PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 13 years of experience in Information Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing with 10+ years of experience specializing in Production Planning(PP), Variant Configuration (VC), Manufacturing, intigrating MES(Manufacturing Execution Systems) with SAP, Materials Management(MM), procure to pay(PP), Quality Management(QM) and APO
• Extensive Business process Knowledge and configuration experience in Industries including Supply Chain Management(SCM), Advanced Materials Manufacturing, Automotive, Electronics, Medical Equipment, steel and power Engineering and chemical manufacturing with GMP/GLP
• Implemented Four full life cycle projects in SAP PP/MM/VC, one upgrade project, three enhancements projects and multiple roll-outs in Discrete Manufacturing, Repetitive Manufacturing and Process (PP-PI) Manufacturing
• Proficiency in using ASAP implementation methodologies, and integration of SAP PP, VC and MM modules with WM, PM, PS, QM, SD, FI, and CO modules
• Experience in establishing inter company, SAP to MES Application communication through IDoc’s(Intermediate Documents) and application to application integration through standard EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and using WebMethods/Biz talk integration apps with SAP
• Well augmented skills with excellent analytical, problem solving, communication, technical expertise and interpersonal skills with the ability to deliver innovative and profitable solutions well within the timeframe and budgets

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,TX Nov 2011 – Till Date
Sr. SAP PP Consultant (PP, QM)
On Plan to Produce and Quality Management Team

• Responsible for Blueprint of As-Is and To-Be design, Gap analysis, proof of concept. Configuration, Developing test scripts, training and post go live support for North America location implementations
• Implemented ECC Capacity Planning, Detailed Scheduling, Capacity Evaluation and Capacity Leveling for Compounding and Filling process
• Configured and delivered MRP planning scenarios for compounding process and Filling process to calculate net requirements and provide exact requirements for each day
• Implemented Lot sizing procedures to use Minimum lot size, Maximum lot size, Rounding value and Rounding Profile
• Used Recipe Management to create and manage master recipes, Designed and developed Quality Inspection process for compounding and Filling process
• Configured special Planning process like Sub-contracting with component, sub-contracting without component and Stock transport to DC’s
• Designed and developed Schedule-optimization process to optimize setup time, allowing planners to sequence process orders and scheduling like products together
• Designed and developed Custom Daily Production Report to achieve expected production line efficiencies
• Designed and developed Line Returns Process to simply Reconciliation of batch managed, HU managed and SU managed materials at end of the production line for the line operators
• Lead PP/QM (Production planning/Quality Management) Data conversions using LSMW’s
• Developed an All-in-One Custom RF transaction to quickly and accurately perform production Confirmation, Good receipt, create Handling Units, Pack Handling Units and Stage next Process orderthroughout project

Confidential,Cleveland, OH May 2011 – Sep 2011
Sr. SAP PP Consultant -(PP/MM)
On SCM team

• Responsible for New Build activities and support activities in NA
• New Build Activities - Scrap calculations, Develop a program to calculate scrap which helps while creating operations and updating the scrap percentage in Material master, Create new capacity model by using MD47 which compares booked orders against plant weekly capacity plan gives the situation where the plant is overloaded.
• Developed custom reports like inprocess quantities in production orders, in process operation of production orders which has external operations,
• Developed custom physical Inventory process in line with SAP PI Process

Confidential,Co Jan 2011 – Apr 2011
Sr. SAP PP Consultant (PP/VC/MM)
On Plan to Produce and Procure to Pay Team:

• Responsible for Blueprinting, gap analysis, proof of concept, configuration, developing test scripts, unit testing, Integration testing, training and post golive support activities
• Presented and Configured variant configuration planning strategies, make to stock, make to order and Repetitive manufacturing process
• Designed 10 configurable Multi-level Sales Order BOM’s, super routing, classes, characteristics, congiguration profiles, object dependencies and variant tables
• Data migration of the characteristics, classes, Object dependencies, congiguration profiles and variant tables
• Train the PLM team on VC, SuperBOM and Super Routings
• Configured and delivered MRP planning scenarios to calculate net requirements and provide exact requirements for each day
• Implemented procuremnet of direct and indirect materials, purchse requisitions, approval process, purchase orders, Blanket purchase orders, contracts, schedule agrements, stock transfers, stock transport orders, intercompany stock transport orders, pricing conditions, Invoice verification, Infor Records, Source determination, message determination
• Lead in Mapping data, Extract data from legacy systems, data cleansing and load data through LSMW
• Designed and developed vendor master approval workflow
• Developed end user documentation and trained end users

Confidential,Chicago, IL Mar 2010 – Dec 2010
Sr. SAP PP Consultant - PP/MM Implementation/New Builds
On Production Planning and Materials Management Team:

• Responsible for new build activities as part of Supply Chain Management Planning and Execution Build team in NALA & EMEA Regions
• Designed and developed 52 weeks demand which vendors can see the demand, 13 Weeks Clear to Build Planning and Execution, Automation of Marking Deletion Flag for the production orders for the corresponding Sales Order, Repopulation of build plan based on the 13 weeks clear to build report, Upgrade content server from Juke box to ASAP87 server and Approval process of indirect materilas Purchase requisition workflow processes
• Co-ordinated development team, BI team, Logistics team, Basis and security team to accomplish activities as part of Supply Chain planning and Execution of the Build Team
• Developed end user documentation and provided training the trainers

Confidential,Minneapolis, MN Jun 2009 – Feb 2010
Sr. SAP PP Consultant - PP Implementation

• Worked on the SAP PP Implementation project
• Coordinated with business users to prepare As-Is documentation for existing business process. Identified design deliverables and completed target gap analysis.
• Configured Master data - BOMS, Mater recipes, Resources, Calendars, control keys, setup groups, standard value key, Shift Sequence, lot sizing procedure and rounding profile.
• Configured MRP areas, Special procurement types, Order types, Scheduling profile, Formula, Capcity planning profiles, Checking group, Confirmation parameters and Print parameters.
• Implemented Master production Scheduling and configured planning time fence, firming type and control parameters for planning run.

Confidential,Montgomery, AL Sep 2008 – May 2009
Sr. SAP PP Consultant – Analysis & Enhancements (PP/VC/QM)
On Production Planning and Quality Management Team

• Responsible for design and development of a Notification process and workflow for scrap materials by eliminating issues in the stock at supply line side bin, RF devices, network issues, barcode books and remove scrap stock from MRP calculations and send exact scrap quantity to the vendors
• Requirement analysis for New 4 cylinder engine plant and provided functional specs and flow diagrams to receive parts with RF guns without warehouse management
• Developed detailed functional specs and flow diagrams for custom screens to create scrap notification, void scrap notification, Reprint scrap notification, print scrap report, parts quality review, manager vehicle repair and disposition of the process
• Enhancements in Capturing error messages in SAP while receiving parts with RF guns, Catelog code group and code changes and Inbound delivery in to the plant

Confidential,Naperville, IL Feb 2008 – Aug 2008
Sr. SAP PP Consultant – Unicode upgrade ECC 6.0 (PP/MM)
On Plan to Delivery and Quality management Team

• Lead consultant – Responsible for Unicode upgrade of ECC 6.0
• Upgrade the systems to support multilingual data with out any restrictions for their business processes and web interfaces
• Provide end to end business scenario scripts to support the existing business processes in procure 2 pay (P2P), Plan to deliver and Quality Management in procurement and manufacturing
• Identify critical OSS notes and implement in coordination with ABAP team
• Provide guidance to the automation team to atomize the scripts in worksoft tool by using certify testing tool
• Coordinate development team, integration team and end users for final testing of the business processes

Confidential,, Waltham, MA Apr 2007 - Jan 2008
SAP PP Consultant – Full Life Cycle and Rollouts (PP/MM)

• Responsible to provide global supply chain management solutions inline with SCOR Model which is structured in 5 distinct management process such as plan, make, source, deliver and return
• Provide a single global SAP platform across global network of solution centers in Netherlands, China, Indianapolis, Raleigh, Austin and Guad Solution centers
• Responsible for Blueprinting, gap analysis, proof of concept, configuration, developing test scripts, unit testing, Integration testing, training and post golive support activities
• Blueprinting AS-IS process and to be process for US solution centers which provide services to HP, IBM, Lenovo, Cablevision, Sony, Agilent and Sandisk clients
• Analyzed existing applications and flow of planning data coming from HP, IBM, Lenovo and several other clients and proposed new design to replace the existing process with EDI 830/870 process
• Designed and developed custom Idoc with its segment and new message type for EDI 846 i.e Inventory Inquiry/Advice
• Analyzed supply chain information transfer standard (SCITS) which is HP’s private protocol for data transfer specs and provided EDI solutions
• Configured repetitive Manufacturing and supply materials to production by KANBAN
• Calculated costs per material or per production version via a product cost collector for the product cost per period in repetitive Manufacturing
• Defined work centers, Work center categories, Standard value keys, Processing formula, Control keys and Efficiency rates.
• Attended corporate training in Mercury testing tools(QTP) provided by the client

Confidential,Manhattan, KS Jan 2006 – Mar 2007
SAP PP Consultant - Full Life Cycle & Rollouts (PP/VC)

• Lead Consultant –Responsible for blueprinting, configuration and post golive support in three facilities acquired by SPS
• Analyzed existing LPM application and replaced with Variant configuration functionality
• Visited new companies, understand existing processes and documented AS-IS process
• Demonstrated and implemented the quote to cash as per the customer requirements in SAP
• Designed and replaced existing applications and migrated into SAP
• Implemented Production planning process for Make to order scenario for variant configuration scenarios and configured Material requirement planning, Master production schedule, consumption based planning, MRP lists, Production scheduling and sequencing
• Configured variant configuration planning strategies for make to order process
• Designed configurable Sales Order BOM’s, super routing, classes, characteristics, congiguration profiles, object dependencies and variant tables
• Data migration of the characteristics, classes, Object dependencies, congiguration profiles and variant tables
• Train the Master Data team on VC, SuperBOM and Super Routings
• Developed work instructions, quick reference guide and end user training

Confidential,Greenville, SC Jul 2004 – Dec 2005
PLM Consultant

• Study and analyze Enron wind turbines product data management systems, CAD systems and data flow to the ERP systems.
• Define PLM business processes such as New product Introduction(NPI Process), Engineering change Management process (ECR/ECO) and Engineering Bills of Material (EBOM)
• Define the business process for real time integration of CAD system with PLM and draw a strategy for data migration from legacy systems.
• Prepared Technical Design documents for PDM/PLM implementation, CAD integration and data flow to the ERP sysems.

Confidential,Milwaukee, WI Jul 2003 - Jun 2004
PLM Consultant- Full Life Cycle & Rollouts

• Team Lead and PLM consultant: Migrating different PDM and ERP applications from different businesses acquired by GE into single ERP application.
• Understand the PDM/PLM, ERP systems across GEMS organizations.
• Analyze the business processes such as New product Introduction(NPI Process) and Engineering change Management process (ECM) in GE Medical System (GE Health Care), Instrumentarium and GEMSIT.
• Attended Global Meetings conducted in Milwauke, to understand high level business processes in GEMS, Instru and GEMS IT.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• ECC 6.0/5.0 (PP, VC, MM, PI, BD, PLM, SD, PO, SO, IM, WM, QM, PR, PM, PS, FI, CO, PC, INV, IV, GR, GI, SOP, MRP, BOM, ECM, SCM, RFQ, MFG, LIS, SFC, CRP, MTS, MTO, DMS, WIP, Scheduling), SAP APO (SNP/PPDS), Kanban, SAP R/3 4.X, SRM 5.0
• LANGUAGES: ABAP/4, JAVA, C, C++
• TOOLS: ABAP Tool (Query), SAP Tool (LSMW, CATT)
• EAI and B2B Integration with WebMethods and Biz Talk

CERTIFICATIONS:

• SAP Education Certificate of completion in Supply Network Planning(SNP) – SCM230
• SAP Education Certificate of completion in Supplier Relationship Management(SRM) – SCM210
• Certification in Webmethods EAI and B2B integration

EDUCATION:

Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)