SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in Production planning, Quality Management and Advanced Planning and Optimization into sectors like Oil & Gas, Telecommunication and Manufacturing.
• 2 Full life cycle ERP implementations with detailed knowledge and excellent command over ASAP methodologies - Scoping, Project Preparation, Business Blue printing, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live and support.
• Experience in Master Data migration and data maintenance of various modules such as Material Master, Vendor Master, PIR, SL, Quota arrangements, QIR, PO, BOM, Work centers, Routings.
• Expertise with Quality Planning, Quality Inspection, Quality Control, Return to Vendor process, Quality Certificates for Analysis and Conformance, Quality Notifications, Quality Reports, Audits Reports,Risk Assessment Reports etc.
• Experience in Data Migration from Legacy to SAP for up gradation / new implementation / integration projects and import data from third party interfaces like LIMS to SAP.
• Configuration knowledge in Master Data, Demand Management, SOP, Batch Management, MRP, Capacity Planning, REM and intercompany Business.
• Hands on experience in Industry specific needs like Material type, Batch management processing and build/ customize to order.
• Configured and evaluated the cost centers, mapping with work centers, carried out product costing for various materials which includes semi-finished, finished, co-products.
• Worked on MTS (Make-to-Stock), MTO (Make-to-Order), Make-to-Order for Configurable Material, Stock Requirement/ MRP Lists, variant configuration, super BOMs.
• Configuration of PP-MRP processes, production orders, process orders, repetitive manufacturing, classification, batch management, capacity planning, demand management.
• Extensive knowledge and hands on configuration and implementation of the SAP APO modules (DP, SNP, GATP, PP/DS). Extensive experience in team development, and project management with a special focus on Production Planning, MRP and Shop Floor execution.
• Worked with shop floor activities including creation of production orders, availability check, and order release, printing shop floor papers, goods issue, goods movement and order confirmation.
• Configuration Knowledge in Purchase Requisition, Source determination, Vendor selection, Purchase Order, Inbound Delivery, Goods Receipts, and Invoice verification.
• Expertise in maintaining Master Data like Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Record, Source List, BOMs, Super BOMs, Work Center/Resource, Routing/Master Recipe, Super Routing, Task List, Class, Characteristics, Production Version and Product Cost Collector.
• Experience with designing, configuring, upgrading, testing, and documenting of PP/MM module through versions 4.6C to ECC 6.0
• Worked on various areas of APO Supply network planning.
• Worked on SNP Heuristics, optimizer and capable to match techniques.
• Extensive skills in SAP APO on Integration Model, Core Data Interface (CIF), Live Cache, Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP), Global Available to Promise (GATP), and Backorder Processing (BOP).
• Expertise in Supply Network Planning (SNP) including SNP Horizon, Planning methods using Heuristics, Optimization & CTM, Capacity leveling, Deployment, Transportation Load Builder (TLB), Planning Area Administration, Books, Data views, Location Master, Product Master, Resources, Transportation Lanes, Quota Arrangements, Production Process Model (PPM) and Production Data Source (PDS).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Integration: PP to APO, MM, QM

ERP Packages: SAP R/3 - ECC 7.0, 6.0, 5.0, 4.7EE, 4.6C

Modules: PP, QM

RDBMS/DBMS: Oracle, MS Access

Programming Languages: C

MS Office Tools: Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Redmond, WA

SAP PP/APO Consultant

Environment: SAP ERP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Working on an implementation project for APO Module and its Integration with PP.
• Understood the Business process as part of knowledge transfer and Maintained the S&OP process using DP and SNP, performed enhancements in Data view, DP graphs.
• Responsible for design, documentation and implementation of the forecasting and MRP planning.
• Configured and executed the shop floor activities including creation of orders, conversion of planned orders, shop floor papers, goods movements, order confirmation and availability check.
• Implemented ASAP methodology - Scoping, responsible for business analysis & requirements gathering, documentation, reading blueprints, testing, and modeling of business requirements, realization, pre go-live, go-live.
• Worked on Master Data preparation in ECC creating a large number of Matloc combinations.
• Improved forecasting by selecting most appropriate models and the best Statistical parameters for univariate and Multiple Linear Regression forecasting. Involved in the configuration of Master Planning Object Structure, Planning Areas, Characteristic Value Combinations (CVCs) and Master Data. Created Time Series Objects, Storage Bucket profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets.
• Defined planning books and Macros for interactive planning and Defined Macros to perform calculations to carry out tests, and created Alerts in Demand Planning (DP).
• Worked on SNP Master Data, Planning Area Administration, Planning Books, Heuristics, Advanced Safety Stock Planning, product interchangeability, vendor capacity planning, and PP/APO integration.
• Defining background jobs for scheduling SNP planning runs and CIF Integration models.
• Attending the Daily Scrum calls, Publishing Daily status reports and attending meeting with the clients.
• Worked on custom created T-Codes and Impacted reports for Confidential .
• Created Test scripts for Multiple Assignments and completed testing on time.
• Performed Domain, Regression and Performance test execution and raised concerned defects on JIRA.
• Uploaded all the test execution documents on CA Agile Central Rally and Q-Test Manager.
• Performed test execution on the New Product Introduction (NPI) testing for Apple Device launch.
• Generated Exit reports for every assignment and worked on Requirements Traceability matrix (RTM) mapping all the test executions with the related User stories.
• Supported other assignments such as OTC Forward Logistics with APO product allocations using gATP process chains.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

SAP PP/QM Consultant

Environment: SAP ERP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a full life cycle implementation for PP/QM module.
• Configured QM Control key for the goods receiving inspection. Created inspection plan groups for the production line, created Group Counters and assigned materials to them
• Worked on FIORI apps and configured PP Business process (6 tiles).
• SAP Interface with IGEAR, the manufacturing execution system (MES) for production execution through PI interface.
• Worked on special procurement type real time scenarios like Subcontracting, Multisite planning, Production in another plant, MRP area configuration and planning.
• Plant level MRP, planning at material level, multi-level MRP, MPS, Consumption based planning - reorder point planning, MRP area planning and MRP Live in S/4 Hana
• Worked on the Auto Replenishment and Allocation custom programs to allocate inventory to the Tier II distribution centers by implementing supply chain rules in allocating inventory involved in developing programs to calculate Dynamic Safety Stock for sub-assemblies based on the demand and delete the purchase requisitions created by the program.
• Configured Intercompany stock transfer with billing and handling of special stocks and special procurement types like Subcontracting stock, consignment stock, Third party processing.
• Performed cross-company Stock Transport Orders (STO), Subcontracting and Vendor Consignment.
• Configured creation of storage locations automatically for different movement types with Goods issue/Transfer posting and Goods receipt.
• Configured Material Master Records including defining material types, defining the MRP views required as per the user requirement for PP/PI.
• Involved in Configuration of Inventory Management like Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Transfer posting, Return Delivery and Stock transfers, Reservations, and Reporting in inventory management.
• Validate the business scenarios acting as a part of the Integration Team, performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Helped in maintaining backorder processing (BOP), back flushing, and automatic goods movements.
• Configured availability check, production scheduling profile, process order types, and plant parameters, automatic purchase requisitions from MRP and goods movements.
• Configured repetitive manufacturing functions such as REM profile, Planning table, Product cost collectors and back flushing.
• Configured and executed SNP Heuristic Planning book using scope location, network, along with capacity check, capacity leveling to match up for better planning.
• Master Data with Product Master, Location, Resources, Quota Arrangements, Transportation Lanes and Production Planning Models.
• Worked on Creating and Activating Integration Models using Core Interface (CIF) between ECC and SCM APO to transfer

Confidential, Lancaster, PA

SAP PP/QM Consultant

Environment: SAP ERP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on GI/GR for Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Stock transport orders, Inbound and Outbound deliveries.
• Requirement gathering and preparing Business blueprint document identified gaps and prepared Functional specification document.
• Handling MRP with processing key NETCH, NETPL and NEUPL, monitoring MRP list, exceptional message handling, and releasing production orders.
• Defining MRP controllers, Scope of planning for total planning and planning horizon.
• Configured control parameters for Transfer Request/Transfer Order (TR/TO). Setup and developed WM interface with IM, PP.
• Worked with various goods movements of handling units like Good Issue, Goods receipt and other movements like reversals & general goods movements posting.
• Configured the inventory management system-Goods receipt (GR), Goods return (RE), Goods issuance (GI), Transfer order posting and Inter plant material transfer.
• Configured material types and changed the field status of the material master records as per the user requirements.
• Configured working on the Stock Placement Control and Stock Removal Control parameters and configured Storage Unit Management (SUM) and Handling Unit Management (HUM).
• Worked on Subcontracting POs, Consignment, Contract and Scheduling Agreements Stock Transport Orders (STO), Transfer Postings, GR/GI and Invoice Receipts.
• Defined and configured settings for master data includingQuality Work centers, MIC, Sampling schema and Procedures, Task lists, Inspection method, Codes and code groups, Selected Sets,Inspection Lot creationandcompletion.
• Worked on Triggering ofsource inspectionsto be carried out at the vendor's premises.
• Prepared aVariantand Scheduled it as a Background job for Recurring Inspections.
• Worked with BW Team to generate reports of the Batches Procured from vendors and produced through Process Orders.
• Quality Notifications were designed for use in product and customer complaints,vendor audit recordingand Quality Info records for vendor control.
• Implemented Certificate of Analysis for automatically faxing the Inspection results to the Customers with the help ofBatch Search Strategy.
• Participated in all Data Migration meetings and defined requirements for master data andtransactional data migrationusing LSMW.
• Trained super users, prepared training documents and involved in end-user training on SAP system based on the defined business process
• Involved in Go-live and post go-live support activities for 2 Rollout project in QM Module and resolved tickets related with MM, WM, PP & QM Modules
• Configured warehouse functions at storage type, storage section and storage bin level and tested and executed different stock placement and removal strategies.
• Developed specifications for multiple RICEF Objects-Reports, enhancements to transactions, user exits and enhanced standard SAP reports.
• Created LSMW objects and loaded the master data through LSMW object. Error analysis of batch jobs of LSMW and correcting them.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP PP/QM Consultant

Environment: SAP ERP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Introduced the concept of resource selection criteria to the client to have more flexibility in selection of resources for the process orders. Defined resource characteristics and characteristic values.
• Collected the list of BOM’S and used alternative item groups, priority of usage and usage probabilities.
• Defined multiple production versions depending on lot-size and validity dates.
• Defined plant planning parameters, MRP types and identified suitable lot sizing techniques for the business.
• 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
• Designed manufacturing scenarios in PP for Make-To-Stock and Make-To-Order strategies.
• Extensively worked on Shop Floor Configuration for the new plants; Custom Order Types, Order Type Dependent Parameters, Scheduling Profile and Confirmation Parameters.
• Involved in solving issues with regards to selected set, sampling procedure and inspection plans.
• Configured and created various standard Material Management documents which include Purchase Requisition (PR), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Order (PO) and Purchasing Info record. Customized the Material Master for specified material types with views required and created Lot Size procedures.
• Worked on MIC, DMR,inspection severity, AQL values andsample selectionfor sampling scheme.
• Configuredsampling typesandvaluation modesin sampling procedure creation.
• Created and assignedcodes, code groupandselected setsfor different catalog types.
• Worked ondefects recordingand quality notification creation for different material types.
• Worked on usage decision recording and maintainingquality scoresfor vendor evaluation.
• Configured theAutomatic Usage Decisioncreation in Material Master.