Experience — Kumaran Loganathan

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Experiences

Working as SAP Project Manager – Planning and Manufacturing in SAP APO SPP, SAP ERP ECC 6.0, SAP EWM, SAP CRM, and SAP GTS.

Involved in Four (4) full life cycle SAP Implementation and support project for SAP APO, PP, and BW/ BI Modules

Detailed Description

➢Managed Implementation Phases including Project preparation, business requirement gathering, GAP Analysis, FRICE Creation, Solution design, Cutover, Realization Customization and Configuration using Solution Manager, Project Integration and user acceptance testing.
➢ Manage the IT and consulting resource of 11 member project team.
➢ Established project skill requirement matrix and led project resources on boarding efforts.
➢ Collaborated with business process owners to ensure on-time completion of deliverables and verify that tasks on project critical path were on track as per plan.
➢ Developing work plan and coordinating the activities of the project team and managing project planning, controlling, monitoring and scheduling.
➢ Established and maintained close working relationship with all project stakeholders and consultant to ensure alignment between solution been delivered to business goal.
➢ Managing the relationship with onsite/offshore process team and ensuring project delivery within stipulated timelines.
➢ Identified cost effective solutions to convert requirements into practical business solutions within timescale and budget.
➢ Report to the internal program manager, providing daily project tracking status
➢ Project management coordination and project team / PMO meeting management
➢ Provide consultation to application process owner business partner about SAP architecture solutions to meet business imperatives.

Company Description

IT Consulting Company

Company website

http://iimtcs.in/

One (1+) years of professional experience in project management, operation management, architecture and interior in construction residential apartment as Project Manager.

Detailed Description

➢ Managing various kinds of projects involving construction, architecture, interiors, renovation, refurbishment and maintenance activities.
➢ Co-ordinating in preparation of project schedules / plans, engineering designs / drawings and technical specifications for smooth execution of projects within the time parameters.
➢ Using techniques/ tools like Bar Charts and S-Curves for tracking project progress as well as formulating project management plans.
➢ Ascertaining requirements of material for development activities & interfacing with vendors for cost effective and timely sourcing of quality material.
➢ Dynamic profit driven construction Executive with extensive organizational, estimating, business development, vision and management expertise in all levels of construction and construction management.
➢ Establishing time span of project execution as per client specifics; listing down resource needs for projects.
➢ Planning time & resources, scheduling the activities, updating actual progress, analysing variance, forecasting weekly & monthly resource requirements etc.
➢ Monitoring/discussing project status; reviewing during the course of project review meetings.
➢ Prepare the budget for the project and cost reduction
➢ Working with the core team for screening studies, site selection, concept and feasibility assessments and the production of basic design packages for new projects.
➢ Driving a team of multi-disciplinary professionals and liaising with the client at all stages of the project for securing approvals, finalization of specifications, reporting progress and final handover
➢ Guiding cross-functional teams for handling civil, Architectural, interiors, electrical, mechanical and HVAC works. Looking after matters pertaining to local statutory bodies, architects, and process technologists to troubleshoot all customer issues.

Company Description

Construction Company

Company website

http://www.rubybuilders.in/blog/

One (1+) years of professional experience in design, development and implementation of business application which include SAP APO SPP as Techno Functional Consultant.

Detailed Description

➢ Involved in the project from Implementation process.
➢ Involved in analyzing the business requirement with Business.
➢ Involved in communication with the business analyst on issues / clarifications.
➢ Analyzed the business requirement and documented the GAPS and related Configuration using Solution Manager.
➢ Analysis and review of detailed Functional Spec and providing the high level design to the team members.
➢ Significant Contribution in building the Functional Requirement document, this Includes initial building of FRD, final handoff to the development team, validation of functionality after final development.
➢ Played Critical role in Cut over Activity and regression testing.
➢ Involved in Company Code clean up activity which is the part of Cut over activity in all system landscape which involves lower environment till production system.
➢ Played vital role in issue resolution process including identifying and fixing the bug and take the accountability to move across various environment.
➢ Functional Point of contact for development team, this include provide support to the development team in any development / issue resolution.
➢ Involved in all phases of the project from development, unit testing, string testing, Integration testing, Investigate and resolving Issues.
➢ Involved in Configuration of Planning Profile , Planning Service Manager(PSM) , Trigger
➢ Involved in EOQ, Inventory Planning.
➢ Created and Maintained BOD to perform service parts planning, Maintained Pack spec definition for product related to IPC scenario, Involved in both Inbound and outbound scenario end to end.
➢ Creating BOD, PSM, Supersession chains, Assigning Product to the BOD and Executing the Job as based on the requirement.
➢ Involved in DRP and Procurement process , Including Approval and Release , schedule board , SNC
➢ Involved in DFIP, BOD and realignment, Supersession, demand forecast, Safety stock.
➢ Performed SAP testing in Various Environment like SB3, TST, CON, PP, and QAS.
➢ Involved in Transfer Price scenario related to Inter and Intra Company scenario.
➢ Defined condition table, Access Sequence, Condition type, Pricing Procedure for the requirement.
➢ Involved in TPOP, Base Receipt, Inter and Intra Company STO Scenarios.
➢ Involved in configuration of DRP planning profile, Selection profile for appropriate data to generate the schedules in Schedule board.
➢ Involved in analysis of the demand data on the DRP matrix.
➢ Involved in Schedule release process and handling Issues relevant process during CIF.
➢ Involved in creation of Triggers and performing the end to end process of SPP.
➢ Involved in Configuration related to MM process to populate rite Price in the Purchase order and Schedule Agreement.
➢ Involved in creation of Integration model for transferring the master data such as materials and schedule agreements and Transaction data between ECC and APO. Monitoring of CIF errors using the qRFC monitor.
➢ Configured the Planning Profile for processing the PSM.

Company Description

IT Consulting

Company website

https://www.magna.in/

Two (2+) years of professional experience in design, development and implementation of business application which include SAP BW and SAP APO as Techno Functional Consultant.
➢ Two (2+) years of SAP PP experience in SAP R/3 and SAP ECC6.0 project implementation as well as support areas mapping business process in to SAP process, configuration.
➢ Configured the Planning Book with Planning Object Structure, Planning Area, Data View, Storage Bucket Profile and Time Bucket Profile.
➢ Maintained Characteristics Value Combination (CVCs).
➢ Involved in the project from Implementation process.
➢ Created APO-DP objects- Key Figures, Characteristics, Master Planning Object Structure (MPOS) and Planning Area.
➢ Defined DP Planning book and assigned user to Planning book and Created Selection Profiles for the Planning Book.
➢ Created Time Bucket Profiles, Storage Bucket Profile Planning books, Data view, Forecast Profile for Demand Planning Component of SAP.
➢ Generated Macros and created Activity, Planning Jobs, and Scheduling Planning of Job, Release Demand plan to SNP and Maintained CIF Integration model for Master data and Transaction data transfer between R/3 and APO.
➢ Configured Statistical Forecasting using Univariate Forecasting.
➢ Generation of Data Base Alert profiles and configuring them in Alert Monitor of Supply chain Cockpit
➢ Creation of Data realignment Table, Copy Table, Variants and Process chains
➢ Creation of Selection Ids, Configuring users Planning Book’s settings like Header, Assignment of Selection Ids, etc
➢ Introduction of Master Data & Forecasting Model Selection for new product categories by analyzing the forecasting errors of similar products
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➢ Uploading Master and transaction data from Flat files, SAP BW, SAP ECC & SAP Legacy systems. Also performed data transfers between ECC, APO, BW and Live Cache.
➢ Good Understanding SAP BW Concepts.
➢ Involved in Creating and Maintaining of InfoCubes, ODS, PSA, Info objects, Info area, Infosources, Data Sources, Transformation and Info Package.
➢ Involved in writing Start routine, End routine, Expert Routine in building Transformations to the different source object.
➢ Monitoring Process Chain and Background jobs.
➢ Worked Extensively on Data Warehousing and Administration workbench (RSA1).
➢ Performed Data Transfer between R/3, APO, and BW.
➢ Involved in creating Bex Report where I used Formula, Structure, Calculated Key figures, Restricted Key Figures.
➢ Involved in solving tickets of different process area of the client pertaining to DP
➢ Involved in Regression testing of the new demands which are going to be added to the ongoing process.
➢ Preparation of Business Blueprint (Material Master – Item Master Mapping, Bill of Material – BOM Mapping, Vendor Master – Supplier Data Mapping, Work center.
➢ Conducted integration meeting and coordinated with MM, SD, and CO to get the Production models validated.
➢ Understand the nature of the calls logged by the users pertaining to-Material Master, BOM, Work Centers, Routing, Production Versions, Production Order.
➢ Day to day job monitoring & scheduling of production order
➢ Given Knowledge Transfer to the core team member and end users.
➢ Conducting the session and sharing the knowledge among the other module consultant.
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➢ Troubleshooting and providing post Go-Live support to the end users on transactional issues related to Master data, Demand Management, MRP.
➢ Customizing of Master Data like Material Master, Vendor Master, BOM, and Routing.
➢ Master Data Maintained like Material Master, BOM.
➢ Implementation of Batch Determination based on Expiry Date & Batch Classification.
➢ Responsible for communication between MES and Sap System trough interface.
➢ MES Request Sap to send/ subscribe material.
➢ Configured serialization profile to trace the finished part across all plants.
➢ Responsible Discrete manufacturing business process design and configuration with integration with MM.
➢ Configured PP to enable AMES (Automatic Manufacturing Execution System) related functionality: Material Master, BOMs, Routings, Work centers, PRTs.
➢ Prepared Master data including Material Master, Boms, Routing, Resources and Production Versions.
➢ Configured MRP – MRP Plant Parameter, MRP Controllers, MRP Groups, Scope of Planning for Total Planning (Multi plant MRP), Scheduling Parameters, Lot sizing, Special Procurement Key for Stock Transfers, and Production in other plant, subcontract and consignment.
➢ Configuring Inventory Management Parameter for all Good Movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues Configuring Inventory Management Parameter for all Good Movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservation, Shipping Instruction, Goods returns.
➢ Worked with ABAP Consultant on User Exits, BADI’s in configuration of some of the client requirements such as automatic assignment and creation of production batch using the production order number via SAP standard enhancement PPCO0012 and Function Module EXIT_SAPLCOKO1_002.
➢ Worked on BAPI_MATERIAL_GET_ALL, BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA to update the MM material master, BAPI reads flat file which contains materials and location of material.
➢ Modifying Customization in the Production Planning module to meet the business
Requirement.
➢ Interacting with SAP sub modules like Material Management, and Sales and Distribution.
➢ Day to day responsibilities includes MRP evaluation, stocking level reduction to reduce
Overheads
➢ Worked on Demand Management, Long Term Planning, MRP, Production Orders,
➢ Customizing different purchasing document such as PR, RFQ and PO. Preparation of contracts, release procedures and pricing condition.
➢ Customizing Inter Company process to maintain transaction between company codes.
➢ Customized the conversion of Purchase Request to Purchase Order.
➢ Coordinated with ABAP programmers by providing them detailed technical specifications for customization according to business requirements for interface between SAP and MES System as well as custom report like missing part report and tools.
➢ Integrated with SD Consultant and solved the critical issue relevant with PP.
➢ Production control – Creation of orders, order confirmations.
➢ Involved in support and solved issues in different areas of PP like Master Data,
➢ Involved in data extraction, Transformation, Data Loading (Full / Delta Up-Load).
➢ Extracted data from SD, MM, PP modules in SAP R/3 and from flat files in to SAP BI system using Generic Business Content and LO Extraction.
➢ Create the database tables to support the process.
➢ Activate and load R/3) and Sales order header data (2LIS_11_VAITM).

Company Description

Information Technology Consulting

Company website

http://www.mytechus.com/

➢ Maintaining 10 factories production and reporting to the senior manager and managing director.
➢ Planning styles as per the slots available.
➢ Machine arrangement based on the factory request respective to styles
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➢ Follow up factories for efficient for production
➢ Sorting up production issues related to package send to factory
➢ Arranging samples for forthcoming styles
➢ Shipment schedule status
➢ Supervising production process
➢ Correlating with the factories to meet the production on particular shipment date.
➢ Correlating with the purchase department for procurement of material from the suppliers as per the monthly sales plan
➢ Preparation of monthly production plan as per the sales plan received from the customers
➢ Monthly planning of the production quantity and preparing the weekly production plan as per the monthly production plan.
➢ Analysing production and rejection analysis by using charts

Company Description

Textile Industry

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