SUMMARY

• 9 Years of SAP Experience in SAP APO (CIF, DP, SNP, and GATP), IBP/S&OP, BW / BI has good knowledge in Manufacturing, Hi - tech, FMCG, Process Industry and Oil&Gas
• Around 1.5 Years of experience as SAP IBP Consultant (S&OP 3.x, IBP 4.x and IBP 5).
• Extensively worked on implementation methodologies like ASAP Methodology and Scrum Methodology
• Trained in SOP200 & SOP300 and HCI
• 2 End-to-End SAP APO Implementations with strong understanding of Business Requirements, Business Process flows and System Analysis.
• 3 Production Support in SAP APO in the areas of Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP)
• 1 Enhancement in SAP APO in the Area of Global Available to Promise (gATP)
• 1 End-to-End SAP IBP Implementation using Scrum Methodology.
• 1 Production support in SAP IBP for Demand Planning and Supply Planning.
• 1 Rollout in SAP IBP for Demand Planning and Supply Planning
• 1 POC & Demo in SAP S&OP .
• Extensively worked on SAP IBP Web UI and Excel UI
• Hands on experience on JAM (Success Factors)
• Configured complex scenarios in SAP IBP with good performance.
• Involved with SAP in performance testing
• Good Knowledge on Supply Chain Control Tower
• Highly Proficient in Requirements gathering and preparing Business blue print.
• Extensive experience in Solution design and Data modeling.
• Good experience in Implementation of Supply chain reports and KPI’s.
• Good experience in Sales and Inventory.
• Excellent Technical, analytical, presentation, communication, leadership and Management skills.
• Strong team player and interact well with Business users, Functional and Technical team to meet the project deadlines.
• Strong Knowledge in the business process of Sales, Forecasting, Promotion, NPI, Supply, Production, Procurement, Sub Contracting, Availability Check.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 ECC6/ 4.6C/ 4.3C (SD,MM,PP)

SAP APO: SAP SCM 5.0, 7.0

SAP S&OP: SAP S&OP 3.x, IBP 4.0 & 5.0(IBP For Demand)

Warehouse Tool: SAP BW 3.5, SAP BI 7.0

Reporting Tools: SAP BO 3.X, Bex Analyzer, Query Designer.

Collaboration: JAM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP IBP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed S&OP process for mid-term planning in IBP which will balance Demand and Supply.
• Understanding the current business flow and their Hierarchies starting from Supplier level to Customer level.
• Modeled Unique Master data, by which finance planning can be integrated with Demand Planning and Supply Planning.
• Worked with HCI (Hana Cloud Integration) team for mapping Master data and transaction data.
• Load master data and transaction data through HCI batch job.
• Configured Process Modeling Ribbon in IBP, which will show the complete S&OP Process stating from Demand Review, Supply Review,Pre S&OP and Executive Review
• Integrate Planners with IBP through JAM
• Schedule batch job to greater forecast at different levels and provide view access to different segments in Demand Planning.
• Maintained authorization based on the planners hierarchy
• Configured reason codes and JAM Groups for demand planning and supply planning.
• Calculate consensus forecast based on all adjustments.
• Created batch job in IBP, which will run Supply planning operator (Unconstraint Heuristics).
• Calculate different demands over lead time (Demand Over Lead time, Max Demand Over Lead time, Average Demand Over Lead time)
• Calculate safety stocks (Lead time safety stock, validated safety stock)
• Configured alerts based on the threshold values
• Target stock based on 3 Months Moving Average
• Created versions to check what if scenarios.
• View Profitability of different Planning versions
• Extensively worked on Web UI and Excel UI.
• Involved in Implementation, Rollout, and Production Support.
• Worked on User Management and Authorizations ( User Creation, Roles, Visibility Filters)
• Create documentation and train end users
• Identify the Master data issues
• Provide support to the Existing Business
• Supporting daily day to day issues
• Capturing user requirements and creating as change requirements
• Configured Complex solutions and tuned system in terms of better performance
• Identified bugs in the systems and co-ordinate with SAP and get resolved
• Worked with SAP during performance testing.
• Enhance the existing Functionalities as per Planners requirements
• Provide Documentation for Business Users
• Good Knowledge on HCI (Hana Cloud Integration)
• Helping out HCI team in resolving data integration issues.
• Respond to tickets As per SLA’S

Confidential

SAP IBP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Business Templates
• Designed unified model for Both Demand and Supply Planning
• Analyze Master data and Transaction Data from templates
• Configured in IBP as per their templates for Cables and non-cables
• Ability to generate different versions of rolling Plan for (Local, Export, Dubai, Projects)
• Change the DPG inventory strategy which is propagated to the material level.
• Change the calculated monthly target stock @ material level which will reflect in Rolling Qty
• Consider Sales of Phase out SKUs as a part of new SKUs to generate the forecast.
• Automatically cleanse the historical data to calculate the material contribution & Classification inside each DPG
• Statistical Forecast Projection by various statistical algorithms include best Fit & ability to change the forecast at any level and system will change the under/upper level Automatically.
• Ability to measure storage constraints and production capacity constraints
• Capture both constraints and unconstraint Forecast
• Ability to consider backlog orders.
• Simulate the best mix considering standard cost, Profitability
• Ability to get capacity underutilization and over utilization load alert
• Consider stock of all DCs before Calculating MPS, for stock utilization
• Modeled S&OP Process (Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Demand & Supply Balancing)

Confidential, Cupetino,CA

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on DP, SNP & GATP Enhancements (AMC,EMIA,APAC)
• Worked on RBA & BOP
• Done Enhancement to Product Allocation
• Interacts with the business team and understand their business and Issue.
• Replicate the issue in the System and analyze the same.
• Interacts with Business for the required changes.
• Provide Detailed designed document (functional Spec) which includes filed at table level, and get approvals from Business.
• Helping out technical team in understanding the gap
• Provide documents for technical people for their Unit testing
• From functional side, we make sure that new functionalities are working as expected and not affecting any other existing functionality.
• Perform Unit testing and UAT for one Region (AMC) and get signoff from users.
• Check the Performance Testing Results and get signoff from Performance team.
• Provide overview for RT Testing.
• Follow-up with client after the new changes are in production
• Knowledge on MATP

Confidential

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved from realization and successfully completed Go-Live within the time
• Interact with clients and gather requirements
• Providing Solution based on client requirements.
• Understand the as on Process and Map the Client Requirements in SAP
• Configuration of DP&SNP Based on Client Requirements
• Configuring CIF
• Resolving CIF Issues.
• Carried out entire implementation of demand planning and Supply Network Planning.
• Provided the best SNP solution based on the DRC Business.
• Worked in a tight integrated Systems (APO,SRM,EWM,ECC,BI)
• Proposed best suitable forecasting techniques according to the clients business.
• Mapping Quota for Procurement & Production
• Configured Subcontracting Scenario.
• Generate Scheduling Lines from APO.
• Configured Justin time Scenarios.
• Analyze SNP Results based on Optimizer and Heuristics.
• Proposed different BW Reports in DP &SNP Based on Client Requirements.
• Configured Deployment based on the business Requirement.
• Configured TLB based on the Different transportation available to DRC.
• Identify the core/end users and train them.
• Creation of roles for different users.
• Provided core user documents.
• Provided configuration documents.
• Carried out Integration Testing and UAT Testing.
• Prepared SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) Documents
• Successfully Completed go live
• Configured ATP settings in ECC and SCM
• Enabled Product Availability and product allocation checks
• Configured BOP

Confidential

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding and mapping the business process in DP.
• Involved in regular discussions and meetings with the Onsite team for requirements in DP.
• Design and Maintenance of Info Cubes, ODS and other BW related Objects.
• Involved in Creating Macros, Transfer Profiles and Release Profiles and created Activities for Mass Processing.
• Create planning versions, Configuration of new Planners in APO, Assign user to planning books/data views, Run the forecast (both interactively and through background job) for all the models.
• Create a background job to run the macros, Check the release functionality both online and background, Check for the distribution functionality, Run-realignment in the planning area, Upload the data to planning area, Version copy of planning area in Testing system.
• Responsible in maintaining characteristic value Combinations & loading planning area version.
• Responsible for Maintaining Planning areas, Master planning objects structures.
• Responsible for Creation and Activation of Integration model to transfer the Master Data and Transaction data from ECC to APO system (CIF).
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO. Mass Maintenance of Master Data in APO.
• Performed Life Cycle Planning through Like Profile, Phase-in and Phase-Out Profiles.
• Resolved all issues related to Unit testing, Integration testing in DP (Download/ upload, Info packages, CVC’s, Realignment, Batch jobs, Forecast release, variants, Planning books, Macros etc).
• Created Time bucket profiles, Planning books, Data views, forecast profiles for Demand Planning components of SAP.
• Involved in Creating Macros, Executing Forecast, Transfer Profiles and Release Profiles and created Activities for Mass Processing.
• Set up SNP Master Profile and configured SNP Master Data.
• Maintain Different models and versions.
• Experience in Heuristics.
• Creating different profiles for SNP run.
• 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).
• Knowledge on PP/DS.

Confidential

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understanding of business needs and requirements so as to design collaborative solutions to streamline client business processes.
• Preparation of unit test cases from functional documents APO DP.
• Execution of unit test cases for APO DP.
• Monitoring of Batch job runs, failure analysis and reporting.
• Monitoring of CIF queues. Analyzing and clearing the blocked queues.
• Involved in knowledge transfer sessions from our senior consultants.
• Developed training documents for the End Users, knowledge transfer with end user.
• Released Demand Plan to SNP.
• Hands on experience in monitoring CIF issues and resolving.

Confidential

SAP BI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of SLOB / Inventory Ageing KPI.
• Implementation of MAPE report .
• Performance tuning of queries.
• Implementation of operational Reports.
• Modeling of Cubes, DSO and multi Providers.
• Created Infosets for master data reporting.
• Creation of process chain.
• Creation of Past due Order Reports.
• Creation of Data source based on function module.
• Creation of Data source Enhancement.

Confidential

SAP BW Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Data loading and monitoring in accordance with loading plan.
• Solving the tickets posted by the end user.
• Monitored data loads with full update and delta mechanisms for both master and transaction data
• Involved in monitoring of Info Packages and analyzing the failure reasons of Info Packages.
• Optimization of process chains and processes.
• Checked Source system connections.
• Involved in Design and creating Processes Chains to automate the process of loading data into data targets
• Checking the daily time schedule for the run & ensuring that the jobs are finished within the specified time frame.
• Load Monitoring of Daily, Weekly and Monthly Data Loads using Process Chains.
• Extensively worked on the Performance Tuning of the System.
• Maintaining Reconciliation to verify the data in R/3 and SAP BW are same or not after the data loads.
• Uploaded master data and transactional data from SAP R/3 to SAP BW via data staging to PSA, ODS and Info Cubes.
• Used ODS to stage the data before transferring the extracted data to the Info Cube.
• Involved in activating the Business Content Data Sources for QM, Customized BW objects including the Data sources, Info Cubes, ODS Objects, Info objects and Standard Queries
• Worked Extensively on Lo cockpit for the Data Sources.
• Created custom Reports for QM using Filters, Calculated and Restricted Key Figures, Exceptions and Conditions and Text Variables.