SUMMARY:

• Total 14 years of SAP functional experience focused on ERP design and management, 7 plus years of experience in SAP Materials Management, Production Planning, Warehouse Management and Sales and Distribution processes, including design and implementation. around ten years of experience as SAP APO functional consultant with expertise in implementation, maintenance, training and production support projects: DP, SNP, PP/DS, gATP, SNC and SPP.
• Involved in multiple Full Life Cycle Implementations and Upgrades with major clients.
• 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 Live Support.
• Worked on multiple SAP implementation projects with good understanding of the Business Processes.
• Experience in Conducting blue print workshops, writing Functional Specification / Configuration documents.
• Experience in global implementations of SAP SCM projects.
• Experience in SAP Materials Management processes (procurement, inventory management, sub-contracting, Third party order processing, Consignment, and supplier collaboration, etc.).
• Experience in SAP MM/IM modules and deep understanding of the integration with other ECC modules PP, WM, SD and FI.
• Experience in developing functional specifications for RICEFW s.
• Expertise in Planning related master data setup in ECC and SCM systems.
• Experience in configuration of PP/Variant Configuration/ECM module and strong integration skills with MM, PP, SD, WM, PM, and QM.
• APO Best Practices- Core Interface (CIF), Queue Monitors, Comparison and reconciliation report, Live Cache Inconsistency check, CIF application logs, Time series consistency check, Planning area initialization, Setup of initial transfer of master data.
• Experience in conducting training classes.
• 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, Sub contracting scenarios, Product Interchangeability, Planning Engines- Heuristics, CTM, Optimizer, Capacity leveling, Deployment setup, TLB run setup, Capacity profiles.
• APO-PPDS - Heuristic methods, Setup of Conversion of SNP-PPDS orders, PPDS master data, PPDS optimizer, Integration with Detailed Scheduling
• APO BW -Administrator Workbench, Info cubes, Key figures, Characteristics, Transfer Rules setup.
• APO GATP - RBATP, MATP, Characteristic planning, Availability Checking, check instructions, Check mode, Requirement type, Requirement class, ATP categories.
• Experience in Supply Chain Planning Concepts and Processes include Designing, Developing, Testing, Implementing and supporting all aspects of the Core Interface (CIF), Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP) and Global Available to Promise (gATP), Production Planning and Detail Scheduling (PP/DS), and Service Parts Planning (SPP).
• Experience in S&OP functional Processes.
• Very good hands on experience working with SPM and SPP.
• Knowledge of various Forecasting Models and Forecasting Techniques.
• Experience in Creating Test Scenarios, Manage Testing, Develop User Training Documents and Training Users on new solution.
• Clear understanding of Business Process and Modeling it using ARIS.
• Excellent analytical & communication skills and ability to interact with business users.
• Having strong management, administration, problem solving and decision-making ability.
• Functional experiences as a Process Lead/Team lead in multiple projects.
• Experience in estimating effort and resources required for a process/ requirement.
• Strong Communication Skills & presentation skills.
• Good interpersonal skills for interacting with management, employees, and the client.
• Solid experience with creating Functional requirements document and delivering the same to ABAP Team.
• Working experience with SAP to fine tune and improve the runtime performances SAP applications.
• Extensively used SAP solution manager to escalate issues, implemented OSS notes in test and production environments.
• Lead 6-Sigma Projects, as a certified Green belt.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP APO: SAP APO 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 7.0.

SAP SPM:: SAP SPP, SCM5.1, SCM7.0.

SAP ECC: ERP 6.0, MM, PP, SD.

SAP BI: SAP BI / BW Reporting from R/3.

Databases: MS, ORACLE, MS ACCESS.

Tools: Quick Test Professional, Tivoli, and Control M.

Performance tools:: HP Load Runner, HP Quality Center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

SAP SCM Functional Consultant

• Designed and Implemented SAP Functions: Vendor Evaluation, Release Strategies, Procurement of External services.
• Procurement process was automated to have Auto PO from PR with Preferred Vendor Selection and Transmittal of PO to Vendors via FAX / EDI to selective vendors.
• Configured Master Data which includes Material, Vendor, Purchase Info Records and customizing the same as per the client's requirement, configured Inventory documents goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfer and transfer postings.
• Configured IMG settings and mapped into SAP R/3 Material Management (MM) and Warehouse Management (WM) modules to meet the organizational structure for the Client's specifications and its business processes.
• Configured Procurement to Pay cycle (P2P) and Configured Material Master, Product data Master (PDM), Purchasing documents to realize defined functional requirements.
• Configured Purchase Requisition (PR), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Purchase Order (PO), and Purchasing Info record, Source lists, contracts, scheduling agreements, release orders, quota management, Info Records for Standard, Consignment and Sub-Contracting.
• Involved in the Creation of Master Planning Object Structure (MPOS), 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 create Alerts.
• Developed Transfer Rules and Update Rules for Info Cubes.
• Set up of the Master data for PPDS (Location, Products, Resources, PDS, Transportation Lanes, Means of Transport and Quota Arrangements) and creation of SNP Planning version and planning book.
• Set up Background jobs, Mass processing, set up variants to transfer the Demand forecast results to PPDS.
• Configured PPDS planning tools - Heuristics Planning and Safety stock planning functionality.
• Set up and activated Integration Models for master and transaction data for PPDS.
• Created the Transport Load Builder (TLB) Profile and assigned it to appropriate Transportation Lane, created and maintained Transportation Lanes and Quotas.
• Handled assignment of User to Planning Book, Creation of Selection Profile for the SNP Planning Book, Maintained the Planner Responsible, Planning Calendar.
• Executed Mass Maintenance of Product, Location and T-Lanes, Quota Arrangement.
• Configured Master Data, MRP and Production control, Sales and Operation planning and Demand Management.
• Configured planning strategies and requirements type, assigned strategy group to MRP group, defined MRP controllers, planning horizons, lot size calculations.
• Configured Material Master Data including, material type, work centers, BOM, Routing.
• Maintained PP/DS Master data such as Resources and PDS.
• Maintained Detailed Scheduled Planning board profile.
• Defined Alert profile, maintained strategy profile, maintained time profile, make to order and make to stock strategies, planning parameters settings, maintained optimization profile, defined propagation range and Integration to DS.
• Maintained PP/DS heuristics, Influenced the steps of production planning, Product Planning Table configuration and user exits.
• Developed user training documents and conducted Knowledge Transfer.
• Involved in system testing and post implementation support.
• Developed training documents for the End Users, knowledge transfer with end user training and resolved any end user issues.
• Responsible for the implementation of PPDS from blueprint through post-go-live support.
• Maintained recipe groups, resource network, alternative resource, secondary resources, CIF set-up, PDS, resource master etc.
• Scheduled heuristics, configured custom heuristics, scheduled strategy profiles, MRP heuristics, PPDS optimizer, especially for reducing set-up time and block planning, Planning board, planning board profiles, color coding and other type of order views.
• Maintained Planning Books and data views.
• Created Alerts, Planned order component availability check/Collective availability check, Resource formulas and formula constants for scheduling.
• Wrote and executed Unit, String, and Integration test scripts.
• Reviewed technical specification and communicate with developers regarding functional requirements is a must.
• Proposed PPDS master data requirements with demonstrated ability to configure, execute, and manage all aspect of the CIF as it relates to PPDS is a requirement.
• Set up Products, Transportation Lanes, Resources, PPM’s and PDS’s, Setup groups, Product Storage Definition (Tank Scheduling).
• Created Multi-level scenarios defining pegging strategies prior to Sequencing (using Heuristic or optimizing setup times/costs).
• Developed Modeling Master data, transaction data, MPOS, Planning areas, Planning books, Data views, Advanced macros, DP Interactive planning, Univariate, MLR, Consensus forecast, Life cycle, Promotion, Like modeling, Phase-in and phase-out, mass processing and process chains.
• Provided training of following SAP APO functional modules to team members.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

APO - Implementation/Enhancements

• Worked on multiple APO modules such as DP, SNP, and PP/DS and SAP ECC MM/IM, PP modules.
• Created and supported SAP ECC bills of material, routings and work centers, variant configuration, product costing, and integration points with the SD and MM modules.
• Customized MM functionalities: Master Data Material Master, Service Master, info records, source lists, Consumption Based Planning, purchasing, and Inventory Management.
• Configured purchasing organization, purchasing groups and pricing & other Purchase functions.
• Configured the Inventory management of goods at the points of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks viz. consignment, third party, and sub-contracting.
• Created physical inventory settings, documents, posting differences, inventory sampling and cycle counting.
• Configured vendor master partner functions.
• Worked on quality contracts, value contract for purchase requisition, contracts and purchase orders. Material planning: MRP (MRP types, MRP profiles), planning run, lot size calculation, reorder point planning.
• Configured Batch Management creating class and characteristics master data, condition table, access sequence, strategy type and define batch search procedure.
• Customization of Batch Management by defining batch strategy for inventory management.
• Configured tolerances and limits in purchase orders and created scheduling agreement and contracts.
• Configured warehouse management settings with various storage types, sections and storage bins.
• Configured Inventory Management Parameters for all goods movements like goods receipts, goods issues, reservations, GR for blocked stock, goods returns.
• Configured release strategy for purchase requisition and purchase orders as per the approval hierarchy of the client.
• Configuring document types for purchasing documents like RFQ, purchase requisition, purchase orders.
• Developed and worked upon various test cases and scripts and tested various scenarios using various quality tools such as HPQC.
• Executed timely, complete and efficient delivery of product data to manufacturing partners, ensuring integrity of product data and engineering change management for up to eight products and three product lines.
• Responsible for system maintenance and updates, system change and configuration, programming and vendor liaison communication.
• Responsible for documenting business processes, end-user training and resolving any issues.
• Provided application and technical support services including systems implementation, upgrades, new version roll-outs and optimization, analysis, design, build, configuration, testing and go-live support. Performed systems analysis and logical design activities such as data modeling, entity relationship diagramming, logical database design and technical design specifications.
• Identified SAP applications and integrated technology opportunities and solutions for resolving complex business problems.
• Identified and translated user requests into functional specifications.
• Identified security and application access needs for customers, develop or assist with the development of security definitions and profiles, assist with the maintenance of security authorizations, and develop recommendations for other system controls.
• Worked on Demand Management including Product Hierarchy, Customer Hierarchy, Product/Customer Hierarchy Mix Ratios, Demand Forecasting, Customer Segmentation, Demand Prioritization, Customer Reservations, Pricing Management, Revenue Management, and Costing Management.
• Worked with diverse team members to build a cohesive team.
• Performed prototyping, functional configuration, and developing functional specifications for RICEF’s.
• Developed supply chain modeling, CIF integration models, and trouble-shooting CIF issues.
• Resolved business issues and recommended moderate levels of business process re-engineering to resolve business issues.
• Set up APO BW Source system, info area, info source and info cube.
• Maintained Storage Bucket and Time Bucket Profiles.
• Setting up the Demand Planning book, Planning Object Structure, Planning area and macros in the interactive demand planning.
• Generated planned independent requirements based on the customer’s historical sales data using various statistical forecasting methods of Demand Planning and developed methodology for evaluating the best forecast based on Best Practices in the industry.
• 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.
• Maintained CIF Integration models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC and APO.
• Designed and Developed the Supply Network Model incorporating all the plants, distribution centers, Customers and Suppliers based on the supply chain process.
• Integration of SNP and DP and Interactive Planning set up in SNP.
• Created SNP product Master Views: define lot size, production horizon, fixing horizon etc.
• Worked on SNP Capable to Match (CTM), Core Interface (CIF), Safety Stock Planning, Subcontracting and Deployment, Planning parameters settings, Defined Alert profile, maintained strategy profile, maintained time profile, maintained optimization profile and defined propagation range
• Developed user training documents and conducted Knowledge Transfer.
• Involved in system testing and post implementation support.
• Developed training documents for the End Users, knowledge transfer with end user training and resolved any end user issues.

Confidential, Morton, IL

SAP SCM - Global Template/Implementation/Support

• Worked on various SAP implementation projects - SPP (Service Parts Planning) component implementation for SCM 5.1, Upgrade on SPP component from SCM 5.1 to SCM 7.0 and Performance improvement of SPP process jobs.
• Configured Organizational Data: Created plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations and groups, Info record and maintained the source list.
• Configured Vendor Master: Created vendor account groups, number ranges, purchasing groups.
• Created purchasing documents (like Requisitions, Request for Quotation (RFQ), Maintaining quotations, Info records, Purchase order, Contract agreement, Scheduling agreement, Goods receipt, Goods movement etc.), Release Procedures.
• Worked on MRP-Procedures, Planning process, special planning process, carry out planning run, evaluating the planning run, Procurement Proposal, Master Data.
• Designed Sub Contracting process with Special Procurement keys and Procurement types. documented the process flow for all the subcontracting Scenarios.
• Co-ordinated cut over plans and data migration for Material master, Vendor Master and Purchasing Info Records from legacy systems using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench).
• Defined IDoc types for data, such as purchase orders, invoices, GR, GI which was broken down into more specific categories called message types.
• Configured Inventory Management parameters for various inventory movements like Goods receipts without purchase order, plant-to-plant and storage loc-to-storage loc etc.
• Configured special stocks in Inventory Management for subcontracting, third-party and consignment materials.
• Customized the Inventory Management for defining the number ranges for GR, field selection for MIGO, movement type.
• Created Master Data and General Functions for SPP including Bill of Distribution (BOD), Defined Hierarchy Structure for BOD and Region Pattern, Assignment of Products to BOD, Region Pattern, and Assigned Planners in Service Parts Planning, defined Procurement Lead Times, and Calendar for Determining Procurement Lead Times.
• Configured Planning Service Manager’s (PSM) for SPP functional areas of Demand History Creation, Realignment of Demand History, Forecasting, Product Interchangeability, Inventory Planning, Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP), Deployment, Inventory Balancing, Surplus and Obsolescence Planning, Analysis, Reporting, Monitoring, and General Data Processing.
• Created Triggers in Service Parts Planning.
• Created Rounding Rules Inventory Planning, rounding in Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP), Deployment, Rounding in Inventory Balancing.
• Defined Packaging Specifications.
• Created Product Interchangeability in SPP, modeled Supersession Replacement Strategies and Supersession Chains.
• Defined Discontinuation Period Start Date, Stock Exhaustion Date, Successor Product Planning Date, and Stock Exhaustion Warning Date.
• Created Demand History, made settings for Historical Data Capture and Maintenance, Initialized RDA for Maintaining Historical Data, captured Historical Data, updated Rules for Historical Data Capture, and assigned Demand Categories.
• Handled Supersession and Errors during Historical Data Capture.
• Manually Adjusted the Raw Data and the Demand History.
• Realigned Data for Change to Location Determination Procedure, Changed Stocking/Destocking Decision, TPOP, BOD Change, Promotion, and Supersession scenarios.
• Made General Settings for Forecasting, maintained Forecast Strategies and Forecast Profiles.
• Developed Forecast Models First-Order Exponential Smoothing, Second-Order Exponential Smoothing, Moving Average, Linear Regression, Seasonal Trend, and Intermittent Forecast.
• Created Planning Services for Forecasting and scheduled a batch job for Forecast Run.
• Configured Trigg’s Tracking Signal and Tripping parameters.
• Developed profile for Automatic Model Selection.
• Maintained Key Figures in Forecasting, and created Phase-In Profile, and Phase-Out Profile.
• Maintained Master Data for Inventory Planning, making Stocking and Destocking Decisions.
• Set up of Replenishment Indicators, defined of Location Exclusion Rules.
• Created Decision Tables, Planning-Relevance Check, Combined Planning of EOQ and SFT.
• Made Settings for the Combined Planning of EOQ and SFT, and determined the Target Service Level.
• Calculated EOQ and SFT Using Normal Distribution and Poisson Distributions.
• Maintained Safety Stock at Parent Location, and ABC Classification.
• Maintained Cycle Counting Classification Code and Recommended Storage Quantity.
• Created Set Up for DRP Master Data, DRP Matrix, Fixed Demands and Fixed Receipts.
• Defined DRP Rounding Rules, Aggregation of Demands within the BOD, Product Group Procurement, DRP Approval process, DRP Approval Rules and Displaying DRP Results.
• Maintained additional functions in DRP - DRP Horizons, DRP Stability Rules, Pre-Season Safety Stock Shift, and Virtual Location for Consolidated Ordering, Supplier Shutdown, Substitution of Remanufactured Products, Anticipated Demand Coverage, and Planning with Future Bills of Distribution (BODs).
• Created Master Data set up for Deployment.
• Configured Deployment Modes - Push/Pull.
• Maintained Deployment Indicators, Execution of Fair Share Distribution. And Special Fair Share Rules.
• Planned Demand Fulfillment According to Priority Tiers, Sequence Rules,
• Created Inventory Balancing Areas, Defined Excess and Shortage and balanced Excess and Shortage.
• Conducted Cost-Benefit Analysis, Calculation of Stock Transfer Costs.
• Created Stock Transport Requisitions.
• Made Settings for Surplus and Obsolescence Planning. Calculated Surplus Quantity per Non-Stockholding Location and Surplus Quantity per Stockholding Location.
• Configured Inbound Delivery Monitor defined and displayed Standard Times, maintained Standard Times, and Priority Points.
• Configured Shortage Analysis, defined Shortage Overview, Supplier Overview and
• Shortage Monitor.
• Processed Location Product Confirmations updated Confirmations Based on ASNs, deleted Confirmations and Validated Confirmations.
• Configured SPP Cockpit, maintained Product Details, Supply Chain Analyst Note, and Alert Monitor.
• Processed Alerts, displayed Alert Data in the SAP SCM System, archived and deleted Completed Alerts.
• Made Global Settings for the Supplier Delivery Performance Rating, identified possible Scenarios for the Supplier Delivery Performance Rating.
• Lead Job scheduling project for DRPr (Distribution requirements and procurement) and DFIP functionalities, including creation of variants for batch jobs.
• Lead a Roles and responsibilities project to provide SAP security, responsible for identifying user role specific transactions, and provide appropriate user access to specific transactions controlled by authorization objects and building blocks.
• Managed Integration testing, Regression testing, User acceptance testing, Performance testing and other activities leading to the cutover and go-live.
• Lead the retrofit testing by coordinating and tracking retrofit progress, assigning retrofit work to other team members.
• Responsible for maintaining project execution review report for DRPr, provided project updates to both management and Sarbanes Oxley team s.
• Managed SAP SPP project implementation review process throughout its implementation.
• Provided and implemented ideas to save time, cost and to improve the quality of the system.
• Implemented Rule based ATP (location and product substitutions), backorder processing, product allocations, order scheduling using transit time, good interfacing knowledge with ECC SD module.
• Created FRD’s (Functional requirement documents) for various business scenarios.
• Attended training with SAP on SAP SPM (Service Parts Management Overview), SPM 100 and SPM 110 (SAP Service Parts Planning).
• Lead job scheduling to schedule batch jobs for demand forecasting, inventory planning, distribution requirement and procurement project.
• Worked with Risk & Controls teams to ensure that new user roles are in Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance and participated in all SOX audits.
• Lead integration and regression testing projects.
• Worked with Master data, BI/BW, Basis, DRM, Software development, business and Legacy teams during the implementation.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP SCM Support/Implementation

• Worked as an implementation and support team member.
• Configured MM- Purchasing, Sub Contracting, Intercompany purchasing, Output determination, Account determination for goods movement as and when required by the team.
• Configured IM and WM activities (Warehouse set up, movements, physical Inventory, integration with SD, Interface with external material handling systems, Delivery Processing, Picking, Packing, Goods Issue, Shipping in Batches, Replenishment deliveries, Route schedules. EDI, IDOCs.) As and when required by the configuration team.
• Created hierarchy of the products for the implementation project.
• Maintained CTM profiles, created a BI crop spread report for the project.
• CIF from R3 to APO & master data management, Created Process chains, CIF user exits.
• Involved right from the BRD creation, Analysis, Design, Construction, SIT & UAT Phases of the SNP (Subcontracting implementation).
• Implemented CTM solution & was involved in all the necessary activities during the Phases mentioned above.
• Involved in developing various Functional design documents, constructing, testing & migrating it to the Production.
• During the Construction Phase was involved in various construction related activities like Creating Planning Areas, Planning Books, Selection ID'S, Macros, Master data selections for the CTM profiles, Variants etc.
• Worked closely with the PROCUREMENT team & involved in various Procurement activities (SAP MM & PP)
• 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.
• Set up CIF and transferring master data (Products and locations) using CIF, Co-ordinated with all the other downstream systems to determine the right Master data settings in SAP ECC.
• Worked on the complete Master data set up.
• Involved in Analysis for ABAP routines in RSA1 workbench for given process chains looking for changes in ABAP according to given Business requirements.
• Involved in Analysis of SAP APO and BW servers and also was owner of two systems for HP Product number changes.
• Involved in Integration testing, UAT and Regression testing in respective APO and BW servers.
• Developed advanced DP macros including user exit macro to calculate DP2SNP release key figures, bookings and scheduling the macros using process chains.
• Loaded files in RSA workbench.
• Trouble shooted configuration issues in GATP and its integration with R/3.
• Completed configuration of product allocation including settings in Demand Planning Master Data Management in SAP APO
• Used Enhanced Safety Stock Planning.
• Escalated Business related issues which occur in reports and entering them in solution manager.
• Executed reports as per the client requirement and do data analysis by comparing reports with Source System reports.
• Trained the new End User.
• Documented all the changes based on Client's Procedures.
• Provide User Training & Hyper care (post Go-live).

Confidential

SAP SCM Functional consultant

• Understood the Business process as part of knowledge transfer and mapped the structure of the company (for ex; regions, divisions, brands, products and customers) for planning purposes in the SNP and PPDS Master Data.
• Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO.
• Set up SNP Master Profile and configured SNP Master Data Locations, Product Masters, Resource and Production Process Models (PPM).
• Created a Supply Chain Model 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), Quota arrangement setup for products based on the % ratio among the growing regions in Supply chain Engineer.
• Executed HEURISTICS based on the forecast quantity derived from Demand planning.
• Worked with the ABAP consultants on the maintenance and planning of master data through BAPI interfaces and writing specs for custom development.
• Developed User training documents and conducted Knowledge Transfer.
• Implemented SNP Heuristic for Rough Cut Production planning, Capacity leveling using Heuristics, Deployment & Transport Load Builder for Cross-Plant Planning. Configured CIF, Sub-Contracting in SNP.
• Configured push/pull deployment, ATD/ATI group maintenance, Real-time deployment to take into account demand at source location, Horizon maintenance for deployment.
• Configured heuristic to plan time based lot sizes.

Confidential

SAP SCM Functional consultant

• Configured Planning Object Structure, Periodicities Storage Bucket Profile, Planning Areas, Time Buckets Profile, Planning books, Data Views, Forecast Profile, CVC's, maintaining Time Phased Horizons.
• Developed integrated supply chain model.
• Configured and designed the disaggregation and aggregation logic based on proportional factors at the Planning Area level and at the Planning Level by maintaining calculation of Proportional Factors.
• Created Advanced Macros in Planning Book and the Data View level at different stages to facilitate the existing Forecast Calculations.
• Created Alert macros for facilitating Demand Planner to use management by exception.
• Provided business procedure/definition steps to the Demand Planners including running Planning in background and releasing the time based forecast data from DP to SNP.
• Conducted Work Shop on Data Realignment, Life Cycle Modeling including Phase In and Phase out Scenario, Promotion Planning and on Collaborative DP.
• Worked on several SAP OSS notes to resolve and develop specifications to enable and support necessary customer requirements gaps.
• Provided training to Demand Planners on Demand planning interactive table, different views of Univariate Forecast in interactive planning using drill down at characteristic level such as APO location and APO product and also on KPI comparison by APO Location and APO Product.
• Provided training on analyzing functions of DP interactive planning table such Pivot sorting, distribute function.

Confidential

SAP R/3 Functional consultant

• Responsible for the Business Process Mapping, Configuration in PP module. Implemented functionality of Variant Configuration related to Production Planning, Purchasing, and Sales & distribution.
• Developed implementation plans for the SAP module PP.
• Implemented Material Variant, Object dependencies, Variant Table, Functions, Variant Pricing, Order BOM and also managed implementation of PP.
• Master data: Created BOM, work centers, routings, production versions, material masters.
• Trained end users on SAP R/3 for their everyday business activity i.e., creating purchase orders, sending purchase orders to Suppliers, Bill of Material (BOM), MRP List, Stock requirement list and MRP run, Stock Transport orders, maintaining the safety stock, lot sizes, rounding values.
• Worked on defining Material Master, Purchase Info Records, Source Lists, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders and Inventory Management.
• Provided 3 weeks of production support at each plant after go-live.
• Validated the Master Data and sales data before go-live.
• Validated Test Scenarios of various customized transactions.
• Developed Queries to extract the data as per the client requirement.
• Extensively used data migration tools like LSMW and CATT scripts to upload the data from non-SAP system.
• Defined Material Master, Purchase Info Records, Source Lists Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders and Inventory management.
• Part of the Post Production Support Team, handled the issues related to Operations (It is amalgam of Material Management, Production Planning and Plant Maintenance).
• Worked with team for 24X7 production support, alert monitoring and responding quickly to solve issues.
• Identified the training needs and trained the users. Participated in the preparation of customization documents and user manuals.
• Configured Work Order process, which typically includes Notification Creation, Work Order Creation, Work Order Release and Work Order Confirmation.
• Made enhancements and configuration changes to the solution to optimize the out put for business requirements.
• Worked with Work Centers, Task Lists, and Service Frequencies. Experience in Measuring Points, and measuring documents.
• Created MRP Strategies, MRP, and Demand Management.
• Created variants for BOM and integrated PM/SD with MM, created Condition Records and sales orders.
• Resolved issues related to Regional Structure.
• Developed process definition, business requirements, and process documentation.
• Conducted Knowledge Transfer sessions to new employee / Consultant which included presentation of business processes and its design in SAP.
• Involved in Knowledge Sharing sessions to better understand the integration within different areas (MM/PP/PM/SD/FI/CA) to provide best results to Customer.
• Developed Test Scenarios/Scripts for Unit and Integration Testing, and Acceptance testing.
• Developed Functional Spec. documents based on business requirements.
• Requested SAP escalations and worked with SAP notes on OSS (Online Support Services) and implemented them in Production landscape.
• Involved in mass changing of Regional Structure Assignments and Area Business Partners in order the customer gets billed for correct pricing.
• Participated in cutover activities, Go-live and Production support.