Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States
PMP with Agile Certified; Order through Cash and Logistics function lead with 20 years of ERP system experience, 15 years of leadership experience, and 15 years of SAP experience. Understand team leadership, project management, business processes, outsourcing, and ERP systems. Specialties: SAP Configuration Sales, Contracts, Billing, Purchasing, Warehouse Management (WM), Delivery, Inventory Management (IM), outsourcing, business analysis. PMP with Agile, APICS CPIM and CIRM
Coordinate with outsourcing company to insure the successful completion of support and enhancements. Conduct weekly status meeting with business and outsourcing firm. Provide business requirements and assist with functional requirements given to outsourcer. Monitor support ticket queue to ensure work is being done in a timely and cost effective manner. U.S. I.T. Sales, Billing and Contracts representative to a global SAP implementation hosted in Germany. Work with consulting firm to ensure that business requirements are properly documented and understood. Create functional specifications to bridge the gaps between standard SAP and the business requirements. Work with offshore development resources to insure clear understanding. Test the developed objects to verify they meet the functional and business requirements before turning the system changes over to the business.
Hands-on lead for a team of five resources covering the Sales (SD), Delivery, Billing, Contracts , Purchasing (MM) and Inventory Management (IM) areas of SAP. Primary contact to the business on questions, problems, and new functionality requests. Managed configuration and technical tasks on projects. Prioritized, allocated and provided direction on activities and support tickets. Involved in mentoring and training resources on SAP configuration. Gave knowledge transfer sessions on Warehouse Management (WM) configuration, Finance (FI) configuration, Business Warehouse (BI), and interfacing using webMethods. Provided sales through billing system leadership on a project to merge three companies into the Siemens Healthcare U.S. master SAP system. Worked with consultants and Siemens colleagues in Germany. Involved in requirements gathering, functional requirement creation, technical specification creation, configuration, and development. Lead to the Sales and Logistics teams during an SAP system upgrade. Lead the exploration of new functionality and the fixing of existing functionality changed by the upgrade. Managed the investigation and resolution of configuration and development problems during the testing and go-live. Lead for the contract compliance project. Lead a major revision to software which automates the monitoring of contracts, and the investigation and resolution of contract discrepancies. Directed internal and external resources in a warehouse management (WM) project. Lead the implementation of Radio Frequency (RF) enabled transactions covering picking through shipping, receiving through put-away, and cycle counts. Lead for the Cost Per Reportable Results (CPRR) project. For CPRR the customer pays for material used. The team created interfaces to receive usage data through web submission and directly from Siemens lab instruments creating debit memos in SAP.
Lead developer for an ERP to eBusiness marketplace at Ondeo-Nalco Chemical, a specialty chemical manufacturer. Managed a team of resources converting from a custom EDI system to SAP’s EDI system at Merisant, maker of the Equal sugar substitute. Lead developer for a Just In Time (JIT) EDI project at Andrew Corporation, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer. Lead developer for an SAP migration project at Dade Behring, a medical equipment manufacturer. Lead developer for an RF bar code / remote data entry enabled warehouse and inventory management system at UOP, an oil services firm. Created a workflow enabled deduction management system at Kodak.