Debsankar Das

SAP-APO Functional Consultant bjp8gk@r.postjobfree.com

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Summary of Experience

SAP- SCM APO Functional Consultant and team Lead in Accenture Technologies. More than six years of total experience in various domains like FMCG, Automobile, Paper and High Tech industries. Over 4 Years of experience in implementation, product development, IT support services in SAP. Worked as a team lead for many SAP-APO implementations and version upgrade. Currently working for a SAP implementation project for a Glass manufacturing major.. Supported numerous SAP installations, production, testing and training in highly complex, multi tiered environment.

SAP SCM- APO Experience Highlights

1) SAP APO Experience ---- 40 months

2) SAP experience---64 Months

3) Total Experience – 75 Months ( as of June 2010 )

4) SAP- SCM APO Implementation project : 3

5) SAP SCM Support project : 1

6) Upgrade & POC Testing version SCM 7.0 --- 1

7) Design of SAP SCM SNP template design --- 1

8) Primary Module Expertise -SNP , CTM and PP/DS.

9) Additional Modules Worked on: DP

Total Professional Experience 75 months ( as of June 2010)

SAP APO Team Lead Accenture Nov 2009 - Till date

 SAP APO implementation in a Global Glass manufacturing company.

 Project Type: SAP APO 7.0 implementation for a Glass manufacturing Company.

 Company: - Glass manufacturing major of the world

 Project Title: Implementation of DP, SNP , PP/DS and GATP.

 Timeline: April 2010 to Till Date.

 Role: Responsible for SNP and PP/ DS implementation worldwide.

 Work Done:

• Pre- Workshop requirement gathering.( As IS process)

• To Be process workshop and To Be process Map

• Identification of requirement vs GAP.

• Business blue printing in progress.

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 Implementation Project:

 Project Type: SAP-APO 7.0 implementation project for a greetings card company.

 Company: Greetings Card Major in US.

 Project Title: Implementation of DP, SNP and PP/DS modules.

 Timeline: Going live in May 2010

 Role: Subject Matter Expert for SNP and PP/DS modules.

 Issues handled so far :

• Design validation of production planning process which uses PP/DS heuristics.

• Design of rough cut capacity planning process using CTM planning engine

• Performance Improvement of batch job processing

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LEAD Consultant ITC INFOTECH March 2008 – Nov 2009 (21 months)

 Support Project:

 Project Type: SAP-APO Support Project for ITC Divisions Tobacco, Foods, Agarbatti, Matches & Personal care ( All Locations – India & Abroad (Cigarette international Division)

 Company: ITC Ltd.

 Project Title: Level-3 Support for SAP-APO modules DP, SNP, PP/DS , TP/VS

 Timeline: March 2008- Nov2008.

 Role: Team Lead APO SNP , PP/DS

• Responsible for 99% SLA level maintenance of customer Calls.

• Responsible for implementation of new business scenarios in the APO system

 New Business Scenarios implemented

• Zone wise Truck Load formation of multiple business division products in SNP – TLB

• Development for Shipment Capacity in TLB formation

• Implementation of Fair Share rule B in Deployment Interchangeability.

• Aggregated Planning for Snacks & Biscuit product family for Manufacturing Planning.

• Advanced safety Stock Planning for Warehouse to customer locations by Using ASSP of SAP.

• Machine wise production order generation using PP/DS Standard Lot heuristics.

• PP/DS Quota heuristics for machine wise quota based planning at Semi Finished goods level.

 SAP APO Implementation Project for Snacks & Biscuit Division :

 Project Type: Re look and Validation of SAP – APO implementation in Biscuits and Snacks Division

 Company: ITC Snacks & Biscuit Division.

 Project Title: Revalidation & Reimplementation of SAP-APO in Snacks & Biscuit category.

 Timeline: October 2008- April,2009

 Scope: DP ,SNP and Aggregated Planning

 Role: Lead Consultant.

 Implementation & Validation Partner : Miebach Consulting

 Process Changes & Improvements Done

• Complete Revisit of the Business requirements

• Relook at the current mapping and the gaps.

• Outlining Benchmark processes.

• Outlining the new processes.

 APO Changes Processes

• Optimizer Cost Modeling changed completely from the previous costs suggested during first implementation.

• Heuristics based planning suggested and implemented for niche segments like Cream Biscuits, Cookies etc.

• Volume and Weight based truck load building suggested instead of only volume based truck load building used previously.

• Aggregated Planning for facilitating production plans according to actual process at semi-Finished Goods level ( Like Potato Chips & Naked Biscuit level) .

• Collaborative forecasting by a central planning team with consultation from area/branch executives.

 Results

• Forecast accuracy improved from 37 % to 63 % in 4 months

• Using system generated Stock Transport orders – improved from 65 % to around 85-90%

• Adherence to system generated production plans – improved from 30 % to 80-85 % in Snacks and from 50 % to 75 % in Biscuit.

 Upgrade from APO version 4.1 to version 7.0 + POC Project for functional upgrade:

 Project Type: Product Interchangeability with New Business requirements in heuristics, deployment & Optimizer in SCM version 7.0 .

 Project Title: validation of Proof Of Concept before up gradation of SCM system from version 4.1 to version7.0.

 Testing Partner: SAP.

 Timeline: April 2009- November 2009.

 Scope: New Business requirements & how it fulfills it in Interchangeability and deployment functionality in APO version 7.0

 Deliverable: Testing the new functionalities of Interchangeability in version 7.0 and validate the applicability of those in ITC Scenario.

 Role: Team lead from ITC Infotech side.

 Development & Testing

• Implementation of a BADI in the standard heuristics for consideration for Predecessor Stocks before Successor stock in product Interchangeability in heuristics.

• Change in Cost modeling in optimizer to consider predecessor Stocks before Successor Stocks in product Interchangeability in heuristics.

• Changes in the Planning area key figures to consider substitution deployment categories in deployment run .

• Development of program logic to change the deployment procedure to consider the substitution demand as per the business requirement.

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Consultant Bristlecone April 2007 – March 2008( 12 months)

 Implementation Project:

 Project Type: Implementation of Accelerated DP and SNP-CTM .

 Company: Gennum

 Project Title: Implementation of Accelerated SNP (CTM) & DP.

 Domain: Hi Tech Industry ( Semiconductor Manufacturing)

 Timeline: December 2007- March, 2008.

 Scope: Company wide implementation. ( Modules DP and CTM )

 Deliverable: Implement SAP-APO to improve Supply Chain performance.

 Role: Offshore Development & configuration team member

 Typical Scenarios worked on

• Down Binning of different finished goods .

• Sub- Assembly Planning

• Demand Prioritization of different demand categories

• Supply categorization of different categories in demand fulfillment.

• Maximum Lateness and Earliness Allowable for Planning

 Product Development Project:

 Project Type: Packaged Solution of SAP-SCM ( Supply Chain Management)

 Project Title: Accelerated SNP (Supply Network Planning , CTM)

 Domain: Hi Tech Industry ( Semiconductor Manufacturing)

 Timeline: Sep-2007 to December 2007

 Scope: Supply Network Planning

 Deliverable: Make the time span of a typical implementation cycle from 10-12 months to 100 days.

 Supply Chain design Project :

 Client: Graphic Packaging International

 Project Type : Supply Chain Assessment

 Duration: 3 Weeks

 Scope: Assessment of the Supply chain and try to device a future road map to improve the supply chain efficiency.

 Region: US Operations

 Deliverables: Device a roadmap to improve Capacity Utilization, Transportation cost , Forecast accuracy and Inventory cost.

Senior Engineer Tata Motors July 2002 – May 2005 ( 35 Months)

Planning and SAP Exposure:

• Was involved in Paint Procurement ( Thinner and Final Coat paints)

• Was involved in Machinery spares planning and procurement

• Worked in SAP PP Module( Front End User)

Production and Quality Exposure

• Involved in production of Welding and Painting Shop

• Worked in Paint Shop Maintenance.

• Was a Six Sigma team member in several projects and led teams of quality assurance

• ISO-TS -16949 implementation team member (Pilot team for Certification) & divisional auditor

• Instrumental in several Kaizen implementations

• TPM/TQM team leader at departmental level

Sales & Service Exposure:

• Was Involved in sales of Light commercial vehicle

• Was involved in Dealer development for Commercial vehicles.

• Was involved in pilot project for spare parts expansion project and partner identification

TRAINING

 SAP SCM:

• Supply Chain assessment : 1 week Training

• DP Module: 1 week training and dummy case scenario building

• SNP Module: 2 weeks training and scenario building

• PP/DS Module: 1 week training and Pharma industry case

• TP/VS Module : 1 week training and FMCG case study.

 SAP R/3:

• PP module

 Six Sigma

• One week six sigma green belt Training

• Six Sigma project Implementations -2

 Quality

• ISO-14001

• ISO-TS 16949

• TPM

• Poka Yoke

Education

MBA ( Operations & Supply Chain) 2007 IIM Kozhikode

B. E.(Electrical) 2002 IIT , Kharagpur

Std 12 (State Board) 1998 Ramakrishna Mission , Narendrapur

Std 10 (state Board) 1996 Ramakrishna Mission , Purulia

INTERNSHIP

Asian PPG Duration: 2 months Supply Chain Optimization

• Studied and analyzed the Existing Outbound Supply Chain of the OE business

• Benchmarking of the system with the best practices of the industry

• Carried out a logistics service provider capability study for attaining the benchmarked logistics system

• Performed different scenario analyses based on agent based modeling structure with KPI’s as constraints

• Project implementation guideline and timeline suggested

Steel Authority of India Limited Duration: 2 Months Power factor Utilization

• Performed a study on power factor improvement as part of a project titled “Power factor improvement in captive power plant using dynamic capacitor banks”

Awards & Achievements

 Won “Commtrade” a commodity trading game at IIMA.

 Won Employee of the month award for Jan’05 at Tata Motors

 Won the Business Challenge Trophy, Tata Motors Edition

 ‘Mathematical Excellence ’ award winner at school level

 Won the “Vivekananda Centenary Award & Scholarship” for the year 1994 from Ramakrishna Math & Mission

Extracurricular Activities

 Captained IIT Kharagpur football team which won gold in the Inter IIT sports meet

 Governor of Dramatic Society at IIT, Kharagpur

 Cultural Secretary of GET Club of Tata Motors, Jamshedpur

 Organizer of an “Adult literacy drive” campaign

Other Information

 Hobbies: Watching and playing football, Photography, Biking

 Languages Known: Fluent in English, Bengali and Hindi

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