SUMMARY:

• Strong experience in all aspects of project development: Design, Configuration, unit testing, Integration testing, Documentation, Data Conversion/Migration, End - user Support, Training and Go-Live and Post Go-Live support
• 7+ years of working experience in SAP APO module in Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), Production Planning & Detail Scheduling (PPDS/TV) and Global Available to process (GATP)
• Worked on 2 Full life cycle implementations and 3 projects as consultant/support.
• High familiarity in SDLC Agile and ASAP implementation methodology.
• CIF Integration of SAP modules, specifically SAP ECC<>SAP APO
• Experience in creating and testing RFC connections between ECC and APO.
• Setting up of Business Warehouse (BW) data mart essential for APO: Info Cubes, Info Areas, Info Sources, Info Objects, Info Packages.
• Creating Master planning object structures (MPOS), Characteristic value combinations (CVC’s), Planning Areas, Planning books, Data views, proportional factors.
• Defining Advanced Macros as per the business requirement and Alters to check for abnormalities.
• Configuring SAP APO DP, specifically Interactive Planning, Promotion Planning, Life Cycle Planning, Mass Processing and Data Realignment, Planning Area administration, forecast profiles.
• Configuring SNP master data: Products, Locations, Resources, Transportation lanes, Production process models (PPM), Production Data Structures (PDS), and monitoring from supply chain cock pit.
• Experience in the configuration of SAP APO SNP Heuristic, Capable to Match (CTM), Maintenance of Master data, Transport Load Builder (TLB) for the planning run in SNP.
• Production Planning &Detailed Scheduling (PPDS): defining lot-size, production horizon, fixing horizon, Heuristic methods, PPDS Master Data, PPDS Optimizer, Integration with Detailed scheduling, Transferring Plants and Distribution center, Raw Material Planning.
• Maintenance of Strategy Profile for PPDS maintained Setup Groups, Setup Matrix, Setup Keys & Alert Profiles
• Configuring the PPDS profiles (Strategy), global settings for PPDS and heuristics profiles for Production Planning Run.
• Well experienced on GATP including Capable-To-Promise (CTP), Multilevel ATP Check, Rule-Based ATP Check, Correlation Calculation, Availability Check, Forecast check, and Product availability check.
• Considerable experience in PP module with thorough knowledge of Material requirement planning (MRP), Bill of materials (BOM), Work Centre, and Routings etc.
• Reasonable integrating experience of SAP ECC: Production Planning (PP), Material Management (MM) and Sales & Distribution (SD) with SAP APO.
• Generating Functional Specification documents based on fit/gap analyses of the business requirements.
• Performed unit and integration testing, wrote test scripts, and participated in Scenario Testing, Volume Testing, and Stress Testing.
• Creating documentation for Q&Adb, Configuration, Implementation, Testing, and for End-User training.
• Excellent analytical & communication skills and ability to interact with business users.
• Able to translate business requirements into deployable business solutions and work in team environment, and conduct training sessions to business users across multiple disciplines.
• Project deliveries in Lead and Individual contributor roles.

KEY SKILLS:

• Planning Area Administration
• Master Planning Object Structure (MPOS)
• Planning books, Key figures configuration
• Alert Monitoring
• Statistical forecast, RealignmentLife cycle planning
• Heuristics, Capable of Match (CTM) solvers, Optimizer
• Release of DP>SNP and SNP>PPDS
• SDLC Agile methodology
• ASAP implementation
• Deployment Heuristic and Optimizer
• PPDS Heuristics
• CIF Integration between ECC <> APO and BW <> APO
• PP, MM & SD.
• Project Management experience
• Testing experience in all phases of the project
• Master Data Mapping experience
• RICEFs
• BEx Analyzer
• JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mounds View, MN

SAP APO: DP & SNP Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.3

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Requirements Gathering, design, development, testing and deployment.
• Designed and configured complete data model (Info objects, source systems, Info providers, Data sources)
• Involved in the creation of CVCs, MPOS, Planning areas, Planning books, Data views, Statistical forecast profiles
• Designed the time profiles and planning levels accordin g to the existing setup in the APO system.
• Developed different macros and planning books based on the business requirement.
• Created Phase-in, Phase-out and Like Profiles in life cycle planning and the related activities like Batch jobs, Variants and Background jobs processing.
• Developed planning operators and alerts to identify any abnormalities in the forecasts and historical data.
• Worked on DP<>BW interfaces creating new transformations, setting up CIF and transferring master data (Products and locations)
• Resolved CIF integration issues on a day to day basis.
• Defined process chains to automate both transactional and master data extraction, generating CVCs, loading planning area, execution of macros through mass processing jobs
• Worked on converting the business requirements into functional and technical requirements.
• Created Functional requirements documents, test scripts and delivering the same to ABAP Team.
• Maintained SNP master data: Products, locations, resources, production process models (PPMs) etc.
• Designed & Configured SNP, Specifically Optimization Planning, Heuristic Planning, Deployment and TLB Functionalities
• Involved in maintaining Material Master, Bill of Material, Routings and Production Versions
• Trained new users and created user training documents for reference.
• Stabilized the system in Hyper care (Post go-live) phases to the extent it is consistently predictable.

Confidential, Mason, OH

SAP APO: DP, SNP & PPDS Consultant (Full life cycle)

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in conducting Fit/Gap Analysis, business blue print, realization, final preparation, go-live and support.
• Demand planning remediation responsibilities included creating new planning areas, planning books, key figures and Changed existing DP macros & created a few customized DP macros
• Configured Planning Calendars, Statistical models, Activity Profiles, Release profiles, background jobs, process chains and Alerts.
• Defined Macros to perform calculations to carry out tests, and created Alerts.
• Creating and maintaining the master data of SNP.
• Designed and Developed the Supply Network Model incorporating all the plants, distribution centers, Customers and Suppliers based on the supply chain.
• Gathered requirements from the users, analyzed them and did gap analysis and developed functional specifications as per the requirements.
• Maintained the SNP planning calendar, demand and supply profiles, deployment profiles and assignment of the profile to product master. Was involved in the creation of TLB profile and assignment of the same to transportation lane.
• Worked extensively on setting up CIF integration models SNP<>ECC and implemented custom enhancements in APO.
• Worked on cross module team with ECC & APO.
• Created PPDS Product master views, defined lot-size, production horizon, fixing horizon etc.
• Configured PPDS Heuristics, propagation range, and strategy profiles, DS Planning Board Profiles, Product View and Alerts.
• Configured multiple strategies in strategy profiles in PPDS to increase the utilization of the Production resources.
• Job Monitoring, Planning Run analysis, issue resolution, CIF Monitoring-root cause analysis
• Developed User training documents and conducted Knowledge Transfer
• Supply Chain Analytics Application, Process Modeling, Dashboard Creation, Supply Chain Control Tower Alerts, Integration with Other Systems, Root-Cause Analysis and Resolution, Analytics and Key Performance Indicators.

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

SAP APO: DP & SNP Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Responsibilities:

• Lead/coordinated the team to integrate several technologies in SAP platform to ensure data availability in SAP
• Lead the effort to Implement & support APO DP, SNP & PPDS.
• Involved in the Creation of MPOS, Planning Areas, CVCs, Master Data and Time Series Objects, Storage Bucket profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets for new business requirements.
• Successfully Implemented SNP deployment optimizer, TLB to execute the supply and deployment planning
• Working through demand planning issues and refining the statistical model to achieve good forecast accuracy.
• Handled Trouble Tickets, Change Requests, functional enhancements and Interface developments relating to SAP APO CIF/DP/SNP modules
• Expertise in releasing Demand plan from DP to SNP.
• Developed various test cases and documented the test results for both functional and integration testing of the solutions in DP and SNP.
• Monitored KPIs for Order Fulfillment and Service Quality, KPIs for Demand Forecasting, KPI’s for Supply Response, and Transportation, Inventory. Supply Chain Segmentation and Collaboration
• Written several test scripts and created process flow documents for end users. Conducted training workshops as required.
• Resolving/Supporting various APO SNP issues as and when required.

Confidential, Saginaw, MI

SAP APO: DP & PPDS Consultant

Environment: SAP ERP 6.0, SAP SCM 7.0

Responsibilities:

• Setting up of Business Warehouse (BW) data mart essential for APO: Info Cubes, Info Areas, Info Sources, Info Objects, Info Packages.
• Configuration of MPOS, Planning areas, Planning books, Data views, forecast Models, CVC’s, Proportional Factors, macros, DP Interactive planning, Process chains
• Design, Develop and configure SAP BI cubes to load transactional data from SCM-APO (Planning Book) & ECC (Enterprise Core Component) to SAP BI system.
• Building promotions and lifecycle planning functionalities in demand planning.
• Maintained Statistical forecast profiles: Univariate, Multi Linear Regression & Composite Forecast and various data views as per business blueprint.
• Created Proportional Factors to disaggregate CVC’s from Aggregate to the Detail level.
• Involved in implementation of the PPDS module and product master data maintenance.
• Created PPDS product master views, defined lot size, production horizon and fixing horizon.
• Configured various aspects of PPDS such as propagation range, strategy profile, DS planning board, maintaining the heuristics and heuristic profile.
• Employed PPDS heuristics to optimize storage costs and handling costs.
• Batch job monitoring for DP, PPDS on a daily, weekly & monthly cycle.
• Worked on Detail scheduling (DS) optimizer profile
• Resolving resource overloading and detailed scheduling of production line.
• Monitored the release of SNP to PPDS

Confidential

SAP MM/APO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ERP 6.0, SAP SCM 7.0

Responsibilities:

• Managing Planning Attributes, Assigning the Master Data Type, and Creating Time Profiles.
• Defining Planning Areas, Managing the Planning Level, Using Key Figures.
• Adding Calculation Logic to Key Figures, Applying Planning Operators Creating Reason Codes, Version Configuration, Creating Scenarios, Managing Global Configuration Settings, Snapshot Configuration, Activating the Planning Model.
• Consolidate ECC plant data, create new plants, convert master & transaction data as part of the consolidation
• Designed System configuration based on a requirement which includes planning area configuration, a planning book, Data Views, Macro’s, and CIF enhancement
• Made changes to the BW info packages to add newly created site and load the info cube with sales history data from the old site into this new site.
• Extensively worked on Material Management such as Master Data, Direct and Indirect procurement, Release strategies, Subcontracting, Material and Service Contracts, Consignment Purchases, Inter and Intra Stock Transfer orders, Scheduling Agreements, Valuation and Account determination.
• Configured Material types, Number ranges for Material master, Purchase requisitions ( PR), purchase orders (PO) and changed the field status of the material master records as per the user requirements.