SUMMARY:

• SAP Functional Consultant with more than 8 years of SAP experience in MM/PP with 3 full life cycle and 3 Enhancement implementation and 1 support project; successfully performed production support and system upgrade projects with ASAP methodology/Solution Manager.
• Worked on all phases of ASAP Methodology of implementation that includes Project Preparation, Business Blue Print, Realization Documentation, Final Preparation, Customization and Configuration Processed and performed a complete GAP analysis to identify problems and inconsistencies with the business requirements specification with the existing system.
• Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Order, Purchase Requisition, Direct and Indirect Procurement, Invoice Verification, Valuation and Account Determination, Info Records, Source List, MRP Procedures, Bill of Materials (BOM) and Outline Agreements.
• Experience in PP module on the configuration and flow of processes - Demand Planning, work center, BOM, Routing and Material requirement planning (MRP). Rich knowledge in Material Requirement planning (MRP) and its configuration settings, serial number, defined MRP profiles, MRP groups, MRP type.

SKILLS:

• SAP Materials Management
• SAP Production Planning
• SAP Procure to Pay
• SAP ARIBA
• Software
• SAP
• Minitab
• MS Excel

EXPERIENCE:

SAP MM/PP Consultant (Production Support)

Confidential

Environment: S/4 HANA

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• As part of the Production Support Team worked closely with Technical and Functional consultants of other modules to resolve the issues as per priorities.
• Gap Analysis with realization of open issues and design of best fit functionalities.
• Responsible for resolution of complex / high priority Tickets raised by the users as per the SLA.
• Worked on Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Info Records, Source List, Outline Agreements, and Contracts.
• Experience configuring Materials Management processes/objects: requisitions, release strategies, material purchase orders, outline agreements, source lists.
• Worked on Setting up Service Master Record and Configuring Service Entry Sheets for Service Procurement.
• Worked on Changing approvers and approval Limits in PO Workflow.
• Worked on Mass Deletion of Open Purchase Requisition and Purchase Orders.
• Worked with Goods movements for Goods Receipts, Goods Issue and Transfer Posting& Reservations and set parameters for cycle counting for physical Inventory.
• Created work centers, routing, production versions, Info records, cost centers.
• Created 'Bill of Materials' for finished materials and Semi-finished materials as per requirement.
• Performed Inventory Management tasks through MIGO transactions, Reservations, Special stock procurement. Configured quality checks for all goods receipts.
• Resolved MRP issues with relevance to scheduling dates of PO and planning file entry.
• Prepare necessary KM documents related to resolution of issues as per the agreement.
• Investigate repetitive issues and take necessary remedial action.
• Coordinating with other consultants of FI, PP, and QM & WM for integration related issues.
• Interacting with technical team (ABAP) on SAP Script, PO Forms and other issues.
• Inventory Management & Physical inventory: Stock transfers between storage locations, Plants, and company codes. Transfer postings for stock types. Design development of new movement types.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to communicate with Domestic End and Super Users.
• Provided support during and Post Go-live and logging of production issues (Troubleshooting Issues, Enhancements, Queries, Reports).

SAP MM/PP Functional Consultant

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Environment: ECC6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured material master: customized the attributes of material types. Maintained field selection of data screens specific to material type, transaction, industry sector, and plant.
• Configured materials with super BOM and routing, variant class, characteristics. Assigned object dependencies, preconditions, actions, selection conditions to configurable profile.
• Procure to Pay: Experienced in understanding the business requirements for procurement then converting them to easily meet the production. Also ensuring the payments made to vendors as per Payment terms.
• Defined number ranges for Purchase requisitions and Purchase orders.
• Creation and changes in release strategies in Purchase requisition and Purchase orders.
• Created various standard Material Management (MM) documents which include Purchase requisition (PR), Purchase Orders (PO), Purchase Info Record.
• Configuration of Inter& Intra Company STO, 3rd Party Process, RTP Process.
• Configured Released strategy for Indirect Material Purchase orders.
• Configured settings for MRP run, CBP and CRP evaluations.
• Implemented all standard procurement scenarios such as Stock Transport Orders, Third Party Scenarios, Subcontracting Scenarios.
• Configured Screen layouts, Data screens, Sub-screens, Fields and Field selection groups, attributes of field references and purchasing value key for Material Master.
• Prepared data mapping spread sheets, custom reports, enhancements and uploaded master data for BOM, Work Centers and Routings.
• Worked extensively on Configuring and Customizing Logistics Invoice Verification (Two way-ERS and Three-Way Match), Maintain variances, Parked and Held Invoice, Account Maintenance, Invoice in Background, Subsequent Adjustments, Credit and Debit Memo, Invoice Plan, Planned and Unplanned Delivery Cost, Invoice Reduction and Automatic Settlements.
• Different pricing procedure was determined for different vendors, which were based on the purchase area and material price with condition exclusion technique, and unit pricing were configured successfully to meet set objectives.
• 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.
• Pricing Technique: Excellent command on configuration of Access Sequences, Condition Types, Condition Records and Pricing Procedures.
• Maintained inventory types such as annual inventory, continuous inventory and continuous inventory based on stock placement, continuous inventory based on zero stock check and cycle counting for each storage type.
• Configured repetitive manufacturing application such as planning table, production version, product cost collectors and cost estimate.
• Developed custom reports for production order status, backlog of the load, list of production order quantity changes.
• Configured account determination for goods movement, pricing, and logistics Invoice Verification for accounts payable.
• Worked on MTO (Make to order), for configurable material, stock requirement/MRP lists, super BOM's, phantom items.
• Implemented Batch Management, Shift notes, and Shift Reports, Phantom Assembly, repacking, rework orders, scrap updates, Production Campaigns.
• Maintained REM profiles and backflush indicator for material which are required in repetitive manufacturing.
• Configured Automatic Account Determination of GL accounts, mapping valuation classes to GL accounts, Account Payables and Account Receivables (AP/AR).

SAP MM/PP Consultant

Confidential, Canton, MI

Responsibilities:

• Defined the organizational structure such as plant, storage location, purchasing organization.
• Set up Master records (vendor, material, customer), Organizational structure and global settings.
• SAP MM Production Support Complete Business Segment, Requirement gathering and preparing Business blue print document identified gaps and prepared Functional specification document.
• Configured Material Master, Bill of Material, Work Center, Routing, Production Order, Batch Management, Good Receipt, Goods Issue and Transfer Posting, Material Requirement Planning and Quality Management.
• Worked on Procure to Pay (P2P) including manual and automatic creation of Purchase orders, invoice verification.
• Extensively worked on Production Order Creation, Release, Availability Check, Confirmation of orders, Automatic Goods Receipt and Goods Issue.
• Worked on Batch Master, Selection strategy, Batch split, quota arrangement and source determination processes.
• Involved in configuration of screen layouts for various standard and customized document types and number range settings for Material Master and vendor master.
• Configured automatic transfer order creation and manual transfer order creation to handle goods receipt, goods issue.
• Created Outline agreements- scheduling -delivery forecast, contracts (value and quantity).
• Configured and tested crucial movement types related to Inventory management (IM), such as Goods Issues against Production Orders, Planned Orders, Stock Transfer, Transport Orders and Back Flush, Goods Receipts against Purchase Orders, Quality, Sales Orders and Scrap.
• Configured the release procedure for purchasing documents like Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order.
• Configured Purchase Requisition (PR), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Order (PO) and Purchasing Info record, Source lists, contracts, scheduling agreements, release orders, quota management, Info Records for Standard, Consignment and Sub-Contracting.
• Implemented inter-company STO to facilitate material transfer within companies and cross-companies.
• Worked on outline agreement, blanket PO, vendor return and procurement process.
• Defined MRP groups based on the strategies for production and maintained the Base unit of Measure same across all the pants.
• Maintained Reorder point and planning time fence, also defined the calendar for Planning cycle.
• Optimized the costs of the final products by changing the routings and maintaining In-house production.
• Configured Schedule Margin key, strategy groups for make to order (MTO), production versions and product cost collectors.
• Defined production schedule profile and serial number profile for the make to order (MTO) stock.
• Maintained REM profiles and backflush indicator for material which are required in repetitive manufacturing.
• Preparing Functional Design Documents, Testing and moving to transports to production Configuration and Customizing for the fixes.
• Activated serial numbers for components produced in plants and used in assembly for other plants.
• Created and tested LSMW and BDC programs for master data upload.

SAP MM/PP Consultant

Confidential, Monroe, MI

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Business discussions with core team for requirement gathering and business process workshops for Blueprint design.
• Prepared data mapping spread sheets, custom reports, enhancements and uploaded master data for BOM, Work Centers and Routings.
• Configured Vendor Master including creation of Account Groups defining Fields and usage of Partner functions.
• Creation and changes in release strategies in Purchase requisition and Purchase orders.
• Created configuration and maintenance of Master Data in Material Master, Vendor Master, Info Records,
• Purchase Requisition Processing, Standard Purchase Order Processing, Consignment Procurement, Subcontract Procurement, External Services, Third Party Order processing, Inventory Management, Cycle Counting and Physical Inventory.
• Coordinated with cross functional/technical consultants in solving cross-functional issues. Data uploading assistance for PO, Blanket PO, Contracts, Master records like Vendor Master, Material Master.
• Prepared data mapping spread sheets, custom reports, enhancements, and uploaded master data for BOM, Work Centers and Routings.
• Assisted Cross- Company and intra company stock transfer and STO with and without delivery. Worked on Goods Receipts, Goods Issue (to Production Order) and Stock transport orders.
• Responsible for configuring background jobs for MRP run, Special procurement keys to resolve planning and production issues between different plants.
• Configured routing determination, MRP plant parameters, MRP groups, MRP types, lot size calculation, planned orders and movement types.
• Configured Production scheduling profile, Production order types and automatic purchase requisitions from MRP.
• Identify critical processes like material planning, procurement, consignment, subcontracting, third party, intercompany logistics, inventory accounting.
• Developed custom reports for production order status, backlog of the load, list of production order quantity changes.
• Defined inbound and outbound strategies and then configured for automatic generation of transfer requirements and transfer orders.
• Performed data migration using LSMW for master records like material master, vendor master, purchase info record, open purchase orders.
• Involved in designing Custom consolidated 41 K-movement type transaction using the EDI 856 SC.
• Involved in configuration and error handling Execution of IDOC & EDI 860 (Change of PO data), EDI 850 (PO creation) for inbound and outbound processes.

SAP MM Consultant

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements and prepared business requirement documents (BRD).
• Configured Material types, Number ranges (External numbering) for Material master, PR, PO and changed the field status of the material master records as per the user requirements.
• Defined Release Procedure for Purchase Req and external purchasing documents using 032 class types.
• Involved in designing Enhancement Document for free text in Purchase requisition by controlling material groups for both Direct and Indirect materials.
• Involve in configuration for Availability stock and Shelf life expiration date for specific MVT types.
• Created profiles for revaluation at retail, maintained Plant Parameters, assigned number ranges for planned orders, Purchase Requisitions, Reservations/ Dependent Requirements.
• Configured general plant settings for inventory management, availability check control.
• Defined ABC indicator for materials, Material Statuses, invoice blocking reasons etc.
• Created and maintained master data like Material master, BOM, Work center, Functional Location, Equipment data.
• Worked in stock transport orders, customer creation, vendor creation, source of supply, purchasing groups.
• Configured automatic creation of Purchase Requisitions and Planned Orders, plant parameters in MRP Run.
• Configured background jobs for MRP Run and special procurement keys to take care of the planning and production issues.
• Configured Goods movement types in warehouse management, Automatic Storage Location, MRP Types, Shipment types, MRP Lot-size procedures.
• Extensively involved in developing Test Plans and Test cases, design and maintaining Test Scripts, Analyzing Bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the Defects.
• Extensive experience in running various kinds of tests such as Unit, Functional and Regression testing ensuring consistency of SAP configuration across the modules.

SAP MM Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in User requirements gathering & Business Blueprint Preparation.
• Involved as a team member for SAP MM module implementation.
• Managed and evaluated vendors based on their performance.
• Created material groups, split valuation control, valuation classes. standard material types as per the requirements.
• Configured master data including required material master records.
• Configured purchase requisition, purchase orders, scheduling agreement and contracts.
• Adopted Split Valuation concept for the definition of the three different valuation types for the materials valuated differently at different stages for the traded items that pass through the production route.
• Defined new Material Requirement Planning (MRP) Type, MRP Controllers.
• Configured and customized Outline Agreements-Scheduling-Delivery/Forecast Delivery and Contracts Value/Quantity.
• Configured Quantity & Value update parameters for all Movement Types for Inv. Management.
• Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and involved in configuration changes ad hoc basis.
• Created detailed user documentation and held training sessions for users.
• Involved in production support for end-users by noting down the problems and giving solution

Supply Chain Analyst

Confidential

• Analyzed the business requirements /studied the AS-IS business process, giving a solution design.
• Analyze and monitors entire Supply Chain cost which includes landed, storage, and delivery.
• Plans annual logistics budget.
• Analyze turnover ratio, monitors obsolete inventory and develop an action plan to liquidate.
• Prepares monthly procurement based on sales history, forecast, on hand and in transit inventory.
• Responsible for managing product supply to meet critical business demand in a manufacturing environment.
• Prepares and ships Sales samples. Provides support to Warehouse Team Leader.
• Additional Interact with various business units throughout the company to resolve issues related to TVS product.