Harsha Vardhan
Chicago
Summary
Overall, 11 years of experience spanning across SAP Consulting in APO, PP and IBP. Worked on various projects which involves Designing, Developing, Configuring, Testing, Implementing and Production support of SAP APO Demand Planning (DP), Global Available to Promise (GATP) Supply Network Planning (SNP), Production Planning (PP,) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
IBP APO DP GATP/PP Consultant
Align Technology
01.2019 - Current
- Understand client business process and interface to manufacturing systems
- Good hands-on experience in solving P1 and P2 tickets
- Preparing of Functional specification documents
- Follow the incident, escalation, change management processes
- Work on the Root cause analysis for all the severities and prone severity issues
- Performing SAP configuration in the process area of SAP PP/APO processes
- Knowledge in ABAP interfaces using IDOCs, BAPIs, RFCs s
- Working on Cross module issues and testing of the new developments
- Working closely with SAP architects, technical teams, and functional analysts to deliver project scope on time, on budget and with high quality deliverables
- Supporting Production Control and Manufacturing Planning for make to stock and make to order discrete manufacturing variant configuration within SAP
- Involved in Blue Printing of the integrated solution between SAP ECC, SAP MES (Manufacturing Execution System) and SAP MII
- Designing solutions to provide better and efficient way to handle customer issues through Salesforce (SFDC) ticketing tool through interface to push information from SAP ECC to SFDC via outbound IDOCS
- Configuring and customizing of PP Module that includes Material Master, Bill of Material, Work Center, Routing, and Production Version
- Demonstrating strong skills including historical data mapping, APO BW design, Statistical model analysis and Macro development, Proportion factors, Demand aggregation and disaggregation, final demand release to SNP and Reporting
- Go - Live Support for user Interface and troubleshooting for the Offshore production division immediate effective in posting stock differences, annual inventory count and cycle counting
APO DP/SNP IBP Consultant
Colgate-Palmolive
08.2018 - 12.2018
- Analyzed supply chain process, provided custom solutions to end-to-end supply chain process with IBP, involved in configuration of the SAP IBP and S&OP solutions for demand & supply planning
- Configuration of SAP IBP including Master Data, Planning Area, Key Figures
- SAP IBP Excel-Add In Template creation based on the user requirement System Upgrades: Successfully participated in SAP IBP version upgrades
- Customizing and enhancing SAP IBP functionalities to meet Specific business requirements
- Data validation and loading using HCI/CPI to IBP
- Managing integrations between SAP IBP and other systems ensuring seamless data flow and consistency
- Effectively handled and documented incidents collaborated with different teams for timely resolution
- Involved in configuration of the SAP IBP and S&OP solutions for demand & supply planning
- IBP with Integration of HCI-DS / SDI to ECC Worked on Direct sales Business scenario
- Worked on External Procurement scenario
- Worked on Regression testing for all Business Scenario’s
- Involved in Master data Configuration setup
- Generated Statistical Forecast
- Release Demand to Supply using copy operators
APO DP/SNP IBP consultant
United Nations
02.2017 - 07.2018
- The main purpose of the E2E Inventory Optimization project is to design and implement a solution to calculate the proper safety buffer level for each product/location combination in the network
- Participated in SAP IBP Live training and sessions by Sap Germany Team
- Involved in Business Blueprints, Realization, Final Preparation, Cutover and Post Implementation IBP scope includes IBP for Sales and Operations Planning, IBP for Demand, IBP for Supply, Supply Chain Control Tower, Involved in SAP IBP configuration
- Analyzed supply chain process, provided custom solutions to end-to-end supply chain process with IBP, involved in configuration of the SAP IBP
- Working for the implementation of Demand Planning and Supply Network planning in the Umoja UE2 SAP solution
- Gathering requirements to formalize the solution’s implementation of SAP SCM/APO Demand Planning (DP) & Supply Network Planning (SNP)
- Followed SAP methodologies, standards and ERP SAP implementation best practice, contribute to the design, build and implementation roll-out of the APO DP & SNP solution to build a seamless integration of forecasting, sourcing decision and Supply Network Planning (SNP) with the logistics processes
- Analyze, design, document and test custom developments to support the delivery of SAP SCM/APO DP and SNP functionality
- Requirements Provided post-go live functional and technical support
- Configuration of the SAP IBP
- Model configuration (Attributes, Master data types, Time profiles & Key Figure).Business Model Configuration(Define the Model,Activate the Model, Import data into the Model & Use the Model).
- Planning area/ planning level setup.
- Planning operators
- Dashboard/Analytics
SAP Data Analyst
Next Wave Group
01.2014 - 07.2015
- Gathered the requirements from users, analyzed them and prepared functional specifications for implementing the same
- Involved in configuring the make- to- stock strategy, defining requirements type and allocating the requirements class
- Customized PP in the following areas: Material Master, BOM, Work Centers, and Routings
- Defined plant parameters in MRP, defined MRP controller, MRP groups, MRP types, Special procurement, planning horizon, planning time fence, safety stock availability, procurement proposal
- In routings and work centers, customized task list usage, standard values and parameters, defined control keys, maintained task list types, material type allocations, defined work scheduler/planner group, defined control keys, reduction strategies, routing selections
- Configuration of Planned orders and Production Orders
- Conversion of Planned orders to Production orders
System Engineer
Globarena Technologies
12.2012 - 12.2013
- Understand client business process
- Understanding of functional specifications
- Monitoring daily Batch jobs
- Gathered the requirements from users, analyzed them and prepared functional specifications for
- Involved in Functional testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing, load testing, security testing, stress testing, ad-hoc testing
- Daily touch base with business users and dev team on regular supporting issue.
Education
MS - Computer Science
Oklahoma Cristian University
12.2016
Bachelor's degree - Information Technology
Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University
04.2012
Skills
- SAP APO
- DP/SNP/GATP
- SAP IBP
Timeline
IBP APO DP GATP/PP Consultant
Align Technology
01.2019 - Current
APO DP/SNP IBP Consultant
Colgate-Palmolive
08.2018 - 12.2018
APO DP/SNP IBP consultant
United Nations
02.2017 - 07.2018
SAP Data Analyst
Next Wave Group
01.2014 - 07.2015
System Engineer
Globarena Technologies
12.2012 - 12.2013
MS - Computer Science
Oklahoma Cristian University
Bachelor's degree - Information Technology
Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University
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