PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• More than Sixteen years of work experience across SAP Projects, Production Planning, Quality Management, Purchasing and Shop Floor Control.
• Around 11+ years of SAP experience includes full life cycle Implementations, Application Maintenance Support & Development and Roll - out projects.
• Full life cycle implementations experience using ASAP Implementation methodology which includes study of As-Is Process, Gap Analysis, Business Blueprint, Configuration and Development, Testing, Cutover and Hyper-care support
• Expertise in SAP planning process such a Sales & Operational planning, Flexible planning, Long term planning, and Demand Management and Master Production schedule & Material requirements planning.
• Expertise in configuring the Make to Order, Make to Stock & Assembly to Order scenarios.
• Expertise in setting the environment for Repetitive, Discrete, Process & Kanban manufacturing.
• Expertise in Batch Management like configuring the Batch determination, Batch search strategy & Batch derivation
• Expertise in setting up and configuring master data of Quality management such as catalog, selected sets, master inspection characteristics, sampling procedures, sampling schemes &sampling drawing procedures.
• Expertise in setting up and configuring the Quality notification process such as defining the notification types, action box, follow-up function, catalog profile, response profile.
• Configured and Implemented Quality s, Recursive inspection and source inspection.
• Configured and Implemented Quality Planning for Inspection Planning and Inspection Planning using Engineering Workbench
• Configured and Implemented Test Equipment Management for Inspections using Multiple Specifications.
• Expertise in configuring the Process Management such as Control Recipe, PI-Sheets and Digital signature procedures.
• Having a hands on experience on configuring and designing the interface for Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
• Strong Cross Functional Experience with integration of Quality Management (QM) with Production Planning (PP), Material Management and Warehouse Management functionalities.
• Strong skills in SAP APO Demand Planning such as configuring Planning Book, forecast profile, defining the Macro, selection profiles and managing and monitoring the CIF activities related to Demand Planning.
• Having a good knowledge in SAP EWM and familiar with a configuration of EWM and ERP system.
• Good understanding of the process of EWM such as Inbound Process, Outbound Process. Having a good understanding of the CIF process and monitoring the Interface and the queues from EWM and ERP.
• Experience across various industries including Aerospace and Defense, Food & Processing Industry, Hi-tech Industry, Chemical, Discreet Manufacturing.
• Strong Analytical and Interpersonal skills, Good Team player and an effective leader with good English written and verbal communication skills and consistent ability to meet deadlines
• Has over 5 years of domain experience covering IT, Production Planning, Quality management & purchasing department.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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Responsibilities:

• Resolving the issues related to the Manufacturing, Quality Control & Quality Reporting Module
• Handling all the defects related to SAP PP-QM module. Fixing the defects with a technical team and preparing the necessary change document and carrying out the Unit test before releasing to the business for a UAT.
• Configuring the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) in a SAP and setting up the relevant Master Data and the process messages for MES system.
• Monitoring all the Inbound & Outbound Messages of Manufacturing Execution System and taking a corrective action with help of a business user.
• Carrying out the necessary configuration such as defining a new scheduling parameters, control key, QM authorization group, defining a print controls for printing the shop floor documents.
• Handling the change request and tracking the progress of the change request and updating the HPALM (Application life cycle Management).

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Responsibilities:

• Prepared the Business Blue print for the Production planning and Quality Management Module.
• Configured the Flexible planning process for a new plant such as defining the info structure, Planning Hierarchy, Planning type and defining the mass processing activities such as creating a key figures assignment profile and copy profile.
• Configured a new order type for a make to stock scenario and assembly to order scenario.
• Configured a Plant parameter, MRP groups, Availability check rule, order dependent parameters, confirmation parameters and process control for a confirmation.
• Configured the Quality management process and setting the master data such as catalog profile, selected sets and defining the new notification types for the rejection process.
• Configuring the process of generation of the Quality such as of Analysis. Defining the profile and designing the related forms for the
• Developed the Unit test plan for all the baseline configuration and development objects for Production planning and Quality management module.
• Developed a User Acceptance Test plan and supported a user to execute the test plan and track and resolved all the issues identified during the User Acceptance Test phase.
• Prepared a Data Migration plan and cut over activities for the Production planning & Quality Management Module

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Responsibiliti es:

• Joined a project for a rollout project for the manufacturing facility in China.
• Configured the Plant, storage location and configured all the plant parameters.
• Configured the relevant MRP group and a MRP area for the manufacturing facility.
• Configured a Special procurement key for the transfer of material from one storage location to another.
• Customization of parameters like production scheduling profile, production scheduler, control keys, MRP controller, etc.
• Configured a new order type and a planning strategy for the products that is manufactured in china facility.
• Set up all the jobs that is relevant for the manufacturing site such as MRP, COMAC and Order release.
• Preparing Functional specification for the enhancements and reports.
• Monitoring the developments and deploy it in production environment.
• Fix the bugs of development in the production environment.
• Extensively worked in the printing process through the Seal Interface.
• Implemented Repetitive manufacturing for one of the product line.
• Configured the Repetitive manufacturing profile and set up all the master data for the repetitive manufacturing.
• Configured the GR slip for the products manufactured in the repetitive manufacturing process.
• Implemented a Kanban Manufacturing process for a purchased parts defined a master data and implemented a custom logic for the creation of purchase order and production order.
• Developed custom solution for automating the creation of material variants and assignment of material variants to the super BOM.

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Responsibilities:

• I was leading the PP/QM team to collect Business requirements and prepare a Business blue print for Production planning and Quality Management.
• Organized workshop with a business user on Production planning and Quality Management to demonstrates the to- be process. Configured all the Plant parameters, order type for finished goods, semi-finished goods and a new product development, scheduling parameters, order type dependent parameters etc.
• Configured the Quality management process and setting the master data such as catalog profile, selected sets and defining the new notification types for the batch holding and rejecting process.
• Generated Quality Notifications for the Non-Confirming Materials during procurement of materials from Vendor.
• Quality s generated from the preferred vendor during Procurement.
• Designed and configured the control key - defining the payment control within quality management.
• Designed and Configured the Blocking reason - to restrict the vendor supply in case of quality deviation.
• Setup all the jobs relevant for MRP, Order release jobs & Automatic Usage decision.
• Designed an interface for the Manufacturing Execution System (RTFS) and developed a monitoring cock-pit for the messages coming from the Manufacturing Execution System.
• Setup all the relevant jobs to send the materials master and the production order to Manufacturing Execution system.
• Designed a new tool to handle the Fresh Vegetable Management process and integrate it with a Laboratory Information & Management System (Unilab System).
• Defined a data migration mapping rule and developed LSMW for PP & QM objects.

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Responsibilities:

• Set up the Demand Planning book, Planning Object Structure, Planning area and macros in the interactive demand planning.
• Generated planned independent requirements based on the customers historical sales data using various statistical forecasting methods of Demand Planning and developed methodology for evaluating the best forecast based on Best Practices in the industry.
• Maintained CIF Integration models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC and APO.
• Created forecast Alert profiles to display alerts for univariate forecast errors and used Alert monitor to identify potential problems in the forecast by defining alert macros.
• Configured mass processing for forecast, macros and demand plan releases.

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Responsibilities:

• Resolving the issues related to the Production Planning, Quality Management & Materials Management within a stipulated SLA.
• Carrying out necessary configurations such as creating a new MRP controller, purchase groups, storage location as per the business requirements.
• Resolving the workflow issues related to PLM from SAP end.
• Configuring and changing the new printer for printing the shop floor papers.
• Changing and setting up the MRP jobs as per the business requirements.
• Interacting with business users to know their exact problem and if any further information is required to analyze and resolve the ticket. Participating in Intra Tower meetings to discuss about the best practices of each tower.
• Analyzing the Idocs subscribed and Published by SAP and taking corrective action.
• Batch job scheduling, monitoring and error handling (Redwood chronicle and Tidal Schedulers).
• Interacting with LSCA master data team(s) to make any master data changes.
• Interacting with other IT teams (Siebel, Trade Collaborator, TIBCO etc.) if their involvement is needed to analyze and resolve the tickets.

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Responsibilities:

• I have acted as team lead for three members of ABAP development teams through phases of the upgrade project.
• Object worked upon are as below
• Automated Material Staging with modified Kanban process
• Material Reconciliation and labelling Report
• Workflow for ECM deadline monitoring
• E-signature log report
• Master data validation report
• Interface with i2 Global Supply Chain System.

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Responsibilities:

• Studying business process on Production Planning and Control.
• Contribution in preparing the Business blue print by analyzing the "AS IS” systems like manufacturing process, functional areas, material issues, legacy systems and developed a "TO BE” Model.
• Gap analysis was done and workarounds were devised where ever feasible.
• Configuration of PP module to support "Make to stock” discrete manufacturing environment.
• Customization of parameters like production scheduling profile, production scheduler, control keys, MRP controller, etc.
• Carrying out planning run and evaluating the results using stocks / requirements list.
• Production order creation, scheduling, availability check, release, confirmation, goods movement, TECO.

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Responsibilities:

• Configured Plant, Storage Locations and designed the structure.
• Involved in the preparation of AS-IS and To-Be flow on the business processes.
• Gap analysis was done and workarounds were devised where ever feasible.
• Prepared functional specifications for different reports for production.
• Configuration of PP module to support "Make to stock” discrete manufacturing environment.
• Customizing various MRP types, MRP Group, lot size calculation, scheduling margin key and procurement proposals Customization of parameters like production scheduling profile, production scheduler, control keys, MRP controller, etc.
• Maintained the MRP, Forecasting and work scheduling views in the material master.
• Carrying out planning run and evaluating the results using stocks / requirements list.
• Production order creation, scheduling, availability check, release, confirmation, goods movement, TECO.
• Responsible for analysis of requirements, configuration and user acceptance testing.