SUMMARY:

• Overall 12+ years of IT and Industrial experience including 8 years in SAP R/3 focused but not limited to PP, PP - PI and QM modules.
• Implemented/executed multiple projects working in different vertical environments both in Discrete and Process manufacturing industries for product industries such as Pharmaceutical, Hi-Tech, Manufacturing, Chemicals and Food and Beverage.
• Extensive functional and technical hands-on experience in Configuration, Set up and Production Support. Actively participated in 4 end-to-end SAP PP, PP-PI implementations and other support projects having integration touch points with QM, MM, PM, IM, WM, SD, FI/CO with Plan to Produce business processes expertise in both Make to Order and Make to Stock.
• Extensive full life cycle implementation experience having projects covered everything from analysis through production support, troubleshooting, migration, upgrade
• Good grasp of manufacturing environment having called upon to interface with all levels from management to shop floor as well as on the IT side of the house. Experience working in PCB manufacturing environment and working on Shop floor in Consultant Role.
• Adaptive team player with excellent communication and leadership skills having Masters in Management Information System and a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering.
• SAP PP (Production Planning) - Configuration, Set up and Implementation of
• PP, PP-PI, PP-VC, PP-SOP, PP-MRP, PP-SFC, PP-REM, ECM/DMS/iPPE
• PP Master data - Material Master, Bill of Materials(BOM), Work Center, Routing, Production Resource Tools (PRT) etc.
• Material Forecasting and Sales and Operation Planning (SOP) - Long term planning, Standard SOP, Flexible Planning, Mass Processing
• Demand Management - MTO as well as MTS planning strategies.
• Shop Floor Control - Planned order and Production order maintenance, Shop floor papers, Material staging, Collective orders, Availability Check (ATP), Order Scheduling, Milestone/confirmation recording, Back flushing, Rework order, External Procurement/processing, Goods Issue, Confirmations, Goods receipt, In-process Inspection and Quality Notifications and workflows, Order information system, Interfacing external shop floor/plant applications
• Engineering Change Management (ECM) - Change Master, Revision Levels, Engineering Work Bench and Document Management System(DMS), ECR, ECO
• SAP PP-PI (Production Planning for Process Industries) - Configuration, Set up and Implementation of
• PP-PI Master data - Resource, Master Recipes, Production Version etc.
• Sales and Operation planning(SOP), Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Capacity Planning and Leveling
• Process Order Management - Process Order creation, Scheduling, Material availability check, capacity requirement planning, Process order release, Process instructions, Control Recipe, Process messages, PI sheet
• PP-PI Process Management Interfaces, Control Recipe and Process Message monitoring
• Production Campaign Management
• Batch Management, Batch Determination, Material quantity calculations, Co-Products and By-Products
• SAP QM (Quality Management) - Configuration, Set up and Implementation of
• In-Coming Inspection, QM in Production and Service, Quality Notifications and workflows.
• Inspection Planning, Inspection Processing, Quality Control, Quality s, Stability Study, Recurring Inspection
• Incoming inspection, In process inspection, Production inspection, Stock Transport Inspection, Miscellaneous inspection, recurring inspection, quality s. Results recording, Usage Decision, Sampling procedures, Calibration and Stability study
• Experience in External, In-process, Goods Receipt, Recurring and Miscellaneous Inspection ; Results recording & Usage Decision; QM master data, Quality s, Equipment Calibration, Sampling procedures, Multiple Specification, Stability Study
• SAP R/3 Integration and other Technical Skills
• Systems setup and configuring PP interfaces with Material Management(MM), Inventory Management(IM), Warehouse Management(WM), Quality Management(QM), Sales and Distribution(SD) and Product Costing interface with FI/CO
• Exposure to Batch Data Communication (BDC), Remote Function Call (RFC), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), IDOCS, BAPI, ALE
• Expertise in SAP database tables, ABAP debugging, User Exits/Enhancement Points, LSMW, SAP Query, OSS notes etc
• Testing Tools: Experience with unit and integration testing with SAP Solution Manager, HPQC, HP QTC, HP ALM and SAP TAO
• Implementation Methodology
• Conducting workshops with stakeholders, core users and SME’s to gather business process requirements.
• Developing Process Design documents using "Best Business Practices" for mapping the processes in to systems
• Identifying interfaces, data conversions, reports, enhancements and writing Functional specifications
• Performing Requirements gathering, Gap-analysis, documenting and mapping the delta in to system.
• Project Planning, Project Management,
• Documenting Business Process Procedures for users, generating unit and integration test plans and test scripts, Testing Business Processes,
• Creating OSS messages and resolving issues by applying OSS notes.
• ASAP Methodology, Solution Manager and Business Blueprint.
• Six Sigma (Green Belt)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Production Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Production support, troubleshooting and resolution.
• Defined new Control Recipe and PI sheets for process management as per client requirement.
• Enhancement of Process Management (PI Sheet) - Set up Goods issue, receipt postings and time ticket confirmation of phases sheet using process messages in PI Sheets.
• Set up monitoring of Control Recipe
• Enhancement of Master Recipe - Assigned new Process Instructions to Master Recipe so that operation instructions are available to operator via PI Sheets.
• Writing functional specifications for various reports for PP-PI enhancement and collaborate with ABAP developers to prepare custom reports as per project requirement.
• Conducted User acceptance testing and integration testing for the enhancements.

Confidential

Senior Production Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Providing complex Level 3 support for issues and tickets to core team members for MACH1 (Vison 2020) project of Caterpillar
• Proactively engaged with key business stakeholders on new processes, functionality or break fix of existing solutions.
• Participated in several project initiatives as directed by core team lead/manager/IT director.
• Develop requirements, specifications and test scripts for programming team and key users.
• Data Cleansing (Transactional Data). Planned/Production Orders, Purchase Requisitions/Orders, Scheduling Agreements, Stock transfers, etc.
• Developed multiple SAP Queries (SQVI) for various business needs.
• Developed customization document and user manual. Prepared documents and conducted sessions for the users.

Confidential, Auburn, NY

PP/MM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Roles & Responsibilities included configuration changes to the new and enhanced business process procedures and supporting the functional enhancements with production fixes
• Production fixes with their shop floor control planning, execution and printing the labels
• Data cleansing and uploading Material Master Data, BOM’s, Routings & Production Versions
• Mass maintenance of Material Master Data, PP master data, BOMs, work centers, routings & production versions & purchase info records
• Customized & configured new storage locations for their existing plants
• Prepared documents for the super users and end users
• Resolved tickets raised by the users in the production environment
• Shop floor papers setup and Production Order Collective Release with auto print off and providing printing option for pick list at stock room location on demand basis.
• Setting up the auto conversion and release of MRP generated purchase requisitions (PR) and STO to purchase orders
• Configuration and setup the various Material status at global level and plant level in order to meet customers requirement for obsolete material, blocked for production, blocked for purchasing, blocked for sales etc
• Setting up the process for material discontinuation and follow up parts in BOM and Materials masters
• Defined the process for Configure to stock with material variants to meet the business specific needs for Configurable products having Super BOM, Super Routing and Material variants to be produced in- house to Stock with classifications and characteristics.
• Developed multiple SAP Queries (SQVI) for various business needs.
• Setup variants for multiple SAP standard reports as per business needs.

Confidential, Allegan, MI

PP-PI Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for identifying the business rules for Perrigo’s one of the most complicated master data - BOM for iDoc field mapping and BOM ETL developments.
• Performed workshops with manufacturing super users defining the business requirements and rules for migrating the BOM data.
• Developed Functional specification document and ERD for BOM tables
• Interfaced business user and ETL developer for first-time right ETL data extracts

Confidential, Auburn, NY

PP/MM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Full implementation of PP and QM modules in the project along with integration requirements for MM, WM, SD, SM, PS, FICO with SAP AIO
• Business requirement analysis along with questionnaire database to facilitate Client to come up with AS-IS v/s To-Be process scenarios. Documented Blue print for PP and QM
• Configured Standard functionalities of PP module including PP Basic Data like BOM, Work Center, Routing and PRT, Forecasting and demand planning (S&OP), Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Capacity Planning, and Capacity Leveling, maintaining checking rules, scope and groups for ATP for material, Shop Floor Control.
• Implemented Engineering Change Management for BOM
• Implemented both MTO and MTS with planning strategies 10, 20, 40 and 50
• Implemented document management system (DMS) for using document structures, PDF and other documents. All integrated to ECM
• Implemented Supply areas for Back flushed parts integrated with production order confirmation
• Implemented Integrated ATP and availability check for Sales, Service and production.
• Implemented QM module for Incoming inspection, implemented various quality notifications meet business requirements
• Documentation at all the phases of implementation - BRD, Blue Print, Process diagrams, BPP, Test plans, Test cases, documents etc.

Confidential, Houston, TX

PP-PI Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed workshops with Super users for the Huntsman business process assessment for ERP modules PP-PI, QM and MM. Documented the business processes to define the project scope.
• Business requirement analysis along with questionnaire database to facilitate Client to come up with AS-IS v/s To-Be process scenarios.
• Identified all the SAP and non-SAP Interfaces, processes to be considered for the Carve-out.
• Responsible for Blueprint the migration strategy, Data and process flow, migration process, dependencies and risks.
• Configuration and Setup for PP-PI Organization structures, Bill of Materials, Recipe, Resources, Production version setup, Engineering change management (ECM) and Production Version approval, Planning and demand management, Sales and operation planning (S&OP) Material requirement planning.
• Configuration and Setup of Process Planning - Process order creation, Scheduling, Material availability check, capacity requirement planning.
• Configuration and setup of PP-PI process order execution and order closing.
• Implemented QM module: Incoming inspection, Inspection Lot Processing, Inspection plans, master inspection characteristics and inspection methods
• Documentation at all the phases of implementation - Assessment, BRD, Blue Print, Process diagrams, Test plans, Test cases, documents etc.

Confidential, Northfield, IL

PP-PI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Business requirement analysis, assessment of business process, gap analysis and development of Blueprint.
• Converted Cadbury plants PP to PP-PI (Routing, Work Center etc)
• Responsible for the documentation of business requirements, configuration, functional specification, Transaction Aids, Standard Operating Procedures and data maps in Sol Man.
• Developed global template, functional specification and data maps for integration with Legacy systems such as Matrix, G40 interface KWICK and LPR.
• Configuration of PP-PI Process Planning, Process Management and Execution and closing
• Configure master data such as Material Master, BOM, Master Recipe, and Production Versions.
• Developed functional specifications for integration of SAP with Manufacturing execution systems (MES); the scope of MES interface included master data and process order down load to MES and inbound interface to SAP with the execution data
• Configured custom IDoc’s for BOM, Material Master and Process Order down load to MES system.
• Configured PI sheets which included custom process instruction characteristics, process message characteristics, process instruction categories, process message categories, process message destinations, and control recipe destinations
• Prototyped XSteps for PI Sheets and Master Recipe

PP/MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the strategy Make to Order (MTO) for Power generation products and Make to stock (MTS) for Construction products.
• Involved in Testing and Documentation during Technical upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0. Errors fixed with relevant SAP notes.
• Multi-level tracking and Where used reports for complete tracking of information. Supervisor authorization for monitoring and control of entire process.
• Configured MRP controller, production scheduler, production scheduling profile.
• Configured work center formulas for Set up and processing times and costing.
• Post Production support.
• Created custom reports using SAP Query and Info set related to Production orders, BOM & material master

Confidential, Plainsboro, NJ

SAP PP/QM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and implementation of Business process procedure scenarios and development of blueprint.
• Analyzed and configured of PP-PI Master Data including Material Master, Resources, Recipe Masters
• Configured PI sheets and worked on creating process orders, release, confirmations and availability check.
• Developed test scripts in HP Quality Center (HPQC)/HP ALM for testing of the manufacturing execution process including the integration of SAP with MES; responsible for resolving all PP PI defects identified during the different stages of testing. Followed OQ and PQ testing approach as per FDA regulated environment.
• Configuration and setup of Process Management - Process instructions, control recipe, process messages, PI sheet.
• Configuration and setup of PP-PI process management interfaces - control recipe catcher interface, TPMS interface, control recipe and process message monitoring.
• Functional testing & Integration testing done by with respect to PP and QM modules. Validation done for the same with FDA Compliance and ensured compliance with 21 CFR part 11
• Worked on Control Recipes simulation in Master Recipe, Control Recipe monitoring, and reporting process messages through PI sheet.
• Created production campaign for distribution of costs to the orders
• Determine the planned costs and Cost Analysis of Production Campaigns
• Configured the interfacing of LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) with quality management.
• Involved in configuration of inspection lots, quality s, catalogues, selected sets and profile assignment.
• Created inspection plans, master inspection characteristics and inspection methods.
• Worked on results and defects recording and usage decision making for transfer posting of quality stock.

Confidential, Adamstown, MD

SAP PP/MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included configuration changes to the new and enhanced business process procedures and post go-live production support in SAP PP and MM modules.
• Involved in Master Data conversion from legacy to SAP.
• Configured and maintained Material Master Data, PP master data, BOM, work centers, plant and storage locations.
• Defined and made configuration changes in Demand Management, MRP/MPS, Capacity planning
• Roles and responsibilities included configuration in PP and MM module, data mapping, data uploads and conversions from legacy system and configuration changes for the BPP’s. Added latest functionality in the areas of work centers, routings, capacity planning and scheduling.
• Integration testing done by creating different scenarios, test cases for other functional modules with respect to PP, MM, QM and SD modules. Worked on Sol Man and HP ALM/QC for unit and integration testing.
• Post Go-Live production support for the users as per the user needs.
• Exclusively worked with batch management, classification for the Client needs.
• Customized and maintained Material Master, BOM, Vendor Master, Purchase Info records, outline agreements through mass change transactions.
• Worked with ABAP programmers to give functional & technical specifications for master data upload files. Successfully loaded all master data through the developed programs.
• Developed shop floor papers through SAP from their customized third party software applications with RFC.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IFAS Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Assist in implementation of SunGard IFAS ERP at HARC. Acted as a liaison with the SunGard Bitech for implementation, customization, enhancements, change requests and other development tasks.
• Undertaken ERP consulting and project management for all phases of implementation, starting from documenting AS-IS HARC business processes, mapping existing process to IFAS provided ones, doing Gap-Fit Analysis for deciding scope of implementation (module selections), assessing technical requirements, project planning, System Setup, Configuration, Data migration, integration, acceptance testing, user and organizational change management up to Go live and final implementation.
• Major development activities involved: Security Configuration, Dashboard Configuration, Webforms and Workflow Development and Development of Reports
• Development user manual and conducted sessions for business users for reports development, dashboard configuration and various IFAS tools and procedures.Managed a staff of fifteen engineers involved in various PCBs designing process from Schematic to board layout. Involved in Project Management activities.
• Undertook a Six Sigma analysis for getting Six Sigma yields by improving incoming component quality.
• Designed single-sided, double sided and multi-layered analog and digital Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) using surface-mounted and through-hole components
• Worked in a team environment with design engineers, test engineers, and software engineers to design evaluation test boards