Professional Summary

• Over 7+ years of strong functional background in SAP Materials Management (MM) , Inventory Management (IM) and Warehouse Management (WM). Experienced in implementation and production/post-production support environments in a variety of industries. Proficient in the Configuration of Master Data such as Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Info Records, Source list, and Quota Arrangement.
• Expertise in working in Purchase Optimization areas such as Contracts, Scheduling Agreements and Invoice Verification.
• Proficient in the Inventory management areas such as Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Stock Transfers, Physical Inventory, and Movement Type Configuration.
• Worked on Procure-to-Pay (P2P) including Manual and automatic creation of Purchase Orders, Consignment settlement, invoice verification and MRP runs.
• Worked on SAP IS for the Procurement Process such as Purchase Requisitions, and Purchase Orders, RFQ. Enable to handle AFS industries as well.
• An effective, proven leader and communicator with strong management skills. Possesses the ability to lead and motivate a team to achieve desired objectives.
• Expertise in complete Puchasing Life Cycle, Demand Management, MPS, MRP, Planned orders, process/production orders.
• Strong Configuration and Implementation experience of material master data, Planning Strategies, Lot sizing procedures and Product Costing.
• Have defined strategy, developed a business case, reviewed deliverables for quality assurance purposes, developed implementation plans, tracked progress against plans, provided expert functional and SAP recommendations to the team and the client.
• Inventory Management: Goods receipts, Goods Issue, stock transfer(one/two step), transfer posting, return delivery, reservations, split evaluation, physical inventory document, inventory count and difference posting.
• Warehouse Management: master data for warehouse(storage type, section, bin), put away and picking stratigies, outbound and inbound movements using purchase order/sales order, packaging and handling units, movementtypes, bin replenishments, warehouse activity monitor.
• Scenarios to ensure minimum problems after Go-Live. Did analysis of post go-live support depending upon number of issues logged with help desk, their significance and scope of continuous improvement of the project.
• Worked on Make to stock and Make to Order and configuration related with discrete and repetitive manufacturing production application.
• Configured reasons for movements for various IM movements.
• Involved in Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• MM Module Configuration - 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), Goods movement of Handling Units, Stock Determination, Document Life, Physical Inventory and Plant Parameters.
• Worked on MTS (Make-to-Stock), MTO (Make-to-Order), Build to Stock, Assemble to Order, Stock requirement/MRP Lists, MPS and Super BOMs.
• Configured Repetitive Manufacturing Applications such as Production Version, Product Cost Collectors and Back flush.
• CorestrengthsareResources/WorkCentre,Process/ProductionOrders,MRP, SOP, Order Execution, Scheduling, Back flushing, Capacity/Demand Planning, Demand Management, Process Instruction Sheets, Shop floor monitor Etc.
• Worked on implementing best practices Purchase Order, Stock Transport Orders and Scheduling Agreements.
• Executed Shop Floor Activities including Capacity Planning, Availability Check, Release of Orders, and Printing Shop-floor Papers, Goods issue, Goods movement, Order confirmations and Order settlement. .
• Worked on LSMW, Solution Manager, HP Quality Center and HP Solution Center.

Technical Skills

• ERP:

SAP R/3-MM and WM modules

• Operating Systems:

Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP, Windows NT, MS DOS.

• PC Applications:

MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and Visio Tools.

• Project Management Tools:

ASAP, MS Project

SAP Experience

Confidential,San Antonio, TX
SAP MM/WM consultant
Environment ECC 6.0
(Enhancement and Support)
Duration : May 2012 –till date.

• Provide Go-Live and Post-Go-Live support and performed production support consultant role.
• Active participation in Cut over plan.
• Provide Support for STP activities such as production planning, Warehouse Management, Inventory Management and Logistics Execution activities.
• Developed test scenarios and performance unit and integration testing.
• Worked on Z-transactions and assisting end users and troubleshooting in their daily transactions.
• Handle knowledge transfer Training Classes for the employees of the client who is actually going to handle z-transactions in Procure to Pay, Schedule to Produce and Order To Cash areas.
• Worked on Combined Production Order, Transfer Order, Transfer Requirement, Inbound Deliveries and outbound Deliveries, Put Away and Picking Strategies, Batch management, and Inventory Management and Warehouse Management movement types.
• Involved in business reviews with end users, documentation, blueprints, and testing, created functional specifications, conducting knowledge transfer sessions.
• Responsible for conducting day to day status meeting to discuss the issues and their resolution.
• Configured material types and changed the field status of the material master records as per Client requirements.
• Reviewed the Material Master, Vendor Master, Source List, Info Records & BOM
• Conducted MRP planning methods such as total planning at plant level, Single-item Multi-level, Single-item Single-level.
• Converted planned orders into production orders & constantly reviewed MRP/Stock requirement list to ensure proper working of all the functionalities.
• Worked on Production orders with delivery & partial confirmation & final confirmation of production orders
• Subcontracting with service & with service along with components.
• Setting up purchasing groups, payment terms and number ranges to carry on the business transactions like Consignment PO, Subcontracting PO, Contract with MRP and without MRP.
• Worked on Split valuation for automatic batch valuation category.
• Configured Storage unit management-Activate SUM, Storage type control for strategies, Storage unit types & creation of storage units using transfer orders
• Configured Handling unit management- Packaging material type, Packaging material group & created handling units during deliveries.
• Worked on inbound and outbound deliveries for inter company & intra company.
• Worked on RF integration during the Inventory count, pickup, put away, pack &unpack of the goods.
• Worked on SD module during the configuration of shipping points, routes, creation of shipments for the delivery.
• Day to day trouble shooting of user requirements in creating Transfer orders, Batch management, Purchasing Documents and Master data Updates.
• Uploaded legacy master data and purchasing transactional data using LSMW.
• Maintained very close interaction with the User community, client side. Involved in regular business meetings with the clients & business partners.
• Involved in unit and integration testing and assisted developing business process procedures for the end users.

Confidential,Peoria, IL
(Implementation with Support) Title: SAP IM/MM Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0
Duration Jan 2011-Apr 2012
Responsibilities:

• Designed Sub contracting process with Special Procurement Keys and Procurement types. Documented the Process flows for all the subcontracting Scenarios.
• Tested the Design Process for all the BOM components and Sub contracted finished products for the Sub contracting Scenarios. Completed the GR processing for components and Finished products with Goods receipt. Configured a few new movement types for Business requirements for material returns, Material Destruction from Blocked stock.
• Configured new screen layouts for material master (purchasing, WM, IM views) vendor master (purchasing), material types, info records, movement types, goods issue, goods receipt and RFQ/PR/PO (document level) based on the client requirements.
• Used the standard movement types for Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Returns to Vendors, Transfer from Blocked stock to unrestricted, Material transfer from our stock to Sub contractor Stock.
• Worked on Procure-to-Pay (P2P) including Manual and automatic creation of Purchase Orders, Consignment settlement, invoice verification and MRP runs.
• Worked on EDI and LSMW for configuration and Implemented lean concept by finding and eliminating bottle necks for Purchasing Process.
• Involved in Customizing the Returns delivery processes to have the alternate shipping points which included the different shipping points, documentation to the warehouse operators, email notifications to the business about the return stock process.
• Configured and tested the Inter Company and Intra- company STO Design set up for the affiliates.
• Configured scrap/surplus disposal process. Issued the Credit memo’s and Debit Memo’s for the Vendors
• Involved in work with the team working on SOLMAN for Job management for heterogeneous components.
• Responsible for preparation of Data mapping spreadsheets, Functional Design Specifications for developing Interfaces, Custom Reports, and enhancements & also the PP/MM master data upload templates.
• Configured MRP plant parameters, MRP controllers, Planning Strategies, lot sizing procedures.
• Analysis and configuration of PP Master Data including Work Centers, BOM and Routing.
• Responsible for preparation of LEL (Low Effort Lite) projects as well to create SPD (Short Project Documents) for different Implementation as per business requirement, and also work with BMC application where we can track changed.
• Responsible to get approval from business side and work with Technical team for technical design as well interact very highly with technical team.
• Responsible to prepare different test cases as well as test results.

Confidential,Lake Zurich, IL
Title: SAP MM Consultant
Duration Sep 2009- Dec 2010
Environment: ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:

• Implemented Discrete manufacturing with Make-to-Stock and Make-to-Order strategies.
• Work with MTO/MTS interface IDOC and replace necessary IDOC for production order to resolving error.
• Worked with entire cycle of PP from Planning Procedures, Forecasting, SOP, MPS, Material Requirement Planning, Lot Size Methods, Planning and Shop floor control.
• Configured Material Master Data and Vendor Master Data as well as in particular process flow in Procure to Pay (P2P)
• Responsible to create different variants as well as set up and run background job.
• Involved in end user training and Production Support after Go-Live.
• Served as a liaison between the client, consumer and the company by answering routine questions and resolving problems to ensure client satisfaction.
• Upgraded R/3 system from 4.7 to ECC 6.0 Enterprise version. Main responsibilities were to work with Production Planning team relevant to the upgrade activities and checked configuration settings in R/3 4.7 and ECC 6.0 to make sure everything is moved to new system.
• Configured and created master data of materials, BOM, Routing, work center and Production order confirmation parameters. Extended the material master records to include work scheduling, MRP and forecasting views.
• Set up Routings to support process requirements.
• 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.
• Configured order types, order type dependant parameters.
• Implemented Make-to-stock and Planning-with-final-assembly strategies using entire product definition structure with a combination of variant configurations.
• Implemented Make to stock production and Make to Order strategies for the company.
• Worked with entire cycle of PP from Planning Procedures, Forecasting, SOP, MPS, Material Requirement Planning, Lead-Time Scheduling, Lot Size Methods, Planning and Scheduling Parameters and Shop floor control.
• Performed SOP, implemented planning methods such as single-item multilevel, single-item single level generating planned orders.
• Have experience in particular process flow in Procure to Pay (P2P), Source determination, Vendor determination, and knowledge of complete cycle from Vendor Master Maintenance through procurement and Vendor Invoice Processing, the resulting Payment Processing to external vendors and the Period Closing Activities.
• Defined Warehouse House, Storage Types, Storage Section, Bins, Bin Sections and Quant’s.
• Assigned Warehouse to Plant/Storage Location.
• Cross-functional interactions with SD for sales order creation, pricing, conditioning techniques and availability check for materials.
• Maintained plant parameters for Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) such as MRP groups, MRP controller, MRP types, planning calendar, planning horizon, lot-sizing procedure, and availability check for components
• Defined task list selection,scheduling parametersforProduction Orders,Planned ordersincapacity requirements planning.
• Configured Master Data for Capacity Planning.
• Configured Material Master Data and Vendor Master Data.
• Configured Purchasing documents: Purchasing info records, RFQ/Quotation, purchase requisition, purchase orders, source lists, Quota Arrangements.
• Configured release procedures, alternate release strategies, and MRP types for special category materials as required by the production facility.
• Configured Invoice verifications, GR material blocks for raw materials, inventory valuations and price control.
• Involved in Unit testing / Integration testing and Regression testing for key business process.
• Responsible for developing Help and Training documents for transactions to assist users on the new system. Task involved interaction with the Super-users of different regions to develop a user friendly training documents.

Employer: Confidential,Marysville, Ohio Title: SAP IM/MM Consultant Duration Feb 2008- Aug 2009
Environment: E.C.C 5.0
Responsibilities:

• Interacted with key users for mapping requirements and preparation of detailed as-is and to-be (future state) scenario document.
• Assisted in project definition and preparation, defining objectives for business blueprint, realization, and final preparations for a demonstration.
• Prepared project estimation, questionnaire for executive sessions, group discussions and one-on-one interaction to finalize the blueprint and demonstrated SAP R/3 abilities in various practical scenarios.
• Trained super users and assisted them in preparation of test scripts.
• Responsible for customization of Discrete and Repetitive Manufacturing in PP and MM Module according to the business requirements and integration between various modules and MDE and interface with legacy systems such as GSD and MES via Crosswords.
• Implemented configurations in PP, MM/IM and WM with make to stock and make to order scenarios.
• Worked on validation, cleansing and configuration of master data and creation of Master Data including Bill of Materials, Work centers (Production Lines), Routings (Rate Routings) and Production Versions.
• Defined and assigned enterprise structure for MM and PP such as purchasing organizations, purchasing groups, plants and storage locations.
• Customized new purchase order types, material types, and valuation classes and purchasing groups.
• Defined Warehouse House, Storage Types, Storage Section, Bins, Bin Sections and Quant’s.
• Assigned Warehouse to Plant/Storage Location.
• Define Put away and Picking Strategies.
• Customized the BOM for different usages, material types and explosions. Defined work center formulas and assigned cost centers to work centers to evaluate the product costing of the material.
• Configured and executed planning run with technical and business information and processed planned orders, customer schedule lines, vendor schedule lines and MRP (Manufacturing Planning) list evaluations..
• Configured the MRP Profile, scope of planning, activation of plants for MRP run and exclude storage locations from MRP net calculations.
• Carried out configuration unit testing, scenario unit testing and integration testing
• Coordinated the SAP/ MES (Manufacturing Execution System) Interface designs.
• Maintain and update various tables and prepare reports using queries.
• Transferred knowledge to super users and support consultants.

Employer: Confidential,San Diego, CA

Title: SAP PP/PM Consultant Duration Aug 2006 – Nov 2007

Environment: SAP 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Created “Bill of Materials” for finished materials and Semi-finished materials as per requirement.
• Configured background jobs for MRP run and special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues. Ensuring that the total deliverables in shape.
• Improved Business Cycle in PP involving -MRP- Planned Orders-Production Orders-Order Settlement.
• Worked with Master data Organization (MDO) group for solving the issues in post production.
• Tracked the tickets and provided the support in timely manner.
• Creation and analysis of different standard orders and consignment orders.
• Maintained Sales and Operation Planning and Demand Management, Scheduling,
• Production Order Types and, Production Versions, and Confirmations Dealt with Make to order and make to stock scenarios. Maintained Production orders, scheduling types and order types As well as Capacity Management & Production versions.
• Solved the issues related to Material master, Procurement master data; including vendor master, info record and Source list.
• Supporting the client for post-go-live issues in customer consignment and plant inventory control.
• Tracking the returnable packaging systems and the material sent to the customers and within the plants by using batch management.
• Involved in creation of the sales orders and stock transport orders for deliveries, and posting the goods issues.
• Modification or doing enhancements in the current system thereby meeting user requirements by coordinating with development team.
• Prepared all end-user training documents (simulation files and supporting word documents) for the team in the area of Receiving, Inventory Control.
• Member of Post Go-Live production support team helping users creating remedy tickets, monitoring and resolving issues in the area of PP/MM.

Confidential,Springdale, Arkansas
Title: SAP MM Consultant Duration Feb 2006-July 2006
Environment: SAP 4.7
Responsibilities:

• Configured settings in Material Management (MM) module to meet the organizational structure for the Client’s specifications and its business processes.
• Configured Material Master, Vendor Master, Service Master, Purchase Info records & Source Lists.
• Worked on Procure-to-Pay (P2P) including Manual and automatic creation of Purchase Orders, Consignment settlement, invoice verification and MRP runs.
• Worked on quantity contracts, value contracts and release strategies for purchase requisitions, RFQ, and purchase orders.
• Configured pricing procedure in the Material Master.
• Worked on Account determination, Output determination, Partner Determination Schemas and Stock determination.
• Exposure to different procurement types like Subcontracting, Stock Transfer, Consignment, and Third Party.
• Configured Intercompany and Intra company Stock Transport Order and Transfer Postings.
• Used Material Master in creating Material BOM, Multilevel and Single level BOMs.
• Worked on GR, GI, and GR for blocked stock, Goods returns and various movement types.
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification. Posting an Invoice, conducting a three-way match and two-way match, blocking of invoices.
• Integrated with PP, QM modules for user acceptance testing.

Education:
Bachelor of Science