1. Baskaran Vaithyam Devendran
SAP R/3 PP PP-PI QM and SCM APO-PP/DS Consultant
Mail: vaithyambaskaran@gmail.com
Cell: 9841270765
Summary:
 8 years of experience in ECC 6.0. Four end to end implementations in PP-PI, PP discrete
and variant configurations completed. Fourth implementation in PP/QM at Hospet Steels
– Hospet and the implementer is EY Mumbai.
 Four implementation projects experiences and out of these one is global and three are
domestic. All the projects are in the process industry.
 Two support experience on SAP PP-PI and Variant configuration.
 US support projects
 Experiences in corporate trainings, certification courses, and end user trainings.
 Twenty four years of functional experience in production planning and control in steel
plants and power plant and other domain areas.
 Strong in APO-PP/DS and Core Interface (CIF)
 Extensive industry knowledge in Hi-tech – Steel manufacturing, Pharma, distilleries, and
fuel additives manufacturing
 Solution designing for discrete, process and repetitive manufacturing industry
 Experience in working with PP-PI with PI sheets and ECM
 Good in LO-Variant configuration and Batch Management and Engineering change
management
 Have implemented WIP Batch concept for coffee industry at Vietnam.
 Have implemented IS-MILL.
 Worked on SAP FIORI PP application
SAP Skills:
ECC6.0-R/3 4.7:
 Master data creation and configuration for material master, BOM, standard routing, rate
routing, work centers, line design.
 Demand planning, strategies(10,11,20,25,40,50,56,70,82), long-term-planning, sales and
operations planning.
 Logistics information system- standard and flexible
 MRP, MPS, and consumption based planning
 Production orders and shop floor control customizing and process orders
 PP-PI process orders and process management
 Capacity requirements planning and Capacity leveling
 Repetitive manufacturing both make-to-order and make-to-stock
 Repetitive manufacturing with rate based and takt based make-to-stock manufacturing
(model mix)
 PP reports and mass processing
 Product cost planning and settlements
 Logistics Variant configuration
 Quality management – in Production and Purchase
 Cost Object controlling
 IS-MILL
APO-PP/DS:
 APO core interface
 Initial and change transfer on master data and transaction data

2.  APO Master data Plant, Distribution centers, MRP areas, customers, Vendors, External
procurement relationships and transportation lanes, Product, Resources, PPM and PDS,
RTO
 Mass changes to APO master data
 Maintaining Planning procedures and Global settings
 Releasing PIR demand from APO-DP and transfer from ECC-R/3
 APO requirements strategies (10, 20, 30, 40), make-to-order production without forecast
 Standard heuristics and variable heuristics and service heuristics
 Pegging dynamic and fixed
 Interactive planning and Production planning run
 Strategy settings for product heuristics
 Evaluation Order views: Product view, product over view, Product planning table, DS
planning board, PP/DS Optimizer, Alert monitor
 Finite scheduling with planning run for bottle neck resources
 Setup - Optimal sequencing with PP/DS Optimizer
 Capable-to-promise and Planned material flow
 Sequencing (heuristics settings)
 GATP
Integration with other modules in ECC-R/3:
 FI/CO, SD, MM, QM,
 ABAP Query and simple ABAP programs and Function modules
 LSMW
Other Skills:
 Strong in delivery of SAP Training
 Can work at client site both for training and consulting
 Conducting requirements workshop for business blueprint and creating a project structure
with relationships in a hierarchical structure.
 Documenting the results gathered during requirements workshop and conceptual design.
 Picking suitable business process using SAP Solution composer and picking predefined
scenarios from a list in the Business process repository for to-be process and fitting gap
arising due to as-is condition.
 Creating specific business process set based on the results of requirements workshop
 Realization phase
 Unit Test and integration test
 Go-live and related issues
Professional SAP Experience:
At present from 29/12/2014 to till date:
Company: Intrigo systems India P Ltd – Chennai
Role: Manager SAP PP
Responsibilities: US support projects on semi conductor Industry - Triquint US
From Aug 2014 to October 2014
Company: Emergys Software Pvt Ltd Chennai
Role: SAP PP Senior analyst
Responsibilities: US support projects and SAP FIORI PP applications

3. From March 2014 to July 2014
Company: Inovate Indore India
Client: Hospet steels Ltd – Hospet
Role: SAP PP Consultant
Project: End to end implementation
Client information:
Hospet steels in manufacturing of special steels rolled products through blast furnace,
EOF, LRF,VD and rolling mills. It has two companies namely Mukund steels and Kalyani
Steels.
Responsibilities:
 IT training, Testing Integration and Upload activities and UAT
 Validations on developments and process checks
 Functional specifications on business process
 Quality settings for Production
 Check at release of order for batch derivation and original batch
 Pure make-to-order scenarios
 Valuation type and split valuation
 Automating the transfer of materials from one company code plant to another
company code plant
 Heat wise and cast wise posting and handling COGI (processing errors in goods
movement)
 Ladle movement logs generation
 Batch specific units of measurement to handle MTS to dry Metric Ton on coke
and Iron ore
 Configuration on confirmation screen using IS-MILL and modifying the
configuration screen to capture process specific data and adopt business
functionalities
Client :Apollo Distilleries Ltd (EMPEE Group) March 2013 – August 2013
Role :PP QM Consultant
Project : Implementation
Client Information: Apollo Distilleries (P) Ltd. (Brewery Unit), is an associate concern of Empee
Distilleries Limited. It is a modern brewery unit in Gummidipoondi Taluk, about 50 Kms from
Chennai. It caters to the growing Beer market in Tamil Nadu.
Responsibilities:
 Gathered business requirements and developed business blueprint
 Analyzed gaps between business requirements and SAP best practices and presented
for steering committee approval and got approval
 PP Master Data creation namely BOM, resources, master recipe, production version for
the beer plant
 Control recipe destination, Process message category, and process instruction category
creation with validation formula and variables
 Repetitive manufacturing master data such as repetitive manufacturing profile, product
cost collector creation for the beer bottling plant
 MRP configurations
 Batch management and batch search strategies creation and assignment
 Production scheduling profile
 Scheduling profiles for planned orders and process orders and confirmation parameters
configuration
 Creation of code group and selected set

4.  Inspection type creation, Master inspection characteristic, class characteristic creation on
QM side
 Sampling procedure and sampling scheme created.
 Reports on daily production
 Specific customized design to select storage location (UNITANK) before releasing the
process order based on the plant criteria
 Realization and post go-live support
Client :OLAM Vietnam April 2012 – October 2012
Role :PP Consultant
Project : Implementation
Client Information: OLAM International is a leading global integrated supply chain manager and
processor of agricultural products and food ingredients, supplying various products across 16
platforms in 65 countries.
Responsibilities:
 Blue print on cashew processing prepared.
 WIP Batch implementation: Work in process tracking on operation / phase level of a
production or process order and Documentation of the actual characteristics / status of a
product which is in production.
 Configuration for WIP batch, factory calendar with special rules, serial number related
settings and process order release check by authorization
 Product cost planning
 Creation of non-valuated material masters, BOMs, resources, recipe, and production
versions
 Data migration for master data carried out through LSMW.
 Authorization profiles for different users
 End-user trainings
 Unit test and integration test
 Change over plan
 Go-live and support
 Functional Specifications for valid standard cost while realizing the process order, yield
report, daily production report.
Client : Indian Additives Limited, Chennai November 2011 – February 2012
Role : PP Consultant
Project : Implementation
Client Information: Indian Additives Ltd. (IAL) manufactures and markets chemical additives for
the oil industry. The company offers phenates, sulphonates, and dispersants. IAL was founded in
1989 and is headquartered in Chennai, India with a factory in Manali. As of 02/01/2000, Indian
Additives Ltd. is a joint venture between Chevron Chemical Company and Chennai Petroleum
Corp Ltd.
Responsibilities:
 Blue print preparation on Production planning
 Capacity matching with sales plan
 Configurations for the MRP settings, Capacity requirements planning profiles, order type
creation, order type dependent parameters, scheduling parameters, confirmation profiles

5.  Mixed costing settings and activity type creation with formula in work resource
 Resource selection in the process order
 Creation of master data like material master, BOMs, resources, recipe and production
version
 Master Inspection Characteristic (MIC) creations and inspection plan creation.
 Integration with QM
 Data migration on master data
 Unit test and integration test
 End-user trainings
 Change over plan
 Go-live and support
 Functional specifications on daily production report, and silo management
Client : Lupin pharmaceuticals, Mumbai September 2011 – November 2011
Role : Consultant
Project : Support and training
Client Information: Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Lupin Limited today is an innovation led
transnational pharmaceutical company producing a wide range of quality, affordable generic and
branded formulations and APIs for the developed and developing markets of the world.
Responsibilities:
 Process order type creation
 Active ingredient management
 Batch specific material unit of measure creation, defining Calculation of Proportion
Quantity from Base Quantity
 Master data creation like Characteristic, class, assigning class to materials, specifying the
planned values for proportion/product unit
 BOM creation
 Recipe and production version creation
 Material Quantity Calculation formula creation (MQC)
 Batch determination procedure and rules
 Batch derivation
 Functional specifications: Check on the issue of key raw material before
process/confirmation, daily production report
Client : Scandia windows and fashions Tallahassee USApril2011 – August 2011
Role : PP Lead
Project : implementation project involving lo-variant configuration
Client Information: Skandia Window Fashions, a leading manufacturer of custom window
coverings, is headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, with an additional manufacturing facility in
San Diego, California
Responsibilities:
 Variant configurations settings – characteristics and class of type 300 and 200 creation
 Configuration profile, assigning the class to material masters
 Defining finished product as configurable material and also creation of KMAT material
type material masters.
 Super BOM creation with object dependencies and selection conditions
 Super task list with object dependencies and selection conditions
 Simulations

6.  Global Procedures creations and assigning to configuration profile
 Variant table creation
 Material variant
 Master data creation like material master, work center, routing
 Data migrations LSMW
 Unit test and integration test
 Go live and support
SAP Experience as Trainer/Instructor July 2006 – Till date
Wipro SAP PP QM project team training - Bangalore
19/11/2014 to 22/12/2014
Corporate training on SAP PP and QM
Audience: 10 with 4 – 7 years of experience
Southern Steels Penang Malaysia through HTC Global services Chennai
August 2013
Corporate training on APO PP/DS
Audience: 9 with 4- 7 years’ experience support team
Wipro Infotech Bangalore
August 2011
Course: SAP PP Training PLM114, TSCM40, TSCM42, and SCM310
Audience: 20 with 4-7 years’ experience in domain
Wipro – Bangalore gate6 Electronic city
June 2011 – June 2011
Course: SAP01 – Erp overview, Sap architecture, enterprise structure, O2C, P2P,
Production and overview on SCM-APO
L n T infotech – Mahape – New Mumbai
February 2011 – April2011
Course: PLM114,TSCM40,SCM310,TSCM42 and project on power plant along with PS and
PM
Genovate Bangalore
December 2010 – January 2011
Course: TSCM40 and TSCM42 and Tcase1
Certification course
HP Bangalore
September 6, 7 and 8th 2010 (3 days)
Course: BOM, ECM, DMS for 15 audiences of ABAPers
SIEMENS Mumbai SAP Education (Academic)
July 2010 - August 2010 (19 working days)
Course: PLM114 (Master data), SCM310 (Production orders), TSCM40 (Planning
manufacturing 1), TSCM42 (Planning manufacturing 2), Integrated Case study
implementation fictitious demo
TSAL (Technical Stampings Automotive Ltd) Chennai
May 2010 - May 2010 (5 days)
Course: Shop floor Control as per SCM244 that is Consumption based planning, Special
planning strategies, MRP run, Technical processes in MRP, Processing MRP results,
Master production scheduling, Long term planning, and MRP areas

7. Accenture Mumbai
April 2010 (5 days)
Course: SCM 210 Core interface CIF and SCM 250 SAP APO-PP/DS
Infosys Hyderabad
March 2010 (2 Days)
Course: APO-DP and APO-SNP overview (2 days)
GoodlasNerolac Paints Chennai
January 2010 (5 days)
Course: Data Management System, BOMs, and Engineering change management contents
according to PLM100 (Business processes in life cycle data management and LO980
(Engineering change management)
SIEMENS Mumbai SAP Education (Academic)
August 2008 to September 2008 (20 working days)
Course: PLM114 (Master data), SCM310 (Production orders), TSCM40 (Planning
manufacturing 1), TSCM42 (Planning manufacturing 2), Integrated Case study
implementation fictitious demo
NAIZAK Dammam Saudi Arabia SAP Education (Academic)
June 2008 - July 2008 (25 working days)
Course: TSCM40 (Planning manufacturing 1), TSCM42 (Planning manufacturing 2),
PLM114 (Master data), Integrated Case study implementation fictitious demo
SAP INDIA for their client Singarani Coal mines Hyderabad (corporate)
October 2007 – November2007 (5 working days)
Course: PLM400 Quality Management Business processes in quality management
Accenture Bangalore: (corporate)
July 2007 – August2007 (12 working days)
Course: SAP R/3 PP as per accenture material
SAPLAB Bangalore (corporate)
April 2007 (5 days)
Course: PLM143 (variant configuration 2 integration), PLM146 (variant configuration
scenarios and enhancements),
SIEMENS, Delhi SAP Education (academic)
February 2007 - 10 working days
Course: TSCM20 Supply Chain Planning 1, part 1 of 2 Planning/Manufacturing
Course version 2004/Q1
Kone Elevators, Chennai (corporate)
November – December 2006 (15 days)
Course: Variant Configuration PLM143 (variant configuration 2 integration), PLM146
(variant configuration scenarios and enhancements), SCM310 (Production orders)
Accenture, Bangalore (corporate)
July 2006 – August2006 (25 working days)
Course: SAP R/3 PP as per accenture material
Professional Non SAP Experience:

8. Client : ICICI Prudential Life Insurance January 2004 – January 2006
Role :Adviser
Responsibilities:
 Primary connect between the customers and ICICI Prudential
 Solicit life insurance business on behalf of the company
 Gain trust of the prospect and advise him suitably, keeping his insurance needs in mind
and investments
 Identify and recommend solutions that best fit their requirements
 Offer your customer a complete product portfolio
 Complete the formalities necessary to get the policy issued Keep in touch with customers
to ensure that their service requests towards policies are managed properly
 Facilitate settlement of claims
Client : Global Ed Solutions Pvt Ltd, Chennai February 2003 – December 2003
Role :Software Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Developed plant maintenance control system for caterpillar
Client : Dugar Insulations India Private Limited, Chennai January 2002 –
December 2002
Role : Agent cum Dealer
Responsibilities:
 Authorized Agent cum Dealer Marketing (Exfoliated Vermiculite, Insulite, refractory)
Client : Balaji Industrial Corporation Ltd, Chennai October 1993 – December 2001
Role : Production Manager (steel rolling)
Responsibilities:
 Develop annual business plan for melt shops, rolling mills and inventory forecast.
 Short term production planning (month / week wise) and scheduling of rolling mill activities
like ensuring raw material availability, roll assembly shop, roll change scheduling.
 Co-ordinate with maintenance activities, quality department
 Maintain production goals with aobjective of minimal delays and scrap.
 Monthly / weekly production meeting.
 Installation and commissioning of 2.5MW generator (furnace oil)
Client : Tamilnadu Steels Ltd, Arakonam, Chennai July 1988 – September 1993
Role : Deputy Manager (steel rolling)
Responsibilities:
 Supervision and coordination of assigned production operations while striving to maintain
production goals with minimal delays and scarp.
 Maintain production and consumption reports. Keeping Track of finished product stock.
 Shift schedules

9.  Mill Setting, provide plan to roll assembly shop to assemble rolls and guides for required
finished product size.
 Controlling of temperature at furnace, temperature at wire rod mill, conveyor speed, and air
flow control depending on the carbon content of the finished product and the mechanical
properties required in the finished product.
Client : BhorukaSteel Ltd, Bangalore March 1987 – June 1988
Role : Senior Development Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Supervision and coordination of assigned production operations while striving to maintain
production goals with minimal delays and scarp.
 Maintain production and consumption reports. Keeping Track of finished product stock.
 Shift schedules
 Mill Setting, provide plan to roll assembly shop to assemble rolls and guides for required
finished product size.
 Controlling of temperature at furnace, temperature at wire rod mill, conveyor speed, and air
flow control depending on the carbon content of the finished product and the mechanical
properties required in the finished product.
Client : Trichy Steel Rolling Mills Ltd, Trichirapalli August 1978 – February 1987
Role : Assistant Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Rolling mill roll pass design
 Developmental projects like introduction repeaters, developing a new section of a
finished product
 Semi automation project on rolling mill and steel foundry
 Utilities projects like bogie hearth furnace, gantry crane, water softener plant, and
compressor and pneumatics
 Steel foundry method and develop the product as a sample and get approval from the
customer for mass production
Education:
 Bachelor of Engineering (mechanical) in 1978 from Madurai Kamaraj University
 Master of Business Administration (systems) in 2001 from Madurai Kamaraj University