Experience

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS

 

Software:                              SAP R/3 (3.1 to 5.0), mySAP EBP 3.5, Solution Manager

 

SAP Modules:                     Primary Experience: MM, WM

Integration Experience: PP, QM, FI, CO, SD

 

Education:                           Bachelor of Science, Business Administration

Management Information Systems and Production Operations Management

California State University, Summa Cum Laude

Certified Supply Chain Professional, APICS

 

 

Summary of Experience:

 

A skillful professional with more than twelve (12) years experience managing, implementing, configuring, upgrading and supporting SAP primarily in Materials Management and Warehouse Management.  Integration experience with Finance and Controlling, Sales and Distribution, Production Planning, Quality Management, and Supplier Relationship Management-Enterprise Buyer Professional. Hands-on troubleshooter noted for problem solving skills, creative solutions and attention to detail.  Recognized for reliability and on-time completion of projects through the implementation of quality solutions. Very organized team leader who works hard to attain objectives and satisfy customers. 

 

Primary Configuration and Data Conversion Experience:

 

Purchasing

·        Requisitions, purchase orders, framework orders, stock transport orders, outline agreements, subcontracting, automatic purchasing, output determination, purchase order printout, partner determination, release strategies, purchasing groups, purchasing information system, reporting, queries, purchasing info records, source lists, account determination, material group account determination, account assignment categories, item categories, pricing condition records, tax codes, EDI interfaces to send PO data to suppliers and to receive confirmations, inbound delivery notes, outbound delivery notes, purchasing info record data mapping and data loads

Inventory management

·        Inventory movement types (receipt, issue, stock transfer, transfer postings, inventory adjustments, initial inventory load, scrapping, special stock), goods receipt slips, physical inventory, storage bins, material documents, receiving tolerances, number ranges, reporting, queries, logistics information system, batch management, batch classification, EDI interfaces to receive advanced shipping notice and to send acknowledgements, initial inventory loads and reconciliation

Warehouse Management

·        Warehouse movement types, storage locations, storage types, storage bins, transfer requirements, transfer orders, physical inventory (cycle count, continuous, annual), physical inventory documents, picking and put away strategies, reporting, initial warehouse managed inventory loads and reconciliation, EDI interfaces to third party RF systems

Material Requirements Planning

·        MRP groups, MRP controllers, MRP areas, MRP strategies, safety stock, reorder points, MRP runs, MRP lists, stock requirements lists, bills of material

Logistics Invoice Verification

·        Document types, number ranges, invoice tolerance limits, payment terms, planned delivery costs, unplanned delivery costs, GR/IR clearing, evaluated receipt settlement

Material Master

·        Material types, material views, number ranges, material groups, screen layout, classification, master data mapping, cleansing, and data loads 

Vendor Master

·        Account groups, number ranges, payment terms, partner definition, minority indicators, classification, screen layout, master data mapping, cleansing, and loading

Miscellaneous

·        Organizational hierarchy, company codes, plants, purchasing organizations, storage locations, warehouses, custom units of measure and factory calendars, logistics period

Solution Manager

·        Setup project, defined processes, scenarios, development and test status

Enterprise Buyer Professional

·        Classic model, internal catalog, automated purchase order creation from completed shopping carts, master data replication, backend integration to R/3

 

 

Project Experience:

·         4 full life-cycle implementations – SAP R/3 3.1h (IM/WM analyst), ECC 5.0 (hands-on team lead & co-project manager)

·         1 full life-cycle upgrade – from 3.1h to 4.6b (IM/WM/SD analyst)

·         2 full life-cycle projects - SRM-EBP 3.1 (hands-on team lead), Nistevo interface to SAP (Project Manager)

 

 

Management Experience:

·        Co-managed one full life-cycle implementation consisting of 25 consultants and 15 client team members

·        Led 5 person Procure To Pay teams during three full life-cycle implementations for three (3) different clients

·        Project Manager for 12 person team consisting of IT staff, business staff and consultants

·        Managed 9 person functional and technical production support team for a tier-1 outsourcing provider

·        Supervised 3 person production support staff and consultants

 

 

Engagement Highlights

 

June 2009 – Present

Principal

CWM Consulting, LLC

 

·         SAP MM/WM functional consultant

·         SAP/IT production support advisor

·         Business development and marketing

 

May 2007 – May 2009

MM Procurement Solution Lead

Department of Defense, United States Army

 

·        Led team of nine (9) functional and technical consultants responsible for all of the procurement demands for several of the US Army Commands – Army Materiel Command, Communications and Electronics Command, Tank and Automotive Command, Aviation and Missile Command

·        Developed change design documents, attained board approval and user signoff, implemented changes, tested solution and updated life-cycle documentation

·         Coordinated resources from other SAP teams, Middleware, Basis, and Security teams to resolve issues or design solutions for new requirements

·         Oversaw the maintenance and development of more than eighty (80) custom procurement interfaces, numerous user exits, custom dialog screens, forms, reports, tables, etc.

·         Met with DoD Acquisition personnel from each site for a weekly review of trouble tickets, resolution status, criticality, and priority

  

July 2006 – May 2007

SAP MM Team Lead

Church & Dwight - Consumer Packaged Goods Industry 

·        SAP team lead responsible for managing and performing the daily SAP production support activities for purchasing, accounts payable, and warehousing departments 

·         Interviewed and hired consulting resources to supplement staff as needed

·         Managed full life-cycle project to interface external transportation software (Nistevo) with SAP

 

           

January 2004 – June 2006

Deloitte Consulting – Consumer Packaged Goods Clients

·        Co-project Manager and Procure to Pay hands-on team lead for one full life-cycle ECC 5.0 implementation

·        Procure to Pay hands-on team lead for two full life-cycle ECC5.0 implementations

·        Helped develop the prototype of the Food & Beverage Industry Solution (joint venture with SAP)

·        Prepared and conducted blueprint design sessions to define procurement processes and gather requirements

·        Performed review and analysis of current state processes, mapped future state processes, identified gaps and proposed solutions to close gaps

·         Developed and prototyped solutions based upon industry best business practices

·         Utilized Solution Manager to define processes, scenarios, development and test status

·         Configured and tested solution including the design of security roles

·         Developed solution specifications for custom forms, reports, interfaces, conversions and enhancements

·         Managed all aspects for the conversion of master data and inventoried items

·         Developed training documentation and perform end user training as well as train-the-trainer

·         Prepared supplier communication – notification of conversion to SAP and planned outage

·         Performed multi-site go-live and post go-live support

 

July 1997 – December 2003

SAP MM Lead Consultant

Health Net – Health Insurance Industry

Project Team Lead - mySAP SRM Enterprise Buyer Professional Implementation.

·        Led the full project life-cycle for the implementation of the Shopping Cart to Purchase Order Process utilizing an Internal Product Catalog. 

·        Performed system configuration for master data replication and synchronization, internal catalog

·        Collaboration on the design and development of organizational structure, workflow, sourcing, shopping cart functions

·        Development of ABAP specs to upload material master price, dynamic price determination from backend source documents, customer enhancements to product synchronization, delivery address upload from R/3, changes to BADI to affect delivery date determination

Senior Systems Analyst - SAP R/3 upgrade from 3.1h to 4.6b

·        Responsible for upgrading the Sales and Distribution and Warehouse Management Modules from a 3.1h system to a 4.6b system. 

·        Set new configuration values for SD and WM modules, tested new functionality and regression tested existing functionality

·        Developed delta training guides and deliver end user training to nationwide locations

Systems Analyst - SAP R/3 3.1h Implementation

·        Using the ASAP methodology, worked on the full life-cycle implementation of SAP R/3 3.1H.   

·        Worked closely with key business personnel from three ‘separately merged’ corporations to redesign the core logistic business processes

·        Configured (MM) MRP, Purchasing, Inventory and Warehouse Management functionality and redesigned the Material Classification system to enable the internal distribution and billing of warehoused inventory using Sales and Distribution

·        Developed training guides, exercises and presentations for planning activities, purchasing functions, and material master maintenance and delivered nationwide training to end-users

·        Provided national on-site support during the conversion and rollout phase of two separately timed ‘go-lives’

·        Led the integration test phase by developing the testing methodology and the project’s test plan, coordinating and facilitating test script design sessions, supervising the team during integration testing

·        Developed strategy and specifications for inventory data conversion as well as specifications for custom reports