K.
Sharath Chandra
M.Sc Global Production Engineering Technical University Berlin, B.E (Mechanical(Production) Engg.)
Mobile: +91 9160 697 656, Email: ksharath27@gmail.com
To seek a cross functional challenging position, share my knowledge and develop along with the
company.
EMPLOYMENT PROFILE
Aug 2024 to Apr 2025
Organization: Consign Space Solutions
Designation: Sr. APO Lead Consultant (at Infosys).
Client: Mondelez International
Project: ROSE (Russia Operations SEparation)
Roles and Responsibilities:
❖ Preparing and validating the pre=carve data selections, extractions & validation for Russia scope
with EU Central business managers
❖ Preparation, pre and post APO data carve out activities
❖ Planning, system preparation and executing the APO DP, SNP, APO-BW RU data carve out along
with SAP DMLT team
❖ Post carveout data validations in new RU system with EU Central and Russia Business managers
❖ Setting up new RU MD & TD files for IBP system via CIDS
❖ Setting up a new Automic job scheduler instance for new RU APO landscape
❖ Preparing, planning and executing the masking of Non-RU specific business critical info in RU
system.
❖ Setting up MDLZ custom process like creation of Action IDs to upload Eurasia external demand
files.
June 2022 to June 2024
Organization: Masento Limited UK
Designation: SAP APO Consultant (Free Lancer)
Client: Avvale Italy
Project: S4HANA 1710 PPDS Change Management & Support
Roles and Responsibilities:
❖ Responsible for creating new custom heuristics, creating a new planning board profile.
❖ Responsible for setting up the planning with planning material scenario.
❖ Responsible for setting up PPDS alternative resources solutions for both multiple production
versions and using resource classification scenarios.
❖ Responsible for setting up the setup-based planning using the setup matrix.
❖ Responsible for the daily support activities in PPDS, etc.
❖ Conducted workshops with business stakeholders to align planning strategies with business KPIs.
❖ developed and tested CIF models for master data transfer (material, BOM, resources).
❖ Configured heuristics (standard & custom) for planning run, order creation, sequencing, and
pegging strategies.
❖ Designed optimization profiles for minimizing setup times, changeovers, and maximizing machine
utilization.
❖ Set up DS Planning Board layouts, pegging strategies, and scheduling heuristics for multi-plant
planning.
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❖ Worked on alert monitoring, configured alert profiles, and implemented exception-based planning
dashboards.
❖ Defined setup matrices (e.g., color code sequencing, campaign planning for batch industries).
Client: Callaway golf USA
Project: SAP APO Global Projects & Support (DP, SNP - CTM
& PPDS) Project
Roles and Responsibilities:
Client Profile: Callawaygolf is a leading golf balls and golf equipment manufacturer in USA.
Roles and Responsibilities:
❖ Configured CTM profiles, rules, and planning parameters (priority rules, constraints, etc) to align with
business requirements.
❖ Collaborated with business teams to design CTM planning scenarios for order prioritization,
allocation, and shortage management.
❖ Conducted end-to-end testing of CTM runs and validated results against supply chain KPIs (fill rate,
inventory levels).
❖ Optimized planning processes by fine-tuning heuristics, allocation rules, and master data (PDS,
transportation lanes, resources).
❖ Provided functional support for integration with DP, SNP, and ECC to ensure accurate demand,
supply, and production data flows.
❖ Delivered training and documentation for planners and business users to run, monitor, and analyze
CTM planning results.
❖ Configured and maintained CTM master data (products, location supply chain models, transportation
lanes, production process models, resources).
❖ Designed priority rules, allocation strategies, and pegging heuristics to align CTM planning outcomes
with business policies.
❖ Conducted what-if analysis and simulation runs using CTM profiles to evaluate the impact of different
planning parameters.
❖ Resolved data inconsistencies and master data gaps (in CIF interface, BOMs, PDS, calendars,
resources) to improve CTM run stability.
❖ Provided functional support during weekly & month-end planning cycles, ensuring timely and
accurate supply-demand matching.
❖ Worked with cross-functional teams (production planning, logistics, procurement, sales) to ensure
CTM outcomes aligned with operational and business goals.
❖ Setting up the batch management as a part of the lot traceability project
❖ Creating custom PPDS heuristics based on business requirements
❖ Creating new process chains for SNP weekly and monthly CTM runs
❖ Setting up alternative resource functionality in PPDS
❖ Responsible for daily CIF and CCR monitoring and troubleshooting of issues.
❖ Involved in CIF and other master data related ABAP developments.
❖ Involved in handing of daily production issues from business managers.
Client: Tenneco Automotive Belgium
Project: SAP APO (DP) Projects & Global Change Management
Client Profile: Tenneco is an American automotive components original equipment and an aftermarket ride
control and emissions products manufacturer.
Roles and Responsibilities:
❖ Responsible for executing all the projects related to setting up new EMEA plants in APO DP. Example
Kestrel plant, South Africa and Italy Direct Shipment Plants, St-truiden plant (STM1) JDA to APO
migration, Spain and Patch to Willebroek plants consolidation, etc.
❖ Responsible for automatic mapping of IKAM from Azure to APO.
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❖ Responsible for automatic demand and shipment histories mapping from EP1 & TA2 systems to Azure
and from Azure to APO for STM1 plant.
❖ Responsible for monthly demand history and master data manual uploads in APO for plant STM1.
❖ Responsible for Azure integration with APO for both the master data and transaction data extractions
bidirectional data flows from APO to ECC.
❖ Responsible for creating open hub destinations to send the data from APO to Azure Power BI reports.
❖ Responsible for setting up FLO (Forecast Level Optimizer) for EMEA & NA business units and monthly
finetuning of the statical forecast parameters.
❖ Responsible for improving the EMEA & NA FLO stat forecast accuracy by aligning with the business
managers.
❖ Responsible for setting up and executing the EMEA staggered release based on the business
requirements.
❖ Responsible for monthly manual upload of the EMEA vanguard parts to FLO tool.
❖ Responsible for all the Tenneco Demand planning related change management and support activities.
❖ Responsible for all the Daily, Weekly and Monthly data loads from Azure to APO.
❖ Responsible for coordinating, planning & executing all Tenneco Demand Planning relevant projects,
change management and support activities.
SAP IBP Training:
Underwent training of SAP IBP and gained functional understanding of IBP modules Demand, Supply,
Inventory, Control Tower business processes and configuration of master data and transaction data.
❖ Master Data and Configuration Objects for Demand & Supply planning and IBP Response
❖ EPM formatting and Local members.
❖ Understanding of Upstream and downstream processes in Supply Chain.
❖ Working knowledge with Local Members and Lag Snapshot
❖ CPI -DS Interface for time series extractions (from ECC tables, Azure, etc)
❖ SDI & RTI for response planning.
IBP DEMAND PLANNING PROCESS:
DP relevant Configurations (Attributes, Master Data Types, Time Profiles, Planning Area, Planning
Levels, Key Figures, Scenario, Versions & Planning Operators), Creating Demand Planning View,
ABC/XYZ Classification, Outlier Correction, Statistical Forecasting, Batch jobs schedule in excel and in
web UI( Application job templates, Application jobs, Consolidation of Demand Plan through scenarios-
SOP Copy Operators, Version management- RELEASE TO SUPPLY PLANNING(COPY), NPI and Product
Lifecycle Planning, Forecast Automation, Realignment, etc.
IBP TS SUPPLY PLANNING PROCESS:
Master Data (Product, Location, Customer, BOM, Recipe, Production Versions, Subnetwork, etc), Check
Mode and S&OP and Supply Heuristics-frozen horizon and target days of supply-safety stock planning,
Supply Optimizer, generating unconstrained supply plan & Creating Supply Planning Views etc.
IBP CONTROL TOWER:
Create Analytics chart, adding charts to Dashboards, using charts and dashboards filters to navigate,
Custom Alerts, Manage cases, etc.
January 2022 to June 2022
Organization: Yucca IT Solutions, Bangalore
Designation: SAP Functional Consultant
Client: Nestlé Nespresso S.A (Europe)
Project: SAP APO (SNP & PPDS) Globe Rollout Project
Client Profile: Nespresso, is an operating unit of the Nestlé Group, based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Nespresso machines brew espresso and coffee from coffee capsules (or pods in machines for home or
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professional use), a type of pre-apportioned single-use container of ground coffee beans, sometimes with
added flavourings.
Roles and Responsibilities:
❖ Responsible for the rollout projects of SNP & PPDS areas for Nespresso Avenches and Orbe plants.
❖ Responsible for implementing Color codes & Groups for DS planning board scheduling for Orbe &
Avenches factories.
❖ Responsible for Implementing Multiple lot sizing heuristics (Nestle Globe Development) at Orbe
factory.
❖ Responsible for creating a new custom development for creation of PReqs in ECC system from a flat file
❖ Implemented an aggregated resource in PPDS for MPS planning.
❖ Assisted business managers setting up SNP Long term planning scenario over 78 Wk horizon and
setting up deployment for 35 days(confirmed) & 78 weeks (to give visibility) to the customers.
❖ Creation of Storage location MRP Areas for the dependent requirements for components in ECC at
Orbe factory.
❖ Setting up deployment taking Safety stock horizon into account for Nestle Ristretto Coffee.
❖ Responsible for improving an PPDS MPS finite heuristics (Nestle Globe Development) performance by
fine tuning the heuristics parameters.
❖ Responsible for setting up the VMI scenario for European markets with both the customer sales history
integration in Demand planning and Supply planning for the same in SNP.
❖ Setting up new European subcontractor in APO for the Nespresso Green Coffee.
❖ Responsible for the creation of new FS for Purchase requisitions direct upload into SAP system &
extracting Fixed deployment orders into a report in APO.
❖ Setting up of Inter-company supply scenario for Vietnam Green coffee vendor with Orbe & Romont
factories.
July 2012 to December 2021
Organization: Knack Systems & Services Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad
Project: SAP APO (DP, SNP) Change Management & Upgrade (SCM 5.0 to 7.0)
Designation: Managing Consultant (Jul 2012 – December 2021)
Client: Sharp Electronics Americas Corporation (USA, Canada & LAG)
Client Profile: Sharp Electronics Corporation Americas (is a part of Sharp Electronics Corporation, Japan)
designs and manufactures electronic products like Consumer Electronics (audio/video equipment, TVs and
home appliances) and office machines etc. It is the fourth-largest television manufacturer in the world,
after Samsung, LG and Sony.
Roles and Responsibilities:
❖ Completely responsible for the DP Monthly data loads, Change Management Activities and CIF
monitoring.
❖ Responsible for the change management activities for Sharp Americas 5 business units which are
spread across USA, Canada and LAG (Latin American Group of countries) , which include solving the
incidents and completely responsible carrying out the SAP APO DP specific monthly activities(like
Monthly Data Loads, Forecasts Copying from Canada & LAG to USA, Forecast Uploads for various
Account Managers in all the three regions, etc. )
❖ Most of the service requests and the incidents are related to setting up the new master data (CVCs),
deleting/changing the existing master data, transaction data, etc. Incidents resulting because of the
wrong master data setup in the ECC as well as wrong data input by the planners resulting in the data
discrepancies, etc.
❖ Debugging and fine tuning some of the existing Z-programs by modifying the code in the same,
because of their longer runtimes and also to incorporate the new business logic in the same.
❖ Was completely responsible for carrying out an APO system upgrade from SAP SCM 5.0 to SCM 7.0
DP & SNP Developments:
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❖ Modifying an existing DP report that fetches the data pertaining to Purchasing, Sales and Inventory
report from both an ad-hoc (GPSI) & ECC systems. (Incorporating the date ranges(from-to), making the
current setting accept the past months and display the report in the inputted from-to months).
❖ Modifying an existing DP report to incorporate the in-transit inventory.
❖ Responsible for integrating receiving the customer BJ’s sales data using EDI and a
middleware(GENTRAN) into APO demand planning and sending the APO forecasts to BJ’s every month.
❖ Transferring Purchase Requisitions of only some of the products immediately from APO to R3, this is
achieved by triggering an event using a user-exit macro from the SNP planning book and this event will
in turn run a background job that contains variant for the products whose purchase requisitions be
sent to R3 immediately.
❖ Created a report to extract a product’s information in its Base Unit of measure (BUn) than the Planning
areas unit of measure. Example: A products base unit is EA, which is equal to X grams. When this data
is extracted from the Planning Area (BUn KGs) it is extracted in the Grams not in EA.
CIF (Core Interface) & System Monitoring:
❖ Creating/Activating Integration Models for the Master data (Plants, Customers, Vendors, Resources,
Materials, SNP PDSs, PPDS PDSs, Purchase Info Records, etc) and Transaction Data (Planned
orders/Process orders, Sales orders, Stocks, Reservations, Purchase requisitions/Purchase orders, etc)
❖ CIF Monitoring - Extensively worked on the CIF Queue Manager monitoring and handled the faulty
queues and CIF related errors occurred during transactional/master data flow between R/3 and APO.
Also Responsible for running the reconciliation of the data between R3 and APO using the
reconciliation report (/SAPAPO/CCR)
❖ System Monitoring - It includes the monitoring of the daily /weekly/monthly APO & R3 background
jobs and process chain analysis.
Client: Anadolu Efes, Turkey September 2014 – Mar 2016
SAP APO DP & SNP Implémentation & PPDS Go-live Support
Responsibilities:
❖ Maintained the Demand Planning configurations settings that are required to generate the demand
forecast like Maintaining Storage and Planning Bucket Profiles, S&DP Administration (Creation of
Master Planning Object Structure and Planning Area) Maintaining Panning Books and Data Views,
Maintaining Characteristic Values, Creating Forecast Profiles, Maintaining Promotion Key Figures, etc.
❖ Setting up APO BW for Loading the Historical Data from Excel for testing the data upload.
❖ Responsible for selection of suitable forecasting strategies for business scenarios and their
configurations. Maintaining Forecast Profiles, Macros, Transfer Profiles and Release Profiles and
created Activities for Mass Processing.
❖ Stored the Constrained, Unconstrained Forecast in the back up cube for reporting purposes.
❖ Responsible for the Testing for SAP Standard Functionalities (maintain planning calendar, initialize
planning areas, create promotions (absolute and percentage),assign user to planning books /data
views, run the forecast (both interactively and through background job) for all the models ,life cycle
management functionality, run macros in foreground and check all the computed values are correct as
per the macro design, check the release functionality both online and background, running
realignment).
❖ Designed process chains to load the data from BW to APO sales history cube, load the data from the
APO info cube to the DP planning area, to save the forecast data into the DP backup cube, and to run
the DP planning cycle using the macros, etc
❖ Restricting the specific actual sales order types from R3 to BW using routines before loading this data
into the APO Info cube.
❖ Locking and unlocking the users and sending messages, during the DP background processing.
❖ Maintained the Supply Network Planning configurations settings that are required to carry out the SNP
planning runs (Heuristics)like Maintaining Storage and Planning Bucket Profiles, S&DP Administration
(Creation of SNP Planning Area) Maintaining SNP Panning Books and Data Views, SNP Global Settings,
Transfer to OLTP settings, Creating Deployment Profiles, TLB Profiles etc.
❖ Maintained the SNP specific settings in the master data like Product Master, Location Master, Resource
Master, Transportation Lanes, Product Data Structures (PDSs), Creation of Quota Arrangements, etc.
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❖ Responsible for configuring the CIF related activities on both the ECC and APO systems for the
propagation of the master and transaction data. was completely responsible for the Queue monitoring
and solving the CIF related issues.
❖ Responsible for the Monthly Weekly Heuristics runs, Deployment Heuristics and Transport Load Builder
setup and post go live support with the business managers with the output for the same like SNP
Planned orders, Purchase requisitions, STRs, STOs & TLB Shipments, etc.
❖ Have working knowledge on the SNP inter and intra company stock transfers.
❖ Responsible for setting up the time dependent safety stock process.
❖ Responsible for setting up the VMI and Subcontracting processes.
APO Pre-sales Activities at Knack Systems:
❖ Responsible for the APO Pre-sales activities for 'NutriSystem Inc', participated in the discovery calls
to understand the client's need for APO and their high level as-is business processes, assisted the
sales team preparing the proposal (with high level solution design, estimating the number of
resources and hours needed, etc).
❖ Responsible for the RFP preparation for SAP TPM for 'Iglo UK', worked with the sales team to
capture the client's requirement for APO & TPM integration (for Sales promotions, Sell-in & Sell-
out information propagation).
❖ Responsible for the Pre-sales activities for Electrolux USA for the roll out of Demand & Supply
Planning solution for their North America business.
September 2011 to December 2011
Organization: CIBERsites India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
Project: SAP APO 5.0
Designation: Senior Consultant – SAP APO DP, SNP
Client: Philips CL Global Planning Services
Client Profile: Philips Consumer Lifestyle is a part of Philips (Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.); which is
one of the largest electronics companies in the world. The consume lifestyle consists of two divisions
namely consumer Electronics and Domestic Appliances.
Roles and Responsibilities:
❖ Responsible for the live production system support activities, these include solving the incidents, and
carrying out the SAP APO DP specific monthly/weekly workarounds, etc. Most of the incidents are
related to program errors, missing configuration settings and related to master data changes,
transaction data, etc.
June 2010 to Aug 2011
Organization: Synova Innovative Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
Project: SAP APO 5.0 DP, SNP & PPDS
Designation: SAP APO Functional Consultant – DP, SNP & PPDS & ECC (PP)
Duration: Jun 2010 – August 2011
Client: AVEBE U.A., Groningen, Netherlands
Client Profile: The cooperative AVEBE U.A. is an international Dutch starch manufacturer located in the
north of the Netherlands and produces starch products based on potato starch and potato protein for use
in food, animal feed, paper, construction, textiles and adhesives.
Roles and Responsibilities:
❖ Responsible for enhancing the standard system functionality by aligning the same with the business
requirements through ABAP developments in DP, SNP and PPDS modules.
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❖ Responsible for conducting the user-trainings for the system functionality and participated in the
various test like the unit testing, integration testing and the user acceptance testing during the project
time.
❖ Responsible for identifying and enhancing the existing system functionality within the above said
modules by initiating sub-implementation projects.
❖ Responsible for the live production system support activities for over a year, these include solving the
incidents, handling the Change Requests in SAP APO DP, SNP and PPDS modules. Most of the incidents
are related to program errors, missing configuration settings and related to master data changes,
transaction data, etc.
❖ Responsible for and resolved the prevailing queue errors during the CIF queue manager and the
System monitoring including background job monitoring and process chain monitoring.
❖ Underwent advanced in-house training for the PPDS module during the project time.
SNP Enhancements:
❖ Excluding the specific Sales order types being transferred from R3 to APO using user-exit on R3.
❖ Mapping MRP Type, Planning line, Material Type in R3 Material Master to the APO Product Master.
❖ Automatically checking the Period Factor check box in the APO Product Master
❖ Mapping Plant Material Status the Business required that the Procurement type in APO Product master
(/SAPAPO/MAT1) be automatically set to 'P' when the Plant material status in R3 Material master
(MM02) MRP view is changed to certain statuses
❖ Enhancement to calculate the SNP Bucket Consumptions (According the SAP Note advise).
DP Enhancements:
❖ Created a z-program to upload and download sales plans, different prices using excel sheets.
❖ Applying the company specific business rules when creating the CVCs. Business Requirement:
Product1 can only is sold to Customer1. If the planner attempts to create a CVC to another Customer,
he/she should receive a warning message.
PPDS Enhancements:
❖ Creating a new DS planning board profile to exclude the SNP orders in the DS Planning board.
❖ Enhancement to display the difference quantity in the alerts by having a difference column in the alert
display.
Butler Technical Services India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad Jun'02 - Apr'03
Role: Design Engineer
Responsibilities:
❖ Responsible for several assignments for the heavy machinery equipment companies. This includes
creating models and detailed drawings of Sheet Metals, Castings and Fabricated Assembly Components
according to Caterpillar Product and Process Standards using pro/ENGINEER 2000 i2 tool on Windows
NT
❖ Trained on Sheet Metal Design, Design of Castings, Forging, and Surface Modeling
Sonali Castings Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad Sept'99 - May'02
Role: Manufacturing Engineer
Responsibilities:
❖ Responsible for the optimum Gating and Risering System Design for the Grey Iron, S.G.Iron Castings for
Compressors, Hydraulic Machinery, Machine Tool Products, Automotive Products, Automotive Hubs,
Brake Drums and Refrigerators using Applied Risering Methods, which offer exceptionally Good Casting
Yield, Freedom in System Design and Minimum Fettling Costs.
❖ Responsible for Pattern Making, Core Making, Mould Making, Fettling and Inspection for the defects of
the Grey Iron and S.G.Iron Castings and strived towards the Reduction, Elimination and Prevention rather
than Detection of the Product Defects.
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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Qualification Institution Year Percentage
GPA 2.1
M.Sc Global Production Technical University Berlin, (1.0- Best
Oct 2003-Nov 2005
Engineering Germany and 5.0-
worst)
Bachelor of Engineering Vasavi College of
Aug 1995 – Jun 1999 72%
(Mechanical Production Engg) Engineering, Hyderabad
Intermediate Public Vignan Co-operative Junior
Aug 1992 - Jul 1994 86.5%
Examination College, Guntur
Secondary School Certificate
S.S.S.M, Jagtial. Jul 1992 84.5%
(SSC)
