Business Advisor Lead Resume
Riverside, CA
SUMMARY
- 9 + years of functional experience in SAP PP, PP - PI, MM, QM and their integration with, WM, SD and FI/CO modules.
- Good proficiency in business process analysis, gathering business requirements, GAP Analysis, configuration, data migration, testing, Cut - off strategy, go-live and post go-live phase and production support.
- Involved in full life cycle implementations in SAP PP module, good understanding of business - supply chain integration and implementation exposure to other logistics modules.
- Expertise in implementation and configuration of PP, PP-PI, QM and MM modules in SAP R/3 & SAP ECC and coordinated SAP ECC/MII (Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence) design.
- Experience in industrial fields like Pharmaceuticals, Chemical, Manufacturing, Consumer products and Aerospace environments.
- Design and Configuration of SAP PP module for functionality of SOP Forecast, Bill of Material, Work centers, Routings and transactional data like Demand Management, Material Requirement Planning.
- Expertise in design, development and support shop floor execution system (MES) SAP interfaces. Worked on MES systems like Delta V and Solumina.
- Worked on Data Migration using LSMW, Solution Manager and BDC Procedures.
- Implemented various production strategies like Make to Stock, Make to Order.
- Creating and configuration of SAP PP - PI Material master, Master Recipes and Resources. Creation and configuration of control recipe destinations, process instructions and process messages, Active Ingredient Management.
- Expertise in design and development of inbound/outbound interfaces using ALE/IDOC.
- Worked on implementing QM Stability Studies module for Pharmaceutical’s clinical supplies operations (R&D).
- Worked on Batch management: defined characteristics, classes, sort rule, search strategies, condition tables and setting expiration date check.
- Experience in interface error handling and reconciliation.
- Worked in MM areas of Purchasing, Configuration & Creation- Material Master, Vendors, Stock Transport Orders, Long term agreements, Contracts and Subcontracting Purchase Orders
- Highly proficient in coordinating and executing Unit, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Coordinate all relevant test activities within teh scope of project and ensure teh test deliverable were on time and meet quality standards.
- Worked extensively in functional specifications and user exits for custom development
- Prepared documentation for end-user training for PP and MM manufacturing industries, production support and Change Management.
- Excellent communication, good inter personal skills, with teh ability to work in a group.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP Packages: SAP R/4.7, ECC 5.0, 6.0.
SAP Tools: IDOC, LSMW, MII, SAP Tutor.
O/S: WINDOWS 9x/NT 4.0/XP/ 2000/2003/2007 , 2010.
Project Management Tools: ASAP, MS Project, SAP Solution Manager, and SharePoint, HPQC, HPALM, Jira, Service Now, Remedy.
PC Applications: MS Word, MS power point, MS Excel, Visio & SPSS
Programming Languages: C, C++, ABAP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Riverside CA
Business Advisor lead
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Leading SAP Lean transformation team and projects to support company’s Industry 4.0 (smart factory) transformation. Some of teh key projects are Operator assist, LMPC, digitalization of lean tools.
- Leading various corporate and business unit level projects including activities like managing project timelines, coordinating activities between Business and technical teams, system and user accepting testing, training business users and post go - live support.
- Prototyping solutions for business requirement- Skip inspection using dynamic modification rule in QM, Using Parameter TEMPeffectivity to manage Airline/customer specific demand in SAP, Variant configuration setup.
- Work with Data science and analytic team to develop various business dashboard/reports
- As a part of Aero-structure support team, helped business user with their day- day SAP queries and issues.
- Timely resolution of all assigned ticket in Service Now ticketing tool for Supply Chain and Quality area, while maintaining excellent ticket SLA.
- Created training documents for business users from business operations, quality and EDI areas.
- Attended and supported various Business Kaizen and Value stream events as part of continuous improvement initiatives.
- Led and CO-led various UTC AIM (Lean Principles) team events related to employee strategic planning,involvement in continuous improvement and employee engagement.
Confidential, Princeton. NJ
SAP Manufacturing and Quality Consultant.
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Worked on various projects as a part of SAP Manufacturing and quality team.
- MBxx Transaction Remediation Project:
- Due to teh action of SAP to obsolete teh MBxx transactions, BMS has initiated a project to remediating all interfaces which using MBxx transaction for goods movement posting.
- Participated and worked to remediate all SAP manufacturing area interfaces like SAP and Delta V interface.
- Worked with technical team to identify all teh interfaces using these obsolete transactions.
- Developed Functional design spec. for SAP - Delta V interface to switch to new IDOC type and modify user-exit.
- Participated in Unit, Regression and UAT testing.
- Supplier Audit Management Tool is a custom SAP web based application used by BMS to perform and manage audits of their vendors. This application is upgraded time to time as per business requirement.
- Participated and worked on major upgrade of this application in 2016.
- Worked on project documentations like Requirement specifications, Functional designs extensions, Traceability matrix and test summary report.
- Participated in System and UAT testing.
- Configured custom SAP archiving object for z-table data archiving.
- Worked on functional specs and solution design documents and worked with technical team to develop write, delete and read programs.
- Participated in System testing.
- BMS Composite label use date reports display teh overview of finished kit batches with their components batches based on various selection criteria and exclusions. These programs list patient kits with use date (SLED) data to be used for extension labelling, product recall and clinical management.
- Participated in workshops with business for requirement gathering.
- Worked on Functional design extension document to update it with new requirements.
- Participated in System and UAT testing.
- Also worked on various business initiative like FAST UAT methodology, Real time consumption posting for Subcontracting POs, Window 10 upgrade impact assessment and testing, SAP Fiori and S4 Hana workshops.
Confidential, New Brunswick. NJ
SAP PP-PI/MM/WM Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Worked on SAP and no SAP issues as part of production support for Global supply chain operation groups including Drug supply Management, Packaging and Label, Logistics, GQRC and Materials Managements
- Implemented QM Stability Studies module for CSO Stability group, manages activities like Business requirement and scope documentation, timeline and project deliverables, helping validation team with documentation, UAT script writing and supporting testing activities and post go live support.
- Coordinated Annual SAP Support pack UAT activities, including scripts writing, UAT execution support to users, SAP-external system interface testing, defect resolution using HPQC and HPALM.
- Worked on many small and capital CSO projects including Process Weaver implementation for logistics, Batch Listing for Drug supply management, Eclipse, Scripts with activities including working with business to prepare requirement documents, UAT script writing and execution, post go live support.
- Participated and contributed in various Kaizen Events as part of constant Business improvement activities.
- Worked on SAP PP-PI Recipe management, PI sheet configuration, PI sheet execution.
- Master data maintenance using SAP Engineering change management.
- Worked extensively in WM activities like PP-WM interface, WM configuration changes, RF transaction for warehouse operation, annual physical inventory counts.
- Supported end to end sales order management system for clinical trials, which includes RIVRS (Ordering system) and SAP (transaction processing system).
- Supporting teh integration of API manufacturing system (Delta V) with SAP
Confidential, Bethlehem, PA
SAP PP-PI/MM Consultant (Implementation & Support)
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Assisted in Implementing SAP CPG best practice package in two plants (Bethlehem and Philadelphia) of client Confidential .
- Responsible for cleansing, configuration and creation of master data including Bill of Materials, Resources, Resource hierarchy and Master Recipes.
- Configuring standard value keys, control keys, formulas, and production supply areas for new resources as a part of master data set up.
- Defined capacity requirements for resources by using standard values and formula constants.
- Configured reason of variance codes for scrap and rework and client specific unit of measures.
- Configured key date for reorganizing Planned Independent requirements and period split for staggered period split of PIRs.
- Responsible for Sales and operation planning using teh trend, seasonal trend and automatic forecast model and configuring forecasting profile, planning activity and macros. Uploading historical sales data to material master and copy historical data from obsolete materials to new materials.
- Worked with Sojourner software to get teh Broker’s forecast and compared it with SAP forecast to get teh exact demand for next month.
- Batch Management and batch classification. Use of Batch search strategy, sort rule Created Characteristics, Classes and maintained Batch Management for Materials. Similarly prepared functional specifications for technical Consultants.
- Configured teh background jobs for MRP run, TECO process orders and special procurement keys to take care of teh planning and production issues between different plants.
- Coordinated teh SAP ECC/MII Integration design for various shop floor operations.
- Configured Material types, material groups according to user business requirements, Configured factory calendar and shift sequence.
- Customized MRP controllers, Production scheduler, Process order types, and Batch creation rules.
- Uploaded master data like BOM, master recipe and resources using LSMW and BDC.
- Performed data extraction from legacy system cleaned data with Business team (Key users).
- Worked on capacity leveling both in graphical and tubular to dispatch operations from overloaded work centers.
- Involved in setting demand management functions and MRP parameters like re-scheduling horizon, safety stock.
- Presented recommendation of alternatives to business analysts based on best practices and standard SAP functionality.
- Developed Functional specs for traveler’s ticket printing, pallet tag printing, customized pick list, shop schedule, case count and PP Stock reports.
- Carried out Global configuration unit testing, scenario unit testing and integration testing.
- Worked with teh Super-users in ensuring successful UAT.
- Replicated teh issues in development client, created transport requests and followed up for approvals into teh production system.
- Maintain and update various Z-tables and prepare reports using infoset and SQVI queries
- Prepared training documents and developing work instruction documents (BPP’s) for various PP transactions.
- Involved with data setup for simulation of Go-Live and participate in preparation for Go-Live activities.
- Worked with Basis team for determining security and access issues for roles and authorizations.
- Provided production support during and post go-live.
Confidential
SAP PP/MM Trainee
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7
Responsibilities:
- Trained in configuring Master Data, BOM, Resources, Recipe, Production Version and PRT’s for teh PP module.
- Participated in technical and design meetings.
- Learnt various configuration settings like Master data( BOM, Work Center, Routing)
- Worked on SOP like creation of info structure, planning hierarchies, Planning Types, Macros.
- Configured settings for stock transfer orders, transfer postings and control parameters for transfer requirements.
- Configured strategy types, stock transfer parameters for storage locations, goods movement, operation confirmation & availability checks.
- Configured routing determination, MRP plant parameters, MRP groups, MRP types, lot size calculation, planned orders.
- Configured availability check, Production scheduling profile, Production Order Types and Automatic Purchase Requisitions from MRP and Goods Movements.
- Trained in sales and operation planning, demand management, capacity planning, MRP run.
- Reconciled goods movement processing, goods issue and goods receipts.
- Assisted in formulating test scenarios like Unit Testing, Integration Testing, developed test scripts.
