SUMMARY

• 10 years of professional SAP functional consulting experience in Production Planning module with emphasis on full life cycle implementation and support projects across well diversified industries amongst multi - cultural and onsite/offshore teams.
• Strong functional and domain experience in the Configuration, Implementation and Testing with cross Functional Integration of SAP PP with MM, WM, SD and FI/CO modules.
• Worked in Discrete and Repetitive Manufacturing in ECC and S4HANNA environment.
• Involved in activities like Requirements Gathering, Business Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Gap Analysis, and functional Specifications preparation for RICEF conversion programs.
• Familiar with handling different types of Goods Movements across SAP PP and MM modules
• Hands on experience in conducting Workshops and Knowledge Transfer Sessions to provide SAP training to end users.
• Experience in defining and configuring Master Data such as Material Master, Vendor Master, Source List, BOMs, Work Centers, Routings and Production Version.
• Worked with Planning Strategies - Make to Stock, Make to Order, Gross Requirements Planning, Planning with Final Assembly and Planning Without Final Assembly.
• Working knowledge on Master Production Schedule, Distribution Requirements Planning, Kanban, Variant Configuration and Extended Warehouse Management.
• Expertise in configuring and maintaining Demand Management, PIR, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Sales and Operations Planning, MRP, Production Orders, MRP List and Stock/Requirements List
• Sound working knowledge on Production Planning concepts such as Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Six Sigma, Kaizen, MRP, SPC etc.
• Experienced in Unit, Integration, and user Acceptance testing in SAP PP module.
• Understanding & Analyzing customer’s ‘AS-IS’ Business Processes and mapping ‘TO-BE’ processes.
• Worked with other modules created end to end test scenarios for SIT, UAT in Solution Manager and demonstrating to business.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, IL

SAP PP CONSULTANT

ENVIRONMENT: SAP S4HANNA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops and presentations to validate business design with the end user community.
• Configured Master Data variant configuration including material types, work centers, BOM and routing for repetitive manufacturing process.
• Worked with MES, DELBOOMI and PLM interface teams for data transfer validation.
• Defined plant parameters in MRP, defined MRP controller, MRP groups, MRP types, Special procurement, planning calendar, planning horizon, planning time fence, safety stock availability, range of coverage availability profile, procurement proposal.
• Implemented Make-to-order strategy using entire product definition structure with a combination of variant configurations.
• Prepared End - to - End scenarios with data sheet for SIT and UAT testing in SAP S4HANNA
• Explored, Identified and Demonstrated production planning Fiori Apps to business.
• Assisted in cutover activities and deployments SAP PP with integration MM, EWM and OTC.
• Assisted in end user training sessions.
• Assisted with the handover to Production and knowledge transfer to customer
• Ensured suitable communication/updates are being provided to internal and external clients in a timely manner.

Confidential, Lancaster, PA

SAP PP FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

ENVIRONMENT: SAP ECC 6.0 & SAP S4HANNA

Responsibilities:

• Material Master: Configuration of material Master Record & selecting views.
• Creating Material Master Record for the New Product Development items.
• Bill of Material: Taking feedback from Egg. /Design departments in case of any change in Bill of Material & modifying the same with Change number history.
• Work Centers: Creation and Maintenance of Work Center with Capacity data, Capacity categories, Available capacity, customizing parameters.
• Routings: Creation and Maintenance of routings in case of any change in process flow of products
• Customer complaint management.
• Member of SAP Help- Desk to assist the End Users Online. Conducted End user trainings for the PP.

Confidential, Libertyville, IL

SAP PP FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

ENVIRONMENT: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business process flow by conducting workshops and interacting with process owners to design SCM improvement process.
• Map the improvement requirements into SAP and gap analysis, provided solutions through technical development includes interfaces.
• Interface with legacy systems using middleware.
• Tracked the defects, found root cause, and provided solutions to issues.
• Verification of master data elements
• Expertise in preparing template for data collection, data conversion.
• Developed Configuration scripts and concept manuals.
• Assisted to execute the unit test scripts with our direct design team.
• Assisted in the preparation of Integration test scripts for testing the data for outbound and inbound.
• Helped to execute the Integration testing with users, which includes purchase orders, Goods receipts, consignment settlement, invoice, and payments.
• As a post implementation support personnel extended round the clock support to SCM technicians.

Confidential, Chattanooga, TN

SAP PP FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

ENVIRONMENT: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured Material Master Data including material types, work centers, BOM and routing for discrete manufacturing process.
• Defined task list selection, scheduling parameters for Production Orders, planned orders in capacity requirements planning.
• Defined plant parameters in MRP, defined MRP controller, MRP groups, MRP types, Special procurement, planning calendar, planning horizon, planning time fence, safety stock availability, range of coverage availability profile, procurement proposal.
• Implemented Make-to-stock and Planning-with-final-assembly strategies using entire product definition structure with a combination of variant configurations.
• Defined Work Center categories, capacity categories, shift sequence and period pattern keys for estimating available capacity, work center formula and key for performance efficiency rate for costing.
• Configured in-house Make-to-stock orders using materials subject to split valuation and Reporting Point Back flush and designed stages of production line to report backflush.
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing and ensuring consistency of SAP Configuration across the modules.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP PP-PI FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

ENVIRONMENT: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Batch Specification, batch determination condition table, batch Specific Unit of Measure, Batch Master in Batch Management.
• Worked on PP with integration of PP, MM and QM and used LIMS.
• Implemented major business scenario MTO end to end process integrating with SD.
• Maintained and updated inspection catalogs with predefined defect codes and characteristic attributes, identified requirement of new production order type for rework.
• Worked under FDA regulated environment and review of product inspection results through design of inspection lots to ensure quality levels that affected usage decisions.
• Created test data for various PP related master data.
• Trained end users on process flow, stock/requirements list, planned order conversion and use of different movement types for different operations.
• Performed Unit and integration testing. Also, worked on Production trial process by creating project material’s master data.
• Created training documents for key user and end user training. Closely worked with key user during user acceptance testing.
• Performed Global support by resolving Tickets. Extensively worked on Solution manager tool.
• Strongly coordinated with ABAP and customer service teams to resolve various user related issues.

Confidential

SAP PP ANALYST

ENVIRONMENT: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Studied and analyzed the client’s business process requirements.
• Upgraded from SAP 4.7 to ECC 6.0, responsible for customizing various MRP types, MRP group, and lot size calculation, scheduling margin key and procurement proposals.
• Responsible for Documenting configuration in the IMG, finalizing and reporting requirements, maintained Planned Independent Requirements by transferring data from sales and operation planning.
• Responsible for creation, release, and confirmation of Production Orders.
• Analyzed the concept of MRP run for different MRP procedures and quota arrangements were utilized for splitting the requirements against-in-house/subcontracting.
• Configured scheduling profile for Production orders and Scheduling parameters.
• Tracked the defects, found root cause, and provided solutions to issues.
• Involved in unit testing as well as integration testing with different teams and modules testing end to end processes.
• Trained users in configuration aspects of Production Planning module of SAP ECC, in the areas of PP Master Data, SOP, Demand Management, MPS, MRP and Production Orders
• Provided Post Go Live support with continuously improve processes, multiple changes to BOM, routings, day to day problems in scheduling.
• Configured Special Procurement Key to define STO and Schedule Margin Key to determine floats for scheduling purpose.