Sap Pp Consultant resume
San Antonio, TX
Summary
- Over 7+ years of IT experience with 7 years of SAP experience in PP, PP PI, MM & QM modules
- Experience in Discrete Industries (PP), Process Industries (PP-PI) and Repetitive Industries
- Has extensive experience in all phases of the implementation
- Involved in the cross-functional integration of SAP PP/ PP-PI with other R/3 modules MM, IM, WM, QM, SD and FI/CO
- Extensively work on Plan to manufacture, Make to Order Business and Engineered to Order scenario
- Core Strengths are Resources/Work Center, Process/Production Orders, sub contacting Purchasing, STO, external processing, Inspection plans, MIC, Results recoding, Usage decision, Capacity/Demand Planning, Demand Management, Recipes/Routings, Control Recipes, Process Instruction Sheets, Shop Floor Monitor, PCS Interface to 3rd Party Shop Floor Control Devices, MRP, SOP, Order Execution, Scheduling, Back flushing etc.
- Extensive Knowledge in KANBAN process for controlling production and material flow based on the actual stock quantity in production
- Configured and executed the shop floor activities including creation of orders, conversion of planned orders, printing of shop papers, goods movements, order confirmations and availability check.
- Hands on experience on setting up design configuration on QM Inspection planning, QM certificate and notification
- Task Lists including inspection plans, routings and recipes, Work Centers, Control Keys, Test Frequencies, Test Equipment Management, Automatic and Manual Inspection Lot Creation.
- Demonstrated competence of a good team player and also as module leader ability to work on multiple projects
- Developed Designed functional specifications for SAP PP/SAP QM/SAP PP-PI related business processes
- MM configuration Stock Transfer, Invoice Verification, sub-contracting, third party, sub-contracting, Stock transports, scheduling agreements, movement types (GR/GI/transfer, movements), physical inventory (IM and IM), cycle counting, and reservations
- Industry experience: Chemical, Food/CPG and Manufacturing
- Experienced with ECATT, CTS, OSS, Upgrade, Service Packs and Auto Tester
- Well versed with RWD Info PAK, SAP Solution Manager, Mercury Test Director, SAP Quick Test Pro, Documentum, Remedy help desk ticketing systems
- Experience in Warehouse management and Logistics Execution System
- Proactive and flexible personality.
SAP Work Experience:
Confidential,San Antonio, TX May’12 to Till Date.
SAP PP Consultant
Version: ECC 6.0
- Provide Go-Live and Post-Go-Live support and perform production support consultant role.
- Active participation in cut over plan.
- Provide SAP support for STP activities (Production planning, Warehouse Management, Inventory Management and Quality Management) and Logistics Execution activities.
- Worked on Business Scenarios like Plan to Manufacture and Make to Order (MTO).
- Heavily worked on PP- WM, PP-QM and IM-WM area
- Act as SAP Super User to conduct critical transactions under running MRP, returning merchandise, maintaining stock levels and transferring stocks between inter-companies.
- Provide Support for Shop Floor activities, Confirmation activities and COGI error.
- Helped to resolve issues on rescheduling, MRP parameters.
- Worked on BPPs, Prepared Specifications for PP and QM and was part of End User training.
- Developed test scenarios and Performed unit and integration testing.
- Assisting SMEs daily as SAP help desk.
- Worked in Production support and solved issues and was working with Remedy Tickets
- Demonstrated dynamic planning, coordination, prioritization, and administrative skills in managing SAP reports.
- Extensively worked on Transfer Order(T.O), Transfer Requirements(T.R), Inbound/Outbound Deliveries, Put Away Pick away Strategies, Batch Management, IM and WM Movement Types
- Knowledge on Storage and Handling unit Management and RFC
- Knowledgeable in reporting for Shop Floor Control and Inventory Reporting.
- Provide VDS Third party software support.
- Support QM with PRT, RTP, P2P, OTC activities
- Integrated to QM module, to carry out in-process inspections.
- Provided Functional specification to custom reports.
Confidential, Ft. Myers Florida Feb’12 to Apr’ 12.
SAP PP Consultant
Version: ECC 6.0
- Go Live and Post go live support, following deployment of ECC 6.0 global project in the US, Canada and Mexico covering more than 20 manufacturing, sales and distribution sites.
- Key Team member process of cutover activities of PP module, Create a material master for the WIP, BOM and Routing for rest of the production process, create WIP inventory as of the cut off date, Create WIP Production Order.
- Post goes live support, troubleshooting problems.
- Resolving basic functional issues and working with the appropriate business or technical teams if further issue resolution is needed.
- Provide support on Plan to manufacture and Make to Order Business processes
- Extended the material master records to include work scheduling, MRP and forecasting views.
- Determine customize Detail Inspection Report (DIR), generate with Production order and purchasing goods receipt.
- Worked extensively with MM, CO and SD teams to integrate those modules with PP
- Created MRP Guide for planner, Operation Confirmation guide for Line Operators.
Re-determine Subcontracting, external processing and Third Party Logistics - Automated the Purchase Ordering process to a great extent by using Assigning and Processing Requisitions based on Info Records, and extensive use of Scheduling Agreements for all regular Materials reducing the number of transactions.
- Worked with preparation of Test scripts for Unit and Integration testing for Material Management and Production Planning modules with and also integration points of WM/IM and External Interfaces (DIS Systems)
- Executed the scripts and helped Business to understand the new processes (during GAP analysis) and recorded the results for the Testing done.
- Worked with Key users to have the Integration testing successful
Assisted in training material guide preparation using Infopak software and trained end users. - Overall management of the testing process including but not limited to issue tracking, testing status and test signoff.
- Worked in Production support and solved issues and was working with Remedy Tickets
Confidential, Houston, TX Feb’ 11 Dec’11
Senior SAP PP/QM Consultant
Version: ECC 6.0
- Part of the core member team to complete SAP implementation from endn to end.
- As a core team member responsible for localization
- Implemented Make to Stock and Make to Order for US plants.
- Conducted SME work shops on gathering localization related requirements in Japan plant
- Configured and executed the shop floor activities including creation of orders, conversion of orders, printing shop floor papers, goods movements, order confirmation and availability check.
- Implemented SOP: Flexible planning based on customized info structure.
- Configured and executed planning run with technical and business information and processed planned orders and MRP list evaluations.
- Responsible for configuring background jobs for MRP Run, special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues between different plants.
- Directed and managed the Change Control process for the project as a whole by facilitating group meetings, one-to-one interviews
- Define Material master for subcontracting material, In the BOM for the subcontracting material and define the special procurement key as Subcontracting. Define packaging material for subcontracting to capture the cost.
- Set up missing master data such as material master, master recipes and resources.
- Define alternate BOMs for each customer. Define different production versions for each alternate BOM and assign to the routing. Define the activity types for packing and mixing in the work center and assign them to the cost center.
- Well versed in LSMW for data migration & SAP queries for reporting
- Responsible for customization of QM Module according to the business requirements and Integration between various modules.
- Configuration of QM notifications and COA and print parameters
- Performed configurations in QM master data such as inspection characteristics, inspection planes
- Customized data for test equipment calibration, smart form for printing
- Configured QM master views with field selection, catalogs, Quality scores, QM task lists
- Implemented inspection methods, sampling procedure and test process
- Developed custom interface between SAP laboratory information and management systems
- Configured inspection types and number ranges for lot processing
- Prepared Business Blue print, user training manual, customization document, test scripts.
- Developed test scenarios and performed unit and integration testing.
- Coordinated with the testers during informal and formal testing.
- Resolved issues rise during informal and formal testing.
- Responsible for power user and end user training and documentation.
- Updated functional specs, test scripts to reflect the current business process.
- Responsible for providing production support.
Confidential, Buffalo Grove IL Mar’ 09 Dec’ 10
SAP SAP PP/QM Functional Consultant
Version: ECC 5.0
- Involved in all implementation phases of the project that includes business process analysis, gap analysis, design, configuration, testing, go live and post go live
- Responsible for business process analysis and blue print
- Worked very closely with development team, provided functional specifications and interfaces object testing.
- Involved in triggering KANBAN signals for the replenishment of KANBAN quantity defined in control cycle
- Assisted in developing test cases for unit testing and integration testing.
- Provided issue resolution procedures and centralized issue repository for change management
- Configured Engineering Change Management for history requirements for BOMs and Master Recipes.
- Configured MRP controllers, MRP groups, parallel processing, and Scheduling parameters in Material Requirements Planning.
- Configured graphic profiles for Capacity Planning/Leveling in Repetitive manufacturing.
- Invented “AUTO GR” process based on the confirmation, received via EDI transmission from sub-contracting vendor or distributors.
- Created pull list to control in-house material flow, supplying production with materials. This pull list checks the stock situation at the production line, calculates the missing parts for the components and triggers replenishment for these missing parts.
- Maintain QM Master Data i.e. inspection characteristics, inspection types, catalogs, Material master for different inspection types.
- Configured QM notifications and QM certificates
- Configured work centers for QM and standard value keys
- Responsible for configuring background jobs for QM and PP.
- Cut off strategy and client readiness, security profile testing
- Worked on BPPs, Prepared Specifications for PP and ECM (Enterprise Content Management), and QM and was part of End User training.
- Developed test scenarios and Performed unit and integration testing.
- Worked on BPPs, Prepared Specifications for PP and ECM (Enterprise Content Management), QM and was part of End User training
- Knowledge transfer and end user training
Confidential,MORRISTOWN, NJ Jun’ 08 Jan’ 09
SAP PP Functional Consultant.
Phase III Implementation
Responsibilities:
- Implementation based on ASAP methodology
- 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.
- Knowledgeable in LIS reporting for Shop Floor Control and Inventory Reporting.
- 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.
- Configured availability check, production scheduling profile, process order types, and plant parameters, automatic purchase requisitions from MRP and goods movements.
- Integrated to QM module, to carry out in-process inspections.
- Defined and configured the Vendor managed inventory (VIM), subcontracting process and inventory process
- Defining Pricing procedure, calculation schema and release strategy
- Adopt stock transfer techniques to execute Plant to Plant stock transfers and Cross-Company stock transfers using Stock Transport Order (STO)
- Prepared documentation for knowledge transfer and trained end users.
Confidential, Denver, CO Oct’ 07 Apr’ 08
SAP PP/MM Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Documentation & project preparation by analysing the "AS IS" systems like manufacturing processes, functional areas, material issues, legacy systems and development of "TO BE" solutions.
- Implemented configurations in PP with make to stock and make to order scenarios
- Customized data for repetitive manufacturing by defining production versions, planning id and production lines for planning purposes in material master data.
- Configured and created BOM, work centers and rate routings.
- Implemented planned independent requirements in Demand Management
- Created the planned orders by using planned tables and sequences.
- Production completion confirmations are simplified and are made with reference to the material being produced. The confirmations usually include the backlashing of components and the posting of production costs.
- Maintained planned independent Requirements by transferring data from Sales and Operation Planning.
- Set up Long term planning to forecast input material requirements and Plan capacity loads.
- Reorder bases planning and forecast based planning for raw materials.
- Created new evaluation and levelling profiles for MRP and Shop floor control in Capacity Requirement Planning.
- Configured the batch management functionality to facilitate inventory visibility on user-defined attributes, easier goods issue using search strategies.
- In repetitive manufacturing, we calculated costs per material or per production version via a product cost collector (product cost per period).
- Integrated with other modules particularly with ECM and PM to configure product costing, inventory management.
- Break down Maintenance: Notification, Maintenance order, spare consumption, spare planning.
- Preventive maintenance: Single cycle maintenance/ strategy plan, scheduling, capacity and availability check
- Materials masters, work centers, Maintenance task list, equipment, functional locations, etc.
- Production order creation, release and confirmation and Back flushing, shop floor papers printing with user-defined layouts.
- Implemented functionality likes super BOM, Super routing, and Class items in BOM, Tables and functions.
- Responsible for post live support and end user training.
Confidential,India Jul’ 05 - Aug’ 07
SAP PP/MM Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Core team member of the upgrade project from SAP 4.0B to 4.6C.
- Assisted Production Planning team with internal training related to SAP 4.6C.
- Provided technical support and problem resolution to existing 4.0B global user community.
- Deve1oped and presented an upgrade workshop to project team members of the company.
- Involved a detailed examination of version changes. Configuration support tools and modifications within the Production Planning Module in Master Data, Engineering Change Management, Production Orders, Production Scheduling.
- Also involved customizing the delivery client to demonstrate enhancements to the SAP R/3 system.
- Created unit test scenarios and transaction documentation for Purchasing, Inventory Management, Production Planning, Long Term Planning, Capacity Planning, Shop Floor reporting, and Goods Movements.
- Upgrade projects that included testing transactions and analyzing results, modifying configuration, reviewing OSS notes.
- Have Knowledge to all established guidelines, standards and procedures when making upgrade changes to SAP.
- Have a major role in testing of new functionality, upgrades and Service Packs and OSS notes.
- Directly involved with cycle testing existing and new functionality, authorization testing, integration testing existing and new functionality, training development, go-live cutover activities, and post go-live support.
Confidential,India Jan’ 05 Jun’ 05
Business Analyst
- Reorganized office and accounting processes to improve efficiency and boost productivity
- Reviewed and processed payments and validated irregular payments on roster and client billed cases
- Processed daily cash flow and bank reports to summarize inflows and outflows to monitor the budget
- Created and presented monthly and quarterly expense analysis reports to improve cash management
- Prepared Financial Reports and other financial analytical reports to assist Auditors, CPAs, Board of Directors, and other associated departments.
Education:
Bachelors of Engineering in Electrical