SUMMARY

• Around 9+ years of professional experience as a Functional Consultant in SAP PP module with their integration with MM and QM modules in various faces of SAP implementation, Go - Live and Production support.
• Successfully completed 2 full life-cycle implementation projects besides extensive background in production support and upgrade of PP, MM and QM modules in Versions 4.6c, 4.7 & ECC 6.0
• SAP consulting experience across different industry sectors such as automotive, machine and equipment manufacturing, Chemical Industry.
• Experience covers all aspects of the implementation process including business process analysis, requirements gathering, design, complete system configuration, testing, end-user training, and production support.
• Well versed with usage of ASAP methodology for the structured and systematic SAP project implementation.
• Good knowledge of Project implementation that includes AS-IS and TO-BE processes, gap document, Process Definition Document (PDD), Organization Definition Document (ODD), configuration, Functional Specs Preparation, unit testing, integration testing and User-acceptance testing.
• Expertise in setting up intercompany process and generating stock transport purchase orders and configuring delivery.
• Involved in activities like Project Preparation, Requirements Gathering, Business Blueprint, realization, testing and Gap analysis, Functional Specifications for RICEF conversion programs and Documentation.
• Expert in data migration from legacy system to SAP system through LSMW.
• Configured repetitive manufacturing applications such as production version, product cost collectors, back flushing and Kanban.
• Good knowledge of Inspection Plan (IP), Master Inspection Characteristics (MIC), Inspection Methods, Inspection Lots, Dynamic Modification rule (DMR), Sampling Methods, Inspection Types and sources, Result and defects recording, routings, usage decisions (UD), quality notification.
• PP Module (Production General): Master data (Material Master, BOM, Work Center, Routing, Rate Routing, Production Versions), MRP, MPS, Planned Order, Production Order, Work Scheduling, Capacity Planning, Scenarios on Make to Order, Make to Stock, Planning Strategies ( 10, 11,20,25,40,50,70), Demand Management, SOP Flexible Planning.
• MM Module Configuration: Material Master, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Vendor Scheduling Agreement, Stock Transport Order, Purchasing Groups, Info Records, Vendor, Source List, Movement Types (GR, GI, Transfer Posting), Batch Management, Stock Determination, Stock Transfer Order, Sub Contracting.
• QM Module Configuration: Material Master Data, Quality Inspection Characteristics (MIC), Quality Inspection Plan, Quality Info Record for vendor and customer, Sampling Methods, Inspection Methods, Quality Certificates and notifications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP systems: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

SAP: PP, PP-PI, MM, QM

SAP related Tools: SAP Solution Manager, LSMW and HP Quality Center.

Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 98/XP/Vista/7.0, Mac, Linux

Databases: My-SQL, Oracle 9i/10g, MS Access

MS Office: Word, Excel, Power point, Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Juno Beach, FL

SAP QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of the core implementation team involves configuring and testing the PP module using ASAP methodology.
• QM Integration with Materials Management, Production Planning, Sales and Distribution, Plant Maintenance
• Being a PP Functional Consultant, designed SAP PP process flow, conducted demo for core team members, collected Question & Answer Database and actively participated in meetings with them.
• Based on users’ requirements, prepared the “As-Is” document and developed a “To-Be” process for master data for various production strategies.
• Interacted with core team members and plant managers to perform Gap Analysis based on As-Is study reports.
• Successfully carried out integration with Materials Management (MM), Quality Management (QM), Sales and Distribution (SD).
• Strong Cross Functional Experience with integration of Quality Management (QM) with Production Planning (PP) and Material Management (MM) functionalities.
• Created and data ware house CDS view on S/4 HANA for AP reporting.
• Configured Material Master, BOM, Routing and Work Center for the old and new equipment’s in large volume in Discrete Manufacturing environment
• Extensively worked on Production Order Creation, Release, Availability Check, Confirmation of orders, Automatic Goods Receipt and Goods Issue
• Configured Production Scheduling Profile and Scheduling Parameters for production orders
• Defined Control Keys, Confirmation Parameters for various operations and production orders
• Maintained Make-to-Order; Planning with Final Assembly strategy for various products
• Configured Plant Parameters for Materials Requirement Planning such as MRP groups, MRP controller, MRP types, Planning Horizon, Lot-sizing Procedure, and availability check for components.
• SAP S/4 HANA 1709 On-premise implementation using Activate Methodology.
• Demonstrated SAP S/4 HANA 1709 Best Practices in Sales and Order Management to a large team of business users, global and regional process owners, COE and SME’s.
• Configured and executed the Shop Floor Activities based on User which included release of Production Order and Printing of Shop Floor Documents.
• Defined Storage Type and assigned Movement Type to Storage Type.
• Worked on Periodic Data Transfer from Legacy System into SAP R/3 using LSMW Tool; Data transfer included mapping fields, reading the spreadsheet files and converting into the target format.
• Trained End-users/Power users, Core Team Members for newly configured systems
• Involved in troubleshooting configuration issues and providing support to the end users.
• Worked on Functional Specification document for customized enhancements
• Worked on Manual and Automated testing. Worked on Mercury Quality Center and QTP for testing. Worked on Unit testing and Integration testing
• Develop end-to-end integrated process test scripts and fix the failed test scenarios.

Confidential, Carson, CA

SAP PP/MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on customization settings for PP Master Data, BOM, Routings and Work Centers.
• Customized MRP settings, process order types, scheduling formulas, capacity formulas, Order processing and Order costing.
• Customized and configured Production Order types, Planning strategies and confirmation control keys.
• QM Module Configuration: Material Master Data, Quality Inspection Characteristics (MIC), Quality Inspection Plan, Quality Info Record for vendor and customer, Sampling Methods, Inspection Methods, Quality Certificates and notifications.
• Configured Repetitive manufacturing functions such as REM profile, planning table, Product cost collectors and back flushing.
• Configured Variants for BOM and Multi-level BOM.
• Maintained PIR by transferring data from SOP.
• Created planning scenarios and analysis structures as required in conjunction with creating new materials and bill of materials (BOM's) to support process requirements
• Worked on Demand Planning & Management for maintaining material stock for production orders.
• Developed functional specifications for modification of Production Order List program.
• Extensively worked with Shop Floor Control activities and particularly with all phases in this Make - to - Order scenario.
• Re - Configured the Planning Horizon and finalized the MRP Parameters and Processing Keys appropriate for the business.
• Enhanced the performance of various reports and MRP runs and certain batch jobs.
• Involved in configuration and maintenance of Master Data for Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, Source List and Quota Arrangement for Master Data Management.
• Involved in creating and scheduling Purchasing documents - Contracts, Agreements, Invoicing Plans, Release Procedures and Purchasing Document Configuration.
• Involved in various Procurement processes of creating PR, PO, RFQ, Subcontracting, Third Party, and Consignment.
• Worked on goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfer, transfer postings and goods receipt for blocked stock.
• Train users in new functionality, write documentation to support the system processes. Design & development of end-to-end business processes within the company.
• Provided daily production support to end-user community for SAP PP and MM.
• Involved in unit testing and integration testing.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

SAP MM - PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As PP functional consultant involved in understanding ‘as is’ process and blueprinting ‘to be’ processes with gap analysis and identifying custom development objects.
• Gathered system requirements for MRP/Planning to utilize planning time fence to more closely adhere to production schedules.
• Map out the requirements into SAP S/4 Processes and design the solutions.
• Worked with both discrete manufacturing as well as repetitive manufacturing with make-to stock and make-to-order environment. Configured planning without final assembly (make-to-stock), and with final assembly strategy (make-to-order) for finished parts.
• Developed and configured pull list based event driven kanban process through MF60 and automate adjustment of kanban quantity based on the backflush job.
• Worked extensively in Designing and developing SAP based solution to interface with shop floor MES system. Enabled automatic confirmation process, good receipts and maintenance for customer service.
• Assisted in data cleanup and converting BOMs, Work Centers, Routings and other characteristics.
• Developed functional specifications for modification of Production Order List program.
• Worked on Master Data management like Material Master, Vendor master and purchase info records. Also worked on configuration of master data according to client needs.
• Configured Batch Management - Batch Determination, Classification, defined characteristics & Batch Strategies.
• Worked extensively on vendor evaluation and special procurement types such as Consignment, Subcontracting, Third Party and Stock Transfer.
• Worked on the whole Procure to Pay Cycle (P2P) from creation of Requisition to Invoice verification.
• Worked with goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfers and invoice verification.
• Configured the Pricing procedure and Release procedure for various purchasing documents including Purchase Orders according to the business process.
• Worked on SAP IDOCS & IDOCS processing.
• Developed customized documents, user manuals and troubleshooting guides for clients use.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP PP-PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Designed manufacturing scenarios in PP-PI for Make-To-Stock and Make-To-Order strategies.
• Implemented collective conversion of planned orders of different material components under MRP area or controller.
• Cleaned and Configured the Master data including the material master, master recipes and resources.
• Assisted in development of a report to display planned orders with more data selection options (plant, MRP controller, material and planned order date).
• Extensive work with SOP, demand management, production control and goods movement functionality within SAP.
• Successfully carried out integration with Materials Management (MM), Quality Management (QM), Sales and Distribution (SD).
• Used the information from the demand program to maintain the master plan for the actual production process.
• Successfully developed training material, training exercises and provided individual and group training sessions to the end users.
• Configured MRP types, process order types, designed batch creation rules.
• Conducted MRP planning methods such as total planning at plant level, Single-item Multi-level, Single-item Single-level.
• Successfully created and adjusted customer invoices reversal of A/R documents, creation of credit memos trained business users on these processes.
• IMG configuration for product costing and work centers.
• Designed system settings for Inventory Management and Invoice Verification transactions for automatic postings to G/L accounts.
• Created planned orders, converted planned orders into process orders constantly reviewed MRP/Stock requirement list to ensure proper working of all the functionalities.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

SAP PP/PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Studied about the Functional process of new release on ECC 6.0.
• Worked on the Upgrade of SAP from 4.7 to ECC 6.0 for the PP-PI Master data.
• Implemented ASAP Upgrade Methodology for existing 4.7 and successfully upgraded to ECC 5.0.
• Configured Master Data, List of Ingredients, Resources, Master Recipes, Control Destination, Process Instructions.
• Assignment of Process Instructions to Destination, define Destination in Operations of Master Recipes, Phases.
• Configuration of Planned Order/ Process Order, Process Confirmation, Process Control System (PCS).
• Configuration of Bi-Products, Control Recipes and Batch Classification.
• Goods issue and receipt postings, time ticket confirmation of phases using process messages to the corresponding message destinations.
• Accessing ABAP List-Based PI Sheets, Displaying Notes and data to be reported in ABAP List-Based PI Sheets
• Configuration of Browser based PI sheet for auto confirmation through barcode, goods issue, and correction of errors in goods movement, results recording.
• Developing functional specifications for process order reporting, Batch tickets, forms, user exit for batch numbering, uploading programs etc.
• Trained users on process flow, MRP Run and stock/requirements list usage.
• Trained users in configuration aspects of PP-PI module of SAP in the areas of List of Ingredients, Resources, Master Recipes, Control Destination, Process Instructions, SOP, Demand Management, MRP and Process Order Scheduling.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed AS-IS/TO-BE study with core team members and presented reports after completing GAP analysis
• Developed Flow Chart documentations including different business scenarios.
• Configured Material Master, BOM, Routing and Work Center for the old and new equipment in large volume Discrete Manufacturing environment.
• Extensively worked on Production Order Creation, Release, Availability Check, Confirmation of orders, Automatic Goods Receipt and Goods Issue
• Configured Production Scheduling Profile and Scheduling Parameters for production orders
• Defined Control Keys, Confirmation Parameters for various operations and production orders
• Maintained Make-to-Order; Planning with Final Assembly strategy for various products
• Configured Plant Parameters for Materials Requirement Planning such as MRP groups, MRP controller, MRP types, Planning Horizon, Lot-sizing Procedure, and availability check for components
• Configured and executed the Shop Floor Activities based on User which included release of Production Order and Printing of Shop Floor Documents. (Time Ticket/ Pick Ticket)
• Worked on Display Filters for Stock Requirement List and MRP list.
• Defined Storage Type and assigned Movement Type to Storage Type.
• Maintained Control Cycle Record with respect to material, plant and supply area
• Configured Material Master to maintain Quality Management View, Inspection Types as per business Inspection Requirements
• Assisted in shop floor activities like Capacity Planning and availability check.
• Configured Inspection Lot, Quality Info Record, Inspection Plan, Master Inspection Characteristic and Sampling Procedure per business requirements.
• Defined Inspection Checkpoints, Inspection Lots and maintained Inspection results (QM).
• Worked on Periodic Data Transfer from Legacy System into SAP R/3 using LSMW Tool; Data transfer included mapping fields, reading the spreadsheet files and converting into the target format.
• Trained End-users/Power users, Core Team Members for newly configured systems

Confidential 

SAP PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the MRP, Forecasting and Work scheduling views in the material master.
• Created master data such as bill of materials, routings and work centers based on the business requirements.
• Defined standard value keys and parameters in configuration as per user requirements
• Customized the task list usage keys as required by the user
• Was involved in customizing SOP functionalities and transferring plan to demand management.
• Defined the MRP controllers, missing parts MRP controller
• Implemented repetitive manufacturing as per the requirements.
• Configured repetitive manufacturing functions such as REM profile, planning table, product cost collectors and back flushing.
• Used the net requirements planning strategy and transferred data to demand management.
• Was involved in training the users extensively and providing support after implementation of the project.