Saravanan M
Chennai,Tamil Nadu
Summary
Data management professional with 11.5 years of experience in Catalog management, Bill of Material, Variant configuration, Data migration activity, Master data Management,Engineering Change Management. Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Passionate about delivering value to customers and stakeholders through data-driven solutions and innovations.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
SME Product Data Management
Philips Global Business Services LLP
Chennai
01.2022 - Current
- Creation and Maintenance of Catalog models for Ultrasound business across different CPQ applications - Siebel, EPAL (Sofon), eDMR (Apptus).
- Assisting the Product Manager in the configuration changes and providing solutions.
- Creation and Maintenance of Configurable Bill of material, Variant Configuration - Class, Characteristics, Variant Table, Configuration profile.
- Updating CBOM and lower level BOM and flipping Alternate/Primary material as per BOM Change Sheet.
- Worked along with automation team and automated the BOM update (Add/Delete materials,Qty update,OD update) and Variant configuration update(Class creation, rule conversion,OD creation and add OD) using RPA bot. This reduces manual effort,TAT and increased output quality.
- Supported in the implementation of Power BI dashboard and streamlined requests using the Service-now application for our process
- Leading the collaboration meeting with the pricing officers, factory order management, product managers, engineering & marketing team to ensure upcoming changes in the product are communicated well before the product releases.
- Assisting sales order queries and Incidents raised by the market/Order management team providing solutions and fixing configuration issues
- Analyzing and finding solutions for IDOC errors and fixing the issue in SAP
- Managing partner resource, work allocation, input tracking, leave management.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to discuss input/quality issues, escalations, and troubleshooting incidents
- Updating Work instruction documents for any new process and process changes
Lead PDM Engineer
HCL Technologies
Chennai
02.2018 - 12.2021
- Company Overview: Client: Vestas R&D
- Migrating Bill of Materials (BOM) from Infor XA ERP to SAP ERP through Windchill PDM tool
- Creating and updating Master data in SAP using MM01
- Creating Materials in PDM tool, Validating Material Master Data and Bill of materials
- Maintaining material description as per Vestas Material nomenclature
- Structuring BOM without affecting CAD visualization and linking SAP DMS Document
- Creating Change Notice (ECO) with reference to Change Request (ECR) and execute the BOM changes based on the changes mentioned in the Change Request
- Verifying and studying CAD drawing model using Creo lite tool and assigning HS code, spend class, UNSPSC code for a material, and workflow validation in SAP
- Generating various reports from Windchill PDM tool and generating reports from SAP using SQ00
- Identifying and updating Spare parts and LRU in the BOM structure
- Validating SAP BOM using CS03 with Windchill PDM tool BOM as one of the quality control to ensure release of BOM with 100% accuracy
- Weekly meeting with customer, projecting status update and discussing queries
- Have trained new hires in PDM process and effectively managed process documents
PDM Engineer
Flex Ltd
Chennai
09.2013 - 02.2018
- Client: Dyson, Honeywell, Juniper Networks
- Worked in Flextronics GBS for 4.5 years as manufacturing product data management Engineer
- Creating Materials, Manufacture part Number, Documents, Bill of Materials in Oracle Agile PLM tool
- Processing Engineering Change Orders (ECO) which includes Material update, BOM update, Manufacturing Change Orders (MCO) to update Supplier for a material, Sustaining changes, Temporary Deviations, Structuring new Bill of Materials in Agile PDM tool
- Took initiative in finding the solution for repeated issues and shared the knowledge to the team
- Done internal and external Kaizen workshop and successfully reduced the process cycle time
- Actively worked with CFT team for data migration activity from agile PLM 9.2 version to Agile PLM 9.3 Version
- Analyzing and identifying the engineering changes and implementing it successfully and coordinate with site Process/Product Engineering team
- Checking inventory for parts to be obsolete and replacing with suitable alternate parts through PDM tool
- Working closely with NPI team to review product updates and implementing
- Conduct Change Control Board (CCB) review meeting in cases involving critical changes especially for products under production
- Technical Support to factory users in terms of issues related to materials or BOM.
- Interaction with customer and process engineering team to ensure release of BOM with 100% accuracy
- Creating and updating SOP, FMEA, Process Flow, Gemba time study for change management process
- Trained new and existing team members on an ongoing basis on relevant tools or topics
Education
B.E - Electronics and instrumentation engineering
SRM Valliammai Engineering College
Chennai 01.2009 - 01.2013
Higher secondary -
RVMHS School
Villupuram 01.2008 - 01.2009
SSLC -
RVMHS School
Villupuram 01.2006 - 01.2007
Skills
- Catalogue Management
- Product Configuration
- Variant Configuration
- Bill of Material (BOM)
- Product Data Management (PDM)
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- Product Life Cycle Management (PLM)
- Engineering Change Management (ECM)
- PLM tools - Oracle Agile, Windchill, Enovia
- ERP - BAAN, SAP
- Configure Price Quote (CPQ) - Siebel, Conga, Sofon
Career Achievements
- Onsite working experience for Juniper Networks client, Penang.
- Received 'Pat on the back' award for continuous improvement in process.
- Received awards twice for reducing cycle time in the process.
- Received 'Platinum award and team award' for flawless execution of process.
- Have received 'Spot award' for 100% FTR with short lead time.
Accomplishments
· Onsite working experience for Juniper Networks client, Penang.
· Received "Pat on the back" award for continuous improvement in process
· Received awards twice for reducing cycle time in the process.
· Received “Platinum award and team award” for flawless execution of process.
· Have received “Spot award” for 100% FTR with short lead time.
Timeline
SME Product Data Management
Philips Global Business Services LLP
01.2022 - Current
Lead PDM Engineer
HCL Technologies
02.2018 - 12.2021
PDM Engineer
Flex Ltd
09.2013 - 02.2018
B.E - Electronics and instrumentation engineering
SRM Valliammai Engineering College
01.2009 - 01.2013
Higher secondary -
RVMHS School
01.2008 - 01.2009
SSLC -
RVMHS School
01.2006 - 01.2007
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