SUMMARY

• 7+ years of functional experience in SAP Production Planning, Quality Management, and Material Management modules.
• Two Full life cycle implementations in SAP PP module and integration with other logistics modules.
• Thorough proficiency in business process analysis, gathering business requirements, blue printing, gap - analysis, configuration, testing, up-grade, user training and production support.
• Experience in diverse industrial sectors- Food and Beverages, Pharmaceutical, Textiles and Automotive industries.
• Expertise in manufacturing environments comprising Discrete, Repetitive, KanBan, process manufacturing and Variant Configuration.
• SAP PP expertise in Master Data, SOP, demand management, MRP, shop floor control, product costing.
• Material Management expertise includes purchasing, inventory management, and procurement and invoice verification.
• Highly proficient in quality planning, quality inspection, quality certificates and quality notifications.
• Expertise in gathering relevant user data, designing protocols and familiar in coding.
• Highly proficient in collaborating with technical team in writing detailed technical specifications for customizations, interfaces, reports and conversion programs.
• Collaborated closely with end users, SAP developers and application team to design and deliver SAP based solutions for business requirements.
• Highly proficient in coordinating and executing Unit, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Extensively contributed to end user training, production support and Change Management.
• Excellent communication, inter personal, presentation and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP systems: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0

SAP: PP, PP-PI, QM, MMDesign software Catia, Ideas, Auto Cad

Operating Systems: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7.0, Mac

MS Office: Word, Excel, Power point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Findlay, OH

SAP PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for post production support to identify errors in processing day to day transactions.
• Resolved MRP issues with relevance to scheduling dates of production orders and planning file entry.
• Communicated with and guided the QM department to clear the blocked stock in quality inspection due to usage decisions and batch restrictions.
• Handled issues related to background job run, conversion of planned orders and process orders.
• Responsible for issues on TECO, stock transfer orders, inbound and outbound delivery activities.
• Reconfigured resources to maintain status profile and made enhancements to maintain screen groups.
• Worked on QM master data; quality inspection, quality notification and quality control.
• Worked on Batch Information Cockpit, batch traceability, result selection, and defect recording.
• Maintained production order batch search strategy; modified sort rule and selection criteria for automatic batch determination.
• Developed custom reports for production order status, a report that lists available capacities and backlog of the load, a daily check list of process order quantity changes.
• Trained super users and end-users and developed training documentation for the PP, MM, and QM for different industry sectors. Very good experience in using with SAP I tutor.
• Wrote Functional specification documents (FSD) and worked with ABAP team. Worked on preparing test scripts, executing test cycles, documenting test results, integration testing and user acceptance test.
• Performed baseline configuration for system demos in Discrete manufacturing.
• Developed Test scripts for various enhancement projects and coordinated defect resolution with off-shore developers.
• Replicated the issues in development client, created transport requests and followed up for approvals into the production system.
• Created and presented the change requests at the CoE Change Management meetings.
• Set up back ground batch jobs for MM, PP, and QM modules.
• Extensive collaboration with ABAP developer for developing Technical Specs for custom reports.
• Prepared end user Self-Help documentation with detailed steps and screen shots for all the issues and enhancements that are successful.
• Provided extensive training to the super users and end users in handling critical production break down issues independently and efficiently.

Confidential, Jackson, MI

SAP PP-PI/MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with team members and management in analyzing short term and long term strategic requirements of the client and developed As-Is report.
• Developed Blueprint, prepared TO-BE report and performed GAP analysis.
• Analyzed the legacy system and worked on Master Data conversion from legacy to SAP using LSMW,BDCand BAPI..
• Liaised with business and Material Management Team in the development of Enterprise Structure, creating plants, storage locations, purchasing organization, RICEF objects and Shop Floor design.
• Helped and guided material management team on mapping distribution centers, designing shadow plants, stock allocation and stock transfer.
• Responsible for decision making related to work scheduling, managing inventory at plant and distribution centers, identifying work in progress Stock.
• Extensively worked on inventory management which includes goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, stock transfers, transfer postings, movement type and cycle counting.
• Involved in Process Order Configuration, production scheduling profiles, process order types, recipes and profiles, BOM settings, order confirmation settings, selection profiles, report transactions and variants.
• Has experience in Materials, BOMs, Product model, Product hierarchy, Engineering change management and vendor management.
• Developed training documentation and conducted and facilitated user training.
• Setting up process manufacturing cycle for new plant. Configuration, material master data, BOM, resources, testing and implementation of process order cycle for new plant.
• Worked on defining process order type & dependent parameters, number ranges, scheduling control parameters, order confirmation parameters, standard value keys, formula set ups, availability checking scope.
• Worked on defining floats, planning horizon, planning time fence, production version set up, scheduling & capacity parameters, reservations and inventory movements.
• Worked on Total maintenance of plant MRP parameters, planned order to process order conversion, shop floor papers, and batch management.
• Set up back ground batch jobs for MRP, PI, and MM modules.
• Worked with SD team, on delivery processing, serial number assignment, sales order pick, condition records and variant pricing.
• Responsible for critical decision making related to configurable material groups, assigning characteristics, configuration profile.
• Provided expert advice and guidance during unit testing and integration testing.
• Conducted end user training, provided GO-LIVE and post GO-LIVE support.

Confidential, NY

SAP PP-PI, Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Full Cycle Implementation of ECC 6.0 for PP module
• Maintained Classification, MRP, Work scheduling, Quality management views.
• Used material master data in creation of BOMs and Resources
• Configured Master recipe for different processes and used BOMs and Resources in various phases and operations.
• Performed baseline configuration for system demos in PP-PI, and repetitive manufacturing.
• Configured master recipe with quality inspection characteristics and configured the inspection plan creation
• Set-up configuration and master data for Inspection Lot Creation, Results and Defects Recording
• Configured Batch Management and involved in automatic creation of Batch serial numbers for tractability.
• Trained super users and end-users and developed training documentation for the PP-PI, MM, and QM for different industry sectors.
• Worked on Mapping of Recipe, Process order, Control recipe destination keys, Creation and execution of ABAP based and browser based PI sheet and RICEF objects..
• Defined process instruction categories, process message categories, and control recipe destinations in Process Instructions sheet.
• Maintained master data for MRP type, MRP controller, Availability check, and missing parts check list
• Extensively involved in configuring repetitive manufacturing functions such as REM profile, Planning table, Product cost collectors and back flushing
• Customized Process Message Categories & Control Recipe destinations for the configuration of PI sheet.
• Configured Process orders and confirmation of process orders through process messages.
• Involved in the configuration of Quality Info records which are used for vendor evaluation
• Assigned Inspection Types to Material Master based on in process inspection or Post process inspection.
• Creating and configuring of SAP PP - PI Material master, Master Recipes and Resources.
• Configured quality checks for all goods receipts.
• Maintained Production resource tools (PRTs) and calibrated equipments as per schedule
• Trained all the users on various business processes and perform the required transactions

Confidential, Malvern, PA

SAP PP-PI/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identified the functional gaps and developed Function Specification documents for the enhancements.
• Reconfigured BOM usage with relevance to production, order of priority for BOM usage, BOM status for MRP explosion, planned orders and release orders.
• Developed test scenarios in Demand Management; PIRs for different requirement types and planning horizon.
• Worked on issues related to maintaining Master recipe profile, recipe status and made changes in control key to print time tickets.
• Worked on pre-conditions and made relevant changes in process instructions.
• Worked on creating Super BOM, Super Routing, assigning selection conditions and procedures.
• Tested MRP Run for materials planned at different storage levels and for Storage Locations extended to other plants, using procurement types and MRP indicators.
• Extensive enhancements in MRP plant parameters, scheduling formulas and control keys as per the Audit requirements.
• Configured RFC and control recipe destination keys to transfer information to PP-PI sheet.
• Worked on MES interface with PP-PI; process orders, back flush, receipts and defects.
• Totally responsible for configuration and customization of PI sheets in SAP PP-PI. And created business procedures (BPP) for execution of PI sheet.
• PP-PI area: Involved in Mapping of Recipe, Process order, Control recipe destination keys, Creation and execution of ABAP based and browser based PI sheet.
• Worked on Control Recipes, simulation in master recipe, control recipe monitoring, Reporting process messages through PI sheet.
• Defined process instruction categories, process message categories, and control recipe destinations in Process Instructions sheet.
• Worked on creation and configuration of control recipe destinations, process messages, mapping middleware routing, business connector and Idoc based interfaces.
• Worked on SOP consistent planning; configured info structures, maintained planning hierarchies, calculating proportional factors for disaggregation and maintained version management.
• Configured co-products, bi-products, control recipes, material costing and Back flushing.
• Resolved issues on inventory batch handling; stock types, searching for a batch, batch selection for goods issue and transfer posting of batches.
• Developed functional specification documents for enhancements and worked with technical resources to test and present the changes made.
• Worked with ABAP Developer on LSMW, BDC and BAPI for recording and conversion of the PP and QM master data.
• Worked on HP Solution Center for monitoring tickets, creating change request, sending for approvals, providing updates on the issues and tracking the transport request movement.
• Provided 24/7 global emergency support for production break-downs.

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

SAP PP-PI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the configuration of the Master data like BOM, Resources & Master Recipes.
• Configured PP SOP sales planes, master recipe, characteristics, planning methods, resources.
• Developed Functional specs for Label printing, time ticket printing, PP Stock reports.
• Developed configuration scripts, BPP, work instruction.
• Configured Standard value keys, Control keys, Formulas, Capacity categories for resources in QM master data.
• Configured Engineering Change Management for history requirements for BOMs and Master Recipes.
• Totally responsible for configuration and customization of PI sheets in SAP PP-PI. And created business procedures (BPP) for execution of PI sheet.
• Set up back ground batch jobs for MRP, PP, WM and PP-PI modules.
• Involved in the Shop Floor Execution and Shop Floor Control of the Process Orders.
• Defined Production schedule profiles, planner groups.
• Defined process instruction categories, process message categories, and control recipe destinations in Process Instructions sheet.
• Configured MRP controllers, MRP groups, parallel processing, and scheduling parameters in Material Requirements Planning.
• Involved in integration with QM for automatic creation of Inspection Lots.
• Involved in defining the QM Inspection characteristics in Recipes.
• Configuration of LTP planning processing, functional specifications to RICEF and user exits.

Confidential, TAMPA, FL

SAP PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements, design, prototype and configure the PP PI module for both make-to-stock and make-to-order Process manufacturing environments.
• Developed training documentation and conducted and facilitated user training.
• Configured settings for Master recipe, scheduling master recipe with secondary resources and Phase relationship.
• Configured functionality, Demand management, MRP settings, MRP Groups, requirement classes, requirement types, planning strategies, lot sizes, material statuses.
• Involved in Process Order Configuration, production scheduling profiles, process order types, recipes and profiles, BOM settings, order confirmation settings, selection profiles, report transactions and variants.
• Check material types, number ranges, mass-maintenance batch job variants, sales order ATP, item categories, groups, and schedule line categories and assignments, delivery scheduling.
• Maintaining process message categories and process destination for process messages. Creation of multiple process message destinations. Process instructions sheet settings.

Confidential, Smithfield, RI

SAP QM PP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the issues faced by the client in BOM, Recipe and Production version.
• Strong experience in gap analysis, Interaction with business and users for requirements.
• Developed MM return material to vendor business process.
• Strong cross-functional experience with QM, MM and PM modules.
• Configured and maintained BOM, routings, Work centers, Resources, Recipe, Process orders and Material Requirement Planning (MRP) and configured Capacity planning and scheduling of the process orders.
• Worked with batch management and inventory management.
• Has strong experience in SAP PP Configuration skills, good functional and knowledge of interfaces.
• Worked with MM contracts and scheduling agreements.
• Established production version for alternative BOM. Resolved the issues in selecting the production version for the concerned production version.
• Has extensive knowledge of SAP MM, PP & QM with multiple end to end SAP implementations with leadership position in pharmaceutical industry.

Confidential

SAP PP, QM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured PI sheet functionality for the client.
• Identified various process steps in shop floor and the same is mapped in SAP PI sheet.
• Studied the existing MM As-Is process of the client to identify the issues and opportunities for improvement and arrive at the proposed To-Be process.
• Configured various MM Org units like Purchasing Organization, plant, company code, storage location and purchasing document type. And also configured brand new movement types.
• Configured Master data set up like MM source list, Material Master, Vendor Master, info record, Pricing, Release strategy, Automatic Account determination and vendor evaluation.
• Has experience in Batch management and classification, issues on output determination and printing in the area of MM -PO, PR, shipping, handling units.
• Configured Master data set up like MM source list, MM-Material Master, MM Vendor Master, info record, Pricing, MM Release strategy, MM Automatic Account determination and vendor evaluation.
• Experienced in Inventory Management configuration like new movement creation, Cycle count process.
• Conducted training for business and end users as well as to SAP consultants in SAP MM.
• Experience in cross module integration with PP, QM and MM modules.
• Has additional experience in MM plant floor data collection systems. Strong business process knowledge along with techno-functional skills.
• Has experience in Materials, BOMs, Product model, Product hierarchy, Engineering change management and vendor management.
• Responsible for the delivery of technology and process deliverables focused on the SAP MM module and the Procure to pay process.
• Experienced in Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Inventory Management.
• Created and developed data solutions and strategies to meet the requirements of the corresponding SAP component (ex APO, BW).
• Done goods issue and goods receipt with the help of PI sheet.

Confidential

SAP -PP/ MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Discrete manufacturing, Repetitive manufacturing and Classification.
• Extensively worked in Batch Management.
• Defined Planning strategies. Worked for strategy 10 and 40. Configured and implemented repetitive manufacturing for billets.
• Defined different order types, use of different control keys and configuration for the same.
• Worked on Various MPS, MRP, planning methods, Total planning at plant level (online/background job), Single-item multi-level, MRP/Stock requirement list -Individual display & Collective display.
• Testing of Purchase requisition cycle, RFQ cycle, Comparative statement, Purchase order cycle, Outline Agreements (Contracts, Scheduling Agreements), Services, Subcontracting, goods receipts and issue cycles, Physical inventories, and MRP run.
• BDC run for initial catch up of data for Material master, Vendor master, Vendor excise details, Purchase requisition and Purchase orders.
• Extending of materials to different plant and vendors to different organization.
• Taking of initial stock into SAP from legacy system. Developed a suitable database in Excel for uploading of different master into SAP.
• Identification of training needs and training to core users. Preparation of Customization document and user’s manual.

Confidential

SAP - PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Updated Material master, BOM’s, Routings and Work Center using mass maintenance. Also creation of master data as per requirements.
• Defined different order types, use of different control keys and configuration for the same.
• Worked on Production order, Order creation, Scheduling of production orders, Order release, availability check, Confirmation of orders, Milestone confirmation.
• Worked on Information systems, Order costing.
• Created BDC formats for material master in MS Excel. Data migration for the Master data of PP module of SAP
• Uploaded Material master, BOM’s, Routings and Work Center.
• Identification of training needs and user training.