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Naga Venkata Harish Chitikela

Arlington Heights,IL

Summary

Attentive and goal-oriented professional with over 6 years of functional experience in the field of SAP PM (Plant Maintenance) which includes project analysis, customization, and implementation brings successful approach to cultivating complex best practices to meet organizational and regulatory expectations. Detail-oriented focus on achieving expected outcomes. Enthusiastic hard worker with expertise in cultivating lucrative client relationships and implementing better processes and procedures.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

SAP Functional Consultant (Plant Maintenance)

SISMOS Solutions INC
06.2021 - Current

Client: Fresenius Kabi USA, Lake Zurich, IL

Nature of Project: Implementation

  • Responsible for implementing the SAP Plant Maintenance and Service Management.
  • · Configured Functional Location structure, Equipment, Maintenance Notifications, Maintenance Orders, Maintenance Order Completion, Number ranges, Screen layouts, Code groups, Catalog profiles and User Status.
  • · Breakdown Maintenance – performed configuration for processing malfunction report, maintenance request and activity reports in Maintenance Notification and configured Maintenance Order processes from creation to settlement.
  • · Default operations in the work order to perform the maintenance and add the work hours.
  • · Defined shop papers, forms and output programs for effective processing of maintenance and service orders.
  • · Preventive Maintenance – created strategy-based maintenance plans and multiple counter plans for various equipment within the plant to ensure optimal functionality.
  • · Gathering business requirements, providing conceptual and detailed design to meet business needs, perform necessary configurations.
  • · Understand the business process as a part of knowledge transfer and maintaining the SOP process using good documentation practice, performing enhancements in SAP PM modules.
  • · Responsible to preparing functional specifications and coordinate with the technical team.
  • · Work extensively to create SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) master data objects, maintenance notifications, work orders, and preventive maintenance plans. Perform PM configuration to set up PM-related objects for new plants.
  • · Prepare and extract the Function location, Equipment, Materials Spare Parts, BOMs and Maintenance plans in the excel format to perform the data loading using the LSMW in SAP.
  • · Test the security roles according to the business roles and work with SAP Security team to get bugs fixed.
  • · Coordinate with SAP project team for integration requirements and work with cross-functional teams to integrate with SAP PM-QM, SAP PM-PP, SAP PM-MM.
  • · Perform the unit testing, document the test scripts, follow the change management process and provide UAT support. Document test results for fixes and changes to ensure the application is meeting the technical requirements.
  • · Resolve the SAP Plant Maintenance and Service Management issues and train the end-user wherever required.

SAP Functional Analyst

Sequent Global Technologies Inc
01.2021 - 06.2021

Client: Toyota Material Handling, Columbus, IN.

Nature of Project: Implementation

  • Responsible for implementing the SAP Plant Maintenance and Quality Management.
  • ·Create SAP PM master data, equipment, material, task lists, measuring points, MICs, class and characteristics.
  • Configured the notification catalogs and code groups. Configure the work order-related assignments in the golden client.
  • Prepare functional specification documentation to fill the GAPs that are captured as notification screens enhancements.
  • Support the UI5 team on portal development for Plant Maintenance and Quality management notification screens.
  • Worked on non-conforming material reports and warranty evaluation reports process.
  • Perform the unit testing, performance testing and support the end-user during user testing.
  • Prepare the documentation and train the end-users on SAP PM and QM.

Production Support Engineer

Fluxtek Solutions INC
06.2018 - 12.2020

Client: Phillips 66, Bartlesville, OK

Nature of Project: Production Support

  • Responsible for the Production Support of SAP PM, DMS, and MM Modules.
  • Resolve the L2 & L3 tickets and update them using Service Now tool.
  • Handle the change management in Service Now.
  • Understand the P66 business process of breakdown, corrective and preventive maintenance process.
  • Create Maintenance plans and scheduling in SAP PM from the request of the end-user.
  • Resolve the day-to-day IP10 job failures and fix the errors.
  • PM Data Management and uploading using WINSHUTTEL tool.
  • Configuring the New Plants, Storage Locations, Shipping Point and Creating Customer Master, Creating Stock Transport Orders.
  • Using MM tables T001L, T001W, T001K, T161W and PM Tables EQUI, IFLOS, MPLA, QMEL, AFIH and a few custom tables.
  • Create and changing documents in DMS and fixing the errors by coordinating with local server teams.
  • Work on Functional locations and equipment creation and deletion issues.
  • End-User training in SAP PM, DMS modules.
  • Take care of Master Data mass upload through LSMW.


Client: PetSmart, Phoenix, AZ

Nature of Project: Optimization and Project Support


  • Responsible for optimizing the current SAP PM system and Supporting the Company code realignment project.
  • Configure new Notification types, Order types, and related assignments to plants & settlement parameters.
  • Defining User Status for Lock the order, Audit Pass and Audit Fail with required business transactions and assign access to roles with the help of security.
  • Enhancement – Defaulting the Actual Duration Unit field in confirmation.
  • Coordinating with FICO team for new Valuation classes, G/L accounts assignments, and activations.
  • Create new Equipment and BOMs attached to it.
  • Clean the Notification and Order Screens using configuration and coordinating with ABAPer for enhancement.
  • Default the Control Key for external service order type.
  • Supporting the end-user and explaining the Breakdown & Damage analysis report and cost analysis importance.
  • Creating new Variants for standard SAP PM order reports IW38 and simplifying the maintenance plan report IP19.
  • Involved in the Integration Testing to execute all the PM-related TCode and End to End testing of all processes.
  • Analysis of CCR impact on asset number breaking down for equipment to check the cost flow in the settlement.
  • Preparing the functional specification & configuration specification document and End User training document.


Client: BNSF, Fort Worth, TX

Nature of Project: Production Support

  • Responsible for the Production Support of MAM and EAM Modules in SAP.
  • Involved in Scrum meetings and acted as a scribe for MAM & EAM activities.
  • Resolve the L2 & L3 tickets and updating them using the Remedy tool.
  • Use Enhancement – Task list is created in SAP when the tasks are defined in MEMS.
  • Use Enhancement – Notification is created in SAP when the Issue is defined in MEMS and Revision is updated.
  • Worked on Maintenance Strategies, Maintenance Task Lists, Time-based Maintenance Plans, Scheduling, and Revisions.
  • Designed and configured the Fiori applications, supported the development team with the TCode for customizing and changes required.
  • Used SAP Works Manager mobile application to manage maintenance work orders, notifications.
  • Fix the bugs between legacy interface (MEMS & LINE) and SAP.
  • Conduct the Offshore meetings for knowledge transfer.


Client: NOVOLEX, Florence, KY

Nature of Project: Full Life Cycle Implementation


  • Responsible for Full Cycle Implementation of SAP PM module.
  • Involved in distinct phases such as business requirement collection, project analysis, process design, blueprint, configuration, testing, data conversion, user training.
  • Configured Functional Location structure, Equipment, Maintenance Notifications, Maintenance Orders, Maintenance Order Completion, Number ranges, Screen layouts, Control keys, Class & Characteristics, Code groups, Catalog profiles, User Status, Non-stock items, Movement Types, Serialization, User exits, Reports.
  • Design and configured the Fiori apps, support the development team with the TCode for customizing and changes required.
  • Defined Maintenance Strategies, Maintenance Task Lists, Time-based Maintenance Plans, Scheduling and Deadline Monitoring.
  • Refurbishment of repairable spares, Processing of external services, Calibration Order process, Work Clearance Management, Warranty tracking, Asset Management.
  • Created object link between equipment and defined an object network to see the connection between equipment and to recognize probable causes when analyzing malfunctions.
  • Breakdown Maintenance – performed configuration for processing malfunction report, maintenance request and activity reports in Maintenance Notification and configured Maintenance Order processes from creation to settlement.
  • Defined shop papers, forms and output programs for effective processing of maintenance and service orders.
  • Preventive Maintenance – created strategy-based maintenance plans for various equipment within the plant to ensure optimal functionality.
  • Refurbishment Processing – implemented refurbishment processing for faulty equipment and materials and repairable spares within the plant and maintained Settlement profile for refurbishment order types.
  • Designed and presented the MRO materials subcontracting process.
  • Created functional design specification for RICEFW objects to show cost order reports in SAP PM.
  • Creating process flows in BPMN using solution manager and updating documents in solution manager.
  • Performed Unit testing and Integration testing, and set up the test data, test scenarios and test scripts for expected results.
  • Created documentation for end users, conducted SAP Plant Maintenance training and provided post implementation support.
  • Identify the cutover activities and update the production system with all the PM Master Data using LSMW.
  • Coordinated with ABAP team to update Shop Floor Papers for the features needed to create as according to the user defined.

Education

Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Lamar University
Beaumont, TX
12.2017

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

JNTU Kakinada
INDIA
04.2011

Skills

SAP ERP : SAP R/3 46C / 47 / ECC 60/S4 HANA

SAP Modules : PM, QM, MM

SAP related Tools : SAP Solution Manager, Fiori Apps

Operating Systems: : Windows XP/Vista, Windows 7 & 10, Mac OS X

Databases: : MS Access

Microsoft Office: : Word, Excel, Power point, Visio, Project

Accomplishments

Successfully Implemented Two Full Life-Cycle implementation projects in SAP Plant Maintenance in ECC 6.0/S4 HANA using both Agile and waterfall methodologies.

Additional Information

· Experienced in all aspects of project work: Design, Configuration, Unit testing, and Integration testing, Documentation, Data cleansing, Migration, End-user support and training, preparation of Functional design for technical objects.

· Provided Go-Live and Post-Go-Live support and Production support.

· Hands-on experience in gathering Business requirements, GAP analysis. In-depth Knowledge of ASAP implementation methodology along with Solution Manager.

· Inventory Management: Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Stock Transfers, Reservations, Consignment, Physical Inventory, Movement Type Configuration, Messages, Procure to Pay.

· PM Module/EAM Function location structure, Equipment management, Maintenance notification, Maintenance orders, Maintenance order completion, Maintenance assemblies, Number ranges, Screen layouts, Control Keys, Measuring Points and Counters, Characteristics, Code groups, Catalog profiles, User status, Non-stock items, Movement types, Serialization, User exits, Reports. Maintenance Strategies, Maintenance task lists, Time-based and Performance-based maintenance plans, Split-level Maintenance plans, Scheduling, and deadline monitoring.

· QM Module - Version control for Master Inspection characteristics and Inspection method, Plant level sampling procedure, Catalog Codes, notifications, create quality plan, quality inspection and Maintain Quality Master Data.

· MM Module - Material master, Purchase requisitions, Purchase orders, Stock transport order, Purchasing groups, Info records, Vendor, Source list, Movement types (GR, GI, Transfer posting), Goods movement of Handling units, Stock determination, Physical inventory, and Plant parameters.

· Cross-functional experience in supporting integration of PM with other modules such as PM-MM, PM-PP and PM-QM.

· Mapping of Business Process- Preventive Corrective, Breakdown, Predictive Maintenance, Refurbishment using SAP PM.

· Working knowledge on SAP Work Manager with identify, plan, dispatch, execute and close the work orders.

· Expertise in Data Migration & Interfacing: LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench), BDC (Batch Data Communication), Conceptual knowledge of IDOC (Intermediate Document) and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange).

· Experience in project Go–live stabilization support including issue resolution and user training.

· Good at Communicating the ongoing changes and results with customer by maintaining daily Test log. Experienced in Integration, Functional, Regression, User Acceptance Testing, Performance and End-To-End Testing.

Languages

English
Full Professional
Telugu
Full Professional

Timeline

SAP Functional Consultant (Plant Maintenance)

SISMOS Solutions INC
06.2021 - Current

SAP Functional Analyst

Sequent Global Technologies Inc
01.2021 - 06.2021

Production Support Engineer

Fluxtek Solutions INC
06.2018 - 12.2020

Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Lamar University

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

JNTU Kakinada
Naga Venkata Harish Chitikela