SUMMARY:

Software developer with *+ years of IT experience having hands-on experience of ASAP methodology in all phases of Project Implementation-Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Pre-go Live, Go Live and Post live Support in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and specialized in SAP APO module.

Experience in Supply Chain Planning Concepts and Processes include Designing, Developing, Configuring, Testing, and supporting all aspects of the Core Interface (CIF), Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP) and Global Available to Promise (GATP).

Working knowledge in all aspects of Integration of Master Data and Transactional Data, Dynamic Availability Checking on the basis of ATP (available to promise), Product Allocations, Copying Product Allocations and Characteristic Value Combinations (CVC), Planning Areas, Planning Books and Master Planning Object Structures and DP forecasting.

Understanding and analysing as-is business processes

Identify gaps, key implementation issues and potential needs for customization.

Handling projects with more than 100,000 location product combination

Responsible for an end-to-end CIF configuration connecting multiple ERP systems to a SCM system.

Knowledge of various Forecasting static model and forecast technique.

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.

Experience in configuration of Rule based ATP’s, Multilevel ATP’s, BOP’s and relavant settings for GATP including initial setup.

Experience in creating test scenarios, manage testing, develop user documents and training of new solution.

Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC and APO. Mass Maintenance of Master Data in APO. Monitoring of CIF errors using the qRFC monitor.

Responsible for creating both Functional and Technical specifications.

Handling an offshore team of 8.

Document and present all findings to Senior Executives and Project Leadership. Facilitate the acceleration of issue resolution/open message processing through both functional and rigorous technical analysis.

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

Technical SKILLS

ERP: SCM APO 4.0, 5.0, 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, 6.0, 7.0

Business Process Modeling Tools: MS VISIO

Testing Tools: HPQC, HP ALM

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Other Tools: MS Office.

APO DP

APO GATP

APO SNP

APO CIF

APO Testing

ABAP

APO Modules:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

EMPLOYER DETAILS:

Ameex Technologies Corporation, Illinois, USA Dec 2014 – Current

Tech Mahindra, Chennai, India May 2014 – Nov 2014

TCS Chennai, India Nov 2013 – Apr 2014

Wipro Technologies Banglore, India May 2010 – Oct 2013

PROJECT DETAILS:

Ameex Technologies Corporation, Illinois, USA Dec 2014 – Current

Senior SAP Consultant-APO Module

Project Name: Implementation of APO DP, GATP

Responsibilities:

Understood all the requirements from client and helped them in documenting the blue print, GAP analyses.

Prepared Business Flow Charts based on Business Blue Print documents.

Reviewed Functional and Technical Specifications.

Responsible for 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.

Responsible for configuring and customizing the APO DataMart – Basic Infocubes, Characteristics, Key Figures, Navigational Attributes and Auxiliary Key Figures to collect data and support the demand planning hierarchy. This included the customization and configuration of extractors in R/3 to support data extraction from SAP tables and views.

Responsible for configuration of PAL for GATP system.

Prepared and updated the configuration documents.

BASF Corporation (located in Ludwigshafen, Germany) May 2014 – Nov 2014

Senior APO Functional Consultant

Project Name: APO DP, SNP, GATP Support

Responsibilities:

Transported Change management configurations to Testing and Production Server. Manually created the non-transportable activities. (Background jobs, variants, etc)

Developed various test cases and documented the test results for both functional and integration testing of the solutions in Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning.

Worked with Basis team for system transports. Maintained transport request documents.

Responsible for User related issues pertaining to Sales Orders, CVC changes and Realignmement.

Worked with Scheduling related issues.

Automated the data cleansing activity for GATP by creation of periodic background jobs in the system.

Monitored System during Post Go Live periods.

Troubleshot Post go-live Support Issues tickets.

Performed Knowledge Transfer and prepared Training Materials.

Participated in DP, GATP workshop.

Nokia -IT Division ( located in Espoo, Finland) Nov 2013 – Apr 2014

Senior APO Functional Consultant

Project Name: APO Functional Implementation and System Upgrade(SCM 5.0 to SCM 7.02)

Responsibilities:

Team member in APO Implementation

Configuration of demand planning for new market for Europe which included configuration of new planning area, planning books, data views, macros.

Creation of info objects (Characteristics & Key figures), Transfer Structure, Communication structure, Data Marts (Info Cubes), Transfer Rules & Update Rules for Demand planning backup.

I have setup background planning jobs like copying data from info cube to planning area, forecast run, macros calculation, release final forecast to SNP, live cache handling etc.

Maintenance of Master and Transaction Data with CIF

Implementation of required Rule based ATP check in Check Instructions.

Roll-out and process improvement in MATP solution (GATP)

Unit/Integration/User acceptance testing in GATP.

Involved in multiple enhancement FD’s

Monitoring Jobs - Improving Job Performance

Daily CIF monitoring and check the Capacity and planning result.

CIF data Analysis & resolutions

Implement fixes and enhancements by means of Change Requests.

Implement major new functionalities as new projects.

I have created training documents for users, and also helped users to understand the system and guided them how to perform the entire task in the system relevant to demand planning.

I was responsible for creating test scripts, performing unit testing, system integration testing and resolving issues from user acceptance testing, performing cutover task.

For critical issues raise OSS message and coordinate with SAP to debug the issue and provide necessary inputs.

Closely working with the Technical team regarding the user issues to adhere with the Client’s SLA’s.

Resolving Issue related to DP, SNP and CIF (Support). Resolving day to day issues by means of trouble tickets.

Johnson & Johnson (located in Skillman, NJ) Mar 2013 – Oct 2013

SAP APO Consultant (Regression Testing DP/GATP)

Project Name: APO Regression Testing

Responsibilities:

Team Lead for gATP Testing Team and also was invoved in DP testing.

Creation of test scripts and scenarios in HPQC tool.

Initiation of test process and communicate to the appropriate team in case of failed test cases to take necessary corrective actions.

Executed test scripts in ECC and APO

Working knowledge in the testing tool – HPQC

To keep a close watches on SolMan tickets so that no ticket is left unattended and unresolved.

Sony Electronics Inc (located in San Diego, CA) April 2011 - Feb 2013

SAP APO Consultant

Project Name: APO Demand Planning, GATP and CIF Global Support

Responsibilities:

Studied the business model and the processes

Analysis and business discussion with planners on various issues like deviations in planning results etc. and provide solutions based on APO functionality to meet the business requirement.

Maintaining and monitoring the daily BOP run. Integration model analysis and error correction.

Configured, designed and tested the core APO DP functionality which included Statistical Forecasting, Realignment, Reporting, Advanced Macros and Alerts based

Exception-management processes and Mass Processing.

Knowledge of various Forecasting static model, forecast technique and Maintained Time bucket profiles, Forecast profiles, planning versions and Like Modeling.

Customizations on CIF interface for filling the custom fields in the product master.

Added custom fields in the planning book shuffler and data is filtered based on that the custom fields.

Added new category type to the category group for transferring the Stocks like quality inspection and Blocked stock.

Creation of new Planning Book and Data Views.

Changing the column width in the planning book.

Changing the label of the planning book.

Maintaining Master data for GATP (rules, check mode, ATP group etc.).

Maintained APO - Source System, Info Objects, Info Source and Info Cube

Maintained the Planning Object Structure, Planning Area, Planning Book, Data View and Advanced Macros

Maintained Planning Books, Data views and Advanced Macros in Interactive Demand Planning .Assigned users to Planning Books

Used Promotional Planning, Like Modeling, Phase- In and Phase-0ut planning to take into account special events like promotions, introduction and discontinuation of the products of the company

Compared the forecast generated by multiple models in the Univariate Forecasting based on their forecast errors

Set up the transfer of the demand to the R/3 and also release to SNP and PP/DS for further planning(Publication Settings).

Transported the Configurations to Testing and Production Server. Manually created the non-transportable activities. (Background jobs, variants, etc)

Developed various test cases and documented the test results for both functional and integration testing of the solutions in Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning.

Worked with Basis team for system transports. Maintained transport request documents.

Monitored System during Go Live periods.

Troubleshot Post go-live Support Issues tickets.

Performed Knowledge Transfer and prepared Training Materials.

Participated in DP, GATP workshop.

Hiding the alerts on user’s request.

Troubleshoot the APO system configuration including the Core Interface (CIF).

Customer Scenario Implementation in the Test Systems by understanding the process flow

Developed the training documentation for users and resolved user issues and on Worked on Change requests for Process Improvement.

For critical issues raise OSS message and coordinate with SAP to debug the issue and provide necessary inputs.

Monthly history data load for Forecast calculation.

Maintain Parallel Processing profile for all the major SCM jobs.

Monitoring batch jobs triggered by CTRL M (scheduling tool used to trigger jobs in SAP

All Nippon Airways (located in Tokyo, Japan) May 2010 - March 2011

SAP APO Consultant

Project Name: Implementation of SAP APO DP 7.0

Responsibilities:

The project involves implementation of part failure prediction (Forecasting), stock analysis and simulation of purchase process using SAP APO DP.

Understanding the client MRO business process and preparing the functional requirement documents

Showcased the forecast capabilities of demand planner versus the exiting methods in order to provide options to select the models which suits best

Created document on interchangeability to identify the lead part for forecasting

Validated the existing stock analysis formulas like EOQ (Economic Order Quantity), SS

(safety stock) and ROP (Re-order Point) against SCOR standard

Demand Planning issue resolution reported by users within given SLA's

Issues related to APO - BW inconsistencies, CIF job failures

CIF queue monitoring

Handling change requests for new scope enhancements

Update the documents for any new enhancements implemented

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from Anna University, India (2009)

REFERENCES:

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Email

Contact Number

Client Details

Designation

Suresh Kumar

acrjmh@r.postjobfree.com

+1-858*******

Sony Electronics Inc

Project Manager

Suresh Sankaran

acrjmh@r.postjobfree.com

+1-732*******

Johnson & Johnson

Senior SAP Consultant

Praveen Raj

acrjmh@r.postjobfree.com

+1-904*******

Johnson & Johnson

Senior SAP Consultant

Srikanth

acrjmh@r.postjobfree.com

+91-770*******

BASF Corporation

Technical Lead

Balveenthar OKS

acrjmh@r.postjobfree.com

+91-996*******

Nokia/Microsoft

SAP PP Lead Consultant

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