Supply Chain Project

Venu Gopal Puppala

Consultant

Certified Application Associate Consultant in Planning and GATP in SAP APO 7.0 (APO) EHP1 SAP AG

Summary of Experience

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Venu is a Consultant with the SAP practice in Wipro. He has over 12+ years of experience in Supply Chain Management and Technology Consulting. He specializes in SAP APO and SAP ECC. He has performed end to end implementations, upgrades, advisory and application maintenance & support in SAP APO (DP, SNP, GATP, CIF, TLB, DRP and PPDS) and ECC across different industry verticals such as Electronics, Automotive, Healthcare & Life Sciences and Food processing.

Venu has a thorough understanding of cross-functional business processes including Supply chain planning, Sales & operations planning, P2P process, Inventory optimization, Production planning and logistics. He brings with him strong communication, consulting and project management skills in addition to his core supply chain expertise. He is well versed with project implementation using Agile methodologies.

Venu is a Certified SAP Solution Consultant in SCM with extensive experience of working with various US clients for more than 7 years. He also has experience of working with clients based out of EU and Asia regions.

Currently Trained on best of breed Supply chain planning suite OM Plus by OMPARTNERS product managers, with particular emphasis on chemical industry supply chain.

Organizational Experience

Organization: Wipro Ltd.

Project duration

April 2015– April 2017

Client

Isuzu Motors, Anaheim USA

Project

Implementation of Plan to Inventory and Procure to Pay functions (SAP APO, ECC MM)

Role

Onsite Lead Consultant

Highlights/ Deliverables

Requirement Scoping & Change Request Management for Supply Chain Planning – S&OP with DP, GATP

Led design of the planning model in APO for demand planning and sales & operations planning for Engines, Commercial Vehicles and Spare parts for Isuzu Business.

Availability checks across plants, Supersession chain across plants, Customer based supersession rules, not to allocate orders on specific customers, Fill or Kill order, Order minimum not met then block the order

Fit-gap analysis, developed detailed processes, design of functional specs, solution design.

System Configuration, Design of required planning areas, planning books,

Conducted unit and integration testing. Worked with business teams for UAT testing and resolved defects.

Performed cutover, pre-deployment activities and post go-live support

Led the design and implementation of a sophisticated demand planning solution for forecasting the engines and models and its integration to OEMs (forecast collaboration)

Development Coordination and Project Management of teams spread across Geos.

Solution enhancements in procure to pay processes esp. through EDI/non EDI interface development and customization between ECC, SNC and Vendors.

Solution prototypes for MM CBP – Consumption based Planning, Material Forecasting, Quota arrangements for evaluation of gaps in the old P2P solution toward P2P reimplementation project.

Project duration

March 2013 – March 2015

Client

Campbell Soup Company, Camden, New Jersey, USA

Project

Roll out, Upgrade to SCM 7.0 EHP2 to Existing SCM Global Template and Implementation of Demand Planning solution to Pepperidge Farm

Role

Onsite Lead Consultant for SAP APO Applications

Highlights/ Deliverables

Lead Consultant for Critical SAP SCM modules including SAP APO (APO DP, CIF, APO SNP, APO PPDS, Demand Sensing and SAP EIS (IO)

Implementation of SAP DP and SNP for Pepperidge Farm Plants --- from May 2014 to Jan 2015

Extraction and integration of sales data in planning books to track the demand skew more closely.

Custom macros for controlling disaggregation differently for discontinued customers and products.

Design of Process Chains Integrated with TWS Scheduler with alert notifications.

RDS (Rapid deployment solution) proposal for Implementing SNP

Testing of PPDS implementation for 2 Plants.

Led Support activities for Incident, Support and Change and release management

Project duration

Aug 2009 – Feb 2013

Client

Hospira Inc., Lake Forest, IL

Project

Enhancement & Support of the existing SAP SCM implementation

Role

Onsite Lead Consultant for Functional Support & Enhancement in SAP APO and SAP MM/WM

Highlights/ Deliverables

Lead Consultant for Critical SAP SCM modules including SAP APO (DP, CIF and SNP (Optimizer) and SAP EIS (IO) and Materials Management (P2P).

Solution Quality improvement on APO optimizer post version upgrade in SCM 5.0.

Developed CIF user exit enhancements for stocks and product master.

Configured Alerts for DRP and deployment process.

Led an exercise of Inventory Verification and identified faulty movement types being used at Warehouse.

Drove the change management process using solution manager and also for Test scripts preparation of documentation and Training strategy.

Designed test scripts towards Support Pack Upgrade (SP15) on SCM system.

Regression testing of all test scripts in development, quality and stage systems.

Installed various SAP notes to address issues related to support pack upgrade.

Implemented various system improvement plans to reduce manual effort and jobs failure.

End to End implementation of SAP EIS (IO) integration with existing systems.

Proven success in resolving issues related with ECC & APO without impacting SLA

Onsite-offshore logistics and coordination for efficient work load balance

Project duration

Oct 2007 – May 2009

Client

Cardinal Health

Project

Enhancement & Support of the existing SAP SCM implementation

Role

APO (DP & SNP) Consultant for Functional Support & Enhancement

Highlights/ Deliverables

Fitment analysis of univariate models

Data extraction automation.

CTM Implementation (Capable to Match APO) and Solution Management

Managing Monthly sales History Load from Legacy systems and forecast runs.

Creation of calendars for forecasting and Supply network planning.

Execution of deployment and transport load build. Resolved issues pertaining to DP, SNP, Deployment & TLB processes.

Designed test scripts towards Support Pack Upgrade (SP15) on SCM system.

Regression testing of all test scripts in development, quality and stage systems.

Organization: Siemens Information Systems Ltd.

Project duration

Feb 2007 – May 2007

Client

Havells, India

Project

Implementation of SAP SCM 4.1 Demand Planning

Role

Consultant

Responsibility

Full configuration of APO Demand Planning, incl. basic BW for reporting

Project duration

Oct 2006 – Jan 2007

Client

SAP Labs India –Bangalore

Project

Functional Validation and Testing of SAP SPP Module

Role

Functional Testing Consultant

Responsibility

Validation of proposed solution and testing of developed modules of Service Parts Planning. Areas of SPP covered : Capture/Manage Demand (BW + SCM), Realignment Service ( Realigning Demand History ), Forecasting Service (UI + Service) New Parts Forecasting Service (Phase In/ Phase Out) BOD (Bill of Distribution) DRP ( Distributed Requirements Planning ) ICH Procurement ( Inbound Delivery Monitor, Supplier Rating ) Inventory Planning Service ( EOQ/Safety Stock ) Super session service & Realignment(Scenarios : 1:1, 1:n, n:1 ) ( Product Replacement ) Stocking / De-stocking Service Surplus & Obsolescence Service.

Project duration

Nov 2005 – Sep 2006

Client

Siemens COM for DSM Division, India

Project

Development of Solution for DSM division (SAP APO DP)

Role

Functional Consultant

Responsibility

Full implementation of APO DP and support

Designing the system architecture: 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 BBP.

Planning methods of univariate forecasting, strategies, forecasting with different planning methods, creating macros, alert monitoring, and live cache monitoring.

Project duration

Nov 2004 – Sep 2005

Client

Siemens AG (Division - COM) Munich, Germany

Project

AMS for i2 DP,SCP And SCC solution (Supply Chain Collaboration) and

Siemens Cordless Products Division Integration for i2 DP, SCP solution Projects

Role

Consultant

Responsibility

SCC modeling in i2

Implementation of SCC for Siemens Cordless Phones using Informatica and Oracle

Integrated workflows of SCC and SCP using Informatica and Oracle

Integration of SAP ECC with i2

Testing, Development of Interfaces

Performance tuning experiments

Project duration

May 2004 – Oct 2004

Client

Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany

Project

i2 SCP Solution for Infineon’s Corporate Module

Role

Techno Functional Consultant

Responsibility

Modelling Infineon's supply chain model

Organization: Avesta Computer Services, Ltd

Project duration

Jan 2003 – Feb 2004

Client

Cornell Univ. NJ, US

Project

Physician Organization Profile Management System,

Kinder Care and Mulberry online service.

Role

Design and Database Consultant

Responsibility

Oracle DBA/PL-SQL developer in Database Design

Data Migration

Performance Tuning of SQL scripts and database. Integration of different backend modules for making a complete application.

Organization: energietechnik, Pune

Project duration

May 2000 - May 2002

Project

Finesse® Resource Optimization Initiative© Supply Chain management System (SCM) for BDK Group of Companies, India and Fouress Engineering India Ltd. –Bangalore (June 2000 – February 2001)

Role

Software Engineer

Responsibility

Database design for development for all the modules of proprietary SCM application

Integration of all SCM modules using Oracle 8i and VB

Organization: Indian Seamless Steels and Alloys Ltd (ISSAL), Pune, India

Duration Sep 1995 – May 2000

Role Process control Engineer, Lead.

Responsibility Responsible for Quality Assurance, Product Development Plans,

New Product Line Process Models. Process Models: QS–9000 and ISO 9002.

Education & Learning

Education

Bachelor in Technology (B Tech in Metallurgical Engineering) National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India

Certification

Certified Application Associate Consultant in Planning and GATP in SAP APO 7.0 (APO) EHP1 SAP AG

Technical Competencies

Application Customizing and Solution Realization

Primary

APO DP, APO SNP, APO PPDS, APO GATP,S&OP BW, ECC-MM-WM

Secondary

i2 DP, SCP, SCC, SAP SD-Sales, GATP, SAP PP (MRP)

Integration Technologies

CIF, IDOC, ALE, RFC, Web services, Adobe Interactive forms and external integration scenarios

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