SUMMARY:

• More than 8 years of experience as a Functional Consultant in SAP Production Planning (PP), Material Management (MM) and involved in 2 full - life cycle implementation and integration with modules such as Finance and Control (FICO), Sales and Distribution (SD) and Quality Management (QM).
• Handled two life cycle implementations, three production support and global roll-out in SAP Management module.
• Worked in Industry sectors like Automobile, Chemical, Manufacturing, Gas and Petroleum industries.
• Participated in requirement gatherings, gap analysis, process designs, customization, configuration, testing, Data Conversion using LSMW, business workshops and post go-live support.
• Configuration skills in SAP MM: Organizational structure, Master Data (material master, vendor master, Info records, configured purchase order types, release strategy, partner determination, pricing procedure, output types, purchasing organization, valuation and account determination, Account assignments, Contracts, Scheduling agreements and logistics invoice verification)
• Configuration skills in SAP PP: Master Data (Material Master, BOM, Work Center, Routing, Rate Routing, Production Versions), MRP, MPS, Planned Order, Production Order, 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.
• Material Management/Inventory Management/Procurement- Purchase order processing, Procure to Pay, Various types of purchase orders like direct procurement, indirect procurement, import procurement, service procurement, Asset purchasing, Vendor evaluations, Consignment, Pipeline, sub-contracting,3rdparty procurement, Stock transport orders, Physical Inventory, Movement types, Material Requirement Planning.
• Worked on Upgrade Projects ECC 6.0 Patches and Support packs. And tested multiple end-to-end scenarios, to ensure system reliability.
• Good leadership, communications, and Interpersonal Skills, ability to work under strict deadlines, End user support, documentation and user training.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Modules: MM, PP

Solution Manager, JIRA, MS Office: Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Outlook, Project, SharePoint, AutoCAD, SolidWorks.

ERP Packages: SAP ECC 6.0, S/4 HANA

Methodologies: Accelerated SAP (ASAP), SAP Best Practices Professional

SAP Tools: IDOC, EDI, Report Painter, Report Writer, Solution Manager

Data Migration: LSMW

Testing Tool: HPQC, Panaya

Integration: MM and PP integration with SD, QM, FICO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, WI

SAP MM/PP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Studied the Enterprise structure and configured it to suit the business structure.
• Participated in Project preparation and Blueprint phase.
• Studied the AS-IS Business Process and submitted a solution design which included a TO-BE Business flows, documenting the operating procedures and performed GAP analysis between AS-IS & TO-BE Process in the production environment.
• Documented critical changes, trained client team about the new system functionality and tested the integration of the PP and MM module.
• Created and managed the MRP, forecasting, PRT and Work Scheduling Views of Material Master. Configured Bill of Materials, Work center and Routing.
• Configured and executed the shop floor activities including creation of orders, conversion of planned orders, printing of shop papers, goods movements, order confirmations and availability check
• Implemented Detailed Scheduling, Capacity Planning, process messages and process instructions.
• Maintained Production scheduling profiles and created the necessary configurations for planning time fence, forward and backward scheduling
• 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.
• Worked on Source lists, contracts, scheduling agreements, release orders, quota arrangement, Info Records for Standard, Consignment and Sub-Contracting.
• Configured availability check, production scheduling profile, production order types, and plant parameters, automatic purchase requisitions from MRP and goods movements.
• Worked on Master Production Scheduling (MPS).
• Checked capacity consumption, leveling and overloading.
• Designed functional specifications for custom reports for missing part for planned order & production orders, tool and gage change report.
• Worked on implementing manufacturing planning strategies of Make to Stock and Make to Order.
• Prepared documentation describing step-by-step implementation process and configuration procedures for all business processes.
• Created custom Info structures and Configured the SOP for Product Group.
• Prepared documentation describing step-by-step implementation process and configuration procedures.
• Conducted training sessions for section users and super users in PP and MM functionality.

Confidential, TX

SAP PP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Performed AS-IS/TO-BE study with core team members and presented reports after completing GAP analysis.
• Developed SAP PP Flow Chart documentations including different business scenarios.
• Configured Material Master, BOM, Routing and Work Center for the new equipment in large volume Discrete Manufacturing environment.
• Worked with technical consultants, developed customized reports for PP and MM module.
• Worked on Sales and Operation Planning (SOP) and Demand Management.
• Defined Control Keys, Confirmation Parameters for various operations and production orders.
• For Make-to-Order Products; Planned the Final Assembly strategy for the products.
• Configured routing determination, MRP plant parameters, MRP groups, MRP types, lot size calculation, planned orders and movement types in S/4 HANA.
• Interface between Agile system and SAP S/4 to communicate production information.
• Configured Production scheduling profile, Production for shop floor activities.
• Defined Storage Type and assigned Movement Type to Storage Type.
• Maintained Control Cycle Record with respect to material, plant and supply area.
• Defined Inspection Checkpoints, Inspection Lots and maintained Inspection results (QM)
• Assisted in shop floor activities like Capacity Planning and availability check.
• Trained End-users/Power users, Core Team Members for newly configured systems.
• Resolved the errors in SAP for customer order (BAN) on daily basis and manage Escalation from L2-L4.
• Conducted problem analysis, resolved issues and communicated the solution to the Client.
• Co-ordinate with Onsite for unresolved errors and create problem report for further analysis.
• Interacted with client for Error resolution and maintain SLA time for required error resolution.
• Developed test Plans using HPQC for New error’s and prepare methods and procedure to resolve the Error’s in system.

Confidential

SAP MM/PP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Designed and tested RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow) elements and used it to prepare and URS (User Requirement Specification).
• Used URS to create the Functional Specification (FS) and used JIRA to resolve any functional issues.
• For future reference maintained the repository tool Confluence for SAP business and implementation team.
• Configured planning methods for MRP and tracing process of various transport requests.
• Defined client specific layout for purchasing documents such as Request for Quotation (RFQ), Contracts, Purchase Order (PO).
• Created test scripts and cases for client to run unit and integration tests using and get acquainted with the system.
• Conducted problem analysis, resolved issues and communicated the solution to the Client.
• Configured Stock Transport Order (STO) for both inter-plant and inter-company by collaborating with SAP Finance and Controlling (FICO) and Sales and Distribution (SD) departments.
• Worked along with the SAP FICO department to creating activity types for the work centers and linking them to the appropriate cost center.
• Uploaded the Material Master and Vendor Master Data in various SAP client by giving specification to the ABAP team for LSMW upload.
• Posted transactions in Material Master (MM) such as Goods receipt/Issue, stock transfer posting, returns, and stock difference.
• Prepared documentation for end users as Go-Live support and also trained them on direct and indirect procurement of materials and goods.

Confidential

SAP MM/PP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Learned about as as-is business processes from purchasing perspectives.
• Construed the gap analysis by using as-is business process and SAP Chemical Best Practices (CBP) to amend the to-be processes.
• Defined Legacy system migration workbench (LSMW) for purchasing master data and Material master data such as Vendor Master, Purchasing Info Record, Source list, usage, values, character length and SAP field configuration objectives.
• Met with legacy data owners and subject matter experts to construe master data conversion techniques and identify master data field values in SAP with legacy field values for different logistic master data objects.
• Collaborated with ABAP team for LSMW upload of Material Master and Vendor Master Data.
• Cooperated with SD and FICO team to recommend to-be business process procedure based on SAP CBP business process such as Bulk Shipment, Totes Handling, and Inter-company Stock Transport Order (STO) etc.
• Configured Material master and vendor master data so that they support business processes such as Bulk Materials and Inter-company Vendors
• Updated all different configurations from standard SAP requirements using SAP solution Manager.
• Prepared blue print document to implement SAP to meet client requirements and assisted in designing EDI IDOCS for 3PL advanced shipping notification (ASN) and logistics Dangerous goods master data.
• Used RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow) knowledge to prepare User requirement specification (URS) and convert the URS to Functional specification (FS).
• Used JIRA to resolve any functional issues efficiently.
• Configured processes for tracing purposes of various transport request by using SAP solution manager.
• Maintained repository tool 'Confluence' to be used by the SAP business personnel and SAP implementation team for future reference.
• Prepared test cases and test scripts using Panaya.
• Used validated templates for client to run unit test and integration test based on their business processes.
• Prepared training materials using RWD Info Pak for the end users as a part of go-live support for future reference.
• Trained end users / clients on direct and indirect procurement and on master data objects.