SUMMARY
An innovative, goal-oriented professional, with a strong foundation in e2e supply chain management including statistical forecasting, production planning, SOP, MRP, and global constraint based order promising, seeks Project Manager, Consultant or Business Analyst role in global software, consulting, or manufacturing firm. Demonstrated experience in project management, process improvement, and lean demand pull production planning processes. Ability to define and implement IT solutions that result in reducing operating costs from global supply chain organizations.

15 years of hands on experience in finding significant material and SG&A efficiencies by utilizing packaged software and deploying cost effective solutions to support supply chain strategies. 10 years experience in business change management, and system definition. 10 years leading large and small geographically dispersed business and IT implementation teams. 5 years of people management experience. Proven ability to clearly communicate complex business and technical issues, tradeoffs and make credible recommendations to executive stakeholders

SAP Supply Chain Skills:

• Business Analyst (5 years of experience) able to evaluate business requirements, define alternative operational models, do ASIS / TOBE processes & GAP analysis & translate into SAP PP, MM or APO-DP specifications.
• Project Management (5 years of experience) defining and implementing business process improvements building business cases and project plans to support SAP MM PP or APO implantations. (3 full project life cycles)
• Strong background in lean manufacturing processes based on data driven value stream mapping of SC operations.
• Understand master data that support the MRP business processes, calculations for MRP quantities, dates, configure enterprise and organizational structure, material and vendor master records, and understanding of MRP results
• Configure and setup the master data objects in the SAP production planning SOP and flexible planning sub modules, bill of material, product hierarchy, routing and work center. Defining setup, run, and queue time parameters.
• Configure forecasting and planning strategies: Make to Stock and Make to Order and Configure to Order.
• Understanding of demand pull processes and impact on SAP such as KANBAN and replenishment strategies.
• Evaluation of forecasting methods, error calculation, outlier management models and system configurations utilizing SAP PP or APO-DP modules. Evaluation ex-post forecasting to determine the best forecast model.
• Understanding of how to configure APO-DP to utilize phase in and phase out, cannibalization, and disaggregation.

Project Management & Process Transformation Skills:

• Leading the development of high level business requirements, detailed business case, value stream mapping, process GAP analysis, project charter, and tracking impact to the business case throughout the project life cycle.
• Proven information technology experience related to project management and the implementation of SAP PP and APO solution delivery and business /IT solution & process integration.
• Using established project management methodology/tools, to develop and execute project plans, which include scope, schedule, and budget, process and organizational change management and training.
• Leading and performing hands-on analysis and prioritization of the business requirement definition and translation into technical specification used for configuration, prototyping, writing test scripts, and validating with stakeholders.
• Led change management, did analysis, & proposed viable business options between IT vs business process changes.
• Ensure that deliverables are completed timely and accurately, coordinate with project stakeholders to obtain signoff at each checkpoint in the project lifecycle, and work issues with team to reconcile if signoff is not approved.
• Understanding of contract and financial compliance of outside consultants to deliver functional specs.
• Stakeholder management including on-going alignment and communication of risk, recognizes bottlenecks, issues, and works with team to define options and overall solution for the stakeholder population.
• Developing and executing test plans and scripts to support unit, integration, and user acceptance testing. Developed processes to support break fix items identified during UAT and during warranty period.
• Planning and developing end user training, performing stakeholder mapping, to created targeted user based training.
• Work with stakeholder to define KPI and success measures, and management reporting requirements.

Personal Traits & Skills:

• Proven innovator ability to find ways to eliminate waste in supply chain processes and propose viable ways to reduce variation and backlog. Ability to find low hanging fruit for quick productivity gains.
• Good understanding in business process reengineering, gap analysis, value stream mapping and lean mfg principles.
• Strong background with project proposals, business cases, timeline determination, budget est. and staffing plans.
• Capable of making reliable decisions orientation toward results. Excellent planning & organization skills.
• Broad knowledge across the entire supply chain from SOP, MRP to order scheduling and fulfillment.
• Ability to communicate to a wide variety of audiences, both business and technical, while working independently.
• Ability to manage through influence/leveraged partnerships, by having robust dialog while building trust.
• Self-starter who takes initiative and can work with minimal supervision. Knows when to ask for help.
• Managing multiple priorities; flexible / adaptable, able to thrive in ambiguous situations. But knows when to say no.
• Ability to clearly communicate at multiple levels while making presentations to management, sponsors executives.
• Expresses complex issues/concepts in business terms, proposes viable trade-offs, makes credible recommendations.
• Comfortable in steering committee and executive level discussions regarding SAPs functional and integration capabilities, return on investment and over all IT strategy and portfolio management.

Confidential,Cary, NC
WW Planning lead (1project lifecycle in progress) SAP PP2009-current

• Process owner for master production plan based on inventory levels, demand forecasts, lead time, and safety stock.
• Run the executive SOP and PreSOP meetings, Accountable for executing SAP Material Resource Planning (MRP).
• Drive business process improvement to support materials management, and e2e alignment with procurement.
• Developed monthly operating rhythm to coordinate the e2e materials management from forecasting to PO creation.
• Developed prototype MPS tool that is being used as the basis for SAP production planning configuration.
• Leading the transitioning from spread sheet MPS prototype to SAP PP module. Budget $200k 2 contractors.

Confidential,NC 2004-2009
Manager, WW Supply Chain transformation SAP DP & SNP/GATP (2 project lifecycles)

• Overall Project/Program manager leading IT and business teams through all phases of the lifecycle. Project length was 18 months budget of $1.8 million. Phase 1 was DP, phase 2 SNP/GATP.
• Led value stream mapping WW and was the basis for the business case used to secure funding for the APO project.
• Improved forecast accuracy from 40% to 80% at the SKU level by using APO DP statistical forecasting techniques
• Reduced inventory investment and obsolete stock by $10M/Yr using product and plant substitution logic in APO GATP, and using SNP exception based alerts to centralized direct procurement departments.
• Worked closely with the materials teams to transition from forecast driven build plans to demand driven operations using Kanban with our distribution centers (DC) and external manufacturers (EMS).
• Project manager for APO DP that automated manually created statistical forecasting on over 7k SKUs for the optical division. This improved forecast bias to nearly 0 at the family level with 50% reduction in the standard deviation over the manual process. Led the IT team to integrate R3 with DP utilizing the CIF and pulling in CRD historical actuals, automating DP to select the best univariate forecast model based on preselected forecast error parameters. Automated and configured phase in phase out functionality by setting time and volume phasing, SKU transitions.
• Implemented APO GATP location and product substitution logic and replaced legacy backorder processing functionality. This reduced daily backorder processing wait time from 5 hours to 15 minutes.
• Responsible for business development activities of project planning, budget estimation, statement of work creation. Managed a team of 20 consultants through blueprint, realization, final preparation and golive support activities.
• Supported the IT integration pilot for the Passport product line and Jabil (EMS) IT changes to support transition from forecast driven planning to demand driven planning in SAP. Led a small team of function SMEs to segment product portfolio between make to stock and make to order, for demand pull products we defined reorder points and reorder quantities in Nortel DCs, and subassemblies at Jabil. Set time fence in SAP MM module and changed the availability check in GATP to support the materials stocking strategy.

Confidential,NC
Project Manager, WW Fulfillment operations & strategy i2 DM, Selectica, CTO (1 lifecycle)2001-2004

• Worked with functional leaders to define the ibm.com direct configure to order strategy for the large enterprise direct business. This was adopted by the leadership team and served as the strategic roadmap and IT investment portfolio.
• Move to from MTS to CTO utilizing Selectica configurator and i2 DM/DF modules.
• Achieved 70% reduction in direct labor cost by centralizing planning organizations, and improved forecast accuracy 40% by moving from make to stock to configure order forecasting processes in i2 DM
• Improved order fill rates by 70% and reducing average order cycle time by 3 days by deploying i2 DM that utilized global ATP and constraint based order scheduling and commits utilizing i2 DF.
• Project Manager IBM PCD configurator deployment. 12 month project, budget $2.2 Million 20 resources. Responsible for defining functional requirements, business case, owned the project plan.
• Led the business process integration of Canadian, LA and US planning teams into a centralized planning organization by deploying Selectica configurator, and i2 DM and transitioning from fixed BOMs to material variants in SAP MM and reduced the number of SKUs from 17k to 1.2k by utilizing forecastable sales building blocks.
• Developed NPI process to support the PCD resulting in 98% accuracy in hitting the golive date, was 40%

• Project manager for the implementation of configure to order demand planning and fulfillment functionality to support the online store and kiosks increasing sales by $750 MM for direct channel. Budget of $700k set up demand planning and configure to order business processes in SAP PP/ MM. Led a team of 5 contractors.
• Led value stream mapping and high level business requirements and worked with consultants on the system requirements to configure SAP PP, MM to support the order direct model, and process changes to transition from fixed BOM planning to sales building block planning, supply based order scheduling and fulfillment.
• Did ASIS / TOBE process maps and GAP analysis that led to the business process and organizational changes to support Building block planning for US consumer product segment resulting in 35% improvement in forecast accuracy and reduced order cycle time by 3 days average for CTO consumer direct business.
• Responsible for working with Engineering and marketing to support new product introductions.

Confidential,Plant Manager 1985-1996

Confidential,Manufacturing Engineer 1985-1996

Formal Education:
MBA - Operations Management
B.S. - Industrial Engineering

Computer Skills: SAP APO, PP
Certification: PMP #236145