PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• More than 7 years of experience as SAP PP functional consultant with MM, QM, SD, PI, FICO integration.
• Implemented 3 full - life cycles, Expertise in implementing ASAP methodology, and Significant experience with involvement in various stages of implementation right from Business Blueprint, Realization, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Cut-Over activity, Go-Live & Production Support. User Acceptance Testing (UAT), User and documentation.
• Involve in Configuration, Up gradation, Customization, Master Data Setup and Data Conversion, As-Is and To-Be designing, GAP analysis,
• Experience in diverse Industrial sectors such as Food and Beverages, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, and Hi-tech and automotive industries.
• Worked in Discrete, Repetitive Manufacturing environments and Process Industries.
• Worked extensively on PP master data such as Material Master, Bill of Materials (BOM), Routing and Work Center.
• Strong Configuration skills on Demand management, SOP, Planning strategies, Lot sizing procedures, MPS and Material -requirement Planning (Safety Stock, ROP and Time Fence) and Production Execution.
• Experienced in design and conceptualization of various planning strategies, Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock, Planning with Final Assembly, Planning without Final Assembly scenarios
• Configured repetitive manufacturing applications such as Production version, Product cost collectors, back flushing and KANBAN.
• Post implementation support for PP with emphasis on MRP, Purchase Orders, Stock Transport Orders, Production Orders and Goods Movement.
• Experienced in Inventory Management, Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Reservations, Movement Types, Stock Transfer order, Sub contracting, Purchase order, goods invoice and Logistics Invoice Verification.
• Knowledge about PI Configuration: Resources, Master Recipes, Batch Management, Classification, SLED, characteristics and Process order.
• Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for new implementation / integration, import data from any other external system to SAP using LSMW, BDC and eCATT Tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 5.0 6.0

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, MAC OS

Management Tools: MS Word, Excel, MS Project, iWork, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, CO

SAP PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in defining project scope for the company and implementation of SAP PP 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
• Configured Master Data, MRP and Production control, SOP and Demand Management.
• Configured Material Master Data including material types, production line, BOM and Repetitive Manufacturing.
• Defined task list selection, scheduling parameters for 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 capacity categories, shift sequence and period pattern keys for estimating available capacity.
• 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.
• Identified system problems and determined resolution options and best opportunity for resolution in High, Medium and Low priority tickets.
• Trained end-users during pre-cutover workshops for new functionality.
• Provided post go live support with continuously improving processes, multiple changes to BOM, Routings, day to day problems in scheduling, product costing, capacity scheduling.
• Assigned Inspection Types to Material Master based on In process inspection or Post process inspection
• Configured quality checks for all goods receipts.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

SAP PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the business in SAP version upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 in the domain on PP-PI, and provided the additional functionality as per the business requirements.
• Identified the test scenarios and amount of testing required, and analyzed the PP-PI configuration settings and customizations (cloned objects).
• Identified the z- transactions that are not being used by the business people for restrict their up-gradation.
• Worked with the technical team to study the custom programs/codes and verify them against SAP release notes and OSS notes.
• Updated configuration for master data, process planning, process order execution based on business needs.
• Set up browser based PI sheet for auto confirmation through barcode.
• Developed upgrade delta document for PP-PI module, reflected the differences in 4.6C and ECC 6.0 in terms of screens.
• Assisted the technical team in SPDD and SPAU phases to determine the changes between the two versions and adopting/resetting to correct one as required.
• Tested end-to-end transactions of PP-PI Master data (material master, batch, production version, resources, and master recipes), SOP, Demand Management, MRP, Process planning, Process orders execution.
• Created unit test scenarios and carried out UAT.
• Tested the background job set up for MRP.
• LSMW was used to upload specific master data and transactional data.
• Conducted sessions for the end users to demonstrate the new functionalities and enhancements added from the upgrade.
• Provide post up-gradation support.

Confidential

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
• 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.
• Trained End-users/Power users, Core Team Members for newly configured systems

Confidential

SAP PP/MM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in defining project scope for the company and implementation of SAP PP 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.
• Worked in Repetitive manufacturing process with back Flush, Rate routing.
• Configured Resource hierarchies, Production versions selection, Operations, Phases, Process order Scheduling types, release, Confirmation, Goods Movement, destinations.
• Configured MRP, Demand Planning & Scheduling Procedures to integrate with Purchasing and Delivery Requirements after detailed consultation with the end user.
• Customizing production-scheduling profile for order type and plant specific details.
• Defining production strategy for the present production scenario.
• Defining available capacity profile. Configured shift sequence and shift definition depending upon factory calendar.
• Maintain plant parameter such as Check rule. MRP controller, production order floats, planned order to process order conversion.
• Defined and executed the Goods receipt, Goods issue (order, cost center), transfers postings, stock transfers (plant to plant, within plant), and inventory management.

Confidential, Lubbock, TX

SAP PP/PI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge about Process Instructions (PI) Sheets, Process Messages in Process Instruction sheets, Control Recipes and Instructions Configured Resource Center categories, Capacity categories, Standard value keys, Control Keys, Shift Sequences, formulas for Resources and Master Recipes.
• Configured Production Scheduling Profile and Scheduling Parameters for production orders
• Defined Control Keys, Confirmation Parameters for various operations and production orders
• Defined and Configured Batch management, batch serial numbers, automatic batch creation and batch classification
• Maintained Make-to-Order; Planning with Final Assembly strategy for various products
• Executed shop floor activities including creation of production orders, availability check, and release of orders, printing shop floor papers, goods issue, goods movement, order confirmations and order settlement.
• Configured Material Master to maintain Quality Management View, Inspection Types as per business Inspection Requirements
• Worked on Periodic Data Transfer from Legacy System into ECC 5.0 using LSMW Tool; Data transfer included mapping fields, reading the spreadsheet files and converting into the target format.

Confidential, NY

SAP PP/MM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created generic SAP PP process flows and Blue-print document with functionalities to be implemented during which several meetings were held with power users for data collection.
• Created a Control Configuration document (CCD) for FENWAL from the inputs received from all the plants (EU, US).
• Worked with the Technical team to map the data to the information structure from the legacy system (JDE).
• Transferred data from legacy system to SAP using LSMW.
• Created custom information structures, maintained parameters as per characteristics and key figures.
• Involved in the creation of Planning Types, Planning Horizon, Offset periods and macros.
• Created update rules for the custom information structure for updating used in Forecasting and Planning.
• Maintained Planning Hierarchy for the Characteristic Value Combinations, aggregation factors and Planning bucket profile for monthly/weekly buckets.
• Maintained statistical forecast profiles as per business blue print. Defined forecast models for time series.
• Maintained Activities for the forecast profiles and the macros created.
• Created variants and scheduling for the various Background Processing jobs like Forecast Run.
• Defined Formula Parameters, Standard Value Key formulas for the work centers.
• Created Rough - Cut profiles to analyze the bottleneck capacity for critical codes.
• Synchronized with individual plants and their Production Execution systems to provide them the constrained flex plan based on the capacity analysis and lead time availability.
• Coordinated with the BI team to develop reports. Provided functional specs and logic to the custom queries.
• Worked on developing test scenarios for PP functionality for Integration testing as per user’s requirements.
• Developed documents for super & end users using RWD InfoPAK.
• Coordinated with Super users & Basis consultant to define roles and identify the required authorizations.
• Involved in GO-LIVE and Production support for smooth transition from implementation to production.
• Responsible for Post Go-Live production support and Knowledge transfer activities.