SUMMARY:

• Experienced SAP PP - VC-APO-EWM Consultant with expertise in end to end implementation and support (transition, Assisted/Guided/Parallel perform phases through steady state support) and strong Process Integration skill across end to end supply chain. Possess cross functional knowledge in SAP Order Management, Procurement and Inventory management and Product Costing. Conversant with S4 methodology and roadmap and also possess in depth knowledge of MRP on S4 HANA.
• Performed progressive roles from Consultant, Project Manager, Managing Consultant, and Sr. Solution Architect with People Management responsibilities spread across multiple geographies in several global projects / initiatives. Well versed with Software Development and maintenance support lifecycle from blueprinting through realization, go-live, hyper care & sustain and also conversant with Release management & Audit compliance requirements. Proficient in gap analysis, requirement gathering, solution delivery in Integrated Supply Chain Management environment, adept in managing risks & issues and stakeholder management. As business COE of client, have participated in Vendor evaluation / selection and associated resource management.
• Overall 16+ years of experience with 10+ years of experience in SAP in large scale global environment in client facing roles as well as Client and hence well versed with business environment and it’s dynamic needs from both sides. The SAP exposure is backed by 6+ years of industry exposure in shop floor manufacturing and production planning with Product Development & Quality Assurance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAP Production Planning and MRP/PP on S4 HANA
• SAP Variant Configuration
• SAP Extended Warehouse Management with E2E implementation exposure
• SAP APO (DP & GATP)
• Complete E2E set up of Core Interface for APO/EWM with CIF enhancement
• Cross functional knowledge of SAP SD, MM, CO and QM
• Process Integration across supply chain areas
• Interface design and data mapping with SAP and non-SAP MES systems
• Delivery management
• Project management & associated project financials
• People management
• Testing and end user training

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP COE Sr. Solution Architect

• Requirement gathering for a complex manufacturing and warehousing process including non-SAP Manufacturing Execution System (MES-GE Proficy) with N-link (BPML compliant) as middleware
• AS-IS and TO-BE analysis to map existing business process into ECC-EWM landscape
• Business process reengineering in line with latest capability in line with SAP offering and process simplification
• Utilization of Advanced manufacturing integration with EWM like PMR (Production Material Request) and EGR (Expected Goods receipt) process and enhancement of the same to map customized business requirements
• ECC and EWM system preparation in terms of required BC set implementations relevant for business functionalities in EWM and making existing ECC system compatible with EWM
• Complete ownership of end to end set up of Core Interface and qRFC between ECC & EWM and set up of Integration models for master / transactional data and relevant jobs
• Interface mapping with MES systems with EWM and ECC and well versed with communication methods as per business need
• End to end set up of required configurations with respect to ECC and EWM organization structure, manual mapping between two systems, ECC material master set up (additional view set up for EWM) and auto-replication of the material into Warehouse product and ensuring consistency
• Master data set up in EWM like Warehouse & it’s controlling parameters, SCU, BP, Resource, Pack-spec etc. handling of BP conflicts in case of STO process
• Single handedly executed a sub-project by enabling ECC system (SAP APPL-606-SAPKH60604) compatible with EWM V9.3 for PMR functionality by implementing several corrections and prerequisites OSS Notes and business functions
• Establish connections between two systems and distribution design (model creation/generation) for inbound/outbound/production material staging/shipment
• Interface design for synchronous and asynchronous communication with MES systems as per shop floor requirements and driving inbound & outbound communication methods by brainstorming with middleware and MES team
• Preparation of interface mapping document for seamless integration
• Preparation of Functional specifications with test scenarios/error handling and working with development team to implement the design
• Custom logic of delivery distribution for specific delivery type level and updating of delivery in ECC in ‘distributed’ status with respect to change made in EWM
• Handled COGI entries in EWM in line with ECC functionalities by developing customized process leveraging EWM to IM adhoc document flow
• Leading preparation of test scenarios and test scripts development
• Leading change management process and associated end user training
• Being a new functionality for existing landscape, performed extensive workshops with business for requirement gathering
• Convinced business stakeholders by setting correct expectations regarding GATP features and achieving diverse business requirements in hand with only APO Demand Planning instance being available
• Complete Core Interface set up for the between ECC & APO and associated Integration model set up for master & transactional data
• Well versed with customizing settings for ATP in ECC (Requirement class/type), Sales order type configuration for integration with RBA
• End to end customizing in APO for GATP (Check Mode & Control, scope of check etc.), Master data for Product Allocation (MPOS, PA, PAG, PAO)
• Various aspects of Rule Maintenance and Rule Determination
• Advanced calling of Production from ATP check and ATP tree functionalities
• Aware of functionalities and configurations of CTP and MLTP
• Backorder processing (BOP) functionalities of GATP and EDQA
• Conversant with Multi-Item Single Delivery (MISL) as well as Product Interchangeability
• Conversant with Configurable Process Scheduling (CPS)
• Executed complex Proof of Concepts for complex scenarios in line with requirements to demonstrate standard GATP functionalities for a Sales order across ECC-APO. Following scenario demonstrated:

Confidential, Peoria, IL

SAP PP-VC-APO Lead

• Got detailed experience in large, multi-country global end to end SAP implementation project covering requirement gathering, Gap analysis, Realization, Unit & Integration and Regression testing, Cut over activities, Go-live and hyper care support. This has given him in depth hands on experience to complete development life cycle of a software development.
• Acted as supply chain lead for Process Integration across multiple teams to address complex SAP software design issues cutting across multiple SAP business processes and ensured reliable, quality solution in line with the SAP template design with minimum downtime.
• Facilitated many design discussions and conducted brainstorming sessions across different functional areas and drove the decision making processes.
• Prepared Proof of Concept (POC) documents for new business requirements and prototyped the same in the system to address business needs e.g. characteristic value flow in multilevel super BOM, consistency check in nested configuration, demand shift for components of phantom assembly, MRP design to address scheduling of planned orders as per daily production capacity
• Development of product specifications for VC objects from client own legacy systems and configuration of the same through VC master data and transfer of the same master data across different clients (quality, pre-production) for integration & regression testing to ensure compliance throughout end to end supply chain and order management process
• Architected VC design for Nested Configurable materials in interplant and intercompany scenario and also develop Material Variant process flow for the client by working with experts from renowned Configuration Work Groups (CWG) where I am member since 2007
• Contributed to site readiness, deployment, functionality releases and resolved critical business issues for live production system pertaining to SAP VC objects across associated areas of Production Planning, Sales & Distribution, Product Costing and Engineering Change management
• Resolved critical Production Planning issues with integration with other supply chain areas like APO, Material Management, Quality Management and Engineering Change Management
• Got detailed exposure for traceability through Serial number functionalities
• Deepened expertise in handling Core interface issues between APO & ECC
• Evaluation of engineering change to determine impact on SAP Master data and related business processes and resolved complex issues
• Created functional designs for enhancements of existing SAP functionalities for interim releases. Configured system enhancements and tested system configuration.
• Led end to end enhancement with capturing of requirement, effort estimation through designated template, requirement gathering, solution design, prototyping, testing and implementation of the same.
• Participated as COE member to define strategy for root cause analysis for critical & high priority production issues in order to eliminate recurrence of them.
• Handled Incident & Change management process as Team Lead for ticketing tool Remedy and demonstrated expertise for transport management process for break-fix & configuration changes ensuring SOx compliance
• Providing coordination & subject matter assistance to offshore team in India & Mexico in resolving techno-functional problems and handling difficult situations with business users
• Applied Project Management tools and techniques to manage escalations from client leadership and business users and worked as coordinator with IBM team to address the requirement resulting satisfied customer
• Development of end user training document and system check out template for disaster mitigation & planned outage testing

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the on time resolution of business issues for US based AMS project with a team spread across US, India and Mexico
• Conversant with Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Tracking of deliverables, monitoring of incidents from creation to closure, schedule adherence as well as ownership of resolution quality for the team.
• Managed project financial and achieved profitability maintaining schedule adherence
• Developed re-usable project governance dashboard for status reporting to key IBM & client stakeholders and presentation skill to articulate the right message to relevant parties in timely manner
• Promoted documentation of SAP Software programs within his team and successfully captured business process details and related software design in Application Information Documents (AID) which served as knowledge transfer documents for the team and client
• Provided SME leadership and SAP ERP expertise to process integration and overall design and collaborated with other process managers and COE counterparts to deliver optimum solution as per SAP best practices
• Identified required skill set and ensured on-budget staffing for successful delivery and also maintained team moral

Confidential

Project Lead SAP PP-VC

• Provided consultation to business customers on solution to critical SAP design issues and thereby ensured business continuity with minimum downtime
• Ensured adherence to the Service Level Agreement for self and the team for issue resolution as per predefined contract with client and demonstrated confidence and credibility to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously
• Demonstrated skill in SAP Production to Delivery under make to stock, make to order and engineer to order scenarios as well as in the integration areas with SAP Quality Management, Procure to Pay, Order Management, Record to Report and Inventory management
• Participated in SAP process design for Finish to Order, NPI (New Product Introduction) and demonstrated skills across multiple process areas like Production planning, Variant configuration, Project System, Procure to Pay, Order Management
• Developed configurable objects for clients ensuring business rules through object dependencies and interface design for customer facing interface. For this led the team in preparation of SAP VC master data like characteristics, configuration profile, supper BOM & Routing and ensured IPC compatibility through Knowledge base and Run time objects.
• As a COE team member he was involved in development of estimation model for SAP enhancement framework and associated cost benefit analysis
• He consulted with internal & external teams to capture data points for recurring SAP software issues and proactively evaluated the information and modified many existing specifications in SAP Plan to Delivery and associated supply chain areas to ensure performance improvements and long term solution to customer problems. He has initiated capturing these data in IBM software tool ‘Catapult’ which was proved very productive.
• Developed strong negotiation skill and effectively demonstrated that in difficult situations with internal & external customers to arrive at agreed upon solution.
• Worked extensively in ECC to legacy interface issues e.g. Siemens Team Center (Visual Process Planning)
• Deepened knowledge in Incident & Change Management process in production support environment and received detailed exposure to ticketing tool
• Provided end user training and documentation to business user to reduce recurring issues

Confidential

Team Lead SAP VC-PP

• Analyzed business requirement for client by participating in blue printing workshop in US for two weeks and recommended global templates for the implementation of SAP landscape for SAP VC objects complying with supply chain need
• Led offshore based VC implementation as subject matter expert and provided assistance to process teams during business integration testing to resolve supply chain issues related to PP-VC-SD integration areas
• Worked in integration with the SAP PP & SD process areas to ensure supply chain compatibility for the VC
• Led creation of functional standards for VC master data like Characteristics, Class, Configuration Profile, Object Dependency rules (Precondition, Selection Condition, Procedure, Dependency Net/Constraint net), Variant table & functions, Supper BOM & Routing and modeling approach to address business need as well as making the models IPC compatible
• Implemented parent-child nested multilevel configuration scenario as well as business process for Material Variants
• Configured variant pricing procedure and implemented a unique pricing logic which was easy to maintain and error free. It is running for many years successfully in Caterpillar business.
• Performed master data transfer through ALE technique and client set up (RFC communication ports for Logical Systems and by adding Message Types used as Inbound/Outbound parameters), unit testing, user-acceptance testing, testing, related cutover activities, and knowledge transfers.
• Created and maintained Knowledge Base objects used in IPC. Redesigned Variant Configuration solution to implement best practices and enable CRM-IPC compatibility.
• Planned and drove the project to conclusion meeting performance, cost, and time objectives while working the project team
• Complete ownership of on time delivery with predefined quality for the team.

Confidential

Sr. SAP VC Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated expertise in business solution in the integration of SAP Production Planning and SAP Variant Configuration and SAP Sales & Distribution
• Co-ordinated with business process owners and scoped SAP VC specific requirements and performed process validation sessions and fit-gap analysis
• Built and maintained all Cellular and Roller Shades sales order entry interfaces (product configurator), base and SAP Sales order specific pricing, and SAP Super-BOMs
• Implemented production planning and order management based rules using Object dependency master data to check on product configuration completion and ensure model consistency.
• Extensively prepared SAP PP master data like Super BOM and Super Routing and associated component allocations well as assignments of selection rules to the components and operations
• Prepared SAP Variant Configuration master data like characteristics, class, configurable materials, object dependency rules, configuration profile, Variant table & functions and SAP Sales & Distribution master data like pricing conditions, variant pricing keys etc.
• Took ownership of complex design discussions across different business processes and ensured Internet Pricing Compatibility of SAP software product development.
• Developed software integration testing procedure of SAP objects interacting with client process leads to meet the broader solution design.

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Modeling of SAP VC master data as per specification received from client
• Unit testing of VC models

Confidential

Senior Technologist

Responsibilities:

• Process control of continuous glass melting furnace
• Ensuring fuel efficiency by maintaining complete combustion
• Shop floor production of glass containers by ensuring annealing process
• Preventive and corrective maintenance of equipment like filters, valves

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining bench mark production of wall & floor tiles with predefined quality
• Testing of raw materials and work with vendors to ensure required parameters before receiving goods.
• Participated in effluent treatment process to take care of solid wastes to comply with pollution regulations
• Got detailed shop floor experience along with resource allocations.
• Proposed and implemented electrical energy saving technique by introducing timer in slurry mixing raw material tank.
• Involved as a team member for the implementation of ISO 9001 documentation and work tools calibration process.