SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated IT leader with approximately 20 years’ experience in the implementation of complex ERP, manufacturing and supply chain applications (on premise and cloud) for Confidential 500 organizations and subsidiaries.
• Has an ability to partner with both business and IT leaders in the development of both strategic and operational solutions. s include:
• Experienced in developing and executing IT projects/programs with agreed upon ROI’s in support of strategic business objectives
• Experienced in partnering with business leaders and establishing agreed upon SLA’s/OLA’s.
• Experienced in leveraging various methodologies (ASAP, Agile SCRUM, etc) and organizational structures (Functional, BU, Matrix) across global geographies to meet both project and operational goals
• Experienced in the following industries: Industrial Distribution, Diversified Manufacturing, Specialty Chemicals, Technology, Food, Life Sciences and Apparel
• Proven knowledge, hands on skills, and leadership in delivering business value: full life cycle supply chain planning implementations which have included elements of SAP R/3 - ECC (primarily Production Planning & Materials Management), SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (primarily Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, Production Planning/Detailed Scheduling, Service Parts Planning, Global Available to Promise) & SAP Business Warehouse full life cycle implementation of a common distribution network which enabled the execution of the organization’s M&A strategy full life cycle cloud based ERP (NetSuite) implementation for a Confidential 500 subsidiary

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP-R/3 and ECC

Implemented MM, PP, S&OP (Flexible Planning), Demand Management, Long Term Planning, MPS/MRP, LIS, SIS, Profitability Planning, ATP, Allocation, CIF (in support of APO and EWM) v3.1h, 4.6b, 4.6c, ECC5.0, ECC6.0

SAP-SCM/APO (Advanced Planning & Optimization)

Implemented APO-DP, APO-SNP, APO-PP/DS, APO-GATP, APO-SPP (Service Parts Planning) and S&OP on HANA 3.0 (module of IBP)

Designed/Configured Planning Areas, MPOS, Planning Books, D Confidential Views, Macros, Forecasting profiles, Batch Jobs, Phase In/Out, BOMs, Characteristics Based Planning, Promotion Planning, Realignment, Product Masters, Location Masters, PPMs, PDSs, Transportation Lanes, Heuristics, CTM, Deployment, Safety Stock Planning, Allocation v1.1, 3.0, 3.1, 4.1, 5.0, 7.0, 7.1

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise Architect - Global Supply Chain

Responsibilities:

• Development of an SAP Platform Roadmap
• Roadmap outlined year by year goals required to transform Grainger’s entire SAP platform by 2025 (end of life). It has been a key input into all company-wide forecasts and projections. Scope included all current and future SAP systems and modules (i.e. ECC, BW, SCM-APO, EWM, SRM, CRM, Hybris, S/4, Success Factors, Ariba, C4C, YaaS, PI/PO, etc.)
• Key role in SAP license assessment and contract negotiation
• Business Impact: $2M immediate savings / $10M longer term savings
• Facilitated reviews of license utilization and indirect usage exposure across entire SAP landscape (included ECC, BW, SCM-APO, EWM, SRM, CRM, Hybris, Success Factors, PI, etc). Outputs of reviews along with above Roadmap were leveraged in negotiations that resolved past grievances, obtained much needed functionality, mitigated future audit risk and provided future commercial terms that were more predictable and flexible.
• Development of an SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) instance strategy
• Development of a Multi-Tier ERP Strategy Framework
• Development of Architecture frameworks for capabilities, principles, standards and patterns

Confidential

IS Service Delivery - Integrated Supply Chain

Responsibilities:

• Program scope included redesign of all Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production Planning, Transportation Planning and order management processes with the implementation and integration to Legacy of the following toolsets: S&OP on HANA (module of IBP), SAP APO (Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, Production Planning / Detailed Scheduling, Global Available to Promise), Schedule X and Ortec
• Provided leadership, guidance and expertise throughout the Blueprint, Realization and Go Live Phases of project. Facilitated design, configuration and sessions of the following:
• SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (APO) & ECC functionality/configuration topics
• Supply and Production Planning processes and lifecycle

Confidential

Enterprise Architect - SAP Global Supply Chain

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and developed standard Vendor questionnaire for Cloud solutions
• Acted as EA supply chain lead for (2) Grainger subsidiary system assessments
• Acted as EA supply chain architect for the following system selection initiatives
• Warehouse Management for Grainger International (SAP EWM, Manhattan)
• Global Trade Systems (SAP GTS, Amber Road, Integration Point)
• Transportation Management (SAP TMS, JDA, Lean Logistics, Ryder)

Group Manager / Business Systems Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed team responsible for supporting the following SAP modules: APO-Demand Planning, APO-Supply Network Planning, ECC-Materials Management, ECC-Production Planning, ECC-A/P, SRM
• Developed and maintained tight relationship with business partners thru the implementation of a routine dialogue/cadence and customer surveys. Customer satisfaction improved steadily during the 3 year timeframe it was administered.
• Increased overall FTP team productivity between 20%-30% from while maintaining service levels via implementation of an Agile/Scrum framework. Framework primarily supported small/continuous improvement type work at the onset but slowly became framework for projects too.