SUMMARY:

• I am an SAP Functional Consultant in the areas of PP/PI, and MM.
• I have been working in SCM and Accounting for over 20 years, with 15 years of that being in SAP.
• I have a background in Accounting, Business Systems Analysis, Supply Chain Management and Analysis, Project Management,
• Business Process Mapping and Re - engineering, SAP Configuration, System testing
• Upgrades and Project team and End-user training experience in the Pharmaceutical, Consumer Package Goods, Electronics, and High Tech Industries in the areas of Production Planning, Quality Management, Materials Management, Warehouse Management, Finance and Controlling, and BW.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

• Food Services
• High Tech Electronics
• Medical Equipment and Electronics
• Pharmaceutical
• Biosciences
• Transportation
• Aerospace and Defense
• Entertainment
• Consumer Package Goods
• Oil and Gas

SAP-SPECIFIC EXPERTISE:

• Production Planning: Configuration of PP/PI, including Order Types, Order Statuses, Planning and Consumption Strategies, Availability Checking Rules, PIR’s, Flexible Planning (including the creation of info structures and planning tables and macros), Demand Management, BOM’s, Routings, Master Recipes, Resources, Work Centers, Production Versions, Capacity Planning, MRP, MPS, Integration with WM for the creation of Transfer Orders, Creation of Custom Batch Search Strategies for PP, PI, IM, and WM, Control Cycle Records, Pick strategies and WM/PP-PI Interfaces, Integration with CO, IM, WM, QM, and Engineering Change Management.
• Materials Management ( MM, IM, WM): Creation of Material Types, Material Master Configuration (including creation of custom fields), Configuration of Movement types and creation of custom movement types, creation of warehouses, storage locations, storage types, bins, control cycle records, custom batch search strategies, configuration of physical inventory and cycle count parameters, complete configuration for new warehouses, defining stock statuses and availability of on-hand stock for planning, configuration of Purchasing (including optimized purchasing processes, defining document types for POs, Requisitions, Contracts, RFQs), Configuration and Creation of Vendor Master and Vendor Account Groups, Source Lists, Info Records, Invoice Verification, and Condition Records.
• Integration: Integration of MM and PP/PI with other modules like SD, FI, and CO
• Finance and Controlling: Created Controlling area, Cost centers, Work Centers, Cost center hierarchy, Cost element groups, Internal Orders, Automatic creation of Primary Cost elements and Creation of Secondary Cost elements. Defined profit centers, Profit center hierarchy, Profit center assignments, Flow-of-values integration of MM and PP/PI modules into COPA value fields, creation of COPA reports, Cost Center Accounting, Creation of Variance Keys for PP/PI, Analysis of WIP and MM and PP/PI Variances, Product Costing. Chart of Accounts, GL Accounts, AP/AR Master Data, Transfer Pricing, Integration with MM and SD
• ABAP/4: Interactive reporting, ABAP Query, SAP Script, CATT, Writing Technical Specs for the development of custom reports, transactions and interfaces, Data Migration activities including data mapping, writing specifications, testing data loads, data cleansing, and processing errors manually using BDC dialog programs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Version /Methodology: Enterprise ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 Versions 4.7 Enterprise, 4.6c, 4.6b, 4.5, 4.0b, 3.1hASAP Modules: MM-IM, MM-WM, PP/PI, QM, CO, BW

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for re - deployment of Project Systems for client site
• Lead workshops with the business to determine current business processes
• Developed Process Flows to compare As-Is/To-Be functionality for converting the site from a MTO to a MTS environment
• Performed all necessary configuration to convert the site to a MTS Environment
• Designed Forecasting Process for loading forecast to SAP to drive demand requirements
• Creating technical and functional specifications for custom programs and reports.
• Testing FRICE Objects created for the MM (IM and WM) and PP objects all master data and transactional data. This includes IDOCs, BAPI s, LSMWs, and Custom Load Programs for conversions
• Validating Configuration meets Functional Design
• Data Cleansing for loading to SAP
• Executing Data Loads for MM and PP.
• Process Validation for configuration
• Post Load Reconciliation and Validation for Master and Transactional data loads
• Leading workshops with the business on how SAP has been configured and what data is needed to support conversions
• Led UAT Workshops with SME s for validation of design
• Provided post go-live support

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Contractor and Employee

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager leading a variety of integrated supply chain functionality deployments:
• Global roll out and upgrade of STO functionality to ECC 6.0
• Global roll out of an integrated Delay Codes process for both OEM and AMS for both sales orders and STO s
• Worked upgrade to ECC 6.0 and EHP5
• PP/PI configuration in support of deployments
• Creation of Multiple MRP Areas to support independent planning for OEM Processes versus Repair and Overhaul processes within the same manufacturing plants
• Designed and mapped SAP to Steelwedge (Sales and Operations Forecasting Application) interfaces, both inbound and outbound
• Developed specifications and worked with the technical team to write the ABAP program to extract all relevant master data, as well as demand and supply data.
• Mapped data into a middleware tool called Rapid Response and stored it in tables.
• Developed the specifications for custom interface to load the SAP data into Steelwedge hierarchies and planning tables to support the forecast processes, using Informatica and custom SQL scripts
• Configured custom info structures, planning types and activities for loading and storing the imported forecast data.
• .Additionally, I wrote the specifications for the inbound interface back to SAP for the forecast, which we loaded to table S076 Standard SOP and Table S876 for custom D&S forecast.
• Developed, Tested, and ran integration test scripts for the deployment to each SAP site.
• Developed processes for using MRP Areas for Embedded Repair and Overhaul processes for the Aftermarket Services Solution and for planning Subcontracting separately.
• Worked on Inventory Optimization across plants and Business Units. This entailed developing operational reports on inventory to tie out with the GL for monthly reporting and development of reports and analyses to assist with making decisions about how to reduce inventories and obsolescence. Also worked on initiatives called Plan for Every Part and One Part One Planner, which were global initiatives to reduce inventory and optimize available supply.
• Project member within Integrated Supply Chain IT department for PP/PI (Planning and Demand Management) for SAP Deployments to multiple sites.
• Blueprinting
• Class Room Pilots and Workshops
• Data Cleansing and Loading
• Development of Integration Test Scripts in HPQC and Defect/Ticket tracking in MQC
• Running of Test Script
• PP/PI, Planning, and Logistics Configuration for the custom processes identified for each site
• Development of Prototypes for new solutions, such as the Embedded Repair and Overhaul Processes within the manufacturing sites, including all configuration in PP, SD, and MM to make the process work.
• Development of Prototype for SD to handle Company Sponsored Sales orders, including all configuration in the SD and PP/PI

Confidential, Toledo, OH

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Testing FRICE Objects created for the MM (IM and WM) and PP objects all master data and transactional data. This includes IDOCs, BAPI s, LSMWs, and Custom Load Programs
• Validating Configuration meets Functional Design
• Creating Extracts from Legacy System
• Data Cleansing, Enrichment, and Transformation for loading to SAP
• Executing Data Loads for MM and PP.
• Process Validation for configuration
• Post Load Reconciliation and Validation for Master and Transactional data loads
• Leading workshops with the business on how SAP has been configured and what data is needed to support conversions

Confidential, Rockford, IL

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• PP/MM/WM Support for ECC 6.0 Deployment and Working Capital Improvement Projects
• WM/PP configuration in support of deploying Release Order Parts and Pick Parts Staging and Inventory Management Processes for Manufacturing.
• Integration of WM and PP for Returns Processes and Orders
• Designed and developed specifications for reports to assist with Sales and Operations Planning, Master Scheduling, and Inventory Tracking
• Developed Cycle Counting program for inventories, including configuration for cycle counting of each storage type
• Blueprinted and configured the entire warehouse for WM Management (warehouse was only IM managed)
• Designed and configured Put - away and Removal Strategies for the manufacturing warehouse, that included warehouse capacity utilization by quant
• Designed master data process for managing Production Versions, BOM s, Routings, Work Centers, as no process for Master Data management was in place.

Confidential, Mukwonogo, WI

Senior Inventory Auditor/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of the Capacity Planning Module within PP/PI for evaluation, leveling and planning.
• Creation of all new capacity profiles, planning profiles, and work center reporting. Testing of profiles and variants.
• Configuration of new templates

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Inventory Auditor/Trainer

Contribution:

• Developed, configured, and documented a new packaged SAP solution for small to mid - size companies for High Tech Manufacturing in the areas of PP/PI.
• Created visio work flows and docume nted the processes for the presentation to SAP for approval to launch the ECC 6.0 packaged solution.

Confidential, Evansville, IN

Senior Inventory Auditor/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• PP/MM/WM Team Lead and Assistant Rollout Manager responsible for managing the rollout and go - live of SAP 4.7 for 3 plant locations and managing the FICO Consultant on the project.
• Conducted Blueprinting activities
• Led Class Room Pilot and all Workshop activities
• Created and Developed Functional Specifications and mappings for the ABAP team to develop 5 legacy application interfaces with SAP, including the development of Functional and Technical Specifications, identification of Function Modules, BAPI s, and IDOC s required for the development
• Integration Testing of Interfaces, as well as developing the technical specifications for the programs in the legacy system to interface back to SAP.
• Led and Managed Integrated Class Room Pilots based on the Global Template
• Carried out all configuration changes to the global template in the areas of MM, PP-PI, WM and for the Material Master that were needed for the US Sites.
• Developed specifications for SAP Console and carried out all testing work related to SAP Console.
• Managed all activities of 9 SME s and 5 other consultants on the project.
• Managed the data extraction, data cleansing and data loading of the PP/PI, MM and WM data for go-live.
• Additionally, I managed and reviewed the integration between FI and MM and PP/PI and CO.
• Created FICO reports for period end processes and established the process for inter-company and intra-company transfers, including transfer pricing procedures and reconciliations.
• Provided go-live and post go-live implementation support, for both SAP and all interfaces.

Confidential, Smyrna, TN

Senior Inventory Auditor/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement strategies and configure SAP to upgrade from 3.1h to 4.6c in a discrete environment, with emphasis in Production Planning (PP/PI) which includes: Shop Floor Control, Demand Management, Forecasting, MRP, Master Scheduling and Production Scheduling, Engineering Change Management, Capacity Planning, Material Master and all related PP/PI, and MM master data (BOM’s, Routings, Master Recipes, Reference Operation Sets, and Production Versions), Batch Management, and Recipe Management
• Also provided secondary configuration and end user support for FICO, IM/WM, and QM modules in a batch managed environment.
• Blueprinting and Regression Testing Activities
• Led Workshops and UAT
• Performed Configuration and development for the implementation of BW 2.1c
• Configuration of IM/WM and the interfaces with PP/PI, including the creation of new movement types, storage locations, storage types, storage bins, and control cycle records.
• Configuration of multiple pick strategies to support the integration of PP/PI with WM
• Creation of multiple order types to support PP/PI processes
• Duties include configuration, testing, and training to ensure end user acceptance and understanding
• Integration testing for PP-PI and interfaces with MM, IM, WM
• Creation of Test Scripts and Documenting of results in accordance with SOP and FDA requirements
• Research and troubleshooting of problems
• Perform business process analysis to recommend, create, and implement best practices utilizing project management techniques
• Go live and post go-live support for Problem resolution and analysis
• Project leader in support of systems integration or conversion and/or new product introduction due to acquisitions of other companies
• Utilize ABAP Query and other report writing tools within SAP as well as Crystal Reports and Sequel to ensure that users have the reports they deem necessary
• Upgrade from 3.1h to 4.6c, patch level 15 completed in May 2001, which included changes to configuration, full system testing of all transactions, interfaces, and reports, and documentation of results in accordance with SOP and FDA requirements
• Developed BPPs and end-user training documentation for upgrade
• Created Test Scripts and conducted testing for Upgrade to test all transactions, interfaces, and reports
• Completed system separation from parent company due to divestiture in July 2001
• System cleanup and archiving projects currently underway as part of the systems separation plan from the parent company
• Completed Upgrade for 4.6c from SAP Hot Pack level 15 to Hot Pack 26 in February 2002, which included testing of modules, sub-modules, transactions and reports potentially impacted by code changes in the Hot Packs
• Provided upgrade support for PP/PI, MM, WM, and FICO due to absence of 3 team members during the upgrade and the following month, in addition to PP
• Cumberland Swan and it's previous owner, Perrigo, are manufacturers of health and beauty products and over the counter pharmaceuticals. As a result I have Extensive knowledge of pharmaceutical industry and FDA requirements.

Confidential, Smyrna, TN

Senior Inventory Auditor/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• SAP Design, prototyping, configuration, testing, and business re-engineering for PP/PI and WM
• Master Data Migration from legacy system and manual processing and research of data load errors
• Writing specs for reports and custom transactions
• Integration testing with MM, WM, FI/CO
• Training Documentation and end-user training
• Solely responsible for Go live and Post go-live implementation support for 2 remote facilities and sole support for PP/PI and WM at the corporate manufacturing site
• Reporting and analysis of Labor, Overhead, and Purchase Price Variances
• Margin Analysis
• Annual Business Planning and Budgeting
• Reporting and analysis of Inventory cost and accuracy for use by corporate and divisional management Liaison between Operations Departments and Accounting
• Month end Closing of all inventory and manufacturing related General Ledger Accounts, including analysis and reporting
• Design and Implementation of inventory related training programs for operations
• Monitoring of physical flow of inventories from purchase through finished goods production and distribution
• Reporting and analysis of obsolescence, shrink, scrap, and salvage sales
• Internal operational audits
• Performing periodic Inventory and systems audits of subcontractors
• Responsible for conducting all physical inventories
• Project team member for acquisitions responsible for inventory, production and warehousing systems implementation and/or integration.

Confidential, Smyrna, TN

Senior Inventory Auditor/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Determined and established cycle count and inventory management methodologies
• Audited procedures, processes, work instructions, and training plans for consistency and compliance with GAAP and corporate guidelines.
• Audit cycle count data
• Monthly reporting of inventory information
• Auditing of Bills of Material and Routers for accuracy and completeness
• Ensured participation and compliance of corporate inventory management requirements by other divisions and contract suppliers
• Training for all departments on inventory management methodologies
• Analysis of Work in process inventories
• Responsible for approving authorizations for inventory transactions and warehouse location setup
• General system troubleshooting
• Monthly analysis of all Shrink and Scrap adjustments for inventories
• Quarterly reconciliation of all subcontract inventories