SUMMARY:

• Mr. Chaitanya is a senior SAP Functional Consultant with over 15 years of business and IT experience in business analysis, supply chain management and IT projects. He has extensive experience in business process development, manufacturing, procurement; contracts, operation, IT consultancy and business analysis. Mr. Chaitanya has a total of 11 years of SAP experience in APO, MM and PP modules. He is a subject matter expert and worked as a Team Lead in Materials Management, Production Planning, Supply Network Planning with credits in the chemical, consumer packaged goods (CPG), oil and gas, and hi - tech industries. He has extensive experience providing consulting services to SAP APO and SAP R/3 customers . He has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and business experience in Energy Utilities and SAP experience in Oil and Gas, Chemical, consumer and paper industries. He has implemented and has good understanding of PP, MM and SD modules of SAP R/3 and their integration with APO module. He is a team player with strong process and project management skills. He himself worked as a supply chain manager in an Energy company before becoming a SAP consultant.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Chaitanya has excellent knowledge of DP, Confidential, Supply Network Planning (Heuristic, CTM and SNP Optimization), deployment (Heuristic, optimizer), TLB and vendor subcontracting and TPVS. He has good hands-on experience with SAP APO versions 3.0, 4.0 and 4.1 and 5.0. He has good knowledge of other modules of supply chain including forecasting, production planning and scheduling (PP/DS) and GATP. He also has excellent knowledge of R/3 MM, PP and SD.
• He has implemented all aspects of the project, from blue printing, requirements definition to configuration, testing and documentation.
• He has also participated in pre sales activities and prepared business proposals, RFPs and post commissioning benefits analysis.
• He has coordinated the activities of teams consisting of project manager, operations manager, field engineers and technical support personnel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior APO Confidential consultant

Confidential, MN

• Worked on SCM version 5.0 in Confidential modules
• Blue printing based on Confidential requirements of Confidential
• Configuration of Confidential module and its integration with ECC and SNP
• Set up of master data for both SNP and Confidential
• Worked on master data in ECC BOMs, Work Centers, Routings, Production etc
• Worked on Master data for Confidential including all settings for Confidential viz products, locations, Set up matrices, Production data structures etc.
• Worked extensively on CIF integration and CIF issues for transfer of master and transactional data
• Worked on Confidential Heuristics and Optimizer
• Detailed scheduling and order sequencing based on order priority.
• Confidential heuristics included Schedule Sequence based on order priority, Stable forward scheduling and bottom up heuristics
• Worked extensively on Confidential MRP and detailed scheduling heuristics and detailed scheduling board.
• Setting up of batch jobs and Process chains for Production Planning run.
• Worked on detailed scheduling profiles and alert profiles.
• Extensive testing of the functionality and training of users.
• Training and documentation

Senior APO SNP/ Confidential consultant

Confidential

• Worked on SCM version 5.0 in SNP and Confidential modules
• Configuration of SNP and Confidential modules
• Set up of master data for both SNP and Confidential
• Worked on master data in ECC BOMs, Work Centers, Routings, Production etc
• Worked on Master data for SNP and Confidential including all settings for SNP and Confidential viz products, locations, Set up matrices, Production data structures etc.
• Worked extensively on CIF integration and CIF issues for transfer of master and transactional data
• Worked on Confidential block Planning and Block Planning Enhancements.
• Detailed scheduling and order sequencing based on order priority.
• Worked extensively on Confidential MRP and detailed scheduling heuristics and detailed scheduling board.
• Worked on detailed scheduling profiles and alert profiles.
• Extensive testing of the functionality and training of users.
• Training and documentation

Senior APO consultant

Confidential

• Working on APO DP and SNP CTM Modules
• Configuration of DP and SNP CTM modules
• Set up of master data for both DP and SNP.
• Reports on DP and SNP modules both ABAP reports and BW reports
• Working on Master data for SNP and DP including all settings for SNP Optimizer including all profiles, cost settings, and DP viz CVCs, products, locations, Production data structures etc.
• Working extensively on CIF integration and CIF issues for transfer of master and transactional data
• Extensive testing of the functionality and training of users.
• Training and documentation

Senior APO SNP/ Confidential consultant

Confidential

• Worked on SCM version 5.0 in SNP and Confidential modules
• Configuration of SNP and Confidential modules
• Set up of master data for both SNP and Confidential
• Worked on master data in ECC BOMs, Work Centers, Master Recipes, Production etc
• Worked on Master data for SNP and Confidential including all settings for SNP and Confidential viz products, locations, Set up matrices, Production data structures etc.
• Worked extensively on CIF integration and CIF issues for transfer of master and transactional data
• Worked extensively on Confidential MRP and detailed scheduling heuristics and detailed scheduling board.
• Worked on detailed scheduling profiles and alert profiles.
• Extensive testing of the functionality and training of users.
• Training and documentation

Senior SAP APO Lead consultant

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

• Worked on in DP, SNP( CTM) and Confidential areas
• Gathered business requirements and solution design.
• Configuration of DP, SNP and Confidential
• Configuring statistical forecast models, model selection, statistical forecasting, forecast error analysis etc. in Demand Planning.
• Worked on shelf life planning in ECC and APO
• Working on DP,SNP CTM and Confidential
• Master data settings for DP, SNP CTM and Confidential .
• Worked on Block Planning and campaign Planning in Confidential
• Support for existing APO in DP and SNP areas.
• Training and documentation

Senior SAP APO Lead consultant

Confidential - Richmond, Virginia

• Working on SCM version 5.0 and SCM 2007 in SNP and Confidential areas
• Configuration of SNP and Confidential
• Working on SNP Optimizer and Confidential Block Planning
• Vendor managed inventory in SNP
• Master data settings for Optimizer and Confidential block Planning.
• Creation of Blocks using Optimizer and downloading the same in to Confidential using the latest feature available in SCM 2007.
• Extensive testing of the functionality
• Training and documentation

Confidential

Senior APO/Supply Chain Lead Consultant

• Chaitanya verified the APO deployment design from Shell central team.
• Chaitanya wrote the specifications and managed various custom development activities such as
• Standard deployment does not consider minimum lot size requirements. He helped develop a solution such that deployment will respect all lot size constraints
• Standard TLB does not respect minimum lot sizes while building the deployment load. He helped develop a solution that will make TLB respect all lot size constraints.
• Standard TLB algorithm was mixing products on the truck. He helped develop the solution that will first build as many full truck loads as possible before mixing the products.
• For bulk products deployment, there is constraint on number of compartments on the truck. He helped develop solution that will force TLB to build loads only with less than certain number of products.
• He helped develop the solution so that deployment and TLB considers part of the safety stock as available for deployment.
• He is involved in all the rollouts of the developed solution to various plants and DCs.
• He is also involved in all the pre go-live testing and cutover deployment activities.