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ANUBRATA BHATTACHARYA

ANUBRATA BHATTACHARYA

SAP Managing Consultant
Kolkata,WB

Summary

Having more than 14 years of total experience in corporate industry (B.Tech+MBA – Full Time). Having experience of 13+ years in SAP APO and Supply chain management, 5+ years in SAP Design and project management. Managing a Project and leading a team. IBM Internal SAP IBP certified.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

SAP Managing Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd
03.2023 - Current
  • Researching user behavior and leading strategic roadmap across multi functional team
  • Streamlined hyper care support and increase customer retention rate by 19%.
  • Designing template solution for warehouse implementation in SAP from legacy
  • Leading planning team to build template and business blue print in SAP from Legacy to optimize process and increase revenue by 22%
  • Working on critical business scenarios where multiple legacy systems are involved
  • Making prototype, preparing pre-study, blue printing document to design and build solution
  • Managing and leading team to understand and prepare template in SAP
  • Working on template, realization, preparing FSD.
  • Working on embedded PPDS
  • Implementation of embedded PPDS
  • Handling major and minor enhancement in the area of ePPDS.
  • Mentored junior consultants, fostering professional growth and development through continuous learning.
  • Optimized client operations by conducting in-depth assessments and recommending actionable improvements.
  • Streamlined project management processes, resulting in increased efficiency and timely delivery of projects.
  • Actively contributed to thought leadership initiatives through authoring articles and presenting at conferences, elevating the firm''s reputation in the industry.
  • Developed comprehensive business plans, enabling clients to achieve their short-and long-term goals.

Account: Implementation of SAP ePPDS in Elanco Animal health, Design overall planning template in SKF

SAP Program Manager

Capgemini India Pvt Ltd
10.2022 - 03.2023
  • Managing supply chain team and identify automation to save cost
  • Track lead for SCM Team with team size of 28
  • Handling incident for hyper care support
  • Collaborated with business leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure.
  • Working on embedded PPDS
  • Handling PPDS operations and campaign planning
  • Handling incidents and major enhancements.
  • Established milestones and objectives based on input from functional areas and stakeholders.
  • Engaged and worked alongside cross-functional stakeholders to manage strategic initiatives.
  • Addressed and resolved technical, financial, and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.

SAP Project Manager

Cognizant Technology Solution
03.2018 - 09.2022
  • Handling Major Enhancements as per user requirement in Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning area
  • Ensured seamless communication between stakeholders, fostering a collaborative work environment.
  • Facilitated knowledge transfer sessions for end-users to maximize adoption of new SAP systems.
  • Championed continuous improvement initiatives that led to increased efficiency in core business functions using SAP systems as a foundation.
  • Spearheaded change management efforts that streamlined business processes and improved productivity levels across departments.
  • Collaborated with clients to identify system requirements and translate them into actionable steps for development teams.
  • Enhanced end-user experience with thorough testing, validation, and improvement of SAP solutions.
  • Conducted training to enable junior resource get trained in SAP APO
  • Handling incidents with zero escalation and within SLA breach
  • Working in Heuristic, Deployment, TLB and CTM
  • Working on realignment and release process from DP to SNP
  • Leading entire APO team toward innovation and reduced the manual work in many aspects
  • Managed successful Go Lives in one Business Release (Go Live) for the Enhancements
  • Developed functional designs, functional unit testing plans, and integration test scenarios as well as executing the tests
  • Handled two roll out sub-projects – NewCo, Next Gen HANA patch upgrade
  • Visited Japan to provide training to Plant about integration of SCM with SAP
  • Successfully implemented embedded PPDS.

SAP Functional Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2017 - 03.2018
  • Designing of APO SNP processes as per the business requirements
  • Handled design on SNP Heuristics, SNP Optimizer, Deployment Heuristics and Deployment Optimizer
  • Creation of Process Chains for the enhancements
  • Developed functional designs, functional unit testing plans, and integration test scenarios as well as executing the tests
  • Worked on HPQC for Functional Unit Testing and Integration Testing Cycle
  • Handled CIF setup for the enhancements handled
  • Managed successful Go Lives in one Business Release (Go Live) for the Enhancements.

SAP Functional Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2015 - 06.2017
  • Leading APO team with various project management activity
  • Handling Change Requests for big enhancement or other configuration related changes with break fixes
  • Worked in various roadmap projects and European roll out applications
  • Ensuring heuristics planning and capacity leveling and Capable to Match Planning
  • Developed functional designs, functional unit testing plans, and integration test scenarios as well as executing the tests
  • Working with various APO macros to develop new logic as per critical business requirement
  • Handling critical incidents and providing resolution before timeline
  • Resolved issues concerning resource overloading and Detailed scheduling of production lines
  • Checking Planned Order conversion and deliver
  • Analysis of CIF error and providing solution
  • Responsible for Maintaining Planning areas, Planning Books and Data Views
  • Maintaining Storage bucket profile, Time bucket profiles, Master forecast profiles for Demand Plan
  • Creation of Characteristic Value Combinations which form the Master Data for DP
  • Worked through the entire Demand planning cycle from Extracting of Historical data from info cube to planning area, Cleaning of History by Macro, Calculation of Proportional factors.

Associate IT Consultant

ITC Infotech India Ltd.
07.2012 - 12.2014
  • Created and Maintained Integration models to transfer Data between ECC and APO
  • Resolved CIF Queue errors and maintained system integration
  • Worked on various enhancements and customizations
  • Maintained SNP Planning books and planning areas
  • Maintained the Optimizer profile and setup various costs
  • Performed SNP runs using SNP Heuristics and Optimizer
  • Performed heuristics planning and capacity leveling
  • Maintained period factors, Safety stock settings on Product Location Master
  • Developed functional designs, functional unit testing plans, and integration test scenarios as well as executing the tests
  • Involved in data loads and validations
  • Complete all project related documentation according to standards and templates defined.

Associate IT Consultant

ITC Infotech India Ltd.
07.2012 - 02.2013
  • Responsible for the technical and functional upgrade from SCM 5.1.0 to SCM 7.0
  • Developed Test Scripts and collected master data
  • Resolving issues of CIF Queues, Consistency check
  • Involved in three phases of testing, and assisted in user acceptance
  • Coordinate for interface related issues for monthly Demand upload
  • Resolved issues concerning resource overloading and Detailed scheduling of production lines
  • Performed consistency check pre-upgrade and post upgrade.

Software Engineer

SENES Consultants India
02.2009 - 02.2010
  • Develop logic and build up environmental tool by advance JAVA programming.

Education

MBA in Operations & Supply Chain Management -

IISWBM, University of Calcutta

B-tech in Electronics & Communication - undefined

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Skills

All windows Platforms

Accomplishments

  • Awarded ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ for the hard work, dedication and excellence in quality of delivery for internship at British Oxygen
  • Achieved foundation certificate of Process - Supply Chain Management and Consumer Products specializations at IBM
  • Achieved foundation certificate of Support and Application Development and Maintenance specializations at IBM
  • Achieved foundation certificate of Service and Product Planning specialization at IBM
  • Achieved the most critical resource award at IBM during the year 2015-2016.
  • Achieved top performer of the team award in Merck working in Cognizant in the year 2018-2019 and 2020-2021

Personal Information

  • Blood Group: B
  • Date of Birth: 08/01/1986
  • Nationality: Indian

Keyskillsandareaofexpertise

  • Managing Project with team size more than 20, participating in RFPs, making blueprint documents and managing resources with single point of contact to the client.
  • Designing template, realization & build, building SAP supply chain solution with interface connection of multiple Legacy systems.
  • Making prototype, preparing pre-study, blue printing document to design and build solution
  • SAP functional consultant in experience with high impact strategic projects and supporting major proposal efforts in the supply chain areas.
  • Leading APO team and handling various project management activity
  • Responsible for the delivery of SAP projects and contributing to practice & business development. Supply chain planning & optimization systems, process re-engineering and other package-based solutions as a subject matter expert.
  • Working knowledge in embedded PPDS and implementation experience in embedded PPDS
  • Profound knowledge in Supply Network Planning & Core Interface (SNP & CIF)
  • Knowledge & working experience in Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning
  • Involve in creation of Business strategy, analysing data, recommending and implementing solutions.
  • Strongly handled Production Support for the FMCG Business.
  • Worked on Heuristics, Deployment, TLB and Optimizer along with custom jobs.
  • Extensively worked on APO macros, BW Transformation, Demand Realignment, Data Transfer process, Forecasting, promotion planning and cannibalization, Lifecycle planning, APO Alerts under APO Demand Planning.
  • Responsible for different critical enhancement and configuration related changes.
  • Have familiarity with business processes in SAP R/3, APO modules.
  • Have experience of working in development projects as well as support projects.
  • Knowledge of basic configuration on SAP Integrated Business Planning like creating of attribute, master data type, planning area, key figure, time profile, reason code

Training

  • Certificate Course from CMC LMT [Eight months’ module] - Core JAVA, Advance JAVA [J2EE]
  • IBM India PVT LTD - Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP 200)

Timeline

SAP Managing Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd
03.2023 - Current

SAP Program Manager

Capgemini India Pvt Ltd
10.2022 - 03.2023

SAP Project Manager

Cognizant Technology Solution
03.2018 - 09.2022

SAP Functional Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2017 - 03.2018

SAP Functional Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2015 - 06.2017

Associate IT Consultant

ITC Infotech India Ltd.
07.2012 - 12.2014

Associate IT Consultant

ITC Infotech India Ltd.
07.2012 - 02.2013

Software Engineer

SENES Consultants India
02.2009 - 02.2010

MBA in Operations & Supply Chain Management -

IISWBM, University of Calcutta

B-tech in Electronics & Communication - undefined

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ANUBRATA BHATTACHARYASAP Managing Consultant