production Order, Setup planning file entry.
• Production order - Definition of Order Type, Control Parameter, Availability check, Backorder processing, Scheduling, Confirmation, Preliminary costing, order settlement rule for Order Type. Variant Configuration
• Created a configurable material.
• Created characteristics and classes and assigned to configurable material.
• Customized the configurable profile to meet the requirements of the configurable material.
• Created object dependencies.

Confidential,Pittsburgh, PA

Configuration and Implementation

• Actively involved in Configuration and Customization of MRP - Maintain MRP Plant parameters, Special Procurement Types, Parameter for defining Basic dates & Detailed scheduling.
• Process order - Definition of Order Type, Control Parameter, Availability Check, Backorder processing, Scheduling & Confirmation.
• Customizing the PP(PI) Module for the production of Aspirin and interfaced the PP-PI module with QM. Batch Management
• Configured and maintaining Characteristics and Classes for the Objects.
• Batch determination, batch availability and usability check at sales order level and transfer of requirements to Production.
• Calculation of shelf life expiration date automatically during goods receipt and Dynamic determination of shelf life expiration date using function.

Confidential

Configuration and Implementation

• Configuring BOMs, Work Centers, Routing, and MRP & Capacity planning.
• Configuring Repetitive Manufacturing, Make to Order and Make to stock orders.
• Product Costing using Quantity Structure.
• Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order.
• Goods receipts and goods issues
• Physical inventory.
• Subcontracting activities.
• Storage type, Storage Sections.
• Stock placement strategies, Stock removal strategies.
• Configuration of Purchase order and subcontract order.
• Monitoring stocks provided by vendor.