SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Business Analyst with 19 years of SAP expertise, with specific focus and subject matter expertise in SD OTC processes. Excellent exposure to MM, FI, and WM modules. More than 20 years of IT experience and relevant background in Consumer Goods, IS Cable, and Chemical solutions. Extensive experience on integration points between modules, interface design, OTC, Pricing / Complex Pricing, Pricing Promotions, Trade Promotions, ATP and familiarity with various freight strategies..
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Proven project management skills, operating as part of a team — organizing, planning and executing projects from vision through implementation to post implementation production support.
• Successfully completed eight (8) full lifecycle SAP implementations for a variety of clients in various industries.
• Participated in one of the first implementations of IS - Cable.
• 19 + years’ experience in SD, including 8 years in consumer goods
• Sales & Distribution - Lead roles
• Materials Management and Warehouse Management experience at Caterpillar Logistics & John Morrell
• Full integration with MM, IM, FI, CO
• Proficient in design & development of Functional and Technical specifications
• Complex interfaces and conversions experience with client / legacy systems
• Full Order-to-Cash (OTC) processes and cycle expertise
• ATP/Rescheduling experience
• Divestiture
• Pricing / Component Level Pricing expertise
• Variant Configuration (VC) Pricing
• Customer Master
• Sales BOMs and 3rd Party Order Processing
• Contracts experience
• Strong requirements capture, process definition, process mapping experience
• Experience in commodities, commodity pricing
• Expertise in R/3 Sales Deals & Rebate Agreement processes, functionality and all related configuration
• Familiar with SAP Trade Promotion Management functionality
• QA / Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Regression Testing
• Design & development of Test Plans
• Full execution of Test Plans
• Vertex experience
• Familiarity with customized chargebacks
• Strong 3rd party software integration experience
• Strong system documentation
• Significant experience in discrete, repetitive and process manufacturing environments
• Participation in all phases of end-to-end deployment - Design & Analysis, Scoping, Business Blueprint, Realization (Build), Configuration, Implementation, Production Cutover, Go-live, Post-production support, Knowledge Transfer, End user/Process Owner and documentation
• Strong client facing ability from Executive Management to business process owners & end user community
• Proven ability to bridge gap between technical team and business side

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Focused on master data analysis/ cleanup, and user .
• Process and user Documentation.
• Several complex Subcontracting processes designed and implemented.
• Implementation of customized returns process.
• EDI processing with third party bolt on SPEEDI

Confidential

Sr. SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Initially focused on system stabilization, master data analysis/ cleanup, and user .
• Subsequent focus intercompany processing.
• Account Determination
• Credit Processing

Confidential

Sr. SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Highly customized SAP ECC 6.0 environment. We rolled out their existing functionality where appropriate. Where the processes dictated we implemented new functionality to support Zep’s AMREP Retail business. One of these enhancements was a major pricing strategy change to support a complex discounting, as well as supporting high volume EDI sales orders.
• Initially focused on system stabilization, master data cleanup, process development, and user .
• Subsequent focus redesign of many OTC processes, configuration, user .
• Production support of sales and distribution. Specific emphasis on order types, pricing optimization, inter-company, and output forms.
• Provide Production support of highly customized SAP client, focused on Sales and Distribution. Support business owners, users, and SAP team members on a day to day basis to insure system integrity is not at risk.
• Supported areas of primary focus on Order to Cash, a third party distribution system, an export license management system, and user .
• Conduct technical interviews to potential employees
• OTC output forms
• ATP

Confidential

Sr. SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Order To Cash production support general support of complex SAP client. Provide direct support of users and interact with process owners and project team members to insure the system integrity is not at risk.
• Implemented 2 revisions to freight pricing for 2 divisions.
• Pricing Optimization - Develop plan, configure, document, test, implement and provide post go live support for revised pricing strategy at Firestone.
• Pricing configuration: Copy control, condition table changes additions, condition type maintenance/additions, access sequence maintenance /additions, price procedure.

Confidential

Sr. SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assess current business process in conjunction with SAP configuration.
• Focus on Order to cash and sales forecasting processes.

Confidential

Sr. SD Consultant - Pricing Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Assess current utilization of pricing.
• Designed interface from Lotus Notes into SAP to create pricing records.
• Designed interface process from Lotus Notes and SAP BW to Offline forecast system.
• Identify required configuration steps to support automated pricing.

Confidential

Sr. SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Focus on Pricing
• Roll-out of Branch project
• Designed interface from Bolton Warehouse management system back into R/3
• Designed Down payment process in CRM
• General SD Configuration
• Variant Configuration
• CRM
• Production Support (Pricing, General SD, Queries, etc.)
• Focus on Pricing
• Trouble ticket resolution
• Production Support (Pricing, Output, Queries, etc.)
• Focus on LE
• Business Process definition, Standard Operating Procedure definition and documentation.
• End User, Testing, Post Go live support, ECC 6.0
• Freight charges after the fact with actual cost from carrier invoices billed to the customer on separate invoice.

Confidential

SD Archiving Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing data using SAP Query
• Archiving data, SAP Query
• Working business processes - OTC, Sales Deals
• System preparation for divestiture of various company products

Confidential

SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Master Data migration. (LSMW)
• Functional Specification Reports Definition.
• Forms Testing
• Returns process re-development
• Pricing procedure enhancement.
• Developed a standard set of interfaces to Blacksmith applications from SAP and from Blacksmith Applications to SAP for use in Blacksmiths Applications.
• Jointly developed with Sales and marketing team strategy for using Blacksmith application tools as a front-end for SAP.
• SAP subject matter expert resource to Blacksmith personnel for SAP support.
• Business analysis
• Blue printing
• Main Process Scenarios concept and testing
• Documentation for end-users
• Developed and architected solution to integrate front end trade system with SAP
• Designed and implemented closed loop interface to front end Trade management system in support of Food Service Trade and Retail Sales (Sales Deals and Rebate Agreements)
• FDA regulated heavy serialization and batch control.
• System configuration, customizing and testing OTC process.
• Commodity pricing, Sales Deals and Promotions
• Operated as a liaison between Client user and development team
• Rebates and Sales Deals
• Pricing strategy
• Master Data
• Production Support
• Freight charges within pricing.

Confidential

SD Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented Food Service Enterprise Settlement and Best Practices
• Senior SD consultant in the contract mgmt. Operated as a liaison between Client user and development team.
• Identified and defined client process including, Commodity pricing, Sales Deals and Promotions.
• Developed specifications for customer master and contract conversions.
• Designed and implemented closed loop interface to front end Trade management system in support of Food Service Trade (Sales Deals and Rebate Agreements)
• Designed interface to support customized trade promotions solution
• FDA regulated heavy serialization and batch control.

Confidential

SD Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Functional SD Interface Lead and Client Liaison in a large, complex distribution environment.
• Developed numerous functional specifications in a highly customized 4.6c environment to support integration with two other client systems residing on mainframe systems, cross-functional in nature supporting SD, MM WM, and FI integration points
• Identified and defined business processes and functional specifications to interface with client systems.
• Specific configuration points included:
• Sales order types, item categories, schedule lines
• Purchase requisitions, Purchase orders type
• Sales BOMs, ATP
• Designed and developed third party order process, returns process, self-billing process
• Provided MM and WM post go-live support on Caterpillar MG-Land Rover and Ford-Mexico projects.
• Developed curriculum and facilitated formal EUT (End User ) classroom sessions.
• Created ABAP queries to support end user and management inquiries.
• Client extended services twice, first in a MM role for post go-live support, then in a WM role in a post go-live on site support environment
• End-user documentation
• Key users courses
• Post Go Live Support
• System customizing and testing
• Enterprise structure definition, master data, pricing procedures
• Sales documents,
• Delivery, billing
• Credit management
• LIS reporting

Confidential

SD Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identified and defined business processes in a highly customized SAP global environment. Closely interfaced with France based project team.
• Configured and tested Sales and Distribution aspects of the system providing both project team and end user .
• Provided post-go live support.
• Client utilizing SAP Variant Configuration with both Make-To-Order and Make-To-Stock materials.
• Created a hybrid of Make-To-Stock and Make-To-Order that provided a method of creating demand and at the same time not allocating to a specific order.
• Developed and implemented ATP/rescheduling strategy.
• Developed variant configuration pricing options on a product line that utilized variant configuration.
• Developed all output specifications and related configuration.
• System customizing and testing
• Enterprise structure definition, master data, pricing procedures
• Contracts, Quotes
• OTC configuration
• ATP, LIS reporting
• Utilized third party documentation software, “On Demand,” a documentation package that interfaces with SAP, in a manufacturing environment.
• Authored and developed online end user documentation and conducted End User (EUT) classes for all aspects of sales and distribution utilizing R/3 version 4.6.
• Provided post-go live support
• Rewrote the pricing procedure
• Developed complex third party ordering processes that took into account what is now vendor-managed inventory.

Confidential

Lead SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identified and mapped business processes, performed systems design, configuration, testing,, implementation, and post go live supportEmphasis on Available to Promise (ATP) balancing new orders with equipment breakdown replacement parts.
• Utilized ASAP methodology during complete implementation.
• Developed a priority order system, which utilized rush orders and prioritized orders based on customer requirements, and also impacted Determined Price.
• Responsible for all SD configuration.
• OTC, ATP, Third Party Order Processing
• Consignment order/inventory processing

Confidential

SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Service Management support
• Preformed systems design, configuration, testing, and business process interface with SAP
• SD end-user documentation facilitate end user post go live support
• Responsible for SD configuration.
• OTC, ATP, Third Party Order Processing
• SIS structures and reports order/inventory processing
• Heavy serialization and batch control due to warranty requirements

Confidential

SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Transportation components of the SD module.
• Heavily FDA regulated.
• Developed end user documentation and facilitated client .