KEITH A. HULSE

PO Box 493

Penfield NY

14526-0493

Tel: 585-7370021(cell)

e-mail: keith.hulse@gmail.com

Immigration Status: Green Card

SAP SKILLS PROFILE

An SD  Senior Functional Consultant with over 12  years of SAP Consulting  experience and an additional 13 years as an  IT professional .

  • Specialises in converting Quote/Order-To-Cash business processes into SAP effective workable solutions
  • 9 years of SD Configuration experience including Quotes, Make-to-Order, Engineer-To-Order, Try and Buy(Demo) and Returns process, Customer Contracts, Customer Service Orders, Maintenance Contracts, Pricing and Rebates, Tax determination, Plants Abroad, Third Party Vendor Dropship Process, Inter-CompanyTransfers and Stock Transports, Foreign Trade in 4.6C, Credits, Debits,  Business Partners, Enterprise Structure, Customer and Product Hierarchy, Customer and Proforma Invoicing, Resource-Related Billing, Credit Management, Revenue Recognition, EDI/Special Function output control and Sales Reporting
  • Worked on Repair, Return and Disposition processes with Serial Number management as well as Credits on Returns and Vendor Credits
  • 2 years of LES experience including Inbound/Outbound delivery, ATP, scheduling, Picking, Post Goods  Issue,and Single/Multiple Shipment Leg Processing with links to Warehouse Management, Direct Ship, Dropship and Merge-in-Transit scenarios for domestic and Export
  • Numerous SD Enhancement experiences particularly any VOFM enhancement, custom user-exits or Function Modules, BAPI and BADI, SAP-EDI with idoc management and Partner Profiles
  • 3 years of MM Purchasing Configuration experience particularly Calculation and Message schema with SAP-EDI idoc management
  • 1 year of Warehouse management experience with IM specifically storage conditions and Bin Location determination
  • 2 years of MM Enhancement experience primarily in the Purchase Order Custom Function Modules, Message Schema user-exits and Pricing
  • 2 years Integration with MM, Project Systems and FI Accounting
  • Ability to troubleshoot Production issues across many modules using Functional and Technical skills such as debugging, runtime and dump analysis
  • Communicates on many levels from Business Executive down to Developer
  • Has performed Team Leadership skills and experienced  5 Full Life Cycle Projects using ASAP methodology and Lotus Notes tools from Requirements Gathering, Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Go-live and Post-Production support.
  • Undertaken training in SD Sales, SD LES, Delta training in 4.6c, Abap/4 Workbench techniques, ASAP methodology, Lotus Notes  and some Self-study in 4.7
  • Worked on SAP versions 2.2 (18 months) 3.1I ( 4 years) and 4.6C (4 years) and 4.7 (7 months) and 5.0 (11 months)
  • Proficient in CTS (Correction and Transport System)  Management
  • Post-Production Troubleshooting – (see Rockwell Collins)
  • 4.7 Public Sector Solution with integration to FM and ABP through SD with RRB integration
  • Worked on SAP ERP Central Component 5.0 since January 2006 through August 2006 at Jabil Circuit
  • Worked on MTO process with interface to APO/TPVS at International paper for both Domestic and Export Shipments

 


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 

USA Work Experience

ADC                                                                                                    Minneapolis, Mn

SD Senior Functional/Techno Business Analyst                                         Jun ’08 – Present

Joined a Global SAP Pricing re-design Project as the SAP Pricing Lead designer, Configurator and Technical Architect. Key areas of responsibility – defining Global/.Regional Pricing requirements across Americas, EMEA and ASIAPAC, re-configuring SAP Solution, Conversions and on-going Pricing maintenance Loads using LSMW and Reporting (SAP and BW).

 

Smithfield Foods SAP 4.7/6.0                                                            Smithfield Va

SD Senior Functional/Techno Business Analyst                            Dec ’07 – May ‘08

Contracted in to enhance Smithfield’s North American Pricing issues to produce Price Lists which can be distributed both internally and externally. Also Pricing solution needed to use more automation – currently designed as a pure manual solution – and reduce pricing errors at Invoice time by comparing CEP with the List price.  Smithfield had multiple Price Basis at the item level in a single order and the system had to deal with that. Designed a Custom solution to allow this with some Enhancements to the main order entry screen to offer key users flexibility to switch from one pricing basis to another one as seamless as possible. Performed all design, Configuration, development and testing of Transactional solution as well as design and development of a Price List Order Simulation Tool which performed Order item price simulations and downloaded to Excel and/or E-mailed to a USER. Helped a little with some Rebate issues too. Designed and presented comprehensive SAP Pricing Training material via Power-point with on-line demos to key Pricing Business Analyst. Finally – enhanced standard VA14L to allow custom selection criteria by Broker and add more details e.g. Planned PGI date.

 

AES Corporation SAP 6.0                                                                 Arlington Va

SD Senior Functional Business Analyst                                         Sep ’07 – Nov ‘07

Joined AES as Lead SD Consultant only to find out that SD was deemed out of scope for their North America Project. Continued to assist with key Workshops in the Supply Chain area from a Requirements gathering and Blueprint perspective. Key Plant personnel were dedicated to the Project from 19 US-based locations and Workshops across the whole Supply Chain landscape were held over a 1 month period. I facilitated in ALL Supply Chain workshops. Also designed an interactive SAP Jeopardy game using power-point to supplement SAP Workshop education. Left the project in early Dec when workshops had been concluded and an SD opportunity presented itself.

 

International Paper SAP 4.7                                                  Memphis, TN

SD Senior Functional Business Analyst                                         Sep ’06 – Sep ‘07

Involved in the following functional areas: Order Management (MTO and MTS) for both domestic and Export business. Specific attention to Automatic Sales Order Close Process., Customer Stratification (apply minimum order item and Minimum Order ship charges at Billing only, and Automatic Lead-Time up-charge/incentives based on specific Sale order item lead-time policy) – and Freight Costing for Truck and Rail mode of transport...Also, some exposure to APO/TPVS through end-to-end testing of Order Management scenarios.. Completed at least 2+ Business/IT  Design Documents for the above requirements consisting of both  Configuration and Custom Development solutions within SAP Order to Cash and Logistics Execution Functionality. Each solution consisting of specific SAP objects to be enhanced (user-exits, pricing requirements, CBV Formulae and CV Formulae) with full Technical database and coding requirements where applicable..

 

Jabil Circuit SAP 5.0                                                              St Petersburg, FL

SD Senior Functional Business Analyst                                         Jan ’06 – Sep ‘06

Investigated,  Designed, configured and developed Functional specs for Custom development of an Integrated Supply Chain Process for POS equipment to large Retail Customers throughout the USA and Canada. Project involved both SAP 5.0 landscape plus a Custom B2B Architecture for processing Inbound Sales Orders which were linked systemically to a manual SAP Master Sales Order. Upto 150 Orders have been linked to a single Master Order. The Process is managed from inbound Receipt of Custoemr Consigned parts through production and handed over to SAP for Shipping which involved multi-level packing in Shipments using Handling  unit management and also involving Serial management in SAP. Customer documents included BOL, Dispatch Advice and a comprehensive Packing List via e-mail. Currently working on Enhancing the process and supporting production. Went live in May 2006..

 

Jabil Circuit SAP 4.6B                                                                     St Petersburg, FL

SD Senior Functional Business Analyst                                         Oct ’05 – Jan ‘06

Joined Jabil as a Senior Functional SD Logistics Consultant in the area of B2B Make to Order with Production Order integration and Interface with legacy Shop Floor System and back to SAP for Shipping using LE and Transportation. Heavy troubleshooting of Inbound Idoc processing with Custom tools.

 

Designed and implemented a Product Eligibility Warehouse solution to pass Warranty data to End Customer through XML extract files using SAP Shipment data. Designed, configured and implemented a Reverse Logistics solution for RMA processing of Shipped Configurable Products.  

 

Department of Interiors SAP 4.7 Public Sector                               Herndon, VA

SD Func/Tech Consultant(B2B Workforce – Corp-to-Corp            Apr ’05 – Sep ‘05

Joined the Bearing Point Project Team to assist in deploying four major bureaus in the DOI onto SAP PublicSector Solution. Involved in total integration of the solution from Inception of Funds Management through Project Systems, SD Order Management, Procurement through MM, Cost collection through various other means e.g Labor Postings and Overhead Calculations and eventually Billing the Costs back to the Customer through SD Resource-related Billing functionality.Also responsible for managing Customer Master Maintenance and Interfaces including Customer Hierarchy, Billing Enhancements to the RRB solution and numerous Billing schedules. In addition helped develop training materials such as BPPs and Test Scripts for Integration Testing.

 

Systech Integrators                                                                                       San Jose, CA

SD/CRM Consultant(FTE)                                                               Dec ‘04 – Mar ‘05

Joined Systech and undertook extensive training at SAP Academy in CRM 4.0 in CRM

Sales,  CIC and Trade/Promotion Management.IIn Jan 2005 worked on internal Project to configure CRM Server for the following functionality; Marketing and Account Management, Lead and Opportunity Management, CIC Winclient and Webclient.

Also, worked as Lead SD Consultant on a 4.7C Best Business Practices for Hi-Tech Solution Workshop(1 month) in Portland, Oregon for a Government

Defense Contractor

 

Lubrizol Corp – SAP 4.7                                                                    Cleveland, OH

SD Func/Tech Consultant(Modis Solutions - Corp-to-Corp) Nov ’04

·        Assigned to assess current Global Pricing design and produce Executive Report detailing the steps to convert old style to new 4.6 version and address impact on internal and external SAP business processes

 

Moen Corp – SAP 4.7                                                                        Cleveland, OH

SD Funct Tech Consultant(Modis Solutions - Corp-to-Corp) July ’04  - Oct ‘04t

·        Assigned to configure, design, develop and implement huge backlog of SD Order-to-Cash Logistics issues e.g. Custom Pricing Audit Report for Sarbanes-Oxley needs, Credit Cards, Change Log issues, Order Tracking, EDI Inbound/Outbound, Mass Order Change, Customer Net WebPortal Processing – SAP process, Business Data Issues

 

MeadWestvaco Corp – SAP 4.7                                                                   Dayton, OH

SD Funct Tech Consultant(Corp-to-Corp)                            July ’04  - July ‘04

·        Assigned to assist in developing a new Rebate strategy regarding implementing the new SAP Rebate procedure.

 

Zeon Chemicals – SAP 4.7                                                                Louisville, Ky

SD/MM/FI/CO Funct Tech Consultant(Grom - Corp-to-Corp)      June ’04 – July ‘04

Assigned to configure, design and implement a Shipment Costing process using SAP standard functionality together with Custom solution using PA and Profitability Analysis

·        SD Transportation Shipment Costing Process

·        SD Interface with MM Purchasing and FI/CO-PA

 

IDEXX Labs – SAP 4.5B                                                                  Portland, Maine

SD/MM Functional/ Tech Consultant(Grom - Corp-to-Corp)         June ’04 – June ‘04

Assigned to configure, design and implement a Third Party Dropship process using SAP standard functionality.

·        SD Order creation – Material and Freight Pricing

·        SD Third Party Item configuration

·        Third Party Material Master Creation

·        Purchase Requisition/Purchase Order Configuration

·        Release Strategy with Classification

·        Invoice Receipt Verification Configuration

·        SD Billing Configuration

·        SD/MM General Ledger postings

·        Lot Tracking solution

·        SD/MM Credit/Returns process

·        Report Lists

·        Batch Job scheduling

 

Rockwell Collins – SAP 4.6C                                                            Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

SD Functional/ Technical Consultant(Grom - Corp-to-Corp)          April  ’04 – May ‘04

Assigned to troubleshoot a backlog of Production Support Remedy Tickets  in following Order-to-Cash areas – cleared backlog in 5 weeks

·        SAP-EDI order creation using SPEC2000(Airline Industry std)

·        Manual Backorder re-scheduling and ATP problems -

·        Pricing Issues – re-pricing

·        Invoicing Issues – splitting, Tax exemptions, Printing exceptions

·        Purchase Order Print

·        OSS Note Application – additional Shipping Points

·        OSS Note Application – additional Shipping Output fields

·        Deferred Revenue Solution

·        Credit Management Issues

 

Lucent Technologies                                                              Murray Hill, New Jersey.

SD Functional/ Technical Consultant(Zytalis W2)               Mar  ’03 – Jan ‘04

Became a Team member of the Wave 2 QTC (Quote-to-Cash) 4.6c Global Roll out and was a Lead Consultant in the following areas:

·        Integration with MM-Purchasing solution for both Sales Order based and Project System based business scenarios

·        Interface with WM Third Party Distribution solution

·        Interface with Foreign Trade Import/Export Compliance Solution

·        Shipment Processing of Export Deliveries solution

·        Global Export Pricing both Customer and Inter-Company Scenarios

For Multiple shipments from Sales and Projects

·        Pro-forma billing pricing and output processing

·        Tax Determination for Plants Abroad

·        Service Maintenance Contracts Pricing Solution

·        Sales Pricing of Complex Maintenance Products involving Parent/Child Item Relationships using Billing plans with milestone/periodic billing

·        Sales Pricing Formulae for Parent and Child Item Pricing with Billing Plans

·        Rounding Formula for Recurring Contract Item and Child items with Billing Plans

·        Master Data requirements from Global Transfer Pricing, SD outputs and MM-PUR EDI outputs

·        Resource-Related Billing from Project WBS

 

Provided Functional Spec and Technical Design, Development, Documentation  and knowledge transfer support for all of these areas. 

 

 

 

Lucent Technologies                                                              Murray Hill, New Jersey.

SD Functional Consultant(Zytalis W2)                                             Dec ’02 – Feb ‘03

Re-joined the Lucent SAP 4.6C Quote-To-Cash Project as part of a Team engaged to estimate hours and assign resources to the Wave 2 Roll-out. Became a member of the Blueprint and Realization Teams to handle the areas of :

·        Credit Card Process Management

·        Import/Export

·        Resource-Related Billing for Client India

 

Siemens                                                                                              Lake Mary,Florida.

SD Functional/Technical Consultant(Myitgroup W2)                      Nov ’02 –Dec ‘02

Joined this Client on a short term basis to help out with their SD Pricing issues in their 4.6C implementation. Worked alone in designing and developing solutions for the Services Division with respect to:

·        Labor and Freight Charges on Service Orders using SAP Resource-Related Billing Functionality

·        SD Pricing Procedure simplification and troubleshooting

 

Lucent Technologies                                                                          Warren, New Jersey.

SD Functional/Technical Consultant(Zytalis W2)                            April ’02 – Nov ‘02

After the Lucent SAP OMS95 Quote-To-Cash Project Go-live joined the EF&I  Wave I Quote-To-Cash initiative as part of the SD Team engaged  to integrate the Lucent Complex products Business onto an SAP 4.6C platform within 6 months. Worked primarily as a cross-functional liason with  the MM-Purchasing,  PS and FI Teams  designing, configuring and developing solutions in SD across all those areas to enhance the business process design in SAP such as:

·        MM-Purchasing EDI message control

·        Tax Determination for Plants Abroad

·        Global Transfer Pricing in Sales and Project Deliveries

·        Automatic Ship Complete to trigger billing block removal in Sales Order and Projects from SD Delivery

·        Additional Enhancements to Make-to-Order and Engineer-to-Order business scenarios

·        Complex Make-to-order sales to delivery copy rules using delivery group

·        Automatic Copy of Contract Data from Original Sales to Returns/debits/credits with reference to Invoice

 

 

Lucent Technologies                                                                          Warren, New Jersey.

SD Functional/Technical Consultant(Zytalis W2)                            Oct  ’01 – April ‘02

Joined Lucent SAP OMS95 Quote-To-Cash Project as SD Team Lead engaged to integrate this piece of the Lucent Business onto an SAP 3.1I platform within 6 months. Led a Team of 4 Consultants and also worked primarily in these areas:

 

·        Contract Pricing using Configuration, Requirements, Formulae and user-exits.

·        Worked on Pricing Master Data and identifying Customer and Material Master Data requirements to support key processes

·        Designed and developed many solutions in areas including Global Transfer Pricing using the  Profit Center Hierarchy to store uplift factors

·        Third Party  Vendor Order Processing integration with MM-Purchasing

·        Sales Order Management

·        Credits/Debits and Returns process

·        Billing and Integration with FI/GL Accounting using Validation and Substitution Rules.

 

 

 

 

Cosine Communications                                                           Redwood City, California.

SD Functional/Technical Consultant(QCS Employee                 June  ’01 – August ‘01

Joined Cosine as a post go-live troubleshooter in their Customer Service and Accounts Divisions and solved issues in the following:

 

·        Designed and developed Configuration solutions for their Try and Buy Process with specifically their Serial number management using SAP’s Consignment Functionality.

·        Assisted Accounting Department  with Credits/ Debits and Returns Order Management Processes with Disposition and Repairs

·        Fixed issues in some Custom built Finance Revenue reports

 

Compaq                                                                                                    Houston, Texas.

SD Functional Consultant(QCS Employee)                          March  ’01 – June ‘01

Joined the GSO Service Division Project Team as a member of the SD Team engaged in Prototyping their key Business processes in 4.6C. My personal involvement was in the Design, Configuration, Testing, Presentation in Demo form to key business leaders for the following processes;

 

·        Stock Transport Orders

·        Inter-Company Stock Transfers

·        Inter-Company Sales Transfer Pricing

·        Foreign Trade Processing

o       ECCN Configuration

o       Export License Management

o       Embargo Controls

o       Sanctions/Denied Parties

·        Pro-active Monitoring of Logistics Supply Chain processing using Workflow

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Compaq                                                                                                    Houston, Texas.

SD Functional Consultant(QCS Employee)                          Oct  ’00 – March ‘01

Joined the Compaq World-Wide Sales Logistics Supply Chain Team as a member of KPMG in a Blueprint phase of converting their existing 3.1I Complex  Enterprise Organization Structure to a simplified version using less Sales Areas.

Key areas were ability to better utilize Customer and Material Master data fields for Sales Order processes such as Pricing, Transfer Pricing and Profitability Accounting needs.

 

 

Commonwealth of PA                                                                        Harrisberg, Pa.

SD Functional Consultant(QCS Employee)                          Sep  ’00 – Oct ‘00

Part of a combined KPMG/IBM joint venture to put together a full blown 4.6C Demo to the Client. My involvement as the sole SD Consultant was to configure the SD Module to successfully process Billing from Projects using SAP’s new Resource-Related Billing Functionality. Set up all Customer, Material and SD Pricing Master Data needs.

 

 

 

Eastman Kodak                                                                                 Rochester, NY.

SD Functional Consultant(Softline Employee)                                 June ‘97 – June  ‘00

Joined the Kodak Project as part of the SAP America Team engaged in implementing a 3.1 Quote-to-Cash solution. Primarily involved in decommissioning a legacy Rebate System to SAP using the Standard SAP Rebate Functionality. This design involved a number of non-standard processes which were handled in SAP using both creative Configuration and Development solutions. In addition, was engaged in support of Configuration of SD Customer  Contract Pricing using all the Development tools available e.g. Requirements, Formulae and user-exits. Also Transfer Pricing, Order Management, Billing  and Reporting. Heavily involved in mapping Customer Master and Material Master data fields to support key logistics processes such as Customer Pricing, Inter-company Pricing, Rebates, Material Determination and Substitution and Output.

 

Schwan Sales Enterprises                                                                 Marshall, Mn.

SD Functional Consultant(Softline Employee)                                 Feb  97 – May  ‘97

Handled the Roll-out of a new Food Product Offering in 3.1I involving Configurable Bills of Material and all the associated SD work around Sales support through to Billing. Set up Customer Master and Material Master Requirements to support this new process.

 

Claris Works                                                                          Santa Clara, CA.

SD Functional Consultant(Employee)                                               Jan ‘97 – Feb ‘97

Helped on a pre- go-live troubleshooting Roll out of a new 3.1I Release in the Areas of Text determination, Account Assignment and deferred revenue.

South Africa ( April 1983 – Dec 1996 )

 

Spearhead Consulting ( July 1995 – Dec 1996 )

SD Functional Consultant(Employee)

Joined Spearhead as an SAP SD Consultant and had exposure to a number of Projects which included:

 

Consol Glass – Jan 1996 – Dec 1996

Worked as an SD Team member primarily for their Sales Order, Billing and Customer Pricing issues as well as their Rebates Solution from Blueprint to post Go-live.

 

Unifoods (Unilever) – Aug 1996 – Dec 1996

Worked as an SD/MM liason between the Functional and Technical Teams to assist Critical Testing of their Distribution Interfaces from SAP to Distribution Centers. Involved designing Specs and creating Test Scripts for various Goods Movement scenarios.  

 

Sasol Twistdraai (Oct 1995 – Dec 1995)

Worked on the Blueprint phase of gathering and documenting requirements to implement R/3 to this Mining Division of Sasol and Shipping large Containers of Coal to various Customers both Domestically and Internationally.

 

Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (Aug 1995 – Sep 1995)

Worked on the Sales Order Entry requirements of this Blueprint phase to implement R/3 at the  South African local Sales Sub  based on the Swiss parent Company solution

 

 

SA Trim (May 1993 – June 1995)

DP Manager

Head of a small IT Shop (10 Contractors) for a highly profitable spin-off company of BMW South Africa which manufactured over 70% of BMW Germany’s requirements. Co-ordinated business IT needs with BMW Head Office since we used their Logistics systems and were linked on their mainframe solution. In late 1994 and early 1995 headed a team to review an Independent IT Hardware , Networking and Software solution  for the Company.

 

BMW South Africa (May 1988 – May 1993)

Project Manager – Logistics IT Solutions

Head of a small IT Logistics Team (6  Contractors) for BMWs manufacturing IT solutions. Gathered, helped design and co-ordinate development activities across the Supply Chain manufacturing systems on IBM mainframe architecture. Mainly in Bills of Material, Engineering Change Control Systems, Work-In-Progress stock monitoring and Production Planning and Scheduling.

 

Mercedes Benz of  South Africa (May 1984 – May 1988)

Analyst Programmer – Warehouse and Financials

Team member in a small size IT department and designed and developed systems for Creditors Accounting and Warehouse Control Systems using IBM mainframe Architecture.

 

 

Computer Careers  (June 1983 – May 1984)

 Programmer – Payroll/Stock Control and Invoicing/ Hire Purchase Systems

Joined as a micro programmer in Basic to design/develop small business solutions and was trained also as a COBOL mainframe/micro Programmer to develop Customer IT Systems (namely, for a local High Volume Furniture Retailer.

 


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