SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of experience in SAP R/3, ECC Business Process Analysis and Systems Integration. Multiple parallel implementation experience specializing in SAP PP, MM, WM and SAP Plant Maintenance.
• Strong technical and functional expertize in PP, MM, Capacity requirement planning, Capacity leveling, Work center, Master Recipe management, relationships, BOM, routing and production order execution cycle
• Participated in 3 full - life cycle implementations, experienced in implementing Best Practices, Global Design Blueprint, Realization, Rollout on large SAP projects and production support
• Proficient in creating resources/Work Center, Process/Production Orders, Purchasing, STO, external processing, Inspection plans, Capacity/Demand Planning, Demand Management, Recipes/Routings, Shop Floor Monitor
• Worked on Bill of Material (BOM), PP Work Canter, Routing, rescheduling, MRP and MPS parameters. MRP controllers, MRP groups, Configured Production Order Types, Confirmations, Operations, Status Profile, and Selection Profile, Defining print control, Order costing, and Production order type Dependent Parameters. REM profile, planning table, reduction strategies, back flushing.
• Experienced in Procure to Pay, Purchasing, Material Master, Inventory Management, Logistics Invoice Verification and Material requirements planning, Service Masters, Service Entry Sheets, Batch Management. Inventory Management, GR, GI, Movement Types, Transfer Posting, Stock Transfer, Physical Inventory process
• Worked on WM basic stock management, sort variables, automatic creation of storage bins, special movement indicators, storage location control, Put-away and Picking Strategies
• Worked extensively on Inspection Plans, Inspection Setup, Sample studies, Usage Decisions.
• Experience with SAP Business Workflow both standard scenarios such as PR release as well as custom workflow development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 - 4.6b, 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

SAP MODULES: SAP MM, PP, WM, QM, IM

TOOLS: SAP Solution Manager, LSMW, MS SharePoint HP Quality Center, Remedy Service Desk and BMC Request Management

INTERFACING TECHNOLOGY: IDOCS, EDI

LANGUAGES: ABAP 4.0, C, HTML, SQL

DATA BASE: Oracle … MS Access, SQL Server, DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP PP, PM Consultant

Confidential - Hercules, CA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, carrying out fit-gap analysis, customization, Interface Designs, data mapping, master data upload, functional testing, integration testing and key users training.
• Executed shop floor activities including creation of production orders, availability check, and release of orders, printing shop floor papers, goods issue, goods movement, order confirmations and order settlement.
• Configured planned orders, production scheduling profile, production orders, plant parameters and automatic purchase requisitions from MRP.
• Responsible for configuring material master, bill of materials, workcenters and routings as well as Material types.
• Worked on Capacity planning: Worked with available capacity, reallocate within planning table, evaluation, levelling, re- scheduling and dispatching operations.
• As a Production Planning Analyst, mainly responsible for resolving daily on going production issues and new enhancement related to SCM areas
• Forecasted demand of product groups and transferred Planned Independent Requirements from the Sales and Operation Planning to Demand Management.
• Worked closely with the business and project team members to evaluate business needs, defining and prioritizing requirements and agreeing process flows and analytical capabilities that align wherever possible with leading practice business processes.
• Configured repetitive manufacturing application such as planning table, production version, product cost collectors and cost estimate.
• Configured order type - dependent parameters, scheduling parameters, scheduling profiles, release strategies, confirmation parameters in reference to planned and production orders.
• Worked on third party tool interface - mainly used to capture production and scrap declaration for all declared and phantom sub-assemblies on manufacturing shop floor.
• Developed multiple LSMW program for updating critical BOM structure and Routing Cycle time as a part of data cleansing activities.
• Worked on TCE-SAP Interface for managing creation/changes to Material master and Bill of Materials as a future scope along with preparation of business test case and troubleshooting critical issues.
• Designed efficient MRP process for multiple plants with MRP groups and planning strategies. Configured check group, checking rule, scope of check and checking control.
• Responsible for preparation of data mapping spread sheets, functional design specifications for interface development, custom reports, enhancements and also upload master data uploads for BOM, Work Centers and Routings.
• Worked on purchase groups, creating vendor master data, stock transfer order, source lists, subcontracting, creating outline agreements and contracts, and maintaining physical inventory as a SAP PP-MM consultant.
• Resolved MRP issues with relevance to scheduling dates of PO and planning file entry.
• Implemented new functionality of Scheduling, Capacity Planning and leveling using planning table.
• Take ownership of end to end Integration testing of Order to Cash process flow for newly introduce Prototype materials.
• Developed test scripts for functional validation of both ECC and SAP MII processes. Performed Unit, Integration and User Acceptance Testing to validate all aspects of PP-PI module.
• Provided functional and technical support in all stages of SAP PP Go-live stages including data migration and cut-over activities.

Confidential - Hammond, IN

Responsibilities:

• Included analyzing business requirements, carrying out fit-gap analysis, customization, Interface Designs, data mapping, master data upload, functional testing, integration testing and key users training.
• Full End-to-End implementation of SAP PP, MM and WM modules.
• Performed AS-IS/TO-BE Study with core team members and presented reports after completing GAP Analysis
• Created several Functional Specifications for the GAPs identified during the blueprinting phase
• Closely worked with technical team guiding them with the technical details required for the FS development and enhancement
• Configured Material Master, BOM, Routing/Master Recipes, Work Center/Resource, Production Version and Executed Flexible Planning, created Info Structures/ Key parameters
• Worked extensively on Production Scheduling and leveling with setup matrix creation.
• Configured various planning board related parameters like layout keys, sort keys, dispatching sequence keys
• Creatively configured scenario for sequencing the orders during dispatch based on various product types.
• Configured Plant Parameters for Materials Requirement Planning such as MRP groups, MRP controller, MRP types, Planning Horizon, Lot-sizing Procedure, and availability check for components
• Worked on Production order creation, release, confirmation, settlement and on reports like COOIS
• Configured Checking Groups / Checking Rules for Availability Checks, ATP and new profiles / layouts for Production/Process Order scheduling.
• Configured automatic batch determination based on shelf life using SLED (shelf life expiration date)
• Created LSMW for creating master data like material master, work center, shift groups, routings.
• Worked extensively in QM areas like Inspection Plans / Inspection Types / Inspection Lots/ Catalogs.
• Created BPPs using uperform, illustrating in detail all the production planning scenarios which will be used by customer
• Performed unit testing, integration testing, end user training docs creation and end user training.
• Configured Material Master, BOM, Routing and Work Center for the Route Interface

SAP PP MM consultant

Confidential -Hayward, CA

Responsibilities:

• Big-bang Implementation at Hayward and quick Roll Outs at different geographical locations.
• Multi level Configurable Products, 2-4 steps Inter-Company Make-to-Order processes.
• As a Functional Consultant on PP Team, documented the current Business Flow, reviewed As-Is Business Processes for Material Master, Variant Configuration, Bills of Material and Routing across all business units and product lines.
• Interacted with core team members and plant managers to perform Gap Analysis based on As-Is study reports.
• Worked on Build to Stock, assemble to Order and Make to Order for Configurable Material.
• Created Configuration Profile, Creation of Characteristics, and maintenance of characteristic values and assignment of object to classes.
• Responsible for creation and configuration of Material Master data, BOM's, production order type dependent, Rate routings, Production versions, Product Cost collector parameters.
• Maintained plant parameters such as MRP controller, MRP groups, MRP types, Lot sizing procedure, availability check for components, and conversion of procurement proposals.
• Created a variant for MRP run and scheduled a background job to run every weekend.
• Created and Executed the Flexible Planning, created Info Structures/ Key parameters
• Defined Control Keys, Confirmation Parameters based on different Order types for various Production Orders
• Added new catalogs and functionality, Approval hierarchies, Workflow, IDOC s, and interfaces to SAP R/3. Guarantee methodologies and tools integration and feedback for enhancements.
• Configured Production Scheduling Profile and Scheduling Parameters for production orders.
• Assisted in shop floor activities like Capacity Planning and availability check.
• Executed MRP Run; Single-item multi-level, MRP/Stock Requirement List; Individual display & Collective displays.
• Configured MRP (Material Requirement Planning), Demand Planning and Scheduling Procedures to integrate with purchasing and delivery requirements.
• Worked on MM functionalities- Material Masters, Info Records, Source Lists, Consumption Based Planning, Purchasing and Inventory.
• Configuration: Designed and configured entire warehouse organization structure, Configured MMR (Material Master Records), VMR (Vendor Master Records), Special Stocks (Subcontracting and pipeline material) . Set up automatic and immediate generation of transfer requirements and transfer orders.
• Worked on EDI process (partner type, partner profile, message type, Inbound and outbound parameters)
• Worked on Configuration in Inventory Management: Goods Receipt, Goods Issues, Stock Transfer, Reservations and Reporting in IM.
• Maintained inspection characteristics in QM and integrated those in the work scheduling (Material Master view) and production processing functions (routing operations) of the Production Planning (PP) component.
• Defined Inspection checkpoints, Inspection Lot, Record Inspection Results and confirm the operations in the Routing (QM)
• Created Functional Spec for the Technical Consultant on Customized Enhancements, Reports and Form.
• Worked on Periodic Data Transfer from Legacy System into SAP using LSMW Tool; Data transfer included mapping fields, reading the spreadsheet files and converting into the target format.
• Carried out UAT, worked on SAP Test Workbench, created Test Cases, Test Plans, Integrated Test Cases and Test Script, maintained and Documented Test Progress and Test Results
• Trained Business Process Owners and End Users for day to day transactions.

SAP PP SD Consultant

Confidential - East Hanover,New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Supported Plant Maintenance 4.7 to ECC Migration Project through all releases and Plant Roll-Outs. (2 Major Releases and one Minor Release)
• Participated in extensive meetings to understand and document Plant specific MRO processes for 8 plants
• Configured various MRP (Material Requirement Planning) types in plant level, single level single item and multilevel level single item
• Configured basic data for production planning and control in Demand management fucntion
• Customized length calculation data and profile for BOM explosion
• Configuration of management in Sales and Operation planning
• Configured planning strategies for finished products and MRP parameters such as Re-scheduling horizon, safety stock, and planning time fence.
• Worked on Production Order creation, Release, Availability check, confirmation of orders, Goods Issue (GI), Goods Receipt (GR)
• Configured Production Scheduling Profile and Scheduling Parameters for production orders.
• Worked with discrete manufacturing with make to stock and make to order environments.
• Created material master and maintained specific views in material master
• Defined coverage strategies, internal MRP modules, cutting rules, MRP logic, MRP relevant stock, lot size procedure for materials
• Created planned independent requirements, production orders, completion of full life cycle of production order through release, goods issue, confirmation, and TECO etc.
• Configured cutting order controlling parameters, delivery note preparation, outbound delivery creation
• Integrated Solution PP with SD and MM modules in areas such as stock transfer, cutting control parameters, goods issue, Transfer of Requirements (TOR) and Availability Check (using ATP logic), make-to-order
• Worked on MRP batch jobs, scheduled various PP batch jobs in logical manner
• Conducted workshops for end users on new enhancements and product features and potential returns on investment
• Created development specification for the functionalities which are in demand by most of the users as feedback to development and did the functional testing later
• Worked closely with the end-users and key users in understanding and implementing new business requirements
• Created end user guide (taking care of using simple layman language for end user of system) for the new functionality
• Designed and implemented new ECC MRO processes (centralized MRO procurement process using buying center.)
• Implemented Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order approval process leveraging existing Latin America design based on SAP Business Workflow.

SAP PP Consultant

Confidential - Memphis, TN

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete life cycle of SAP ASAP Methodology with phases - Requirement Gathering, Blueprint validation, Configurations, Testing, Training and Documentation.
• Ensured 100% Mapping of Business Processes during SAP Implementation process
• Reconfigured sources to maintain status profiles and made enhancements to maintain screen groups.
• Defined material master, material types, number range, classification for various class types and its characteristics.
• Responsible for creation of Bill of Materials, Mater Recipe, Production Versions and WorkCentres.
• Maintained shop-floor activities like process order creation, production scheduling and label printing process.
• Configuration of new plant, storage location, company code, and distribution channel per end-user's requirement. One-to-Many Enterprise Structure
• Maintained standard value keys, control keys, Capacity Scheduling from reference Resources.
• Aiding the existing implementation process and acknowledging queries of end-users for better understanding of business processes.
• Carried out configuration changes and testing them successful in different environments before handling them to the end-users.
• Accommodated oversight to integration points with other SAP Functional modules (MM and SD) and provided end-to-end support in supply chain process.
• Worked on Lean Manufacturing business process for Just-In-Time manufacturing (JIT) and Kanban (Scheduling System).
• Supported Warehouse Management(WM) Processes involving Handling Unit (HU), Storage Unit (SU) and its implementations using SAP bar-code scanning process.
• Communicated to OSS on client specific issues and provided solutions.
• Partnered with ABAP team members to write the functional specifications and develop User Exits if required
• Creation and Maintenance of Transfer Order and Transfer Requirements in different SAP environments.
• Involved in Month-End Activities to ensure timely closure of incidents or service requests in PP/WM Module.
• Writing functional requirements and interacting with developmental team to make any changes to the code and developing the user exits.
• Conducting and providing Root Cause Analysis for all the incidents irrespective of the priority and inform to the end-users to make sure that the same error is not triggered in the future.
• Prepared end-user Self Help documentation with detailed steps and screenshots for all issues and enhancements that are successful.
• Attending weekly meeting to discuss possible issues about open incidents and determining future course of action.