Shaun Snapp

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Shaun Snapp's Experience:

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008 - August 2010

  APO DP * I provided analysis and testing on how to recover a DP statistical forecasting implementation. I built a blog which housed the many forecasting tests that were performed during the project and both performed diagnostic work on DP and used Demand Works Smoothie as a foresting prototype environment to help troubleshoot DP and to figure out why it was not delivering the expected value. http://www.scmfocus.com/demandplanning/2010/07/using-demandworks-smoothie-for-forecast-prototyping/ APO SNP * Working to ensure that the design developed by the implementation partner met with the business requirements. This design included CTM, TLB, heuristics, deployment optimizer (analysis), lean parameters and planning cadence. * Wrote project key decision documentation. * Explained concepts related to multi-echelon inventory optimization and service level planning. * Worked with the data team to provide mapping based upon the SNP design. * Wrote a paper for my client on the integration of service level agreements with inventory optimization and how SLAs interact with SNP CTM and SLA management software. A subset of it is here: http://www.scmfocus.com/inventoryoptimizationmultiechelon/.com/2010/02/service-level-agreements-and-inventory-optimization/ * Performed root cause analysis of the current forecasting and distribution processes. * Analyzed the current reports being used by the business and developed a model for the future use of the system which combined the data available in the SCM user interface with future reports. Worked very closely with the BI team. * Provided detailed analysis of project gaps. * Performed quantitative analysis on business requirements to support various decisions related to design. * Developed a high trust relationship with the business leads, which allowed me to properly explain system configuration details, and to understand and vet requirements against the design.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008 - August 2010

  APO DP * I provided analysis and testing on how to recover a DP statistical forecasting implementation. I built a blog which housed the many forecasting tests that were performed during the project and both performed diagnostic work on DP and used Demand Works Smoothie as a foresting prototype environment to help troubleshoot DP and to figure out why it was not delivering the expected value. http://www.scmfocus.com/demandplanning/2010/07/using-demandworks-smoothie-for-forecast-prototyping/ APO SNP * Working to ensure that the design developed by the implementation partner met with the business requirements. This design included CTM, TLB, heuristics, deployment optimizer (analysis), lean parameters and planning cadence. * Wrote project key decision documentation. * Explained concepts related to multi-echelon inventory optimization and service level planning. * Worked with the data team to provide mapping based upon the SNP design. * Wrote a paper for my client on the integration of service level agreements with inventory optimization and how SLAs interact with SNP CTM and SLA management software. A subset of it is here: http://www.scmfocus.com/inventoryoptimizationmultiechelon/.com/2010/02/service-level-agreements-and-inventory-optimization/ * Performed root cause analysis of the current forecasting and distribution processes. * Analyzed the current reports being used by the business and developed a model for the future use of the system which combined the data available in the SCM user interface with future reports. Worked very closely with the BI team. * Provided detailed analysis of project gaps. * Performed quantitative analysis on business requirements to support various decisions related to design. * Developed a high trust relationship with the business leads, which allowed me to properly explain system configuration details, and to understand and vet requirements against the design.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008 - July 2010

  APO PP/DS * Diagnosed a problem PP/DS implementation in the area of production scheduling which was incorrectly selected by a large consulting company. Evaluated the fit with the company's ability to support the software. http://wp.me/PYWJz-66 * Recommended the decommissioning of the PP/DS module and the development of a short term custom solution and a longer term 3rd party scheduler. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2010/05/18/decommissioning-an-scm-module/ SNP & MCA * In this area I wrote a paper on the integration of service level agreements with inventory optimization and how SLAs interact with SNP CTM and SLA management software. http://www.scmfocus.com/inventoryoptimizationmultiechelon/2010/02/service-level-agreements-and-inventory-optimization/ * I have also developed a full supply chain report analysis which allocated views to the Alert Monitor, planning book, business created reports and BI team created reports. http://www.scmfocus.com/scmbusinessintelligence/2010/07/understanding-planning-views-bi-reports-alerts-and-apo-screens/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008 - July 2010

  APO PP/DS * Diagnosed a problem PP/DS implementation in the area of production scheduling which was incorrectly selected by a large consulting company. Evaluated the fit with the company's ability to support the software. http://wp.me/PYWJz-66 * Recommended the decommissioning of the PP/DS module and the development of a short term custom solution and a longer term 3rd party scheduler. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2010/05/18/decommissioning-an-scm-module/ SNP & MCA * In this area I wrote a paper on the integration of service level agreements with inventory optimization and how SLAs interact with SNP CTM and SLA management software. http://www.scmfocus.com/inventoryoptimizationmultiechelon/2010/02/service-level-agreements-and-inventory-optimization/ * I have also developed a full supply chain report analysis which allocated views to the Alert Monitor, planning book, business created reports and BI team created reports. http://www.scmfocus.com/scmbusinessintelligence/2010/07/understanding-planning-views-bi-reports-alerts-and-apo-screens/

• Manager / Specialist Lead at Deloitte Consulting (SAP EA)

  September 2006 - July 2008

  * Performed PP/DS analysis, SCM upgrade analysis and served as SPP MCA implemenation lead for a long term project. * Worked on a service parts implementation project in aerospace and defense which used MCA Solutions software and integrating it with ECC. This project also involved analyzing SAP SPP for possible inclusion into the overall solution. * Worked as an integration lead for a utility. * Performed SNP and MCA to SAP integration work and presented at SAPPHIRE.

• Manager / Specialist Lead at Deloitte Consulting (SAP EA)

  September 2006 - July 2008

  * Performed PP/DS analysis, SCM upgrade analysis and served as SPP MCA implemenation lead for a long term project. * Worked on a service parts implementation project in aerospace and defense which used MCA Solutions software and integrating it with ECC. This project also involved analyzing SAP SPP for possible inclusion into the overall solution. * Worked as an integration lead for a utility. * Performed SNP and MCA to SAP integration work and presented at SAPPHIRE.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus, LLC

  January 2002 - August 2006

  Worked on SNP, PP/DS, DP and the CIF for various clients.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus, LLC

  January 2002 - August 2006

  Worked on SNP, PP/DS, DP and the CIF for various clients.

• Project Manager at i2 Technologies

  June 1998 - September 2001

  Managed projects and specialized in SAP to i2 integration. Served as the integration lead between the i2 suite and SAP ECC for a multi year apparel and footwear implementation. This meant working out all logical data flows, and technical data flows. Worked with the Active Data Warehouse as a central repository for all information shared with SAP. Performed a technical analysis and testing, along with a consultant from Price Waterhouse of the performance of uploads and downloads between SAP and i2. Spent a year and half working as an expat out of i2's Singapore office, which lead to project work in Australia, Singapore and Taiwan. Worked on a multi i2 module implementation (SAP SCP, DP and RP) in at a grocery client. Worked as a project manager on a FP and SCP implementation at a semiconductor client. Supported a wide variety of pre-sales work as a consulting manager in the Singapore office.

• Project Manager at i2 Technologies

  June 1998 - September 2001

  Managed projects and specialized in SAP to i2 integration. Served as the integration lead between the i2 suite and SAP ECC for a multi year apparel and footwear implementation. This meant working out all logical data flows, and technical data flows. Worked with the Active Data Warehouse as a central repository for all information shared with SAP. Performed a technical analysis and testing, along with a consultant from Price Waterhouse of the performance of uploads and downloads between SAP and i2. Spent a year and half working as an expat out of i2's Singapore office, which lead to project work in Australia, Singapore and Taiwan. Worked on a multi i2 module implementation (SAP SCP, DP and RP) in at a grocery client. Worked as a project manager on a FP and SCP implementation at a semiconductor client. Supported a wide variety of pre-sales work as a consulting manager in the Singapore office.

• Consultant at KPMG

  1996 - 1998

  Operations research consultant for retail practice before switching into SAP SD. Worked out of a retail practice performing analytical support and most of the data analysis on a broad range of retail supply chain analysis projects.

• Consultant at KPMG

  1996 - 1998

  Operations research consultant for retail practice before switching into SAP SD. Worked out of a retail practice performing analytical support and most of the data analysis on a broad range of retail supply chain analysis projects.

• Consultant at Andersen Consulting

  January 1995 - 1996

  Quantitative supply chain consultant. Worked on a supply chain inventory optimization implementation for a farm equipment company, which was before the existence of off the shelf inventory optimization software. This meant working with a PhD to take formulations and a developer to implement them into a custom software application. Performed a quantitative analysis of the supply chain performance of products at a petrochemical client. Applied inventory management formulations from Plossl's Inventory Management 2nd Edition to models to meet the requirements of a pharmaceutical company. Worked with supply network planning software.

• Consultant at Andersen Consulting

  January 1995 - 1996

  Quantitative supply chain consultant. Worked on a supply chain inventory optimization implementation for a farm equipment company, which was before the existence of off the shelf inventory optimization software. This meant working with a PhD to take formulations and a developer to implement them into a custom software application. Performed a quantitative analysis of the supply chain performance of products at a petrochemical client. Applied inventory management formulations from Plossl's Inventory Management 2nd Edition to models to meet the requirements of a pharmaceutical company. Worked with supply network planning software.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  APO DP & SNP * Evaluated the SNP Optimizer and observed opportunities for improving the configuration. Analyzed the costs that were selected for the optimizer and compared this methodology to other companies I have seen use cost optimization. http://www.scmfocus.com/inventoryoptimizationmultiechelon/2011/03/service-level-setting-vs-penalty-costs-in-a-cost-optimizer/ * Provided recommendations on how to improve aggregated forecasting in DP and how to manage forecast parameters in DP. * Performed an upgrade analysis from 5.0 to 7.0. * Recommended the identification of un-forecastable products to more efficiently manage demand planning resources. * Demonstrated Demand Works Smoothie which can be used as a forecast prototype environment for tuning SAP forecasting. * Recommended the validation of costs in an external generalized optimizer. PlanetTogether: Software Vendor * Provided advice as to how their application compared against PP/DS. A few examples of these links are listed below. http://www.scmfocus.com/productionplanningandscheduling/2011/01/20/simulation-in-ppds-vs-planettogether/ http://www.scmfocus.com/productionplanningandscheduling/2011/01/20/cost-vs-duration-based-optimization-for-scheduling/ * Wrote articles and white papers for PlanetTogether's website on how a PT to SAP integration compares to a PP/DS to SAP ERP integration. See the link below: http://planettogether.com/sap/sap-white-papers/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  * Worked as the SNP Consultant on the second phase of a global roll out of the SNP optimizer (along with DP). * Evaluated and wrote functional specs for an extra S&OP version in SNP, prioritization of demand for certain locations, developing the global batch schedule in a way that incorporated the US locations, integrating APO with SAP QM, and analyzed the requirements for bulk liquid planning. * Analyzed and tested multiple areas of the SNP Optimizer including discrete planning horizons, storage costs and goods movements between locations, and troubleshooting difficult to explain output produced by the optimizer. * Worked with another consultant on the global batch schedule for SNP and DP run on all three regional poles for the demand plan, the Regional S&OP, Rough Cut Capacity Plan, Deployment threads, as well as the Global MPS and deployment threads. The analysis included everything from optimization time estimation to the global uptime requirements. * Analyzed the client's security requirements and provided information on APO's capabilities. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/12/18/snp-optimizer-security/ http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/12/13/security-authorizations-in-sap-apo/ * Analyzed and provided feedback on the client's requirement for co-opting a field for product segmentation, and for display in the planning book shuffler. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/12/18/adopting-a-field-on-the-product-location-master-and-displaying-in-the-planning-book/ * Analyzed and provided feedback on how to migrate from Manugistics supply planning to APO and how to manage the requirement for maintaining not all locations in SNP. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/12/14/representing-a-partial-supply-network-in-apo-versus-sap-erp-and-stos/ Explained how SNP could meet the requirement for deleting old forecasts. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/11/29/deleting-old-forecasts-from-snp/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  SAP ERP and Demand Works * Performed a full analysis of how the client was using SAP ERP's forecasting functionality and identified ways in which the system could be leveraged better. * Analyzed the forecasting methods in SAP PP, including Automatic Model Selection. Compared this to other best-fit forecasting methods both in SAP and in other applications. Performed best fit forecasting. http://www.scmfocus.com/demandplanning/2012/03/how-to-properly-implement-best-fit-functionality/ * Provided data requests to the IT department in order to receive demand history, the baseline forecast and the manually adjusted forecast. * Created a forecast in a prototype environment and used supply planning parameters from the client to estimate the inventory savings from the improvement in forecasting generated by new methods and processes. * Performed data cleansing and forecast error estimation for three different forecasts (manual, baseline and the prototype generated forecast). * Recommended forecasting changes, in part to the sales forecast input to the statistical forecast, which included applying the Right90 method for controlling input to the forecasting process. http://www.scmfocus.com/demandplanning/2010/09/right90-for-forecast-bias-removal/ * Wrote a project paper that explained how to manage Sales input to the forecast as well as how to incorporate promotions both in the promotional period and in following periods. This included both reviews of academic research, and reviews of how the process is managed in best of breed forecasting applications. * Explained forecasting concepts in software - developed a customized forecast improvement plan for the specific environment - given human resources, system capabilities and the internal operating culture.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  * Analyzed and in some cases tested the following SNP functionality: Front-loading production resources, aggregated resources, redeployment/aggregated planning, 3rd party processing (in APO 7.1), and modeling supplier capacity. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/06/11/capacity-constraining-suppliers-in-sap-apo/ * Explained fixed and dynamic pegging in all three SNP methods, firming, how CTM prioritization works, took my client through safety stock and reorder point planning, and how to accomplish both reorder point and forecast planning in SNP with different parts of the product database. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/06/07/reorder-point-planning-in-sap-erp/ * Worked in a part time solution architect role to help connect together the designs in DP, SNP, PP/DS and GATP.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  APO SNP * Tested fair share logic with the deployment optimizer for sharing stock between parent and child locations. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2008/10/11/snp-deployment-and-fair-share/ * This lead to a different article on the limitations with the cost optimizer for controlled deployment. http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2012/01/03/the-problem-with-cost-optimization/ * Troubleshot and learned the subcontracting process and configuration. * Added custom key figures to planning book and worked with developer to test the development. * Analyzed the discrete constraint horizon issue and its relationship to the SNP Optimizer run time, and the overall global batch schedule. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2013/02/19/discrete-optimization-horizon/ * Reviewed, analyzed and explained the issue with the SNP Optimizer's parallelization functionality. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2013/02/01/parallel-processing-for-the-snp-cost-optimizer/ * Researched and explained the issues with regards to unmatched STRs and STOs in APO versus SAP ERP. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2013/01/25/differing-supply-network-and-unmatched-stos-and-strs-in-apo/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  APO SNP Analyzed issues related to the consumption logic in the first period of the planning book and created a document explaining how to use the product view and the detail view to understand the planning book results. * Explained concepts related to cost optimization, how the cost optimizer works and the results that can be expected if different alterations are made to the model. One example draws the relationship between service levels and the cost of unfulfilled demand is briefly described at the link below: http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2011/07/24/why-the-cost-of-missed-demand-must-always-be-set-so-much-higher-than-the-profit-margin/ * Evaluated the results of an SAP fair share patch, which is designed to interoperate with the cost optimizer in order to provide fair sharing of inventory under conditions of shortage to child locations in the supply network. * Reviewed issues and assisted in their documentation, prioritization and presentation to the support organization. * Wrote a paper on the reason for using particular KPIs (costs by category, percent optimally solved, etc..) from the SNP planning result in order to demonstrate the benefits to the business. * Used BW reports to search for systematic trends in the optimization results. Determined and explained why the SNP optimizer was consistently maintaining a high days' of supply. APO SNP & DP * Evaluated master data settings in the TLB and other deployment parameters and recommended changes and a master data strategy. * Provided a review of common issues faced by DP at other clients and how to improve DP to adjust around these limitations. APO DP and OLAP * Researched and developed support for my observation that that vast majority of companies are using old and outdated approach to manage the data in their forecasting and analytic / BI systems. http://www.scmfocus.com/demandplanning/2011/05/a-better-way-of-importing-data-into-forecasting-and-analytic-systems/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  September 2008

  * Provided metrics that the company would want to use in the areas of demand, supply and production that would result from a higher forecast accuracy, driven by both system and process changes. Provided rough estimates of cost savings - driven by the forecast improvement that could be used to justify investments into the new forecasting solution. * Provided advice from my implementation experience of how to approach SNP and PP/DS implementations - including how to prototype the benefits of the usages of these systems prior to making the investments by using external prototype environments. * Founds major opportunities to broaden out the use of master data parameters for inventory management in the material master of SAP ECC. A description of my approach is listed at the following link. http://www.scmfocus.com/supplychainmasterdata/2012/02/an-approach-for-improving-master-data-maintenance-better-than-mdm/ * Worked with client's SAP DP resource to review the design of the planning books and provided feedback for areas of improvement. Evaluated the macros that performed important forecast calculations. * Created a coding system for products and location combinations in order to enable the more effective utilization of supply and production planning applications. This coding system is explained at this link: http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2014/04/12/coding-product-location-database/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  SCM Software Vendor * Provided information about working in SAP accounts, explanations as to what the amount of integration work required by the CIF, how demand planning is used at SAP accounts versus non-SAP accounts. APO SNP & PP/DS * Analyzed the PP/DS configuration and provided a production scheduling solution recommendation for a food processing company. * Performed a comprehensive analysis of the overall design. The design required streamlining, and the removal of some processes, in addition to improved standards in documentation and project transparency. Analyzed the PP/DS configuration and provided a production scheduling solution recommendation for a food processing company. * Performed troubleshooting for the SNP Heuristic and for CTM. * Worked with the DP team to customize the Planning Book for the addition of new Key Figures. Checked on and found the root cause of a problem with how the sales orders consumed the forecast. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2011/02/04/level-of-bom-planning-in-the-snp-heuristic-and-low-level-codes/ APO Served as short term expert witness on a patent dispute. APO SNP * Supported a project in its setup stage. The solution involved the use of the SNP Optimizer. * Developed functional specifications and performed research into experimental enhancements desired by the client. * Explained reporting within the SNP planning book in addition to reporting outside of the system. http://www.scmfocus.com/scmbusinessintelligence/2010/07/understanding-planning-views-bi-reports-alerts-and-apo-screens/ APO PP/DS & PP * Explained and demonstrated SAP production planning and scheduling to a best of breed software vendor. Configured a demo APO system for future presentation use. I also covered topics related to partnering with SAP.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  August 2008

  * Performed a comparison against the company's SAP DP system and my own forecasting prototype environment, which showed the potential forecast accuracy improvement from using best fit forecasting. * Quantified both the costs of under-forecasting and the costs of over-forecasting by using items like dollarized safety stock levels, offsite storage costs, obsolescence, procurement premium, and manufacturing efficiency both with the client's actual forecast and my own system generated forecast which simulated the forecasting approaches to be used by the client's new forecast system. This approach is described in the following article: http://www.scmfocus.com/demandplanning/2014/03/costs-forecasting/ * Evaluated and provided feedback on the company's sales forecasting process as well as how it used forecast error. Recommended a metric based upon audience model. * Compared finished goods to raw material forecast accuracy to determine if it would beneficial to move towards raw material forecasting for procurement - rather than relying upon finished goods forecasting + MRP. * Comprehensively compared forecast error the company received from its baseline forecast, and the best-fit forecast I generated. Used this forecast error in the standard dynamic safety stock formula to calculate the total reduction in safety stock driven by the reduced error. To illustrate this calculation I created the following online calculator. http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2014/04/08/safety-stock-calculator/ as well as a reorder point calculator. http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2014/04/09/dynamic-reorder-point-calculator/. The client also asked me to develop a reverse safety stock calculator that could allow the individual to enter the safety stock value - and other input values - and to receive the inventory level as an output which is here http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2014/04/10/reverse-dynamic-safety-stock-calculation/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  August 2008

  * Performed a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) study of four demand planning, four supply planning and four production-planning applications in including SAP applications and non-SAP applications. * Reviewed all of the literature on TCO and found that no TCO study had been performed on these applications that actually measured the complete costs of implementing and maintaining these application categories. * Developed a comprehensive cost model using standard uplifts based upon factors such as the complexity of the implementation, customization, the specific application used, and the application consulting type (whether a large consulting company was used - increasing costs and decreasing implementation success probabilities). * Used my implementation experience, combined with interviewing and receiving demonstrations of the applications in order to develop implementation and maintenance estimations.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  August 2008

  * Performed a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) study of four demand planning, four supply planning and four production-planning applications in including SAP applications and non-SAP applications. * Reviewed all of the literature on TCO and found that no TCO study had been performed on these applications that actually measured the complete costs of implementing and maintaining these application categories. * Developed a comprehensive cost model using standard uplifts based upon factors such as the complexity of the implementation, customization, the specific application used, and the application consulting type (whether a large consulting company was used - increasing costs and decreasing implementation success probabilities). * Used my implementation experience, combined with interviewing and receiving demonstrations of the applications in order to develop implementation and maintenance estimations. Determined that the breakdown of costs across the application categories was the following:

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  SAP ERP and Demand Works * Performed a full analysis of how the client was using SAP ERP's forecasting functionality and identified ways in which the system could be leveraged better. * Analyzed the forecasting methods in SAP PP, including Automatic Model Selection. Compared this to other best-fit forecasting methods both in SAP and in other applications. Performed best fit forecasting. http://www.scmfocus.com/demandplanning/2012/03/how-to-properly-implement-best-fit-functionality/ * Provided data requests to the IT department in order to receive demand history, the baseline forecast and the manually adjusted forecast. * Created a forecast in a prototype environment and used supply planning parameters from the client to estimate the inventory savings from the improvement in forecasting generated by new methods and processes. * Performed data cleansing and forecast error estimation for three different forecasts (manual, baseline and the prototype generated forecast). * Recommended forecasting changes, in part to the sales forecast input to the statistical forecast, which included applying the Right90 method for controlling input to the forecasting process. http://www.scmfocus.com/demandplanning/2010/09/right90-for-forecast-bias-removal/ * Wrote a project paper that explained how to manage Sales input to the forecast as well as how to incorporate promotions both in the promotional period and in following periods. This included both reviews of academic research, and reviews of how the process is managed in best of breed forecasting applications. * Explained forecasting concepts in software - developed a customized forecast improvement plan for the specific environment - given human resources, system capabilities and the internal operating culture.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  * Worked as the SNP Consultant on the second phase of a global roll out of the SNP optimizer (along with DP). * Evaluated and wrote functional specs for an extra S&OP version in SNP, prioritization of demand for certain locations, developing the global batch schedule in a way that incorporated the US locations, integrating APO with SAP QM, and analyzed the requirements for bulk liquid planning. * Analyzed and tested multiple areas of the SNP Optimizer including discrete planning horizons, storage costs and goods movements between locations, and troubleshooting difficult to explain output produced by the optimizer. * Worked with another consultant on the global batch schedule for SNP and DP run on all three regional poles for the demand plan, the Regional S&OP, Rough Cut Capacity Plan, Deployment threads, as well as the Global MPS and deployment threads. The analysis included everything from optimization time estimation to the global uptime requirements. * Analyzed the client's security requirements and provided information on APO's capabilities. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/12/18/snp-optimizer-security/ http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/12/13/security-authorizations-in-sap-apo/ * Analyzed and provided feedback on the client's requirement for co-opting a field for product segmentation, and for display in the planning book shuffler. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/12/18/adopting-a-field-on-the-product-location-master-and-displaying-in-the-planning-book/ * Analyzed and provided feedback on how to migrate from Manugistics supply planning to APO and how to manage the requirement for maintaining not all locations in SNP. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/12/14/representing-a-partial-supply-network-in-apo-versus-sap-erp-and-stos/ Explained how SNP could meet the requirement for deleting old forecasts. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/11/29/deleting-old-forecasts-from-snp/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  * Analyzed and in some cases tested the following SNP functionality: Front-loading production resources, aggregated resources, redeployment/aggregated planning, 3rd party processing (in APO 7.1), and modeling supplier capacity. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/06/11/capacity-constraining-suppliers-in-sap-apo/ * Explained fixed and dynamic pegging in all three SNP methods, firming, how CTM prioritization works, took my client through safety stock and reorder point planning, and how to accomplish both reorder point and forecast planning in SNP with different parts of the product database. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2012/06/07/reorder-point-planning-in-sap-erp/ * Worked in a part time solution architect role to help connect together the designs in DP, SNP, PP/DS and GATP.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  APO SNP * Tested fair share logic with the deployment optimizer for sharing stock between parent and child locations. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2008/10/11/snp-deployment-and-fair-share/ * This lead to a different article on the limitations with the cost optimizer for controlled deployment. http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2012/01/03/the-problem-with-cost-optimization/ * Troubleshot and learned the subcontracting process and configuration. * Added custom key figures to planning book and worked with developer to test the development. * Analyzed the discrete constraint horizon issue and its relationship to the SNP Optimizer run time, and the overall global batch schedule. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2013/02/19/discrete-optimization-horizon/ * Reviewed, analyzed and explained the issue with the SNP Optimizer's parallelization functionality. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2013/02/01/parallel-processing-for-the-snp-cost-optimizer/ * Researched and explained the issues with regards to unmatched STRs and STOs in APO versus SAP ERP. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2013/01/25/differing-supply-network-and-unmatched-stos-and-strs-in-apo/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  APO SNP Analyzed issues related to the consumption logic in the first period of the planning book and created a document explaining how to use the product view and the detail view to understand the planning book results. * Explained concepts related to cost optimization, how the cost optimizer works and the results that can be expected if different alterations are made to the model. One example draws the relationship between service levels and the cost of unfulfilled demand is briefly described at the link below: http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2011/07/24/why-the-cost-of-missed-demand-must-always-be-set-so-much-higher-than-the-profit-margin/ * Evaluated the results of an SAP fair share patch, which is designed to interoperate with the cost optimizer in order to provide fair sharing of inventory under conditions of shortage to child locations in the supply network. * Reviewed issues and assisted in their documentation, prioritization and presentation to the support organization. * Wrote a paper on the reason for using particular KPIs (costs by category, percent optimally solved, etc..) from the SNP planning result in order to demonstrate the benefits to the business. * Used BW reports to search for systematic trends in the optimization results. Determined and explained why the SNP optimizer was consistently maintaining a high days' of supply. APO SNP & DP * Evaluated master data settings in the TLB and other deployment parameters and recommended changes and a master data strategy. * Provided a review of common issues faced by DP at other clients and how to improve DP to adjust around these limitations. APO DP and OLAP * Researched and developed support for my observation that that vast majority of companies are using old and outdated approach to manage the data in their forecasting and analytic / BI systems. http://www.scmfocus.com/demandplanning/2011/05/a-better-way-of-importing-data-into-forecasting-and-analytic-systems/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  APO DP & SNP * Evaluated the SNP Optimizer and observed opportunities for improving the configuration. Analyzed the costs that were selected for the optimizer and compared this methodology to other companies I have seen use cost optimization. http://www.scmfocus.com/inventoryoptimizationmultiechelon/2011/03/service-level-setting-vs-penalty-costs-in-a-cost-optimizer/ * Provided recommendations on how to improve aggregated forecasting in DP and how to manage forecast parameters in DP. * Performed an upgrade analysis from 5.0 to 7.0. * Recommended the identification of un-forecastable products to more efficiently manage demand planning resources. * Demonstrated Demand Works Smoothie which can be used as a forecast prototype environment for tuning SAP forecasting. * Recommended the validation of costs in an external generalized optimizer. PlanetTogether: Software Vendor * Provided advice as to how their application compared against PP/DS. A few examples of these links are listed below. http://www.scmfocus.com/productionplanningandscheduling/2011/01/20/simulation-in-ppds-vs-planettogether/ http://www.scmfocus.com/productionplanningandscheduling/2011/01/20/cost-vs-duration-based-optimization-for-scheduling/ * Wrote articles and white papers for PlanetTogether's website on how a PT to SAP integration compares to a PP/DS to SAP ERP integration. See the link below: http://planettogether.com/sap/sap-white-papers/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  July 2008

  SCM Software Vendor * Provided information about working in SAP accounts, explanations as to what the amount of integration work required by the CIF, how demand planning is used at SAP accounts versus non-SAP accounts. APO SNP & PP/DS * Analyzed the PP/DS configuration and provided a production scheduling solution recommendation for a food processing company. * Performed a comprehensive analysis of the overall design. The design required streamlining, and the removal of some processes, in addition to improved standards in documentation and project transparency. Analyzed the PP/DS configuration and provided a production scheduling solution recommendation for a food processing company. * Performed troubleshooting for the SNP Heuristic and for CTM. * Worked with the DP team to customize the Planning Book for the addition of new Key Figures. Checked on and found the root cause of a problem with how the sales orders consumed the forecast. http://www.scmfocus.com/sapplanning/2011/02/04/level-of-bom-planning-in-the-snp-heuristic-and-low-level-codes/ APO Served as short term expert witness on a patent dispute. APO SNP * Supported a project in its setup stage. The solution involved the use of the SNP Optimizer. * Developed functional specifications and performed research into experimental enhancements desired by the client. * Explained reporting within the SNP planning book in addition to reporting outside of the system. http://www.scmfocus.com/scmbusinessintelligence/2010/07/understanding-planning-views-bi-reports-alerts-and-apo-screens/ APO PP/DS & PP * Explained and demonstrated SAP production planning and scheduling to a best of breed software vendor. Configured a demo APO system for future presentation use. I also covered topics related to partnering with SAP.

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  August 2008

  * Performed a comparison against the company's SAP DP system and my own forecasting prototype environment, which showed the potential forecast accuracy improvement from using best fit forecasting. * Quantified both the costs of under-forecasting and the costs of over-forecasting by using items like dollarized safety stock levels, offsite storage costs, obsolescence, procurement premium, and manufacturing efficiency both with the client's actual forecast and my own system generated forecast which simulated the forecasting approaches to be used by the client's new forecast system. This approach is described in the following article: http://www.scmfocus.com/demandplanning/2014/03/costs-forecasting/ * Evaluated and provided feedback on the company's sales forecasting process as well as how it used forecast error. Recommended a metric based upon audience model. * Compared finished goods to raw material forecast accuracy to determine if it would beneficial to move towards raw material forecasting for procurement - rather than relying upon finished goods forecasting + MRP. * Comprehensively compared forecast error the company received from its baseline forecast, and the best-fit forecast I generated. Used this forecast error in the standard dynamic safety stock formula to calculate the total reduction in safety stock driven by the reduced error. To illustrate this calculation I created the following online calculator. http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2014/04/08/safety-stock-calculator/ as well as a reorder point calculator. http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2014/04/09/dynamic-reorder-point-calculator/. The client also asked me to develop a reverse safety stock calculator that could allow the individual to enter the safety stock value - and other input values - and to receive the inventory level as an output which is here http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2014/04/10/reverse-dynamic-safety-stock-calculation/

• Independent SAP APO Consultant at SCM Focus

  September 2008

  * Provided metrics that the company would want to use in the areas of demand, supply and production that would result from a higher forecast accuracy, driven by both system and process changes. Provided rough estimates of cost savings - driven by the forecast improvement that could be used to justify investments into the new forecasting solution. * Provided advice from my implementation experience of how to approach SNP and PP/DS implementations - including how to prototype the benefits of the usages of these systems prior to making the investments by using external prototype environments. * Founds major opportunities to broaden out the use of master data parameters for inventory management in the material master of SAP ECC. A description of my approach is listed at the following link. http://www.scmfocus.com/supplychainmasterdata/2012/02/an-approach-for-improving-master-data-maintenance-better-than-mdm/ * Worked with client's SAP DP resource to review the design of the planning books and provided feedback for areas of improvement. Evaluated the macros that performed important forecast calculations. * Created a coding system for products and location combinations in order to enable the more effective utilization of supply and production planning applications. This coding system is explained at this link: http://www.scmfocus.com/supplyplanning/2014/04/12/coding-product-location-database/

Shaun Snapp's Education:

• Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley Graduate Center

  1995 – 1996
  MS

• Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley Graduate Center

  1995 – 1996
  MS

• Maine Maritime Academy

  1993 – 1994
  MS
  Concentration: Marine Transportation Management

• Maine Maritime Academy

  1993 – 1994
  MS
  Concentration: Marine Transportation Management

• University of Hawaii - College of Business Administration

  1988 – 1991
  BA
  Concentration: Business Administration

• University of Hawaii - College of Business Administration

  1988 – 1991
  BA
  Concentration: Business Administration

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