SUMMARY

• Around 11 years of experience in Information Technology with an extensive experience in SAP Supply Chain Planning (APO/ Confidential ).
• Currently working as Integration Lead for ‘ Confidential for Supply’ full cycle implementation in a leading Confidential company.
• Worked in 2 full life cycle APO implementations, 1 full cycle Confidential Supply implementation including Control Tower and a 1 Proof of Concept on Confidential S&OP
• S&OP: Brought Consensus Forecast and Full Year Supply and calculated variances and few KPIs.
• Confidential for Supply: Brought the Demand Signal and the transactional data to calculate the Proposed Receipts through Heuristic run.
• Hands - on knowledge in Hana Cloud Integration. Integrated Confidential with various SAP and non- SAP system
• Hands-on experience of ASAP methodology with experience in all phases of Project Implementation-Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Pre-go Live, Go Live and Post go-live Support.
• Contributed to the design of Master Data Management solution.
• Good understanding of Supply Chain Analytics and industry standard KPIs
• Applied knowledge of Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive models.
• Experience in Supply Chain Planning Concepts and Processes include Designing, Developing, and Configuring, Testing, Implementing and supporting all aspects of the Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP).
• Experience in configuration and implementation of DP Info Cubes using Administrative Workbench, Generating and changing Characteristic Value Combination, Planning books, Planning Areas, macros and creating Statistical Forecast.
• Maintained Time bucket profiles, Forecast profiles, planning versions, promotional Planning, life cycle management and “Like” Modeling.
• Created SNP Master Profile, SNP heuristics and Capable to match (CTM) techniques.
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO.
• Clear understanding of cross-functional applications of MM, PP, PP-PI and SAP APO in Industrial scenarios.
• Understands business scenarios related to Make-to-Stock and Make-to-order.
• Good knowledge of top scheduling tool in the market like Tidal/Control-M and have worked closely to strategize inter platform inter dependent jobs.
• Hands on experience in Configuring, Creating and Maintaining Materials, BOM, Work Centers, Resources, Routings, Production Versions, Demand Management, MRP, Process/Production Orders, Capacity Leveling/Planning, Scheduling, and Variant Configuration.
• 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.
• Having strong management, administration, problem solving and decision-making ability.
• Excel Savvy and strong technical skills in programming languages like VB, Unix shell scripting, C, C++, Cobol.
• Sound DB2 knowledge with excellent SQL writing skills.
• Having strong management, administration, problem solving and decision-making ability

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Applications: ECC 5.0, 6.0, SCM 5.0, 5.1, 7.0

Programming languages: ABAP, C, C++, VB Excel, SQL, .Net, COBOL

Operating system: Windows 98/NT/2000/2007, XP, LINUX.

Tools: Confidential, MS Office, FileZilla, MS VISIO

Database: DB2, MS Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Providence, RI

Integration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Currently working as an Integration Lead for Confidential for Supply and Control Tower implementation
• Conducted workshop with Business for end to end Supply Chain processes and analytics.
• Provided technical solution and suggested process improvement for complex and customized business processes.
• Integrated Confidential with various SAP and Non-SAP systems like EDW, GALT, Windows, Web services etc. through HANA cloud integration.
• Created the designs for the TO Be solution
• Active contribution for the Master Data Management solution.
• Configured Confidential heuristics for Supply engine and basic optimization
• Hands-on experience in creating Confidential data stores and transformation. Worked with inter module stake holders to perform data analysis
• Worked with Analytics team to understand Control tower requirement and performed fit gap analysis
• Carried out Proof of Concept Implementation for SAP Confidential S&OP
• Conducted fit gap analysis for As is /To be Supply Chain process for client’ business.
• Conducting user training for the planners across all the geographies per their roles and specific to their region.
• Contributed in building SAP WPBs (Workforce Power Builder) to facilitate user web based training
• Created test strategy for the end to end Integration testing and defect resolution.
• Steered the planners through User Acceptance testing
• Planned Cut-over activities for the go live.
• Strategized the daily batch jobs schedule for the post go live
• Participated in Demand Planning workshops and determined end to end As IS process

Confidential, Providence, RI

SAP APO DP, SNP & PPDS

Responsibilities:

• Laid out the design and implementation of Central Planning System for the Supply side of the organization
• Conducted Blue Printing of Supply Planning Enhancement and lay the foundation of future state of Confidential Planning system
• Implemented Asia Pacific Roll out program
• Implemented China/Korea/Russia/Turkey/MENA Roll out programs
• Providing 24X7 support to the clients in US/LAM/EU regions
• Responsible for level 3 support and handle critical problem tickets within stipulated SLA.
• Resolving CIF clog issues
• Performing realignment for duplicate CVCs.
• Scheduling and monitoring batch jobs in Tidal and assign dependencies to batch jobs
• Scripting SQL queries to verify correct CVC combination in EDW (SQL server).
• Maintain Release of Demand Plan from DP 5.1 to DP 4.1 and from DP 4.1 to SNP 4.1.
• Assisting users to get their security/access to perform updates for different location or plant.
• Debugging ABAP programs for investigating production issues.
• Assigned User to specific Planning Book, Creation of Selection Profile for the SNP Planning Book, Maintained the Planner Responsible and Planning calendar
• Maintained CIF Integration models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO.
• Maintained fiscal calendar, responsible and Creating variants

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP APO DP, SNP consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured complete data model (Info objects/Info sources/Source systems/Data sources).
• 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.
• Worked on forecast error analysis using MAPE and MAD for forecast accuracy measurements
• Assigned User to specific Planning Book, Creation of Selection Profile for the SNP Planning Book, Maintained the Planner Responsible and Planning calendar
• Maintained CIF Integration models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO.
• Set up the deployment heuristic and created deployment optimization profile.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

SCM APO DP & SNP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a functional consultant in implementing SAP SCM.
• Involved in the Creation of Master Planning Object Structure, 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 created Alerts.
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO.
• Set up the supply chain model (work areas-location, products, resources, PPM, transportation lanes and quota arrangements)
• Created CTM model for key products
• Created and assigned TLB profile to the transportation lane.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

SCM APO DP/PP-DS (Full life cycle implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Performed AS-IS/TO-BE Study with core team members and presented reports after completing GAP Analysis.
• Developed functional specifications of new reports to be developed
• Conducted integration tests and resolve issues arise during integration tests. Responsible for Demand Planning, data mart setup in Demand Planning, historical data upload for forecasting, and APO system mapping to fulfill business requirements.
• Created Forecast Alert profiles to display alerts for Univariate forecast errors and used Alert monitor to identify potential problems in the forecast by defining Alert Macros
• Worked on characteristics value combinations to define forecast methodology.
• Developed functional specifications of new reports to be developed
• Created forecast Alert profiles to display alerts for univariate forecast errors and used Alert monitor to identify potential problems in the forecast by defining alert macros
• Maintained PP/DS Master data such as Resources and PPM
• Maintained Detailed Scheduled Planning board profile.

SCM APO DP & SNP (Full life cycle implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Worked as offshore counterpart for the full DP/SNP implementation
• Created Info cubes, Update Rules, Export Data Source, Info packages.
• Involved in the Creation of Master Planning Object Structure, 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 created Alerts.
• Developed Transfer Rules and Update Rules for Info Cubes.
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO.
• Setting up of the Master data for SNP and creation of Planning version and Planning book
• Set up the supply chain model (work areas-location, products, resources, PPM, transportation lanes and quota arrangements)
• Perform SNP runs using SNP heuristics.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Technology Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Played lead for the Flight and Non flight application under Mileage Plus.
• Closely worked with more than 30 STAR ALLIANCE partners across the globe to ensure smooth integration of United and Continental Airlines
• Worked in various integrated projects involving multiple interfaces through MQ series, sending and receiving the messages in XMLs
• Responsible for all development and maintenance in Mainframe and provided production support for the entire application
• Preparation of High level and Low level design documents.
• Responsible for Change Management, Incident Management. Provided on call support for various P1/P2 issues

Confidential, Arizona

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various stages of the project life cycle design, development and testing in C/C++, Visual Basics.
• Created critical Stored Procedures at Client End
• Involved in preparation of test scripts.
• Defect Tracking using IPM tool
• Developed SQL queries and procedures to fetch data from SQL Server database.