PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 10+ years of hands - on experience in SAP SCM/APO and SAP PP modules with three full life cycle implementations involving requirement analysis and gathering, designing business blue print, configuration and in-depth realization of the project to Go-Live and Post Go-Live activities including Production maintenance and Support.
• Experience in leading and building on-shore and off-shore SCM teams and proven track record of working with Demand planners, Purchasers, production managers
• Expertise in designing, configuring, testing, implementing and supporting SAP SCM solutions using Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), Global Available to Promise (GATP), Production Planning & Detailed scheduling (PP/DS) and Core Interface (CIF).
• Experience in providing SAP SCM solutions in diverse business processes like Make-to-Stock, Make-to-Order, Subcontracting/External Processing in accordance to other functional modules like Production Execution, Inventory and Warehouse Management (IM/WM), Product Costing etc.,
• Having experience in preparing functional specifications for Reports.
• Experience in CIFQueue Monitors, Live Cache inconsistency check, CIF Application logs, Time Series consistency check, Planning Area initialization and setup of initial transfer of Master data.
• Successful implementations of complex Detailed scheduling (PP/DS) optimizer solutions for capacity leveling and setup optimization.
• Created Batch jobs/Planning jobs/Background mass processing reports to automate - MRP and scheduling optimizer runs in PP/DS, conversion of SNP to PP/DS orders, conversion and release of production orders, forecast consumption and deletion, heuristic and capacity leveling runs in SNP.
• Experience in configuration and implementation of DP Info Cubes using administrative workbench, Generating and changing Characteristic Value Combinations, Planning books, Planning Areas, Macros, creating Statistical Forecast Profile & Consensus Planning.
• Worked on SNP, PP/DS planning runs, heuristics, optimizer, interactive and automated production planning and scheduling, reporting KPI's, maintaining PDS, converting SNP Orders to PP/DS orders, Master Data integration via CIF with R/3.
• In-depth knowledge on Master data setup required for various business processes like In-house production, Sub- contracting, Alternate resources, Quota arrangements etc.
• Experienced in Fit-Gap Analysis, break/fix support, configuration and customization.
• Experienced in analysis of requirement specifications, preparation of Test plans, development of Test scripts, Test cases, Test data and execution.
• Having experience in conducting Training sessions to business users across multiple disciplines.
• Excellent analytical & communication skills and ability to interact with business users. Able to translate business requirements into deployable business solutions and work in team environment, and conduct training sessions to business users across multiple disciplines

TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO:

Hardware: IBM Mainframe, IBM PC Compatibles, Sun Workstations

Tools: Rational Suite of products including RequisitePro, Rational ClearQuest, Rational® Rose, Rational ClearCase Explorer, Business Object (BO), Cognos, Corticon

Management Tools: Microsoft Office Suite - MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Word, Excel, VISIO, Lotus Notes, Visual Source Safe, Serena Version Manager and Team Track, Rational ClearCase, Quality Center( Test Director), Microsoft Sharepoint, ProVision, Cognos ReportNet, Portal, Vignette Application, SAP- ECC, APO

Methodologies: RUP, Agile, Waterfall, Use Case Methodology (UCM), SDLC, OOA & D

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows NT, Windows XP

Platform/Framework: .Net, J2EE

Database: SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle 9i, DB2, Informatica

WORK EXPERIENCE:

SAP SCM APO consultant

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Led the AMS team of 9 members in SAP Supply chain governance, compliance, and support activities for the planning, execution, procurement and inventory management related SAP functional areas and related bolt on applications.
• Responsible for driving weekly SCM team change board meeting and weekly business delivery meetings.
• Worked with business partners in identifying opportunities of improvement, prioritizing and designing new functionalities in SCM APO, MM, PP and WM areas.
• Responsible for delivering new functionalities and approving designs in SAP APO, MM, PP and WM areas.
• Apply strong knowledge of the business processes for developing and testing SAP functions associated with supply chain management, primarily for SAP Demand planning and Supply Network Planning, SNC and CTM processes.
• Createdand approvedFunctional documents, Unit testing scripts and User Acceptance testing. Led efforts to create regression testing suite for all SCM related modules.
• Setup Monitoring process for nightly and weekly automated process chains.
• Coordinated with the Onshore/Offshore team on all incidents / enhancements ensuring that the work delivered meets the requirements of the business.
• Monitored support process, reviewed and promoted ideas for continual improvement and team building.
• Monitored support delivery performance and lead efforts to address under-performance.
• Spearheadedimplementation of SAP Demand planning solution for First-Aid & Safety business division of Confidential .
• Designed and implemented Demand planning and Supply Network planning while integrating SAP EWM with existing SAP solution.
• Supported and acted as functional SME for Upgrade project and resolved critical issues raised during upgrade.
• Proposed new End-to-End SCM KPI monitoring system using BPM, SAP alerts.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

SAP SCM APO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for promoting the correct usage of the SAP Enterprise solution processes within DP and PP/DS related business processes.
• Collaborated with the business on the prioritization of the incident and enhancement and participated in the incident management process, validating the quality and correctness of the resolution or development delivered by Production support team to the business.
• Acted as "guardian" of the SAP Enterprise solution in the DP and PP/DS processes areas to ensure that changes made do not impede the viability of its long term usage.
• Coordinated with the Onshore/Offshore team on all incidents / enhancements ensuring that the work delivered meets the requirements of the business.
• Monitored support process, reviewed and promoted ideas for continual improvement.
• Monitored support delivery performance and lead efforts to address under-performance.
• Worked with other ERP Design Leads and Business Solution Experts to identify areas of opportunity and drive activities that lead to the overall integration and performance of the system
• Analyzed and perform root cause analysis on incidents such issues which arise within their area of responsibility and take corrective action to achieve resolution
• Worked with the counter-parts on the business transformation team to provide inputs to the new transport release process.
• Participate in planning sessions to identify areas of opportunity for enhancement and jointly lead efforts together with business process lead counter-parts to facilitate the development of business requirements and schedule these for in corporation in new releases or delivery as part of the Support Services
• Share "best practices" pertaining to DP and PP/DS process areas of their responsibility with their business process leads and AMS team within SAP Enterprse Solution Application community
• Designed and developed functional specification documents for solutions related IPPE,CIF, PP/DS and MMP (Model mix Planning)
• Designed and developed solutions related to DP planning area, planning books, Macros, DTP's
• Led business testing sessions and developed end user documentations.

SCM APO DP/SNP Solution Architect

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Responsibilities:

• Designed a multi-plant DP system and SNP deployment optimizer after business process mapping based on requirements of seven distribution facilities in Confidential Logistics division.
• Led business and technical workshops to ensure successful delivery of integrated solutions as well as ensure the development of functional and technical documentation.
• Worked with Procure to Pay, Order to cash and Inventory Management teams to integrate Sales, Interplant procurement and shipment data with APO DP.
• Integrated APO BW with SAP BI for master and transactional data.
• Designed and configured complete data model (Info objects/Info sources/Source systems/Data sources)
• Configured Info cube and defined Planning Books and Complex Macros for interactive planning
• Created Master Planning object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristic Combination Master Data, Storage Bucket Profile and Planning bucket profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets, Maintained Statistical forecast profiles and various data views as per business blueprint
• Created Proportional Factors to disaggregate CVCs from aggregate to the detail level.
• Performed customization activities in DP, DP/BW, SNP environments.
• Development of complex DP and SNP macros to perform data manipulation tasks, forecasting and the generation of exception alerts.
• Setup of activities, background jobs, process chains and events for all steps of the monthly DP cycle.
• Configured release strategy of DP final forecast to SNP for deployment.
• Configured SNP network heuristics and optimizer for Distribution Resource Planning.
• Used Pull Logic to deploy the ATD quantities to the plant-locations.
• Worked with BI team to extract the Final forecast, Planner adjustments to historical data from APO for further SAAS analysis.

SCM APO SNP/MMP/PPDS Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked in various roles in full cycle implementation projects with emphasis on Supply Chain Management processes for six Confidential production plants.
• Gathered business requirements and captured the to-be process on all levels of supply chain.
• Worked closely with Plant Managers, Confidential Production Systems (CPS) and proposed value adding supply chain solutions in accordance to Supply Chain best practices.
• Created Factory layout, Product structure and Process Structure(iPPE) for MMP, for the prime Product Facility working with variant Configuration.
• Configured Procedure Package and Procedure Profile for MMP run.
• Created Line resource with Takt based scheduling to get the lead time Expected on the Planned orders
• Creation of restrictions and Constrains for MMP run.
• Created MMP(MRP) run variant for the Batch jobs for various lines using Takt based scheduling.
• Reviewed logs of MMP and PPDS runs and evaluate the cause of error.
• Worked on SNP Master Data, Planning Area Administration, Planning Books, Heuristics, Advanced Safety Stock Planning, and PP/DS integration, Aggregated Planning, Deployment and TLB.
• Worked on PP/DS Master Data, Planning Strategies, Planning Heuristics, Scheduling Heuristics, and Planning Tools, Optimizer and Variant configuration.
• Improved resource utilization by implementing PP/DS setup Optimizer and proposed SAP best practices.
• Involved in all three types of SNP implementation supporting distribution planning, Rough cut capacity planning using SNP heuristics, CTM and Optimizer.
• Validating data, troubleshooting errors and responsible for data conversion and data migration.
• Creation of Planning Books and Planning Versions.
• Set up the Supply Chain Engineer and basic settings for SNP like Heuristics.
• Maintained Transportation Lanes and Quota Arrangements and transferred Production Data Structures (PDS).
• Defined Optimizer parameters for interactive and background Optimization runs.
• Defined lot size, production horizon and fixing horizon etc.
• Responsible for coordinating automation, manual and validation testing activities with business process owners.
• Support role responsibility for coordinating and handling tickets.
• Preparation of performance impact questionnaire documents for identified development objects.
• Addressing new requirements for improving business processes.
• Acted as a Liaison between business and technical team during all phases of testing (Unit testing, Integration testing, System testing, User acceptance testing and Regression testing).
• Additional master data verification before uploading to the SCM system.
• Addressing Inter module Integration issues and solving client's transaction issues.
• Developed training materials and conducted user trainings on new functionalities developed.
• Responsible for reviewing and reporting periodic progress/status to the stake holders.

DPS COE design lead

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in sizing of Live Cache, design and configuration of demand planning using SCM 7.0.
• Created process chains for loading data into APO from BW and vice versa.
• Created Info Areas, Info Catalogs, Info Source, and Info Cubes.
• Modified info objects length for the source system and rebuilt the complete Characteristic Value Combinations (CVC) and reloaded the data successfully.
• Configured SCM APO DP Module using Solution Manager, created IMG objects through solution manager tool and attached the client specific configuration documents for DP, and trained them on solution manager functions and benefits.
• Created Master Planning Object structure, Characteristic Combination Master Data, Storage Bucket Profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets.
• Worked on Forecast Error Analysis using MAPE and MAD for forecast accuracy measurements, configured the trend dampening profiles and assigned it to the Univariate forecast profile, maintained Promotional Planning functionality, Life cycle management, and "Like" Modeling.
• Enhancements in Demand Planning by changing to existing configuration and settings in objects like ODSs by adopting SAP's Best Practices with intent to optimize the performance in product box.
• Resolved all issues related Unit testing, Integration testing in DP and SNP (Download/ upload, Info packages, CVC's, Realignment, Batch jobs, Forecast release, CIF delta report, CIF batch jobs Change all variants, Request OSS notes, Planning books, Macros etc)
• Tested technical objects and helped ABAP team.
• Configured new alert requirements and worked on production support new requirements.
• Used BAPI's in several custom programs to extract transactional data from R/3 to APO.
• Set up of SNP master profile and configured SNP Master Data Locations, Product Masters, Resource and Production Process Models (PPM).
• Reconfiguration of plant setting from R/3 to APO.
• Maintained Planning calendar, Planner Responsible and Creating variant for SNP Transaction Data Deletion.
• Performed SNP runs using SNP heuristics, created cost and Optimization profile for SNP Optimizer.
• Identified the rules for optimization by identifying the optimization costs for production, procurement, and transportation. Utilized the quota arrangements for correct distribution to different sources of supply

SAP APO DP/PPDS Consultant

Confidential, South Milwaukee, WI

Responsibilities:

• Conducted integration tests and resolve issues arise during integration tests. Responsible for Demand Planning, data mart setup in Demand Planning, historical data upload for forecasting, and APO system mapping to fulfill business requirements
• Worked on Info Cube design, creation, and maintenance with optimum key figures and dimensions
• Worked on characteristics value combinations to define forecast methodology
• Set up time bucket profile.
• Designed planning book and planning areas.
• Created forecast Alert profiles to display alerts for univariate forecast errors and used Alert monitor to identify potential problems in the forecast by defining alert macros.
• Integration of DP and PPDS and Interactive Planning set up in PPDS.
• Implementation of PPDS module and Master data maintenance.
• Configured PPDS Alert Profile, Work Area, propagation range, strategy profile, maintained Optimization profile.
• Defined detailed Scheduling Planning board profile and detailed scheduling Overall profile.
• Created Period - Oriented planning in the product planning table.
• Conducted production planning runs.
• Set up Integration models for transfer of Master data, transaction data.
• Resolved problems faced in APO during day to day working of users.

SCM APO DP/SNP/GATP Consultant (Full Cycle)

Confidential, Mount Juliet, TN

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Process as part of knowledge transfer and mapped the structure of the company (such as: regions, divisions, brands, products and customers) for planning purposes in the DP and SNP Master Data.
• Completed BW Objects like Info Cubes, Info Source, and Source System to Load Allocation Restrictions.
• Maintained Master Planning Object Structure, Planning Areas, Characteristic Value Combinations (CVCs), Master Data and Time Series Objects, Storage Bucket Profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets.
• Maintained Statistical Forecast Profiles and various Data Views as per Business Blueprint.
• Developed Transfer Rules and Update Profiles for ODS and Info Cubes.
• Defined Forecast Models for Time Series Forecasting, Causal Analysis and Composite Forecasting.
• Created Proportional Factors to disaggregate CVCs from Aggregate to the Detail Level.
• Performed Life Cycle Planning through Like Profile, Phase-in and Phase-Out Profiles.
• Performed Promotion Planning using MLR method.
• Defined Macros to perform calculations to carry out tests and to create alerts.
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 to APO.
• Set up SNP Master Profile and configured SNP Master Data - Location and Product Master, Revenue, Transportation Lane and Production Process Model (PPM).
• Created a Supply Chain Model to represent the Supply Chain Network with all relevant locations (vendors, plants, distribution centers and customers), resources (storage, handling and supply capabilities) and relationships (Transportation Lanes).
• Defined Shipping and Storage Calendars for each location and performed Rough-Cut Capacity Check.
• Performed SNP Runs using SNP Heuristics and SNP Optimizer and maintained Quota Arrangements in Supply Chain Engineer (SCE) for the use of SNP Heuristics and Creation of Optimizer Profile and SNP Cost Profile.
• Configuration for Rules-based ATP check.
• Testing of Backorder Processing, Product Allocations and Rules-based ATP check by creating scenarios using sales orders in R/3.
• Troubleshooting configuration issues in GATP and its integration with R/3.
• Provided training to Demand Planners and end users. Provided support to end users in integration of APO with SD/MM/ PP.
• Created End User Documents and Training Materials.