Arun Prasath S

SAP: APO/PP Sr. Functional Analyst

Mobile India: +91-990**-***** E-mail: acyjba@r.postjobfree.com

Profile Abstract

Around 15+ years of experience specifically in SAP-APO / (PP - PI/PM) implementation,

Integration Testing, maintenance and Support.

Good understanding of client specific Business Process.

Knowledge and experience of working on all the stages of Production.

Excellent analytical abilities in assessing the project feasibility, APO (DP, SNP, PPDS, GATP,

Master Data Integration), Production planning (SOP, MRP, Discrete & Repetitive

Manufacturing), Plant Maintenance

Good functional knowledge and experience in customizing and implementation of APO CIF

Master Data Integration, DP, SNP, GATP& ECC - Production-Planning, Plant Maintenance.

Having a Good Knowledge in BIW, LIS, workflow & Variant Configuration.

Knowledge in Data Transfer technique using LSMW.

Extensive Domain Knowledge and related skills in Business process on Materials Management,

Plant Maintenance & Customer Services and Quality Management.

Having Good Experience in Mercury Test Tool Director.

Good peer level communication and co-ordination as a team.

Effective interpersonal and communication skills with experience of interacting with Consultants,

Clients, cross-functional project team members.

Experience Summary

Techwave Consulting Services P Ltd from Sep2015 to till date as a Principal Architect.

Kaar Technologies P Ltd, Chennai from Jan2015 to August2015 as a Sr. Consultant

Free lancing.

Sigma Aldrich P Ltd, Bangalore from Jan2014 to Dec2014 as Sr. Analyst for SAP

NEXT Program.

Wipro Technologies ltd, Bangalore from Oct2013 to Jan2014as a C1 Consultant for

Consulting Stream.

Bristlecone India Ltd Bangalore from May2007 to Sep2013 as SAP SCM Sr.

Consultant.

Mars Telecom Limited Hyderabad from Jan2007 to May2007 as a SAP SCM/ PP

Functional Analyst.

Accenture Services Pvt Limited Mumbai from Aug05 to Nov2005 date as a SAP

(APO/PP-PM) Consultant.

Assure E Services Pvt Limited Chennai from Feb03 to July05 as a SAP (PP-PI)

Functional Consultant.

Educational Qualifications

: Bharadhidasan University-Trichy (1 st class) May2005.

M.B.A ( Distance Education)

: Bharadhidasan University-Trichy (1st class) Apr2001.

B.Tech (chemical)

IT Exposure Summary

Extensive knowledge in the entire SAP APO configuration.

Extensive Knowledge in SAP ECC Integration on PP, PM, MM, SD & EWM & TM Module.

Worked in legacy system like BAAN, Kinaxis, BARUN, GRASP, and EDW.

Worked in the HP Automated test tools.

SAP SCM Experience

I) Employer : Techwave consulting Services, Chennai.

Client : Westcon Group.

Project : Passport.

Role : SAP SCM Principle Architect.

Duration : Sep2015 to till date.

Nature of Project : Re Implementation & Roll outs.

Project Description: - Westcon Group, (Production Planning Implementation & EMEA Roll outs)

Responsibilities:

Designed and Implemented Production planning business process.

Take care of EMEA Roll outs.

Design the HUB Planning.

Key areas integration various modules & GAPS analysis & Execution to mitigate the gaps

Designed and implemented Retails business in Cloud Business by design integration with SAP.

Identify RICEFWs in CIF, DP, SNP & PP, and write functional specs.

Coordinate with technical team in development.

Design configuration elements in SNP CTM & R/3 PP.

Design master production scheduling process.

Participate in process integration testing scenarios.

Work on APO data governance and design templates for APO master data for conversion and

construction.

II) Employer : Techwave consulting Services, Chennai.

Client : Mead Johnson.

Project : Sunrise.

Role : SAP SCM Principle Architect.

Duration : Mar2015 to till date.

Nature of Project : Business Enhancement, RBC, Support.

Project Description: - Working on the Several Enhancement and Roll Outs & HANA upgradation

project.

Thailand DP Implementation.

Enhancements on Days Supply Calculation.

Enhancement on Imminent Waste Alerts.

Enhancement in Planning Board.

Business Change interchangeability process.

NA redesign of Time based Dis aggregation.

Working on very high Support tickets.

NA redesign of Shipment history loading.

Worked on Demand Dollarization Project.

III) Employer : Kaar Technologies, Chennai.

Client : Oman Aluminium Industries, Oman.

Project : TAHOUL.

Role : SAP SCM Sr. Consultant.

Duration : Jan2015 to August2015.

Nature of Project : Green Field Implementation.

Project Description: Working on ASAP methodology and the Project scope was to Implementation for

Oman Aluminium Rolling Company on CDP Planning concept.

Developed high level solution design and To-Be processes, and identified change impacts,

required interfaces, and data conversions.

Prepared and presented the DP, GATP and PPDS system design to business group and cross

functional IT groups of business for sign off.

According to the Business Process Configure Demand Planning.

Following the CDP functionality for our Implementation.

Configure RBATP & CTP.

Setup the Backorder processing, Product allocations and Rule based ATP check by creating

scenarios using sales orders in R/3.

Design Multilevel scheduling framework solution in PPDS using MRP Heuristics to have a

balanced short term scheduling plan taking setup transitions into account.

Design the Block Planning to the Capacity reservations.

Modelled Setup groups, Keys and Matrices to model setup times between transitions.

Configure PPDS Planning runs, Order views, DS board configuration to differentiate between

sequence dependent set up statuses.

IV) Employer : Sigma Aldrich, Bangalore.

Client : In house Implementation.

Project : SAP NEXT.

Role : SAP SCM Sr. Analyst.

Duration : Jan2014 to till date.

Nature of Project : Global Implementation.

Overview of our company: Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Our

biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research,

biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and chemical manufacturing. We

have customers in life science companies, university and government institutions, hospitals and in

industry. Sigma-Aldrich sells to over 160 countries & operates directly in 40 countries and has over 8,300

employees providing excellent service worldwide.

Project Description: Working on Agile methodology and the Project scope was ta Global

Implementation for Sigma Aldrich business on RDS concept.

APO design analysis and validation through various workshops and interaction with business

owners and IT heads.

Consolidate and validate findings about current business processes against stated goals for each

function and the organization as a whole.

Identify the best suitable APO solution/solver based on design diagnosis.

The whole project we are following the RDS concept.

Supply chain performance matrix identification and analysis.

DP, SNP and GATP Design analysis and validation of implemented solution.

Forecasting Bulk Forecasting and Raw Material Forecasting for MTO, Plan to Shelf, Bubbler

Business process.

SNP Heuristics Planning & Deployment for Bulk Container Production.

GATP Configure the BOP, Product Availability Check, and RBATP& MATP according to

various businesses need.

Business process pain points analysis and documentation.

Inventory optimization and buffer management.

Design Modification testing and realization.

Involved various integration scenarios and optimized the Supply Plan.

V) Employer : Wipro Technologies, Bangalore.

Client : Philips Consumer Lifestyle

Project : Cluster Split & Indonesia Go live

Role : SAP SCM Consultant (DP)

Duration : Oct13 to Jan14.

Nature of Project : Roll out.

Project Description: Working on Agile methodology and the Project scope was to split sales office from

Dubai to Africa and SEE.

Complete re - design the Africa and Dubai sales offices.

Maintaining the New Sales Org and relevant business flow to handling the separate the APO

Planning.

Create the new Transformation Structure and routines to handling the individual sales.

Modified the existing macros and adjusted background jobs according to the new region.

Responsible for DP and SNP Go live activities for Indonesia. (Splitting from Singapore)

Conducted knowledge transfer sessions and training to Quality team& users.

Conducting Unit test, Functional test & Integration test.

Involved in Go live activities.

VI) Employer : Bristlecone India Limited, Bangalore.

Client : International Rectifier, USA

Project : SAPSCM Phase II IMPLEMENTATION

Role : SAP SCM Lead Consultant (DP & GATP)

Duration : Mar12 to Sep13.

Nature of Project : Go Live, Post Implementation Support, Phase II - Implementation,

Project Description: IR, project scope was to implement integrated end-to-end processes from planning

to delivery including processes Supply Chain Planning, Order To Cash, Procure Pay, Transportation

Planning, Scheduling & Monitoring and development.

My Contribution:

Identification & complete study of IR Business Process finding the gap and fix it.

Complete re - design in GATP for backlog process.

Phase II Implementation,. Involving various enhancements (DP prioritization, ATO & MTO,

DP Release& GATP Backorder Processing).

CTM Profile creation based on use up & builds runs for demand fulfilment.

Defining changes & driving the same with change management team. Facilitating

presentation & approval of changes with CAB.

Managing & monitoring developments with cross location teams for in time realization.

Conducted knowledge transfer sessions and training to Quality team.

Conducting Unit test, Functional test & Integration test.

VII) Employer : Bristlecone India Limited, Bangalore.

Client : IDS SCHEER Consulting Inc.

Project : SABIC EMDAD, Riyadh.

Role : SAP SCM Lead Consultant

Duration : Mar11 to Feb12.

Nature of Project : Implementation, Go Live &Post Implementation Support.

CLIENT DETAILS:

SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corp, Riyadh) is a diversified manufacturing company, active in

chemicals and intermediates, industrial polymers, fertilizers and metals. It is the largest public

company in Saudi Arabia as listed in Tadawul. The Saudi government, however, still owns 70% of its

shares. It is based in Riyadh.

SABIC is currently the second largest global Ethylene Glycol producer and is expected to become

number one after the introduction of these new projects. SABIC is the third

largest polyethylene manufacturer, the fourth largest polyolefin manufacturer and the sixth

largest polypropylene manufacturer.

Roles & Responsibilities,

Implemented the Collaborative Planning for Affiliates.

Involved in the development of enhancements to cater the business requirements and

automate the planning system.

Identify the business mapping GAPs and FIX it.

Create and Modify the MACROS based on the new business needs.

Involving in DP Reports modification and testing.

Create the DP test scenarios to cover full scope of the business and carry out the UAT & SIT.

Develop and Modify the APO DP and BI process chains, based on background jobs and

scheduling design for all the SBU.s.

Handling the Support related issues for all the SBUs (Chemical, Performance Chemical,

Polymers, Fertilizers and Metals) provided solution on time.

Set up and monitored the batch jobs (sales history loading, forecast generation & release to

SIP and intermediate Planning area, forecast backup to the BI cubes, planning area back up.

Performed data transfers between R/3, APO, BW and live cache.

Responsible for developing Demand Planning training material/manual and subsequently

delivering the training to central users, End users & ITS Team.

Responsible for providing Post Go-Live system and process transitional support to users.

VIII) Employer : Bristlecone India Limited, Bangalore.

Client : Unilever AMET.

Project : Genesis APO.

Role : SAP SCM Sr.Consultant

Duration : Jun08 to Jun11.

Nature of Project : Support, Enhancement, Rollouts & Implementation.

Roles & Responsibilities,

Handling APAC and provided the Support to the users.

Implement the New Forecast Planning Level Change to Pakistan & China.

Involving the 24 MRF for all the countries.

DP& SNP Optimizer Reports modification and testing.

Macro creation according to user requirement.

Statistical Forecast configuration and best fit selection with different Forecast profiles.

Rollout for new business location for Philippines and Pakistan.

Working on the enhancement.

Test case creation for upgrade projects.

Working with interfaces.

Working on data migration for U2K2.

IX) Employer : Bristlecone India Limited, Bangalore.

Client : SAP LABS India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore.

Role : SAP APO (DP, SNP,CIF & GATP) Consultant.

Duration : May 2007 to Jun2008.

Nature of Project : Product Development / OSS Message Resolving.

Roles & Responsibilities,

Handling Customer Message raised from Across the Globe except Japan.

Good at client servicing across the globe. Handling very critical issues which are raised

during pre and post go live situations.

Providing consulting to customer with valuable input to resolve their issues with high

customer satisfaction.

Helping the Development in identifying the bugs and helpful in releasing notes to fix it.

Ideally analyzing the customer business requirements and identifying the gaps if necessary.

X) Organization : Accenture Services., Mumbai.

Role : SAP PP / PM-CS Consultant.

Duration : Aug 2005 to Nov2005.

Client : Nokia-Sulo., Finland

Nature of Project : Deployment.

Environment : 4.6 C.

Responsibilities:

Activities where I involved in Deployment.

The objective of this project is to radically improve and redesign of order and demand forecast for

procurement from Vodafone. The mandate is to cover globally all ordering locations for Nokia

and for all hardware requirements from Vodafone.

Requirements gathering and business analysis scoping the above to synchronize with existing

systems, Solution designing, Development supervisions and scheduling,

Functional testing Verification during Integration test, Gap resolutions. Created the Base Line

Testing/integration test plan for PP, PM-CS.

Project tracking and feedback to Customer and Development supervision & Testing.

Documentation of finalized processes, preparations of configuration documents, End user scripts,

Power users training material etc in PP & PM.

XI) Organization : Assure e Services Pvt. Ltd., Chennai

Role : SAP-(PP) Associate consultant.

Duration : Mar04 to June05.

Client : Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd-Japan.

Project Nature : Implementation of SAP R/3 (Full life Cycle).

CLIENT DETAILS:

One of the leading manufacturers of cars, buses and lighter aircrafts in Japan. It's one of the best-known

car sold under the brand name Subaru. Fuji has tie-up with Isuzu since I972. From 1977onwards it

became the first carmaker to produce models, which cleared Japan's 1978 emission standards.

Headquarters are in Tokyo.

PROJECT DETAILS:

Project included understanding the clients business process requirements and

configuration of organizational structure.

Core Process Re-Design (CPR) on SAP R/3 through standardization of all processes and

master data structures in a production planning ( PP).

Team consisting of 8-4 client, internal SAP and external SAP consultants. Team scope was

the re-design of all PP processes during the design, build, and test project phases, as well as the

documentation of all functional and technical steps in a Best Practice Catalogue.

Responsibilities:

Major activities where I involved in SAP Implementation,

As a Team Member involved in the study of As-Is& To-Be business process

documentation Configuration and Customization.

Support of all SAP related tasks, development and documentation of selected core

functionalities, customizing of selected process configurations, and collection of business

requirements.

Business modelling plus Baseline configuration as per the project scope.

Involved in the Co-ordination with the Client, guiding the entire team and setting cut-off dates for

Go-live and Post implementation support.

Preparing the Functional specification documents based on the customer requirements.

Configuring SOP at two planning levels, using by LIS.

To-be business process mapped and prepared documentation for the MRP run at three levels.

Reorder point set for materials at retail outlets.

Configuration of MRP system using Make to Stock and Make to Order scenarios for different

finished products.

Configuration of Repetitive Manufacturing.

Input of forecast data into Demand Management, MRP runs and iterative evaluation of MRP

results.

Providing the necessary training to Power users/End users in the relevant transactions.

Preparing the SAP configuration& training Documentations for End Users/Power users.

XII) Client : Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers.

Project Nature : Production Support of SAP-(PP-PI)

Duration : Apr03 to Jan04.

Environment : 4.6 C

CLIENT DETAILS:

Turnover of over Rs.600 crore. ISO 14001 Certificated Company. The Company has capacity to

manufacture 2,17,800 MT of ammonia and 3,80,000 MT of urea annually. Humphreys & Glasgow

Limited, London, did the design and engineering of the plant. Major initiatives to implement SAP R/3

Viz. (PP-PI, FI-CO, MM and SD module) for efficient Business Management and enterprise resources

planning.

Responsibilities:

Major activities were I involved in SAP (Production Support & Maintenance)

Co-ordination with other functional consultants.

Verification of various configuration settings and maintenance of Master Data viz.

Material master, Resources, and Recipes.

Checked complete configuration of system and corrections applied for execution of

successful MPS, Planning strategy, Lot size calculation, Procurement proposals and Evaluation of

planning results.

Re-Design of "Product Hierarchy" to meet the sales requirement and to generate report

on range and categories.

Implemented 12-month forecast with seasonal variations and make-to-order with sales

orders.

Maintained Process Order, Process Management Information flow.

Proposing solutions to resolve the problems.

Domain Experience

Organization : Neyveli Fertilizer Ltd-Neyveli

Duration : Jun01 to Jan03.

Designation : Jr.Engineer in Production Control.

The Fertilizer plant with an installed capacity of 1, 52.000 tons of urea per annum went on stream in 1996

as part of Neyveli integrated industrial complex. This plant first designed to utilize the raw lignite for the

production of synthesis gas. Due to certain technological and operational constraints, the feedstock was

changed to fuel oil in July 1979. Beifield desulphurization and de-carbonization process is used for gas

purification.

Job Profile:

Safe measures and quality control were studied and also handling the hazardous

chemicals. Estimate the overall performance of reactors.

Co-ordinate with Lay out preparation and Process Planning of Vertical Machining Centre

Develop Production Standards for Production Control & Monitoring Production

Performance and Efficiency Rates.

Workplace arrangements and Ergonomics - (layouts) for better ROUTINGS. - Process

Planning- Capacity planning Machine & Labour.

Responsible for day-to-day problems to smoothen the production so that delivery of

products can be made as soon as orders are received.

Quality assurance plan and quality control check list preparation for general and individual

machinerys / components.

Personal Profile

Date of Birth : 11-10-1979.

Marital Status : Married.

Passport : Having valid passport up to 2012.

Visa : Having Valid B1 Visa Up to 2021.

: Having Valid Resident Permit for Oman Up to 2017.

Language : English, Tamil, Telugu.

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