PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Master Data (Material Master, BOM, Resources, Production Version, Master Recipe), PI Sheets with Phases and Characteristics, Process Order, Control Recipe, Confirmation Parameters for Process Orders, Planning Strategy, DM, MPS, MRP, LTP, MTO, MTS, SOP Flexible Planning.
• Configurable Materials KMAT with Super BOM and Routing, Variant Class, Characteristics, Characteristics Values.
• Assigned Object Dependencies, Preconditions, Actions, Selection Conditions, Constraints and Procedure to Configurable Profile.
• Defining Supply Area, Control cycle, Kanban correction, Kanban Control board, Defining Kanban Strategies for the business process, JIT, Kanban Evaluation, Kanban with MRP and Kanban without MRP.
• Material Master, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Vendor Scheduling Agreement, Stock Transport Order, Purchasing Groups, Info records, Vendor, Source List, Movement Types (GR, GI, Transfer Posting), Batch Management, Stock Determination, Stock Transfer Order, Sub Contracting.
• Material Master Data, Quality Inspection Characteristics (MIC), Quality Inspection Plan, Quality Info Record for vendor and customer, Sampling Methods, Inspection methods, Quality Certificates and notifications.
• Implemented 3 full life - cycle implementation projects besides extensive background in 2 productions support and upgrade of PP, PP-PI and MM modules in Versions 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC6.0.
• High level of expertise in gathering business requirements, business process analysis, Project preparation, As-IS report and To - BE report and in FIT/ GAP Resolution, Cut over of Project and Go - Live.
• Well versed with the usage of ASAP methodology for the structured and systematic SAP project implementation.
• Quality experience in all aspects of project work: Design, Configuration, Unit testing, Integration testing, Documentation, Conversion/Migration, End user Support and Training, preparation of functional design for technical objects and enhancements.
• Hands on experience with data migration using LSMW / BDC for all master records.
• Master Data (Material Master, BOM, Work Center, Routing, Rate Routing, Production Versions), MRP, MPS, Planned Order, Production Order, PRT, Work Scheduling, Capacity Planning, Scenarios on Make to Order, Make to Stock, Planning Strategies (10,11, 20, 25, 40, 50, 70), Demand Management, SOP Flexible Planning.
• Extensively worked on PP/ PP-PI/ MM Unit Testing, UAT, volume test, stress test, regression test and Integration Testing.
• Expertise in MTO, MTS, SOP, MRP, MPS and production/process order execution using ASAP implementation methodology.
• Experience in project Go-live stabilization support including issue resolution, end-user training, and ticket resolving with HP Quality Center.
• Experience in integration with MES system and Process Automation System.

TECHNICAL SKILL:

ERP System: SAP - R/3 version 4.6c, 4.7 (Enterprise version), ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

CAD/CAM Packages: Solidworks, Auto CAD, CATIA

Product Data Management: Windchill PDMLink

Business Process Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visio, ARIS

Certifications: Six Sigma (Green Belt), TQM, Lean Manufacturing

Operating System: Mac, Windows, UNIX

Languages: C, C++, Java

Web Technologies: Adobe Dreamweaver

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP PP/MM functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business process requirements study, involved in understanding ‘as is’ process and blueprinting ‘to be’ processes with gap analysis and identifying custom development objects during implementation.
• Responsible for customization of PP Module according to business requirements and integration between various modules.
• As PP functional consultant involved in gathered system requirements for MRP/Planning to utilize planning time fence to more closely adhere to production schedules.
• Transferred initial data into SAP from legacy system by creating suitable spreadsheets in Excel as a reference for entering different material data into material master of SAP system.
• Configured enterprise structure i.e. configuring plants, storage locations, and production scheduling profiles.
• Created and managed material master, BOMs, Work centers, Standard values and Activity types, Routings, Planned and Production orders.
• Worked with both discrete manufacturing as well as repetitive manufacturing with make-to stock and make-to-order environment. Configured planning without final assembly (make-to-stock), and with final assembly strategy (make-to-order) for finished parts.
• Configuration of SAP MM, purchasing to meet outlined business requirements.
• Maintenance of customer consignment materials in the same warehouse with identical part numbers; defined them as UNBW materials so that they can be counted without being considered in Material Valuation.
• Configured and created various standard Material Management documents which include Purchase Request (PR), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Order (PO) and Purchasing Info record.
• Worked on Source lists, contracts, scheduling agreements, release orders, quota arrangement, Info Records for Standard, Consignment and Sub-Contracting.
• Worked on Goods receipt (GR) /Goods issue (GI) for purchase orders, sales order, and stock transfer.
• Executed shop floor activities including creation of production orders, back flushing, availability check, and release of orders, printing shop floor papers, goods issue, goods movement, order confirmations and order settlement.
• Configured work center formula. Designed standard value keys and scheduling formulae.
• Defined and maintained Production lines, Rate Routings and assigned production lines to rate routings.
• Configured MRP planning parameters including planning time fence, rescheduling and schedule margin keys.
• Coordinated with technical consultants by giving functional specification for customization according to user requirements.
• Handled business scenarios for discrete and repetitive manufacturing using different planning strategies.
• Customized planning strategies, strategy group, MRP group assignments, define MRP controllers, plant parameters, lot size calculations, PRT lists, missing parts processing, releasing and confirming orders, printing shop floor papers.
• Configured background jobs for MRP Run and special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues.
• Designed functional specifications for custom reports for missing part for planned order & production orders, tool and gage change report.
• Determined the enhancements and reporting requirements and prepared functional specifications for Reports, Interfaces with Legacy system, based on user requirements and coordinated with ABAP Programmers to implement them.
• Prepared documentation describing step-by-step implementation process and configuration procedures for all business processes.
• Trained end-users on process flow, stock/requirements list, planned order conversion, use of various movement types for different purposes.
• Extensively conducted training sessions for section users and super users in PP and MM functionality.

Confidential

SAP PP-PI consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with key users for mapping requirements and preparation of detailed as-is scenario document.
• Assisted in project definition and preparation, defining objectives for business blueprint, realization, and final preparations for a demonstration.
• Responsible for customization of Process Industry in PP Module according to the business requirements and integration between various modules.
• Configuring standard value keys, control keys, formulas, production supply areas for new resources as a part of master data set up.
• Worked on issues related to maintaining Master recipe profile, recipe status and made changes in control key to print time tickets.
• Worked on Variant Configuration, defining new characteristics and pre-conditions and made relevant changes in process instructions.
• Created KMAT material and material variants, performed configuration simulation and tested the VC materials for MRP.
• Worked on creating Super BOM, Super Routing, assigning selection conditions and procedures.
• Tested MRP Run for materials planned at different storage levels and for Storage Locations extended to other plants, using procurement types and MRP indicators.
• Extensive enhancements in MRP plant parameters, scheduling formulas and control keys as per the Audit requirements.
• Worked on MES interface with PP-PI; process orders, back flush, receipts and defects.
• Worked on creation and configuration of control recipe destinations, process messages, mapping middleware routing, business connector and I-doc based interfaces.
• Defined resource formulas and assigned cost centers to resources to evaluate the product costing of the material.
• Defining control records for batch and stock determination. Availability check at release of process orders.
• Responsible for creating operations and phases in master recipes by defining control keys, relationships between phases and standard values.
• Defined and configured Batch Management in process orders.
• Responsible for creating process order types and processing of process orders.
• Configured availability check, production scheduling profile, process order types, and plant parameters, automatic purchase requisitions from MRP and goods movements.
• Responsible for availability checking, batch determination and confirmations in process orders.
• Responsible for Sales and operation planning using the forecast model and material requirement planning for make to stock type of planning.
• Responsible for creating and setting up of SOP for product groups.
• Configured and executed planning run with technical and business information and processed planned orders
• Configured the background jobs for MRP run and special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues between different plants.
• Configured and created various standard Material Management documents which include purchasing info record, source lists, contracts, scheduling agreements.
• Worked on stock transport orders, customer creation, vendor creation, source of supply, purchasing groups.
• Developing test scenarios, writing test cases and performing unit and integration testing.

Confidential

SAP PP/MM-WM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Resolved day-today issues, production support and enhancement, End-User support, created training documents, workflows, charts, weekly reports.
• Worked on issue related to production order confirmation, quality hold, maintaining scheduling agreement; validate source list, inventory, and inbound/outbound deliveries.
• Worked on issues that includes GI (Goods issue) based on production order confirmation from virtual plants and GR (Good Receipt) posting on confirmation and creation of TO (Transfer order).
• Help Production supervisors in shift reconciliation reports listing all transactions transactions for PP reports, COGI, Investigate WM Stock levels, Verify inventory in production line output areas.
• Worked on maintaining scheduling agreement & validate source list and defining source option with production planner.
• Worked on validating settlement rules after final confirmation, calculate overhead, Calculate WIP for order, review and, settle order in test mode with controller.
• Conducted Knowledge Transfer Sessions and Upgrade Workshops across the company for Super Users and End Users.
• Interacted with ABAP technical consultants for data migration and report development activities.
• Worked on Quality Inspection process - Inspection Lot creation, Results Recording, Defects Recording and Inspection Lot completion for Goods Receipt, In-process and Inspections for returns from the customer.
• Designed functional specifications for custom reports to provide Missing Parts Information for Planned/Production orders and correct errors in goods movements.

Confidential

SAP PP/PP-PI/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Support for day-to-day business process related to issues classified as bugs, enhancements and new developments.
• Solved process orders, MRP group, co product, master recipes issues.
• Batch Management and batch classification. Use of Batch search strategy, Characteristics, Classes and maintained Batch Management for Materials. Similarly prepared functional specifications for technical Consultants.
• Worked on auto Confirmation through barcode, goods issue, goods movement and errors correction during these activities.
• Worked in customization of reports, setting up of Flexible planning in SOP. Developed forecasting.
• Planning tool using flexible planning (Consistent planning model) for Consumer Brand.
• Worked on inspection types and goods receipt inspection for Purchase orders, Goods issue inspection for sales orders, In-process inspection for manufacturing, and goods receipt inspection for finished goods.
• Implemented sample based inspection process and stability test process.
• Worked QM Inspection Lot, QM Quality Info Record, Inspection Plan, Master Inspection Characteristic, Sampling Procedure and Result Recording and Usage Decision for Inspection Lot, Quality Notification, and thorough knowledge of Defect Type, Causes, Corrective Task and Corrective Actions.
• Interacted with End Users and was also responsible in preparing end user’s training and preparing help manual.
• Responsible for production support. Identified issues and resolved them during post go live support.

Confidential

SAP PP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented ASAP methodology and successfully upgraded the legacy 4.7 system to ECC 6.0.
• Reconfigured BOM usage with relevance to production, order of priority for BOM usage, BOM status for MRP explosion, planned orders and release orders.
• Developed test scenarios in Demand Management; PIRs for different requirement types and planning horizon.
• Enhanced KMAT material and material variants, performed configuration simulation and tested the VC (Variant Configuration) materials for MRP.
• Configured strategy group, planning strategy, MRP group for materials.
• Variant configuration - worked in variant configuration in following Areas:
• Maintain Super BOM and Routing for configurable item.
• Creation of configurable material, configuration profile, Creation of normal characteristics and reference characteristics, maintenance of characteristic values and assignment of object to classes.
• Use of variant table with prime key to reduce the input values in sales order configuration.
• Use of local dependency and global dependency as per the criterion.
• Use of various object dependencies. Precondition, Selection, Constraint and Procedures as per the application.
• Defined the basic VC product model, characteristics logic, formulating object dependencies, decisions on feasibility and inconsistencies of different parameters
• Tested MRP Run for materials planned at different storage levels and for Storage Locations extended to other plants, using procurement types and MRP indicators.
• Extensive enhancements in MRP plant parameters, scheduling formulas and control keys as per the Audit requirements.
• Interacted with ABAP Developer on customized reports and enhancements for production orders.
• Worked on HP Solution Center for monitoring tickets, creating change request, sending for approvals, providing updates on the issues and tracking the transport request movement.

Confidential

SAP PP/PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the business and project team members to evaluate business needs, defining and prioritizing requirements and agreeing process flows and analytical capabilities that align wherever possible with leading practice business processes.
• Created work centers, routings, production versions, Info records, cost centers.
• Created cut over plan prior to Go-Live.
• Configured various objects in Capacity requirements planning like formulas, availability check during order create and release, standard value keys, overall profile, shift sequences, scheduling parameters for planned and production orders, production schedulers and MRP controllers, order type dependent parameters, Production Order confirmation and Scheduling Margin keys
• Wrote function specifications for as per the business requirements for ABAP team.
• Worked in Data Migration using LSMW, BDC.
• Involved in creation of operations and phases in master recipes by defining control keys, relationships between phases and standard values Configured Production Variants using material master formula within recipes.
• Implemented Detailed Scheduling, Evaluation and Leveling to allocate operations to resources Configured PI sheets, process messages and process instructions.
• Worked on Control Recipes simulation in master recipe, control recipe monitoring, Reporting process messages through PI sheet.
• Created and configured the Master data including the material master, master recipes and resources. Calculated capacity requirements for resources by using standard values and formula constants.
• Interacted with the Controlling team to solve issues related to costing sheet, activity pricing, work center, activity type and cost center assignment mapping, product cost collectors.
• Created training documentation and trained users.
• Collected Data from users before customizing.
• Provided support during and Post Go-live.