PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 7+ years of functional experience in SAP Production Planning, Quality Management, Material Management and Warehouse Management modules.
• Implemented 3 full - life cycles (Business requirement collection, Business process analysis, GAP analysis, Design, Configuration, Proof of concept, Unit testing, Data migration, Integration testing, Cut-off strategy, Go-live and Post-go-live support).
• Expertise in new implementations, testing, Upgrade and production support.
• Worked extensively in SAP in production planning and shop floor in PP-PI, discrete manufacturing and repetitive manufacturing environment. Skilled in Classification, batch management, ECM and other logistic execution functions.
• Expertise in implementation and configuration of PP & MM modules in SAP R/3 & SAP ECC.
• Experience in diverse industrial sectors- Food and Beverages, Pharmaceutical, Thermo former manufacturing, Textiles and Automotive industries.
• CorestrengthsareResources/WorkCentre,Process/ProductionOrders,MasterRecipe/Routing, Order Execution, Scheduling, Back flushing, Capacity/Demand Planning, Demand Management, Process Instruction Sheets Etc.
• SAP PP expertise in Master Data, Business Plan, SOP, demand management, MPS, MRP, RCP (rough cut planning), LTP (Long-term Planning), planned orders, process/production orders, confirmation, shop floor control, product costing.
• Proficient in Sales Operation Planning. Capacity Evaluations and Capacity Planning.
• Material Management expertise includes purchasing, inventory management, configuration and creation - Material Master, Info record, Vendors, Stock Transport orders, special stocks like Subcontracting Purchase Orders, Purchase requisitions, Customers, Contracts, and invoice verification.
• Highly proficient in quality planning, quality inspection, quality certificates and quality notifications.
• Expertise in gathering relevant user data, designing protocols and familiar in coding.
• Highly proficient in collaborating with technical team in writing detailed technical specifications for (RICEFW) reports, interfaces, conversion, enhancement, forms, and workflow programs.
• Collaborated closely with end users, SAP developers and application team to design and deliver SAP based solutions for business requirements.
• Worked on eCATT, LSMW, Solution Manager, BPP, User Exit and SAP notes (OSS)
• Highly proficient in coordinating and executing Unit, System, System Integration Test (SIT), Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Extensively contributed to end user training, production support and Change Management.
• Excellent communication, inter personal, presentation and problem solving skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, East Hanover, NJ

SAP PP-PI/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked for production support. Identified issues and resolved them during post go live support.
• Travelled between plants in New York and New Jersey to maintain MRP and MPS for material requirement planning. Used planning time fence (M1) for master schedule items.
• Worked on Batch Management- Batch Determination and Batch classification. Defined Batch Search procedures as search strategies at order level and at inventory movements.
• In New Jersey plant, Worked on MII to fetch shop floor confirmation data to SAP system. Developed functional specifications for the integration of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) with SAP.
• Supported a plant in Mexico for day-to-day business process related to issues classified as bugs and enhancements.
• Created Characteristics, Classes and maintained Batch Management data for Materials.
• Prepared functional design specifications and relevant documentations, for developments and enhancements.
• Configuration of Browser based PI sheet for auto confirmation through barcode, goods issue, and correction of errors in goods movement, results recording, Confirmation of quantity through QM.
• In Digital signature, also defined the signature strategyin the control recipe destination.
• Performed Goods Issue and Receipt Postings, time ticket Confirmation of Phases using Process Messages to the corresponding Message destinations.
• Created the Master Data including the Material Master, Master Recipes utilizing Material-Quantity Calculation, Batch Management, Active Ingredient Management and Resources.
• Prepared and Configured Process Instructions (PI) Sheets, Process Messages in Process Instruction sheets, Control Recipes and Instructions Configured Resource Center categories, Capacity categories, Standard value keys, Control Keys, Shift Sequences, formulas for Resources and Master Recipes.
• Interacted with End Users and was also responsible in preparing end user’s training and preparing help manual.
• P.O. sent through IDoc was giving an error, downloaded the IDoc through WE02. Found out the vendor’s zip code was missing. Entered the info, and re-processed the IDoc with BD87.
• Resolved SLED issue during the Batch Master Data update in QM.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

SAP PP/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported the rollout project in UK plant and provided production support at Indiana plant.
• Part of production support team after Go-live for UK plant.
• Resolved MRP issues with relevance to scheduling dates of production orders and planning file entry for the plant in Indiana.
• Maintained and configured material master, bill of materials, work centers and routings.
• Developed configuration scripts, BPP, work instruction.
• Configured different areas of PP like Production Master data (Material Master, Bill of Material, Work center, Routing), Repetitive Manufacturing Cycle and Back flushing.
• Defining number ranges for various purchasing documents.
• Communicated with and guided the QM department to clear the blocked stock in quality inspection due to usage decisions and batch restrictions.
• Developed Functional specs for Label printing, time ticket printing, PP Stock reports.
• Handled issues related to background job run, conversion of planned orders and process orders.
• Responsible for issues on TECO, stock transfer orders, inbound and outbound delivery activities.
• Configured Standard value keys, Control keys, Formulas, Capacity categories for resources in QM master data
• Reconfigured resources to maintain status profile and made enhancements to maintain screen groups.
• Developed enhancements for Master recipe for material quantity calculation and authorization check.
• Worked on QM master data; quality inspection, quality notification and quality control. Issues and Solutions:
• Production Order number ranges were skipping. Can be resolved by deactivating number range buffering, but not recommended by SAP.
• Client wanted to assign prefix to the internally generated production order number. Suggested not possible, better to use externally generated numbers.

Confidential, Corona, CA

SAP PP-PI/MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a PP functional consultant, responsible for business process study, GAP analysis configuration and system testing.
• Prepared a detailed document of AS-IS, by interacting with the key users.
• Involved in project definition and preparation, as is mapping, 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.
• Configuration and creation of Master Data i.e. Bill of Materials, resources and Recipes.
• Master Recipes: Master Recipe Management, Creation, Header Data, Material Components, Operations, Phases, Relationships, Operations Overview, and Check Operation.
• Configured PI-categories, object names in PI sheets and control recipe destinations.
• Configured master recipe with quality inspection characteristics and configured the inspection plan creation
• Set-up configuration and master data for Inspection Lot Creation, Results and Defects Recording
• Configured Batch Management and involved in automatic creation of Batch serial numbers for tractability
• Maintained master data for MRP type, MRP controller, Availability check, and missing parts check list.
• Worked on user exits and enhancements in inventory management and capacity planning tables.
• Collaborated with shop floor managers to understand the material movement on the production line.
• Studied the clients’ conventional inventory graph, visual dashboards and developed an Interactive Business Graph chart in SAP.

Confidential, Duluth, GA

SAP PP/MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed the full cycle implementation using ASAP methodology.
• Interacted extensively with client and adapted client’s requirements within the scope of SAP.
• In Proposal Phase, Scoping sessions were conducted in the S&OP (Product Hierarchy) Manufacturing Engineering, Materials and Capacity Planning, Production (Time & Attendance).
• Involved in study of company business process and preparing ‘AS IS’ and ‘TO BE’ process and performed GAP analysis in the production environment.
• Basic Organization Structure. Identifying departmental requirements, finding out gaps and devising solutions for bridging the gap.
• Analyzed the legacy system and worked on Master Data conversion from legacy to SAP using LSMW.
• Responsible for decision making related to Back flush, auto replenishment, work scheduling, managing inventory at plant and distribution centers, identifying work in progress Stock.
• Extensively worked on inventory management which includes goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, stock transfers, transfer postings, movement type and cycle counting.
• Developed master planning, demand management and MRP.
• Designed material master data, BOM, work centers and routings.
• Worked with SD team, on delivery processing, serial number assignment, sales order pick, condition records and variant pricing.
• Responsible for critical decision making related to configurable material groups, assigning characteristics, and configuration profile.
• Provided expert advice and guidance during unit testing and integration testing.
• Conducted end user training, provided GO-LIVE and post GO-LIVE support.

Confidential, Warren, Ohio

SAP PP/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented ASAP methodology and successfully upgraded the legacy 4.7 system to ECC 6.0
• Upgrade projects that included testing transactions and analyzing results, modifying configuration, reviewing OSS notes.
• Deve1oped and presented an upgrade workshop to project team members of the company.
• Identified the functional gaps and developed Function Specification documents for the enhancements.
• Involved a detailed examination of version changes. Configuration support tools and modifications within the Production Planning Module in Master Data, Engineering Change Management, Production Orders, Production Scheduling.
• Provided detailed functional specifications to the techno-functional consultants for mapping the data from legacy to the ECC 6.0 system.
• Worked with functional and configuration issues in the areas of Inventory Management, Logistics and Purchasing Optimizations.
• Created unit test scenarios and transaction documentation for Purchasing, Inventory Management, Production Planning, Capacity Planning, Shop Floor reporting, and Goods Movements.
• Have a major role in testing of new functionality, upgrades and Service Packs, OSS notes, LSMW, CATT for Material master upload.
• Interacted with ABAP/4 consultants for data migration and report development activities.
• Responsible for QM aspects like Inspection plan, Inspection Methods, Sampling procedure.
• Configuration of QM work center authorization, Digital signature, Dynamic Modification Rule, Quality levels, Results Recording, Usage decision.
• Directly involved with cycle testing existing and new functionality, authorization testing, integration, training development, mock cutover/go-live cutover activities, and post go-live support.

Confidential, Marietta, GA

SAP PP-PI/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a PP functional consultant, responsible for business process study, GAP analysis configuration and system testing.
• Prepared a detailed document As-Is, To-Be analysis.
• Involved in project definition and preparation, as is mapping, 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.
• Developed a conceptual design for the QM functionality and worked on the integration of QM module with PP and WM.
• Performed Gap Analysis, and developed customization settings for PP & QM business processes.
• Configuration and creation of Master Data; Bill of Materials, resources and Recipes.
• Created and maintained Variant Configuration models, the business process documentation for VC master data.
• Customizing BOM for different usages, material types and explosions.
• Implemented different capacities for the Resources.
• Developed and customized PI sheets, created log tables for data entry in PI sheets.
• Worked extensively on batch management that includes batch determination, batch split, batch classification and batch strategies.
• Configured MRP, Demand Planning & Scheduling Procedures to integrate with Purchasing and Delivery Requirements.
• Interacted with Technical (ABAP) consultants and developed standard & customized reports.
• Provided expert services, training and go-live assistance to end users in the Production Planning and Quality Management.

Confidential, South San Francisco, CA

SAP PP-PI/MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the issues faced by the client in BOM, Recipe and Production version.
• Resolved issues related to Release Procedures and created strategy for approval of Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order with SAP business workflow.
• Resolved day to day issues related to packing and reassigning the handling units.
• Worked extensively in resolving SMS tickets that arise due to a process deficiency that was not configured in the design for returnable packaging material, inter-company and intra-company STO’s, posting changes.
• Worked with MM contracts and scheduling agreements.
• Master data maintenance; recipe, PRT control recipe, BOMs and production versions.
• Detailed scheduling and defining PIRs consumption parameters; backward/forward scheduling.
• Handled tickets that include Goods Issue based on Production Order from Warehouse to Shop Floor and also Goods Receipt posting upon production order.
• Worked on issues related to price determination schema by testing condition types with the access sequences, calculation schemas and condition tables and maintained condition records.
• Established production version for alternative BOM. Resolved the issues in selecting the production version for the concerned production version.
• Configured stock transfer parameters for storage location to storage location transfers and posting change parameters.
• Worked on Storage Unit Management to optimize warehouse capacity and control material flow by utilizing storage units within warehouse.
• Documented End User training material for MM, WM related transactions and also trained them in shop floor activities in converting planned orders to production orders.

Confidential

SAP PP/MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined and maintained production lines, rate routings and assigned production lines to rate routings.
• Familiar with different types of goods movements in Production.
• Configuration of Notifications, quality certificates, movement type for return goods, user exits for shelf life expiry date and sampling procedures, etc.
• Reconfigured BOM usage with relevance to production, order of priority for BOM usage, BOM status for MRP explosion, planned orders and release orders.
• Defined and maintained Production lines, Rate Routings and assigned production lines to rate routings.
• Configured Repetitive Manufacturing (REM) and Make-to-Stock from Demand Loading to Backflushing settings to match the customer requirements.
• Identified the training needs and trained the core users. Participated in the preparation of customization documents and users manual.
• Coordinated with technical consultant relevant to customized reports and creating new interfaces as per the client requirement.
• Worked on MIGO transactions for Goods receipt (GR) /Goods issue (GI) for purchase orders and stock transfer.

Confidential

SAP PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Started my first project as a Trainee.
• Trained in demand management, sales and operation planning, capacity planning and MRP run.
• Worked on Configuring Material Master, BOM, Routing, production version, MRP controllers, MRP types, MRP parameters.
• Worked on Make to Order scenario.
• Worked on creating planned orders, converting to production order, goods movement.
• Involved in maintaining PP Master Data.
• Developed test scripts and end user documents.