PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP Consultant with more than 20 years of experience in SAP R/3 implementation of (MM) Material Management / (PP) Production Planning / (PM) Plant Maintenance / (WM) Warehouse Management / and (SD) Sales and Distribution / FICO / HR / (LE) Logistics Execution / (HU) Handling unit Management /
• Extensive MM Functional Lead role for over 10 years
• In depth knowledge and hands - on experience with SAP R/3 MM/PP/PLM/WM/SD/FICO/HCM modules including customization and Data Migration/Data Governance.
• Extensive experience on Data Migration from Non-SAP legacy to SAP and Legacy SAP to SAP
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) on LSWM
• Extensive upgrade experience (R2 - R/3, R/3 3.0 to R/3 3.1H, R/3 3.1H - R/3 4.6B, R3 4.6B - ECC 5.0, R/3 ECC 5.0 R/3 ECC 6.0.
• Also involved in 2 Full cycle implementation of FICO for AP/AR/GL, Bank Transactions/Setting up lock box and complete migration of FICO data from legacy SAP to Non--SAP
• Strong experience with SAP R/3 MM, SD, PM, PP, IM modules including numerous Full Life Cycles of SAP Implementation and over 10 Production Support Projects.
• Skillful in adapting Business Requirements and mapping to SAP processes.
• Extensive customization to the purchasing and inventory management module to include new document types and numerous movement types.
• Very hands on consultant, and have configured on every project.
• Expert knowledge in ASAP methodology from business blue print to the post live support phases.
• Expert with upgrading the SAP system from 2.2 through ECC 6.0.
• Expert in global template design and roll-out.
• Consolidated MRP processing and planning
• Team member and lead on several global templates.
• Expert with identifying gaps, creating design documentation, pilots and prototyping.
• Worked extensively in the areas of Purchasing, Inventory Management, Material Requirements Planning, Invoice Verification, Physical Inventory, Production Planning, Quality Management, Non-valuated Materials, External Services Management, Split-Valuation
• Extensive knowledge in configuration of Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Order, Purchase Requisition, RFQ (Request for Quotation), Quotation, Release Procedures and defining Number Ranges.
• Materials Management Overview: Organization Structure, Master Data, Defining Strategies, Stock Movement, Goods Receipts, Goods Issue, Stock Transfers and Replenishments.
• Inventory Management Overview: Goods Movement, Physical Inventory inclusive of stock count, Stock Management Movement, Valuation. Picking strategies, Put away strategies, transfer orders.
• Post implementation support for PP with emphasis on MRP, Purchase Orders, Stock Transport Orders, Production Orders and Goods Movement.
• Expert knowledge in cross functional integration of MM module with SD, PP and FI modules.
• Expert in configuring SAP IMG, Testing and Preparation of test plans, User, Go-Live & Managing Support for Post Implementation.
• Industry based SAP exposure in Consumer products, Manufacturing, Specialty Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Apparel & Footwear sectors.
• Strong knowledge in Designing, Configuring, Testing and Documenting of MM / PP / WM / SD modules.
• Familiarity with SAP time-entry (CATs & eCATs)
• Attention to detail and ability to prioritize multi upgrade activities backed by efficient quantitative background combined with business acumen.
• Experienced in working in a team oriented environment and a good problem solver.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, self-motivated and high project management skills.
• Expert at LSMW / BDC creation for transactional and master data loading.
• In depth knowledge of payment program to include setting up and loading house banks and payment types.
• Expert use of BAPI interfaces to SAP
• In depth knowledge of RF devices and associated SAP configuration
• Completed SAP course IOGW50 for RLM
• Certified SAP Sales and Distribution
• Expert in SD configuration
• Expert in SD pricing
• Expert in SD output determination
• Expert in SD EDI

SAP R/3 EXPERTISE:

Enterprise Structure: Mapping of Organizational Structure of Company, Customizing Purchasing Organization, Plant, and Storage Location. Transaction Variants, Global units of measures, SI units of measure. UNSPC codes for "global" material groups.

Master Data: Configuring Material Master, Material type, Number Range Assignment, Vendor Master, Account group assignment, Partner Determination, Batch Management Data, and Batch-Number Assignment.

Purchasing: Creating Quota Arrangement, Request for Quotation, Quotation, Purchasing Requisition, Purchasing Info Record, Purchase Order, Outline Purchase Agreements - Contracts & Scheduling Agreements, Source Determination, Blocking and Release Procedures of Purchase Documents.

Taxation: Expert level implementer of external tax systems through SAP’s external tax interface for SD/MM. Expert level internal tax setup to include jurisdiction codes and VAT taxes. Plants abroad configuration for EU plants and distribution centers.

External Services: Service masters, Service conditions, Contract text based services with limit orders. Release strategies, workflow approvals, external services portal (mySAP). Evaluated receipt settlement (ERS) with auto invoicing /credit memo based on service entry sheet acceptance / revocation, Frame-work orders.

Inventory Management: Configuring and customizing Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Transfer Postings, Stock Transfer Orders, Automatic Movements, Returns, Reservations, Subcontracting, Consignment, and Physical Inventory, variant configuration, stock determination, create movement types.

Production Planning: Production orders and process orders, external forecasting interfaces to SAP structures Extensive master data work with technical objects (BOMS, Routings, Recipes, Functional Locations, Equipment Masters)

Plant Maintenance: Maintenance Orders, Refurbishment processing, Preventive Maintenance, External / Internal Activities

Variant Configuration: Syntax, Dependencies, Characteristics, Super BOM’s, Dynamic Pricing, MTS / MTO scenarios

Quality Management: Supported several QM projects to include design of required characteristics, usage decisions and reporting

Valuation and Account Determination: Material Valuation, Pricing control, Split Valuation of materials and Account Determination.

Invoice Verification: Invoice Posting, Document Parking, Blocking and Release Invoices, ERS Invoice, Consignment, Automatic Settlement, Account Maintenance, and Payment Run.

EDI (IDOCS): Monitoring, Reprocessing & Manual Posting of IDOCS, Setting up Partner Profiles, Process Codes and defining Ports. GEIS and Mercator mapping tools. ANSI Nomenclature

ALE: Expert knowledge of maintaining master data between multiple SAP systems for customer/vendor/material masters

Sales and Distribution: Customer Master, Order Types, Schedule Line Categories, Billing, Pricing, Reporting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Skills: SAP ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, SAP Enterprise 4.70, SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.6B Oil & Gas 4.72 & Oil & Gas 4.6 SP2, 3.1H, 3.0 B / D / E

SAP Modules: MM/PM/WM/IM/PP/AP.

Methodologies: ASAP

Operating Systems: Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 Pro

Office Tools: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio.

Reporting Tools: Report Writer, Report Painter, ABAP/4 Query, SAP Solution Manager 6.0

Testing Tools: Mercury, WinRunner, GuiXT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Support plant operations in logistics
• Troubleshoot issue with transfer orders
• Troubleshoot issues with movements
• Report on shipping detail

Confidential, Anderson, IA

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP Fit for existing Confidential SAP install to non-SAP system
• Prototyped Delco Remy processes in Confidential System
• Completed blueprint configuration documentation for required changes to template
• Identified opportunities to extend template to better fit needs of business acquisitions
• Provided for the trainers in the new environment

Confidential, Ramsey, NJ

SD/MM/PP/FICO/AM

Responsibilities:

• Overall system assessment
• Advised CFO how to bring system up to best practices in many areas
• Defined Asset Leasing Process
• Defined Foreign Trade Process
• Defined SOP Flexible Planning
• Defined/Demo’d Classification System
• Defined Product Allocation Process
• Implement ARIBA Project (Icloud version)
• Strategic Vendor Master Initiative (set up partnering de-dup process)
• Classification of vendor for ARIBA - Mapping
• Classification of vendor old vendor mapping
• Classification for vendor for D&B to MWBE Reporting
• MRP Project to automate and streamline most processes
• Classification for material master to associate materials
• Classification for material master to extend model capabilities
• Archiving Project

Confidential, Russellville, AL

Responsibilities:

• Migrated BOM’s
• Migrated Routing’s (task lists)
• Migrated Customers
• Migrated Vendors
• Migrated Materials
• Migrated Work-centers
• Setup scheduling agreements for vendors
• Setup transportation agreements between manufacturing plants
• Setup consolidated MRP (planning plant) for multiple plants
• Setup production order processes for multiple plants
• Created many custom reports to further streamline the KANBAN process.
• Trained the client in many processes
• Provided Go-Live support for all modules

Confidential, Canonsburg, PA

Responsibilities:

• Assess why there were so many VAT issues
• Assess and implement plants abroad
• Create STO process between intra-company plants with VAT billing
• Create STO process between inter-company plants with VAT billing
• Created numerous input/output tax codes to represent reporting country
• Documented transfer of own goods for EU countries (member and non member)
• Setup alternate methods to Plants Abroad.
• Configured Plants abroad to include billing of intra-company transfers.

Confidential, Greenville, SC

MM/WM Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Assessed why previous implementation failed
• Designed a precious metals automated surcharge with variable commodity index pricing
• Corrected several severe design flaws
• Produced the AS-IS processes and mapping to the TO-BE processes and held workshops to achieve business understanding and acceptance
• Provided vendor partnering setup to achieve global contracts across many company codes.
• Provides all testing and materials for the MM/WM modules
• Established many conversion rules for master data to SAP
• Designed data governance rules for adding or changing master data
• Setup VAT taxes for cross border movements
• Setup consolidated planning process based on capacity

Confidential, Rockford, MI

MM Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Assessed the current migration strategy and assessed project risk
• Documented why the current project state was “no-go” for go-live
• Created a single mapping table to convert raw data (untouched) from 3 systems
• Changed existing load programs to eliminate the project dependent need for undocumented Excel manual conversion processes
• Migrated > 165K SKU level inventory items without error across 3 systems (companies)
• Migrated > 156K SKU level open purchase order items without error across multiple document types
• Migrated > 75K EANS without error
• Migrated > 49K Materials without error
• Migrated > 25K Sales orders without error
• Shortened the conversion cut-over plan by 27 hours through automated conversions
• Trained existing IT staff how to create rules (once) to automated conversions across all platforms (DEV,QA,PRD)
• Corrected pricing schemas
• Provided guidance on migration approaches across all conversion areas

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Hardware MM Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed and prototyped complicated classification system with hierarchy to track serialization of subcomponents in the manufacturing process.
• Designed and prototyped
• Redesigned use of asset masters to support rental and loaner processes
• Developed acquisition roadmap for growth through acquisitions
• Provided unprecedented reporting capability to any level of the manufacturing process or returns.
• Provided complete lifecycle history for all components (finished goods to raw materials)
• Provided numerous cost saving initiatives for the business
• Developed project plant for the acquisition of EVE and SpingSoft businesses
• Provide the ability to add email text to PO output
• Setup classification interface using ALE
• Setup numerous EDI to support system to system data transfer
• Demonstrated as standard the ability to capture serialization to the subcomponent through finished goods.
• Demonstrated capturing service and returns history of serialized components or subcomponents to any level
• Demonstrated capturing serialized component install location within a circuit board as standard
• Demonstrated capturing the customers installed location as part of standard serialization reporting
• Created several sales order types to capture unique reporting requirements.
• Created several sales header/item text for order and billing
• Created several output types to support sales order interfacing to contract manufacturers
• Created several item categories to support various taxing and costing variations
• Created several pricing schemas to support various document types
• Created several pricing conditions for sales
• Created consolidate MRP processe

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Xbox Division MM/SD Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created blueprint for global returns utilizing plants/vendors/customers
• Created numerous plants
• Managed testing team
• Defined specifications for interfacing into SAP for SD
• Created complex schedule line category substitution through automated interface
• Created complex STO scenarios for inter/intra/pass-thru globally.
• Created capability to mark-up costs between plant transfers
• SAP VAT taxes configuration
• Created specifications / tested automated delivery and post goods issue for inbound consumer exchange
• Created specifications / tested automated STO creation using a pass-thru plant
• Held numerous workshops to gather business requirements and solution them into SAP
• Tested numerous custom movement types to support complex requirements
• Created several movement types to support complex business requirements
• Created several schedule line categories to support varied G/L account postings
• Created several sales order types to support complex requirements

Confidential, Merrimack, NH

SAP Data Migration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created detailed project plan for global implementation
• Validate business objects identified were complete
• Gave guidance on conversion and cutover
• Designed master data approval process for add and changes (data goveranance).
• Trained user’s on SAP

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

SAP MM/PP/LE/WM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Asses why implementation failed (hired post failure)
• Recover modules where implementation could be successful
• Guide the business into stability of system
• Maximize ROI on what had been developed
• Re-designed many business processes to SAP best practices
• Put the project back on a stable scalable platform
• Provided many unique custom reports to validate business benefits
• Provided many reports for FICO/P2P
• Setup SAP VAT taxes for sales outside US.
• Corrected major design flaws
• Implemented two plant purchasing scenario
• Continue to provide direction and reporting needs as the project moves forward.

Confidential, Fairfield, CA

Solution Architect AM/WM/MM - MM Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Solution Architect
• Lead workshops for “as-is” processes
• Prototyped “to-be” processes
• Created blueprint deliverables for logistics (MM/SD)
• Performed analysis why Accenture’s heavily customized implementation failed
• Demonstrated “out of the box” solution for Sparta
• Instructed Sparta consultants how to implement the non-customized solution
• Demonstrated to Confidential complicated but standard SAP solution for adding costs to non-valuated inventory
• Demonstrated numerous SAP standard processes to Accenture’s customized approach
• Demonstrated sale of assets
• Created several “add-on” sales activities for customers

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

MM Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prototyped complicated 2 plant receiving process
• Prototyped complicated 2 plant MRP process
• Prototyped correction to RLP (Replen. Lead time) issues in production
• Trained current SAP team how to implement solution
• Designed complicated processes for MRP to allow for “sequencing” the assembly line
• Demonstrated how MRP could automatically use consignment materials when advantageous
• Designed MRP to allow a third part vendor time to “kit” prior to assembly line
• Answered numerous technical issues with production setup

Confidential, Decatur, IL

MM Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Brought in to put on off track project back on schedule
• Implemented Brazilian Nota Fisca
• Implement Foreign Trade
• Enabled shipping with handling units
• Worked with German customs on free trade zones
• Setup SAP VAT taxes for sales and purchases.
• Prototyped no ship customer list in foreign trade

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

MM Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Stabilized an off track blueprint for CSC
• Performed all workshops for materials management
• Documented the data migration strategy to be followed
• Created project plan
• Created the blueprint document for data migration
• Migrated Material master data, customer master data, Sales Order, Billing documents and material-customer record using LSMW.
• Designed data governance rules for adding or changing master data.
• Well acquainted with MM processes like Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), maintaining Material master data, material groups, purchasing groups, purchasing info records, MM Pricing procedures, CATTs for creation and modification of master data of G/L accounts, Customers, Vendors.
• Used LSMW to migrate complete Master PA/OM to SAP ECC
• Coordinated migration of production data planning and reconciliation into NEW GL using SAP Migration Cockpit.
• Trained the data migration replacement team
• Created LSMW’s to load all master data (vendor, customer, material)
• Sr. MM /FICO/SD Consultant / Data Migration Architect for complete SCM

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

MM Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Configured user statuses for QM rejection process to prevent rejected materials from being shipped.
• Loaded ALE for the GL Accounts from SAP Gold client into customer SAP instances.
• Via ALE loaded all master data from legacy to SAP and then from instance to instance within SAP (BOM, Vendors, Customers, GL Accounts)
• Configured and used LSMW for uploading master data of General Ledger, Customers, Vendors, Internal Orders and Cost Centers.
• Design & Technical specs for Data Conversions to SAP for Listing/Exclusion Condition Records, Sales Orders, Quotations, Scheduling Agreements, and Billing Documents.
• Prepared BPML’s, BPP’s for all MM business scenarios.
• Prepared FDA Validation documentation for go-live
• Prepared and executed unit and integrated test scripts
• Held numerous blueprint workshops
• Documented all required configuration
• Produced flow diagrams for all SAP processes
• Equipment Masters with serialization

Confidential, Smyrna, GA

SAP SD/MM/QM/AM/FICO

Responsibilities:

• Blueprint design
• LSMW creation and adjustment
• Prototyping
• Created translation tables
• Responsible for all the data migration for complete employee master record and OM data
• Created function specifications
• Configured and used LSMW for uploading master data of General Ledger, Customers and Vendors. Worked on CATTs for creation and modification of master data of G/L accounts, Customers, Vendors.
• Conducted gathering sessions
• Responsible for Material Master Data conversion with all the views for the business units across the countries as per Project Go-live schedule.
• Consolidated vendor masters
• Consolidated customer masters
• Mapped DEA fields
• Perfomed cross system configuration analysis
• Made recommendations for the business for resolve data issues

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Sr. MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed business analysis for numerous pain points the business was experiencing
• Demonstrated numerous KPI’s missing from the business management reports

Confidential, Gardners, PA

SAP MM/PP/WM/QM/FICO

Responsibilities:

• Blueprint design
• Conduct numerous workshops to understand current business
• Prototyped MM/PP/WM/FICO in IDES system
• Created LSMW for Vendor Master
• Established Standards for all master data
• Used LSMW to upload G/L accounts, cost centers, commitment items, fund, fund Centers, functional areas, sponsor class and sponsor program master data in SAP
• Used LSMW to migrate complete master PA Data from legacy to SAP
• Established material types and number ranges
• Created Warehouses
• Created Bins
• Created picking/ putaway stratagies

Confidential, Somerset, PA

Sr. SAP MM /WM/AM/HR Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Blueprint design
• Conduct numerous workshops to understand current business
• Assess current business to
• Modeled variant configuration for boosters
• Setup Classification System to support variant configuration
• Created Sales Pricing conditions linking characteristics (VK30)
• Created Sales Pricing for Sales Orders for variant materials (VK11)
• Created Object Dependencies for BOM’s and Task lists.
• Proved Variant Configuration met the business requirements
• Modeled sales order commissions
• Performed master data workshops
• Performed GAP analysis
• Wrote blueprint design document for MM/SD modules
• Created numerous business flows for process and responsibility
• Demonstrated variant configuration in SD and PP modules
• Responsible for all the master data migration of complete payroll record and PA,OM using LSMW.
• Demonstrated classification setup for variant configuration
• Demonstrated dependencies for BOM’s and Task Lists

Confidential, Richmond VA / Moncure, NC

SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Post Go-Live Support WM/LE/MM/EDI
• Solved many technical IDOC interface issues
• Performed an analysis of their Moncure manufacturing facility which included many cost savings and performance enhancement recommendations.
• Extensively used LSMW for data migration of HR info records (Payroll/PA/OM) to ECC
• Resolved numerous RF custom code issues in SAP Console

Confidential, Richmond, VA

SAP MM/PP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Post go live support - P2P Project
• Developed inter / intra-company stock transport order process with a single document type that allows freight and markup between all plants without TPM/APO implementation
• Implemented SAP third party order process
• Converted legacy tolling process to SAP subcontracting
• Enabled Auto-PO process
• Upgraded R/3 4.6B - ECC 6.0
• Developed several LSMW templates for consolidation of plants
• Implemented ADP TAXWARE (STEP/SUT in 3 days)
• Did GAP analysis for Shipping and Container Management (RLM)
• Implemented Material Holding and Tracking (RLM)
• Converted legacy process to Consignment/Pipeline process in SAP
• Developed design/ documents to support new processes
• Created project plan for the P2P project rollout
• Developed numerous output types including shipping documents for 3rd party vendors where they lacked capability
• Developed external services portal for service vendors time entry
• Designed and implemented vendor master partnering for (VN,OA,PI,SF partner types)
• Consolidated 42 purchase organizations to a single global strategic organization whereby millions of dollars of lost spend roll up was not being utilized to receive scale pricing discounts.
• Created a complete freight tracking solution to solve product costing variances
• Developed numerous KPI's to calculate dollar loss by process inefficiencies
• Wrote specialized queries to re-calculate purchase order costs where discounts were lost
• Wrote several SD performance metrics that identified where a material was sold without profit or at a lost based on predictive customer payments and product margin

Confidential, Merimack, NH

Sr. SAP MM/PP/WM

Responsibilities:

• Post go-live support for the MM/PP/WM/AP modules
• Corrected several implementation flaws and restored SAP best practices where it had been incorrectly configured (i.e. pipeline materials, gr/iv processing)
• Modeled SRM external catalogs. Re-created their approval strategies to eliminate duplicate approvals
• Wrote many white papers outlining where the implementation deviated from best practices and how it could be restored. Several of which have been accomplished with significant process improvements

Confidential, Cranbury, NJ

Sr. SAP MM/WM/FICO/SD/PP/HR Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Was sole support for post go-live support for the MM/SD/PP/FICO/EDI areas of US operations.
• Setup the EDI mapping for Bank transmissions of Data
• Setting up the encryption program for Bank of America for internal accounts receivables transactions
• Involved in setting IBAN for international bank transactions
• Loaded SWIFT codes and house banks and configured the payment program F110.
• Cleared the entire problem queue and developed many streamlined process for US support center.
• Participated in transferring G/L accounts, vendor master data using LSMW. Modified the Data with addition of payment terms and interest calculation
• Involved in Data Migration from Legacy to SAP for up gradation / new implementation / integration projects, import HR/PA/OM/Payroll to SAP via LSMW
• Enabled PO creation after goods receipts, enabled rough goods receipts
• Spend extensive amount of time smoothing out AP process to include correcting tolerance limits that were mis-configured
• Solved numerous transportation issues

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Sr. SAP MM/WM/QA

Responsibilities:

• Worked to complete documentation on their process manufacturing environment for the MM/PP/WM/SD/AP modules using RWD-Infopak
• Completed BPML, BPP, BSG documents along with Visio process flows for every business process and interface
• Worked on correcting non working processes via configuration
• Wrote functional specifications for custom interfaces to LAB21 testing facility for quality management
• Worked on mapping inbound / outbound freight processes