EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Career focused on helping implement SAP retail for well - known retailers filling roles in the recent past including: IS Retail Solutions Architect (Merchandising),
• Master data migration lead, SAP Functional consultant, Enterprise Architect and, Program/project manager.
• 25+ years of overall IT experience with the last 12 years of continuous work experience with retailers including 9 years of extensive high-profile IS retail SAP implementation projects.
• Worked on multiple end-to-end SAP implementations - from Project Preparation through Go Live and Support.
• Senior level expertise including Master data migrations, SAP Retail, SAP S/4 HANA, Solution Architecture, gap analysis and strategic road mapping experience.
• Sound understanding of business processes relevant to the retail industry.
• Proficient in business requirements gathering through working sessions, business blue printing, business process documentation, customization, configuration, testing, providing data migration strategies, data conversions and post go live support.
• Gained significant business process knowledge and experience working for high end fashion retailers such as Confidential and Abercrombie Fitch as well as big warehouse club store Confidential
• Experience with SAP ECC as well as SAP S/4 HANA

SAP SKILLS:

• Set up SAP as a retail system.
• Configured retail enterprise structure
• Configured retail price calculation schemas, pricing types, purchase price calculation schemas, markdown planning, bonus buys
• Configured retail promotions and allocations
• Implemented Assortment management
• Conversion and configuration around Site master/site profiles, Business Partners (BP, SAP S/4 HANA), Vendor masters, Customer Master, PIR, article master, structured articles
• Integration of Master data and transactional data with third party products.
• Hands on experience in development of Interfaces ALE,EDI & IDocs
• Preparation of business blue prints, test scripts & functional specifications
• Sound knowledge of ABAP dictionary
• Filled in Solution architect and enterprise architect roles

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Master Data Lead, SAP S/4 HANA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing expertise and leadership to the efforts around configuration and data migration to SAP S/4 HANA
• Carried out configuration to enable Business Partners (vendor and customer master data), sites and article master data in SAP S/4 HANA system
• Reviewed the S/4 HANA best practices and carried out configuration required to enable retail master data as part of an accelerator build on 1709 version of S/4 HANA
• Building power point presentations to support the fit/gap workshops for processes around master data set up and data governance.
• Tested the data load functionality and the templates to load master data with Data Migration Cockpit.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Enterprise Business architect, SAP Retail Operations Sep 2016 - March 2018

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning and delivery of the Retail transformation program.
• Retail Transformation scope includes Order Management solution and Point of Sale solution
• Lead Blue print working sessions for the POS and Order Management applications.
• Involved in identifying the system gaps around the master data, Point of sale data flows and pricing, promotions and the Order Management.
• Laid out road maps and program planning to implement the gaps identified during the blue printing phase.
• Built SAFe agile Program Increment road maps from the long range road map plans.
• Participated in the Program Increment planning to prioritize the scope for the implementation teams that implement the gaps.
• Responsible for the engagement of the vendors and participated in negotiations of SOW in implementation of POS applications.
• Implemented solution design for the retail and wholesale pricing and promotions.
• Gained significant knowledge of SAP FMS on the side by self-learning and practicing on the IDES

Confidential, Irving, TX

SAP Retail Point of Sale Program (POS) Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Delivery of Gas transformation road map for 7- Confidential
• Responsible for the delivery of EMV and the Stores re-architecture for the 7- Confidential stores.
• Responsible for right solutions are designed and rolled out
• Responsible for keeping the projects on time within the budget and meeting the expected scope.
• Responsible for estimating the next stages of the projects, submitting the SOW to the client.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

SAP Retail Supply Chain Solution architect

Responsibilities:

• Delivery of Order Management features of 1DSC (one Device Supply Chain) initiative in a solution architect role.
• Delivered multiple Order Management capabilities to Confidential devices business towards building an optimal Order management backbone on SAP.
• Responsible for the delivery of monthly and quarterly releases in an agile methodology.
• As a solution architect, responsible for working with the business in authoring and organizing and prioritizing the features and user stories that encompasses the scope of each release.
• Responsible for the design of right solutions and the rolled out
• Responsible for driving the SAP fit gap assessment, design, configuration, development and testing.

Confidential, TX

Consultant, SAP

Responsibilities:

• Product management of Supply Chain management solutions including Order Management, Transportation Management, Warehouse management, etc.
• Functional support to implement business processes involving master data, and procurement and replenishment processes.
• Responsible for the process rollout as well as the product support around the set up and synching of item master, location master, shipments, and orders and their integration from the customers.
• Responsible for applications of carrier portals, JDA TM, multiple WMS applications, EDI inbound and outbound from/to Sterling EDI.

Confidential, Issaquah, WA

Architect and Merchandising Functional Consultant, SAP

Responsibilities:

• An SAP retail expert support to the Enterprise architecture team to propose a Confidential reference architecture to meet a modernization of all the merchandising and supply chain capabilities.
• Set up and configure IS retail in the lab to carry out proofs of concepts around Supply Chain functionality on SAP ECC (IS Retail) as well as integration scenarios.
• Provided functional support to implement business processes involving master data and procurement and replenishment processes including but not limited to VMI, consignments.
• Resolved design issues around Site Master data integration across MDM, SAP ECC and other applications.
• Provided Retail reference architecture around SAP ECC to include an end to end solution for the enterprise.
• Solution Architect role on the SAP rollout for Spain expansion program - Solution based on SAP Best practices for retail industry.
• Laid out release strategies.
• Defined data migration strategies for membership data for SAP CRM implementation
• Defined data migration strategies for the Spain SAP implementation (Merchandising)
• Guided the client about the new technology of SAP, Solution Manager and ASAP methodology.
• Helped set up a lab for Proofs of Concepts that includes SAP ECC, SAP CRM, SAP BI, and SAP PI.
• Represented consulting company in pre-sales activity and submitted resposnes to RFPs up on the request from the Confidential for the Spain Implementation project.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements and prepared AS-IS and TO-BE documentation for Pricing, Promotions, markdowns and Bonus Buys.
• Laid out a functional design for the Promotions.
• Responsibilities included Promotions setup, POS outbound Interface as well as other interfaces and custom reports related to Pricing and Promotions.
• Functional Design and design documentation for Custom Reports around Pricing, Markdowns and Bonus Buys.
• As-Is and to-be documentation for Returns processes that involved promotions and bonus buys.
• Lead programs of new store openings and the requirements gathering for the new store openings in Poland and Australia.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

SAP Lead Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Functional Consultant Role.
• Lead build efforts of Pricing, Promotions, Markdowns and Bonus Buys along with other master data.
• Configured Pricing Procedures, Promotion types, Markdowns and Bonus Buy Profiles (Enhanced Bonus Buy functionality with PACK5), enabling new Bonus Buy User Interface, along with related configuration.
• Responsibilities include POS outbound Interface as well as other interfaces and custom reports related to Pricing and Promotions.
• Functional Design and design documentation for Custom Reports around Pricing, Markdowns and Bonus Buys.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

SAP Lead Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented merchandise hierarchy related configuration and set up a brand new hierarchy for Confidential ’s merchandise.
• Reclassification of Merchandise Hierarchy involved major re-shuffle of Merchandise Hierarchy for Confidential and impacted transactional data such as Allocation tables, POs and STOs.
• Merchandise Re-class project involves laying out approach/design for reclassification and handling of impacts that range from updates to Purchase Orders, Allocations, Pricing Conditions and, Assortments.
• Loaded Characteristics (classification system) using Winshuttle.
• Analyzed the impact of reclassification on Purchase Orders, STOs and allocation tables and designed processes to mitigate impact on on-going Procure to pay business processes.
• Analyzed and addressed the impact to processes involving VMI and consignments.
• Involved in Blueprinting of the Pricing and Promotions Redesign project.
• Training the COE team on Master Data concepts to improve COE capabilities.
• Set up several projects in Solution Manager (Solman) including but not limited to solutions based on SAP Best Practices.

Confidential

Manager, SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead master data team for the build phase.
• Used NETWEAVER 6.0 for data conversion processes to extract, consolidate and load master data into SAP ECC Retail.
• Responsibilities include configuration and conversion (data migration) of Article, Customer, Vendor, Site, Merchandise Hierarchy, Article Hierarchy and Pricing Conditions.
• Conversion responsibilities included preparing the input data (mostly in spreadsheets) for master data objects Article, Customer, Vendor, Site, Merchandise Hierarchy, Article Hierarchy and Pricing Conditions where required. Conversion responsibilities also included extracting data into spreadsheets from SAP tables for data validation/verification purposes.
• Tested configuration and data conversions by creating and maintaining Article, Customer, Vendor, Site, Merchandise Hierarchy, Article Hierarchy and Pricing Conditions.
• Reviewed and approved configuration done to support Supply Chain functionality rollout of the program.
• Lead the conversion activities by providing leadership and guidance to build, laying out conversion processes and resolve issues related to conversion of all the master data to support the release.
• Used Solman (Solution Manager) charm process to promote/approve the transports.

Confidential, Columbus OH

Sr. Manager, IT Applications

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops & one-on-one requirements gathering sessions with super users and management.
• Prepared detailed documentation of AS-IS study and developed the detailed TO-BE processes to suit the supply chain process requirements.
• Designed and developed data migration processes for master data such as Vendor master, Vendor sub ranges, Customer Master, Purchase Info Records (PIR).
• Did data cleansing using MS Excel and SQL Server Databases.
• Created test scenarios and test data to support system integration and user acceptance testing.
• Integration Testing, Regression Testing, End To End Testing and Go Live.
• Recorded Business Process Procedures and training material

Confidential, Columbus OH

SAP Solution Architect, Lead Analyst, SAP

Responsibilities:

• Worked in two full life cycle implementations including Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Prep and Go Live & support using ASAP methodology.
• Conducted workshops & one-on-one requirements gathering sessions with super users and management.
• Prepared detailed documentation of AS-IS study and developed the detailed TO-BE processes to suit the supply chain process requirements.
• Designed and developed data migration processes for master data such as Article master (material master), Vendor master, Customer Master, Site master, Pricing and promotions, Customer Material Info Records (CMIR) and Purchase Info Records (PIR).
• Designed and developed data migration processes for transactional data such as Sales Orders and Purchase Orders.
• Developed data migration processes/jobs using IBM ascential Data stage ETL, LSMW with BDC sessions and Idoc postings are the tools used for data migration
• Did data cleansing using MS Excel, MS access, IBM ascential Datastage and profilestage
• Designed, tested and implemented Article master and vendor master data distribution integration scenarios.
• Designed and configured integration scenarios using SAP XI integration builder design and configuration tool set.
• Designed and configured integration scenarios with http, XML, file, Idoc and, SOAP adapters
• Designed and configured Material Type and Number Range intervals for Article master/Material Master.
• Designed and configured custom views for the article master (Material Master).
• Designed and configured custom vendor account groups, customer account groups and views for maintenance and display of these master data.
• Designed and documented Functional specifications for Article master and vendor master distribution integration scenarios.
• Created test scenarios and test data to support system integration and user acceptance testing.
• Integration Testing, Regression Testing, End To End Testing and Go Live.
• Executed reclassification of Merchandise hierarchy and articles.
• Created and maintained Merchandise hierarchies and other master data
• Create and Maintained Merchandise Hierarchy Nodes
• Created and Maintained Merchandise Categories
• Added Article characteristics.
• Created multiple reclass versions
• Involved in the design of procurement and replenishment processes involving VMI and consignments.
• Used RWD Info Pak to record Business Process Procedures and training material
• Post Go Live support involves handling tickets / issues related to Master data and MM module.