SUMMARY:

A Senior SAP SD Functional Consultant with an array of SAP experience over the last 20 years into SAP OTC and SAP Pricing. Effectiveness as an SAP consultant is enhanced through experience as a management consultant, involving clients in a variety of industries globally. While born in Canada and permanent US resident living in the greater Detroit area, raised in Europe, University in the USA and has worked on projects internationally.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MI

Senior SD consultant

Responsibilities:

• Special initiative to tackle issues which repeat in the support organization.
• Worked across issues across modules - break, fix, teach, and configure solutions in MM and SD from pricing and new sales order types to Purchase Order types.
• One gets a special view of how a company runs in SAP from this vantage point - strengths, weakness, and opportunities for improvement.

Confidential

SAP SD Consultant S4 HANA

Responsibilities:

• Development of global template on Hana 1511 using 2 Confidential companies and for role out to13 Confidential companies.
• Much effort was given in the effort to stay close to pure SAP and minimize customization.
• With the template design complete, the requirements, joined Role out team for final prep to go live for the 2 California companies.

Confidential

SAP SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In an array of enhancement work throughout this Make to Order and make to stock environment.
• For a range example, I led SD in a full team Archiving project versus another work effort was in and beyond pricing with CPE or commodity price engine.
• Created an adaptation of SAP CPE (commodity price engine) with quotes and formula to produce alloy pricing into sales order price procedure.
• Design of pricing condition technique from pricing database.
• In preparation for S4 Hana, I modeled several Sales Rep apps in Fiori for testing, documentation and approval.

Confidential

SAP SD

Responsibilities:

• With one consultant in each functional area, performed assessment of the current system, business processes and procedures, enhancement and upgrade opportunities including consideration in Hana and Fiori.
• Made recommendations across the spectrum to improve their use of SAP immediately as well as for the future.

Confidential

SAP SD Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements gathering and design concept.
• Leading SD members through design scenario and proof in concept and documentation in this highly integrated SAP AFS with Retail landscape.
• Responsible to set up Development system core configuration for SD/OTC.
• Extensive solutioning and modeling in Pricing and with Order types due to unique requirements in the Insurance environment.

Confidential

SAP SD & EDI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created the EDI - idoc mapping and specification documents for sales and quotations in 2 interfaces, Quadrem and Smart MRO.

Confidential

SAP SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Support and evaluate their US SAP instance which was inherited from their European implementation.
• Configuration of pricing including pricing procedure, condition techniques, group conditions.
• In this MTS and MTO environment, SAP processes included Service Management, service notification, service order, sales order with variant configuration, as well as Project systems.
• Evaluation had two major considerations, how fitting was the current configuration and processing to the business processes and is this model for rolling out to Canada.
• Site work with users to resolve bottlenecks through Delivery and subsequent Billing issues.
• Knowledge deficit or short cuts along the roles based process flow accounted for many issues effecting Billing.

Confidential

SAP SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Special Analysis and design activity in developing the Global Template.
• Brazil and Argentina were in realization stage and others were scheduled to begin in the near future.
• Together with the other senior consultants and heavy analysis of the work already done, proposed a Global template which will be correct for this client.

Confidential

SAP SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Traditional full life cycle implementation for country level in the rollout of SAP ECC 6.0. for a new plant in China. My role here was to directly represent the client as Firestone SD architect.
• This required working closely with Chinese counterparts and consultants in China and the USA.
• Configuration of pricing procedures / Billing as per the business requirement.
• Template gap & enhancement was identified, developed, series and final UAT tested.
• Master data was converted from an existing/legacy China plant location and extended to the new plant to follow a domestic sales only requirement.
• Intercompany processes and pricing was set up for gradual migration purposes just for China and in legal conformity.
• Pricing and Billing process augmented for China’s Golden Tax.
• Go-live was largely trouble free.

Confidential

SAP SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed the "Order status report" through billing across the document lifecycle, for several OTC groups after requirements gathering and gap analysis of existing reports.

Confidential

SAP SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Team member for Creation of the global template incorporating multiple SAP instances for 32-country rollout.
• Responsible for maintaining and configuring enhancements to the Global Hub environment largely using 3rd Party Order Processing.
• Issues solution work, quality testing, as new countries go live and synchronize into the global environment.

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation for Poland role out.
• Foreign Trade - Intrastat requirements, pricing & reporting & XML output configuration
• Customer classification and characteristics configuration for legacy plant & customer cross-referencing.
• Transportation - Shipment Output customization
• We are leveraging the French template for country level tailoring for Poland. My activities here are quite specific.

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Six month post go live analysis and fix - gap identification, issues resolution, enhancements.
• My activities range beyond normal Order to Cash, and across modules from SD, MM, WM, LE, PP, and FI as the sole SAP consultant for the US business.
• Configured new pricing procedures including: condition types, condition tables, access sequences, Rebates and Taxation.
• Particular attention to oddities in EDI and discoveries in settings which the Value added Network (VAN) had.
• As the implementation seemed to have stronger ABAP skills than functional, extensive analysis of ABAP programs which were used in place of standard functionality.
• User capability was limited but enhanced as I went through my work with users.
• Some basic processes needed explanation i.e. their Sales order returns process (SD) and (MM) purchasing returns.
• Order processes utilized standard orders, scheduling agreements and EDI.
• Year end activities with FI involving pricing & billing copy control and fine tuning of access sequence to meet the enhanced 2010 price requirements.

Confidential

SAP SD Specialist SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Strategy & specific work relating to SD Contracts and revenue recognition as it pertained to legacy conversion.
• This was intricate work in that contract orders have a lifecycle and despite billings being received to the order, revenue is recognized over a period of time, hence all active contracts need a strategy for conversion.