SUMMARY

• Over Six of Experience as SAP PP/PP - PI Functional Consultant.
• Expertise in conducting data collection / user training workshops, configuration, implementation and maintenance of PP, PP-PI.
• Expertise in Configuration of QM in procurement, production, Sales & distribution, controlling.
• QM in PP - process inspection and monitoring with batch. GR from production, 1st pass throughput analysis. Final product inspection and analyses.
• Involved in three full life cycle implementations from business blue print to go live and two support projects.
• Involved in business discussions, conducted business workshops, process analysis as a part of business blue print phase.
• Strong knowledge in following PP sub modules: SOP (Sales and Operations Planning),Master Data, MRP (Material Requirements planning), CBP (Consumption Based Planning) and SFC (Shop Floor Control)
• Worked on configuration of Master data in SAP-PP module: Material Master, Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Management and MRP.
• Involved in creating and configuration of BOM’s, Work Centers, and Routings
• Engaged in functional integration points of PP, PP-PI.
• Experienced in Configuring /forecasting, long term planning, master recipe, resources, production resources/tools, process orders, process instructions and production scheduling.
• Post implementation support for PP with emphasis on MRP, Purchase Orders, Stock Transport Orders, Production Orders and Goods Movement.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with partners, vendors, and other developers in a diverse team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP ECC 6.0 PP, PI, MM, Integration with QM

Management Tools: MS Office Word/PowerPoint/Excel/Access, MS Project, MS Visio

Operating Systems: MS Windows 95/98/NT/00, XP and Mac OS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

SAP PP-PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on configuration of Inventory Management: Number Assignment, Field Selection (Goods receipts, Goods issue/Transfer postings). 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.
• Conducted seminars for department head of manufacturing operations and department members about PP Master Data, SOP, Planned Independent Requirements (PIRs), MRP/MPS, and execution phase (Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Planned Orders, & Production Orders).
• Configured SAP PP settings 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.
• Customized BOM and routing for different usages such as production, engineering, plant maintenance, SD, and costing.
• Defined work center categories, capacity categories, shift sequence, standard value keys, capacity and scheduling formulae.
• Collaborated with FICO team, to create activity types and cost center, and assigned them to work center to valuate the product costing of the product.
• Customize control key for in-house production to address auto goods receipt, rework, milestone confirmation and quality inspection.
• Customized Flexible SOP for finished product with consistent planning as a planning method.
• 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.
• Used user exit to establish a warning message if the header material has not been produced for the last three months.
• Created test scripts, test cases, and test scenarios to facilitate various testing.
• Involved in integration testing phases, regression testing and conducted user-acceptance testing (UAT).
• 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.
• Provided post implementation support.

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

SAP PP-PI, Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the business in SAP version upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 in the domain on PP-PI, and provided the additional functionality as per the business requirements.
• 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.
• 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.
• Tested the background job set up for MRP.
• LSMW was used to upload specific master data and transactional data.
• Conducted training sessions for the end users to demonstrate the new functionalities and enhancements added from the upgrade.
• Provide post up-gradation support.

Confidential, Fountain Valley, CA

SAP PP PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created generic SAP PP process flows and Blue-print document with functionalities to be implemented during which several meetings were held with power users for data collection.
• Created a Control Configuration document (CCD) for FENWAL from the inputs received from all the plants (EU, US).
• Worked with the Technical team to map the data to the information structure from the legacy system (JDE).
• Transferred data from legacy system to SAP using LSMW.
• Created custom information structures, maintained parameters as per characteristics and key figures.
• Involved in the creation of Planning Types, Planning Horizon, Offset periods and macros.
• Created update rules for the custom information structure for updations used in Forecasting and Planning.
• Maintained Planning Hierarchy for the Characteristic Value Combinations, aggregation factors and Planning bucket profile for monthly/weekly buckets.
• Maintained statistical forecast profiles as per business blue print. Defined forecast models for time series.
• Maintained Activities for the forecast profiles and the macros created.
• Created variants and scheduling for the various Background Processing jobs like Forecast Run.
• Defined Formula Parameters, Standard Value Key formulas for the work centers.
• Created Rough - Cut profiles to analyze the bottleneck capacity for critical codes.
• Synchronized with individual plants and their Production Execution systems to provide them the constrained flex plan based on the capacity analysis and lead time availability.
• Coordinated with the BI team to develop reports. Provided functional specs and logic to the custom queries.
• Worked on developing test scenarios for PP functionality for Integration testing as per user’s requirements.
• Developed training documents for super & end users using RWD InfoPAK.
• Coordinated with Super users & Basis consultant to define roles and identify the required authorizations.
• Involved in GO-LIVE and Production support for smooth transition from implementation to production.
• Responsible for Post Go-Live production support and Knowledge transfer activities.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP PP- PI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Material Master Data including material types, work centers, BOM and repetitive and discrete manufacturing authorizations
• 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 Backflush and designed stages of production line to report backflush.
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing and ensuring consistency of SAP Configuration across the modules.
• Final presentation of the project.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

SAP PP- PI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creation and configuration of Master Data that includes, Master Recipes and Resources.
• Created Production Version for header material, BOM items and co-product.
• 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 and Configured Batch Management in process orders.
• Responsible for Availability Checking, Batch Determination, Shop Floor Papers, Barcode Interface, Trigger Points for Rework and Confirmations in process orders.
• 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.
• Knowledgeable in LIS reporting for Shop Floor Control and Inventory Reporting.
• Integrated to QM module, to carry out in-process inspections.
• Prepared documentation for knowledge transfer and trained end users.

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuration of enterprise structure i.e. creating plants, storage locations, production scheduling profiles, purchasing organization and their internal assignment.
• Configuration of Material Master Data including material types, material groups, number ranges and classification of functionality and vendor master data including account groups.
• Preparation of master data like bills of materials, routings and work centers
• Defined MRP groups and Controllers. Customized the Special procurement Types. For RFQ/ Quotations, Purchase requisitions and Purchase Orders. Defined Release Groups, Codes, Indicators and Strategies. Set up Stock Transport orders.
• In Invoice Verification, setup the Unplanned Delivery costs Postings, Dealt with Invoices when PO variances occurred, and Vendor specific Tolerances.
• In the area of Purchasing, Customized Purchasing Groups, Purchasing Value keys, Terms of Payments, Source list requirements, Quota for GR, GI, Transfer Postings, Tolerances on Goods issues and receipts, automatic creation of Purchase Orders.
• Provided process solutions through configuration of materials, bills of material, routings, work centers, MRP, DRP, MPS, planned orders, purchase orders, vendor master, stock transport orders, sub-contracting orders, production orders, confirmations, back flushing and error processing, long term planning, capacity planning, goods movements;
• SOP/Flexible Planning (Forecasting) implementation activities for listed projects.
• Analyzed and created various reports using Shop floor information system.
• Experience of integrating PP/MM with other modules like SD, FI/CO, WM, QM, PM.
• Post implementation support (trouble shooting and problem solving) for PP and MM with emphasis on MRP, purchase orders, stock transport orders, production orders, inventory management, and goods movements.