SAP SCM APO Solution Architect

July 2012-May 2013 – SAP Americas
 
Role – SCM Consultant
Project Type – Technical Upgrade
Environment – DP & GATP (SCM 7.0), BI 7.0, ECC 6.0
Client – Exxon Mobil, Singapore
Industry – Oil & Gas
 
Roles & Responsibilities:
     

• Understanding the current SCM 5.0 system landscape for DP and GATP
• Performed unit testing for the highly customized solutions for DP and GATP
• Extensive testing of the new monthly forecast consumption functionality and helping the business with the critical go-no go decision.
• Logging of defects in the quality center and coordinating with the technical team for quick resolutions
• Reporting the bugs to SAP support and coordinating with them for a quick resolution.
• Impact analysis of new notes on existing functionalities and an according decision to implement or ignore.
• Demo to the business users of the new functionalities/what changed in the areas of DP and GATP in SCM 7.0, EHP2.
• Performed PRE-IT testing
• Performed the IT testing for few test cases involving BW integration and supported the business users during the execution of IT testing.
• DP batch job testing using UC4

 
 
April 2011 – April 2012 – Abeam Consulting, Taiwan
 
Role – SCM Advisor (Expert Consulting)
Project type – Implementation
Environment – DP and CTM (SCM 7.0), BI 7.0, ECC 6.0
Client – Alpha Networks, Taiwan
Industry – High Tech
 
Roles and Responsibilities:
 

• Involved from realization phase, mapping of business process in SCM.
• Sped up the resolution process by deftly identifying issues as SAP bugs and approaching SAP for OSS note creation.
•  Developed BAdis for various business critical scenarios
•  Prepared and executed test scripts and test cases.
•  Developed complex macros in DP
•  Analyzed SAP code and functionality for CTM to design and develop custom solutions as per requirements.

 
June 2010- March 2011 - Abeam Consulting, Singapore
 
Role: SCM Advisor
Project Type: Implementation (Roll out and Migration)
Environment – DP (SCM 5.0), BI 7.0, ECC 5.0
Client – Good Year India Pvt. Ltd, Delhi
Industry - Rubber and Tube
 
Roles and Responsibilities:
 

• Project preparation workshop : Knowledge transfer, Kick off meeting, APO overview training
• Blueprinting – As-is and To-Be process documentation and data migration (data cleansing and data mapping)
• Realization :

System Configuration:

• Identification of characteristics, key figures and navigation attributes
• Creation of POS, planning area, time bucket profile, proportional factor calculation, promotion planning and life cycle planning
• CVC Creation, Planning Book and Data View Design.
• Authorization matrix (generic and derived roles) and selection profile
• Loading of data from Cube to Planning Area.
• Macro development
• New report functional specification documentation and development
• BW reports migration from SCM to BI
• Data realignment

 
   System Integration testing:

• Test scenario identification and test case preparation
• Unit  and interface testing (extraction of master data from ECC to SCM,    Historical transaction data from ECC->BI->SCM and planning data from SCM->BI)

                         Key User Training

• Key user training document preparation
• Performed key user training

            User Acceptance Testing

• UAT test case preparation
• BI reports testing
• Forecast modeling workshop for identifying suitable forecast model
• User acceptance testing and issue compilation and resolution

         Final Preparation

• End user and power user training
• Transportation of requests to production
• Data validation in production

        Go-live support

• Post go live issue resolution

January 2009- June 2010:  HCL-AXON, Noida
 
Project Type: Production Support
Environment: DP & SNP (SAP APO), BI 7.0
Client: GE NBCU Universal (Media & Entertainment)
 
Roles and Responsibilities

• Single point of contact for all DP and SNP tickets. Manage all DP and SNP tickets within reporting SLAs (Service Level Agreements).
• Manage the month, quarter and year end reporting.
• Managing the Change Management process.
• Ensure monitoring of SNP and DP batch jobs daily. Analyze job errors and provide solutions to ensure error free production system.
• Troubleshooting the problems, identify the OSS notes and apply OSS notes.
• Provided value adds to the customer by suggesting system improvements.
• Created enhancements through change management process.
• Created numerous technical and functional How-To-Documents.

January 2004 – February 2008:   SAP LABS, Bangalore
Role:  APO PP/DS Principal Consultant
Project:  Supply Chain Planning System (Consultation, custom development and maintenance)
As an APO PP/DS expert provided consulting and support to Asia, Europe, Japan and North America. Handled escalated customer issues timely and efficiently.
 
Roles and Responsibilities

• Implementation Consulting and post implementation assessment.
• Identifying functional limitations and providing customer specific solution.
• Solving customer messages of different priorities.
• Providing remote consulting through messages.
• Providing bug fixes through standard SAP notes.
• Handling of escalated customer issues.
• Creating customized reports for customers.

 
Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling with APO-PP/DS skills

• APO Core Interface: Customizing, Transferring Master and Transaction Data, CIF Monitoring.
• Master Data: Locations, Products, Resources, Production Data Structures and Production process Model.
• Basic Functions of Production Planning: Requirements, Planning Process, Heuristics, Firming, Scheduling, Pegging.
• Tools: Order Views, Product Planning Table, Detailed Scheduling Planning Board and Alert Monitor.
• Advanced Processes in APO-PP/DS: Finite Planning and Product Interchangeability

June 2002 - December 2003: Covansys India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore
 
Role: DP Support Consultant
Project Type: Production Support
Environnent: SAP R/3, DP & SNP (SAP APO 3.0)
 
Roles and Responsibilities
1) Monitored business related background jobs on daily/weekly/monthly basis
2) Analyzed and took corrective actions for failed jobs
3) Resolved data consistency issues
4) For system downtimes/incidents, suitable back ups/job were retriggered
5) Creation of new CVCs as per the business requirement
6) Realignment of data