SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of diverse experience in SAP APO. Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP) Functionality, Production planning & detailed scheduling (PP/DS), GATP.
• Worked on various projects involving, Designing, Developing, Configuring, Implementing and Testing of SAP APO Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS), Core - Interface (CIF) and End user testing.
• Architecture & configuration of data integration between SAP SCM-APO and SAP R/3 (using CIF) or legacy ERP solutions (using custom interfaces) along with Live Cache monitoring. Extensively built Info Objects, Info Sources, Info Packages and Info Cubes Solutions (using custom interfaces) along with Live Cache monitoring. Extensively built Info Objects, Info Sources, Info Packages and Info Cubes.
• Supply Network Planning experience: Interactive Planning, Planning Area Configuration, Planning Book and Macro Design, SNP Heuristics, SNP Optimization, Advanced Safety Stock Methods, Capable-to-Match, Deployment and Transportation Load Builder.
• Maintained Time bucket profiles, Forecast profiles, planning versions, promotional Planning, life cycle management and “Like” Modeling.
• Full Life Cycle Implementations experience in SAP PP and SCM APO PPDS with excellent understanding of project implementations methodologies in various industries including Discrete, Repetitive and process manufacturing.
• Configured Info cube and defined Planning Books and Macros for interactive planning.
• Created Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristic Combination Master Data, Storage Bucket Profile and Planning bucket profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets, Alert monitor.
• Created SNP Master Data Profiles and worked on SNP Heuristics, Optimizer and Capable to match (CTM), Deployment and Transport Load Builder (TLB) planning methods and techniques.
• Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling: Basic understanding and working with team to help and support.
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data Transfer between ECC and APO.
• Integration of SNP and PP/DS and Interactive Planning set up in PP/DS.
• Expertise in customizing of modeling Data Staging in DP which involves Inbound and Outbound flows to APO.
• Experience in SAP APO Live Cache consistency checks.
• Experienced in integration of MM, SD and PP.
• Monitored the APO-Daily/Weekly planning related Process Chains/Batch Jobs.
• APO DP- Forecast Model, Promotion Planning, Life Cycle Planning, Phase Out/Phase In procedure, Planning Area Administration, Alert Monitor, Macro workbench, Characteristic Value Combinations, DP BOMs.
• APO SNP- VMI scenarios, Subcontracting scenarios, Product Interchangeability, Planning Engines- Heuristics, CTM, Optimizer, Capacity leveling, Deployment setup, TLB run setup, Capacity profiles.
• SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW): Worked in administrator workbench for the creation of Info sources, Info packages, Info cubes.
• Able to translate business requirements into deployable business solutions and work in teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP: R/3 4.6C, R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0

SAP SCM version: 3.1, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0.sss

Programming Languages: C, C++, Linux.

Personal Computing: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Operating systems: Windows9x/2000/XP/vista/7/IOS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Springdale, AR

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined planning books and Macros for interactive planning and Defined Macros to perform calculations to 4 carry out tests, and created Alerts in Demand Planning (DP).
• Queue Clearing and working with changes in various Core Interface (CIF).
• Integration Model’s Material, Stock, PO, SO, along with working in CIF Post Processing.
• Re-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.
• Worked with Flow control to process release of new forecast values and EOQ/SS Values to Operative planning.
• Involved in Projects utilizing the SAP ECC Production Planning (PP) module with through knowledge of Material requirement planning (MRP), Bill of materials (BOM), Work Centre, and Routings etc.
• Updating Master data, Transportation lane and testing in various environments.
• Setting up MRP steps for planning at various levels of BOMs.
• Handling the tasks of recommending and implementing improvements and modifications.
• Working on Allocation management in GATP.
• Forecast consumption in SNP on aggregated level.
• Maintained the MRP, Forecasting and Work scheduling views in the material.
• Configured PP/DS Alert Profile, Work Area, propagation range & strategy profile.
• Monitored and processed failed Queues and SMQ1/SMQ2 for data transfers between systems for all modules MM, SD.
• Responsible for configuration and testing in APO and executing test cases and providing solutions using Microsoft test manager.
• Batch job monitoring for DP, PP/DS daily and weekly & monthly cycle.
• Create forecast based on Demand History as well as several Causal factors and use a Consensus based approach to consolidate the results. Architect the flow of data between BW DP, and APO DP. Developed User training documents and conducted Knowledge Transfer.
• Integration withGATP- Set up CIF interfaces between ECC andGATP.
• Maintained planning calendar, Planner Responsible and Creating variant for DP/EDP DRP, PP/DS Transaction Data.
• Maintain master data accuracy in IBP by periodic compare with ECC
• Good Knowledge on TQA in BOP.
• Interfaces - schedule and monitor various inbound and outbound interfaces of IBP.
• Created Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristic Combination Master Data, Storage Bucket Profile and Planning bucket profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets.
• Work on the APO process changes required for integrating with IBP solution
• Maintained CIF Integration models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC and APO.
• Setting up Alert monitor for Database and Dynamic SNP alerts.
• Implemented SAP APO production planning and detailed scheduling (PPDS) based solution to help customer with optimized operation.
• Set up SNP Master Profile and configured SNP Master Data Locations, Product Masters, Resources and Production Process Models (PPM).
• Developed a customABAPprogram that calculates and updates a daily price for Weather Normalization
• Developed a customABAPsystem for Utility budget billing for the electric and gas companies. Maintained Characteristics Value Combinations (CVC), Forecast Profiles and Data Views.
• Maintained PP/DS Master data such as Resources, PDS and PPM.
• Configuring statistical forecast models, model selection, statistical forecasting, forecast error analysis etc. in Demand Planning.
• Developed CTM Profile based on Technology specific supply chain to facilitate parallel planning in APO and included in Batch Job.
• Implemented SAP APO production planning and detailed scheduling (PPDS) based solution to help customer with optimized operation.
• Quotas arrangement setup for products based on the % ratio among the growing regions in Supply Chain Engineer. These are further used to run the CTM plan.
• CTM profile and distribution of Demand (forecast and stock) based on Quotas to the plants and growing regions.
• Execution of CTM plan and Plan needed based on the forecast quantity coming from Demand planning.
• APO resources set up the demand planning book, planning object structure, planning area, planning book and macros in the interactive demand planning.
• Global Available to Promise (GATP) - Basic and advancedGATPConfig, Product allocation, Rules based Availability check, Backorder processing, along with Multi level ATP with functional enhancements
• Maintained PP/DS Master data such as Resources, PDS and PPM.
• Configured PP/DS Alert Profile, Work Area, propagation range, strategy profile, maintained Optimization profile.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Confidential, VA

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined plant parameters in MRP, defined MRP controller, MRP groups, MRP types, Special procurement, planning horizon, planning time fence, safety stock availability, procurement proposal.
• Unit and Integration Testing of the Scenarios.
• Sales and Operations Planning
• Set up Release of Demand Plan to Supply Network Planning (SNP).
• Set up of the Master data for SNP and creation of Planning version and planning book.
• Set up the supply chain model, locations, products, resources, PPM’s, transportation lanes and quota arrangements.
• Samples of maintenance orders completed.
• Excess quantity is overwriting requirement quantity in outbound IDOC.
• Dumps in production from transaction ME59N.
• Responsible for preparing Test plans, Test Scripts and Discrepancy reports.
• SAP IBP S&OP - Master data model and creation, Interfaces to IBP via HCI, Monitoring of flows/jobs, maintain sync between IBP and APO, Monthly flow for S&OP, Identity and Access management.
• Set up SNP Master Profile and Supply Chain Model and defined Work Area to represent the Supply Chain Network with all relevant locations (Suppliers, Distribution Centers and Customers), resources (Storage, handling and Supply Capabilities) and relationships (Transportation Lanes).
• Involved in the creation of Master planning object structures, Planning area, Characteristic master data, and Time Series Objects, storage Buckets Profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets.
• Done with temporary quantity assignments (TQA) in back Order Processing (BOP).
• Resolved all issues related to Unit testing, Integration testing in DP (Download/ upload, Info packages, CVC’s, Realignment, Batch jobs, Forecast release, CIF batch jobs, variants, Request OSS notes, Planning books, Macros etc.
• Involved in system testing and post implementation support.
• Analyzed system logs,ABAPdumps, Table lock, and Update errors
• Experienced well in Performance Tuning, Testing, Optimization of reports in system.
• Defined macros to perform calculations to carry out test, and to create alerts.
• Configured Master Data for Supply Network Planning such as Locations, Product, Resource and Production Process Models (PPM).
• Tested Backorder processing, Product allocations and rule-based ATP check.
• Defined forecast models for time series forecasting, Life Cycle Planning, causal analysis and composite forecasting.
• Supporting the existing supply chain and procurement environments (SAP & SNC).
• Maintaining Planning calendar, maintaining the planner responsible, Maintaining APO Product parameters individually, Mass maintenance for products, maintaining resources, maintaining alternative resources.
• Master Data set up, Manually Created Characteristic Combination and Time Series Objects, Fixed Key figure values in Interactive demand planning.
• Created Forecast Profiles and assigned planning book to forecast profile and planners, possess working Knowledge of various forecasting methods, Consensus based forecasting (marketing/sales).

Environment: SAP SCM 5.0, ECC 6.0

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed Planning Books and Data Views, Planning Areas, and worked on configuration ofAPO-Demand Planning MPOS.
• Maintained Time Bucket Profiles, Storage Bucket Profiles, and Statistical Forecast Profiles.
• Implementation of PPDS Module and Master Data Maintenance.
• 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.
• Setting up the different Order Types, Item Categories and scheduled lines based on customer requirements.
• Involved in setting up the customer master related configurations.
• Developed user exits for CCS Budget Billing.
• Converted legacy Streetlight data into SAP Functional locations and Equipment records.
• Developed various customABAPreports.
• APO Based Master data setup for Supply Network Planning: Planning calendars, transportation lanes, appropriate material attributes.
• Set up the supply chain model (work areas-location, products, resources, PPM, transportation lanes and quota arrangements).
• Handle customer complaints and implement corrective action when necessary to resolve issues.
• Performed Regression and Unit testing for upgrade
• Performed unit, regression testing and presenting to change boards for moving the changes to production.
• Developed various customABAPreports.
• Set up & monitor background jobs-process chains and Analyze & resolve the issues.
• Modify/Build new process chains, forecast release process from DP-SNP.
• Work with BW, ECC & Technical teams addressing the integration issues and reporting needs.
• Involved in system testing and post implementation support.
• Experienced well in Performance Tuning, Testing and Optimization of reports in system integration and user acceptance.
• Understanding the client's business process requirements, mapping the business process in line with the SAP functionality.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SCM 7.0

Confidential, Haven, MI

Functional SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as SAP APO consultant for Implementing DP and SNP.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC and APO.
• Understood the Business process as part of the knowledge transfer and mapped the structure of the company (regions, divisions, brands, products and customers) for planning purposes in the DP and SNP Master Data.
• Involved in the creation of Master planning object structures, Planning area, Characteristic master data, and Time Series Objects, storage Buckets Profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets.
• Involved in the creation of Master planning object structures, Planning area, Characteristic master data, and Time Series Objects, storage Buckets Profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets.
• Configured Master Data for Supply Network Planning such as Locations, Product, Resource and Production Process Models (PPM).
• Master Data set up, Manually Created Characteristic Combination and Time Series Objects, Fixed Key figure values in Interactive demand planning.
• Set up the Deployment Heuristic and Assigned TLB Profile to Transportation Lanes.
• Set up Release of Demand Plan to Supply Network Planning (SNP).
• Developed a customABAPprogram that calculates and updates a daily price for Weather Normalization.
• This daily price factor is calculated based on the customer volumes and price factors and daily average temperatures per geographical weather area.
• Developed a customABAPsystem for Utility budget billing for the electric and gas companies.
• Developed SAP remote function calls that interface with an external Voice Response Unit that handles customer telephone inquiries.
• Creation of PP/DS product master views, lot sizes, production horizon etc.
• Maintaining Planning calendar, maintaining the planner responsible, Maintaining APO Product parameters individually, Mass maintenance for products, maintaining resources, maintaining alternative resources.
• Created Forecast Profiles and assigned Planning book to forecast profile and planners, possess working Knowledge of various forecasting methods, Consensus based forecasting (marketing/sales).
• Involved in End to end System Integration Testing cycles, User Acceptance Testing cycles.

Environment: SAP APO with SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP APO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include for requirement gathering, Integration testing, and post go live production support, leading and coordinating functional team.
• Involved in various levels of Integration testing for DP, SNP and VMI.
• Involved in cut over activities and Mock Conversion activities before and after Upgrade of SCM.
• Involved in various scenarios of testing and worked closely with the ABAP team and tested the functionalities.
• Involved in some of the VMI security testing.
• Resolved various types of issues in upgraded SCM.
• Run backup jobs for DP, SNP planning books.
• Running RRMX queries for VMI PROAC IDOC's.
• Creating IDOC's and testing IDOC flow from ECC to APO by triggering start and stop of IDOC flow.
• Involved in Pre-and Post-migration activities and Pre-and Post-upgrade activities of Sandbox, DEV, QA and Production systems.
• 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 before and after upgrade.
• Involved in UAT and failover testing.
• Involved in resolving issues occurred by ABAP dumps and Security roles and parameters.
• Involved in Pre-Go Live activities and Post Production support after upgrade of SCM.
• Resolving issues from functional and technical point of view.

Environment: SAP APO 4.1 and 7.