SUMMARY

• Worked extensively over 7 years in SAP in production planning and shop floor, discrete manufacturing and repetitive manufacturing environment. Skilled in Classification, batch management, ECM and other logistic execution functions.
• Executed Shop Floor Capacity Planning over 3 years including, Availability Check, Release of Orders, and Printing Shop - floor Papers, Goods issue, Goods movement, Order confirmations and Order settlement.
• Completed three full life cycle implementations, support and upgrade in functional areas including PP, PP-PI, MM, QM, SD.
• Expertise in implementation and configuration of PP & MM modules in SAP ECC.
• Experience in diverse industrial sectors- Food and Beverages, Pharmaceutical, Oil/gas industry and Automotive industries.
• Worked on business processes like Make-to-stock, Make-to-order, Engineer-to-order, Variant configuration, integration with Sales and Distribution, Product costing etc.,
• Experience in creating and configuring and maintaining Bill of Materials, Resource, Work centres, Routings, Recipes, and Process Management.
• CorestrengthsareResources/WorkCentre,Process/ProductionOrders,MasterRecipe/Routing, Order Execution, Scheduling, Back flushing, Capacity/Demand Planning, Demand Management, Process Instruction Sheets Etc.
• SAP PP expertise in Master Data, Business Plan, SOP, demand management, MPS, MRP, RCP (rough cut planning), LTP (Long-term Planning), planned orders, process/production orders, confirmation, shop floor control, product costing.
• Proficient in Sales Operation Planning. Capacity Evaluations and Capacity Planning.
• Material Management expertise includes purchasing, inventory management, configuration and creation - Material Master, Info record, Vendors, Stock Transport orders, special stocks like Subcontracting Purchase Orders, Purchase requisitions, Customers, Contracts, and invoice verification.
• Implemented Capacity Planning and capacity levelling for work centres
• Created and modified functional specification and coordinated with programmers for customization according to user requirements.
• Excellent communication, inter personal, presentation and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP systems: SAP ECC 6.0 PP, MM, Integration with QM.

SAP: PP, QM, MM, PP-PI, SD.

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

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

MS Office: Word, Excel, Power point, Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sulligent, AL

SAP PP/QM/SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirement gathering from power users from PRMS (legacy system) and writing Functional specifications for RICEF objects.
• Custom Reports on Sales open order layouts involving projected dollar value inventory
• Following up with ABAP team for development
• Configuring custom order types Production Order types, Planning strategies and confirmation control keys.
• Configured, Designed and Implemented Catalogues, Inspection Characteristics, Inspection Methods, Sample Determination, QM-Specific Data in Material Master and Dynamic Modification Rules
• Worked on Quality notifications, Quality inspection objects.
• Worked on ZEBRA printing labels and Smart forms.
• Worked on Shipment labels and bill of lading.
• Expert in Custom reports enhancements and interfaces.
• Designed Event driven KANBAN PP integration with warehouse management (WM), stock posting, transfer order and custom table updates with RF transactions.
• Worked on pre validation for master data, BOM, Routing loads and conversion programme loading with LSMW.
• Designed labour bar code and labour inspection tickets with production order transaction data involving RF gun.
• Worked on reports involving SD integration and functional testing.
• Integration testing with MM/SD/FICO such as Procure to Pay, Demand to fulfilment, Order to cash scenarios involving SD integration
• Functional testing for all RICEF objects.
• Designed reports and interfaces involving Long Term Planning scenarios and Demand Management.
• Quality notification master data and printing zebra smart froms.

Confidential, Racine, WI.

SAP PP/MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, configuration, and implementation of the SAP Production Planning, Discrete manufacturing, Capacity planning and Support to key users of subsidiaries and customer base including US, China, Mexico, Romania, India and other JIT factories across the world.
• Implemented and Configured the Quality inspection for goods movement - responsible to create lot with respect to goods movement
• Implemented Make-to-stock and Planning-with-final-assembly strategies using entire product definition structure with a combination of variant configurations.
• Liaised with client business process owners and identified strategic business requirements.
• Visited different client locations all over the US for requirement gathering.
• Worked on Capacity Planning & Management for maintaining material stock for production orders.
• Understood the Clients, company codes, plants, and storage locations under the organization structure.
• Designed the business blue print document for the TO-BE process.
• Developed a conceptual design for the QM functionality and worked on the integration of QM module with PP.
• Performed Gap Analysis, and developed customization settings for PP, MM & QM business processes.
• Worked on PP Master Data, creation of BOMs, Work centres, Standard values & Activity type, Routing, and MRP functionality and execution.
• Worked on both Make to order and Make to stock strategies.
• 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 MRP parameters, control keys, scheduling formulas, special procurement type keys, schedule margin key and strategy group. Defined MRP Types, MRP Controllers, Planning strategies, lot sizing procedures, and Alternative Determination for MRP.
• Involved in configuration of Enterprise Structure which includes creation of plant, storage locations, control areas, and purchase organizations. Configured Vendor Master, Info Record, MM Source List. Worked on Stock Transport Orders, Subcontracting, External processing, Purchase Orders, and Purchase Requisitions.
• Performed functional specifications for development of all SAP PP reports.
• Trained end-users on process flow, stock/requirements list, planned order conversion, use of various movement types for different purposes.
• Worked on Quality Notifications including Corrective Action and Customer Complaints.
• Expertise in System testing, Unit testing and FAT test for enhancement and break/fix.
• Integration testing and expertise in developing test plans, test cases/scenarios, test procedures and analysing test results.
• Interacted with Technical team and developed standard & customized reports.
• Provided expert services, training and go-live assistance to end users in the Production Planning, Quality Management and Material Management.
• Extensive experience in testing the business process in ECC 6.0 module.
• Co-ordinate with other internal support management teams.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA.

SAP PP/MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on customization settings for PP Master Data, BOM, Routings and Work Centres.
• 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.
• 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
• 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 PP/MM 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.
• 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 clean up and converting BOMs, Work Centres, 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, Fountain Valley, CA

SAP PP-MM 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 updates 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 training 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.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP PP/MM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• Configured in-house Make-to-stock orders using materials subject to split valuation and Reporting Point Backflush and designed stages of production line to report backflush.
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing and ensuring consistency of SAP Configuration across the modules.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP PP-PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in Configuration and data collection templates for Material Master, Bill of Material, Resources and Master Recipes with validation rules.
• Assisted in legacy system transfer of master data through LSMW
• Analyzed the concept of MRP run for different MRP procedures and quota arrangements were utilized for splitting the requirements against in-house/subcontracting.
• Configured process instructions, process messages and control recipe destinations to ensure interface functionality and to meet all production reporting requirements via the SAP PI-sheet.
• Resolved issues on inventory batch handling; stock types, searching for a batch, batch selection for goods issue and transfer posting of batches.
• Maintained process order batch search strategy; modified sort rule and selection criteria for automatic batch determination.
• Reviewed sales forecast with product managers to assess long term production plans.
• Responsible for planning, executing data conversion and data transfer activity
• Developed new Batch Tickets and Pick list reports for Confidential .
• Validating the data for correctness and completeness and troubleshooting errors.
• Responsible for verifying the data conversion tools and data transfer tools.
• Coordinating testing and data migration activities with onsite and offshore
• Responsible for reporting periodic status to the business process owners

Confidential 

SAP PP-PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for handling SAP issues based on SLA with the client.
• Managing Maintenance & Support for Great Lakes.
• Provided on call application monitoring production incidents support like responding to issues and queries from end users, monitoring of batch jobs etc.
• Analyzed and solved complex system problems as part of the overall SAP PP-PI support process.
• Provided functional specifications for new developments to ABAP team
• Worked on PP-PI related assignments in order to organize all aspects of the work; including, coordination of testing and worked with IT Quality group and working with business counterparts.
• Addressing new requirements of the client for improving Business Processes
• Additional master data- verification before client uploads the same in SAP system
• Develop training materials and conduct user training on new functionalities developed
• Provide SAP support to conduct critical transactions under running MRP, returning merchandise, maintaining stock levels and transferring stocks between inter-companies
• Liaison between business and technical team during all phases of testing (Product, Integration and UAT)