Summary
SAP Certification in MySAP ERP 6.0 Supply Chain Management MM/Purchasing/ IM/ LIV/ Master Data/Org Structure/MRP/ASAP methodology.
More than 7 years of extensive experience in Various industries as Pharmaceuticals, electronics etc and more than 4 years of experience as functional consultant in SAP R/3 Material management and Production Planning and Warehouse Management modules
Experience in 3 full life cycle project implementations of SAP R/3 Production Planning and Material Management module.
Sound Knowledge of ASAP methodology.
Diverse experience includes involvement in all aspects of the implementation process, complete system configuration, testing, end-user training and production support.
Worked with business users to identify needs and define business case.
SAP implementation includes Configuration, Testing, Document preparation, User training and post implementation support in MM/PP/WM areas.
2 years extensive exposure in Chemical Manufacturing industry
Configured MM procurement Purchase requisition, Quotation, Purchase order, Outline Agreements, inventory management physical inventory document creation
Develop MM and PP requirements and configuration, data migration, unit and integration testing of the system ensuring that the development and productive systems meet the client s business requirements leading to the successful implementation.
Data migration using various techniques like LSMW and BDCs
Good Experience in Configuration activities involved in Warehouse management like Putaway and picking strategies, defining and assignment of WM structure with Organization structure, Storage unit Management, Handling Unit Management.
Good experience in Handling of vendor consignments, Subcontracting stock, purchasing Release strategies, Physical Inventory, Planning table and Demand Management
Good understanding of integration points in WM with MM, IM, SD, PM and PP modules.
Proficient in configuring Material Master, BOM, Work Centers, Routings in Production Planning module
Proficient in configuring MRP and Stock/Requirements list.
Proficient in Make to Stock and Make to Order planning strategies.
Extensive experience with SOP, Demand Management, Production Orders.
Clear understanding of cross-functional applications of PP, MM, SD and FI-CO in industrial scenarios.
Coordinated and conducted unit testing, Integration testing and provided process documentation.
Proficient in Key User or End User Training, Data Migration, Cut-over Planning.
A self motivated and organized individual with exemplary analytical and problem solving skills.
Sound knowledge of computer software applications, a team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Employment

June, 2008 -  November, 2008
SAP MM-IM Functional Lead Consultant

PDL Bio-pharma is focused on developing innovative new antibodies to improve the lives of patients with cancer and immunological diseases. In June PDL has decided to spin off their current research department to a new company named Facet Biotech cooperation, so PDL current operating ERP system is migrated to new company Facet Biotech Cooperation and is fully operational after December for Facet employees.

Responsibilities :
Involved in Complete life cycle project of migrating SAP system to new domain of Facet Biotech from the Project preparation to go-Live as SAP spin-off Project in PDL bio pharma.

Involved in project Preparation activities like preparing a project plan for the complete spin-off project for MM module, Defining mandatory requirements for Migrating MM module transactional data and Master data.
Involved in Blueprinting Phase of the SAP Spin-off project- documenting Functional Requirements, New Developments, Master data Migration, Transactional Data Migration, Tracking RICEF objects for the MM modules and gathering any changes or new developments with respect to it.
Configuration of Release Strategies for New domain of SAP in Facet bio Technology, like Defining Release Class, Defining Release characteristics, maintaining Release strategies.
Verification of User exits, Screen Exits maintained in PR ME51N transaction for its functionality.
Configuration of Purchasing Group for new SAP domain.
Configured No Ranges for PR and PO for which migrated from the old PDL SAP domain to Facet Biotech SAP system and assigned it to Corresponding Document types like Blanket PO and Standard PO.
Configured Standard SAP Report ME2N for Open PO to display results in ALV format.

Closely work with Technical consultant to develop a program for Purchase Requisition and open PO migration.
Developed a complete flow logic that can help technical consultant to develop custom program for transactional data migration.
Involved in testing BAPI s for create PR, Create PO, Release PR, created BDC recording for Changing PR.
Created functional and technical specs for downloading and uploading attachments in PR and PO.
Involved in debugging custom program like ZPRCREATE, ZPOCREATE, ZPRDATA, ZPODATA and ZPRPOATTDOWNLOAD during unit testing.
Developed LSMW for Vendor master data upload in the Facet bio Technology domain.
Identified Objects has to be changed with Facet Bio Technology LOGO and Name replacing PDL bio pharma logo and name.
Developed Functional Specifications for Changing Smart forms for PO, GR/GI slip Print outs.
Configured account assignment categories for PR and PO account assignment, making Cost center and Internal Orders Mandatory fields for PR and PO.

Configured Purchasing Organization for Facet Biotech.
Configured Delivery address in PR and PO Delivery address tab. Configured Screens for ME51N and ME21N, making Delivery Address Default in PR and change mode in PO so while creating PR Users cant change the address and can give an authority to Purchasing department only to change the Delivery address if required while converting PR in to PO.
Adding a custom check in PR function exit to maintain the same plant for all line items in PR.
Configured Plant for new Facet Bio Technology Inc
Involved in heavily integration with HR and FI modules which were dependency for MM objects like PR Release strategies, PR/PO account assignments.
Modified the Business process Procure to Pay to accommodate IO restructuring and activating new GL accounts in FI.
Developed test scripts for end to end business scenarios for Blanket PO, PO for Services, Standard PO.
Resolved an issues relevant to workflow of release strategy, release strategy determination in PR, Converting PR in to PO, processing goods receipts, Processing Invoices against blanket POs and Standard POs in cycle 1 integration testing.

Performed transactional and Master data migration as cycle 1 integration preparation activities.

Prepared cut over activities plan and executed in cycle 2 preparation phase.

November, 2007 -  May, 2008
SAP MM-IM/PP Functional Consultant

SAP America Inc partnered with RJT Compuquest Inc, has initiated a development of Rapid SAP Solution for Midsize Electronics industries in wholesale and Distribution area. Rapid SAP is a project that concentrates on less implementation time and 1 baseline solution ready to use after implementation in MM, WM, SD and FI-CO modules.

Responsibilities :
Involved in the Business Blueprinting according to the Scope of the Project of Developing a SAP Solution package which includes SD, MM and WM functionality for the midsize wholesale and distribution industries.

Involved in Baseline configuration activities in Material management and Warehouse Management for the phase 1.
Involved in configuration of End to End Scenarios in Purchasing like Procurement of Stock/Non-Stock materials, Consignment orders.

Base line configuration for Organizational Structure for the project involves defining Company Codes, Purchasing Organization, Plants, Storage Locations, Warehouse and Standard assignments related to each other.
Configured baseline procedures for the Purchase requisitions, Purchase Orders, Contracts and Scheduling agreement.
Responsible for creating warehouses, defining storage sections, storage types, storage unit types, storage bins.
Involved in Sample Master Data upload in Testing Client using LSMWs.
Involved in Maintaining and Testing PR and PO release Strategies.
Involved in Baseline configuration for SOP and Custom developed report for supply chain cockpit

Involved in Configuration activities related to Setting up MRP for particular Plant like Defining MRP Type, Lot Size procedure, maintain Plant Parameters for MRP run.
Defined MRP Groups, Scheduling margin keys, procurement proposals, firm zone for the Procurement proposals.
Involved in the Unit Testing of MM/ PP modules and Integration testing of the SD/MM/WM/FI-CO modules.

Configuration activities related to IM and WM integration like defining GR and GI areas in WM, WM movements integration with IM Movement type, Defining Staging areas in WM for Picking and Putaway from IM to WM.
Developed and executed Test Scripts for the unit testing and Integration testing.

Involved in Developing Training documents for end users.

May, 2007 -  October, 2007
SAP PP/MM Functional Consultant

Applied Materials, Inc Is the global leader in Nano Manufacturing technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panels, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and energy efficient glass.

Responsibilities :
Worked with Business Transformation BT Project of Applied Materials is going for ECC 6.0 from R/3 4.7 version upgrade and planning to maintain only 1 ERP system globally by removing, Oracle Apps, Metron and AKT s ERP systems.
Reviewing functional specifications developed and assisting Technical consultants to draft the Technical specifications for corresponding FS related to Material BOM and Equipment BOM, Inventory management, Engineering change Management
Reviewed and modified data conversion functional specs for Single Master Material BOM in Oracle Applications in to the ECC 6.0 according to technical difficulties and issues associated with the Data Mapping and handling a large volume of data during load.
Created bills of materials BOM for functional locations and equipment masters.
Maintained Spare parts and Non-Spareble materials in BOM for Service Orders.
Applied Materials is dealing with Engineer to Order ETO production strategies which makes BOM and routings of the Process changes according to Order and customization requires to track every changes happen with BOM or any PP master data through Engineering change Management in SAP and have to integrate Changes happen in Oracle Apps ERP with SAP.
Developed and Reviewed Functional specifications for Warehouse Management requirements like creation of Bins, Data conversion specs for Inventory management to WM stock transfers.
Developed a Functional Specification for WM Inventory Transfer.
Also worked on Issues related to Engineering Change Management ECN records associated with the BOM in Oracle to ECC 6.0
Reviewed Functional Specifications for the Data Interfaces between Metron, AKT and Oracle apps with ECC 6.0.
Suggested solution for the issues related with Data Interface like Handling of Valid End date in Material BOM and Equipment BOM when any component is deleted on Oracle APPs.
Worked with the Technical Consultants to Draft the Technical Design of Data Interface Functional Specs.
Also worked on the Functional Specs Related to Initial Data Migration of Inventory data to Warehouse and internal Warehouse stock transfer from 1 Storage type to designated Storage type and storage Bin.

Developed Functional SAP Basic and BT Specific competency plan for BT- AI testing team Business Transformation- Application Integration to bring their ability to work with SAP ECC 6.0
Worked with BT testing team to analyze the test scripts to find out data inputs and expected results for each test case and document them testing team can develop the test plans and integrate all the test scripts to automate the Integration testing of Phase 1

May, 2006 -  March, 2007
SAP MM-IM/PP Functional Consultant

Ferro is a leading global producer of technology-based performance materials for manufacturers, ranking as the world s largest supplier of Electronic materials for passive components, Color and Glass Performance materials, organic specialties, coating systems. In the United States, Ferro holds strong market positions in polymer additives and specialty plastic compounds and colorants.

Responsibilities :
Involved in implementation for Purchasing, Invoice Verification and Inventory Management.
Configured Purchase Requisition, Purchase order, Outline Agreement and Scheduling Agreement.
Configured the Transfer Posting and stock transfer process between company, plants and storage locations.
Customized the Physical Inventory Process using cycle counting method.
Configured Material master using purchase value keys with default data for purchasing documents.
Assisted in system settings that are relevant to the maintenance of conditions and price determination in the purchase of materials.
Set up the Plant parameters for Inventory Management, Tolerances on Goods issues and receipts, Automatic Creation of PO's.
Worked in setting up of Standard planning in SOP
Responsible for configuring Demand management, Involved in Setting up the Planning Strategies like MTS and MTO/ETO and requirement types for MRP run.

Experienced in Material Planning Run : PP MRP MRP types, MRP profile, Lot size calculation, reorder planning.

Customized PP in areas Material Masters, Work Centers, Bill of Materials and Routings.
Involved in Capacity Evaluation and Capacity Leveling requirements for Production orders

Configured and implemented the activities : creation of orders, conversion of planned orders, goods movements, order confirmations and availability check in MTS environment.

Involved in configuration activities relevant to Shop Floor Control- Defining scheduling parameter, Standard Value key for the Production, Scheduling margin Key.
Automatic Goods receipt posting with back flush of components.
Involved in unit and integration testing.

Provided end user training for different production planning processes.
Involved in post implementation support.
Worked with Accelerated Solutions methodology ASAP designed for rapid installations.

July, 2005 -  March, 2006
Role : MM-IM/PP Functional Consultant

Oce is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. The company's solutions are based on Oce's advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the Internet to printing devices and archives locally and around the world. Supporting the workflow solutions are Oce digital printers and scanners, considered the most reliable and productive in the world. Oce offers a wide range of display graphics, consulting and outsourcing solutions.

Responsibilities : Defined Master Data for MM : Material Master, Vendor Master, Source Lists and Info Records.

Involved in production support. Activities include analyzing customers' problems, suggest solutions, implement changes, test the solution and transport to the production client

Configured Account Category Reference, Valuation Class and Material Type.
Serves as the Production support for Purchasing and Inventory Management PIM
Configured Release Procedure Release Group, Release Code, Release Indicator and Strategies for Purchase Requisition and Purchase order
Inventory Management - Inventory Valuation based on standard or moving average price and split valuation of material

Configured the Enterprise Structure in PP by interfacing with other modules by defining plants, storage locations and production scheduling profiles
Created new materials and bill of materials BOMs to support process requirements

Configured material master records to include work scheduling, MRP and forecasting views
Planning strategies like Make-to-Stock configured
Critical items were identified and MPS run carried out for those items

Configured experience jobs for MRP run to take care of the planning and production issues
Involved in creation of production order, displaying capacity load and capacity leveling rules

Setup and monitored experience jobs and created variants for the job.
Analyze the problems and provide solution in time.
Generated reports of the orders/materials as requested by user

Preparing test cases and integration testing, Training the user.
New Reports developed as per user requirements.

August, 2004 -  May, 2005
Role : SAP MM/PP Functional Consultant

Tennant offers a full line of machine products, carpet cleaners, floor coatings, brushes and detergents to help your facility meet the highest cleanliness and safety standards.

Responsibilities :
Conducted AS-IS study of the business processes and finalized the TO-BE process.
Configuring and testing of the TO-BE process.

Involved in Set up of Organization Structure related to MM Plants, Storage locations and Purchasing Organizations

Experience in defining project plans, gap analysis, configurations and testing
Material master configurations involved the business analysis of the industry and discussions with core team members. Material types, different views of the material master and field selection criteria.
Customized the material master record views basic, purchasing, storage views. Defined attributes for ROH, FERT, HALB
Configured MM- Purchasing, procure to pay cycle, Inter company purchasing, Output determination, Account determination for goods movement as and when required by the team.

Configured Material Master Setup for material number format, number ranges and the field status as per the requirement of the client.

Mapped the Material Management and inventory management structures into the SAP Organization structures of Purchasing Organization, Purchasing groups, Plant and Storage Location, Blue printing using ASAP methodology
Assisted the users in identifying data issues and solving these problems regarding SAP-PP/MM Modules related processes.
Planning strategies like Make-to-Stock and Make-to-Order are configured
Critical items were identified and MPS run carried out for those items

Configured experience jobs for MRP run to take care of the planning and production issues
Set up the Material and Vendor master data for the Purchasing component.

January, 2004 -  June, 2004
Role : MM Functional Consultant

A Smart Modular technology, Inc is a leading designer and manufacturer of memory modules and memory cards and communication products. Memory Modules and custom form factors that utilize the rams. The client is leading company in the semiconductor industry.

Responsibilities :
Configured the processing of Info Records, Source Lists, RFQs, POs and Outline Agreements with respect to document types, screens layout, tolerance limits.
Customized Material types and assigned number ranges for the material types.
Configured MM with specific emphasis in the areas of Purchasing and Inventory Management.

Enhanced Inventory Management functionality by customizing activities, : inclusion of different types of stocks for availability check, definition of tolerance values for acceptance and expiration date check was activated for material in batches.
Settings were done for creation of reservations and definition of Movement types.
Customization as per the requirements like New Release Procedures, Stock Transport Orders etc as required.
Active production support for issues related to Materials Management, Inventory Management and Data Transfer issues to interfaces.

Involved in various activities, configuration and interface of SAP MM with other modules.

September, 2002 -  November, 2003
MM Consultant

As part of the team, as member of the Material Management, for the configuration of the SAP R/3 system for Pharmaceuticals businesses, in support of business processes responsibilities were as follows
Team member in the implementation team. Provided consultancy in implementation of MM module.
Understand the business process, workflow and company structure to configure MM.
Configured Plants, Storage locations, Number ranges for PO.
Provided post implementation support

Production Planning and Process designing.
Educate operators to handle process.
To keep up-to-date in-plant stock information and keep the procurement team update with the latest information on available stocks and the future requirements.

Streamlining Documentation and Reporting process for ISO certification.

February, 2001 -  August, 2002
Role : Process Engineer

Education

Skills
ERP : SAP R/3 - MM-IM/WM and PP module Operating Systems : Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP, Windows NT, MS DOS. Databases : MS-SQL, Access. PC Applications : Word, MS PowerPoint, Excel and Visio Tools.


Miscellaneous
Electrochem is a industry which is manufacturing chemicals as Ammonium Persulfate, Sodium Persulfate and Potassium Persulfate used as Bulk drugs, Laboratory Chemicals, Etching agent, Oxidizing Agent etc.
Responsibilities : Monitored optimum use of equipment, daily production planning and follow up, monthly production target achievement, yield improvement, manpower control and safety.
Involved in installation and daily operation of Electrolytic Membrane reactor for the production of Ammonium persulfate
Assisted experienced engineers and operations personnel in developing new methods, cost saving solutions for production of Sodium persulfate.
Hands on Reverse Osmosis Plant, Separation of solvent and Unreacted Raw materials from reactor effluent for the production of ammonium persulfate and sodium persulfate.
Involved in development of product- Potassium monopersulfate and carried out material/energy balance, kinetic study of the reaction and also experiments to improve yield/ conversion of reaction
Involved in developing new PFD and P and ID and manipulating existing ones for the production of Sodium Persulphate at a new plant facilities.
Provided technical support to plant operators and troubleshoot the process to keep the plant running efficiently.
Operational handling of equipment like SS, MS glass lined reactors, distillation column, scrubbers, blenders, filters, dryers, jet ejectors and vacuum pumps, kneaders.