SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of hands - on experience in SAP SCM/APO with two full life cycle implementation. Experience in SAP SCM - Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling (PPDS) and Core Interface (CIF).
• Diverse experience in covering different aspects of SAP, project management, business blueprint, functional design, configuration and development, Go-live, end-user, support and continuous improvements.
• Experience as functional consultant in SAP Advanced Planner & Optimizer (APO).
• Improved efficiency levels in overall business processes of sales, marketing, budgeting, operations after an efficient SOP process has been developed and put into practice.
• Reduced inventory levels by 20%, Reduced Lead time by 25%, improved forecasting process.
• 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.
• Well-versed with SCRUM, Agile development/implementation methodologies
• 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 Production Planning/Detailed Scheduling(PPDS)
• Knowledge of various Forecasting static model and forecast technique.
• Experience in configuration and implementation of DP Info Cubes using Administrative Workbench, Generating and changing Characteristic Value Combination, Planning books, Planning Areas, macros and creating Statistical Forecast.
• Maintained Time bucket profiles, Forecast profiles, planning versions, promotional Planning, life cycle management and “Like” Modeling.
• Created SNP Master Profile, SNP heuristics, Optimizer and Capable to match (CTM) techniques.
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO.
• Experience in creating test scenarios, manage testing, and develop user documents and of new solution.
• Configured the PP/DS profiles (Strategy), global settings for PP/DS and heuristics profiles for Production Planning Run.
• Clear under stand of business process and modeling it using ARIS and VISIO
• 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.
• Having strong management, administration, problem solving and decision-making ability.
• Performed Unit Testing and Integration Testing based on end user issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

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

Programming languages: C, SQL

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Other Tools: MS Office, MS Dynamics, MS Visio, HTML, Networking, Photoshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

SAP APO DP/SNP/PPDS Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP APO 7.0, ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements and implementation of SNP/PPDS functionalities
• Responsible for validations of Master data like T-lanes, product master, PPMs, Resource Master, etc.
• Worked with Supplying areas and worked with Supplying area Networks to determine stock at a national level.
• Maintain resource setup, and capacity profiles.
• Created and managed project timelines with input from the business and ensured the project stayed on track by discussing the relevant issues with the stakeholders.
• Maintained run rates in within the recipe to ensure the costing for the products is consistent across the board.
• Worked in both Make to Stock and Make to Order scenarios of the food industry.
• Performed location, network and multilevel heuristic planning to consider bottom up and top down process of industry.
• Created a model and provided solutions to make various Sub-Contracting scenarios feasible.
• Created Customize characteristic and key figures as per business requirements.
• Involved in maintaining and validation of a master data for Sub-contracting scenarios.
• Provided a solution to alternate resources selection using Capacity levelling.
• Worked on Shelf Life propagation.
• Worked on SNP alerts for National level alerts on Over stock, stock out and planned stock out scenarios.
• Fully supported UAT testing of the functionalities.
• Worked with users and master planners to help them understanding the SNP functionalities.
• Worked in support environment to resolve any issues related to heuristic, capacity planning, etc.
• Created Block Plans to mimic the legacy plans.
• Maintained Classes and Characteristics to be assigned to the block plans.
• Performed cutover activities to release functionalities.
• Responsible for creating batch jobs and scheduled Process chains.
• Involved in User by creating user documents, and one on one and group to the end Users

Confidential, Seattle, WA

SAP APO DP/CTM/SNP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP APO 7.0, ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked in both Make to Stock and Make to Order scenarios of the process industry.
• Involved in business requirements gathering and implementation of SNP functionalities.
• Resolved CIF Queue errors and maintained system integration.
• Worked on CIF user exits.
• Responsible for validations of Master data like T-lanes, product master and PDSs.
• Maintained SNP Optimizer profiles, cost profiles and deployment optimizer profiles with all relevant setting as per the business requirements.
• Performed SNP optimizer and deployment optimizer runs and analyzed the results.
• Maintained optimizer parameters to resolve infeasibility issue in SNP optimizer.
• Developed a cost structure to support deployment optimizer functionality as per the requirements.
• Developed and tested transportation mode prioritization in deployment optimizer.
• Configured Pull/Push deployment with real time to take account of demand at source location.
• Created and maintained supply profile, demand profile and Deployment profile.
• Created and maintained SNP optimizer and deployment optimizer variants and transported to different system.
• Developed functional designs, functional unit testing plans, and integration test scenarios as well as executing the test using HPQC.
• Performed location, network and multilevel heuristic planning to consider bottom up and top down process of industry.
• Successfully created and tested DPS (Direct plant Shipment) scenarios.
• Provided a solution to alternate resources selection using Capacity levelling.
• Provided a model and solutions to different Sub-Contracting scenarios.
• Involved in maintaining and validation of a master data for Sub-contracting scenarios.
• Worked on SNP alerts for global projected stock, global target stocks and global production.
• Resolved any issue related to SNP optimizer and Deployment optimizer.
• Worked on pool capacity to provide a solution to one of business requirements.
• Worked on Shelf Life propagation.
• Fully supported UAT testing of the functionalities.
• Closely worked with ABAP team to develop custom reports for Transportation lanes and Product master.
• Worked with users and master planners to help them understanding the SNP functionalities.
• Worked in support environment to resolve any issues related to heuristic, capacity levelling.
• Performed cutover activities to release functionalities.
• Responsible for creating batch jobs and scheduling in Control M.
• Involved in User .

Confidential, Denver CO

SAP SCM DP/SNP Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in implementation and designing Demand planning objects and various configurations and testing.
• Created Customize characteristic and key figures as per business requirements.
• Responsible for creating planning area, planning book, time bucket profiles and period split profile.
• Involved in designing the process to load demand history in to the live cache.
• Intensively involved in analyzing demand history, its pattern and testing various forecast models to get accurate forecast.
• Created Macros to get consensus forecast, reset demand history and demand spike/ drop alerts.
• Designed the process for Life cycle planning with phase in/out profiles.
• Involved in designing partial realignment process for demand planning.
• Set up forecast profiles for a Uni-variate forecast (constant model, Auto model 2)
• Responsible for assignment of forecast profiles manually to manage seasonality and trending behavior of certain items.
• Created Activity, planning job and release profile for background jobs.
• Set up alerts profiles according to demand planner IDs.
• Created various background jobs to automate demand history loading, cleaning, creating CVCs, generating forecast, generating alerts and releasing forecast to SNP.
• Created various process chains to automate Demand planning forecasting process.
• Worked with Redwood to schedule process chains for monitoring.
• Set up cutover plan for demand planning and updated for every release.
• Executed cutover plan to bring plant on SAP demand planning.
• Supported demand planning and manage ticketing using HPQC and BMC remedy tool.
• Worked on Location heuristics as per stocked and non- stocked items.
• Worked on heuristics deployment and helped setting up deployment variants.
• Involved in team to create various RICEFW enhancements for TLB like Multi-temp, cross dock and transportation zone to map business process.
• Set up TLB profiles for the plants.
• Successfully designed and implemented re-order planning for slow moving items.
• Created various IMs for SNP master data.
• Monitored CIF queues and was responsible for cleaning it up.
• Responsible for executing smoke test every weekend when live cache brought up by Basis team.
• Responsible for monitoring and resolving background jobs failure.
• Created various time calendars for CPS in GATP as part of cutover plan.
• Configure and set up BOP variants.
• Conducted user sessions and workshop.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

SAP SCM DP/SNP Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Responsibilities:

• Modified info objects length for the source system and rebuilt the complete CVC combinations and reloaded the data successfully.
• Resolved all issues related Unit testing, Integration testing in DP and SNP (Download/ upload, Info packages, CVC’s, Realignment, Batch jobs, Forecast release, Planning books, Macros etc)
• Documented integration test scripts
• Tested technical objects and helped ABAP team.
• Helped users in integration testing and provided support on planning results analysis and master data impact
• Configured new functionalities and trained the users
• Configured new alert requirements
• Resolved macro aggregation issues.
• Provided good analysis and impact of master forecast profile/off sets.
• Phase in/Phase out set ups.
• Developed new batch jobs for the data loads, added new process chains
• Worked on Production support new requirements and resolve issues.

Confidential, Little rock, AR

SAP SCM DP/SNP Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Responsibilities:

• Welspun is a leading producer of spiral pipes for oil and gas industry with majority of clients falling under top 100 fortune companies.
• Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning module for Statistical Forecast for business units.
• Prepared Business Flow Charts based on Business Blue Print documents.
• Reviewed Functional and Technical Specifications. Prepared and updated the configuration documents.
• 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 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)
• Developed various test cases and documented the test results for both functional and integration testing of the solutions in Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning.
• Worked with Basis team for system transports. Maintained transport request documents.
• Monitored System during Go Live periods.
• Troubleshot Post go-live Support Issues tickets.
• Performed Knowledge Transfer and prepared Materials.
• Configured APO SNP (Optimizer, Heuristics), DP to meet Client’s business requirements such as forecasting, optimizing material procurement and distribution, dynamic safety stock, subcontracting, scheduling agreements, and material constraints including execution of production orders in R/3.
• Configuring statistical forecast models, model selection, statistical forecasting, forecast error analysis etc. in Demand Planning.
• 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)
• Perform SNP runs using SNP heuristics, created cost and Optimization profile for SNP optimizer.
• Test scenarios were created to support the business requirements based on customer’s priorities
• Created and assigned TLB profile to the transportation lane.

Confidential, St, Louis, MO

SAP APO DP/ SNP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP APO 4.0, ECC 6.0

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
• Worked on characteristics value combinations to define forecast methodology
• Designed planning book and planning areas. Defined and created macros. Set up time bucket profile
• 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
• Worked on testing of Backorder processing, Product allocations
• Trouble shooting CIF related issues and synchronization of data between R/3 and APO
• Worked in Pegging evaluation and Extraction and sending information back using CIF
• Configured mass processing for forecast, macros and demand plan releases.
• Developed functional specifications of new reports to be developed
• 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
• Worked on characteristics value combinations to define forecast methodology
• 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

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

SAP DP/PPDS Consultant

Environment: SAP APO 4.0, R/3 4.6C

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
• Developed cutover plan for Go live
• Led the cutover team and successfully went on Go live.
• 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
• Integration of SNP 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.
• Created Period - Oriented planning in the product planning table.
• Conducted production planning runs.
• APO PPDS Multi-level production planning (optimize set-up and problem solving), Heuristic Run.
• Detailed Scheduling activities for optimal production sequence
• Master Data resources, PDS configuration.
• Firming, Production planning steps configuration. Evaluation of the Production planning.
• Feasible production plan as all constraints are considered in the configuration.
• Simulation of bottlenecks at all order levels up to the sales order creates transparency about the right prioritization and increases delivery date fulfillments in the configuration.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

SAP SCM PPDS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created Period - Oriented planning in the product planning table.
• Conducted production planning runs.
• APO PPDS Multi-level production planning (optimize set-up and problem solving), Heuristic Run.
• Detailed Scheduling activities for optimal production sequence
• Firming, Production planning steps configuration. Evaluation of the Production planning.
• Feasible production plan as all constraints are considered in the configuration.
• Simulation of bottlenecks at all order levels up to the sales order creates transparency about the right prioritization and increases delivery date fulfillments in the configuration.
• CIF models for master and transactional data - creation of models and resolution of errors
• Utilization of PP/DS optimization to produce feasible schedule constrained by resource capacity
• Incorporated setup matrix functionality to facilitate campaign scheduling requirements of production facility
• Utilization of alternate modes functionality to automatically balance requirements across similar resources
• Resolving issues of CIF Queues, Consistency check on ECC and APO
• Setting up Heuristic /Optimization planning Capacity leveling, Resource Planning
• Resolving resource overloading and Detailed scheduling of production lines
• Setting up MRP steps for planning at various level of BOMs(FG, Assembly, RM) Publishing results to ECC and Suppliers ( Planned orders, schedule lines) Alert Monitoring
• Coordination with Planners and buyers for resolving planning related issues
• Utilization of alternate modes functionality to automatically balance requirements across similar resources
• Utilization of various PP/DS heuristics (lower-level, fixed pegging, safety stock requirements, lot-for-lot) to support complex, returnable-container business planning model
• Configured the PP/DS profiles (Strategy), global settings for PP/DS and heuristics profiles for Production Planning Run
• Executed production planning and detailed scheduling, such as finite scheduling planning and infinite scheduling planning
• Worked on the Interactive & Automatic Planning scenarios.
• Have an exposure on using Optimization features comprising Setup matrix, Setup groups and keys Hard & Soft Constraints Mode, delay costs, pegging relationships, activities
• Have worked on the parameters and settings for Basic Functions like Pegging, Lot Size Calculations, and Scrap Calculation, Days Supply, & External Procurement parameters.
• Conducted Production Planning Runs; Backlog removal run and MRP run.
• Resolved problems faced in APO during day-to-day working of users.
• Developed the reporting formats backlog rescheduling report, Shortage list report, and Production plan report

Confidential, Irvine - CA

SAP PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Configured Sales and Operation Planning with flexible planning
• Transferred the active version of the plan to demand management.
• Configured Planned Order, Scheduling, Availability check, Goods movement.
• Responsible for creation, release and confirmation of Production Orders
• Responsible for improving efficiency of Work places

Confidential

SAP PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Production Planning - Worked on MRP, BOM set up, Work Centres and Routings, Planning Stratégies, Stock Requirements list and Material Master
• Configured settings in planning run, worked on basic dates scheduling and lead time scheduling in the planning run
• Deep understanding of Demand Management configured planning strategies - Make to stock and planning time fence
• Demand Management: Generated of Planned Independent Requirements, Sound knowledge of different Planning Strategies and their applications
• Material Requirement Planning: Worked on Material requirement planning, Master production scheduling and Consumption based planning
• Variant Configuration: Variant Configuration with BOMs and other objects
• Sales and Operation Planning: Well versed with and worked on Planning methods and Transfering SOP data to demand management