SUMMARY

• Having 8 years of diverse experience in SAP APO. In particular, Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP) Functionality, Production planning & Detailed scheduling (PP/DS).
• Extensive experience in Demand Planning(DP) including Planning Object Structure, Planning Area, Planning Versions, Realignment, Interactive Planning, Planning Books, Data Views, collaborative Planning, Forecasting Models, Macros, Forecasting Profiles, Life cycle planning, Phase In, Phase out, like Profiles, Selection profiles, Batch Forecasting, Aggregation, Disaggregation, CVCs, Alerts,
• Experience in configuration and implementation of DP Info Cubes using Administrative Workbench, Generating and changing Characteristic Value Combination (CVC’s), Planning books, Planning Areas, macros and creating Statistical Forecast.
• Experience in Supply Chain Planning Concepts and Processes include Designing, Developing, Configuring, Testing, Implementing and supporting all aspects of the Core Interface (CIF), Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP) and Production Planning/Detailed Scheduling (PPDS).
• Experience in Core Interface (CIF) for the purpose of transfer of data from R/3 to APO SNP by carrying out configurations in R/3 system and APO system.
• Expertise in GATP Product availability, Product Allocation and Transportation and Shipment Scheduling.
• Involved in Projects utilizing the SAP R/3Production Planning (PP) module with thorough knowledge of Material requirement planning (MRP), Bill of materials (BOM), Work Centre, and Routings etc.
• APO DP - Forecast Model, Promotion Planning, Life Cycle Planning, Phase Out/Phase In procedure, Planning Area Administration, Alert Monitor, Macro workbench, Characteristic Value Combinations, DP BOMs.
• Confidential Implementations experience in SAP PP and SCM APO PPDS with excellent understanding of project implementations methodologies in various industries including Discrete, Repetitive and process manufacturing.
• APO SNP- VMI scenarios, Subcontracting scenarios, Product Interchangeability, Planning Engines- Heuristics, CTM, Optimizer, Capacity leveling, Deployment setup, TLB run setup, Capacity profiles.
• Maintained Time bucket profiles, Forecast profiles, planning versions, promotional Planning, life cycle management and “Like” Modeling.
• Set-up of Master Data for supply Network Planning and PP/DS planning. Configured SNP planning runs (Heuristics), Core Interface (CIF), Safety Stock Planning, Deployment and Transport Load Builder (TLB).
• Executed SNP runs with SNP Heuristics, Deployment and TLB. Assigned TLB profile to the Transportation lane.
• Dynamic, detail oriented, results provided in the field and accomplishment in configuring and implementing solutions in support of business goals and objectives for Fortune 500 clients.
• Transfer & conversion of orders in APO, carried out simulations and evaluations..
• Experience in performing Legacy System Analysis, Fit/Gap analysis, Business Process Re-engineering, Design and Configuration.
• Evaluated and transferred the planning results in SNP to SAP ECC for execution.
• Highly motivated, proactive with good communication skills and a recognized team player with proven project leadership qualities.
• Good proficiency in business process analysis, gathering business requirements, GAP Analysis, configuration, data migration, testing, go-live and post go-live phase and production support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP SCM Main Modules: : APO DP, SNP, PPDS, GATP and BW

Operating Systems: : Windows 95, XP & NT .UNIX, Windows 7.

Data Base: : Oracle, Microsoft Access, and Sybase.

Project: : MS Project, Primavera & Vision.

Methodologies: : ASAP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, OH

SAP APO SNP/GATP and PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing and documenting the AS-IS business process and finalizing the To-Be conditions.
• Gathered the requirements from users, analyzed them and prepared functional specifications for implementing the same.
• Involved in configuring the make- to- stock strategy, defining requirements type and allocating the requirements class.
• Create new generic items with complete rule sets, using either configuration information or table based validation information.
• Support the product engineering team in Bill of Material (BOM) creation using variant configuration in SAP ECC.
• Performed configuration starting from baseline configuration to configuration of Material Master, BOM, Resources, Master Recipes, and MRP.
• Configured detail design process for planning functions like SOP, Demand Management and MRP using implementation guide (IMG).
• Defined capacity requirements for resources by using standard values and formula constants. Responsible for the configuration of order types, scheduling parameters, production scheduling profile and lot sizing procedures.
• Defined capacity requirements for resources by using standard values and formula constants.
• Responsible for the configuration of order types, scheduling parameters, production scheduling profile and lot sizing procedures.
• Created planning areas, planning books with necessary macros to carry out the mid to long term supply planning.
• Involved in integration with QM in assigning inspection types to material master based on in process inspection or Post Process inspection.
• Configured Master Recipes with a Quality Inspection Characteristics and configured the inspection plan.
• Creation of master data like PDS, PPM, Transportation lane, Location, Product required for the scenario.
• Designed & Developed enhancements in the display of BOP results.
• Defined Planning Books, Data Views and Macros for interactive planning to perform calculations, creation and assigning of Alert Profiles in SNP.
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC and APO.
• Setting up of the Master data for SNP and creation of Simulation versions for business verification process.
• S&OP reports that are used by Supply Planning, which often includes the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and the Days of Inventory on Hand report (DIOH)
• Defined Planning Books, Data Views and Macros for interactive planning to perform calculations, creation and assigning of Alert Profiles in SNP.
• Set up the supply chain model, locations, products, resources, PPM’s, transportation lanes and quota arrangements.
• Designed & Developed enhancements in ATP categories and Business Events.
• Configured Master Planning Object Structures, Configured Planning Areas, Designed Planning books and Data Views for Product Allocations in GATP.
• Designed & Developed enhancements of field catalogs for Product Allocations and Rules Based ATP.
• Testing of Backorder Processing, Product Allocations and Rules-based ATP check by creating scenarios using sales orders in R/3.
• Configure GATP for Product allocations and ATP checks. Maintenance of related master data and setup of CIF Integration models.
• Prepared test scripts, completed user acceptance and integration testing Responsible for SAP SD/MM configuration.
• Responsible for SAP PP/MM configuration including data migration and system integration.
• Configured SAP SD/MM module and tested changes to ensure functionality met the requested requirements.
• Ensuring data continuity and quality between APO and R3 using the by resolving the errors identified during the Consistency Checks and rectified it.
• PP/DS - Detailed Procurement Planning and Customized DS Board, Product Planning Table. PPDS Heuristics/Optimizer for bottom-up scheduling merges heuristics, scheduling heuristic.
• Change Management: Bill of Material Items and Routing Operations Use Delta Download for Bills of Material and Routing for changes to existing BOMs.
• SAP TAO 2.0 -Build and deploy test automation frameworks, built business components for business process testing.
• Test scenarios were created to support the business requirements based on the customer’s priorities.
• Developed User training documents and conducted Knowledge Transfer.

SAP Versions: ECC 5.0, SCM APO 7.1, BI 7.0

Confidential, MN

SAP APO SNP and GATP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation and Go-Live and support.
• To have a mutual understanding with business and get design sign off from business to start implementing the demand planning module as per the blueprint
• Involved in delivering the base line configuration of Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning and CIF modules of SAP SCM APO to the client.
• Prepared and presented the GATP and SNP system design to business group and cross functional IT groups of Marine, WTC and Motorsport business for sign off.
• Configured initial setup of RFC for ECC, APO and BW.
• Configure GATP for Product allocations and ATP checks. Maintenance of related master data and setup of CIF Integration models.
• Configured Receipt recreation proposal for regenerating Stock Transfers.
• Configured Transport and Shipment Scheduling for Implementing Transport and Pick Time using Scheduling Using Condition Technique.
• Configured BOP to reschedule the orders with partial confirmation, without confirmation and multiple BOP runs.
• Configured Parallelizing BOP, and activated Parallelizing BOP in the work list to reduce the overall BOP runtime.
• Monitoring and reducing errors in Purchase Orders, Purchase Order Changes and Receipts.
• Completed an interface from CCS to an Outage Analysis system using custom IDOCs.
• Developed user exits for CCS Budget Billing.
• Converted legacy Streetlight data into SAP Functional locations and Equipment records.
• Configured ATP group, Check mode, Checking Instructions and enabled ATP check.
• Worked on resolving the Post Go live issues for GATP, SNP CTM, SNP heuristics and CIF.
• Worked extensively with user exits for GATP and CTM.
• Designed business scenarios test scripts for SAP APO quality testing.
• Created various CTM profiles while using CTM as a solver for modeling supply chain
• Worked on Demand Prioritization, Supply Categorization, Search Strategy, Master Data Selection, Order Selection and CTM Time Stream.
• Configured CTM using Rules and Transportation Lane Prioritization.
• Maintained the necessary master data for planning the supply chain like product master, location master, transportation lanes, quota arrangements.
• Configuration in DP involves configuring planning object structures, planning areas, generating CVC’s, storage bucket profile, univariate forecast profiles, interactive planning
• Involved in loading the historical sales data from R/3 to BI and from BW to APO DP
• Worked on Life cycle modeling for certain models using like modeling, Phase-in/phase out profiles provided by APO DP.
• Used mass processing for the release of demand plan from DP to SNP
• Defined Planning Books, Data Views and Macros for interactive planning to perform calculations, creation and assigning of Alert Profiles in SNP.
• Analyzed the AS-IS condition of the business process by attending knowledge transfer interactive sessions, self-training documents, and process workshops and carried out the TO-BE and GAP analysis, business process re-engineering and configuration.
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC and APO.
• Set up Release of Demand Plan to Supply Network Planning (SNP).
• Setting up of the Master data for SNP and creation of Simulation versions for business verification process.
• Worked closely with business users in supporting the APO SNP and GATP system and also Customizations.
• Troubleshooting configuration issues in GATP and its integration with R/3.
• Configured GATP Settings - Maintained check instructions and check control.
• Configured Rules Based ATP Check settings - maintained check instructions, check control, field catalog, created condition table, access sequence, condition type and rule strategy.
• Configured backorder processing settings - defined filter type, sort profile, assigned rules strategy etc.

SAP Versions: ECC 5.0, SCM APO 7.1, BI 7.0

Confidential, IL

SAP APO DP, SNP and PPDS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Blueprints, Realization, Final Preparation, Cutover and Post Implementation.
• Involved in the configuration of Planning Areas, Characteristic Value Combinations (CVCs) and Master Data. Created Time Series
• Objects, Storage Bucket profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets.
• Monitor process chain daily and see to it that the CVC’s are created properly.
• Analyzed customer demand and configured appropriate key figure values for forecasting.
• Live cache consistency check for DP and SNP planning area.
• Understanding the entire Supply Chain Configuration currently implemented in the SAP SCM Environment and suggesting changes in business process / Master Data / Batch Jobs.
• Improved forecasting by selecting most appropriate models and the best Statistical parameters for Univariate forecasting.
• Maintained and modified Proportional factors, disaggregation types and Macros.
• Improved DP Batch processes by designing Process chains and parallel processing profile.
• Master data and Corrected Master Data related issues for - Product, Location, Transportation Lanes, Means of Transports, and PPM.
• Configured CTM planning functionality, Set up CTM profile, Master data selection in CTM, Demand Prioritization using custom logic, conducted UAT for Demand prioritization, Set up the search strategy and Supply categorization processes, and analyzed the results of the CTM planning.
• Planning parameters settings, Defined Alert profile, Maintained strategy profile, Maintained time profile, Maintained optimization profile and Defined propagation range.
• Debugged CIF related issues, Worked on CIF Error handling, and CIF Post processing, CIF reconciliation and Delta Reports, Well versed with Error Handling and CIF transactions.
• Created new selections for the planning books associated to the existing Planning Area.
• Coordinated meetings with Business and Materials team for requirements gathering related to Process enhancements.
• Led collaborative initiative to provide training to buyers/materials team.
• Involved in the creation of Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristic combination master data and
• Time Series Objects, Storage Bucket Profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly and weekly buckets.
• Developed a custom ABAP system for Utility budget billing..
• Set up SNP Master Profile and configured SNP Master Data Locations, Product Masters, Resources and Production Process Model.
• Worked on SNP heuristic PR generation from the first half to last half of the month.
• Heuristic Based Planning, Capacity Leveling using BADI, Deployment, TLB, Safety Stock Planning and VMI.
• Worked on the configuration of the Planning Object Structure and Planning Area.
• Forecasting was done keeping the constant, seasonal and sporadic nature of the demand.
• Created a Supply Chain Model to represent the Supply Chain Network with all relevant locations, resources and relationships (Transportation Lanes).
• Knowledge of basic ABAP Debugging, iDocs, LSMW, Badi’s.
• Maintained PP/DS heuristics, product planning table configuration and user exists.
• Configured PPM/PDS explosion and scheduling, firming, pegging, setup times, converting planned orders into PP/DS orders, exception groups in the PP/DS planning log, product view.
• In MMP you can define restrictions for characteristic values, combinations of characteristic values, for product numbers as well as for fields in the product master. Here, you usually refer to the availability of machines, work or materials.

SAP Version: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

SAP APO DP and SNP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, and Go-Live and Support.
• Involved in the creation of Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Areas, Characteristic Value Combinations, Master Data and Time Series Objects, Storage Bucket Profile and Planning Bucket
• Understood the Business process as a part of knowledge transfer and mapped the structure if the company for planning purposes in DP and SNP.
• Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets.
• Developed Transfer Rules and Update Rules for ODS and Info Cubes.
• Created Proportional Factors, Disaggregation using Pro Data and proportional factors.
• Defined Macros to perform calculations to carry out tests and to create alerts.
• Maintained CIF integration models for Master Data and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO.
• Set up SNP Master Profile and configured SNP Master Data Locations, Product Masters, Resources and Production Process Models (PPM).
• Analyzed system logs, ABAP dumps, Table lock, and Update errors.
• Created Supply Chain Model to represent the supply chain network with all relevant locations (suppliers, distribution centers and customers), resources (storage, handling and supply capabilities) and relationships (Transportation Lanes).
• Performed SNP runs using SNP Optimizer and maintained quota arrangements in SCE for the use of SNP Heuristics and creation of Optimizer Profile and Cost Profile.
• Set up deployment Heuristic and created the Deployment Optimization Profile.
• Created and assigned the TLB profile to the Transportation Lane.
• Set up release of demand plan to supply network planning (SNP)
• Setting up the master data for SNP and creation of simulation versions for business verification process.

SAP Version: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Confidential

SAP SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Functional Inputs.
• Development of Technical specification documents for the developments assigned.
• Object development and review of the development requests assigned.
• Coding and creation of Unit Test plans for the objects developed.
• Ensuring a high quality solution for all the delivered objects to the client within the Schedule.
• Coding as per company coding standards.
• Configured the APO system: Planning Areas, Planning Books, Data views, Macros, Time Bucket Profiles
• Worked extensively on Planning Area back up strategy (extraction to BI from PA) and production cutover, adding/deleting/replacing key figures in
• Planning Areas, realignment, alert monitor, factory calendars, time stream id, set up of background jobs
• Carried out CIF design changes by creating integration models for master data and transaction data
• Created test scripts for facilitating the users doing UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
• Created new selections for the planning books associated to the existing Planning Area.
• Handled the weekly Transports to production system of whole APO team.

SAP Versions: SAP R/3 4.6 C