Muru-M

SAP CERTIFIED CONSULTANT

SAP PRODUCTION PLANNING/PROCESS INDUSTRY (PP/PI)/QUALITY MANAGEMENT (QM) CONSULTANT

SAP PP/PI,QM PROFESSIONAL, [LARGE FULL LIFE CYCLE, DEPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT PROJECTS] + 8 PLUS YEARS OF SAP EXPERIENCE + FORTUNE 100 CLIENT CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

? SAP Certified Application Consultant with over 8 years of experience in SAP PP/PI and QM with integration of MM, SD, IM, WM/LE(SCM), FICO etc.,

? Experience in full life-cycle implementation and deployment projects besides tangible background in production support and testing of PP/PI & QM modules.

? SAP onsite solutions delivery to major client partners of IBM Global Services, Computer Sciences Corporation(CSC), Covansys, HCL America, Cognilytics Centurylink etc.,

? SAP Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Food and Consumer Products, Aviation etc., industry experience.

? Expertise in all stages of project implementations starting from business process analysis, gap analysis, blueprinting, design, configuration, and post-implementation support.

? SAP PP/PI Implementation, Deployment and Onsite supporting project experience with collective implementation experience in multiple R/3 PP/PI&QM full life cycle projects.

? Implemented QM and Production Planning in Discrete Industries (PP), Process Industries (PP-PI) and Repetitive Industries.

? Participating in setting engagement objectives and scope, develop work plans for components of engagements, coordinate activities between work streams and identify changes in scope.

? Design deliverable content to precisely reflect the engagement contract and client needs to strive to improve deliverable quality through verification and validation of results.

? Ability to work independently, lead teams focused on specific work streams of larger projects both offshore and Onsite.

? Oriented to relationship building and committed on delivering successful achievements and administration results in projects of medium and high complexity.

SAP Skills

? Extensive experience in PP/PI Module Configuration and Customization: Master Data(Material Master, BOM/Master List, Work Center/Resources/ Production Line, Standard Routing/Master Recipe/Rate Routing, Production Version), Material Types, Order Types, Order-Type Dependent Parameters, Confirmation Parameters for Process Orders, Production Scheduling Profile, Availability Check, SOP, DM, MPS, MRP, CBP, LTP, MTO, MTS, and CRP (finite capacity planning, capacity leveling, planning board, Repetitive manufacturing and flexible planning with custom information structures. Create and assign Plant and Storage Location, Customize Factory Calendar and Planning Calendar, MRP Controllers, Special Procurement Keys, Scope of Planning, KANBAN/JIT, Repetitive Manufacturing elements such as Rate Routing, Planning Table, REM profile, Production Version, Back flushing etc.,

? Hands on experience on Quality Planning, Quality Inspection, QM in Procurement, QM in Production, Quality Certificates and Quality Notifications System and QM Master Data Loading(LSMW), Configuration of RFC and IDOC?S for Quality Certificates and LIMS.

? MM expertise in Purchasing, configuration and creation Material Master, Vendor Master, Info record, Source List, Stock Transport orders, special stocks like Subcontracting Purchase Orders, Purchase requisitions, Release Strategy, Quota arrangements, Scheduling Agreement, Quotations, and Contracts.

? Design deliverable content to precisely reflect the engagement contract and client needs to strive to improve deliverable quality through verification and validation of results.

? Experience in Production support, reporting, performance enhancements, improvements to existing business processes and implementation of new functionality in the production environment.

? Experience in PP/PI, MM, Batch management, Serialization, capacity planning. Delivered solutions to a broad range of clients with emphasis on Production Planning for Discrete, Repetitive and Variant Configuration.

? Ability to work independently and oriented to relationship building and committed on delivering successful achievements and administration results in projects of medium and high complexity.

? Excellent integration knowledge of PP-MRP, WM, IM, SD, FI-Accounts Payable and HR Organizational structure

? Excellent business communication and interpersonal skills.

? Through experience of Data exchange using RFC, I Doc's, XML

? Good knowledge of Adobe Interactive Forms

? Excellent experience with Legacy system and Interfaces

? Worked on enhancing the components in all kind of Technical Objects - BAPI, BADI, User Exits etc in ABAP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

? SAP Applications: SAP ECC 6.0 (EHP4, EHP5 and EHP6), SAP R/3 with PP/PI, QM, SCM/MM, IM, WM, SD, PP, BI, FI/CO

? Project Management & Process Designing: ASAP Project Methodology, SAP Solution Manager.

? Databases: Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server 2000.

? Test Management Tool: Team center and Mercury Quality Center

? Web Technologies: HTML/DHTML, Perl

? Packages: Pro/E, AUTOCAD

? Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, UNIX, MS-Dos, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP

? Others: LSMW, CATT, ITS, RFC, TMS, ALE/IDOC, BAPI, OCI, Workflow, Smartforms, WebDynpro.

EXPERIENCE

09/15 to Present Houston Independent School District, Texas

SAP PP Consultant

HISD is the largest school district in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States. It serves approximately 215,000 students at 283 campuses and is one of the largest employers in Houston, with about 29,000 team members.

? Developed strategic planning scenarios in collaboration with the business unit area planners and supported the execution of technical plans

? Worked with PP Master Data management for PP including BOMs, Work centers and Routings.

? MRP Scheduling, Order confirmations, integration with Product costing for order costing

? Analyzing, designing and estimating the new developments or enhancements. Preparation of Functional Specifications. Analyze and drive various WRICEF?s

? Extensively involved with MRP, total/single item planning, BOM status/explosion, Net change planning, Forecast/Consumption/Time-phased planning, lot sizing, planning runs, Scheduling and MPS

? Prepared functional specification for new developments and enhancements to meet new business requirements

? Developed functional specifications and worked with technical resources to complete object development and testing. Collaborated in configuring of master records and maintenance of purchase info records, source list, customer and material master

? Worked on QM specific master data (Master Inspection Characteristics, Inspection Methods, Sampling Scheme, Sampling Procedure), Quality Information, Record

? Implemented and Configured Inspection Lot Creation, Results Recording, Defects Recording, Inspection Lot Completion, Code and selected set at plant level for valuation

? Have experience in QM fit-gap analysis and responsible to implement all the gaps after getting business approval

? Tested inbound and outbound process while dispatching IDOC?s from one system to another system

? Worked on Periodic Data Transfer from Legacy System into SAP using LSMW Tool.

? Responsible for conducting PP support advocates meeting for faster solution of issues and for updating the ticket status to the Support advocates team.

? Solving tickets in relation with SAP and legacy Mainframe systems.

? Analyze errors, research for the cause of errors, provided solutions, and suggested preventive actions to avoid recurrence.

01/14 to 08/15 Abbott Laboratories (IBM), Waukegan, IL

SAP PP-PI/QM Consultant

Abbott Laboratories is an American pharmaceuticals and the largest producer of performance based nutritional supplements and health care products having 90,000 employees and operations in over 130 countries.

? Assisted in defining project scope for the company and implementation of SAP PP-PI with full life-cycle implementation using ASAP methodology.

? Involved in AS IS and TO BE Analysis.

? Detailed functional design to determine Functionality Gaps in Engineering and Production. Understand the requirements of Reports, Interface, Enhancements, Forms and preparation of functional specifications for RICEFW specifications.

? Responsible for customization of Process Industry in PP module according to the business requirements and integration between various modules.

? Responsible for configuration and creation of master data including Bill of materials, Resources and Master Recipes.

? Worked with Material Quantity Calculations and Active Ingredients.

? Configured standard value keys, control keys, resource formulas, as a part of master data set up.

? Defining available capacity profile configured shift sequence and shift definition depending upon factory calendar.

? Responsible for creating operations and phases in master recipes by defining control keys, relationships between phases and standard values.

? Customized Process Message Categories & Control Recipe destinations for the configuration of PI sheet.

? Customizing Production scheduling profile, MRP controllers, and Process Order types.

? Worked as a member of the configuration team, configured detailed design process for master data, planning functions (SOP, DM, MPS, MRP) and production control functions using SAP Implementation Guide (IMG).

? Worked extensively with the shop floor activities which included creating the orders, goods movements, operation confirmations and availability check.

? Helped the MM team with Batch Management for maintaining Batch Characteristics, Created Batches, Selection criteria for automatic batch determination and worked on Batch Determination Cockpit.

? Developed a conceptual design for QM functionality and worked on the integration of QM with PP-PI.

? Configured the QM master data Sampling Schemes, Sampling procedures, Dynamic modification rules, master Inspection characteristics, Inspection Plans.

? Performed In Process Inspection and Finished Product Inspection.

? Configured Defect Codes assigned them to Code Groups.

? Configured Selection Sets and assigned Code groups to Selection Sets.

? Involved in the configuration of Quality Info records which are used for vendor Evaluation.

? Gained knowledge of LIS reporting for shop floor control and inventory reporting.

? Planned, tested and reviewed business process regression, test scripts and unit testing as per the business plan.

? Analyzed the legacy system and transferred useful data to SAP using LSMW.

? Visited client's plant and analyzed SAP system.

? Coordinated with the offshore team for support issues.

? Conducted end user training and defined roles.

? Coordinated and developed customized reports.

? Interacted with client?s core team members and end users.

? Provided end-user support and developed training aids.

08/11 to 12/13 NBCUniversal, Los Angeles, CA/Manhattan, NY

SAP SCM Consultant

NBCUniversal is one of the world?s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal is owned by Comcast Corporation

? Responsible to support, stabilize and provide consultations on improvements to the existing ECC (SCM) system. Resolving bugs and improvements on day to day support.

? Responsible for all SCM activities which includes handling all the Interfaces and custom applications in the complete landscape required for proper running of business.

? Looks after the LTP planning, planning parameters, forecasting and analysis of errors in planning and trouble shooting.

? Responsible for PP production order execution including order creation, scheduling, operation and order confirmations, confirmation parameters, order type dependent parameters, printing of shop floor papers, goods issue and goods receipt.

? Study and understand the business process of the client, look after the system configuration and changes as required for the business function.

? Developed functional specification for Custom Reports and Programs.

? Worked on the integration of SCM with PP, FICO, SD, WM and MM modules.

? Worked in MM module in this project with Vendor master, Info record, source list, quota arrangement, scheduling agreement and release strategy.

? Worked on scheduling agreement - direct and indirect - has good knowledge in scheduling agreement planning with MRP

? Knowledge in firm zone trade off zone and purchasing scheduling agreement planning in MRP

? Co-coordinated the work between business process owners and end-users to effectively support the SAP PP/SCM Production System.

04/11 to 07/11 Vista Print, Lexington, MA

SAP PP/QM Consultant

Vista print provides online services and solutions, such as email marketing, websites, postcard marketing etc., It offer's high-quality printed marketing materials, promotional products and marketing services with global operations in 23 countries.

? As a PP functional consultant, responsible for business process study, GAP analysis configuration and system testing.

? Prepared a detailed document of AS-IS, by interacting with the key users.

? Involved in project definition and preparation, as is mapping, defining objectives for business blueprint, realization, and final preparations for a demonstration.

? Prepared project estimation, questionnaire for executive sessions, group discussions and one-on-one interaction to finalize the blueprint and demonstrated SAP R/3 abilities in various practical scenarios.

? Responsible for customization of PP Module according to the business requirements and Integration between various modules.

? Configuration and creation of Master Data i.e. Bill of Materials, Work centers and Routings.

? Customizing BOM for different usages, material types and explosions.

? Configured QM master data of QM catalogs, inspection methods, inspection characteristics have configured

? Provided end-user support and developed training aids.

? Responsible for data migration from client to client for integration test and UAT.

? Used ALE to transfer all configuration data to different clients.

? Supported and resolved all issues in integration test and user acceptance test.

? Carried out cutover activities.

? Worked on Certain areas of Screen Variants, Enhancement Spots, Badi?s, and User Exits.

04/10 to 03/11 Derstines Food Service, Philadelphia, PA

SAP PP-PI/QM Consultant -(Parallel Work Assignment)

Derstines Food Service has been supplying many of the region?s most popular establishments with a broad line of foodservice products. It has multiple computerized temperature controlled rooms ranging from -10 to -70 degree.

? Worked on Material Master, BOM, Recipe, Production Version, Process Order, Confirmation (operations and phases), Stock Status, Goods Issue and Goods Receipt.

? Handled Customization and Configuration of PP-PI Material master data

? Customized plant parameters, BOM explosion control and defining the views required

? Provided Post Implementation support with Material Master, BOM, Production Planning, MRP and Production Control

? Configured production scheduling profile, capacity planner, MRP types, MRP controller and Lot-sizing procedures

? Configuration of Material Master, Resources, BOM, Recipe, Process Orders and Process Messages.

? Participated in Technology review & Design review meetings

? Configured planning strategies and requirement type, creation of MRP elements, basic and lead-time scheduling, strategy group and strategy group to MRP group assignments, define MRP controllers

? Worked on Control Recipes simulation in Master Recipe, Control Recipe monitoring, and reporting process messages through PI sheet

? Worked on process orders and confirmation of process orders through process messages

? Defined Control Keys, Confirmation Parameters based on different Order types for various Production Orders

? Configured Production Scheduling Profile and Scheduling Parameters for production orders

? Created a Z table and assigned it in the process message destination to capture the time events recorded in the PI-sheet by the operators, so that they can be reported and extracted to Microsoft Excel

? Provided end user training for implemented workflow.

? Setup Master Data ? BOM, Recipe and Production version and tested the above interfaces.

? Worked on Quality Planning, Inspection processes and Quality notification.

? Created Quality operations in Recipe and attached Inspection Characteristics and performed end to end testing of Process order for GI inspection, in-process inspection and GR inspection.

? Loaded the master data and tested the processes within QM module.

? Used HP Quality Center for test design, test execution and defect management to test all the above interfaces.

04/10 to 03/11 EMI Yoshi, North Brunswick Township, NJ

SAP PP/QM Consultant -(Parallel Work Assignment)

EMI Yoshi is a leading manufacturer of high quality Products for hospitals, food services, restaurants, supermarkets and more.

? As-Is Study & To-Be Analysis and preparation of Business Blue Print.

? Mapping different processes of client into SAP functionality.

? Assessed different strategies: Make to Stock and Make to Order

? Preparation for data collection and involved in interacting with core team members and users.

? Base line configuration and Unit Testing.

? Final Configuration and Integration Testing.

? User manuals preparation and training of user.

? Coordinated with technical team for development of programs

? Validation of the programs for data loading

? Configured Material Master, Work center, Routing

? Configured MRP, REM Profile and other Repetitive manufacturing related configuration.

? Designed and Configured SAP PP, PP/QM

? Defined and configured MRP strategies designed manufacturing scenarios in PP/QM for make to stock and make to order strategies.

? Assisted in developing LIMS-QM interface.

? Assisted in developing Automatic Usage Decisions in QM.

? Coordinated with technical consultant for customized reports. Worked on the design and definition of user role security for different users based on their business key roles.

04/09 to 03/10 Southern California Edison, Los Angeles, CA

SAP PP/QM Analyst

SCE provides electricity and energy efficiency for counties in central, coastal and Southern California to Commercial industrial and nonprofit customers

? Worked on Make to Deliver Scenario

? Worked on Bonded and Non bonded materials

? Maintained Bonded Item master, BOM Declaration custom tables

? Maintained Group Data tables for Activity and Order Confirmations

? Responsible to create change request and test the changes and transport to Production

? Configuration and creation of Master Data i.e. resources, master recipes, Rate Routings

? Customizing BOM for different usages, material types and explosions

? Defined resources formulas and assigned cost centers to resources to valuate the product costing of the material

? Customized one strategy group as per requirement of the Client - Create Production order as soon as the sales order is created, to confirm the delivery date of the product.

? Configured order confirmation parameters and other operation related configurations such as control keys, Scheduling profile, scheduling parameters and order confirmation parameters.

? Responsible for master data, process changes and assistance in business logic for enhancements.

? Functional Specifications for Enhancements (BADI?s)

? Prepared quick reference guides for end users

? Conversions using LSMW with recording, Standard method, BAPI and IDOC methods. Used LSMW to upload Material Master, Equipment?s, Info records, BOM's, Routings.

07/08 to 03/09 Eclipse Aviation, Albuquerque, NM

SAP QM/PP/MM Consultant

Eclipse manufacture the Eclipse 500 very light jet (VLJ) and also at one time proposed developing the Eclipse 400 single engine jet.

? Requirement gathering, AS-IS Analysis, TO-BE Definition, Realization, Testing, Training and Support.

? Interacted with key users for mapping requirements and preparation of detailed as-is scenario document

? Assisted in project definition and preparation, defining objectives for business blueprint, realization, and final preparations for a demonstration

? Prepared project questionnaire for executive sessions, group discussions and one-on-one interaction to finalize the blueprint and demonstrated SAP ECC abilities in various practical scenarios

? Responsible for customization of Discrete Manufacturing in PP Modules according to the business requirements and integration between various modules

? Implemented configurations in PP with make to stock and make to order scenarios

? Worked on sales and operation planning using the forecast model and material requirement planning for a combination of made to order and made to stock type of planning

? Responsible for creating and setting up of SOP for product groups

? Configured availability check, production scheduling profile, process order types, and plant parameters, automatic purchase requisitions from MRP and goods movements

? Gained knowledge of LIS reporting for shop floor control and inventory reporting

? Prepared documentation for knowledge transfer and training of end users.

? Worked on configuration of master data and creation of Master Data including Bill of Materials, Work centers, Routings

? Customized the BOM for different usages, material types and explosions. Defined work center formulas and assigned cost centers to work centers.

? Configured and executed planning run with technical and business information and processed planned orders and MRP (Manufacturing Planning) list evaluations

? Identifying Material Master Data attributes and configures SAP Material Master Data.

? Provided functional specs for creating a business addition MB_DOCUMENT_BADI for posting a GR that would create a STO every time a GR was made. This posting triggered the BAPI for STO creation BAPI_PO_CREATE1. Also created a customized report that would enlist all the STO?s made. Developed business process flows and prepared BPPs for processes related to manufacturing as a global template.

? Involving in cutover and go-live activities during the project go live phase

? Involved in production support after go-live. Responsible for Onsite implementation as a PP Functional consultant and also project coordination with offshore team.

EDUCATION AND TRAININGS

? Masters of Business Administration in Management

? Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

? Diploma in Mechanical Engineering

MANAGEMENT COURSE

? Project Management Professional Certification Training ? PMBOK 5

SAP

1. SAP Production Planning and Control

2. SAP Quality Management

3. SAP Materials Management

4. Sap Warehouse Management

5. SAP Supplier Relationship Management

6. SAP eSourcing/Contract Life Cycle Management

Pro/E, AUTOCAD ? Design Engine Education, Chicago, Illinois

? CLIENT REFERENCES will be provided upon request

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