SUMMARY

• Confidential is an experienced SAP functional consultant with strong Business process background in Supply Chain management processes, configuring the SAP PP/MM/QM/WM modules.
• 8+ years of experience in SAP PP/MM/QM/WM modules, involved in multiple full life - cycle implementation projects and experience working on upgrade, production support projects in PP and MM modules (versions R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC6.0)
• Expertise in process for manufacturing environments comprising of Discrete, Repetitive and Process manufacturing with Variant Configuration.
• Experience in Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) and Flexible Planning
• Experience in Demand management with different Planning strategies
• Good Experience in Variant Configuration for a few Confidential projects.
• Worked on serialization and equipment master for traceability of serial numbers.
• Experience with Shop Floor Controls for the implementation projects.
• Extensive experience in the use of quality plans, quality inspection methods, quality certificate and quality inspection procedure
• Integration of PP module with other modules like SD, MM, CO and QM.
• Experience of Batch Management in Discrete Manufacturing.
• Experience of Engineering Change Management for managing major and minor changes to engineering drawings and their revisions.
• Good Experience in Capacity Planning for two implementations project and two support projects.
• Used Make to Order and Make to Stock Scenario for different implementation projects.
• Used Capacity Planning, Capacity Evaluation, Availability Check and Shop Floor Control management for the implementation projects.
• Configured the Material Master and also worked on the Master data usage for all the Confidential projects
• Extensive testing experience includes Unit, Integration, Regression testing and experience working with business users during user acceptance testing (UAT) for testing end-to-end business processes like Order to Cash, P2P or Plan to produce.
• Experience with LSMW and Flexible Planning for two projects
• Hands on experience in APO-DP and APO-SNP.
• PP Module: Configuring of SAP PP Module in Discrete and Repetitive environment that includes BOMs, Work centers, Routings, Rate Routings, Master Recipes, Resources, REM Backflush, Production versions, Product Cost Collectors, Standard S&OP, MPS, MRP and exception messages, Planning Strategies, Batch Strategies, Production Orders, Process Orders and external procurement, Flexible Planning, Subcontracting, Shop Floor Control processes.
• MM Module: Material Master custom views, Purchase orders, Material Types, Release strategies, Split Valuation, Material types, Inventory Management, Movement types, Transfer Postings, Stock Transfers, Invoice verification, Account determination, Procure to Pay.
• Variant Configuration: Worked on Variant Configuration Scenario including Classification - Created Class, Class types, Characteristics, Characteristics Values, and Object Dependencies. Assigned dependencies preconditions, selection conditions, constraints, actions and procedure - to configuration profile. Maintain Material Master, Create Super BOM and Routing.
• QM Module: Master Inspection characteristics /Inspection method, Plant level sampling procedure, Code and selected set at plant level for valuation, define control key in procurement, create quality plan, quality inspection, certificate and notification, Maintain quality Master Data.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Norman OK

SAP PP/MM/VC Consultant

Roles and Responsibilities

• Successfully completed re-engineering project for the ongoing issues in the offshore plants related to planning bills of materials and planning routings.
• Implementation of the existing solution for the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) for the offshore plant for downloading and creation of the planning BOM’s and then updating them with the customized program respectively for each.
• Implementation of the long term planning for the forecasting of the planning BOM’s and the capacity requirements planning.
• Combining the above long term planning (LTP) with the sales and operations planning (S&OP) both for the end to end solution for the creation of planning BOM creation and updating them.
• Worked with the above solution for the entire end to end process for the planning BOM creation to capacity requirements and made the necessary changes in the solution
• Configured the item categories and defined the schedule line categories for the different materials
• Solved the workflow issues with the help of the team lead for the two offshore plants regarding the workflow arrangement for the different material parts and performing testing for each of the material types by creation of the materials and testing them for plant specific material types and the overall plant status and global status of the plant.
• Configured and implemented serialization with equipment master for serial number traceability for different units by assigning different serial numbers.
• Debugged, identified the issues and changed the Variant Configuration solution for different planning materials to meet the business requirements.
• Worked on the Capacity Planning requirements for the plant location at Mexico and distributed the requirements according to the work centers set.
• Have hands on experience in SAP Quality Management module. Worked on the integration with PP module with QM module. Defined Quality management tab in the material master and defined the Master inspection plans accordingly
• Worked with the Engineering Change Management for the revision of Bills of Materials

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

SAP PP/ APO Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provided go-live and production support in deployment of ECC 6.0 global project in the US and China covering more than 20 manufacturing, sales and distribution sites.
• Involved in the Realization phase and worked configuration, functional specs for RICEF objects and master Data Loads and Unit/Integration/User Acceptance testing
• As part of go-live, worked on cutover activitiesof PP module created material master for the WIP, BOM and Routing for rest of the production processes, created WIP inventory as of the cutoff date, create WIP Production Order for the offshore manufacturing plant.
• Defined planning parameters for different materials based on make to stock or Make to order scenarios.
• Implemented the realignment strategy for the existing hierarchy of the product and storage locations and implemented the changes as per the business requirement
• Hands on experience on the CTM (Capable to Match) strategy of SAP APO SNP.
• Supported Plan to manufacture and Make to Order business processes
• Extended thematerial masterrecords to includework scheduling, MRP and forecasting views using the LSMW.
• Worked on the batch management for the implementation of the business requirements.
• Automated the purchase ordering process by using assigning and processing requisitions based on Info Records, and extensive use of Scheduling Agreements for all regular materials reducing the number of transactions.
• Executed the test scripts and helped business to understand the new processes and recorded the test results.

Confidential, Pennsylvania, PA

SAP PP/QM/MM Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Gathered the business requirements by conducting workshops with key users.
• As PP functional consultant involved in understanding As-Is process and blueprinting to be processes with gap analysis and identifying custom development objects during implementation.
• Gathered system requirements for MRP/Planning to utilize planning time fence to more closely adhere to production schedules.
• Setup PP master recipes. Worked on validation, cleansing and Configuration of master data, creation of Master Recipes including Bill of Materials, Resources, Standard/Rate Routings and Production Versions.
• Worked on with the integration of PP module Material Management and Warehouse Management Modules
• Implemented the Quality Management module for the Confidential, created inspection plans, planning procedures.
• Performed Gap Analysis, and developed customization settings for PP & QM business processes.
• Implemented Batch management and especially Batch Determination process for this Confidential .
• Implemented serialization with synchronization of serial numbers with equipment master using the existing scenario in the location
• Used equipment hierarchy to manage sub-equipment with serial numbers and traceability.
• Worked on the Variant Configuration part for this implementation.
• Created configuration profile, normal characteristics and reference characteristics, maintained characteristic values and assigned object to classes.
• Configured automatic creation of Purchase Requisitions and Planned Orders in MRP Run
• Configured production version for repetitive manufacturing and worked with other repetitive functions like REM planning table, product cost collector and back flushing.
• Worked with capacity planning module and detail scheduling of production orders for capacity leveling and sequencing production orders.
• Implemented Demand Management concepts of makes to order and Sales and Operations Planning.
• Configured the different line item categories and created the customized line item categories for the Confidential . Defined different schedule line categories.
• Implemented the Capacity planning for this Confidential location and set up capacity leveling and capacity evaluation, first with the help of long term planning and then with the MRP
• Used the flexible planning aspect of the Sales and Operations Planning for this Confidential to set the customized tabs and hierarchies
• Worked with the configuration of Parameter Effectivity, Change Types, Revision Levels, Release keys and Maintain of Profiles.
• Responsible for Material Handling and Warehouse Management for this Confidential location
• Experience in Shop Floor Controls processes for this Confidential location and setting up of production order configurations
• Used the subcontracting process in production for the Confidential location and set up the different subcontracting types Assembly subcontracting and Operation subcontracting depending on the product manufactured.
• Extensive use of Handling Unit Management for the plant location and implemented it for the final assembly product made in the facility
• Set up navigation profile for planners in stock requirement list and assign different custom transactions to different MRP elements.
• Worked in setting up custom info structure according to Confidential needs for flexible planning.
• Used LSMW for the data transfer process from Legacy systems to the SAP system. Especially the large volume data maintained in excel sheets and which can be analyzed faster using the SAP system

Confidential, Minnesota

SAP PP Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 - PP module during Rollout to global deployments.
• Worked with the Business users during Blue Print phase for understanding the business processes and involved in brainstorming sessions with them for gathering the Business Requirements.
• Identified the RICEF objects corresponding to PP that need to be worked on based on the To-Be process requirements in SAP and prepared the functional specifications for RICEF objects.
• Worked extensively on validating and uploading PP Master Recipes such as routings, resources, BOM as well as material master.
• Introduced the Sales and Operations planning (S&OP) to maintain product hierarchies and different versions. Also assisted in the creation of plans for product groups and materials. Suggested the use of flexible planning and ran through the entire S&OP process to understand the fundamentals for flexible planning for this Confidential .
• Worked with ABAP Developers and the business legacy system for preparation of Data Mapping documents, modifying and building custom mapping tables for interfaces.
• Worked with technical team and helped them regarding user exits, reports, interface so as to achieve the desired functionality.
• Prepared the Business Process configuration document for PP which includes defining the settings for work center formulas, control keys, production schedulers, production scheduling profiles, order type dependent parameters, scheduling parameters, confirmation parameters, availability check.
• Performed integration testing for the end to end process starting with creation of planned orders, production orders, posting goods issues, goods receipts, confirmations, recording inspection results, usage decision and tested the overall end to end business processes with super-users involving MES.
• Worked with end Users for identifying the various test scenarios and for creating detailed Test Cases and Test Scripts for Unit testing using Mercury Quality center.

Confidential

SAP PP/MM/VC Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Developed blueprint and performed As-Is, To-Be analysis.
• Gathered business requirements, designed, prototype and configure the PP/PI module for both make-to-stock and make-to-order manufacturing environments.
• Configured and managed material master, BOMs, Resources, Routings, Planned and Process orders.
• Implementation of Discrete Manufacturing for the Variant Configuration purposes
• Configured MRP parameters, control keys, scheduling and capacity formulas.
• Involved in setting Demand Management functions and MRP parameters like re-scheduling horizon, safety stock.
• Worked on the Quality Management configuration and suggested the use of quality integration with the production plan module.
• Involved in configuration of Enterprise Structure, which included creation of plant, storage locations, control areas, and purchase organizations.
• Defined the basic VC product model, characteristics logic, formulated object dependencies, decisions on feasibility and inconsistencies of different parameters.
• Created KMAT material and material variants, performed configuration simulation and tested the VC materials for MRP.
• Developed and configured pull list based event driven KANBAN process through MF60 and automate adjustment of KANBAN quantity based on job.
• Defined the customized item categories according to the Confidential requirements. Also configured the schedule line categories.
• Transferred initial stock into SAP from legacy system using LSMW.
• Worked on creating Super BOM, assigned selection conditions and procedures
• Worked on issues corresponding to Sales and Operation Planning (SOP) and had a probable blueprint for a flexible planning on the lines of S&OP
• Used the Serialization process for creating the serial numbers and configured the serial number profile
• Worked on setting up serialization profile and setting up the equipment master data
• Creation of Change Number, Creation of Change Revision, Handling of Minor and Major revision changes using the Engineering Change Management.
• Implemented Capacity Planning for this Confidential location and implemented Capacity Leveling and Capacity Evaluation.
• Set up work centers accordingly and configured the capacity planning and work centers according to the project requirements
• Worked on the Warehouse Management part for the Confidential
• Experience in Shop Floor Controls processes and configuration and setting of production orders.
• Extensively used the subcontracting process for the plant location for one of the processes and operations to be done outside the facility.
• Experience in Handling Unit Management and used it for the different products manufactured in the facility
• Used LSMW for the large volume data maintained in documents or spreadsheets and transfer from legacy systems to the SAP

Confidential

SAP PP/MM Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities

• Involved as a team member in Implementation of SAP R/3.
• Involved in establishing the business processes and finalizing the Organization structure.
• Involved in Customizing and testing of the PP relevant data for Successful implementation.
• Responsible for creation of Master Data/Master Recipes (BOM, Work center/Resources. Routings and Production versions).
• Creation of production orders and shop floor control aspects for one Confidential location.
• Demonstrated the Standard SOP (Sales & Operations Planning) functionality in SAP and its transfer to Demand Management.
• Hands on experience with the Variant Configuration.
• Hands on Experience in Material Management and Warehouse Management
• Used the Shop Floor Control processes for the plant locations. Also used the subcontracting processes for the different operations to be performed externally. Set up the system and configured the system according to the type of subcontracting
• Hands on experience in Capacity Planning for the different project locations and implemented Capacity Leveling and Capacity Evaluation. Set up work centers accordingly and configured the capacity planning and work centers according to the project requirements
• Configured new Order Type for Rework and defining of Planning Strategies for different assemblies.
• Assisted users in performing MRP runs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, MS Windows 7, Vista, XP.

ERP: SAP PP, MM, QM

Databases: MSSQL 2008, ORACLE 10g, MS Access

Languages: C, C++, ABAP/4

Management and Project Tools: MS office suite, SAP Solution Manager, HPQC,