SUMMARY

• Goal oriented and continuous improvement focused professional with 7 years of SAP Production Planning (PP), Process Integration (PI), Plant Maintenance (PM), Quality Maintenance (QM), and experience in diversified industries such as Energy, Manufacturing, Utility, Pharmaceutical, Automobile and Product Services.
• The work experience includes project analysis, configuration, testing, archiving, support, developments/enhancements and implementation of the SAP modules.
• Two Full Life Cycle Implementations, Up - gradation and post go live support of SAP PP-PI Modules.
• Involved in ASAP Methodology implementation, including Blueprinting, Gap Analysis, Mapping, Design and configuration, testing, Go-Live, user training and post production support
• Understanding & analyzing customer’s ‘AS-IS’ Business Processes and mapping ‘TO-BE’ processes.
• Responsible for writing the functional specifications of RICEF (Reporting, Interface, Conversions, enhancements, Forms) also assisted the developer in preparing the technical Specifications.
• Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for Up-gradation/ new implementation/ integration, import of data from any other external system to SAP using LSMW.
• Proficient in Lean manufacturing practices, layouts, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, KANBAN and Cost reduction.
• Proficient in configuration and customization of Master Data, Routings, SOP and capacity Requirement Planning, Manufacturing Process, Demand Management and Material Requirement Planning.
• Worked on IDOCS & EDIS
• Sound Knowledge of User Exits, Enhancements and Customization.
• Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and also assisted end users in Users Acceptance Testing to validate the business scenario using quality tool such as HP Quality Centre.
• Sound Knowledge in Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Demonstrates outstanding achievement of objectives, execution of electronic understanding, formulating creative concepts, and dedication to organizational goals.
• Effective team player and able to communicate effectively with people of different personalities and backgrounds.
• Proficient in configuration and customization of Master Data for Manufacturing like Material Master, Bill of Material (BOM), work centers and Routings.
• Worked on order-controlled Production with production orders, Repetitive Manufacturing and KANBAN.
• Experience in Demand Management and Material Requirement Planning, Technical Processes of Requirement planning, Evaluating and Processing the MRP Results and Master Production Scheduling.
• Worked on Production Process industry process management and Master Recipe.
• Experienced in Implementing/Supporting SAP Production Planning (PP) with the emphasis on Master Planning, Shop Floor Control.
• Re-order points, variant configuration, capacity evaluation, planning, Control Cycles, Replenishment strategy, planning strategy, planned order and Production order.
• Configurations in discrete and process manufacturing, in variant configuration class type, characteristics, object dependencies, configuration profiles, variant tables, variant pricing, preconditions, selection conditions and procedures.
• Worked with classifications, classes, batch management.
• Experience in sales and Operation Planning, Flexible Planning and Capacity Requirement planning.
• Implementation and configuration expertise in PI: Creating and maintaining PP/PP-PI Material Masters, BOM/List of Ingredients, Work Centers/Resources, Routings/Master Recipes, Production Resource Tools, MRP procedures, Production/Process Orders, Production Version, Back Flush, Shop Floor parameters (Order control, Confirmations and scheduling parameters)
• Worked in Variant Configuration in the creation of configurable material, configuration profile, Creation of normal characteristics and reference characteristics, maintenance of characteristic values and assignment of object to classes.
• Using PI-PCS interfacing control the process production lines
• PI Sheets with Phases and Characteristics, Process Order, Control Recipe, Confirmation Parameters for Process Orders, Planning Strategy (10, 40, 50, 20), DM, MPS, MRP, LTP, MTO, Confidential, SOP Flexible Planning.
• Define control recipes and process information and monitor the complete process chain.
• Create process messages like status of resources, consumptions, process order status.
• Maintain characteristic data, values and group
• Creating and configuration of SAP PP - PI Material master, Master Recipes and Resources.
• Worked on Variant Configuration with planning strategy 25- creating characteristics, classes, Batch Management and configuration profile with configuration simulation
• Worked on configuration and setup of In-process (03) and post process (04) inspection as part of PP-QM integration.
• Expertise in SOP Flexible Planning, Demand Management, Long Term Planning, MRP and MPS, and Capacity Planning/Evaluation for Discrete and Process Industry
• Expertise in configuring Process Management, Process Instructions and Process Messages including Process Order and SAP PP-PI configuration
• Good understanding of RF devices and RF transactions for external process control systems including RFC function modules of PI-PCS interface
• Expertise in Batch determination: Creation of Batch Class, Characteristics, Batch Management Configuration for all the movement types
• Work orders, Notifications, System Status, Time Confirmation, Components, Order Settlement and Completion, Maintenance Plan Scheduling, External services
• Material Requirements Planning, Goods movements, Batch management, Storage Locations, process instructions, Planned & Production order, Service orders, Settlement, Deliveries, Master inspection characteristics, Inspection lots, Results Recording, Usage Decisions.
• During my work tenure on Full cycle implementation, was involved in deliverables as Data migrations works like LSMW, creating IDocs.
• Worked on all the phases right from As-Is, To-Be to the realization and GO-live i.e., end to end implementation of SAP on a project.
• Experienced in carrying out testing procedures like unit testing, regression testing and integration testing.
• Word on end user testing and acceptance testing and involved in resolving the notifications and issues raised.
• Well acquainted with the ticketing systems and testing tools like HPQC and Mercury quality center.
• Involved in end user training using RWD tool.
• Worked in phases of complete implementation, enhancements, planning and support.
• Worked extensively in functional specifications and user exits for custom development.
• Characteristics, classes, class hierarchies, object dependencies, Dependency Nets, Super BOMs, Super Task lists and configuration profiles.
• Extracting, Cleansing and transforming the Legacy system data. Preparing LSWM objects and uploading the legacy data into SAP system, Used Back office Associates (BOA) tool for extracting, cleansing and transforming the legacy data and used HP mercury center tool for resolving the defects that were raised during data mock tests and cutover phases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

ERP Modules: SAP PP-PI /QM

Project Management & Process Designing: MS Project, ASAP Project Methodology, Visio

Databases: SQL Server 2000, MS Access.

Test Management Tool: Mercury Quality Center, HPQC

Document Management: SharePoint

Operating Systems: Windows 8/7/XP/NT/2000/98

Office Software: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access

Programming Languages: Visual Basic 6.0, ActiveX Technology, COM, ActiveX Data

Other Tools: Visual SourceSafe, Visio 6.0, Auto CAD, Minitab

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP PP/PI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP PP-PI Consultant in an End to End SAP Implementation Project
• Interacted with key users for mapping requirements and preparation of detailed as-is scenario document.
• Assisted in project definition and preparation, defining objectives for business blueprint, realization, and final preparations for a demonstration.
• Responsible for customization of Process Industry in PP Module according to the business requirements and integration between various modules.
• Responsible for cleansing, configuration and creation of master data including Bill of Materials, Resources, and Master Recipes.
• Configuring standard value keys, control keys, formulas, production supply areas for new resources as a part of master data set up.
• Involved in the basic implementation and development of Blue Prints for the entire project related to MM module.
• Responsible for configuration/customization for Materials Management/ Warehouse Management activities including review/analysis of AS-IS and TO-BE documents.
• Defined capacity requirements for resources by using standard values and formula constants.
• Defined resource formulas and assigned cost centers to resources to evaluate the product costing of the material.
• Responsible for creating operations and phases in master recipes by defining control keys, relationships between phases and standard values.
• Defined and configured Batch Management in process orders.
• Responsible for creating process order types and processing of process orders.
• Configured availability check, production scheduling profile, process order types, and plant parameters, automatic purchase requisitions from MRP and goods movements.
• Responsible for availability checking, batch determination and confirmations in process orders.
• Responsible for Sales and operation planning using the forecast model and material requirement planning for make to stock type of planning.
• Responsible for creating and setting up of SOP for product groups.
• Configured MRP (Material Requirement Planning), Demand Planning and Scheduling Procedures to integrate with purchasing and delivery requirements.
• Configured and executed planning run with technical and business information and processed planned orders and MRP (Manufacturing Planning) list evaluations.
• Configured the background jobs for MRP run and special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues between different plants.
• Responsible for customization of PP-PI Module according to the business requirements and integration between various modules.
• Testing - Develop unit and integration testing documents, Analyze results returned by key users and other testers, Resolve issues and develop new iteration of testing documents.
• Prepared documentation (BPP’s) for various PP transactions for knowledge transfer and trained end users.
• Responsible for Data Migration and Cut-Over activities during Go-Live.
• User Training - Training Documentation Development, Train Key Users to lead classes for user training, Assist Key Users during training sessions.
• Final presentation of the project.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SAP PP /PM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created new Classes and assigned characteristics to the Classes
• Involved in Master Recipe training and initial creation of Master Recipes
• Set up Master Recipes to support the requirements of the process.
• Customized Profile, Master Recipes, and assigned PI instructions to the phases.
• Configured Process Order and had generated the Control recipes.
• Worked on Batch Specification, batch determination condition table, batch Specific Unit of Measure, Batch Master in Batch Management.
• Accessing Browser based PI sheet for auto confirmation through barcode, goods issue, and correction of errors in goods movement, results recording.
• Defined Inspection Checkpoints, Inspection Lots and maintained Inspection results (QM) also worked on Stability Study (QM).
• Worked on Periodic Data Transfer from Legacy System into SAP using LSMW Tool; Data transfer included mapping fields, reading the spreadsheet files and converting into the target format.
• Responsible for Developing test scenarios, writing test cases and performing integration, Functional (FUT) and User acceptances testing (UAT) using HPQC to validate business scenarios.
• Developed Flow Charts, Documentation and Presentation on various Business Scenarios related User Manuals for end users.
• Configured settings for Material Master, Vendor master, Purchasing and Inventory Management
• Support site team activities and provided extensive Post Go-live support.
• 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.
• 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 training 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.
• Configured quality checks for all goods receipts.
• 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.

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

SAP PP/QM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Blueprint work - Gather business requirements, deliver workshops, identify gaps and recommend best practices, Configuration responsibilities, testing responsibilities.
• Assist project team with the configuration of the PP including defining global requirements, and defining reports, interface, and data conversion specifications.
• Responsible for cleansing, configuration and creation of master data including Bill of Materials, Work centers and Routings.
• Configured standard value keys, control keys, formulas, production supply areas for new resources as a part of master data set up.
• Defined capacity requirements for work centers by using standard values, formula constants, defined work center formulas and assigned cost centers to work centers to evaluate the product costing of the material.
• Defined and configured Batch Management in production orders, Involved in variant configuration for make to order parts, Responsible for creating production order types and processing of production orders.
• Responsible for availability check, batch determination, confirmations in production orders.
• Configured planning strategies, requirement types, created MRP elements, basic and lead time scheduling, strategy groups, MRP controllers, plant parameters, and lot size calculations, planning horizons, material availability in blocked and stock in transit.
• Implemented P1, P2, P3 MRP types using planning time fences and forward/backwards consumption of independent requirements by customer orders.
• Configured schedule margin keys, capacity categories, standard value keys, control keys, task-list types and usages for routings.
• Activated MRP for plants and created planning files and scheduled re-gen and net change planning, created MRP exception messages, rescheduling horizons, MRP list requirements and MD04 display parameters.
• Created profiles for production order confirmations including final and partial confirmations.
• Worked on production order release strategies, availability check for components, scheduling of the production order, printing shop floor paper like time tickets, move tickets and material pull lists, defining production schedulers, scheduling profiles etc.
• Configured planners work bench (MF50) in repetitive manufacturing and staging of materials.
• Configured REM profiles and set up in material master, creation of production versions and created product cost collectors.
• Conducted unit test, integration test and user acceptance test for newly developed programs.
• Prepared training documentation and user manuals and conducted user training in multiple facilities using web tools & net meetings.
• Worked with OSS to resolve critical issues, applied OSS notes and data correction reports.

Confidential, Schaumburg,IL

SAP PP/PI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in defining project scope for the company and implementation of SAP PM with full life-cycle implementation using ASAP methodology.
• Actively involved in study of AS-IS and To-BE phase and prepared the documents in the gap analysis phase.
• Involved in Business blue print preparation and defining/mapping the plant maintenance processes.
• Maintained Equipment Categories and Defined additional business views for equipment categories.
• Configured functional locations, equipment BOM, functional location BOM.
• Configured plant maintenance work centre which includes standard value key, Person responsible, capacity category for work centre.
• Customized control key for external service as per the requirements of the business.
• Performed configuration for maintenance plans, maintenance orders and work order scheduling.
• Configured maintenance tasks, maintenance order type dependent parameters. Customized custom reports in Plant Maintenance.
• Configured object codes, damage codes and activity codes and assigned the code groups to catalog profiles for use in maintenance notifications.
• Configured new material types as per the requirements of the business and created several valuation classes and account category references.
• Carried out split valuation of materials based on valuation category, local and imported as the valuation type’s assigned number ranges for material types.
• Implemented refurbishment process for spares used on the equipment’s.
• Defined serial number profile, defined serialization attributes for movement types.
• Defined default equipment category for serialization, system status movement types
• Designed and configured warehouse organization structure which includes number ranges, Storage type, storage section, storage bin, picking area and quant.
• Configured Batch Management process for material and implemented SLED for materials.
• Worked on goods movement type for warehouse and created transfer requirements and transfer orders from one storage location to other.
• Hands on experience on Put away Strategies using Fixed Bin Storage and Picking Strategies.
• Assisted the production lead to maintain the master data like material master, Production BOM, Work Center and Routing for production planning.
• Assisted in designing of shift sequence and shift definition depending upon factory calendar.
• Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Archive Testing and Security and Role Testing in PM/WM and set up the test data, test scenarios and test scripts.
• Worked on data migration for Material Master, Vendor Master and Purchase Info Records from legacy system to SAP using LSMW

Confidential, Jackson, MS

SAP PP/PI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the business in SAP version upgrade from 4.7C 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.
• Set up back ground batch jobs for MM, PP, and QM modules.
• Configured QM batch management, QM characteristics and QM classes and the object assignment
• Configured QM task list: Assigned task list types to material types, defined task list usages and maintained parameters for each task list type
• 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 training sessions for the end users to demonstrate the new functionalities and enhancements added from the upgrade.
• Provide post up-gradation support.

Confidential, Elyria, OH

SAP PP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the business in SAP version upgrade from 4.7C 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.
• Set up back ground batch jobs for MM, PP, and QM modules.
• Configured QM batch management, QM characteristics and QM classes and the object assignment
• Configured QM task list: Assigned task list types to material types, defined task list usages and maintained parameters for each task list type
• 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 training sessions for the end users to demonstrate the new functionalities and enhancements added from the upgrade.
• Provide post up-gradation support.

Confidential

SAP PP Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As SAP PP Trainee and worked on day to day production activities on the shop floor.
• Get trained and worked in configuration of various master data including Material Master, BOM, Work Center and Routing.
• Worked on ETO (Engineer to order) and created Planning BOM for independent customer requirements.
• Get Trained and worked in configuring Enterprise Structure.
• Configured MRP Controller, MRP types, MRP Area, Planning Calendar.
• Worked on Make to Order scenario.
• Worked on creating planned orders, converting to production order, goods movement.
• Worked with PP implementation team in configuring Stock transfer.
• Trained in demand management, sales and operation planning, capacity planning and MRP run.
• Assisted Formulating Unit Test scenarios and Integration Test scenarios developed Test scripts.
• Participated in Technical and design review meetings.
• Received formal end user training.
• Worked as end user and provided production support to resolve production issues