SUMMARY

• 8+years of overall experience in SCM - APO (DP, SNP& PPDS), BI, PP, & MM
• Two Full Life Cycle Implementations and One Upgrade experience with SAP R/3 & ECC
• My SAP Supply Chain Management experience has covered all aspects of implementing SAP in Manufacturing, Food Processing and Hi-Tech. My involvement has covered the analysis, design, modeling and development and implementing of SAP applications
• My skills in SAP APO are Core Data Interface (CIF), Live Cache, Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP), Production Planning and Scheduling (PPDS) and Business Information Warehouse (BW)
• DP - Design MPOS, Planning Area, Planning Books and Data Views, Life Cycle planning, Phase-In and Phase-Out profiles, Data Realignment, Forecasting Models.
• SNP - Heuristic, CTM, Optimizer, Supply Chain Modeling, Master Data - Location, Product Location, Resource, TLanes, SNP PPMs, MPS, Capacity Leveling, Distribution Planning (DRP) and TLB planning
• PPDS - PP Master Data replication through CIF, PPDS PPMs, Master Scheduling, Detailed Scheduling, MRP.
• Worked on GATP in configuring ATP groups, Check Modes, Check control, Rule Based ATP checks, Product substitution, Plant substitution, and Product Allocation, Multi Level ATP (MLATP), Capable to Promise (CTP) and Batch Management (BM). Backorder Processing, Event Driven Quantity Assignment, Shipment and Transportation Planning. Expertise in Business scenarios related to Make to Stock (MTS) and Make to order (MTO).
• Exposure to SAPR/3 Materials Management (MM), Warehouse Management (WM), and Production Planning (PP).
• Exposure to read and understand ABAP program. Big 5 experience and worked with fortune top100 clients
• Good team player and closely worked with BASIS, Development, Change Management and BILs. Good documentation and excellent communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Technology: ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 4.7/4.6B/4.6C, SCM 7.0/5.1/5.0/4.1 , BI 7.0 Live Cache, SOLMAN

Operating systems: Windows and MAC OSX

Other Tools: ARIS, Lotus Notes, Remedy, Quality Centre, QTP, and IT Service desk / Snow.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Trenton, NJ

SAP APO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for finding the design gaps and do the GAP analysis for the UNITY project which client gone live and responsible for business requirement gathering and providing the solution for design gaps found.
• Working closely with business users to understand the GAPS in design and issues facing on daily basis. Working on the AMS support issues in PPDS and SNP for break fixes, and enhancements for present solution with providing best possible solution for their present design.
• Responsible for creating the master data for PPDS and SNP. Scheduling according to the business requirements and resolving scheduling issues occurred due to backlog heuristics in PPDS.
• Working on enhancements like PPDS over planning occurred by safety stock and safety day’s supply planning in PPDS. Customizing the CDPS REPT standard report for resource utilization in DS Board. Working on pegging related issues for PPDS safety stock planning.
• Responsible for providing solution for overlapping horizons between SNP and PPDS for short term and medium term planning with a heuristic change to look for future supply shortages after the PPDS horizon. Also responsible for fixing SNP/Deployment issues on day to day basis and enhancements like BI-Monthly/Monthly lot sizestrategy, projected stock inventory and transportation calendar in means of transport.
• Working closely with business to fill the design Gap for their single and multilevel subcontracting scenarios like Toll and Turnkey involving the storage location MRP areas and virtual plants assigned to the vendor. Also working on vendor capacity modeling for all the subcontracting scenarios.
• Working on shelf life planning with SNP and PPDS heuristics. Also working on the interchangeability scenarios with supersession chains.
• Working closely with solution delivery team to implement the TERRA system for Demand Sensing to load more accurate forecast and Multi Echelon Inventory Optimization for safety stock / safety day’s supply for first 13 weeks.

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

SAP APO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business requirement gathering and mapping it to SAP and transforming legacy systems requirements to SAP.Mapping AS-IS process to TO-BE design to SAP APO PPDS solution. Design the solution according to present business process to MPS.
• Designing subcontracting solution using PPDS heuristics using PPM’s. Configured Master production schedule of Confidential factories for Nutrition division.
• Configured Block planning functionality using PPDS Heuristics for Cereal lines.
• Designed Production campaign planning using PPDS Heuristic’s functionality for Confidential Nutrition Purees lines.
• Designed custom finite scheduling heuristics for Confidential Nutrition requirements.
• Worked on Aggregated planning on the supplying area or National level for Net requirement calculation using APO SNP functionality.
• Design Complex automated background scheduling for 3 levels of production, thereby reducing the total time spent by business for top down and bottom up scheduling.
• Complex automated scheduling/fix pegging set up to align multi level parallel/production lines right from bottleneck resources. Scheduling inside the blocks using product priorities, setup matrices and setup keys.
• Set up PPDS background and interactive planning. DS board, Order views, Profile configuration etc.
• Conducted workshops for one on one user training sessions for MPS planners. Responsible for all Master data creation and changes for PPDS functionality.
• Creation of SNP Alerts, PPDS Alerts, Batch Jobs for automatic background planning run for MPS.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

SAP APO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business requirement gathering and mapping it to SAP. AS IS and TO BE sessions from PPDS to SNP Design. Also Configured the planning area, planning book and Location product data views and global level data views for user defined subcontracting scenarios.Worked on Pooled capacity, secondary resource, and alternate resource concepts in SNP.
• Designed subcontracting scenarios with optimizer using the Handling quantity constraints with ACG model.Modeled downtimes in the Handling resources for the subcontractors who had scenarios of Make VS Buy decisions. Modeled Supply chain for Make VS Buy subcontracting scenarios and Alternate Plant scenarios.Responsible for creation of Storage res to respect the storage capacity maintained in resources by Optimizer.
• Configured Multi level subcontracting scenarios with SNP Optimizer and SNP Heuristics.Responsible for designing the single level and Multi level deployment scenarios with deployment heuristics.
• Configured alerts for PPDS, Deployment, and SNP. Worked on SNP Custom Macros using function modules.
• Worked closely with developer to create custom programsto load data into the SNP Key figures, transportation lane report, product master and stock transfer reportsto pull deployment and redeployment stock transfers.
• Responsible for creation of a user exit to exclude the PDS 99 priorities from CIF integration Model.Developed interchangeability program to copy the MIPO Target and Safety DOS from Predecessor prod to successor prod
• Worked on PPDS master data and scheduling board, PPT and heuristic profiles.
• Worked closely on SNP to PPDS order conversion jobs and integration of planned orders and converting them to process orders and release for manufacturing. Also worked on scheduling issues using product priorities, setup matrices, setup groups, order start and finish dates.
• Responsible for Design, Testing and cutover activities and post go live production support. Leading Production support team onsite and offshore.Responsible for resolving issues raised by master planners, deployers, and detailed schedulers for post go live.

Confidential, Glenview, IL

SAP APO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Solution Design, configuration, testing, training and post go live production support. Leading and coordinating offshore development team.
• Data Mart Configuration - Info Object Definitions, Info Cubes Configuration, Data Flow Configuration, Time Profiles Configuration, Planning Area Configuration, evaluation and testing, Planning Book/Data View Configuration. Configured Planning Books for supplier availability and raw material availability. Configured macros for user specific planning books.
• Configured Planning Books with user specific Key figures to plan the production in the optimizer.
• Creation, Validation and Error resolution of Master data ECC and APO and Transactional data (SO, PO, STO)in ECC to plan transportation for orders and complete GI/GR downstream processes.
• APO Demand Planning Configuration and Forecasting Process Flow Definition.Modeled Vendor Capacity with SNP- OPTIMIZER. Worked on Incremental Optimization.Provided the Business with the solution for their Seasonal Fluctuations in Demand, with Product Groups. Provided the Solution with Maximization of Profit Motive
• Created the Discrete Optimizer Profile with all the relevant setting as per the Business Requirements.
• Responsible for testing design of their Dairy Ingredients Supply Chain Optimization (DISCO) project.

Confidential, San Ramon, IL

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked with SNP Planners, Production Planners, Schedulers, Logistics Planners (Deployment) in various workshops to explain the APO functionality and SAP PP Master Data.
• Understand complex planning and scheduling requirements/pain points of the business and come with systemic solutions. Involved in Blue Printing and subsequent stages of Project.
• Responsible for implementing SNP Heuristics for Near Short term and Optimizer for Mid-Term global supply planning to balance storage costs Vs Safety stock Penalties in cross plant planning.
• Lead the Master data team for creation of master data for SNP/PPDS. Also involved with ABAP team to develop master data creation tools for production versions/recipes and APO master data like products, Tlanes, and PPM’s.
• Master Data and Profile set up for the SNP Optimizer. Use discrete optimization for Fixed Lot sizes. Resolving issues in Optimizer and testing the SNP Optimizer solution for bulks, and tanks.
• Set up heuristic based planning to respect quota arrangements and lot sizes for near short term. Responsible for implementing PPDS scheduling functionality. Campaign Planning Based on Setup groups. Maintain setup matrices to model transition times.
• Implement Alternative resources functionality using resource classification to model tank flow. DS board configuration. Color coding, Alerts and enhancements to receipts view etc. Involved in end user training and integration testing.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Scope of the project was to Design and Implement the GATP functionality that was already implemented in the legacy system. Responsible for business requirement gathering and mapping it to SAP and transforming legacy systems requirements to SAP.
• Implemented GATP functionality in Make to Stock Scenarios according to the requirements.Maintained allocation quantities for all the customers (Sold to Party) in the planning book, used a macro to define the default allocation quantities and Cumulative allocation quantities.
• Implemented the functionality of Hard and Soft Allocations that allows customers to order more than the allocation quantities assigned in the planning book. Complete configuration of product allocation including settings in Demand Planning. Involved in creating a POC for MTO scenarios using CTP functionality. Involved in creation of master data for capable to promise.Setup Block planning for CTP. Block generation/definition. Enable bucket oriented CTP check.
• Involved in extensive testing of DP/SNP functionalities and worked closely with the ABAP team to fix the functionalities.
• SNP - Customized Safety stock planning, Heuristics. Deployment heuristic, TLB and conversion to Production orders.Tested SNP and Deployment Heuristic functions extensively and resolved issues occurred. Worked on SNP and Deployment Macros and Alerts.
• Involved in Pre and Post migration activities and Pre and Post upgrade activities of Sandbox, DEV, QA and Production systems. Post-production support before and after Upgrade of SCM. Involved in testing CIF, Creating IM’s, activating and deactivating IM’s, deleting IM’s, and running delta reports.
• Resolving issues occurred by the consistency checks. Running Consistency reports in APO. Resolving issues occurred by ABAP dumps, Security roles and parameters.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the APJ rollout of the SAP APO Application of HP-Transitioning from MTS to BTO scenario. Applications supported are SNP- Heuristics/CTM for IPG group.Re-Implement SNP - CTM for HP to synchronize changes between Regional and Global Supply chains. CTM set up - Model, Profiles, Time Profiles, Horizons etc. Master data and Demand and Supply category definitions.Define master data for SNP CTM like Planned Delivery times. Re-Model Transport Lanes to reflect the correct sourcing of components. Model weekly Vendor capacity for the finite CTM runs.
• 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.
• Configure CIF for Master data and Transaction data. Troubleshooting integration issues using the SCM queue manager.
• Responsible for set up of DP statistical forecasting for LUMENS APJ region. Set up of Phase-In, and Phase-Out profiles and Life cycle Management.Created master forecast profile using univariate statistical forecasting model. 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.
• Involved in implementing GATP - Product Allocation to have a balanced Regional supply situation according to business strategy. Designed the forecast flow from DP and mid-term supply flow from SNP into the GATP allocation planning areas, created complex macros to calculate multilevel allocations using proportional factors generated in DP.
• Design GATP to perform multilevel product allocation. Working with SD team closely to do the ATP checks and transfer the configuration and master data to setup GATP methods. Hands on creation of all Objects for Product allocation - Field catalogs, allocation groups, procedures, connection to planning area etc. Implement BADi’s to influence product allocation consumption for certain sales documents.
• Configured BOP, and activated Parallelizing BOP in the work list to reduce the overall BOP runtime.Maintained CIF integration models for the ATP check.Creation of Master data ECC and APO