SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of IT experience as APO Functional Consultant in areas of g - ATP, SNP, DP, IBP, and HCI.
• Worked on implementations and support projects primarily in the areas of Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, Global Availability to Promise, IBP, and HCI/CPI-DS. Implementations include big bang transformation from legacy to SAP.
• Successful completion of Three Full Life Cycle implementations.
• Experience as Lead consultant in APO g-ATP/SNP/IBP/CPI-DS
• Experience in implementation of ASAP methodologies, performing Legacy System Analysis, GAP analysis, Mapping, making Blue Prints and Templates.
• Familiar with integration between SAP Systems (APO, ECC, BW enterprise, CPI-DS, IBP).
• Knowledge of Business Scenarios related to Make-To-Stock (MTS) and Make-To-Order (MTO).
• Strong Integration skills of APO with SD, MM, WM, PP
• Hands on experience in CIF management and enhancements.
• Extensive experience in APO BW including reports
• Excellent analytical & communication skills and ability to interact with business users.
• Good experience with each phase of implementation including requirement analysis, workshop execution, prototyping, configuration, testing, cut-over, hyper-care, documentation and knowledge transfer.
• Highly motivated person with strong management, administration, problem solving and decision-making. Also, self-starter with excellent academic record and a good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, 6.0, SCM 5.0, 7.0, 7.5, IBP, HCI/CPI-DS

Operating Systems: Windows NT/95/98/2000, XP, UNIX, MS-DOS, Mac OS-X.

Programming Languages: ABAP/4, C, C++, Java, SQL, and Visual Basic 6.

Databases: SQL server, MS Access, Oracle 9i, SCM HANA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP IBP, HCI / CPI - DS

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements from business teams, design POC’s, develop and deploy the solutions.
• Roll out IBP demand planning to Asia (Japan, China) Plants and DC’s
• Implemented IBP S&OP supply planning time series for Asia (Japan, China)
• Re-modelled the structure of CPI-DS tasks source being flat files
• Set up Job schedule within IBP at different time zones replacing CPI-DS and manual intervention by business - NA, Japan, China, EU,
• Set up Communication Agreement between IBP and CPI-DS
• Lead testing - Unit testing, User Acceptance testing with IT & Business
• Prepare cutover plan for IBP Demand Planning, & Supply Planning specific to country
• Provide POC to Business and IT on IBP S&OP supply planning time series
• Gaither requirement and Initiate IBP S&OP capacity planning with IT and Business
• Deployed IBP Demand Planning to Production - IBP, CPI-DS, SAP ECC to generate the flow of master data, and transactional data into IBP for statistical forecasting
• Support IBP and Excel Add-in migrations/upgrades by performing Unit/Regression Testing.
• Work with business & IT team to gather requirements into functional documents.
• Design integration to IBP via CPI-DS - imports, and transforming data real-time
• Worked on HCI /CPI-DS (Cloud Platform Integration Data Services) interface to transfer data from & to IBP via lookups, ifelsethen, left join, etc & SAP systems, configuration (Agent/Data Stores/ Data Flows etc.,)
• Creation of Tasks, Process in CPI-DS by transforming, filtering, appending data from SAP and non-SAP source system (flat files)
• Creation of data flows using ABAP end points, flat files, BW Extractors
• Capturing output data in flat files, debug the task, and validate errored files/data

Confidential, Spring, TX

SAP IBP, HCI / CPI - DS, APO SNP, PPDS (ECC 6.0, SCM 7.5, IBP, HCI)

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements from business teams, design POC’s, develop and deploy the solutions.
• Enhance IBP S&OP process aligning with business by creating attributes/MD types/KF’s/ PA’s
• Support IBP and Excel Add-in migrations/upgrades by performing Unit/Regression Testing.
• Liaison between business & technical team to gather requirements into functional documents.
• Worked on creating custom SNP Heuristics in APO specific to Exxon Chemical Business.
• Design Mid-Term Planning in IBP integrated via HCI / CPI - DS
• Worked on HCI /CPI-DS (Cloud Platform Integration Data Services) interface to transfer data from & to IBP & SAP systems, configuration (Agent/Data Stores/ Data Flows etc.,)
• Support APO issues & enhancements - DP (KFs, realignment process, Stat FC, etc), SNP (Heuristics, custom CTM, Forecast Consumption, etc), PP/DS (Overall Profiles, D/S Planning board, etc), g-ATP (Product Availability, Product Allocation - Volume Management concept, order scheduling, etc)
• Worked on migration SAP APO Oracle data base to SAP APO HANA data base.
• Knowledge on concepts of REST/SOAP Web Services integrated for DP Excel front-end, & HCI /CPI-DS Data Stores connection to APO, vice-versa
• Support third-party application - Logility to generate Safety stock & publish to APO.
• Manage Scrum (Agile) ceremonies
• Creation of Tasks, Process in CPI-DS by transforming, filtering, appending data from SAP and non-SAP source system (flat files)
• Creation of data flows using ABAP end points, flat files, BW Extractors
• Using transform functionalities - lookups, ifelsethen, etc and left joins
• Capturing output data in flat files, debug the task, and validate errored files/data
• Create scheduling of Tasks/Process from IBP via Application job templates

Confidential, Redmond, WA

SAP APO DP, SNP, g-ATP (ECC 6.0, SCM 7.2 with Ehp - 3)

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements from business teams, design POC’s, develop and deploy the solutions.
• Supporting 1DSC (One Drive Supply Chain) Project to implement supply chain system with vendors, contract manufacturers and customers to optimize the supply chain.
• Designed and implemented to integration Contract manufacturers to support the Multi-level ATP in order confirmation process.
• Worked on BTA (Built to Availability) Process, BTO (Built to Order) Process, and CTO (Make to Order with Variant Configuration) projects using Theory of Constraints concept for Stock, & MAD date using resource consumption - DP, SNP, g-ATP
• Worked on Rules based ATP (Product, location, consolidate location) Process
• Worked on ATP Pass parameter to confirm the order based on Safety stock using planning book & allocations together.
• Worked on BOP process for DTV’s & MRP areas.
• Worked on enabling MRP area for new DTV’s & MS Store Virtual plants to differentiate between Customer Segment planning & confirmation.
• Extensively worked on product allocations for all new product lines to optimize the supply chain.
• Re-designed AS-IS product allocation process (Planning view process & Channel view process) with custom solution by implementing User exits in PAL to manage allocations in one book to reduce the existing heavy manual interventions and issues.
• Worked on System performance optimization.
• Handled critical production issues.
• Worked on Aggregate & disaggregation planning at Production Location for N-Plants (Virtual Plants with MRP areas) & new plants with MRP areas.
• Worked on Inactive version planning for SNP & copy data to Active version.
• Prepare functional documents for WRICEF objects implemented for BTA (TOC), BTO (TOC), CTO, PAL, Storage Location Extension, Update Preq’s & PO at Sales Order.
• Roll-out process for DP to forecast at MRP area instead of DTV’s.
• Worked on APO BW for PA extraction for CVC, & ATS Allocation data - Data Source, PSA, Info cubes, Transformations, Info package, & Open Hub.
• Support and co-ordinate team in material preparation and super user .
• Lead and tested security roles testing in both SAP ECC and APO systems.
• Prepared cut-over list & coordinated the team to implement the mock cutover.
• Supporting the business in Post go-live stabilization phase along with providing KT to App Support team.
• Supported SIT and UAT testing cycles.
• Worked on IBP end-to-end Model Configuration w.r.t Executive S&OP and ATS.
• Worked on IBP executive S&OP process - New product introduction & Sell Through Maximization, Demand review & approval process.
• Worked on IBP migration & upgrade process
• Worked on IBP - ATS (Allocation Process) for users to manage allocation & update APO planning book at period level.
• Configured alerts as part of control tower activity, supports executive S&OP and ATS.

Confidential

SAP APO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead Supply chain planning (g-ATP) in configuration and WRICEF tracking.
• Lead Blue Printing Phase by gathering requirements from the business team and performing workshops for g-ATP module in Project g-ATP.
• Lead g-ATP team in the Implementation, Solution Design and Prototype of Product Availability Check, Product Allocation, BOP, Rules Based ATP, and Transportation &Shipment Scheduling
• Evaluated AS-IS SAP ECC ATP configuration (product availability, product allocation, and backorder) and WRICEF’s (interfaces to front end systems through SAP PI & SAP CRM)
• Configured base and final configuration in g-ATP such as Product availability (checking group, checking rule, strategy, requirement class, requirement type, scope of check& requirement profile), Product Allocation (Allocation object, Allocation group, Allocation procedure, connection to planning area, MPOS, planning area, data views, complex macros, alert profiles) and Backorder Processing (Filter, Sort, Special Sort, Parallelization)
• Hands on Experience in CIF integration models.
• Work on APO data governance and design templates for APO master data for conversion and construction
• Designed the solution of channel, market & customer level allocation for T-Mobile and metroPCS business by using Product allocation
• Identify WRICEFs in CIF, ECC - SD, & g-ATP and write functional specifications
• Capture the business requirements for reports (Order Fill Rate, Order Schedule Adherence, Open Order, Backorder Analysis, Items on allocations, and Product Allocation Thresh hold), write FSD, review TSD, Unit Test, UAT with business.
• Co-ordinate on develop test scripts with project team & EQM team
• Lead integration testing cycles (ITC1 & ITC2), regression testing, performance testing and UAT testing
• Design batch jobs and configure process chains for CIF, g-ATP (KF calculations using macros, publishing the active allocation, transferring data from PAG to PA, housekeeping (Weekly & daily utility) jobs
• Support and co-ordinate team in material preparation and super user .
• Lead and tested security roles testing in both SAP ECC and APO systems.
• Prepared cut-over list & coordinated the team to implement the mock cutover twice.
• Supporting the business in Post go-live stabilization phase along with providing KT to App Support team.

Confidential

SAP APO g-ATP, SNP (ECC 6.0, SCM 7.02)

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Blue Printing phase (DP, SNP & g-ATP) by gathering requirements from the business team and performing workshops for g-ATP module in Project Circuit.
• Lead g-ATP team in the Implementation, Design and Prototype of Product Availability Check, Product Allocation, check against Forecast, BOP, Rules Based ATP, Transportation and Shipment Scheduling, Event Driven Quantity Assignment, and Re-assignment of Order Confirmation.
• Prototype scenarios in APO DP with business in the Workshops.
• Configure baseline configuration in SNP such as planning areas, planning books, data views, macros, alert profiles, CTM profiles including BW elements.
• Worked extensively on Demand Prioritization, Search strategies, and constrained planning based on resource settings.
• Developed multi-step CTM run using fixed pegging.
• Prototyped product interchangeability with CTM.
• Created CTM Master Data - Master Data selection profile, Order selection and CTM time stream.
• Maintained CIF Integration models.
• Work on APO data governance and design templates for APO master data for conversion and construction
• Designed the solution of reserving the stock for High priority customers by using Production Allocation.
• Configured Filter types, Sort Profiles, and Filter Variants and configured BOP to re-schedule the orders with Partial Confirmation & without Confirmation
• Developed Functional Specifications to confirm the Sales Orders based on the rounding logic
• Developed the design for the Rules Based ATP check by implementing the functionalities of Location Substitution, Product Substitution, Location Product Substitution, Consolidated Location, and MISL functionality.
• Configured Transportation & Shipment Scheduling using Condition Technique.
• Developed an LSMW program to load the data for the rules based condition records and Transportation & Shipment Scheduling condition records and developed test scripts based on testing processes and interaction with other team/business members.
• Configured Parallelizing BOP and activated Parallelizing BOP to reduce the overall BOP runtime.
• Extensively worked with FTP&OTC teams in the Integration Testing and Regression Testing of all the functionalities of ATP check.
• Design Statistical forecasting process & complex integration between DP, SNP & ECC
• Configured DP basic configurations, DP extractions, BW extractions, complex macros, re-alignment, forecast profile designs along with releasing the data to SNP
• Participated for Hands on for the users to SAP g-ATP system.
• Set up background jobs daily and weekly and monitor the jobs.
• Lead and tested security roles testing in both SAP ECC and APO systems.
• Participated in cut over activities and Mock Conversion activities before GO-LIVE also participated in testing CIF. Creating IM’s, activating and deactivating IM’s, deleting IM’s, and running delta reports.
• Participated in resolving issues occurred by ABAP dumps, consistency checks and Security roles ¶meters.
• Worked in Hyper-care phase to stabilize the system along with providing the KT to the Support team in EMEA.