Highlights

• Masters of Business Administration with 19 years of experience as SAP IBP SCM APO/S4 PPDS Solution Architect and supply chain expert, specializing in the functional area of Advanced Planner and Optimizer.


• Has worked in the areas of Core Interface, Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning and Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling interfaces with R/3 And SAP R/3 PP and IBP applications.


• Worked with different clients such as Gulf Oil Corporation, Tractor India Pvt Ltd, Visteon, Banz Group, Thales, Chevron, L& T Switchgear, P&G, P& G, Hindalco, At corporate IT, Kimberley Clarke, Ecobat, EDGE, Dream11,Bilcare,Gulftainer -Sharjah, Bharat Dynamics, Tata Housing, JNPT Port, MSEDCL, Croma Retail, Khidmah Realty -(Abu Dhabi), Amul, Kalpataru Power, EMCO transformers etc.


• Analyze client business processes related to supply chain planning, demand planning, inventory optimization, and sales and operations planning (S&OP).


• Design and implement SAP IBP solutions tailored to meet the specific needs and requirements of the client's business processes.Provide training to end-users and stakeholders on how to effectively use the SAP IBP system, including training materials development and knowledge transfer sessions.


• Manage the integration of SAP IBP with other SAP and non-SAP systems, such as SAP ERP, SAP APO, SAP S/4HANA, and external data sources.


• Configure and customize the SAP IBP system to align with the client's business requirements, including master data setup, planning area configuration, key figure definition, and planning algorithm configuration.


• As Package Specialist - SAP Global Trading Services (GTS): Responsible to assist clients in the selection, implementation, and support the solutions. Leading multiple sized projects as team member / lead to implement new functionalities and improve existing functionalities including articulating, analyzing requirements, and translating them into effective solutions.


• Materials Management: Set up of Enterprise structure, Business Mapping, Configuration & settings of Material Management for scenarios like Domestic Purchase, Import Purchase, Service Purchase, Project Purchase, STO intra and inter company, Vendor evaluation, Output management, Workflow.


• Transportation Management: Embedded LSP Scenario’s Customization and configuration for the TM 8.0. Freight Order Management, Planning, Charge calculation, Cost distribution and Settlement.


• Sales and Distribution: Set up of Enterprise structure. Configured Domestic Sales and Distribution, third party sales, deemed export, Rebate export, Merchant export, Stock transfer, Intercompany sale, Return sales, Free of charge sales, Consignment sales, Service process sales, Stock transfer, Intercompany sale, Return sales, Free of charge sales, Consignment sales, Service process.


• S/4HANA specific responsibilities: Assessment for S/4 Hana 1711 (from ECC 6 EHP 5), Implementation Project Leader from Customer side Team Leader for logistics, Migration of existing custom programs and testing, HANA Studio report modelling for Logistics, Lead the data migration from ECC to S/4 Hana, Documentation (functional & technical spec) review and sign-off from SI Partner. UT and UAT for all the Process for Logistics. Process re-engineering for the custom process (majorly the distributor schemes).


• Expertise area in APO DP, SNP, PPDS, S4 PPDs, SAP PP,SAP IBP for Demand sensing and Inventory Optimization.

Skills

Primary Skills

SAP

SAP FI

Secondary Skills

SAP implementation support

Projects

Project- 1 - IT Industry (75 months)

Roles and Responsibilities:






• SAP TM Transportation Management 9.0 Implementation for client in LPG Distribution.


• Requirements gathering for the inbound and outbound logistics process.


• Identifying the gaps.  Integrating with Google Maps for real time visibility.


• Integration for freight charges and automation of TM order.


• Activating TM optimizer for planning and optimization transportation routes.


• Unit Testing of end-to-end scenarios.


• Business Acceptance testing for integrated scenarios.


• SAP MM ,SD Integration for executing the inbound and outbound scenarios.

Project- 2 - IT Industry (24 months)

Roles and Responsibilities:






• Designed for warehouse configuration in EWM and all logistics and warehousing processes.


• Designed of Inter-company stock transfers and inventory management.


• Integration of RF devices, handheld scanners, and barcode readers.


• Definition of storage areas and bins.


• SAP APO, MM, SD, WM.


• APO /IBP: Worked on setting up Demand Signals from sales side sale order, stock transfer order, schedule line.


• Handled whole implementation of APO for polymer industry. Implemented complex scenarios in as DP _forecasting at customer/product level and allocation at sales office level.


• SNP_Multiple level, DC & Plant level.


• PPDS_Planning board/sequencing orders as per product wheel. GATP_–Allocation/ATP, Allocation at multiple procedure, sales office/customer level. Allocation as Reservation Box & Generic Box.


• As Architect Leading SCM implementation and support project SCM APO PPDS/DP/PP, successfully completed migration project.


• Supporting business in day-to-day service now incidents, change request, problem management on as part of AMS.


• Enchantment of existing design and designing of reports in areas of APO ( DP/PPDS),PP.


• FTP, IDOCS, PI integration with third-party systems ( MES, Chess systems).


• Supported for day-to-day basis after go-live.


• Troubleshooting issue related to APO PPDS,DP & PP (VC, MRP, MPS ).


• Job monitoring, rescheduling, and changing the job timings etc.


• Migration from DXC to AWS.


• Worked on test scripts and integration with SAP APO and BI Environment.


• Worked on test scripts and integration with SAP PP and Non-SAP interface scenarios.


• Worked on FTP and PI interfaces, PPDS optimizer.


• PPDS bottom-up heuristic and push production for adjusting quantity at plant and stock transport orders.


• Enhancement of PPDS planning board and sequencing.


• Integration with non-sap planning system.


• Training more than 100 users for PP, APO, and IBP.

Project - 3 - IT Industry (51 months)

Roles and Responsibilities:






• Review of project progress and timelines.


• Phase wise Project Deliverables.


• Aligning resources, weekly project status review, monthly steercom review.


• As Architect Leading SCM implementation and support project SCM APO PPDS/DP/PP, successfully completed migration project.


• Supporting business in day-to-day service now incidents, change request, problem management on as part of AMS.


• Enchantment of existing design and designing of reports in areas of APO ( DP/PPDS),PP.


• FTP, IDOCS, PI integration with third-party systems ( MES, Chess systems).


• Supported for day-to-day basis after go-live.


• Troubleshooting issue related to APO PPDS,DP & PP (VC, MRP, MPS ) .


• Job monitoring, rescheduling, and changing the job timings etc .


• Migration from DXC to AWS.


• Worked on test scripts and integration with SAP APO and BI Environment.


• Worked on test scripts and integration with SAP PP and Non-SAP interface scenarios.


• Worked on FTP and PI interfaces, PPDS optimizer.


• PPDS bottom-up heuristic and push production for adjusting quantity at plant and stock transport orders.


• Enhancement of PPDS planning board and sequencing.


• Integration with non-sap planning systems.


• Corporate training experience.


• Training more than 100 users for PP, APO and IBP .


• Identified and resolved integration issues between SAP ERP, SAP GTS and non- SAP systems by working with Business Partners.


• Designed and supported for SAP GTS interfaces from data providers - relevant parties, HTS content.


• Configured in SAP ECC for Sales & Distribution along with GTS table structures, data elements/fields, & table inter-dependencies.


• Collated and translated business requirements into detailed functional design specifications that included current and future state of business processes on assigned projects.


• Supported enhancement requests and resolve reported incidents within defined service level agreements.


• Conducted working sessions with Subject Matter Experts to identify the required capabilities and impacts to configuration to support business requirements. Translated user s requests into application system solutions.


• Analysed system user requirements to define and design system configuration, enhancements, and modifications while following design standards.


• PPDS planning board to sequence the planners’ orders as per production wheel of LPIC PP/PE operations.


• Extended /Configured grade transition time in APO PPDS set up matrix as a clean-up activity for LPIC PP/PE .Transferring Planned orders and purchase requisition from APO TO ECC for executions.


• Worked with BW team to extract sales history/billing data into APO cubes and included data in DP planning book.


• Creating Info Cubes for Master and Transaction Data; Backup Cubes as per the requirement: Activity and Jobs for the background scheduled jobs.


• Moving to migration from APO to IBP S&OP.


• Migration from APO to IBP.


• Demand planning to Demand sensing and supply network to Supply optimization module of IBP.


• IBP Sales & Operation planning.  IBP SOP optimizer models aim to lower the minimal cost of organizations.


• Considering the profit maximization and delivery maximation mode. IBP optimizer generates the optimal and feasible production, distribution for the supply chain network considering the constraints.


• In this project by using the IBP SOP optimizer, we reduced the transportation cost between DC and plants.


• Planner operates optimizer in simulation planning view and the system chooses to fulfill the demand from DCs which is having less cost.


• Project plan update, Reporting to Global PMO for monthly, weekly, daily progress of the project.


• Manage multiple geographies overall progress and highlight, resolve.

Project- 4 - IT Industry (66 months)

Roles and Responsibilities:






• SAP SCM (APO) with specialization in Demand Planning ,Supply Network Planning, Production.


• Planning & Detailed Scheduling and Global Available to Promise. Supported at all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, UAT and deployment of solutions, as well as documentation, and end-user training for delta /rollout project for LPIC.


• Preparing the Delta Business Blueprint (AS-IS and TO-BE) by understanding the current process.


• Flow of demand flow of sales organization and DIT location of OPM,mapping of supply planning &.


• Production execution processes of LPIC into APO.


• Extended the configuration of DP,SNP,PPDS and GATP and PP-PI functionalities for LPIC operations.


• Designing the system architecture: Extended /rollout for Designed the DP Planning Areas, Storage.


• Bucket Profile and Time Bucket Profile as per the Factory Calendar. Creating of MPOS, Planning Area’s, planning book and Data View as per the process designed in the BBP.


• Planning methods of Consensus forecasting, strategies, forecasting with different planning methods, creating macros, alert monitoring, and live cache monitoring, planning areas and planning books designing.


• Extended excel addon where the sales managers provide the inputs on future 3 months of outlook and loaded back to DP book for S&OP review meetings. The output of S&OP is the final agreed sales plan (MSP ) which was further released to SNP for supply planning SNP run.


• Extended SNP Planning area, planning book, data views and planning profiles for 1 year planning horizon.


• SNP production and PPDS horizon for LPIC operation.


• SNP multilevel heuristic to cover 1 month of production plan based on S&OP meeting results for PP finished and dependent requirements of packaging and raw materials.


• Safety stock planning for raw and packaging materials of LPIC.