SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a SAP SCM Solution Architect / Co - Author with 22 years’ experience in SAP SCM GATP,SNP, MM & SD. His experience encompasses 17 Years of SAP diverse level of work function and has been business Transformation Leader, Team leader, Architect, Consultant on Global Projects with big four consulting and leading companies.
• Confidential has worked on multiple Global SAP projects including 14 full life cycle implementations in USA and APAC regions.
• He has extensively worked for clients in Life Science, Semi-Conductors, Consumer Packaged Goods, ChemicalsPharmaceuticals and Manufacturing industries (IS Mill).
• Expert in SAP SCM SD, MM, PP, QM, GATP, DP, SNP, VMI Configuration, Integration of R/3 and APO.
• Expert in interfaces of ECC with web based order entry channel(XML), EDI, MES, eProcurement.
• Co Authored book GATP- Funcationality and Configuration with SAP Press
• Configured DP - Forecast release, Forecast consumption of VMC (Vendor Managed Consignment)
• Received mail of appreciation of outstanding support from Vice President International Paper.
• Did lot of customization, expert in BADI, Enhancement spots, Intercative Z Reports.
• Worked with buisness stake holders to imrove S&OP process.
• Team lead to maintain SAP work between USA and Offshore. As a lead, drafted functional specs and detailed designfor reports and interfaces. Performed unit testing and user acceptance testing with the business users and managed migration to production environment.
• Published various white papers as SME on sdn.sap.com
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills a total team player. Self-starter with drive, initiative anda positive attitude. Able to meet very stringent deadlines and always deliver results, even under pressure.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal SAP GATP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for SAP APO GATP implementation on S/4 Hana in one box.
• Leading team for all logistics scenarios MM, PP, SD, QM, APO
• Implementing Rules based ATP across the Plants for make to stock product. Strategy for make to order products, batch management, batch derivation.
• Working as integration manager for SD, MM, PP, QM, TM, GTS to map business process of operations and logistics execution.

Confidential, Hercules CA

Principal SAP GATP DP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for SAP APO GATP DP implementation in USA, Mexico and Canada in two deployments for LSG, CDG divisions.
• Responsible for updating PMO about project deliverables progress, managing requirements to achieve project time schedule.
• Lead an onsite team and offshore team for project and support related activities.
• Customized order fulfillment process from web based tool to SAP and designed various interfaces for stock availability using enterprise services.
• Designed and built SAP APO supply chain management solutions for Bio-Rad. Configured Availability checks in APO, Product allocations for various divisions using planning books, back order processing and transportation and shipment scheduling,
• Customized forecast model for global regions (AMR, EMEA, APAC) using BI process chain and provided inputs from GAINS interface.
• Configured demand planning books for forecast, stock and demand.
• Designed, configured and customized lot - sequestering solution by using product allocation. Built a unique custom tool PAM to create CVC and manage allocation by master batch and kept allocation at par with inventory of shared components.
• Customized CIF to auto populate Product allocation procedure, Process chain in APO based upon business rules.

Confidential

Lead SAP SCM GATP DP Solution Designer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design and Functional specs, testing and implementation of GATP functionality on IS Mill solution
• Configured and implemented availability check for MTO (variant configuration) and ATP characteristics view for MTS products.
• Configured ATP available to promise and Backorder processing scenarios at Cascades.
• Worked closely with PP/DS on block planning for and CDP scenarios.
• Configured demand planning book used in allocations, Info-cube, DSO and process chains.

Confidential, Cupertino CA

Lead SAP SCM GATP Solution Designer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented end to end GATP in one of the division of Apple. Configured Rules based location substitution by creating a pyramid of condition types, process chains for managing allocation.
• Configured SNP heuristics and CTM solution for Apple care business configured supersession session chain and used use-up strategy for (PSIO) inventory optimization.
• Responsible for the configuration of the SNP Deployment Heuristic considering multiple different strategies for Push/Pull, Fair Share rules, Stock Transfer Horizons and ATD Receipt and Issue.
• Worked with SAP AG IMS and Palo Alto to create many OSS notes to resolve allocation inconsistencies (example hierarchy change and partially delivered orders)
• Led the APO SCM7 upgrade and smooth transition from SCM5 to SCM 7
• Developed a Z report to trouble shoot allocation inconsistencies after BOP by combining various tables in APO.

Confidential, SFO CA

Lead SAP SCM GATP Solution Designer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Configured APO availability in PM (Plant Maintenance) orders
• Worked with SAP AG to enable rules based product substitution and back order processing on PM orders.
• Configured availability check in Stock transport orders to move the stock between Plants.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Lead SAP SCM GATP Solution Designer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design, PRICEF and Functional specs, testing and implementation of GATP functionality. Configuring and customizing Planning Area, POS. and Rules based ATP.
• Designed and Configured daily produced quantity (based upon process order) as ATP quantity rules based product and location substitution as per business requirements.
• Responsible for design of GATP, Rules based Product and location substitition, Product allocation, BOP and Transportation scheduling.
• Responsible for CIF inegration model and enhancements of CIF, trouble shooting of CIF errors.
• Worked on various Functional specs to meet the business requirements.
• Woked closely with PPDS Team for block Planning (CDP) and scheduling.

Confidential, Albany, NY

Lead SAP SCM Functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for setup of SCM7.0 system, Integration and initialization of Live Cache, RFC destinations setup, BSG assignment, source system in SCM
• Setting up integration Models, trouble shooting the queues.
• Installation for Best Practices for Chemical Industries
• Configured Supply Network Planning SNP-CTM for constrained capacity scenario, includes setting up and Cifing PDS, BOM, Recipes, work centres etc.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Lead SAP SCM GATP Functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design, PRICEF and Functional specs, testing and implementation of GATP functionality. Configuring and customizing Back order Processing, Configurable Process Scheduling and Rules based ATP.
• Responsible for SCM 5.1 system setup, integration models, monitoring and trouble shooting the queues. Integrating SCM with ECC resources, Factory calendars, Time stream calendars, PDS.
• Configured and Customized Business event, Check Mode, Checking instructions using BADI and Enhancement spots for specific business scenario.
• Configured various Check Modes for ATP and Non ATP.
• Customized various Z fields in the Back order Processing Filters, Sort and in the BOP Results
• Customized various interactive Mass Update Reports for Business users.
• Worked on interface with I2 demand planning for allocations, Planning, CVC generations in POS.
• Worked on Rules for Multilevel ATP, component substitutions and Location substitution.
• Customized CIF interface for sending stocks, PDS and Planned orders.
• Configured and Customized Back order Processing Filters based upon the Business needs for Online and Back Ground jobs.

Confidential, Memphis, TN

SAP SCM GATP DP SNP functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design, PRICEF and Functional specs, testing and implementation of GATP functionality on IS Mill solution.Understanding local and global business processes, preparing the design specification covering business requirements and developing AS-IS and To-Be concepts for SAP implementation.
• Configured Check Mode, Checking instructions, Strategy assignment based upon Technical scenario for Rules based ATP, CVC for Product allocations including masking.
• Customized Back order processing for Keep or improve scenarios. Customized various Z fields in the Back order Processing Filters and in the BOP Results.
• Worked on CDP (Characteristic Dependent Planning) for configurable products/MTS and block planning in APO.
• Customized Rules based product and location substitution based upon different scenarios using Z tables, Transaction type, Shipping condition, Item categories and User exit of Availability check.
• Configured Rules, Rule controls for GATP using condition technique. Configured Location determination procedure, product substitution procedure for GATP.
• Customized fields in FV45VFZY in R/3 and /SAPAPO/KOMGO in APO for GATP
• Worked with SAP Germany Developers to design CDP such as Line item shipping condition and resolved many issues.
• Customized Consignment Dashboard and developed RFC between R/3 and APO for stock in Transit and forecast reduction in APO.
• Creating activating and monitoring the CIF integration models for transferring the master as well as transaction data and debugging the queues as necessary.
• Customized CIF to transfer special stock for certain customers only for VMC.
• Creation of the background jobs and scheduling them for the weekly/monthly planning run.

Confidential, Montreal CA

Lead SAP GATP Functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured RBATP, Rule control, Backorder processing, Sort profile, Filter.Configured item categories for RBATP.
• Configured Backorder processing, Sort profile, Filter in GATP.Configured item categories for RBATP.
• Did Gap Analysis design, successfully analyzed and redesigned existing sales process to better meet reporting needs of both Sales and Service departments.
• Maintained Planning Areas, Planning books, Macros, Storage bucket profile and Time bucket profiles and Realigned Planning data, TLB profile, Assigning the TLB profile to Transportation lane
• Configured the Route determination in Logistic Execution by setting up the new routes and configured new Tariff zones.
• Coordinate with basis team and ABAP team for RICEF regarding OSS, Transports and user authorizations Etc..
• Worked on CDP (Characteristic Dependent Planning) for configurable products and block planning in APO.
• Data Conversion preparation, Data Conversion utilizing LSMW CATT, Development of specifications for custom reports, interfaces and system enhancements

Confidential, Markham, ON

Sr. SD functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design, testing and implementation of SD functionality. Configuring and customizing SAP for customer Sales order management and Distribution, SIS and LIS.
• Understanding local and global business processes, preparing the design specification covering business requirements and developing AS-IS and To-Be concepts for SD implementation.
• Prepared Configuration Document and did Sand Box Configuration
• Defining various order types and item categories for defining business processes/transactions based on different pricing strategies.
• Contribution included successful customization for various SD related business transactions picking different pricing procedures depending upon various order types base on ATP logic and scheduling agreements.
• Configured account determination, shipping and route determination and output determination.

Confidential

SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements from business users and writing Functional/Technical specifications
• Work with developers to finish development work on time
• Solve user day to day issues by custom or by conifg
• Involved for complete upgrade to 3.1h
• Provided Shipping and Transportation activities with IM interface- with custom delivery types, delivery item categories, picking, transportation planning with custom shipment types and Route determination
• Communicating with managers to receive reports requirements, generating specifications as per requirements and working with programmers to develop them, performing testing in the test environment and ensuring through transport to production system and gaining user approvals

Confidential

SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Blue print workshops, requirements gathering, analyzing the user requirements, preparing functional requirements, prototyping the critical business processes, translating business requirements
• Design and configure Rebate, Pricing and Contracts requirement.
• Extensively worked on analysis/design and configuration of complex variant configurations, multi level, fully/Partially configurable material in integration with legacy system
• Configuration of integration with FI (Revenue & Recon. a/c. determination, Credit mgmt)

Confidential

Business Manager /Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with SAP OTC implementation team to analyze business requirements, functional specification, data entry, produce business design of solution within the framework of business and IT strategies
• Worked extensively on shipping, transportation and Legal requirements relating to product safety and environmental protection and testing of business scenarios
• Development of project documentations (Blueprint, Functional Specification, Test Scripts, Data conversion Specifications, User Requirement Specifications)