PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Worked in Lead capacity at reputed consulting companies for over 13 years during which lead more than 6 full life cycle SAP Supply chain implementations.
• Architected supply chain processes such as Sales and Operations Planning, Forecasting, Distribution, Logistics and Production Planning/Scheduling.
• Extensive experience in providing consulting services for SAP APO and SAP ECC implementation projects. Subject Matter Expert in Supply Chain Management, Sales and distribution, Variant Configuration with credentials in the High - Tech, Petro Chemicals, Automotive and Industrial Equipment, Home Appliances, Retail, Oil & gas, and Life Science industries.
• Extensive configuration experience in SCM modules in APO DP, SNP, PP/DS and GATP.
• Extensive experience evaluating business benefits of implementing supply chain planning processes.
• Participated and conducted multiple workshops, blue printing exercises, requirements gathering, design sessions and best practices sessions for various clients.
• Worked extensively in Make-to-stock, Make-to-order, and Configure-to-order scenarios.
• Extensive Configuration experience in Materials Requirement planning, Availability Check and Transfer of requirements, Production planning, Planned independent requirements, Customer requirements.
• Worked extensively with ECC and SCM master data including material master, plants, vendors, customers, BOMs, work centres, Routings, Production versions, Strategy group, Requirement type, Requirement class, Transportation lanes, contracts, Purchasing info records, routes etc.
• Architected and configured master data integration between ECC and SCM including Core Interface Functionality (CIF).

SKILL:

Package/Regulation worked on: SAP ECC, APO BI/BW, SAP CRM, SAP Solution Manager

SAP S/4 HANA: SAP Full Life cycle implementations & Maintenance projects using ASAP and SAP-Agile methodologies

HPQC, BMC Remedy: High: tech, Life science, Retail, Manufacturing, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Chemicals S&OP, Plant to Produce, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Customer to Contract, Record to Report & Engineer to release FDA, SOX GMP regulated environment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Variant Configuration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architect and Lead Configure Pricing and Quote solution using SAP Variant Configuration for Confidential Morning pride Business
• Conduct workshop with Business stakeholder to understand Confidential Business process such as Engineering BOM structure, Routing, sales order processing, Pricing, Engineering change management
• Work with Confidential Business stakeholders to create MSGs - Document that provides detail of VC Characteristics, Characteristics value, Object dependency and VC rules
• Implementation of the VC solution in the SAP system - Creation of BOM, Routing, VC Characteristics, Object dependency, Class, Configuration profile, assignment of Object dependency to BOM components, Super routings
• Design and implementation of custom ABAP code to meet Confidential requirements which are not met by standard SAP solution
• Lead the implementation Team on unit testing, systems integration testing and user acceptance testing
• Lead and architect deployment across multiple tiers of SAP system such as Development, Quality and Production system.
• Preparation of User training manual and conduct training session for the Business users to enable them to use SAP VC solution for CPQ

Confidential, AZ

Supply chain Process Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Moved the Forecasting solution from the custom forecast cockpit in ECC to standard APO based forecasting. Added useful perspective and dimensions to forecasting, that brought a lot of clarity to the planning Team. Addressed the challenges of aggregation and dis-aggregation using characteristics of Customer part number and Manufacturer part number
• Forecast released as planned independent requirement from DP to SNP Planning area
• Master data setup in ECC and APO including External procurement using purchase info records, transportation lanes from special procurement key. Quota arrangement for external vendor and in-house production for a distribution center
• Designed and implemented SNP Heuristics, both at network and plant level
• SNP horizon and PPDS Horizon, deployment and TLB in near term planning
• Deployment using Pull rule during deficit and push rule during surplus
• Backward/forward scheduling, Deployment run and transportation load Builder
• Creation of SNP planning area, planning book and data views with standard and custom key figures, macros
• Forecast consumption by sales orders and delivery. Withdrawal quantity from PGI.

SAP APO GATP Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Activated Rule based ATP for AIS Business mainly for the Product substitution and location substitution
• Conversion of ATP tree for Rule based ATP
• Multi-level ATP check activated for AIS Business for all the components of the BOM.
• For CTO Business MLATP for sub-assembly and header material is activated.
• Worked on Product allocation of product to customer.
• Creation of Planning book and data view for product allocation
• Setup BOP for prioritization of customer demand based on Order creation date and customer required date
• Configuration of Check mode, Check-instruction, Scope of check, Requirement strategy and consumption mode
• EDQA set up and batch processing for every 2 hours
• BOP setup for prioritization of customer demand based on the customers required date
• Troubleshooting issues in GATP and integration to R/3.

Confidential

Variant Configuration / Supply Chain Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshop with business stake holders and understood their CTO business, product lines and existing solution.
• Developed a prototype using SAP VC for one of the product line and showcased to the business. On approval of project, created product modelling for each customer product, Family BOM, Strategy group, Requirement type, Requirement class, MRP group, Sales order type
• Created class, characteristics, object dependencies using VC rules, Configuration profile, assignment of class to materials
• Activated Variant Configuration Scheme in APO and activated organizational area for filtering characteristics relevant for planning
• Created new Check mode, Check instruction for the new requirement type of VC.
• Integrated Super BOM, Master data, VC data like class characteristics Object dependencies with APO for VC order management and MLATP
• Unit testing, Systems Integration testing, and Regression testing, training of Engineers in product modeling using VC and deployment to production.
• Design of Material master, family BOM, sub-assembly BOM, Engineering change management, Work center, routing, Product costing integration with controlling, Labor cost calculation for both Engineering and production process
• ALE Connection between golden client and Production client for transferring VC data. Creation of upload tools to automate creation of VC objects from Excel sheet
• Materials Requirement Planning for procurement, stock transfer of components and manufacturing of sub-assembly, finished product. MTO, MTS and CTO scenario using phantom sub-assembly and collective order processing.

Confidential, AZ

SAP GATP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Completely understand Confidential Business process and challenges in prioritizing customer sales order based on the order creation date and time
• Prioritize and implemented changes in the system to improve accuracy of ATP dates
• Improved performance of BOP run by splitting the variants based on location and activating parallel process of BOP run
• Analyzed and proved MAD filter range worsens the performance so made the MAD as blank and created an enhancement to have a 90 days range of MAD to be included in the BOP run
• Setup delta report with parallel processing profile
• Setup SDRQCR21 report to remove inconsistency between ECC and APO system for sales order and delivery
• Activated MLATP for AIS business and implemented BOP for AIS products

Confidential, TX

Supply chain PPDS / optimization consultant

Responsibilities:

• Product wheel planning will allow planners to set up predefined, optimized sequences of products for each resource/reactor to support planning and scheduling. These product wheels will then be incorporated into the planning process by a custom heuristic to propose the order volumes and sequence necessary to cover the forecasted demand
• Custom transaction to maintain wheel sequence and wheel definition with default planning time fence, min/max lot size, wheel length. Custom heuristics function module with planning, strategy screen to configure heuristics settings
• Time fence calculation for the product wheel run based on the value maintained in the master configuration which overrides the Product master settings
• Calculation of dynamic lot-sizing based on the wheel definition and wheel length which overrides the Product master settings
• Dynamic start of wheel sequence based on the order scheduled in planning time fence using the reference sequence GUID stored in order key
• Creation of external relationship between activities within a wheel definition as per sequence
• Standard heuristics assigned to the product is used for production planning as per dynamic calculated lot-size
• Creation of campaign order per wheel definition having the external relationship established
• Reschedule orders created from PP heuristics so that, first product in wheel definition starts from the beginning date of wheel definition
• Finite scheduling considering campaign requirement
• On rerunning the product wheel heuristics - dissolve campaign, external relationship. Firmed order will be reserved for meeting demand in the corresponding definition. Unfirmed orders will be deleted and planned again
• Any demand deficit from a definition having firmed order will be rolled to next product occurrence in wheel sequence
• Multilevel ATP check, Product allocation with sales org and customer
• Configured various data views and macros
• Configured BW transaction data and master data loads
• Macro Function module to calculate Released forecast based on Final forecast using APO scheduling function module to determine various durations
• Rule based Master data validation and integration between ECC to APO system
• Implementation of Inventory targeting for US polyethylene business unit. Configured and Customized standard safety stock algorithm as per business process of Polyethylene adapting the existing formulas and methods used in MIMI system
• Supply chain modelling, master data modelling for the Polyethylene business involving Manufacturing, Compounding, Packaging, Consignment and Customer location using Special procurement keys, Purchase info record, transportation lanes
• Creation of planning area, planning book, data view, custom key figures to store various parameters used for Inventory targeting
• Release of DP forecast in to SNP planning area with ATP category ‘FA’. Macros used to determine Static DSI, used DSI, calculated safety stock
• Target summary report which gives comprehensive recordings of trial-monthly run, daily run and monthly-live run. Various methods used for arriving at the calculated DSI are recorded for the safety stock run
• Created Macros which calculates Safety stock from published DSI, override DSI and final forecast. In case of safety stock method ‘SZ’ macro picks DSI from product master
• Calculated final safety stock is released for the DRP planning. Inventory targeting is the first step of the overall planning process chain and it is considered along with other requirements elements
• Cross-plant planning to create stock transfer using Production planning run with various steps like Set low-level codes, MRP Planning and enhanced packaging Heuristics
• Revisited the overall prioritization sequence used in the existing solution, and added new criteria ‘Priority of product’
• Analysis of demand prioritization, demand aggregation by using various prioritization sequences
• Did analysis of Supply categorization using simulation mode and resolved issues with supply prioritization
• Modified CTM Master data to use dynamic master data instead of static selection
• Transportation and shipment scheduling using configurable process scheduling (CPS)
• Scheduling calculation based on origin and destination port and ETA and ETD dates
• Field catalog customization - origin destination port, Sales org, mode of transport, package type
• Delivery date used as entry point for calculation of scheduling dates

Confidential

SAP supply chain support

Responsibilities:

• Trouble shooting master and transactional data issues between ECC and APO using delta report
• Analyze and resolve any process chain failures, DP batch job failures
• Trouble shoot heuristics run issues caused by transportation lanes by checking Low level code transaction
• Analyze and resolve the logs generated from the daily SNP heuristics run
• Analyze and resolve issues with DS Planning board
• Support rule based CTM used for creating SNP Planned orders. CTM profiles and substitution rules

Confidential

SCM - APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design, configuration, testing and delivery of the successful Demand Planning (APO DP) implementation.
• Configured Planning components including Planning Object structure, characteristic value Combinations, storage and time bucket profiles, planning area, planning books and data views.
• Creation of forecast profiles, generating forecast, selection of forecast models, and conducting workshop with business to make decision on best forecasting method
• Worked on Interactive Demand Planning, Demand Planning in back ground, creation of favorites, selections and key figure settings.
• Configuration of APO-Demand Planning MPOS, Planning Areas, Planning Books Data Views, Designing Macros, Maintaining Time Bucket Profiles, Storage Bucket Profiles, Maintaining Forecast Profiles, Release Profiles, Transfer Profiles
• Creation of promotional profiles, like modeling, Phase-in, Phase-out planning
• Creation of MPOS infobjects infocubes data load CVCs
• Configuration of APO- SNP Planning Areas, Planning Books and Data Views. Creating, activating and monitoring the CIF integration models for transferring master and transactional data, including the model setup, post processing, delta report and queue monitor
• EBS and ICON system were used as sales and manufacturing system. Integration of SAP with these two ECC system using BSG. Purchase order created in EBS system and sales order created in ICON system for stock transfers. Your reference field in the orders will have either PO or SO.
• Forecast is placed in EBS - sales system. Modelling of EBS and ICON in APO and used standard SNP Heuristics for network wide planning.
• Subcontracting/tolling processes were involved with supply of API and other components to vendor and receipt of finished product.
• Deployment heuristics used to create stock transfers between various manufacturing, packaging and distribution centers. Transportation load builder used for confirming stock transfers between various nodes.
• Fair share rule was used for deployment and TLB if ATD quantity is less than the demand quantity
• Master data configuration and integration between ECC and APO through CIF. Creation of master data like BOM, Production version SNP and PPDS PDS
• Worked with DS-Planning board, Production Planning table and also familiar with Set-up Matrix, Model Mix and planning Production Campaign
• Configured standard lot heuristics for creation of planned orders with infinite capacity
• For detailed scheduling, configured Production campaign for API manufacturing with setup and clean out activities between campaigns
• Sequencing of orders with in the campaign is based on the order priority in sort order

Confidential

APO BAU Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Hyper care and day-to-day support for LSCV implementation
• Trouble shooting master and transactional data issues using delta report
• Trouble shooting CIF enhancements issues which involves product mapping between various systems and SO, PO reference between sales and manufacturing system
• Issues related to SNP Heuristics, DP SNP Planning book, Forecasting, Realignment, new CVC creation
• Issues related to sales/purchase order between EBS and ICON system. Deployment and TLB issues
• Master data issues like BOM, Routing, Production version, master recipe, purchase info records, transportation lanes, MRP views of material master
• Change management under strictly regulated FDA, SoX, GxP environment

Confidential

APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Planning components including Planning Object structure, characteristic value Combinations, storage and time bucket profiles, planning area, planning books and data views
• Promotional planning for advertisements, discounts and special occasions - configuration of promotional key figure at product level, promotional attributes, Promotional base and cannibalization group
• Background Demand planning, release of final forecast from DP to SNP
• Worked on data modelling and integration between ECC and APO for the supply chain network
• Network wide planning using SNP Heuristics both at location level and across whole network
• Automatically create package orders for created bulk orders.
• Involved in distribution planning model. The scope involved more than 50 locations including production facilities, regional distribution centers and distribution warehouses. Tools involved were APO SNP heuristics, PP/DS heuristics, SNP deployment and SNP TLB.
• Worked on detailed scheduling profiles and alert profiles.
• Worked extensively on PPDS MRP and detailed scheduling heuristics and detailed scheduling board.
• Extensive testing of the functionality and training of users.
• Training and documentation

Confidential

P2P Team member

Responsibilities:

• Got involved as a Team member in requirement gathering of SAP P2P solution for the client
• Designed functional specification and configuration for proposed solution
• Creation of test data for unit testing and regression testing to test configuration and for development Team
• Perform ALE configuration for new interfaces developed with PI as middleware.
• Contributed to Initial master data setup for P2P using LSMW and IDOC
• Worked on invoice verification and approval workflow with scenario based decision and extension of standard business object
• Designed and customized smart forms for billing document, purchase order and purchase requisition
• Involved in Proof of concept and prototyping of APO solution

Confidential

APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created DP master data (CVCs)
• Worked on Forecast profiles, Forecast modeling, Selection organization
• Configuring statistical forecast models, model selection, statistical forecasting, forecast error analysis etc. in Demand Planning
• Forecast accuracy reports
• Training DP Planners and support to Demand Planners.
• Master data setup for SNP
• Transfer of data between APO and R/3 via CIF
• Design planning books, data views and configuration of SNP
• Preparing detail technical specifications for development objects