SAP APO Consultant

Profile Summary

•I am a consultant in the field of Supply Chain Management at Accenture, with around 10 years of experience in the area of Supply Chain Planning. Out of this, 7.5 years are been in SAP APO.

•Successfully completed APO implementations involving Plan, Analyze, Design, Build and Configuration, Customization, Testing, Pre/Post Go-Live and Production Support. Conducted Workshops & Client Demo, Presentations and Business Requirements gathering for various clients.

•Have experience working on both Implementation and Application Support Projects.

Have ability and desire to learn new areas, have worked on all the major modules in APO – Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling (PPDS) and Global Availability to Promise (GATP).

Have worked on Integration with various modules like Order to Cash (OTC), Production Planning (PP) and Requisition to Pay (RTP).

Have experience working in a complex environment involving 13 SAP systems (MDG, ECC6, SCM7, R/3 4.6C, SCM 4.1, APO 3.0, BW)

Have experience in the following areas of PPDS

oPlanning Board Configuration & Production Campaigns

oCustomization of Process Order Numbering to support Intelligent Numbering

oCustomization of Product View & Customization of PDS CIF

oAnalyzing Planning Run & CIF issues

oSubcontracting Process

Have an MBA in Supply Chain management from National Institute of Industrial Engineering and Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

Possess excellent interpersonal, analytical, troubleshooting and team building skills.

Job Experience

COMPANY: ACCENTURE

Project: SAP APO Implementation

Project Duration: July 2013 - Present

Assigned Role: Business Planning Interim Process Lead

Project & Assignment Description

1) Interface of SCM and ECC with older versions of R/3 4.6 C and APO 3.0, SCM 4.1 respectively.

Ensuring that the Demand & Supply Processes in the Legacy APO systems work with the new Systems, Processes & Data.

Integrate with various models within and outside Business Planning – DP, SNP, GATP, PPDS, OTC, MFG, RTP, WHL, FIN.

This includes 13 SAP systems (5 APO, 5 R/3, 2 BW, 1 MDG)

2) DP: Demand Planning BOM, Integration with Supply Planning, Disaggregation of Key Figures, Macros, Extraction of Data from Demand Planning using a Custom Tool.

Interface of SCM7 with 3rd party Planning system for bringing history & forecast into SCM 7.

Knowledge of Forecast Level Optimizer

3) PPDS: Enhancement of Product view, PDS

Custom Process Order Numbering,

Production Campaigns

Subcontracting Process

3) GATP+ATP: Designing & Testing of Product Allocation, Product Substitution, Backorder Processing, Enhancements to ATP checks in R/3

Integration of Sales Policy Lead Time with SCM Processes

4) SNP: Integration of SD BOM in Order to Cash with Supply Planning

Forecast Consumption and Configuration of Requirements Class/types

Testing & Training of Supply Processes

MRP Planning in ECC

5) Migration of Data & Configuration from R/3 4.6C to ECC6 system

6) Set up the Core Interface (CIF) for various Businesses, enhancement to CIF – Material Master, Transactional Data

7) Inter Company Cross-System Planning (Planning and Execution Involving 1 APO and 2 ECC/R3 systems)

8) Coordinated with Various Businesses for Testing their scenarios comprising of:

Sales History Flow, Forecasting, Forecast Release, Supply Planning using CTM and Heuristics, Safety Stock Planning, PPDS Planning, Sub Contracting and ATP.

9) Experience in SAP Solution Manager for Documentation of all Process Design, Requirements, Functional Design, Configuration Rationale Documents & Migration of Transports

10) Experience in HPQC for Creation of Test Scripts & Documenting Results

COMPANY: ACCENTURE

Project: SAP APO (DP-SNP) Implementation

Project Duration: August 2012 - June 2013

Assigned Role: APO DP & SNP Lead

Project & Assignment Description

This is the first stainless steel company in India to Implement SAP APO.

1) Involved in Requirement gathering, Configuration, Testing & Deployment of DP & SNP.

2) Created Planning Products in Demand Planning based on the Sale History at the actual Product with variant configuration.

3) Designed an enhancement to the Capacity Leveling functionality of SNP.

4) Worked on the concept of Planning Products which is fairly new.

5) RM Planning - Coordinating with various teams especially PP and MM to develop an interface with the client's legacy system for Planning of Raw Materials.

6) Explored the functionality of SNP Optimizer to check the feasibility of the same.

7) Worked on developing the Integration Test scripts for various modules.

COMPANY: ACCENTURE

Project: SAP APO Rollout

Project Duration: April 2009 - July 2012

Assigned Role: Configuration Lead

Project & Assignment Description

A] Roll-out of APO to new geographies:

1) Configuration of Geography/Business specific scenarios in DP, SNP, PPDS

2) Participating in the USAT

3) Providing Post Go live Support for DP/SNP/PPDS

4) Implementation of SAP APO to replace client's Legacy Planning system

B] Enhancements:

1) Enhancement of the client's Demand Planning Process.

2) Improving the client's Demand Forecasting Process.

3) Automation of Planning using Planning Products.

4) Managing all enhancements delivered out of India.

5) Application Stack Upgrade - Supporting client in testing end-to-end scenarios and fixing issues.

6) Requirement gathering for enhancements.

C] Application Maintenance:

Maintenance of the Client's Multiple (7) APO systems for 10 different Businesses in an Onshore/Offshore model.

This included coordination with Business, Onshore team, other functions like STC, WM, MFG, Basis etc.

1) Modification of Macros, Update rules, Start Routines, Transfer Rules, Forecast Profile, Infoobjects, Planning book, Time Bucket Profile, Propagation Range, Planning Area, Distribution Definition,

Creation of Infopacks, Infocubes, PPDS profiles, Day's Supply Type, Mass Processing jobs, Activities, Macros, Bex Reports, Data Realignment, Analyzing Issues related to SNP / PPDS Planning Runs & CTM issues, CIF Errors, Reconciliation of Data between R/3 and APO, Extraction of data from R/3, BW

2) Batch job failure analysis and Redesigning of Batch Job chain

3) Migration of CIF from Custom program to Standard

4) Co-ordination of System Refreshes & Quarterly Maintenance Windows

5) Use of SAP Scripting to automate certain activities like deletion of products, downloading data from Remote cube.

6) Co-ordination with SAP for the resolution of issues and Application and Testing of OSS notes.

7) Configured SAP APO-GATP scenarios.

8) Participated in Demand Planning Requirement Gathering workshop for an opportunity in the Chemicals space

COMPANY: ACCENTURE

Project: Asset Development in SAP - APO & SAP - EWM

Project Duration: July 2008 - April 2009

Assigned Role: Team Member

Project & Assignment Description

A] Created Assets for Testing the functioning of SAP APO in "To-be-introduced SAP SCM 7.0", as part of integration testing work for CDSP (Collaborative Demand and Supply Planning):

1) Cleansing Historical (Shipment and POS) Data

2) Uploading sales data into the Infocube

3) Creating Macros for analyzing/enhancing the output from DP

4) Creating different forecasting profiles and analyzing the results

5) Releasing the data to APO-SNP

6) Analyzing the data from SNP and modifying the forecast

B] Developed Accenture capabilities in SAP - EWM. Scope of activities as part of the Capability Team include the following:

1) Configuration of integration settings between SAP R/3 & SAP - EWM systems

2) Setting up organizational structure in both the systems

3) Master Data creation and transferring the same from ECC to EWM

4) Configuring Basic and Advanced business scenarios in the demo environment

5) Demonstrating the functionalities of EWM system to potential clients

6) Developing training material for EWM

C] Developing Assets in SAP - APO - SPP (Service Parts Planning)

Service Parts Planning (SPP) provides planning capabilities specific to service parts

COMPANY: ACCENTURE

Project: EWM Implementation

Project Duration: November 2008 - January 2009

Assigned Role: Team Member

Project & Assignment Description:

Member of the offshore team during Implementation and Testing of the Warehouse Management System (WMS). Was involved in the following activities:

1) Configuring organizational structure in SAP-EWM and R/3 system (Warehouse/Supply Chain Unit/Distribution Model)

2) Master Data Creation in EWM

3) Setting up and testing the Connectivity between EWM & R/3 systems

4) Developing Client scenarios on Accenture Servers

5) Implementing WMS using SAP-EWM: Configuring basic and advanced functionalities for the client (Inbound/Outbound/Batch Management)

6) Testing the client's system for errors & rectifying them

7) Troubleshooting errors related to connectivity between EWM & R/3 systems, which was done by another vendor

COMPANY: MARUTI

Project: Production Scheduling in Machine Shop

Project Duration: April 2007 - June 2007

Assigned Role: Intern

Maruti is the Largest Car Manufacturer in India

Project & Assignment Description:

Developed an excel based tool for Production Scheduling in Machine Shop so as to reduce the number of changeovers required and maintain a minimum inventory level for finished cylinder heads.

COMPANY: RELIANCE INFOCOMM

Project: Network Planning & Engineering

Project Duration: December 2003 - June 2006

Assigned Role: Senior Planning Engineer

Reliance Infocomm (now Reliance Communications) is one of the largest Telecommunications Company in India

Project & Assignment Description:

Worked in the Microwave Planning Department as a Senior Engineer:

1) Planning Mobile Network Connectivity for launching mobile services in new regions

2) Designing Microwave Communication Links using Pathloss Tool

3) Coordinating with various regional implementation teams

4) Evaluating Vendors of Communication equipment

5) Estimating the specifications of equipment and placing orders for the same

6) Interference & Fault Analysis of the Microwave Links

7) Distribution Planning of equipment to various regions

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