Experience

Arete Consulting
• Business Consulting and Services
• SAP APO Team Lead in Unilever

  • Mar 2021 - Present


Unilever

• United Kingdom
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Manager - SCM in Unilever

  • Dec 2014 - Feb 2020

  • Leading S&OP and Capacity Planning Projects in Unilever • Working as Integration Lead for Anaplan (cloud based planning solution) in a complex system architecture (with SAP, BW, external tools) • Worked in implementation of visualization tools like DOMO, Power BI, Tableau • Delivered S&OP Planning solution, fully integrated and automated. It merited Digital Supply chain Brightspot award (in July 2018).

• SAP APO Team Lead & Design Authority -Unilever U2K2 Program

  • Feb 2007 - Nov 2014

  • Worked as Team Lead and Design Authority in the deployment of APO solution in 25 countries. • Managed implementation of APO modules: Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning (optimizer), Distribution Planning and Detailed Scheduling and Planning. • Design and manage various projects like Demand Sensing and Inventory Optimization, Special Forecasting techniques, Global Availability Promise, Regional Sourcing Projects etc. • Performed system improvement studies to increase planning… Show more • Worked as Team Lead and Design Authority in the deployment of APO solution in 25 countries. • Managed implementation of APO modules: Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning (optimizer), Distribution Planning and Detailed Scheduling and Planning. • Design and manage various projects like Demand Sensing and Inventory Optimization, Special Forecasting techniques, Global Availability Promise, Regional Sourcing Projects etc. • Performed system improvement studies to increase planning systems usability and efficiency • Designed and developed system usage metrics and create user friendly dashboards • Performed platform management activities like system upgrade, migration, disaster recovery tests etc. • Worked in the Proof of Concept and assessment of various Planning solutions in Unilever

• SAP APO / PP Consultant in Unilever

  • Jul 1999 - Jan 2007

  • Implemented first APO Project in Turkey (Demand and Supply Planning) as APO consultant • Delivered various SCM projects like VMI Distribution, Detailed Scheduling, and developed Reporting tools. • Implemented SAP PP in Unilever factories • Conducted Master Data collection, system configuration, test and user training activities • Prepared user manuals, project documentation.