Steven M. Carr      Office: (603) 887 – 4894      Mobile: (603) 264 - 7010        

SAP R/3 MM/PP/VC Functional Consultant

 

SUMMARY:

 

·        17 years of experience in information systems industry focusing on the development, enhancement and implementation of manufacturing system in various industries.  Has worked for the last TEN plus years as a hands-on functional configuration consultant in the Production Planning (PP), Variant Configurator (VC) and Materials Management (MM) modules.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Client:   Government Research Facility (September 2005  – Present)      

Position:  SAP R/3 Materials Management / Production Planning Functional Consultant

 

Write the blue print for possible production planning implementation in a research facility where all materials are bought via description, not using material numbers.  Outline procedures and create semi-functional prototype from project creation through procurement and production.

 

 

Client:   Chemical Processing(September 2005  – October 2005) 

Position:  SAP R/3 Materials Management / Production Planning Functional Consultant

 

I am creating a production planning process for flexible planning and SOP using information within the standard SAP.  Configuration of structures, update rules, requirements and all related activities.  User training and implementation procedures.  The project was cancelled when the company decided to go with APO.

 

Client:   Environmental Device Manufacturer  (December 2004 – Present)        

Position:  SAP R/3 Materials Management / Production Planning Functional Consultant

 

I am supporting the production environment for materials management and production planning.  My current responsibilities include working on support issues, process improvement and new process introduction.  Current projects include a consolidated chart of account structure and new revenue determination rules.  This is requiring new movement types for production and purchasing.  Creation of new purchase order types and production order settlement.  Working with purchasing and materials management to improve processing and inventory control measures.  New cycle counting process being created and introduced.

 

Client:   Medical Equipment Manufacturing Company (February 2004 – September 2004)      

Position:  SAP R/3 Materials Management / Production Planning Functional Consultant

 

I was brought in to create a bookings forecast using flexible planning in SAP release 4.6c. I have created the structures, update rules and requirements to limit order types that populate the structure and all of the background and online tools for executing and manipulating the forecast.   I am responsible for all configuration, coding changes, training materials and training that was required to have this project go live.  I have also created a second structure to track the billings that correspond to the bookings that we are forecasting on. 

 

 

Client:   Medical Equipment Manufacturing Company (January 2002 – June 2005)     

Position:  SAP R/3 Materials Management / Production Planning Functional Consultant

 

I was brought in to provide support and assistance in all modules of SAP following a corporate installation.  The primary focus was to be materials management and forecasting.  Sales support for the order handlers based in the United States.  For the last few months the primary focus has been the introduction of a new SAP system from the company that this division is being placed into a joint venture with.  This is an already established and functioning SAP system that we need to integrate our business processes into, as well as recommend configuration changes to support our business needs.

 

Knowledge transfer and training for in house business analyst for the SD and variant configuration proceeses.

 

Create new processes for ABC, Safety Stock and reorder point calculation and update.

 

Create procedures to provide improved KPI measurement.

 

Variant Configuration definition, all phases and aspects to create products both make to order and purchase to order, characteristics, classes, dependencies and pricing.

 

Trainer for the WEB based forecasting system which is supplied data from SAP and other sources. 

 

Developed procedures to forecast component materials that were not being included in the WEB based tool.

Member of the supply chain improvement process to team to improve supply chain procedures, forecasting and vendor performance monitoring.

 

Work to resolve all discrepancies in master data to support the migration from our current SAP system to the new system as part of the joint venture.  Master data areas include materials, purchasing info records and vendor data.  Establish a plan for migration of transactional data at a future date.

 

Create ABAP Queries and Quick Viewers to assist in the data migration.

 

Define and document new processes for our business transactions in the new SAP environment.

 

Define requirements for Variant Configurator with our products.

 

Assume responsibility for Variant Configurator support and enhancement following the joint venture.

 

Create and maintain configurable materials in the system (KMAT).

 

Create and maintain super bill of material for all configurable materials.

Create super routing for all configurable materials.

 

Create and maintain family drawings for the configurable materials in Axalant.

 

Create and download configurable material definitions and variant configuration definition to stand alone configuration engine (SCE) for use on PC.

 

Implement standard information structure updates for configurable materials.

 

Refine consumption data analysis to determine inventory staging locally and in the EU for critical materials.

 

 

Review the client’s current configuration and use of the system that was recently implemented and recommend changes or improvements to enable them to plan and purchase 450 plus OEM materials.  Lay the foundation work for an anticipated production planning implementation in the coming year.

 

Developed standard operating procedures for phase in and phase out of all materials and tools related to production.

 

Developed KANBAN procedures for remote warehouse facility.

 

Created ABAP Queries and Quick Viewers to resolve unique reporting requirements.

 

Developed reporting for daily monitoring of “A” stock units compared to targeted goal.

 

Day to day production support and problem resolution.

 

Provide user training and knowledge transfer for purchase order processing, materials management and sales order processing.

 

Developed and implemented process for vendor returns.

 

Developed and implemented VMI processing including all procedures to support the system and the warehouse.

 

Conducted multiple review sessions for all of the material master MRP related fields.  Provided written review of each field and recommendations for settings of the first batch of OEM materials.

 

Provided training and documentation for the process of creating and maintaining planned independent requirements in SAP.  This will be used as a 'forecast' for the OEM materials at this time until more transactional data is available to perform forecasting in SAP.

 

Provided training and documentation for the process of individual material forecasting covering the process from entering prior consumption data through transfer to demand management.

 

Provided training in reporting that was available in standard SAP for purchasing.

 

Provided training on the ABC analysis functionality in SAP.

 

Reviewed and explained to the Danvers the information structures that were created for tracking purchasing information by Sweden and what reporting options were available from them.

 

Team lead for data synchronization project between SAP and ASK systems.

 

 

 

Client:  Lighting Manufacturer  (May 2000 – December 2001)

 

Brought in to provide support to the current user base while in house resources are on a project to implement SAP at a newly acquired division.  Provide configuration knowledge and support to the team responsible for implementing SAP at the new division.

 

·        Provide on going support for production problems and new business requirements.

 

·        Project manager working with the automotive division to define an approach and implement the break up of their current information structure and replace with multiple structures for reporting and forecasting.  This functionality included replacing the standard forecasting model in SAP to support the entry of market intelligence information.  The ability to enter a zero forecast, or subsequently zero a forecast.  Defined our own multiple structure setup to support a faster batch forecasting process while allowing custom disaggregation to the lowest material and sold to combination for final manipulation of the forecast.

 

·        Wrote inbound interfaces for two of the newly created structures to support the copying of data between the reporting structure and the forecast manipulation structure.

 

·        Wrote new requirements to support the unique update requirements that required one field but not the other to be updated based upon the order reason code.

 

·        Wrote all update rules for all structures related to the Automotive forecasting process.

 

·        Created and generated all structures for the Automotive forecasting process.

·        Working with the automotive division to define a new information structure to be used in place of S076 to support the unique requirements of production planning in the automotive supplier industry.  We will be disaggregating the forecast to support deployment based on the quantity from the actual shipping location.

 

·        Write update rules and custom ABAP routines to update new structures.

 

·        Provide training and knowledge transfer for the SOP process to the ECS division.

 

·        Wrote a paper outlining the differences in lot sizing procedures.

 

·        Wrote a paper outlining the daily activities for a production scheduler at the ECS division.

 

·        Creating a detailed project plan for the second rebuilding of the ECS information structures.

 

·        Create a project plan and coordinate the process for the first repopulation the ECS information structures.

 

·        Working with the ECS division to establish procedures to improve their forecasting process including new information structures, MPS / MRP, Long Term Planning and Rough Cut Capacity Planning.

 

·        Create project plan and coordinate the process for refreshing a major portion of the Automotive LIS / SIS structure S770.

 

·        Provide detailed specifications for loading new structures for the Logistics Information System (LIS) and Shop Floor Information System (SIS).

 

·        Define the system requirements and configure the system to consume forecast with cross plant demand.

 

·        Work with users to understand improve they're understanding and use of the capacity-planning module.

 

·        Write detailed programming specifications for the ABAP team as needed.

Client:  International Printing Company (December 1999 – Present)

 

Brought in to continue and correct the implementation of the configuration that had been started in June of 1999.  Additionally work with the current PP team to resolve open business process issues and help the client adapt the very difficult manufacturing process of printing to the SAP system.

 

·        Created custom ABAP programs to query the SAP system and display data in the variant configurator such as on hand inventory for a component within the configurable material.

·        Created function modules in ABAP and Variant Configuration to support the user exit to determine inventory and other data for the configurable material components selected.

·        Create and maintain configurable materials, including definition of classification information requirements.

·        Create and maintain super bill of material for configurable materials.

·        Create and maintain super routing for configurable materials.

·        Work with the user to create characteristics, classification and dependency logic for variant configuration of a printing job.

·        Create characteristics and dependency logic to allow the user to quote a printing job based on a multitude of characteristic data both entered and inferred.

·        Configure the system and master data to support the creation of collective orders for printing jobs that consist of multiple parts.

·        Define the classification data for the paper and ink characteristics to allow the system to determine the proper paper and ink to use based on the users input of final output requirements.

·        Write dependency logic to select the proper materials, press and other machines required based on the users input.

·        Write dependency logic to calculate the quantities of materials required including calculations for waste, both setup and running.

·        Worked with end user to configure the system and master data to support a customized make to stock material master.

·        Training two employees in the processes for creating characteristic’s, classification data and dependencies to support the variant configuration model.

·        Work with the MM and CO team leads to define and configure the proper account postings for all movements in the production environment including goods issues, goods receipts, inventory postings and transfer postings.

·        Work with the MM team to define the inventory process and posting requirements.

·        Create pricing procedures that can augment the pricing determined by SD to allow the person estimating the job to manipulate the price of paper, which can be priced daily.

·        Created many unique “work arounds” to facilitate the demanding requirements of the printing industry.

Client: Truck Leasing Company (September 1999 – December 1999)

 

Brought in to implement the Variant Configurator and resolve any open production planning issues.  Defined business requirements, defined business processes and wrote scripts to facilitate the end-user in performing their business tasks.

 

·        Create and maintain configurable materials, including definition of classification information requirements.

·        Create and maintain super bill of material for configurable materials.

·        Create and maintain super routing for configurable materials.

·        Work with the user to create characteristics, classification and dependency logic for variant configuration of a truck to be either purchased, leased or rented.

·        Create characteristics and dependency logic to “work around” unique client situations, including old inventory that should be available for searching purposes if any is on hand, but not be displayed during the order processing function.

·        Configured the system to support production and MRP in multiple plants.

·        Work with end user to define requirements for truck purchasing and leasing and rental.

·        Created a process for loading beginning inventory balances from legacy system including documented verification plan.

·        Confirm design, configuration and custom programming for the leasing and subsequent return of trucks and other equipment.

·        Create documentation for inventory processing in SAP.

·        Create documentation for the production process to be used for the purchasing and subsequent upfit of trucks.

·        Work with the end users and in house team to develop a roll out plan for the remaining plants.

·        Work with the MM and CO team leads to define and configure the proper account postings for all movements in the production environment including goods issues, goods receipts, inventory postings and transfer postings.

·        Work with the MM and SD team leads to define a process for returning trucks that had been leased using the legacy system into SAP.

 

Client:  Lucent Technologies – Matamoros, Mexico/Dallas, TX (July 1999 – September 1999)

 

Brought in to be the MM functional lead for the implementation at Matamoros, Mexico.  Prior to getting involved with that project, was asked to come to Dallas TX to help with some outstanding MM issues from their earlier implementation.  Worked on business scripts to document the process and data field updates when converting a material master from make in house product to a purchased or third party direct ship.

Client:  Paint Manufacturer - High Point, NC (February 1999 - June 1999)

 

·        Provide end user training for the processing of MRP and evaluation.

·        Production order creation and processing.  Inventory procedures and analysis.

·        Work with IS team and user community to resolve issues uncovered after go live.

·        Write training documentation for use in training users at other plants scheduled to go live in the coming months.

·        Wrote ABAP Queries to track and monitor production order statuses during the day.

·        Reviewed configuration in current environment and plans for future plants for verification and to insure proper forward capabilities are kept open.

·        Reviewed master data requirements, processing and evaluating results procedures for material requirements planning with power users.

·        Developed procedures for processing special inventory removal situations including sampling, quality assurance and internal use.

·        Worked with the SD team to develop a process for inventory and rework of returned goods.

·        Worked with the SD team to have partial shipments removed from the stock requirements list by updating the sales order line as complete.

 

 

Client: Brewery– Milwaukee, WI (June 1997 - February 1999)

 

Configured prototype of the ‘to be’ SAP system for proof of concept and demonstration to users to gain their acceptance.  Configuration areas included:  Production Planning; Production Orders; Routings; Work Centers; Bills of Materials; Material Masters; Engineering Change Management; Material Requirements Planning and Long-range Planning.

·        Worked with IS team and user community to define both the ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ functionality required supporting the tracking of production costs in the SAP system.

·        Wrote documentation to support and train both the IS team on configuration tasks and the user community on application tasks.

·        Work with delivery team to design an interface of production information from legacy systems to create and execute production orders in SAP.

·        Work with the delivery team to design an interface of costing information to feed legacy systems.

·        Work with the delivery team to design an interface of long range planning information from legacy systems to create independent requirements in SAP.

·        Work with the PC team to determine overhead keys, settlement rules and pricing variants.

·        Work with the MM team to define and configure account determination and valuation classes.

·        Requested from SAP and tested Time Zone Management functionality to allow posting date to be determined based upon the area of the country the user is working in, not the area of the country where the database and hardware reside.  This allows the California users to continue posting until their end of day, not the end of the business day in Wisconsin.

 

Film Editing Software Manufacturer - Tewksbury, MA                         August 1995 - June 1997

Functional MM/PP Team Lead

 

·        Worked with the user community in identifying solutions for all of their IS needs in the manufacturing/production/distribution areas.

·        Determine user needs and work with them to identify the most beneficial solution through either process changes, configuration changes or programming enhancements with a goal to have these changes not impact current users of the system or future plans for a global implementation of SAP.

·        Work with ABAP development team to design and test programming solutions identified.  Provide end user support for routine work and problem resolutions.

 

Project Leader for Upgrade to Release 3.0F/3.1G of SAP

·        Coordinate the technical upgrade plans with the functional testing of the updated system.  Identify cross-functional areas of responsibility and insure they are fully tested.

·        Provide weekly status of upgrade and maintain project plan.

 

Project Leader for Variant Configuration for the MM/PP Modules with Release 3.0

·        Review and begin setup of variant configuration for both on line and Internet order processing.

·        Setup working demo of one of the companies' main products.

·        Define project plan and delegate tasks.  To be implemented approximately two months after the upgrade.

·        Create and maintain configurable materials, including definition of classification information requirements.

·        Create and maintain super bill of material for configurable materials.

·        Create and maintain super routing for configurable materials.

 

Project Lead for Avid Subsidiary Implementation of SAP

·        Begin needs analysis and project scope for converting Ireland and California subsidiaries into SAP.

·        Identify conversion efforts required for data extraction from legacy system.  Identify interfaces to complementary systems that would be needed in conjunction with conversion to SAP.

·        Freight bill back and automated collection of freight charges.  First step was to design and implement an additional screen for the user to enter the actual freight carrier charges during the post goods issue transaction of SAP.  Second phase was to work with an established vendor to automatically collect this information from the various shipping systems being used.

·        Configured the system to support the creation of an approved vendor list using SAP information records.  This list is used to track our sub-contractors approved OEM suppliers.  Wrote ABAP4/Query reports to support the implementation and distribution of the information to our sub-contracting vendors.

·        Worked on script and process flow identification during the final months prior to implementation.

·        Designed and implemented a process for outstanding non-returned spare part orders.

·        Perform monthly costing and closing procedures on the system.  Identified and scripted the process for necessary to perform all phases including cost roll up and release, month end close, calculate variances, calculate work in process and order settlement.  Resolved multiple problems with costs not being updated, in production orders not settling and the WIP value not being posted accurately.

·        Requirements and needs analysis for bar coding within the company.  Began process of identifying vendors for both equipment and software solutions to support bar coding.  Provide specification and requirements for vendors that supply Avid.  Initial plans to include printing of internal labels for Avid material.

·        Automate the process of printing export documentation in SAP.  Including the commercial invoice bill of lading and other forms.  Configured the system to support the harmonizer codes for Avid products.

·        Design and implement necessary fields and activities in SAP to support the implementation of a duty drawback system for Avid imported goods that are subsequently re-exported.

 

Spectrum Associates – Woburn, MA                                                 January 1991 - August 1995

Consultant/Project Manager

 

As a functional consultant and programmer worked with many clients to help them maximize their investment in either the GrowthPower MRP II system, or Point.Man ERP system.  Worked with many clients to improve their business processes to work better within the software chosen for their environment.

 

·        Determine customer needs and issue quotes for modifications to meet these needs.  Provide written documentation of all modifications made.  Provide customer support for both custom modifications and the standard product.  Provide project planning and supervise additional resources as needed.

·        Design, program and supervise additional resources in the creation of a data collection system for PointMan.  Modules to be created include shop floor labor, shipping and receiving, material movement and inventory counting.  This system will use C as the language for prompting and validation on the hand held Janus device.  Using Intermec DCM to handle communication with the remote devices a series of C stubs will be written to call COBOL applications and/or data base stored procedures to validate input from the user.  The system will communicate with Oracle, Sybase and Informix relational databases.  The design function also included the designing of any additional table spaces that would be required for storing the collected data.

·        Provide backup support for internal networks and hardware including the Novell network, HP9000, and multiple HP3000's.

 

National Medicare - Waltham, MA                                                       June 1990 - January 1991

Programmer Analyst

 

·        Modified current programs and created new programs.  Developed specifications and implementation plans for new problem tracking system.

 

Powersoft - Burlington, MA                                                                          July 1988 - May 1990

Programmer Analyst

 

Develop new functionality and provide  customer support for reported errors in processing, for the GrowthPower MRPII system

 

·        Enhanced material movement programs to work with lot control and actual costing. 

·        Modified existing programs and created new programs for user batching.

·        Modified existing programs to support multiple open accounting periods in the entire system.

·        Developed the first data collection functionality for the system including clock in / clock out functionality, shipping, receiving and material movements in the plant.

 

Comprehensive Management - Framingham, MA                                  August 1987 - July 1988

Account Manager/Programmer Trainee

 

·        Modified programs, created user programs, database maintenance, customer support and relations.  Managed largest account of the company.  Reorganized and restructured account procedures to improve overall operations and collections.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

 

Languages

ABAP, ABAP4/Query, SQL Windows, PowerBuilder, ORACLE, Informix, Image/SQL, COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN, RPG, PASCAL, C, UNIX, MPEXL, MPE, QUERY, TURBO IMAGE, Borland PASCAL, Borland C, PRIMOS, PICK, MS DOS, WINDOWS

 

Software Packages

SAP, GrowthPower, PointMan, Ask ManMan, Microsoft Word, Microsoft      Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access, WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Borland Paradox

 

Hardware

HP 9000, HP 3000, IBM 4361, PRIME, DATAMEDIA 932, IBM and COMPATIBLE PCs, Macintosh Power PC, INTERMEC CONTROLLERS, JANUS READERS, LABEL PRINTERS

 

TECHNICAL TRAINING:

 

·        Introduction to Web Site Design and HTML programming, Avid Technology - Tewksbury, MA

·        Turbo Image database design and utilization, Hewlett Packard - Andover, MA

·        Introduction to Logistics (JSL10), SAP America - Waltham, MA

·        Detail Materials Management (JSLM1), SAP America - Waltham, MA

·        Detail Materials Configuration (JSLM2), SAP America - Waltham, MA

·        Detail Production Planning (JSLP1), SAP America - Waltham, MA

·        Detail Production Planning/Costing (JSLP2), SAP America - Waltham, MA

·        Sales and Distribution 3.0 Delta changes (DR331), SAP America - Waltham, MA

·        Materials Management 3.0 Delta changes (DR333), SAP America - Waltham, MA

·        Production Planning 3.0 Delta changes (DR334), SAP America - Waltham, MA

·        Variant Configuration, Part 1 (LO260), SAP America - Waltham, MA

·        Variant Configuration, Part 2 (LO261), SAP America - Waltham, MA

 

EDUCATION:

 

·        Business Applications Certificate, Central New England College - Westborough, MA,

July 10, 1987

·        Associates Degree in Computer Science, Central New England College - Westborough, MA, May 19, 1989

·        Pursuing Bachelors Degree in Computers and Information Systems, New Hampshire College - Salem, NH.  Currently eight courses away from degree.