PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

I have total Seven plus (7+) years of work experience, which consists of varied experience in the SAP - APO modules like DP, SNP, PP/DS and GATP. Following is the summary of my overall work experience:

• 7-year track record of success across corporate venues. Involved in 2 Full Life Cycle Implementations and Upgrades with major clients.
• Pro-active trouble-shooter, who can instantly identify business problems, formulates strategic plans, initiate changes and implement new processes in challenging and diverse environments.
• Innovative, Detail and Result-oriented SAP consultant with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a specialization in SCM while working with SAP tool.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering (B.Tech ME)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• ERP Packages: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0
• ERP Modules: SAP APO, PP
• Project Management & Process Designing: MS Project, ASAP Project Methodology.

FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE

• System Architecture
• System Implementation / Integration
• Requirements Gathering
• Go-Live Stabilization Support
• Client Relations & Issue Resolution
• Reengineering & Upgrades
• Ticket Documentation
• Manufacturing / Production
• End-User Training / Support

SAP IMG CONFIGURATION & TRANSACTION PROCESSING SKILLS

• ASAP Methodology: Blue Print validation, SAP-business process mapping, gap analysis, configuration, prototyping, testing, training, documentation, and post go-live and support.
• Experience in creating Functional Specification Documents, Test Scripts, BPRs and BPP Cut-Over Plans, Training Manuals and Cheat-Sheets for Users.
• Expert in providing solutions using Standard and Custom Transactions and Reports based on user requirements.
• Working experience with APO, SCM and BW and their integration points with all R3 Logistics Modules.
• Experienced in working with third party tools such as Integration Point (IP) in implementing Foreign Trade Zone under US Customs and regulations.
• Strong working knowledge of integration between MM/SD/PP modules with APO.
• Adept at utilizing HP quality center (testing and mass updates), SQVI (Custom Reports) MS Project (SAP project management / implementation), Visio / PowerPoint (flowcharting, designing processes), RWD UPERFROM Info-Pak and On-Demand (preparing training documents and BPP).

ADVANCED PLANNER AND OPTIMIZER (APO)

• APO Best Practices- Core Interface (CIF), Queue Monitors, Comparison and reconciliation report, Live Cache Inconsistency check, CIF application logs, Time series consistency check, Planning area initialization, Setup of initial transfer of master data.
• APO DP- Forecast Model, Promotion Planning, Life Cycle Planning, Phase Out/Phase In procedure, Planning Area Administration, Alert Monitor, Macro workbench, Characteristic Value Combinations, DP BOMs.
• APO SNP- VMI scenarios, Subcontracting scenarios, Product Interchangeability, Planning Engines- Heuristics, CTM, Optimizer, Capacity leveling, Deployment setup, TLB run setup, Capacity profiles.
• APO-PPDS- Heuristic methods, Setup of Conversion of SNP-PPDS orders, PPDS master data, PPDS optimizer, Integration with Detailed Scheduling
• APO BW-Administrator Workbench, Info cubes, Key figures, Characteristics, Transfer Rules setup.
• APO GATP- RBATP, MATP, Characteristic planning, Availability Checking, Check instructions, Check mode, Requirement type, Requirement class, ATP categories.

PRODUCTION PLANNING: (PP)

• Expert in configuring Sales Order Delivery Procedure and Service Parts Delivery Process, Production Supply and Return to Stores processes.
• Knowledge in configuring Sales Org, Distribution Channel, Division, Area, Office, Group, Sales Order Creation, Shipping Point, Shipping Conditions, Transportation Planning Point, Billing and Invoicing.
• Knowledge in configuring customer master data and vendor master data, BOM, Work Centers, Work Scheduling, BOM Explosion, Planned Order Processing and Production Order Processing.
• Configuring Availability Check, Back Flush and Reverse Back Flush for Production environment and integration with MM and WM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client – Confidential,Portland, OR

Nature of Project: Implementation & Support
Role: SAP DP/SNP/PP/DS Functional Team Member
Environment: SAP SCM 7.0, ECC 6.0
Project Duration: April 2011 – Present

Confidential, is semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in California, United States and the world\'s largest and highest valuedchip maker, based on revenue.

• Involved in the Creation of Master Planning Object Structure (MPOS), 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.
• Defined planning books and Macros for interactive planning and Defined Macros to perform calculations to carry out tests, and create Alerts.
• Developed Transfer Rules and Update Rules for Info Cubes.
• Studied statistical forecasting process by carrying out forecast at different aggregation levels using different forecast models, and arrived at optimum solution by comparing the forecast.
• Setting up of the Master data for SNP (Location, Products, Resources, PPM, Transportation Lanes, Means of Transport and Quota Arrangements) and creation of SNP Planning version and planning book.
• Set up Background jobs, Mass processing, set up variants to transfer the Demand forecast results to SNP.
• Configured SNP planning tools – Heuristics Planning and Safety stock planning functionality.
• Defined appropriate Storage and Planning buckets profile to facilitate transfer of key figures from SNP planning areas to DP using the TSCOPY function.
• Set up and activated Integration Models for master and transaction data for SNP.
• Created the Transport Load Builder (TLB) Profile and assigned it to appropriate Transportation Lane, created and maintained Transportation Lanes and Quotas.
• Solved an Open issue by creating a workaround process to facilitate the transfer of Stock on Hand (Projected) from SNP to DP to facilitate S&OP process in DP.
• Handled assignment of User to Planning Book, Creation of Selection Profile for the SNP Planning Book, Maintained the Planner Responsible, Planning Calendar.
• Executed Mass Maintenance of Product, Location and T-Lanes, Quota Arrangement.
• Ensuring Data continuity and quality between APO and ECC using the CIF functionality.
• Configured Master Data, MRP and Production control, Sales and Operation planning and Demand Management.
• Configured planning strategies and requirements type, assigned strategy group to MRP group, defined MRP controllers, planning horizons, lot size calculations.
• Configured Material Master Data including, material type, work centers, BOM, Routing.
• Maintained PP/DS Master data such as Resources and PPM/PDS
• Maintained Detailed scheduled Planning board profile.
• Planning parameters settings, Defined Alert profile, Maintained strategy profile, Maintained time profile, Make to order and Make to stock strategies, Maintained optimization profile, Defined propagation range and Integration to DS
• Maintained PP/DS heuristics, Influenced the steps of production planning, Product Planning Table configuration and user exits.
• Developed user training documents and conducted Knowledge Transfer.
• Involved in system testing and post implementation support.
• Developed training documents for the End Users, knowledge transfer with end user training and resolved any end user issues.

Client – Confidential,Richmond, VA

Nature of Project: Support
Role: Functional SAP DP-SNP Consultant
Environment: SCM 3.1, R/3 4.7
Project Duration: May 2010 – February 2011

Confidential,is a global packaging company that provides packaging solutions to the healthcare, beauty and personal care, food, beverage, tobacco and home and garden industries. MWV’s other business operations serve the consumer and office products, specialty chemicals, forestry and real estate markets. MWV’s segments include Packaging Resources, Consumer Solutions, Consumer & Office Products, Specialty Chemicals, and Community Development and Land Management.

• Involved with design and in support while working on Demand Planning, and Supply Network Planning projects using SCM 3.1.
• Discussed specific and critical requirements with the client team and discussed what can be done and what data to be mapped from their legacy system to R/3. Actively designed and refined integration Data Specifications.
• Involved in the monitoring of proper transfer of Master Data from APO with R/3 through CIF.
• Set up APO BW Source system, info area, info source and info cube.
• Maintained Storage Bucket and Time Bucket Profiles.
• Setting up the Demand Planning book, Planning Object Structure, Planning area and macros in the interactive demand planning.
• Generated planned independent requirements based on the customers historical sales data using various statistical forecasting methods of Demand Planning and developed methodology for evaluating the best forecast based on Best Practices in the industry.
• Maintained Statistical forecast profiles and various data views as per business blueprint.
• Monitored exceptional or critical situations using Alert monitor.
• 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.
• Maintained CIF Integration models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC and APO.
• Designed and Developed the Supply Network Model incorporating all the plants, distribution centers, Customers and Suppliers based on the supply chain process.
• Integration of SNP and DP and Interactive Planning set up in SNP.
• Created SNP product Master Views: define lot size, production horizon, fixing horizon etc.
• Worked on SNP Capable to Match (CTM), Core Interface (CIF), Safety Stock Planning, Subcontracting and Deployment
• Planning parameters settings, Defined Alert profile, Maintained strategy profile, Maintained time profile, Maintained optimization profile and Defined propagation range
• Developed user training documents and conducted Knowledge Transfer.
• Involved in system testing and post implementation support.
• Developed training documents for the End Users, knowledge transfer with end user training and resolved any end user issues.

Client – Confidential,Chicago, IL

Nature of Project: Full Life Cycle Implementation & Support
Role: Functional SAP DP/SNP/PP/DS/GATP Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC6.0, SCM 5.1
Project Duration: September 2008 – March 2010

Confidential,is the world leader in circuit protection offering Automotive Fuses, Automotive Circuit Protection, Fuses, Electrical Fuses, Thyristors and more.

• Analyzed the AS-IS condition of the demand planning process. Carried out the TO-BE and GAP analysis, business process re-engineering and configuration.
• Setting up Info Objects, Info Cubes, Source Systems, Info Sources and Info Packages to accommodate various data presentation and integration requirements
• Utilization of Update Rule start-routines to accommodate BOM conversions and automatic realignment of location, material and customer data prior to Info Cube load.
• Configured statistical forecast models, model selection, statistical forecasting, forecast error analysis etc. in Demand Planning.
• Configured APO SNP planning area, planning books, selection profile for planning book, planning calendar, transferred SNP orders to R/3, setting up master data such as product, storage and transport resource, location,
• Set up supply chain model, transportation lanes, quota arrangement, optimization profile, TLB profile, ran SNP optimizer, heuristics and Configured CTM techniques.
• Installation and maintenance of APO Live Cache and Optimizer. Perform recovery of SAP R/3 OLTP, APO and Live Cache/SAPDB database and synchronizing the core interface (CIF).
• Debugged CIF related issues, Worked on CIF Error handling, and CIP Post processing, CIF reconciliation and Delta Reports, Well versed with Error Handling and CIF transactions.
• Master data modifications in SAP R/3 to minimize problems during master and transactional data transfers
• Maintained Storage Bucket and Time Bucket Profiles.
• Set up the demand planning book planning object structure, planning area, planning book and macros in the interactive demand planning.
• Maintained Characteristics Value Combinations (CVC), Forecast Profiles and Data Views.
• Generated planned independent requirements (PIR) based on the customers historical sales data using various statistical forecasting methods of Demand Planning.
• Configured new functionalities and trained the users.
• Defined various heuristics in customizations in PP/DS. Selection of heuristic profile for interactive planning in PP/DS. Maintaining propagation ranges in customization.
• CIF models for master and transactional data – creation of models and resolution of errors
• Lead for the evaluation, implementation and user acceptance of PP/DS functionality
• Utilization of PP/DS optimization to produce feasible schedule constrained by resource capacity
• Incorporated setup matrix functionality to facilitate campaign scheduling requirements of production facility
• Utilization of alternate modes functionality to automatically balance requirements across similar resources. Configuration for Rules-based ATP check.
• Testing of Backorder Processing, Product Allocations and Rules-based ATP check by creating scenarios using sales orders in R/3.
• Troubleshooting configuration issues in GATP and its integration with R/3.
• Provided support to end users in integration of APO with SD/MM/PP and provided training to demand planners and end users.
• Created End User Documents and Training Materials.

Client – Confidential,Louisville, KY

Nature of Project: Full Life Cycle Implementation
Role: Functional SAP APO DP/SNP/PP/DS Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC6.0, SCM 5.1
Project Duration: April 2007 – July 2008

Confidential,is a diversified producer, marketer, and exporter of alcoholic beverage and consumer products.

• Performed AS-IS/TO-BE Study with core team members and presented reports after completing GAP Analysis.
• Worked as a functional consultant in implementing SAP SCM at National Switch Gear systems. Carried Roll Outs across other geographical locations.
• Designed and configured complete data model (Info objects/Info sources/Source systems/Data sources).
• Configured Info cube and defined Planning Books and Macros for interactive planning
• Created Master Planning object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristic Combination Master Data, Storage Bucket Profile and Planning bucket profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets.
• Maintained and generated Demand Planning master data, Created Master Forecast profiles, worked with Univariate, Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) /Casual and Composite forecasting methods, Maintained Forecast drivers in Interactive Demand Planning.
• Monitored exceptional or critical situations using Alert monitor.
• 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
• Maintained CIF Integration models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO.
• 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.
• Worked on PP/DS Heuristics, Scheduling Heuristics, Production Planning Table configuration, Optimizer and CTP.
• Validating data, troubleshooting errors and responsible for data conversion and data migration.
• Participation in Cut Over planning for the Go-Live phase.
• Responsible for preparation of functional specification for developments identified and assisting ABAP team in elaborating the business process.
• Execution of testing in Development/Test/Production system and interaction with SAP on standard bugs.
• Addressing new requirements of the client for improving business processes.
• Provided post go-live support and resolved user’s transactional/process issues as per SLA.

Client – Confidential,Memphis, TN

Nature of Project: Upgrade & Support
Role: Functional SAP APO DP/SNP Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, Upgrade from SCM 3.1 to 5.0
Project Duration: July 2006 – February 2007

Confidential,in Memphis, TN is a private company categorized under Microwave Components.

• Performed functional/technical upgrade of APO from release 3.1 to 4.0.
• Upgraded BW, Live Cache and Optimizer.
• Configured APO SNP (Optimizer, Heuristics), DP to meet Client’s business requirements such as forecasting, optimizing material procurement and distribution, dynamic safety stock, subcontracting, scheduling agreements, and material constraints including execution of production orders in R/3.
• Analyzed Customer Demands and configured appropriate Key figure values for forecasting.
• Transferred Structure and Communication Structure, Transfer Rules, Assigning Data Sources, Creating Info Package, loading data into Info Cubes and update rules.
• Involved in the Creation and maintenance of Master Planning Object Structure, Characteristic Value Combinations (CVCs), Master Data and Time Series Objects, data views, Statistical forecast profile, Storage Bucket profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets in Interactive DP.
• Work on characteristics value combinations to define forecast methodology.
• Initialized Planning areas, Design 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.
• Developed and customized macros and forecast Alert profiles to display alerts for Univariate forecast errors.
• Executed forecasting for Dependent Demand using DP BOMs.
• Configured SNP and interactive planning using planning books and macros.
• Implemented heuristic including capacity levelling, optimization, capable-to-match, and aggregate planning.
• Implementing stock transport requisitions into manageable stock transport orders.
• Grouping stock transfers by threshold values for volumes, weight and pallets.
• Developed user training documents, conducted knowledge transfer end user training and resolved user issues.

Client – Confidential,Chicago, IL

Nature of Project: Implementation
Role: Functional APO DP/SNP Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 Release 4.6C, SCM 5.0
Project Duration: September 2005 – June 2006

Confidential,is a global blood technology company dedicated to supporting transfusion medicine and cell therapies.

• Studied and analyzed the client’s business process requirements.
• Configured and customized Material Master, Bill of Material, Work Center and Routing.
• 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.
• Involved as a 5-member team for implementation of SAP APO.
• Prepared and set up supply chain master data (product parameters, statistical forecast profiles, and storage and transport resources, PPM).
• Created planning versions to find optimization parameters that give most accurate results.
• Created cost and optimization profile for SNP optimizer.
• Worked on the set up of the supply chain model (work areas-location, products, resources, PPM, transportation lanes and quota arrangements).
• Integration of DP and SNP.
• Creation of SNP product master views, lot sizes, production horizon etc.
• Period-Oriented planning in the product planning table.
• Configuration of SNP propagation range, strategy profile, Heuristic profile, DS planning board.
• Active participation in setting up the SNP master profile (demand and master) profile.
• Setting up Detailed Scheduling DS-Alert Profile and Setting up CIF Integration models for transfer of Master Data, transaction data.
• SNP Optimizer- planning run in SNP, Optimizer Capacity Leveling, Optimizer Deployment and TLB run. Active participation in gathering the master data required for SNP Heuristic.
• Worked on Consistency Check Report or Reconciliation and Best Practice Reports.

Client – Confidential,Bangalore, India

Nature of Project: Support
Role: Functional SAP PP Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 Release 4.6C
Duration: August 2004 – June 2005

Confidential,is one of the leading furniture manufacturing & marketing organizations in India, providing complete office furniture solutions

• Involved in analyzing and documenting the As-Is business process and finalizing the To-Be conditions.
• Gathered the requirements from users, analyzed them and prepared functional specifications for implementing the same.
• Involved in configuring the make- to- stock strategy, defining requirements type and allocating the requirements class.
• Customized PP in the following areas: Material Master, BOM, Work Centers, and Routings.
• Customized plant parameters for MRP, defined MRP groups and Controllers
• Defined plant parameters in MRP, defined MRP controller, MRP groups, MRP types, Special procurement, planning horizon, planning time fence, safety stock availability, procurement proposal.
• Defined Work Center categories, capacity categories, shift sequence and period pattern keys for estimating available capacity, work center formula and key for performance efficiency rate for costing.
• In routings and work centers, customized task list usage, standard values and parameters, defined control keys, maintained task list types, material type allocations, defined work scheduler/planner group, defined control keys, reduction strategies, routing selections.
• Configuration of Planned orders and Production Orders. Conversion of Planned orders to Production orders.