SUMMARY:

• Anand Umapathy is a Senior Supply Chain Management Consultant responsible for successful delivery of Supply Chain Planning solutions leveraging S&OP and APO DP, SNP, PPDS solutions, with 15 Years of SAP experience backed by International M.B.A. He has experience in all aspects of Project Implementation including Business Blueprint, Realization, Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Post Implementation Support.
• His area of expertise is SCM (APO) with vast experience in Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP Optimizer, Heuristic, CTM), Production Planning Detailed Scheduling, and S&OP.
• He has experience in industries that include semiconductor, high tech, food and beverage, consumer product goods.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, WILIMINGTON, DE

SCM APO MPS Solution Lead

• Involved with design and implementation of MPS solution leveraging SCM 5.0 SNP
• Analyzed the AS - IS condition of the MPS process. Carried out the TO-BE and GAP analysis, business process re-engineering and configuration. 
• Discussed specific and critical requirements with the client team and discussed what can be done and what data to be mapped from their legacy system to R/3. Actively designed and refined integration Data Specifications.
• Designed and Developed the Supply Network Model incorporating all the plants, distribution centers, Customers and Suppliers based on the supply chain process.
• Designed & Configured the Optimization Planning, Heuristic Planning Functionalities
• 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.
• Performed Knowledge Transfer and prepared Training Materials. 

Confidential, Temcula CA.

SCM APO PPDS Solution Lead

• Maintained PP/DS Master Data such as Resources and PPM.
• Maintained Detailed Scheduled Planning Board Profile.
• Maintaining Planning parameter settings, defined Alert Profile, Strategy Profile, Time Profile and defined Propagation Range.
• Maintained PP/DS Heuristics, Product Planning Table Configuration and User exits.
• Implemented customized functionality to prevent de-allocation of R/3 modified planned orders.
• Setting up Heuristic /Optimization planning CIF configuration, Master data/Transaction data modeling, Batch job monitoring  
• Resolving issues of CIF Queues, Consistency check on R/3 and APO
• Capacity leveling, Resource Planning
• Resolving resource overloading and detailed scheduling of production lines

Confidential

SCM APO PPDS Solution Lead

• Configured PP/DS for both Make-to-stock and Make-to-order production scenarios, PP/DS Heuristics, Net requirement calculation and Lot-size calculation, and Source determination.
• Configured PPM/PDS Explosion and Scheduling, Firming, Pegging, Setup times, converting planned orders in PP/DS,
• Exception groups in the PP/DS planning log, Product view, Product planning table, Day's of supply, Detailed Scheduling Planning board, Resource planning table, PP/DS optimizer.
• Implemented new heuristics for SCM 5.0 including multi-level order related bottom-up planning, capacity driven order creation, re-explosion, and multi-level order related top-down planning, etc.
• Maintained PP/DS Master Data such as Resources and PPM.
• Maintained Detailed Scheduled Planning Board Profile.
• Maintaining Planning parameter settings, defined Alert Profile, Strategy Profile, Time Profile and defined Propagation Range.
• Maintained PP/DS Heuristics, Product Planning Table Configuration and User exits.
• Developed User training docs and given knowledge transfer.

Confidential, WILIMINGTON, DE

SCM APO DP Solution Lead

• Configured and defined the Planning Books and Macros for Interactive Planning.
• Created Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristics Value Combinations (CVC), Storage Bucket Profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly and weekly buckets.
• Maintained Statistical Forecast Profiles fro various Data Views per requirement.
• Performed Life Cycle Planning thru Like Profile, Phase-In and Phase-Out Profile.
• Studied and modified planning book to transfer constrained demand data from SNP.
• Created DP macros to provide alerts regarding constrained demand and final forecast deficiencies.
• Configured various frozen forecast periods across business areas and product lines
• Set Up release of DP to SNP.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SCM APO PPDS Solution Lead

• Configured Campaign Planning and optimized set up sequences and reduce change-over times leading to minimal manual interventions, cost savings, maximum utilization of bottleneck resources and reduced customer delays.
• Configured Detailed Scheduling board to manually adjust the production plan by selecting and changing orders.
• Demonstrated and Delivered solution for following PPDS requirements:
• Schedule Operations for which Alternative resources are available to execute an operation.
• Minimize Runtime
• Sequence Dependent Setup Activities
• Planning Direction and Non-Working Times
• Minimize workload imbalance
• Maintained CIF Integration models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO.
• Maintained PP/DS Master Data such as Resources and PPM.
• Maintained Detailed Scheduled Planning Board Profile.
• Maintaining Planning parameter settings, defined Alert Profile, Strategy Profile, Time Profile and defined Propagation Range.
• Maintained PP/DS Heuristics, Product Planning Table Configuration and User exits.
• Developed User training docs and given knowledge transfer.

Confidential, ATLANTA, Ga

scm apo dp solution Lead

• Led the Demand Planning solution design
• Demonstrated interactive demand planning, lifecycle planning and promotion planning
• Developed weekly and monthly Demand Planning business
• Coordinated integration of SAP and Non-SAP systems using IDOC
• Designed Reports
• Conducted testing
• User training and support