PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 9 years of hands - on experience in SAP APO (Advance Planning and Optimization) Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP) and Core Interface (CIF). Over 2 years of hands on experience in Project Management tools and techniques for project coordination and support.
• Hands on experience of design and configure the settings for DP and SNP Planning areas, Planning object structures, planning books, data views and macros.
• Experience of SNP aggregate planning process, configuration of SNP Master Profile, SNP heuristics, and Optimizer.
• Hands on experience of master data set up for SNP, Planning run, Deployment and Transport Load Builder.
• Designed, configured and maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC and APO in various projects.
• Experience of testing various SAP Packages and also experience of working with tools such asMicrosoft Test Manager, e-CATT,HP Quality Centre, BMC Remedy for incident Experience of 2 full life cycle implementations as well as many other implementation, testing and support projects
• Experience in SAP, project management, business blueprint, functional design, configuration and development, Go-live, end-user and cutover activities.
• Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) by Project Management Institute (PMI). (Cert. # 1395788)
• Hands-on experience on ASAP methodology with experience in all phases of Project implementation-Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Pre-go Live, Go Live and Post live Support.
• Experience in Supply Chain Planning Concepts and Processes include Designing, Developing, Configuring, Testing, Implementing and supporting all aspects of the Core Interface (CIF), Demand Planning (DP),Supply Network Planning(SNP) and ProductionPlanning/DetailedScheduling(PPDS)
• Knowledge of various Forecasting Models and forecasting techniques.
• Experience in configuration and implementation of DP Info Cubes using Administrative Workbench, generating and changing CVCs, Planning books, Data Views, Planning Areas, Key Figures, macros and creating Statistical Forecast.
• Experience in using Solution Manager for Change and Release Management.
• 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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Windows 8, Apple IOS/Mavs

ERP: SCM APO 4.0, 5.0, 7.0, SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, 6.0

Languages: C/C++

Business Process Modeling Tools: ARIS, MS VisioOther Tools & Utilities: Office (Word, Excel, Power Point),MS Project, HP Quality Centre, BMC Remedy, Confidential Test Manager (MTM), Radar (Defect Management tool by Apple ), Espresso ( Incident Management tool by Apple)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP APO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved with design and implementation of Demand Planning Interim solution for Kellogg’s business using SCM 7.2
• Gathered requirements by direct involvement of users and super users / client team and provided best solutions and improvements in order to enhance existing business process using some best practices.
• Analyzed the AS-IS state and TO-BE state of the demand planning process. Carried out the TO-BE and GAP analysis, business process re-engineering and configuration.
• Set up the Demand Planning book, configured the changes in planning area settings due to the introduction of new business process.
• Configured data views and macros for the new designed planning book for consensus planning books.
• Designed all the batch jobs and process chains for the new data loads for CRM, sales and forecast data into the planning area.
• Improved performance for the batch jobs running for existing system by coordinating with basis team. Configured all new parallel processing profiles for the new and existing batch jobs for the system to improve performance of the system.
• Developed test scripts for Integration Testing and defect developed documents for the End Users, knowledge transfer with end user and resolved any end user issues.
• Helped users in UAT and development of KT documents for successful handover of project to support team after Go-Live.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.2

Confidential, Redmond WA.

SAP S&OP Implementation Manger

Responsibilities:

• As part of a GFS BSO implementation team, worked to implement SAP S&OP solution with Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning.
• Defined business processes for supply chain planning and prepared Visio diagrams for ‘To be business processes’.
• Mapped business requirements to the S&OP solution functionalities for the ‘To be business process’.
• Prepared Business Requirements Document (BRD) and performed GAP analysis for the ‘existing process’ and ‘to be process’
• Involved in master data and transactional data definition for the S&OP solution
• Identified and make stakeholders aware about the risks and issues such as performance impact due to change from monthly to weekly planning buckets,, impact of huge master data and transactional data etc. in the project.
• Delivered UAT scripts scenarios for the S&OP solution.
• Helped ISCI implementation during blue printing phase to overcome various issues of demand and supply planning such as deciding on planning levels, characteristics and attributes for master data, planning level and forecast run issues for demand planning and key figures calculations and definitions etc.

Environment: SAP S&OP 3.0, SAP HANA Cloud Integration

Confidential

SAP APO Lead DP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved with design and implementation of Demand Planning project for apple’s $6B iTunes Gift Cards business using SCM 7.2
• Helped and supported PM for project tracking and control as well as coordinated other team members and offshore resources.
• Analyzed the AS-IS condition of the demand planning process. Carried out the TO-BE and GAP analysis, business process re-engineering and configuration.
• Discussed specific and critical requirements with the client team and provided best solutions in order to support existing business process. Provided suggestions to improve the business process’s using some best practices.
• Set up APO BW Source system, info area, info source and info cube.
• Maintained Storage Bucket and Time Bucket Profiles.
• Set up the Demand Planning book, Planning Object Structure, Planning area and macros in the interactive demand planning.
• Created Proportional Factors to disaggregate CVCs from Aggregate to the Detail level.
• Developed test scripts for Integration Testing and defect management using Radar and Espresso (Company’s internal software for test management).
• Developed documents for the End Users, knowledge transfer with end user and resolved any end user issues.
• Currently involved in UAT and development of KT documents for successful handover of project to support team after Go-Live.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.2

Confidential, Redmond WA

SAP APO SNP Consultant/Lead Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyze functional specs and based on the various attributes identify the test methods best suitable for the solution.
• Prepare test plan for the ongoing Business Process regression Testing (BPRT) including automation scripts
• Plan, track and drive whole testing efforts and provide deliverables on time under tight deadline and stressful situation
• Coordinate and direct three offshore e-CATT automation team members and enable automation by providing knowledge transfer, guidance as well as validate the scripts delivered
• Perform manual testing of APO system for ongoing releases, support packages and any new changes
• Generate or maintain master and transaction data in various environments (e.g. quality and other test environment) for successful and thorough integration and regression testing
• Involved in configuration changes in the Heuristic and Integration Models in Core Interface (CIF)and other enhancements for the business
• Developed various test scenarios/test cases and documented the test results for both regression and system integration testing (SIT) of the solutions.
• Performed system testing and defect management using Confidential Test Manager (MTM) for the Core Interface, Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning modules and some custom enhancements.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.2

Confidential

SAP SCM APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the AS-IS condition of the demand planning business process and suggested some improvements and configuration.
• Coordinate with two offshore support team members by providing knowledge transfer and guidance as well as assign support issues. follow up with them to get the support issues and task done
• Monitor batch jobs for Demand Planning and make sure system is up to date and ready for the business on start of every planning run is performed, if any P1 issue comes up, resolve it within 1 hour to get the system online ASAP.
• Provided support for the production issues and solve the tickets logged by users immediately to ensure the smooth business activities.
• Improve the batch jobs by creating the new jobs for the Cut-over activities for the new operating Companies going for Go-Live
• Monitor and maintain CIF Integration with SAP ECC and SAP APO system for APO master data updating and maintenance
• Maintain master and transaction data in various environments(e.g. Development, Quality and staging) for the integration and regression testing
• Involved in configuration changes in the Heuristic Planning,Capable-To-Match (CTM) Planning, Deployment and Transport Load Builder (TLB) for the business
• Transported the configurations to Quality/Testing and Production Server. Manually created the non-transportable activities. (E.g. variants, Selection profilesetc.)
• Performed system testing and defect management using HP Quality Centre for the Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning modules.
• Analyzed business requirements related to DP alerts by interacting with users and configured all DP Alerts and maintained alert monitor functionality for Demand Planning.
• Created Proportional Factors to disaggregate CVCs from Aggregate to the Detail level.
• Performed Life Cycle Planning through Like Profile, Phase-in, and Phased-out Profile.
• Designed and Developed the Supply Network Model incorporating all the plants, distribution centers, Customers and Suppliers based on the supply chain process.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Confidential

SAP SCM DP/SNP Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SAP SCM 7.0 with Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning module for the organization.
• Prepared Business Flow Charts based on Business Blue Print documents and Requirements mapping for the business process of the company.
• Delivered Functional and Technical Specifications and performed GAP analysis.
• Involved in the creation of Info objects, Info cubes, Info sources, Info packages, Characteristic Value Combinations (CVCs), Master Planning Object Structure, Planning areas, Planning books, Data views, Statistical forecast profiles, Storage Bucket profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets and the related Activities, Batch jobs, Variants and Background jobs.
• Configured CIF Integration with SAP ECC and SAP APO system for replicating data
• Designed and Developed the Supply Network Model incorporating all the plants, distribution centers, Customers and Suppliers based on the supply chain process.
• Transported the configurations to Testing and Production Server. Manually created the non-transportable activities. (Selection profiles, variants, etc.)
• Developed various test scenarios/test cases and documented the test results for both functional and integration testing of the solutions in Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning.
• Performed system testing and defect management using HP Quality Centrefor the Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning modules.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Confidential, Camden NJ

SAP APO DP/SNP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved with design and implementation of Demand Planning, and Supply Network Planning projects using SCM5.0
• Helped and supported PM for project tracking and control as well as coordinated the team
• Analyzed the AS-IS condition of the demand planning process. Carried out the TO-BE and GAPanalysis, business process re-engineering and configuration.
• Discussed specific and critical requirements with the client team and discussed what can be done and what data to be mapped from their legacy system to R/3. Actively designed and refined integration Data Specifications.
• Involved in the monitoring of proper transfer of Master Data from legacy system with ECC through CIF.
• Maintained Storage Bucket and Time Bucket Profiles and other settings for planning area.
• Set up the Demand Planning book, Planning Object Structure, Planning area and macros in the interactive demand planning.
• Generated planned independent requirements based on the customers historical sales data using various statistical forecasting methods of Demand Planning and developed methodology for evaluating the best forecast based on Best Practices in the industry.
• Maintained Statistical forecast profiles and various data views as per business blueprint. Designed and Developed the Supply Network Model incorporating all the plants, distribution centers, Customers and Suppliers based on the supply chain process.
• Designed & Configured the Optimization Planning, Heuristic Planning, Deployment and Transport Load Builder (TLB) Functionalities
• Set up the deployment heuristic and created deployment optimization profile
• Set up the supply chain model (work areas-location, products, resources, PPM, transportation lanes and quota arrangements)
• Performed Life Cycle Planning through Like Profile, Phase-in, and Phased-out Profile.
• Designed and Developed the Supply Network Model incorporating all the plants, distribution centers, Customers and Suppliers based on the supply chain process.
• Created SNP product Master Views: define lot size, production horizon, fixing horizon etc.
• Planning parameters settings, Defined Alert profile, Maintained strategy profile, Maintained time profile, Maintained optimization profile and Defined propagation range

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 5.0

Confidential, San Francisco CA

SAP SCM DP/SNP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SAP SCM 7.0 SP10 with Demand Planningand Production Planning and Detailed Schedulingmodule for Statistical Forecast for two business units.
• Prepared Business Flow Charts based on Business Blue Print documents.
• Successfully implemented SAP Business Solutions for this energy industry.
• Coordinated and supported the project team members and offshore support teamfor various project activities and issues.
• Tracked and reported progress and other statistics of project to respective authorities and PM
• Reviewed Functional and Technical Specifications.
• Prepared and updated the configuration documents.
• Involved in the creation of Infoobjects, Info cubes, Info sources, Info packages, Characteristic Value Combinations (CVCs), Master Planning Object Structure, Planning areas, Planning books, Data views, Statistical forecast profiles, Storage Bucket profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets Phase-in, Phase-out and Like Profiles and the related Activities, Batch jobs, Variants and Background jobs.
• Defined planning books and Macros for interactive planning and defined Macros to perform calculations to carry out tests, and created Alerts.
• Designed and Developed the Supply Network Model incorporating all the plants, distribution centers, Customers and Suppliers based on the supply chain process.
• Transported the Configurations to Testing and Production Server. Manually created the non-transportable activities. (Background jobs, variants, etc.)
• Implementation of PPDS module and Master data maintenance.
• Defined detailed Scheduling Planning board profile and detailed scheduling Overall profile.
• Created and assigned TLB profile to the transportation lane.
• Perform testing of system with the help of various tools such as HP Quality Centre.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Confidential, Danvers MA .

SAP APO DP/SNP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understood the Business process as part of knowledge transfer and maintained the S&OP process using DP and SNP, performed enhancements.
• Maintained and modified Proportional factors, disaggregation types and Macros.
• Creation and maintenance of all the Mass master data and Corrected Master Data related issues for - Product, Location, Transportation Lanes, Means of Transports, and PPM.
• Configured CTM planning functionality, Set up CTM profile, Master data selection in CTM, Demand Prioritization using custom logic, conducted UAT for Demand prioritization, Set up the search strategy and Supply categorization processes, and analyzed the results of the CTM planning.
• Involved in CIF activities like Monitoring and error handling and other problem solving activities.
• Debugged CIF related issues, Worked on CIF Error handling, and CIF Post processing, CIF reconciliation and Delta Reports, Well versed with Error Handling and CIF transactions.
• Worked on Forecast consumption, carried out Procurement Planning process and Allocation Planning.
• Executed Deployment Runs to determine the distribution of available Supply.
• Configured Safety Stock Planning and Validated Pool calculation which is a customized solution for calculating excess inventory based on user maintained master data.

Environment: SAP SCM 4.1, ECC 5.0

Confidential

SAP APO DP/PPDS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted integration tests and resolved issues raised 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
• Coordinated and supported the offshore support team and controlled and monitored the progress of various activities by done by the offshore team
• Reviewed Functional and Technical Specifications.
• 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 PP/DS and Interactive Planning set up in PP/DS.
• Implementation of PPDS module and Master data maintenance.
• Configured PP/DS Alert Profile, Work Area, propagation range, strategy profile, maintained Optimization profile.
• Defined detailed Scheduling Planning board profile and detailed scheduling Overall profile.
• Set up Integration models for transfer of Master data, transaction data.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 & SCM 5.0

Confidential, Summerville SC

SAP APO DP/GATP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understood the Business process as part of knowledge transfer and Maintained the S&OP process using DP, performed enhancements in Data view, DP graphs, Improved forecasting by selecting most appropriate models and the best Statistical parameters for Univariate forecasting.
• 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
• 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
• Provided support to the production system by solving various tickets and issues logged by users.

Environment: SAP APO 4.1, ECC 6.0

Confidential, Memphis TN

SAP DP/PPDS Consultant 

Responsibilities:

• Rebuilt the complete CVC combinations and reloaded the data successfully.
• Resolved all issues related to Unit testing, Integration testing in DP (Download/ upload, Info packages, CVC’s, Realignment, Batch jobs, Forecast release, CIF batch jobs, variants, Request OSS notes, Planning books, Macros etc.)
• Documented test scripts for Integration testing
• Helped users in integration testing and provided support on planning
• Integration of DP and PP/DS and Interactive Planning set up in PP/DS.
• Configured PP/DS Alert Profile, Work Area, propagation range, strategy profile, maintained Optimization profile.
• Configured new functionalities and trained the users
• Developed new batch jobs for the data loads, added new process chain
• Extensively worked on documentation for Functional Analysis.
• Working on Production support new requirements and resolve issues
• Created Material Master for raw materials, semi-finished materials, and finished materials.
• Maintained the MRP, Forecasting and Work scheduling views in the material.
• Created and maintained BOM, work center and Routing
• Maintained Production schedule profile.
• Maintained demand management and planned independent requirements.

Environment: SAP APO 3.1, R/3 4.6