SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years of SAP experience in Materials Management (MM), Purchasing, Inventory Management (IM) and Warehouse Management (WM) within a variety of industries.
• Industry experience includes pharmaceutical, oil & gas, petrochemical, automotive, government, retail, industrial, and media.
• Expert in the SAP Purchase to Pay (P2P) process.
• Experience includes multiple full lifecycle rollouts of SAP functionality from requirements gathering project preparation, blueprinting, workshops, data governance, configuration analysis, training, solution support and deployment as both a team member and team lead.
• Extensive hands on configuration knowledge and a strong knowledge of the integration points with SAP modules outside his area of expertise.
• Strong experience with mergers, spinoffs, and acquisitions. That experience includes data migration and data integration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior SAP MM Consultant & Team Lead

• Scope: SAP S/4HANA MULTI - TENANT 1902 best practice implementation across North American business units.
• Exposure to the Multi-tenant version of HANA.
• Gathering of Organization, MM and PTP purchasing requirements using the Business Driven Questionnaire. Leading Fit to Standard and Train the Trainer client workshops using SAP Activate implementation methodology with a sprint based Agile configuration approach

Confidential

SAP MM Lead

• Scope: SAP S/4HANA ON-PREMISE 1511implementation across the multiple divisions of Confidential ’s business units with an aggressive timeline.
• Exposure to Fiori reporting and custom tile layouts specific to HANA.
• Assigned to the first business unit to go live - Fiberglass components. Deployment and adaptation of MM configuration including business partner, partner and output determination, scheduling agreements and Kanban.
• Led both integration test workshops and user acceptance sessions. Preparation of all scripting and testing documentation in the new HANA environment. (new, retired transactions and prerequisite transactions)
• Testing and creation of vendors using the new HANA Business Partner functionality.
• Exposure to the new Business Rule Framework for creating form outputs.
• Resolution of functional configurations and business issues supporting go live activities.
• Collaboration with Production Planning and Sales teams to ensure an on time go live with minimal go live issues.
• MM lead on second business unit to go live - Parts and post go live support for third go live unit Orlando Ambulance. MM team lead for the fifth unit to go live Los Angeles Ambulance.
• Currently involved in post go live support and enhancement activities across the business.
• Subcontracted with SAP America using SAP Agile methodology.

Confidential

SAP Senior P2P Consultant

• Scope: SAP implementation across the pharmaceutical division of Confidential .
• Complex integration of SAP ECC with existing purchasing and warehousing systems. Preparation of functional specifications, testing, design of custom objects including EDI interfaces to legacy systems.
• Testing of inbound and outbound i-docs.
• Led workshop meetings with IT and the business to establish missed design requirements and proposed solutions.
• Ownership of release strategies and output conditions.
• Ownership of interfaces relation to Availability Alerts and support for interfaces from SAP to the SCORE purchasing system and Manhattan warehousing system.
• Material Master and Purchasing Master data field mapping.

Confidential

SAP Senior P2PConsultant Core Team

• Scope: SAP implementation and localization in Ireland, Italy and Germany. SAP ECC6.0
• The first (Core Global Team) role involved leading project preparation sessions, template development, blue printing, workshops, establishing gaps, unit test plans, validating integrated test scripts and supporting regional teams at Confidential ’s major manufacturing sites outside the US.
• Also supported the Supply Chain team’s intercompany internal tolling scenario between Puerto Rico, Ireland and the US. This process used PTP, WM, SD and Project though successful go lives in all three regions. Transactional process including stock transport orders, good movements, warehouse management movements and production order processing along with account determination processing. Co-ordinated rollout of PTP with the SRM team.
• The second (North Chicago Regional Lead) role involved end user support and data ownership for purchasing master data objects for both the pilot manufacturing plant and Research and Development facility. This included ownership of the Vendor Master, Material Master (part), Information Records, Source Lists, Manufacturer Master and Manufacture Part Number master for both plants. Both plants successfully went live in October one month ahead of the original projected date.
• Co-ordination with the Master Data Team with setting up the Material Master convention for the creation of core materials and manufacturer part numbers associated with the core material number.
• Resolution of Unit of Measure issues associated with industrial and chemical materials. (purchasing units of measure vs stocking units of measure) for the material master load ready file.
• Review and cleanup of loaded material master, information record, and source list load ready files during both mock and actual data loads.

Confidential

SAP Supply Chain Team Lead

• Scope: Petroleum Accounting and Inventory reporting for a refinery start up, SAP ECC 4.6C, US
• Establishment of a blueprint using business user workshops to determine the final solution for bring the new refinery into SAP.
• This role involved testing and validating a refinery mass balancing inventory management solution to supporting the go live of a refinery producing bitumen and co-products from crude oil.
• The creation of crude contracts and purchase orders and interface validation for the refinery interface program to perform custom goods movements in SAP.
• Review of material master fields to validate the account determination and units of measure associated with different crude materials.

Confidential

SAP Team Lead

• Scope: Led SAP requirements for the development of a i-phone application that scans 2D bar codes into SAP and creates material movements in SAP ECC 6.0. Project preparation to establish design requirements.
• Phase One SAP team lead - Development of a custom SAP transaction to process scanned bar codes for consignment stock processing of materials delivered directly to the well site. Blueprinting workshops with business end users to establish business. Testing of incoming EDI interfaces (i-docs). Field mapping and error resolution.
• Phase Two SAP team lead - Integration of two i-phone applications into one combined application the Field Delivery Scan (FDS). Additional blueprinting sessions for adopting the initial design to adopt the existing solution to work along with transportation scheduling software.

Confidential

SAP MM team member

• Scope: Systematic rollout of SAP to Confidential and Confidential business units across the Asia Pacific region, SAP ECC 6.0, Current Taiwan & Hong Kong. Workshops with end users in regions to determine the final form requirements for each region.
• MM/WM team member involved in form development and report specification and testing, user support. Areas of specific work: Sales and Purchasing outputs and reports including: delivery notes, pick slips, sales returns, custom lean warehouse physical inventory transactions and reports.), Client used Lean WM.

Confidential

SAP MM/Purchasing team member

• Scope: Pilot template rollout of SAP DBM package in Rush Leasing Center and Rush Truck Center., DBM (Dealer Business Management) Module,
• Led workshops with the client to determine the required configuration for purchase order pricing configuration, release strategies, forecasting and replenishment requirements as well as support and enhancement of installed functionality. Specification preparation and testing of master data loads.
• Specific areas of configuration: purchase pricing condition tables, stock transport orders (transfer pricing), pricing formulas and schemas, invoice tolerances, ERS, purchase order workflow and material classification, MRP, Forecasting, purchase order output conditions, purchase order returns.Confidential
• Led PTP Blueprinting workshop sessions to determine how to divide two existing company structure into two company codes, SAP 4.6 D, USA
• Sole MM/WM team lead charged with the rapid conversion of data and processes from an existing company (all bikes) to two new companies (stock) and (custom). Created new processes, documentation, and test scripts and established data requirements for the new entities involving purchasing, stock transport orders and warehouse managed putaways, bin creation, bin transfers and picking for sales to support procurement and sales activity.

Confidential

SAP MM Consultant Team Lead SAP ECC 6.0

• Results: Successfully led the Purchase to Pay (PTP) team through the project preparation phase identifying the key business processes, global business rules and interfaces required to merge Oronite’s four operating units into a one global organization from a supply chain perspective.
• Led blueprinting sessions or the PTP team conducting workshops with regional users. Global process scripts created and tested for non-stock purchasing, purchase orders, stock transport orders, subcontract purchase orders, purchasing master data, material master, purchase requisitions, contracts/outline agreements.
• Supervised the development of RICE deliverables (Ariba contract spend, Maximo MRO purchasing). Extensive data governance responsibilities including plant data, material master and purchasing master data. Interacted with the APO team in determination of data to be fed to ECC from Demand Planning.. Determined the required table linkages for sending SAP spend data back to Ariba for analysis against contracts.

Confidential

SAP MM Lead

• Scope: SAP R/3 Release ECC 6.0 Integration with Japanese Solution, SAP 4.6D, Japan, United States
• Prepared and adapted business process modeling workshops for rolling out a Japanese SAP solution in the US
• Process scripting and design for purchase orders, sales orders, delivery processing, cash on delivery sales orders, Returns processing

Confidential

SAP MM Consultant / MM Deployment Consultant

• Rollout Two (Latin America/Asia/Australia): Successfully led the preparation and delivery of functional ‘road show’ to super users across global regions. Reconciliation and validation of incoming material revenue and inventory using inventory management i-docs. Incoming EDI interface development and processing. (I-doc processing and error resolution with incoming EDI files from regional distributors using custom goods movements). Validation of account determination.
• Rollout Three (Europe): Development of interface requirements and coordination with European territory leads in Madrid. Delivery of the deployment roadshow adapted for Europe. Country specific issue resolution and support for installed functionality in the UK, France, Spain and Belgium.

Confidential

PTP/MM Team Lead

• Scope: SAP R/3 Release 4.6C
• Project Preparation Phase: Determination of functional areas in scope and business process for the US implementation based on input from the previous implementation in Europe.
• Blueprint Phase: Determination of scope and specification of deliverables including process definition documents, reports, interfaces, conversions and enhancements.
• Realization Phase: System configuration for MM-Purchasing and Inventory Management modules. Determination of Master Data field requirements including: material master, vendor master, purchasing master data. MRP setup based on Sales and Operation Plan supplied date. Supervision of a team of 5 functional consultants integrating the MM-Purchasing design with FI, CO, WM, PP, PM and SD teams. Prepared and executed test scenarios.
• Support Phase: End user support and training. Help desk trouble shooting and issue resolution in a controlled document environment.

Confidential

SAP MM/P2PTeam Lead

• Scope: SAP R/3 Release 4.6C
• Project Preparation and definition of scope documentation. PTP lead for blueprinting workshops in preparation for the design phase. Configuration of MM-Purchasing processes including purchase requisitions, purchase orders, stock transport orders and contacts to facilitate the transfer of goods between different Confidential business entities, external purchasing with subcontract and regular vendors and specific configuration relating to overseas third party vendors.
• Preparation of test scenarios, end user training and support.
• Use of ASAP methodology and the use of a pre-configured client

Confidential

SAP MM/PTP/IM Consultant

• Project Scope: SAP R/3 Release 4.6 B Over-bagging project
• Created additional configuration on installed base of MM/PP/WM/QM functionality to create add-on processing for a new production line.
• Inventory Management and Warehouse Management processes to facilitate procurement, production orders, and sales including, bin transfers, and picking strategies, physical inventory for WM managed materials.

Confidential

SAP PRA Support Team Member

• Scope: SAP R/3 Release 4.6B PRA, MM, SD, PM, FI, CO, JV modules
• System testing of installed production functionality including oil, gas, drip, and injection delivery networks. The completion of user support materials including manuals and batch job scheduling logs and production support.

Confidential

SAP MM/P2PTeam Lead

• Scope: SAP R/3 Release 4.0 MM, SD, PP, FI, CO modules
• Use of ASAP methodology
• Project Preparation: Validation of SAP business models from two different businesses for the purposes of merging these businesses in one SAP client.
• Workshop based project blueprinting of baseline SAP configuration including the vendor master, material master, and plant configuration. Transactional configuration including purchase order pricing, requisitions, purchase orders, inventory management posting and stock transport orders. Business Procedure Process (BPP) script preparation, cycle testing, super user training, final system testing and end user support.

Confidential

SAP Business Consultant / Database Analyst

• Scope: SAP R/3 Release 4.6B CO module reporting, Brio Enterprise
• Preparation of a Planned vs. Actual report in Brio and redefinition of ACTA tables for easier data retrieval from SAP

Confidential

SAP SAP MM Team Member, MM Functional Consultant

• Scope: SAP R/3 Release 4.0 implementation for SD, FI, & MM
• Business model validation and clarification of a third party purchasing system for multiple customers and vendors.

Confidential

Retek Supply Chain/P2PConsultant, Business Process Analyst

• Scope: As Is Planning Phase for a Retek 9.0 Implementation
• Preparation of ARIS process models for all areas of A&P retailing operation. For example: Fresh Meat, Liquor and Seafood procurement process flows.
• Final preparation and support of Retek staff in the documentation of these processes in the project office tool.

Confidential

SAP MM Team Member, SAP MM/P2PFunctional Analyst

• Scope: Retail, SD, PP, FI, MM, & HR
• Initial project preparation including determination of customer requirements utilizing the ASAP QA database.
• Functional Workshops with the Business to determine key business processes. Assigned areas included information records, source lists, outline agreements, and articles.
• Testing of MM functionality for a Build to Order computer assembly operation utilizing Phantom and configurable materials in conjunction with MRP to determine assembly component requirements.

Confidential

SAP MM/P2PTeam Member/MM/P2PTeam Lead, MM Development Team, MM Rollout Team Leader

• Scope: SAP R/3 implementation for FI, MM, & HR
• Preparation of ‘To Be’ process models Process Models that were approved by the client at the end of the Conceptual Design phase. Setting up and testing of Purchasing and Materials Management configuration..