PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 9+ years of experience as SAP PP/MM functional consultant with integration experience in major areas of QM, SD, WM, FI/CO.
• Has three Full Life Cycle Implementations, Up - gradation, roll out and post live support of SAP PP/MM Modules experience as core team member
• Experience in ASAP methodology, scoping, blueprint, Configuration, testing and Go live.
• Worked on planning strategies for discrete, repetitive and process manufacturingenvironment.
• Worked with complete cycle of PP from Forecasting, SOP, MPS, Material Requirements Planning, Production execution and Shop Floor Control.
• Master Data - Material Master, BOM, Work Centers, Routings, Resources, Recipes
• MRP: MRP Controller, Lot Size Procedures, MRP Types, MRP Groups, Special Procurement Type, Firming, Planning Time Fence, Planning Horizon
• Worked on configuration of Plant Parameters, Field Selection for MIGO, and movement types.
• Gained knowledge and experience of Repetitive Manufacturing elements, such as Rate Routing, Planning Table, REM Profile, Production Version, and Backflushing.
• Worked in MM areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management, Manufacturer Part Number Functionality, Subcontracting, Consignment, Third Party, Stock Transports, PR, PO, RFQ, GR, GI, Transfer Posting, Stock Transfers, Reservations, Invoice Verification, and Material Document concepts.
• Configuration of PO, PR, Quotation, Document Type, Item Categories, Release Procedures, and Defining Number Ranges of various documents.
• Expertise in PP-PI configuration for process orders, Process instructions, control recipes, PI sheets, Layouts, Process message.
• Experience in configuring fields for Material Master, Bill of Material, Work centers/Resources, Routing/Master recipe.
• Worked onQualityManagement (QM) in Batch management environment, involvedin Quality planning, Inspection and control.
• Worked on QM master data Like Master Inspection Characteristics, Inspection Plans, Inspection Methods.
• Hands on experience in QM module: In process inspection,Inspection at procurement, Inspection at goods receipt and miscellaneous inspection.
• Experienced in Data Migration and Data Uploads using Batch Data Communication Program (BDC’s), BAPI,BADI, Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) and workflow.
• Developed Test Scenarios/Scripts for Unit, Integration, and Acceptance Testing and used testing tool HPQC. TrainedKey users and super users, and worked in the cut over period.
• Ability to establish and manage professional interpersonal relationships, effective communication with team members and clients. Possession of goal oriented work habits, strong analytical thinking, multi-tasking and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

SAP Modules: PP, PI, MM, WM, QM

Third Party Enterprise Systems: STARLIMS, PICASO

Operating Systems: Windows

Software packages: MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Racine, Wisconsin

SAP PP/MM Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Conducted a thorough analysis of the existing system to understand the complete company structure with specific reference to MM, and IM implementation.
• Worked on customization of PP Master Data such as Material Master, BOMs, Routings, and Work centers in a discrete manufacturing environment.
• Setup the Organization structure for MM module. This included customized setting in for SAP IMG Enterprise Structure (Plants, storage locations and Purchase Organizations). Purchase Organization here was setup at the Company code level which monitored a centralized purchasing function for over 300 plants.
• Responsible for setting up VC elements such as configurable materials, characteristics, class, configuration profile, object dependencies, Super BOM and Super Routing.
• Configured Material Master Records: Created screen sequences, field selection for data screens, material groups, material types.
• Configured material type attributes and assigned number ranges.
• Setup different material types like ROH, HALB, FERT, DIEN, LEIH, and NLAG.
• Configured material master with default data for purchasing documents using purchasing value key.
• Carried out split valuation of the material based on valuation category.
• Configured Vendor Master Records: created account groups, number range, incoterms, purchasing groups, and partner determination. Configured number ranges for various purchasing documents.
• Configured message types for Purchase Order based Vendor.
• Configured Inventory Management system for Goods Receipt, Goods Issues, Transfer Postings, and Stock Transfers.
• Worked with ABAP Consultants on User Exits, BADI's in configuring of some of the client requirements, Upload of PP/PP -PI/QM master data using Batch Data Communication ( BDC ) programs and Legacy System Migration Workbench ( LSMW ) with the help of ABAP team
• Managed Material stock by quantity, value, stock movement etc.
• Trouble shooting various aspects of Material and Inventory Management.
• Conducted extensive training for end users at the plant about SAP procurement cycle.
• Created training documents for end users.
• Go-Live support included extensive on-site support followed by post go live support.

Confidential, Springfield, IL

SAP PP/MM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured different elements of Production Planning including Material Master, BOM, Work Center, Routing, MRP Types, MRP Groups, Plant Parameters, REM Cycle and Back flushing.
• Configured allowable items in BOM Headers and BOM Items. Activated MRP for plants and created planning files.
• Configured executed planning runs with technical and business information, processed planned orders, and MRP Stock/Requirements List evaluations. Configured other repetitive manufacturing functions, such as Production Versions, Rate Routings, Planning Table, and Product Cost Collectors. Configured Planners Work Bench (MF50) in repetitive manufacturing, Staging of Materials.
• Worked on Production Confirmation using MFBF and Post Processing of Error Documents in COGI or MF47.
• Worked with shop floor activities including Creation of Production Orders, Availability Check, and Order Release. Also, printing shop floor papers, Goods Issue, Goods Movement, and Order Confirmation.
• Worked on Business Processes, mapped the processes and prepared templates in the Material Management Module.
• Analyzed requirement specifications, development of test scripts, test cases and test data.
• Defined Purchase Organization and Storage Locations, assigned Purchase Organization to Company Code, Plant and assigned Plants to Company Code.
• Performed Unit and Integration Tests of System Configuration and Functionality.
• Prepared Functional Specifications for Reports based on user requirements and coordinated with ABAP Programmers.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

SAP PP/PM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured Scheduling margin keys and worked on BOM status and BOM usage.
• Worked on consumption based planning for raw materials.
• Worked on Make to stock strategy group ‘10’ and configured Production scheduling profile.
• Configured standard value keys to define activity types and control keys.
• Maintained planned independent Requirements by transferring data from Sales and Operation Planning.
• Configured over all plant parameters and configured REM profile for repetitive manufacturing. Expertise in assembly, component and activity back flushing.
• Configured repetitive manufacturing functionalities such as Production versions and product cost collectors, Configured Engineering Change Management for BOMs, rate routings.
• Worked on mass maintenance of BOMs, and work centers.
• Worked on PM Master Data like equipment’s, work centers, functional locations, material master.
• Hands on experience in Scheduling of Preventive Maintenance orders, creation of Notifications, Breakdown maintenance orders and Refurbishment orders for SAP PM.
• Coordinated with technical consultant relevant to customized reports and creating forms, enhancements as per the client requirement.
• Hands on experience in Ware house management: Configured WM-PP interface for issuing goods towards production from storage bins.
• Configured Advanced Picking and put away strategies for the inbound and outbound goods flow into the Storage types and Bins.
• Defined storage unit types and Bin types based on the Client requirements.
• Worked very closely with development team, provided functional specifications and interfaces object testing.
• Involved in Master dataupload and Inventory upload using LSMW tool by batch input recording method. Developed test scenarios and performed unit and integration testing.
• Prepared material documentation for end user training, rendered support after Go Live environment.

Confidential, Columbus, GA

Jr. SAP PP Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Acquired knowledge and worked with Material Types of HALB and FERT.
• In routings and work centers, customized task list usages, standard values and parameters, defined control keys, maintained task list types, material type allocations, defined work scheduler/planner group, defined control keys, reduction strategies, routing selections.
• Customized the conversion of Purchase request to Purchase Orders and defined order profiles.
• Configured availability check, production planning, production order types, plant parameters and automatic purchase requisitions from MRP.
• Raised tickets for access to various transactions as per roles of business users.
• Worked very closely with development team, provided functional specifications and interfaces object testing.
• Transferred initial stock from legacy system into SAP by creating suitable spread sheets in Excel as a reference for entering different material data into material master of SAP system.
• Worked with Business master data team to get a detailed insight of functional specifications.
• Defined parameters for Purchase requisitions, Purchase orders, Goods movements and Invoice Verification.
• Worked on maintaining Master data like Material master, Vendor master, Info records, Source lists, Contracts and Scheduling agreements.

Confidential, Marysville, OH

SAP PP/MM Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• As a PP/MM functional consultant, analyzed the Business Requirements, studied the AS-IS Business Process, submitted a solution design involving the TO-BE Business flows, documenting the operating procedures and performed GAP analysis between AS-IS & TO-BE Process in the production environment.
• Maintained Number Ranges for different material types like HALB, FERT, and ROH.
• Worked on Loading PP master data like BOM's, Work center, and routing and Production versions.
• Worked on LONG TERM PLANNING (LTP), maintained planning scenario.
• Transferred firmed Planned orders from LTP to operative planning.
• Configured MRP controllers, plant parameters, planning horizons, Production Scheduling Profiles, Control Key, Standard Value Keys.
• Responsible for creating and setting up of SOP for product groups.
• Worked on Master Production Scheduling (MPS).
• Worked on implementing manufacturing planning strategies of Make to Stock and Make to Order.
• Defined and configured Batch Management in process orders by maintaining required settings.
• Configured availability check, production scheduling profile, production order types, and plant parameters, automatic purchase requisitions from MRP and goods movements.
• Responsible for creating process order types and processing of process orders.
• Set up and maintained SLED date check for minimum shelf life and total shelf life for batch management.
• Worked on master data like Material Master, Vendor master, quota arrangement, Source list, Purchase info record; Worked on Invoice verification, Inventory Management.
• Worked on special procurement like Sub contracting, consignment, request for quotation.
• Worked with User-exits, customer - exits, BAPI’s.
• Goods Issue and Receipt Postings, time ticket Confirmation of Phases using Process Messages to the corresponding Message destinations.
• Configured and executed shop floor activities including creation of planned orders, conversion of planned orders, goods movement and order confirmations.
• Prepared documentation for various PP-PI transactions for knowledge transfer and trained end users.Responsible for PP/MM cutover activities issues.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

SAP PP-PI/MM/QMFunctional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• As a SAP PP-PI/MM/QM functional consultant assisted in defining project scope for the company and plant implementation of SAP Production Planning and Material Managementmodules with full life-cycle implementation using ASAP methodology.
• Configured and Created MRP controllers, BOMs, Work centers, routings and extended the material master records to include work scheduling, MRP and forecasting views.
• Expertise in lot-sizing procedure, planning horizons, and defined Scheduling Margin Key.
• Worked with finance team in gathering information about cost center and controlling areas.
• Configured over all plant parameters as well as MRP groups, MRP areas and assigned MRP groups in material masters.
• Configured Production versions, and production scheduling profile.
• Worked on planning strategies and configured scheduling parameters for both planned and production orders.
• Maintained planned independent Requirements by transferring data from Sales and Operation Planning. Configured Capacity Categories, Standard Value Keys.
• Worked on Goods receipt, Goods issue and Confirmation activities, Movement types.
• Expertise in Capacity Requirement Planning & capacity leveling.
• Worked on Availability checks for the components by configuring checking control for different order types.
• Worked on P2P cycle to procure raw materials from vendors and paying them through invoice postings.
• Configured Purchasing organizations, purchasing groups, Purchasing value keys and number intervals for Material types.
• Worked on Source lists, Vendor master, Quota arrangement, Info Records for Standard, Consignment, Sub-Contracting, Release procedures.
• Worked on Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Scheduling Agreements, Contract Agreements.
• Worked on creating and maintaining RFQ’s including price comparisons and release strategies.
• Configured vendor master record; created vendor account groups, number ranges, incoterms, text types, partner determination, and terms of payment.
• Expertise in physical inventory such as creating physical inventory count documents, posting inventory differences and configuring reason codes for physical inventory goods movements.
• Expertise in vendor invoice management such as posting, blocking, and releasing invoices.
• Maintained Serial number profiles and number range intervals for materials.
• Involved in maintaining Inventory documentsand worked on transfer postings, stock transfers between storage locations and plants.
• Worked on loading Quality Master data MIC's, Inspection plans, Inspection methods.
• Worked on extending Quality Management view in material management. Maintained Inspection types for the respective Material types.
• Worked on COC and COA.
• Created central plant for quality master data such as Master inspection characteristic’s, Inspection plan, Inspection method, sampling procedure.
• Configured In-process inspection and inspection after goods receipt by assigning inspection type in material master.
• Worked on creating inspection lots, Results recording, and making Usage decision.
• Involved in uploading Material Master Data, Vendor Master Data using LSMW tool.
• Conducted Unit test, Integration test and user acceptance test for newly developed programs.
• Well versed with cut over strategies & After Go-Live support.

Confidential, Waukesha, WI

SAP PP/MM Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuration of new Organization structure such as defining Plant, Plant parameters, Purchasing Organization, Purchasing Group and Storage location.
• Detailed functional design to determine Functionality gaps in Engineering and Production; Knowledge of the requirements for Reports, Interface, Enhancements, Forms and preparation of functional specifications for RICEF specifications in Engineering and Production
• Created and Executed the SOP Planning, created Info Structures/ Key parameters, rough cut planning, capacity planning and evaluation
• Created Planning Type, Planning Hierarchy and Macros in Planning Type for business specific calculations, Version Management and transferred it to Demand Management
• Executed MRP Run; Single-item multi-level, MRP/Stock Requirement List; Individual display & Collective displays
• Defined Control Keys, Confirmation Parameters based on different Order types for various Production Orders
• Converted Planned order to the Production Order and Involved in Goods Issue, Confirmation and Goods Receipt
• Worked and mapped Goods Receipt, Goods Issue WM strategies for storage Bins and reference movement types with IM
• Configured Production Scheduling Profile and Scheduling Parameters for production orders and created functional spec for technical consultant.
• Resolved tickets related to Production orders, Material master, BOM, Routing and Production variances.
• Worked with business after go-live to raise Change Requests (CR) assessed its impact and implemented it to reduce business gaps.
• Involved in Data migration process from Legacy System to SAP environment
• Worked on Periodic Data Transfer from Legacy System into SAP using LSMW Tool; Data transfer included mapping fields, reading the spreadsheet files and converting into the target format
• Worked on validated and verification procedures for all documentation and Testing including Unit testing and Integration testing.