Chandra Sekhar Jakkula adg4of@r.postjobfree.com

SCM APO/IBP & S/4 HANA Solution Architect, Project Manager, APICS-CSCP, PMI-PMP

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Supply Chain Solution Architect/Project Manager/Consultant with 18+ years of experience in leading SAP SCM/SAP ERP projects in High Tech, Networking, manufacturing, Automobile, Consumer Goods and Process Industries. Areas of expertise are Define business process, solution design, functional development, deliver and support of SAP SCM APO modules of SNP, DP, GATP, SNC, CIF, APO BW/BI and SAP TM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE:

SAP APO/IBP Solution Architect . SCM: APO DP, SNP, GATP, CIF and SNC

SAP IBP . Logistics: SAP R/3 SD, MM, PP and SAP TMS

APICS CSCP . SAP BW/BI

PMI-PMP . S/4 HANA TMS and aATP

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Overall 18+ years of experience in SAP and domain as a Supply chain planning/Execution Solution Architect/Consultant

SAP Solution Architect/Project Manager with 12+ years of experience in leading SAP SCM APO/IBP & S/4 HANA/SAP ERP Project implementations across US, UK, Russia, Middle East & India

Extensive SAP SCM experience in End to End implementation, Roll outs, SP/EHP Upgrades, Enhancement requests, Change management and production support

Core expertise in APO Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, Inventory optimization and Safety stock planning

Expertise in GATP/Global Available to Promise Product allocation, BOP, RBATP

Experienced in TMS Order management, Transportation planning (carrier selection through BRF+), Transportation execution, Freight management

Strong operational experience of ECC modules in MM P2P (procure to pay), SD OTC (Order to cash), PP Order fulfillment strategy includes MTS (make to Stock), MTO (Make to Order), MRP, MPS and APO Integration

Design experience of APO BW/BI objects like Info Objects, Info Cube, DSO, PSA, Data source and Extractors

COE Build in S/4 HANA modules like Order to cash, Plan to Product, Procure to Pay and SCM IBP modules like S&OP, IBP for Demand, Demand Sensing, IBP for Supply and Response, IBP for Inventory Optimization

Driving POC, RFP and Demo solutions for different industries in SAP IBP & S/4 HANA

Extensive knowledge on Incident & Problem Management methodologies tools like Remedy, Espresso, Radar and Service now (Central Station), Solution Manager etc.

Project management methodologies Waterfall, Scrum, Agile and DevOps and experience across all facets of SAP projects from a strategic level to the implementation

Won several Direct Client Appreciations for easing the business processes using technology connecting across the functions in an organization

Pre-sales/COE at S/4 HANA and SCM practice level

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

10/2011- Current Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA

Project Manager/Solution Architect, Infosys Ltd

Currently working as a Solution Architect SAP APO with hands-on experience in various roles as a APO SME, Client Engagement Consultant, Service Operations Lead

Leading SCM IBP, S/4 HANA migration, Detailed Impact assessment and Roadmap planning

Planned, Designed, Executed & Managed SAP SCM APO DP/SNP/GATP and TMS projects and Enhancements implementation

Managed SAP SCM APO/TMS production support operations teams to provide 24X7 L1/L2/L3 Global support to achieve support KPI’s & SLA’s

Executed SAP SCM APO/TMS Yearly Upgrade of SAP Applications and created Business process Integration Test Suite to support periodic release and upgrade projects

Led SAP APO/TMS Scalability, Special Events, Disaster recovery tests and managed support operations between data centers

Led Automation, Initiative & RCA tracks to improve operational metrics & productivity

SAP SCM IBP and SAP S/4 HANA Migration:

Detailed Impact assessment of L0-L5 business processes for S/4 HANA TMS, aATP and SCM IBP

Roadmap planning and implementation of new SAP Platforms for Apple’s SAP Landscape

Prepare BPML Business process master list, define solution validation, Pilot solutioning, create initial backlogs, custom code impact analysis

SAP SCM APO Application Development/ Enhancements/ Rollouts:

Prepare a detailed project Charter along with Stakeholders and Create Project management plan

As is Analysis, BRD review, Requirement gathering with IT and Business teams

Gap analysis with existing solutions and performing system impact

Business playback review sessions, Global design to align on the new solution approach and road maps.

Coordinate with multiple Functional teams and Security SAP ABAP, Basis, Performance work performance reports information

Project Documentation of test results, Conduct KT sessions, Handover to operational team

DP Series 2 implementation & Enhancements

SNP Enhancements of Central procurement, CTM planning consolidation, New Buy planning, ZSNP workflow optimization, Rollout for Russia, Turkey, Korea, Australia, Japan, Brazil and India.

GATP Implementation for Plant level Product allocation & Enhancements

Enhancements to Allocation management DAT, AMC, YQTVB in GATP

TMS 3 PL implementation/ Roll outs (Carrier selection, Rate shopping, Cartonization, Transportation Charge calculation)

Outbound/Inbound Interface Migration from BW to EDW

iTunes gift cards sales planning

SAP SCM APO Application Support:

Leading a team and responsible for Project Deliverables and Global supply chain support across regions

Managed SAP Global support operations for SAP SCM APO/ SAP ERP to deliver business & IT KPI’s

AppleCare APO Demand DP/Supply planning SNP/CIF support for WW and AMR region

GATP World-wide SDM and SDE Support Supply Demand Management (SDM) and Supply Demand Execution (SDE)

GATP basic methods Availability, Allocation check and advanced methods like Rule Based ATP and Back order processing (BOP)

Dynamic allocation tool (DAT), AMC (Allocation management cock pit) tools specially designed to manage the allocation by MQR team.

TMS support for business rule frame (BRF+), Freight rate/Charge calculation methods, condition records, rate cards.

SNC support PO and ASN collaboration with supplier

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve outstanding customer service

Ticket assignment and SME’s build to sustain in depth knowledge across the team members

Initiate Weekly/Monthly review with customer and internally on defined KPI’s and will all regional SPOC

SAP Advisory/Upgrade/Scalable Manager/consultant

Managed yearly upgrade programs involving SAP APO, ECC & SAP TMS applications

Led Disaster recovery tests of multiple SAP and non -SAP applications by coordinating and integrating multiple IT stakeholder teams

Interacting with business management on non-functional requirements like performance scalability, reliability, maintainability and sustainability

Ensuring smooth business operations during special events like the new product Introduction NPI, Black Friday

Heading and executing system upgrades SP upgrade and EHP Enhancement packs

Scalability test to sustain the huge volumes during special events and work with SAP vendor

NPI system process readiness test

Initiatives, Root cause analysis (RCA) & Automation

Incident Data analysis, data triaging to provide a quantitative and qualitative perspective of Apples existing IT and Business problems

Problem records, dashboard for Root Cause Analysis RCA

Design, implement applicable solutions as part of Initiatives, Improvements by automating manual tasks and improving productivity

Create reports to depict status of problems resolved, benefits actually achieved by Apple quarter or quarter with Apple Leadership team

Presales/ COE Contribution:

S/4 HANA Assessment for TMS and GATP fitment

Migration assessment, project planning and design of Products and Tools to ensure Business operations are migrated seamlessly to new platforms for APO/ECC &TMS applications

Coordinate requirements with Product vendors and identification of fit gap solutions

Plan Change Management requirements for new SAP Platforms

RFP, COE Build on SAP IBP

01/2011- 10/2011 BAT, UK and Russia Solution Consultant, Wipro Ltd

Global production support and Optimization of SNP process team. My responsibilities include contributing as an SCM APO Expert in the context of SNP and also provide guidance and architecture in the areas of demand and supply planning.

Delivery of Global supply chain SNP support (Heuristic, Optimizer, Deployment, TLB)

Lead the change management process (CR) and testing

Onsite (London) support for WE region and (Russia) for EE region.

Support improvement plan initiation and keep track of the same

Weekly planning team (WPT& MPT) calls to support daily, weekly and monthly planning activities for different regions

Liaising with business Users for feedback and day to day issue resolution

Coordination with other internal teams, Solution center, Project team

Awarded the “APO best performer” for the year 2010-11.

07/2010- 01/2011 NSN, Bangalore Solution Consultant, Wipro Ltd

Client has implemented SNP CTM functionalities about year and a half ago and trying to improve the process. My role was to understand the configuration and the design in the current system, perform a quality audit, and also demonstrate some key functionalities.

Functional and technical issues in DP, SNP, BW & CIF Module

Conducted detailed performance analysis of the servers and the CTM applications to identify where the bottlenecks are and how to improve the performance.

Fine tuning of CTM profiles to meet the specific business needs of Europe division (rollout)

Initiated Process chain and jobs optimization (weekly job schedule master)

APO-BW weekly status review calls

KPIs, SLA’s meet as per the contract

Functional and technical specifications of all ABAP reports for our internal reference.

11/2008- 07/2010 Unilever Asia AMET (AA), Bangalore, Sr. Consultant, Bristlecone

This is a multi-year business transformation project with a global rollout of the APO solution to different regions,Production support, Upgrade and Enhancements of SNP process The APO modules that were in scope are the following: DP, SNP Heuristic, Optimizer, Deployment, & TLB My primary role was that of a SNP consultant. Key contributions were as follows

Global delivery of APO DP, SNP, BW for Asia AMET (AA) Region including Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines etc.

Philippines SNP Location Roll out

U2K2 project from Genesis, UAT, SIT and Cut over activities

Interface migration support from Integration to SAP PI

Primary SPOC for SNP business process (Heuristic, Optimizer, Deployment, TLB)

DP Forecasting, Demand planning, BW reporting

Weekly, Monthly tracking & SLA monitoring, Troubleshooting of day-to-day issues

ISO Adherence quality management system (ISO9001:2000 standard)

04/2008- 11/2008 MBIL, Pune Sr. Consultant, Bristlecone

Full life cycle supply chain APO DP, SNP, PPDS implementation from solution design to post go-live support. Made important contributions in the solution architecture and implementation of several on this project and also the hands-on consultant.

Conducted requirements gathering and fit/gap analysis in the context of DP and SNP, identified the requirements and prototyping for APO SNP and DP

Coordinated the communication with other internal teams so that the global supply chain design meets the business execution requirements.

Managed the creation and execution of test scripts

Unit, integration and user acceptance testing activities including test scenario’s development and execution

APO training material for end user and support staff.

08/2007-04/2008 APPC, Saudi Arabia Consultant, Bristlecone

Full life cycle Implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 MM and production support

02/2001- 02/2007 SCCL, Asst. Engineer

Domain Experience:

Responsible for Maintenance of engineering equipment, procurement of material

SCM APO and S/4 HANA/SCM IBP:

Demand Planning DP:

Experience in forecasting algorithms

Expertise in all aspects of DP configuration: Planning area, Planning Object Structures, Planning books, CVCs, Data Views, Master Forecast Profiles, Forecast, Life Cycle Planning, Phase-in and Phase-out, Promotions, forecasting models, Forecast Validation, Composite Forecasting, ABC/XYZ, Re alignment, Forecast Error analysis

Detailed configuration, process improvements, performance tuning, and reporting.

Global Available to Promise GATP:

Experience in GATP processes right from blueprint till go-live.

Expertise in Product availability, Allocation, RBATP and BOP.

Experience in rigorous testing and working with SAP to resolve critical issues.

Solid experience with integration issues between GATP and SD. Expertise in designing GATP solutions that can co-exist with existing ECC SD design and architecture.

Supply Network Planning SNP:

Experience in SNP Heuristics, CTM, Optimizer, Deployment and TLB

Experience in DP and SNP integration - release of forecast, CIF models, reconciliation of constrained plan with unconstrained forecast and reporting.

Thorough knowledge of SNP master data – Locations, Products, PPMs, PDS, Resources.

Solid experience in CTM functionality and performance.

Safety stock planning and inventory optimization

SAP TMS:

Order management (Sales order, Delivery, OBTR, DBTR processing)

Transportation planning Carrier selection methods through business rule frame (BRF+)

Freight management Freight rate/Charge calculation methods, condition records, rate cards.

Integrated Business Planning IBP

Experience with S&OP processes and technical aspects of enabling them in IBP demand modules

In depth knowledge in configuration of IBP demand, S&OP, Supply, Inventory Optimization and setting up Attributes, Time profile, Planning level, Planning area,Key figure, planning operators, scenarios, simulations,

SAP BW/BI and SNC:

Design experience of BW Modeling Info Objects, Info Cube, DSO, PSA, Data source, Build Extractors and reporting

SNC Supplier collaboration with Purchase order confirmation, acknowledgement.

S/4 HANA:

SAP Activate project management

Advanced ATP aATP assessment

S/4 HANA embedded TM assessment

SAP R/3 MM/SD/PP:

MM P2P (Procure to pay) and Vendor Evaluation

SD OTC (Order to cash) and GATP Integration

PP Order fulfillment strategy includes MTS (make to Stock), MTO (Make to Order), MRP, MPS

Certifications:

PMI- PMP Project Management Professional

APICS- CSCP Certified Supply Chain Professional

SAP IBP- Integrated Business planning

S/4 HANA- Activate Project management

Education:

B.Tech Mechanical Engg from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engg,

Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. July 2000.

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