PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Worked in Lead capacity at reputed consulting companies for over 15 years during which lead more than 6 full life cycle SAP Supply chain implementations .
• Architected supply chain processes such as Sales and Operations Planning, Forecasting, Distribution, Logistics and Production Planning/Scheduling .
• Extensive experience in providing consulting services for SAP APO and SAP ECC implementation projects. Subject Matter Expert in Supply Chain Management, Variant Configuration with credentials in the High - Tech, Petro Chemicals, Automotive and Industrial Equipment, Home Appliances, Retail , Oil & gas , and Life Science industries.
• Extensive configuration experience in SCM modules in APO DP, SNP/CTM, PP/DS and GATP .
• Extensive experience evaluating business benefits of implementing supply chain planning processes.
• Participated and conducted multiple workshops , blue printing exercises, requirements gathering , design sessions and best practices sessions for various clients.
• Worked extensively in Make-to-stock, Make-to-order, and Configure-to-order scenarios.
• Extensive Configuration experience in Materials Requirement planning, Availability Check and Transfer of requirements, Production planning, Planned independent requirements, Customer requirements.
• Worked extensively with ECC and SCM master data including material master, plants, vendors, customers, BOMs, work centres, Routings, Production versions, Strategy group, Requirement type, Requirement class, Transportation lanes, contracts, Purchasing info records, routes etc.
• Architected and configured master data integration between ECC and SCM including Core Interface Functionality (CIF ).
• Confidential has excellent knowledge of Demand planning, supply Network planning Heuristic, Transportation-Load Builder, CTM, Production planning and Detailed scheduling (PP/DS), D eployment (Heuristic, optimizer), GATP - MLATP, Rules Based ATP, BOP
• Confidential has deep understanding and extensive Configuration experience with Variant Configuration, Production Planning, Materials Management and Sales & Distribution modules of SAP ECC and their integration with APO System.
• Confidential has gained customer trust as a leader in various projects and clients he has worked.
• Confidential has strong communication skills, extensive implementation experience and inter-personal skills. He is a Team player with strong process and Project management skills.
• Confidential is very quick in adapting to new project environment. His ability to work across various modules of SAP adds great strength for the Team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAP ECC, APO BI/BW/HANA, SAP CRM, SAP Solution Manager
• SAP S/4 HANA
• SAP Full Life cycle implementations & Maintenance projects using ASAP and SAP-Agile methodologies
• HPQC, BMC Remedy
• High-tech, Life science, Retail, Manufacturing, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Chemicals
• S&OP, Plant to Produce, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Customer to Contract, Record to Report & Engineer to release
• FDA, SOX GMP regulated environment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, AZ

Supply chain Process consultant

Responsibilities:

• Moved the Forecasting solution from the custom forecast cockpit in ECC to standard APO based forecasting. Added useful perspective and dimensions to forecasting, that brought a lot of clarity to the planning Team. Addressed the challenges of aggregation and dis-aggregation using characteristics of Customer part number and Manufacturer part number
• Forecast is released as planned independent requirement to ECC and MRP was run in ECC. The main reason for running MRP in ECC is because we wanted to have a ‘use-to - exhaust’ philosophy especially for alternate components. APO Interchangeability group/ Form fit and function could not be used due to huge number of alternate groups and substitutes.
• Used alternate group strategy as ‘2’ - 100% availability check. This made sure the planned orders chooses components based on availability and not on the group ranking.
• The above strategy made a big difference in the way alternate components are planned and consumed.
• Introduced Rule based ATP for product-location substitution. This is to ensure components are consumed based on the availability during sales order booking process. ATP Tress conversion was activated in APO production planning and detailed scheduling module.
• Activated standard routing, production version and labor costing in SAP.
• Master data for supply network planning, interchangeability and shelf live
• Configuring Supply Network Planning and interactive planning using planning books and macros
• Integrated exception management in the alert monitor
• Discussions about the different planning methods: Heuristic including capacity leveling, optimization, capable-to-match, and VMI.
• Standard and advanced Cross-location safety stock planning
• Deployment: Implementing stock transport requisitions into manageable stock transport orders. Calculating and optimizing short-term replenishment plans for distribution centers and customers
• Transport Load Builder (TLB): Grouping stock transfers by threshold values for volumes, weight and pallets.
• Cross-plant and period-based Stock Transfer Requests (STR) which will be utilized across the full planning horizon to drive near-term production planning
• Capacity planning/leveling to clear resource overloads by moving orders or partial order quantities into previous or subsequent periods using forward or backward scheduling

Confidential

SAP GATP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Completely understand Confidential Business process and challenges in prioritizing customer sales order based on the order creation date and time
• Prioritize and implemented changes in the system to improve accuracy of ATP dates
• Improved performance of BOP run by splitting the variants based on location and activating parallel process of BOP run
• Analyzed and proved MAD filter range actually worsens the performance so made the MAD as blank and created an enhancement to have a 90 days range of MAD to be included in the BOP run
• Setup delta report with parallel processing profile
• Setup SDRQCR21 report to remove inconsistency between ECC and APO system for sales order and delivery
• Activated MLATP for AIS business and implemented BOP for AIS products

Confidential, TX

Supply chain optimization consultant

Responsibilities:

• Multilevel ATP check, Product allocation with sales org and customer
• Configured various data views and macros
• Configured BW transaction data and master data loads
• Macro Function module to calculate Released forecast based on Final forecast using APO scheduling function module to determine various durations
• Rule based Master data validation and integration between ECC to APO system
• Implementation of Inventory targeting for US polyethylene business unit. Configured and Customized standard safety stock algorithm as per business process of Polyethylene adapting the existing formulas and methods used in MIMI system
• Supply chain modelling, master data modelling for the Polyethylene business involving Manufacturing, Compounding, Packaging, Consignment and Customer location using Special procurement keys, Purchase info record, transportation lanes
• Creation of planning area, planning book, data view, custom key figures to store various parameters used for Inventory targeting
• Release of DP forecast in to SNP planning area with ATP category ‘FA’. Macros used to determine Static DSI, used DSI, calculated safety stock
• Target summary report which gives comprehensive recordings of trial-monthly run, daily run and monthly-live run. Various methods used for arriving at the calculated DSI are recorded for the safety stock run
• Created Macros which calculates Safety stock from published DSI, override DSI and final forecast. In case of safety stock method ‘SZ’ macro picks DSI from product master
• Calculated final safety stock is released for the DRP planning. Inventory targeting is the first step of the overall planning process chain and it is considered along with other requirements elements
• Cross-plant planning to create stock transfer using Production planning run with various steps like Set low-level codes, MRP Planning and enhanced packaging Heuristics
• Resource based campaign production planning and detailed scheduling for bulk products at the manufacturing location for Polyethylene business unit
• Product wheel planning will allow planners to set up predefined, optimized sequences of products for each resource/reactor to support planning and scheduling. These product wheels will then be incorporated into the planning process by a custom heuristics to propose the order volumes and sequence necessary to cover the forecasted demand
• Custom transaction to maintain wheel sequence and wheel definition with default planning time fence, min/max lot size, wheel length. Custom heuristics function module with planning, strategy screen to configure heuristics settings
• Time fence calculation for the product wheel run based on the value maintained in the master configuration which overrides the Product master settings
• Calculation of dynamic lot-sizing based on the wheel definition and wheel length which overrides the Product master settings
• Dynamic start of wheel sequence based on the order scheduled in planning time fence using the sequence GUID stored in order key
• Creation of external relationship between activities within a wheel definition as per sequence
• Standard heuristics assigned to the product is used for production planning as per dynamic calculated lot-size
• Creation of campaign order per wheel definition having the external relationship established
• Reschedule orders created from PP heuristics so that, first product in wheel definition starts from the beginning date of wheel definition
• Finite scheduling considering campaign requirement
• On rerunning the product wheel heuristics - dissolve campaign, external relationship. Firmed order will be reserved for meeting demand in the corresponding definition. Unfirmed orders will be deleted and planned again
• Any demand deficit from a definition having firmed order will be rolled to next product occurrence in wheel sequence
• Revisited the overall prioritization sequence used in the existing solution, and added a new criteria ‘Priority of product’
• Analysis of demand prioritization, demand aggregation by using various prioritization sequences
• Did analysis of Supply categorization using simulation mode and resolved issues with supply prioritization
• Modified CTM Master data to use dynamic master data instead of static selection
• ATP scheduling using APO for PE business unit
• Transportation and shipment scheduling using configurable process scheduling (CPS)
• Scheduling calculation based on origin and destination port and ETA and ETD dates
• Field catalog customization - origin destination port, Sales org, mode of transport, package type
• Delivery date used as entry point for calculation of scheduling dates

Confidential

SAP supply chain support

Responsibilities:

• Trouble shooting master and transactional data issues between ECC and APO using delta report
• Analyze and resolve any process chain failures, DP batch job failures
• Trouble shoot heuristics run issues caused by transportation lanes by checking Low level code transaction
• Analyze and resolve the logs generated from the daily SNP heuristics run
• Analyze and resolve issues with DS Planning board
• Support rule based CTM used for creating SNP Planned orders. CTM profiles and substitution rules

Confidential

SCM - APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design, configuration, testing and delivery of the successful Demand Planning (APO DP) implementation.
• Configured Planning components including Planning Object structure, characteristic value Combinations, storage and time bucket profiles, planning area, planning books and data views.
• Creation of forecast profiles, generating forecast, selection of forecast models, and conducting workshop with business to make decision on best forecasting method
• Worked on Interactive Demand Planning, Demand Planning in back ground, creation of favorites, selections and key figure settings.
• Configuration of APO-Demand Planning MPOS, Planning Areas, Planning Books Data Views, Designing Macros, Maintaining Time Bucket Profiles, Storage Bucket Profiles, Maintaining Forecast Profiles, Release Profiles, Transfer Profiles
• Creation of promotional profiles, like modeling, Phase-in, Phase-out planning
• Creation of MPOS infobjects infocubes data load CVCs
• Configuration of APO- SNP Planning Areas, Planning Books and Data Views. Creating, activating and monitoring the CIF integration models for transferring master and transactional data, including the model setup, post processing, delta report and queue monitor
• EBS and ICON system were used as sales and manufacturing system. Integration of SAP with these two ECC system using BSG. Purchase order created in EBS system and sales order created in ICON system for stock transfers. Your field in the orders will have either PO or SO.
• Forecast is placed in EBS - sales system. Modelling of EBS and ICON in APO and used standard SNP Heuristics for network wide planning.
• Subcontracting/tolling processes were involved with supply of API and other components to vendor and receipt of finished product.
• Deployment heuristics used to create stock transfers between various manufacturing, packaging and distribution centers. Transportation load builder used for confirming stock transfers between various nodes.
• Fair share rule was used for deployment and TLB if ATD quantity is less than the demand quantity
• Worked with DS-Planning board, Production Planning table and also familiar with Set-up Matrix, Model Mix and planning Production Campaign
• Configured standard lot heuristics for creation of planned orders with infinite capacity
• For detailed scheduling, configured Production campaign for API manufacturing with setup and clean out activities between campaigns
• Sequencing of orders with in the campaign is based on the order priority in sort order

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Hyper care and day-to-day support for LSCV implementation
• Trouble shooting master and transactional data issues using delta report
• Trouble shooting CIF enhancements issues which involves product mapping between various systems and SO, PO between sales and manufacturing system
• Issues related to SNP Heuristics, DP SNP Planning book, Forecasting, Realignment, new CVC creation
• Issues related to sales/purchase order between EBS and ICON system. Deployment and TLB issues
• Master data issues like BOM, Routing, Production version, master recipe, purchase info records, transportation lanes, MRP views of material master
• Change management under strictly regulated FDA, SoX, GxP environment

Confidential

APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Planning components including Planning Object structure, characteristic value Combinations, storage and time bucket profiles, planning area, planning books and data views
• Promotional planning for advertisements, discounts and special occasions - configuration of promotional key figure at product level, promotional attributes, Promotional base and cannibalization group
• Background Demand planning, release of final forecast from DP to SNP
• Worked on data modelling and integration between ECC and APO for the supply chain network
• Network wide planning using SNP Heuristics both at location level and across whole network
• Automatically create package orders for created bulk orders.
• Involved in distribution planning model. The scope involved more than 50 locations including production facilities, regional distribution centers and distribution warehouses. Tools involved were APO SNP heuristics, PP/DS heuristics, SNP deployment and SNP TLB.
• Worked on detailed scheduling profiles and alert profiles.
• Worked extensively on PPDS MRP and detailed scheduling heuristics and detailed scheduling board.
• Extensive testing of the functionality and of users. and documentation