SUMMARY:

• Total 14 years of industry, IT and business experience.
• Over 11 years of configuration experience as SAP SCM PP/ PP - PI functional consultant with working knowledge in WM,MM, QM & IM modules and Master Data Management.
• 5 successful life cycle implementations in SAP PP/PP-PI/MM/WM/QM modules with expertise in proven project methodologies like ASAP, GAP analysis. Blue print, MTO make to order manufacturing scenario
• Analyzed the as-is condition of the clients, existing manufacturing system and carried out the TO-BE analysis, Business Process Re-engineering and configuration.
• Involved in upgrade from 4.0B to 4.6C.
• Expert in Integration of Manufacturing Execution Systems ES bundle (IMES) synchronizes manufacturing-related master data and transactional data between SAP ERP 6.0 and shop floor systems.
• Expertise in Variant Configuration (VC) is for manufacturing complex products. The manufacturer always has to offer new variants of its products. Often, new variants are created by modifying existing product designs as process the order. The important thing is to react quickly to customers' requirements.
• Experience in using oneconfigurable materialto cover all variants; create asuper BOMand asuper routingfor this material, containing all the components and operations for producing all variants of the product.
• Worked on both Discrete, Repetitive environments with expertise in Process Industries.
• Good understanding of integration points of PP with VC, MM, SD, and PP-PI modules.
• Conceptualized and Implemented Production Strategies like Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock.
• Expertise on configuration in SAP PP, PP-PI, Repetitive manufacturing, Capacity planning, SOP, Demand Management, LTP, Recipes, Routings, Control Recipes, Process Instruction Sheets, Resources, Work Center, Process orders, Production Orders, Shop Floor data collection systems, MRP, MPS, Order Execution, Scheduling and Back flushing.
• Extensively worked on X-STEPS functionality implementation for Production Order in SAP ERP 6.0 ehp 3.0 and as well as XSTEP PI Sheets.
• Configured and executed the SAP shop floor activities including creation of orders, conversion of planned orders.
• Thorough Knowledge in implementing ASAP Methodology.
• Involved in end-user training and production support.
• Extended expertise in Classification System, Application Link Enabling (ALE), Intermediate Documents (IDOC) and Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW).
• Proficiency with MS project to create and maintain project plans as directed.
• Strong understanding of SAP ECC and Manufacturing Execution System / Legacy Integration using Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII) and Enterprise Application Integrator (Middleware).
• Exposure to Product Data Replication (PDR), Sales and Distribution Pricing and Product Costing.
• Experience in analysis, design, system development, unit testing and implementation of project.
• Analyze Data
• Data Cleansing
• Data Translation from Legacy to SAP
• Master data Test
• Strong understanding of core business processes and technology strategies with an aim to design and develop systems that generate cost savings and streamline business processes.
• Extensive knowledge of Automotive, Electronics, Steel and Chemical Industries.
• Possess high analytical skills, good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner and team player.

SAP SKILLS SYNOPSIS:

Sales and Distribution: Worked on various elements of Sales and Distribution like Master Data, Basic Functions, Shipping, Transportation, Billing, Variant Configuration (VC), Service Management, Serialization, and Engineering Change Management (ECM) which include Customer Service Processing (CS) etc.

Production Planning: Extensive experience in configuration and customization of Discrete, MTO (make to order) Process and Repetitive manufacturing process which includes BOM, Work center, Routing, Production Order, Master recipe, Resource, Process Order, Production Scheduling. Planning - MRP, MPS, Demand Management.

Quality Management: Experience in configuration of inspection plans, master inspection characteristics, inspection methods, inspection lots and dynamic modification rule.

Material Management: Working knowledge in customization of Material master, Forecasting, Inventory Management, outlines agreements and Invoice Verification. HP Quality Center, Solution Manager and SharePoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr.SAP PP/MM/WM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Studied the Business Process of Applied Materials and have made To-Be Documents as High Level Production Planning Process with Discrete Manufacturing,
• Did extensive requirements gathering by clearly communicating with Production controller, shop floor, sales department and other end users.
• Bridged the gap between business and IT through functional expertise by giving various presentations.
• Defined Add On Packages, developed Flow Chart Documentation and Presentation, Business Scenarios
• Presented a blue print to the team for their approval.
• Configured and Customized Material Master: Defined attributes of new Material types, material statuses and material groups, divisions, field selections, assigned screen sequences to User/Material types/Transactions/Industry Sector.
• Developed material master data, BOM, work centers and routings.
• Explained the different planning strategies in demand management, forecasting models available at material level, lot sizing procedures, safety stock, material forecasting etc that are available in SAP.
• Suggested the client with new relevant planning strategy, lot sizing procedures etc. which are best suited for the client business process and their benefits after implementation in several of presentations.
• Performed configuration to STO outbound delivery process along with LES transactions
• Configured storage sections, storage types, Storage Bins, Transfer orders and confirmations
• Worked on Customization Settings for PP Master Data: Bill of Materials, Routings, and Work Centers
• Defined movement types in warehouse management to match one on one to IM
• Proposed various design options including Delivery Processing, Inventory management, Discrete Manufacturing Business Process.
• Performed configuration for material types, field selection and valuation
• Prepared unit test scripts for purchase orders, Goods Receipts and vendor master interface for testing
• Defined effectively and validity of Master data.
• Enterprise structure with in MM module and PP module has been configured.
• Design and configuration of physical inventory documents and cycle count
• Configured Output determination for WM and IM documents.
• Identified critical interfaces to IM and WM. Developed a testing plan for the integration testing of all critical interface objects.
• Configured Plant parameters for Material Requirement Planning (MRP) such as MRP group, MRP types, MRP controller, Planning calendar, Planning horizon, lot-sizing procedure, and availability check for component
• Configured shop floor activities: Creation of Orders, Conversions of Planned orders to production orders, goods movements, order confirmations and availability check.
• MM Module Configuration- Material Master, PR, PO, Pricing, Agreements, Info records, Release Procedures, Inventory Management, GR, GI, Reservation, Transfer Posting, Stock Transfer, Consignment Settlement, Invoice Verification, Account Determination, Valuation, Physical Inventory process, MRP.
• Configuration of pricing procedures, conditions, condition tables, condition records and access sequence and reports in pricing
• Set up OTC pricing procedures for custom sales order types
• Extensively Involved in assisting the users in identifying data issues and solving these problems regarding SAP-MM/WMM Module related process.
• Involved in supporting the users to trouble shoot SAP- IM/MM Module.
• Involved in complete analysis and configuration of IM/MM module.
• Configured Batch Management.
• Designed automatic transfer order creation.
• Set up interim procedures for MRP run.
• Developed business process procedures in IM and MM.
• The purchase order can be raised only to the vendors who have been released by the quality department.
• The material procured from the vendor is based on the supply relationship.
• The new transaction MIGO is configured.
• Configuration scripts have been developed.
• Warehouse numbers and put away strategies have been configured.
• Implemented MDE systems for inventory management
• Validated master data for MM and IM assisted in developing local templates for data loads.
• Communicated to OSS on client specific issues and provided solutions.
• Developed functional specifications to custom objects and reports.
• Assisted in change management process.
• Extensive production support using help desk agents.
• Resolved change requests from business owners

Confidential, Mount Prospect, IL

Sr. SAP PP Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading SAP Production Team
• Implemented Make To Stock, Phantom assembly scenario
• Followed SAP Word Template based implementation
• As a Sr.SAP PP-PI Lead Consultant responsible for business process study, GAP analysis configuration and system testing. project resource planning, project scoping, business blue print sign off
• Used SLO Migration tool to migrate data from Unilever to R&B foods
• Configured Standard value keys, Control keys, Formulas, Capacity categories for resources in master data.
• Configured Engineering Change Management for history requirements for BOMs and Master Recipes.
• Calculated capacity requirements for Resources by using standard values and formula constants.
• Assigned work centers to cost centers to calculate the product costs
• Implemented Capacity Planning, Detailed Scheduling, Capacity Evaluation and Capacity Leveling to allocate Operations to Resources.
• Created Functional specifications to RICEF.
• Delivered Process Design documents
• Create Unit test Script and performed Unit testing
• Designed review presentation materials
• Created Configuration documents
• Created Integration test scripts

Confidential, Lakeland, Fl

Sr.SAP PP/PI/MM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Master Data Analyzing i.e.(Material Master, Bom, Master recipe, Resources, Production Version
• Configuration Check
• Made configuration change for Process order management, MRP, MRP Group and Plan parameters
• Identified Gaps in the business process
• Provided solutions to the ongoing issues in Planning
• Provided solutions for the consumption material change after certain period.
• Provided solutions for the Scheduling sequence to plan Carbonated beverage with different flavors
• Configured Finite scheduling
• Defined control parameters for warehouse number in LE.
• Responsible for setting up variant configuration model for special order items
• Performed the MM and invoice verification configuration.
• Trained the end Users &level 2 ( tier 2) support for MM(PTP) & SRM - EBP regular transactions &trained the vendors for SUS with the aid of MS Power point, User manual
• Configured Third party distribution Purchase Orders. Customized Automatic Purchase order creation.
• Configured Master data, POS and E-commerce in integration with MM .
• Maintained the basic settings that are required for LE planning, for status and event verification through the forwarding agents
• Validated master data for LE and IM assisted in developing local templates for data loads.
• Communicated to OSS on client specific issues and provided solutions.
• Involved in the creation of PSA, InfoSources & DataSources for the Extraction, Transformation and Loading of data from SAP R/3 system to SAP BW
• Improved performance of existing SAP BW Queries and reports by 30% by creating Aggregates, Compression and Partition etc
• Design and configuration of direct procurement of materials using RTP process with release strategies.
• Identifying Material Master Data attributes.
• Defined new Material types and configured SAP Material Master Data.
• Preparation of unit test scripts for purchase orders, Goods Receipts and vendor master interface for testing.
• Coordination with the ABAP team on development work.
• Preparation of Integration test scripts for testing the data for outbound and inbound process

Confidential, Westmont, IL

Sr.SAP PP/PI/MM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a Sr.SAP PP-PI Consultant responsible for business process study, GAP analysis configuration and system testing. project resource planning, project scoping, business blue print sign off
• Prepared a detailed document of AS-IS, by interacting with the key users.
• Analyzed business reports requirements sign off and Client’s final approval.
• Set up configuration for New RFC (request for change) that include Standard value keys, Control keys, Formulas, Capacity categories for new work centers as a part of master data set up
• Part of another help desk ticket was to configure Engineering Change Management for history requirements for BOMs.
• Created Inspection Plans, Master Inspection Characteristics, Work Centers, Selected Sets/Catalogs as part of the PP/QM Master Data creation
• Configured Inspection Types, Control keys, Defined Sampling Procedures, Defined Sampling schemes, Defined Dynamic modification rules, Defined Quality Levels, Defined Catalog Types, Defined Selected sets, Defined Task List Usages, Assigned Inspection Lot Origins to Delivery Types, Defined keys for Delivery Blocks, Defined Task List Statuses, Assigned Status profiles for Inspection types, Assigned Task list to Materials, Defined Inventory Postings
• Configured Standard value keys, Control keys, Formulas, Capacity categories for resources in master data.
• Configured Engineering Change Management for history requirements for BOMs and Master Recipes.
• Calculated capacity requirements for Resources by using standard values and formula constants.
• Assigned resources to cost centers to calculate the product costs, and to the HR module to find out the skill level of an employee.
• Responsible for creating Operations and Phases in Master Recipes by defining control keys, relationships between phases and standard values.
• Configured production variants using material master formulas with in recipes.
• Implemented Capacity Planning, Detailed Scheduling, Capacity Evaluation and Capacity Leveling to allocate Operations to Resources.
• Provided Functional specifications to RICEF.
• Configured Customer Forecasting using Flexible planning scenario.
• Carried out Unit, Informal and Formal Testing on various PP/QM Business processes in ECC 6.0 by setting up data for the test scenarios which had standard SAP as well as the custom transactions, and validated configuration to meet the required business results
• Configured and executed the shop floor activities including creation of orders, conversion of planned orders, printing of shop papers, goods movements, order confirmations and availability check.
• Customized of master data, which includes the material master, vendor master, source list and info records.
• Defined movement types in warehouse management
• Define Replenishment Control for Storage Type in warehouse management
• Worked in implementation of SAP WM, SD, HUM, MM, APO (Supply Network planning and detailed scheduling) and PP Modules involving BDC, LSMW, and Module Pool and Report development.
• Configured process instruction categories and process messages
• New requirements arose due to a change in the organization that resulted to Define Production schedule profiles, planner groups and factor calendars.
• Worked on upgrade project and developed the project plan and SOW.
• Provided Functional specifications to shop floor data collection systems.
• Worked on BADI Method GET Document to get the Signature tool.
• Configured MRP controllers, MRP groups and Scheduling parameters in Material Requirements Planning.
• Changed Order type dependent parameters, Confirmation parameters, Schedule margin keys, and checking rule for production orders.
• Created Integration test scripts for each PP transaction.
• Set up Material Management Organizational structures and global settings for PTP project.
• Configured Inventory Management, Purchasing, Invoice Verification.
• Prepared the process design document for standard purchase orders, goods receipt, vendor master interface and invoice and payments.
• Performed the MM (PTP) and Fi (AP) configuration required to fulfill the business requirements.
• Identifying Material Master Data attributes and custom fields for custom material types
• Defined new Material types and configured source list and info-records of unit test scripts for purchase orders, Goods Receipts and vendor master interface for testing the scenarios.
• Preparation of Integration test scripts for testing the data for outbound and inbound process
• Executed the Integration testing with end users who includes purchase orders, Goods receipts, invoice and payments.
• Procurement custom reports functional specifications have been developed
• Material master data templates have been developed to validate data migration process
• Classification view, Basic data1, Basic data 2 and WM views have been configured
• Consumption based material requirement planning types have been configured
• Configured WM/IM movement types, variant placement strategies, packing, shipping, decentralized warehouse, inventory management and returnable packaging.
• Created new activity groups to restrict access to users based on Plant, release authority level
• Reviewed and interfaced with other functional modules - SD, FI, CO, PS, PM and PP
• Coordination with the ABAP team on development work.
• Responsible for design and preparation of functional specifications, interpretation of ABAP, debugging required for customized reports, trouble shooting, break fixing and custom transactions.
• Worked on BPPs, Prepared Specifications for PP PI and WM and was part of End User training.
• Developed test scenarios and Performed unit and integration testing.
• Knowledge transfer and end user training.

Confidential, St Paul, MN

SAP PP-PI/QM/WM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Make to Deliver Scenario
• Provided Go-live Deployment support for Confidential Taiwan and Tainan Plants
• Worked on Bonded and Non bonded materials
• Provided support for Teammax third party system integration
• Maintained Bonded Item master, Bom Declaration custom tables
• Maintained Gorp Data tables for Activity and Order Confirmations
• Responsible to create change request and test the changes and transport to Production
• Responsible for customization of PP-PI Module according to the business requirements and Integration between SAP QM, SAP MM, SAP WM, SAP SD, SAP FICO.
• Configuration and creation of Master Data i.e. resources, master recipes, Rate Routings
• Customizing BOM for different usages, material types and explosions.
• Defined resources formulas and assigned cost centers to resources to evaluate the product costing of the material.
• Implemented different capacities for the resources
• Provided Functional specifications to shop floor data collection systems
• Responsible for assigning PRTs trigger points to different operations in routings.
• Implemented configurations in PP with make to stock and make to order scenarios
• Customized data for repetitive manufacturing by defining production versions, planning id and production lines for planning purposes in material master data.
• Configured and created boms, work centers and rate routings.
• Implemented MPS Planning Scenario
• Implemented planned independent requirements in Demand Management
• Created the planned orders by using planned tables and sequences.
• Configured graphic profiles for Capacity Planning/Leveling in Repetitive manufacturing.
• Created pull list to control in-house material flow, supplying production with 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.
• Production completion confirmations are simplified and are made with reference to the material being produced. The confirmations usually include the back flushing of components and the posting of production costs.
• In repetitive manufacturing, we calculated costs per material or per production version via a product cost collector (product cost per period).
• Integrated with other modules particularly with CO and MM to configure product costing, inventory management.
• Maintained planned independent Requirements by transferring data from Sales and Operation Planning.
• Set up Long term planning to forecast input material requirements and Plan capacity loads.
• Reorder bases planning and forecast based planning for raw materials.
• Created new evaluation and levelling profiles for MRP and Shop floor control in Capacity Requirement Planning.
• Configured the batch management functionality to facilitate inventory visibility on user-defined attributes, easier goods issue using search strategies.
• Production order creation, release and confirmation and back flushing, shop floor papers printing with user-defined layouts.
• Implemented functionality likes super BOM, Super routing, and Class items in BOM, Tables and functions.
• Defined affectivity and validity of Master data.
• Configured MRP, Demand Planning & Scheduling Procedures to integrate with Purchasing and Delivery Requirements.
• Prepared the process design document for purchase order, goods receipt, vendor master interface and invoice & payments.
• Performed the MM and invoice verification configuration.
• Identifying Material Master Data attributes.
• Defined new Material types and configured SAP Material Master Data.
• Performed the QM and MM integration point configuration required to fulfill the client’s requirements.
• Identifying quality certificates and notifications needed for the business
• Defined work centers for QM. Control keys, scheduling formula, QM parameter ID
• Preparation of QM unit test scripts for all unit test scenarios
• Preparation of Integration test scripts for testing the integration business scenarios
• Executed the Integration testing with users and got user acceptance.
• Expertise in customize MM/WM system to cater client requirements.
• In Invoice Verification, setup the Unplanned Delivery costs Postings, Dealt with Invoices when PO variances occurred, and Vendor specific Tolerances.
• Performed configurations in QM master data such as inspection characteristics, inspection planes
• Customized data for QM/PP order types and order dependent parameters.
• Configured and executed planning run with technical and business information and processed planned orders and MRP list evaluations.
• Responsible for configuring background jobs for MRP Run, special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues between different plants.
• Configured and executed the shop floor activities including creation of orders, conversion of planned orders, printing of shop papers, goods movements, order confirmations and availability check.
• Responsible for creating production order types and processing of production orders.
• Responsible for Maintenance of XSteps in the Master Recipe
• Performed Early Issue of Order Number
• Performed Parallel Processing of Standard XStep References
• Performed XStep Process Instructions for PI Sheets
• Performed XStep Process Instructions for External Systems
• Performed XStep Editor
• Performed XStep Status Management
• Performed XStep Versioning
• Performed Export and Import of Standard XStep Versions
• Frequently Performed SE10 to release transports
• Performed SCU0 to compare data’s between different clients.
• Supported data conversion approach and strategy development
• Facilitated team status meetings and prepared regular status reports
• Provided inputs to the Organizational change management team
• Responsible for post live support and end user training.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

SAP PP-PI/QM/PPDS/SNP Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Plan to Produce scenario
• Documentation & project preparation by analysing the "AS IS" systems like manufacturing processes, functional areas, material issues, legacy systems and development of "TO BE" solutions. created DPD and BPP's using Oracle UPK Productivity tool.
• Provided End user training for Manufacturing and Assembly.
• Written Functional specification to develop Tcode to perform shop floor papers with Barcode confirmation for each operation
• Performed SIT Testing, Regression Testing, User acceptance Testing in PP and APO (SNP, PPDS)
• Executed SIT test run for
• Quota Arrangement
• Subcontracting
• SNP only planning
• SNP PDS to PPDS conversion
• Coordinated and performed analysis, design, configuration, testing and implementation of SAP Materials Management (MM) application module.
• Master Data Configuration: Created material groups. Setup quantity, value, valuation control, and valuation area grouping and valuation classes.
• Organizational Data Configuration: 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.
• Implemented in Variant Configuration with Engineering Change management (ECM).
• Configured PP/Variant Configuration/ECM module and strong skills in integration with SD, PS, PM, QM and FI/CO modules.
• Implemented Variant Configuration, ECM, Batch Management & Batch Management Derivation.
• Set up raw material planning using MRP. Set up bulk item in such a way that rail or truck shipment schedules are updated by MRP using scheduling agreements.
• Master Data-Material: Maintained G/L accounts posting automatically. Created Material Master for different types.
• Master Data-Vendor: Maintained field status for vendor account groups. Created Vendor Master Records. Created Purchasing info records.
• Transaction Data Configuration: Maintained automatic posting for Goods Movement to G/L Accounts. Transaction Data Configuration-Purchasing: Maintained purchasing tolerance limits.
• Transaction Data Process: Created Purchase Requisition, variant request for quotations. Maintained quotations. Performed price comparison and vendor evaluation, generated ranking list. Created Purchase Order, scheduling agreement and delivery schedule.
• Transaction Data Configuration-Inventory Management: Maintained Goods Receipts Tolerance Limits. Created default values for Inventory Management Reservations. Transaction Data Processes-Receiving: Created Goods Receipt.
• Transaction Data Configuration & Processes-Invoice Verification: Maintained Invoice Receipt Tolerance Limits. Created default values for Invoice Verification. Created an Invoice Receipt.
• Transaction Data Processes-Material Consumption: Created Goods Issue. Checked Mat. & Acct. Documents.
• Performed Master data validation for Production
• Worked on RSSM Scenario (Request to Scrap surplus Material)
• Worked on Customer Specific package scenario
• Created CIF Integration model and activated integration model.
• RFC Queue Monitored and error handled for inbound and outbound queue
• Created Access Variants in iPPE
• Created Rate Model in iPPE
• Performed SIT Test for SNP PDS to PPDS conversion
• Created Demand in SNP and released forecast.
• Validated Product master, Resource, Location, Customer Location in APO
• Validated daily and weekly Product Planning book, capacity planning book
• Generated Location Planned orders in SNP
• Generated Capacity leveling for Daily and weekly buckets in SNP
• Performed Planning Run in SNP
• Converted SNP Planned order to PPDS Planned order within PPDS horizon
• Checked capacity consumption, leveling and overloading.
• Configured MRP, Demand Planning & Scheduling Procedures to integrate with Purchasing and Delivery Requirements.
• Analyzed and solved COGI errors.
• Configured and executed planning run with technical and business information and processed planned orders and MRP list evaluations.
• Responsible for configuring background jobs for MRP Run, special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues between different plants.
• Configured and executed the shop floor activities including creation of orders, conversion of planned orders, printing of shop papers, goods movements, order confirmations and availability check.
• Responsible for creating production order types and processing of production orders.
• Involved in creation of production order, displaying capacity load and capacity leveling.
• Configured graphic profiles for Capacity Planning/Leveling in Repetitive manufacturing.
• Analyze, design and develop the business model according to the business needs comparing to the industry’s best practices.
• Production completion confirmations were simplified and made with reference to the material being produced. The confirmations usually included in the back flushing of components and the posting of production costs.
• Set up new evaluation and leveling profiles for MRP.
• Production orders were set up released and confirmed using back flushing. Shop floor papers were formatted for printing with custom layouts.
• Trained the users on process flow stock/requirements list, converting of planned orders into production orders, creating manual stock transport orders and to use various movement types for different purposes
• Customized data for QM order types and order dependent parameters
• Configured QM master views with field selection, catalogs, Quality scores, QM task lists and serial numbers
• Configured QM notifications, QM certificates and print controls
• Configured work centers for QM and standard value keys.
• Provided Functional specifications to custom QM report
• Configured custom movement types, placement strategies, packing, shipping, decentralized warehouse, inventory management and returnable packaging.
• Configured new activity groups to restrict access to users based on Plant, release authority level
• Reviewed and interfaced with other functional modules - SD, FI, CO, PS, PM and PP
• Involved in system testing Using HPQC and post implementation support.
• Delivered Process Design documents
• Designed review presentation materials
• Created Configuration documents
• Created Integration test scripts
• Created Data conversion approach
• Provided unit testing and integration testing support
• Created Cutover plan
• Provided input to end user support plan
• Created Knowledge transfer plan

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL

SAP PP & PP-PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Actively Participating in Blueprinting and Realization Phase in ECC 6.0 version.
• BLUEPRINTING Phase: Actively participating in preparing the blueprints (Baseline Configuring) for Phase-1 and 2 for sourcing and Accounts Payable and Signoff and Review.
• The Blue prints for Accounts payable includes PO based invoice, NON PO based invoice and Payment run.
• REALIZATION Phase: working on Configuring the System in order to have an integrated and documented solution which fulfills the business process requirements for the same.
• Configuration for a shop floor MES information collection systems using PP-PI process messages and process instructions
• Rolling out PP Variant Configuration out to another business unit
• Non valuated materials, customer consignment materials, Class and Characteristics are defined for classifications of materials.
• Analyzed Sales, Engineering, Production Process for scope and clarity of VC and IPC processes
• Configured Bill of Materials, Routings, and Configuration Profiles for Variant Configuration (VC).
• Strong Configuration and customization of Variant Configuration
• Material Issue to Production and Cost center.
• Configured Automatic account assignments for integration with FI, Split valuation.
• Customized data for repetitive manufacturing by defining production versions, planning id and production lines for planning purposes in material master data.
• Configured and created boms, work centers and rate routings.
• Implemented planned independent requirements in Demand Management
• Created the planned orders by using planned tables and sequences.
• Configured graphic profiles for Capacity Planning/Leveling in Repetitive manufacturing.
• Created pull list to control in-house material flow, supplying production with 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.
• Production completion confirmations are simplified and are made with reference to the material being produced. The confirmations usually include the back flushing of components and the posting of production costs.
• In repetitive manufacturing, we calculated costs per material or per production version via a product cost collector (product cost per period).
• Integrated with other modules particularly with CO and MM to configure product costing, inventory management.
• Maintained planned independent Requirements by transferring data from Sales and Operation Planning.
• Set up Long term planning to forecast input material requirements and Plan capacity loads.
• Reorder bases planning and forecast based planning for raw materials.
• Created new evaluation and levelling profiles for MRP and Shop floor control in Capacity Requirement Planning.
• Configured the batch management functionality to facilitate inventory visibility on user-defined attributes, easier goods issue using search strategies.
• Functional lead for development of an interface between ProPack MES system and SAP R/3 for automated Dispensing and Electronic Batch Records at domestic plant sites
• Configured MES interface
• Configured number ranges, tolerances for LIV subsequent debits and credits and tax determination.
• Involved Master data conversion activity to migrate legacy system data into SAP for vendor master, Material master, Info records, Batch master.
• Prepared functional specifications, interfaces, custom reports based on user requirements and coordinated with ABAP Programmers
• Helped in master data migration using LSMW, and CATT from Legacy Systems
• Carried out Unit Testing and Integration Testing with all possible Business Scenarios for the above configuration.
• Steps taken to have proper documentation on MM/IM/LE implementation and developing training strategies and delivering to end users at client place.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Senior PP & PP-PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creation and configuration of Master Data that includes, Master Recipes and Resources.
• Responsible for writing object dependences in BOM and Routing master data in Variant Configuration (VC).
• Resolved the issues encountered in class and characteristic assignment in Variant Configuration (VC).
• Defined and configured Organizational structure and distributional channels and divisions.
• Setting up different Order types based on requirements for the business.
• Worked extensively on Third party order process and Order to cash process.
• Worked closely with the marketing and account receivable departments along with the
• ABAP team members to gather and verify requirements for the customer master.
• Created Customer master data, material master data, and customer-material Information Record, Vendor master, pricing procedure, Contracts, and Customer groups.
• Created new customer account groups, Partner types, access sequences and procedures
• Established links with item category groups and item categories.
• Configuration of Transportation Planning point, Shipping types and Transportation Planning. Having experience in configuration of complex packing procedure, according to that setup the pricing procedure.
• Calculated capacity requirements for Resources by using standard values and formula constants.
• Assigned resources to cost centers to calculate the product costs, and to the HR module to find out the skill level of an employee.
• Responsible for creating Operations and Phases in Master Recipes by defining control keys, relationships between phases and standard values.
• Configured production variants using material master formulas with in recipes.
• Implemented Capacity Planning, Detailed Scheduling, Capacity Evaluation and Capacity Leveling to allocate Operations to Resources.
• Configured PI sheets. Process messages and process instructions
• Defined Production schedule profiles, planner groups and factor calendars.
• Configured MRP controllers, MRP groups, parallel processing, and Scheduling parameters in Material Requirements Planning.
• Participated in the design process, assisted in defining project scope for the company and planned implementation of SAP MM/PP/VC module with full life-cycle implementation using ASAP methodology.
• Defined Order type, Confirmation parameters, Schedule margin keys, and checking rule for process orders.
• Worked on BPPs, Prepared Specifications for PP and MM and was part of End User training.
• Developed test scenarios and Performed unit and integration testing.
• Knowledge transfer and end user training.
• As a Post implementation support, new plants have been configured and changes are made to control parameters and work center parameters.
• Defined and Configured Batch Management in process orders.
• Configured planning strategies and requirements types, creation of MRP elements, basic and lead time scheduling, strategy group and strategy group to MRP group assignments, define MRP controllers, plant parameters, and lot size calculations, planning horizons, material availability in blocked and stock in transfer.
• Configured allowable items in BOM headers and BOM items, configures BOM status keys.
• Configured Valuation Area, Plant, Purchasing Organization, Purchasing Group, Storage Locations, Material Types and Defined Material Groups.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP PP/PP-PI/ WM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed as the SAP PP/PP-PI functional consultant in implementing the total life cycle in SAP PP module using ASAP and solution manager
• Performed as is study to determine the business requirements of the company based on the company’s business needs in MTO environment
• Expertise in Create a sales order containing a configurable material (Variant configuration) for externally procured while material need not have a BOM. However, the material must have a configuration profile with an assignment to a class (CL). The characteristics (CA) of the class are used to describe the material.
• Configured production variants using material master formulas with in recipes.
• Implemented Capacity Planning, Detailed Scheduling, Capacity Evaluation and Capacity Leveling to allocate Operations to Resources.
• Configured PI sheets. Process messages and process instructions
• Defined and Configured Batch Management in process orders.
• Set up VC object dependency between objects such as conditions and sales BOM
• Configuration of VC profiles for order management Set up super BOMs
• Worked on generation of 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.
• Designed manufacturing scenarios in PP-PI for make to stock and make to order strategies.
• Configured availability check, production scheduling profile, process order types, and plant parameters, automatic purchase requisitions from MRP and goods movements.
• Rolling out MM Variant Configuration out to another business unit
• Integrated to QM module, to carry out in-process inspections.
• Assigned task list types to material type in QM.
• Defined QM document types, defined catalog types
• Production completion confirmations were simplified and made with reference to the material being produced. The confirmations usually included in the back flushing of components and the posting of production costs.
• Set up new evaluation and leveling profiles for MRP.
• Production orders were set up released and confirmed using back flushing. Shop floor papers were formatted for printing with custom layouts.
• Trained the users on process flow stock/requirements list, converting of planned orders into production orders, creating manual stock transport orders and to use various movement types for different purposes.
• Configured transportation module, includes configuring the individual shipping documents, shipment costs, shipment cost types & freight calculations, cost assignment freight. Defining all determination procedures with condition techniques.
• Generation of mapping documents between SAP for EDI transactions (both inbound and Outbound), Partner determination and Output Determination, Creation of Partner Profiles, IDOC extensions and IDOC types, verification of outbound IDOC and of Inbound IDOC, ALE, Workflow basics and User-Exits.
• Maintained prices, conversions, surcharges and discounts, defining condition Tables, access sequences and condition types for pricing.
• Implementation of output determination strategy to facilitate migration of EDI Trading Partners incrementally while continuing to process non-migrated customers without disruption.
• Worked with the Technical team to identify the User Exits/Functional modules to send Data across the legacy system using EDIs and prepare technical specification.
• Coordinated the essential activities for system integration, UAT - reviews and feedbacks, and Go-live for the assigned projects and Responsible for Testing/Documenting Credit and Debit memo.
• Created Documents for Training and Testing purposes, Training Documentation includes Business Activity Scripts and Activity Profiles which Define and Describe in Detail Functionality from Creating a Quotation to Billing.
• Administered HP Test Director for quality center and automated manual testing processes using Win Runner.