PROFILE & PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Supply Chain Management consultant with 14 years of Industry/ Software experience and more than 12 years of SAP experience in SAP IBP & SCM Modules.
• Experience on both SAP APO & SAP IBP - Integration Business Planning 5.0 on S&OP/S&OP on Demand & Supply & Control Tower & APO DP /SNP /PPDS Modules.
• More than 2 years of Experience on SAP IBP & HCI - Integration Business Planning 5.0 & Hana Cloud Integration for S&OP/S&OP on Demand & Supply & Control Tower.
• Expert on S&OP Processes in a CPG Company for Demand & Supply Balancing with Financial Constraints.
• Have worked extensively in SAP APO (now SAP SCM), DP Module with respect to SNP, ECC modules and extensive usage of CIF with deep knowledge on SAP SCM APO DP side, also working as a technical expert on the SNP, Vendor Managed Inventory Modules & Supply Network Collaboration - both Customer collaboration & Supplier Collaboration with Multiple End to End Implementations with Clients from varied industries & backgrounds.
• Good knowledge of supply chain processes, and could implement it at system level and in all phases of implementation to the client/business requirement and utmost satisfaction.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a global team made up of consultants from SAP and other consulting firms and clients from various business disciplines and backgrounds.
• Has excellent Techno-Functional leader / PM experience in managing different kind of complex SAP projects in areas of SAP SCM APO - Demand planning / VMI / SNC
• Experience on SAP IBP - Integration Business Planning 5.0 on S&OP/S&OP on Demand & Supply & Control Tower.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a global team made up of consultants from
• SAP and other consulting firms and clients from various business disciplines and backgrounds.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP IBP & APO TEAM LEAD & MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• 3rd Party Vendor Integration for APO - DP, SNP & PPDS & CIF for IBM (3rd Party Contract Management)
• Lead Business Process & Technical Solutions to defects on DP, SNP & PPDS Defects & co-ordinate for production planning defects for FUT, FTT, OQ, E2E Testing, Cutover & Go Live for 2 EU Countries CZ & UK with PP, MM, LOG Confidential team.
• Lead Design sessions for enhancement defects for DP with the Business & 3rd Party Contracting & Coordinate design session for SNP & PPDS with third party & the business. Work Ensure seamless integration with cross functional teams within Confidential teams both onsite and offshore GD resources for successful results in all testing phases.
• Escalate any discrepancies identified in all APO / ECC Supply Chain process design and/ or scope causing unforeseen negative impacts on other process teams. 3. Outside of the 3rd Party Contract Vendor integration, the responsibility includes to attend daily offshore development calls to closely monitor on any custom object deliverables related to Oracle APS to ECC and coordinate with respective process teams.
• Coordinate with other process teams to make sure the Technology connectivity from system integration stand point has no unforeseen negative impacts in pre-and post testing phases and in all new environments.
• Ensure proper coordination and support from Technology & Infrastructure Basis team is in place for E2E OQ, UAT and Batch job testing scope and plans. This is once a week activity, changes to daily activity when OQ testing starts in QA environment until all issues are resolved.
• Key Functionalities covered - DP Statistical Forecasting, SNP Heuristics, Deployment, PPDS Rough
• Master data - Product Master, Location Master, Transportation Lane, Resources, Product Data Structure, Quota Arrangement, Setup Matrix

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SAP APO SCM Demand planning & Supply Network Planning Implementation consultant. • Integration consultant for transition from JDA to SAP Planning Systems. • Developed functional designs, functional unit testing plans for IT & Business Testing. • Developed Integration test scenarios & executing the tests along with IT/Business teams • Managing & coordinating Data Flow through Interfaces & across modules DP / SNP / Staging & their subsequent data loads and validations
• Configurations involving maintenance of DP/ SNP Planning books and planning areas, MPOS, Customized Programs, Interfaces & Enhancements. • Performing & executing SNP & DP runs using SNP Heuristics and Optimizer & DP Background Jobs
• Closely Coordinating with developers & business teams on various enhancements and customizations. • Setting up a process for Master Data maintaince for APO Solution. • Conducting validation for all environments before applying OSS Notes.
• Coordinated knowledge transfer sessions between Offshore Support team & project Team. • Reported defects and status reports internally on a weekly basis. • Tracked and managed defects using HPQC & Solman.
• Creation of test scripts, Test Plans & Test Sets in HPQC for Unit testing, Quality Testing. • Conducted user/Business training sessions for SAP APO.

Confidential

Lead APO DP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Determined all re-design and configuration requirements of Demand Planning.
• SAP IBP SOP / SOP for Supply/ Inventory / Control Tower Demonstrations for Presales.
• SCM planning process, Configuration, APO system authorization and roles definitions.
• Analyze, Design, Develop and Test present & future business applications per the functional specifications in the areas of SAP SCM APO
• Provide SAP SCM APO technical and functional assistance for areas including but not limited to Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning & Production Planning and detailed Scheduling
• Provide input for SAP technical staff based on business analysis and operational alignment activities.
• Documentation of Design, technical Specification and test scripts.
• Perform quality assurance analysis through unit testing, regression testing and integration testing.
• Customizing SAP systems through Coding to meet business requirements.
• Leading a team of Client and Confidential resources on Function and Technical side.

Confidential

DP Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• O-I Implementing SAP Solution Globally. Includes modules like ECC, BW, APO, and MDM for North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
• Lead APO DP Consultant responsible for all demands planning design, system Integration, configuration activities, testing, training and system cutover.
• Determined all re-design and configuration requirements of Demand Planning.
• Gathered, documented, Implemented requirements for regional and global supply chain planning.
• Consulted business on SCM planning process, Configuration, APO system authorization and roles definitions.

Confidential

Global Implementation & Support as Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing systems for Business processes & technical configuration used for SAP APO Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning.
• Conducting workshops to gather the new business processes to be implemented in SAP SCM 7.0 & finding out if existing functionalities can be enhanced.
• Mapping business processes to SCM in a Sand Box Environment, defining & agreeing on phases of implementation with the Business.
• Creating project plan, determining phases of implementation, defining the resource requirement for creating the proto-type & coming up with possible alternatives on the best project approach.
• Full-Life cycle implementation of APO Demand Planning (DP) module.
• DP Consultant & Project Manager for End to End Implementation. (Modules involved - APO, BW, ABAP & some ECC piece)
• Researched and applied SAP DP best practices and resolved pre / post- implementation application issues for the entire cycle of the project.

Confidential

DP/SNP consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business planning in CRM & development of Integration between CRM -> BW- > APO Integration & full APO implementation for Colgate Global Development Centre.
• Worked on APO Demand planning, BW / BPS, CRM & reporting Analytics.
• The design was then rolled out to America’s, European & Asia pacific Divisions based out of Dublin, Malaysia & Thailand onsite.
• Rollouts of the configuration in More than 10 + countries in US, Canada, Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines.
• Multiple projects undertaken SAP SCM (APO)+ Rollouts to various countries.
• Various Enhancements Functional, Technical & Performance related.
• Projects & Transition of Support for all newly Implemented projects from Global -SSO to GSSO-Global Captive Centre in Mumbai India.
• Responsibilities include planning of Support Knowledge Acquisition plan, execution, and collaboration with Implementation partners.
• Primary areas of working Hand On: APO Demand planning, Process Chains, APO BW backend.BW backend on Demand Planning Reporting, Front End reporting analytics.

Confidential

Senior DP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Rollout of complete Business Process & Support - > SCM- APO - DP for Blue-R (India),
• Support -> Handling the Post go-live support cycle & enhancement Issues of India & US.
• Providing offshore support to APO users of Danone Biscuits, China in the areas of DP & CIF.