SAP SCM Consultant

Professional Summary

• SAP functional consultant with 7 years of experience with high impact strategic projects and supporting major proposal efforts in the supply chain areas. With experience in two full life cycle implementations.
• Supported all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, deployment of solutions, and postproduction support/maintenance functions.
• Completed end-to-end SAP APO implementations providing industry and supply chain expertise across many industry verticals.
• SCM Expert, have provided SAP APO consulting services for 5 plus years. Responsible for the delivery of SAP projects and contributing to practice & business development. Supply chain planning & optimization systems, process re-engineering, electronic procurement and other package-based solutions as a subject matter expert. Provided leadership to ERP driven organization transformation initiatives.
• Area of expertise is SCM (APO) with vast experience in APO including, DP (Demand Planning), SNP (Supply Network Planning) and PP/DS (Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling).
• An organized professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Technical Skills

ERP: SAP APO, PP, SD, AND BW
ERP packages: SAP R/3 4.6C, ECC 5.0/6.0 SCM 3.1, MY SAP SCM 4.0, 5.0, 7.0
Data Base: MySQL, DB2
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX
Languages: ABAP/4
Tools: MS Office

Professional Experience

Confidential, Calvert, AL Jan'12 to till date
Sr.SAP APO Consultant , SCM 5.1
Confidential is one of the world\'s largest steel producers. The company also provides components and systems for the automotive industry, elevators, escalators, material trading and industrial services.
Project Description

• Created and Maintained Integration models to transfer Data between ECC and APO
• Resolved CIF Queue errors and maintained system integration
• Worked on various enhancements and customizations
• Maintained SNP Planning books and planning areas
• Maintained the Optimizer profile and setup various costs
• Performed SNP runs using SNP Heuristics and Optimizer
• Performed heuristics planning and capacity leveling
• Maintained period factors, Safety stock settings on Product Location Master
• Developed functional designs, functional unit testing plans, and integration test scenarios as well as executing the tests
• Involved in data loads and validations
• Complete all project related documentation according to standards and templates defined

Confidential, San Jose CA Feb'11 to Dec'11
SAP Lead ECC 6.0
Confidential is a computer software company; company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towardsrich Internet applicationsoftware development.
Project Description

• Migrated all SAP and related systems to IBM AIX platform from the current Sun Solaris environment.
• Conducted POC validation for all environments before applying service packs.
• Coordinated knowledge transfer sessions between Adobe and TCS team.
• Completed 8 consecutive waves of migration and post service pack testing.
• Reported defects and status reports internally on a weekly basis.
• Tracked and managed defects using Watson bug tracker.
• Performed functional testing for PTP, SKU setup and maintenance process.
• Created test scripts for GTS validation.
• Conducted user training sessions for GTS.

Confidential, Richmond VA July'10 to Jan'11
Sr.SAP APO Consultant ,SAP SCM 7.0
Confidential is a global packaging solutions company serving consumer products brands in the Healthcare, Food, Beverage, Food Service, Tobacco, Home & Garden, and Commercial Printing.
Project Description

• Responsible for the technical and functional upgrade from SCM 5.1.0 to SCM 7.0.
• Developed Test Scripts and collected master data.
• Tested inbound and outbound interfaces between SAP, TP&E and Optivision.
• Resolving issues of CIF Queues, Consistency check
• Involved in three phases of testing, and assisted in user acceptance.
• Documented and tracked issues and defects using Mercury Quality Center.
• Coordinate for interface related issues for monthly Demand upload
• Resolved issues concerning resource overloading and Detailed scheduling of production lines
• Applied OSS notes in the areas of SCM block planning and maintenance.
• Performed consistency check pre upgrade and post upgrade.

Confidential, Beaverton OR Nov'09 to June'10
Sr.SAP APO Consultant , SAP SCM 5.1
Project involved implementing SAP APO at Nike Inc, USA. Worked as SAP APO consultant on this project handling 3 Instances of DP namely, Apparel, Equipment and Footwear.

Project Description

• Set up Planning areas, Master Planning Object structure, Planning Books, Data views, Selection IDs, Time Bucket profiles, Storage Bucket profiles, Planning Calendar, Macros, Statistical models, Activity Profiles, Release profiles, background jobs, process chains and Alerts.
• Defined Custom BW Objects On line preventive maintenance and Activating Business content to get both R/3 transactional data and master data into APO.
• Developed advanced DP macros including user exit macro to calculate DP2SNP release key figures and bookings and scheduling the macros using process chains.
• Set up CIF and transferring master data (Products and locations) using CIF
• Supports the CIF monitoring team in trouble shooting the CIF Queues
• Defined process chains to automate both transactional and master data extraction, generating CVCs, loading planning area, execution of macros.
• Release forecast to supply planning and forecast consumption.
• Coordinate onsite project activities and delivery of work-products that comply to the QA standards along with coordination with the offshore team regarding DP issues.

Confidential, Detroit MI Dec'08 to Sept'09
Sr.SAP APO Consultant , SAP SCM 5.0
Confidential global activities in the area of passenger transportation systems. The product range comprises passenger and freight elevators, escalators and moving walks, chair and platform lifts, passenger boarding bridges and quality service for the entire product range.

Project Description

• Resolving and closing Users Calls logged in according to the priorities assigned
• Migration of master data and transactional data using LSMW tool
• On line preventive maintenance
• Working with centralized split architecture environment through messaging technology
• Was responsible for Development & customization of the enhancements that are made in DP, SNP modules
• Created test scenarios needed to support business requirements based on customer defined cost and optimization profile for SNP optimizer
• Provided expert troubleshooting practices on all technical and application issues
• Provided information, training and knowledge transfer to SAP production control team
• Documentation - Unit and Integration testing - Implementation Planning - Post Implementation Support

Confidential, Rochester Hills MI Sept'07 to Dec'08
SAP.APO Consultant , SAP SCM 4.0
Confidential Automotive Systems is the largest independent designer and manufacturer of Driver Control Systems, and a leading supplier of door modules, glass systems, seat mechanisms and structures, and engineered assemblies.

Project Description

• Developed high level solution design and To-Be processes, and identified change impacts, required interfaces, and data conversions
• Configured the Demand Planning module, created Info Cubes, planning books, and various data views, calculation, and alert macros. Maintained CVC's, forecast profiles, storage bucket profiles, and time bucket profiles.
• Created a Demand Planning pilot system, and identified process improvements and issue recommendations of Demand Planning best practices
• Maintained planning calendar, set up SNP master profile, master data of product for vendor and customer location, creation of storage, transport resources, maintaining locations.
• Performed SNP runs using SNP heuristics, optimizer. Creating transportation lanes; maintain quota arrangements, quota items, planning versions.
• Created multi-product transport orders replenishing it to Transport Load Builder.
• Release of forecast demand from demand plan to SNP, release of master data and sales history from demand planning to R/3 through CIF.
• Setup required for Material Requirement Planning in APO-PP/DS. Global settings in PP/DS customizing
• Configured and implemented Capacity Requirements Planning, provided solution for sequencing in graphical planning board.
• Resolved manufacturing planning issues in SAP APO by providing functional consulting in Production planning Run (PPDS).
• Detailed analysis of the Master Data both in R/3 and APO and the Integration Model so as to pinpoint the exact cause of the errors arising due to faulty master data like planning calendars, MRP type
• Continuously monitor and resolve the errors so as to maintain the integrity between the R3 and APO systems.
• Provided the client with training and guidance on the APO Demand Planning process.
• Performed data transfers between R/3 APO and BW and live cache.

Confidential, Kirkland WA Nov'06 to Aug'07 SAP APO Consultant , SAP R/3 4.6c
A division of Confidential is a leading manufacturer of heavy and medium duty trucks. Kenworth has an extensive dealer network of more than 290 dealer locations in the United States and Canada. This dealer network provided parts, service and body shop support for customers under the Kenworth Premier Care, Parts and Service.

Project Description

• DP Master Data design, setup and loading.
• Planning Object Structure (POS) and Planning Area design prototyping for performance.
• Planning book, data view and macro design, creation and performance testing.
• Import program to load data directly into DP live cache (planning area) from within Excel.
• Open Hub/Info Spoke data export.
• Extract data from APO DP and SNP and transfer to BI for reporting.

Confidential, NY July'05 to Nov'06 SAP PP Consultant , SAP R/3 4.6c
Confidential is one of the world\'s largest manufacturers and distributors of quality eyewear and sunwear. Marchon has built an extensive portfolio of some of the world\'s most prestigious fashion and sport brands Confidential

Project Description

• Understanding the client's business process requirements, mapping the business process in line with the SAP functionality.
• To coordinate with the technical team on various functional issues –functional specs.
• Configuring Scheduling Margin Key, MRP type, BOM explosion, standard values and control key.
• Creating MRP Profile tailored to client\'s needs.
• Configuring work center formulas and standard values according to client's requirements.
• Configuration, integration testing of PP module.
• Configuring Plant Parameters, MRP Areas and MRP Groups.
• Member of team for Preparation of User Training Manual for training to End-Users and providing training to end-users
• Go-live preparation and post implementation