SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented consultant with 20+ years’ SAP experience in order-to-cash (OTC), procure-to-pay (PTP), record-to-report (RTR), warehousing and transportation
• Six (6) full life-cycle SAP and IS-AFS implementations, plus numerous enhancements and upgrades
• Experience leading global multi-vendor SAP functional and technical project teams implementing order-to-cash (OTC), procure-to-pay (PTP), warehousing and transportation solutions
• Fourteen (14) years’ experience implementing Third-Party Logistics (3PL) billing, warehouse management, transportation management, customs and Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) systems
• Extensive experience in business process design, blueprinting, RICEFW definition, functional design, configuration, testing, training, cutover, and post go-live enhancements and support
• Exceptional leadership, organizational, teambuilding, mentoring, interpersonal and client relationship skills supported with first-rate written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in developing project plans at various levels and managing to time and cost budgets
• Configuration of order types, condition types, access sequences, delivery types, pricing procedures, pricing routines, billing types, seasons, copy control, item categories, customer consignment, third-party orders, variant configuration, AFS grid characteristics, AFS Allocation, mass maintenance, etc.
• SD/FI integration, CO-PA integration, inter-company processing, EDI integration, IDoc processing,
• Business process procedures (BPP); integration and acceptance test planning and development
• MM
• Configuration of material master tabs (Basic data, Sales, Purchasing, Foreign Trade, Costing, Accounting), AFS grid characteristics, purchasing info records (PIR), service management, requisition and purchase order types, vendor consignment, batch management, stock transfer orders (STO), etc.
• MM/FI integration, APO CIF integration, 3rd party TMS & WMS integration, etc.
• PR/PO management, stock transfer orders (STO), sub-contracting, logistics invoice verification, etc.
• Transportation zones, shipping points, routes, route determination, shipment costing, freight payment
• Shipment stages (preliminary, main and subsequent legs; load transfer points; border crossing points)
• Outbound delivery and shipment processing, carrier and leg determination, and export documentation
• Inbound delivery and shipment processing including compliance (e. Confidential ., customs clearance, FTZ) FI / CO
• GL, AP, AR, Controlling (CO-CCA, CO-PA) and Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) WM
• Warehouse setup, inbound processing, outbound processing, integration with WCS, etc.
• ABAP / EDI / QUERY / LIS
• Data conversion strategies for sales orders, customers, vendors, stock, AP/AR open items, GL balances
• User exits, BAPIs, BADIs and Enhancements
• Custom ABAP programs with ALV controls; ABAP queries; Custom forms using SMARTFORMS
• X.12 EDI integration with ocean carriers, air carriers, truckers
• Map IDoc message types to custom flat files and implement interfaces
• Create / modify LIS structures and re-build structures using copy methods
• LSMW, Solution Manager CHARM, test case planning, creation, and execution using HP QC / ALM.
• SD, MM and FI training material and user training

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

OTC Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assist with OTC integration planning for Pinnacle Foods acquisition

Confidential

OTC Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead OTC design phase for rollout of SAP FMS to China and Korea

Confidential

OTC Solution Architect / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead onsite/offshore team that varied from 12 to 15 to implement multiple global Confidential
• Prepare project budgets and communicate status to business and IT stakeholders

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed new layout and functional design for Bill of Lading in SAP Transportation Management (TM)
• Developed SAP functional design for US / MX intercompany drop-ship processes to improve user productivity and support new statutory requirements for invoice verification and customs

Confidential

Practice Partner

Responsibilities:

• Identify new business opportunities and prepare proposals to client management
• Manage the following consulting engagements:
• Conducted warehouse operations assessment and identified changes to warehouse receiving process and AFS system to save more than $1MM in inventory carrying costs
• Designed solution architecture and program roadmap for cross-channel Consumer Fulfillment program incorporating IBM Sterling Commerce Order Management into SAP AFS landscape
• Requirements for Point-of-Service (POS) system for Salon Centric Division’s 560 stores

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed solution to migrate freight payment process from Oracle Transportation Management to SAP
• Provided conceptual design for SAP TM pilot for ocean exports
• Designed SAP AFS solution to support “cut, make, trim” (CMT) manufacturing utilizing subcontracting, service management, vendor consignment, and inter-company settlement process

Confidential

Project Manager / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Integrated Manhattan Associates’ Replenishment for iSeries application with SAP PTP processes to support S&OP, inventory management, and procurement for Confidential local operating companies
• Configured SAP Procure-To-Pay (PTP) processes to integrate with RDC systems (order management, warehouse management, transportation management and financials)

Confidential

Project Manager / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implemented US and German direct-to-consumer sales pilots by Integrated web platform with SAP order management, distribution from distribution centers, and accounting
• Designed and implemented custom solution for sales bill of material (BOM) for multiple markets utilizing custom pricing routines and new item categories for multiple order types to support BOM header, intermediate and lowest item
• Testing and defect manager for North America rollouts

Confidential

Project Manager / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on project manager and SD Lead for “greenfield” implementation of SAP AFS

Confidential

Vice President, Logistics Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Develop customer-specific supply chain solutions involving international air and ocean transportation, customs, warehousing and domestic distribution
• Negotiated warehousing and distribution client contracts
• Reduced clients’ customs charges by working with Indianapolis Port Authority to create FTZ sub-zone
• Project manager for SAP logistics solution to manage Ford finished vehicle exports from US and Europe
• Project manager for SAP WM (4.6C) pilot for branch office
• Project manager for non-SAP warehouse management system (WMS) for Nokian Tires
• Project manager for non-SAP WMS in Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) to support North America spare parts distribution for Heidelberg Printing
• Project manager for Integration Point FTZ reporting system and integrated with WMS

Vice President

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed SAP SD and FI/CO for implementation for Schenker Canada
• Directed the construction of a new corporate data center and achieved the migration of all applications without any unscheduled down time
• Supported 500 users of freight forwarding, customs, finance, logistics and e-commerce applications
• Implemented LANs in 45 U.S. offices and nationwide connectivity through a frame-relay WAN
• Member of Global IT Steering Committee; Coordinated strategic planning activities with affiliates

Vice President

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Defined financial and controlling requirements and performed package evaluation
• Implemented SAP SD and FI/CO modules
• Configured SD module and associated interfaces to freight operations system
• Configured GL, AP, AR, Controlling (CCA, PA ) and Profit Center Accounting (PCA),
• Implemented Validations and Substitutions, SD/FI integration user exits and custom reports