GAURAV KUMAR

• He has experience of over 8+ years in Production Planning, Quality management and Document management systems
• Gaurav’s key strengths are the follows: SAP PP/QM implementation and Rollout.
• Supervised aspects of functional teams such as requirement gathering, assignments.
• Rollout project for the cosmetic company’s North America distribution centre and Korea distribution center.

1. Omni Active Health Technologies, Pune (June 2020 – Feb 2021): SAP ECC Implementation
Gaurav has worked on implementation projects for the pharmaceutical company’s Hosur manufacturing plant. The Company offers food ingredients useful for manufacturing capsimax, gingever, curcuwin, omnixan, and lutemax lutein. Omni Active Health Technologies serves customers worldwide. Single handed mapping the production and quality management business process in SAP and resolving bottlenecks in the system were some of the highlights for the project.
▪ Requirement gathering workshops with clients and identifying the gaps in the process.
▪ Preparing and getting blueprint signoff and mapping the production and Quality management process in SAP.
▪ Preparing BPML and mapping the production and quality management process.
▪ Realizing the process by configuring the production and quality process in SAP and worked on developing custom reports for the business.
▪ Preparing Functional specifications for the development, working with ABAP to realize the reports.
▪ Worked on creating smart forms for the quality management and certificate of Analysis.
▪ Configuring and implementing MRP for the plant.
▪ Worked with business in preparing Master data templates and LSMW along with BDC for migrating the master data.
▪ Conducted workshops with business users for user acceptance testing.
▪ Preparing user manuals for the business users for each production planning and quality management process.
▪ Conducted training with the business users to take them through the end-to-end process.
▪ Worked with the Finance team on mapping the product costing for the plant.
▪ Roles and authorization preparing and preparing the matrix for users.
▪ Doing UAT and Integration testing in several workshops across all modules.

4. Varun Beverages Ltd, Haryana (May 2019 – October 2019): SAP ECC to S4 1809 Hana Migration
Gaurav has worked on S4 Hana migration projects for the second largest franchisee in the world of carbonated soft drinks. Worked on a requirement gathering workshop with clients. Working with SAP and doing a pre-check run for the system and rectifying the errors in the configuration and process. Doing end to end run of the process and rectifying the technical errors. Documenting the process run and creating test scripts for the client. Creating mass production version and MRP areas as a pre-migration activity. Deploying the system in production and Go-live activities.
▪ Performing Pre-check activities.
▪ Implementing SAP notes in the system.
▪ Preparing Functional specification document for a new enhancement or report.
▪ Creation of Production versions in the system.
▪ 30 hours Production downtime support.
▪ Pre-SUM, Post-SUM activities.
▪ MRP Area SI check error resolution.
▪ Key issues faced: Production version creation, Material Usage Analysis (MCRE) wrong output.
5. Somany Ceramics, Haryana (May 2019 – October 2019): S4 1511 to S4 1809 Hana Migration
Gaurav has worked on S4 Hana migration projects for an organization that specializes in ceramics and allied products segments. Worked on a requirement gathering workshop with clients. Working with SAP and doing a pre-check run for the system and rectifying the errors in the configuration and process. Doing end to end run of the process and rectifying the technical errors. Documenting the process run and creating test scripts for the client. Creating mass production version and MRP areas as a pre-migration activity. Deploying the system in production and Go-live activities.
▪ Performing Pre-check activities.
▪ Requirement gathering workshops with clients.
▪ Implementing SAP notes in the system.
▪ Preparing Functional specification document for a new enhancement or report.
▪ Creation of Production versions in the system.
▪ Pre-SUM, Post-SUM activities.
▪ MRP Area SI check error resolution.
6. Lohia Group (August 2018 – January 2019): SAP ECC to S4 1709 Hana Migration
Gaurav has worked on S4 Hana migration projects for leading yarn manufacturer in India. Worked on requirement gathering workshop with clients. Working with SAP and doing pre-check run for the system and rectifying the errors in the configuration and process. Doing end to end run of the process and rectifying the technical errors. Documenting the process run and creating test scripts for the client. Creating mass production version and MRP areas as a pre-migration activity. Deploying the system in production and Go-live activities.
▪ Performing Pre-check activities.
▪ Implementing SAP notes in the system.
▪ Preparing Functional specification document for a new enhancement or report.
▪ Creation of Production versions in the system.
▪ Pre-SUM, Post-SUM activities.
▪ MRP Area SI check error resolution.
▪ Cutover activities like regenerative MRP run post Go-live.

7. India Glycols Limited (October 2018 – February 2019): SAP ECC to S4 1809 Hana Migration
Another S4 migration on which Gaurav has worked on is a leading manufacturer of glycols, ethylates and PEGs, performance chemicals, glycol ethers and acetates, natural gums, and potable alcohol.
The migration was a S4 HANA 1809 version, which is the latest in the market. Preparing test scripts and doing end to end run of the process and rectifying the technical errors. Laying out the impacts of S4 1809 HANA on the current process of the client and resolving the issues which came up in the testing process. Worked with SAP in finding the best practice for the To-Be process of IGL limited. Deploying the system in production and Go-live activities.

8. Lohia Group Plant Rollout (July 2018 – September 2018): PP Plant rollout.
Gaurav has also worked on Rollout of a Plant for leading yarn manufacturer in India.
Collaborating with the client on requirement gathering and performing the Production planning configurations in the system for a plant. Replicating the enhancements and reports for the rollout plant and evaluating the standard and custom reports by running the process end to end. Extensively worked on LSMW to extend the master data to the rollout plant and validating the data.

9. Biotech Healthcare Group, Gujarat (March 2019 – January 2020): SAP PP AMS Support.
He has also worked with a leading Healthcare client based in Western part of India for supporting Production planning activities.
▪ Requirement gathering workshops with clients.
▪ Worked on creation of New T-Code to automate the process of Confirmation, serial number creation, posting MIGO 101 and creating outbound deliveries in one go.
▪ Created a BDC to create production orders.
▪ Created LSMW to delete the components in a BOM using CEWB T-code.
▪ Developed system maintenance and technical descriptions (SMTD), FS documents and known error database (KEDB) documents along with standard operating procedures (SOPs) to train the client on repetitive incidents and reducing the overall count of incidents.
10. Golcha Group (Sep 2018 – Oct 2018): DMS and GOS implementation.
He has also worked with a leading Indian infrastructure client and a talc mining company based in Northern part of India for adopting leading practices in DMS implementation and making them Audit compliant.
▪ Requirement gathering workshops with clients.
▪ Configuring and setting up the content repository.
▪ Moving the documents already on SAP database to content repository thereby considerably reducing the database size for SAP Office data (main DB).
▪ Created a transaction to upload mass pdf attachments to form a Document Information Record (DIR) automatically along with linking these attachments to the objects like accounting documents, purchase order etc.

11. Renew Power (August 2018 – Sep 2018): Document management systems implementation.
He has also worked with an India's largest renewable energy IPP (Independent Power Producer) company based in Northern part of India for adopting leading practices in DMS implementation and making them Audit compliant.
▪ Configuring and setting up the content repository.
▪ Moving the documents already on SAP database to content repository thereby considerably reducing the database size for SAP Office data (main DB).
▪ Put in validations for deletion of documents, wherein either the user who has upload the document or a super user (maintained in a Z table) would be able to delete the document. If there are multiple documents uploaded in a single object, only the super user would be able to delete the document.

12. SOMA Roadis (June 2018 – July 2018): Document management systems implementation.
He has also worked with a leading Indian Highway Assets management client based in Northern part of India for adopting leading practices in DMS implementation and making them Audit compliant.
▪ Configuring and setting up the content repository.
▪ Moving the documents already on SAP database to content repository thereby considerably reducing the database size for SAP Office data (main DB).
▪ Created a transaction to upload mass pdf attachments to form a Document Information Record (DIR) automatically along with linking these attachments to the objects like accounting documents, purchase order etc.

Infoss was a short tenure of 6 months which saw Gaurav in a support role of a global pharmaceutical company based out of Japan.

• Worked on project on assigned tasks of low- medium complexity. Understood configuration/functional design document. Resolution of tickets of low- medium complexity and escalating unresolved issues to senior Consultants.

Starting his career as Project Engineer in Wipro Tech, Gaurav did some shadowing as SAP PP QM consultant and subsequently got consumed in implementing and rolling out plants of leading American manufacturer of household appliances and supporting them.
▪ End to end implementation of Production Planning.
▪ Creation of new T-Codes (e.g.: Upload Planned Independent requirements in system) to putting a validation in MKAL table to alert user while changing the Production version of any material.
▪ Worked on MRP, batch jobs monitoring, back flushing, and repetitive manufacturing profile in repetitive environment.