Standardization of Demand Planning for Europe

Role:

SAP IBP Consultant for Demand, Supply and Cloud-Platform-Integration

Tasks:

Advice on-site team for a successful Go Live 

• Lead Product Lifecycle Planning and enable experts in Cloud-Platform-Integration and Demand Planning.

Standardization of Demand Planning for Europe

Tasks:

Implement and lead SAP IBP Demand Planning project

• Implementation of Demand Planning processes Integration from SAP ERP, (statistical forecast (machine learning), Forecast consumption own logic, adjustments, revenue, promotion, product lifecycle planning budget/annual operation planning, mid-term planning, segmentation, alerts, Forecast error, Forecast accuracy, Consensus Demand and release to ERP)
  • Lead Integration with SAP ERP to ERP
  • Lead result transfer from IBP to ERP as planned independent requirements
  • Schedule SAP IBP & CPI Jobs
  • Data Integration: manual upload of master and transactional data
  • Data cleansing of obsolete objects
  • Creation of new combinations
  • Lead customer workshops and support user stories
  • Training: Key User and IT Team
  • Testing: Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing
  • Hypercare successful Go-Live

Global harmonization and standardization of agriculture

Tasks:

• Roll-out global Template for (ERP-SD, ERP-MM, ERP-FI,ERP-PP, SCM-APO, HP ALM HPQC Test management)
• Lead APO Implementation (APO-DP, APO-PPDS and MRP)during following stages:
  • Implementation of Demand Planning and Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling (PPDS-Sequencing)
  • Training: SAP Key Users
  • Testing: Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing
  • Solving data and process issues
  • Hypercare of successful Go-live

• Define and test approaches to improve forecast accuracy
• Best setup was the multi level forecasting provided by Supplyplanning
• Activate standard functionality for classification based on volatility and consumption (ABC XYZ)

Application Owner for the planning environment of the Performance material and Life Science Business. Involvement of Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling, Core Interface and Business Warehouse.

•  Lead offshore support team
• Lead APO upgrade project
• validate Change requests and implement approved Business requirements
•  support project team during rollouts
• Enable new functions ( e.g. process chain mail notification)

SAP Training SAP IBP 6.0 Training (IBP 200)

Training activities: 

IBP configuration

• Model a Planning scenario
• Data Integration
• User Role administration
• Enable Analytics and Reporting
• Usage of Microsoft Excel Planning environment
• Enable Simulation

Global harmonization and standardization of Industrial products

Tasks: 

• Roll-out global Template for (ERP-SD, ERP-MM, ERP-PI, E&HS, SCM-APO, SCM-EWM, SCM-TM, SCM-GTS, IBP-S&OP, HPQC Testmanagement)
• Lead Business Planning Team (APO-DP, APO-SNP, APO-PPDS, APO-gATP and MRP)during following stages:
  • Training: SAP Key Users
  • Testing: Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing
  • Solving data and process issues
  • Solution Architect for new business requirements within SCM planning
  • Establish Sales Order confirmation based on Product allocation and backorder processing
• Ensure a global visibility to reduce inventory and increase service level
• lead process integration topics for outside SCM planning (Quality Management and Manufacturing)
• Technical tools used in the SCM area Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, Production Planning, Detailed Scheduling, Global Available to Promise, Material Requirement Planning, Integration and Interface to Integrated Business Planning and ERP areas.

Training activity:

• Configuration Demand Planning environment
• Configuration Excel frontend
• Exchange with other experts about usage and market readiness

Global harmonization & standardization of Beauty Care business processes                                       

Tasks:

• Replenishment planning
• Roll-out global Template for (APO-DP, APO-SNP, Production Scheduling, Raw materials & Packing)
  • Ensure replenishment from Central Warehouse to Distribution Centres
  • Testing the solution
  • Integration with several ECC system via Idoc
  • Key User training document and communication news to Distribution Centre leads
  • Train Key User
  • Support after Go-Live
• Testing: SAP service offering Forecast analyser

Global standardization of Health-Care business processes

Tasks: 

• Global standardization of Health-Care business processes (ACC – Accounting, EH&S - ‘Environment, Health & Safety’, FAM - Facility & Asset Management, FI-CO - Finance & Controlling, PP – Manufacturing, MM – Procurement, QM - Quality Management, SD - Sales & Distribution, SCP - Supply Chain Planning, WM - Warehouse Management)
• Roll-out global Template for (APO-DP, APO-SNP)
  • Business Scenario Testing from Sales order in DP to warehouse management
  • Migration of data from old APO system into global APO & ERP
  • Communication: alignment with Business in China and on-site IT colleagues
  • Support understanding of forecast consumption rules and SNP tools (Deployment, TLB)
  • Cutover, Data Migration
  • Go Live, Hyper care support remote and on-site in China
  • Knowledge transfer session: Process Chain monitoring, issue handling, new release features and SNP Optimizer parameter

• SCM and ERP Upgrade
• Project lead SCM System upgrade EMEA ( SCM 7.01 to SCM 7.02, ECC6.0)
  • Prepare Upgrade plan and communicate between Business and IT
  • Manage and execute upgrade tasks
  • Manage upgrade plan to deliver in time and budget
  • Manage post-activities after upgrade
  • Support System Upgrade North America (SCM 5.0 to SCM 7.02)
  • Ensure a smooth upgrade for North America business

Process design and Implementation (APO-DP, APO-BW, APO-SNP & APO-PP/DS, CIF, PP, MM)

Tasks:

As-Is process analyse / Requirement analyse / To-Be process design

Implementation Planning processes within APO, BW

• Design, Implementation and Maintenance of SCM solution
• Configuration and successful usage of SNP Optimizer
• Lead Global Supply Network Planning Workshop, Prototype, Implementation and maintenance
• Reporting and Analytics with SAP BW
• Support Business in SCM (DP, PP, PPDS, SNP, SD, MM and gATP)
• Automate Sales Order confirmation with backorder processing
• Proof of concept
• Interface between Business and developers (specification, testing)
• Integration between APO and ERP
• Training, documentation and knowledge sharing
• Implementation Scenario planning to simulate influencing factors
• Rollout regional template
• lead DP initiative product lifecycle, forecast accuracy improvement and CVC cleaning
• Continuous improvement of processes to improve inefficient work
• Customizing and ABAP Development in SAP SCM APO and SAP ERP

• Expert Demand Planning (APO-DP) and influence SCM solution
• Implementation SCM-Systems within module APO-DP, APO-PPDS und all ERP Functionality
• Feasibility study planning with APO-DP, APO-SNP und APO-PP/DS
• Supply Chain Assessments for Demand planning and integration to APO-SNP
• Process design and Implementation SCM-Systems within module APO-DP, APO-SNP
• Implementation SCM-Systems within module APO-DP, APO-SNP und VMI
• Prototype & System demo within Demand Planning (APO-DP), Supply Network Planning (APO-SNP) and Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling (APO-PP/DS)
• Feasibility study planning with APO-DP, APO-SNP und APO-PP/DS

Tasks:

• Definition and creation of process chains
• Lead test cases definition and creation
• Train key-user
• Support and correct definition of DP environment (planning area, -object structure, macros alert management, planning book, data view and integration with BW and SD data)
• Integration with ERP to CIF master and transactional data (BW 7.0)
• Build up Demand Planning Functionality
• Definition DP Environment
• Definition authorization concept and testing procedure
• Automatize forecast accuracy calculation
• Forecast process definition and optimization
• Determination of the optimal forecast parameter
• Classify based on volatility, consumption, phase-In, phase-Out
• Optimized assignment of forecast model for each classification
• Implementation of life cycle planning
• System demo creation in the area of APO-DP, APO-SNP and APO-PPDS
• Execute midterm production planning within Supply Network Planning
• SNP functional scope:
• Finite Planning with SNP-Optimizer
• Planning with and without subcontractor
• Consideration of Customer specific shelf life of products
• Planning with capacity bottlenecks (Detailed scheduling)
• Optimization of production time (Detailed scheduling)

Achievements:

• Successful implementation of SAP APO solutions
• Segmentation concept adopt into SAP standard, release SCM 7.02