Pallavi Koppikar

SAP - APO consultant

E-Mail: pallavi_k@yahoo.com Ph: 1-848-219-2565

 

Experience Summary

 

·          10 years of professional experience

·          Certified from SAP as an APO consultant in Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP)

·          Specialized in Supply Chain and logistics in SAP’s APO (Advanced Planning and Optimizer) and Production Planning (PP) suite of applications. APO suites include Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), and Global Available to Promise (GATP).

·          Has profound experience in configuring and implementing manufacturing suites.

·          Has been an integral part in the 7 ERP projects,

­        5 full cycle implementations and 2 Production Support Projects.

­        All of these have been in capacity of being a Manufacturing and/or Supply Chain Consultant.

·          Represented/worked for multinational companies including DuPont, Sappi Paper, Samsonite, Hitachi (Armacell), Satyam, Intelligroup and Infinite Strategies

·          Also has past experience in BaaN Manufacturing/Supply chain and i2

With combined credits including her Masters Degree in Computer Management and a winning combination of extensive experience in core industry and IT, Pallavi provides her candidature as a highly experienced and effective SAP Manufacturing and Supply Chain lead consultant.

 

 

Education

 

Degree

University

Year of Passing

Masters Degree in Computer Management (MCM)

Poona University – Pune, India

1995

Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com.)

Poona University – Pune, India

1993

 

Certifications

 

SAP Certification for

APO – Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP)

 

CPIM (APICS) Certification for

Master Production Scheduling (MPS)

Supply Chain Management (SCM)

 

 

Professional Experience Summary (Recent is first)

 

Organization

Title

Total Working tenure

Infinite Strategies LLC.

Sr. Consultant (SAP)

8 Months … Ongoing

Satyam Computer Services Ltd

Consultant (SAP)

10 Months

Intelligroup Inc.

Consultant (SAP)

4 ˝ Years

Samsonite Ltd.

Officer – Production Planning

1 Year

Indigenous Business Systems

Systems Analyst

2 ˝ Years

Siemens

Programmer

˝ Year

 

 

Projects Profile

 

Employer: Infinite Strategies LLC.

Projects: Upgrade of SAP-APO

Client: SAPPI Fine Paper

Duration: Jan 2005 Ongoing

 

Sappi Paper is one of the world's leading producers of coated fine papers, for use in catalogs, magazines, brochures, annual reports, and other high−quality publications. They produce fine, casting release and specialty paper of coated and uncoated varieties. With annual revenue of over US$4.5 billion, the company has sites in North America and South Africa.

 

Contribution (On going...):

·          Services provided as an SAP-APO Functional Consultant.

·          Implementation and upgrade of the Supply Network Planning (SNP) module (APO 2.0 to 4.1)

·          Implementation of SAP’s first (Pilot) instance of the APO-SNP module - ver. 4.1

·          Configuration and Implementation of the SNP Optimizer

·          Implementation of integration aspects with other Supply Chain (APO) and SAP R/3 systems

 

 

 

Employer: Infinite Strategies LLC.

Projects: Implementation of SAP-APO

Client: DuPont Surfaces

Duration: Dec 2004

 

DuPont is one of the major process manufacturing companies in United States of America. Their produce cuts across a variety of sectors including Agriculture, Consumer Products, Automotive, and Safety resources. Dupont Surfaces is a part of DuPont Safety and Protection, the group that represents about US$4.5 billion, which is a portion of the overall corporate annual revenue. Based in Delaware – United States.

 

Contribution:

·          Worked as a SAP-APO Functional Consultant, representing DuPont

·          Modules focused on were Demand Planning (DP), Global ATP (GATP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP).

·          Worked on uploading transactional history data for Demand Planning.

·          Statistical Forecasting using different multiple Forecasting Methods

·          Demand Planning Macros.

·          In SNP, worked on the Sheet Planning and Shape Planning using the SNP Optimizer.

·          Worked on Characteristics Scheduling and Block Planning.

·          Generating feasible SNP plans which is used by PPDS .

 

 

 

Employer: Satyam Computer Services Ltd.

Project: End to End Implementation of SAP-APO

Client: DuPont Surfaces

Duration: Jun 2003 – May 2004

 

DuPont is one of the major process manufacturing companies in United States of America. Their produce cuts across a variety of sectors including Agricultute, Consumer Products, Automotive, and Safety resources. Dupont Surfaces is a part of DuPont Safety and Protection, the group that represents about US$4.5 billion, which is a portion of the overall corporate annual revenue. Based in Delaware – United States.

 

Contribution:

·          Worked as an SAP-APO Functional Consultant.

·          Worked on Core Interface for transfer Master and Transaction Data between R/3 and APO.

·          Handling DP, SNP, PPDS Modules of APO.

·          Handling a team of technical people for APO development.

·          Interacting with the client to understand the needs for new functionality in APO and execute cycle to create solutions for requirements. Calls for full cycle of consulting activities.

·          Testing of the newly developed objects for APO.

·          Worked on the leveraged design where a newly developed object can be used by multiple businesses of DuPont with little or no modifications/workarounds

·          Worked on R/3-APO (Inbound/outbound) User Exits and BAPI’s.

·          Worked on on-site/offshore model at both the places.

·          Worked on Infopack, a guide generation product to develop and implement Training Material.

·          Worked on the Integration Testing and defect resolution.

 

 

 

Employer: Intelligroup

Project: SAP R/3 Support

Client: Armacell – China

Duration: Apr. 2002 – Jun. 2003

 

Armacell China is in the business of manufacturing various types of advanced Insulation Products and Engineering Foams for a wide variety of applications. Armacell has partnered Intelligroup for the postproduction support of their SAP environment. This service is delivered through Intelligroup’s Global Support Center.

 

Contribution:

·          Interacting with the client on a daily basis to understand the problems in logistics areas, providing timely solutions operating in ONYX 5.02 CRM Environment interfacing a web based knowledge management tool myADVISOR.

·          Understanding the new requirements of reports, transactions and convert those requirements into business functional specifications.

·          Integration testing, Documentation, Development & Modification of PP Reports.

·          Changing the customization settings to accommodate the required process changes.

·          Involved in developing Knowledge base in PP module.

 

Following functionalities were used in the Production Planning Module

·          Production process is Repetitive Manufacturing with provision for actual activity posting during GR/GI back flush.

·          Flexible Planning is used for Forecasting

·          MPS and MRP is used for production planning

 

 

 

Employer: Intelligroup Asia Ltd.

Project: SAP R/3 Support

Client: QNI – Australia

Duration: Jun. 2001 - Mar. 2002

 

QNI is in the business of manufacturing Nickel & Cobalt. QNI has partnered Intelligroup for the postproduction support of their SAP environment. This service is delivered through the Global Support Center situated at Hyderabad in India.

 

Contribution:

·          Interacting with the client on a daily basis to understand the problems in logistics areas, providing timely solutions operating in ONYX 5.02 CRM Environment interfacing a web based knowledge management tool myADVISOR.

·          Understanding the new requirements of reports, transactions and convert those requirements into business functional specifications.

·          Integration testing, Documentation, Development & Modification of PP Reports.

·          Changing the customization settings to accommodate the required process changes.

·          Involved in developing Knowledge base in PP module.

 

Following functionalities were used in the Production Planning Module

·          Production process is Discrete Manufacturing

·          MRP is used for production planning

·          Automatic release of production order is used.

·          Automatic confirmation of production order is used.

·          Different user exits are used in the PP module.

 

 

 

Employer: Intelligroup Asia Ltd.

Project: End to End Implementation of Baan ERP

Client: Abhishek Industries Ltd.

Duration: Apr 2000 to Dec. 2000

 

Abhishek Industries Ltd. is a leading exporter of textile products in North India. They are into the manufacture and export of a range of textile products that include Cotton Yarn to Terry Towels.

 

Contribution:

·          As-is process study, Business process mappling, To-be process proposal

·          Study of client’s Business Processes and Requirements

·          Gap analysis and Work around suggestions

·          Detailed product training to the core team member

·          Conference room piloting (CRP)

 

 

 

Employer: Intelligroup Asia Ltd.

Project: End to End Implementation of Baan ERP

Client: Larsen and Toubro Limited

Duration: Jan. 2000 to Mar. 2000

 

Larsen and Toubro Ltd. is one of India's leading Engineering companies. L&T selected Baan as their business system solution. Worked with Larsen & Toubro as a specialist Manufacturing & Distribution Consultant.

 

Contribution:

·          Comprehensive Manufacturing Consultating

·          Assumed full responsibility to get the instance live at cut over

·          Customizations in the BaaN projects module

·          BaaN Integration with third-party software

 

 

 

Employer: Samsonite India Ltd.

Project: BaaN Implementation

Client: Samsonite India Ltd.

Duration: Aug. 1997 – Sep. 1998

 

Samsonite India Ltd. is one of the worlds leading luggage manufacturing companies. With multiple locations around the globe to Manufacture and Distribute its produce, Samsonite offers a highly complex and challenging environment for its supply chain management. Samsonite has implemented BaaN ERP.

 

Contribution:

·          Core team member for the manufacturing and distribution module

·          Establishing process prototype for generation of the master BOM for new products

·          Production Planning and scheduling for multiple countries

·          Standardizing item codification method

·          Process standardization and method documentation for ISO certification needs

 

 

 

Employer: Indigenous Business Systems

Project: Software Development

Client: Multiple clients

Duration: Apr. 1995 – Aug. 1997

 

Indigenous Business Systems is a provider of software solutions on industry applications based in India. Their projects are based on RDBMS platforms.

 

Contribution:

·          Analysis and Design of software projects on RDBMS platforms

·          Technical design and evaluation

 

 

 

Employer: Siemens India Ltd.

Project: Software Development

Client: Siemens India Ltd.

Duration: Oct. 1994 – Mar. 1995

 

Contribution:

·          Software development as an IT Trainee