SUMMARY

• Having 10+ years of experience in Supply Chain Management, IBP, APO, including configuration of integrations in cloud systems
• Configuration of SAP IBP including Master Data, Planning Area, Key Figure, Key Figure Calculation and Miscellaneous Settings Demand, Supply for Optimizer/Heuristic, Response and Supply and Control Tower
• Hands on experience with SAP IBP Supply Heuristic and Optimizer set - up
• Modeling complex scenarios using Key Figure calculation/Attribute Transformation
• Scheduling and monitoring jobs in SAP IBP and CPI-DS
• Expertise in IBP S&OP - having fully configured and customized all associated functionality in demand, supply, and financials.
• This includes planning area configuration, heuristic setup, data migration, and template development.
• SAP IBP Excel-Add in Template creation based on the user requirement
• Experience on both SAP APO & SAP IBP - Integration Business Planning 5.0 on S&OP/S&OP on Demand & Supply & Control Tower & APO DP /SNP /PPDS Modules.
• Worked on master data objects related to PPDS functionality to support Forecast to Schedule and Production Execution processes required
• Understanding on the PPDS Master data in S/4 HANA including PDS (Product Data Structures)
• Planning parameters and different kind of Heuristics in PPDS along with mapping it to business scenarios
• Configure PPDS Alerts based on planning profile or departments per function
• Experience on SAP IBP - Integration Business Planning 5.0 on S&OP/S&OP on Demand & Supply & Control Tower.
• Understanding the Business planning in CRM & development of Integration between CRM -> BW- > APO Integration & full APO implementation for Colgate Global Development Centre.
• Expertise in configuring APO in Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), Global Available-To-Promise (GATP) and Production planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) modules
• Experience in SAP APO DP, SNP, IBP - S&OP, Demand,Control Towerand working knowledge in PP/DS and GATP hand-on experience onSAP IBP Demand/Supply planningand Supply chain control tower. And worked on inventory planning prototype into SAP IBP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP IBP/APO Consultant

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the requirements from the SAP pre-sales and supported
• Worked extensively on the issues of IBP S&OP, Supply, and Inventory.
• Configuring Planning Area, Master Data types, Attributes, Key Figure calculations and operators
• Implementation of IBP S&OP, Demand Sensing, Response (Order-Based Planning) and Control Tower
• MonitoredKPIsfor Order Fulfillment andService Quality, KPIs forDemand Forecasting,KPI’s for Supply Response, and Transportation, Inventory.
• Supply Chain Segmentation and Collaboration
• Setting up and configuring statistical forecasting of inventory quantity, revenue data coming from different systems and asset quantity based on real-time data P Cloud Platform Integration for data services CPI-DS Data integration of IBP with source systems (SAP ERP & SAP S4HANA) for master, transaction & time series data.
• Creation of projects, processes, tasks (with and without templates and BADI) and data flows.
• Implementation experience in S/4 HANA planning and execution processes and IBP (Integrated Business Planning) system integration, in addition to ECC-APO integration
• Leading an Account which comprises SAP IBP, S4HANA, FIORI and HCI.
• Monitoring jobs to support the proper working of SAP IBP functionalities supporting projects
• Creation of SAP IBP Excel Add-in planning views based on user requirements
• Conducting tests on completed configurations
• Creation of user training documents for planners to work in SAP IBP
• Demonstrating functionalities and scopes of SAP IBP using analytics and dashboard apps
• Understanding the current business flow and their Hierarchies starting from Supplier level to Customer level.
• Worked on Make-to-Stock, Make-to-Order and Planning with Final Assembly strategies.
• Modeled Unique Master data, by which finance planning can be integrated with Demand Planning and Supply Planning.
• Worked with HCI (Hana Cloud Integration) team for mapping Master data and transaction data.
• Configured Process Modeling Ribbon in IBP, which will show the complete S&OP Process
• Schedule batch job to greater forecast at different levels and provide view access to different segments in Demand Planning.
• Calculate consensus forecast based on all adjustments.
• Created batch job in IBP, which will run Supply planning operator.

SAP IBP Consultant

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Responsibilities:

• Part of the SAP IBP implementation & support team responsible for running the IBP S&OP business cycle
• Run the S&OP cycle as per calendar- jobs and copy operators as per business cycle and keep business user updated
• User support of end-to-end IBP S&OP solution which include below details:
• Master data - creation/update/upload of master data into IBP as per design
• Maintain master data accuracy in IBP by periodic compare with ECC
• Interfaces - schedule and monitor various inbound and outbound interfaces of IBP
• Coordinate with HCI team for any integration issues in IBP which calls for detailed HCI understanding
• Maintain transaction data sanity between IBP and various interfaced systems
• Identity and Access management: responsible for all IAM related activities from creation of new users in IBP to access restrictions to key figures and regions
• Monitor jobs in IBP and jobs in HCI
• Coordinate with various teams like APO, BW, TPM throughout the business cycle
• Take up change requests in the IBP solution, document them, get approvals, build, test, and implement

SAP IBP/APO Consultant

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Responsibilities:

• Experience in to understand client requirements for there to-be CPM process
• Working with IBP Product owners in fixing and enhancing new functionalities.
• Enhancing IBP demo builds with latest functionalities as per the latest releases.
• Involved in DBRs and L2 support in resolving IBP tickets for Global region.
• Gathering the requirements from the SAP pre-sales and supported them in fixing issues, Custom Builds & PoCs’.
• Worked extensively on the issues of IBP S&OP, Supply, and Inventory
• IBP Functionalities’ testing
• Involved in many IBP development sessions.
• Worked on CPI-DS & SDI setup for the data transfers both time series and order series.
• Configuring JAM tenants with IBP
• Worked on migrating systems from IBP
• Involved in functional testing, used defect and incident management tool like JIRA to raise defects
• Responsible for understanding and mapping the business process in DP.
• Involved in regular discussions and meetings with the Onsite team for requirements in DP.
• Design and Maintenance of Info Cubes, ODS and other BW related Objects.
• Involved in Creating Macros, Transfer Profiles and Release Profiles and created Activities for Mass Processing.
• Create planning versions, Configuration of new Planners in APO, assign user to planning books/data views, Run the forecast (both interactively and through background job) for all the models.
• Create a background job to run the macros, Check the release functionality both online and background, check for the distribution functionality, Run realignment in the planning area, Upload the data to planning area, Version copy of planning area in Testing system.
• Responsible in maintaining characteristic value Combinations & loading planning area version.
• Responsible for Maintaining Planning areas, Master planning objects structures.
• Responsible for Creation and Activation of Integration model to transfer the Master Data and Transaction data from ECC to APO system (CIF).
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO. Mass Maintenance of Master Data in APO.

SAP APO/PPDS Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Work with Finance business partners and gather their short-, mid- and long-term objective
• 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 configureSAP BI cubesto load transactional data fromSCM-APO(Planning Book) & ECC (Enterprise Core Component) to SAP BI system.
• Buildingpromotionsandlifecycle planningfunctionalities in demand planning.
• Maintained Statistical forecast profiles:Univariate, Multi Linear Regression & Composite Forecast,and various data views as per business blueprint.
• Involved in implementation of the PPDS module andproduct master datamaintenance.
• 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.
• EmployedPPDS heuristicsto optimizestorage costsandhandling costs.
• Batch jobmonitoring for DP, PPDS on a daily, weekly & monthly cycle.
• Worked onDetail scheduling(DS) optimizer profile
• Resolving resource overloading and detailed scheduling of production line.
• Monitored therelease of SNP to PPDS

SAP APO - DP & SNP Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• 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 thestatistical modelto achieve good forecast accuracy.
• HandledTrouble Tickets, Change Requests, functional enhancements,and Interface developments relating toSAP APO CIF/DP/SNPmodules
• Expertise inreleasing Demand planfrom DP to SNP.
• Developed varioustest casesanddocumented the test resultsfor both functional and integration testing of the solutions in DP and SNP.
• MonitoredKPIsfor Order Fulfillment andService Quality, KPIs forDemand Forecasting,KPI’s for Supply Response, and Transportation, Inventory.
• Supply Chain Segmentation and Collaboration
• Written severaltest scriptsand createdprocess flow documentsfor end user
• Conductedtraining workshopsas required
• Resolving/SupportingvariousAPO SNP issuesas and when required.