SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Supply Chain Management consultant specialized on Supply Chain Event Management ( Confidential or EM), Transportation Planning and Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) with over 15 years of business experience in the logistics area.
• He worked in various business software implementation projects with emphasis on transportation and warehousing processes.
• Prior to his information technology career, Confidential worked for several business process consulting companies and Logistics Service providers with responsibilities for outsourcing processes, training and personnel.
• Confidential has over 12 years of SAP experience that includes the design and configuration of SAP’s Confidential module integrated with R/3 and APO as the data source systems, the Confidential web front - end and SAP’s Portal for the data display as well as sending data to BW for analysis purposes.
• He is one of the few Confidential consultants worldwide with 10 full life cycle implementations, 8 of them in one of the biggest Confidential projects so far.
• As a consequence, Confidential has been a speaker on Confidential 2006, was involved in SAP’s Confidential road show and helped improving the module working hand in hand with SAP’s experts. He founded his own company - Supply Chain. Confidential has presented a TP/VS and On-site Event Management (OSEM) solution together with SAP on the ASUG conference.
• He has integrated SAP’s new Transportation Management solution (TM 6.0 and 7.0) with the Confidential module as prototypes for several clients.
• In addition, he supported multiple customers in blueprinting for Transportation and Tracking solutions in SAP including data analysis in BW with the help of the Business Explorer
• Confidential was the only external consultant to lead Confidential with one business and one technical resource (ABAP developer) through the implementation process of Confidential from the Kick-off meeting to the successful Go-Live in less than 7 months.
• This was followed by pre-sales support for several TM and EM projects on behalf of one of the big Indian based consulting companies.

SKILLS:

• SAP Confidential “Supply Chain Event Management”
• SAP R/3 LES "Logistics Execution System"
• SAP’s RFID solution AII “Auto ID Infrastructure”
• ABAP Workbench Fundamentals
• SAP TP/VS “Transportation Planning and Vehicle Scheduling”
• SAP TM “Transportation Management”
• SAP R/3 PP "Production Planning"
• Presentation techniques
• SAP SNP "APO Supply Network Planning"
• SAP PP/DS "APO Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling"
• SAP Master Data Integration

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, Texas

EM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing a Transportation planning and execution solution integrated with tracking abilities to replace the existing SAP TSW (Trader’s and Scheduler’s Workbench)
• Conducting workshops to analyse business processes and requirements
• Designing of end-to-end event track and trace functionality for all modes of transports
• Creating detailed requirements regarding skill sets of project resources
• Developing a project plan with different implementation phases
• Determining and designing reactions to events like alerts, workflow automation and automated processing of transactions in other SAP systems such as ECC or TM
• Training of key personnel in SAP EM
• Performing Gap analysis regarding existing software modules and to-be requirements
• Establishing communication channels between headquarters in Houston, Texas and project manager located in Brussels, Belgium

Confidential, Northern California

Solution Architect and EM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing a Tracking solution for products from order entry to delivery by suppliers and for those returned by customers
• Conducting workshops to analyse business processes and requirements
• Expanding the existing Proof-of-Concept documents with more details
• Building prototypes for several business scenarios including integration with SAP TM
• Creating detailed requirements regarding skill sets of project resources
• Developing a project plan with different implementation phases
• Training key personnel in SAP EM
• Performing Gap analysis regarding existing software modules and to-be requirements

Confidential

Solution Architect and EM Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designing an integrated Train & Terminal Reservation system based on the Confidential software
• Leading a team of experts for EM, ECC, Logistics Processes, Web Interfaces and integrating SAP modules with legacy systems
• Gathering business requirements for reserving slots for containers on a train and time windows for entering the terminals
• Analysing the existing software for data sources of the EM platform
• Identifying gaps in current IT landscape and proposing solutions for closing them
• Conducting workshops with subject matter experts and IT personnel to define as-is as well as to-be processes
• Making final design decisions

Confidential, Northern California

Solution Architect and EM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performing a Proof-of-Concept in preparation for the implementation project
• Design of the Confidential for the monitoring of Inbound and Outbound processes tracking Shipments and Purchase Orders
• Gathering requirements and creating PoC documentation
• Configuration of the Confidential 7.0 based on these requirements
• Interfacing between the business representatives and developers
• Performing 2 final demos for the involved parties of all regional departments (world-wide) including the maintenance&returns team
• Creating a project plan & calculation for the implementation project

Confidential, Hershey, PA

Solution Architect and EM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design of the Confidential for the monitoring of Intercompany Import and Export transportation
• Gathering requirements and create blueprint documentation
• Writing functional specifications to develop a real-time web-based monitor
• Configuration of the Confidential 7.0 based on these specifications
• Interfacing between the business representatives and developers
• Development of a solution that notifies all involved parties in order to take actions to prevent internal customers like DCs from being affected by delays in the customs, Confidential review and/or transportation process
• Development of a training strategy for internal as well as external key users
• Providing data and transferring it to the Business Information Warehouse (BW) database for reporting purposes
• Preparation and performing the cutover and successful go-live of the Confidential for several transportation lanes
• Post go-live support and expanding the amount of monitored transportation lanes step-by-step in the following 2 weeks
• Modifying the expected dates/times of the milestones after go-live due to new requirements from all parties involved

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designing a Blueprint for the implementation of a standard Transportation Planning & Execution Process in SAP
• Gathering of Transportation-related requirements for all 12 Value Centers in Workshops
• Preparation of the implementation of LES, TM and EM for all 12 Value Centers
• Documentation of requirements and proposed solutions for a Transportation Management System

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Managing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Forecasting and Inventory related reports in the Business Explorer ( Confidential )
• Gathering of requirements for reports connecting BW and Excel through Confidential
• Creation of queries to extract data from BW and display them in Excel through Confidential
• Training key users to use and modify reports in Confidential

Confidential, Annapolis, MD

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Support of creating a Proposal for a 7-year long Business Transformation project
• Gathering of Transportation-related requirements for all businesses in workshops
• Creation of a roadmap for the implementation of TM and EM
• Calculation of the resources and project costs related to a TM and EM implementation

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Managing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing a Gap Blueprint for LES in order to consolidate multiple company departments
• Gathering of Transportation-related requirements for all businesses in workshops
• Documentation of requirements and gaps in the project database
• Presentation of the design solution and discussion of all alternatives until final sign-off

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performing a Proof of Concept of an integrated TM & EM scenario
• Configuring TM 7.0 & EM 5.1 including creating Master Data to generate Shipment Requests & Tours
• Reception of milestone data from various sources
• Notification of parties in case of deviations from the plan