PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Dedicated, versatile and a creative SAP functional consultant with hands - on experience in designing, integrating and managing critical SAP projects in manufacturing domain for various industries including Automotive, Pharmaceuticals, Services and Chemical Industry and helping clients meet their business performance goals and improve business processes.
• 15+ years of strong SAP consulting experience with Confidential and Confidential Technologies with main focus on SAP PP, QM and MM on ECC6.0, S/4 HANA and APO-PP/DS.
• Strong expertise in SAP Implementation, multi-country roll out assignments using ASAP methodology, maintenance & support projects and have helped clients in 4+ full life cycle SAP implementations.
• 6+ years of functional expertise in manufacturing industry in the fields of production planning, shop floor execution and quality control area with TATA Motors, a multinational automotive manufacturer.
• Strong experience in leading and conducting Workshops or CRP for requirements gathering with business process owners (BPO) and end users.
• Experienced consultant in pre-sales, RFP, prototyping, business process reengineering, optimizing inventory and improving productivity and efficiency.
• Collaborates effectively across different organization levels, functions and business units and acts as Technical liaison between leadership, architecture and operations team.
• Well conversant in working on Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and Release Management processes and hands on to tools like Service Now, Remedy, HPSM tool.
• Certified in ITILV3 foundation course and experienced in Implementing ITIL best practices.
• Interface SAP with manufacturing execution systems (MES), MII, IBP, non-SAP or Legacy systems, Core Interface, Idocs, LSWM and set up background jobs to automate material planning process.
• Mentoring developers, testers and technical consultants for implementing continuous software delivery, product enhancements and production support logistics.
• Experienced in defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing,, defining support procedures and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP PP, QM, MM, PM, EWM, S/4 HANA, APO-PP/DS, SOLMAN, Linux, Windows, MS Office, Service NOW, Remedy and HPSM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead Consultant - SAP PP-PI/QM

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Implementing PP - PI process with make-to-stock planning strategy, master recipe approval process and subcontracting process for filling and packing operation.
• Designing customized serial numbers management, batch management, integration with EWM, HU management, and RF device integration.
• Deploying QM module to facilitate raw material inspection, in-process and finished goods inspection.
• Designing and Modifying the Label prints like HU labels, Quality Inspection Sample labels.
• Configuring PP Interface with WM and Barcode scanners to post production confirmations.
• Configure to Perform usage decision and stock dispositions sub-process with digital signature.

Lead Consultant - SAP PP/QM

Confidential, Maumee, OH

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Design, built, test, cutover, go-live and hyper care support of Production planning, quality planning, inspections and enhanced quality notifications using workflows.
• Drove overall quality management processes including notification of vendor and customer complaints, vendor supply check for quality deviation and inspection control for goods movement and lots creation.
• Configured different types of material requirement planning (MRP) including Total planning, Single item single level, multi-level, master production schedule (MPS), consumption based planning (CBS) and MRP area planning and MRP Live in S/4 Hana.
• Designed mobile interface prototype for configuring and deploying customized client business processes using SAP FIORI apps for S/4 Hana.
• Responsibilities include mapping client business process in SAP PP Discrete manufacturing process.
• Created SAP Interface with IGEAR, the manufacturing execution system (MES) for production execution through PI interface.

Lead Consultant - SAP PP, MM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as a liaison between Business and IT for all enhancements, requirements gap analysis, solution development, and testing and production gate review process.
• Involved in the full life cycle SAP implementation of forecast to stock process: Discrete manufacturing with MM integration - S/4 HANA and FIORI Apps.
• Responsible for configuring and prototyping SOP, LTP, MRP and production execution.
• Configured custom material types, lot-sizing procedure, planning horizon, plant parameters, MRP groups, MRP areas and defined Scheduling Margin Key that meets client specific requirements.
• Defined new order types, order dependent parameters, production scheduling profile, Kanban controlled material replenishment strategies.
• Created planning strategies (MTS and MTO), availability check, and configured scheduling parameters for both planned and production orders.
• Setup factory calendar, planning calendar and transport them manually to production system
• Configured Org structure, Material valuation area, valuation class, purchasing organizations, different types of purchase orders and created scheduling agreements, contract agreements, document types and invoice forms.
• Created source lists, vendor master data, Quota arrangement, Info Records for standard, consignment, sub-contracting and release procedures
• Created and configured physical inventory count documents to post inventory differences and define reason codes for inventory goods movement.
• Developed business process flow for in-house and customer returns material rework.

Lead Consultant - SAP PP, QM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured PP master data Bill of Material, Master recipes, resources, production version, standard value key, capacity formulas, factory calendar, activity type, order type parameter and confirmation parameters.
• Implemented total planning at plant level including online and background job, single-item and multi-level for generating the planned orders.
• Configured Catalogs, selected sets, Master inspection Characteristics, Inspection Methods, Sample size Determination, QM-Specific Data in Material Master. Quality Info records. Defect Codes for Quality notification.
• Created Inspection Plans with inspection points and sample drawing procedure, Processing of Header Data, Processing of Operations, control key, Processing of Inspection Characteristics in Quality Planning,
• Configured different reason codes to Block and restrict the vendor supply in case of quality deviation.
• Created inspection plans with sample drawing procedure, Dynamic Modification plan, processing of operations, control key, inspection characteristics, status management and digital signatures.

Lead Consultant - SAP PP, PP/DS

Confidential, Spartanburg, SC

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements gathering, blue print design, complete system configuration, testing, end-user and production support.
• Configured Special procurement types include Phantom assembly, production in another plant, subcontracting and variant configuration.
• Configured REM profiles for Repetitive Manufacturing depending on new business flow.
• Created Product Master, resource lanes, integration model, iPPE, and product data structure (PDS).
• Deployed Production planning heuristics, detailed scheduling heuristics, RPM planning, Model mix planning according to planning and scheduling requirements.
• Trained key users on Production planning table, detailed scheduling board, Resource planning table and Optimizer for better planning and scheduling by understanding heuristic logs and optimizer logs.
• Defined transactional data consistency check using CPP monitoring, CCR monitoring, idoc monitoring, CIF monitoring and proactive notification to user on planning by alert monitoring.
• Design and built the SAP Interface with IPSC - the Manufacturing execution system (MES), for order transfer, partial/final confirmation and GR through Idocs.
• Developed custom program for iPPE creation, iPPE consistency check between ECC and APO PP/DS and master data consistency check between BOM and iPPE.

Lead Consultant - SAP PP-PI, QM

Confidential, Portland, OR

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the PP-PI/QM module with shop floor execution (SFC), MRP, quality planning, inspections lot control and batch management (BM).
• Performed AS-IS, TO-BE, Fit-GAP analysis and identified the RICEFW objects and presented to the process-owners for approval.
• Responsible for Unit testing, Integration testing, UAT, user, manual documentation and go-live process.
• Configured interface between SAP QM and LIMS using QM-IDI interface and Triggered Inspections for Customer Returns and Recurring Inspections.
• Responsible for preparation of data mapping spread sheets, functional design specifications for interface development, custom reports, enhancements and master data upload.
• Configured PP master data Bill of Material, Master recipes, resources, production version, standard value key, capacity formulas, factory calendar, activity type, order type parameter, Confirmation parameters.
• Configured shop floor activities, production schedule profiles, automatic transfer order creation, scheduling, and confirmation of production orders.