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Harsha Vardhan Mulukutla

Chicago,IL

Summary

Overall, 11 years of experience spanning across SAP Consulting in APO IBP and PP. 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) .Have good functional knowledge and experience in different business scenarios and configuration of Advanced Planning & Optimization & Integrated Business Planning module.Good integration knowledge of other .Have experience in interacting with users across the globe.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

  • Currently working with Align Technolgy /TCS Sanjose since jan 2019 to Till date as SAP APO DP GATP Consultant.
  • Worked with Colgate-Palmolive/L&T Newjersey from AUG 2018 to Dec 2018 as SAP IBP/APO Consultant.
  • Worked with United nations /Yash Tech Newyork Tech FEB 2017 to july 2018 as SAP APO /IBP Consultant.
  • Worked with Globarena/ Nextwave India Dec 2012 to july 2015

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

IBP APO DP GATP/PP Consultant

Align Technology
San Jose, CA
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
  • Create and follow the standard operating procedures for the recurring issues.Effectively communicate with users and understand the scenarios/problems
  • 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 with business sponsors in gathering business requirements, studying the business process, preparing business blueprint document, identifying gaps and start implementing new business requirements as per the blueprint
  • 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
  • Involved in cross functional integration activities in Material Management areas of Inventory Management, Goods Receipt, Goods issue, Movement types, Stock transfer order, Procurement Process of creating PR, PO, RFQ, and Subcontracting Purchase Orders
  • 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
New Jersey, NJ
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Generate and executing the Time series Heuristic using SOP operators
  • Generate the Transport Receipts
  • Executing the Job for transferring the Purchase Requisitions to ECC system
  • Executing the Job for transferring the Planned Independent Requirements to ECC system
  • Resolving High, Medium tickets

APO DP/SNP IBP Consultant

United Nations
New York, NY
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.
  • Worked on generating the Planned Independent Requirements from IBP to ECC system.
  • Worked on PIPO Functionality in Demand as per the business functionality.
  • Worked on forecast model setup by executing and generating the statistical forecast quantity.
  • Worked on ABC/XYZ Segementation.
  • Worked on Regression testing for all Business Scenario’s.
  • Prepared the test scripts in the time of UAT.
  • Worked on user group creation in web UI.
  • Involved in Master data Configuration setup in CPI – DS.
  • Explored the Business Scenarios in IBP and as well as CPI-DS configuration and found if any issues in Design changes.

SAP Data Analyst

Next Wave Group
Hyderabad, India
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
  • Customized plant parameters for MRP, defined MRP groups and Controllers
  • Defined plant parameters in MRP, defined MRP controller, MRP groups, MRP types, Special procurement, planning horizon, planning time fence, safety stock availability, procurement proposal
  • Created various standard Material Management (MM) documents which include Purchase requisition (PR), Purchase Orders (PO), Purchase Info Record
  • 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
Hyderabad, India
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 implementing the same
  • Effectively communicate with users and understand the scenarios/problems
  • 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 Christian University
Edmond, OK
12.2016

Bachelor's degree - Information Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University
04.2012

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 Christian University

Bachelor's degree - Information Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University
Harsha Vardhan Mulukutla