SAP APO (SNP, DP, PPDS & CIF)

ASHUTOSH KATHPALIA

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

SAP Business Analyst with over 4.5 years of experience in APO, Supply Chain Planning, Inventory Management and Demand Forecasting with expertise in APO SNP, DP, CIF and ECC (PP, MM).

SKILLS & CORE COMPETENCIES

SAP APO SCM 7.0 (SNP, DP, CIF, PPDS), SAP R/3-ECC 6.4 (MM, PP, SD), SAP S/4 HANA Fiori 2.0, SAP IBP S&OP

Analysis: Tableau, Power BI, MS Visio, MS Excel (Solver, Pivot Tables, V-Lookup, Macros)

Applications: MS Office, MySQL, MS Outlook, MS SharePoint

Supply Chain Planning, Demand Forecasting, Inventory Management, S&OP, Process Improvement

Data Analytics, Problem Solving, Decision Making, ERP Systems, Agile and Waterfall methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Accenture Senior Analyst Pune, India Jan 2015 - July 2017

Responsible for forecasting demand, managing inventory and planning the replenishment cycles on a daily basis to prevent product surplus or shortfall/stock out situation in SAP APO

Conducted business process GAP analysis between To-Be design and SAP standard Business Processes, and made recommendations for Process Improvement

Expertise in solution development from requirement analysis to process mapping using Agile Methodologies, documentation and testing (Unit Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing)

Proven ability to communicate and maintain effective relationships with business partners, internal and global development teams and external vendors

Detailed analysis of Optimizer Trace File, Optimizer Input log, and Result Log to interpret optimizer results and to identify gaps. Configured Heuristic planning environment with focus on performance improvement

Analyzed customer requirements and implemented standard APO Supply Network Planning solutions (sub-contracting & third-party vendor network) in 7 countries improving customer satisfaction level to 95%+

Analyzed complex linear programming problems for generating the optimized safety stock levels across the supply chain network, lowering the total inventory holding costs by 20%

Hand-on experience in Purchase Order creation, PO release, Scheduling Agreement, Confirmation of Orders, Goods Issue and Goods Receipt

Accenture Analyst Pune, India Feb 2013 – Dec 2014

Improved forecasting accuracy by 15% by implementing a focused assumption-based forecasting model

Monitored four different MRPs, containing greater than 2,500-part numbers and over $225M in annual spend

Created Master Planning Object Structures, Planning Area, Characteristic Combination Master Data and Time Series Objects, Storage Bucket Profile and Planning Bucket Profile for monthly and weekly buckets

Analyzed repositories to develop deletion reports, reducing 80% of the client’s obsolete Master Data

Assisted client for generating CVCs via realignment for different planning purposes during NPI scenarios

Maintained CIF Integration Models for Master and Transaction Data transfer between ECC (R/3) and APO. Mass Maintenance of Master Data in APO (PPM/PDS, Transportation Lanes)

Created reports and developed dashboards in MS Excel and Tableau showcasing different KPIs

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Capstone Project: Team Car Care Jiffy Lube – Applied DMAIC to successfully reduce damage claims cost by 20%

oPerformed Kaizen and Six Sigma Pareto Analysis to examine root causes for damage claims

Forecasting sales of BMW cars in USA – Routing of 25 finished products, work center operations and planning demand using MRP and MPS for 15 BOM structures. Created demand plan using heuristic supply network planning and capacity levelling for different plant locations

EDUCATION

M.S., Supply Chain Management, May 2019

The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

B.Tech., Computer Science & Engineering, June 2012

M.D. University, India

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