SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years’ experience out of which more than 8 years of Extensive work experience in SAP R/3 versions 4.6C, 4.7 & ECC 6.0 as a MM/PP Functional Consultant wif 5 end to end implementations.
• Project implementation skills include requirements gathering, As - Is and To-Be documentation, functional and technical specifications, data migration, customization, configuration, testing, Issue handling, performing cutover activities and SAP best practice methodologies across diverse manufacturing industries.
• Extensive noledge in SAP Supply Chain solutions wif deep functional expertise in SAP products including Materials Management (MM), Procure to pay (P2P), Inventory Management (IM), warehouse management, Logistics Execution (LE),Production Planning (PP),
• Very good noledge in MRP (Materials Requirement Planning)
• Comprehensive noledge & experience in implementation of SAP-R3 (PP Module) for production operations. Planning, In-process Inspection, Team Building, design & development and co-ordination wif internal Departments.
• Integration wif MM / QM/ SD/ FI and CO modules
• Handled different types of manufacturing practices like Discrete and Repetitive industries.
• Strong leadership skills, communication skills and inter personal skills.
• Exposed to cross functional skills like, MRP, Logistics Execution, QM, SD and FI
• Ability to configure SAP (IMG) to meet specified business requirements
• Extensive noledge in MM organizational elements Purchasing Organization, Plant, Storage Location
• Experience in teh Procure to Pay process for both teh direct and indirect procurement.
• Master in Release strategy for Purchase Requisition and Purchase Orders.
• Configuration of teh Master Data: Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records, and Source List.
• Specialized in Output Determination, Maintaining Output Condition records Purchasing Document types, and Number ranges.
• Specialized in Configuring and customizing of Purchasing in teh Material Management: Contracts (Quantity/Value), Scheduling Agreements, Sub-Contracting, Third party, Consignment, Service procurement Frame works, Tolling, Third party sales order process, Third party sub-contracting process, Inter company Stock transfer, one step intra company stock transfers, non-valuated purchases, Asset procurement and procurement against internal orders.
• Worked on Material Resource Planning, Material Valuation, Inventory Management and Logistics Invoice Verification including ERS.
• Experienced in SAP Query, ALE/EDI and Workflow.
• Configuring Inventory Management (IM) Parameters for all Goods movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, GR for blocked stock, Goods returns etc. and Reporting.
• Very strong noledge in MM account determination and accounts playable
• Configured valuation classes, account modifiers and Split valuation.
• Extensively worked on pricing condition technique, Developed a custom commodity based pricing solution and designed custom routines for PO pricing.
• Experienced in Physical Inventory Tolerance Limits
• Experienced in Batch management.
• Movement types - Created custom movement types to fulfill business requirements on various goods movements.
• Creation of time zones, Factory Calendars, Regions in several Company Codes
• Extensively worked on cutover activities in master data conversion and transactional data conversion.
• Post implementation production support in MM module to teh user specific problems and issues depending on teh new business process procedures.
• Comprehensive noledge & experience in implementation of SAP-R3 (PP Module) for production operations. Planning, In-process Inspection, Team Building, design & development and co-ordination wif internal Departments.
• SAP exposure includes SMB Implementation Methodology, SOP, Demand Management, MRP and MPS, Production Control, Capacity Planning, Repetitive Mfg., Logistics Information systems (LIS), Shop-Floor Information systems, Variant Configuration, Serial number.
• Integration wif MM / QM/ SD/ FI and CO modules
• Strong noledge of Cross Functional Modules such as, Sales and Distribution, Quality Management, Ware house management, Finance and Production Planning.
• Plant Maintenance Configuration - Functional locations BOM, Equipment BOM, Serial numbers, Notifications, Maintenance orders and Capacity requirement planning
• Functional Unit Test scripts and testing it for Global Roll out.
• Facilitated teh Design work shops and s
• Logical, analytical, team building and communication skills.
• SAP-R3 (PP Module) for 4.7/ECC 5 /ECC 6 maintaining Master Data of: Material Master (MRP Type, Procurement Type, Schedule Margin Key, Planning Strategy, Availability Check, Lot Size), BOM
• Material Requirement Planning (MRP) at plant and MRP controller Level. Customization of MRP groups, scheduling margin key, MRP types Work Centre (Std Value Key, Control Key, Capacity, Scheduling and Work Centre Formulas)
• Understanding business process and preparing Bill of Material through BOM usage and Item Category. Setting up Bill of Materials, Single/Multi Level BOM, BOM Group and assignment to different plants
• Preparing teh Project Plan, Business Blue Print and Validation of teh same.
• Customizing BOM, Work center, Routing Implementation Knowledge of SOP & Demand Management. Maintaining Production Orders Scheduling types, order types
• Converting planned orders to production orders and order confirmation
• Providing post-implementation, enhancement and maintenance support to client for application.
• Full and guidelines to End-user about teh Implementation Process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP MM/IM /PP - ECC 6.0
• ECC 5.0 4.7 4.6b
• SAP SRM 7.0 / Ariba e-Procurement and Ariba Network
• ECATT
• LSMW
• SAP:ALE/ EDI
• HPQC 9.2 testing tool
• U Perform
• SAP IS- Food & Beverage

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Denver, CO

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Blue Printing: Actively participated in Business Blue Printing process. Conducted Workshops, Gap Analysis, Captured Process Changes, Identified required RICEFW objects, Created AS-IS Process documents and mapped them to To-Be process documents.
• Configuration: Led teh team during teh configuration phase. Responsible for leading teh SAP Organization structure discussion for teh project and configuration of organization structure, Release Strategy, Outputs, Pricing Procedure, Vendor Account Groups, Custom Movement types, Custom Material Types…etc. Worked on various cross functional key design decisions like third party sales order process, Tolling process, vendor managed inventory, Co-op’s process and key integration of milk receipts and payment process.
• RICEFW: As per clients requirement me have designed and wrote functional specs for Key RICEFW objects. To list a few:- Developed Custom Commodity Pricing for Dairy Industry, Goods Receipt through Portal, Purchase Requisition through Portal, IM RF screen design, Goods receipt goods issues at IM locations through RF handheld devices, Silo Blending Cockpit, Pallet ID Generator, Put away strategy based on customer number,..etc.
• Exceptional Objects: me have designed a complex solution on Energy pricing in purchase order for Dairy industry based on batch characteristics and commodity market and got appreciations from client and Deloitte leadership. me have worked on an integrated Supplier Punch out Catalog wif ECC 6.0 system through OCI, Integrated Catalog procurement through NetWeaver Portal wifout SRM system.
• Master Data: Responsible for Vendor Master data migration from day one, worked wif client in defining teh strategy on Vendor master data cleansing, data extract and data validation, identifying Vendor Partner Functions, Vendor Spend, Info Records, Source List.
• Documentation: Developed Blueprint documents, Configuration Documents, Functional specifications, Business Process Procedure documents (wif uPerform), Unit Test documents, Material.
• : Facilitated teh Super User, involved in end user at plan locations. Created Webinars wif Plant buyers, Purchasing Managers, Leprino Supply Chain team and end users.
• Testing: Led teh Procure-to-Pay team in making sure all teh test cases identified for Unit test cycle and Integration cycles were properly documented and loaded in HPQC. Major responsibilities included coordinating teh testing of cross team integration tests, coordinating wif various other team leads to ensure defects were recorded and resolved in HPQC. Responsible for PTP punch list items identified during various stages implementation.
• Cutover: as a cutover lead responsible for cutover activities, worked on cutover work plan design, cutover calls wif plant managers and client leadership. Lead teh team for cutover activities on inventory load using LSMW, Open PO load, Open Sales orders, PIR and Source list loads.
• Go - Live: Worked at Plant Location during Phase 1 go-live support and worked at command center during phase 2 go live support, worked closely wif Buyers, Plant Managers and end users to keep them comfortable wif their new ERP system.
• Hyper care Support: Supported teh SAP MM/WM module for 5 weeks, worked wif end users, supervisors, plant managers to make them confortable on teh SAP processes. Closely monitoring teh activity in SAP thru stabilization matrices and feedback during daily plant manager’s call.
• Responsible for PTP development work plans, estimations, resource planning, technology weekly status reporting to Project Management Office, interacting on a day to day basis wif client’s Vice President - Supply Chain Management.
• Responsible for teh weekly status reporting to BAC ( business advisory committee ) for all teh kep process acitvities and prioritizing teh key issues.
• Involved in key project decisions related to Go- No Go, project resource planning, Deployment, tracker, Punch list tracker etc
• Sound Config noledge in discrete manufacturing and PP configuration in SOP, Demand management (Planned independent requirements), MRP & Shop floor information
• Creation of Product Group, Product Group Hierarchies, planning for product groups, configured planning, disaggregation, and transferred sales requirements to demand management.
• Experience in design, configuration of PP master data, Material master, Bill of Materials, Work centers, Routing and Production Versions.
• Solid experience in configuring BOMs (Alternate BOMS, different usages- prodn BOM, Costing BOM), Allowable items, BOM status keys, alternate components, routings ( alternate routings & different routing usages), usage probability in BOM, production versions & Quota arrangements.
• Configured Work Centers for capacity data, capacity categories, available capacity, formulas and other customizing parameters.
• Configured schedule margin keys, capacity categories, standard value keys, and control keys for routings.
• Good experience using Back flush, co product and discontinued parts
• Good experience in batch management, class types, characteristics in classification.
• Configured- MRP settings, MRP Groups, special procurement keys, production in alternate plants, requirement classes, requirement types, planning strategies, planning Horizon, firming, planning time fence.lot sizes, material statuses, ATP checking group and rules.
• Solid Config experience in shop floor information- order types, dependent parameters, material availability check, scheduling, costing variants, production scheduling profile, confirmation parameters, print pick list, operation list & goods movement wif errors.
• Configuration of Sub-contracting (external process) in teh production orders and Quota arrangements.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

SAP MM/ PP consultant

Responsibilities:

• Collecting and understanding of teh user requirements, filling up teh storyboard for teh business process, preparing teh BPML (Business Process Master List) and Business Blue Print using ASAP
• Studying existing business process in teh context of material management and deciding to-be process and to be mapped to teh SAP system
• Worked on master data conversions, Material Master records (using MM 01 transaction) and Vendor Master records (using MK01 transaction), from legacy system were brought into SAP
• Designed and Configuration teh MM organizational elements Purchasing Organization, Plant, Storage Location
• Customization of Master Records.
• Apart from teh Standard Material types, configured New Material Types as per teh requirements of teh Client and created several valuation classes and account category s, changed teh field status of teh material master records as per teh users requirements.
• Configured vendor master records, created account groups based on teh type of control required, defined usage of partner functions and vendor sub-range functions.
• Configured teh terms of payment for vendors and Shipping instructions
• Defining partner schemas and assigning to account groups.
• Characteristics and classes were reviewed and created for release procedures to RFQ/Quotation, requisition, purchase orders, contract and scheduling agreements
• Configuring Inventory Management Parameters for all Goods movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, GR for blocked stock, Goods returns etc.,
• Creating storage location automatically for different movement types wif Goods issue/Transfer posting and Goods receipt
• Worked on Goods returns, Shortage of Material supplies and damaged goods.
• Configuring special stocks in Inventory management for Subcontracting, and Consignment materials
• Created Statistical Conditions for price comparison wifout altering teh Material
• Procurement Prices and Inventory valuation
• Interfaced IM & WM for direct transfer order confirmations against material documents
• Customization of Access sequence, condition records and business rules understanding clients business process
• Customized Invoice Verification wif Vendor-wise tolerance limits as per teh business requirements.
• Produced most of teh new business forms wif SAP script
• Unit testing and Integration testing using CATT / other tools like Win runner
• Primarily responsible for implementing SAP shop floor wif discrete manufacturing wif production orders, configuration, developments, reports, testing and documentation in SAP.
• Configured and tested teh PP processes like Material Requirement Planning along wif Cross-plant planning and custom functionalities in shop floor control were of extreme challenges.
• One of teh challenging tasks to develop a confirmation transaction which allows posting of scrap along wif defects entry in CO11n.
• Delivered several custom reports for operations planning and manufacturing yield and cycle time reports.
• Configured BOM for production, Engg & costing BOMS, routings, op sets, Control Keys for operations in routings, Trigger points for operation release, Bill of Material and Routing selection, priority of routing selection in teh order types, MRP plant parameters, scheduling margin keys & availability check
• Setup shop floor control configuration which included Production Scheduling Profile, Production Orders and Order Type dependant parameters, Status and Selection Profiles for Production Orders, modified forms for traveler sheet, defined print controls, Back flushing, auto GR, Material availability check, Stock and Batch determination and confirmation parameters.
• Configured QM processes: In process inspection, basic data like defining catalogs, inspection characteristics (MICs), sampling procedures, Inspection plan, Inspection lot creation, result/ defect recording, Quality notification and s.
• Played a major role in data collection from Legacy system, MFG Pro, data cleansing and data conversion from legacy systems to SAP for Material Master Data, BOM’s, Work Centers, documents, drawings, Routings and Production Version. Also coordinated teh cut over tasks associated wif inventory conversion.
• Uploaded PP master data, MM, BOM, WCs, routings and op sets wif LSMW and BDCs.
• Prepared and conducted Unit testing, Integration testing, End user and post go live support.

Confidential

SAP MM Functional

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing teh solution in line wif teh global template
• Led teh team in gathering user requirements for teh following key business processes in - Requisitioning, Purchase order processing, Subcontracting, Returns processing, Inventory management, Inventory management, Intercompany processing, Purchasing outputs, Consignment processing, EDI processing, Contract processing, Material master, Vendor master, Partner functions & Invoice Processing (LIV).
• Designed all of teh above mentioned processes and recommended design solutions to client in all of teh above areas.
• Configured and prototyped all key areas in - Purchase orders, Contracts, Vendor evaluation, Subcontracting processing, Consignment processing, PO outputs, Stock transport orders, Purchase requisitions, Goods receipt, Goods issue, PO returns processing, Inbound shipment, Delivery processing, Logistics invoice verification, Dynamic cycle counting, Physical Inventory wif RF.
• Led teh Procure-to-Pay team in making sure all teh test cases identified and performed for Unit test cycle and Integration cycles during teh testing phase.
• Led teh team during cutover phase for inventory cutover, Open PO, PIR and SL.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP MM IM

Responsibilities:

• Core Team MM for Procure to pay team during teh implementation of global template and responsible for teh End to End implementation of Procure To Pay process.
• Confirmed teh scope for teh Procure-to-Pay track during teh scoping sessions.
• Conducted several scoping workshops and Blueprinting sessions in understanding teh business of teh client and recommended teh business process master list (BPML) to be blueprinted during teh blueprint session.
• Conducted several blueprint workshop sessions, gathered requirements and designed some of teh important business processes in Materials Management for teh Wholesale distribution industry.
• Facilitated teh Procure-to-Pay workshops during teh playback sessions to validate design wif teh business group.
• Interacted wif SME’s to understand teh business requirements and provided solutions for teh business requirements to fill teh Gap’s.
• Led teh team during teh configuration phase. Responsible for leading teh SAP Organization structure discussion for teh project and configuration of organization structure, PO document types, RFQ, Contracts, Purchase requisitions, Release Strategy, Outputs, Pricing Procedure, Vendor Account Groups, Custom Movement types, Custom Material Types etc..
• Developed a new scenario’s in PTP wif business Re-Engineering like Subcontracting PO against a Third party Sales order, STO against a Sales order etc..
• Extensively worked on account determination, Output determination, Inbound and Outbound EDI like 850, 855, 810, 856, etc.
• Involved in Warehouse management systems to design and develop custom logistics execution scenarios for Inbound and Outbound process.
• Involved in design of handling unit management wif auto pack against teh sales order process.
• Involved in Configuration of Inbound and outbound Logistics execution process.
• Project cutoff preparation, pre and post go live activities.
• Designed and wrote an exhaustive functional spec for new interface of SAP outbound process to a third party transportation planning module, Wrote functional spec for inbound and outbound interface between SAP and Logility ( Planning software )
• Facilitated teh super user and end user sessions.
• Responsible for cutover planning, led teh teams for cutover preparation, Mock cutover final cutover for inventory loads, Open PO loads thru LSMW.
• Extensively worked on ALE/ EDI for master data transfer like material master, vendor master, classification data, customer master, BOM, etc..

Confidential

SAP MM Procure to Pay

Responsibilities:

• Study of organizational change management for business impact and risk assessment to identify teh risks to be addressed for successful implementation.
• Reviewing teh existing Specifications, Standardization & Coding to reduce teh variety of materials and equipment used in teh plant.
• Configuration of Material Masters, which includes number range assignment, screen sequence, fields configuration.
• Configuration and creation of new screen sequences and assigning as per user profiles
• Configuration and creation of new material types.
• Creation of new material groups, purchasing value keys, shipping instructions.
• Configuration of Vendor master, which includes creation of new account groups.
• Configuration of screen layout for vendor master wif to accounting groups.
• Assignment of number range for vendor master wif to accounting group.
• Optimized teh purchasing cycle of SAP related to Source Determination
• Configuration of purchasing info record and Optimized teh purchasing cycle of SAP related to Source Determination.
• Automatic creation of Purchase Order, Release Procedures wif Classifications for Purchase Requisition, defined Characteristics and Classes. Created Purchase Orders by referring to Purchase Requisitions & Contracts.
• Configuration of Purchase Requisition, which includes creation new document types and number range assignment.
• Configuration of Release Procedure wif classification for Purchase Requisition, which includes creation of characteristic and class. New Release strategies are created as per business requirement.
• Integration wif other modules like SD, FI, PP & MM.