SUMMARY: 

• Extensive supply chain experience gained via implementations of SAP APO Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), ECC Purchasing and Materials Management, Customer Master, Sales Order Management, and Business Warehouse and reporting (BW).
• Leadership and hands - on experience in identification, conversion, and governance of master data.
• Experience in leading cross-functional global teams (an on-site assignment at SJM’s Malaysia manufacturing plant for four-months); numerous other local and international assignments.
• Experience in supporting supply chain functions such as forecasting, inventory management, production planning, Purchasing, and distribution.
• Academic and professional experience in both IT and business environments.
• Experience in managing multiple projects (PMP certification from 2003-2011).
• Experience in hiring, managing, and leading teams.
• Excellent communication skills (former President of the Toastmasters club at Medtronic).

KEY SKILLS:

Professional/business: Supply Chain, Master Data Management, Business Intelligence, Project Management, Change Management, Leading teams, Public speaking/communication.

Technical: SAP APO Supply Network Planning, SAP APO Demand Planning, SAP ECC Purchasing, SAP ECC Other (Material Master, Customer Master, Sales order management), SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Business Explorer (BEx), SAP Business Objects (BO), MS Office.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Plymouth, MN

Supply Chain Master Data Manager / SNP Lead, Global Supply Chain 

• Hired, led, coached, and mentored a team of employees and consultants to collect, cleanse, load, and support master data for demand planning, supply planning, production planning, purchasing, and distribution functions for the Global SNP implementation.
• Defined master data fields and processes in safety stock, target stock, lead times, product lifecycle, forecast signal flow (DP->SNP->ECC), and product Flow (Mfg -> end-tier locations) with the goal of right-sizing inventory, reducing obsolescence and lead times, and improving customer service.
• By reviewing past sales and distribution, identified, cleansed, loaded, and validated over 200k plant-material combinations for all of St. Jude Medical’s finished-goods manufacturing and distribution facilities; each combination had close to 100 associated master data fields.
• Led requirements gathering and design discussions for the overall project and provided approvals.
• Led 60+ data owners responsible for 66 finished-goods manufacturing plants and distribution centers located in 45 countries for data collection, data cleansing, data loads, and data verification, which resulted in successful completion of tasks in very compressed timelines.
• Gathered requirements and defined logic for six key master and transaction data reports to measure various supply chain KPIs; validated the reports and trained users on those reports.
• Created master data playbooks, data dictionaries, report specs, process documents such as data settings for product lifecycle, project plans, resource plans, training documents, validation documents, data upload and download design documents, and data cleansing strategy documents.
• Worked with senior leadership across the company in supply chain and IT to advocate the benefit of the project and to keep their resources available and engaged in the project (change management).

Confidential

Senior IT Business Analyst

• Led the Global APO DP (Demand Planning) implementation, which finally enabled St. Jude Medical to start managing global demand forecasts and adjustments ($5.5B annual revenue) in a central and global application and to start measuring forecast accuracy at all nodes of the supply chain.
• Designed and configured the DP system to meet all forecasting requirements, including phase-in/phase-outs, like modeling, disaggregation, proportional factor maintenance, forecast rollups (Countries to Regions to Global), and forecast overrides.
• Designed and created Data Cubes, Data Store Objects (DSO), Data sources, Key Figures and Characteristics in APO BW to extract, store, and transform data from the enterprise BW system.
• Led Blueprinting, Realization, Testing, Training, Documentation, and Change Management.
• Designed and configured a BU specific DP and SNP system (prior to the global implementations).
• Implemented SAP Procurement and material planning at St. Jude’s Penang, Malaysia, manufacturing facility (on-site in Penang for four months), which included design, testing, training, documentation, and reports; created conversion and validation rules for all material master and procurement data from the legacy system into the SAP system and worked with the ETL team to complete data loads.

Principal IT Business Systems Analyst

• Led the creation of inbound and outbound interfaces and data conversion from and to the legacy demand planning, manufacturing, and data warehousing systems during the Global Supply Network Planning (SNP) implementation; actively participated in requirements gathering, design, validation, configuration, training, and hypercare for the entire project.

Sr. / Principal Business Systems Analyst

• Led the Customer Master Data Conversions, including one for the Europe SAP implantation which had customers in 27 countries with diverse data requirements and formats.
• Data conversion success rates were consistently over 99%.
• Led the SAP ECC reporting and BW reporting functions for the SAP sales team.

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

• Identified constraint resources using the ‘Theory of Constraint’ methodology and worked with senior management to optimize the constraint resources for maximum competitive advantage.

Business Systems Analyst

• Implemented IT projects in a multitude of applications, processes, and systems. Examples include implementation of FDA mandated regulations such as 21 CFR Part 11 for regulatory systems, upgrade of a document management system (Documentum 4i) to over 1500 users, Implementation of Quality Systems Website, and implementation of Operational Change Management (OCM).