SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience in SAP with 3 full life cycle implementations in SAP PP /PP - PI/ MM modules.
• Exposure to Industrial sectors in business process re-engineering, business partners development, project management, purchasing, sub-contracting, inventory management, quality assurance, value engineering, system design, strategic business operation planning, organizational change management and logistics in manufacturing industry.
• Experienced with 3 full-life cycle implementations and 2 Upgrade projects using ASAP methodology.
• Extensive experience with designing, configuring, Upgrading, testing, documenting of PP/PP-PI/MM modules.
• Clear understanding of cross-functional applications of MM, QM, PM, WM, FI, SD in industrial scenarios.
• Designed and drafted upgrade plan, reviewed new functionalities with business owners and made blue print document of the proposed system
• Expertise in Implementation and Configuration of PP/PP-PI module in SAP R/3, which includes Master Data (like material master, BOMs, work centers, resources, routing, resources, master recipes), SOP, Demand Management, MPS, MRP (MRP Controller, lot size procedures, MRP Types, MRP groups, special procurement type, Firming, Planning Time Fence, Planning Horizon), Production/Process Order Management, Production Control, Process planning, Capacity Planning, Shop Floor Control and ECM.
• Implementation experience in Gap-analysis, Configuration of SAP IMG, Testing and preparation of test plans, User training, Go Live & managing support post implementation.
• Worked in planning strategies for both Discrete and Repetitive manufacturing environment.
• Worked on procure to pay business strategies.
• Worked with repetitive manufacturing application such as rate routing, planning table, product cost collectors and back flushing.
• Expertise in capacity planning, capacity requirements, sequencing and distribution, did extensive analysis using CM50 transaction
• Expertise in mapping data between R/3, APO and BW.
• Worked with Quality Management in Production, quality inspection, quality certificates, and quality notifications
• Worked on RFC’s using IDOCS for sending data from one server to another server
• Worked on Batch management, Batch determination and Batch Unit of Measure.
• Prepared functional spec documents, experience working with BDC’s, BAPI’s and BADI’s.
• Significant experience in Master Data and Variant Configuration/ VC (KMAT) with Global as well as Local Dependencies.
• Expertise in using interface software like TIBCO and WebSphere.
• Expertise in developing Test Scenarios/Scripts for Unit, Integration, and Acceptance testing
• Good knowledge and experience in Lean Mfg., KANBAN, cost benefit analysis in mfg technology, Supply Chain Mgmt., business process improvement and inventory / demand management Ability to liaise and communicate flawlessly with clients and team members, demonstrated skills and proven success in Project Management, strong analytical, diagnostic, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Able to develop innovative and appropriate solutions to business and technical problems across a wide spectrum of environments and manage them to completion.
• Have good hands-on experience in Sales Order Enhancement like Material Substitution, Duplicate Sales Order Check, Back Order Processing, PO format check and Credit Check etc.
• Hands on Material Creation enhancement, Master Data IDoc and has experience in eMDM also.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Modules: PP, PP-PI, ATTP, QM, MM, WM, SD and BW

SAP related tools: SAP Solution Manager, LSMW, HP Quality Center, Remedy, EDI, BAPI, BDC, RFC, TIBCO, WebSphere, AutoSys and IDOCS

Languages: ABAP/4, SAP Script, Java, XML, HTML

Utilities/Databases: Oracle, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mount Arlington, NJ

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Complete production support for all North America Plants as well as involved in Enhancements required for these plants.
• Currently supporting the interface between SAP with eBRP, LIMS, MES & PDW.
• Responsible for SOP, OQ testing, and proper workflow required for normal as well as for emergency requirements and their approvals for production support.
• Supported users in creating and maintaining Master Data including Materials, Master Recipes, Resources and Inspection plans.
• Gathered requirements and created Functional Specifications for creating custom reports to satisfy business needs.
• Worked with the ABAP team during the development of the reports and performed Unit Testing.
• Worked with Business & QCS in getting the reports validated in time for the FDA & Health Canada Audits.
• Design of Master Recipes, Mapping of Resources, Tank Resources, Relationships, Production Versions, Classification data and Product Storage Definition.
• Customized PPDS Scheduling board to implement Product specific Color functionality which simplified the complex Scheduling at Plants and helped schedulers to save lot of time thus by increasing productivity.
• Trained users in executing the reports; developed Business Process Procedures and provided post production support.
• Created and maintained the required configuration for Forecasting, including Planning Activity & Planning Types.
• Created new Storage Locations, Movement Types, Control Keys, and Process Order Types to satisfy business needs.
• Experience interfacing LIMS to SAP for sending testing phases to LIMS and receiving test results from LIMS.
• Worked on integration of SAP Engineering Change Management system with Track wise.
• Created custom functionality to replicate Milestone Confirmations for control keys, to work with confirmations received from LIMS.
• Worked with business in resolving issues related to Scheduling Agreements and Subcontracts.
• Gathered requirements and worked with Development team in creating new IDOCs to send and receive data from SAP, and in developing the Function Modules needed to process the inbound IDOC's.
• Implemented multiple OSS Notes to fix issues in the SAP system
• Worked on interface software TIBCO
• Worked with QM team in implementing and post Go-Live support for the Q-Stock to DC's project, which involved shipping of unreleased quality stock from the Manufacturing Locations to the Distribution Centers.
• Worked with the AutoSys and Control-M with creating, updating and troubleshooting various SAP Background Jobs.
• Worked with the Development team to improve the performance of custom reports.
• Involved in the Interface testing for issues related to LIMS, PDW & Futur Master.
• Experienced in writing User requirements, Functional Specs, BPP's and Test Scripts using good documentation practices.
• Involved in document revision process for extended functionalities and followed OQ testing approach as per FDA regulated environment.
• Involved in knowledge transition workshops with users to educate proper business process flows along with day-to-day production support for logistics.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Sumner, WA

SAP PP/WM/QM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported the planning, analysis, design, configuration, development, integration, maintenance, system upgrades and enhancements associated with the BSM (Business system modernization) implementation of PP module inSAPand the associatedMESimplementation and MII interface.
• Provided Subject Matter expertise for PP integration to Materials Management (Inventory Management, MRP, and Purchasing including Release Strategies and Workflow) andSAPMII/MES.
• Worked on the interfaces in which MII integrates with the SAPPI, SAPPM, SAPQM andMES.
• Automatic TR creation at the release and RF transactions for the TO creation, confirming the drug components for the reservation.
• Maintain Custom development screens for the automatic picking and staging the components from the warehouse to production storage location.
• Make a monthly consumption report for the production plant, adding custom fields in the standard COOIS screenand determined availability check, checking group, checking rule and scope of check for components while creating production orders.
• Set up material master for PP, MRP1, MRP4, set up REM profile, production storage location, and Worked on make to order, make to stock and troubleshoot theCOGIerrorsfor the production orders.
• Maintained the MRP plant level settings, master data settings for MRP like MRP controller, MRP types (Forecast Based planning and MRP Planning with P1), planning time fence etc.
• Configured and customized WM structure by defining Storage types, Storage sections, Bins, Quant.
• Worked with Handling Unit Management to reflect packing-based logistics structure and HUMO transaction for batch traceability.
• Worked with RF device to carry various activities like receiving, put away, picking and shipping activities.DefinedQMinspection plans for equipment in PM and test generation of calibration orders with inspection lots, results recording of inspection characteristics and usage decisions
• Created formulae in Inspection Plan and automatic valuation of Results Recording
• Performed the necessary configuration ofQMmodule with emphasis on Goods Receipt Inspections and vendor evaluations
• Quality notification were created including product recalls, vendor evaluation and customer complaints that were used in this implementation
• Involved in solving issues with regards to selected set, sampling procedure and inspection plans.
• Worked on material master, vendor master, PIR and source list, goods receipt and invoice for procure to pay cycle.
• Set up SAP PP-WM interface through automatic guided vehicle for work centers.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the client’s business process requirements, mapping the business process for implementation of SAP R/3 system
• Uploaded BOMs, Routings, Work centers and extended the material master records to include work scheduling, MRP and forecasting views using LSMW.
• Worked on pre conditions, procedures, selection conditions and constraints.
• Implemented the concept of super BOM using KMAT (variant configuration).
• Worked on Variant Configuration Scenario including Classification - Created Class, Class types, Characteristics, Characteristics Values, and Object Dependencies. Assigned dependencies. Preconditions, selection conditions, constraints, actions and procedure - to configuration profile.
• Identified the requirements for implementing Sales and operations planning. Implemented standard SAP Sales and operations process.
• Built custom logic, screens and transactions to merge operations in production orders.
• Configured new planning strategies for client’s business process for assemble to order business process (ATO).
• Performed order release, order management, goods movement and order conformation.
• Created new requirement classes and requirement types for the new strategy in OVZG transaction.
• Configuration of the Materials Management module such as defining and assigning various components of the company and Material Master Data, Info Records, Source Lists, Purchasing, Inventory Management
• Created planning profiles to plan the configurable materials.
• Defined production schedulers, scheduling profiles etc.
• Worked extensively on availability checks and transfer of requirements both in SD and PP and MM.
• Worked on PP and SD check rules.
• Carried out Unit Testing and Integration Testing with all possible Business Scenarios to ensure minimum problems after Go-Live
• Preparation of End user training material and imparting training to the end users.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Boston, MA

SAP Functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Customized plant parameters for MRP and Consumption Based Planning and Defined MRP groups and Controllers
• In routings and work centers, customized task list usages, standard values and parameters, defined control keys, maintained task list types, material type allocations, defined work scheduler/planner group, defined control keys, reduction strategies, routing selections
• Created BOMs, Routings, and Work centers and extended the material master records to include work scheduling, MRP and forecasting views.
• Created profiles for production order confirmations including final and partial confirmations.
• Performed order release, order management, goods movement and order conformation
• Production order release strategies, availability check for components, scheduling of the production order, printing shop floor paper like Time Tickets, move tickets and material pull lists.
• Defined production schedulers, scheduling profiles etc.
• Created product cost collectors.
• Customized the conversion of Purchase request to Purchase Orders and defined order profiles
• Configured BOM item categories, default values for item status, BOM status, BOM usage, BOM alternative determination.
• SCM 5.1 to SCM 7.0 Enhancement Pack 3 Upgrade assessment for CCE.
• Identified all the Key areas which are going to be affected in SNC/PPDS/SNP area.
• Worked on scenarios on Responsive Replenishment.
• Worked on Assemble to order Planning strategy 82.
• Develop, verify, revise and submit customized contracts. Generated and managed long-term agreements.
• Configured availability check, production planning, production order types, plant parameters and automatic purchase requisitions from MRP
• Configuration of the Materials Management module such as defining and assigning various components of the company and Material Master Data, Info Records, Source Lists, Purchasing, Inventory Management
• Worked in recording inspection results in QM so as to confirm the operations in PP.
• Use of Production Goods Receipt Inspections using Early Lot functionality.
• Configured copy control settings for the sales documents (order related as well as delivery related billing) in co-ordination with SME.
• Configuration of Plant, Purchasing Organization, Purchasing Group, Storage Locations, Material Types, Material Groups and IM movement types
• Creating Outline agreements - scheduling (delivery/forecast delivery), contracts (Value/quantity based)
• Communicated status, issues, and impacts, with team, team leadership, relevant client sponsors and process owners
• Carried out Unit Testing and Integration Testing with all possible Business Scenarios to ensure minimum problems after Go-Live.
• Worked on Purchase Order (PO Extract and PO Receipt Extract) Inbound Interface from other non-SAP Manufacturer system to ATTP Distributor system using standard ATTP BTT event.
• Experienced in Outbound Shipping Interface from Distributor to Customer using Business Transaction Type (BTT) through PI.
• Worked on Error Handling and Lot Level ASN Reconciliation Report for OER/ATTP and Internal Inquiry Report for Inbound/Outbound Tracing.
• Used outbound delivery interface to send TI/TS information to ATTP/OER system.
• Expertise in GS1 naming convention standard and format for ATTP.
• Worked on BOLB configuration for ATTP data for further processing.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential

SAP PP/MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementing the business requirements based on the Business Blueprint. Customization and master data uploads. Management of Customized programs and reports with ABAP team.
• Work with the development team to configure SAP to meet the requirements of current processes.
• Designed and configured Materials Management (MM) module in the areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management, Logistics Invoice Verification, Physical Inventory, Valuation and Account Determination, External Services management, Materials requirement planning (Consumption based planning).
• Basic Data: Involved in configuration and reconfiguration of master data like material master, Bill of Materials, Work Centers, and Routings.
• MRP: Planning methods, total planning at plant level(online/background), Single item multi-level, Single item single level, planned orders, conversion of planned orders, MRP/Stock requirement list- Individual display and collective display MRP controller wise, date wise, exception message group wise.
• Created the storage location views in material master to fix backflushing problems.
• Created production versions to solve problems with alternate routings and BOMs.
• Modified the configuration settings for vendor evaluation. Configured the physical inventory settings for cycle counting.
• Mass maintenance of purchase orders & purchase requisitions.
• Communicated status, issues, and impacts, with team, team leadership, relevant client sponsors and process owners.
• Involved modification of the SAP Script Form layout for the Purchase Order, Order confirmation and print programs according to customer requirements.
• Involved in testing the database for the queries that are generated and handled the performance issues effectively.
• Carried out Unit Testing and Integration Testing with all possible Business Scenarios to ensure minimum problems after Go-Live

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6