SUMMARY:

• Results oriented people leader and a senior ICT professional with over 19 years of SAP implementation experience, with 5+ years in team lead capacity.
• Demonstrable experience in managing large teams with project delivery focus.
• Solution delivery of the top class ERP solutions involving large teams of consultants.
• Exceptional communication, problem solving and cross - group collaboration skills
• Demonstrable track record of effectively managing a complex range of stakeholders and 3rd party vendors.
• Excellent writing, presentation & negotiation skills
• Proven ability to stay abreast of technology innovation, external trends in the market and ability to identify its potential for the business.
• Experience with managing IT outsourced companies involved in SAP implementation and support work.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders (both internal and external) and demonstrates strong facilitation skills and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Agile and flexible - proven ability to adapt to changing priorities and business needs.
• Proven ability to cultivate successful networks - identifies partnership opportunities; initiates collaborative relationships and drives successful outcomes
• Extensive experience as SAP functional consultant/ analyst in the Sales and distribution/ Materials management/ Procurement/ Logistics execution/ Supply chain management areas in various multi-national companies.
• SAP Project Implementation experience: Successfully implemented 13 End-to-End SAP R/3 projects for large multinational companies - 1 at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Australia, 1 at Confidential Australia, 5 at Goodman Fielder Australasia, 1 at CHEP Asia Pacific, 2 at Confidential, 1 at Queensland Cement Brisbane, 2 at Telecom New Zealand, 1 at Confidential (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation / Radio-Pharmaceuticals).
• Core competency and very strong knowledge in the area of SAP Materials Management (MM Stock and Non Stock Procurement), Sales and Distribution (SD), Inventory Management, Logistics Execution (LE), Direct Store Delivery (DSD) with hands-on and team lead experience in all of the above modules.
• Extensive hands on system configuration and test experience in SAP - 12 years in SAP MM/ Materials Management module (Stock and non-stock Procurement, Inventory Management, Logistics Invoice Verification), LE/ Logistics Execution module - (Delivery / Shipment processing); 7 years in SD / Sales and Distribution module - Sales Order Processing /Pricing / Invoicing, master data conversions; 2 years in WM (warehouse management).
• 19 years’ experience in SAP implementation work in a multidisciplinary SAP environment (Procurement, Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, Finance, HCM).
• In depth experience in Business Process analysis, optimization and solution architect capability to map standardized industry specific processes.
• Proven consulting skills across technology, process and people. Ability to lead initiatives and effectively communicate with stakeholders.
• SAP requirements gathering, functional specification development, application/module testing & functionality support, SAP project go-live and cut over experience.
• SAP configuration skills in materials management (procurement focus) and integration with AP/AR.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for SAP Sales and Distribution, Logistics, Materials Management modules.
• SAP integration experience - SAP integration with third party systems/ logistics providers using NetWeaver, EDI, iDOC, etc.; Trouble shooting of failed Idocs in SD/ MM modules. Experienced in integration projects between SAP MM, SD and third party products such as salesforce CRM.
• Basic understanding of other SAP modules - PP, QM, FI, PM and their integration with SD/MM modules, APO, BI, BW, SRM etc.
• Basic understanding and special interest in the new technology SAP S/4 HANA (In memory computing) and MDM (Master data management).
• Excellent knowledge of SAP tables in various modules - MM, SD, LE, FI
• Experience in SAP quick queries based on table joins and logical databases.
• Extensive change management experience involving enterprise wide business transformation programs.
• Complete SDLC experience, from initiation phase through to post go-live support and upgrades.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology in project management.
• Extensive SAP system testing experience (5 years) - unit testing/ integration testing/ regression testing/ UAT. -Solution manager and HP QC.
• Experience with phased roll out strategies (geographical and functional) as well as global template roll out/ deployment.
• Extensive customer facing/ consultancy experience, able to build long term relationships at all levels that creates mutual trust and confidence.
• Extensive experience in management of “on shore” and “off shore” IT teams in order to get the best possible outcomes for all stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work at different levels in multinational, multi-cultural and multiple time zones.
• Excellent relationship building skills including negotiation and diplomacy.
• Able to proactively offer innovative solutions, challenge the status quo and lead business stakeholders to agreement.
• An excellent understanding of how technology can enable business process to drive business benefit.
• Strong client orientation & consultancy, strong experience and demonstrated ability to support project delivery lifecycle.
• As SD/ MM team lead, led the successful SAP implementation at Confidential (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) as part of the enterprise wide ERP implementation program for multiple divisions - radio pharmaceuticals, minerals, radiation services, silicon, nuclear science and technology research on single SAP platform.
• Successfully implemented automated “sales order to cash” cycle and inventory management transactions in SAP for “direct to market” business at Confidential involving idoc interfaces with DHL Manhattan system (3rd party logistics provider).
• Successful design and implementation of SAP for the stock replenishment/ Procurement/ materials management processes for Confidential Supermarket stores and Big W (Galaxy project).
• Implemented MM module as part of Ten Star project at Confidential (SAP release 4.7)
• Implemented upgrade project from 31H to 46c at Queensland Cement, Brisbane - MM/ SD modules.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP SD / MM SME (Subject Matter Expert for Sales and Distribution)

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Confidential enterprise wide, ERP implementation program - Provide subject matter expertise across the full range of SAP Sales and Distribution, Materials Management functionality to enable successful implementation and delivery of the SCM tracks of the Ae ( Confidential enterprise) Program within scope, time, budget and stakeholder expectations for all the business divisions within Confidential - Confidential Health/ Radio-Pharmaceuticals, ANM (Australian Nuclear Medicine), Mining and Minerals Consultancy, Radiation Services, Silicon Irradiation etc.
• Execute the Supply Chain project plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs in all phases and provide guidance on SAP project implementation methodologies
• Work with the Finance, Procurement and Quality and Nuclear Business teams (and other relevant Confidential stakeholders) to identify improvement and service automation opportunities
• Consult with key stakeholders and clients to define and translate business requirements into functional specifications for the overall Supply Chain implementation including any other related projects of the Ae Program
• Validate the Vision and the Business Plan including ratifying the scope of work to be addressed within the Supply Chain tracks of the Ae Program
• Development of SAP supply chain solutions along with the consulting team and Confidential team members.
• Organise and facilitate design workshops for the Supply Chain tracks of the Ae, in order to develop the detailed design including understanding and ownership of business processes
• Work closely with project stakeholders to integrate any other Ae related projects into the overall Ae Program, and ensure alignment and integration with other Confidential business processes
• Develop and coordinate master data/Transactional data cleansing strategies and data migration strategies for the Supply Chain tracks. Assist in data conversion.
• Review and Approval of functional specification documents related with custom developments for various objects like - workflows, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms.
• Assist in change management process across Ae and other related projects and persuade stakeholders to adopt the new way of working.
• For the Supply Chain tracks lead and coordinate testing, and go-live change management to ensure the working system is suited to and meets business needs
• Prepare documentation, procedure manuals and courses to provide the best source of resolution for helpdesk inquires.
• Close liaison and monitoring of the tasks assigned to the third party vendor / implementation partner consultants (HCL-Axon and others).
• Provide team leadership across multiple consultants - internal and external and from cross modular expertise/ backgrounds.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the latest developments and best practice for SAP MM, WM and SD
• Undertake additional duties as required and during periods of leave of other staff where relevant for Ae and related projects.
• Provide the post go live support to all the business divisions.

Confidential

Senior SAP Consultant - SD/MM/LE

Responsibilities:

• Global template roll out/ deployment of SAP ECC6 across Australia and NZ.
• System testing of the EDI incoming orders from DHL (logistics service provider) to Pfizer for the “direct to pharmacy” business model in the order to cash stream.
• System testing of inventory management transaction interfaces from DHL (logistics service provider) to Pfizer.
• Setting of automatic background jobs in SAP for creation of deliveries, picking, packing, goods issue, billing, backorder rescheduling transactions for the sales orders received.
• Troubleshooting of Idoc failures in the area of sales order creation / material movements / delivery processing.
• Analysis of stock discrepancy reports between Pfizer SAP system and DHL Manhattan system and fixing the underlying issues.
• Liaison with Pfizer USA on Australia specific system settings and customizations.
• Testing of master data interfaces between SAP and salesforce CRM system for pricing, billing, material master and customer master data.
• Master data preparations for pricing condition records and customer masters in SAP and the interfaces with third party non SAP systems for this master data.
• Go live preparations and end user .
• Post go live support and providing 1 month hyper care post go live.

Confidential

Senior SAP Consultant - MM/SD/LE

Responsibilities:

• Conducting business requirement workshops in the procurement area.
• Preparing AS-IS and TO-BE process documentation and gap analysis.
• Business Process design, Development of PDDs (Process definition documents) and BPPs (Business Process Procedures) and DSD’s (Development specifications documents) in the “Procure to Pay” area.
• SAP system configuration and design of functional specifications for custom enhancements, reports and interfaces in the area of Procurement execution, Logistics execution, Inventory management and Reporting in these areas.
• Testing of standard SAP functionalities and custom abap developments in the area of stores replenishment, procurement, inventory management, stock transport orders between DCs and Stores.
• Successfully implemented the stock replenishment/ procurement execution and inventory management process in SAP for 40 DC’s and 2000 Stores across AU and NZ. ( Confidential Supermarkets, Big W, Dan Murphy’s Liquor, BWS Liquor, Thomas Dux Grocers, Countdown NZ supermarkets).
• Design and Testing of customized reports for transaction data extraction for purchase orders, deliveries and stock adjustments from SAP for feeding the data to data warehousing reporting system that uses Business Objects.
• Design and setting up of automatic background jobs and program variants to facilitate the conversion of requisitions into purchase orders/ STO’s, and automatic creation of STO deliveries based on cut off times and rosters.
• Design and testing of mass purchase requisition upload enhancement in SAP based on data files received from non-SAP systems for stock items.
• Liaison with offshore abap developers/ implementation partner/ vendor in India (Tata Consultancy Services) in order to get the required developments completed and resolution of any queries related with the enhancements/ functional specifications/ testing.
• Business requirements gathering and analysis and mapping these to SAP solutions (both standard and custom functionalities in SAP).

Confidential

Principal SAP Consultant - MM/SD/LE

Responsibilities:

• MM / LE/ DSD team lead and SAP solution architect for NexGen project for SAP rollout to Dairy and Baking business in AU and NZ.
• Team Lead role leading a team of 10 SAP Consultants in the area of SAP-MM & LE (including delivery processing and shipments in transportation).
• Responsible for delivering and maintaining SAP configuration for all the Goodman Fielder divisions in the area of SAP MM, LE and DSD(Direct Store Delivery)
• EDI integration with third party logistics- TOLL/RAND Logistics, Move Logistics and Easy Logistics using SAP PI with AS2 connection
• Data collection/data conversions for Purchasing Info records, Contracts, Source Lists, PO output condition records, ‘Stock on hand’, open purchase orders conversions.
• Design of inter/intra company stock transport orders, Vendor contracts in purchasing
• Upgrade Configuration Changes, Process Re-designing, analysis and testing of customized objects, verifying and testing features in ECC6 version
• Ongoing Maintenance and Production Support for all business divisions
• Identification, allocation and monitoring of project tasks of team members and setting and measuring KRA for the team
• Liaison with business team leaders in identification of opportunities for improvement in the information systems within the Procurement, Logistics, MM areas.
• Conducting business workshops for requirements gathering, fit-gap and blueprint.
• Manage both internal SAP resources as well external resources (contractors) on various internal projects as well as production support issues.

Confidential

Senior SAP SD /LE/ MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successful roll out/ implementation of global SAP template in CHEP New Zealand.
• Enterprise structure configuration in SD/ MM modules for Chep New Zealand.
• Design of purchase order approval/ release strategies in SAP.
• Design of functional specifications for enhancements in the area of Sales order processing.
• Introduction of Customer consignment processing at Chep.
• Introduction of third party sales process at Chep.
• Design and configuration of pricing procedure for sales orders.
• Specs for custom report, output determination, user-exits and pricing requirements
• Design of test scripts for Unit tests, Integration tests and UAT.
• Post go-live support.

Confidential

SAP Consultant MM/SD/LE

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of business processes and requirements of the newly acquired company “Meadowfresh NZ”.
• Configuring new enterprise structure in the existing SAP R/3 landscape to reflect the newly acquired business. Functional specifications for the special procurement process / milk receiving cockpit for raw milk and pig carcass meat procurement development.
• Design and Configuration of non-stock purchase requisition approval process/ release strategy in SAP R/3.
• Design of sub-contracting purchase scenarios, sub-contracting BOM.
• Designing the Material requirements planning process for the Engineering spares
• Designing the strategy and the process for carrying out the physical inventory
• Key User/ SME (Subject Matter Expert) for SAP R/3 Procurement and Inventory Management areas.
• Preparation of test scenarios, User Acceptance testing, Go Live cutover activities
• Resolution of help desk issues and change requests for the already live businesses.

Confidential

SAP MM/ SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Providing application support for MM and SD modules of SAP R/3.
• Key member in Confidential Corporate Restructure project (Merging of Information technology products division into consumer electronics division)
• Re-implementation/ upgrade of SAP R/3 from version 40B to Enterprise version 4.7 for Confidential and Confidential New Zealand in the same SAP instance.
• Business Process design, Development of PDDs (Process definition documents) and BPPs (Business Process Procedures) and DSD’s (Development specifications documents) in the “Procure to Pay” area for Confidential and Confidential New Zealand.
• Design of non-stock purchase order approval process in SAP R/3 Procurement module within Materials Management module.
• Design of SAP workflow process in SAP R/3 for the non-stock PO approval process and the integration of SAP PO workflow process with the SAP HR organization chart.
• Design of new business model for Confidential “VAIO” laptops (GVD - Global Vaio direct process) - dealer direct replenishment concept based on standard inventory concept. - Integration Lead for Sales and Distribution and Materials Management areas.
• Issue Resolution for EDI/ Idoc problems in the inbound logistics processes - Inbound delivery creation and Inbound Vendor FOB invoice creation.
• Implementing functionality of Subcontracting in purchasing module for the Repack items.
• Participated in the Regional APO project in Singapore in view of implementing Demand Forecasting in Confidential
• Detailed review of all business processes in 4 different Confidential sales companies/ countries in Asia-pacific region to arrive at common/ best practice processes with a view to implementing a common APO planning solution for the entire Asia-pacific region
• Completed high-level conceptual design as well as detailed business process design for the demand planning, Consensus Forecasting, projected inventory calculations, PO generation logic design in SNP, order fulfillment, Gross profit simulation, Days’ supply calculations, Product allocation logic design, Alert definitions
• Implementing Purchase order approval strategies for non-stock items using classification.
• Supporting PSR (projected stock requirements) system realized through the flexible planning of LIS.
• Implementing new functionality of Blanket Purchase Orders for project cost tracking -purposes for non-stock items/ services