PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 11 years of experience as functional consultant in SAP Advanced Planner & Optimizer (APO) and Production Planning (PP).
• Hands - on experience of ASAP methodology with experience in all phases of Project implementation-Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Pre-go Live, Go Live and Post live Support.
• Experience in Supply Chain Planning Concepts and Processes include Designing, Developing, Configuring, Testing, Implementing and supporting all aspects of the Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), Production Planning & Detailed scheduling (PP/DS) and Global Available To Promise (GATP).
• Demand Planning Experience: Interactive Planning, Planning Area Configuration (Info Objects, Info Cubes, Source Systems, Info Sources and Info Packages), Forecasting Strategies, Background Job and Process Chain maintenance
• Supply Network Planning experience: Interactive Planning, Planning Area Configuration, Planning Book and Macro Design, SNP Heuristics, SNP Optimization, Advanced Safety Stock Methods, Capable-to-Match, Deployment and Transportation Load Builder
• Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling Experience: Optimization, Heuristics Configuration, and Planning Board Configuration.
• GATP: Capable - to-promise (CTP), Delivery group correlation, Multilevel ATP check, correlation calculation.
• Experience in SAP/APO version upgrades and implementations with SAP recommended Best Practices as drivers, devised strategies and workarounds in SAP APO to meet business requirements and continuously strived to improve quality of solution and performance of the systems.
• Worked on CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO and live cache.
• Experience in creating Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Bill of Materials (BOM), Work Centre, and Routings.
• Excellent Quantitative, Analytical, problem solving and trouble shooting skills, excellent writing and presentation skills
• Able to translate business requirements into deployable business solutions and work in team environment.
• Having strong management, administration, problem solving and decision-making ability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Applications: SCM APO 3.1, 4.0, 5.0, 7.0 SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, 6.0.

Programming languages: C, C++, VHDL.

Operating system: Windows 2003, 7, Vista, XP, Mac OSX.

Tools: MS Office, Arc GIS.

Database: MS Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SCM APO DP, SNP, PP/DS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a functional consultant in implementing SAP SCM at Levis.
• Played major role in requirement and gap analysis, blue printing, and solution designing (Functional and Technical Requirement Analysis).
• Conducted AS-IS / TO-BE business process via client interviews and process workshops and configured the TO-BE business processes for Demand Planning.
• Performed client team to introduce the entire team to basic APO configuration concepts.
• Worked on Info Cubes design, creation, and maintenance with optimum Key Figures and Dimensions.
• Created Remote Cubes, Multi Cubes, Update Rules, Export Data Source, Info Packages.
• Involved in the Creation of Master Planning Object Structure, Planning Areas, Characteristic Value Combinations (CVCs), Master Data and Time Series Objects, Storage Bucket Profile and Planning Bucket Profile for Monthly Buckets and Weekly Buckets.
• Maintained Statistical Forecast Profiles and various data views as per business blueprint.
• 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.
• Worked in Pegging Evaluation and Extraction and sending information back using CIF
• Defined Planning Books and Macros for interactive planning and Defined Macros to perform calculations to carry out tests, and created Alerts.
• Developed Transfer Rules and Update Rules for ODS and Info Cubes.
• Increased the Live Cache Size to increase the performance.
• Studied forecasting process by carrying out forecast at different aggregation levels using different forecast models, and arrived at optimum solution by comparing the forecast.
• CIF and Queue Monitoring - Set-up of integration models for transfer of R/3 Master and transaction data (Material master/Products, MRP Areas, different types of stocks, and orders (sales, purchase, plan, production, stock transfer orders).
• Set up Release of Demand Plan to SNP.
• Ensuring Data continuity and quality between APO and R/3 using the CIF functionality.
• Created Proportional Factors to disaggregate CVCs from aggregate to the Detail level
• Performed Life Cycle Planning through Like Profile, Phase-in, and Phased-out Profile.
• Set up Release of Demand Plan to SNP.
• Set up of SNP master profile and configured SNP Master Data Locations, Product Masters, Resource and Production Process Models (PPM).
• Maintained Planning Calendar, Planner Responsible and Creating variant for SNP Transaction Data Deletion.
• Set up the Supply Chain Model (work areas-location, products, resources, PPM, transportation lanes and quota arrangements).
• Performed SNP runs using SNP heuristics, created cost and Optimization Profile for SNP Optimizer.
• Set up of CTM prototype model for key products.
• Set up the Deployment Heuristic and created Deployment Optimization Profile.
• Created and assigned TLB profile to the transportation lane.
• Maintained PP/DS Master Data such as Resources and PPM.
• Maintained Detailed scheduled Planning Board profile.
• Planning parameters settings, Defined Alert Profile, Maintained Strategy Profile, Maintained Time Profile, Maintained Optimization Profile and Defined Propagation Range
• Maintained PP/DS heuristics, Product Planning Table configuration and user exits
• Tested Backorder Processing, Product Allocations and Rule based ATP check by creating scenarios using sales orders in R/3.
• Provided support to end users in integration of APO with SD/MM/PP.
• Created End User Documentation and Materials.
• Post Go-Live support and mentoring of new developers.
• Developed user documents and conducted Knowledge Transfer.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

SCM APO DP and SNP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project successfully went on live and supported post go live activities (Alerts enhancements, CIF Data issues, Knowledge transfer to the IT, Batch job monitoring, Explanation to the users, Heuristic results -lead times/source determinations, Period factors, Resolve tickets)
• Improved forecasting by selecting most appropriate models and the best Statistical parameters for Univariate Forecasting
• Worked very closely with Business and IT teams during different phases of the project. Successfully completed all project deliverables (Blue print, Realization, Cut over & Go live)
• Worked very closely with all other teams - BI, DP, GATP, SNC, Basis - Security & Technical development team to provide a best integrated solution
• Successfully implemented advance safety stock planning process. Developed various RICEFW objects (Forecast error%, RLT%, Locking & Unlocking Transportation lanes for the cyclic products)
• Implemented BADI in heuristic to meet the business requirement for fixed vendor determination considering the lead-time.
• Created new data views as per the requirement with selected Key Figures.
• Improved DP Batch processes by designing Process chains for specific Processes.
• Implemented SAP OSS Notes to fix Live Cache issues by running consistency checks.
• Solved many DP critical issues within the tightly specified time frames to meet the service level agreements
• Worked on SAP APO SNP Capable to Match (CTM), Core Interface (CIF), Safety Stock Planning, Subcontracting and Deployment.
• Creation and maintenance of all the Mass Master Data and Corrected Master Data related issues for - Product, Location, Transportation Lanes, Means of Transports, PPM, and PDS.
• Configured CTM Planning functionality, Set up CTM profile, Master data selection in CTM, Demand Prioritization using custom logic, conducted UAT for Demand prioritization, Set up the search strategy and Supply categorization processes, and analyzed the results of the CTM planning run.
• Created, activated and maintained Integration models using CIF for transferring Initial Master data like PPMs, product master data, Locations and Resources.
• Involved in CIF activities like Monitoring and Error handling and other problem solving activities
• Worked with the offshore team on a regular basis and worked as a liaison for on site business team and offshore technical team
• Provided inputs to the BI team on reports (Excess stock, Safety stock, Vendor commits)
• Resolved all issues related Unit Testing, Integration testing and UAT tests. Helped the business team in the test scenarios.
• Completed CIF and SNP configuration (Planning area, Planning book, Data views, Marco’s, Storage and time bucket profile, custom category group, category)
• Created End User Documentation and Materials.

Confidential, Lancaster, PA

SCM APO DP, SNP

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed the APO upgrade from APO 3.1 to SCM 5.1.
• Conducted AS-IS / TO-BE business process via client interviews and process workshops and configured the TO-BE business processes for Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning.
• Worked very closely with the Basis team for the upgrade and Unicode migration- Sections A, B, C.
• Modified info objects length for the source system and rebuilt the complete CVC combinations and reloaded the data successfully.
• Performed client team to introduce the entire team to basic APO configuration concepts.
• Resolved all issues related Unit testing, Integration testing in DP and SNP (Download/ upload, Info packages, CVC’s, Realignment, Batch jobs, CTM issue, Forecast release, CIF delta report, CIF batch jobs Change all variants, Request OSS notes, Planning books, Macros).
• Maintained Storage Bucket and Time Bucket Profiles.
• Conducted User Management exercises based on Industry wide Benchmarks and assigned users to Planning Book.
• Documented integration test scripts.
• Tested technical objects and helped ABAP team.
• Helped users in integration testing and provided support on planning results analysis and master data impact.
• Configured new functionalities and trained the users.
• Configured new alert requirements.
• Resolved macro aggregation issues.
• Developed Transfer Rules and Update Rules for ODS and Info Cubes.
• Data Transfers performed between R/3, APO, and Live Cache.
• Set up Release of Demand Plan to SNP.
• Ensuring Data continuity and quality between APO and R/3 using the CIF functionality
• Setting up of the Master data for SNP and creation of Planning version and Planning book.
• Set up the supply chain model (work areas-location, products, resources, PPM, transportation lanes and quota arrangements).
• Provided good analysis and impact of master forecast profile/off sets.
• Phase in/Phase out set ups.
• Developed new batch jobs for the data loads, added new process chains.
• Test scenarios were created to support the business requirements based on customer’s priorities.
• Created and assigned TLB profile to the transportation lane.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

SCM APO SNP and PPDS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a APO consultant in implementing DP and SNP modules and did Post GO live support for APO including Demand Forecast pass monthly, Solving tickets on Demand Planning, SNP, Deployment and TLB issues.
• Worked on Info Cube design, creation, and maintenance with optimum Key Figures and Dimensions and worked on Info Packages, Data source and Update Rules.
• Handled entire DP configuration objects like Planning Areas, Planning Object Structures, Storage and Planning Buckets Profiles, Created DP master data Characteristic Value Combinations (CVC’s), Forecast profiles, Alert Monitor, Lifecycle Planning, Mass processing and rest of the areas
• Worked on the Design of DP and SNP planning books, data views.
• Worked on Forecast profiles, Forecast modeling, generating forecast, selection of forecast models, and finalizing best forecast and forecast profile
• Configuring statistical forecast models, model selection, statistical forecasting, forecast error analysis in Demand Planning
• Creation and Run of Background job for Forecast at the required LTP Level.
• Creation of Product and Location master and release the forecast Quantity to SNP.
• Modules focused on were Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (Heuristics and Optimizer), Deployment.
• Perform SNP runs using SNP heuristics, created cost and Optimization profile for SNP optimizer.
• Defined various heuristics in customizing for PP/DS. Selection of heuristic profile for interactive planning in PP/DS. Maintaining propagation ranges in customization.
• Created CTM model for key products in SNP.
• Test scenarios were created to support the business requirements based on customer’s priorities
• Created and assigned TLB profile to the transportation lane.
• Worked on APO Loader to upload data into APO
• Worked on business process standardization and worked on User and documentation.

Confidential, Cranbery, NJ

SCM APO DP and GATP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Did requirement analysis, configuration, prototyped and implemented APO (DP) 4.0.
• Studied and analyzed the client’s business process requirements.
• Worked on the requirement analysis, configuration, and implemented SAP APO 4.0 version.
• Streamlined, Reviewed, Corrected the Blueprintwhile incorporating SAP best practices for SNP.
• Analyzed Customer Demands and configured appropriate Key figure values for forecasting.
• Interacted regularly with the client members to resolve key requirements issues that led to detailed design documentation.
• Created the Transfer Structure and Communication Structure, Transfer Rules, Assigning Data Sources, Creating Info Package, loading data into Info Cubes and update rules.
• Initialized Planning areas, maintained Time series objects and Characteristic Value Combinations and Designed Planning Book and Data Views for various departments based on business requirements.
• Master Data set up, Manually Created Characteristic Combination and Time Series Objects, Fixed Key figure values in Interactive demand planning.
• Created Forecast Profiles and assigned planning book to forecast profile and planners, Possess working Knowledge of various forecasting methods, Consensus based forecasting (marketing/sales).
• Developed and customized Macros in DP to suit the business requirements.
• Configured key figures for forecasting customer returns and defective items.
• Executed forecasting for Dependent Demand using DP BOMs.
• Involved in Selection and assignment of appropriate Characteristics and Key figures.
• Configured Release of Forecast from DP to SNP.
• Created and assigned TLB profile to the transportation lane.
• Configured the overall GATP settings in APO and performed Rule based ATP check.
• Tested Backorder Processing, Product Allocations and Rule based ATP check by creating scenarios using sales orders in R/3.
• Troubleshooting and configured issues in GATP and its integration with R/3.
• Created additional key figures and navigation attributes in the planning area.
• Go live and production support activities.
• Developed user documents, conducted knowledge transfer end user and resolved user issues.

Confidential

SAP PPConsultant

Responsibilities:

• Studied and analyzed the client’s business process requirements.
• Configured and customized Material Master, Bill of Material, Work Center and Routing.
• Responsible for creation and configuration of Master Data that includes, Master Recipes and Resources.
• Created Production Version for header material, BOM items and co-product.
• Calculated capacity requirements for Resources by using standard values and formula constants.
• Assigned resources to cost centers to calculate the product costs, and to the HR module to find out the skill level of an employee.
• Implemented Capacity Planning, Detailed Scheduling, Capacity Evaluation and Capacity Leveling to allocate Operations to Resources.
• Customized Planning Strategies, Requirement Type and Requirement Classes.
• Worked on Make to Stock planning strategy.
• Responsible for customizing various MRP types, MRP Group, Lot Size calculation, Scheduling Margin Key and procurement proposals.
• Responsible for Documenting configuration in the IMG, finalizing and reporting requirements, maintained Planned Independent Requirements by transferring data from Sales and operation Planning.
• Configured Production order, Scheduling, Availability Check, and Goods Movements.