Professional Summary

**+ years of experience in SAP ERP consulting with experience in PP/ PP-PI, MM, QM, and PM Modules as an SAP Certified Solution Consultant; 22 years in IT which includes Seismic DSP processing, UNIX, IT Support, Oracle Database Administration. Professional Certification in SAP PP/MM that includes PP-PI (certificate name SCM P_PROD_64).

Experience in 15 Supply Chain Projects; with 6 Full Life Cycle Implementation projects (ECC 6.0 latest) that included Business analysis, requirement specification, configuring technical objects, testing, implementing, and go-live support in accordance with ASAP methodology and Global templates

Have led other project consultants in setups, life cycle activities and ensured integration best practices are followed. Have advised customers about alternate ways of implementing SAP, with pros and cons of each approach. Played the role of a senior/ Team Lead Consultant and a Managing Consultant in various assignments across the Americas, Europe, Central America, and South Africa.

Excellent project management, organization, problem solving, decision making, critical thinking skills; Can interface effectively with partners, vendors, customers, and other C-level decision makers, in a diverse matrix environment and guide the team in realizing an optimum solution; have worked in fast paced environment, under pressure, with tight deadlines; Worked for SAP America for three years and have good relationship with SAP America even though parted from them

A deep understanding of Supply Chain Logistics Master Data; have defined master data requirements for Material Master, BOM, Recipe, Production Version, Batches, Quality Inspection Plans, Purchasing Master Data; Good understanding of integration issues among MM, PP, PP-PI, SD, PM, IM, WM, QM, and APO modules. Have assisted businesses in conversion/ or interface of legacy data to SAP

Excellent team player and collaborator; highly committed to Timely and Quality client deliverables; Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. I can understand the customer business processes and the IT landscape rapidly. Have worked as a SAP IT support after SAP deployment, solve ongoing IT needs/ issues for PP, QM, PM, and MM in a couple of end user companies and have solved many real life problems in the production client that were escalated to Level 3 support on a trouble ticket.

Skill Set

SAP Functional Skills

PP: Flexible Planning, Demand Planning, LTP, SOP, MRP, PP Execution, PP-PI, Kanban, Repetitive, Material Master, BOM, Routing, Recipe Management, Shop Floor Control, Quality Management, Document Management, Process Instructions, Control Recipes, Collective Orders, XMII integration to PLC, LIMS, Batch Management

MM: Procurement, Stock Transport Order, Subcontracting, Material Master Design, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory

Production Support: Solution Manager, LSMW, ARIS, Mercury, SAP HP Quality Center and Partner tools such as Industry Print, SharePoint. SAP OSS, User Exits, BAPI, BADI, RICEFW, SQVI, IMG

In QM: configured and tested quality processes such as Quality Planning, Quality Inspections in purchasing and production, Batch traceability, Quality Certificates, Quality Notifications, Skip lots, custom workflows for quality control, Notifications, Certificate of Analysis; some work with stability study.

In Plant Maintenance: Configured technical objects, defined functional and equipment hierarchies. Set up master data such as equipment master, work centers etc; configured both preventive and emergency maintenance functionality. Set up maintenance plans, schedules, maintenance tasks; processing of maintenance orders, maintenance notifications, malfunction reports, System lock outs and tag outs; have set up planning of spare parts, set up goods issue to maintenance order based on new or refurbished parts; some work with serialization.

SAP Technical Skills

SAP Software: MM/PP (3.0 to 6.0) ECC MRP (6.0) Flexible Planning SOP ECC (6.0), Material Master ECC (6.0), IM ECC 5.0, Production Order Execution ECC 6.0, QM (6.0), MM (6.0), PM (6.0)Purchasing (R/3 3.0 to ECC 6.0), PP-PI (6.0), part of PM (6.0), parts of Product Costing (6.0), ATP (ECC 5.0), completed coursework in SCM –APO-CIF, GATP, PLM 115, Batch Management, PLM 400 Quality Management, Material Master Configuration MM-550

Certified in ECC 6.0 with EPH4 (MM/PP) professional certification

Oracle PL/SQL, XML, XHTML, JavaScript, MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, Mercury, LSMW, Ascendant, Peregrine, and Remedy

Good understanding of emerging technologies, such as J2EE, Web Sphere, UML, XMII, and Services based architecture, Netweaver

Conversant in programming languages such as ABAP, UNIX (Sun OS), Solaris, VAX/ VMS, FTP, TCP/IP, Windows XP.

Database tools such as Oracle 9i, MS Access, SQL, and proprietary geophysical databases and VSAM files.

Other Applications: Oil and Gas CAEX applications such as SeisWorks, StratWorks, MS Office Suite, Snag IT, Dream Weaver, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Rational Rose.

Integration:

RFC, JCO, BAPI, LSMW and Data Migration.

Professional Experience

Employer: Delaware Consulting

Title: Sr. PP Consultant/ AMS support

Industry: Consulting and SAP Support

Duration: January 2015 to 10/2015

Supporting a vast established SAP customer base in Belgium, China, Japan, North America, South America, Germany; Planning and strategizing new developments, upgrades, additional interface requirements due to mergers and acquisitions. The applications addressed PP/QM/MM/and PM.

There were also some support tickets for DTS, when new plants were acquired, I created functional specifications for Data conversion of BOMS, Routings, Production Versions, Work Centers, Material Master for spare parts. Used LSMW. Tested conversion programs, helped business in their ETL activities.

One full lifecycle implementation for PP/QM module at Betafence

Employer: Idhasoft

Title: Sr. PP Consultant

Industry: Consulting Services

Duration: June 2014- Sept 2014

Two Projects involving PP, MM, and PLM skills. One was a Seafood packaging company from Halifax. Developed PP blue prints and configured the PP system; also tested system for PP and WM integration across the procurement process. The second project was for an equipment manufacturing company in Memphis. In charge of designing and integrating PP master data to Variant configuration data developed by sales team for super BOMs and Routings.

Employer: WIPRO Technologies, Atlanta

Title: Sr. SAP PP Analyst; Blueprint Developer, Modesto CA

Industry: Consulting Services

Duration: Sept 2013 to Dec 2013

Business Analysis and preparation of a global template for PP module in the area of cheese production and other milk derived protein products. Created PP blue print to be able to Integrate with a third party custom dairy solution.

Knowledge Transfer to Project team, the pros and cons of various planning techniques and strategies used in process industry

Employer: Novelis Inc

Title: SAP IT Support/COE- PP/PM/QM

Industry: Mill Products, Atlanta Georgia

Duration: Aug 2011 to Sept 2013

Part of the Global team that implemented full cycle SAP ERP solution for PP/PM/QM at Novelis Inc.; tested and deployed global template to other regions; acquired deep knowledge of Mill products DIMP solutions in the discrete Aluminum Rolling Industry; The solution required integration to MES systems through TIBCO middleware; As center of excellence team lead for PP, constantly monitored the work of implementation partners, edited functional and technical specs, resolved mapping issues of SAP- MES interfaces through TIBCO. Well versed in trouble shooting IDOC, ALE, BAPI connectivity issues.

Configured PP BOMs, Routings, Work Centers, Batch Characteristics, MRP settings, MRP Controllers, Special Procurement Types, and Scheduling Profiles etc.

Monitored the configuration of Order Types, Inventory movement types, reports, APO data integration set up by partner company personnel.

Supervised business super users in their DTS tasks, by providing knowledge transfer about the significance of each piece of data in SAP functionality. WinShuttle was used for ETL work.

After go live, moved to IT SAP support as PP Team Lead for Center of Excellence Organization supporting PP, QM and PM modules; well versed in SOLMAN ticket management tasks

Have also worked with QM modules defining quality plans, Master Inspection Characteristics, Inspection results recording, Usage Decisions, Certificate of Analysis, EDI transmission of certificates customers

EHS Experience: We did business analysis and implemented EHS- ICH module and some hazardous material labeling; classified defect codes and types. Also customized a work-flow for incident handling and reporting. The project went through the cycle testing 3 phase, but before go-live the project was deferred to next phase as the business was not ready with all operations data and processes.

Employer: LSG Sky chefs Inc., Irving, Texas

Title: SAP Analyst

Industry: Packaged Food Distribution

Duration: Feb 2011 to June 2011

Analyzing the existing global template for PP implementation and recommend improvements to the template; recommended that work scheduling views need to be maintained; alternate unit of measure need to be defined; recommended changes in MRP master data settings. Recommended more granularity in security roles;

Recommended improvements to the retail production process management. Supported Denver go-live efforts.

Initial set up of service parts management LSG fleet of trucks in Plant Maintenance

Employer: Fujitsu Consulting (subcontract thru Zedventures, CA)

Title: SAP Consultant- PP/QM, Grand Rapids, MI

Industry: Protein Bar manufacturing (customer Industry)

Duration: Sept 2010 to Dec 2010

Realignment Project that aimed at bringing heavily customized system to SAP standards and best practices. Re-mapped processes to remove Handling unit management, and substitute storage unit based processes; Stream-lined planning strategies, quality processes, and adapted a global template that would work for new company acquisitions; cleaned up master data so MRP would work properly.

Supervised DTS transformation to extend materials to storage units.

Removed HU management from quality inspections (QM module); but retained batch management, and batch characteristics in inspection results recording, and generating quality certificates

Employer: Advent Global Systems, Texas

Title: SAP Consultant- PP/MM, Costa Mesa, CA

Industry: Customer Industry – Industrial Ceramics

Duration: Aug 2010 to Sept 2010

Audited and reviewed the existing PP blue print for a ceramic manufacturing company. Identified process gaps; recommended adding batch management, for several materials. Added class 023 batch characteristics for both procurement and production processes. Added missing movement types to inventory management; cleaned up process diagrams, unit test cases.

Recommended scrap reason codes for MB52 reports

Employer: Novellus Systems

Title: SAP Consultant- PP/MM, San Jose, CA

Industry: Semi conductor industry

Duration: June 2010 to Aug 2010

Consulted for MM module; post go-live process improvement work; planned improvements for several RICEFW objects; creating functional specifications for upgrading some of the custom functionality to ECC 6.0 Eph4.

I revised the enhancements for custom release strategies to incorporate batch classification functionality. Batch traceability in QM

Employer: SAP America Inc., SAP Consulting Division, Atlanta Georgia

Title: SAP Consultant- SCM Various International Projects

Industry: Software and Consulting Services

Duration: Jan 2007 to Dec 2009 three years

Various customer engagements spanning 3 years for several global consulting assignments for SAP America both within US, and internationally in countries such as Mexico, France, South Africa involving both in PP, and MM;

Audited existing blue prints, development systems, for MM, PP, QM, and PM processes to evaluate if implementation plans were aligned to business goals; document solution gaps, potential risks, and recommendations, best practices, create position papers that help customers achieve their implementation goals;

Within SAP tenure there were three full life cycle implementations and several partial implementations, that involved, upgrades, enhancements, and audit projects; in 3 full lifecycle projects my tasks completion of AS IS and TO BE workshops; performing fit gap analysis, and documenting Business Process Procedures; I also documented functional system specifications, interface specifications, reporting requirements, data conversion requirements, custom development specifications, web forms specifications for PP, MM, QM, and PM modules; configured required functionality; performed unit tests, integration tests, and go live preps; trained super users before go live; supported security, change management, and data teams

As a solution architect and product expert provided in-depth and breadth knowledge of SAP PP and MM modules, sub modules, Interfaces, to other 3rd party SCM products; applied OSS notes to realize unique customer needs

Led other project team members in setups, life cycle activities and ensured implementation of best practices were followed; trained project team members in MM, PP functionality and ASAP methodology.

Provided expert advice in setting up PP-PI, MM Master Data and set up master data for material Master, BOM, Work Centers, Recipes, Production Versions, Inspection Plans, Batch Data, classification; I have assisted business in creation of database tables for legacy data conversion, assisted in debugging data problems in fall outs from LSMW data loads; Have integrated to 3rd party PDM systems.

In MM projects set up purchasing organization structures, configured Material Master, Classification, Vendor Master, Info Records; configured purchase requisitions, purchase orders, release strategies, 3PL processing, subcontracting, item categories, price condition tables, vendor confirmations, message and output control, purchasing reports.

In PP-PI, created process instructions, control recipes; full batch management and batch integration to PP, and Quality Management. In QM have worked with Master Inspection Characteristics, sampling procedures, defect codes, Notifications, Certificate of Analysis

Have worked with Plant Maintenance in setting up both preventive and emergency maintenance.

Various customers engagements during SAP America tenure were:

Chevron Chemicals, New Orleans, USA- SAP Modules PP/ MM/ MII

SASOL, Johannesburg, South Africa- PP-PI/QM

PEMEX Oil and Gas, Mexico City PP-PI/QM

Molson-Coors, Montreal, Canada PP-PI/MM/IS-BEV

Modello Beer Manufacturing, Mexico City PP-PI/MM

Manitowoc Cranes, Lyon, France, USA DTS-PLM

Hanes Corporation, Chorlette, NC, USA PP/MM

Vsuarez, San Juan Puerto Rico PP/MM

Company: Ashland Chemicals, Lexington, KY USA

Duration: May 2005 to Dec 2006 - 18 months

Industry: Chemicals- Full Life Cycle, Post live support

Job Title: SAP System Engineer (Level 3 Help Desk Support)

Responsibilities:

Started out as a IT SAP support for previous version of SAP; within a year absorbed into the team perfoming Full R/3 global project implementation that included system analysis, requirement specification, configuration of MM/PP, PP-PI,WM, and QM modules, Integration testing, data conversion, go live, and post implementation support

Defining standards for production and quality, and EHS and configured Master Data, such as Material Master, BOM, Recipes, Inspection Characteristics, process instructions, and batch data; Configured COR2, COR6, CORS, CORT, COGI, CO24 transactions configued ZP avalability Checking rule, and scope of checking, and incorporated setting into MRP views of material master

Configured classification, batch management BMBC, New batch classes, batch search procedure, search strategies, MSC1, MSC2 transactions, material master, process orders related transactions CORS,COGI, CO52, custom quality certificates for inspection ZQC21, PI sheet templates in their development system

Set up procedures and configuration of process order status management ZREL, ZCONF and notifications. Set up processes for the management of returnable containers.

Integration of PP-PI and PCS systems; first created additional PPPI characterstics required, set up process instruction categories, set up process instructions, assigned them to to target control recipe destinations and update of tables CHRE, CRFT, CRFV.

Wrote specs for PI Sheets form layouts

Configured Process Orders (orders types, dependent parameters, user status profiles, selection profiles, control parameters, availability check for components, production scheduler profiles etc.), Bill of Materials (usages, BOM statuses, control data, item categories, item statuses, user specific settings etc.), Batch Management (Batch Determination, Batch Check, Search strategy, access sequence condition tables, sort rules, Batch Statuses), Recipes/routings (Task list types, material type assignments, statuses, control keys, selection), Work Centers

Resolved integration Issues: to other modules like Source to Pay, Order to Cash, Environment, Health and Safety; Configured master data, monitored data cleansing, rationalization, data loading, and validation tasks for Material Master and BOM

Designed and implemented SAP roles and user security access; Supported users after go live solving data issues, security issues, process issues, data conversion issues etc.

Set up classification, batch characteristics, batch search strategies for production, quality inspection, and inventory management

EHS: Set up processes for material disposition and waste management, reporting of disposal hazarous materials; Configured material master views for these.

Employer System Link Enterprise Solutions

Duration: Oct 2004 to March 2005 6 months

Client: Imperial Oil, Calgary, Canada

Industry: Oil and Gas

Project: Configuration of maintenance & service modules

Responsibilities:

Setting configuration up of service procurement for oil rig construction contracts; configuration of service masters; service data entry forms, service work flow management, service planning, and procurement of service parts

Set up price condition tables, vendor infor records, service masters, service entry sheets, service orders

Evaluated services processes met OSHA requirements, and EPA compliance

Set up Asset Maintenance plans for preventive and ad hoc maintenance; asset serialization (PM module), integration of bar code data into asset life cycle management, such as warranty info.

Institution Management Information Technology Solutions

Title: Student Oracle DBA - Attended training for OCP certification in Oracle 9i DBA

Duration March 2003 to July 2004

Employer: Camelot-IS2 International, USA

Title: Supply Chain Application Consultant

Duration: March 1999 to February 2003

Industry: Software

Job Title: SAP/ Skyva Software Support

Responsibilities:

Skyva (aka Camelot-IS2) was a spin-off of SAP. One on the founders of SAP Hans Hector, after retiring from SAP started Skyva. Skyva APS product parallels SAP APO but used service based architecture; Skyva planning and scheduling applications seamlessly integrated to SAP SD, MM. And PP of R/3. Integrated SAP and Skyva applications at customer sites

Performed full lifecycle implementation & configuration and testing and roll out of several phased implementations of SAP MM, PP systems that integrated to Skyva proprietary planning systems. Configured ZCOID reports, set up configuration data for CO02, CO15, CO16N, CORO transactions. Added transactions CO21,CO22, CO24 into business processes as validation points. Customized CM21 and CR60 transactions, into Z transactions as per customer needs.

Resolved material master and production master data inconsistencies in custom interfaces between Skyva planning systems and SAP execution systems; configured

Was responsible for maintenance of skyva integrated SAP systems, resolving escalated call ticket issues, Database Administration, generating ad hoc reports by SQVI queries

Resolved integration issues among various proprietary MES systems and SAP execution systems

Employer: Hyundai Information Technology, San Jose, CA

Title: SAP Configuration Consultant

Duration Jan 1998- July 1998

Project: Full cycle implementation MM/PP at AQS (partner of Hyundai)

Industry: Electronics

Responsibilities:

Business Analysis & full life cycle implementation of the MM/PP modules including plant maintenance, and quality management, for AQS Semi-conductor company, a vendor/customer of Hyundai Electronics; Functioned as a team lead responsible for requirement analysis, developing business case, process mapping, configuration, data conversion and Go-Live support.

Configured Demand Planning, Material Planning, Routing, Work Centers, Production Orders, Pick Lists, and Master Data in IMG; also configured also classification, and batch management, and availability check

Configure and test R/3 (version 4.5) production modules, engineering change management work flows and QM configuration, designed document management tree for their quality and safety documents in DMS system; configured several custom inventory movement types, reason codes related to usage decision

Designed and configured inspection plans, inspection results recording and set up Vendor evaluation criteria; build buyer questionnaire for subjective evaluation of vendors. Small local vendors were given higher weight due to some chamber of commerce initiatives.

Designed feasibility studies and first article inspection of new products to be launched to market; Increased effectiveness of preventive and predictive maintenance by capturing trends in historical PLC data and analyzing them through BW tools, crystal reports; worked with ABAP consultant to define interface

Improved asset life cycle management by creating notification alerts for warranty maintenance

As a level 3 technical support person after implementation, solved problems with data integrity issues, reporting issues, data conversion issues

Employer: Whitman-Hart LP- Chicago, IL

Duration: March 1997- Nov 1997

Job Title: SAP Instructional Designer/ Support

Client: ABC Rail, Chicago, IL

Industry: Consulting Services

Responsibilities:

Needs analysis and business blue printing of PP modules (version 3.0) using ASAP methodology, Configured SOP, MRP, and production order modules, set up reference operation sets in training systems

Set up of basic production activity types in work centers for ABC costing; Tested PP integration to product costing.

Supervised and coached super users who were helping in configuration of PP master data, supervised all testing and data loading, and go-live

Responsible for performing job-task analysis and developing end user training strategies, training materials, job aids, user manuals, and trainer and student guides. Developed User guides for Material Requirements Planning, Material Master Data, Inventory Management and Purchasing modules

Designed competency based evaluation tools to measure knowledge transfer to the project team; conducted train the trainer sessions

Pre-SAP IT Work before 1997:

Digicon Geophysical Company July 1980- Sept 1985: Five years as Seismic Processing geophysicist (mainly DSP processing) in oil and gas industry; analyzing data from gulf coast, midland, and over thrust belt of Utah, and Wyoming working for a major seismic contractor, in the upstream exploration process

A, T & T; April 1986-June1988: 2 years as customer and sales support in the telecommunication industry

University of Houston-Clear lake: May 1988- July 1990: 2 years as a software developer/ trainer on a NASA funded project

Landmark Graphics Corporation September 1990-July 1992: 2 years as technical support/ trainer for geophysical Computer Aided exploration imaging software such as SeisWorksTM, StrasWorksTM, Z-map plusTM etc, trained oil and gas customer in reservoir estimation based on these tools; Administered Oracle database that held customer data

Jan 1993-Dec 1996 - 3 years technical writer- short term contract writing for several software companies such as Symantec, Vicinity Corp., Dynamic Data Solutions, Legent Corporation

Education

Bachelor of Science: Physics, Mathematics, University of Mysore, India 1971

Bachelor of Education (Secondary Teaching Certification Program) in Physics and Mathematics 1972

Masters in Education: Instructional Design and Curriculum Development, University of Mysore, India 1978

SAP Certification SCM P_PROD_64 (2009)

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