SUMMARY

• A highly motivated professional with 7 years of strong functional experience in SAP Plant Maintenance Implementation, Customization and Production Support.
• Completed 2 FLC (Full Life Cycle) SAP implementations of a project from conceptualization to production support.
• Supported all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, configuration, testing, and deployment of solutions, post - production support/maintenance, documentation, and end-user training.
• Expertise in all implementation phases of ASAP methodology right from Project preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-live, and Post Go-Live Production Support.
• Extensive experience in Cross-functional integration across various modules of SAP viz., PM, WM and MM.
• Successfully delivered configuration solutions of SAP PM Modules.
• Served as an integral member of the team that conducted AS-IS study by preparing TO-BE Processes and Scenarios.
• Expertise in business process analysis and design, process rationalization, cost control, performance measurement and quality.
• Worked with cross functional teams at various levels to effectively gather requirements, drive process improvements and best practices and deliver solutions.
• Expertise in gathering requirements from end users and transforming the requirements into functional documents in RICEFW objects.
• Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), volume test, stress test and Regression Testing using HP Quality Center.
• Extensively worked in Preventive Maintenance, Breakdown Maintenance, Refurbishment processing.
• Maintained and assigned Inspection types, created Inspection Plan. Involved in the configuration of Quality Info records which were used for vendor evaluation.
• Can work effectively in cross-functional team environments and experience of providing training to business users on SAP screens, its functionalities and usage.
• Experience in SAP data migration from legacy to SAP system using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW), Batch Data Communication (BDC).
• Functional Location structure, Equipment management, Maintenance Notifications, Maintenance Orders, Maintenance Order Completion, Maintenance Assemblies, Number ranges, Screen layouts, Control keys, Measuring Points and Counters, Characteristics, Code groups, Catalog profiles, User Status, Non-stock items, Movement Types, Serialization, User exits, Reports
• Maintenance Strategies, Maintenance Task Lists, Time-based and Performance-based Maintenance Plans, Scheduling and Deadline Monitoring
• Refurbishment of repairable spares, Processing of external services, Calibration Order process, Work Clearance Management, Warranty tracking, Fleet Management, Asset Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

SAP R/3 Tools: SAP Solution manager, MRSS, LSMW, BDC, HP Quality Center, HP Solution Center, Load Runner, Visio Tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, CA

SAP PM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Was the only SAP Functional Consultant on the team and was responsible for complete SAP configuration, Master Data Creation, GIS integration.
• Learnt product categories, sales channels and detailed business processes by partnering with other business resources and external system integrator to determine future functionality and configuration that delivers the most value to the business.
• Was responsible for requirement gathering, blueprinting, realization, Go-Live and User training.
• Created the Enterprise Structure for a utility company which included defining and assigning Company, Company Code, Plant, Storage Locations, Purchase Organizations, Functional Locations and Equipment.
• Created Master Data including Material Master, Bill of Materials, Functional Locations, Equipment’s and Measuring Points.
• Created Notifications, Work Orders, Purchase Requisitions, Material Reservations, Purchase Orders, Task Lists, Maintenance Strategies and Maintenance Plans.
• Worked with Process Integration and GIS resources to integrate SAP ECC to SAP PI and ESRI ArcGIS using BAPIs.
• Data integration with GIS allowed maintenance of Data in a single system with the data automatically synchronized with the other system.
• GIS enables users to enter, maintain, process and visualize space-related data and its relationships on a more intuitive and easier to navigate map centric user interface which allows users to execute selection and searches based on spatial relationships.

Confidential

SAP PM/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Production/Post Production support for various issues and resolved issue raised by the end user.
• Contributed positively to streamline the business processes to stabilize flow, change basic configurations to map the end-to-end business processes in SAP and worked on trouble shooting for PM/QM.
• Handling all complicated issue and provided solution to users in PM/QM module.
• Involving support activity such as master data maintenance, user creation and role maintenance.
• Worked on maintenance task lists for Equipment, Functional Locations and general tasks for Preventive Maintenance processing
• Identified the key business scenarios based on Production users and Resolved tickets raised for PM Planner Groups, PM Processing and Notifications, Breakdown Orders, External Contract Orders and Refurbishment Orders
• Worked on capacity requirements planning in Plant Maintenance in the view of detail work scheduling for individual maintenance work centers based on PP workcenter availability
• Worked on object links between the technical objects to analyze the malfunction locations and possible shutdown of affected technical systems.
• Worked on Configuration and Re-configuration of QM Master Data like Material Master for QM View, Codes and Code Groups, Sampling Scheme, MICs, Inspection Methods, Inspection Plan and strategies.
• Facilitated development of reports and work order print-out modifications
• Worked for production order to be used by maintenance departments to assemble parts by generating planned orders from MRP.
• Involved in refurbishment processing for repairable spares and warranty tracking of equipment during notification creation.
• Worked with Quality Certificates, Certificates of Analysis, Certificate Profiles, Quality in Production, and Quality Info Records for Procurement.
• Worked with Automated Usage Decision for Quality accepted stocks, created batch job for the same to clear the accepted stocks, worked with Return to Vendor Process for the rejected materials, automated work flow through Quality Notifications and email trigger from SAP workflow to outside vendors.
• Maintain DMS document creation, various document type linkages with the object links.
• Suggested on development of Z- Tables and Reports
• Review all custom programs, custom transactions, user exits, interfaces, custom reports related to PM/QM module

Confidential

SAP PM/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with key business users across different plants for the preparation of Global Template in accordance with Global ASAP Roll-Out Roadmap.
• Created Hierarchy levels for functional locations to represent operational structures according to company’s functionality.
• Configured and created PM Master Data - Functional Locations, Equipment. Implemented ABC indicator to classify the importance of technical objects within the production areas of the plant. Created General Maintenance Task Lists for inspection, maintenance and repair processes of equipment and used these task lists for Preventive Maintenance instead of creating Equipment Task Lists.
• Used DMS for creating and attaching documents to Equipment Master records.
• Preventive Maintenance - Configured for creating Time-based and Performance-based maintenance plans, Scheduled maintenance plans for defined cycles to generate maintenance calls and processing of maintenance calls.
• Created User status for maintenance and service orders so that the maintenance planners would know that the forwarded order has been viewed by the recipient thus providing smooth transition for order processing.
• Configured Completion Confirmation of Maintenance and Service Order processing - defined control parameters, set up screen templates and field selection.
• Performed data migration from Legacy system to SAP Plant Maintenance Masters using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW).
• Created detailed documentation, trained end users and provided post implementation support.
• Worked with PP Master data such as BOM, Resource and Master Recipe.
• Reconfigured BOM usage with relevance to production, order of priority for BOM usage, BOM status for MRP explosion, planned orders and release orders.
• Worked on creation and configuration of control recipe destinations, process messages, mapping middleware routing, business connector and intermediate document (Idoc) based interfaces.
• Developed functional specification documents for enhancements and worked with technical resources to test and present the changes made.
• Responsible for Production Support activities in PM module and PP module.
• Transferred knowledge to super users and support consultants.

Confidential, Westlake, CA

SAP PM/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• ECC 6 upgrade project from version 4.7.
• Performed upgrade requirements analysis, business process analysis, business process blue printing and redesign, configuration, integration.
• Mapped extensive legacy maintenance process maps to SAP with the use of user-status for orders.
• Justified and explained change requests to review boards for approval when needed.
• Identified the key business scenarios and reconfigured PM work centers, PM planner groups, PM processing with notifications, breakdown orders, external contract orders, and refurbishment orders.
• Coordinated with technical consultants by giving functional specification for customization according to user requirements.
• Recreated Measuring Points and Counters, Catalog profiles and codes, tasks, priority types.
• Involved in refurbishment processing for repairable spares and warranty tracking of equipment during notification creation.
• Facilitated development of reports and work order print-out modifications.
• Redeveloped Time-based and Performance-based Maintenance Plans for maintenance items.
• Configured satellite storage locations at department levels and developed usage rules to make goods movements and work order process more efficient.
• Coordinated integration and configuration of PM with MM and FI/CO.
• Extensive interaction with users and management and involved in end user training and support.
• Preparation of Functional Specification for interfaces and conversions, Test specifications and guiding ABAP team and BW Team in developing KPI reports, unit-module-integrating testing.
• Functional Specifications for Master Data Processing, Maintenance Processing, Preventive Maintenance Processing and MRO/Spare Parts Processing.
• System proto typing created test plan, technical documentation and end-user training.
• Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Archive Testing and Security and Role Testing in PM and set up the test data, test scenarios and test scripts.
• Development and execution of cutover and go-live plans; and Post go-live support and issue resolution.
• Found and solved upgrade issues related to customization & screen settings for PM, QM module. Coordinated with ABAP expert to resolve screen dumps &technical issues.
• Integration issues with SD, MM and CO modules of SAP.
• Created and maintained Supplier Scorecard: procurement key metrics, performance and quality management key matrix.
• QM functionality employed included the maintenance of master data, sample management, raw material inspections, in-process inspections, goods receipt from production inspections, quality certificates, quality notifications, stability studies and reporting requirements and the interface to an external LIMS system.

Confidential, Bakersfield, CA

SAP PM/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted and conducted workshops as part of the blueprinting phase.
• Identified and developed functional report specifications.
• Created and customized Preventive maintenance objects, maintenance strategy, maintenance item, maintenance plans.
• Created Notifications, work orders, released notifications and work orders.
• Defined functional location categories, functional location structure indicator, Functional location categories, field selection for functional locations
• Defined equipment categories, number ranges, ABC indicators.
• Configured plants, work centers, work orders, order types, task lists.
• Defined standard value keys for work centers, capacity for work centers.
• Technical Object Structuring - Equipment, Functional Locations, Measurement Points and Measuring Documents.
• Maintenance Processing - Notifications, Plant Maintenance Work Orders, Completion Confirmations.
• Maintenance Planning - Maintenance Plans and Task Lists, for Planned Preventive Maintenance.
• Service Contracts, service Warranties and Sales Orders with Resource Related Billing, Periodic Billing and Milestone Billing.
• CATS -Cross Application Time Sheets for Service Orders.
• Status Management for Equipment, Notifications and Service Orders.
• Period End Closing, including Results Analysis and Settlement.
• Configured QM batch management, QM characteristics and QM classes and the object assignment
• Configured QM task list: Assigned task list types to material types, defined task list usages and maintained parameters for each task list type
• Defined QM inspection plans for equipment in PM and test generation of calibration orders with inspection lots, results recording of inspection characteristics and usage decisions.
• Quality notification were created including product recalls, vendor evaluation and customer complaints that were used in this implementation
• Created test scenarios, performed Unit testing and Integration testing and involved during String testing and Archive testing.
• QM for Material Management: Procurement& Purchasing; Quality Inspection in MM; Quality notification with complaints against vendors; Information system (Raw material, Semi-finished, Finished).
• QM in production: Inspection during production, Quality inspection for goods receipt from production, internal quality notification.
• QM in Sales and distribution: Quality inspection for delivery & return delivery, Certification creation, Q-notification for customer complaint.
• Performed Test equipment management, Calibration management.

Confidential

Jr. Consultant SAP PM

Responsibilities:

• Created test scenarios, performed Unit testing and Integration testing and involved during String testing and Archive testing.
• Evaluated the existing maintenance processes and scenarios in the production departments and the maintenance departments and adapted them to SAP.
• Responsible for PM module configuration - Technical Objects (Serialized and Non-Serialized Equipment, Functional Locations, Material Bill of Materials, Equipment BOM), Order Processing (Notifications, Orders, Catalog profiles, Costing, Order Settlement), Preventive Maintenance (Task Lists, Maintenance Items, Maintenance Plans, Scheduling).
• Worked with key users to develop all Maintenance Task Lists for Equipment, Functional locations and General Task lists and planned and scheduled them accordingly.
• Configured object codes, damage codes and activity codes and assigned the code groups to catalog profiles for use in notifications.
• Customized orders with service specifications and service sheet entry using service masters.
• Configured calibration order process for test equipment.
• Tested generation of calibration orders with inspection lots, results recording of inspection characteristics and usage decisions.
• Worked with FI/CO, QM and MM groups to resolve integration issues with Plant Maintenance.
• Developed specifications for shop floor papers, custom reporting and enhancements using user exits.
• Prepared end user training materials and provided training to maintenance technicians, engineers and supervisors and offered post implementation support.
• Performed unit testing, integration testing and regression testing and developed Integration testing instructions and training documentation.