SUMMARY

• Information Technology professional with 12+ years of experience supporting various functions for industries like Textiles, FMCG, Confidential, Paper & Packaging, and Automobiles.
• I gained significant experience in Supply Chain Planning, Production Planning, Procurement Planning, Sales and Distribution, Quality Management, Analytics, Project Management, and System implementation.
• Possess sound functional & technical understanding of SAP Advanced Planning and optimizer (sub - modules D.P., SNP, PPDS, GATP), SAP Production Planning, SAP Integrated Business Planning - IBP, SAP S4/HANA modules along with exposure to other cross-functional with like Material Management, Sales and Distribution & Quality Management.
• An effective communicator and trainer with good relationship building & interpersonal skills. Strong analytical, problem-solving & organizational abilities.
• Trained more than 200 participants for the APO tool as a part of corporate training. Develop POC (Proof of Concepts) for various project bids
• Managing and handling system changes by creating and tracking Project Plan in M.S. Project. Discussing projects plan with Business, gathering inputs, and updating the project plan. Following the activity status and communicating the same to Business.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP APO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The project involves setting up Mater data and Flex routes in a Q.A. environment in systems like ECC, APO, and SNC.
• Build a custom program to Import Viatris Purchase orders in the SAP APO system. APO later triggers sales orders in ECC with reference to the purchase orders received from Viatris.
• For external supply flow with vendor-managed inventory, the flow involves Heuristcs run in APO, Purchase requisition move to SAP SNC tool via ECC. The purchase requisition converted to a Purchase order in SNC. Advanced shipping notification created in SNC triggers an inbound delivery against Purchase Order in ECC. Further, the stock moves through in transit and In-stock location until the stock is dispatched to Viatris against a sales order.
• Updating the system changes to ensure the Vitris PO reference number travels throughout the entire executing process.
• Develop detailed functional and technical specifications for changes in SAP systems and upload the change documents in a central repository (P-Doc and V-Doc tool) for approval and change management.
• Perform unit and integration testing of changes in the development and staging environments (using tool HP-Quality Center).
• Work with ABAP team on bug fix Capture incidents, enhancements, and break fixes. Execute regression tests of functionalities that may be affected
• Further, automate the process of demand and supply exchange as more and more transition to the Viatris system.
• Provide ad hoc training and knowledge transfer sessions for business super-users.

Environment: /Tools Used: SAP APO, SAP APO-DP, SAP APO-SNP, SAP IBP

SAP APO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Custom interchangeability - ABAP development to support custom interchangeability process. The ABAP development involved developing a custom interchangeability program to allow multilevel interchangeability. Allow split %age to break the demand into components. Activate the interchangeability on specific dates.
• Sales order suppression - Enhance CIF to suppress sales orders and delivery till actual PGI is updated against outbound delivery
• Forecast consumption for consignment process - Standard APO does not support forecast consumption for PGI against consignment sales orders. Develop program and B.W. flow to enable forecast consumption for consignment sales order
• Enhance Deployment and TLB process - to support
• Shelf Life Planning Enahanmcents - Enhance Shelf life planning report
• CIF enhancement - allowing to map stock to other location
• Numerous Product master enhancements to add new fields to product master
• Create new info objects (navigation attributes) and add the same to SAP DP Planning books
• SAP IBP Work in Process calculation - Create IBP task to extract work in progress values from IBP and populate the same in the IBP planning book
• Enhance various programs to additional security checks needed to enable Confidential and Viatris users to use the Confidential system without

Environment: /Tools Used: SAP APO, SAP APO-DP, SAP APO-SNP, SAP IBP, SAP ABAP

SAP APO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understand the AS-IS and To-be Business flow and lead thoughtful design discussions to list the impacted products and SKU.
• Collaborate with business analysts and business personnel to verify the scope list.
• Update the Project Plan with the activities that need to be updated.
• Load new product masters and product masters files needed to support the new planning flow
• Load new T-lane and delete the old transportation lanes.
• Support the transition of existing open orders and stock to the new setup
• Update the required configuration and move the needed recent location changes in the production system for the APO system.
• Coordinate the demand transition in the SAP IBP system.

Environment: /Tools Used: SAP APO, SAP APO-DP, SAP APO-SNP, SAP IBP

SAP APO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop interface required to transfer demand between Confidential and Confidential system.
• Create SAP BW cubes and flow required to import demand from Confidential system
• Using EIH tool to interface demand and supply signal with Confidential system
• Flow involves forecasting in the Confidential system. Confidential forecast is sent to the SAP BI landing zone using EIH and other interfaces.
• APO pulls the forecast and executes the SNP heuristics planning run, followed by deployment and TLB run in APO.
• TLB create a purchase order or sales order in ECC against which goods are received or sent, and communication of goods dispatched is immediately sent to the Confidential system using condition type and EIH interface
• Data deletion and cleaning once the SKU finally moved to the Confidential system.

SAP APO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Track OFG Wave 2 & Wave 3 cutover activity using M.S. Project and ensure the tasks are completed on time
• Schedule meetings with Business to understand the planning flow change, scope list analysis, analyze change impact, communicate the same to the team and resolve further quarries.
• Working on OFG SPC (Wave 4) scope analysis, updating product master and T-lanes changes as per the scope analysis. Approximate 8000+ product location combination part of SPC wave four changes (go-live date May 27)
• Testing security profiles for the Red-bull project.

Environment: /Tools Used: SAP APO, SAP APO-DP, SAP APO-SNP, SAP ERP

Confidential

Advisory Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Help user analyze and resolve quarries on-demand propagation, supply and demand mismatch, subcontracting setup, missing master data setup, order scheduling issues.
• Setup new D.S. Board profiles, work areas, and introduce D.S. board functionality like remove backlog, order fixing, D.S. board color coding, schedule sequence manually heuristics options.
• Demonstrated planers and on how to customize strategy profiles and heuristics profiles on the fly before executing scheduling run from ds board
• Work with the user to have the production plan created in D.S. Board, export the D.S. Board plan using SVT and share with the shop floor.
• Introduce SNP planning book to Planner and train to analyze demand and supply gaps along with alert monitor alters.

Environment: /Tools Used: SAP APO, SAP APO-DP, SAP APO-SNP, SAP APO PDS

Confidential

Advisory Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Attend workshops to understand Vizag manufacturing setup, AS-IS Demand flow, SNP/PPDS planning, noncommercial planning, batch release, production confirmation, and current planning challenges.
• Work with Project lead on documenting AS-IS process; analyzing gaps, and suggesting To-Be planning flow as per HOSuN Global planning model
• Analyze master data correction like missing source of supply, setup matrix corrections, and setting up new master data like alternate resource planning, planning P.V., PDS, and T-lane priority.
• Analyze actual production lead time vs. duration mentioned in recipe and suggesting correction in the recipe, setup matrix.
• Training planners and schedulers on D.S. Board, SNP planning Books, APO Master data, Supply Review Tool, Decision Support Tool, Supply Visualization Tool.
• Discuss various BOBJ reports like Projected inventory report, Demand change report, master data reports, MRP reports with planners
• Setup process chain like Production planning process chain, demand distribution chain in simulation version, and capacity planning in simulation.
• Hand holding and supporting users after HOSuN go-live and resolving day to day issues

Confidential

Advisory Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Upload product master updates using LSMW needed during cutovers. Update LSMW templets to Load new t-lanes. Analyze FLEX for MDC check error and update the same to Business.
• Interim T-lane setup for Inventory retention needed during cutovers. Monitoring the stock at a temporary location and accordingly updating the T-lanes once the stock has been sold or moved to new locations.
• Update Distribution definition; CIF integration model variant creation and activation for master data and transaction data; CCR Monitoring and sharing error details with Business; creating Handling resource.
• APO Batch Processing Tracker update for new Go Live locations. Update background job variants like (Alerts, Data Loads, Deployment, Heuristics, Master Data) as per the tracker.
• Update T-lane and Product master setup for Supply Order products. Update Purchase orders and purchase requisition and per S2O master data changes.
• De-commission obsolete locations and removing Transactional data, T-lanes, Product master, etc. Analyze incidents caused due to cutover updates
• Suggested a new realignment process chain setup using B.W. so that realignment can be executed without users needing to be logged out of the planning book.

Confidential

Advisory Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of 3 APO versions upgrades. Performed Operational verification in Development, Quality, and Production system for upgrades before the system can be released to users.
• Implemented numerous SAP notes for resolving various issues observed during SAP upgrades and worked with SAP on very high-priority issues to fix business defects during upgrades. Some of the significant problems observed during upgrades Process/plan order missing operation, PPM CIF integration model not activating, Material status impacting status, D.S. board issues, shelf life issues, etc.
• Solving issues on day to day basis like Sub Con PDS not updated, planned order process order rescheduling in APO DS board, B.W. reporting issues, SNP Deployment issues, pegging issues, PPDS shelf-life planning, forecast values not correct in SNP Planning book
• SNP is primarily used for distribution planning and PPDS for production planning. PPDS process mainly involves production planning using Campaign planning, shelf-life planning, and firming of fixed plan in D.S. board.
• Create a new MRP strategy in ECC and interfacing the same with APO, enabling z fields in material master.
• CIF monitoring and reporting. Analyzing CPP/C3/CFG1 logs for data not updated in APO /ECC. Weekend process chain monitoring.
• Suggested and demonstrated improvement in the CVC realignment process using B.W. processes.

Confidential

Advisory Consultant/ SAP APO DP/SNP Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage entire APO DP SNP process.
• Monitoring process chains and manually triggering processes, for which scheduling is not possible.
• SNP Process involves procurement planning creating purchase requisitions using SNP Optimizer. TLB further converts the deployment confirmed purchase requisition to the Purchase order.
• Created Macros for Locking K.F. values after a specified date.
• Created Alert Macros and scheduling database alter as background jobs. Setting auto-mail to users for generated alerts.
• Standardizing the CIF monitoring process
• Handling marketing Dossier process. Resolving sales cube data miss match with planning book.
• Having call with the business user on a day to days basis on the open issues. Visit client place as and when required.

Confidential

Consultant - ERP SAP

Responsibilities:

• The business process primarily involves MTO make-to-order (MTO), with few businesses following make-to-stock (MTS) production.
• Production starts with sales order creation > Since F.G. materials codes are updated as variant > pop-up screen request for additional characteristics value to complete the sale orders. Based on the variant values user performs ATP check using GATP functionality which creates planned order. Planned orders are scheduled according to the Block Basis definition
• Created various test scenarios for testing Block Planning using SNP optimizer & Executing deployment between plant and distribution center.
• Planning using top-down, bottom-up sequencing to enhance Production Planning and Material Requirement Planning.
• Discussing business requirements for system development and enhancement pertaining to production planning, order scheduling, and demand planning for carbon, chemical, and paper manufacturing processes.
• Testing & validating different changes before roll-out to the production server.
• Designing end to end scenarios for competency and end-use training

SAP Tools used: SAP PP, SAP APO (D.P., SNP, PPDS, and GATP).

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring MES-SAP interface and solving production booking issues for Press shop, Weld shop, Paint shop, Engine shop, Power Train and Final Assembly
• Discuss with production planner key factors accountable for variation in production plan vs. execution. Re-model APO tool to support MRP and automate production planning using Confidential
• Detailing and finalizing system enhancements for SAP PP-DS & Q.M. modules.
• Training users with APO master data, Sequence Board, Heuristic Run, and Model Mix Planning Execution
• Completed end to end Unit test and Integration test for SAP APO 5.0 to SAP APO 7.0 Upgrade
• Functional support for SAP PP, Q.M. & Confidential modules
• Designing MIS report formats and coordinate with team members to update/track Balance Score Card Matrix
• Responsible for planning, tracking service requests and problem incidents given to technical support team.

SAP Tools used: - SAP PP, SAP APO-PPDS, IS-Auto, SAP-QM

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supporting Confidential manufacturing planning process using SAP APO DP, SNP, and PPDS tool.
• Creating Characteristics Combination from Flat Files as and Uploading promotion values received from 3rd party tools
• Creating Planning books, data view, and selection profiles as per request from the user
• Monitoring Core Interface and taking necessary corrective actions.
• Model Setup Sequencing for Repetitive manufacturing with make to stock environment
• Modeled top-down, bottom-up sequencing to enhance Production Planning and Material Requirement Planning.
• Ensure master data definition such as WorkCentre, Material Master, routing etc. are in sync for finite capacity planning for new roll outs.

Confidential

Executive System

Responsibilities:

• Defining the scope of SAP - PPDS module for 'SAP APO Implementation Project.
• Detailing and finalizing business requirements for SAP - PPDS module implementation.
• Guiding/Supporting AS-IS process for APO Implementation for Confidential Industries across 21 Plants
• Preparing the Business Process Master List, Business Blueprint, To-Be documents, and stakeholder sign-off as a core team member.
• Ensuring authorization design and coordinating with the Basis team for role development.
• Designing MIS report formats to be generated by the system for all the related functions.
• Creating the Knowledge Management Repository for Confidential team for post Go-Live support.
• Handling master data changes for implementing Variant Configuration needed for sales order driven sequencing
• Mapping subcontracting process in APO for better production planning results
• Coordinate with programmers for various reports, Master Data uploading and Customization
• Support Production Execution involving system configuration, master data creation; order creation, material consumption and production booking process

SAP Tools used: - SAP PP, SAP APO-PPDS, APO-CTM and SAP-QM