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Warehouse Management Life Science

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Gilberts, IL
Posted:
October 20, 2023

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I am having around ** and half Years of experience in SAP Consulting, played various role like Project Lead, SCM Track Lead, Module lead and Consultant, having extensive experience in various processes of EWM S/4 Hana (Extended Warehouse Management), Warehouse Management (WM), Material Management (MM), Inventory Management (IM), Material Requirement Planning (MRP) Production planning (PP) and understanding of TM (Transportation Management) Processes.

Implemented 5 full life cycle and 2 semi lifecycle projects, along with extensive Knowledge of Project management (implementation support and Hyper care) . Worked in different vertical like; Life science, Pharma, Food & Beverage, Automotive, FMCG and Manufacturing Industries, Good experience of Methodologies like ASAP, Agile and SAP Activate.

Experience in Project Management- leading, scoping, resource planning, staffing, Billing, Problem management, bringing new technologies, coordinating go live, hyper care support, Maintenance Support, cut over activities, Working with Senior management, reporting to PMO, Ability to translate business process, Manage deliverable priorities. communicate with stack holders and business leadership, delivering and reporting the project status to leadership. Deliver project within budget and time.

Communication- Communicating with all levels of project stakeholder and building trust with Business, work directly with plant and process owner to resolve issues, review best practices, and reinforce processes and procedures. Ability to understand the SAP configuration and clearly express the information in business terms, advise Process owner to do things differently to control issue/process.

Experience in leading project- Implementing SCM processes, supporting operation, and owning deliverables and enable team. Respect SLA’s, responsible for business operational requirements, defect fix, business process re-engineering, and solution design, involved in various aspects of RICEFW: conducting workshops for gathering business requirement for a BPML (Business Process Master List), BPPs (Business Process Procedures), reviewing BRD (Business Requirement Documents), writing functional specifications, process design, and preparing the Business Blueprint. Independently Configuring end to end business Process, writing test script, creating test data, testing, updating test result in HPALM, reading code, debugging program, working with team, Mentoring and Collaborating with cross functional area.

Experience in Extended warehouse Management: Worked with both stand alone and inbuilt. Discuss with business and gather the business requirement, used Signavio tool to draw the process flow, Taking care of EWM master data, process and configurations like Warehouse structure, Data Migration from ERP to EWM (CIF), QRFC, configuring business process like; Inbound, outbound delivery process. Return process, Physical Inventory, Direct putaway, Slotting, Replenishment, Task Interleaving, Value Added Services (VAS), Serial Number, Wave Strategy, Cycle Counting, PSA, Control Cycle, Labor Management, Yard Management, Cross-Docking, system integration,3PL, Dock Scheduling, Post Processing Framework (PPF), Process-Oriented Storage Control (POSC), Layout-Oriented Storage Control(LOSC), Warehouse Order creation rule, Warehouse Process Type (WPT) Handling Unit Management (HU), Search Strategy, Expected Goods Receipt (EGR), Stock Removal Rule, Resource Management, Posting change and Stock Transfer, Physical Inventory, Yard Management, Shipping and receiving, Radio Frequency and Barcode (Mobile data entry), Quality Inspection Engine (QIE), QRFC Monitoring, Working with ASRS (WAMAS), integration with other system interface, IDOC.

Automation and Innovation: like warehouse Dashboard, Boat for QRFC, ASRS, problem management, system performance. esteem lining processes, introducing best practice. Access definition and operation visibility.

Experience in Warehouse Management: like Configuring Putaway and Picking strategy, Goods movement Process, Replenishment, Print Control, Movement type, Physical inventory, dynamic and fixed bin, Control cycle, Transfer Requirement, Handling Unit Management (HU), RF Transactions, Mobile Device, Transfer order and Goods Movement, inventory counting.

Experience in Material Management: Which includes Purchase requisition, Request for Quotation, Purchase order, Stock transfer order (STO), Subcontracting, Service Procurement, LIV, Inventory management (Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Stock Transfers) Consignment/ Supplier Managed inventory, Contract and Agreement, Pricing, Printing, release strategy, purchasing document, Inbound delivery, Advance Shipping Notification (ASN), Release strategy and Workflow, interface with other System, IDOC process.

Experience in Manufacturing: Master data like, Material master/ Product master, Bills of Material (BOM), Work center and Resources, Routing and Master Recipes, and Production versions. Working with Discrete & repetitive manufacturing process, integration between PP-EWM.

Experience in Transportation Management: Master data like Business Partner, Organizational Management, Transportation Network, Transportation Mode, Product, carrier profile, Transportation Charges. FU, FO TU.

Experience in Testing – Writing test script, preparing testing data and executing test scripts throughout various (Unit testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing) testing cycles. Validation that both configurations and enhancement deliver the business requirement. SAP testing of system configuration, transactions, reports, and end-to-end processes.

Experience in Integration with other Module/Process area like: - PP, WM, MM, IM, SD, QM, FI-CO and interface understanding with EWM - TM, EWM-ASRS. experience in customization or configuration and Enhancements, Interface, User exit.

Technical skills:

ERP - SAP R/3 and ECC 6.0 S/4HANA 2020 – MM, PP, SD, QM, WM, EWM and TM.

Office Suite - Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, OneNote, Visio)

HPQC/ALM, SharePoint, third Party Logistic (3PL), JIRA, Reftrac,

Ticketing tool like peri-green, Microsoft dynamics, SNOW.

Solution Manager, Doc-space, IBM Rational, Power BI

Interface knowledge between SAP to SAP and SAP to non-SAP system.

Good knowledge of Change Management and configuration management:

Methodology used: ASAP, Waterfall, Agile and SAP ACTIVATE.

Data Migration Tool like LSMW, BDC, IDOC.

Education: Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical from Bangalore University India

Training and certification: Extended Warehouse Management (EWM9.0) from SAP America.

Professional Experience:

Start

End

Project

Module

Client

Role

payroll company

Jul-22

Till date

Support

EWM S/4 Hana

Coca-Cola

SCM Track Lead

Infosys USA

Dec-20

Jul-22

Implementation

EWM

Coca-Cola

SCM Lead

Infosys USA

Jan-18

Jan-20

Implementation

EWM

Roquette Lille France

Team Lead

Sopra India

Mar-12

Feb-14

Implementation

MM-WM

Mitsubishi Motors

Team lead

IBM India

Jun-09

Jun-12

Implementation

MM-WM

MERCK Pharmaceuticals

Senior consultant

IBM India

Apr-08

Jun-09

Support

MM-WM

Nestle Sustain Global

Team Lead

IBM India

Dec-07

Apr-08

Implementation

MM-CIN

Corus Steel

Functional Consultant

ITC India

Aug-07

Dec-07

Implementation

MM-CIN

Tata Robins Fraser (TRF)

Functional Consultant

Tata Technologies ltd.

May-06

Aug-07

Implementation

MM-WM

Lupin Pharma

Consultant

Seal Infotech

Jun-05

May-06

Support

MM-WM

Goetze (India) Limited

Consultant

SAPZEN

Aug-05

May-06

Implementation

MM-WM

Hero Cycle

Consultant

Growel India Ltd.

Coca Cola Atlanta December 2020 - Till date.

Environment: SAP S/4 HANA,

SCM Track Lead

Project type: Implementation & Support

Interacting with business to understand business requirement, used Signavio to map the process diagram.

Configuring the system to match the business process, Defining Master data to support the transactional processes performed.

Master data like, Product Master, Business Partner, Packaging specification, Resource, work Center. Defining storage type, storage section, picking area, Material staging area, PSA, Storage BIN.

Defining stock type with respect to storage location and Dock Cut Process.

Configuring Putaway and Picking strategies, Print control, Replenishment process.

Code reading and debugging program to understand logic and data flow.

Good Knowledge of Handling Unit Management, Transportation Unit, Inbound/outbound Delivery process, Putaway process with POSC and Search strategy, Quality inspection, Stock Removal Rule, Wave management,

Configured Cross docking solution for all the warehouses

Setting up Automatic TO for replenishing fixed bins as a background job which runs in regular interval

Proposed and configured Dynamic cycle counting for all the storage types as a part of physical inventory process.

Configured SPED for automatic inbound creation.

Configured Advanced Picking and put away strategies for the inbound and outbound goods flow into the storage type and bins.

Proposed and Configured RF queue management for their out bound and Replenishment Process which involves defining queues by forwarding agent and respective Door

Proposed and configured Dynamic cycle counting for all the storage types as a part of physical inventory process.

Configured Advanced Picking and put away strategies for the inbound and outbound goods flow into the storage type and bins.

Writing Functional specification, test script, Implement solutions.

Preparing user manual and presenting process to business.

Good Knowledge of FU/FO/TU and integration with OTM

As SCM Track lead

Driving continuous improvement initiatives, problem solving and automation.

Involve in presales, Proposal and RFP and Team Building.

Priority rearrangement after discussion with business to improve operation.

Mentoring team on Logistics processes and systems

Prepare Knowledge Matrix, Plan for resource training (offshore-Different Geographical location).

Monitoring and tracking progress for the Deliverables.

Monitoring and maintaining SLA, issue free operation, Building Trust, continuous process improvement.

Reporting to PMO, Delivering Values.

Roquette Lille France Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

Environment: SAP ECC6.0, EWM 9.5

EWM SAP Lead Consultant

Project type: Implementation

Interact with Business to understand the business requirement.

Work with solution designs, build- execute and test.

Working with resources from different time zone to timely deliver quality solutions.

Org structure, Master data and testing processes, Creating cutover plan, data clanging

Integration with other Module (Production Planning, Transportation and Quality Management) Other system with IDOC.

Good hands on in defining putaway and picking strategy, configuring WAVE and Deconsolidation process.

Good knowledge of WOCR (Warehouse Order Creation Rule), Packaging Specifications.

Working with POSC, Replenishment process and physical inventory counting.

Responsible for Monitoring, Queue, IDOC and batch jobs

Implement SAP note and worked for stabilize system performance.

Configured palletization for single material and multiple customers.

Writing Functional Specification for not fit requirement.

Good working knowledge of handling unit Management and Yard management.

As SCM lead

Updating project scope, schedule deliverables.

Provide subject matter and operational guidance to the team

Discussing with business to priority rearrangement, Mentoring team

Prepare Training Plan for supper user and power user delivering training documents. (Offshore-Different Geographical location)

Working for automation options.

Delivering as per schedule and demonstrated conflict management.

Work with Senior management and resource planning team (PMO).

Monitoring and tracking progress for the Delivery object and Team Members

Mitsubishi Motors, Tokyo, JAPAN (IBM) Mar 2012 - Feb 2014

SAP MM/WM Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Project type: Implementation

Discussing with business, Understand the business requirements, configuring for the fit process and writing FS for GAPs

Configured WM Structure by Defining storage types, storage sections and storage bins etc.

Defined Storage Bin Structure for all Materials by defining Template, Structure, Start Value, End Value and Increment

Defined Warehouse number, shipping point & movement types

Worked with Fixed bin and Serial Number process.

Configuration of Put away rules and strategies

Configured storage types with and without Storage unit management and Handling Unit Management

Worked on Batch management and split valuation

Configured Account determination process and Configured Pricing procedure.

Worked on Batch Management, Created Batch Classes Components (Finished Goods)

Built interface to the third-party system using EDI/IDOC

Customized the "Serialization" and Serial number profile for inventory management

Put away – Quantity based/Cross Line, Handling unit and Task Interleaving

Internal Processing, Physical Inventory, Cycle Counting and Replenishment

Good Knowledge of Labor Management and Yard Management, Dock Appointment Scheduling, Task and Resource Management

Management, Large-Small quantity picking with picking waves, Using Pick Point for picking partial quantities, Consolidation for packing, Batch Management Outbound Operations

Worked on Integration with PP & QM, Performed Unit Testing and UAT and result recording in HP ALM.

Used HP ALM for result and defect recording and for fix using Solman.

Configured invoice verification process, tolerance limits and planned and unplanned delivery cost

Worked extensively on Service Parts Procurement with authorized suppliers and warranty process.

Involved in test Plan and execution. Hands on experience with testing tools, Creating test plans, procedures, issue resolution and user acceptance.

Master Data: Material Master, Vendor Master, BP, Source List, Purchase Info-record, BOM, Work center, Routing, Master Recipes Demand Management.

Purchasing and Logistics: Creating Quota Arrangement, Request for Quotation, Purchasing Requisition, Purchase Order, Outline Agreements -- Contracts & Scheduling Agreements, Source Determination, Blocking and Release, Delivery Schedules, Vendor Consignment, Subcontracting, Advance shipment notifications (ASN), BOM, MRP, Partner Determination, Release Procedures of Purchase Documents, Freight invoice Settlement.

Participated in key user training, preparation of work instructions, training presentations,

Participated in solution validations for testing scripts, verify transports, and verify RICEFs.

Team lead:

Handling team and deliverable,

Updating delivery status

Communicating with business and PMO

updating risk register, Planned and actual time line

MERCK Pharmaceuticals Kenilworth, NJ (IBM) June-2009 to June 2012

SAP MM/WM Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0

Project type: Implementation

Here we have used ASAP Methodology.

Org Structure, Master data like Material Master, Vendor Master, source List, Info-record, Condition techniques.

Direct and Indirect Purchasing, WM Org Structure, print control, put away and Picking strategy, Goods movement (movement type).

Reconfigured Physical inventory counting, maintained shelf-life expiration date (SLED) check.

Define return process (Vendor return and customer return)

Collaborated with technical consultant to develop specifications for custom reports.

Worked on unit testing, integration testing on various scenarios for Purchasing.

Conducted training sessions for end-users in all aspects of functionality and reporting of SAP Material Management and Warehouse Management.

Prepared navigation guides and presentations, and trained end-users on Process flow, Stock-requirements list, Planned-order conversion, Movement types, and Reports.

Developed and worked upon various test cases and scripts and tested various scenarios using quality tools (HPQC).

Mentoring other team members.

Nestle Sustain Global Switzerland (IBM) Apr 2008 – June 2009

SAP MM/ WM Consultant

Environment: upgraded from R/3 4.7 to SAP ECC 6.0

Project type: Support and Maintenance

Supported day to day operation activities by providing inputs and solution to the errors made in the Material Management and warehousing activities.

Priorities the issue with business resolved within SLA.

Involved in the configuration of output determination by creating Output types, Access sequences, assigning output types to output determination procedure, configuring print parameters, setting up plant specific condition records.

Coordinated with onsite to successfully complete the configuration for the WM.

Worked on quantity contracts, value contract for purchase requisition, contracts and purchase orders. Material planning: MRP (MRP types, MRP profiles), planning run, lot size calculation, reorder point planning.

Worked in the WM, configuring the master data and transactional data items like storage types, storage sections, storage bins, picking and put away areas.

Configured WM Structure by Defining storage types, storage sections, storage bins.

Project Lead

Checking Ticket Hygiene

Checking SLA and priority

Prepare different report to present product owner and PMO

Working in different time zone and communicating to make sure about deliverable.

Corus steel (ITC InfoTech India Ltd. Kolkata IN) Dec 2007 - Apr 2008

SAP MM Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Project Type: Implementation.

Discuss with business for requirement gathering and implemented CIN (Tax procedure)

Requirement Analysis and time estimation of work

Resource identifying and allocation of resource

Worked on Request for proposal for new Projects

Mentoring team member for different project with respect to SAP Best practices and Country India Version (CIN) Business process.

Tata Robins Fraser (TRF) Jamshedpur IN (Tata Technologies Ltd.) Aug 2007 – Dec 2007

SAP MM/WM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Project type: Implementation

Tata Robins Fraser established in 1962, TRF is a pioneer in solutions for material handling equipment and processing systems required in the infrastructure...

Discuss with business for requirement gathering and implemented CIN (Tax procedure)

Involved in preparing the User Acceptance Testing scripts for the setup of the plant.

Helped the cutover team in creating and validating cutover data.

Assisted the project during Go-Live and production support.

Trained business analysts and end users on transactions and prepared detailed documentation.

Worked with Material Requirement Planning: Defined and maintained MRP groups, Material master, BOM, Work Center, Routing, MRP Process, Planning process, Lot-Sizing procedure ATP.

Lupin Limited. Mumbai, IN (SEAL Infotech Pvt Ltd.) May 2006 – Aug 2007

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Project type: Implementation

Lupin limited is an India-based pharmaceutical Company, producing a wide range of generic and branded formulations.

Enabled batch management in process orders by defining batch specifications as characteristics, assigned key values, maintained under material class for each material.

Defined STO, Direct purchase, Subcontracting process

Master Data: Material Master, Vendor Master, Source List, Info-record and batch management.

Reconfigured and maintained shelf-life expiration date (SLED) check and setup customer exit to check the SLED.

Setup indicators to specify automatic batch creation upon order creation, under production scheduling profile.

Worked with MM-PP integration and MM-QM integration

Collaborated with technical consultant to develop specifications for custom reports.

Worked on unit testing, integration testing on various scenarios for the PP module.

Conducted training sessions for end-users in all aspects of functionality and reporting of SAP Production planning.

Prepared navigation guides and presentations, and trained end-users on Process flow, Stock-requirements list, Planned-order conversion, Movement types, and Reports.

Aided in standard operating procedure updates, deviations monitoring, and change control for personnel, material and equipment flows to aid continued validated status.

Created new material request Forms for the upstream division before routing for approval of the Procurement, Technical development and Quality groups.

Organizational Data Configuration: Created plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations and groups, Info record and maintained the source list.

Co-ordinate cut over plans and data migration for Material master, Vendor Master and Purchasing Info Records from legacy systems using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench)

IDoc types defined for data, such as purchase orders, invoices, GR, GI which was broken down into more specific categories called message types.

Configured the Invoice verification, material valuation and material value changes when material is delivered, and a surplus stock occurs. Posted Invoice documents for the Purchase Orders.

Goetze (India) Limited, Bengaluru, IN (SAPzen Consulting Pvt. Ltd.) June 2005 - May 2006

SAP MM/IM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Project type: Support and Maintenance

Goetze (India) Limited. Manufacturer of world-class pistons, piston rings, sintered parts and cylinder liners covering a wide range of applications

Day to day end user activity support.

Configured Vendor Master: Created vendor account groups, number ranges, purchasing groups.

Creation of purchasing documents (like Requisitions, Request for Quotation (RFQ), Maintaining quotations, Info records, Purchase order, Contract agreement, Scheduling agreement, Goods receipt, Goods movement etc.), Release Procedures.

Worked on MRP-Procedures, Planning process, special planning process, carry out planning run, evaluating the planning run, Procurement Proposal, Master Data.

Designed Subcontracting process with Special Procurement keys and Procurement types. Documented the process flow for all the subcontracting Scenarios

Hero Cycle Limited, Ludhiana, IN (Growel Softech Ltd.) Aug 2004 - May 2005

SAP MM/IM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Project type: Implementation

Hero Cycles Limited entered the Guinness Books of World Records as the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world.

Here we have used ASAP methodology

Participated in AS-IS business process workshop and understand the current business requirements. Presented TO-Be workshop to the business users and mapped in SAP

Assisted in development of project definition and preparation, defining objectives for business blueprint, realization, and final preparations.

Demonstrated available functionalities in SAP Production planning module for various business scenarios and developed functional specifications in coordination with technical consultants.

Conducted executive sessions, group discussions and one-on-one interactions to prepare the business blueprint and finalize requirements.

Designed the Enterprise Structure, creating Plants, Storage locations, Purchasing organization and Shop floor layout, in liaison with business and Material management team.

Customized Discrete Manufacturing in PP and MM Modules according to the business requirements with configurations for Make-to-order and Make-to-stock scenarios.

Configured and created Master Data including Routing, Bills of material, and Production resources/tools.

Created new purchase order types, purchasing groups, material types, and valuation classes

Interacted with cross-functional team members and was involved in transferring information into the master data for materials

Configured Material types, material groups according to user business requirements

Configured Material Master Screen sequence layout for defined material types



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