SUMMARY:

• Dynamic, performance - focused, and accomplished SAP Executive with more than 26 years of experience in field of Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Logistics which encompasses 23 years of SAP implementation in a lead role.
• Extensive leadership experience in managing and implementing best practice integrated system solutions for complex business scenarios and integrations.
• Managed large teams onsite and offshore to deliver deployments efficiently in partnership with IT teams, functional teams and business teams.
• In depth knowledge of business processes such as Order-to-Cash, Purchase-to-Pay, Plan To Produce enabling the implementation of best practices and technology solutions.
• His SAP functional expertise includes the MM (Procurement, AP, IM, WM) SD, LE, GTM, GTS, PP, PM, TM, QM, EDI, BIBO, SRM, APO, ACM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Issaquah, WA

SAP Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Defined the project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with key business users and senior management.
• Ensure d that the ERP project meets business requirements and goals, fulfills end-user requirements, and identifies and resolves systems issues.
• D elivered & supported multiple SAP Rollouts for several Cargill business units with numerous Confidential objects.
• Worked on the integration between ECC to TM (7.0, 8.0, 9.1) on the outbound and inbound process. Shipments were planned in TM based on OTR (Order based Transportation Request) or DTR (Delivery based Transportation Request). Worked with the business in getting requirements on the inbound/outbound logistics including freight planning, tendering/carrier acceptance, freight settlement. Tested the master data Replication, Delivery Integration Outbound, Order and Delivery Integration Inbound, Integration of SAP ECC and TM for deliveries to create Freight Units to assign to Freight Orders. Trained the end users in executing business transactions in TM. Loaded the data like Shippers, Carriers, lanes, rates etc.
• Led workshops in requirement gathering on Procurement of direct materials (ECC) and indirect materials (SRM). Worked with the business in designing, deployment of planning and procurement of direct materials. Setup different procurement process like Third party, Subcontracting and Consignment. Worked with the business in designing, deployment of procurement of indirect direct materials using SRM.
• Led the data conversion of procurement data like Materials, Vendors, Routings, Work Centers, PIR, Source list, Contracts, PO’s, invoices etc. Worked with data quality team on establishing governance using Info Steward.
• Worked with the warehousing team in designing the Inbound and Outbound receiving process.
• Setup the MRP data, turned on planning run and trained users on the MRP process i.e. converting planned orders in purchase requisitions, create auto PO for certain materials, analyzing reports like MD04, MD15 etc
• Recruited experienced SAP resources setup the infra structurer, setup policies. Procedures, operating guidelines and SLA’s.
• Collaborated and effectively communicated project expectations with Process team, Testing team, Data team, Development team, Basis, GRC and Business to establish standards and processes that leads should follow to manage their areas of responsibilities and to build the solution, transport it to other instances.
• Worked with the project management team, process teams and business teams on cutover planning,, pre black out procedures, hyper care and ongoing support.
• Renegotiated many existing large and small contracts, reviewed various Requests for Proposals (RFPs), built efficiencies in contracts and reduced the IT contracting expense by over $6M dollars.
• Sourced, recruited and managed a highly motivated development team of 12 employees and 40 consultants (onsite, offsite and offshore)
• Defined effective methodologies, procedures and processes to create test datasheets and test scripts. Drafted testing strategies and roadmaps across multiple test instances. Extensively worked with design architects to build the data readiness tool to track the cleansing status of master data objects during the SAP Chain rollout.
• Partnered with internal Data Management Organization and SAP in evaluating feasibility of implementing SAP MDM across the organization. Assured adherence to all SOX, Global Data Governance policies & procedures.

Confidential, Waltham MA

SAP Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of KPI’s on Inventory & Warehouse management and Procurement process like Stock outs, Inventory turns, Inventory valuation, Obsolete inventory, Cycle count accuracy & performance, Pick to Ship, Dock to Stock, Order fill rate, PM work orders status like aging & costs, Vendor performance, Shopping cart analysis.
• These metrics were presented to the senior management to identify their top issues and suggested solutions to fix their issues.
• Proactively managed changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans

Confidential, Plano, TX

Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted process demos to explain the current process and design to the new business units on Master Data, Procurement & AP. Documented the GAPS, came up with solution (systematic or manual process) and presented to the steering committee.
• Worked with BOA consultants to define field mappings, rules for data transformation/loading and developed reports to support the data validation by business users.
• Worked with MDM team to bring the material master from various systems into MDM with focus on rationalizing the Unit of measures, Classes & Characteristics, analyzing the idoc errors during syndication.

Confidential, Waukegan IL

SAP Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Led the implementation of purchasing module at two Confidential plants.
• Scope of purchasing included indirect purchasing, direct purchasing, MRO, Third Party procurement and Sub contracting.
• Worked with the business in documenting their change requests and in prioritizing them.
• Worked with the solution center to develop custom reports, transactions, data conversion and interfaces (SAP and Maximo) to meet the new business requirement.
• Conducted workshops,

Confidential, Omaha, NE

SAP Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Led the technical upgrade from SAP 4.6C to ECC 5.0, then from ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0.
• Led the divestiture projects by explaining the process, design.
• Separating and extracting the master data from SAP and worked with the new companies IT group in loading them into their system.
• Worked on the custom Catch weight solution to store the actual weights in pounds that were entered during the GR (production, purchasing), reports to view and analyze.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the implementation of the procurement & IV process including Vendor Consignment, Third Party Processing, drop ship, and Sub - Contracting.
• Lead the configuration, loading of data, delivery of .
• Demonstrated the functionality and wrote BPP’s on business process in IMWM.
• Wrote the functional specifications