SUMMARY

• He is a professional consultant with thirteen years of experience in IT industry. During the course of his career, he has acquired wide range of technical and management skills and has worked in many different roles. Adaptability is one of his core strength.
• He has an extensive experience as a functional consultant in implementing, supporting and managing SAP APO - Supply Chain Management suite for clients from chemicals, FMCG, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences and engineering industries.
• His specialities includes: SAP APO-SNP, GATP, DP, SNC,SAP Auto ID Infrastructure, i2 Demand Manager and Python programming.
• He has wide-ranging experience from pre-sales for RFID applications to strategic supply chain procurement, working on RFP and software development in cheminformatics domain using open source tools and technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP APO-SNP:
• Aggregate Planning
• SNP Optimizer
• Heuristics
• CTM
• Safety stock planning
• Deployment and TLB
• CIF
• Agile methodologies - Scrum.
• GATP, DP, SNC, SAP Auto ID Infrastructure i2 Demand Manager, Python programming, Winrunner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Application Development Associate Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepare As-Is process document by conducting and driving sessions with various client teams.
• Gather and document business requirements.
• Carry out gap analysis and align To-Be solution with the process consulting team and client IT team.
• Prepare Business Blue Print (BBP) document and conduct BBP walk through sessions with client team.
• Prioritize the requirements to be implemented using Agile methodology-Scrum.
• Configure SAP SCM 7 on HANA e.g: Create planning area, info objects, planning books and data views, configure SPRO, CIF configuration and creation of integration modles etc.
• Prepare Functional Specifications document for different RICEFW objects to develop custom business process requirements such as demand prioritisation, shelf life planning, custom forecast consumption, safety stock planning and batch sizing in SAP SCM 7.
• Carry out functional testing of the custom objects and work with the ABAP team to fix the bugs.
• Prepare Test plan, scenarios and scripts for System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Conduct and drive SIT and UAT sessions with client team end users.
• Prepare cut over activities for go-live and handover the system to the client.

Confidential

Systems Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Analyze client business process requirements using using Agile methodology-Scrum.
• Prepare Functional Specifications document for different RICEFW objects to develop custom business process requirements such as product interchangeability - supersession chain, Heuristics in SAP SCM 7.
• Carry out functional testing of the custom objects and work with the ABAP team to fix the bugs.
• Prepare Test plan, scenarios and scripts for System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Conduct and drive SIT and UAT sessions with client team end users.
• Prepare cut over activities for go-live and handover the system to the client.

Confidential

Lead Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Work across Service Delivery Lifecycle to analyze, estimate efforts, design, build, test and implement major and minor enhancements along with ongoing maintenance of existing SAP SCM applications.
• Work with client and team members to gather and interpret user requirements into design specifications and configure the system to functional standards.
• Worked extensively on SNP Optimizer enhancements and aggregate planning.
• Resolving issues in DP, SNP - Heuristics, CTM, GATP and PPDS space.
• Conduct project and issue management (status reporting, budget reporting) for assigned scope of work.
• Maintain applications and ensure deliveries within SLAs.
• Designated innovation champion at account level to drive innovation for client and company.
• Generate and support new business opportunities.
• Manage and motivate the team effectively to ensure high quality deliverables for the client and increase client satisfaction.
• Build skills within team needed to execute responsibilities.

Confidential

Senior Application Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Effectively integrate SAP APO (Heuristics and GATP) packaged technology into the client’s business environment.
• Helping client to modify the existing system through enhancements to suit the need of ever changing business scenario.
• Monitor Demand and Supply network planning and report post planning analysis.
• Resolve issues that arise during the weekend and mid-week Supply Chain planning processes which cater the planning of entire products across all locations at a go.
• Work interactively with end user and core user when organization is going to adapt any types of changes in process level and technology level.
• Come up with new solutions and processes whenever possible to enhance, simplify and improve the existing processes.
• Carry out daily mandatory activities like CCR - daily data reconciliation, CIF monitoring etc.
• Interact with SAP and coordinate with BASIS team to implement the SAP notes.
• Transport customizations and process chains to production systems using SAP Solution manger.
• Attend team and client meetings weekly and report the status to higher management.