Supply Chain Project Manager

Sandeep Jaiswal

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E-mail: abie2c@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 317-***-****

Professional Experience

Profile

• APO Demand Planning Lead at 3M & Company.

• Has over eight years of extensive experience in optimizing and improving supply chain from both

strategic and technical points of view.

• Has process improvement and implementation experience using SAP R/3 and SAP APO including

10 full lifecycles in SAP APO DP, 3 full lifecycles in SAP APO SNP, 1 full lifecycles in SAP APO CTM,

3 full lifecycles in SAP APO PP/DS, 3 full lifecycles in SAP PP/PP-PI and 1 full lifecycles SAP BW

implementations in Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Electronics, Sporting Goods and

Telecommunication industries.

• Has a strong educational and technical background in Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering including

Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Total Quality Management, Simulation, Facility

Planning & Layout, Method Study and Work Measurement and Computer Aided/Integrated

Manufacturing.

Employer History

09/2010 – Present

3M Co., Maplewood, Minnesota, United States of America

APO Demand Planning Lead

Involved in the 3M Europe go-live as a part of the global strategic initiative for integrating multiple business

units and regions across 3M.

• Integration test co-lead for managing and monitoring the APO DP and SNP end-to-end integration testing

with ECC, BW and legacy systems.

• Provided design inputs to the BW team for development of the APO BW/BI-BW integration infrastructure

with a global support perspective.

• Actively worked with the 3M WRICEF development team for the preparation and management of

functional specifications.

11/2008 – 08/2010

Callaway Golf Company, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Sr. Principal System Analyst

Key player for the successful APO SNP/CTM Balls go-live as a part of the strategic management initiative for

improving key supply chain metrics at Callaway Golf Company. Successfully managed several other mid-size

implementations in APO, ECC and BW landscape.

• Modeled complex business scenarios in APO that included CTM planning with SNP

of logo products using planning materials, variant configuration planning of clubs and repetitive

manufacturing of balls at the off-shore vendors.

• Resolved various cross functional issues across multiple systems like APO, BW and

ECC at different stages of the Balls project implementation. The issues involved both IT and business

applications, especially supply chain planning and logistics execution. The quality and timeliness of the

effort was highly valued by the Callaway senior leadership.

• Conducted unit testing, knowledge transfer and training of core APO implementation

team that had both IT and business area representation. Also worked with the business superuser for

preparation of the core supply planning and deployment test scripts for the Balls integration testing.

Sandeep Jaiswal

E-mail: abie2c@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 317-***-****

• Deployed SNP background jobs in production after a detailed design documentation

and testing phase that spanned across multiple SAP systems. The first weeks run of the end to end

chain was successfully executed in production with minimal disruption.

• Deployed cross functional APO security with zero post live issues after a

comprehensive design, prototyping and testing phases. The design document was highly regarded by

the project management team members that included a field level granularity spanning across ECC,

APO DP and APO SNP/CTM systems.

• Resolved two critical show stopper issues for CIF and TLB performance by actively

pursuing with SAP on the product error message. The diligence and persistence of the effort was highly

appreciated by the senior project management team.

• Actively worked with SAP on different product error messages that lead to several

new SAP notes getting created to address the functionality gaps, especially in CTM and SNP areas.

• Key member in resolving major support issues and bringing Balls project to closure,

3 months after go live. Effectively lead and managed support activities during the December time-off

period by the APO team with near zero support issues.

• Successfully supported APO DP implementation during the stability phase for clubs,

balls and accessories product lines. Responsible for implementation of key post-live functionality add-

ons for APO exception management process, automatic CIF integration, livecache proportion

management among others.

• Project manager for the successful go-live of the China/Korea collaboration project

for the Asian subsidiaries. Net requirements for clubs were calculated in BW and redirected to ECC for

execution from APO as an interim process to SNP implementation. Thorough testing of the core BW

engine, BW user training and active management involvement resulted in immediate business

acceptance and sign-off, a few months after go-live.

• Managed a successful APO upgrade project for SCM 5.0 from SP04 to SP14 with

high recommendations from Callaway IT management.

06/2008 – 10/2008

IBM (Yazaki), Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Managing Consultant

Involved in blueprinting and identification of gaps for the Supply Network Collaboration (SNC 5.1)

implementation of Purchase Order, Supplier Managed Inventory, Release Processing and Invoice

Collaboration functionalities.

• Prepared functional specifications involving integration with ECC 6.0, BI/BW 7.0, PI

7.0, SCM 5.1 and SNC webUI systems.

• Provided Basis with detailed SNC and PI system sizing (using Quicksizer) based on

the forecasted transactional data load.

• Participated in the SNC 7.0 acceptance testing at SAP Labs with focus of new delta

functionality.

• Provided inputs on options available for deployment of webUI vs. Enterprise Portal

as supplier front-end.

• Created BPP master list and worked with the on-site landed resource to develop

configuration documents and testing strategy as a part of the project deliverables.

• Leveraged the IBM demo environment to provide client solutions as a part of the gap closure

and proof of concept activity.

• Worked with the off-shore IBM demo support team for patch application and other

maintenance activities

08/2008 – 09/2008

IBM (Volkswagen), Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Managing Consultant

Sandeep Jaiswal

E-mail: abie2c@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 317-***-****

Significant contribution as a part of the IBM SWAT team to bring Volkswagen APO and R/3 production

system to stability.

• Successfully troubleshot and resolved APO CIF and GATP issues the day after a

major technical system failure.

• Coordinated with the IBM off-shore team on on-going support, maintenance and

monitoring activities.

• Worked with IBM Mexico leadership to prepare high level resource management

plans for week-end support activities.

• Identified areas of improvement in CIF management and GATP as an initiative by

the IBM leadership to bring stability to the VW supply chain.

• Provided SAP best practice recommendations on CIF and GATP as a part of the

long term housekeeping.

• Provided in-depth root cause analysis on key GATP show stoppers that was widely

accepted by both IBM and VW team.

05/2005 - 06/2008

IBM (Rockwell Automation), Wisconsin, United States of America

Senior Consultant

Involved in multiple SAP APO go-lives involving 7 manufacturing plants and 1 distribution center. Typical end-

to-end implementation phases involved gathering business requirements, pro-typing,

testing, cutover, go-live and support.

• Phase 0 implementation at a pilot plant included planning in ECC via. a forecast flat file upload into

demand management and then releasing to MRP for execution. Phase II implementation involved

planning with limited APO DP 4.1 functionality termed “DP Lite” that provided a ramp-up to advanced

design in later releases. DP Lite simulated a black box modeling technique with DP forecast being

directly transferred to demand management in ECC.

• Release 2 involved full-fledged APO DP implementation with the roll out of the central US distribution

center. Configured the complex location realignment process in DP and automatic location determination

process in BW. Also designed end-to-end integrated master data transfer process capability involving

ECC, BW and APO. Standard life cycle management functionality was enhanced in APO to align with

Rockwell’s new product introduction process. Leveraged standard delivered DP functionality to design

the complex configure to order and engineer to order business strategies in APO DP without using SAP

delivered CBF functionality. Managed both landed and off-shore resources and coordinated knowledge

transfer activities for SAP and other 3rd party vendors.

• “Supply Planning Lite” implementation involved heuristics and rough cut capacity planning in PP/DS

with SNP used for user front end alert management. Also involved in complex master/transactional data

integration via. CIF (Core-Interface) supporting both the standard and configurable products at Rockwell.

Worked on global end state SNP design involving complex PDS super-BOM structure with object

dependencies, detailed scheduling board for dispatching & scheduling and stock transports inter/intra

plants/Distribution Center’s.

• Prototyped supplier integration process for purchase order and inventory collaboration using SCM

SNC 5.1 (Supplier Network Collaboration) to optimize Rockwell’s upstream supply chain. This included

end-to-end ECC & SNC data modeling, system(s) configuration and issue resolution involving SNC, XI &

ECC

landscape. Also coordinated with the off-shore IBM GBSC support team for application of patches,

security management and SNC system upgrade. Worked with APO COE to prepare training

documentation on Contract Manufacturing Procurement (SNC-CMP) and Supplier Network Inventory

(SNC-SNI) as a part of the IBM knowledge base. Developed a successful SNC demo on-time while also

working full-time on the project. Became SNC solution champion and SME to several projects/proposals.

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• Designed a solution in ECC to forecast prototypes and long lead items using product groups to

emulate planning bill of materials. Also responsible for configuring long term planning functionality in

ECC to generate long term component forecast for Rockwell vendors using APO forecast as the basis.

Designed/configured ECC demand management functionality/consumption logic after the forecast

transfer from APO DP.

04/2004 - 05/2005

Avocent Corporation, United States of America

Senior Business Analyst

Successfully implemented SAP APO (DP & SNP 4.0) and SAP R/3 PP 4.7 in several international Avocent

live sites, performing tasks mainly in configuration and support of the SAP–APO and SAP R/3.

• Designed, configured and tested DP back-end planning area objects, user front end planning views,

advanced macros, statistical forecast modeling, product lifecycle planning management and various

alert management tools.

• Prototyped the Characteristic Based Forecasting (CBF) functionality in APO DP for the highly

configurable Avocent products by forecasting at end-item and characteristic level.

• Designed and supported the APO core-interface (CIF) for data integration between APO and ECC on

master and transactional data level.

• Developed reporting tools for ad-hoc APO DP and strategic BW reporting for forecast accuracy,

annual operating plan (AOP) analysis, forecast waterfall among others.

• Developed and tested the DP and SNP end-to-end security authorization management for both

external (end-user) and internal (COE) customers.

• Coordinated with IBM India off-shore ABAP development team on various WRICEF's objects for

functional/technical specifications.

• Designed, configured, tested and supported the SNP process involving multiple plants and

distribution centers as a part of the global roll-out. Setup of planning area objects, planning views,

integration with DP/R/3, standard safety stock planning, Deployment and TLB were some of the SNP

activities involved.

• Utilized optimization based planning in SNP to model and plan for limited production capacity and

throughput bottleneck resources at Avocent plants.

• Also responsible for modeling production master data, SOP, MRP execution run, procurement

(purchasing and production) order management and shop floor scheduling in SAP R/3 PP.

03/2002 - 03/2004

Eli Lilly & Company, United States of America

Senior System Analyst

Lead and managed the Production Planning team for several SAP-APO (DP, SNP & PP/DS 4.0) and SAP

R/3 (MM/PP-PI/CIF 4.7) full-cycle implementations, including international customer sites. Involved in the

end-to-end Lilly GBIP project lifecycle completing it successfully for each of the live sites from Affiliate

Assessment, Model Office, Initial Integration Testing (IIT), Final Integration Testing (FIT), Cutover, Go-Live,

and Stability.

• Performed gap analysis, analysis, functional design, prototype development, unit testing, production

data testing, initial integration testing, final integration testing, stability testing, cutover and

coordinated integration with SAP Production Planning (PP-PI), Material Management (MM) and

Warehouse Management (WM).

Sandeep Jaiswal

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• Responsible for complete master data management for DP, SNP and PP/DS including characteristic

value combination, supply chain model, product, PPM, resource, transportation lane and location.

• This included initial and on-going master data transfer via. CIF and initial go-live APO only master

data conversion.

• Configured and developed the DP solution involving backend BW infrastructure, planning area

objects, front end planning views, advanced DP macros, alert management and statistical forecast.

• Designed and configured the SNP solution involving planning area objects, supply chain setup,

master data modeling, integration with DP & PP/DS, SNP heuristics, Deployment and TLB.

• Developed and configured detailed scheduling board to display and solve planning situation involving

operations on resources over time. Utilized automated scheduling functions and heuristics in addition

to manual scheduling with drag and drop.

• Configured optimization in PP/DS to generate a feasible optimized procurement plan after the infinite

heuristics run.

• Utilized campaign heuristics by consolidation of orders into production campaigns for similar

products in order to optimize setup costs.

06/2001 - 02/2002

EBSCO Industries Inc, United States of America

Project Manager

Performed as a process/technical consultant role in SAP APO DP, SNP 3.0A and BW 2.0 implementations for

three simultaneous sites, where he mainly focused on demand and supply analysis, forecasting processes,

replenishment planning processes, business requirements, enterprise wide S&OP processes

implementation, and solution design in APO DP and SNP.

• Responsible for DP BW backend infrastructure design and development, master data management,

gap analysis, functional design, prototype development, unit testing, production data testing and key

user training.

• Utilized SNP to develop a feasible unconstrained mid-term supply plan for the supply chain involving

DC's and production plants.

• Configured planning area objects, front end planning views, heuristics planning run setup, advanced

SNP macros and publishing of supply plan to SAP R/3.

• Designed and configured static safety stock planning methodology for the EBSCO supply chain to

safeguard again uncertainty in demand/supply.

• Coordinated integration with SAP BW 2.0, SAP PP 4.6C, and SAP MM 4.6C, and managed a

process and productivity improvement project for gun and furniture facilities using tools such as lean

manufacturing including Kaizen, Time and Motion Studies, Six Sigma and 5S.

• The SAP PP and MM implementation included SOP, Demand Management, MRP, Capacity

Planning, Long Term Planning, Purchasing, Inventory Management and Invoice Verification.

Experience also included systems study, business process mapping, configuration, testing & training

05/2000 - 05/2001

Champion Technologies Inc., United States of America

Manufacturing/ Industrial Engineer

Team member in the SAP PP implementation which included MRP and Capacity Planning, focusing on

business process mapping, configuration, systems study, testing and user training.

• Designed multi-million dollar plant layouts using AutoCAD and capacity models, and developed new

product cost models and forecast model variance for a manufacturing facility.

• Conducted time and motion studies, initiated new product introduction, designed infrastructure for

Class 100 clean rooms including HVAC, implemented process improvements, new material handling

techniques and cost and scrap reduction programs.

08/1998 - 04/2000

Sandeep Jaiswal

E-mail: abie2c@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 317-***-****

Andrew Corporation, United States of America

Engineer

Process/technical consultant who successfully implemented SAP APO DP 2.0 for the wireless accessories

unit headquartered in Addison, IL.

• Responsibilities included the design, development and implementation of S&OP work processes

using SAP APO Demand and Supply Network Planning that was implemented and integrated with

SAP BW.

• Also implemented SAP PP/MM which included Demand Management, MRP, SOP, Capacity

Planning, Long Term Planning, Batch Management, Shop Floor Scheduling, Purchasing, and

Inventory Management. The project included current state analysis, benchmarking, gap analysis,

process mapping, data analysis, model development, optimization analysis, forecast model analysis,

configuration, integration with SAP PP/MM, testing and user training.

Sandeep Jaiswal

E-mail: abie2c@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 317-***-****

Key Skills

Industries Electronics, Telecommunication, Pharmaceuticals, Sporting Goods

Operating Systems UNIX, Windows 95/NT/XP/Vista, Windows 2000, HP-Unix, Mac-OS, MS-DOS, Solaris

Computer Languages SQL, Java, HTML, Visual Basic, C/C++, Fortran 77

Applications SAP APO DP, SNP & PP/DS, SCM SNC, SAP SolMan, SAP R/3/ECC PP, SAP

R/3/ECC MM, SAP BW, SAP XI/PI, Manugistics, Microsoft Project, Visio, Excel, MS

Word, PowerPoint, Access, MACOLA, AutoCAD, MatLab, ProE, Qnet, InfoPack,

Mercury Test Director, IBM Ascendant

Education

Master of Science Industrial & Systems Engineering University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA 1999

Bachelors Production Engineering University of Bombay, Bombay, India 1995

Awards and Recognition

• Special Skills Bonus 2008 at IBM

• Service Excellence Award each and every year at IBM

• Top 5% Assessment Ranking at IBM

Languages

English (Fluent), French (Intermediate), Spanish (Basic), German (Basic)

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