Tara M G

+91-9663394254 tara.gurudatha@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

 Working as an App/cloud associate Manager with 13.10 years of total IT Experience.

 SAP APO/S4 EPPDS Lead consultant with good experience in SCM planning solution.
 SAP S4HANA production planning and manufacturing1909 Certified.
 SAP Certified ABAP Consultant.
 Working as a Team Manager for S4HANA EPPDS Greenfield implementation.
 Worked on master and transactional data transfer using CIF.
 Good knowledge in the areas of APO DP, APO SNP, APO PPDS, SAP ABAP, Live Cache, CIF.
 Worked on S4 to IBP time series integration setup via IBP Add-ons and CPI-DS.
 Playing key role in the Solution Architecture and Design of Complex Projects.
 Well versed with Agile Development Methodology.
 Trained in Kinaxis Rapid response tool.
 Expertise in leading, mentoring, and proven record of team optimization.
 Excellent problem solving, debugging and design skills in SAP APO & S4 HANA eppds.
 Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
 Able to build stakeholder relationships across the organization, understand organizational needs and
develop strategies to achieve goals.

Skills:

 S4 HANA EPPDS  IBP

 APO-DP/SNP/PPDS  CPI-DS
 ABAP

Tools:
 JIRA  Solution Manager (SOLMAN CHARM)
 HP ALM  Documentum (Doc Space)
 Service Now
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Bachelor of Engineering with specialization in Electronics and communication engineering from Sri Siddhartha
Institute of Technology, affiliated to Visveswaraiah Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka, India, 2009
with an overall aggregate of 77%.

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

1. Accenture Pvt Ltd – Oct 2021 – Till date

2. Cognizant Technology Solutions – Feb 2019 – Sept 2021
3. Tata Consultancy Services – Mar 2010 – Jan 2019

PROJECT PROFILE

Sandvik (India & Sweden) Sept 2022- till date

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is a leading supplier of equipment and tools, service and technical
solutions for mining and rock excavation.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 As a Team Manager, guiding the team and coordinate with multiple stake holders for smooth
implementation of S4HANA EPPDS end to end.
 Provide weekly updates to the Delivery manager on the project progress.
 Understand business requirements by interacting with the business users provide suitable solutions
within SAP EPPDS area.
 Co-ordinating with onshore SME to understand the business process flow to provide standard or
customized solutions to best suit the business.
 Co-ordinating with multiple teams of S4 like MM, SD, PP & EWM for smooth integration with EPPDS.
 Perform configuration related to EPPDS, PPDS Optimizer, CIF setup, debugging of queues.
 Create Functional specifications related to RICEFW and configuration document.
 Perform Unit testing, System testing, system integration testing (End to end) and help aid business for
UAT.
 Create user training document and conduct User training.
 Conduction workshops and trainings.

UniLever oct 2021-Aug 2022

Unilever is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies Established over 100 years ago.
They are known for their great brands, a global footprint and believe in doing business the right way.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 As a Team Manager, guiding the team and coordinating with multiple stake holders across different
teams and Customer for global SP role out on Kinaxis Rapid Response supply planning.
 Providing weekly updates to the Unilever Business owners on the progress.
 Providing Governance and daily reports to Accenture Leadership team as well as to the client.
 Resolving critical issues on SP to enable smooth implementation/roll out.
 Ensure the cutover activities are taken care and smooth releases takes place as per the jotted plan.
 Mentoring junior team members on Supply chain planning on demand planning and supply planning
process.
 Documentation and reporting of necessary information and data.

Merck KGaA Feb2019-Sept 2021

Merck is a leading science and technology company in healthcare, life science and performance materials.
Around 50,000 employees work to further develop technologies that improve and enhance life from
biopharmaceutical therapies to treat cancer or multiple sclerosis, cutting-edge systems for scientific research
and production, to liquid crystals for smart phones and LCD televisions.

Roles & Responsibilities of APO:

 As a Team Lead, guiding the team and coordinating with multiple Application owners across different
business divisions of Merck (Performance Materials, Healthcare and Life science).
 Providing Weekly service review report to the CTS management and Bi-weekly service review reports to
the Clients.
 Acting as the face of the support, focusing on targets and achievements
 Guiding the team to perform the monitoring activities, ticket resolutions and help team in critical issues
and challenges.
 Propose and implement various improvement plans, initiatives and change requests.
 Resolve critical issues in DP, SNP and PPDS areas as per SLA.
 Monitor / Error handling of CIF queues/ executes CCR to ensure proper data flow.
 Downtime error analysis and reporting to the Business.
 Monitor and maintain critical process chains.
 Coordination with various other non-SAP teams to ensure proper data flow between systems.
 Checking data consistency / proper data flow with legacy systems.
 Contact SAP to resolve critical production issues.
 Live cache monitoring and coordination with BASIS team.
 Documentation and reporting of necessary information and data
Roles & Responsibilities of IBP:
  Responsible for job scheduling, monitoring and error handling of IBP Jobs and report the same to
business.
 User access request creation.
 Report the issues found in IBP as incidents to SAP and work towards the solution.
 Providing Webinar summary of what’s New in quarterly release from SAP and advice on the usage of
new features available which fits the business need.
 Performance measures Regression testing support after the quarterly release.
 Planning Model configurations.

Johnson & Johnson Consumer (APAC) Feb 2013-Jan 2019

Johnson & Johnson (J&J), through its operating companies, is the world's most comprehensive and broadly-
based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer,
pharmaceutical, vision care and medical devices and diagnostics markets.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Responsible for Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Implementation of customized ERP/SCM
solutions for new implementations and upgrades for Johnson & Johnson Business operations.
 Techno Functional consultant working with multiple teams for multiple Business Sectors – Consumer
and Pharma.
 APO ABAP Primary Developer for the APO projects.
 Worked on the RICEF objects.
 Create/Modify various BW info objects, creating/modifying routines.
 Monitor / Error handling of CIF queues using various tools.
 Schedule and monitor various background jobs.
 Create Planning Book and Data View as per user requirements.
 Create / modify the macros as part of various modifications.
 Ensure proper data flow between ECC and APO
 Monitoring the performance of Live Cache and do corrective actions
 Optimizing and monitoring various BW Objects.
 Creation of Functional Specification as per the requirement.
 Implementation of BADI/Enhancement Spots/User exits.

AGILE Methodology Roles and responsibilities:

 Manage the product backlog (grooming, prioritization, and refinement) and work day-to-day with the
product teams to clarify requirements and accept final user stories.
 Expertise in collaborating with the Scrum Master to run successful PI Planning and Sprint Planning
 sessions, as well as Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
 Experience in define, prioritize, and clarify user stories; working with other Product Owners to
understand use cases, features, business & technical domain rules and overall product goals.
  Build and groom product backlog(s). Create and groom short, medium and long-term product roadmaps
and get internal agreement with key stakeholders.

J&J Consumer & Pharma, LATAM (Support Project) Feb 2012 - Jan 2013

JNJ LATAM is multi-national manufacturers of pharmaceutical, diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical, and

biotechnology products, as well as personal hygiene products. TCS provides technical support to develop and
enhance and customize the applications to fulfil the customer need.
Roles & Responsibilities:
 Understanding user requirements and solving client queries.
 Working on ECRs (Electronic Change Requests), SRs (Service Requests) and Tickets based on priority.
Giving resolution on time by investigating issues, changing code and Preparing Technical Specifications.
 Conducting unit test and documenting test results.
 Writing technical documentation on developed objects.
 Resolving the defects in QA testing.
 Conducting code review as part of team responsibility.

Johnson & Johnson,NA (Support Project) Oct 2010-Jan 2012

Johnson & Johnson (J&J), through its operating companies, is the manufacturer of HealthCare products, as well
as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical, medical devices and diagnostics markets.
TCS develops/supports all SAP modules implemented at Johnson and Johnson and related legacy applications,
open-ended applications (i.e. web-based viz., Java) integrated with SAP.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Monitoring and handling incidents(tickets) in solution manager on daily basis and working on Change
requests based on priority, giving resolution on time by investigating issues, changing code, preparing
test cases, and conducting unit tests on RICEFs. RICEF is a program or application in SAP used for J&J.
 Understanding user requirements and solving client queries.
 Writing technical documentation and code review document preparation.

Objects Developed/worked on:

 Designed & Developed Custom reports and modified existing reports.
 Developing RICEF objects.
 Delivered the tasks in-time and taking all the prospective of change management process
 Developed Value-added tool to the client, which extracts the Sale Order data in the ALV format with all
the details.

References
Available upon request