PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Senior Consultant with over 18 years working with companies to improve their Supply Chain Planning and Execution processes.
• A former Planner, He brings to his position a business perspective and understanding along with a deep technical knowledge of SAP. His various project roles include Team Member, Team Leader, Integration Manager and Project Manager.
• He has worked on global projects doing implementation and continuous improvement work across a variety of industries, including Consumer Products and Pharmaceuticals.
• An APO specialist with deep functional and configuration skills within the Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP) modules, he is also well versed in BI functionality and design.
• He has worked in ECC and was previously responsible for Materials Management (MM) and Production Planning (PP) design.
• Confidential ’s expertise in Supply Chain Management spans all aspects of the Plan to Ship business process and the integration across SAP systems, other modules and third party interfaces.

FUNCTIONAL SKILL:

• Functional leadership roles in all phases of implementation (Project Preparation, Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go - Live Support, and Run).
• Facilitating user workshops for process modeling, functional requirements, and gap analysis
• SAP APO (3.0 through 7.03) Expertise:
• Demand Planning (DP)
• SAP APO (3.0 through 7.03) proficiency:
• Supply Network Planning
• Business Warehouse: Data loading and extraction
• Exception Management
• SAP R/3 ECC proficiency
• Production Planning
• Materials Management
• Functional knowledge and related integration with:
• SAP APO: Core Interface (CIF)
• SAP APO: Production Planning/Detailed Scheduling
• SAP APO: Security
• SAP BW: Cross system integration and design to support data loads and extracts and reporting
• SAP IBP (S&OP on Hana): Versions 2.0 - 5.0
• SAP Solution Manager
• Best Practices:
• Demand Planning
• Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
• Supply Chain Planning
• Facilitated user workshops for functional and gap analysis
• Delivered training to users for new implementations and continuous improvement projects

EXPERIENCE/PROJECT WORK INDUSTRY:

Confidential

S&OP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as the solution resource to contribute to the global process design of the S&OP process.
• Developed process down to the task level to support the Work force, Equipment and People planning requirements.
• Gathered business requirements and conducted fit/gap analysis against SAP APO and IBP.

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Demand Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Addressed current design deficiencies and implemented short term and long term fixes.
• Conducted end user training in the areas of Statistical forecasting, Exception management and planning book functionality.
• Addressed issues with current design for calculations and background processing

Confidential

Demand Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted supply chain process analysis to identify leading cause of periodic stock outages.
• Results led to continued work to refine exception process to identify such issues in the future.
• Led follow on work to develop new alerts to address planning shortfalls.

Confidential

Demand Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Ran the program to fine tune APO DP statistical forecast process and train users how to get more accurate statisitcal forecasts.
• Redesigned APO DP solutions to include sense and respond functionality alerting planners when POS data was significantly different than the forecast based on shipment history.
• Develped time based safety stock planning strategy to be utilized for the PP/DS solution.
• Responsible for the overall design of the Demand Planning and integration to the PP/DS solution being developed.

Confidential

Demand Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed blueprint for the Bottling division of a major Confidential producer to consolidate multiple APO instances into a single planing process.
• Evaluated Demand Planning design from several other DP instances throughout the landscape and developed a future roadmap that met business requirements and utilized functionality from several past implementations .
• Responsible for the overall design of the Demand Planning process including statistical forecasting, promotion planning, lifecycle planning and exception management functionality.

Confidential

Demand Planning/Supply Network Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identified business requirements and gaps to standard functionality.
• Developed network planning processes to support requirements in a highly configurable make to order environment.
• Process design focused on Heuristics, capacity leveling and optimization to meet material and capacity requirements as well as safety stock, order deployment, TLB and vendor capacity modeling.

Confidential

Demand Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Min/Max design logic and configuration and addressed short comings.
• Rebuilt planning area to reduce data volume due to run away growth.
• Redesigned load and extract processes to support larger data volumes.

Confidential

Demand Planning/Supply Network Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Demand Planning/Supply Network Planning Consultant acting in a dual role of design support for the upgrade project team (SCM 7.0) and the live DP/SNP solution (SCM 5.0).
• Responsible for providing issue support to client SNP technical team.
• Work with DP Project team to configure, transport and test solution design in the areas of planning area extraction, macro design, background job and process chain optimization.
• Designed and implemented a univariate statistical forecasting process including statistical forecasting training (Statistical Model and Forecast Error calculations, setup, execution and exception management) in SCM 7.0 and developed the process to use statistical forecasting.

Confidential

Demand Planning Consultant (Team Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded and Redesigned Demand Planning system to reduce data volumes by 80% while delivering improved forecast accuracy.
• Team Lead throughout the project life cycle.
• Responsible for key deliverables for all phases of the project, including Blueprint using the SCOR (Supply Chain Operational Reference) model, Design (configuration and functional specifications), Testing (Unit, Integration and Regression testing documentation) and Training.
• Provided Post-go live support and delivered a process roadmap to Forecast Accuracy to improve statistical analysis and stream line decision making.

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Demand Planning Consultant (Team Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Focused on building the backend design for all master and transactional data loads into and out from DP to ECC (AFS) for execution and to BW for reporting purposes.
• Designed and implemented auto realignment process to address large number of characteristic master data changes.