SUMMARY:

• SAP R/3 MM/PP/SD Functional Consultant with 11+ years of experience in new implementations, upgrades, design & documentation, testing, production support and end user training.
• Configuration expertise in Materials Management P2P Process - RFQ’s, Requisitions, Purchase Orders (with Release Strategies), Contracts & Schedule Line Agreements, Subcontracting, Pipeline handling, Consignment, Inventory Control, & Invoice Verification.
• Extensive experience & sound knowledge in the MM components like MRP, Inventory management, Sourcing, Material valuation, & Batch management
• Experienced in Inventory Management with expertise in configuring Goods Receipt, Good Issue, Movement Types, Stock Transfer, Transfer Posting, Reservations and Physical Inventory.
• Strong configuration and implementation experiences in MRP, lot sizing procedures, demand management, capacity planning and shop floor control.
• Configuration expertise in Production Planning (REM & Process) - BOM’s, Master Recipes (Routings), Resources (Work Centers), Production Versions, PP-PI sheet, Process Orders, Product Cost Collectors, Overhead Calculations, & Settlements.
• Experienced in the following PP Components: Sales and Operation Planning, Planning Table, Demand Management, Long Term Planning, MPS, MRP, Scheduling, Capacity Planning, & Product Costing
• Support experience in SD OTC Process - Customer Master Data, Idoc’s, Pricing, Sales Order Processing, Delivery, PGI, Pick - Pack & Ship Process & Invoicing
• Worked on SAP MDG (Master Data Governance) Tool.
• Experience in System version upgrade and EHP upgrade.
• Configuration, Working & Trouble Shooting experience on the Content server/ Idoc’s (Material, Customers, Sales orders, Deliveries, Goods Receipt, Inventory Adjustments)
• Worked on Integration areas of cross-functional modules SD & FI
• Integration knowledge on third party WM/CRM tools
• Design and troubleshooting experience on the Security Roles & Authorizations ensuring compliance with Sarbanes - Oxley Procedures (SOX)
• Worked on SAP Add on tools like Gold Client ERP & Win Shuttle
• Excellent Planning, Structuring, Execution and Tracking skills for project management activities such as ASAP methodology, project preparation, business blue print realization, final preparation and go live.
• Able to meet deadlines most of the time, with pragmatic planning, diligent efforts and excellent cooperation with team members
• Strong interpersonal and Communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Packages: SAP ECC 6.0, 5.0, & R/3 4.7

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX & Mac OS X

Tools: Dreamweaver, MS Office Suite (Word/Excel/Project/Access/Visio).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Sr. SAP MM/PP/SD Consultant / Lead

Environment: ECC 6.0

• Involved in requirements gathering sessions for P2P process, MRP, Inventory Management & Production Planning.
• Set up the Organization Structure related to MM - Plants, storage locations, shipping points, & purchase organization
• Configured Vendor Account Groups, Field controls, Number ranges & Partner Functions.
• Configured Info Records, Source list & outline agreements.
• Configured various Purchase order Document types, purchasing groups, account assignment Categories.
• Configured Pricing procedure & output message conditions for purchase orders.
• Prepared Functional design document for the purchase order & Contract forms.
• Configured Purchase order Release Strategies
• Configured classification for Material Class to store Nutrition Facts & other information
• Configured Logistics invoice verification with over and under limits, and established ERS (Evaluated Receipt Settlement) for preferred vendors.
• Worked on configuration of Inventory Management: Goods Receipts, Goods Issue/ Transfer Postings & Plant Parameters
• Configured movement types & Automatic Account Determination
• Configured new document types with number ranges for stock transport orders and also configured stock transport order without & with delivery via shipping.
• Configured Subcontracting Process.
• Configured the physical inventory settings for cycle counting.
• Configured plant parameters in MRP, defined MRP controller, MRP groups, MRP types, Special procurement, planning calendar, planning horizon, planning time fence, safety stock availability, range of coverage availability profile.
• Configured Quota Arrangements to route the demand to multiple supply plants
• Implemented the automatic invoice settlement process for ERS vendors.
• Configured Repetitive Manufacturing with Make to Stock Strategy
• Configured REM profiles, Standard Value Keys, Control Keys, Parameters, Formulas, & Number Range
• Configured BOM’s, Rate Routings, Work Centers, Planned orders, Actual/planned costs, Product cost collectors, overhead calculations & settlements
• Worked with other repetitive functions like REM planning table, REM product cost collector, back flushing, & Staging of materials.
• Configured Material Level Batch Management - Characteristics, Class, Batch Specifications, Batch Number & Batch Determination
• Worked and supporting the Hand held Scanners/Tablets from production to all the way in to loading the trucks for STO & Customer Shipments.
• Supported various EDI transactions - Monitoring & Issue resolution for EDI 810, 846, 850, 855, 856,888, 943, 944, 945, 947
• Supported SD/LE process - Sales orders, Delivery, PGI, Pick - Pack & Ship & Invoicing
• Configured the complete Third Party Ordering & Individual Purchase Orders.
• Worked on functional and workflow design for SAP MDG tool. Performed Unit and Integration testing.
• Involved in Acquisition of new companies and bringing them in to the existing landscape with Data cleansing & migration.
• Worked on Intercompany STO configuration.
• Extensively Involved in EHP 6 upgrade starting from project preparation to rollout phase.
• Impact analysis of upgrade, researching notes and documenting all functionality changes.
• Prepared and executed the test plans to support the upgrade.
• Created various SAP ABAP queries for different functional requirements
• Handling Active Production Support issues & Enhancements related to SAP MM/PP/SD on Service level agreement Basis and working with offshore team on the Break fixes and Developments.
• Design and troubleshooting experience on the Security Roles & Authorizations ensuring compliance with Sarbanes - Oxley Procedures (SOX)

Confidential . Kansas City, MO

Sr. SAP MM/PP Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

• Involved in requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders during multiple project implementations
• Configured & Rolled out Inventory Management to multiple client locations
• Prepared a lot of Functional & Conceptual Design documents to enable ABAP development for multiple RICEF objects. Also, Prepared Unit/Integration test plans and user acceptance test scripts.
• Defined MRP controllers, plant parameters, lot size calculations, planning horizons, basic date’s determination, and BOM (Production) explosion control.
• Configured settings for automatic determination of G/L Accounts for goods movements.
• Configured the background jobs for MRP (Material Planning) run and defined special procurement keys
• Worked with frozen schedules using planning time fences and MRP types.
• Configured Subcontracting Process.
• Rolled out Production Planning process to multiple locations.
• Configured Repetitive Manufacturing with Make to Stock Strategy
• Configured REM profiles, Standard Value Keys, Control Keys, Parameters, Formulas, & Number Range
• Configured BOM’s, Rate Routings, Work Centers, Planned orders, Actual/planned costs, Product cost collectors, overhead calculations & settlements
• Worked with other repetitive functions like REM planning table, REM product cost collector, back flushing, & Staging of materials.
• Designed multiple custom production performance reports.
• Configured Plant level Batch Management - Characteristics, Class, Batch Specifications, Batch Number Assignments, Batch Level & Status management, & Batch Determination.
• Designed the materials, customer, & sales order interface data from SAP to the third party WM tool.
• Provided end user support for the third party WM tool & business process support during multiple implementation/ rollouts. Developed Standard Operation Procedure documents for the warehouse operations.
• Provided support for SAP Customer master / route realignments, Pricing, Sales orders, Pick, Pack & Ship process & CRM B2B web shop.
• Designed and worked on automating the customer master setup process in SAP via the online Interactive Adobe forms in conjunction with the SAP workflow/ ABAP Web Dynpro & ADS service
• Involved in requirement gathering sessions with business users & provided customer master/ sales order data pulls for Sales force & G2MI.
• Business process knowledge on Fleet Management functionality (Equipment master, Fuel Entry, Counter, Warranty, Notifications & Reports)

Confidential, Lenexa, KS

SAP MM/PP Consultant

Environment: R/3 4.7 & ECC 6.0

• Coordinated with offshore team to prioritize, coordinate and execute daily production support and guide them in implementing small size projects.
• Involved in SAP 4.7 to ECC 6.0 Upgrade starting from project preparation to rollout phase
• Responsible for various phases of the project: Impact analysis of upgrade, researching notes and documenting all functionality changes.
• Worked with multiple teams to prepare the project & cutover plans and ensure the project timelines are not missed.
• Prepared and executed the test plans to support the upgrade. Performed end user training to educate end users with all the new changes. Provided post live support.
• Worked on multiple Support Pack applications & System Refresh activities
• Involved in SD module implementation and provided support during configurations & rollouts.
• Working experience on Idoc’s (Materials, Customers, & Invoices)
• Worked closely with SAP BW team on required data extracts from SAP ECC and also provided functional designs to develop multiple reports.
• Worked closed with Microsoft BI team to extract the table data from SAP ECC via SSIS and also provided functional/conceptual design documents on how to join the multiple table data and report output.
• Configuration & support experience on the Content Server for attachments to the engineering change objects, materials, vendors & invoices.
• Involved in Data Archiving Project - Worked with business stakeholders to identify data that needs to be archived, analyzing the impacts, testing & roll out.
• Configured Customized Information Structures (in LIS) for Purchasing
• Worked on SAP Add On Tool - Gold Client ERP to refresh master/transaction data in to quality systems.
• Worked on Win Shuttle Studio to create transaction scripts to mass create/ change Material Master, Vendors, Customers, BOM’s & purchasing documents. And Query Script to pull the required data.
• Involved in Production Support activities include analyzing customer problems, suggest solutions, automations, implementing minor configuration changes across MM/PP/SD/FI modules & other third party tools.
• Constantly checking different processes and automating them to reduce the user key errors & improve the efficiency.
• Worked with FI & Operations users for the Month & Year End activities
• Support/ minor configuration experience in Product Costing - Monthly overhead rates maintenance, activity types, costing sheets & material standard costing.

Confidential

SAP MM/PP Consultant

Environment: R/3 4.7

• Involved in AS-IS and TO-BE workshops to gather business requirements to map the existing legacy system into SAP R/3 system.
• Mapping the enterprise structure to SAP R/3 4.7 organizational units.
• Configured Material Master Records - number range assignment, field selection groups, screen sequence, field configuration.
• Performed Master Data Conversion for vendor and material master from legacy system.
• Customized and defined material types, groups, divisions and hierarchies.
• Set up the Organization Structure related to MM - Plants, storage locations, purchasing organization, Purchasing Groups
• Developed multiple LSMW’s to update various objects like Material Master, Vendor master, overhead rates, & Purchasing documents
• Configured the Material Master Data (material groups, material types, field selection groups) and Vendor Master Data (field status for vendor account groups, partner determination schema, account groups, partner functions).
• Configured Sales Operations Planning (SOP), Demand Management& MRP
• Worked on configuration of Purchasing: Field Selection Group, Purchase value keys, Vendor Master (Account Group Field Selection Group, Inco Terms), Consignment Info Records, and Message Determination Procedures.
• Configured new Document types and Number Ranges for Purchasing
• Created and configured price determination process. Defined condition types, access sequences, calculation schemas, and schema determination using condition technique.
• Configured Release Procedure for purchase orders along with workflow.
• Expertise in handling special stocks like pipeline materials & Subcontracting.
• Configured Invoicing Plans to automatically generate the periodic invoices.
• Worked on Source lists, quota arrangement, Info Records for Standard, and Scheduling agreements.
• Customized Invoice Verification with vendor-wise tolerance limits.
• Defined invoice document types, number ranges, & configured unplanned delivery costs & cash discounts.
• Worked on validation, cleansing and configuration of Master data and creation of Master Data including Bill of Materials, Resources, Master Recipe and Production Versions
• Involved in configuration of Process Orders, Order type dependent parameters, Process Management and Order closing activities.
• Defined Work Center categories, capacity categories, shift sequence and period pattern keys for estimating available capacity, work center formula and key for performance efficiency rate for costing.
• Reporting of Process data through Process Management by configuring the PI sheets, defining Instruction Categories, types and characteristics and process messages configuration.
• Assisted in shop floor activities like creation of production orders, availability check and production order release.
• Developed user training / job aids and conducted multiple workshops with all levels of users from end users to supervisors to plant managers to vice presidents.
• Developed Query’s to pull the required data and provide the reports to the business users.