SUMMARY

• SAP Functional Consultant with 8+ Years of Experience in Implementing projects in Production Planning - Process Industries (PP-PI), Material Management (MM), and Inventory Management (IM).
• Hands-on experience as SAP Functional Consultant in four full life cycle implementation as well as up-gradation and production support
• Involved in ASAP methodology implementation, including Blueprinting, Gap Analysis, Mapping, Design and Configuration, Testing, Go-Live, User Training and Post-Production Support.
• Integrated various modules like SD, PP, QM and FI with MM, IM, and WM module from conception to go-live and support activity during various stages of the project
• High Level knowledge of Master Data including Material Master, Vendor Master, Source List, Initial Inventory, and Purchase Info-Records
• Extensive configuration knowledge in Inventory Management (IM), Batch Management, Goods Receipt(GR), Goods Issue(GI), Reservations, Movement Types, Stock Transfer Order including inter and intra company transfers.
• Expert level configuration knowledge Procure-to-Pay (P2P) including Manual and automatic creation of Purchase Orders, Consignment settlement, invoice verification and MRP runs.
• SAP Production Planning and SCP expertise in Master Data, SOP, Demand Management, MRP
• Sound understanding of Discrete, and Repetitive industry solutions
• Specialized in configuration and enhancement of applications like Material Requirement planning (MRP), Consumption Based Planning to determine Reorder Point Planning, Lot - Size Calculation, Planning Run, and BOM explosion
• Clear understanding of Warehouse Management procedures including STO, Transfer Requests, Put-away and picking processes
• Clear understanding of cross-functional applications of SD and FI-CO
• Prepared training manuals for all levels of users in the organization and conducted knowledge transfer sessions
• Effective team player with excellent communication skills, strong positive attitude, excellent analytical skills, and capable of adapting to new technologies.
• Production Planning skill set: Creating Production order types and parameters for release and confirmation, maintaining scheduling profile, MPS, MRP,SOP (Sales and Operations Planning), Master Data, Rework,CBP (Consumption Based Planning) and SFC (Shop Floor Control),KANBAN, Capacity Planning, staging of materials, Bill of materials (BOM's), Routings, Discrete and Repetitive Manufacturing, Work centers, Control cycles, Back flushing.
• Inventory Management Skill set: Experienced in Inventory management, Goods receipt, Goods issue, Physical Inventory, Returns, Reservations, Movement types, Stock Transfer Order (Inter and Intra company), Sub contracting, purchase order, Transfer postings, goods invoice and Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), and Split valuation.
• Warehouse Management skill set: Configured and customized Warehouse organizational structure, Interfaces between LE-WM, IM-WM, storage bins, WM movement types, Auto transfer order (T.O), T.R creations and confirmations, WM material master views, special movement indicators, Interim storage areas, put away and stock removal strategies, stock transfers and posting changes, WM-QM for inspection lots, WM-PP for material staging, annual and Cycle WM physical inventory, WM activity monitor, Shelf life expiration date (SLED),Batch determination in WM, Storage unit Management (SUM) and Handling unit management (HUM).
• Quality management skill set: Inspection lots, Usage decisions and required settings in QM view of Material master data, WM-QM posting change notifications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

SAP Logistics Sub Modules: MM, WM, IM, and SD.

SAP Related Tool: SAP Solution Manager, BAPIS, HP-QTP, Agile Methodology, EDI, and IDOC’s.

Operating Systems: Windows 98/XP/Vista, Mac.

Microsoft tools: MS Office, MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Access, MS Visio.

Ticketing Tool: Service now, Redwood Cronacle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lake Forest, IL

SAP PP/MM Consultant, Implementation & Support

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the client’s interrogated with WM &EWM for STO’S.
• Involved in preparation phase study with core team members. Studied the legacy system and prepared a detailed document of AS-IS study. Developed the detailed TO-BE process to suit the company’s objectives using MS VISIO.
• Performed the Field mapping to study the GAP analysis.
• Conducted seminars for department head of manufacturing operations and department members about PP Master Data,Planned Independent Requirements (PIRs), MRP/MPS, and execution phase (Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Planned Orders, &Production Orders).
• Configured SAP PP-Pipetting’s for discrete manufacturing scenario as per the requirements of Business Blueprint.
• Configured new material types based on business requirements for finished assembly, semi-finished assembly, raw material, and packaging material.
• Defined work center categories, capacity categories, shift sequence, standard value keys, capacity and scheduling formulae.
• Collaborated with FICO team, to changed planning from MRP to SPP
• Customize control key for in-house production to address auto goods receipt, rework, milestone confirmation and quality inspection.
• Created new information structures, planning types, and macros as to address production planning process.
• Maintained planning hierarchies and proportional factors, inactive and active versions of SOP, and transfer operational data from SOP to demand management.
• Configured demand management with planning without final assembly as planning strategy.
• Implemented SFC to define production order type, its parameters, status profile, production scheduling profiles and confirmation parameters.
• Defined MRP controller, schedule margin key, detailed scheduling of planned orders and production orders, special procurement key, planning and rescheduling horizon.
• Defined number ranges for purchase requisitions, planned orders and production orders.
• Set up MRP run parameters for background job.
• Assisted in development of a report to display planned orders with more data selection options (plant, MRP controller, material and planned order date).
• Used user exit to establish a warning message if the header material has not been produced for the last three months.
• Developed process flow diagrams, documents, user manuals, and trained end users on the system-process flow, stock/requirements list, planned order conversion, confirmation, and use of various movement types for different purposes.
• Performed data analysis of the legacy system, data validation, and used LSMW to upload PP master data.
• Configured settings for Material Master, Service Master, Vendor Master, Purchasing Info and Inventory Management.
• Configured pricing schemas and created different access sequences for purchase orders, automated the purchase order creation and payment transactions.
• Defined Number ranges for various Purchasing documents.
• Involved in the updating of Master data, extending master data, deletion of data in master records i.e. purchasing info record, material master and vendor master.
• Defined Pricing elements like basic price, discounts, freight and taxes for various grades of Materials, and material groups and vendors.
• Created Request for Quotation (RFQ), issued RFQ to the vendors, and entered Quotation against RFQ.
• Created Outline agreements, Scheduling, Delivery Forecast and Contracts.
• Configured Stock transfers for 1-step transfer posting and 2-step transfers postings.
• Configured Split Valuation for material.
• Interacted with Technical (ABAP) consultants and developed standard & customized reports.
• Configured “Procure to Pay” process as like creation of purchase requisitions, Purchase orders, Purchase order processing, goods receipting, Invoice verification, subsequent debit/credit and payment processing to the vendor. Maintained Invoice receipt Tolerance limits.
• Communicated status, issues, and impacts, with team, team leadership, relevant client sponsors and process owners.
• Customized Plant parameters for MRP and Consumption Based Planning and Defined MRP groups and Controllers.
• Resolved issues related to Goods Issues, Goods Receipt, Reservation, Physical Inventory, Movement Types, and Transfer Order, Batch determination, Stock Transfer and other relevant objects in Inventory Management.
• Configured Service Master Record, Price conditions for service master record, and Blanket purchase order.
• Worked on EDI for processing invoices using 810, purchase orders using 850, 855, and 860.
• Carried out Unit Testing and Integration Testing with all possible Business Scenarios to ensure minimum problems after Go-Live.
• Provided Post implementation support in PP,MM& WM module.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

SAP PP-PI/MM Consultant for Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed As-Is business process from the subject matter experts (SMEs) team and explored the manufacturing operations/activities at shop floor, envisioned and map the TO-BE process for SAP R/3 MM&WM implementation.
• Identified the gaps in the business process and abridged them with functionality in SAP R/3 system.
• Actively worked with other teams, and finalize the organizational structure of Confidential Inc.
• Created As-Is and To-Be process flow using MS Visio.
• Worked on customization settings for PP Master Data, BOM, Routings and Work Centers.
• 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.
• Master Recipes: Master Recipe Management, Creation, Header Data, Material Components, Operations, Phases, Relationships, Operations Overview, and Check Operation.
• Set-up configuration and master data for Inspection Lot Creation, Results and Defects Recording.
• Configured Batch Management and involved in automatic creation of Batch serial numbers for tractability.
• Worked on Demand Planning & Management for maintaining material stock for production orders.
• 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.
• Configured Organizational Data for Enterprise - Created plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations and groups. Assigned plants, purchase organizations to company code, Assigned factory calendar to plants and plants to purchasing organization.
• 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 and Drop Shipments.
• Worked on goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfer, transfer postings and goods receipt for blocked stock.
• Solved Issues with Stock levels during Physical Inventory process at Storage Locations.
• Worked with SAP FI team to cover Procurement, Finance integration process (Vendor Account Groups).
• Configured mobile data entry in warehouses for RF device.
• Involved in designing custom EDI/IDOCs for purchase requisition, reservation and label for Barcode Printing.
• Performing EPC to identify any new errors after changes are made.
• Created test scripts, test cases, and test scenarios to facilitate UA testing.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing for Order Confirmation, cancellation of Goods Issue & Goods Receipt with MTS, Process orders, BOM’s, Classes, Characteristics, conversion order creation and release, ECM with BOM, Resource & Master Recipe, Mass Processing, and Production orders/process order.
• Train users in new functionality, write documentation to support the system processes. Design & development of end-to-end business processes within the company.
• Participated in daily meeting with business regarding progress of Post Go-Live Hyper-care.
• Conducted extra training sessions for end users after Go-Live.
• Provided daily production support to end-user community for SAP PP-PI and MM.

Confidential, Springdale, AR

SAP Module: SAP MM/PP consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Master data like Resources, Master Recipes, order types, scheduling parameters, confirmation parameters, Production Scheduling Profiles, lot sizing procedures, etc.
• Configuration of MRP groups for Import, local, consignment and finished goods according to business requirements, MRP controllers, Scope of planning for total planning, planning horizon, etc.
• Configured Control Recipe destinations, process messages and process instruction categories
• Created log tables for data entry in PI sheets.
• Interacted with Technical (ABAP) consultants and developed standard & customized reports.
• Assisted in data cleanup and converting BOMs, Work Centers, Routings and other characteristics.
• Maintaining number ranges for Recipes, Planned orders and process orders.
• Worked on SOP to set the sales and production figures by using flexible planning.
• Worked on Planning hierarchy, characteristics and key figures for custom information structure.
• Configured Material Master, BOM, Routing and Work Center for the old and new equipment in large volume Discrete Manufacturing environment.
• Extensively worked on Production Order Creation, Release, Availability Check, Confirmation of orders, Automatic Goods Receipt and Goods Issue.
• Defined Control Keys, Confirmation Parameters for various operations and production orders.
• Maintained Make-to-Order, Planning with Final Assembly strategy for various products.
• 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.
• Configured Master data like Resources, Master Recipes,order types, scheduling parameters, confirmation parameters, Production Scheduling Profiles, lot sizing procedures, etc.
• Configuration of MRP groups for Import, local, consignment and finished goods according to business requirements, MRP controllers, Scope of planning for total planning, planning horizon, etc.
• Configured Control Recipe destinations, process messages and process instruction categories
• Created log tables for data entry in PI sheets.
• Assisted in data cleanup and converting BOMs, Work Centers, Routings and other characteristics.
• Configured Material Master, BOM, Routing and Work Center for the old and new equipment in large volume Discrete Manufacturing environment .xtensively worked on Production Order Creation, Release, Availability Check, Confirmation of orders, Automatic Goods Receipt and Goods Issue.
• Configured Production Scheduling Profile and Scheduling Parameters for production orders.
• Defined Control Keys, Confirmation Parameters for various operations and production orders.
• Maintained Make-to-Order, Planning with Final Assembly strategy for various products.
• 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.
• Configured and executed the Shop Floor Activities based on User which included release of Production Order and Printing of Shop Floor Documents. (Time Ticket/ Pick Ticket).
• Worked on Display Filters for Stock Requirement List and MRP list.
• Defined Storage Type and assigned Movement Type to Storage Type.
• Maintained Control Cycle Record with respect to material, plant and supply area.
• Configured Material Master to maintain Quality Management View, Inspection Types as per business Inspection Requirements.
• Assisted in shop floor control activities like QM Capacity Planning and availability.
• Configured Inspection Lot, Quality Info Record, Inspection Plan, Master Inspection Characteristic and Sampling Procedure per business requirements.
• Defined Inspection Checkpoints, Inspection Lots and maintained Inspection results (QM).
• Configured Material master data, Vendor master data extensively.
• Worked on Purchasing: Purchase documents, Invoice Documents and Material documents - Purchase requisitions, Purchase orders and Goods receipts.
• Worked on SLED, MRP, and Procure to pay, Intra Company Stock Transport Order, Deliveries and Transfer postings.
• Assisted in SAP Console Implementation- Verification Profiles, RF Menus, Barcode Scanning, Screen Management, RF Queue Management.
• Proposed and Configured RF queue management for their out bound and Replenishment Process which involves defining queues by forwarding agent and respective Door.
• Involved in training the end users to work in RF interface environment.
• Extensively worked on Warehouse activity monitor to clear the pending backlogs.
• Performed Unit Testing and Integration Testing to ensure consistency of SAP Configuration across the modules.

Confidential, Pittsburgh

SAP MM /PP-PI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the End to End full cycle implementation of SAP Enterprise PP-PI Module.
• Responsible for working various phases of project such as collecting requirements, blue printing, design (prototyping), configuration, testing, training, documentation, and go-live support.
• Created Involved in preparing functional and technical specifications as per the user requirement.
• Responsible for customization of Discrete Manufacturing in PP and MM Modules according to the business requirements and integration between various modules.
• Implemented configurations in PP with make to stock and make to order scenarios.
• Worked on cleansing and configuration of master data and creation of Master Data including Bill of Materials, Work centers, Routings.
• Responsible for customization of PP-MM Module according to the business requirements and integration between various modules.
• Customized the BOM for different usages, material types and explosions. Defined work center formulas and assigned cost centers to work centers.
• 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 (Material Planning) run and special procurement keys.
• Customized MM functionalities: Master Data Material Master, Service Master, info records, source lists, Consumption Based Planning, purchasing, and Inventory Management.
• Configured purchasing organization, purchasing groups.
• Interacted with Technical (ABAP) consultants and developed standard & customized reports.
• Configuring document types for purchasing documents like purchase requisition, purchase orders.
• Configured the Inventory management of goods at the points of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks viz. consignment, third party, and sub-contracting.
• Created physical inventory settings, documents, posting differences, inventory sampling and cycle counting. Configured vendor master partner functions.
• Configured warehouse management settings with various storage types, sections and storage bins.
• Configured Inventory Management Parameters for all goods movements like goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, GR for blocked stock, Goods Returns.
• Configured release strategy for purchase requisition and purchase orders as per the approval hierarchy of the client.
• Conducted training sessions for the end users to demonstrate the new functionalities and enhancements added from the upgrade.
• Provide post up-gradation support.
• Interacted with Technical (ABAP) consultants and developed standard & customized reports.
• Provided expert services, training and go-live assistance to end users in the Production Planning and Material Management.

Confidential - Gainesville, TX

SAP Module: SAP MM/ PP-PIFunctional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of master data sub-module in Material Management (MM) module (Material master, Vendor Master, Info records, source lists, quota arrangements & condition records).
• Assisted the business in SAP version upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 5.0 in the domain on PP-PI, and provided the additional functionality as per the business requirements.
• Interacted with Technical (ABAP) consultants and developed standard & customized reports.
• 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.
• Data migration using LSMW.
• 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.
• Created unit test scenarios and carried out UAT using HP-QTP.
• Tested the background job set up for MRP.

Confidential

SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on standard material types as per the requirements of the client.
• Created material groups and setup quantity, value, split valuation control, forecasting and valuation classes.
• Worked on vendor master data (defined different business partners, and account groups for different partners).
• Worked on Purchasing Process including Purchase Requisition (MRP), Purchase Requisition (Third Party), including Purchase Order (MRP), Purchase Order (Third Party), Purchase Order (Stock and Non-stock), Scheduling Agreement, and Contracts.
• Worked on various purchase documents like Purchase Requisition, RFQ, Schedule Agreements, Contracts, Goods Receipt, Goods Issues, Transfer Posting and Invoice verification.
• Management of stocks and Goods movement were studied for implementing Goods receipts, goods issue and Transfer posting.
• Actively participated in resolving the data issues and conflicts within the PP functional team.