SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience in SAP Logistics as a PP/PP - PI, MII functional consultant with touch points in MM, QM.
• Configuration enhancement skills in SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0
• Three full life cycles implementations, with strong configuration and functional skill in SAP PP/PP-PI
• Functional integration points of PP and PP-PI with MM and QM
• Worked on MTS (Make-to-Stock), MTO (Make-to-Order), Make-to-Order for Configurable Material, Stock Requirement/ MRP Lists, variant configuration, super BOMs, phantom items
• Integrated PP, PP-PI with MM in goods movement, back flushing, automatic goods receipt, STO process, reservations, production order, planning, purchase requisition, MRP process, sub-contracting, external operations, and operational outsourcing
• Configured and evaluated the cost centers, mapping with work centers, carried out product costing for different materials including semi-finished, finished, co-products etc
• Expertise in batch management, batch classification and back flush to issue materials
• Worked in discrete manufacturing, production process industry (PP-PI) and repetitive manufacturing Environment
• Knowledge in Data Migration of Master Data using LSMW
• Configuration of PP MRP processes, production orders, process orders, repetitive manufacturing, variant configuration, classification, batch management, capacity planning, demand management
• Expertise in setting up PP master data, MRP, BOMs, routings, work centers/ resources, planned order management, planning and optimization
• Expertise in configuration of process industry solutions, handling recipe management, resources, resource networks, order type configurations, recipe management, designing PI sheets
• Involved in activities like Production Master Data Conversion from Legacy to SAP using LSMW, BDC
• Experience of all the phases of the full life cycle project implementation, gathering business requirement, business blue printing, realization, unit testing, integration testing, Go - Live preparation and Post Production support
• Strong team player with excellent analytical, interpersonal and organizational skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3-MM and PP, PP-PI, MII modules

Industries: Discrete, Repetitive, Process, Manufacturing Industries

SQL Server Tools: SQL Server Management Studio, SSIS, SSAS

Databases: MS-SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005/2008, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP, Windows NT, MS DOS

PC Applications: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and Visio Tools

Project Management Tools: ASAP, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, East Peoria, IL

SAP PP/ MII Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided 24/7 Level 2 support for the MII application (12.2) across various plants located at East Peoria, Little Rock, Victoria, Winston Salem.
• Worked in creating few SAP custom status and transaction to have a control on the flow of data from ECC to MII
• Worked actively on the integration of MII application with ECC, VPP (Virtual Process Planning), MES, ASRS and SAP ME.
• Worked with the Legacy teams VPP (Virtual Process Planning) and MES (Manufacturing Execution System) for various issues like setting up the web service call in order to send production orders to MES
• Conducted the GAP analysis on the business process and worked on the MGPP’s starting from design all the way till testing
• Helping the developers in understanding the business requirement and also providing knowledge on the legacy systems while working on the MGPP’s
• Worked with the developers to setup partner profiles in order to send production order, material master and classification IDOCs to MII from ECC.
• Worked with the Basis team to setup RFC destinations, Logical system and distribution model in order to send production order, material master and classification IDOCs to MII from ECC.
• Worked with the basis team in setting up the UME/LDAP roles
• Worked on setting up the default production order user status to decide whether to send the production order upon creation to MES or not
• Conducted the GAP analysis and created GAP documents to address the issues which are not in the current design and the source for the MGPP to work on these enhancements
• Worked on creating test scripts; data sheets and execution of the FUT, SIT, SVT, UAT and Regression test scripts when necessary.
• Worked with the SAP ME (Manufacturing execution) team for the integration of SAP ME with SAP ECC.
• High level and detailed process Documentation; Mapping documents; high level and detailed testing documentation for the integration of the SAP Manufacturing Execution (ME) system with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
• Trained the end users on the use of the MII application as a part of UAT and providing them with documentation
• Involved in documenting the detailed business procedure for production execution.
• Highly involved in documenting the interface definition documents to integration ECC to Legacy MES.
• Worked on creating Business Process Procedures using On Demand software.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

SAP PPPI/ xMII Consultant

Responsibilities:

• 24/7 L2 Production Support for the ECC and MII application (12.0.12) across plants located in France, Singapore, Brazil and USA and resolving the issues related to the process like Transfers (MM), Unloads (MM), Manufacturing (PPPI), Blending(PPPI), Drumming (PPPI), Loads(SD)
• Worked on few configurations changes on the ECC for the modules MM, PPPI, like creating the Movement types, Equipment and DCS Recipes, Master Recipes and Production versions SAP Recipe Characteristics, Storage Location Configuration, Material Master Setup and Production Order types and PI sheets
• Involved in testing of the functional modules which are the base for the ECC and MII integration
• Gained knowledge on the xMII and its integration with the ECC and the shop floor system’s like DCS, SCADA, Wonder ware and Star LIMS
• Gathered requirements from the Power Users and other business leads for the Manufacturing and Blending, Unloads and Loads process.
• Prepared the Functional Specification documents and conducted sessions for the Development team to make them understand the Business and requirements
• Implementation of the processes Manufacturing, Blending and Loads process and provided the business with the solution to enhance their user training
• Provided a solution to the business for the LOADs process area by name PARK solution in order for the business to track the inventory movement during the loads process
• Part of Mission Control team which provided the Go-Live support for Manufacturing and Blending
• Gained knowledge on the shop floor systems like DCS, SCADA, Wonder Ware, PHD systems.
• Actively involved in the Integration, Functional and UAT testing
• Worked on the ITSM tool Remedy which is used to log the incidents and create change requests
• Created few configuration changes and Enhancements on ECC and MII as required by the business

Environment: ECC 6.0, SAP xMII 12.0.12, Remedy 7.0, 7.6

Confidential, Canton, Ohio

SAP PP/ MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a Functional Consultant on PP Team, documented the current Business Flow, reviewed As-Is Business Processes for material master, BOM and Routing across all business units and product lines
• Worked closely with the master data team and extensive involvement setting up routing / BOMs / production versions
• Responsible for creation of routing and work centers including defining of work center formulas and control keys as required
• Creating and configuring and maintaining bill of materials, resource, MRP, SOP, demand management, production orders, process management, batch management, planning strategies and process orders.
• Created Configuration Profile, creation of characteristics, and maintenance of characteristic values and assignment of object to classes in variant configuration.
• Configured the super BOM’s used in the variant configuration.
• Generated SAP query reports and performed Data Migration using LSMW Procedure
• Handled issues related to background job run, conversion of planned orders and process orders also to facilitate the MRP run for MRP controller
• Configuration of SAP MM in Enterprise structure, purchasing, material types(Raw material, semi Finished, finished etc), material master, movement types
• Worked on areas of defining SAP Enterprise Structure, PTP(Procure to Pay), PTM(Plan to Make), STO (Stock Transport Order), Subcontracting/External Processing, Split Valuation, Batch
• management and ATP (Availability to Promise)
• Implemented repetitive manufacturing and capacity leveling with rough cut planning
• Extensive collaboration with ABAP developer for developing Technical Specs for custom reports
• Configured planned orders, production scheduling profile, production orders, and plant parameters from MRP
• Expertise in configuration of the batch management, batch classification and back flush to issue of goods
• Assigned inspection types to material master based on in process inspection, post process inspection
• Configured quality checks for all goods receipt
• Worked on SOP, demand management, MRP and MPS according to business requirements
• Configured various objects in capacity requirements planning like formulas, availability check, standard value keys, scheduling parameters for planned and production orders, production schedulers and MRP controllers, order type dependent parameters, production order confirmation and scheduling margin keys
• Experience on quality notification (QN)
• Set-up raw material procurement proposals using MRP strategy, backward scheduling, lead time scheduling, determining net requirements, planning procedures, maintained stock overview, ensure deliver schedules are updated by MRP as per scheduling agreements
• Planning methods such as single-item multilevel, single-item single level were implemented, generating planned orders
• Worked on Inventory Management, goods movement, good movement reversal of handling units, transfer posting, stock transfers, physical inventory documents and cycle counting
• Set up the back flush process
• Worked on LSMW for testing Initial Data upload
• Documented critical changes, trained client team adopt the new system functionality and tested the integration of PP and MM module

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Conway, Arkansas

SAP PP / PP-PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Completed a full life cycle implementation using ASAP methodology
• Analyzed the AS-IS condition of the clients existing manufacturing system, carried out the TO-BE analysis, business process re-engineering and configuration
• Prepared project estimation, questionnaire for executive sessions, group discussions and one-on-one interaction to finalize the blueprint and demonstrated SAP R/3 abilities in various practical scenarios
• Gathered Business process flow by conducting workshops and interacting with process owners
• Extended the Material Master records to include work scheduling, MRP and forecasting views for process planning activities
• Involved in configuring necessary planning strategies as per the client’s requirement to have both make - to - stock and make - to - order scenarios
• Worked on schedule margin key, control keys, production versions, MRP Controllers, Lot Sizing Procedures, availability check, scheduling (Backward and forward scheduling)
• Worked with Production Planning module, planned order, production order, Release Production Order, Confirmation of Production order and Technical completion
• Changed plant parameters for materials requirement planning (MRP) such as MRP groups, MRP controller, MRP types, planning calendar, planning horizon, lot-sizing procedure, and availability check for components
• Performed SOP, implemented planning methods such as single-item multilevel, single-item single level generating planned orders
• Worked on control recipes Simulation in Master Recipe, Control Recipe Monitoring, sending Process Instructions by Control Recipe via PI Sheets and Reporting Process Messages through PI sheets
• Participated in data migration in interaction with the technical team, mapped necessary tables and fields using LSMW
• Involved in the backlog teams in helping the end users with clearing the backlogs and understanding the business flow in the organization
• Provided end - user training and was involved in post - go live support

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, New Jersey

SAP PP/MM

Responsibilities:

• Created improved and configured the BOM, for finished materials and Semi-finished materials as per requirement
• Worked as a Functional Consultant and involved in a full cycle implementation
• Customizing of Master Data like material master and Vendor master
• Created capacity planner, planner groups, production scheduling profile, scheduling parameters
• Customized the planning run, lot - size calculations, reorder point Planning and planning evaluation in the MRP cycle
• Was involved in implementing Make to Order and Make to Stock Strategies for the company
• Materials Management: Defined purchase organization and storage locations, assigned purchase organization to company code and assigned plant to company code
• Configured different Material Types as per the requirements of the Client and changed the field status of the Material Master records as per business requirements
• Expertise in configuration of the batch management, batch classification and back flush to issue of goods
• Customized the MRP based planning and forecast based planning
• Improved business cycle in PP involving MRP- Planned Orders-Production Orders-Order Settlement
• Dealt with Make to order and make to stock scenarios. Maintained Production orders, scheduling types and order types
• Prepared all end-user training documents (simulation files and supporting word documents) for the team in the area of Receiving, Inventory Control

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Confidential

SAP PP/PP-PI

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with technical team in the developments of new reports and design
• Analyzed and ensured Master Data objects such as MM, BOMs, Resources, and Master Recipe to meet the desired standards of functionality before data migration
• Preparation of training documents for all functionality implemented
• Production planning sub-modules implemented: Sales & Operation Planning, Demand Management, Long Term Planning, MRP, and Production Orders
• Defined MRP parameters: MRP group, MRP controller, Planning horizon, lot sizing procedure, and availability check for components. Customized task list usage, standard values and parameters, field selections, Transition matrix, supply area, capacity categories, capacity planner
• Analysis and configuration of PP Master Data including Material Master, work centers, BOM and routing
• Configured Shop Floor activities: Creation of orders, conversion of planned orders to production orders, goods movements, and order confirmations
• Worked on GR, GI, and GR for blocked stock, Goods returns and various movement types
• Responsible for customization of discrete and repetitive manufacturing in PP module according to the business requirements and integration between various modules
• Worked in PP-PI areas of configuration of master data that includes material master, resources, BOMs, and master recipes with operation and phases including Process Instruction Sheets
• Involved in writing the functional and technical specifications to ABAP team for various enhancements in materials management and production planning modules
• Knowledge transfers to all end users and trained the users about day-to-day error handling
• Communicated with client team as required to confirm defined parameters during customization

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7