Ashakir Akbar

SAP APO and ECC Functional Consultant

Phone: 951-***-****

acrou4@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT IN SAP APO (DP, SNP, PPDS), ECC (SD, MM), CIF, BW

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AS LEAD:

Worked on waterfall and agile methodology.

Provide estimation for the project (Cost, Resource and timeline).

Understanding client businesses and processes.

Onboarding new folks to the project with KT session.

SAP GRC Access request and Approval.

Gathered end to end timeline during network build.

Provide Configuration, testing and UAT estimation with buffer timeline.

Conducting and attend daily stand up meetings for different projects.

Detailed Cutover task preparation for business, IT team and Production support team.

Transport list creation to be done during cutover activity.

Worked with production support team to help them understand new implementation.

Project updates to client (Daily Basis) and for implementation partner (monthly basis).

Learning Pros and Cons after the project completion and sharing it with the team.

Implemented best practice followed by each client.

Worked on different time zones to support onsite and offshore teams.

SOURCING:

Gathering user Requirements from business.

Created User stories and scenarios for the requirements.

Creation of process flows using VISIO- BTS, BTO and CTO.

Worked with BI team for reporting requirements as per end user fields and attributes.

Worked with ABAP development team to create custom program in APO and ECC

Created Functional Specs, work instructions and training documents for Development, End users and testing team.

CONFIGURATION SKILLS:

ADVANCED PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION (APO)

DEMAND PLANNING (DP):

Planning Area, Planning book, MPOS, SBP, TBP, extending TBP to future date, DP Consistency check background execution, Macros, Alerts, Process chain and meta chains creation, Assigning SKU to Segmentation, CVC creation single and batch upload, Realignment and Copy Realignment, variant creation, Lifecycle planning, created forecast profiles for DP book, DP-BOM creation with separate planning book, Forecast planning, Forecast error comparison, Copy forecast to temp forecast KF, Header selection, custom user settings for planners, Aggregation and disaggregation of KF, Entering forecast to each sales subsidiary and segments, Forecast horizon, history horizon selection, Univariate forecasting run, Tweaked Alpha, beta and gamma value as per business, used trend, seasonal and constant methods for forecasting, using macro to decide the final forecast to be send to SNP.

SUPPLY NETWORK PLANNING (SNP):

Master data setup in Mat1, creation of SNP of profiles- Demand profile, Supply profile, production planner profile, demand profile and deployment profile, Assigning allocation to SKU, Procurement type setup, Extending SKU’s to vendor location or plant, SNP consistency check, forecast review in SNP, Forecast consumption, sales order consumption, Transportation lanes creation for plant to DC, Vendor to plant, identify right MOT for the TL and assigning correct period factor, assigning product specify MOT for certain SKU’s, setting up transportation cost as per business, Aggregate planning with separate planning book, Running Location/Network Heuristics to create distribution demand planned, Run Deployment heuristics to created distribution demand confirmed and final TL run to create TLB confirmation.

PRODUCTION PLANNING & DETAILED SCHEDULING (PPDS):

Worked on PPT1 to run production planning run for direct ship orders, Product Heuristics run for Production Planning, PPDS alert creation, Planned order/Req to PO conversion, Manual adjustment of Capacity leveling for production, Running Multi-level component planning, consigned component and subcontracting order, setting up correct Strategy group for production planning in MAT1 for each SKU, creation of resource in APO using the base as ECC work center.

ENTERPRISE CENTRAL COMPONENT (ECC) OR R/3:

SALES & DISTRIBUTION (SD)

Sales order creation in test systems using VA01, sales order confirmation against forecast and planned orders, Sales order Cif’d to APO and reduce forecast consumption or forecast reduction, Order to cash process, Sales order creation with delivery to direct customer or third party carrier.

MATERIAL MANAGEMENT (MM)

Materials creation in test systems using MM01, material created manually as well using PMD Rules, worked with SKU team to finalize the SKU’s and SKU’s attribute for ECC and APO, Multi-level BOM creation using CS01, Purchase Order creation using ME23N, Purchase Requisition creation using ME23N, PReq to PO conversion manually as well using custom program for batch conversion, Procure to plan process, creation of Production version, Routing, work center. Creation of Individual strategy group for each material planning, creation of MRP controller of each SKU’s based on SKU planning, creation of ATP check based on each SKU planning, set mixed MRP indicator, Planned delivery time for each SKU based on their lead times from supplier to reach plant and factory, creation of UOM and alternate UOM for ECC and APO planning.

STANDARD REPORTS IN ECC:

Utilized standard report from SAP ECC for end user requirements, Few example of standard report are MBLB, MB5T etc., Helped UAT user to generate standard reports with readable format.

CORE INTERFACE (CIF)

Creating Variant for CIF jobs, identifying SKU’S, Plant, BOM, MRP CTRL, MRP Type, Plant status for CIF jobs, Running CFM1 and CFM2 to move data from ECC to APO, troubleshooting CIF error, CFM5 to identify SKU’s running model, Pushing PDS from ECC to APO. Auto CIF job creation to run every day at particular time.

BUSINESS WAREHOUSE (BW)

Mapped flat file to SAP BW system, then same as been mapped to APO system, creation of info cubes, info package, Application components, data source, and data transformation. Daily job to bring data (History) from Non-sap system to SAP APO system.

TESTING ACTIVITIES SKILLS:

Worked on waterfall and agile methodology testing

Created Master Test plan and Test plan for the testing activity

Created Test Strategy, Test Case, Test Summary Report and estimation.

Involved in Multiple test methods Unit testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing and Performance testing.

Automation testing using QTP and worksoft

Identified bug in the system, Bug tracking and resolution tracking.

Project sign off

PRODUCTION SUPPORT ACTIVITIES SKILLS:

Cutover Activities data matrix and transport list

End user data setup activities

Solved production issues for L3 to L1 ticket

Dry run scenarios in the production system with end users

Created ticket for production issue and worked with production support team to meet solution.

SAP TOOLS SKILLS

ECC

SD, MM, CIF, FI, PP, SPRO

APO

DP, SNP, PPDS, GATP, SPRO

BW, E2open and OAGIS

IDOC

TESTING TOOLS

REQUIREMENTS

BUG REPORTING

HPALM, VSTF, Work soft Certify, Excel

VSTF, Solution Manager, HPALM

Jira, Quality center ALM, VSTF, Excel

PROCESS FLOW

SHAREPOINT

SAP SYSTEMS

VIZIO, PPT

Microsoft SharePoint management

Sandbox, Development, Testing and Production

Client: Microsoft, Redmond, WA- (Retail) (Jan 2015- Current)

Role: Configuration and Testing

Environment: APO- DP/SNP/PPDS and ECC)

Project 1: Surface Hub planning (Big Size TV’s)

Successfully implemented DP/SNP/PPDS for LSX Project

Used template to implement DP/SNP/PPDS planning across two DC and vendor m

Gather business requirement and successful configuration in Dev, QA and Prod.

Business Process flow created and signed off

Created all the functional specs in the SharePoint

Worked with development team to Fix the issue during unit testing and SIT.

Tested all the scenarios via unit testing.

Worked on BTS, BTO, CTO and COLLAB scenarios.

Worked on EOC, AOC and APOC models (US, CANADA, EUROPE and Rest of the world)

Subcontracting component created with buy and consign

Given UAT training to End user

Setup master data in ECC and transferred to APO

Created and used Customer program like ZPRODLOC, ZPPM, ZAPO, ZTRL in APO and ECC.

Process Chain created for ADHOC, Daily and weekly

Created BOM, Routing, Work center, PIR.

Macro created to get Final sell in forecast to SNP

Released forecast from DP to SNP using background job and MC90.

Created product master data in MAT1 and extended to different DTV’s and vendor locations

Created location master data in LOC3.

Created Variant configuration for business user from DP to PPDS in production/QA.

Maintain safety stock, Minimum Lot size at DTV.

Coloring macros when demand exceed supply.

Used Location Heuristic for single DTV implementation.

Forecast at multiple location and dependent demand created.

Used Copy/Realignment function to copy CVC as well copy forecast from KF to another for Bundle SKU

DP BOM to disaggregate planning for bundle SKU and its components planning.

Cloned existing strategy group to new strategy group.

Sales order confirmation, Preq to Po conversion manually and automatically.

Created production planning using PPT1 and manually distribute capacity in PPT1

Configured PPM/PDS explosion and scheduling, firming, pegging, setup times, converted planned orders in PP/DS, exception groups in the PP/DS planning log, product view.

Maintained PP/DS Master data such as Resources and PPM

Maintained Detailed scheduled Planning board profile.

Planning parameters settings, Defined Alert profile, Maintained strategy profile, Maintained time profile & optimization profile and Defined propagation range

Maintained PP/DS heuristics, Product Planning Table configurationand user exits.

Configured PPM/PDS explosion and scheduling, firming, pegging, setup times, converted planned orders in PP/DS, exception groups in the PP/DS planning log, product view

Worked on controlling detailed scheduling, resource planning table, detailed scheduling board.

Solved scheduling problems arise during production.

Created all the documentation, test scripts, work instruction for end users.

Worked on Reporting requirements and build custom report for end users with developers.

Travelled to End user location to train them in our first APO session to use APO

VSTF tool for project management, follow ups, business requirements, test scripts, sign offs

Project 2: Surface Pro- Multilevel Component Planning (Laptop)

Production order transferred from supplier to APO via IDOC.

Supplier collaboration planning using IDOC.

Forecast generated in APO shared with supplier to match the demand and supply.

Forecast commit from supplier are transferred back to APO.

APO PO are transferred to supplier for production planning.

APO PReq are transferred to supplier for planning.

Sub assembling finished goods using vendor managed plant and ship to customer.

BTO and BTS model implemented

Vendor managed and vendor consigned planning through IDOC.

Flat file PO transferred from supplier to E2open tool.

Worked with E2open tool for conversion of flat file to IDOC for APO.

Worked on OAGIS tool to map IDOC to be transmitted to APO

Project 3: Repair and Returns planning for Surface Hub and Surface Pro

Returns planning of finished SKU and Devices from customer to plant or DC.

Managed different SKU naming for returns.

Return SKU forecast generation based on sellable SKU history

Returns SKU Planned order or production order planning

Used interchangeability function to determine to use alternate SKU

Repaired Re-sellable SKU as refurbished.

Sales order confirmation on refurbished

Client: Eli Lilly, Indianapolis IN- (Pharmaceutical ) (Nov 2013- December 2014)

Role: Configuration and Testing

Environment: APO- DP/SNP and ECC

Projects: Trulicity Drug Planning and Human trail supply planning

Gather requirements from business users regarding new functionality that needs to be incorporated within the present landscape.

Prepared Business Flow Charts based on Business Blue Print documents.

Build the functional specification on the new functionality that needs to be added and give an estimate on how much effort is needed for the same.

Developed Transfer Rules and update Rules for Info Cubes

Set up Release of Demand Plan to SNP.

Created SNP Master Profile, SNP heuristics and Optimizer.

Set up of SNP master profile and configured SNP Master Data Locations, Product Masters, Resource and Production Process Models (PPM).

Performed SNP runs using SNP heuristics, created cost and Optimization profile for SNP Optimizer.

Created and assigned TLB profile to the transportation lane.

Created Period – Oriented planning in the product planning table.

Studied statistical forecasting process by carrying out forecasts at different aggregation levels using various forecast models, and arrived at optimum solution(s) by comparing the forecast.

Set up the Master data for SNP (Location, Products, Resources, PPM, Transportation Lanes, Means of Transport and Quota Arrangements) and created SNP Planning versions and planning books

Configured SNP planning tools – Heuristics Planning and Safety stock planning functionality

Defined appropriate Storage and Planning buckets profile to facilitate transfer of key figures from SNP planning areas to DP using the TSCOPY function.

Worked on Linear method and discrete method to calculate with and without decimals.

Set up and activated Integration Models for master and transaction data for SNP

Created the Transport Load Builder (TLB) Profile and assigned it to the appropriate Transportation Lane; created and maintained Transportation Lanes and Quotas.

Worked on different cost type production cost, transportation cost, storage cost and handling cost.

Solved an Open issue by creating a workaround process to facilitate the transfer of Stock on Hand (Projected) from SNP to DP to facilitate S&OP process in DP

Handled assignment of User to Planning Book, Creation of Selection Profile for the SNP Planning Book,

Maintained the Planner Responsible and Planning Calendar

Executed Mass Maintenance of Product, Location, T-Lanes, Quota Arrangement

Ensured data continuity and quality between APO and ECC using the CIF functionality

Configured Master Data, MRP and Production control, Sales and Operation planning, Demand Management.

Configured planning strategies and requirements type, assigned strategy group to MRP group, defined MRP controllers, planned horizons and lot size calculations.

Configured Material Master Data including, material type, work centers, BOM, and Routing.

Client: Cargrill MN (Process Industry) (Sept 2012- Nov 2013)

Role: Configuration and Testing

Environment: APO- DP/SNP and ECC

Projects: Integrating ECC with APO

Performed AS-IS/TO-BE Study with core team members and presented reports after completing GAP Analysis.

Carried Roll Outs across other geographical locations

Designed and configured complete data model (Info objects/Info sources/Info Packages/DTP)

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

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

Set up Release of Demand Plan to SNP

Maintained CIF Integration models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between R/3 and APO

Set up of SNP master profile and configured SNP Master Data Locations, Product Masters, Resource and Production Process Models(PPM)

Maintained planning calendar, Planner Responsible and Creating variant for SNP Transaction Data Deletion

Set up the supply chain model (work areas-location, products, resources, PPM, transportation lanes and quota arrangements)

Performed SNP runs using SNP heuristics, as well for SNP Optimizer for high cost items.

Set up the deployment heuristic and created deployment optimization profile.

Make to order and make to stock strategies.

Created and assigned TLB profile to the transportation lane.

Developed user training documents and conducted Knowledge Transfer

Involved in system testing and post implementation support.

Client: Merck–Bangalore India – (Pharmaceutical) (July 2011 – Sept 2012)

Role: Production Support

Environment: APO- DP/SNP and ECC

Involved in Post production support to monitor all jobs and activities regarding the issues with data transfer and enhancements according to the end user needs; involved in troubleshooting performance issues during load, extracting and transforming high volume data.

Transported CR to Production system with the help of onsite functional consultant.

Supported the global supply planning team (NA & GLA) to harmonize Global Supply planning processes as well as planning systems, master data and interfaces.

Monitored the interfaces regularly and carried out root cause analysis to resolve the problems.

Resolved issues related to planning processes: Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP), Deployment and Transport Load Building (TLB).

Resolved issues related to planning data: Inbound Data (Open sales order, Forecast, Inventories, Production Confirmations, GIT)

Resolved issues related to planning data: Outbound Data (MPS for factories, Procurement & Production Plans for OEM’s, Replenishment shipments).

Carried out the maintenance of SNP master data (Products, Locations, Resources and PPM’s).

Monitored exceptional or critical situations through the Alert Monitor.

Monitored Batch Cycles for daily and weekend batch runs.

Corrected issues observed during Hypercare (Materials missing in APO globally, for some locations, PPM missing in APO, T Lanes set up wrong in APO, BOM’s missing or incorrect in SAP).

Played active role in Alert Review and Braun Evolution Project.

Ensured the DP forecast for NA markets is loaded into APO SNP during the day 5 pass.

Revised the DP master data to reflect the addition of new products, customers, and so on.

Developed user training documents, and conducted knowledge transfer.

Client: Marathon Oil Corp, Bangalore, India- (Oil and Gas) (Oct 2010 –July 2011)

Role : Configuration and Testing

Environment: ECC and DP

Handled entire DP configuration as a part of offshore resource and objects like Planning Areas, Planning Object Structures, Storage and Planning Buckets Profiles, Forecast profiles, Alert Monitor, Mass processing and Characteristic value combinations.

Setup data in ECC to flow to APO.

Created CIF jobs and variant for end users.

Resolved CIF issues during batch jobs and report the same to onsite and ASM team.

Created multiple planning books for demand planner’s for each region to enter their initial forecast.

Scheduling daily meeting with onsite team to understand the business and changes

Analyzed the existing forecast process in DP for improvements and designed new forecast models with Pick-best methodology and model it.

Analyzing forecast for new region, sector and city and prepare the final forecast

Copy forecast to temp forecast to sign off the final forecast

Pushing forecast to final forecast key figure using button macros or standard macros

Created customer alerts and macros as per user requirements

Review the forecast with onsite counterpart before proceeding to end client

Create unit testing documents, work instruction documents.

Involved in testing end to end forecast methods during system testing

Client: Gordon Food Services, Bangalore, India (Process Manufacturing)- (Oct 2008 –Oct 2010)

Role: Configuration and Testing

Environment: R/3 SD,MM

Worked on multiple projects and multiple assignments in the tenure

Analyze user stories in current development cycle, determining the scope and estimates for tasks related to enhancements or issues that need to be resolved and work with Business Analyst to clarify requirements when necessary

Driving project in Logistic Execution for both outbound and inbound deliveries, stock transfers, picking, packing, and all other activities, which took place during the movement of a material from one place to another place.

Identifying and Driving Risks/Issues to resolve along with performing some of the hands on debugging according to the backend configuration.

Assisted in Weekly and Monthly forecasting activities for the Procurement division for MRP, Purchase order creation during the MRP run,, Availability checking, Reporting, MRP list, Stock/Requirement list, MRP Groups, MRP Area and order profile.

Set up configuration for Automatic generation of Purchase Orders through Purchase Requisitions and at the time of Goods Receipt.

Hands on Experience working on EDI IDOC transactions like 850, 855,856, 940, 944, and 945.

Worked with SAP master data Material Master and Vendor master.

Worked with PIR, Scheduling agreements, and purchase orders

Data management experience includes Data cleansing and Data Conversion activities

Responsible for System Integration testing, Business Integration testing, Regression, and UAT

Participated in User training and Documentation.

Develop test cases following the prescribed Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in order to test programs or scripts according to design specifications, established coding practices, and performance requirements

Participate in peer review of Test Case Specifications

Document defects using JIRA according to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and collaborate with developers for defect analysis and fact finding as needed

Maintain testing infrastructure (e.g. mocks, test data, configuration) where applicable.

Client: Pricol Limited, Coimbatore India- (Automobile Industry) (Jun 2006 – Oct 2008)

Role: SAP Test Analyst

Environment: R/3 - MM/SD

Worked on multiple projects and multiple assignments.

Prepared Test plan, Test cases and Test Summary report for SAP SD and MM planning.

Used Mercury test center to capture requirements, test cases, bugs and test execution

Created end to end test cases for all scenarios.

Written both positive and negative test cases.

Mapping Test cases to business requirements

Created Bug and assigned to functional consultant.

Worked with functional consultant to solve the bug and re-test the test cases.

Worked with development team to solve the program bugs.

Worked on both Agile and waterfall methods

Manually performed Functional testing, system testing and integration testing of different modules.

Raised defects to analyst to fix the issue or development to solve the program bug.

Re-tested all the bugs to go through another round of functional testing.

End to End documentation creation and status update to the team.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Certificate in Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

University of California, Riverside CA USA, September 2012 – June 2013

Bachelor of Business and Information Systems, June 2003 – May 2006

PSG College Of Arts And Science, Coimbatore, India

GRADUATE INTERN:

Kumar Polycot Mills, Coimbatore, India- May 2005- June 2005

Learned process manufacturing of cotton to thread.

Procurement of raw material from suppliers

Production planning process

Price and Cost analysis

Vendor and Labor management

South Indian Bank, Coimbatore, India- May 2004 to June 2004

Learned Banking system process

Opening of new checking and saving accounts

Solving customer issue like issuing new checks and issuing new debit card

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