SUMMARY:

• An SAP Advanced and Classic Variant Configuration (VC) senior consultant highly skilled in delivering best practice solutions relating to configurable products.
• Over 20 years of experience in building and designing product configuration models, creating and managing sales and manufacturing super BOMs, integrating production routings and operations, and generating variant pricing. 5 full life cycle implementations.
• Current project implementation of SAP Advanced Variant Configuration with SAP Fiori using SAP Activate methodology in S/4 HANA 1809 on premise with SAP Sales Cloud and CPQ integration. Certified in SAP Sales and Distribution.

WORK HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Allendale, NJ

SAP Advanced Variant Configuration Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on requirements gathering, designing solution, configuration, and prototype testing on Sales and Production processes CTO (Configure - to-Order) and MTO (Make-to-Order) environment including the flow of configured products from CPQ tool into SAP.
• Involved in multiple design discussions on OTC and PTP processes including master data setup, Intercompany and Intracompany, variant pricing and CTO/MTO product costing.
• Performed Advanced Variant Configuration (AVC) lead role.
• Hands-on utilization and AVC product modeling on S/4 HANA 1809 on premise with SAP Fiori.
• Implemented SAP Activate methodology particularly completing FIT/GAP analysis tasks and activities in the Explore phase.
• Defined VC scope baseline of 300 configurable product models for North America realization phase.
• Conducted solution validation workshop A through show and tell SAP standards sessions.
• Identified, documented, and prioritized gaps and additional scope items.
• Conducted solution design workshop B by aligning product configuration requirements, product modeling processes, and variant configuration business case scenarios.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

SAP SD PP Variant Configuration Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architected and built configuration model solutions for all the coats, pants, and helmets used by fire fighters based from the newly created Model Selection Guides.
• Led and conducted Warm Start workshops that gathered SD/PP business requirements, determined scope of work, created the VC project timeline, performed legacy data and systems analyses, determined project resource requirements.
• Led and managed all activities for systems data and BOM cleansing, material master mappings and load template, creation of manufacturing routes, operations, and labor time studies.
• Managed and collaborated with off-shore VC consultants.
• Scheduled and hosted detailed weekly status meetings with PMOs.

SAP VC Senior Consultant

Confidential, Ramsey, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and defined business data, processes, and requirements; performed business analysis and evaluation; determined scope and estimates of work; conducted Sales and Production VC workshops; initiated product modeling demos and prototypes; introduced product specification manual processing; authored process definition documents; delivered functional design and specification documents; aligned business process documents with business requirements.

SAP VC Senior Consultant

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Responsibilities:

• Product Modeling for various PBR Panels and Flashings.
• Coordinated sessions with Client to understand requirements and proposed VC solutions.
• Created and maintained characteristics, classes, configuration profiles, selection conditions, preconditions, variant pricing, object dependencies and dependency nets with constraints.
• Brought on for the SAP SSC 1.0 implementation as a VC SME to perform the blueprinting and deployment strategy of SAP SSC 1.0, a ground up implementation of SAP VC. Project plan was suspended mid way through the implementation.
• A Variant Configuration SME of the Idea to Offering track, blueprinted VC processes and solutions for the Ignition project.
• Aligned business process documents with Solution Manager requirements; coordinated weekly meetings with offshore resources.
• Provided expertise and experience in identifying, evaluating, and resolving applications interface issues between Agile PLM and SAP ECC and NetformX Juniper Unified Configurator and SAP CRM.
• Setup routing and switching product models in the VC golden client used for unit, functional, systems, and end to end process testing.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities extend into site readiness, deployment, functionality releases, and support.
• The role provided analysis and product configuration documentation via Product Specification Manual (PSM) process for deployment site commercial groups.
• Created and maintained VC product models constituting of top-level general arrangement & attachments, assembly routings, and related compatibility rules.
• Led business workshops and conducted multiple plant visits and built a profound understanding of OTC processes, workflow, and shop floor requirements.
• Analyzed product configurations and authored product compatibility rules in the Confidential Product Outline Compatibility (POC), or other recognized solution, SAP Variant Configuration, or related configuration solutions.
• Created functional designs for enhancements of existing SAP functionalities for interim releases.
• Configured system enhancements and tested system configuration.
• Researched, developed, and proposed both short and long term solutions to SAP system requirements. Resolved critical SAP development issues.
• Introduced the Product Data Replicator as alternative to ALE in transferring VC product data models across the system landscape.

SAP VC Senior Consultant

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Architected an SAP VC solution for the Levolor division.
• Attended business workshops and conducted multiple plant visits to build a profound understanding of OTC processes, workflow, and shop floor requirements.
• Scoped VC specific requirements and performed process validation sessions and fit-gap analysis.
• Translated and mapped legacy quotation and sales order data into Variant Configuration objects (KMATs, characteristics, classes, configuration profiles, object dependencies, constraints, procedures, variant tables). Used VB Script programming in creating these VC objects.
• Built and maintained all Cellular and Roller Shades order entry interfaces (product configurator), base and variant pricing, and BOMs.
• Implemented procedures using variant tables to check on product configuration completion and validity. Used class items to classify BOM components.
• Prepared test scripts for unit and integration testing.
• Performed EDI, IDOCs, ALE transfers, user-acceptance testing, and knowledge transfers.
• Collaborated with the Data Governance group to create and maintain data structure requirements.
• Worked with key business champions to redesign and automate quotation processes and documents through ‘smart’ guided-selling, picklist selection, and/or budgetary quote approach.
• Built and utilized a 4-level product configuration model. Levels 1-3 are KMATs representing the sellable, contractable, and revenue recognition levels and level 4 representing the deliverable discrete components.
• Produced product-build master documents and monitored build process statuses in Sharepoint.

President and SAP VC Senior Consultant

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Converted legacy quotation to production processes for plane and diced reflectance gratings products by implementing a make-to-order with material variants business scenario.
• Designed the configuration models to produce catalog numbers used in SD and saved as part numbers used in MM and PP.
• Configured pricing procedure, customer pricing procedure, document pricing procedure.
• Detailed variant configuration architecture with complex manipulation of classification objects, object dependencies, BOM structures (with MM), configuration profiles, variant tables and variant pricing.
• Designed and presented various VC models. Coded all types of dependencies such as preconditions, selection conditions, consistency check procedures, and constraints using variant tables.
• Configured products utilizing different types of dependencies for controlling the selection of variants (MMCOM-VKOND) for the configurable material. Variant configuration at the multi-level and single level.
• Implemented type-matching functionality. Material variant substitutions occur after users’ message confirmations.
• Converted legacy material variant data by assigning plant-specific configurations in the MRP3 view for approximately 4,200 catalog numbers. Visual Basic Script functionality is used to automate the characteristic values selection process.
• Linked the BOM and Routings of the catalog numbers to the parent configurable BOM.
• Performed IMG configurations to control requirements transfer and determine requirement types according to material master and sales. Defined and assigned strategy group, requirements type, requirements class, item category groups, and schedule line categories.
• Performed EDI, IDOC, ALE transfers, unit testing, user-acceptance testing, E2E testing, related cutover activities, and knowledge transfers.
• Created and maintained Knowledge Base objects used in IPC. Redesigned Variant Configuration solution to implement best practices and enable CRM-IPC compatibility.
• Interfaced with the SD, MM, and PP process champions in resolving and diminish REMEDY issues log. Added missing components and assigned appropriate selection conditions and quantity change procedures to correct production and sales BOM issues.
• Wrote procedures and created condition records table to introduce Variant Pricing.
• Collaborated with the BASIS team and assisted in establishing the Variant Configuration Golden Client.
• Setup ALE, EDI, IDOC functionality by creating transactional RFC communication ports for Logical Systems and by adding Message Types used as Inbound/Outbound parameters.
• Actively assisted in creating assortments of Home Service program mappings.
• Integrated ECC 6.0 Variant Configuration functionality with SAP Retail by converting the Home Services program mappings into Configurable Articles.
• Aligned the User Interface (configurator) design with the functions of Vendor Consignment processing in SAP Retail where consignment control for an article for each site is independently defined and only a sale constitutes a legally-binding contract.
• Created custom LSMW programs to automate the creation and loading of article master data.
• Defined Pricing Procedures requirements using conditioning techniques.
• Created and assigned condition types in access sequences to determine Home Services program net value and item sale prices, surcharges, and discounts.
• Involved in golden client setup and performed standard ALE, IDOC procedures.

Confidential, Issaquah, WA

Responsibilities:

• Teamed up with Confidential colleagues in building a prototype to manage objects and processes used in licensing software products.
• Created a knowledge base for a software product in Variant Configuration that specified the Usage, Supply, and Charge characteristic parameters and their related values.
• Defined Maintenance Levels to handle functionality changes by creating a characteristic in the license configuration.
• Functional resource concentrated on process and development of SAP ver 4.7 SD Order to Cash application solution with variant configuration.
• Created and maintained Customer Masters, Vendor Masters, and Material Masters with Sales Organization, Plant, Purchasing, MRP, Work Scheduling, Accounting, and Costing data views.
• Configured Item Categories based on delivery, pricing, and transfer of requirements.
• Configured Sales documents, Item/Product Proposal, Item Category Determination, Material determination, Text determination, Outline Agreements/ Contracts, and Schedule lines.
• Created and maintained Production and Sales BOMs, work centers, and routings for configurable materials and assemblies.
• Interfaced with PP team and determined control keys for scheduled, externally-processed, and capacity requirements for operations.
• Identified and scoped requirements by gathering and evaluating legacy and current business data, processes and requirements and various associated material documents, catalogs, sales cut-sheets from Engineering, Production, Marketing, and Sales departments.
• Designed and presented individual product Data, BOM, Operations and Routings, and Pricing Models in Excel format. Spreadsheets included Characteristics (product feature and reference), Classes, Variant Tables, Dependency Nets, Configuration Profiles, BOM components, Condition Records, and all related Object Dependencies (precondition, selection, procedure).
• Performed standard VC and general SAP implementation functions such as ALE (Application Link Enabling), EDI, IDOC of product configuration data from Development to Quality to Production systems, unit and functional integration testing via sales orders creation and subsequent processing, and knowledge transfer through hands-on end users training classes.
• Performed post production support duties such as master data maintenance, creating solutions to end users issues and questions, re-training end users, sales order creation and processing, and sales order costing

Confidential, Andover, MA

Responsibilities:

• Built and maintained product models in the catalogue to ensure OTC process - quotes, sales orders, and product data created in Siebel are transferred and processed in the SAP PMG and SAP SSD back office systems.
• Interfaced with the Product Marketing groups to define the products and services based on market requirements and the product/service availability. New PMS products/services are built in the commercial catalogue in Siebel based on characteristics and not on materials. The translation to materials are managed and processed in the factories based on the conditions set in the BOM.
• Interfaced with the Configuration Management groups to provide customer facing (commercial), manufacturing, and customer services product representation framework via configurable products maintained in both Siebel and SAP.
• Implemented and maintained Product Model Configuration System (Variant Configurator) within SAP R/3.
• Established and maintained communication between Engineering, Manufacturing, Configuration Analysts, and Engineering Services within the assigned product divisions to ensure appropriate changes are documented, tested and implemented correctly.
• Specific tasks included creation of materials, BOM's, classes, characteristics, values and dependencies. Testing and validation of the resulting product model with the appropriate business owner.

Confidential, Vernon Hills, IL

SAP SD Analyst / VC Product Modeler

Responsibilities:

• Functional resource for business process analysis, design and prototyping, configuration, testing and implementation of SD module.
• Prepared Templates & Functional Specs for various technical developments, requirement documents, Test Scripts, BPP, and training.
• Implemented the following business processes: Make-to-Order, Variant Pricing, SD pricing, Shipping Pt Determination, Requirement types, Sales Order Stock, Returns processing, Picking, Packing, Availability, Order and Delivery Scheduling, Output processing and determination, Partner Determination, Delivery and Billing Processes.
• Configured Return Orders, Third Party Orders, Consignment Orders and Contracts.
• Defined Item categories, number ranges, document types, Sales BOM, and Intercompany Process.
• Good knowledge of Basic Cross Function (over all) and integration with MM, WM, PP and FI.
• Created Standard Pricing Procedure using Condition Tables, Condition Types, Access Sequence and Pricing Procedure Determination. Configured Condition Exclusion for particular customer groups.
• Configured end to end Business processes with sales document types, item categories, and delivery document types & billing document types including the copy controls and routines to take care of requirements and data transfer routines.
• Worked with FI on Payment Terms, Account Receivable, Billing and Account Determination.
• Analyzed, created, and maintained master data records, pricing, BOMs, and routings for material variants linked to a configurable material. Customized SD and defined the settings for variant matching in the sales order. Defined settings for variant matching in the configuration profile and characteristic value screen.
• Used engineering change management (ECM) by valid-from date to make synchronized changes to the master data of all objects related to the material variants.
• Created and maintained characteristics and classes for configuration. Translated into characteristics all the features and options of a variant product and assigned them to classes with class type 300. Allocated and linked the classes and the configurable materials to the configuration profiles.
• Created and used preconditions, selection conditions, actions, procedures, and limited constraints object dependencies in showing the interdependencies between different objects in machine model single-level configurations.
• Linked all material list prices via dependencies and procedures specified in the configuration profile to the corresponding variant condition and discount structure tables assigned to a given material/plant combination.
• Resolved variant configuration and sales order processing issues originated from customer support and procurement (CSP) and distributors. Identified and explained root causes of the issues. Transferred knowledge to issue originators by discussing logical solutions and/or interim work-around.
• Teamed up with the Web Development group to achieve in making an Internet-based on-line sales order entry interface by replicating the characteristic value assignment screens of the configurable materials.