SUMMARY

• 13+ years of SAP experience in SAP IBP/APO and BW.
• Worked on Various Projects including Implementation, Production Support, Roll - Out, Customization and Upgradation.
• Understanding the business scenario and mapping it to the system, along with gap analysis. Significant experience with ASAP methodology, Business requirement gathering, AS-IS and TO-BE process structuring, Blueprinting, Gap Analysis, Realization, Go-live, service management support after Go-live, preparation of user’s manual, process manual, training manual, co-ordinate during User Acceptance Testing, end user training.
• End-to-End Implementation experience in IBP and APO
• Experience in SAP APO DP, SNP, IBP - S&OP, Demand, Control Tower and working knowledge in PP/DS and GATP
• Experience in CPI-DS & SDI setup for the data transfers both time series and order series.
• Experience in S/4 Hana simple logistics.
• Good Understanding and Hands-on of most concepts of IBP
• Planning View Design and formatting
• Configuration (Attributes, MDT, Time Profile, Planning Area, Planning Level, Key figure, Key figure calculation and disaggregation, Planning Model transport)
• Planning Operators and Application Jobs
• Versions and Scenarios
• Statistical forecast Model setup
• Change History
• Analytics and Reporting
• Custom Alerts
• User Integration
• Product life cycle and ABC/XYZ Segmentation
• Supply Planning Model setup
• Control Tower
• Manage CPI-DS - details of configuration - Agents, Data flow, Datastore, Process, Project, Transformations
• Have very good knowledge on CPI-DS and SDI tools used for integration purpose and acts as ETL tool to get data into SAP IBP
• Trained end users on SAP IBP Demand, S&OP and Control Tower.
• Extensive experience in APO BW such as Data Modelling, Info Objects, Info cubes, DSOs, Transformations, Info packages and DTP to suite the Business requirements.
• Handling CIF creation and activation of Integration models & CIF inbound and outbound queue monitoring, CIF reconciliation reports, consistency check
• Have a good understanding and working experience in various aspects of APO Demand Planning module such as the administrator workbench, MPOS, CVC’s, Storage and Time Bucket Profiles, Planning Area, Planning books/Dataviews,lifecycle Planning,Realignment,Proportional factors, different forecasting techniques, macros, alerts, Mass Processing, Release and Transfer Profiles.
• Worked on various areas of APO Supply Network Planning, such as configuration of Master Data Setup, Planning Areas, Planning Books, Data Views, SNP Heuristics, CTM, Optimizer, Deployment and TLB.
• Worked on various areas of PPDS, such as Master Data Setup, Setup Matrix and Setup Group, Heuristics, Split and Merge orders functionality and DS Board.
• Worked on various areas of GATP.
• Worked on SAP SD and MM Modules.
• Worked on ticketing tools Remedy and Magic.
• Worked on various methodologies (ASAP, Agile and Waterfall)
• Strong time management skills in handling multiple projects and deadlines.
• Wide range of skills in Project Management, Quality Management, Troubleshooting, Problem Analysis and Resolution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP IBP and APO
• SAP BI/BW
• SAP S/4 Hana
• SAP ECC (SD and MM)
• SAP ASAP
• Waterfall
• Agile
• HPALM
• IBM Lotus Notes
• JIRA
• Remedy and Magic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Philadelphia

SAP IBP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of the SAP IBP implementation & support team responsible for running the IBP S&OP business cycle
• Run the S&OP cycle as per calendar- jobs and copy operators as per business cycle and keep business user updated
• User support of end to end IBP S&OP solution which include below details:
• Master data - creation/update/upload of master data into IBP as per design
• Maintain master data accuracy in IBP by periodic compare with ECC
• Interfaces - schedule and monitor various inbound and outbound interfaces of IBP
• Coordinate with HCI team for any integration issues in IBP which calls for detailed HCI understanding
• Maintain transaction data sanity between IBP and various interfaced systems
• Identity and Access management: responsible for all IAM related activities from creation of new users in IBP to access restrictions to key figures and regions
• Monitor jobs in IBP and jobs in HCI
• Coordinate with various teams like APO, BW, TPM throughout the business cycle
• Take up change requests in the IBP solution, document them, get approvals, build, test and implement

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SAP IBP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of the IBP Demand implementation team
• Understand the Business requirements and create functional req docs
• Participate in the Scrum Process Increment meetings
• Analyse features and break them into User stories
• Take part in daily Scrum stand up calls on user story progress
• Configure IBP demand per the business requirements
• Unit/Functional testing of the user story implementations

Confidential

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Support of APO DP and SNP flow for US region
• Handle DP flow as per the monthly task list activities based on Operational calendar pertaining to release final forecast to SNP to Initiate the SNP Flows
• Analysis of Statistical forecasting used in DP and explaining the same to business
• Extensively involved in solving the issues raised by SAP end users
• Coordinating with SME’s / End Users from Off Shore to resolve the issue
• Responsible for maintain DP planning books
• Daily job monitoring of DP and SNP and recovering the failed jobs
• Coordinate with the job scheduling team to get new jobs created and launched
• Process chain monitoring, maintenance
• Responsible for monitoring and clearing CIF Queues between ERP & SCM System and finding the root cause for blockage of Queues in SCM & ERP System
• Master data maintenance like CVC creation, deletion, changes etc
• Realignment of volumes in Planning Area
• Maintaining results in Planning Books, Data view based on the selection profiles, reconciliation of transaction data for data accuracy
• Support the team in any ABAP related tasks

Confidential, NY

SAP IBP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Point of contact for Business on APO DP and SNP related Incidents, Requests and Work orders.
• Responsible for DP and SNP related regular meeting with Business.
• Execution of monthly Demand Planning cycle
• Interaction with global planners to ensure timely upload of forecasts
• Coordination with BW/BI teams for smooth flow of data from BW to APO
• Reporting the status of flows and planning activities to Business users
• Monitoring of background jobs and process chains
• Planning activities for SNP cycle
• Ensure consistency between DP and SNP volumes
• Check on Master data for SNP and get it maintained by business users
• Execution of Weekly and Monthly SNP planning
• Check planning results of SNP run
• Reconciliation between R3 (MD04) and APO (RRP3)
• Scheduling, Monitoring, Update/Repair Process chains
• Project activities for new projects like enhancements, additions etc
• Work with the Remedy tool to track, create, update, resolve user incidents(tickets) as per SLA

Confidential, Houston

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in implementation and post - implementation support phases of the project.
• Analysed the business requirements and documented the gaps and related configuration.
• Was involved CIF Configuration between ECC and APO.
• CIF Set-up & Related Configuration Task in ECC and APO Systems.
• Was involved Integration of Master data and Transactional data (Design of Integration Models)
• CIF Error Handling and Queue Management.
• Configured APO BW activities such as Data Modelling, Info Objects, Info cubes, DSOs, Transformations, Info packages and DTP to suite the Business requirements.
• Configured APO DP activities such as MPOS, CVC’s, Storage and Time Bucket Profiles, Planning Area, Planning books/Data views, lifecycle Planning, Realignment, Proportional factors, different forecasting techniques, macros, alerts, Mass Processing, Release and Transfer Profiles.
• Configured the univariate forecast profile.
• Created selection ID’s and assigned to respective users.
• Was Involved APO SNP activities such as configuration of Master Data Setup, Planning Areas, Planning Books, Data Views, SNP Heuristics technique.
• Responsible for Daily CIF Monitoring Activities such as CCR, Process chains, Batch Jobs and Live Cache.
• First Point of contact for Business on APO DP and SNP related Incidents, Requests and Work orders.
• Responsible for DP and SNP related regular meeting with Business.