SUMMARY:

• 14 + years’ experience in the area SCM with main emphasis on SAP IBP(Demand, Supply, Response, CPI - DS, SDI), S4 (PPDS, aATP), SAP APO DP, SNP, PPDS, GATP & SAP EH&S, SAP EIO, SAP SCM Supply network collaboration (SNC/ICH). Worked with interfaces Demand Sensing and MIO, Confidential /EIO for inventory planning. Worked with the responsibility for all SCM IBP, APO components in several customer projects of US, Europe and Middle East from offshore and onsite and has built up a wide range of knowledge in planning processes. Furthermore gained experience in Azure Dev ops, software quality analysis, Configuration management and documentation with regard to all phases of implementation. Also gained experience in designing the solution as per the business requirements in Business Roles.
• SAP IBP:
• Experienced with base and advanced configurations in IBP such as Master data, Attributes, Time profiles, planning area, Key figures, disaggregation, planning views, Planning operators, definition of alerts, process flows, snap shots, data integrations etc.
• Familiar with designing IBP Supply, Response, S4 PPDS, S4 aATP and Analytics
• Done full implementation in Supply, Response, S/4 HANA PPDS, aATP and Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration to send the external procurement plans to suppliers and commit back the quantities.
• SAP APO DP: Process, Solution design and configuration experience in statistical forecasting, lifecycle planning, Realignments, Disaggregation, promotional planning, Complex Macros, DP-BOM’s, CBP, custom Alert types and profiles, Integration with other modules.
• SAP APO SNP: Process, solution design, configuration and Enhancements experience in SNP Heuristics, Deployment, TLB, Capacity leveling, CTM and SNP Optimizer.
• SAP APO GATP: Process, Solution design and configuration experience in Product availability, Product Allocations, RBAs, BOP, CTP, MATP.
• SAP APO PPDS: Process, solution design, configuration and Enhancements experience in Production planning and Detailed scheduling, PPDS optimizer
• SAP CIF: Hands on experience in CIF management and enhancements.
• Experience in Integration between SAP systems (APO, ECC & BW) and non-SAP systems like Confidential, Demand Sensing and MIO.
• Experience as Functional Lead in APO DP, SNP, GATP, PPDS, SNC and EHS.
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture.
• Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles - Functional Team Lead, SME, Analyst etc.
• Executed software projects for Medical devices, Oil and Gas, Dairy and Food, Health care, fine chemicals, Surfactants, Edible oil and Chlor - alkali
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP IBP/S4 HANA: IBP (Demand, Supply &response, CPI-DS, SDI), S4 PPDS, aATP, Ariba (Supply chain Collaboration)

SAP SCM APO: DP, GATP, SNP, PPDS, CIF

SAP SCM: SNC/ICH.

SAP ECC: EH&S, PP, SD

Implementation: IBP(Demand, Supply, Response)CPI-DS, SDI), S4 HANA (PPDS, aATP), APO (DP, GATP) EH&S and SNC/ICH

Supporting: Confidential (MIPO&DIM), DP, SNP, PPDS, GATP, SNC/ICH and EH&S.

Upgrade: SCM 5.0 to SCM 7.0, SCM 7.0 to SCM 7.13

Roll outs: IBP Supply, APO (DP, SNP, PPDS and GATP)

Enhancements: IBP( Supply, Response, CPI-DS, SDI), S4 HANA( PPDS, aATP), APO( DP, GATP, SNP, PPDS, EH&S)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr IBP Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide thought leadership for the IBP Product
• Out of the Box (Minimal Customizations)
• Help to make the right decisions based on company direction
• Conduct workshops to finalize the design for IBP Supply and Response.
• Configuration of IBP Product to help maximize usage in the area of Time Based Series (Infinite/Finite) and TS optimizer Planning and Order Based Planning.
• Implementation of Response and Supply Module
• Configuration of Scenario Modeling for Cost Based Optimization and Finite Heuristics
• Eliminate Manual Capacity Leveling
• Re-establish MRP running in IBP
• Direction and assistance on Fiori Dashboard creation
• Cost Optimized Plan from IBP, prioritized by Profitability and Customer Importance.
• MRP from IBP to feed SAP Source Systems.
• Planned Orders and Purchase Requisitions to SAP Source Systems.
• Budget Planning to be done from IBP.

IT Relationship Business Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Achieve a 90% Global Standard Solution (RTM-10% Customization target) aligned to the SAP Model
• Company and Other subject to differentiation, regulatory, and legacy constraints for the global template deployments.
• Deliver a Global Template with zero Critical and High defects in the Final Go/No Go Decision report.
• All Medium and Low defects must have agreed-to resolution dates and approved interim processes.
• Deliver successful Program Ramp-Up Hiatus Phase, Transition Phase, Defects Remediation,
• Delta Blueprint Design, Pilot-1 Canada Go Live and Pre-Pilot 2 Cutover Planning
• Plan to complete SI Phase & Transition milestones and Deliverables per, Key Design Decisions,
• Review functional Specifications and signoff.
• Test the functionalities if it is working as expected.
• Configure IBP supply/Response/S4 HANA PPDS, aATP
• Configured Allocation Planning, Response confirmation run and also interactive panning
• Configured Response Deployment Optimizer to generate cost optimized Deployment STRs.
• Done enhancements for STO Transport Load Building (TLB) and STO straight load.
• Configured aATP per Confidential business needs to cater the needs of the order promising functionalities ATP, Product allocation for customer priority, BOP process with different confirmation strategies (Win, Gain, Redistribute, Fill and lose) per business divisions CPD, Branded Food servicesFlavor solutions and Release for delivery.

Functional Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Done full proof of concepts (PoC) in IBP S&OP, Demand, Inventory, Response and Supply, Supply Chain Control tower, S/4 HANA PPDS aATP to demonstrate the feasibility of client requirements and verified the specific concepts are met their expectations.
• Designed IBP S&OP process, Demand Sensing, Inventory.
• During the PoC, experienced with base and advanced configurations in IBP such as Master data, Attributes, Time profiles, planning area, Key figures, TREX coding, disaggregation, planning views, planning operators, definition of alerts, process flows, snap shots and data integrations, Analytics, Dashboards, scheduling jobs etc.
• Good understanding on CPI-DS, Smart data integration, and Data services integrating ECC, BW
• Good understanding on transferring Master Data, Transaction data and Configuration data from S/4 HANA, ECC to IBP and also sending back the transaction data from IBP to S/4 HANA, ECC system.
• Work on high priority issues in Confidential (MIPO, DIM) and SAP APO (DP, GATP, SNP, CTM, PPDS) and resolve the issues.
• Monitor weekend DP, SNP, PPDS planning runs followed by Inventory Optimization planning run and ensure that appropriate requirements are generated and the optimized static and dynamic safety stocks are calculated in Confidential and loaded into APO and ECC. Also Monitor Weekend CTM planning runs for specific plants.
• Work on Confidential for Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO) process across supply chain integrating with APO, ECC and BW.
• Work on Confidential Multi stage Inventory Optimization and Demand Intelligence module. Improve the process areas and enhance where ever required.
• Find the root cause of the issues and explain to the business and fix the issue permanently.
• Organize meetings with onsite and offshore team to check the status of the tickets and expedite the resolution of the issues.
• Provide KT to offshore team when deploying Enhancements.
• Organize daily SCM health check calls with business and update the status of tickets and its resolution. Collect if any new issues raised by business during the calls.
• Raise OSS messages and work with SAP where ever required.

SAP APO (DP, SNP, PPDS, GATP) & EHS Subject Matter Expert

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• DP & SNP:
• Developed customized customer collaboration Planning and VMI Planning.
• Interfaced third party softwares viz., Terra Tech Demand sensing & MIO with APO for planning short term forecast and improved Safety stock and forecast accuracy.
• Deployed various enhancements viz., DP SNP forecast comparison report, forecast reorganization etc.
• PPDS:
• Roll out PPDS to various countries. Created country specific PPDS overall Profiles, Strategy profiles, Heuristic Profiles and DS Planning Board profiles, Work areas, Time Profiles etc.
• Maintained Optimization profiles. Defined Propagation Range and maintained PPDS Alert profile. Set up PP/DS master data such as PP/DS PDS, set-up groups/matrices. Configured PPDS Planning runs, Order views, DS board configuration to differentiate between sequence dependent set up statuses. Setup PPDS in background using process chains.
• GATP:
• Implemented GATP with product allocation to restrict the customers ordering over their allocation limit during Price increase / STEM situations and Successful go live for US, CN, MY and DE
• Implemented GATP RBA for product substitutions and alternate locations, BOP.
• EH&S:
• Interfaced Prosteward, GPC and DOK-X with EH&S for daily MSDS exports.
• Implemented EH&S MSDS Distribution process and MSDS enhancement for third party printing model for US, CA, FR and SA.
• Supporting for a divestment project in EHS, to clone SAP EHS to the customer system. Test the EHS functionality and handover the system.
• Supported upgrades from SCM 5.0 to SCM 7.0, SCM 7.0 to 7.13
• For additional requirements, written functional specifications for Enhancements, interfaces, reports and customization for new developments or improvements to the existing functionality.
• Preparation of test scripts using HP Quality Center.
• Test the functionality in various test phases viz., Unit testing, Integration testing, Customer acceptance testing, Regression testing, Role based testing for country wise roll outs and for the newly developed functionality.
• Resolved the defects rose during various phases of testing and fix the issue.
• Preparation for cutover, go live and Hyper care support.
• Provided knowledge transfer to support team and Handover. Also provide Knowledge transfer to business on the functionality.

Sr APO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Workshops with clients to provide the information on the APO functionality.
• Organize meetings with clients to discuss on APO DP implementation strategy and finalize the scope of the functionality, collected design details and roles for users.
• Prepared business blue print document/High level design documents with AS-IS and TO-BE solution. Performed Gap analysis and Configured the application
• For additional requirements, written functional specifications for Enhancements, interfaces, reports, forms and customization, for new developments or improvements to the existing functionality.
• Implemented automatic Pattern Identification for forecast and assign respective forecast Profiles.
• Univariate forecast run based on assigned Pattern forecast profiles which includes forecast strategies like trend (23), Seasonal trend (30), Croston (80), constant (12) and no forecast (98).
• Implemented Full fledged Consensus Planning with various calculations online like LY weekly, LY Budget, Var % LY Cumulative, Var % Budget Cumulative, YoY growth etc.
• Marketing, Regional and National GM consensus planning with Bottom up and Top down Planning, Generation of alerts for exceptions and Generation of SMS alerts.
• Implemented 5-year budget planning.
• Solution for Seasonal Planning (Ramadan) in which season moves 11 days every year.
• Created master data like Locations, Products, Transportation lanes, Production data structures etc from ECC via CIF interface.
• Created APO BW infocubes, data sources, infosources, DTPs, Updates rules, transformations, infopackages and process chains
• Integration with the ABAP team during build process.
• Prepared test scripts and tested the functionality in various test phases viz., Unit testing, Integration testing, Customer acceptance testing, Regression testing, Role based testing for the newly developed functionality.
• Resolved the defects rose during various phases of testing and fixed the issue.
• Preparation for cutover, Data load, go live and Hyper care support.
• Prepared BPP documents for business to operate demand planning process.
• Provided Knowledge transfer to business on the functionality.

Sr APO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Based on the blue print document configured the SNC functionalities viz., PO collaboration, Supplier Managed Inventory and Release process.
• Integration between ECC, XI and SNC.
• Customer developments in ECC to alter the status of PO conf and PO change messages.
• Customer developments in SCM to map master data in XML messages using BADI, grouping of alert emails to one per receiver.
• Set up background jobs to transfer stocks, requirements and GR information for SMI process, generate and activate integration models for ICH master data and delete current alerts and alert history.
• Tested the functionality by unit, scenarios and regression testing.
• Organized customer acceptance testing to test the functionality by end user and get business sign off.
• Prepared the Business process procedure documents for the end user
• Prepared Knowledge transfer packs and provided Knowledge transfer to business.
• Preparation for cutover strategies and performed cutover activities
• Go live and hyper care support.
• Handled go live issues and fixed.

Sr APO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the blue print document on DP and GATP for Japan and Poland
• Configured the DP and GATP for Roll out countries.
• Master data set up for Rollout countries.
• Test the functionality by unit, scenarios and regression testing.
• Organized customer acceptance testing to test functionality by end user and get sign off
• Set up background jobs for master data and transaction data
• Prepared the Business process procedure documents for the end user
• Prepared Knowledge transfer packs and provided Knowledge transfer to business.
• Preparation for cutover strategies and performed cutover activities
• Go live and hyper care support.

Sr EHS Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured the EHS functionalities viz., Product safety (MSDS), Dangerous goods check and TREM card Printing.
• Set up property trees, Classification system, Phrase management etc, and Managing report generation jobs and report information system.
• For Dangerous goods configured shipping conditions, Transportation groups, Shipping point allocation to shipping condition, new acct group for Partner function SR, output types for MSDS, TREM card and Dangerous goods, Assign languages to countries for TREM card printing etc.
• Configured MSDS distribution for PRINT CALL, MAN CALL, EXP, CALL, SD CALL, SUB CALL,
• Test the functionality by unit, scenarios and regression testing.
• Organized customer acceptance testing to test functionality by end user and get sign off
• Prepared the Business process procedure documents for the end user
• Prepared Knowledge transfer packs and provided Knowledge transfer to business.
• Preparation for cutover strategies and performed cutover activities
• Go live and hyper care support.
• Handled go live issues and fixed.

Sr Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supporting APO DP, GATP and TPVS modules
• Monitor Tickets raised on the above modules
• Resolve the issues and fix.
• Take requirements for enhancements, write Functional spec and deploy.
• Test the functionality viz., unit test, ITC, CAT and regression testing
• Take sign off from business to move the changes to production.
• Provide KT to Business on enhancements.
• Go live and Hyper care support for the enhancements.
• Monitor jobs for DP, GATP and TPVS.

Sr Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supporting PP and APO DP modules. Monitor weekend planning runs
• Accept tickets raised on the above modules, Resolve the issues and fix.
• Take requirements for enhancements, write Functional spec and deploy.
• Test the functionality viz., unit test, ITC, CAT and regression testing
• Take sign off from business to move the changes to production.
• Provide KT to Business on enhancements.
• Go live and Hyper care support for the enhancements.