PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals.
• Extensive experience with requirement analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation, rollouts and Support and maintenance of software applications which includes extended applications of SAP like SAP-SCM- APO, SAP-BW, and SAP R/3
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to Functional Specifications and Scoping of work and transforming to Technical Design
• Has a very good knowledge of ASAP methodology with experience in all phases of project implementations-Business blue print, Realization, Pre-go live, Go live and Post Go-live support
• Experience in defining complete test scenarios to cover full scope of the business as well as creating master data and carry out the unit, integration and regression tests
• Hands on cross module experience of APO integration with PP, MM, SD and FI
• Efficient problem solving and quantitative background combined with business acumen
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, self-motivated and high project management skills
• Extensive experience with preparing functional designs, user manuals, production support, troubleshoot tickets and develop reports for users
• Result oriented performance in meeting deadlines, team harmonizing, efficient decision making and problem solving

SAP APO EXPERTISE

Demand Planning (APO-DP): 
Configuration of APO-DP MPOS, Planning Areas, Designing Planning Books & data views, 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

Supply Network Planning (APO-SNP):
Configuration of APO-SNP Planning Areas, Planning Books and Data Views. Creating, activating and monitoring the CIF integration models for transferring the master as well as transaction data including the model setup, post processing, delta report and queue monitor. Setup SNP Heuristics, Optimizer and Capable to Match (CTM) techniques. Deployment and Transport Load Builder.

Global Available To Promise (APO-GATP): 
Rule based ATP Check, Product Allocation, Backorder Processing, Sales order processing

Business Warehousing (BW): 
Worked in Administrator Workbench for the creation of Info Sources, Info Packages, info Cubes, Update Rules, Source Systems, uploading data into the Info cube, transfer routines which includes the extraction and transfer of data between R/3 and APO.

Production Planning (PP):
Planning Strategies in Demand management, Materials requirement planning, Repetitivemanufacturing, BOM, Routings, Work Centers andmaster recipes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP, Vista, Windows NT
• ERP: SAP (APO & R/3), PP,SD, MM
• Programming Languages: C, C++, MATLAB
• Desktop Tools: MS Office
• Computer aided design software: AutoCAD, ANSYS
• Computer skills: MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel

CHRONOLOGY OF EXPERIENCE

Confidential
Houston, TX
April'11-present
APO Functional Analyst (SAP SCM 7.0, ECC 6.0 and BI 7.0)

Confidential, an acronym for Systems and Services Company, is the world\'s largest broad line food distributor. Confidential is involved in marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, hotels and inns, and other foodservice and hospitality businesses. The company is headquartered in Confidential

Supply Network planning (SNP) and Core Interface (CIF):

• Involved in various roles of the Sysco-212 project which include Deployment, Integration and regression testing
• Responsible for scoping of requirement, documentation of Functional specifications, planning, tracking, aspects of the Change request Documents.
• Some key change request Documents / Enterprise design documents handled so far include APO Transportation Zones, Multi-truck load Optimization using VMI purchasing groups, loading groups.
• Weekday and Weekend Planning run Process chain malfunction and its permanent fixes to stabilize the system, Activation of CIF Integration Model failures
• Responsible for the design and implementation of Cross-dock functionality, planning run batch jobs, auto-approval of TLB orders, transportation zones to respect vendor minimums for Sysco business.
• Responsible for the TLB log enhancement based on business requirements
• Execute the APO Planning run successfully and with consistent Planning results for execution. Flexible Planning for executing the Planning run for Outage Weeks
• Effective coordination with offshore team to work on Priority tasks and get delivered on time by utilizing the resources
• Responsible for effective communication between the APO team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the offshore team and regular status to the customer about the critical and prioritized Incidents and enhancements.
• Activated Integration Models after multiple failures and responsible for performance improvement of IM's to reduce the run-time
• Bagged Sysco Ride the Wave award for “Outstanding KT and Support”
• Responsible for Master data setup and APO VMI Planning run. This includes Procurement Planning using SAP-APO CTM (Capable to Match) engine
• Resolved critical issues related to SNP, DP, CIF modules of SAP-SCM-APO.
• Involved in the cut over activities and Post Go-Live support as well as end user training and documentation

Contributions:

• Research the reasons for out of stock at the OpCo's and was instrumental for recommending best business practices and driving the issues to resolution
• Responsible for designing the user manuals for the enhancements and leveraging the training team with the planners for end user training
• Received Sysco appreciation in resolving critical and high priority break fix issues.
• Enhanced the performance of Initial transfer of Integration models from 20 hrs to 4 hours

Confidential
Houston, TX
Jan'10-March'11
APO Systems Analyst (SAP SCM 5.0, ECC 6.0 and BI 7.0)

Confidential is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. They provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world\'s most powerful supercomputer installations. They offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps Confidential match the right products, services and solutions to customers\' specific needs.

Demand and Supply Planning (DP & SNP) and Core Interface (CIF):

• Involved in the full life cycle implementation right from the Business process discussions until Go-Live
• Understood the HP LUMENS FGI planning process and developed Blueprint with the gaps needed to be worked out in the configuration
• Configured all BW Info Objects including the Key figures, characteristics, attributes and the number of Info Cubes necessary for both the Marketing and Historical data
• Developed the APO DP configuration, setting up the POS, Planning area, planning Books and Data Views depending upon the client's requirement
• Maintained the statistical Forecast profiles and generated forecast for future years with the Historical data and provided better functioning data views where the forecast can be compared with the marketing data coming from flat files
• Worked extensively on the Functional design specification (involving ABAP code) of the Good for Planning stock: this is used to filter the materials needed from R/3 to APO
• Alerts and assigned specific planners to the selection ID's and profiles in the Planning book
• Setup different background jobs for the macros, CVC's depending upon the client's requirement
• Did unit testing, integration testing and moved all the APO configuration as well as BW objects from Development to Quality and Production
• MaintainedCIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO
• Actively involved with the ABAP/XI team in the issue resolution and debugging. Created orders using XML scripts
• Involved in the cut over activities and Post Go-Live support as well as end user training and documentation

Confidential
Horicon, WI
May'09-Dec'09
APO Analyst (SAP SCM 5.0, ECC 6.0 and BI 7.0)

Confidential is the world\'s leading manufacturer of farm equipment. The company also produces and markets North America\'s broadest line of lawn and garden tractors, mowers, golf course equipment, and other outdoor power products. Confidential Landscapes provides irrigation equipment and nursery supplies to landscape-service professionals across the United States

Demand Planning (DP) and Core Interface (CIF):

• Responsible for effective communication between the APO/ BW team and the client. Working on the critical and prioritized Incidents and enhancements (CQ cases).
• Development work related to Master data creation, changes and updates
• Maintaining the CVC's for different planning methods like the Merge Centre, Whole goods, Kits and Attachments
• Creating planning books, data views and improving the planning book usability for end users
• Set up the CIF model including the model set up, delta report and Queue monitor
• MaintainedCIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO
• Process chain and batch job monitoring and Setting up the factory calendar changes
• Worked extensively on Administrator workbench, upload master and transactional data from Flat files, SAP R/3, SAP BW and Legacy systems
• To respond to Priority Service Requests (SRs) created by client and resolve it with customer satisfaction and approval. Proactively looked into the Production system issues and worked towards resolving them from future occurrence
• Responsible for effective communication between the IBM APO team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the offshore team and regular status to the customer about the critical and prioritized Incidents and enhancements
• Communicating with end users in multiple countries regularly on their tickets and helping they understand the solution
• Coordinating with Offshore support team and helping them in resolving the issues

Confidential
Folsom, CA.
July'08-April'09
SNP Systems Analyst (SAP SCM 5.1, ECC 6.0 and BI 7.0)

Confidential is the world\'s largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network cards and ICs, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors, and other devices related to communications and computing. Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability.

Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP):

• Involved in up gradation from SCM 5.0 to 5.1
• Responsible for Monitoring CIF Active Queues both in SAP APO and SAP R/3
• Development work related to error handling of missing CVC's
• Changes made to accommodate cloned products involving Factory and Division solve changes
• Reorder point planning/ passive planning of low volume products using heuristics
• Responsible for Prototyping of SAP-APO-SNP CTM business scenarios
• Worked on more than 50 OSS messages more than 400 SAP Notes researched and around 60 SAP notes applied to resolve Break fix issue and to stabilize the APO Production environment with SAP
• Creating planning books and improving the planning book usability
• Created and managed alerts and exceptions for excess inventory
• Defined and created the transportation lanes
• Created test scenarios needed to support business requirements based on customer defined priorities

Confidential
Pittsburgh, PA
March'07-June'08
DP-GATP consultant ( SAP SCM 4.1, R/3 4.7 and BW 3.5 )

Confidential is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Confidential Material Science is one of the world's largest producers of polymers and high-performance plastics. Products include coatings, adhesives, insulating materials and sealants, polycarbonates and polyurethanes

Demand Planning (DP):

• Analyzed the As-Is condition of the demand planning process
• Involved in carrying out the to-be and gap analysis, business process re-engineering and configuration
• Discussed specific and critical requirements with the client team while customizing
• Worked on Transfer of data between external files, external BW and external R/3
• Worked on Administrator Workbench to create Info Area, Info Objects, Info Object Catalogue and Source Systems
• Created Reference source system, Info Source, Info Cube & Info package to facilitate extraction and transfer of data between R/3 and APO
• Set up the demand planning book-planning object structure, planning areas
• Created Univariate forecast profiles with trend models for various products to forecast the requirements for sales and inventory locations
• Loaded historical data from BW and Setting up the release of demand plan to SNP

Global Available To Promise (GATP):

• Configured the ATP scheduling for the Distribution centers and Garages including the Production, Shipping and Resource calendars.
• Carried out several iterations and various possible Calendar combinations to get the Order scheduling working for all the weekdays, weekends and holidays.
• Resolved and found out a solution that works with the Order fulfillment process of the business.
• Worked on Rules Based ATP, Availability Check and Detailed Scheduling
• Experience in defining test scenarios which are a part of the new enhancements to the previous production version.
• Carried out unit testing, system testing with the new processes and resolved the issues and defects assigned in all the Business areas apart from APO.
• Troubleshooting configuration issues in GATP and its integration with R/3
• Developed user training documents, conducted knowledge transfer end user training and resolved user issues
• Complete configuration of product allocation including settings in Demand Planning
• Carried out Knowledge transfer sessions with the production support team and End users

Confidential
Fremont, CA.
Jan'06-Feb'07
APO consultant ( SAP APO 4.1, SAP R/3 4.6 C )

Confidential is a leading independent designer, manufacturer and supplier of electronic subsystems to original equipment manufacturers or OEMs. It offers more than 500 standard and custom products such as thin film transistors (TFT), Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) to top-tier OEMs working in computer, industrial, networking, gaming, telecommunications, and embedded applications.

Demand Planning (DP):

• Understood the Business process as part of knowledge transfer and mapped the structure of the company (regions, divisions, brands, products and customers) for planning purposes in the DP and SNP Master Data
• Involved in the creation of Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristic ValueCombinations, Master data and Time series objects, Storage buckets profile and Planning bucketprofile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets
• Maintained statistical forecast profiles and various data views as per business blue print.
• Developed Transfer rules and Update rules and Info Cubes
• Defined forecast models for time series forecasting, life cycle Planning, casual analysis and composite forecasting
• Created Proportional factors, desegregations using Pro rata and Proportional factors
• Defined macros to perform calculations to carry out tests, and to create alerts
• MaintainedCIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO

Supply Network Planning (SNP):

• Set up the Master data for SNP, Planning version and Planning book creation
• Set up supply chain engineer and the basic settings for SNP like the Optimizer and the Heuristics
• Set up Supply chain model and versions and performed SNP runs using the SNP Heuristics and Optimizer
• Defined and created the PPMs, transportation lanes and quota arrangements
• Basic settings for SNP (Optimizer/Heuristic/CTM/TLB) and configure the release profiles
• Deployment profile, deployment optimizer run
• Created and managed alerts and exceptions
• Release of SNP results to DP
• Set up the CIF model including the model set up, delta report and Queue monitor
• Created test scenarios needed to support business requirements based on customer defined priorities
• Developed user training & documentation

Confidential
Nasik, India
May'03-Dec'03
SAP Production Planning Super User ( SAP R/3 4.5 B )

Confidential is involved in Design, Manufacturing and Marketing of Energy Efficient Products and specializing in lighting solutions. With its world-class manufacturing facility at Nasik, India, it is meeting international standards of quality in lighting solutions. Confidential is offering elegant, efficient and high quality luminaries for use with T8 / T5 FTLs, CFLs, MV, SV, HID, lamps for all possible applications in the House hold, Corporate, Industrial, Down lighting, Flood lighting, Landscaping segments, Under Water, Municipalities, Street Lighting and for special applications as in Clean Rooms in the Pharmaceutical Industry

• Transferred initial stock into SAP legacy system by creating suitable spreadsheets in Excel as a reference for entering different material data into material master of SAP system.
• Material Master: Configuration of materials & their different views, Material types
• Bill of Material: Configuration of BOM, Single level BOM, Multi level BOM, Variant BOM & Multiple BOM change & delete BOM items
• Work Centers: Configuration of work center, Capacity data, Capacity categories, Available capacity, Formulas, Customizing parameters
• Routings in R/3: Configuration of routings, Sequences, Operations & Scheduling
• Repetitive manufacturing scenario - create REM Profile, production version
• Demand Management: Configuration of planned independent requirements & Customer requirements,
• Planning Orders: Configuration of Planning Order. , Scheduling, Availability check, Goods movement
• Material Requirement Planning: Master production scheduling, Consumption based planning
• Sales and Operation Planning: Planning methods, Transforming SOP data to demand management
• Knowledge of full sap pp implementation cycle in make to stock scenario. (As-is & To-be process study, gap analysis, customization, integration & testing)

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• Master of Science degree.
• Bachelors degree in Engineering.