Sunil Kumar
Bangalore
Summary
I am a certified IBP consultant with over 5 years of experience in IBP for Demand and Supply. Total 20 years of Experience in SAP, out of which 5 years in SAP IBP, 13 Years in APO, 4 Years in SAP SD and 4.5 years of client facing Role at onsite USA and Belgium. Two full E2E IBP implementation projects in IBP for Demand and Supply Designed and delivered Demand Planning, Supply Planning (TS and Supported OBP) and Sales and Operations Planning solutions in SAP IBP. Implemented SAP IBP and APO projects leading blueprint/business workshops, design, build, SIT/UAT, deployment and hyper care. Extensively worked on following business use cases, Forecast Consumption and Forecast Release to supply Rough cut capacity Plan using Heuristics (TS based) Constrained supply Plan using Finite Heuristics (TS and Order Based) Exception management using intelligent visibility and case management History cleansing using outlier correction Segmentation (ABC/XYZ) and Time Series Analysis Statistical Forecasting using ML/Statistical methods and Product lifecycle Forecast Accuracy and error measures Worked on data integration using CI-DS/RTI from and to execution systems Significant knowledge and experience in excel planning using IBP add-in and planner workspace. Modelled the business process cadence using IBP process management template Strong knowledge on model configuration and troubleshooting configuration issues.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages
Work History
Sr. IBP Consultant
Accenture India Pvt ltd.
Bangalore
07.2024 - Current
- Lead the requirement gathering workshops, Design walkthrough sessions for IBP supply module.
- Map the processes with end customer business process and drive validation sessions with end customer.
- Developed unique solutions for refurbishment of broken stock.
- Enabled Inventory Balancing using MRO Planning Area.
- Leading Development, Testing, training and UAT Phases of the project.
- Collaborate with multiple stake holders both internal and external to align on the design and validation sessions.
- Project: Implementation
- Client: ASMO
Sr. SAP APO Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services.
Bangalore
06.2016 - Current
- Role: APO Team lead, Senior Functional Consultant.
- Responsibilities: As part of TCS and Johnson and Johnson engagement Handled below projects along with Support team of around 10 people
- QM lot integration to APO: Complete custom solution built in CIF user Exit.
- Automate CCR activity and job monitoring using RPA tool to reduce the manual activity.
- OTC enhancement project: to bringing the Logic to include the open deliveries into account.
- Enhanced the SNC IDOC interface Logic to consider the Load and PICK times.
- Sustain SDDC migration project to test the critical functionality.
- AMO Platform integrated into TCS support, new acquisition by client Johnson and Johnson.
- Continuously try to improve the process and automate wherever required.
- Solve and Guide on the complex issues
- Worked in Tidal Migration project to migrate all the Tidal jobs.
- Support team members to deliver their deliverables. Like participate in discussion with them with client for requirement gathering and solution.
- Conduct weekly status update call and in turn update to Client.
- Effort estimation and scheduling the changes for monthly releases.
- Knowledge transfer to new Team members and bringing them to speed within short period of time.
- Ensure no Braches in SLA.
- Project: Mercury Build and Run Support
- Client: Johnson and Johnson USA
Sr. IBP Consultant
Accenture India Pvt ltd.
Bangalore
12.2023 - 07.2024
- IBP Supply & Response (OBP) Design and Configuration.
- RTI Integration with S4 for real data flow from S4 to IBP.
- Two different flows for FG&A and spares.
- Conducted Show and Tell workshops.
- Unit testing, SIT and Support UAT.
- Change management. Defect resolution.
- Worked with Security team for Roles Design
- End user training.
- Cutover, Post Go-live Support
- End to End Planning cycle Support
- KT to AMS Team.
- Part of AMS L3 and L4 support
- Resolve tickets and Fulfill Service requests.
- Bug Fixes, testing and Deployment.
- Project: Implementation and support Project
- Client: Dyson
Sr. IBP Consultant
Accenture India Pvt ltd.
Bangalore
11.2022 - 11.2023
- Supporting 3 different IBP Landscapes for Printers and Compute Business and Pumari Landscapes
- Providing L3 and L4 Support.
- Providing support in CI-DS and SDI interfaces.
- Support across multiple business processes, Everest, Hermon, Sinai, Rainer 1, Rainer 2, Rainer 3 and Pumori, Shasta etc.
- Support Critical interface feeds from ODMs, for stock, orders information.
- Ensuring smooth Planning cycles and troubleshooting issues in planning cycle.
- Delivering the CRQs and Enhancements and continuous improvements.
- Implemented process management templates for monitoring end to end Planning cycles.
- Automation of IBP testing using Tosca DI.
- Testing IBP Post upgrade releases.
- Project: HP AMS and Enhancements
- Client: HPI
Sr. IBP Consultant
Accenture India Pvt ltd.
Bangalore
12.2021 - 10.2022
- Part of workshops with client for Requirement Gathering and Solution Design.
- Sol Design and Demo for IBP Demand, Supply (Heuristic), IO and Control tower.
- Co-ordinating with offshore & onshore teams for Configuration of the Model Entities Complex KF Calculations Custom Solution and Testing.
- Co-ordinate with other teams for Integration testing of data extraction from Oracle EBS Via CPI-DS.
- UAT Planning and support, Cutover Plan/Rehearsal, Coordinating Actual Cutover and Go live.
- Ensure Training Document Creation and Training End users by the team.
- Project: NBN IBP Implementation.
- Client: NBN
Sr. SAP APO/IBP Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services.
Bangalore
08.2020 - 11.2021
- Supporting IBP S&OP for 3 different BUs DSM DNP, DEM and DPM
- Resolving the IBP tickets.
- Ensuring the smooth Planning cycles and troubleshooting issues in planning cycle.
- Support During Budgeting cycles.
- Delivering the CRQs and Enhancements.
- Testing IBP Post upgrade releases.
- Project: DSM Support Project
- Client: DSM
Sr. SAP APO Consultant
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
10.2014 - 06.2016
- Role: APO Team lead, Senior Functional Consultant.
- Responsibilities:
- Responsible for Technical deliverables of my own and Leading the team.
- Delivered Very Complex enhancements in the area of SNP capacity levelling.
- Built Balanced Logic for doing proportional capacity levelling.
- Rolled out SNP functionality to new products for RRP heat sticks
- Done EE RBP retrofittment of WE OTP products
- CIF enhancements for blocking the stock in transit for certain movements types.
- Done Enhancements in the area of missing master data so that planning can be done even if there is no production versions in R3 system for short period of time.
- Enhancements done in the Area of CCR, which reduced lot of SRs.
- Support team members to deliver their deliverables. Like participate in discussion with them with client for requirement gathering and solutioning.
- Conduct weekly status update call and in turn update to Client.
- Effort estimation and scheduling the changes for monthly releases.
- Knowledge transfer to new Team members and bringing them to speed within short period of time.
- Ensure no Braches in SLA.
- Regular Analysis to understand and reduce the number of SRs.
- Project: SCIPIO Run and Support
- Client: Philip Morris International
Sr. SAP APO Consultant
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
06.2014 - 10.2014
- Role: Senior consultant APO
- Responsibilities:
- Functional testing: Development testing, System integration testing and support UAT with aggressive time lines.
- Make sure all the Schweppes existing business works with new version of SCM in DP and SNP (Heuristic deployment and TLB)
- Give an understanding of the New features/layout changes to Business users due to version change.
- Resolve any issue with Standard APO by raising High and Very high priority with SAP OSS make sure issues are resolved in time without affecting schedule.
- Worked round the clock to resolve issues to achieve go-live date of 15th Aug-2014.
- Interact with other colleagues from BW and R3 to perform integration testing like extraction demand history – sales data.
- Proactively searched SAP OSS for notes applicable for SCM 7.0 EHP 3 and analyzed them and implemented them wherever needed- AS preventive measure.
- Status and progress update to client about the testing, defects and solution.
- Project: SCM Upgrade to SCM 7.0 EHP3
- Client: SCHWEPPES Australia
Sr. SAP APO Consultant
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
01.2014 - 05.2014
- Role: Lead Consultant for APO DP and SNP for small projects and Enhancements reporting directly to Johnson & Johnson.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the small project deliverables as per the project milestone.
- Estimation of effort and solution for enhancements and small projects
- Quality management using HP quality center.
- FS preparation and input to TD preparation to developer
- Small Project planning and conduct meeting with Stake holders for project progress.
- Cutover tasks preparation and execution
- Weekly status update to JnJ about the tasks and deliverables
- New VMI Implementation, related setup in APO.
- New Plant rollout and its related setup in APO.
- Working also as SME for support team for any issues.
- Project: IBM Managed AMS project
- Client: Johnson and Johnson
Sr. SAP APO Consultant
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Beerse
11.2011 - 12.2013
- Role: Onsite Team lead, Customer Facing role at Beers-Belgium for SAP APO, total team of 10 Members at onsite and offshore.
- Worked directly with clients at all different levels to develop innovative solutions for new enhancements
- Point of contact for all APO related issues, DP, SNP, PPDS and GATP.
- Responsible for ensuring no issue affects the business hence resolving issues in time making sure uninterrupted APO functionality is available to business.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Configure SAP APO system to meet Johnson & Johnson’s business requirements.
- SAP best practice for VMI and new plant creation and its related setup in APO.
- Resolve all complex issues, as stipulated stringent SLA.
- Supported all the issues due to new Sodiac project which almost changed complete planning flows and implemented GATP module
- Client involved me in FS review committee for new Project which is called next generation forecast Phase2 although it is not job responsibility.
- Continuously improving the functionality by providing new efficient solutions by replacing redundant old solutions
- Single handedly handled very challenging issue due to fiscal year variant change which has corrupted all the data in DP planning areas
- Adhered to the client quality and compliance procedures.
- Used Docspace (document management tool) for creation /Updating of functional specs.
- Used solution manager and CQC tool for ticket and change management
- Working with tidal team to have all the APO jobs configured and scheduled for smooth jobs/planning execution.
- Part of weekend monitoring schedule to ensure all the planning jobs are correctly executed.
- Pro-actively interacted with the clients to understand and document the business processes involved & the client’s requirements for Enhancements
- Created prototypes as per the requirements gathered in three stages for demo to the Clients to give them a better understanding of the system and capture any leftover requirements.
- Conducted Unit, Integration and User Acceptance Testing which involved creating Test Scripts and helping users execute the scripts.
- Provided knowledge transfer and training to end-users, including sharing best practices
- Conducting CCB meeting with business, BUTT to update the status and prioritize.
- Knowledge management within team/new joiners.
- Helped create end-user training manuals for the Johnson & Johnson’s users.
- Involved in Cut-over and provided go-live/Post go-live support.
- Project: IBM Managed AMS project
- Client: Johnson and Johnson
SAP APO Consultant (DP)
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2010 - 10.2011
- Business Processes modeled: Unity is unique demand planning project where the forecast is derived for chemical dependent demand from pharmaceutical products from SNP and DP and final forecast is released to third party planning tool
- Responsibilities:
- Requirements gathering and Blueprinting- New DP Chemical functionality.
- Setup of new Master Planning object structure and two new planning areas.
- Setup user and back ground planning books – Monthly and Weekly.
- Developed target based and customer based macros.
- Created Consumption macros. Development of custom interfaces to extract direct and dependent forecast, actuals, open orders from both R3 and APO
- Setup Background jobs to take care of whole process weekly.
- Prepare functional specification documents, test scripts, configuration management and create end-user training manuals for the DP Chemical users.
- Conduct Unit Testing, Integration Testing for the functionalities introduced.
- Help User Acceptance Testing and Regression Testing by creating End-User Training Manuals and Test Scripts.
- Integrate master data between SAP R/3 and SAP SCM (APO).
- Interact with SAP Support to resolve product related issues.
- Provide support during Go-live and Hyper-care period by taking care of the cut-over activities and Production issues.
- Project: Unity – DP – Chemical
- Client: Johnson & Johnson
Sr. SAP APO Consultant (DP and SNP)
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Beerse
12.2009 - 08.2010
- Responsibilities:
- Supported modules DP and SNP.
- Co-ordinate and interact with Client directly for enhancements and production issues.
- Prepare Application Information Documents (AIDs) for the three modules (DP, SNP).
- New VMI Location implementation.
- New Plant Creation and related settings in APO.
- Designed the solution for interfacing receiving forecast from SNC via IDOCs
- Project: Staff Augmentation Mode for Europe2 APO support
- Client: Johnson and Johnson
Sr. SAP APO Consultant (DP and SNP)
Intelligroup pvt ltd
Bangalore
08.2009 - 12.2009
- Responsibilities:
- Given support in the area of DP and gatp and SNP.
- Project: LSI- Support
- Client: LSI- USA
SAP APO DP Consultant
iGate Global solutions
04.2008 - 05.2009
- Role Involves giving Support of SCM Issue and Small enhancements involving 10 to15 days of effort Apart from helping the forecast analysts running their monthly process trouble shooting any problem user comes across while running Monthly Process.
- Project: OC Sales Operations Planning SCM-APO-DP 4.0 Operations and Support
- Client: Owens Corning
SAP APO DP Consultant
iGate Global Solutions
Toledo
07.2007 - 04.2008
- Brief description of the project:
- Project is Owens Corning implementation of Demand Planning Functionality in an existing SCM 4.0 application for CSB and ISB Businesses. My role in the project involved doing the entire required configuration to bring the CSB and ISB businesses on to the SCM4.0
- Contribution:
- Configured Planning Object structure, Planning Areas and Planning Books and added new key figures.
- Created info source, info cube, transfer rules, transfer Structure, communication Structure, update rules, transfer routines, update routines, start routines in both transfer structure and update rules and info packages
- Designed new macros to implement new key figure calculations in DP and for generating alerts.
- Configured forecast profile, Planning Book, Storage bucket profile, Planning bucket profile, Data views and selection ID
- Developed realignment tool ( an excel interface), which FTP the realignment file to UNIX server and then the file was picked by the monthly batch process
- Configured flat file uploading and planning area uploading to info cube.
- Created new back ground jobs while adding additional functionalities to DP planning area.
- Designed several variants for copying data from one planning area to another and from one Key figure to the other.
- Project: OC Sales Operations Planning SCM-APO-DP 4.0 Implementation for ISB and CSB Business
- Client: Owens Corning,USA
SAP SD consultant
iGate Global solutions
04.2006 - 06.2007
- Brief description of the project:
- The Project is to Rollout New Plants within existing system and to provide support to the SAP Application implemented in Owens Corning APAC Region in the areas of SAP SD
- Responsibilities:
- Successfully completed Depot Plant new process, with SD related CIN Settings.
- Ensuring timely delivery of the support services within defined SLAs
- End to end Issue resolution in the Order to Cash scenarios, Pricing and Billing
- Provided issue resolution on Delivery, Logistics & Master Data areas
- Developed test plans for new developments and enhancements
- Solving problems in the areas of integration with the other modules like MM and FI.
- Comprehensive Documentation of root cause analysis & end to end resolution
- Designing, developing & executing new SD related PCRs’
- Worked on Smart forms for new outputs for all customer facing Documents
- Developed new custom Transaction to upload Hus in to the Outbound delivery
- Worked on User Exits to accommodate the client’s new requirements
- Developed new sales reports in coordination with the Tech Team
- Gathering, documenting & confirming the requirements for the new development from the users
- Designing & developing PCR document with effort estimation
- Preparing the Functional & Technical Spec’s, seeking user confirmation
- Developing the new PCR through coordinated effort with technical team
- Designing the test scenarios, executing testing with various complexities
- Capturing & documenting the test results
- Preparing the UAT & UTC Documents
- Coordinating & ensuring successful transportation of the new Development to the production & supporting
- Project: Plant Rollout and Production Support.
- Client: Owens corning
SAP SD Consultant
ALTMETRIK (Enteg) Info tech
01.2006 - 03.2006
- Brief description of the project:
- Project Is all About Integrating (Connecting) all the branches of the MCL Which are using legacy VB Application For their Transactions across India with the SAP System at Head Office in Hubli. Developing the VB Application for Branches, which will have similar Master and Transactional Data as SAP and then interfacing with SAP Using ALE-IDOC.
- Existing System Study.
- Assisted in the Blueprint Document Preparation
- Defining Organization levels For Branches, General settings for SD
- Sales-Number ranges, Document types for Branch, Price determination process for Branch
- Branch Pricing Determination Process. Pricing Procedure, Different Condition Types, Access Sequence and records for the branch Conditions
- Configured Fallowing Scenario (When Created in VB Branch Application Same will be created in the SAP System). Customer Master, Quotation, Sales Order, Delivery, Invoice, Stock Movements, Stock transport order, Outgoing Excise Invoice, Sales Returns, Cancellation Documents, Accounting Documents.
- Configured The Output Determination For the ALE for The Documents.
- Integration Testing Of All the Scenarios.
- Prepared the User Information Manual.
- End user Training.
- Project: MCL Branch Connectivity Client
- Client: Murudeshwar Ceramics Limited, Hubli
SAP SD Consultant
ALTMETRIK (Enteg) Info tech
08.2005 - 12.2005
- Contribution
- Business Study of the whole process.
- Assisted in generation of blueprint Document for requirements.
- Configuration and Creation of Enterprise Structure.
- Configuration of Customer Master account groups. Which includes number range assignment, fields configuration. Partner Determination Process.
- Configured the documents like Inquiry, Quotation, Sales order and Billing Documents type and Item Categories.
- Configured the whole process of pricing.
- Sales Information System.
- Simple Credit management.
- Final Testing of end-to-end cycle.
- User Information Manual.
- End User training.
- Production Support.
- Project: Implementation project
- Client: Network Clothing Company Limited and Jupiter Knitting Company Ltd
Executive(Sales)
Zass Exports Ltd
Bangalore
02.2004 - 07.2005
- Worked as a “Executive” (Sales) in ZASS Exports Ltd, It Is An 100% EOU Of Granite Products their Major Customer Base is European Countries and US.
- Pre-Sales, Sales
- Costing The Product, giving Proposal to Customers. Through Mails, Fax etc
- Complaints management.
- Documents management such as Invoices, Delivery Chalan, Bill Of Lading.
- Interaction with quality control, production and engineering to solve quality problems.
- Assignment 1
Commissioning Engineer
Tata Projects ltd
Wadi, Karnataka
06.2001 - 07.2003
- Contribution
- Quality Inspection/testing of Materials, vessels and equipment’s.
- Expediting Procurement and Installations to meet Schedules
- Planning and Scheduling of Activities for Planned and Breakdowns
- Fabrication of Pipes and Structural, Vessels Metallic and Non Metallic
- Rotating Equipment’s erection, trial and performance checks
- Inter departmental communication and co-ordination for effective and efficient utilization of resources and time.
- Budgeting, cost-reduction, utilization of available resources, with stress on documentation of activities/expenses.
- Inventory control and Management (Optimum levels)
- Sub contracting the erection process and rating the sub contracting vendors
- Assignment 2
- Client: Tata Power Corporation Ltd
Education
B.E - Mechanical Engineering
Gulbarga University
01.2001
Skills
Problem-solving
Time management
Team collaboration
Client relationships
Certification
SAP IBP
Timeline
SAP IBP
11-2025
Sr. IBP Consultant
Accenture India Pvt ltd.
07.2024 - Current
Sr. IBP Consultant
Accenture India Pvt ltd.
12.2023 - 07.2024
Sr. IBP Consultant
Accenture India Pvt ltd.
11.2022 - 11.2023
Sr. IBP Consultant
Accenture India Pvt ltd.
12.2021 - 10.2022
Sr. SAP APO/IBP Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services.
08.2020 - 11.2021
Sr. SAP APO Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services.
06.2016 - Current
Sr. SAP APO Consultant
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
10.2014 - 06.2016
Sr. SAP APO Consultant
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2014 - 10.2014
Sr. SAP APO Consultant
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2014 - 05.2014
Sr. SAP APO Consultant
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2011 - 12.2013
SAP APO Consultant (DP)
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2010 - 10.2011
Sr. SAP APO Consultant (DP and SNP)
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
12.2009 - 08.2010
Sr. SAP APO Consultant (DP and SNP)
Intelligroup pvt ltd
08.2009 - 12.2009
SAP APO DP Consultant
iGate Global solutions
04.2008 - 05.2009
SAP APO DP Consultant
iGate Global Solutions
07.2007 - 04.2008
SAP SD consultant
iGate Global solutions
04.2006 - 06.2007
SAP SD Consultant
ALTMETRIK (Enteg) Info tech
01.2006 - 03.2006
SAP SD Consultant
ALTMETRIK (Enteg) Info tech
08.2005 - 12.2005
Executive(Sales)
Zass Exports Ltd
02.2004 - 07.2005
Commissioning Engineer
Tata Projects ltd
06.2001 - 07.2003
B.E - Mechanical Engineering
Gulbarga University
Personal Information
- Passport Number: F9314938
- Date of Birth: 01.06.1978
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
- Visa Status: Valid B1
- ID Type: Passport
- ID Number: F9314938
Awards
- Got Above And Beyond Call of Duty Award from client Phillip Morris International
- Got Be Essential Cash award for my performance in SCIPIO project in PMI.
- Got Eminence and Excellence Cash Award in recognition of my performance in IBM.
- Top performer Award for Johnson & Johnson project.
- Completed PMAC course for PMP.