SUMMARY:

• Director level SAP Professional
• Management of major SAP implementations across several geographies
• Project inception through to delivery
• Solution architecture
• Cost benefits analysis
• Project & resource planning
• Resource management (internal, external & service providers)
• Budget management
• 30 years business process experience.
• 23 years SAP Consulting experience across all logistics modules (15 years design/configuration & 8 years OCM).
• Detailed knowledge of integration between logistics modules & Fi - Co
• Experience in multiple countries & cultures
• Although I am certified SAP configuration consultant I started my career in industry & have experienced many of the day to day challenges faced by business stakeholders.
• I am very cognizant of the needs of all parts of the business that the system adds value to their daily lives and provides them with timely and accurate information so that key decisions can be made.
• I am acutely aware that any major ERP implementation is a very capital-intensive project and that this investment must be viewed across the total lifespan of the system.
• My belief in my own knowledge and experience allows to me to communicate comfortably with all levels of an organization.
• I have strong ethics and consider myself to be very open and honest even when communicating difficult messages
• In a leadership role I believe in recognizing that I cannot be successful without a team and try to lead by example.
• I am seeking a company looking to put in place the structure, plans & processes in place to deliver a first rate SAP implementation

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE & SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE:

• Pharmaceutical/Medical Device
• CFR Part 11
• Aerospace & Defense experience 
• DFARS, ITAR & 8130
• Oil & Gas (Exxon Mobil, Confidential & SAABIC)
• Upstream Offshore Replenishment
• Food Manufacturing 
• Engineering

WORK HISTORY:

Global SAP Solution Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Global Remelt Template
• Review & update existing project PID for global Remelt Solution
• Provision of project plan & cost estimate for global template build
• Build new solution team using 3rd party service provider and independent consultants
• Implement necessary governance structure
• Project Board Member
• Global Extrusion Template
• Became owner of Brownfield solution template at design phase
• Managed existing team members (3rd Party, Internal & External)
• Solution governance
• Project Board Member
• Planned North American Template Build (schedule, budget & resources)
• Global Plant Maintenance Template
• Reviewed existing project PID
• Provision of revised project plan & budget
• Engaged 3rd Party Service Provider (SAP) & independent consultants
• Review of project (financial) change requests
• Project Board Member

Confidential

Supply chain consultant

Responsibilities:

• Review of all aspects of current of offshore replenishment process:
• Work order planning, demand management, MRP, procurement & logistics
• These processes included both SAP & third-party systems
• Make recommendations to existing processes:
• Creation of planning time fence
• Allow update of required by date (currently the scheduled start date in 3rd Party system changed but did not update SAP which led to mismatch between demand & supply dates)
• Changes to MRP master data settings
• Educate employees on standard SAP processes:
• MRP evaluations
• MRP Settings
• Inventory analysis (including dead stock)
• Expediting

Head of Manufacturing & Supply Chain Systems

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of internal & external supply chain consultants (MM, PP, QM, PM (MRO) & WM)
• Implemented full lifecycle SAP (ECC) implementations at a variety of company locations
• Reviewed & recommended changes to key business processes across the supply chain to executive leadership.
• Gathered business requirements for a variety of business affiliates.
• Full SAP implementations, SAP MES, Kronos, Avercast (pure play sales & financial forecasting), Dassian (specialist US Government sales reporting)
• Developed business cases including TCO & ROI for above projects.

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Production BOM
• Routing
• Material Master
• Production Order

Senior IT Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Governance of local system design across multiple modules to ensure system & template integrity
• Validation of integration test planning and overseeing test execution
• Defining timelines, plan & resource requirements for all data migration and driving execution of data mapping, data sourcing & testing in partnership with dedicated data migration lead

Confidential

Global Lead SAP Manufacturing

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for managing 2 full lifecycle (AWM Suzhou China & Orthopedic Beijing China) projects. Each of these projects were managed with a blend of internal IT, internal business, external local & external offshore resources.
• The external resources were provided by a dedicated implementation partner. The average Overall team size was 14.
• In addition I was solely responsible for an Organization Change Management & business readiness review of operational processes at three manufacturing plants in the UK which were part of both the Wound & Orthopedic divisions. This was with the purpose of providing input to executive decision making regarding the SAP Strategic RoadmapSome of my responsibilities included
• PP including Flexible Planning, MPS, Deterministic MRP, Availability Checking, Batch Determination for Production Orders, Control Keys, Scheduling Profiles, Capacity Planning
• MM including Release Strategies
• WM including storage types, search strategies & batch determination
• Classification for batch management
• QM including inspection types, inspection plans & inspection methods

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I was solely responsible for the definition of the PP-PI and QM blueprints in accordance with local business requirements and then for the total implementation of the PP-PI module.
• In addition I was also responsible for the definition and implementation of cross modular batch determination and availability checking.
• I was also responsible for leading the local team of independent consultants across all modules.
• My tasks included the following:
• Team leadership (team size 5)
• Requirements gathering
• Blueprint definition
• Configuration
• Functional Specification definition for local requirements
• Role definition
• Test definition & management
• Data extraction & upload via LSMW
• Cut over planning
• Go-Live & Post Go-Live support

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for providing a review of previously implemented business & SAP processes within manufacturing (discrete) & overseeing delivery of recommended changes.
• Introduction of MRP reorder point planning for consumables
• Removal of SAP WM to reduce system overhead
• Introduction of SAP ECM to increase data control
• Review of SAP security profiles to ensure SOX compliance
• In addition I was part of process review within the global SAP support organization tasked within improving the end users experience. This included reviews of the following processes:
• First contact management
• Incident detail capturing
• Incident routing
• Incident Management
• Review of existing SLA
• Review of existing incident responsibilities
• Implementation of user surveys
• Reporting
• Implementation of business account managers
• Implementation of monthly status reporting