Supply Chain Sales
Resume:
SAGAR KUMAR
Platinum SCM Consultant; Supply Chain Specialist
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Platinum consultant with over 18 years of consulting experience in SAP IBP (S&OP, DP, Supply Planning, & Control Tower), SAP SCM (APO- DP, SNP, GATP, PP/DS, SNC), & SAP ECC (PP, MM, SD, PP-PI), BI/B/W, and ABAP/4. Other SCM software suites experience include Steelwedge (S&OP & SCM) and SAS. With extensive hands on system skills, practical knowledge of supply chain (including reverse logistics) business processes & best practices, knowledge in variety of industries, outstanding leadership, communication and technical skills, and broad educational (MBA- MIS, MS- Industrial Management) background and professional certification (CPIM), I am an asset to any organization. Extensive training experience, strong BW and basic ABAP/4 knowledge skills round off my experience set. I have held a variety of positions including solutions architect (SAP America), industry manager (semiconductor), project manager, trainer (with SAP), project lead and as consultant. I am seeking a challenging project in the field of SAP IBP or SCM/APO implementation that requires a blend of technical, and business skills. I have also been recognized with an outstanding consultant award at SAP America.
EXPERIENCE
Lennox International June 2017- Current
IBP/S&OP Consultant
Part of a full cycle SAP IBP SOP implementation team for the Commercial Heating & Cooling Division of this multinational company. Main responsibilities involved requirements gathering, configuration of S&OP planning area, aiding in data uploads, and building of Control Tower functions.
Charlotte Pipe & Foundry
Sr. SCM Consultant- APO/GATP Jan 2017- May 2017
Implemented (design/configure/test and document) GATP solution focused on CTP (also involving changes to aspects of PPDS), MATP, product allocation for this relatively small and privately held company. This included building CIF models, and writing specs for user exits and testing them.
Medtronic, Inc
Sr. SCM Consultant/Architect July 2016 – Jan 2017
Performed detailed requirements gathering and gap analysis in the area of VMI using SNP-CTM for a recently acquired large organization.
Designed and documented (blueprint) for a new VMI approach and solution within the context of a complex multiple system environment in a phased manner.
Built a working prototype and Identified gaps in standard solution.
Created development specifications to address the gaps.
Steelwedge, Inc.
Sr. Solutions Consultant/Architect Jan 2016- July 2016
Performed standard and custom demonstration of Steelwedge solution to several prospects in various industries.
Worked with product development organization to enhance the product in several areas including supply planning, control tower and demand planning
Medtronic, Inc.
Sr. SCM Consultant
Consolidated several demand planning independent implementations for several organizational units into a single global design.
Redesigned and enhanced statistical forecasting with new methods and techniques
Standardize time bucket profiles, and planning area design, and redesigned planning books and data views, and wrote complex macros and statistical forecasting profiles
Designed custom logic for realignment
Caterpillar, Inc.
SCM Solutions Architect
Assess significant systems and business process issues facing the organization’s new manufacturing plant in the areas of production and procurement planning, shop floor control, manufacturing execution system, and master data, covering the areas of SAP ECC PP, SAP APO (DP-PP/DS), SAP ME, SAP MII, and SAP PLM, and recommend process and systems improvement. This included resolving issues facing VC in context of planning and manufacturing, amount of complex engineering changes and its impact on procurement, planning, and shop floor, SAP ME changes.
In addition to lead responsibility, my main responsibility was the redesign and implementation of model-mix planning involving PP/DS algorithms (heuristics & genetic algorithms) with some customization
HD Supply, Inc.
Sr. Solutions Architect (SCM)
Designed and implemented the overall supply chain planning, materials planning and shop floor footprint spanning both ECC (primary) and APO, covering the areas of APO-SNP (DRP, Deployment, TLB, VMI), APO-DP, SAP PLM, PP-MRP, VC, PP-Demand Management, PP-SFC, Materials Management including subcontract manufacturing), APO- Demand Planning, Warehouse Management for a newly acquired company.
Responsible for re-architecting and enhancing the SCM functions towards a more standard, effective and manageable solution.
Created a SCM (planning and execution) 1 year and 3 year road map for the organization
Enhanced existing custom SNP alternative to work with standard SNP Heuristics
Redesigned the Demand Planning implementation to be more flexible, less resource intensive, and scalable, along with several enhancements
Implemented TLB solution
Dupont, Inc. Feb 2014
Sr. Consultant (SAP America, QC)
Perform QC for one of Dupont division’s SAP implementation for one of the division in the area of APO solution (Demand Planning & Supply Network Planning).
Callaway Golf, Inc.
SCM Architect/Lead Consultant
Lead consultant responsible for stabilizing and enhancements and redesign in several areas including SNP (CTM & Deployment), Demand Planning (redesign), and GATP (Product Allocations), so as to overcome some difficult implementation issues and design problems.
Sysco Foods
SAP SCM Lead:
Lead consultant responsible stabilization of an APO solution that was not providing business with acceptable planning results. Design included SAP APO (DP, SNP) and SmartOps EIO for inventory planning. Led the team to simplify the planning design and change the SNP planning engine from CTM to Heuristics, and regain user confidence in the solution.
Semtech International
SAP SCM Lead:
Lead consultant responsible for implementing SAP APO (DP, SNP, and PP/DS). The functions covered include the following:
Sales & Marketing Forecasting including collaborative planning for specific customer, distributor inventory and end-customer sales tracking, consensus management, statistical forecasting, and forecast error calculations and analysis.
Sales and Operations Planning using DP and SNP in simulation modes. Significant aspects involved determining financial (revenue, margins) and operational (e.g. yields) impact of different scenarios (e.g. backend or frontend constrained, unconstrained and fully constrained), extensive alerts, trend and comparison reporting
SNP Cross-plant supply and distribution planning using CTM and Heuristics engines. Salient aspects include demand prioritization, supplier/contract manufacturer collaboration, supply categorizations, simulations, VMI, inventory control, extensive reporting.
PP/DS for one plant featuring reorder planning, detailed capacity planning, and PP/DS Heuristics.
Master and transaction data interactions with ECC (PP, MM & SD) using CIF, and related BI/BW reporting
In addition to the overall SCM solution design and coordination with ECC and BI/team, I am mainly responsible for configuration of PP/DS solution in SCM 7.0 environment.
International Rectifier
SCM Architect: (PWC)
Evaluate and propose solutions for significant SCM issues faced by the corporation. Deliverable included recommendations with respect to processes (business), system changes and resource estimates. The areas evaluated include GATP, SD, DP, SNP (CTM, VMI), MM, PP, and PP/DS.
Post proposal role included implementation of PP/DS custom enhancements for the manufacturing plant in California.
Intel Corporation
Senior Consultant: SCM
I have worked on several projects in areas covering SNP, DP and GATP.
Project Shell: Responsible for design and development of template based, flexible DP and SNP (Deployment Optimizer, CTM and heuristics) functionality that can cover DP and SNP (deployment) requirements for new non-allocated business units, and would require greatly reduced go-live time.
Product Allocation Enhancement
I was responsible for enhancing the existing GATP product allocation functionality and to incorporate new business area.
Channel Tray Integration
This project involved expanding the existing SNP (CTM, Deployment Optimizer) supply planning scenario to incorporate constrained products, and new product lines (Channel-Tray) and associated functional and system changes.
Newport Corporation
Senior/Lead Consultant: SCM GATP (SAP)
As lead consultant, I was responsible for delivering a Global ATP and Demand Planning solution for this organization with complex manufacturing processes. The scope for GATP included Rules based ATP, multi-level ATP and product allocations. Main activities included:
oRequirements gathering for GATP and Demand Planning
oConfiguring all GATP related functions including Rules Based and Multi-level ATP.
oCreating and maintaining associated CIF models
oWriting specifications and testing for user exits and other development items
oCreating and monitoring the overall implementation plan, and coordinating various facets of the implementation including changes in ECC side
Bloomberg Corporation
SCM Architect: SCM – Reverse Logistics
Assess, recommend, and implement changes to forecast return (reverse logistics) and supply planning for Bloomberg trade stations.
Kennametal, Inc.
Senior/Lead Consultant: SCM (IBM)
As lead consultant for the SCM team in this complex manufacturing and distribution environment, I was responsible for implementation of SCM solution consisting of Demand Planning, Sales and Operations Planning, Supply Network Planning, and GATP. Main Activities included:
oGathering of requirement and developing the overall SCM blueprint using APO’s Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, and Global ATP modules.
oMain aspects of Demand Planning involved statistical forecasting, life cycle management, complex macros, alerts, and high volumes
oMain aspects of SOP (using DP) involved Rough Cut Capacity Planning representation, and complex disaggregation, and locking.
oProviding input to resource plan and project plan, and technical infrastructure
oConfiguration of SNP solution which involved the following features
oMix of CTM and heuristics engines planning runs for DRP and procurement planning, production planning, stock rebalancing, deployment and TLB.
oAggregate planning for select product set.
oVariety of planning strategies, finite capacity planning, long-term and near term planning, demand prioritization, supply categorization, safety stock planning, deployment heuristics, subcontract manufacturing, sales and purchase scheduling agreements.
oCustom macros and alerts
oSNP simulations as a feed to SOP,
oReports, extractions and from BI/BW.
oPerformance improvement and sizing of SCM
oCreating and maintaining CIF models
Yamaha Motors, Inc.
Senior Consultant: GATP
This project entailed a detailed assessment of replacing a custom ATP solution with APO GATP including for three different divisions of Yamaha Motors. Activities included
oDetailed analysis, comparison, and fit-gap analysis of APO’s GATP functionality vis-à-vis custom solution and additional business requirements.
oDetailed Cost-Benefit analysis, including the sizing.
oAggregate schedule and project plan & resource plan, including high level estimates of additional development.
Cirrus Logic (IBM)
Senior Consultant: GATP & SNP
This implementation entailed delivering the blueprint for APO-SNP (CTM) and APO-GATP. Activities included:
Gathering requirements, creating initial overall design, performing gap analysis and proposing initial estimates for development and roll-out plans.
Developed overall system landscape, and provided functional specifications for enhancements for CIF, GATP, and CTM.
Configuring baseline SNP (CTM) functionality (prototype), including enhancing CIF and extracts from APO to BW.
Configured baseline GATP functions (prototype) that included multi-level ATP, ruled based ATP, and rescheduling.
Created BPPs and created and delivered core users training.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (Bearing Point)
Team Lead: Demand Planning
This project entailed the implementation of Demand Planning for this large company for its domestic and international units for both operational and long term strategic focus.
Responsible for overall design, and delivery of the implementation
Configured domestic forecasting and demand control functions using demand planning module. This includes building of planning areas, planning books, and writing complex macros, and alerts. Special features included complex structural and time disaggregation, life cycle management, realignment, proportional factor generation, and custom locking mechanism.
Built extractors from APO DP to ECC PP (demand management) for transferring of demand to PP for MRP purposes.
Prepared and executed unit test and integration tests.
Created and delivered class room training to core team and end users.
Provided business process advice on life cycle management, and forecasting processes.
Turned around the project that was behind schedule to on-time, on-budget implementation with minimal post go-live issues.
THQ Inc. (UniSAP, LLC)
Sr. Consultant: Global Procurement System
This project entailed creating an overall SCM solution spanning demand planning supply planning, distribution planning and reverse logistics planning and execution.. The implementation of APO’s Demand Planning and SNP modules for three different organizational entities within THQ Inc.
Activities included gathering requirements, determining the overall application and technical architecture in SAP's APO and ECC spanning APO-DP, APO-SNP(CTM), APO-Deployment, ECC purchasing, reverse logistics planning and execution (APO & ECC).
Main area of implementation was APO DP with emphasis on designing and configuring planning areas, creating planning books, and building complex advanced macros.
Other areas of focus included writing master data and transaction extracts from R/3 and main BI/B/W using BW tools within APO, building queries off the planning area using BEX Analyzer, building process chains for periodic extracts and processes. This included building standard info-cubes, remote info-cubes, info-spokes, and writing utilities (transforms) using ABAP/4.
In addition to the basic forecasting, Demand Planning’s flexibility was utilized for simulation of unconstrained procurement plans (SNP like functions), and to provide a quick perspective into overall supply and demand situation. Other functions include life cycle management, complex consumption features, product substitutions, risk analysis, alerts and exception reports all inbuilt into the planning area functions.
Post production support included performance tuning and minor enhancements
On time implementation despite very aggressive schedule.
Sr. consultant: TIG extensions
This project was an extension of the above listed project in the area of APO SNP (CTM), and DP to incorporate changes to international organization structure and additional requirements.
Post go-live support for the above project for both DP and SNP areas
Refined for improved performance in DP and to incorporate a more flexible structure to incorporate current and anticipated organizational changes.
Configured extensions to the CTM engine to cover new organization structures and enhanced/added to the exiting CIF models.
Enhanced integration with ECC PP, and MM areas
Wrote several utilities for system consistency, and building sophisticated process chains with exception reporting.
Pioneer Electronics,
Solutions Architect: Project Blue-Sky:
Developed overall SCM application architecture for Pioneer USA. This entailed examining overall supply chain requirements, business processes, and existing applications, identifying the gaps and areas of improvements in processes and applications utilizing industry best practices; cost benefit analysis and coming up with an overall SCM rollout plan.
Lead Consultant- Seihan (Distribution & Reverse Logistics):
This project involved several key business areas including Sales and Operations Planning, Procurement/Supply planning, using SAP APO’s DP and SNP (including VMI) modules. ECC modules, CIF, and SAP B/W systems.:
Full implementation from gathering requirements to production support including core group training and documentation
Hands on DP configuration involving multiple planning areas, planning books, complex macros, product life cycle management and alerts.
Wrote generic queries off the planning area using remote infocubes, etc. using BeX Analyzer.
Reverse logistics features included RMA processing, refurbishment and B channel management.
Lead Consultant - Sales Forecasting:
This was a follow-on project to the Seihan project, involving similar activities. This project involved detailed sales forecasting using standard APO DP and custom techniques.
oFull cycle implementation including from requirements gathering to production support
oFeatured complex structural and time disaggregation, life cycle management, custom audit trails, forecast gathering and analysis.
Sr. Consultant: ATS (Available to Sell):
This variation of Available to Promise required the use of product allocation features of GATP and R/3’s Sales & distribution module. Main role was in gathering requirements and design and configuration of the custom solution in APO.
Lead Consultant - Seihan (Automotive Electronics Manufacturing):
Implementation of Forecasting, Seihan (SOP), and operations planning using APO’s Demand Planning, PP/DS and R/3 PP modules for a manufacturing division. Major activities included project planning, development of overall architecture, and technical coordination. System Implementation activities include:
Full cycle implementation from requirements gathering to production support
Implemented PP/DS module utilizing PP/DS heuristics procedures.
Special features include heuristics for standard and repetitive manufacturing, simulations, interfaces with external custom execution system.
Nexplicit, Inc; Nov 00 to Feb 02
Business Development
Primarily responsible for new business development. In addition, performed the following consulting assignments:
Advanced Micro Devices
Sr. Consultant: MES
SAP Manufacturing Strategy Analyst- determine the overall gaps in SAP software vis-à-vis AMD’s manufacturing requirements; perform detailed analysis in the areas of semiconductor MES (R/3 Production Planning) and product costing gaps in R/3 software and recommend alternatives.
Virco Manufacturing
Supply Chain Assessment:
Performed supply chain assessment and make recommendations for improving business process changes and corresponding software solution. Prepare a solution roadmap for production planning, materials planning and distribution.
MRP & MM Implementation
Implementation of material management (purchasing and warehousing) and Materials Requirements Planning Implementation enhancement for a complex manufacturing environment using R/3 PP & MM functions.
George Fischer International
MRP & MM :
Implementation of MRP system enhancements to existing system and implementation for a new product line.
Supply Chain Assessment: Performed supply chain assessment and recommendations on reorganization and manufacturing changes for new unit.
SAP America, Inc. Irvine, CA Jan 95 to Oct 00
Solutions Engineer (APO/Discrete Sector)
Accomplishments
Instrumental in closing several accounts in discrete sector for SAP’s SCM/APO solution (includes all modules of APO including DP; SNP; PP/DS, and Global ATP). Customers and prospects include HP, Intel, Caterpillar, Bosch, ITT Night Vision, Texas Instruments et al.
Responsibilities
Prepare and demonstrate customized demos of SAP’s SCM/APO solution to prospects. Respond to RFPs. The functional areas covered include Demand Planning ; SNP (Optimizer & CTM); PP/DS ; Global ATP; and CIF
Solutions Architect (SemiConductor)
Accomplishments:
Instrumental in supporting several key supply chain accounts for SAP during a time when SAP was not known for its supply-chain solution particularly in the competitive High Tech sector. The accounts include Hewlett Packard, Intel, AMD, LSI Logic, Apple Computers, Cirrus Logic, Adaptec, and Nortel.
Responsibilities:
Architect and position SAP’s supply chain management, and high-tech solutions & best practices with customers and prospects, in particular discrete industry solution, strategic customers.
Coordinate and organize activities for major SAP events such as Sapphire (industry tracks), and ASUG (users group). Presented at several SAP & industry events.
Sr. Applications Consultant
Involved in several full cycle implementations in SAP’s PP (Production Planning), PP-PI (Production Planning Process Industries), Product Costing, MM (Materials Management) and QM (Quality Management) at several customers. These include:
Advanced Energy (Power Supplier for Semiconductor Industry)
Area covered Product Costing
Adaptec:
Aided in development of PP-PI features specific to semiconductor industry
Aided in implementation of MRP, MES, and QM functions
BrookTree Semiconductors
Implemented MRP, MES, and QM functions
AMCC:
Implemented MRP, and MES functions
Spot consulting engagements at several customers including Colgate, Hewlett Packard, 3Com, Flextronics, Triquint Semiconductor, Intel, LSI Logic, Hewlett Packard,), Analog Devices, Allergan, MSIL, MEMC, and AT&T Cable.
Conducted educational & training classes for several SAP manufacturing classes (basic, process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing, product costing, capacity planning, and Sales & Operations Planning) classes.
Other
Outstanding Consultant award for 1996.
EDUCATION
Masters in Business Administration, University of Texas, Majors in MIS and Finance
Masters in Industrial Management, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Bachelor of Engineering- National Institute of Technology (REC), Rourkela, India
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
CPIM : Certified in Production and Inventory Management
CSCP: Certified Supply Chain Professional
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