SUMMARY

• Worked extensively for 6 years in SAP in Production Planning and shop floor, Discrete Manufacturing and Repetitive Manufacturing environment. Skilled in Classification, Batch Management, ECM and other logistic execution functions.
• Executed Shop Floor Capacity Planning over 3 years including, Availability Check, Release of Orders, and Printing Shop - floor Papers, Goods issue, Goods movement, Order confirmations and Order settlement.
• Completed three full life cycle implementations, support and upgrade in functional areas including PP, PP-PI, MM and QM.
• Expertise in implementation and configuration of PP & QM modules in SAP ECC.
• Experience in diverse industrial sectors- Food and Beverages, Chemical and Automotive industries.
• Worked on business processes like Make-to-stock, Make-to-order, Engineer-to-order, Variant configuration, integration with Sales and Distribution, Product costing etc.,
• Experience in creating and configuring and maintaining Bill of Materials, Resource, Work centres, Routings, Recipes, and Process Management.
• Core strengths are Resources/Work Centre, Process/Production Orders, Master Recipe/Routing, Order Execution, Scheduling, Back flushing, Capacity/Demand Planning, Demand Management, Process Instruction Sheets Etc.
• Configuration of PI sheet, Process Orders, Process Management, Control recipe monitor, PI sheet maintenance, Message monitor.
• Integration with QM for the Inspection type, QM master data (Master inspection characteristics, Inspection plan, Sampling Procedure, catalogue, selected set), Result recording, Usage decision, Quality Notification and Quality certification.
• Integration to SD for the ATP, Availability check, MRP Run for MTO Scenario, Data migration using LSMW and also BAPI and IDOC for data transfer to SAP system. SAP to third party software MES (Manufacturing execution system) using MII (Manufacturing integration and Intelligence).
• SAP PP expertise in Master Data, Business Plan, SOP, demand management, MPS, MRP, RCP (rough cut planning), LTP (Long-term Planning), planned orders, process/production orders, confirmation, shop floor control, product costing.
• Proficient in Sales Operation Planning, Capacity Evaluations and Capacity Planning.
• Material Management expertise includes purchasing, inventory management, configuration and creation - Material Master, Info record, Vendors, Stock Transport orders, special stocks like Subcontracting Purchase Orders, Purchase requisitions, Customers, Contracts, and invoice verification.
• Implemented Capacity Planning and capacity levelling for work centres.
• Created and modified functional specification and coordinated with programmers for customization according to user requirements.
• Excellent communication, inter personal, presentation and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding & Analyzing customer’s ‘AS-IS’ Business Processes and mapping ‘TO-BE’ processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Modules: SAP PP/QM/MM

ERP Packages: SAP ECC 6.0, S4HANA.

Reporting Tool: SAP Business Objects 4.0/3.1

Project Management: MS Project & Visio

Operating Systems: Windows 10/7/Vista/XP/2000

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

Statistical Tools: Minitab, Design Expert

Other Tools: Auto CAD, SolidWorks, Catia, Ansys.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

SAP PP/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Configured and presented the Prototype for basic PP/QM related processes.
• Drafted the Blue print document for all the detailed processes.
• Managed the Configuration activity as per the processes finalized in the Blueprint.
• Analysis and implementation of Business process procedure scenarios and development of blueprint.
• Drafted the Unit and Integration test case scenarios for the processes.
• Managed and conducted the tests as per the test scripts.
• Resolved the issues from the Testing phase.
• Reported on day-to-day basis to the Project Manager with respect to progress, activities, cost and issues pertaining to PP/QM.
• Involved in Master Data conversion from legacy to SAP using direct extraction.
• Analyzed and configured of PP-PI Master Data including Material Master, Resources, and Recipe Masters.
• Configured Production Planning and Control including setting planning plant for SOP, special procurement type, activating MRP and set up planning files, Defining BOM and Routing selections, defining order type for conversion to production orders, carrying out overall maintenance of MRP groups etc.
• Configured PI sheets and worked on creating process orders, release, confirmations and availability check.
• Designed and implemented Variant configuration, and maintained Super BOM, routing and object dependencies.
• Configure/implementation of SAP MM regarding product information per the business requirement, as well as sales bill of material to group together products.
• Coordinated and performed the successful configuration, design, analysis and testing of SAP material management along with inventory management.
• Configured the release strategies for purchase requisition and purchase order.
• Carried out material master configuration for basic setting, maintaining order of main and additional screens, maintaining user setting, field selection for data screens, setting for other key fields, new material types and valuation class.
• Implemented standard functionality of the PP-PI module including Sales and Operation Planning, Demand Management, MRP, and Capacity Planning.
• Worked on Control Recipes simulation in Master Recipe, Control Recipe monitoring, and reporting process messages through PI sheet.
• Implemented Quality Management module with emphasis on QM in Production with respect to statistical process control.
• Captured customer requirements for PP/QM and PM.
• Implemented Discrete Manufacturing with 4 manufacturing plants in the US.
• Heavily involved in procure to pay (P2P) process. This involved from the time the ordered the raw material or spies used in the processing of the product, to the time it was received, monitored to the floor until the end product.
• Worked on finding the best way to configure and make sure that their inventory was right and it remained that way. The physical inventory and inventory in the system match or within the required tolerance.
• Configured batch search strategy types, search procedures, sort rules, and SLED for various materials.
• Configured the interfacing of LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) with quality management.
• Involved in configuration of inspection lots, quality certificates, catalogues, selected sets and profile assignment.
• Created inspection plans, master inspection characteristics and inspection methods.
• Involved in data migration for Material Master, Vendor Master and Purchasing Info Records from legacy systems using LSMW.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

SAP PP-MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As PP functional consultant involved in understanding ‘as is’ process and blueprinting ‘to be’ processes with gap analysis and identifying custom development objects.
• Gathered system requirements for MRP/Planning to utilize planning time fence to adhere to production schedules more closely.
• Worked with both discrete manufacturing as well as repetitive manufacturing with make-to stock and make-to-order environment. Configured planning without final assembly (make-to-stock), and with final assembly strategy (make-to-order) for finished parts.
• Developed and configured pull list-based event driven Kanban process through MF60 and automate adjustment of Kanban quantity based on the backflush job.
• Worked extensively in Designing and developing SAP based solution to interface with shop floor MES system. Enabled automatic confirmation process, good receipts and maintenance for customer service.
• Assisted in data clean up and converting BOMs, Work Centres, Routings and other characteristics.
• Developed functional specifications for modification of Production Order List program.
• Worked extensively on vendor evaluation and special procurement types such as Consignment, Subcontracting, Third Party and Stock Transfer.
• Worked overall Procure to Pay Cycle (P2P) from creation of Requisition to Invoice verification.
• Worked with goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfers and invoice verification.
• Built up extended Warehouse Management by configuring material group, storage location, warehouse numbers, storage type, purchasing group, storage bins and extending material master.
• Resolved day-to-day production support issues related to system functionality, performance, efficiency, and availability in the areas of Warehouse Management (WM).
• Configured the Pricing procedure and Release procedure for various purchasing documents including Purchase Orders according to the business process.
• Worked on SAP IDOCS & IDOCS processing.
• Supported and established ERP, Financials, and Indirect Procurement architecture governance.
• Worked with coordination of EWM Warehouse Management team and logistics execution.
• Assisted with business unit architecture and innovation planning for ERP, Financials and Indirect Procurement
• Executed Solution Design, Configuration, Implementation and Support of SAP PP/MM
• Ensure complete documentation including process flows, procedures and operations documents, functional designs related to the new developed solutions
• Developed customized documents, user manuals and troubleshooting guides for clients use.

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI

SAP PP/MM/QM Functional Consultant (Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• Resolved and tested the Tickets that are raised related to PP master data
• Involved in cleaning PP master data including material master, classification data, BOMs, Routings, work centers and Production Versions
• Created and presented the change requests at the Change Management meetings.
• Set up background batch jobs for MM, PP, and QM modules.
• Worked on implementing new QM processes such as vendor release process, quality certificate, quality notifications and process to support root cause analysis of filed failures to drive continuous improvements.
• Worked on configuring PR, PO, Good Receipts, and Invoice verification with QM Module.
• Implemented warehouse inventory control management as well as created and released reservations, negative stock, unplanned goods issues, and physical stock transfer types.
• Extensive collaboration with ABAP developer for developing Technical Specs for custom reports.
• Designing and configuring PP modules knowledge of the key integration points between other SAP modules including FI-CO and MM.
• Designed and implemented WM/EWM solution-delivery of project deliverables including functional and technical specifications, system configurations and testing.
• Problem solving for recurring SAP EWM issues involving configuration and/or processes.
• Trained users to Perform IM execution including goods receipts, goods issues, physical inventory, internal goods movements, batch, and serial number management & EWM execution including warehouse structure, handling units, delivery management, internal goods movements, transfer orders, posting changes. Created LSMW objects and loaded the master data through LSMW object. Error analysis of batch jobs of LSMW and correcting them.
• Conducted Training sessions for new functionality to users with documentation.

Confidential

SAP Production Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As SAP PP Trainee and worked on day-to-day production activities on the shop floor.
• Get trained and worked in configuration of various master data including Material Master, BOM, Work Center and Routing.
• Worked on ETO (Engineer to order) and created Planning BOM for independent customer requirements
• Responsible for planning, scheduling, & controlling the inventory flow within the company.
• Conduct workflow, process diagram and gap analyses to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Developed timelines for project delivery, and managed projects and resources to successful completion.
• Used company customized ERP implementation tool for continuous process improvements on the shop floor for scrap reduction and JIT delivery.
• Delivered project management expertise to identify, develop, and implement techniques to improve productivity, increase efficiencies, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and optimize cost.
• Negotiated favorable terms with vendors that significantly improved buying power.
• Communicated, coordinated and resolved quality related problems as being a member of the Six Sigma team for continuous quality improvement.
• Created Master data, MRP Controller, MRP types, MRP Area, Planning Calendar.
• Participated in technology review and design review meetings.
• Delivered project management expertise to identify, develop, and implement techniques to improve productivity, increase efficiencies, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and optimize cost.
• Negotiated favorable terms with vendors that significantly improved buying power.
• Communicated, coordinated and resolved quality related problems as being a member of the Six Sigma team for continuous quality improvement.
• Participated in technology review and design review meetings.