Sap Mm/purchasing Functional Consultant Resume
Dallas, TX
SUMMARY:
- Having 8+ years of extensive experience in SAP Functional and Technical modules like MM, PP, WM/LE,, SD,QM, FICO and ABAP.
- Worked with Purchasing, Procurement Internal and External, Invoice Verification, Production planning with internal production orders, MRP, Warehouse management with external UI suite, Sales & Distribution, OTC, Invoice based Adobe forms, Logistics Execution, Shipments, Routing, TrEm Cards, Quality Inspection, Financial accounts handling, AP & AR related Accounts, GL Account postings, Reconciliation, Master Data configurations as per business, Data Migration.
- Experienced in Four full life cycle implementations and Two Roll - outs. Worked with Water fall and Agile implementation methodologies with multiple customers.
- Involved in all phases of ASAP implementation, Agile methodology including blueprinting, gap analysis, Requirements mapping, design, and configuration, testing, go-live, UAT Support, User training and post production support.
- Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and assisting end users in User Acceptance Testing to validate the business scenarios.
- Good skills in ABAP debugging and good handling with LSMW execution, Mass maintenance tools, Data Transformation Tools.
- Has knowledge in NetWeaver Gateway Services, Rest Services, ALE IDOCS, BDC,BAPI, BADI, Customer & User exits for customizations in SAP.
- Excellent team member with good communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to perform, Open to new ideas & concepts, ability to learn quickly and team builder.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Primary skills: SAP R/3, ECC 6.0, EHP 7, SAP Net Weaver, NWBC, SAP NetWeaver, S&P transformation products, Winshuttle, JD Edwards, Selenium, NOC Tool.
Applications: SAP GUI 6.40, 7.00, 7.10, 7.20
Secondary Skills: C, CAD, Oracle 8i.Core JAVA
Office Products: Ms-Office suite, Visio.
Project Management: Ms-Project Professional, JIRA
Groupware: Ms-Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, BMC Remedy, CPMT, Atlassian, SOLMAN, HPSM.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
SAP MM/Purchasing Functional Consultant
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Environment: SAP ECC6.0
Responsibilities:
- Engaged in client meetings to gather requirements for Purchasing, Procurement and Plant operations.
- Prepared design documents for Purchasing and plants operations involving configuration, enhancements (e.g. User interfaces, solution approach for material identification) and reports.
- Most of the design details included around Vehicle master data, Printing, Batch Management and Inventory Management.
- Developed and implemented Inventory management system by using Data extract from UI and middleware in SAP from data layer SOLR.
- Configuration of Master Data which includes Material, Vendor, Purchase Info Records and customizing the same as per the client's requirement.
- Configuring Inventory documents like goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfer and transfer postings.
- Designed and Implemented SAP Functions: Vendor Evaluation, Release Strategies, Procurement of External services.
- Worked with Catalogs like shopping cart with Procurement activities. Scenarios like internal and external, self and public sector procurement strategies.
- Quota arrangement, Reservations, Contracts, Schedule agreements, RFQ, Service masters, Legacy Procurement Portal integration and BOMs.
- Configured MRP controllers, MRP groups, parallel processing, and Scheduling parameters in Material Requirements Planning.
- Configured graphic profiles for Capacity Planning/Leveling in Repetitive manufacturing. - Invented AUTO GR process based on the confirmation, received via EDI transmission from sub-contracting vendor or distributors.
- Created pull list to control in-house material flow, supplying production with materials. This pull list checks the stock situation at the production line, calculates the missing parts for the components and triggers replenishment for these missing parts.
- Worked on Sales and Distribution OTC (Order to Cash), Revenue Recognition, Delivery Based Billing for goods and services, Customer Billing Forms, picking customer based Conditions in order, Included BRF+ Business rule framework for user specific scenarios, AR operations with GL Accounts.
- Reviewed and executed Data Migration task using LSMW / BDC tools.
- Procurement process was automated to have Auto PO from PR with Preferred Vendor Selection and Transmittal of PO to Vendors via FAX / EDI to selective vendors.
- Manage SAP Support calls: issue resolution / debugging / bug fixing / apply OSS notes. Configured EDI/IDOC for different message types to distribute data also involved in customizing the interfaces
- Having a Strong Integration knowledge of MM/FI/SD/PP
- Worked extensively with business on the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) &integration testing (script) on MM, SD & PP.
- Responsible for writing the Knowledge transfer documentation and doing the Knowledge transfer to IT stewards and End-user training documentation with tools like Atlassian.
SAP MM/Procurement Consultant
Confidential, East Peoria, IL
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Understanding the functional specifications and assisted the team in identify various business related system scenarios
- Configured Procurement to Pay cycle (P2P) and Configured Material Master, Product data Master (PDM), Purchasing documents to realize defined functional requirements
- Configured Purchase Requisition (PR), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Order (PO), and Purchasing Info record, Source lists, contracts, scheduling agreements, release orders, quota management, Info Records for Standard, Consignment and Sub - Contracting
- Configured account determination for goods movement, pricing, BOM and logistics Invoice Verification for accounts payable
- Carried out split valuation of materials based on valuation category
- Worked in the WM, configuring the master data and transactional data items like storage types, storage sections, storage bins, picking and put away areas.
- Configured WM Structure by Defining storage types, storage sections, storage bins, quant's, doors etc
- Defined and managed several different types of storage, such as high rack storage, block storage or fixed bin storage
- Defined Storage Bin Structure for all Materials by defining Template, Structure, Start Value, End Value and Increment.
- Customized put away and picking strategies for fixed bin, open storage, addition to existing stock, and storage unit types (pallets)
- Assisted in SAP Console Implementation- Verification Profiles, RF Menus, Barcode Scanning, Screen Management, RF Queue Management
- Defined WM Movement types, Storage type search, Storage section search, Storage bin type search, Stock Placement (Put away) and Stock Removal (Picking) strategies.
- Configured storage types with and without Storage Unit Management
- Defined Storage Bin Structure for all Materials by defining Template, Structure, Start Value, End Value and Increment
- Configured the process of incoming GR's directly to interim storage area, Bin creation for them dynamically, put away strategy to move Material from Interim storage location to destination Storage location with automatic Stock Transfer Order (STO) creation
- Worked on various types of Label printers for designing custom labels such as "Zebra", "Intermec", "DATAMAX"
- Prepared functional specifications, interfaces, custom reports based on user requirements and coordinated with ABAP Programmers
- Designed Integration scripts for integration testing of MM-WM Interface with all external teams.
- Performed Unit Testing and UAT.
- Tested purchase requisition cycle, request for quotation cycle, purchase order cycle, outline agreements, sub-contracting, goods receipts and issue cycles using HPQC
SAP MM/PP/WM Consultant
Confidential, Wilmington,DE
Responsibilities:
- Participated in AS - IS business process workshop and understand the current business requirements. Presented TO-Be workshop to the business users and mapped in SAP
- Identified the gaps between business requirements and SAP delivered functionality for Materials management and Production planning modules
- Implemented Make to Stock and Make to Order for US plants.
- Conducted SME workshops on gathering localization related requirements in Japan plant
- Configured and executed the shop floor activities including creation of orders, conversion of orders, printing shop floor papers, goods movements, order confirmation and availability check.
- Configured WM Structure by Defining storage types, storage sections, storage bins, quant's, doors etc.
- Defined Storage Bin Structure for all Materials by defining Template, Structure, Start Value, End Value and Increment
- Defined Warehouse number, shipping point & assigned warehouse to storage location, shipping point to plant, transfer types, and movement types
- Assisted in SAP Console Implementation- Verification Profiles, RF Menus, Barcode Scanning, Screen Management, RF Queue Management
- Configuration of Put away rules and strategies
- Configured Warehouse Structure for RF devices and Mobile Data Entry for various movement types in warehouse and Activated RF monitor for various warehouse and inventory transactions, Created new forms for bar code labels and also Standard labels EAN128 and ITIN39
- Configured storage types with and without Storage unit management and Handling Unit Management
- Worked on Split valuation for different valuation of material
- Worked on Batch management and split valuation
- Configured Account determination process and Configured Pricing procedure.
- Developed Bar Code scanning and SAP Console for RF system integration which involved Warehouse Hierarchy structure, Placement and Picking Strategies, Shipment methodology, Customizing of Mobile Data Entry screens, activated RF monitor and user authorization analysis
- Built Shipping interface to the third party system using EDI/IDOC
- Configured invoice verification process, tolerance limits and planned and unplanned delivery cost
- Worked extensively on Service Parts Procurement with authorized suppliers
- Involved in Functional Integration Testing, End to end testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) . Hands on experience with testing tools, creating test plans, procedures, issue resolution and user acceptance.
SAP MM/PP Consultant
Confidential, Glendale, CA
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Joined the project as a part of "Up gradation consultant" from R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
- Involved in preparing functional and technical specifications as per the user requirements
- Customized MM functionalities: Master Data Material Master, Service Master, info records, source lists, Consumption Based Planning, purchasing, and Inventory Management.
- Configured purchasing organization, purchasing groups and pricing & other Purchase functions.
- Configured the Inventory management of goods at the points of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks viz. consignment, third party, and sub - contracting.
- Created physical inventory settings, documents, posting differences, inventory sampling and cycle counting.
- Worked with shopping carts and procurement activities on integration with SAP SRM 5.0. Handling procurement scenarios. Configuring supplier plants and users in SRM.
- Worked on quality contracts, value contract for purchase requisition, contracts and purchase orders. Material planning: MRP (MRP types, MRP profiles), planning run, lot size calculation, reorder point planning.
- Configured Batch Management creating class and characteristics master data, condition table, access sequence, strategy type and define batch search procedure.
- Customization of Batch Management by defining batch strategy for inventory management.
- Configured tolerances and limits in purchase orders and created scheduling agreement and contracts.
- Configured warehouse management settings with various storage types, sections and storage bins
- Configured Inventory Management Parameters for all goods movements like goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, GR for blocked stock, goods return.
- Configured release strategy for purchase requisition and purchase orders as per the approval hierarchy of the client
- Unit test for distribution process pricing, delivery outputs and reports.
- Configuring document types for purchasing documents like RFQ, purchase requisition, purchase orders.
- Automatic determination of GL accounts, mapping valuation classes to GL account
- Designing Business User and End User Training strategies and training documentation with tools like RWD U-perform
- Assisted the project lead in preparing various documentations and also conducted seminars and training sessions
- Developed and worked upon various test cases and scripts and tested various scenarios using various quality tools such as HPQC
- Performed Unit testing and Integration testing's.
- Responsible for providing the necessary documentation and knowledge transfer for the implementation
SAP MM/LE Consultant
Confidential, Florham Park, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Supported day to day activities by providing inputs and solution to the errors made in the warehousing activities.
- Conducted user training enabling employees to get familiar with the system and develop hands on experience which is the most crucial phase of a project.
- Performed testing on the RF devices, identified the defects and analyzed the issues and providing solutions in a timely manner.
- Used functional knowledge in MM, WM, SD, Logistics, IDOC's, EDI and LSMW to solve issues.
- Solved all the issues with RF hand held devices and HUM to make sure there are no show stoppers affecting the Go Live of the plants.
- Worked with HPQC and CPT test running tool.
- Involved in the configuration of output determination by creating Output types, Access sequences, assigning output types to output determination procedure, configuring print parameters, setting up plant specific condition records.
- Coordinated with offshore to successfully complete the configuration for the WM.
- Successfully supported Go Live for 29 IM plants and 5 warehouses.
SAP MM/SCM Functional Consultant
Confidential, McLean, VA
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7
Responsibilities:
- Involved in preparing the User Acceptance Testing scripts for the setup of the plant.
- Helped the cutover team in creating and validating the initial inventory for all the materials.
- Assisted the project during Go-Live and production support.
- Trained business analysts and end users on transactions and prepared detailed documentation.
- Worked with the internal and external number ranges for planned orders, Dependent requirements, Purchase Requisitions and associated the planned orders with appropriate procurement types as per Business requirements.
- Associated with the special procurement types with appropriate procurement types to define the procurement types more precisely. For in-house production worked with the special procurement types to allow the system in selecting the BOM and routing and process the material as externally procured.
- Documented the message categories for Outline agreements, Contracts and Scheduling agreements for Purchase orders that are created against the contract periods.
- Responsible for preparation of the test data for Super-user and end-user Performance based on the configuration for plant setup.
SAP MM/PIS Consultant
Confidential, Los Angeles, CA
Responsibilities:
- Organizational Data Configuration: Created plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations and groups, Info record and maintained the source list.
- Configured Vendor Master: Created vendor account groups, number ranges, purchasing groups.
- Creation of purchasing documents (like Requisitions, Request for Quotation (RFQ), Maintaining quotations, Info records, Purchase order, Contract agreement, Scheduling agreement, Goods receipt, Goods movement etc.), Release Procedures.
- Worked on MRP - Procedures, Planning process, special planning process, carry out planning run, evaluating the planning run, Procurement Proposal, Master Data.
- Designed Sub Contracting process with Special Procurement keys and Procurement types. documented the process flow for all the subcontracting Scenarios
- Co-ordinate cut over plans and data migration for Material master, Vendor Master and Purchasing Info Records from legacy systems using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench)
- IDoc types defined for data, such as purchase orders, invoices, GR, GI which was broken down into more specific categories called message types.
- Configured Inventory Management parameters for various inventory movements like Goods receipts without purchase order, plant-to-plant and storage location-to-storage location etc.
- Configured special stocks in Inventory Management for subcontracting, third-party and consignment materials.
- Customized the Inventory Management for defining the number ranges for GR, field selection for MIGO, movement type.
- Configured the Invoice verification, material valuation and material value changes when material is delivered and a surplus stock occurs. Posted Invoice documents for the Purchase Orders.