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Sap Apo Consultant Plano, TX
SUMMARY
- 8 plus years of experience as SAP SD, SCM APO/ Confidential consultant with expertise in full life cycle implementations, rollout and Support experience.
- 4 years of exp in to SAP APO/ Confidential S&OP
- Trained and Certified in SAP Confidential 1702
- Over 4 plus years of Sales and Distribution (SD) module hands on experience in which 1 full life cycle implementations using ASAP methodology: from Business Blueprint, Realization, Final preparation, go - live & Support.
- Expertise in SAP SCM with full life cycle Implementations, Production Support Projects in DP, SNP.
- Experience in order to cash (OTC) processes
- Experience with agile methodology or SCRUM.
- Trained and Certified in SAP Confidential 1702 by Gita cloud Confidential .
- Trained and certified on SAP Solution manager 7.2
- Experience in integration of SD with FI, MM, and PP modules as a functional consultant.
- Experience in Supply Chain Planning Concepts and Processes include Designing, Developing, Testing, Implementing and supporting of all aspects of the Core Interface (CIF), Demand Planning (DP), and Supply Network Planning (SNP).
- Experience of various Forecasting Models and Forecasting Techniques.
- Experience in Configuration and Implementation of DP Info Cubes using Administrative Workbench, Generating and Changing Characteristic Value Combination, Planning books, Planning Areas, Macros and Creating Statistical Forecast. Maintained Time Bucket Profiles, Forecast Profiles, Planning Versions, Promotional Planning, Life Cycle Management and "Like" Modeling.
- Very good exp on SNP maser data like Location, Product master, resource, Transportation Lines etc
- Exp designing of DP,SNP planning book and data views
- Experience on working with SNP Heuristics.
- Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC and APO.
- Mass Maintenance of Master Data in APO. Monitoring of CIF errors using the qRFC monitor.
- Experience of development activities WRICEF.
- Experience in Creating Test Scenarios, Manage Testing, Develop User Documents and Users on new solution.
- SD expertise:
- Very good exp on SD mast data such as customer, Material, CMIR, Pricing condition records.
- Pre-sales activities such as inquiry and quotation, and major business activities such as Pricing, Billing, Shipping, Transportation, and Availability check (ATP).
- Extensive Knowledge on Credit Management, Partner, Revenue Account, Determination, Output Determination, Bill of Materials.
- Proficient in customizing different Sales Orders such as Standard sales order, Rush sales order, Cash sales order.
- Expert in Shipping Point Determination, Route Determination, Transport and Delivery Scheduling, Backward Delivery Scheduling, Partial and Complete Delivery, Subsequent Outbound Delivery, Split and Grouping of Deliveries
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP: SAP ECC, SCM APO.
Interface Programming: ALE/EDI/IDOCs
Latest SAP Skills: S/4 Hana Enterprise management, SAP Integrated business planning.
Project Management: ASAP, Agile methodologies, Solution Manager 7.2
RDBMS: MS SQL Server 2012.
SAP Functional Modules: SD, MM,FI/CO, SAP APO,SAP Confidential /S&OP and SAP CRM
SAP Systems: ECC 4.7, 6.0, SCM APO 7.3 and CRM 7, Confidential 1702
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Configuring Attributes, Master data Types (Simple, Compound& ) and time Profiles.
- Creating Planning area and assigning relevant master data and time profiles to it.
- Creating Key figures and planning levels
- Assigning Key figures to Versions.
- Model Activation and data load.
- Manage Reason codes, Global Configurations, Planning Operators
- Creating Process Templates, Planning Views and establish planning connections
- Knowledge on User management, Roles and Visibility filters.
- Experience on working on Excel UI
- Good Knowledge on Versions and Scenarios
- Set up different planning views by using Templates.
- Security & User Administration concepts.
- Good knowledge on Analytics
- Exposure on Statistical Forecasting / Demand Planning
- Good Knowledge on Rough Cut Supply Planning
- Planning Area Maintenance
- Knowledge on Attribute Transformations
- Trained on Planning Operators
- Very good knowledge on Security & User Administration concepts
Confidential, Plano, TX
SAP APO Consultant
Environment: SAP
Responsibilities:
- Worked as a functional consultant in support, rollout and continuous improvement work.was involved in SAP APO - ECC HANA implementation. Prepared Test script and performed Testing related to APO DP, SNP and GATP.
- Involved in multi country rollout work and functionality improvement based on SAP APO global template.
- The primary responsibilities include constant interactions with the key business users to resolve high impact issues within SCM APO and PP, MM and SD.
- APO DP - Expertise in Planning Area Configurations, Automating CVC creation, Forecast Release Strategies, Bucket Profiles, Process chains, DP Jobs/activities creation, Reports, Monthly finance forecast load into info cube and then into planning area. Created process chain with the integration of BW.
- Created alert & macro profile as per user requirement.
- APO SNP - Working on SNP heuristics, deployment and TLB processes. Setup master data for SNP. Material master MRP type and strategy group setting, lead time related settings, BOM, Routing, Production version, PDS priority, Purchasing Info Records, Transportation lanes, external procurement relationship, SNP relevant calendars and planner assignment, SNP field maintenance is the part of activity which is perform based on business need. Integration models for CIF, Selection for CIF variants, CIF jobs and variants, Issue resolution reported by users such as Master Data Inconsistencies, Batch Job Scheduling, and Change Requests for Business Process etc. is done frequently.
- Manual/Ad-hoc Heuristic run as per business request, DP Forecast Load into SNP, creation of integration model, CIF of master data, creation of TLB profile (as per business request.Creation of Quota as per business need is also done.
- Developed automatic Transportation lane block unblock consistency check function.
- Update planning book selection profile, selection profile for Jobs and ad-hoc run of jobs is also within my responsibility.
- SCM SNC - Publish customer Requirements and convert customer requirement into sales order manually on weekly basis.
- XML monitoring. Daily validation of SNC requirements.
- Setup of new SNC customer. Report the user about IDOC failure with analysis.
- Daily validation of TSDM and ZROREPORTS.
- GATP - ATP rules for GATP and SNP processes, SD order integration to SNP and GATP, Sales Order integration to Demand Forecasting Process, CRM integration and back order processing related activities were done.Allocation and GATP check at warehouses.
- Enhancements related to quota(allocation) for customers were made to trigger ATP at warehouse.
- Backorder processing (BOP) based requirement is considered, customer priority and BOP modeling has been carried out.
- Rules based ATP Check, product and location substitution rules were modeled. CIF settings for GATP and SNP integration was carried out rule based ATP check for product substitution was done though standard ECC supersession (one product is replaced by another) process activation, which was resulted into creation of product substitution in APO rule based GATP.
- XML Monitoring (Root cause analysis of failed XML messages and retain if required) and share the resolution of error to the business
- Setup of new customer for SNC as per business Request.
- Converting replenishmentorder into sales order weekly activity and inform to business after completion.
- Worked on work order and enhancement wrote FS .Worked on RICEFWs for product inheritance, CIF enhancement, Planning parameter setup for heuristics and developing reports
- Root Cause analysis and permanent fix of SAP APO interface job issues.
- Monitor the batch job via UC4 Tool.
Confidential, Piscataway, NJ
Consultant
Environment: SAP Confidential 1702
Responsibilities:
- Creating and maintaining master data and Planning Combinations
- Scheduling all batch jobs in HCI and solving all batch job related errors
- Scheduling all batch jobs in SAP Confidential like Planning Operators, Statistical Forecasting and solving all the errors
- Creating and maintaining Planning View and Templates.
- Maintaining and extending Time Profiles.
- Solving all data reconciliation problems between source systems like SAP ECC, SAP BW and SAP Confidential end users on SAP Confidential for S&OP solution
- Creating Planning Area, Key Figures, Master Data Types and Attributes
- Creating Functional Specs and Business Requirement Documents
- Performing Unit Testing and Integration Testing
- Preparing system for User Acceptance Testing
- Integration testing for HCI interface with all on premise systems
- Creating test scripts for User Acceptance Testing
- Define and manage planning models to measure KPIs for selected Master Data
- Manage Reason codes, Global Configurations, Planning Operators
- Manage Snapshot configurations, Statistical Forecast Profile
- Worked on user management, Roles and Visibility filters
- Creating Process Templates, Planning Views and establish planning connections
- Define, Configure and activate Models
- Creating Master Data Types, Attributes, Time Profiles and Key figures
- Scheduling & Monitoring jobs in Hana Cloud Integrator as well as in Excel Confidential
- Managing Data Loads, Generating charts and dash boards
- Creating Alerts favorite planning views
Confidential, Secaucus, NJ
Consultant
Environment: SAP SCM 7.0
Responsibilities:
- As part of requirement gathering, understand the detailed functional requirements prepared by the business and coordinate with users to lock the requirements.
- Designing, implementing and supporting complex business processes in an SAP environment.
- Gathering detailed requirements from Functional and Business owners/Users and perform the configurations.
- Master Planning Object Structure, Planning Areas; Designing of Planning Books and Data Views,
- Designing of Macros and Alerts,
- Maintain Time Bucket Profiles and Storage Bucket Profiles,
- Maintaining Release Profiles and Defining Activities and Jobs for Mass Processing.
- Administrator Work Bench ( BW Data mart ) in APO including: Creating Info Areas, Info Catalogs, Custom Characteristics and Key Figures; Creating Info Cubes and ODS Objects and their Update Rules; Creating Application Components and Info Sources for both Transaction Data and Master Data and assigning Data Sources and creating Info Package.
- Worked Extensively on CIF, from initial setup to troubleshooting of CIF Errors.
- Create Integration Models and Batch Jobs for Master & Transactional Data.
- Create a Complete Night Batch Run and configure SNP-Alerts.
- Helped the Business to do the Master Data Mapping.
- Daily troubleshooting of user queries and resolution of issues monitoring of jobs in SNP, CIF Coordination with offshore teams..
- Lead the UAT and the User
Confidential
Functional Consultant
Environment: SAP SCM 7.0 & ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Creating and maintaining master data and Planning Combinations
- Responsible for SNP Planning runs like, Heuristics and Optimizer, correcting if required after analyzing the results.
- Responsible for weekly Heuristic result and reports.
- Responsible Daily Deployment and TLB run and reports.
- Enabling the system connectivity between R/3 and APO.
- Creation, activation and maintenance of the integration models and creation of version and model.
- Responsible for transfer of master data using CIF, transfer of transactional data from ECC to APO and vice-versa.
- RFC Q-Monitoring (Inbound and outbound) in APO as well as in ECC.
- Involved in analysis and verifying the results of background jobs in APO and ECC.
- Configuring new development requested by business.
- Coordinate between onsite and offshore support team.
- Set up the production support processes.
Confidential
Functional Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Configuration of the Master Data: Customer Master, (partner functions), Info Records,
- Extensively worked on supporting the end users in the Order to Cash scenario in SD module.
- Actively participated in Logistic Execution process, by supporting Warehouse Management, Shipping and Transportation.
- Prepared functional specs for various new Sales Order and STO types to suit client needs.
- Involved in Business Process Management, requirement gathering, gap analysis and prepared a detailed document of AS-IS study and developed the detailed TO-BE processes to suit the company objectives.
- Automated the system for efficient customer order management to a great extent by assigning and processing requisitions based on Info Records, and extensive use of scheduling agreements for all regular materials reducing the number of transactions.
- Extended materials to Plants, Storage Locations and various Sales Areas.
- Conducted group workshops & one-on-one requirement gathering sessions with super users and management.
- Performed EDI mapping of Idocs, setting partner profiles, Output processing Fax, Mail communications.
- Prepared End user documentation for various functional Enhancements.
Confidential
Functional Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Involved in Business Process Management, requirement gathering, gap analysis and prepared a detailed document of AS-IS study and developed the detailed TO-BE processes to suit the company objectives.
- Configuration of the Master Data: Customer Master, (partner functions), Info Records,
- Extensively worked on supporting the end users in the Order to Cash scenario in SD module.
- Actively participated in Logistic Execution process, by supporting Warehouse Management, Shipping and Transportation.
- Prepared functional specs for various new Sales Order and STO types to suit client needs.
- Automated the system for efficient customer order management to a great extent by assigning and processing requisitions based on Info Records, and extensive use of scheduling agreements for all regular materials reducing the number of transactions.
- Extended materials to Plants, Storage Locations and various Sales Areas.
- Conducted group workshops & one-on-one requirement gathering sessions with super users and management.
