Supply Chain Functional Consultant

Parmeshwar Biradar

Full Name: Parmeshwar Biradar

Title/Role: Senior Oracle Cloud Functional Consultant (Supply Chain Planning)

Location: Boston, MA

Relocation: Open

Visa Status: H1B

Availability: 2 Weeks

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Summary:

Seasoned professional with over 15+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing and Distribution and 12+ years as IT professional in Supply Chain Management consulting.

Engineer with strong expertise in Implementations, Upgrades & Hypercare of Oracle Supply Planning Cloud, Oracle Demand Management Cloud, Oracle Sales & Operations Planning Cloud, Oracle Manufacturing Cloud, and e-business suite supply chain management applications.

Functional expertise in oracle EBS application modules such as Oracle advanced supply chain planning (ASCP), Oracle inventory (INV), Oracle bills of materials (BOM), Oracle engineering (ENG), Oracle work in process (WIP), MRP/MPS/MDS & oracle quality (QA).

Expertise in both oracle process & discrete manufacturing modules, having vast functional experience in configuration, implementation, upgrade, enhancement, testing, production support, customization of business applications, conversion, user training, analyzing business requirements and writing functional design specifications.

Experience leading E2E successful implementation of above-mentioned applications with complex business requirements.

Full life cycle implementation going through development (DEV), conference room pilot (CRP), system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance test (UAT), user training, Go-live and post Go-live support in complex multi-org environment.

Expertise in integration of data between legacy and Oracle applications.

Good knowledge on integrations between different modules: PDH, MFG, PROC, OMS, INV, SCP.

Experience in performing process mapping, AS IS analysis, TO BE process development, configuration, integrating various modules, gap analysis & developing functional design specifications.

Specialties a. supply chain cloud applications implementations b. project management c. worked for energy, oil & gas, general manufacturing, agri-business & automotive sectors.

Project management: scope management, prioritizing system problems, enhancement requests and reporting the status to the steering committee.

Technical Skills:

Oracle Applications Modules: Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud and Manufacturing Cloud applications (Release 18C to 23A). Oracle application R12 & 11i e-business suite advance supply chain planning and mfg. (discrete & process)

inventory optimization, oracle inventory, bill of material, work in progress, material requirements planning, (R11.5.8 to R12.2.4)

ERP Methodology: AIM

Utility tools: Jira, Service now, Toad, SQL developer & BI (for basic queries, data extraction and troubleshooting)

Project Management Tools: Microsoft projects, MS office & Microsoft Visio.

Education & Certifications:

Master of Business Administration- Operations Management

Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering

Certified Implementation Specialist Oracle Planning and Collaboration Cloud

Certified R12 Oracle Work in Process, BOM & Engineering Fundamentals

Certified R12 Oracle Inventory Management Fundamentals

Six sigma Green Belt from Benchmark six sigma - 2011

Project Management Professional (PMP) Program by training provider/Institute

Achievements:

Submitted white paper ‘Supply Planning Solution for Season Based Agri-Business’ in Oracle Cloud world 2022.

Certificate of Talent by Clifton Strength assessment. Top 5 strengths: Ideation, Strategic, Achiever, Responsibility & Connectedness.

Completed certifications on both Oracle Cloud and EBS applications.

Visited USA four times prior to H1B visa to attend trainings and render support on new projects owing to dedication in work, technical and interpersonal skills.

Worked in USA for 3+ years with different clients with successful completion of project deliverables.

Professional Experiences:

Client: TVH Parts Co, Belgium

Duration: Nov 2022 – till date

Role: Lead Consultant - Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud

Description: Implemented Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud applications (Supply Planning and Demand Planning), extensions, and interfaces.

Responsibilities:

Implementation of Oracle cloud supply planning and demand planning.

Performed POC & demonstrated usage of

oBacklog management,

oSales & Operations planning,

oReplenishment planning,

oand Production scheduling.

Created functional design specification for data integration between Oracle Cloud & Gains system.

Migration of data from legacy system data to Oracle ERP Cloud.

Delivered Functional design documents capturing key design decisions for Import of Work Order, Transfer Order, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order using REST API and FBDIs using OIC layer.

Delivered Functional design documents capturing key design decisions for export of Master data (Items, Item Structures, Work Definitions, Supplier Master, ASL, BPA, UOM conversions etc.), Supplies and demand data, transactional data & historical sales for planning in legacy system.

Environment: Oracle ERP Cloud 18 C to 23A.

Client: Monrovia, Visalia, CA

Duration: January 2019 – Nov 2022

Role: Lead Consultant - Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud

Description: Implemented Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud applications (Supply Planning, Demand Planning and Sales & Operations Planning), complex extensions, and interfaces owning the entire scope.

Responsibilities:

Implementation of Oracle Supply Planning Cloud, Demand Planning Cloud, & S&OP Cloud.

Developed 50-60% of planning engine in PaaS for complex agri-business requirements (Season based: LTs, Yield, Shelf-life days). Submitted White Paper also on this in Oracle OpenWorld 2022.

Automated supply planning exceptions using PaaS extension, multiple APIs and FBDI integration using OIC due to huge volume of items with longer lead-times (up to 12yrs), heavy imbalance in demand & supply leading to 10K+ exceptions on day 1 with only few planners to resolve the exceptions manually.

Developed Interface between JDE and Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud in Phase1.

Implemented Oracle Supply Chain Planning cloud with Oracle ERP Cloud applications in Phase2.

Created application design document for Oracle Manufacturing Cloud.

Developed custom inbound and outbound integrations for Demand Planning.

Performance improvement of both demand and supply planning with plan horizon of 12 years.

Reduced plan run time from 12 hrs. to 2 hrs. and improved UI performance by reconfiguring master data, table structure design, applying multiple patches etc.

Conducted CRP1, CRP2, UAT and Go-live single handedly from offshore.

Lead Implementation completely from offfshore.

Developed planning reports on Pegging, Supplies and Demands.

Trained super users on application functionalities.

Delivered application design, functional design specification, UPK and training documents.

Developed extension & interface to automated work definition selection in planning based on season.

Redesigned master data in PDH & Manufacturing to fulfill planning requirements.

Performed POC and demonstrated the features of Oracle Cloud Collaborative Planning.

Environment: Oracle ERP Cloud 18 C to 23A

Client: Biogen - Boston, Massachusetts

Duration: March 2016 – March 2018

Role: Oracle Supply Chain Consultant (ASCP/OPM)

Description: Implemented Constrained based Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) in Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) environment.

Responsibilities:

Implementation of advanced supply chain planning (ASCP) module with EDD constrained planning (day level planning).

Implementation of functionalities like:

End Item substitution for finished good Items, forecast consumption, dynamic safety stock and static safety stock, shelf-life days, minimum remanning shelf life, order modifiers: fixed lot multiplier, fixed order quantity and minimum order quantity.

Planning time fence for make, buy, and transfer items.

Implementation of fixed days of supply (FDS) on procurement and manufacturing items.

Implementation of alternate souring funtionality that is critical for distributions management.

Expired lot funtionality process manufacturing.

Lead times: Fixed LT, routing lead times, resource usage, pre-processing, processing, post processing LTs,

Resource requirements, material planning/ordering, auto release of planning suggestions program, user interface, public and private queries in ASCP workbench, demand, and supply pegging issues,

Formula, recipe, routing, validity rules (FRRV) in oracle process manufacturing (OPM).

Stabilized MRP & MPS plan thourgh multiple patch applications and correction of data conditions leading to plan failure.

Train user on setting up of sourcing rules, item simulation set, understand/analyze workbench, horizontal plan output, work bench preferences, analyze plan output.

Solution design inputs on forecast consumption, OTD of finished goods.

Developed multiple APCC reports: inventory monitor, horizontal plan by item, etc.

Trouble shoot integration issue between PDH to EBS, PLM to EBS Interface, PLM to EBS for FRRV

Environment: E-Business Suite 12.2.4

Client: Zodiac Pool Systems, Vista, California

Duration: December 2015 – March 2016

Role: Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning Consultant

Description: Implemented Collaborative planning and ASCP improvement & support activities.

Responsibilities:

Implementation of collaborative planning & ASCP improvement activities:

Implementation of planning time fences for make, buy and transfer items.

Forecast consumption process set-up.

Implementation of order modifiers: fixed days supplies, minimum & maximum order quantities

Implemented Sourcing rule set-ups for transfer, make & buy.

Implemented Sourcing rule ranking & split percent sourcing.

ASCP plan exceptions handling, development of planning metric reports.

Forecast integration testing between Demantra & ASCP.

Training planner & buyers on PTF, Lead-times, order modifiers & ASCP exception management.

Documentation/preparation of UPK on collaborative planning & advanced supply chain planning.

Environment: E-Business Suite 12.2.2

Client: Regal Beloit Corporation, Grafton, Wisconsin

Duration: May 2015 – November 2015

Role: Oracle Planning Consultant

Description: Implementation support on ASCP & Purchasing

Responsibilities:

Responsible for implementing advanced supply chain planning (ASCP), purchasing modules.

Constrain plan implemented with decision rules substitutes.

Planning time fence and release time fence implanted to accommodate smooth workflow operations.

Transfer sourcing rules to utilized to transfer material from our main MFG location to distribution centers.

Developed custom alert for requisition failures in interface table.

Preparation of AS IS and TO BE documents.

Configure the CRP instance and UAT instance to test all the business flows.

Preparation of the test scripts and data conversions

Go live set ups and post go live support.

Work with oracle Demantra team to make sure the forecast is published to deform tables in ASCP.

Setting up approval groups and approval hierarchies to meet the customer sourcing process.

Both standard purchase orders (for A –Class) and blanket agreements (Both B-Class and C-Class items) were implemented to meet customer requirements.

Sourcing rules, sourcing assignment, approved suppliers for planning to buying process.

Developed post go live metrics report identifying the critical activities.

Environment: E-Business Suite 12.2.1

Client: GE Oil & Gas Inc, Houston, Texas

Duration: September 2013 – May 2015

Role: Oracle Supply Chain Management Lead

Description: Lead blueprint roll-out implementation on ASCP, WIP, BOM, INV and support on other SCM modules

Responsibilities:

Supply chain lead for SCM and MFG modules

Implemented ASCP, inventory, purchasing, order management, bills of materials, work in process, quality, depot repair, cyber plan modules.

Solution footprint contains forecast to build, procure to pay, order to cash flows.

Responsible to implement ASCP, Purchasing, Order Management and Shipping Modules

ASCP Setups: define instance, organization security, decentralized configuration, setting up ASCP Plan, run collections, launch plan, planning work bench preferences, horizontal plan.

Un-constrained plan implemented to meet all 26 branches’ demands.

Automatic sourcing implemented once the planner releases planned order POR and PO will be defined in the system.

Release time fence for C-Class items.

Creating and optimizing supply chain plans to meet business requirements.

Preparation of AS IS documents (BP040) and TO BE documents (BP080)

Prepared test scripts, set-up & functional documents for above modules

Responsible for integration testing / unit testing / user acceptance testing

Data conversion from legacy ERP system to oracle R12

Actively conducted SIT and UAT test cycles, Go-live and production support

Set up Approved suppliers, sourcing assignments, order modifiers,

Build WEB ADI customizations to load approved suppliers and sourcing rules, forecast.

Environment: E-Business Suite R12.1.3

Client: Bloom energy, Bangalore, India

Duration: Oracle Planning Engineer

Role: July 2010 – August 2013

Description: Worked as planning analyst implementing features in ASCP.

Responsibilities:

Understanding and gathering the requirements from business super users and document the same in business requirement & analyzing the Gaps.

Demonstrated application’s functionality, business processes mapped, configured, and implemented.

Designed & developed custom ASCP Pegging program to perform demand-supply pegging analysis

ASCP memory-based planner optimization/troubleshooting

Inbound interface for requisition creation requests.

Role based security enabled and implemented functional and data level security features.

Developed setup documents using oracle AIM methodology, configured oracle sourcing application, developed documents BR 100 Set up, BR 30 requirement Map and BP 80 future process document.

Responsible for functional set ups, solution testing and functional design of extensions and customizations.

Interact with business process owners and other project stack holders to get functional sign off,

Created integration test plan, functional testing and user acceptance testing plan, training manuals.

Worked on some activities for oracle system administration module such as registering the users and assigning responsibilities, printers set-up in oracle Apps.

Environment: E-Business Suite R12.1.0

Client: Continental, Bangalore India

Duration: July 2008 – July 2010

Role: Planning and Production Engineer

Description: Worked as Planning and Production Analyst

Responsibilities:

Gap and fit analysis done based on the business requirements.

Functional consultant for material requirement Planning, bill of material, work in progress, quality, and costing modules.

Migrated successfully from MRP to ASCP globally.

Shop floor management parameters (Lot separator, Job completion separator), Lot selector extensions, network routings, standard operations, departments, cost overheads, resource overheads, cost rollups for network routings.

Lot Genealogy, operation yield & shrinkage usage for lot-based costing in routings, supply types, back flushing, lot-based jobs, lot splits, lot merge, lot creation, WIP & INV lots, material transactions, move transactions.

Focused on Inventory and BOM, providing alternate solutions, Set-up of modules, data loader, collected requirement and prepared functional requirement document (BR100) for BOM and inventory modules.

GAP Analysis and GAP resolution for ENGG / MRP / BOM / WIP / QA / CST

Implemented multi organization demand and supply using ASCP collections.

Implemented complex ATO/PTO models.

Environment: E-Business Suite R11.5.10

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