Candidates About

 

Kumar Armugam

Career Snapshot

14 years of Techno Managerial expertise in SAP ECC, APO, and BW with Solution and Service Delivery expertise in Global engagements with onsite/offshore model for clients like Estee lauder, Nokia, NIKE, Apple care and Johnson & Johnson

Career Brief

·         Around 14 years of experience out of which, 12 years of experience in SAP SCM, ECC, BW and HANA and 2.0 years of strong functional experience

·         Handled 3 Implementations, 4 AMS Service Delivery Projects and a Product Development Project

·         Consulting competencies includes SCM – APO DP, SNP, PPDS & GATP and SAP SD/MM with cross-functional knowledge in LE, MM and PP and SCEM

·         Worked on building a POC and implementing IBP – Supply and Inventory Modules for a global client for their Europe Planning

·         Worked on Supply Chain Analytics building using HANA and Lumira as UI.

·         Adept in Implementation, Post Implementation Support, Product Development and Testing (with SAP India and SAP Labs), add-on Developments, Training, Business Blueprint preparation and Project Management activities

·         Successfully worked and handled Solution Delivery and Service Delivery Projects in a Global Landscape environment in SAP and Non SAP Environment

·         Experience in working with International clients in countries USA, Europe, Sri Lanka, Finland and New Zealand.

·         Worked with global SCM process with global customers like Estee Lauder, Fonterra, Nokia, Nike, Apple care and Print care

·         Proven knowledge on preparing and presenting operational metrics in a AMS and Implementation engagement

·         Understand and successfully implementing SLA based Service Delivery model in a Global Projects like Estee Lauder, Johnson and Johnson, Nokia and Fonterra

·         Adept in ASAP Methodologies and experienced in working in Agile SCRUM process

 

Area of expertise

Project Management:   AMS and Solution delivery Project Management in offshore / onsite model

SAP APO:                    DP, SNP, GATP, PPDS, CIF and BIW

SAP ECC:                     Consulting expertise in SD, LE, MM and PP

SAP HANA:                  Data Provisioning and Modelling. BODS and SLT

SAP Fiori:                    Building a Fiori App for Procurement Proposal. Understanding of the Fiori App Usage  

SAP Lumira:                Configuring and Building Analytical reports form data source like flat files and HANA

 

 

 

Area if Interest

·         Enterprise Machine Learning

·         Data Analytics

·         IoT

·         S/4 HANA

 

Brief on Project and Roles performed with time line:

Time Period	Organization	Designation	Role
Jan 2012 – Till Date	IBM -  NYC, USA	Senior Advisory Consultant	Project Developments and Support Delivery Lead
Jan 2010 – Dec 2011	Logica India Limited, India	Senior Solution Architect	Onsite Project lead of Solution Delivery
Oct 2008 – Jan 2010	HCL Technologies Limited, India	Senior Business Analyst	Implementation Consultant
Feb 2005 – July 2008	Bristlecone India Limited, India	Senior Consultant	Implementation, Presales and capability development consultant
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005	Intellect Management System, India	Consultant	Implementation Consultant
May 2002 – Jan 2004	Jyothy Laboratories Limited, India	Marketing Manager	Sales and Operations Management for a FMCG Company

 

Certification Accomplished

·         Supply Chain Design

·         Supply Chain Analytics

·         Data science Essentials

·         Data Science Orientation

·         Principles of Machine Learning

·         HANA and BODS

·         Fiori and Lumira

 

Tools Expertise

·         HPQC – Solution Delivery Engagement

·         Solution Manager – Support Engagement, Solution Delivery Engagement and Testing

·         Load Runner – Master Data and Transaction data loading

·         Clear Quest and Service Now – Support Engagement

·         Notes – Solution Delivery Management

 

Project Management and Reporting Capabilities:                                                   

AMS Project management Expertise:          Experience – 3 years                        Client - Johnson & Johnson

·         Handling, Fixing and Managing the AMS Deliverables through onsite / offshore engagement as an onsite and offshore lead.

·         Manging a team of 20 consultants in an onsite /offshore engagement model.

·         Worked with Client in defining SLA and implementing the same with given time line and made sure the deliveries are done

·         Conceived and implemented Job failure alerting mechanism by working with multiple vendors and proposing a cost benefit analysis report to client

·         Preparing SLA report metrics and present to client process leads on weekly basis.

·         QBR Meeting preparation and presentation to evaluate quarterly performance and align on next quarter expectations.

·         Weekly capacity utilization and future Projection reporting across the Engagement

·         Fishbone i.e. cause & effect report Implementation across the engagement to determine and manage problems efficiently.

·         Resource Utilization across the engagement with minute level data like time spent / resource / ticket

 

Solution delivery Project Management Expertise:   Experience – 2 years                                       

Client – Nokia and Fonterra

·         Onsite Solution Delivery lead starting from Client requirement gathering to Solution Delivery

·         Recruited, Trained and Delivered solutions through a successfully onsite-offshore model from scratch

·         Worked in solution design and delivery of finite schedule planning using DP, PPDS, GATP and ECC-PP module

·         Manage the process deliverables as per the SCRUM project methodologies with 15 Consultants

 

Projects Handled with Client and Duration:

Duration: April 2015 Till Date:                                                                                                          IBM, USA

Role: Sr. Advisory Consultant – SAP SCM/APO                                                                           Client: Estee Lauder

Project Name: SAP APO – Global APO Implementation – SNP and PPDS

·         Designing and Defining the Solution to include Brazil, Russia and Mexico Markets to Global template

·         Configuration and testing of solution developed

·         Working with Development team to define the solutions and develop the custom functionalities with various BAPI’s, BADI’s and RFC calls.

·         Gathering requirements of end to end interface between BIW – APO – Informatica – JDE systems and preparing Functional specification, GAP Documentation and Test cases

·         Implementing Reorder Point Planning and Shelf Life planning process as per Global APO business requirements

 

Project Name: SAP APO – STAR Console Design - DP and SNP

·         Designing the Phase in and Phase Out profiles to accommodate NPF forecasting process from DP and SNP perspective.

·         Configuring Phase In, Phase Out and Like profiles to generate forecast planning.

·         Requirement gathering, Designing, Documenting and Custom development related to Master data updates required in APO and ECC as per Phase out category using RFC calls and BAPI’s

·         Planning, Coordinating, conducting UT, IT and SIT by drafting test cases accordingly.

 

Project Name: Inventory Optimization – SNP Deployment and TLB

·         Customizing Deployment and TLB profiles and planning process as per business requirement across Supply chain network

·         Worked on Aggregated planning for European affiliates like Italy, Germany, France and Switzerland

·         Implemented capacity levelling profiles and Heuristics for capacity levelling planning.

·         Was part of a custom developed inventory optimization solution involved in Defining custom, Planning books, Dashboard and Planning Algorithm using Process chains to balance inventory levels across locations based on SLA and to generate STO proposals

 

Project Name: NA Online Integration

·         Requirement gathering for integrating NA Online business to existing global template

·         Designing and developing interfaces for Shipment, Inventory and receipts from Legacy to APO through Informatica

·         Integrating VMI planning scenario for NA online Locations in existing DRP, Deployment and TLB process as these locations exists only in APO

·         Development of process chains to load data in and out from SAP APO to Legacy system through informatics and flat file on application servers as interface

 

Project Name: Global Template Roll outs to – Israel, Chile, India, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Russia and Ukrain

·         Part of Global template roll outs to affiliates across the Asian and eastern locations

·         Performing Cutover activities from master data update to process chain variant updates

·         Performing simulation planning starting from master data update, DRP, Deployment, TLB and Alert Generation and then validating the results.

·         Configure publications and planning parameters for the new locations to align with existing template

 

Duration: Jan 2012 – Mar 2015:                                                                                      IBM - India Ltd., Bangalore                     

Role: Team Lead, SAP SCM/APO                                                                                   Client: Johnson & Johnson

 

Project Name: Sodiac – European Distribution Optimization

·         Part of redesigning the entire European supply network

·         Configuring Cross System flow of Goods functionality to meet the business requirement

·         Introducing the GATP – RbATP functionality for order fulfilment scenario at central DC

·         Worked on implementing BOP process to reschedule back orders on automated process.

·         Reworking on entire master data set up like, locations, Transportation lanes, Quota Arrangements, Source of Supplies, external source of supplies, resources and calendars

 

Project Name: AMS Support for E2-Galaxy

·         Handling, Fixing and Managing the AMS Deliverables through onsite / offshore engagement as an onsite and offshore lead.

·         Manging a team of 20 consultants in an onsite /offshore engagement model.

·         Worked with Client in defining SLA and implementing the same with given time line and made sure the deliveries are done

·         Conceived and implemented Job failure alerting mechanism by working with multiple vendors and proposing a cost benefit analysis report to client

 

Project Name: Supply Network Optimization

·         Worked on SNP – Optimizer functionality for providing cost based optimized solution for European distribution network planning

·         Designing and creating SNP Optimizer profiles and cost profiles as per the business requirements

·         Defining and Maintaining Optimizer costs across the network components including delay costs

·         Defining and configuring new planning books, data views and Macros required for Optimizer planning requirement

·         Defining various profiles like cost profile, Optimization profile, SNP Optimization bound profile, Penalty cost group profile.

 

Project Name: New Generation Forecast Planning

·         Designing and Developing Planning Book, Data Views and management

·         Designing and Defining Planning Area administration starting from Key figure definition to Loading data into PA and taking back up of PA key figures.

·         CVC Definition, Creation through Cube and flat file, realignment and Management

·         Life Cycle Planning design and Development

·         Designing Characteristic Based Forecasting technique for  Selected Brands

·         Phase in and Phase out planning with Profile design and definition.

·         Designing a Feasible forecast design with Univariate Forecast Profile definition and management

·         Defining BI Data Objects like characters, Key figures and Info cubes to use it in DP perspective

·         Designing and Data Acquisition and Transformation from SAP Source System like Standard Extractors and custom extractors based on custom Views and tables.

 

Project Name: Business Analytics – BIW and Process Chain

·         Defining Info objects to Info Cube Definition and Designing.

·         ODS definition and management

·         Info cube creation and loading data form flat file and source system like ECC and APO

·         Info cube performance tuning activity like Compression and Re-Partitioning

·         Create a Process to generate data backup for critical planning data

·         Process Chain Definition and Administration

·         ETL Design and management

·         Open HUB creation for interface development

 

 

Project Name: SAP PPDS Project Enhancement.

·         Defining and Scheduling production planning run in Back ground with MRP Heuristics

·         Worked on Detailed Scheduling optimizer cost definition and profile creation

·         Defining and creating planning board Overall profiles, work area, time profiles, optimization profiles specific to user per resource and location

·          Maintaining Set up group and set up matrix to generate setup matrices

·         Defining Detailed Scheduling cost profiles as per different brand requirements and aligning overall profiles accordingly

 

Duration: Jan 2010 – Dec 2011                                                                      Logica India Limited, Bangalore                         

Role: Senior Solution Architect                                                                        Client: Nokia - Finland

Project Name: Production Scheduling Optimization

·         Defining Net requirement Planning and lot size calculation parameters as per business requirement

·         PPM/PDS Explosion and Scheduling procedure

·         Defining set up group and generating setup matrix

·         Defining Detailed Scheduled planning board and its parameters like Planning Board profiles and period profiles for resource utilization,

 

Project Name: GATP and PPDS in Global ATP Design and Rollouts

·         Designing and configuring Basic ATP checks methods along with Advance ATP checks

·         Designing and Configuring ATP check against Product Allocation for a Demand Driven Process as well as for a Capacity check scenario

·         Configuring a MATP checking process for a critical BOM components in a electronics industry

·         Defined CTP  process in tandem with PPDS module along with Basic check to create receipts elements during supply shortage

·         In a Pharma industry worked with designing CSFG to accommodate a complex ATP check process using RBATP technique

·         Used Functionality like Transportation and Shipment Scheduling functionalities for GATP for efficient ATP checks.

·         Configuring BOP process to re confirm orders based on priorities and filters. Event Driven BOP process designing for a specific critical orders.

 

Project Name: Presales – Design and Develop a Business development strategy

·         Worked on POC and go to marketing strategy for APO – DP and SNP solution for a contract worth $30mn

·         Was involved in resource planning in onsite /offshore model for project delivery

·         Resource Capacity planning for project delivery to arrive at Project delivery cost and profit

·         Supporting BD team by preparing and presenting solution delivery presentations to clients

·         Prepared project delivery profit and costing statement based on templates

 

 

Duration: Oct 2008 – Jan 2010                                                                        HCL Technologies Limited, Noida                     

Role: Senior Business Analyst                                                                         Client: Fonterra – New Zealand

Project Name: AMS – Global Supply chain support and Monitoring, DP, SNP and GATP

·         Supporting level 2 and level 3 support to Fonterra’s global supply chain process

·         Handling and fixing production support issues related to DP, CTM and GATP modules

·         Performing monthly planning data updates like CTP planning profile updates, coordinate with control M team to load and schedule jobs, update planning parameters.

·         Coordinate with offshore team on open issues and working with BPM to fix the issues on priority

·         Perform system maintenance activities like CCR, CPP, AC04, LC check and others

 

Project Name: Global Integrated Planning Design – CTM

·         Was involved in designing and configuring CTM solution for Fonterra Supply planning process based on demand prioritization and Supple categorization

·         Defining CTM Profiles, Demand Profiles, Supply Profiles, Master Data Profiles and organising it in sequence as per the Brands and Sub product planning

·         Identifying and Defining Planning parameters as per the business requirements and setting it up to the planning profiles

·         Worked on analysis development and production issues by analysing the pegging structure

·         Defining and setting up the Filter type, sort Profile for Demand prioritization as well as categorization profiles and supply categories for Supply categorization as per business requirement

·         Setting up master data that are relevant for CTM planning like Source of supplies, PDS, resources, Product, Locations, Product Locations, tlanes, Etc.,

 

Project Name: Demand Planning – Phase in / Phase out and Life cycle planning.

·         Preparing CVC alignment process to create CVC for New products to be introduced

·         Scheduling Copying planning data from co related CVC’s to Newly generated CVC’s for planning purpose

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