SUMMARY:

• I am a solution delivery, program & project manager with 22 years of experience in the implementation of ERP systems, familiar with the design, configuration, implementation, administration, and governance of ERP systems and ERP project management for Pharmaceutical, Food, Consumer Goods, and Manufacturing, companies specializing on Finance, Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
• Familiar with the tasks of: Project Management & Coordination of medium to large projects external/internal teams and ERP projects ( Waterfall and Agile Methodologies)
• Solution Designs and Implementations both Greenfield and Bluefield approach.
• Business Process Analysis and Design in ARIS or VISIO
• Customising and Configuration and Cutover Activities in the Finance, Controlling, Human Resources, Material Management, Plant Maintenance and SCM areas including Module and Application architectural design, Prototyping and Global Template Modelling
• Security and user profile management
• System Audits and Controls
• Business Re - engineering and Process redesign related to procurement and sales cycles and Supply chain Management
• Application development and Fine-Tuning
• Systems-Upgrading
• Document Management, Archiving & Retention
• Coordination of System User Technical& Functional Training Programs
• Data Migration & Conversion
• Master Data Management and Retention
• System Carve Out and System Absorption Projects as well as Global Roll Outs
• Module and application Testing ( HP QC, HP ALM, SOLMAN Test workbench)
• Key User Support and post-implementation support
• HR Administration, HR Workflow and Authorizations
• Solution Manager - Documentation and Solution Management, Project Delivery RoadMap, testing workbench, configuration management. Ticket Management (CRM Monitor)

CAREER OBJECTIVE:

My objective is to obtain a highly challenging career opportunity with the potential for personal and professional growth through dedication and continuous education.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Engaged on the LAURA EWM Project for Pharma Warehouses in Kaiseraugst replacing the LVS/MES system and its seamless integration in terms of business process, documentation and integrated solution into Forward.
• The project is an initiative to replace a 20 year old custom developed solutions for MES, WH and Logistics execution including Track and Trace( ATTP) bringing about a technology and business process redesign and innovation by using the SAP EWM solution and its integration to MFS, QM, serialization.
• Acting as a project Manager with strong knowledge of MES, EWM and Material Management including manufacturing integration, quality management, packaging, material valuations and inventory controls and accounting.
• Integration coordination and manufacturing POC SME for SAP MES and Connected manufacturing in Packaging area.

Confidential

Business Analyst and Integration Solution Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working in a S/4 Hanna SAP environment, with ECC physical logistics running in ECC as a main focus, this includes design and build together with SAP in the WM/EWM 9.2 >9.5, Transportation and Supply Chain Management area, in the quest for new solution or improvements to the current design.
• Easing off the transition of Warehouses worldwide from WM to EWM and of in-house transportation solutions into TM (Lighthouse Projects)
• Coordinating off shore resources in order to successfully configure, test and deploy new functionality in core ECC handled via BRs hand in hand with Confidential ’s architecture and process structure (BPML) in Solman 7.2 and CHARM
• GLS AMS SAP Hanna Migration coordinator for Physical Logistics.
• Solman Based Testing and migration for SAP HANA.

Confidential

Integration Solution Delivery/ Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Integration Project manager and directly responsible of the GIRD Project (Global Integration Roadmap and Design Project, which includes the design, testing and deployment of a Global Template for Production Plant Transformation.
• This template being valid through the SCM- Supply Chain Management area and including: Make to deliver areas ( Manufacturing, QM, Warehousing, Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Transportation ( Primary and Secondary) and O2C-Order Fulfillment, and ICT Sales ( Stock owned by Confidential HQ via virtual plant) making an emphasis on defining critical integration points and defining integrated design principles around these objects to optimize benefits and fully enable business critical capabilities.
• Template design included the release of a Global process Hierarchy and business process flows in ARIS and Visio, integrating this process hierarchy into Solution Manager via a Global BPML to control conceptual designs, developments, Change Requests, Testing, Training and Configuration and user documentation per process and sub process and developing a SOLMAN 7.2 based Solution and reference model which includes CHARM and CRM for PERFECT ORDER tracking.
• Responsible for on boarding and steering a group of 13 key internal external resources, 24 Subject matter experts, all geographically spread and performing different activities in different sites and systems, given the size of Confidential and its complex architecture.
• Liaising with SAP, Accenture, IBM India as Service providers.
• Acting as Integrated Solution Manager in the SCM Area including Supply Chain Accounting and Cash Flow optimization, responsible for defining and configuring the EWM Global template’s ( including Conceptual Design, Build, Integrated Product Testing, UAT strategy, process Documentation, training, cut over activities and Post Go live support) and laying the foundations for a Global EWM Solution as well as its Governance Model including QM/PP-PI and TM integration aligned with Confidential ’s 2020 vision.
• The Template definition included the process flow diagramming and publication in ARIS for Global use from the point of Demand Planning until Order Fulfillment in SD. ( Plant Maintenance, Transportation, Warehousing, Manufacturing and Order Fulfillment, Cash Planning)
• Global EWM SOLMAN 7.2 based solution build including Waterfall and as of 2015, AGILE Global Project Delivery Roadmap and methodology. CHARM activation. Testing Workbench, full solution deployment in SOLMAN including project deployment via RMMAIN
• EWM implementations in SU and DC warehouses in Heppenheim, Vermont, Sequoia, Indonesia, Vietnam and due in Pratau 2016 using RF and MFS for the large German distribution center in Heppenheim as well as custom defined applications for Yard Management, Cartonization, Allergen Management and Palletization.
• EWM Version 9.0-> 9.2->9.4 used. Template version 4.0 with 32 core processes in the areas of Inbound, Outbound, Internal Processing, Production Integration, Cross topics and reporting. Specific KPI definition and monitoring.
• Coordination and tracking of all cutover activities in the EWM and SAP areas, including data migration, open PO migration, interface testing, access rights, mobile equipment readiness, user readiness, customer /vendor communications, E2E functionality testing and documenting in HP QC, system stress tests and final deployment, as well as all a posteriori quality controls and project delivery and deliverable audits.

Confidential

Integration Manager and Subject Matter expert

Responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the Head of Corporate Controlling in terms of innovation in the area of Material Supply Chain and Inventory Management including Valuations. Assessment of S/4HANA Finance Accelerators for Material Ledger, Finance, Product Costing and Profitability analysis in terms of capability enablement & expected benefits versus effort ( Impact of New GL activation on current reporting model). Redesign of BW MPR
• Management Performance Reporting Info Cubes and user queries extracting information from Material ledger, COPA and CO-PC.
• Redesign and improvement of COPA reporting and value flow consistency, swap from Costing based to Accounting Based COPA in an effort to streamline with SAP Hana requirement.
• Integration and Cutover Manager for the SAP rolloutsand France including FI and CO master data migration and performing risk assessments, escalations and progress reporting for all stakeholders and quite directly to Corporate Controlling in terms of compliance to Global Confidential standards and Guidelines and leading a group of 9 FICO Subject Matter experts geographically spread.
• Developed new methods for efficient material master data, prices and stock transfers in order to accelerate data relevant cutover activities and ensure overall master data consistency in the areas of FI, CO, CO-PC, MM, WM, MM-IM, ML and SD
• Special currency set ups and Bloomberg’s/ Banco do Brasil updates for exchange rate handling and statutory reporting in Brazil.

Confidential

ERP Applications Expert and Program Manager FICO/HCM

Responsibilities:

• Design, support and advice in integration areas and special topics and project portfolio such as Finance, with stress on Treasury, Product Costing, Asset Management, Project systems, Plant Maintenance and COPA with links and strong integration to SD., in an attempt to optimize costs, and cash flows and implementing the enablement of operational cost traceability, sourcing/ production optimization, personnel administration, reporting and optimum usage at system level.
• Confidential has a stable and state of the art Standard SAP system and a complex investment management solution which involves the use of Projects, and WBS elements tied to investment support measures throughout procurement, payables, controlling and finance in order to correctly execute, control and report Capital expenditures throughout a project life cycle.
• Currently responsible on the Definition of a new Product costing process and methodology involving the use of activity based costing for process orders and product cost collectors for semifinished and finished goods and replacing the alternative valuation in Material Ledger and for defining the new method and functionality

Confidential

Head of SAP

Responsibilities:

• Lead for a SAP acquisition and transition project with a 7 million USD budget on ERP alone, for an Oil Retail company directly reporting to the CFO. Responsible for the coordination of system acquisition and absorption and all cutover activities including user rights and workflows resulting from a Carve Out of Swiss Fuel Retail Operations from the Confidential Stripes Global SAP systems to form Socar Switzerland.
• Directly liaising with IBM as Implementation and carve out team, responsible as Business Expert and IT SME in all internal HCM organizational and system set up matters including system workflows.
• Directly responsible for all carve out activities including account balances, customer, vendor master records and open items, as well as bank account migration and CO line items as go live took place mid year.
• Directly responsible for FI, TR, and SD system maintenance for Oil Downstream and Retail.
• Visio definition and diagramming of all adapted carved out processes and Process definitions.
• SOLMAN deployement and set up for ticket and Incident Management

Confidential

Finance Lead

Responsibilities:

• SAP IS Retail solution for mobiles, telephones, accessories and spare parts for Orange in order to better control physical inventories from 3rd parties .
• Working under the guidance of the Pharma Head of Architecture and Responsible for the design of the SAP AIO (All In One) solution for Representation offices in emerging markets.
• Model was ECC 6.0 based including HR, New GL, AA, Banking, TR-CM, CO-CCA, PCA, MM, WM and ICT Sales ( SD) and stock transfers process definition and configuration including country specifics using BC sets SAP best practice configuration as well as Novartis core settings for corporate reporting.
• This included a full set of business process flow diagrams and Descriptions BPDS for all FICO applications including Project Systems. Definition of global cutover plans and activities as well as tracking matrixes, and issue and risk logs.

Confidential

External Consultant & Head Team Lead (FI CO PC PA)

Responsibilities:

• Financial and Controlling lead Consultant working directly for the Vice President of IT, acting as a project manager and Decision Support team lead for the full integration of Gallaher tobacco producing factories/distribution centers in Belgium, Austria, India, Spain, Italy, UK, Ireland, Poland, Serbia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Germany and Russia into the JTI SA business model and global ERP system ( A 12 million USD initiative) including all cutover activities in the areas of MM, FI, CO, ML and COPC.
• This includes but is not limited to the implementation of toll manufacturing solutions, material data conversion and migration, dummy PCO set ups for costing and subcontracting (Info records), Production version analysis (BOM & routings), special integration points with AP; PP and MM, Inventory management and Material ledger. Governance of MM module for the creation of materials, units of measure, PIRs ( Purchase Info records), valuation classes, inventory controls and material stock counts and loads per storage location, warehouse and Plant.
• Responsible of PEC (period end closing activities) for new facilities.
• Support and development for Japan Tobacco International in relation to CO PC and COPA implementations including full upgrade for SAP ECC 6.0 from Feb to Aug 2008.

Confidential

IT Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Research and Development Orders using WBS elements in the Project systems module to represent the different R&D/Clinical Trial phases. Integration to 4C project as well as integrated planning.
• New Interface ( ALE and BI) deployment between systems for points 1 and 2
• Maintenance and review of Pharma Core compliance and Corporate reporting regulations in regards to Costing, Profitability, Sales and Gross to Net reporting.
• Overall FICO 3rd level Support resource for Confidential Chemical production for Basel, Mannheim, Penzberg, Ireland, Mexico, USA (Boulder, Colorado and South Carolina) for FI, TR, CO and BW including Product Costing (process order related-PI manufacturing including Material Ledger for Hiperinflationary sites) and Profitability analysis for Corporate Reporting.
• Responsible for designing and implementing ALE interfaces maintenance in the CO area for Basel and its interfaces to the European Pharma system.
• Responsible for documentation, training material and test scripts as well as change request management for ChemSAP Finance.

Confidential

GLOBAL FICO SAP Manager

Responsibilities:

• Offered FI-CO-PS-AA support to Swiss in their Basel headquarters. Directly responsible of cleaning the customer data base and of reconciling business partner open items. System preparations and cut over for the absorption of Swiss by Lufthansa. Special maintenance of interfaces to IATA and AMOS, the later using WBS elements and projects to Track repair and maintenance of aircrafts and equipment.
• Handling of direct projects for AR, Credit management and account depurations. Process design and Deployment of SAP Archivelink for cleared items in the AR side.
• Responsible for the PEF project, oriented to enhance standardizations, cost reporting, cost controls, product costing and consolidation tools and reporting directly to the company’s CFO and CTO. This included as a base for the upgrade to version 6.0 all process flow diagrams in Visio.
• Configuring of system baselines for core practices compliance and business templates to be eventually rolled out to all countries and operational companies, including the definition of master cutover plans and monitoring the corresponding cutover phases for all European and US rollouts.
• System Set up and maintenance as related to the SAP, FI, TR modules using 6.0

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the implementation and configuration of the FI/CO from a CORE team perspective and of the localization of Novartis Core FI /CO standards to local needs for the Novartis Subsidiary in Bern and the Netherlands, both distribution centers, and Brazil, manufacturing facility, including process definitions, process descriptions and data flows. Facilitation of data Extractions for BW infocubes and functional spec and UAT criteria definition, and monitoring all Business blueprint, Design, Configuration, Test and Cutover activities in the FI/CO areas.
• Implementation included the GL, AR, AP, AA, IM, CCA, OM, PA and PC including Material ledger set ups for Brazil.
• Tax Forms and statutory requirements for Italy, including Blacklists due to transactions with Italy
• Responsible for the definition, configuration and handover of a baseline for Novartis Brazil including the GL, CO-PC, COPA modules, including the evaluation of solutions for hyperinflationary reporting using Material Ledger versus currency set up in the system.
• Definition of a Period end Closing manual with IFRS compliancy.