SUMMARY

• Senior SAP Solutions Architect and Project Manager specializing in all areas of Supply Chain Planning, Engineering Change Management, and Manufacturing Execution processes.
• I have been working within the Supply Chain and Cost Accounting areas for 25 years, with 20 years of that being in SAP environments.
• I have a background in Accounting, Business Systems Analysis, Supply Chain Management and Analysis, Project Management, Business Process Design and Transformation, SAP Configuration, Testing, Training, and Upgrades. Additionally, I have led Projects and Project Teams in Business Process Design and as a Project Manager.
• My experience has been in the following Industries: Aerospace and Defense, Titanium/Steel supplying to A&D and Oil and Gas, Pharmaceutical, Consumer Package Goods, Electronics and High Tech, and Logistics

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Production Planning: Configuration of PP/PI, including Order Types, Order Statuses, Planning and Consumption Strategies, Availability Checking Rules, PIR s, Flexible Planning (including the creation of info structures and planning tables and macros), Demand Management, BOM s, Routings, Master Recipes, Resources, Work Centers, Production Versions, Capacity Planning, MRP, MPS, Integration with WM for the creation of Transfer Orders, Creation of Custom Batch Search Strategies for PP, PI, IM, and WM, Control Cycle Records, Pick strategies and WM/PP - PI Interfaces, Integration with CO, IM, WM, QM, and Engineering Change Management.
• Materials Management (MM, IM, WM): Creation of Material Types, Material Master Configuration (including creation of custom fields), Configuration of Movement types and creation of custom movement types, creation of warehouses, storage locations, storage types, bins, control cycle records, custom batch search strategies, configuration of physical inventory and cycle count parameters, complete configuration for new warehouses, defining stock statuses and availability of on-hand stock for planning, configuration of Purchasing (including optimized purchasing processes, defining document types for POs, Requisitions, Contracts, RFQs), Configuration and Creation of Vendor Master and Vendor Account Groups, Source Lists, Info Records, Invoice Verification, and Condition Records.
• Integration: Business Process Transformation and Solutions Architect to align business processes with the best system tools to support the business. Business Team Lead for integration
• Finance and Controlling: Created Controlling area, Cost centers, Work Centers, Cost center hierarchy, Cost element groups, Internal Orders, Automatic creation of Primary Cost elements and Creation of Secondary Cost elements. Defined profit centers, Profit center hierarchy, Profit center assignments, Flow-of-values integration of MM and PP/PI modules into COPA value fields, creation of COPA reports, Cost Center Accounting, Creation of Variance Keys for PP/PI, Analysis of WIP and MM and PP/PI Variances, Product Costing. Chart of Accounts, GL Accounts, AP/AR Master Data, Transfer Pricing, Integration with MM and SD
• ABAP/4: Interactive reporting, ABAP Query, SAP Script, CATT, Writing Technical Specs for the development of custom reports, transactions and interfaces, Data Migration activities including data mapping, writing specifications, testing data loads, data cleansing, and processing errors manually using BDC dialog programs.
• Training: Creation of Technical and End-User Documentation, Process Flow mapping and development, conducting Project Team and End-user training, web based and written documentation development using multiple software packages for various industries in the modules of MM, PP, FI, CO, SD, QM, ECM, BW, SEM, and Workflow.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Corporate Manager

Responsibilities:

• Global Process Lead for Business Process Transformation leading the Business Process Owner and Subject Matter Expert Team (Total Team size of >50 people)
• Responsible for the delivery of the overall redesign of business processes and documentation of business requirements for the software design
• Responsible for financial analysis, performance, and process implementation to drive operational efficiencies and financial performance globally based on the strategic plans of the company.
• Owner of key Business led, IT focused projects and deliverables that drove transformation and standardization across the company.
• Led the organizational change management initiative for improving the overall SAP usability and user experience
• Planned, led and prioritized work relating to process design and development for new and existing initiatives
• Developed the project plan, priorities, and budget to drive the sequence of work and develop implementation plans and work effort estimates

Confidential

Sr. Business Process Consultant and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for re-deployment of Project Systems for client site
• Lead workshops with the business to determine current business processes
• Developed Process Flows to compare As-Is/To-Be functionality for converting the site from a MTO to a MTS environment
• Performed all necessary configuration to convert the site to a MTS Environment
• Designed Forecasting Process for loading forecast to SAP to drive demand requirements
• Creating technical and functional specifications for custom programs and reports.
• Testing FRICE Objects created for the MM (IM and WM) and PP objects…all master data and transactional data. This includes IDOCs, BAPI’s, LSMWs, and Custom Load Programs for conversions
• Validating Configuration meets Functional Design
• Data Cleansing for loading to SAP
• Executing Data Loads for MM and PP.
• Process Validation for configuration
• Post Load Reconciliation and Validation for Master and Transactional data loads
• Leading workshops with the business on how SAP has been configured and what data is needed to support conversions
• Led UAT Workshops with SME’s for validation of design
• Provided post go-live support

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Project Manager - Integrated Supply Chain

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager leading a variety of integrated supply chain functionality deployments:
• Global roll out and upgrade of STO functionality to ECC 6.0
• Global roll out of an integrated Delay Codes process for both OEM and AMS for both sales orders and STO’s
• Worked upgrade to ECC 6.0 and EHP5
• PP/PI configuration in support of deployments
• Creation of Multiple MRP Areas to support independent planning for OEM Processes versus Repair and Overhaul processes within the same manufacturing plants
• Designed and mapped SAP to Steelwedge (Sales and Operations Forecasting Application) interfaces, both inbound and outbound
• Developed specifications and worked with the technical team to write the ABAP program to extract all relevant master data, as well as demand and supply data.
• Mapped data into a middleware tool called Rapid Response and stored it in tables.
• Developed the specifications for custom interface to load the SAP data into Steelwedge hierarchies and planning tables to support the forecast processes, using Informatica and custom SQL scripts
• Configured custom info structures, planning types and activities for loading and storing the imported forecast data.
• Additionally, I wrote the specifications for the inbound interface back to SAP for the forecast, which we loaded to table S076 - Standard SOP and Table S876 for custom D&S forecast.
• Developed, Tested, and ran integration test scripts for the deployment to each SAP site.
• Developed processes for using MRP Areas for Embedded Repair and Overhaul processes for the Aftermarket Services Solution and for planning Subcontracting separately.

Confidential, Toledo, OH

Global SAP Deployment

Responsibilities:

• Testing FRICE Objects created for the MM (IM and WM) and PP objects…all master data and transactional data. This includes IDOCs, BAPI’s, LSMWs, and Custom Load Programs
• Validating Configuration meets Functional Design
• Creating Extracts from Legacy System
• Data Cleansing, Enrichment, and Transformation for loading to SAP
• Executing Data Loads for MM and PP.
• Process Validation for configuration
• Post Load Reconciliation and Validation for Master and Transactional data loads
• Leading workshops with the business on how SAP has been configured and what data is needed to support conversions