Pranab Sur

Contact # 416-***-****

Title

SAP MM/SRM Consultant

Primary Skills

MM/SRM Configurator

Location

Canada-ON-Toronto (will consider relocating)

RESUME DETAILS

Objective

Ambitious SAP MM/SRM Consultant with 10+ years direct SAP R/3 MM Hands on

Functional experience seeking a challenging consulting position in the area

of supply chain management (SCM). Fluent in English and a good working

knowledge of Russian. Associated with prime Consulting companies like IBM

and Accenture for a period of more than 8 years.

SUMMARY:

Over 10+ years of experience in SAP R/3 implementation in MM

modules(Implementation, production, support, roll out and upgrade

projects) that includes aspects of MM and its integration with FI/CO, IM,

WM, PP,PM,QM and PS.

Three full project life cycle implementation following ASAP methodology

which includes stages like Project preparation, Blue printing, Realization,

Cut over and Go live activities.

Strong knowledge in the functional interaction MM, IM, LIV, PP, PM

modules

Configuring MRP and customizing experience in MM in Purchasing, CBP,

Inventory management, Logistic Invoice Verification and vendor evaluation.

Extensive knowledge of Inventory management including GR/IR, transfer

posting, stock transfer automatic movement, movement types and

reservations.

Purchasing-sub-contracting using BOMs, external procurements

Requisitions, contracts, scheduling agreements, Invoicing, RFQs,

PR/RFQs/PO/release procedures and confirmations, pricing procedures, Quota

arrangements, source lists, Info records, Vendor master records and

Material Master records.

Material Valuation, account determination (automatic and manual), split

valuation, worked extensively on consumption based planning, invoice

verification and MRP including customization and enhancement in MM.

Design complex warehouse structures, selection and configuration of

placements, Removal, Replenishment, Inbound/outbound deliveries, posting

changes, stock transfer, storage unit management, Batch Management and

Inventory strategies.

Proficient in configuring Order types, Delivery Types, Contracts,

Transportation, pricing condition, Master Data, Account Determination,

Billing and payment processing and batch management.

Liaison with vendors and manufacturers for expediting the deliveries of

critical spares.

Presentation of various aspects of project to audience of varying

technical capability.

SOFT SKILLS:

Well developed analytical capabilities leading to a systematic approach

in problem solving.

Sound inter-cultural capability and adaptability with solid experience

from North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Can function well within a team environment, as well as working

independently

Can multi-task, prioritize and maintain focus when working under tight

schedules

Simultaneously paying attention to details and holding the overall

objective in view.

Fluent in communication and worked as a Team Leader, Team member in

various projects.

Coordination with Development team and monitoring of schedules for

submission of deliverables.

Participation and leading the Business Workshops with Business

stakeholders for gathering requirements and analyze the same on the basis

of complexity to define the manpower efforts in order to deliver the

solution.

Fluent in communication and worked as a Team Leader, Team member in

various projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP R/3 Supply Chain Lead 05/2012-03/2014

SHARED SERVICES WEST in Oakville, Canada

Shared Service West is a Govt Organization managing the supply chain

activities for Hospitals.

Project: Supply Chain Management project

Team: Size 5 MM Team members with Onshore-Offshore model with 1 Developer.

Environment: Healthcare industry

Role: MM/SRM Team Lead.

The existing SAP master data around Info records, Source Lists, Material

Master and Vendor Masters.

Maintain the master data and provided day to day support to End users for

regular issues with replication of Purchase Orders from SRM to MM, Work

flow routing and investigating issues for Shopping Cart, PO and Contracts

approval work flows. Promotion of new major enhancement changes with Unit,

Integration and Quality testing across the SAP Landscape.

Suggestion and continuous improvement regarding sustainment activities like

stability to business processes in order to maintain it.

Roles and responsibilities

Updating and upgrading of Material master

Preparation of Bills of materials

Creation of Functional location /Equipment location for sustaining

projects

Maintaining organization structure for new users and assignment to Org

structures.

Eradicate duplicate stock items

Assigning the Business End Users of three Hospitals mainly Georgetown,

Oakville and Milton.

Review existing business processes and make recommendations on SAP

standards

Preparation and presentation of project development to the cross-

Functional Team and project manager

SAP R/3 MM/SRM Functional Consultant 08/2011-05/2012

McCain Foods, Markham, Canada

Project: Core SAP MM and SRM functionality Implementation

Team: Size 58 with 5 in MM and SRM with Offshore-onshore model.

Environment: SAP R3 and SRM V 7.0 Implementation and Production Support to

Pilot sites at Scarborough, United Kingdom.

Role: MM and SRM Team Lead

Roles and responsibilities

Implementation of SAP MM Configurations like PO Types, Contract types,

Purchase requisitions.

Setting up of various doc types of PO, PR and close integrations issues

with PM Module.

In IMG configuring Organization structures for MM Business processes like

Plants, Storage locations, Purchasing Groups, Purchasing organizations,

Material Types, maintenance of material type attributes, purchasing schemas

and procedures etc.

Creating and resetting of Users in SRM Organization structures, creation

of new purchasing groups in SRM, assignment of Roles for Users etc.

Trouble shooting and analysis of PO and Contract Work flow approvals and

re-routing of work items to alternate approvers as and when needed by

Business.

SAP R/3 MM functional Consultant 4/2011 - 08/2011

SAFRAN India Roll out Project, Noida, India

Version: SAP 6.0 ECC

Project: Core SAP functionality Implementation

Environment: Distribution

Role: MM functional and configuration

Team: Size 7 with 2 in MM

SAFRAN is a France based company having business across world for

manufacturing of biometric instruments for human beings.

Roles and responsibilities

Configured Purchasing documents such as Requisitions, Purchase Order

Optimization processes, Inventory Management, MRP, Vendor Master, Material

Master, Invoice Verification and providing SAP MM functionality knowledge

sharing to end users.

Analyzed Client purchasing methodology to optimize processes within SAP

R/3 by configuring Automatic PO generation, updating PIR from purchasing

documents such as PO and Outline Agreements, maintaining Source List

requirement at Plant level, and defining Processing Time for PR, PO and GR.

In IM, configured GR so postings were made to appropriate Stock Status

such as Unrestricted-Use, Quality Inspection, and Blocked Stock or GR

Blocked Stocked. Did Inter-warehouse transfers, involving Storage Location

to Storage Location Transfer. Carried out Reservations and Goods Issue

Entered invoices, modified cash discount terms and tax information.

parked, posted, released and occasionally blocked invoices.

Defined and configured Inventory Sampling Profile procedures and creation

of Physical Inventory document for Continuous, Periodic and Cycle Inventory

procedures.

Defined Plants, and maintained Storage Locations for each Plant.

Test Manager 01/2011 to 04/2011

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA

Project: SAP R/3 Implementation and Roll out to other Pfizer sites (MM,

Manufacturing,SD,PP, QM)

Version: 4.6C

Environment: Production of Pharmaceuticals products and medicines.

Role: Test Manager

Roles and responsibilities

Team: Size 9 with 2 in MM

Managing the Testing strategies for Unit, Cycle, Integration and Quality

testing for Ringaskiddy (Iceland) and Kalamazoo (USA) plants.

Leading the meeting with all work stream leads for monitoring the progress

of each releases.

Defect resolution and management with the help of HPQC Tool.

P2P Release Lead: 01/2008-12/2010

AMGEN Inc, Boulder, CO, USA

Version: SAP 4.6 C and SRM 5.0

AMGEN is a US Biotechnological Giant who manufactures life saving drugs and

medicines.

Roles and responsibilities

Analysis and evaluating the current business processes of the client and

suggest solution for continuous improvement as per SAP Standard solutions

and best practices.

Extensively involve in requirement gathering sessions with Business end

users and stakeholders to evaluate the requirement and involve in

feasibility studies.

Provided optimum solution for the requirements for each releases on the

basis of complexity of design of the solution and manpower efforts needed

for implementation.

Presenting the proposed changes along with Business users to the CoE

Management and Change Advisory Board for approval.

Coordination with Development team for monitoring the progress and

delivery of the deliverables as per tight schedules set out by Client.

Verify to see that capability of resources meet up with the demands.

Identify resources that should be available within the work environment.

Involve in testing and promoting the changes by following Clients

validation procedure as per FDA rules across the SAP Landscape.

Completion of configuration, authoring and approval of all the Functional

specs with the help of SAP Solution Manager and Enterprise Data Management

tool.

Involve in Cut over activities for each trimester releases and providing

resolution for any Emergency changes after the changes moved to Production

Client.

Assist Business Users to complete Performance testing of the changes

promoted to Production Client and involved in taking sign-off from the

Business stakeholders about the successful implementation of the changes.

MM/SRM Team Lead, Arla Foods, Aarhus, Denmark 10/2006- 12/2007

Arla Foods is one of the largest manufacturers of dairy milk products in

Denmark.

Environment: SAP ERP 4.6C and SRM V 5.0

Roles and responsibilities:

Involved in post production Go-live support and daily trouble shooting of

the issues faced by the end users in MM and SRM Business processes.

Proposed new business process changes as a method of continuous

improvement to the Client to enhance the efficiency of the system stability

and functioning.

Managed the enhancement changes starting from requirement gathering

session, participation in Business workshops for the major project related

activities under the CoE Management.

Preparation of new training documents for business users and provided

hands on training in SRM with the Business processes related with creation

of Shopping cart and approval processes.

Maintain the new users in SRM System and assigned them to Organization

structures as per the requirement from the department.

Configure the MM Organization structures starting from plants, storage

locations, purchasing groups, new material types, MRP Controllers, new

payment terms etc.

MM Team member, British American Tobaccos, Malaysia, 05/2006- 10/2006

BAT is one of the largest producers of Cigarettes in the World and involved

in maintenance of ERP Production system for 39 End markets of the World.

Environment SAP ERP 4.6C

Roles and responsibilities:

Involved in trouble shooting of day to day issues by using HP Remedy and

Soda tools for end markets from APAC, Europe, Middle East and North

American sites.

Proposed new business process changes as a method of continuous

improvement to the Client to enhance the efficiency of the system stability

and functioning.

Managed the enhancement changes starting from requirement gathering

session, participation in Business workshops for the major project related

activities under the CoE Management.

Preparation of new training documents for business users and provided

hands on training in SRM with the Business processes related with creation

of Shopping cart and approval processes.

Maintain the new users in SRM System and assigned them to Organization

structures as per the requirement from the department.

Configure the MM Organization structures starting from plants, storage

locations, purchasing groups, new material types, MRP Controllers, new

release groups and strategies for PO's, new payment terms, new receipt and

issue documents etc.

SRM Team member, Kraft International, United Kingdom, 01/2006- 04/2006

Kraft is one of the largest manufacturers of confectionaries and chocolate

products.

Environment: SRM V 3.0 with extended classic scenario.

Roles and responsibilities:

Involved in trouble shooting of day to day issues by using HP Remedy and

Soda tools for end markets from Europe, Middle East and North American

sites.

Proposed new business process changes as a method of continuous

improvement to the Client to enhance the efficiency of the system stability

and functioning.

Managed the enhancement changes starting from requirement gathering

session, participation in Business workshops for the major project related

activities under the CoE Management.

Preparation of CoE documentation with the help of SAP Solution manager,

new training documents for business users and provided hands on training in

SRM with the Business processes related with creation of Shopping cart and

approval processes.

Maintain the new users in SRM System and assigned them to Organization

structures, creation of new purchasing groups as per the requirement from

the department.

Configure the MM Organization structures starting from plants, storage

locations, purchasing groups, new material types, MRP Controllers, new

release groups and strategies for PO's, new payment terms, new receipt and

issue documents etc.

MM and SRM Team member. GAIL (India) Limited, SAP Implementation Project

09/2003- 12/2005

GAIL is one of the major Public Sector Undertaking under the Government of

India who deals in marketing and distribution of Natural Gas and allied

products in India.

Environment ECC 4.72E and SRM V 3.0

Roles and responsibilities:

Defining number ranges for various documents like Purchase Order,

Purchase Requisition etc.

Configured new Material Types as per requirements of client and created

several Valuation Classes and Account Category References. Linked material

types to valuation Classes via ACR.

Customized Invoice Verification with Vendor-wise tolerance limits as per

the business requirements.

Customized Physical Inventory documents and posting the difference

quantity for carrying out physical inventory.

Enhanced standard Purchase Order form to include Ship-to-Address by line-

item, override Bill-to-Address and include Invoicing details like Invoice

date and the amount using.

Maintained Source List requirement at Plant level.

Defined attributes of Material Types and activated assigned material

Views for the each of the Material types.

Customized Physical Inventory documents and posting the difference quantity

for carrying out physical inventory.

Enhanced standard Purchase Order form to include Ship-to-Address by line-

item, override Bill-to-Address and include Invoicing details like Invoice

date and the amount using.

Maintained various Document types for PO's including Stock Transfer

Order, Subcontracting Order and e-Procurement Order created in SRM System.

Gathered material master, vendor master and open PO Quantities in order

to load the same during the cut over activities prior to go-live.

Education

SAP R/3 MM and SRM Trained Consultant, 2003 and 2005

Post Graduate Diploma in Materials Management passed out from Punjabi

University, Patiala, 1995.

M.S in Mechanical Engineering, Metal cutting machines, tools and devices.

Technology of Machinery passed out with Honors from Volgograd State

Technical University, Russia.

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