SUMMARY:

• 10 years of SAP Production Planning Senior Consultant - PP Expert; 4 years of support on APO (DP, SNP,, PP--DS & CIF); PP-PI, PP-MM, PP/MM/SD; Full-life cycle PP implementations: business analysis, design, implementation ; in Manufacturing & Logistics Consulting and others. Good knowledge of MM, LE, LO-VC

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP versions: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0.

Workflow Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio.

Testing & Reporting Tools: HP Quality Center, UPK Developer, MS Excel.

CAD Applications: SolidWorks 2010, Auto CAD 2010, Pro-E Wildfire, Autodesk Inventor 2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Joined for the Production support role for the ACSD unit of Caterpillar Inc.
• Educated on differences in Legacy and SAP to explain the changes in production execution on shop floor.
• Communicated with the Security team with the early issues on user access to setup enterprise profiles.
• Managed daily update meeting for all the plants to resolve post Go-Live issues
• Configured routing determination, MRP plant parameters, MRP groups, MRP types, lot size calculation, planned orders and movement types.
• Configured Production scheduling profile, Production Order Types and Automatic Purchase Requisitions from MRP and Goods Movements.
• Worked with middleware team (Web methods) to send the IDOCs from truth of source (SAP) to different destinations as required by Client.
• Reviewed and advised on proposed data design additions, structural changes, value determinations, standards and conventions on systems.
• Assisted in ad-hoc/ cross-functional projects requiring master data expertise
• Assisted in formulating test scenarios like Business integration Testing (BIT), Integration Testing and developing test scripts.
• Identification of training needs and training to core users. Preparation of Customization document and user manual.

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Global leader

Responsibilities:

• Global leader in supplying test systems and industrial sensor systems
• Defined data fields for PP master data such as Material master, BOM, Work center, and Routing.
• Defined settings for transactional data, functionalities such as material requirement planning (MRP).
• Worked on assignment of fields to selection groups in master data, defined the data field properties.
• Prepared As-Is documents, performed workshops to demonstrate configured functionalities.
• Provided operational solutions in scheduling productions orders, optimizing lead time scheduling using suitable schedule margin keys (SMK).
• Worked on SMK configuration, defined MRP relevant floats for different plants.
• Configured Demand management plant parameters such as MRP groups, MRP controllers, MRP types, and lot-sizing procedure.
• Performed analysis on shop floor activities as per business process, configured and executed functions such as order creation, order release, availability check, shop floor papers, order confirmation, and order information system.
• Collaborated with project systems team, assisted with definition and configuration of PS master data, project definition, work breakdown structure (WBS), WBS elements, Network, Network activities.
• Defined PP and PS security requirements, maintained authorization profiles, activity groups/roles, and user maintenance.
• Tested functionalities for various business scenarios, include interface systems.
• Prepared configuration documents, test scripts, and performed unit testing with multiple business scenarios.

Senior SAP PP/MM/QM

Responsibilities:

• Prepared As-Is business execution flow charts and discussed with other consultants to identify the gap from integration point of view.
• Realization of components in Production Planning.
• Worked on sales and operations planning (S& OP) - creation of info structure, planning hierarchies, Planning Types, Macros.
• Defined MRP profiles, groups, MRP areas.
• Configuring shop floor activities, production schedule profiles, automatic transfer order creation, scheduling, confirmation of production orders.
• Configured repetitive manufacturing application such as planning table, production version, product cost collectors and cost estimate.
• Configured background jobs for MRP Run and special procurement keys to take care of planning and production issues.
• Responsible for preparation of data mapping spread sheets, functional design specifications for interface development, custom reports, enhancements and also upload master data uploads for BOM, Work Centers and Routings.
• Responsible for preparation of presentations for training end users besides development of quick reference guides for users.
• Resolved MRP issues with relevance to scheduling dates of PO and planning file entry.
• Handled issues related to background job run, conversion of planned orders.
• Developed custom reports for production order status, for a report which lists available capacities and backlog of the load, a daily check list of production order quantity changes.
• Configured and created- info records, Vendors, Stock Transport orders, Purchase requisitions, Customer and Contracts special stock like Subcontracting Purchase Orders.
• Shop floor activities formula definitions, defining under delivery and over delivery tolerances.
• Worked on integration of QM functionality in manufacturing of X-ray products.
• Worked under FDA regulated environment, aided recording and review of product inspection results through design of inspection lots to ensure quality levels that affected usage decisions.
• Maintained and updated inspection catalogs with predefined defect codes and characteristic attributes, identified requirement of new production order type for rework.
• Designed for automatic creation of process-specific and/or customer-specific certificates for batch or inspection lots, as well as for delivery items.
• Documented and analyzed inspection data through Results recording and Defects controls for incoming inspection and manufacturing inspection of procured and produced material.
• Maintained and updated QM Control keys for operation, with settings for order type and order confirmation.
• Worked on Quality Notification for recording internal problem, Notification during production run.
• Trained end users on process flow, stock/requirements list, planned order conversion and use of different movement types for different operations.
• Performed Unit, Integration and Regression for PP module using HP Quality Center.

SAP PP/MM/SD

Responsibilities:

• Scoping needs of different business units (BU) through As-Is and To-Be study.
• Developed specifications for RICEF objects, worked on testing.
• Developed data mapping templates with translation rules and technical data.
• Prepared test scripts for Unit testing, participated in system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Supported cutover activities related to data migration, used LSM workbench with batch data communications (BDC).
• Defined settings for variant configuration (VC), worked on defining variants, creating characteristics and class, for sales order configuration.
• Simulated configuration profile to test object dependencies
• Worked on predominantly make to order (MTO) scenario
• Maintain master data, including KMAT material type
• Using variant configuration functionality developed and maintained routing selection logic.
• Interacted with product definition team to collect and maintain product information and pricing data.
• Familiar with setting up object dependencies in super BOM and super routing
• Developed and maintained order entry and feature based pricing systems
• Reviewed custom programs, custom transactions, User exits, and interfaces