TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Production Planning: Repetitive Manufacturing, Discrete Manufacturing, PP Master Data (BOMS, routing), Component Level ATP, Variant Product Configurator, MRP, Demand Planning, Interplant, Product Costing, Capacity Planning, Supply Network Planning, Demand Planning.

SAP Logistics/Warehouse Management: Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, Picking, Packing, Delivery Processing, Transportation Management, ConnectShip, Load Planning Workbench, Physical Inventory, Freight Pay, Yard Management, RFID.

SAP Supply Chain Management: Enterprise Inventory Optimization, Product Master Data Modeling, Supply Network Planning (SNP), Demand Planning (DP), Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS), Inventory Collaboration Hub (ICH), Global Available to Promise (GATP), Core Interface (CIF) Data Modeling and Scheduling, APO Plan Monitor, Data Modeling for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) application.

SAP Supply Relationship Management: Supplier Lifecycle Management, Supplier InfoNet onDemmand, BusinessObject Data Enrichment, BusinessObject Spend Performance Management, E - Procurement, EDI, Item Master Data Modeling.

SAP Technical Environment Upgrades: ECC service pack 4 to service pack 5, prepared ECC upgrade from service pack 5 to service pack 6 (did not execute), BI NW 7.0 service pack 4 to t.3 service pack 7, Portals 7.0 to 7.3, PI NW 7.1 to 7.3.

DETAIL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accepted the Confidential Inc. project leadership position to design, configure, and implement a full suite of ECC v6.0 as the corporate template for future roll-outs. Reported directly to the Corporate Director of IT Services.
• Built the business case justification to include SAP SCM functionality to support collaborative planning and procurement. Presented the business case, costs to implement, and cost benefits to the corporate executive steering committee.
• Primary focus of activities during this phase of the project was the design, configuration, and implementation ofSCM SNP, DP, PP/DS,TP/VS and Global ATP functionality.
• Designed and implemented a Collaborative Customer Planning hub using GS1 standards - Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN), ECOM (GS1 XML), GS1 Data Quality Framework (DQF) standards.
• Worked wif business stakeholders to understand business processes and elicit, define, and analyze current processes for alignment wif best business practices.
• Responsible for defining the data models, processes, and environment to support SAP SCM Collaborative Planning.Designed and implemented collaborative planning, working wif business partners on deployment, training, change management, and communication.
• Defined the scope, budget and objectives for Phase II that included internal/external staff, milestones and project deliverables.
• Manage the team’s development of functiotor of Legacy IT Sysnal and technical specifications across all SCM modules and touch points wif SAP ECC6.0 and legacy systems.
• Leveraged multistage modeling approach that resulted in determining relationships among inventories, service levels, capacity, and costs across all stocking locations.
• Coordinated capacity, inventory, demand, lead-times, and product-availability variables to gauge how much inventory should be carried by item, location, and time periods.
• Supervised the daily activity of 11 consultants, 5 internal business associates, and 8 external business partner’s associates.
• Business benefits were increased sales wifout increasing inventory, realized higher margins while staying wifin service levels, and freed working capital by balancing service levels and inventory investments.
• Worked wif the business stakeholders to understand current business processes, define project deliverables, build implementation timelines, identify correct project staffing, and build a reasonable financial budget.
• Worked wif stakeholders, and business process owners to design and implement SAP SRM Supplier Lifecycle Management to cultivate value driven supplier relationships.
• Responsible for measuring current processes against best-in-class processes, determining how the best-in-class achieved performance levels, and how to apply to our corporate goals.
• Designed and implemented project employing GS1 Global Shipment Identification Number (GSIN), EPCglobal for RFID tags, and GS1 Global product Classification (GPC) standards.
• Managed the daily activities of internal/external project resources to ensure that project milestones were tracking successfully, and were in compliance wif financial goals.
• Reported on a weekly basis the project status to local management, and on a monthly basis reviewed progress wif the corporate steering committee. Reviewed included the review of milestones, budget review, items marked for future considerations, and any issues impacting project success. Supervised a team of 9 consultants and 11 business associates.
• Business benefits included a well positioned supplier management program that allowed the company to collect and evaluate supplier information, manage supplier performance, and mitigate supplier risks, leading to optimized business operations and significant savings.
• Black Belt - Six Sigma.

Confidential

SAP Project Manager/ Director of Legacy IT Systems

Responsibilities:

• Developed the design and implementation project plan showing milestones, deliverables, required resources, and cost of deployment to implement a full suite of SAP v4.7 modules.
• Collaborate wif functional and technical teams across all modules of SAP and other applications to define and design proposed solutions that meet business needs and adhere to application design guidelines, strategies, and best practices.
• Managed the recruitment, training, and daily deliverables of the external consultants for the duration of the project.
• Managed the technical support environment that included the configuration, testing, training and QA clients. Approved all moves from one client to the next.
• Assisted in the elimination of non-value added steps in purchasing, inventory management, and production planning that resulted in an annual saving of 1.6 million. A number of our defined processes were later introduced as Confidential corporate practices.
• Assisted in the design and testing of the customer facing product configuration application. Using the SAP product Configurator we were able to directly link the customer demand to production capacity. Improvements were noticed in the GTP that produced increased orders.
• Confidential was the only SAP design and implementation to meet the ‘go live’ target date in the past seven years at Confidential .

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Project Manager SAP Upgrade to ECC6.0

Responsibilities:

• Defined the existing customer service processes, requested customer service functionality, and error reporting system. This included the company’s internal Information Technology (IT) infra-structure, security, and support structure.
• Identified those non-value added processes, determined annual cost to support, and the annual saving to be recognized from Quality Improvement initiative.
• Worked wif business stakeholders to define current processes, controls, and areas requiring improvement.Accepted the Confidential Inc. project leadership position to design, configure, and implement a full suite of ECC v6.0 as the corporate template for future roll-outs. Reported directly to the Corporate Director of IT Services.
• Defined the project scope, identified critical milestones, built a functional budget, and established the functional and technical teams required to ensure project success.
• Reviewed wif the Executive IT Steering Committee weekly project progress, issues impacting project success, and current status of the financial budget.
• Established business owner testing plans, training, and cut-over processes.
• Reviewed existing internal control structure to determine compliance wif SOX and SAS70 control standards.
• Selected the SAP Governance and Risk Reporting module to capture existing control structure, identify areas of opportunity, and track steps to mitigate risk.

Confidential

SAP IT Manufacturing TeamManager

Responsibilities:

• Project lead responsibilities to identify requirements, estimate cost to implement, determine cost on operation, and present the proposed solution to executive management.
• Select the internal and external team members. Provided scope and SAP tools training were required.
• Assisted in the design of the software/hardware solution that recorded and tracked, by production station, the accepted production, rejected production, and the amount of recycled product included in each production batch.
• Introduced hand held bar coding capability at each work station and forklift to improve the quality of reporting while minimizing the cost impact.
• Assisted in the design of user training and testing methods. Obtained final user and management sign-off.
• Solution was approved by Federal Food and Drug Administration on schedule. The solution eliminated 7.7 million in expected cost.

Confidential

Manufacturing System Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and supported the deployment of the Supply Chain regional templates to drive standardization across business units, streamline operations, and create a solid system platform for future growth.
• Worked wif business owners to understand business processes and elicit, define, and analyze management requirements.
• Assisted in the design of the SAP functionality for the production Planning and Quality Management areas.
• Lead the effort on data clean-up of the item master and the production bills of material.
• Create deliverables according to the Software Development Lifecycle such as functional and technical specifications, use cases, test uses cases, and system documentation.

Confidential

SAP Practice Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oil and Gas
• Plastic Manufacturing
• Automotive