SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of SAP PP/MM Consultant along with good integration knowledge of PP,PM,QM, SD.
• Worked on 3 Full Life - Cycle implementations using ASAP methodologies, support and roll-out process.
• Hands-on knowledge of configuration and creation of Master Data that covers Material, Bill of Materials, Task-list (Master Recipes, Routings) Work Centers/Resources.
• Excellent understanding of business and knowledge over various industries like manufacturing, food, chemical, automotive and pharmaceutical.
• Hands-on experience regarding configuration of Material Requirement Planning (MRP) like MRP types, MRP controllers, Lot-size determination, Different Planning strategies, maintaining availability checks and rules, Schedule Margin Keys, planned Delivery days and production periods.
• Working experience of transferring the Planned Independent Requirements from the Sales and Operation Planning into Demand Management phase.
• Worked with MES Team
• Expertise in writing functional specification report’s for configuring material master data, production order’s and BOM.
• Worked on conversion of planned orders to production orders, Confirmations, Goods Receipt (GR), and Goods Issue (GI).
• Expertise on the Material Management module which consists of configuring purchase organizations, assigning purchase organizations to company codes, creating different types of purchase orders like Consumption-based PO, Intra-company Stock Transfer PO, Sub-Contacting PO or Tolling, Service PO, and Vendor Consignment PO.
• Experience in creating Invoice Verifications, Source lists for Vendors and Outline Agreements & Contracts.
• Experience implementing ASAP Methodology including business blueprint, realization, final preparation, GoLive, and hypercare with continuous improvement.
• Experience with electronic data interchange (EDI) carrying out transactions with trading partners electronically.
• Analyzed changes in product design in manufacturing to determine the effect on end product
• As a Functional Consultant on PP Team, responsible for review of As-Is business processes for Material Master, Bills of Materials, and Routings across all business units and product lines
• Worked on Functional Specifications reports in order to develop Configuration scenarios.
• Experience in creating new test scenarios for Unit as well as Integration Testing.
• Hands-on experience on training, creating instruction documentation and conducting workshops for the super-users for resolving user queries.
• Worked through different support levels during support after Hyper Care and Go-Live.
• Having knowledge in configuring New General Ledger with Parallel Ledgers Document Splitting Functionality.
• One full cycle with Workday integration global rollout in Latin American countries.
• Expertise in configuration of Flexible planning, SOP, Demand management, MRP,MPS, Capacity planning, procurement order, Production order, Long term planning.
• Expertise in different aspects of a business relating to FI-GL Transactions, Inter Company Transactions, House Banks, DME, Payment Terms, Cash Discounts, Automatic Payment Programs, Incoming payments, Partial and Residual payments, Vendor/Customer Open Items, Reconciliation Accounts, Document Split, Lock Box (BAI2), Dunning, and Assessment & Distribution Cycles.
• Part of production support team after Go-live
• Customization of Vendor Master Data, Vendor Account Groups, and Define Sensitive Fields for dual Control, Vendor Invoice Processing, Posting of Parked Documents, Configuration of Automatic Payment processing Program for the outgoing payments, and Post Processing of Payment Program Logs.
• Creation of Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Creation of Cost Center Standard Hierarchy and also worked as month to end closing process
• Manage testing resources, test case sequencing, gathering of required test data files and other test coordination activities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Packages: SAP R/3

Languages: Visual Basic

Database: Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server 2000

Operating System: Windows … UNIX

Application Software: Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft VisioPrimavera, Microsoft Project, Auto-CAD, Finesse, CSAS, Frames, Outlook.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PATASKALA, OH

SAP FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Worked through different support levels during support after Hyper Care and Go-Live.
• Participated in brain storming sessions on decision making for planning strategy and involved in documentation needed for customization.
• Maintained Parameters for both Plant and MRP group for Material Requirement Planning.
• Maintained Number Ranges for different material types such as (ROH, HALB, FERT, VERP) and for planned orders.
• Maintained the MRP, Forecasting, and Work Scheduling views in the material master.
• Experience in working on strategies such as Make-to-Order(20) and Make-to-Stock(40).
• Involved in creation and improvement of BOM. Maintained Group BOM.
• Configuration of Bi-Products, Co-Product, Control Recipes and Batch Classification.
• Configuration of capacity planner, planner groups, formulas, resources. Maintained Production Scheduling Profile.
• Involved in customization of planning tables for plants.
• Assisted in the timely Go-Live of the project
• Worked on PI Sheets i.e. creating new Message Characteristics and Process Instructions
• Responsible for creation of new Batch class characteristics. Created new Classes and assigned characteristics to the Classes.
• Converted Planned orders either into Process Order or Purchase requisition
• Configured PI sheet and maintained Process Management.
• Experience in working with Production Versions for use of various alternative BOMs and multiple routings.
• Configured Product Cost Collector and Standard Cost Estimate.
• Involved in integration with QM in assigning inspection types to material master based on in process inspection or post process inspection.
• Created Master Inspection characteristics (MIC).
• Integration with pp-MII and EWM, good knowledge on Backflusing, COGI consumption.
• Configured Master Recipes with a Quality Inspection Characteristics and configured the inspection plan.
• Created Inspection Plans, assigned Inspection Characteristics and Sampling Procedures to Inspection Plans.
• Involved in Result Recording and Usage Decision.
• Involved in Integration Test and Unit Test.
• Created the shells for training documentation for PP and QM module.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential

SAP FUCTIONAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in defining project scope for the company and implementation of SAP PP with full life-cycle implementation using ASAP methodology.
• Performed detailed AS-IS analysis through flow charts to map physical flow of manufacturing processes followed by in-depth study of processes designed to develop the To-Be models.
• Business blue print preparation.
• Worked through different support levels during support after Hyper Care and Go-Live.
• Defining Master data for production- Process Industries (BOM, Master recipe, Resource,)
• Involved in configuration of resources, master recipes, Process Orders, Process Management and Order closing activities.
• Configured Resource hierarchies, Production versions selection, Master Recipe selection, Operations, Phases, Process order Scheduling types, Process Order release, Goods Movement, Control Recipe, destinations.
• Worked with MES Team
• Defined capacity requirements for resources by using standard values and formula constants.
• Maintain plant parameter such as Check rule. MRP controller, production order floats, planned order to process order conversion.
• Designed manufacturing scenarios in PP for MTO and MTS strategies.
• Defining control key option for process order type.
• Successfully carried out integration with Materials Management (MM), Quality Management (QM), Sales and Distribution (SD).
• Configured MRP types, process order types, designed batch creation rules
• Created planned orders, converted planned orders into process orders constantly reviewed MRP/Stock requirement list to ensure proper working of all the functionalities.
• Responsible for creation and configuration of Master Data that includes, Master Recipes and Resources
• Worked on validation, cleansing and configuration of master data and creation of Master Data including Bill of Materials, Work centers, Standard/Rate Routings (Master Recipe) and Production Versions
• Customized the BOM for different usages, material types and explosions. Defined work center formulas and assigned cost centers to work centers to evaluate the product costing of the material
• Created background jobs for MRP (Material Planning) run, Assembly error report, components error report, super back-flushing. Set up planning file entries for regenerative MRP, customized MRP Controllers.
• Prepared functional specifications for custom reports, forms and program enhancement specifying logics for calling /getting programs, fetching data from tables and fields
• Responsible for issues on TECO, stock transfer orders, inbound and outbound delivery activities.
• Reconfigured and maintained SLED date check and setup customer exit to check the SLED.
• Replicated the issues in development client, created transport requests and followed up for approvals into the production system.
• Configurable Materials KMAT with Super BOM and Routing, Variant Class, Characteristics, Characteristics Values.
• Developed test scenarios in Demand Management; PIRs for different requirement types and planning horizon.
• Resolved issues on inventory batch handling; stock types, searching for a batch, batch selection for goods issue and transfer posting of batches
• Worked extensively on batch management that includes batch determination, batch split, batch classification and batch strategies.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Foster City, CA

SAP PP/QM CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Studying of Business process and URS document, Process Flow charts.
• Preparation of high level demo presenting SAP Module wise PPT for PP, QM.
• Analysis and mapping of all current business process and design of SAP Specific Business processes, PP and QM Procedures and processes, which fit in with the business practice.
• Responsible for identifying gaps and implementing extended functionality.
• Preparation of Business Process Master List according to the business study.
• Preparation of Business Blue Print according to the business study.
• Identifying and analyzing report, preparation of required enhancement and reports, preparation of Phase wise GAP document.
• Configuration of order type and defining number ranges to the order type parameter, MRP parameters.
• Scheduling, Confirmation parameter - controlling the sequence of confirmation. Defining the Back-flush error correction settings.
• Configuration of Plant Parameter for Quality Management.
• Configuration of Quality inspection for goods movement - responsible to create lot with respect to goods movement Configuration of inspection type to define different types of inspection control.
• Implemented Quality Notifications, Stability Studies, Batch Enhancements in Process Orders, Batch Enhancements for incoming Raw materials and Packaging materials, Dead Line monitoring.
• Training of PP QM Master Data UT, IT, signing-off of UT, IT acceptance test scripts approval.
• Prepared Functional specification documents for PP, QM.
• Master data review and preparation of cut over strategy.
• GO live activities, PIS support.
• Tested the whole business process of the client under various scenarios
• Prepared authorization matrix for users and related authorization profiles creation / transport and testing. On-the-job training for the core team. Preparation of end-user documentation

Environment: PPT for PP, QM.

Confidential, CA

SAP PP/QM CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• As a Functional Consultant on PP Team, responsible for review of As-Is business processes for Material Master, Bills of Materials, and Routings across all business units and product lines
• Configured enterprise structure i.e. configuring plants, storage locations, and production scheduling profiles.
• Configured work center formula. Designed standard value keys and scheduling formulae.
• Defined and maintained production lines, rate routings and assigned production lines to rate routings.
• Worked on unit testing, integration testing on various scenarios for the PP module.
• Assisted in the timely Go-Live of the project.
• Successfully completed the full cycle implementation using ASAP methodology.
• Identifying the gaps in the business and abridge them with the functionality of the R/3 system.
• Provided detailed functional specifications to the techno-functional consultants for mapping the data from legacy to the SAP system.
• Worked extensively with the MM, WM and SD teams to integrate those modules with PP.
• Worked closely with ABAP/4 consultants to develop new structure of reports, ALE and IDOCs related problems.
• Preparing functional design document for order as an enhancement.
• Configured and customized MM/WM system as per client’s special requirement such as activation of new account assignment sales order.
• Involving support like activity such like master data maintenance transaction, updating documents, user creation and role maintenance and master data replication.
• Master data correction, clean up and extension to other plants.
• Experiences in the whole cycle ofSAP procure to pay with PP processright from the stage of RFQ’s till the vendor invoice.
• Created MRP elements via MRP runs, basic and lead time scheduling, evaluating MRP results, via MRP lists/ Stock Requirements list.
• Performing tasks such as analysis, testing, validation, upgrading specifications and mapping the documents.
• Worked on advance shipping notification (ASN) process as per the business process.
• Involved in warehouse management interfacing (warehouse structure, basic stock management, warehouse movements, goods receipts, goods issue, stock transfers and replenishments).
• Experience with electronic data interchange (EDI) carrying out transactions with trading partners electronically.
• Designing and testing of customer specific PP order confirmation using barcode scanning.
• Creating new roles, profiles, supporting new user ID’s and attending authorization issues.
• Help in user documentation and held training sessions for end users

Environment: Go-Live of the project.

Confidential

PP/MM TRAINEE

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the bill of material upload and modification
• Created and maintained material masters, bills of material, configuration profiles, characteristics, object dependencies, values and classes
• Analyzed changes in product design in manufacturing to determine the effect on end product
• Team member of the primary counterpart for the cross functional teams (quality, production & logistics)to share regular team meetings updates and issues
• Building positive client and peer relationships by developing an understanding of customer's business and project scope
• Developing exposure to multiple functional areas and industries

Environment: ECC