PEN191

SAP IBP – 8 years - 

 

Summary of Qualifications

Overall 20+ years of strong functional, business, and IT experience with domain expertise in Supply chain planning and logistics with experience in Implementations, multiple global rollouts, production support projects using ASAP & Agile SCRUM methodologies.

Worked at client sites in the USA for 12+ years and in Europe for 2+ years for implementation, rollouts and support activities at client sites and led the SCM team.

Strong functional experience to support SAP cross-functional applications such as SAP IBP (8 years), Kinaxis Rapid Response, SAP APO (10 years), ECC PP, MM, S4 HANA.

Kinaxis Rapid Response Developer and support Analyst.

Experience in MRP, Make to Order and Make to Stock scenarios.

Excellent Problem solving, Analytical and communication skills.

During these years worked on 4 Implementations, 3 Rollouts, 2 Upgrade Projects and various enhancements, and production support issues.

Received several appreciations from client Site Company President, VP, Supply planning Director and Higher management for various contributions in Supply chain area.

Led Cross cultural Global teams as Delivery manager and technical lead.

Drove various process improvements with business leads and planning teams.

In-depth and hands-on configuration experience in Demand Planning & Supply Network Planning. 

Experience to work in various platforms/versions of SAP ECC, APO & IBP.

Graduated from one of the Premiere Engineering institutes in India, COEP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

           

IBP (Time series-based Demand planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Optimization, S&OP, CI DS)

Kinaxis Rapid Response Supply Based Planning, Statistical Forecasting

APO (DP, SNP, Deployment, TLB)

ECC: Production Planning & Knowledge of planning touchpoints in MM, MRP, SD, PM, S4 HANA

Tools/ Utilities: HPQC, JIRA, Solution Manager, Remedy, Service Now

SAP Certifications: S4 HANA PP and IBP 1709

Project Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall

 

EXPERIENCE

 

Client:                                                                          Dec 2022- Present

Kinaxis Rapid Response Consultant

 

Responsibilities:

• Using Scrum and Dev Ops methodology, work closely with product owners, business SMEs, other teams.
• Gather and understand business requirements from the business users and provide efficient solutions to business.
• Was part of the Rapid Response BOSE COE team that works together to drive supply chain process innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Create workbooks, work sheets, new fields, schedule task, data model changes, control table changes, automation chains, alerts, perspectives in Kinaxis Rapid response.
• Interaction with upstream/downstream teams for any changes for the feed on Rapid Response System.
• Lead analysis sessions and help in user story refinement, write specification and functional design documents for enhancements.
• Prepare detailed cut over plan for roll out and minor projects.
• Perform UAT with SMEs, creating test scripts, perform demos to end users and other team members.

                                                                                    Jun 2022-Nov 2022 

IBP Consultant

 

Responsibilities:

• IBP Roll out for US and LATAM region.
• Responsible for transition of ECC to S4 Hana and integration with IBP
• Design of master data, transactional data inflow to IBP and outflow of recommended safety stock from IBP IO.

Responsible for requirement gathering, As IS, To Be process mapping.

Helped businesses in prioritizing the requirements.

• Jobs scheduling and variant creation for those jobs
• Worked on detailed understanding of simulation and scenarios.
• Configuration of planning views as per the business requirement for safety stock visibility and alert

                                                                                                Feb 2022 – Jun 2022

IBP Architect

 

Responsibilities:

Participation in planning tool evaluation and selection process for Google Data Center supply chain planning of Long Lead Time equipment.

Worked with planning leads and IT team for IBP Proof of Concepts Demonstration.

Business Requirement document (BRDs) preparation and review for Demand, Supply and Spend planning streams.

POC of IBP system for Google GDC planning.

Preparation of Critical User Journeys (CUJs) for Demand, Supply and Spend planning areas.

Provided inputs for data integration between various external systems with a planning tool.

Participation in defining scoring Matrix and actual scoring process for planning tool selection.

 

 

                                                                                       Jul 2017 – Jan 2022

Technical Architect & Delivery Manager

 

Responsibilities:

Managed the delivery of the project and Led Global team of 12 consultants.

Actively led hiring for the planning team

Deal with MRP, Production planning and scheduling issues.

Responsible for requirement gathering, As IS, To Be process mapping.

Helped businesses in prioritizing the requirements.

Design and development of IBP Demand and Supply systems for implementation across supply chain networks for 5 continents and around 40 business units.

Configured IBP system including Master Data Type, Planning Area, Key Figure, Key Figure calculation and miscellaneous settings in Demand, Supply for Heuristic.

POC and implementation of Inventory Optimization process for US region.

Unit testing and integration testing.

Created data mapping for Master data and Transaction data and worked with HCI/CPI resources to configure different extraction from ECC tables and other legacy systems.

Developed business training materials, train-the-trainer manuals, and job-aids materials.

Worked closely with business for various supply chain planning initiatives, process improvements and user adoption.

Helped with Planning Roadmap

 

                                                                        Jan 2007 – Jun 2017

Technical Lead for Planning

 

Responsibilities:

Led the team responsible for production support issues & system enhancements activities in APO. Led SCM and ECC upgrades.

Acted as an advisor to the Bose IT and Bose business for various Supply Planning initiatives and roadmap.

Worked in both waterfall and agile methodology.

Mentored Tier 1 production support team for priority issues.

Active participation in various SCM initiatives and performance improvement.

Led TCS planning tram for EMEA & APAC rollouts.

Responsible for MRP and logistics touch points in Make to Stock planning processes.

SCM 5.0 to SCM 7.0 upgrade & ECC 5 to ECC 6 upgrade.

Architect solutions along with Bose Architect and Business leads.

Integration between ECC and APO

Development of user exits and customized programs to reduce Core Interface errors and streamline the data flow between 2 systems.

Configure CIF related settings and set up batch job for Integration models.

Demand Planning: Led configuration including building complex macros.

Supply Network Planning, Deployment and TLB

Led various enhancements and production support issues in supply planning.

Post Go live Production Support Issues.

Led a pilot to implement Advanced Safety Stock Planning using APO.

 

                                                            Jul 2006 – Jan 2007

SAP Analyst

 

Responsibilities:

Unit testing of master data like Super BOM, Dependencies, Work Canters and Routings & Reference Operation Sets.

Final preparation before Go-live.

Resolved all the support issues on time.

Master data testing & uploading through BDC & LSMW.

Updating of functional specifications as per change requests from client.

Imparting Training to Core team members.

Resolve day to day issues during post Go-live support.

Also Look after Plant Maintenance (PM) module support issues.

Feb 2005 – Jun 2006 SAP Analyst   Responsibilities:     Co- ordination with all user departments for smooth functioning of SAP PP module related activities. Finalization of the reports with the formats and testing. New changes and new business processes as per requirement. Creation of master data like Material master, BOM, Work centers, Routing for new expansion projects. Shop floor control – Production order system. Creation of new MRP controllers & Production Schedulers as and when required. To monitor the progress of each trouble ticket.

Jul 2001 – Jan 2005 Business Analyst   Responsibilities:     Co- ordination with all user departments for smooth functioning of SAP PP module related activities. Finalization of the reports with the formats and testing. Creation of master data like Material master, BOM, Work centers, Routing for new expansion projects. Shop floor control – Production order system To maintain the entire gamut of functional activities & technical aspects pertaining to production. Planning day-to-day activities, production schedules and work allocation for achieving monthly production targets. Assisting in production operations and achieving the preset production targets within the set time & budgets. Process monitoring   for controlling yield & losses by proper decision about multiple length & size. Recording various types of defect product wise for analysis & process correction. Cost control, process control, and improvement & monitoring. Day to day planning for material charging to furnaces. Member of Cross Functional Team for yield improvement, cost reduction. Core team member of PP module for implementation of SAP R/3 system. Exposure to Material Master, Bill of material, Work center, Routing. End User Training & documentation.