SUMMARY

• Accomplished professional with 8 years of experience in SAP implementation in the areas of SAP PP/PP - PI/VC modules and their integration with MM, SD, QM & FICO in versions 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC6.0 and have in-depth business process knowledge. Proactive, highly motivated, organized and result oriented with excellent communication and written skills. Area of expertise include
• Two full life cycle implementation experience with ASAP methodology - Scoping, Project Preparation, Business Blue Printing, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live and continuous support.
• Functional experience includes mapping business processes to SAP processes, GAP analysis, AS IS / TO BE reporting, Prototyping, Detailed configuration, Reconfiguration, Training, Cycle Testing, support, mapping legacy data to SAP master data, analyzing report requirements.
• Responsible for IMG configurations and testing in the PP module
• Expertise in complete PP life cycle, Business plan, SOP, Demand Management, MPS, MRP, RCP (rough cut planning),LTP, planned orders, process/production orders, reporting and confirmations.
• Involved in variant configuration by creating characteristics, classes types, alternate and super BOMs.
• Performed single-item single-level/multi-level MRP runs and monitored MRP/Stock requirement list-individual display and collective display.
• Accomplished Variant Configuration architecture with complex manipulations on Objects, Object Dependencies, Configuration Profiles, Variant Tables and Variant Pricing.
• Worked in MM areas of Inventory Management, Purchasing, configuration and creation - Material Master, Info record, Vendors, Stock Transport orders, special stocks like Subcontracting Purchase Orders, Purchase requisitions, Customers and Contracts.
• Expertise in Discrete Manufacturing, Repetitive Manufacturing and Process Industry
• PP/PP-PI Module Configuration - Master Data (Material Master, BOM/Master List, Work Center/Resources/ Production Line, Standard Routing/Master Recipe/Rate Routing, Production Version), Engineering Change management (ECM), Order Change Management, Material Types, Order Types, Order-Type Dependent Parameters.
• Worked on Confirmation Parameters for Process Orders, Production Scheduling Profile, Availability Check, SOP, DM, MPS, MRP, CBP, LTP, MTO, Confidential, and CRP (finite capacity planning, capacity leveling, planning board, Kanban, Lean manufacturing, Repetitive manufacturing and flexible planning with custom information structures.
• Configured plant, Storage Location, and Warehouse. Customize Factory Calendar and Planning Calendar, MRP Controllers, Special Procurement Keys, Scope of Planning, Stock Determination Group, Stock Determination Rule, defined Storage Location for withdrawal of components, defined storage location control. Defined production order printing profile.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Enterprise Software: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0 - PP

Operating system: Linux, UNIX, MS Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access

Software Languages: C, C++, VB, Python, C#

Multimedia: Dream Weaver, Photoshop 7.0

Other Tools: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Middleware

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Canton, OH

SAP PP/PP-PI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Joined Canton, Ohio plant as SAP PP/PP-PI Functional Consultant.
• Assisted in defining project scope for the company and implementation of SAP PP-PI with full life-cycle implementation using ASAP methodology.
• Actively involved in designing AS-IS and To-BE study and documentation.
• Business blue print preparation and defining/mapping the production processes.
• Defining Master data for production- Process Industries (BOM, Master recipe, Resource).
• Worked on different plant locations (Bucyrus, OH; Akron, OH; Carlyle, IL) 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.
• Configured MRP, Demand Planning & Scheduling Procedures to integrate with Purchasing and Delivery Requirements after detailed consultation with the end user.
• Defined process instruction categories, process message categories, and control recipe destinations in Process Instructions sheet.
• Customizing production scheduling profile for order type and plant specific details.
• Defined production strategy for the present production scenario.
• Defined available capacity profile. Configured shift sequence and shift definition depending upon factory calendar.
• Defined and assigning version for available capacity for capacity evaluation.
• Worked on Material Requirement planning (MRP) parameter for Akron, OH and Carlyle, IL plants.
• Maintained plant parameters such as Check rule. MRP controller, production order floats, planned order to process order conversion.
• Defined control key option for process order type
• Configured and executed the shop floor control (SFC) activities including creation of orders, conversion of planned orders, printing of shop papers, goods movements, order confirmations and availability check, scheduling, costing.
• Defined and executed the Goods receipt, Goods issue (order, cost center), transfers postings, stock transfer (plant to plant, within plant), and physical inventory management.
• Created integration models, transferred master and transaction data from SAP R/3 to APO system through the core interface (CIF).
• Created planning areas, planning books with necessary macros to carry out the mid to long-term supply planning.
• Maintained Promotion key figures in promotion planning, created and maintained release profiles and transfer profiles for activities for mass processing.
• Interacted with client’s core team members, end users, team lead.
• Provided the post-go live support for the smooth functioning.

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

SAP PP, VC, MM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as SAP PP Functional Consultant for Full life cycle implementation at Eden Prairie, MN plant location.
• Involved in AS IS, Business Process Analysis, TO BE, Flow Chart documentation and Presentation.
• Involved in developing Business Blue Prints for enhancements, Identified gaps and suggested development works in SAP.
• Implementation of SAP PP - PI module.
• Worked as a member of the configuration team, configured detailed design process for master data, planning functions (SOP, DM, MPS, MRP) and production control functions using SAP Implementation Guide (IMG).
• Created KMAT material and material variants, performed configuration simulation and tested the Variant Configuration materials for MRP.
• Maintained vendor master record and material master record.
• Configured material master records to include work scheduling, MRP and forecasting views.
• Requirements were based on Cary, North Carolina and Eden Prairie, MN plants. Designed manufacturing scenarios in PP - PI for make to stock and make to order strategies.
• Worked extensively with the shop floor activities which included creating the orders, goods movements, operation confirmations and availability check.
• Extensive work with MRP that included customizing MRP parameters, setting up and deciding strategies to be used.
• Helped the MM team with Batch Management for maintaining Batch Characteristics, Created Batches, and Batch Search Strategy.
• Worked on Variant Configuration - Worked on Variant Configuration Scenario including Classification - Created Class, Class types, Characteristics, Characteristics Values, Object Dependencies. Assigned dependencies - preconditions, selection conditions, constraints, actions and procedure - to configuration profile. Maintain Material Master, Create Super BOM and Routing.
• Use of variant table with prime key to reduce the input values in sales order configuration.
• Use of local dependency and global dependency in Variant configuration as per the criterion.
• Use of various object dependencies. Precondition, Selection and Procedures as per the application.
• Prepared documentation describing step - by - step implementation process and configuration procedures for all business processes.
• Creating RFC destinations, Defining and Assigning logical systems for both R/3 and APO system.
• Using Core Interface (CIF) transfer master data from SAP R/3 to SAP APO by creating Integration models, activating, monitoring application log and activate live cache in APO.
• Maintaining the Source system and customizing for extraction and replicate the data source by creating Info source, Info area and Info cubes.
• Coordinated with technical consultants by giving functional specification for customization according to user requirements.
• Conducted end user training and defined roles.
• Coordinated and developed customized reports.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

SAP PP-PI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Confidential, Inc., as SAP PP-PI Functional Consultant for Schaumburg, IL plant.
• Served as a liaison between the client, consumer and the company by answering routine questions and resolving problems to ensure client satisfaction.
• Investigated clients’ inquiries regarding the status of an assigned specialized service.
• Responsible to understand the business process and provide feedback on the same to the technical team for development of reports and layout sets.
• Creation/Checking of functional specifications in the production planning module.
• Authorization related issues and suggested for the required authorizations.
• Performed baseline configuration for system demos in PP-PI, Kanban, and repetitive manufacturing.
• Issue resolution in the PP module.
• Examined various records such as statements, print outs and correspondence with researching problems.
• Developed master planning, demand management and MRP.
• Designed material master data, BOM, work centers and routings.
• Implemented Detailed Scheduling, Evaluation and Leveling to allocate operations to resources Configured PI sheets, process messages and process instructions.
• Worked on Control Recipes simulation in master recipe, control recipe monitoring, Reporting process messages through PI sheet.
• Developed, tested and implemented consumption of planning materials for product groups.
• Responsible for participating in a continuous improvement process plan for other plant locations at Melrose Park, Illinois and Raleigh, North Carolina.
• Defining and assigning logical systems after creating RFC destination in SAP R/3 and SAP APO system and qRFC monitoring to start live cache for transfer the data.
• Transfer of Master data like BOM’s, Work center, PPM (Routings) from SAP R/3 system to SAP APO system by creating Integration models and monitoring application log by using Core Interface (CIF).
• Understanding the degree of complexity of customizing done in all the sub modules including information systems.
• Listing of issues arising out of users day to day transactions and loading them along with resolutions.
• Interaction with users to understand the processes from their perspective and recognize business issues or SAP arising out of these interactions.
• Collect and organize documents related to configurations, end - to - end business processes, SAP scripts, layout sets, user exits, customized transactions, reports, core and end user training documents and required for support.
• Trouble shooting accessing software and equipment problems as needed.
• Post implementation 24/7 support for PP module.

Confidential, San Rafael, CA

SAP PP, MM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with key users for mapping requirements and preparation of detailed as-is and to-be (future state) scenario document
• Assisted in project definition and preparation, 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
• Trained super users and assisted them in preparation of test scripts
• Responsible for customization of Discrete and Repetitive Manufacturing in PP and MM Module according to the business requirements and integration between various modules and MDE and interface with legacy systems such as GSD and MES via Crossworlds.
• Implemented configurations in PP, MM/IM and WM with make to stock and make to order scenarios
• Worked on validation, cleansing and configuration of master data and creation of Master Data including Bill of Materials, Work centers (Production Lines), Routings (Rate Routings) and Production Versions
• Defined and assigned enterprise structure for MM and PP such as purchasing organizations, purchasing groups, plants and storage locations
• Customized new purchase order types, material types, valuation classes and purchasing groups.
• Defined Warehouse House, Storage Types, Storage Section, Bins, Bin Sections and Quants
• Assigned Warehouse to Plant/Storage Location
• Define Putaway and Picking Strategies
• 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
• Configured and executed planning run with technical and business information and processed planned orders, customer schedule lines, vendor schedule lines and MRP (Manufacturing Planning) list evaluations
• 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, and special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues between different plants
• Configured the MRP Profile, scope of planning, activation of plants for MRP run and exclude storage locations from MRP net calculations.
• Carried out configuration unit testing, scenario unit testing and integration testing
• Worked with the superusers in ensuring successful UAT
• Coordinated the SAP/ MES (Manufacturing Execution System) Interface designs.
• Maintain and update various tables and prepare reports using queries
• Creating change controls, COE’s and CTS procedures for configuration change requests
• Transferred knowledge to super users and support consultants

Confidential, Elyria, OH

SAP PP, VC Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Master Data, MRP and Production control, Repetitive Manufacturing, SOP and Demand Management.
• Configured Material Master Data including material types, work centers, BOM and repetitive and discrete manufacturing authorizations
• Defined task list selection, scheduling parameters for Production Orders, Planned orders in capacity requirements planning.
• Defined plant parameters in MRP, defined MRP controller, MRP groups, MRP types, Special procurement, planning calendar, planning horizon, planning time fence, safety stock availability, range of coverage availability profile, procurement proposal.
• Implemented Make-to-stock and Planning-with-final-assembly strategies using entire product definition structure with a combination of variant configurations.
• Defined Work Center categories, capacity categories, shift sequence and period pattern keys for estimating available capacity, work center formula and key for performance efficiency rate for costing.
• Worked on Process design for Material master creation, BOM, Work center, Routing, ECN, MRP (consumption based planning, reorder point planning, Safety stock replenishment & Forecast based planning) and KANBAN which includes the process description and Process flow chart.
• Detailed Functional Design to determine the Functionality gaps in Engineering and Production. Understand the requirement of Reports, Interface, Forms and Enhancement and Preparation of Functional Specifications for RICEF Specifications in Engineering & Production.
• Developed Baseline Configuration by defining Laboratory / Design office, MRP Controllers, MRP Areas, storage location MRP per plant, Scope of planning for total planning, Special Procurement type, settings for Material creation, Product Hierarchy and configure settings and validate baseline.
• Created the Structure of Variant Configuration and maintain Characteristics, Variant Class (300 class type), Configurable Material (YKMT or KMAT), Configuration Profiles for each Configurable Objects, Super BOM, Super Routing and Dependencies, Variant Tables, Classification of Components.
• Developed conversion procedure, application interface procedures to control the drawings, PDC interface procedure to print the shop documents.
• Created, implemented and validated authorization detailed design reports and signoff.
• User Acceptance Testing for Order Confirmation, cancellation of Goods Issue & Goods Receipt with Confidential MTO Production orders, BOM’s, Classes, Characteristics, conversion order creation and release, ECM with BOM, Work Center & Routing, Mass Processing, Production orders Confidential & MTO.
• Transition Management activities like preparing training materials, prepare trainers (super users).
• Configured in-house Make-to-stock orders using materials subject to split valuation and Reporting Point Back flush and designed stages of production line to report back flush.
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing and ensuring consistency of SAP Configuration across the modules.
• Final presentation of the project.

Confidential, Jackson, MS

SAP PP, VC Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the legacy system and worked on Master Data conversion from legacy to SAP using LSMW.
• Liaised with business and Material Management Team in the development of Enterprise Structure, creating plants, storage locations, purchasing organization and Shop Floor design.
• Helped and guided ware house management team and material management team on mapping distribution centers, designing shadow plants, stock allocation and stock transfer.
• Responsible for decision making related to Back flush, auto replenishment, work scheduling, managing inventory at plant and distribution centers, identifying work in progress Stock.
• Setting up with variant configuration.
• Extensively worked on inventory management which includes goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, stock transfers, transfer postings, movement type and cycle counting.
• Worked on Variant Configuration; designing the VC model and Variant Table for both the PP and AFS material and defined the actions and procedures in the Table structure.
• Defined the basic VC product model, characteristics logic, formulating object dependencies, decisions on feasibility and inconsistencies of different parameters.
• Worked with configurable materials and variant configuration maintaining dependencies for BOM items and routing PRTS.
• Worked with SD team, on delivery processing, serial number assignment, sales order pick, condition records and variant pricing.
• Worked on ORISA Add-on MB Tool for systematic maintenance of the entire VC product model and structure.
• Responsible for critical decision making related to configurable material groups, assigning characteristics, configuration profile and resolved issues related to VC Materials.
• Provided expert advice and guidance during unit testing and integration testing.

Confidential, Thomasville, GA

SAP PP Functional SAP

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the business and project team members to evaluate business needs, defining and prioritizing requirements and agreeing process flows and analytical capabilities that align wherever possible with leading practice business processes.
• Created work centers, routings, production versions, Info records, cost centers.
• Configured various objects in Capacity requirements planning like formulas, availability check during order create and release, standard value keys, overall profile, shift sequences, scheduling parameters for planned and production orders, production schedulers and MRP controllers, order type dependent parameters, Production Order confirmation and Scheduling Margin keys
• Wrote function specifications for as per the business requirements for ABAP team.
• Worked in Data Migration using LSMW, BDC.
• Involved in creation of operations and phases in master recipes by defining control keys, relationships between phases and standard values Configured Production Variants using material master formula within recipes.
• Created and configured the Master data including the material master, master recipes and resources. Calculated capacity requirements for resources by using standard values and formula constants.
• Interacted with the Controlling team to solve issues related to costing sheet, activity pricing, work center, activity type and cost center assignment mapping, product cost collectors.
• Created training documentation and trained users.
• Collected Data from users before customizing.