SUMMARY:

• Senior SAP Consultant with over 20 years of experience. Hands - on experience configuring, implementing and supporting SAP SCM and SAP ECC for companies in the Consumer Goods, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Automotive industries. Strong business process knowledge in the areas of Demand Planning, Materials Management, Warehouse Management and Production Planning.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP skills: SCM DP (Demand Planning) ECC MM (Materials Management) ECC PP (Production Planning) SCM SNP (Supply Network Planning) ECC WM (Warehouse Management) ECC QM (Quality Management) SD Integration ABAP & ABAP Query BW (Business Warehouse)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential (Chicago, Illinois)

SAP ECC and SCM On-Site Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Autosys Upgrade from 4.5 to 11
• Project included upgrading over 8,000 jobs in Autosys in a 4-phase go-live approach
• Performed Data Analysis in MS Excel to determine the jobs per phases
• Responsible for the Data Conversion: Data Extraction, Data Manipulation and Data Upload
• Created various Queries and Report for the in MS Access
• SCM Upgrade from 5.0 to 7.0 on HANA
• Created integration test plan, test scripts and managed their execution
• Worked with Technical Teams to fix code issues related to upgrade
• Apply OSS notes
• Aggregate Planning project in APO-DP (Demand Planning)
• Scope included forecasting for the Textile and Plastic Divisions at aggregate level, seasonal forecasting using 36 months of sales history and disaggregation
• Performed business requirements gathering and participated to overall design. Built Forecast Profiles and Process Chains in APO . Developed and executed integration test plan. Supported end users through acceptance testing, go-live and production support
• Point Of Sales project in ECC
• Scope included collecting POS (Point Of Sales) data from 11 Retailers, mapping the information using an ETL to get a unique format and a report to compare the Retailers sales data with Medline’s own
• Solution included mapping using Talend as ETL, and 2 new custom programs: one to enrich the raw data and the other to report on differences between the Retailers and Medline’s sales
• Activities included business requirements gathering, design, testing and go-live
• Embroidery Make-To-Stock project for the Textile Division in APO-DP and ECC
• Scope included changing Finished Goods from Make-To-Order environement to Make-To-Stock and passing Production Orders with embroidery instructions to the WM solution
• Solution included forecast upload in APO-DP, new MRP Group and changing interfaces to pass embroidery instructions to the WM solution
• Activities included business requirements gathering, design, testing and go-live

Confidential (Louisville, Kentucky)

SAP ECC Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• North America Manufacturing Project. MM/PP-PI/QM/FI/CO
• Scope for the Distilleries included Production Planning (PP-PI), Production Execution, Purchasing.
• MM configuration included Purchasing, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory and Batch Management. Material flows included Intra-company STO, Subcontracting
• PP configuration included MRP strategy ‘11’, MRP, BOM, master recipe, order types, confirmation parameters and infinite scheduling.
• Managed a QM consultant for QM requirements of the Distilleries.
• Activities included business requirements gathering, overall design, MM/PP configuration, testing and go-live
• P2P Project
• Scope included Procurement for indirect and direct materials
• Maintained the Purchase Requisition Release Strategy
• Participated to go-live and Support
• 3PL Planning Project
• Wrote documentation
• Support Team member (MM-WM) for Finished Goods Warehouses in Kentucky

Confidential (Atlanta, Georgia)

SAP ECC Remote Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Torq Tek (Automotive Industry)
• Customized a new PP Production Order Type
• GKN (Automotive Industry)
• Wrote functional specifications to report on scrap by operation
• Provided a solution to store and use APW (Average per week) MPW (Max Per Week)
• Wrote functional specifications for MM reports
• Pratt Industries (Leading supplier of sustainable packaging and display solutions)
• Various questions about Purchasing documents output
• Supported end users in the productive systems

Confidential (Chicago, Illinois)

SAP ECC and SCM On-Site Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Application to update the MRP views material master in ECC
• Activities included business requirements gathering, design, testing and go-live
• Solution included a custom business rule engine to allow the frequent maintenance of the business rules
• First area implemented: to flip items from non-stock to stocked status when receiving a new customer request
• Second area: to adapt the lot-size for items being phased out
• Application “to trap” the sales history when getting a lost business signal
• Activities included business requirements gathering, design, testing and go-live
• Solution was entirely automated and prevented the lost business from being forecasted in SCM
• Implemented a system health check application in ECC and SCM
• Allowed to track key statistics about the state of the systems
• Statistics included the number of alerts, the number of errors with the CIF standard interface and summarized planning data in the Planning Books
• Implemented SCM Life Cycle Planning
• Activities included business requirements gathering, design, testing and go-live
• Helped Inventory Management manage their Item Conversions, 150 active conversions at any given time. Complex scenarios such as converting “many items to many” were involved
• Solution was also used to handle Promotions
• Implemented SCM Alert Monitoring
• Helped 4 Demand Planners to manage their forecasts by exceptions
• Extensive use of macros in the APO Planning Books
• Used SAP’s QuickSizer to validate the sizing of APO-DP
• Participated to the upgrade of Medline’s customer demand signal in SD
• Insured the integration of the solution with MM and SCM
• Developed integration test scripts and managed their execution
• Participated to the upgrade of Medline’s sales history realignment in BW
• Insured the integration of the solution with MM and SCM
• Developed integration test scripts and managed their execution
• Performance improvement project related to planning
• Scope included 3 systems: ECC, BW and SCM
• Gained 2 hours out of a 10 hour week-end job stream and 1 hour out of 5 hour daily stream
• Managed Upgrade from APO 3.1 to SCM 5.0 project
• Worked with technical teams
• Ensured the compatibility of Plug-Ins with ECC, BW and SCM
• Performed the necessary functional backups of planning data
• Created integration test plan, test scripts and managed their execution
• Applied OSS notes as required
• Developed detailed functional specifications for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, and Enhancements
• Supported end users in productive system

Confidential (Chicago, Illinois)

SAP MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• United Stationers sponsored the project in order to keep the small office supplies retailers competitive
• Activities for the template included customizing, unit testing, and integration testing
• Scope included Purchasing, MRP, Inventory Management and such flows as third-party, cross-docking and subcontracting
• Vendor determination used custom condition techniques
• Activities for the roll outs included minimal configuration, testing, data loads, go-live and post go-live support
• Used LSMW to load MM master data such as materials, purchasing info-records, and source lists.
• Rolled out the solution at 2 retailers

Confidential

SAP BW Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Activities included business requirements gathering, design, BW building, testing and go-live
• Delivered and tested BW (Business Warehouse) Business Content reporting info-cubes for SD ( Sales & Distribution) and MM (Materials Management)
• Designed and developed various BW solutions such as Variant Configuration reporting, Backorder report at schedule line level using custom info-cubes
• Developed web-based queries for Sales and Inventory Management
• Developed detailed functional specifications for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, and Enhancements
• Supported end users in productive system

Confidential (Atlanta, Georgia)

SAP MM/PP/APO, BW Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created integration test scripts and managed their execution with the end users for WM, PP-PI and SD modules
• Scope of testing included the integration between WM and PP-PI (supply area) as well as the integration between SD and WM.
• Provided additional to users in Purchasing
• Identified bugs throughout integration testing, documented test results and managed fixes
• Built reporting solution in BW with APO SNP (Supply Network Planning) data
• End user support during go-live

Confidential (Chicago, Illinois)

SAP MM/PP/APO Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• APO-DP (Demand Planning) project
• Scope included forecasting for 180,000 stocked items, customer level demand signal to drive forecast and realignment sales orders shipped for out of territory
• Performed business requirements gathering and overall design. Built a planning book, macros and info-cubes in APO . Developed and executed integration test plan. Supported end users through acceptance testing, go-live and production support
• West coast cross-docking facility project
• Allowed the reduction of the deployment horizon from 3 months to a few weeks. Gathered business requirements and built a prototype using APO-SNP (Supply Network Planning)
• Activities included business requirements gathering, design, testing and go-live
• Provided a prototype in APO-SNP
• Implemented a custom solution
• Medcrest project. MM/PP/FI/CO project for Medline’s Textile Division
• Complex flows with one cutting facility in the US and 3 sewing facilities in the US and Mexico
• Scope included production planning, capacity planning, production orders, subcontracting, third-party and consignment
• 90% of items were Make-To-Stock (MTS). The remaining 10% were embroidered items and were Make-To-Order (MTO)
• MM configuration included Purchasing, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory
• PP configuration included MPS, MRP, BOM, routing, order types, scheduling parameters, shop floor papers, confirmation parameters, capacity planning and infinite scheduling
• Activities included business requirements gathering, overall design, PP (Production Planning) configuration, testing and go-live
• Designed and tested an interface from the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to SAP enabling to pass the MES planned orders as dependent requirements in SAP
• Developed custom transactions in Purchasing so that account assignment were always correct by default
• Developed detailed functional specifications for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, and Enhancements
• Supported end users in productive system.

Confidential (Atlanta, Georgia)

SAP MM/WM On-Site Consultant

Responsibilities:

• WM (Warehouse Management) for UCB Chemicals
• Scope included configuration of storage types, put away and picking strategies, high rack storage and picking area
• Activities included business requirements gathering, design, configuration, testing, go-live activities and support
• PP (Production Planning) for UCB Chemicals
• Scope included better planning between the manufacturing facility and the central warehouse
• Activities included business requirements gathering, design, configuration, testing, go-live activities and support
• MRP for UCB Pharma
• Scope included MRP, BOM, purchasing of components, subcontracting in an environment with Batch Management
• Activities included business requirements gathering, design, configuration, testing, go-live activities and support
• Central purchasing for UCB Information Services Department
• Scope included the Purchasing of IS hardware
• Activities included business requirements gathering, design, configuration, testing, go-live activities and support
• Software validation project for the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration ).
• Developed an integration test plan for SD (Sales Distribution), MM (Materials Management) and WM (Warehouse Management) and managed test execution by end-users
• Developed and tested the Arcos report (UCB Pharma) according to DEA requirements
• Supported end users in the productive system

Confidential

SAP MM/WM Consultant. Member part of the project team

Responsibilities:

• Full scope implementation using ASAP methodology
• Scope included Purchasing, MRP, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory, and such flows as consignment and subcontracting
• Performed business requirements gathering, design, MM and WM configuration, testing and go-live activities
• Post go-live support

Confidential

SAP ABAP/MM Functional Analyst, Analyst/ Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, programmed and tested transactions and reports in Inventory Management and Procurement areas
• Most enhancements involved the purchasing transactions (PO creation, PO output) in an environment with multiple currencies.

Confidential

SAP ABAP/MM Functional Analyst, Analyst/ Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, and tested data conversion programs to convert data from legacy system to SAP R/2
• Objects converted were material master, vendor master, purchasing info-record as well as assets

Confidential

SAP ABAP/MM, Analyst/ Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, programmed and tested transactions in Procurement and Warehousing areas
• Provided transactions to facilitate Goods Receipts (GR) in an environment using Batch Management

Confidential

SAP ABAP/MM, Analyst/ Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, programmed and tested ABAP reports in Inventory Management and Procurement areas