SUMMARY

• 15 years’ experience in designing, implementing, managing projects and delivering solutions for 100+ ERP ( small, medium, many enhancements) projects by following SDLC.
• Experience project managing 8 full - cycle SAP projects, Domestic and Foreign business processes, PMO (Project and planning) expertise, Agile/iterative methodologies, EWM (Warehouse management module), P2P, PP-PI (Production Planning & Process Industries ) & PP(production planning), SRM approval Workflow, SRM 5 and 7.0, SRM 7.0 upgrade, MM, PS, FI-GL, FI-AM, FI-AP, APO.
• A Subject matter expert and the key leader in the establishment of various PP, EWM, MM, PP-PI, FI, SAP Functionalities
• Strong knowledge of business processes across financial & manufacturing applications - from bringing the raw materials in the door, to shipping the final product, to sales reporting with major strengths in Finance and manufacturing areas including: material/product master, procurement, asset accounting, Project Accounting, SRM, Workflow, and custom reporting.
• Responsible for conducting cost vs. benefit and ROI analysis
• Developed business cases for IT projects.
• Created and presented IT solutions and technology presentations in support of new business opportunities.
• Maintained agile approach for large/complex and small projects.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and extensive experience in SAP ABAP, Solutions Manager, and Solution delivery process methodologies.
• Designed multiple IT solutions which brought a new business opportunities among the largest tire plant in the world.
• Ensured clear and objective communication of goals, responsibilities, and timelines between all stakeholders, both internal and external
• Experienced working with passionate customers learning new requirements and opportunities, while articulating the value of using the industries best practices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Architect

Environment: SAP SCM EWM 6.0(SAP Extended Warehouse Management 9.5), PP, S/4 HANA

Responsibilities:

• Serving multiple role including SAP Architect and Technical Project Manager
• Perform analysis of existing functionality with a view to re-engineering the functionality onto a new SAP platform
• Analyze business requirements and propose technical solutions utilizing SAP core capabilities as well as enhancement solutions
• Studied current AS-IS process and recommended WILL-BE process using SAP PP functionalities such production orders configuration, BOM, production versions, routing, etc.
• Develops detailed plans, diagrams and documentation, and implements company-wide projects, communicating with and coordinating among vendors, end users and Information Technology staffs
• Acts as information resource and internal consultant for SAP systems by performing systems analysis and requirements gathering, troubleshooting
• Responsible for reviewing and reporting on the overall program as well as individual project work plans, overseeing detailed task management; monitoring activities of the services vendor team, timelines, and risks, and overall responsibility for reporting on status of project activities, milestones, and deliverables.
• Managed the various business process teams, change management activities and the technical teams
• Using Agile methodology for the project implementations
• Demonstrated out of box SAP solutions such as Demand, MRP, Planned & Production Orders, Inbound & Outbound delivery, Scheduling Agreement, Stock Transfer, etc to assist the business users to understand SAP functionalities. Able to explain the difference between Repetitive & Discrete Manufacturing functionalities
• Responsible for designing of retiring 4 legacy Manufacturing Executions Systems (MES) and design the existing applications into SAP EWM and SAP PP. Retiring the existing applications into SAP have potential of enhancing Confidential growth, operations, productivity and efficiency
• Responsible for designing PP solution such as repetitive v discrete for the Mexico Manufacturing plant to Los Indios Warehouse. The designed solution included from demand management, MRP, conversion from planned to production orders, goods receipt, goods issues & final shipping to customer. Discrete solution with batch management for Mexico plant and Repetitive for the Los Indios, TX warehouse.
• Programmer/analyst to transform functional specifications into SAP technical solution. Wrote Process Design Documents, functional specifications, create
• Gather EWM business requirements for Los Indios Texas Warehouse and Mexico plant and convert EWM business requirements into EWM IT solution. Designed demand planning to EWM replenishment request to storing and shipping of semi-finished finished to Americas Warehouse in Los Indios, TX.
• Responsible for designing EWM solution for semi-finished products ships from Confidential Mexico plant to Confidential Los Indios, Texas Lab. Designed EWM solution such as Goods Receipts of semi-finished & raw materials, serialization, Shipping, Product replenishment strategy, Goods Receipts of Finished Goods and Putaway of finished goods
• Limited opportunities to learn emerging technology trends such as S/4 HANA

Continental

SAP EWM PP Program Manager

Environment: SAP 6.0, EWM (SAP Extended Warehouse Management 9.0), PP, PP-PI, APO

Responsibilities:

• Served as a key leader in the establishment of various PP, PP-PI, EWM projects
• Responsible for leveraging current IT solutions to the global tire plants
• Responsible for assisting with project goals, objectives, project management guidelines, project standards, project scope, timeline, risk identification and mitigation, quality management, project budget, reporting and documentation throughout the project lifecycle
• Designed, configured, and implemented & tested two new solutions using EWM, PP, PP-PI functionalities which were accepted by the global team such as US, Germany, Mexico and Czech Republic
• Completed 4 end to end Production Planning Implementations in four plants in US, Mexico and Brazil
• Designed and customized with German counterparts one standard Production Planning & EWM solution for 25 manufacturing automotive and tire plants
• During design, worked with business process teams as a part of gathering the requirements definition and system design
• Set up PP master data like Material Master BoM, Routings, Production Versions. Configured start to end PP Process such as MRP functionalities like Lot size strategy, lead times, re-order point, safety stock
• Knowledge & Set up of integration between SAP PP & SAP MM. Through understanding of shop floor MES and process
• Applied technical best practices such as APO for PP (Production Planning) for the US tire plant
• Working knowledge of SAP APO PP/DS master data for planning, production and distribution. Gather shop-floor sequencing requirements and design those into APO PP/DS planning board
• Set up the SAP core interface (CIF) between ECC, SCM - APO, EWM
• Troubleshooted issues in SAP and manage interactions with SAP support including researching, bug fixes, and recommending OSS notes, creating & following up on incidents with SAP
• Developed test scenarios (screen-shots), created test data (description of expected result and actual result) for unit testing.
• Created test procedures for unit testing and test cases according to business requirements. Performed integration testing and regression testing for interfaces, custom reports, and functional configuration.
• Interacted with Business Analysts to design and implement user test cases for QA and UAT. Provided support for User Acceptance Testing handling multiple priorities. Resolved tickets for QA and UAT simultaneously and provided training to the business user during UAT
• Assisted Developers in writing technical specifications for SAP ABAP objects needed per business requirements.
• Debugged SAP ABAP programs
• Participated in weekly meetings to resolve technical issues identified during the testing process.
• Provided post go-live functional support to the business users as liaison between user and technical teams.
• Provided production support for major custom enhancements to PP and EWM applications. Support included review of the existing enhancements and process improvement.
• Primarily responsible for daily post go-live support of the SAP PP and EWM module issues.
• Gather EWM business requirements for two North America plants and one Mexico plant and convert EWM business requirements into EWM IT solution
• Designed, implemented, tested and delivered a project using Web Dynpro technology
• Implemented EWM put away, replenishment, return and other required functionalities for EWM set up in the manufacturing plants
• Completed start to end EWM configurations such as creating warehouse numbers, storage types, storage bins, resource management, defining handling unit, and additional required and nice to have configurations, etc.
• Implemented a EWM Menu using Radio Frequency in EWM SPRO
• Configured, designed and integrated multiple modules such as FI, MM, PP-PI, purchasing, to implement multiple solutions and assist financial activities during month-end-close
• Helped to create SAP Web service SOAP in SAP & Troubleshot and resolved installation and connectivity of the web service.
• Performed a DATA migration and upgrade. Wrote technical design specifications for custom programs such as various SAP LSMWs (Legacy System Migration Workbench) for master data loads: purchase orders, material masters, tire plants while ensuring the implementation of high quality solutions that support organizational goals and objectives.
• Created users using SU01 and assigned appropriate roles and parameters.
• Coordinated with SAP security to access controls for FICO, MM, and PP-PI for business users.
• Was the conversion team member in charge of conversion load for G/L accounts, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, purchase orders, material masters, Fixed Assets, other master data - utilized existing and new LSMW’s.

Confidential

Lead SAP Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements, designed, configured and performed unit testing and UAT
• Supported QA and provided Post Go-Live support for implementation of MM, SRM 5.0 and 7.0, P2P, Purchase Requisition Workflow, SRM Approval Workflow, SRM 7.0 upgrade, Project Systems, Production Planning, FI-MM, FI-AM, FI-AP and FI-GL.
• Responsible for SRM 5.0 project deliverables and SRM 7.0 upgrade agile projects. Delivered 3+ agile methodology projects.
• As the SAP SRM senior system analyst responsible for gathering requirements, design of SRM enhancements, implementation and configuration, testing and production support for various clients in a multi-tenant SAP SRM Hosted solution.
• Responsible for SAP SRM approval workflow maintenance.
• Performed ongoing workflow design decisions and maintenance.
• Responsible for P2P, SRM, MM, PP, Finance technical solutions before and after implementations.
• Delivered and assigned programs on time, on scope and on budget while maintaining deliverables.
• Responsible for project management support to the business users as liaison between user and technical teams
• Used Web Dynpro technologies to build SRM projects.