SUMMARY

• me has total eight (8) years of work experience in the IT industry. Following is the breakup of my overall work experience:
• 8 years of SAP R/3 Functional and Technical experience primarily in SAP PP - PI/QM modules. Has worked in 3 SAP Implementations, Rollouts, Data Migration and Upgrade Project.
• Experience in diverse industrial sectors including Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Process industry and Manufacturing.
• Hands-on experience in gathering business requirements, business process analysis, GAP analysis, preparation of Proof of Concepts for delivering SAP solutions.
• Rich experience in all aspects of project work: Design, Configuration, Unit testing, Integration testing, HP Quality Center, Documentation, Conversion/Migration, End user Support and Training, preparation of functional design for technical objects and enhancements.
• Production Planning: Master Data (Material Master, BOM, Work Center, Routing, Rate Routing, Production Versions), MRP, MPS, Planned Order, Production Order, PRT, Work Scheduling, Scenarios on Make to Order, Make to Stock, Planning Strategies, Demand Management, SOP Flexible Planning.
• Consumption Based Materials Planning (CBP): Manual Reorder Point Planning - Lot size calculation, planning run, planning result & evaluation.
• RICEFW: Designing customized business process Reports and Forms for Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice and PO Condition Values. Designing Master Data Conversion objects for Material Master, Vendor Master, and Source List.
• Data Migration: Extracting, cleansing and transforming the legacy system data such as Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, Inventory Balance etc. Preparing LSMW 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 Mercury Quality Center tool for resolving the defects raised during data mock tests and cutover phases.
• PP/PP-PI Module (Process Industries): Master Data (Material Master, BOM, Resources, Production Version, Master Recipe), PI Sheets wif Phases and Characteristics, Process Order, Control Recipe, Confirmation Parameters for Process Orders, Planning Strategy (10, 40, 50, 20), DM, MPS, MRP, LTP, MTO, MTS, SOP Flexible Planning.
• Variant Configuration: Configurable Materials KMAT wif Super BOM and Routing, Variant Class, Characteristics, Characteristics Values. Assigned Object Dependencies, Preconditions, Selection Conditions and Procedure to Configurable Profile.
• QM Module Configuration: Material Master Data, Quality Inspection Characteristics (MIC), Quality Inspection Plan, Quality Info Record for vendor and customer, Sampling Methods, Inspection methods, Quality Certificates and notifications.
• Expertise in MTO, MTS, SOP, MRP, MPS and production/process order execution using ASAP implementation methodology.
• Implemented SOP, Demand Management, Batch Management, Serialization, MRP, capacity planning, and classification
• Strong leadership and communication skills wif ability to work in cross-functional teams. Personal qualities include the ability to work wif, lead and motivate various personalities to accomplish cross-functional project goals by being a team player and fostering a team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

ERP Modules: SAP PP-PI / QM

Test Management Tool: Mercury Quality Center, HPQC, HPSC, UAT, Unit, Regression & Integration tests, Application testing, Package validation.

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

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

Other Tools: AutoCAD, Matlab and Math CAD, Solid works, HCB, Fluent

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta

SAP PP/QM Functional Consultant (Rollout)

Environment: SAP ECC6.0

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing business requirements and proposing IT solutions using the ECC 6.0 system.
• Performed detailed AS - IS analysis through flow charts to map physical flow of manufacturing processes followed by in-depth study of processes designed to develop the To-Be models.
• Assisted in project definition and preparation, defining objectives for business blueprint, realization and final preparation for a demonstration.
• Responsible for customization of Process Industries in PP module according to the business requirements and integration between various modules.
• Maintained various standard Material Management documents which include purchasing info record, source lists, and scheduling agreements.
• Performed Gap Analysis, and developed customization settings for PP & QM business processes.
• Designed manufacturing scenarios in PP-PI for Make-To-Stock and Make-To-Order strategies.
• Worked on PP Master Data; creation of BOM, resources and master recipe.
• Configured MRP parameters, control keys, process order, scheduling formulas.
• 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.
• Set up and maintained SLED date check for minimum shelf life and total shelf life for batch management.
• Customized Process Message Categories & Control Recipe destinations for the configuration of PI sheet.
• Goods Issue and Receipt Postings, time ticket Confirmation of Phases using Process Messages to the corresponding Message destinations.
• 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.
• Worked on sales and operation planning using the forecast model and material requirement planning for a combination of made to order and made to stock type of planning
• Responsible for creating and setting up of SOP for product groups.
• Configured and executed shop floor activities including creation of planned orders, conversion of planned orders, goods movement and order confirmations.
• Developing test scenarios, writing test cases and performing unit and integration testing. Developed Package validation services designed to meet the company s specific needs.

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

SAP PP/VC Functional consultant

Environment: SAP ECC6.0

Responsibilities:

• Developed strategic planning scenarios in collaboration wif the business unit area planners and supported the execution of technical plans.
• Worked wif Production Orders through their life cycle, operations, PP master data, Scheduling, Order confirmations, integration wif Product costing for order costing.
• Extensively involved wif MRP: Total/single item planning, BOM status/explosion, Net change planning, Forecast/Consumption/Time phased planning, lot sizing, planning runs, Scheduling and MPS.
• Involved in validation of Business Blue Print, verification of Business processes, identifying gaps.
• Prepared functional specification for new developments and enhancements to meet new business requirements.
• Worked wif the Business Analysts to develop customized reports layouts.
• Guided Business Analysts during Functional Testing and Integration Testing.
• Configured planning runs and strategy types to calculate capacity requirements and ensure material availability.
• 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
• Master data management for PP including BOMs, Work centers & Routings. Also worked on master data maintenance for material master for configurable materials
• Worked wif PP specific Requirement Planning, MRP parameters and Forecasting.
• Develops functional specifications and works wif technical resources to complete object development and testing. Collaborated in configuring of master records and maintenance of purchase info records, source list, customer and material master
• Coordinated project team activities including requirement definition, system design and development, participated in testing, validation, conversion and implementation.
• 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.
• . Configuration of planning strategies Make-to-Stock (MTS), Make-to-order (MTO), Assembly order (ATO), variant configuration (VC) and material variant.
• Knowledge in integration of PP wif SD, MM, FI/CO, PS and batch management.

Confidential, California

Role: SAP PP-PI, Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC6.0

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in defining project scope for the company and implementation of SAP PP-PI wif full life-cycle implementation using ASAP methodology.
• Participated in preparation of Global Template for SAP global roll-out and involved in rolling out of SAP in company’s another blending plant in Colon, Panama.
• Actively involved in designing AS-IS and To-BE study and documentation.
• Participated in a cross-functional, team environment, supporting the established Client’s global design.
• Business blue print preparation and defining/mapping the production processes.
• Work wif business users to gather requirements to identify process requirements, impact on the other areas.
• Worked on validation, cleansing and configuration of Master data and creation of Master Data including Bill of Materials, Resources, Master Recipe and Production Versions
• Involved in configuration of Process Orders, Order type dependent parameters, Process Management and Order closing activities.
• Define and setup Control recipe destination, Process instruction categories, Process message characteristic, Confirmation profile and Master recipe profile.
• Developed and customized Browser based PI sheets, created log tables for data entry in PI sheets.
• Customizing production scheduling profile for order type and plant specific details.
• Performed data extraction from legacy system cleaned data wif Business team (Key users).
• Performed Product Costing wif Costing team created costing BOMs, Recipes, and Costing versions to achieve desired costing results.
• Configured Batch Management and involved in automatic creation of Batch serial numbers for tractability
• Designing, configuring and testing custom Batch determination that includes validation of Q-info records, expiry and next inspection dates for raw materials picking during process order execution.
• Worked in Data Migration using LSMW, BDC.
• Set-up configuration and master data for Inspection Lot Creation, Results and Defects Recording
• Assigned Inspection Types to Material Master based on In process inspection and Post process inspection
• Worked on configuration of Master Recipes utilizing Material-Quantity Calculation, Batch Management and Active Ingredient Management.
• Defining available capacity profile. Configured shift sequence and shift definition depending upon factory calendar.
• Created background jobs for MRP (Material Planning) run, control recipe monitor/ Assembly error report, components error report. Set up planning file entries for regenerative MRP, customized MRP Controllers, and special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues between different plants.
• Extensively worked wif user exits to make module to suit client requirements.
• Provided off- shore implementation support for company’s SAP roll-out project in Panama Plant.
• Configured and executed shop floor activities including creation of planned orders, conversion of planned orders, goods movement and order confirmations.
• Prepared functional specifications for custom reports, forms and program enhancement specifying logics for calling /getting programs, fetching data from tables

Confidential, Wisconsin

SAP PP/VC Core Team Member

Environment: SAP ECC6.0

Responsibilities:

• Used an external tool to upload the external forecasting and planning data s to SAP via LSMW.
• Defined Enterprise structure such as Plant, storage location, purchasing organization, and shipping point.
• Interacted wif key users to prepare the AS - IS document and then prepared the TO-BE document as per business requirements during the Blue print phase of the project.
• Gap analysis has been carried out to find the interfaces, middleware s needed to do the data migration as well as to understand and identify the custom development objects required during implementation.
• Worked in both discrete and repetitive manufacturing environments wif MTS and MTO scenarios.
• Configured Planning wif final assembly and Planning wifout final assembly strategies as per business needs.
• Configured master data s such as Material master, Bill of material, work center, Routing, Rate Routing, Production version, Product cost collector, Vendor master, purchase info record, and source list.
• Configured Stock transport orders, Sub-contracting, and Consignment.
• Defined MRP controllers, MRP types, Special procurement types, purchasing group, and Production schedulers.
• Worked extensively in designing and developing SAP based solutions to interface wif shop floor MES system.
• Worked wif configurable materials and Variant Configuration, maintaining dependencies for BOM items and Operations in routings along wif conditions records, class, characteristics, and configuration profile.
• Configured production scheduling profile and scheduling parameters for production orders and disabled availability check for PRTs while releasing the production order.
• Involved in setting demand management functions and MRP parameters like planning horizon, creation indicators such as purchase requisition, delivery schedules and MRP list, planning mode, and Scheduling.
• Setup navigation profile for planners in stock requirements list and assigned different custom transactions to different MRP elements.
• Coordinated wif technical consultants by providing them detailed Functional Specifications for customization according to business requirements for interface between SAP and MES systems as well as custom reports like missing parts report.
• Customized standard value keys and control keys in the work center.
• Defined shift sequence, formulas for costing, scheduling, and capacity calculation.
• Configured Repetitive manufacturing profiles, confirmation processes, and control data for pull list in the REM environment.
• Provided training to individual super users as well as to the group of end users.
• Part of the team who carried out Cut-Over activities before Go-Live.
• Created Business Process Procedure documents for various transactions in Production Planning and Material Management modules.

Confidential

SAP PP/QM Functional consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 & ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:-

• Implemented ASAP methodology and successfully upgraded the legacy 4.7 system to ECC 6.0.
• Involved in study of company business process and preparing AS IS and TO BE process and performed GAP analysis in the production environment.
• Interacted extensively wif client and adapted client s requirements wifin the scope of SAP.
• Prepared project plans, reviews, scoping studies, weekly/ monthly meetings and participated in steering committee meetings.
• Study business scenarios for deciding planning strategies to implement.
• Maintained master data: material master, BOM, alternative BOM, Work Center, Routing, Rate Routing, Schedule margin key, activity types.
• Worked on Discrete and Repetitive Manufacturing as per business requirements.
• Established production version for alternative BOM.
• Implemented Lean Manufacturing using KANBAN signals.
• Configured and customized KANBAN master data such as Supply Area, Control Cycle, replenishment strategies and defined status sequences in customizing.
• Worked closely wif business users to collect data and created Inspection Plan, Quality Certificates, Quality Notifications, Batches, Batch classifications, Quality Inspection Characteristics, Quality Info Records, Quality Inspection Plan.
• Implemented Quality wif procurement, in - process inspection lots, source inspections, created Q-info records, inspection plans.
• Setting up batch determination and check strategy using strategy types, and search procedures.
• Condition techniques to facilitate conditional acceptance of goods during GR related transactions.
• Created a pull list to control in-house material flow and supplying production wif materials. This pull list checks the stock situation at the production line, calculates the missing parts for the components and triggers replenishment for these missing parts.
• MPS/MRP: Various planning methods, Total planning at plant level (online/ background job), Single-item multi-level, MRP/Stock requirement list -Individual display & Collective display. Production order cycle, Scheduling, Availability check, Back-flushing, reversals, Post processing, Order Information systems
• Trained Super user s and End user s in QM master data and business process understanding for vendor, In- process inspections and job confirmation.
• Trained Key Users and developed normal trouble shooting guide.
• Part of production support team after Go-live.

Confidential

PP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:-

• Started my first project as a trainee in electrical engineering. Along wif the engineering, was introduced in SAP PP module and ASAP methodology for project implementation.
• Assisted in configuring Material Master for raw materials, semi-finished materials and finished materials.
• Worked in configuring Forecasting, Sales and Operation Planning (SOP) wif Flexible Planning, Demand Management (DM) and generated Planned Independent Requirements (PIR).
• Helped in configuring MRP, Work scheduling, BOM, Work Center and Routings.
• Setup the planning strategies, Control keys, Availability check, consumption modes and Goods Movement.
• Worked on MRP and Stock/Requirement list, Planned Order and Production Orders.
• Worked wif FI/CO, SD, PS and MM groups to resolve integration issues wif Production plant.
• Worked wif end users during testing phase and supporting phase.