SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of experience in SAP technologies with specialities in SAP SCM APO (Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) and Global Available - To-Promise (GATP)), BW and R/3 MM & PP.
• Sound Understanding of SCM APO concepts and business processes. Hands-on experience with ASAP implementation methodology involving analysis, design, development, testing, go-live, and post implementation support and maintenance of SCM APO functionalities.
• Designed and configured complete data model (InfoObjects/InfoSources/Data Sources/DSO) using BW Administrative Workbench. Created InfoCubes, MPOS, PA and Planning Books.
• Experienced in Statistical Forecast profiles (Univariate, MLR, and Composite), Life Cycle Planning, Promotion Planning, Alert Monitoring, Data Re-alignment, Process Chains, Mass Processing, Loading data from an InfoCube into a Planning Area (PA) and backup of PA.
• Worked on Make-to-Stock, Make-to-Order and Planning with Final Assembly strategies.
• Hands-on experience with SNP Heuristics, Optimizer, Capable-To-Match (CTM), Deployment, Transport Load Builder (TLB), Capacity Leveling and Safety Stock Planning.
• Experienced in using BadIs, User-exits and custom programs within APO functionalities.
• Raised SAP OSS Notes and applied any missing Notes to improve application performance.
• Experienced with interactive and background PP/DS planning runs using PP Heuristics, Detailed Scheduling Heuristics and PP/DS Optimizer. Worked with PP Planning Procedure.
• Configured PP/DS Alert Profile, Work Areas, Propagation Range, Strategy Profile and Optimization profile. Defined DS Planning Board Profile and Overall profile.
• Worked on SAP R/3 Production Planning (PP) with in-depth knowledge of S&OP, Demand Management, Capacity Planning, MRP, Bill of Materials, Work Centre and Routings.
• An organized professional with excellent analytical and communication skills and possess capacity to transform business requirements into deployable business solutions.
• Upgrading my skills set and looking out for extensive training on different modules in IBP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX, IRIX, Linux, HP-UX and Windows 00/NT/XP/Vista/7

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, 6.0 and SCM APO 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0

Programming Languages: FORTRAN 77, C, C++, HTML, and DHTML

Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, SSH, Telnet, LAN/WAN, Ethernet, DHCP, and Samba

UNIX Compilers and MPI Libraries: MIPSpro, gcc, HPUX, LAM/MPI, MPICH, HP-MPI

Software Packages: FEMLAB, SIMATIC PCS7 (Process Control System), SIMATIC WinCC, INCA MPC (Model Predictive Control), gPROMS Process modelling and Simulation, Presto (MLP Neural Network Tool), NeuroSystems (RBF Neural Network Tool) and ASPEN tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, East Hanover, New Jersey

SAP SCM APO SNP & PPDS Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Post go-live hypercare APO support and new master data setup for different External Manufacturing (EM) scenarios and SNP planning optimization engine.
• Experienced on setup of supply network for Co-packing/Re-packing, Co-manufacturing and Inter-region EM processes. Validate source network for EM and completeness of data.
• Maintenance of master data fields and penalty costs for SNP optimizer solve within multi level supply network.
• Worked on Subcontracting Purchase Info Record (PIR), Master Recipe and Production Version (PV) for planning capacity managed and non-capacity managed EM processes.
• Troubleshoot production issues in PIR, supply source network, SNP optimizer, deployment planning and transport load builder.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

SAP SCM APO SNP & PPDS Functional Consultant

• Worked as a functional consultant on small enhancements and production support activities in SNP (Heuristic and Optimizer) and PPDS modules.
• Designed and prototype forecast consumption behaviour with Daylight Saving Time (DST) using Planning with Final Assembly requirement strategy. Alternative solutions have been proposed to effectively control daily buckets forecast consumption issue with DST.
• Worked on a fully customized solution with SNP Optimizer to generate quota arrangements.
• Experienced on PPDS order enhancements related to order rate adjustment, shrink & stretch operation and re-explode order qty change using PPDS BadIs for heuristic and order creation.
• Documented functional design specifications and configured PPDS order re-explosion heuristic for the components change in a BOM or PDS master data.
• Experienced on custom safety stock calculation macro with period-based safety stock method considering time series safety days' supply, location calendar and product master fields.
• Worked on APO Quota Arrangement functionality to determine the correct sources of supply types for in-house production and external procurement source locations.

Confidential, St. Louis, Missouri

SAP SCM APO DP, CIF, SNP, GATP & Salesforce Functional Consultant

• Facilitate business meetings. Worked on all phases of a project life cycle: elicit business requirements, solution design, development, implementation and post implementation support in SNP Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) and Demand Planning.
• Experienced in writing Functional Design Specification documents for different business areas within a company and worked with technical teams during project development phase.
• Act as a single-point of contact for business in SNP DRP specifically Deployment Planning for any consulting topics related to business process improvement/re-engineering besides Salesforce (SFDC)/Replenishment Planning troubleshooting and support activities.
• Designed & developed completely custom solution in SNP Deployment Planning using user-defined BadI’s for both Fair Share Rule and Push Distribution deployment heuristic methods.
• Experienced in using EEWB for creating custom fields for APO product and location master.
• Worked with Solution Manager to create/track change request documents and status checks.
• Developed custom tool/programs for the mass update and maintenance of APO Location-Product master and Location master fields. Worked on mass creation of T-Lanes.
• Configured custom category in APO and mapped with new Sales Order type in ECC using CIF user-exits to differentiate demand signals for SNP heuristic planning.
• Experienced with CIF integration model maintenance, TLB settings and heuristic runs.
• Worked on a design project for other business area to pull custom table fields in ECC using generic DataSource extractors and replicate the data to APO system for CTM planning.
• Enhanced the existing CTM planning functionality with updated logic in terms of determining the source of supply, transport time (route) and GR processing lead time.
• Worked on frontend custom replenishment planning tool in Salesforce (SNP and Deployment planning results tightly integrated with Salesforce for further downstream processing) and custom forecast tool in Salesforce for integration of APO forecast reduction process.
• Designed and developed APO forecast reduction process with Make-to-Stock production strategy. Configured custom settings in ECC and APO systems to trigger forecast reduction after PGI the delivery of a sales order without impacting the existing GATP processes.
• Configured GATP check instructions, check mode, APO proposed strategy, ECC requirements type/class, strategy group and implemented BadI for forecast reduction process.
• Worked on GATP APO Product Allocation and ATP Checks. Maintained GATP relevant master data and CIF integration models for APO product allocation.
• Experienced in Back Order Processing (BOP) for switching material groups from Product Allocations check to ATP check, and vice versa.
• Acquired high-level knowledge from my colleagues on Integrated Business Planning (IBP) specifically Supply Chain Control Tower, S&OP, and Demand modules within IBP.

Confidential, Peoria, Illinois

SAP SCM APO SNP & PPDS Functional Consultant

• Being part of a global template planning and procurement team, worked in the blueprint phase reviewing functional requirements, design workshops, project estimate and prototype.
• Handled important Multi Generation Project Plans: Migrate purchased parts planning from ECC to SCM APO, and S&OP Component demand management & supply planning.
• Conducted business blueprint workshops involving PPOs, Applications Architects and other project stakeholders to review/finalize the scope and requirements of the project and update the Ability-To's covering both planning and procurement functional areas.
• Prototype test solution for purchasing Scheduling Agreement (SA) between ECC and APO systems for both forms of procurement: ECC/OLTP SA and APO SA.
• Coordinated blueprint design sessions and finalized release estimate for both projects.
• Worked on MRP views of ECC Material Master, CIF integration models, CIF queues and additional master data maintenance for planning of external procurement materials in APO.
• Performed planning to ensure correct selection of source of supply/source determination between suppliers/vendors and plant, using SNP heuristic and PPDS heuristic planning runs.

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

SAP SCM APO DP, SNP & GATP Functional Consultant

• Served as IT and Business/user facing functional lead for the SAP APO modules in managing direct ownership of APO processes to ensure business success and continuity.
• Facilitated meetings with business and assigned tasks to relevant offshore counterparts, commit team to perform tasks within time buckets and manage quality of work.
• Worked very closely with business on a regular/daily basis for manual production support on monthly retail order planning for retail and wholesale forecast demand planning process.
• Implemented new/improved business functionalities in the scope of enhancements including requirements gathering, functional design, build, UT, UAT and post implementation review.
• Worked on design, build and implementation of DP Macro for suggested WS Keyfigure.
• Generated CVC’s for new/missing dealers and Motorcycle groups for DP forecasting.
• Addressed major production support problem fix/issue with DP Month End Process Batch.
• Handled production support incident management tickets and relevant documentation.
• Set-up of master data and maintained costs for the SNP Optimizer, GATP BOP, Product Availability Check and Product Allocations.
• Worked on APO LiveCache sizing for SAP upgrade, created test scripts and execution of test cases involving DP, SNP and GATP for both Motorcycle and Power Equipment division.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, Michigan

SAP SCM APO DP, SNP & PP/DS Functional Consultant

• Worked as a functional consultant to study client’s business requirements and mapped the structure of the company to initiate the planning design and data flow.
• Studied client’s business process AS-IS and proposed a solution in consensus with the core business team to implement the TO-BE business processes for DP, SNP and PP/DS.
• Prepared business process flowcharts based on business blueprint documents.
• Maintained DP Master Data and Created Master Forecast profiles. Modeled forecast strategy based on Univariate, Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) and Composite forecasting profiles.
• Configured and executed interactive and background planning runs for PP/DS Heuristics and Optimizer, and maintained customization settings for PP/DS Optimizer.
• Configured PP/DS Alert Profile, Work Areas, Propagation Range, Strategy Profile and Optimization profile. Defined DS Planning Board Profile and Overall profile.
• Monitored system during go-live periods. Troubleshoot post go-live support issue tickets.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP SCM APO DP, SNP & PP/DS Functional Consultant

• Maintained Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristic Value Combinations, Storage Bucket Profile and Time Bucket Profile with different periodicities.
• Maintained Master Data, Statistical Master Forecast Profiles and Data Views as per Business Blueprint. Defined Forecast Models for Time Series Forecasting.
• Created Proportional Factors to disaggregate CVCs from Aggregate to the Detail Level.
• Performed Life Cycle Planning through Like Profile, Phase-in and Phase-Out Profiles.
• Defined DS Planning Board Profile and Overall profile. Configured PP/DS Alert Profile, Work Areas, Propagation Range, Strategy Profile and Optimization profile.
• 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 and PP/DS optimizer.

Confidential, Fort Smith, AR

SAP SCM APO DP, SNP & PP/DS Functional Consultant

• Studied client’s business process AS-IS and proposed a solution in consensus with the core business team to implement the TO-BE business processes for DP, SNP and PP/DS.
• Conducted meetings with business to gather requirements and conveyed to technical team.
• Studied forecasting process by carrying out forecast at different aggregation levels using different forecast models, and arrived at optimum solution by comparing the forecast.
• Ensuring Data continuity and quality between APO and R/3 using the CIF functionality.
• Executed planning runs with SNP heuristics, deployment heuristics and TLB planning.
• Worked on interactive and Background PP/DS planning runs with PP Heuristics, Detailed Scheduling Heuristics and customization settings for PP/DS Optimizer.
• Developed end user training documents, knowledge transfer and resolved user issues.

Confidential

SAP SCM APO CIF, DP & GATP Functional Consultant

• Analyzed the business blueprint and understood how the system is designed including the application of business process re-engineering and configuration.
• Developed S&OP Planning Process, Configured Planning Views for S&OP, with relevant Key Figures and defined appropriate Macros to facilitate this process.
• 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.
• Extensively worked on issues related to Core Interface (CIF).
• Configured Master Data for GATP and worked on creating CIF Integration Models to transfer Master Data and Transaction Data between ECC and APO systems.
• Tested and configured Back Order Processing (batch & interactive), Product Allocations and Rule Based ATP Check by creating scenarios using Sales Orders in ECC.

Confidential

SAP SCM APO DP, SNP & GATP Functional Consultant

• Analyzed the business process as part of knowledge transfer and mapped the structure of the company for planning purposes in the DP, SNP and GATP Master Data.
• Configured DP-BW Objects like InfoCubes, InfoObjects, Source System, Data Source and DSO. Developed Transfer Rules and Update Profiles for ODS and InfoCubes.
• Life Cycle Planning using Like Profile, Phase-in and Phase-Out Profiles. Modeled forecast strategy based on Univariate, Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) and Composite forecasting.
• Performed SNP planning runs using SNP Heuristics and maintained Quota Arrangements in Supply Chain Engineer (SCE) for the use of SNP Heuristics.
• Configured GATP settings in APO for availability checks and product allocations.
• Configured BOP settings - defined filter type, sort profile, assigned rules strategy etc.
• Troubleshooting configuration issues in DP, SNP and GATP and its integration with ECC.

Confidential

SAP SCM APO SNP & PP/DS Functional Consultant

• Set-up of master data for SNP and PP/DS planning. Configured SNP planning heuristics, Safety Stock Planning, Subcontracting and Deployment.
• Created test scenarios needed to support business requirements based on customer defined priorities, cost and optimization profile for SNP optimizer.
• Configured PP/DS Alert Profile, Work Area, propagation range, strategy profile, maintained Optimization profile. Defined DS Planning Board profile and the Overall profile.
• Configured PP/DS for both Make-to-stock and Make-to-order production scenarios, PP/DS Heuristics, Net requirement calculation, Lot-size calculation and Source determination.

Confidential

SAP SCM APO Functional Consultant

• Involved in coordinating, monitoring, managing design & configuration activities/resources and APO development activities.
• Created Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Area, CVCs, Storage Bucket Profile and Planning Bucket Profile with periodicities.
• Defined macros to perform calculations and carry out alerts to warn exceptional situations.
• Refined the forecast models in the light of knowledge gained from forecast accuracy checks.
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master data and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO systems. Configured Location Master, Product Master, Resource and PPM.

Confidential

Project Co-ordinator

• Project collaboration with different firms to develop an automation concept using Artificial Intelligence technique for the online advanced control of polymerization reactors.
• Modelled complete polymerization process topology flowchart with the Confidential control software’s and other commercial control software packages available in the market.
• Utilising real process data from the plastic manufacturing plant to teach the neural network algorithm and the models developed were applied in the real time to control the polymerization processes.
• Planned, executed and implemented the advanced control strategies besides developing Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the polymerization industry to control the highly non-linear process through online.
• Identified the best neural network models to infer the polymer quality determining variables in the real time.

Confidential

Industrial Master Thesis

• Researched on advanced automation control concepts for the online control of polymerization processes.
• Developed various neural network models for controlling polymer end product quality and other process variables.
• Applied model based predictive control approach and trained the neural network algorithm with real process data.
• Experienced with gPROMS and ASPEN Process modelling software’s for the simulation of polymerization process.