SUMMARY

• Extensive experience in leading, designing and implementing SAP based solutions and processes that address relevant business challenges and contribute to the achievement of tactic and strategic objectives.
• SAP R/3 and ECC 6.0 configurator with over 19 years experience in project management, and customizing aspects of the Sales and Distribution (SD) and Financial Accounting (FI) modules.
• 10+ full life - cycle SAP Global Projects implementations with deep hands-on configuration experience as well as project and program management.
• Some experience in the Materials Management (MM) and Controlling (CO) modules. E-Commerce strategy training.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP R/3
• ECC 6.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Downers Grove, Illinois

SAP ECC 6.0 New Implementation Project Internal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in New SAP implementation Project Preparation, Business Blue Print, Realization, Final Preparation, Go - Live and Support.
• Interviewed, assessed and participated in the decision making of candidate hiring.
• Act as Project Manager as needed to implement different SAP based functionality including SD, MM, FI and EDI modules.
• Responsible for managing various IT projects, local, regional and global, involving mixed teams (company personnel +external consultants).
• Lead and responsible for the SD module design, development, configuration, testing, implementation, training and roll-ut.
• Design, configure and implement business processes for this global company, including processes for Sales, Delivery and Billing.
• Act as a liaison, facilitator and go-to person between the SD, FI/CO, MM, BW and ABAP teams.
• Gather, assess and configure global definition and assignment of Organizational Hierarchy, Plants, Shipping PointsSales Office, Pricing, Schedule Line, ATP, Shipping, Transportation, Billing, Partner Determination, Output Determination, Text Determination, Incompletion, Data conversion, Interface Testing & End user Training.
• Assist team members with configuration of both MM and FI modules.
• Responsible for end user support at all levels: Geography, Functional
• Implementation of EDI inbound and outbound processes such as inbound 850 and 204, outbound 810, 880 and 214.
• Interfacing of Shipping and Transportation software with SAP.
• Gather requirements, blue printing and gap analysis for FICO related enhancements and projects.
• Reviewed, assessed and configured credit management processes for the US.
• FICO liaison between the US and Denmark with various enhancement requests.
• Configure Sales and Purchase tax codes.
• Configure payment terms.
• Assist with blocked billing issues for multiple reasons.
• Configure account assignment for G/L account postings.
• Planned report structure and information with B/W team member.

Confidential, Warrenville, Illinois

SAP ECC 6.0 SD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• . Joined team in order to gather Sales and Distribution requirements for Mexico implementation of SD module. Blue-Printing, writing scope document, business model design and business process design.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

SAP ECC 6.0 Global Senior Applications Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project managed global model changes in Great Britain, Switzerland, Puerto Rico and Canada. In charge of gathering business requirements, blue printing, writing scope document, business model design and business process design.
• Project managed global consignment process including EDI transactions.
• Interviewed, assessed and participated in the decision making of software vendors for a Sales Planning and Trade Promotion Management Platform software.
• Project managed the implementation of new plants in the US for a new distribution warehouse. Included EDI processes.
• Tracked progress of projects and act as liaison between team members and business community.
• Selected required project members both on the technical and business sides.
• Wrote and tracked time table of project as well as unit and integration test scenarios.
• Involved in Methodology design for the company and IT (steering committee concept, global prioritization).
• Independently lead the SD module through all life cycle stages of implementation from Requirement gathering, Blue printing, unit testing, integration testing, go live and post go live support.
• Designed, configured and implemented business processes for this global company, including processes for Sales, Delivery and Billing.
• Acted as a liaison, facilitator and go-to person between the SD, FI/CO, MM, BW and ABAP teams.
• Gathered, assessed and configured global definition and assignment of sales organizations, plants, distribution channels, sales office, sales group, sales area.
• Reviewed, assessed and configured global credit management processes for France, Switzerland, Australia and Mexico.
• Designed, Built and Managed OTC (Order to Cash) process in order to optimize core business process, saved the company time and money and provided industry best practices solutions to stay ahead of the competition.
• Gathered requirements, designed and wrote specs for various interface projects between SAP and a third party.
• Participated in numerous ERP implementations at various responsibilities that include team management, functional analysis, system administration, data analysis, mapping, custom interfaces, on-site implementation, training and support.
• Participated in numerous RFC projects.
• In charge of SD module upgrade and finding enhancements from 4.6C to ECC 6.0.
• Subject matter expert for SD in rebate processing, customer master, organizational units, pricing, credit management, invoicing, output determination, deliveries, shipping, route determination, billing, incompletion log, text determinationpartner determination, batch determination.
• Involved in US distributor model change project which included customer hierarchy redesign (PA), new customer groups, new distribution channels, new routing, new material number (through material determination), new pricing conditions.
• Redesigned France, UK, US, and Mexico price modeling to align all countries and re-evaluate and build a uniform customer hierarchy.
• Designed revenue recognition process for the US, which included item category determination, and several user-exits.
• Configured pricing procedures including pricing conditions, access sequences, condition types, field catalogs, and account key determination.
• Configured customer and product hierarchies, Account assignment and cost center determination, Foreign Trade and
• commodity code, Input and output tax, plants abroad, Cost center determination by sales order reason code.
• Supported interface systems such as Blue Planner, GELCO and SAFARI.
• Gathered requirements, blue printing and gap analysis for revenue recognition project.
• Reviewed, assessed and configured global credit management processes for France, Switzerland, Australia and Mexico.
• Gathered, designed and implemented interface projects for recording payments, deductions and off invoice with a third party software.
• Redesigned global payment process and interfaces with Deutche Bank Europe.
• Configured Swiss, Czech Republic, Mexico and France payment program, including house bank, payment methodbank account, GL account assignment and IBAN setup.
• Defined country ISO codes for IBAN purposes, defined country specific checks for bank number length.
• Configured intrastat reporting requirements for European entities, including ABAP query writing.
• Configured Sales and Purchase tax codes.
• Configured payment terms.
• Assisted with blocked billing issues for multiple reasons.
• Managed the setting up of 1099 capability in the US and set up new withholding tax codes.
• Configured line layouts for open item processing, selection fields, valuation strategy, and Cost center account assignment.
• Configured customer hierarchy configuration in PA.
• Designed, implemented and configured new plants, shipping points, purchasing groups for US and Swiss entities.
• Redesigned global product hierarchy and acting as the liaison with the business.
• Supported existing custom processes for Swiss entity.
• Configured automatic posting, determination for movement types and valuation class determination, automatic invoice verification commodity code.
• Managed global data and aligned customer master, material master, pricing models, and costing.
• Maintained factory calendars.
• Independently lead the New Plant Project through all life cycle stages of implementation from Requirement gathering,
• Blue printing, unit testing, integration testing, go live and post go live support.
• Wrote business process procedures, Unit Testing and Integration Test Scenarios.
• Wrote ABAP queries and CATT procedures.
• mplementation team member of SD cube which involved discussions, design and testing of SD cube and related queries.
• Wrote scope document, gathered requirements and tested global Forecast Accuracy Queries.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

SAP R/3 4.6C Consultant / Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in numerous ERP implementations at various responsibilities that include team management, functional analysis, system administration, data analysis, mapping, custom interfaces, on-site implementation, training and support.
• Worked closely with management executives to identify and implement enhancement opportunities for US, and European operations.
• Designed, configured and implemented business processes for this global client.
• Acted as a liaison, facilitator and go-to person between the SD, CRM, FI/CO, BW, MM and PP teams.
• Subject matter expert for SD in quotation processing, rebate/commission processing, customer master, scheduling agreements, organizational units, pricing, credit management, invoicing, output determination, deliveries, shippingbilling, incompletion log, text determination, partner determination, batch determination.
• Configured pricing procedures including pricing conditions, access sequences, condition types, field catalogs, and account key determination.
• Involved with testing and configuration of Global Fleet Management project.
• Wrote numerous technical specs for reports, user exits, and CMOD/VOFM routines and requirements.
• Configured route, shipping point, text, partner, output, revenue account and pricing determination.
• Configured order through billing flow including incompletion procedures, document, item category, and schedule line.
• Created, mapped and tested EDI inbound and outbound IDOCs including order create, order change and order response mapping.
• Designed and configured new order types to meet revamped order processing procedure.
• Configured copy rules to enable data interchange between sales documents, delivery and billing documents.
• Configured and test Units of Measure with the MM team.
• Debugged user-exists, setting breakpoints in programs to check or replace variable values.
• Configured plants abroad functionality including European Intrastat and Extrastat reporting, foreign and domestic tax determination, consignment process, movement types, and Stock Transport Orders.
• Determined revenue accounts through the Account keys.
• Tested and analyzed currency exchange issues between the various currencies.
• Maintained GR/GI number assignment of Goods Receipt and derivation rules.
• Configured master data, account groups, partner determination and field selection.
• Maintained factory and holiday calendars and document number ranges.
• Configured account assignment for G/L account postings.
• Planned report structure and information with B/W team member.

Confidential, Des Plaines, Illinois

SAP R/3 3.1H & 4.6C Implementation Team Member & Global projects Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Global implementation team member. Involved in rolling out SAP to global locations worldwide.
• Designed, configured and implemented business processes for Sales, Delivery and Billing, including company pricing, pricing procedure configuration, additional condition types, determination of revenue accounts through the Account keys, assignment of condition types to the value fields in COPA, configure pricing procedures to have the right account keys for the pricing procedure types.
• Configuration of pricing conditions, access sequences, condition types, and pricing procedures and the allocation of allowed conditions to sales organizations.
• Wrote numerous technical specs for reports, user exits, and VOFM routines.
• Project managed and configured a company wide consignment process with EDI, including creation of EDI output documents, Mapping IDOCs, configured EDI partners, handled messages for inbound orders.
• This project increased sales by $1.5 million.
• Subject matter expert for SD in quotation processing, rebate/commission processing, customer master, scheduling agreements, organizational units, pricing, credit management, invoicing, output determination, deliveries, shippingbilling, incompletion log, text determination, partner determination.
• Configuration of sales and delivery process and the setting up of availability checks, delivery scheduling, packing, goods issue and billing.
• Copy rules configuration to enable data interchange between sales documents, delivery and billing documents.
• Customizing of materials and customer master data. Making fields mandatory, optional, display only or hidden as requested by users.
• Creating document types i.e. sales, shipping and billing documents and determining how these documents are used in different sales organizations.
• Route determination configuration, shipping point determination configuration.
• Developed detail upgrade strategy, project plan and user training for system conversion to SAP version 4.6C.
• Manage integration testing and transports from Test/QAS to Production to ensure the 2 instances remain in synchronization.
• Debugged custom programs and user-exits.
• SIS (Sales Information System) configuration and imputing characteristics and values, copy management.
• ABAP Query skills including creation of Functional Areas, User Groups and ABAP Query Reports.
• Created new Characteristics and fields, and assigned them to a field catalog.
• Created new SIS structures with custom routines.
• Copy methods and version control.
• Developed detail upgrade strategy, project plan and user training for system conversion to SAP version 4.6C.
• Identified business design issues, define reports/output documents, and define interfaces.
• Working extensively defining user and conversion requirements for the Finance module in SAP for various implementation locations.
• Customized and configured the customer line item layout.
• Customized and configured reason codes for document cancellation for the A/R, A/P.
• Defined and configured the automatic procedures for the payment program.
• Wrote business process procedures for relevant A/R, A/P and G/L.
• Wrote test scripts and cases, identified master data, developed/managed test and implementation plans.