Profile

Mr. Noyan ZÜMBÜLCÜ has 5 years of experience in SAP Applications with a verifiable track record of delivering complex SAP SCM (APO) and SAP Production Planning (PP) projects and exceeding expectations. The hands-on SCM and PP Solution Architect accomplished primarily the architecture, requirement gathering, design, analysis and development efforts of SAP’s SCM and PP. Depending on the size, complexity or specific needs of project roles included the following: requirements gathering, analysis, design, design reviews, configuration, development, testing, implementation, documentation and consulting support to others. He also has experience in working in one of the big five consulting firms in Turkey and holds SAP Certification on SCM.

Personal

• Birth Day – Place : 20.03 – Bursa / Turkey

Experience

        Senior SAP Consultant Turkey, Supply Chain Management

• Certified (SAP - Demand and Supply Planner Certification) consultant on mySAP SCM application.

• Experienced especially on Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, Production Planning / Detailed Scheduling and Transportation Planning / Vehicle Scheduling. Also has wide knowledge on user authorization processes on both R/3 and APO.

• PP Implementation experience in Textile and Automotive Industry.

Employment History:

Jan. 2008 –Present               Pluss Consulting Services                        Istanbul/Turkey

 

        Partner

 

 

July 2006 –Jan. 2008            IBM Global Business Services                   Istanbul/Turkey

 

        Senior SAP SCM Consultant

 

 

June 2004 – July 2006          Elsys Consulting (SAP Service Partner)      Istanbul/Turkey

 

        SAP SCM Consultant

 

 

June 2002 – Nov. 2003         Fortis Bank                                                        Istanbul/Turkey

 

        Information Systems, System Analyst

 

SAP Project Experience:

Summary:

Sector	Module	Responsibility	Company	Project
Wire & Cable Industry	APO – PP/DS	Consultant	Erikoglu Emaye	SCM Project
Chemical Industry	PP	Consultant	Grace Chemicals	ERP Project
Textile Industry	PP	Lead Consultant	Coats Thread	ERP Roll-out Project
Textile Industry	PP (Variant Configuration)	Lead Consultant	OPTI Coats	ERP Roll-out Project
Glassware	APO – DP/SNP	Lead Consultant	Pasabahce Glassware	SCM Project
Energy Industry	APO – TP/VS	Lead Consultant	Ipragaz	SCM – APO -  TP/VS Upgrade/Redesign
FMCG	Roles & Authorizations	Lead Consultant	Unilever Holding	ERP Implementation across NAMET
Textile Industry	PP	Logistics Lead	Durak Thread International	ERP Implementation
Glassware	APO – PP/DS	Consultant	Pasabahce Glassware	SCM Project
Food & Drink	APO – SNP	Consultant	Efes Pilsen	SCM Project
Defense Industry	PP APO- PP/DS	Trainer/ Consultant	Aselsan Electronics	Business Suite Project
Automotive Industry	PP	Consultant	Kanca Forging	ERP Implementation

Other Experiences:

Other SAP activities

• International Trainer for SAP Turkey:

• “SCM 200-Business Processes in Planning” for Colgate Palmolive – Romania and Turkey

• “SCM 130-SAP R/3 Planning and Manufacturing Overview” for Khodro - Iran

• Attended “3rd SCM Consulting InfoDays for Partners - 2006” in SAP Germany.

• Presenter in SAP Forum Turkey 2006: “New APO Implementations”.

Non-SAP Experiences:

• Fortis Bank Information Systems – System Analyst:

• Managing, analyzing and identifying the functional specifications of related IT projects,

• Working together with the programmers in coding phases and writing some SQL scripts,

• Testing the codes and preparing technical documentation.

Education

2003-            Bogazici University                               Istanbul/Turkey

MS, Department of Industrial Engineering

4^th semester GPA : 3,56/4,00

 

1997–2001     Istanbul Technical University           Istanbul/Turkey

BS, Management Engineering Department

Overall GPA : 3,71/4,00 (Highest GPAè Rank 1/91)

 

1990–1997      Bursa Anatolian High School               Bursa/Turkey

Overall GPA : 4,50/5,00

Internship

August 2000   Yapi Kredi Bank A.S.                       Istanbul/Turkey

Headquarters, Treasury Department

 

August 1999    Bosch Turkey                                      Bursa/Turkey

Production Plant,  Participant of “Equipment Following System” project.

Studies

• Design of experiment and statistical data analysis project: “Identifying the factors which are statistically affecting the stock returns in ISE”. (2002)

• Production system projects (2002):

• Evaluating the efficiency of Newson Method in production planning,

• Simulating the hierarchical production planning concept for BEKO,

• Designing, coding and testing a flexible manufacturing system algorithm.

• Graduation project: “The effects of earning announcements on the stock  prices and an application on ISE”: Published on http://www.analiz.com/egitim/tez/tez01.html (2001)

• Financial engineering project on the relations between stock returns, the effect of size and the price ratio (E/P). (2001)

• Management and organization project: “Business Process Reengineering and its application in Arcelik and Garanti Bank”. (1999)

Computer Proficiencies

• Evaluate and write complex ABAP programs and functions.

• Well experience on Oracle 9i Database Server (SQL), PL/SQL and Discoverer 4.1. 

• “Introduction to Oracle 9i: SQL” course in ORACLE 2002 Summer

• Able to write advanced programs with PASCAL 5.5 and Visual Basic 6.0

• Able to operate LINDO, TORA programs and GAMS modeling language, which are necessary for solving operations research problems.

Recognitions

•  “Professional Career Support” Award from Turkcell, July 2002

• Accepted to the Bogazici University Department of Industrial Engineering in the first rank, September 2001

• Graduated with the highest GPA from the department, July 2001

• “Exceptional Success Certificate” from quantitative methods department, July 2001

• “Karakullukcu Award”, 1998 (Highest GPA among the first year students in the department)

• 10. place in the examination among high school students in Bursa, 1996

Language Comprehension

• English – Able to follow foreign publications, write academic reports and communicate (TOEFL: 247 with 5,5/6,0 writing):

        Bursa Anatolian High School  (7 years) and Bogazici University

 

 

 

• German – Medium level:

        “Alman Kultur Merkezi-Goethe Intitut” Finished 7 course.

 

Hobbies and Activities

• Sports:

• Playing volleyball and table tennis: Played volleyball in high school team.

• Adventure sports: Ski and Trekking.

• Reading science books.

• Member of ITU Alumni Association.

References

Available upon request.

SAP Project Details

n     Erikoglu Emaye – SCM Project:  (Business: Wire and Cable Industry)

Involved in this first SCM Project in wire and cable industry as a PP/DS consultant.

o        PP/DS Consultant 

--- Modeling a solution about sequencing the orders in milling machines.

--- Defining the optimization parameters and sequence optimization of the channels of the machines.

--- Running different heuristics (REM Heuristics)  to solve sector specific constraints like filling all the channels of the machines which uses the same oven at the same time.

 

n     Grace Chemicals – Dubai Project:  (Business: Chemicals Industry)

Involved in full cycle R/3 implementation project as PP consultant.

o        PP Consultant 

--- Analyze the current situation and find the gaps between the current situation and the previous implementations.

--- Design a PP solution and implement it.

--- Training given to Indian users.

--- User acceptance tests are designed and performed with the users.

--- Go live support.

 

n     COATS Thread (World’s largest Thread company) – Turkey Roll-Out Project:  (Business: Textile Industry)

Involved in full cycle R/3 implementation project as Lead PP consultant.

o        PP Lead Consultant 

Leading a team of two PP consultants in order to achieve the followings:

--- Making the GAP analysis and outlining the GAP points.

--- Drawing the business flows according to the tools that are developed for the template.

--- Establishing the necessary integrating between PP and APO systems.

--- Preparing Site Simulation Test Scenarios.

 

n     OPTI Coats (World’s second largest zip production company) – Turkey Roll-Out Project:  (Business: Textile Industry)

Involved in full cycle R/3 implementation project as Lead PP consultant.

o        PP Lead Consultant 

Leading a team of two PP consultants in order to achieve the followings:

--- Making the GAP analysis and outlining the GAP points.

--- Drawing the business flows according to the tools that are developed for the template.

--- Developing new solutions in variant configuration for localization.

--- Preparing Site Simulation Test Scenarios.

 

n     PASABAHCE (World’s second largest glassware company) – Everest Project:  (Business: Glassware Industry)

Involved in full cycle APO project (SCM 4.1). DP, SNP and PP/DS modules are implemented and have participated in all these modules.

o        Demand Planning: Lead Consultant 

--- Existing demand management business process is analysed. Plane for establishing the demand is determined and, a business cycle is created for demand planning including timelines for periodic meetings.

--- Separate planning areas containing key figures with different disaggregation type are created. According to the business, dataviews are created for forecasting hierarchy – Period decisions

--- Background macros are designed for calculating the value of some key figures. Also, user-exit macros are developed and coded in order to obtain data from the aggregate level and show in detailed level.

--- Historic data analyzed and most suitable characteristic level is determined for statistical forecasting. Forecast methods in the system are run and different forecast errors (MAD, MAPE… etc) are compared for each characteristic level.

--- Separate training sessions are performed at the beginning and end of the project.

--- Multi Cubes and Remote Cubes are created for reporting. Extensive reports are generated in Business Explorer.

o        Supply Network Planning: Lead Consultant

--- Tactical planning: SNP Optimizer is implemented as a solution for Pasabahce. Mould transfers between production plants are optimized in a year accepting budget figures as input. Moulds are fixed to the plants according to the results of the optimization.

--- Operational planning: Non-SAP ERP system integration (Oracle) is established for operational planning. CTM Engine is used for operational planning. For the glassware industry, if the total demand for a mould level is less than 3 days, than all the demands are refused and waited for some other demand for a certain amount of time. In order to fulfill this request, custom programs are coded and the total demand for mould level is calculated and sent to CTM.

o        PP/DS Consultant

--- Following the CTM process, PP/DS optimizer is also run in order to optimize setup cost between moulds, which is very important for glassware industry. Setup groups and keys are designed and created for moulds and setup matrix is formed.

--- In planning board, visual settings, like the texts within graphics, are also designed according to business demand.

 

n     IPRAGAZ (SHV Gas in Turkey – The world LPG leader): (Business: Energy Industry)

Lead consultant in the upgrade project from SCM 3.1 to SCM 4.0.

o        TP / VS Lead Consultant

--- New transportation zone design is modeled during the upgrade. Integration between R/3 system and SCM system reformed and custom reports are generated in order to display the results of TP/VS optimizer. Also, two repairs are coded for excluding some resources according to the current availability of them and for manipulating the results of the optimizer in order to use the least utilized resource in a month among the available resources.

 

n     EFES PILSEN (Turkey’s largest beverage company; Partner of CocaCola Company)– MAP Project: (Business: Food & Drink Industry)

Consultant in full cycle DP and SNP project. First implementation on beverage sector in Turkey.

o        Supply Network Planning Consultant

--- Network model is established and unimportant products are excluded from the SNP model. Suppliers and customers are grouped together and one supplier and customer is created for each region representing all. In existing R/3 system master data for SNP are redesigned and CIFed to SCM system.

--- For each product category different planning procedures are designed to be implemented. Necessary integration processes from demand planning to supply network planning is formed according to product groups.

--- Results of CTM are followed on DS Planning Board and reporting on production, supply and transportation are designed in Business Explorer.

--- SNP Optimization model is created for long term planning. Budget is taken into consideration and production, procurement, transportation, late delivery and non deliver cost are the parameters for the optimizer.

 

n     UNILEVER – Unity Project:   (Business: FMCG Sector)

Leaded a team of 4 consultants in roles and authorizations project.

o        Roles and Authorizations Team Leader

--- Unilever consolidates R/3 systems in EMEA region as the Unity Project. In this project, roles and authorizations are redesigned. Template and real roles are designed and inheritance function is used for each business functionality is created.

--- During the roles and authorizations process detailed process documentation is also created. This documentation detailly explains the procedure for changes in authorizations of users and also necessary roles. Flow diagrams are drowned and periodic reports are stated in the document.

 

n     DURAK Thread International (Business: Textile Industry)

Durak Thread implements SAP ERP system.

o        Logistics Lead & PP Consultant

--- The client required discrete and make-to-order/make-to-stock mixed configuration with finite scheduling to control and plan the production of thread. The main expectation from the project is to correctly identify delivery dates of sales orders while obtaining sustainable ERP system. Custom reports and programs are generated in order to show and fix the pegging relationships in R/3 system.

--- Since the variety of colors is very high, a change in paints affects many bills of materials. Therefore, an easy way to change many bills of materials is created by using phantom materials.

--- Integration between scale and R/3 system, RFID devices and system are established.

 

n     ASELSAN (Turkey’s largest electronics company)– Business Suit Project:  (Business: Defense Industry)

o        PP & PP/DSConsultant

--- Realization and final preparation phases implemented in R/3 project as a PP consultant.

--- Detailed PP customization training to the project team for 10 days is committed.

--- APO PP/DS blueprint prepared aligned with PP implementation.

--- PP/DS customizing is still going on.

 

n    KANCA Forging  – ERP Project:  (Business: Automotive Industry)

o        PP Consultant

--- KANCA manufactures two distinct lines of products, forged (as-forged, semi-finished and finished) parts and hand tools. During PP project, data gathered from EDI evaluated and for short term, production planning performed. Raw material is planned according to campaign periods of steel companies.

--- Long term planning is implemented for simulative purposes.

--- Moulds are followed as material and mould life is taken into consideration during forging planning.