SUMMARY

• A Senior IT Professional with 7 years experience in implementing SAP R/3 Production Planning & APO (Advance Planner and Optimizer) solutions for US and International Clients in multiple industries.
• Involved in three full life cycle implementations: two in APO, one in PP and an upgrade project in APO.
• Applied ASAP Methodology, performed mapping of as - is to to-be design and gap analysis, gathered requirements for Interfaces, version upgrades, Business Mappings, Reports & Enhancements (RICEF). Provided go-live, hyper-care & post implementation support.
• Experience in Supply chain planning concepts in DP (Demand Planning), SNP (Supply network Planning) and PP/DS (Production planning and detailed scheduling) and GATP (Global Available to Promise) in various phases of project including design, development, configuration, testing and implementation.
• Strong Expertise in configuring and implementing DP Info Cubes using Administrative Workbench, generating and changing Characteristic Value Combination (CVCs), Planning books & Data Views, Planning Areas, Macros and creating Statistical Forecast.
• Maintained forecast profiles, time bucket profiles, planning versions, promotional planning, and life cycle planning and like modeling.
• Trained & Supported IT, MIS Groups & end-users for PP, APO (DP, SNP) and cross-functional modules. Conducted Process Flow presentations, Business related configuration exercises and workshops.
• Performed data transfer between SAP R/3, APO, Live cache and legacy system and maintained CIF Integration models for Master and Transaction Data exchange between R/3 and APO.
• Involved in Projects using the SAP R/3 Production Planning (PP) module with very good knowledge in Material requirement planning (MRP), Bill of materials (BOM), Work Centre and Routings.
• Supply Network Planning experience: Interactive Planning, Planning Area Configuration, Planning Book and Macro Design, SNP Heuristics, SNP Optimization, Advanced Safety Stock Methods.
• Great communication, interpersonal skills, dedication to job responsibilities and high project management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SCM APO 4.0, 5.0, 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, 6.0, 7.0

Business Process Modeling Tools: MS VISIO

Other Tools: MS Office, Minitab, Unigraphics, SQL Developer, TOAD.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

SAP SCM Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Key Involvement in re assessment project. Interviewed several Business and IT users to understand the gaps in current implementation.
• Documented as-is business process and projected to-be status by redefining the process.
• Gave several demonstrations on different features within Demand Planning such as disaggregation, time horizons, Macros and alerts in planning books, statistical models, promotional planning, and forecast error analysis.
• Developed a proof of concept by building new environment with new MPOS and Planning area with reduced characteristics and key figures to compare with existing MPOS consisting 20+ characteristics.
• Involved in clean-up & enhancement of a custom upload program to eliminate the ‘FUTURE’ segment problem commonly occurred in semi-conductor industry with short product life cycles.
• As an extension to clean up project, APO team deleted the obsolete CVCs from 180k down to 10k boosting the performance of planning book.
• Automated the uploading process from 4 different manual touch points (CVC creation, upload, validation) to single click process by including several alerts which were directly emailed to the users & APO support team.
• Involved in adding a new info object ‘Plan Version’ to stamp the monthly operating forecast (MOF) while extracting BEX reports.
• Worked with BW, ECC & Technical teams addressing the integration issues and reporting needs.
• Completed client sponsored SAP SCM 230 Supply network planning training and developed a proof of concept demonstrating Master data/Transaction data setup, Heuristics (Single level & Multi level) and Optimizer functionality.
• Created and modified process chains reflecting the latest process to load Monthly Operating forecast (MOF) and Long range planning (LRP) cubes in BW from APO planning area by adding a new ABAP program to email the status to the users.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SAP SCM DP/SNP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed a multi-plant Demand Planning system after business process mapping based on requirements.
• Conducted as-is to to-be study. Worked with super-users and business process owners.
• Designed planning areas, info cubes, planning books and data views, disaggregation rules for key figures and developed configuration documents for CIF & SNP.
• Managed BI info-cubes and data structures to populate sales historical data and create Characteristics Values Combinations (CVCs) based on the sales Info cube.
• Maintained requirements for Univariate forecasting, casual analysis and multiple linear regressions with forecast alert monitoring and macros.
• Conducted configuration and business process audit and provided corrective solutions and modifications related to MRP settings and Master Data using various planning strategies and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
• Coordinated APO/SCM DP Planning Book Data Views, interactive planning and forecast requirements for business teams
• Designed & tested the Optimization Planning, Heuristic Planning, Capable-To-Match (CTM) Planning, Deployment and Transport Load Builder (TLB) Functionalities and determined Heuristics single level suits the business needs.
• Validated data in APO/BW/Planning area and resolved data mismatches at all levels.
• Developed FSD documents for RICEF objects
• Created alerts if APO does not replenish neither safety stock levels nor cover customer demand due to capacity constraints.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

SAP APO DP/SNP/PPDS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Business scenario scripts, Performed Configuration, Unit testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT) and Integration testing with other modules.
• Documented as-is process, defined to-be process and got approval from business and guidance review team.
• Blueprinting, defining the scope and delivering business requirements documentation.
• Configured statistical forecast models, model selection, forecast error analysis etc. in Demand Planning
• Configured Planning components including Planning Object structure, characteristic value Combinations, storage and time bucket profiles, planning area, planning books and data views.
• Worked on master data for production Planning- BOM, routing, resources, capacity profiles etc
• Migration of Master data and Configuration to the Production environment.
• Trained and supported DP Planners.
• Configured Macros & Navigational attributes to support various DP business scenarios and forecasting requirements
• Designed and configured planning books and data views and optimized them for performance
• Provided Solutions to the gaps identified by business in using Life Cycle Planning and addressed these issues by modeling the solution with Like profiles, Phase In and Phase out profiles to address Business’s specific requirements.
• Involved closely in PP/DS implementations and rollouts for various plants for manufacturing execution. Supported realization and go-live support.
• Integration of SNP and DP and Interactive Planning set up in SNP.
• Resolved all the defects during user acceptance testing (UAT).

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

SAP APO DP/SNP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handled entire DP configuration objects like Planning Areas, Planning Object Structures, Storage and Planning Buckets Profiles, Forecast profiles, Alert Monitor, Lifecycle Planning, Mass processing and Characteristic value combinations.
• Designed robust solution to facilitate complex Realignment requirements in Demand Planning based on clients Business processes.
• Involved in Cutover activities (Pre system upgrade/Post system upgrade)
• Upgraded BW, Live Cache and Optimizer.
• Analyzed the existing forecast process in DP for improvements and designed new forecast models with Pick-best methodology and model it.
• Handled Complex and critical Realignment issues in DP and implemented performance improvement measures for Realignment jobs.
• Addressed bottleneck issues in performance through initiatives to effectively employ suitable aggregates, Improved the read access in Planning Books.
• Configured Parallel processing profiles for time consuming DP Batch processes and derived benefits from its application, reduced the processing time by 60%
• Debugged CIF related issues, Worked on CIF Error handling, CIF reconciliation and Delta Reports.
• Worked on Data Mart setup in Demand Planning.
• Created Info Package, loaded data into Info Cubes after setting up update rules, Transfer Structure, Communication Structure, Transfer Rules and Assigning Data Sources,
• Configured navigational attributes for Location in Demand Planning, Maintained and generated Demand Planning master data, Created Master Forecast profiles, worked with Univariate, Multiple Linear Regression(MLR) /Casual and Composite forecasting methods.
• Set up SNP Master Data - Product, Location, Customer, Resources, Transportation Lanes, Set up Supply Chain Model

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

SAP APO DP/SNP/PPDS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the AS-IS condition of the demand planning process. Carried out the TO-BE and GAP analysis, business process re-engineering and configuration.
• Implemented APO DP, and SNP modules. Provided data sources for SAP BW on the OLTP side, defined new Info Objects in the system and summarized them to Info Sources, created transfer structures, transfer rules, and communication structures, defined Info Cubes and update rules.
• Configured APO SNP planning area, planning books, selection profile for planning book, planning calendar, transferred SNP orders to R/3, setting up master data such as product, storage and transport resource, location.
• Set up supply chain model, transportation lanes, quota arrangement, optimization profile, TLB profile, ran SNP optimizer, heuristics.
• Installation and maintenance of APO Live Cache and Optimizer. Perform recovery of SAP R/3 OLTP, APO and Live Cache/SAPDB database and synchronizing the core interface (CIF).
• Master data modifications in SAP R/3 to minimize problems during master and transactional data transfers
• Maintained Storage Bucket and Time Bucket Profiles.
• Set up the demand planning books, planning object structure, planning area, planning book and macros in the interactive demand planning.
• Maintained Characteristics Value Combinations (CVC), Forecast Profiles and Data Views.
• Generated baseline forecast based on the customers historical sales data using various statistical forecasting methods of Demand Planning.
• Configured new functionalities and trained the users on how to use planning book.
• Defined various heuristics in customizations in PP/DS. Selection of heuristic profile for interactive planning in PP/DS. Maintaining propagation ranges in customization.

Confidential

SAP PP Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the gathering of requirements from the business users. Documented the user requirements and created functional requirements for the same.
• Configured Sales and Operation Planning with flexible planning.
• Created planning strategies and requirement type, creation of MRP elements, strategy group, and MRP group assignments.
• Managed versions for different planning scenarios.
• Deep understanding of Demand Management configured planning strategies - Make to stock and planning time fence.
• Demand Management: Generation of Planned Independent Requirements, Sound knowledge of different Planning Strategies and their applications
• Creation of Material master for raw materials, semi finished materials, finished materials.
• Bill of Material: Configuration of BOM, Single level BOM, Multi level BOM, Variant BOM & Multiple BOM.
• Work Centers: Configuration of work center, Capacity data, Capacity categories, Available capacity, Formulas, Customizing parameters.
• Production Orders: Creation, release and confirmation and Back-flushing, shop floor papers printing with user defined layouts.
• References are available upon request.