Blue Yonder Solution Architect Architect - JDA Solution Architect

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         Blue Yonder ESP  / Enterprise Supply Planning Solution Architect          

           Supply Chain Professional - IT          

Summary

• Having 14+ years of IT experience in Implementation of Supply Chain planning suits. Currently working on implementing o9 planning suit as Solution architect.
• Having excellent analytical, logical and consulting skills.
• A team player with good inter-personal skills and high level of energy and enthusiasm.
• Worked on various Planning suits of Blue yonder ( JDA/i2) and o9.
• Currently working as Solution Architect at o9 Solutions. 
• Worked for about 8 years in Blue Yonder (JDA Software)
• Has strong Technical and Functional expertise with BY/JDA ESP (LpOPT, Deeptree, MAP), Sequencing and Factory Planner.
• Has Blue Yonder Training in S&OP, while employed with Blue Yonder..                                                                                                          

Functional/Technical Summary:

Domains: Supply Chain Planning.

• Core Competency: Supply Planning, JDA Supply Chain Planning solutions.

Planning Solutions:

O9 Solutions 

O9 Platform.

O9 SCS Planning.

O9 Scheduling solutions.

JDA Planning Suits:

Blue Yonder/JDA SEQUENCING on SCPO (2019.x,2018.x, 2017.x).

Blue Yonder/JDA ESP (2018.x, 2017.x).

Blue Yonder/JDA PRODUCTION SCHEDULER.

Blue Yonder/JDA SCPO.

• Languages: UNIX Shell Scripting and Windows Batch scripting as and when needed.
• Programing Languages: SQL ,Pl/SQL ,Python  
• Operating Systems: UNIX AIX 5.3, Windows.
• Databases: Oracle DB, MySQL
• Integration: MuleSoft ESB
• Tools & Utilities: SQL Developer, TOAD, CONTROL-M, SALES FORCE.

Internal certifications: 

Functional for implementation

O9 Platform.

O9 Supply planning solver.

O9 IBPL.

Demand Planning

Supply planning

JDA SEQUENCING

JDA ENTERPRISE SUPPLY PLANNER

JDA PRODUCTION SCHEDULER

JDA FACTORY PLANNING

JDA DEMAND 360

Technical for implementation 

JDA SCPO

Educational Profile:

• Graduation: Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electronic and Communication from ANNA University, Chennai.
  • Passed out with Distinction. 

Project Details:

 

 

July 2021 to Present

Project 1:

Client: Coca-Cola Bottlers USA

 

Transformation project to implement BY manufacturing suite of products. Project involves all the products of Planning suite (SCS, IO, ESP, SEQ and TMS)Roles & Responsibilities:· Gathering Requirement, Design and implement JDA SEQUENCING.· Train the end user with the new process.· Defining DILOP of planner with the new process.· Hyper care support.· Rollout solution across USA bottlers in Phases.· Training End user to use the system effectively. 

 

JDA Tools : JDA SCPO, JDA SEQUENCING

Company: o9 Solutions

Clients:      Ab InBev, Google, Operaize 

Roles:        Solution Architect                                            Oct 2020 – July 2021

Global companies are transforming from slow, silo-ed Supply Chain, Revenue and Financial planning to real-time Integrated Business Planning with: o9

Project 1:

Client:    Google Hardware 

 

Google Hardware selected o9 as their partner for revamping their supply chain process. Google Hardware MVP is implemented for Pixel and Nest product lines.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Gathering Requirements, Design and implement o9 Platform solutions.
• Managed and architected entire Poc.
• Managed and architected entire implementation.
• Defining DILOP of new process.
• Training customer with o9 tools for effective utilization.

O9                           : o9 Platform, o9 SCS.

Role                        : Solution Architect             Period                    : Dec 2020 – Till Date

Project 2:

Client:    Ab InBev 

 

InBev is a brewing company that resulted from the merger between Belgium-based company Interbrew and Brazilian brewer AmBev which took place in 2004. It existed independently until the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch in 2008, which formed Anheuser-Busch InBev (abbreviated AB InBev). InBev had operations in over 30 countries and sales in over 130 countries.[1] In 2006, it had a market capitalization of €30.6 billion and net profit of €3.2 billion on sales of €13.3 billion.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Gathering Requirements, Design and implement o9 Platform solutions.
• Managed and architected entire Poc.
• Managed and architected entire implementation.
• Defining DILOP of new process.
• Training customer with o9 tools for effective utilization.
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O9                           : o9 Platform, o9 SCS, o9-Operaize Scheduling.

Role                        : Solution Architect             Period                    : Oct 2020 – Dec-2020

 

Company: BLUE YONDER (JDA Software Pvt. Ltd).

Clients:      CP FOODS, BRIDGESTONE TIRES, FEMSA, ARCELOR-MITTAL, AVNET, BRIDGESTONE BANDAG, COOPER TIRES

Roles:        Solution Architect                                            Jul 2018 – Oct 2020

                   Sr. Business Consultant                                   Jul 2015 – Jun 2018

                   Sr. Technical Consultant                                  Mar 2013- Jun 2015

JDA Software Pvt. Ltd. together with its subsidiaries, provides enterprise software solutions worldwide. Its enterprise software solutions enable planning, optimization, and execution of supply chain, merchandising, and pricing processes for manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors, retailers as well as travel, transportation, hospitality, and media organizations.

Project 1:

Client:    Charoen Pokphand Foods, Bangkok 

Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (“CPF”) is one of the world’s leading listed agro-industrial and food conglomerates which operates vertically integrated business. The Company operates in 16 countries, exports products from Thailand to over 30 countries, covering over 4 billion population around the world. The Company operates in both the livestock (swine, broilers, layers, and ducks) and aquaculture (shrimp and fish) businesses

CPF choose JDA Planning Suite of Products to transform their Supply Chain Process.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Gathering Requirements, Design and implement JDA ESP and JDA Sequencing solution for livestock production division and Farm planning.
• Managed and architected entire implementation at customer site.
• Defining DILOP of new process.
• Training customer with JDA tools for effective utilization.

• First time implementation of JDA products in poultry industry. As first in time lot of challenges in designing the system to support the customer requirement to reduce the meat balancing and effective utilization of production resource.

JDA                         : JDA SCPO, SEQUENCING, ESP

Role                        : Solution Architect             Period                    : Aug 2018 – Till Date

Project 2:

Client:    Refrescos y Aguas Minerales (Coca Cola Femsa), Mexico

Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V., known as Coca-Cola FEMSA or KOF, is a Mexican multinational beverage company headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It is a subsidiary of FEMSA which owns 48% of its stock, with 28% held by wholly owned subsidiaries of The Coca-Cola Company and the remaining 24% listed publicly on the Mexican Stock Exchange (since 1993) and the New York Stock Exchange (since 1998).

FEMSA selected JDA as strategic partner to transform their existing supply chain process. As part of transformation implemented JDA Sequencing for bottle production process.

Project involves all the products of Planning suite (SCS, IO, ESP, SEQ and TMS)

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Gathering Requirement, Design and implement JDA SEQUENCING.
• Train the end user with the new process.
• Defining DILOP of planner with the new process.
• Hyper care support.
• Rollout solution across Countries (Argentina, Columbia, Brazil, Central America, Philippines).
• Training End user to use the system effectively.

JDA Tools               : JDA SCPO, JDA SEQUENCING

Role                        : Sr Business Consultant       Period                    : Jun 2016 – Aug 2018

Project 3:

Client:    Bridgestone Tires, Indonesia

 

Being one of the leading and oldest company in Tire industry. Each plant has its own challenges in the production process. Scheduling constraints are enormous of the production. Cavity level modeling increased the load on the product to the max.

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Roles & Responsibilities:

• Identified elements with basic functionalities required to model.
• Designed, built functional model to Demo.
• Successfully provided functional/technical demo to team.
• Configured/built entire functions/workflows on JDA Sequencing 2016.2
• Involved in frequent client discussions on Functional aspects of JDA Sequencing.

JDA Tools               : JDA SCPO, JDA Sequencing

Role                        : Sr Business Consultant.     Period                    : Jun 2015 – Jun 2016

Project 4:

Client:    Arcelor-MITTAL, South Africa 

More than ten years ago i2 underwent the initial implementation of various planning applications to assist then Iscor (a government owned entity) with its manufacturing planning. The products implemented were Demand Planner 5.1.1 (DP), Factory Planner 5.2 FP, Supply Chain Planner 5.2 (SCP), Demand Fulfilment Allocation Planning 5.1.1 (DF-AP) and Demand Fulfilment Order Promise 5.1.1 (DF-OP). Iscor was taken over by AcelorMittal SA (AMSA)

As part of upgradation project, DP will be upgraded to latest available version DP 6.1.5. And FP, SCP & DF will be upgraded to version 8.1 with use of ABPP 8.1 platform

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Built and tested JDA Factory Planner, SCP as per design.
• Successfully provided functional/technical Specs to AMSA.
• Configured/built the transforming logic for upgrade.
• Involved in frequent client discussions on Technical/functional aspects of JDA product upgradation.

JDA                         : JDA SCPO, FP, SCP

Role                        : Techno/Functional Architect           Period                    : Mar 2015 – Jun 2015       

Project 5:

Client:    Avnet, US

Avnet, Inc. is a leading distributor of electronic components.

Upgradation project from older version to new version of Production scheduler 6.1.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Built Technical Upgrade path document to PS v6.1 and executed same.
• Supported customer to test all the functionalities.
• Played a major role in delivering project in quick with in time frame.

JDA Tools              : Production Scheduler v6.1

Role                        : Techno-Functional Consultant/Architect     Period                    : Jan 2015- Mar 2015

Project 6:

 

Client:    Bridgestone Bandag, USA

Bandag is the Subsidiary of Bridgestone tires; Leader is retread industry.

The JDA Sequencing project is being initiated with the key objective of utilizing a constrained based enterprise application

• Standardized scheduling process/system across multiple retread facilities
• Optimization capabilities
• Increased automation in creating schedules
• Interactive scheduling and schedule adjustment/tuning
• Exception management

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Designed, built and tested JDA Sequencing as pilot for Oxford Retire facility.
• Successfully provided a demo to Bandag team.
• Built foundation data needed for configuring the application.
• Configured the workflows between JDA Fulfillment and JDA Sequencing v8.1
• Involved in frequent client discussions on Technical/functional aspects of JDA Sequencing.

JDA tools               : JDA Sequencing v8.1 Classic, JDA Sequencing v8.1 Platform

Role                        : Techno/Functional Architect           Period                    : Feb 2014 – Jan 2015

 

 

 

 

Project 7:

 

Client:    COOPER Tires

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company is an American company that specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of replacement automobile and truck tires, and subsidiaries that specialize in medium truck, motorcycle and racing tires.

As part of Cooper Tire Global SCM Transformation

• Implement a comprehensive set of global supply chain planning capabilities.
• Improve collaboration with customers through visibility and information sharing.
• Provide the capability to quickly and accurately compare different operating scenarios.

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Worked on implementation of JDA Sequencing.
• As part of implementation team had customized and configured Scheduling function.
• Was at client place from SIT thru Go live to cater smooth implementation.
• Built workflow to integrate with other JDA planning tools.
• Involved in frequent client discussions on Technical/functional aspects of APS.

JDA Tools               : Production Scheduler (JDA APS)

Role                        : Technical Consultant Period                    : Mar 2013 – Feb 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Company:              Tata Consulting Services (TCS)

Client:                    Infineon, Centurylink

Roles:                     IT Analyst                                                               Jan 2011 – Mar 2013

                                Sr. Software Engineer                                         Aug 2010 – Dec 2010              

Software Engineer                                               Feb 2010 – July 2010

                                Developer                                                             Mar 2007 – Feb 2010

Project 8:

Client:    Infineon, Germany 

Infineon Technologies AG is a German semiconductor manufacturer. Infineon markets semiconductors and systems for automotive, industrial, and multimarket sectors, as well as chip card and security products.

TCS is supporting partner for long term for JDA products. TCS was awarded multi year support contract to enhance and support JDA planning suite of products. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Worked on supporting SCP.
• Transformation of there inbound process end to end.
• Attended customer tickets on day to day basis and enhancement requests.

JDA Tools               : SCP

Role                        : Technical Consultant Period                    : Mar 2009– Mar 2013.

Project 9:

Client:    Centurylink(QWEST), USA 

Leading Telecom service provider in USA.

TCS is supporting partner for long term for telecom billing and consulting services. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Implementing telecom billing and offers.
• Ui development for customer creations and products selection.
• Attended enhancement requests.

• Platform                : Power Builder
  Databases              : Oracle

Role                        : Tech Lead/Developer       Period                    : Mar 2007 – Mar 2009.

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