SUMMARY

• Around 9 years of Experience as a PP functional consultant with MM, QM, SD, FICO integration.
• Multiple industry experience - Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Automobile, Chemical and Furniture.
• Expertise in conducting data collection and user training workshops, configuration, implementation and maintenance of PP with working knowledge of MM/QM/SD modules.
• Expertise in requirement Gathering, Documenting-BRD, FSD for RICEF objects.
• Well versed with all phases of ASAP Methodology - AS-IS/TO-BE, Blue Print, Gap Analysis, Go-Live.
• Involved in two full life cycle implementation projects and post implementation support Projects.
• Worked in Discrete, Repetitive Manufacturing environments and Process Industries.
• Expertise with entire cycle of PP from Forecasting, SOP, and Long term Planning, Demand Management, MRP, MPS and Shop floor control and execution activities.
• Strong configuration and implementation experience of PP Master Data, Planning Strategies, Lot sizing procedures, Product Costing, Back flushing, Capacity planning and ECM.
• Experienced in manufacturing and supply chain processes from sales order entry through production to shipment of finished goods.
• Worked in Material management- Inventory Management, Purchasing.
• Worked on Purchase Info records, Vendors account groups, Release strategies, STO’s, Subcontracting Purchase Orders, Consignment, deliveries and Batch Management.
• Worked in Quality Management-Inspection plans, Inspection characteristic, Results recording, Defects recording and Usage decisions in integration with PP and MM modules.
• Participated in Data Migration and Data conversion of Master Data using LSMW, BDC procedures, SCATT for PP & MM modules.
• Used technical objects like BADI and User exits for enhancements and BAPI for interfacing.
• Expert in Unit testing, Integration testing and User-acceptance testing.
• Efficient in trouble shooting problems, providing training and support to end-users.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, analytical, organizational, diagnostic and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

SAP Modules: PP, PP-PI, Working knowledge in MM QM SD

Languages: C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL

MS Packages: MS Excel, Power Point, Access, Word, Visio

Operating system: MSDOS, Windows, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NC

SAP PP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirement gathering, configuration and post production support activities
• Coordinated with project team for requirement definition, system design and development.
• Participated in preparation of Data mapping spreadsheets, data validation from E9 external system
• Worked on developing conversion objects for open production orders and sales orders during cutover
• Involved in both configuration, development and testing of objects as required by the business.
• Interact with BPO’s, Super users & plant managers to indentify and understand various reports used in their day to day activities
• Interact with BPO’s, Super users & Basis consultant to understand & define various Roles & Responsibilities to identify the required authorizations.
• Responsible to convert business requirements into functional specification documents which in turn can be used by development team.
• Involved in writing test cases, plans, and test procedures for manual testing and regression testing.
• Involved in coordinating customer service personal, plant managers and Finance department in testing the end to end business process
• Worked and supported end users for successful completion of UAT testing for developed applications to be sent to production.
• Resolved day-to-day production issues, providing users with training & steps for its resolution and developed detailed reference training manuals.
• Replicated the issues in development client, created transport requests and followed up for approvals into the production system.
• Conducted weekly meetings with the super users and plant managers to gather the requirements and their feedback on addressed requirements
• Trained end-users on process flow, stock/requirements list, planned order conversion and use of reports.

Confidential, MN

SAP PP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for hyper care support for the end users in the areas of Shipping, receiving and production.
• Responsible for training the end users and preparing the job aids and user manuals.
• Worked on production planning, scheduling, production execution, shipping and receiving activities.
• Assisted Master schedulers in scheduling and provided operational solutions in scheduling productions orders and planned orders.
• Worked on issues corresponding to Sales and Operation Planning (SOP).
• Involved in training to clear failed process messages through process management monitor.
• Involved in training the production order goods Issues, goods receipts, reversals and TECO.
• Assisted in WM and IM cycle counting and cleaning of negative stocks using LL01.
• Assisted users in receiving to clear the open transfer requests, unconfirmed transfer orders in a timely manner.
• Assisted in batch splitting and batch creation in inbound processing and prepared User manuals.
• Assisted in outbound and inbound delivery processing and preparing user manuals on the same.

Confidential, WI

SAP PP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the manufacturing and distribution plants in their day to day activities.
• Involved in supporting the activities related to planning, execution and Shop floor control.
• Involved in enhancement of Collective Stock requirements list MD07 screen as per request for US plants and Extended to European Plants.
• Involved in fixing the forecast upload and usage programs for Logility to SAP interface.
• Involved in developing a report to calculate the usage probabilities of characteristics of KMAT materials based on history sales orders.
• Involved in supporting activities related to Long term planning and forecasting and material requirement planning.
• Involved in setting up the planning of a KIT using special procurement type as Phantom assembly.
• Involved in setting up the KMAT materials with object dependencies in the BOM as per the customer requirement.
• Involved in fixing the past due orders reports and custom program to check the production order status during the sales order update.
• Involved in developing the SAP queries for various reports related to PP and MM modules.
• Involved in writing test cases, plans, and test procedures for manual testing.
• Interact with BPO’s, Super users & Basis consultant to understand & define various Roles & Responsibilities to identify the required authorizations.
• Involved in maintaining the functional specification documents and coordinated with technical team for developmental activities.

Confidential, MO

SAP PP-MM-QM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Involved in production support activities in Production Planning and material management modules for all the plants of MEMC around the globe.
• Involved in developments related to Production output plan tool which is used for forecasting the demand for the products and upload into SAP.
• Uploading the forecasted figures and help master schedulers to confirm the forecasted orders.
• Involved in implementing material requirement planning for SPAR and TRAD parts.
• Involved in improving, supporting and testing the activities related to WCS an SAP interface.
• Involved in developing AUTO GR & GI functions in production process in integration with WCS, MES and SAP systems.
• Involved in developing major reports called crystal demand report and build plan report for POP tool and modifying the existing reports as per the user requirement.
• Involved in developing AUTO TECO program to TECO orders based on file sent by WCS system.
• Involved In supporting the shop floor execution activities in integration with Manufacturing Execution systems.
• Involved in improving the performance of MII interface with that of SAP production execution activities.
• Defined and maintained MM enterprise structure for new Sun Edison plants such as purchasing organization, plants, storage locations etc.
• Involved in setting up release strategies, condition records for PO output and activated Batch determination process for few plants.
• Involved in implementing, testing and supporting the subcontracting and stock transport processes for in day to day activities.
• Involved in maintaining the standard texts, PO output forms and background jobs for periodic settlements.
• Involved in setting up the Quality Management process for IPOH and Kuching-Quality info records, Usage decisions, results recording.
• Involved in implementing SAP notes for activating the authorization check based on order types for Plant maintenance (PM) orders.
• Involved in mass updating BOM and creating the vendor master using LSMW and SCATT tools.
• Involved in developing the SAP queries for various reports related to PP and MM modules.
• Involved in writing test cases, plans, and test procedures for manual testing.
• Interact with BPO’s, Super users & Basis consultant to understand & define various Roles & Responsibilities to identify the required authorizations.

Confidential, NC

SAP PP Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Post-Production support and Change management for SAP ECC 6.0 PP module
• Resolved day-to-day production issues & providing users with training & steps for its resolution and developed detailed reference training manuals.
• Responsible for preparing Functional Design Specifications for developing custom Reports, enhancements.
• Worked on implementing user exit to calculate the scrap quantities for each of the production orders based on the production scheduler and Target quantity.
• Developed a process to manage the raw material in cutting and distribution to different production orders.
• Worked on finite scheduling, Rescheduling, Capacity planning - Evaluation and leveling, Profile management, planning of collective orders.
• Worked on work center scheduling report and raw material utilization reports to make work easier for the user.
• Extensively worked on performance Improvement of the transaction CM21 and interacted with SAP AG on the same.
• For routings and work centers customized standard values and parameters, defined control keys, maintained task list types, defined work scheduler/planner group, routing selections.
• Experienced in manufacturing and supply chain processes from sales order entry through production to shipment of finished goods.
• Configured Variant Configuration with planning strategy 25-Maintaining characteristics, classes, and configuration profile.
• Replicated the issues in development client, created transport requests and followed up for approvals into the production system.
• Conducted weekly meeting with the super users and plant managers to gather the requirements and their feedback on addressed requirements
• Trained end-users on process flow, stock/requirements list, planned order conversion report.
• Involved in writing test cases, plans, test procedures for manual and automated testing.
• Executed all the PP transactions during UAT & Regression testing for determining issues.
• Interact with BPO’s, Super users & Basis consultant to understand & define various Roles & Responsibilities to identify the required authorizations.

Confidential, MA

SAP PP-MM Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• As PP functional consultant responsible for full life cycle implementation of SAP PP module.
• Involved in the study of ‘AS IS’ business process and blueprinting ‘to be’ processes with gap analysis and identifying custom development objects during implementation.
• Responsible for preparation of Data mapping spreadsheets, Functional Design Specifications for developing Interfaces, custom Reports, enhancements.
• Worked on setting up SOP and Demand Management in Discrete Manufacturing Environment.
• Configured Work Centers including defining of work center formulas and control keys as required.
• Configured MRP plant parameters, involved in setting up the MRP types, lot sizing procedures and scheduling parameters.
• Configured background jobs for MRP run and activated user exit to facilitate the MRP run for MRP Controller.
• Configured and executed the Shop Floor activities including creation of orders, conversion of planned orders, shop floor papers, goods movements, order confirmations.
• Capacity leveling, Resource Planning,Configuration of Strategy profile, Time profile, Overall profile.
• Prepaired documentation describing step-by-step implementation process and configuration procedures for all business processes.
• Worked on supporting the Interfacing of SAP system with MES systems for Japan production execution activities.
• Worked in integrating and testing the developments done in integration with the SAP shop floor activities and Manufacturing execution systems.
• Master,Vendor Master,Info Records,Source Listand Quota Arrangement.
• Involved in creating and scheduling Purchasing documents -Contracts, Agreements, Invoicing Plans, Release Procedures and Purchasing Document Configuration.
• Involved in variousProcurement processes of creating PR, PO, RFQ,Subcontracting, Third Party, and Consignment.
• Involved in configuration and maintenance of Master Data forMaterial stock and pricing conditions for the vendors.
• Performed Unit Tests forDistribution process, Pricing, Delivery Outputs and Reports.
• Involved in unit testing as well as integration testing on the processes that are configured in PP.
• Involved in validating the system compliance as per FDA 21CFR Part 11 norms.
• Provided post go-live support and trained end users.

Confidential, WI

SAP PP-PI-MM Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creation and configuration of Master Data that includes Master Recipes and Resources, Production Version.
• Responsible for creating Operations and Phases in Master Recipes by defining control keys, relationships between phases and standard values.
• Configured Control Recipe destinations, process messages and process instruction categories
• Created log tables for data entry in PI sheets.
• Designed manufacturing scenarios in PP-PI for make to stock and MAKE to SHIP strategies.
• Configured availability check, production scheduling profile, process order types, and plant parameters, Confirmation parameters.
• Configured the background jobs for MRP run and special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues between different plants.
• Configured and created various standard Material Management documents which include purchasing info record, sourcelists,contracts,schedulingagreements, Account groups for vendors.
• Workedonstocktransportorders, subcontracting procedures, purchasinggroups.
• Performed Inventory Management tasks like goods receipts Reservations, Special Stock Procurement through MIGO transactions.
• Configuring Sap console for Label printing. Defining SAP console system messages and creating IDOC profiles so that inbound and outbound messages address to exact locations.
• Extensive outbound / inbound EDI interface with detailed unit and integration testing.
• Developing test scenarios, writing test cases and performing unit and integration testing.
• Responsible for customization of PP-PI-MM Module according to the business requirements and integration between various modules.
• Prepared documentation for various PP transactions for knowledge transfer and trained end users.