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Mario Lopez SAP FI-CO Consultant |
Executive Summary
· Completed 2 live SAP full life cycle implementations and 9 rollout projects.
· Perform of maintenance activities and solution to specific SAP problems in response to customers’ requests.
· Team Leader for the implementation of General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal Orders (IO), and Product Costing (CO-PC) modules.
· Country experience including Mexico, USA, Spain, Hungary and El Salvador.
· Excellent communication, team building and project management skills.
Skills Summary
SAP Apps Skills and Tools
Oracle Applications Project Experience
Client: Grupo Vitro, Monterrey, Mexico
Industry: Manufacturing
Description: Vitro is a major participant in two principal businesses: flat glass and glass containers. Its subsidiaries serve multiple product markets, including construction and automotive glass; food and beverage, wine, liquor, cosmetics and pharmaceutical glass containers. Vitro also produces raw materials and equipment and capital goods for industrial use, which are vertically integrated in the Glass Containers business unit.
Project: GENESIS Dec 2006 to present
Description: Full life cycle SAP FI-CO implementation, including integration with third party software.
Role: SAP FI-CO Senior Consultant at Mexico
· Study of current business processes, future business flows and identification of gaps and workarounds in order to provide an integrated information system solution to meet the business needs of the company.
· Business Requirements Mapping for Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO) and Product Costing (PC) modules.
· Analysis and configuration of the Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO) and Product Costing (PC) modules.
· Identification of data conversions, and testing.
· Elaboration of Testing Scenarios.
· Elaboration of CPP-Configuration Manuals (INFOPACK).
· Elaboration of BPP-Business Process Manuals (INFOPACK).
· Provided training to end users on all the implemented modules.
Role: SAP FI-CO Team Leader for the rollout at Spain.
· Reporting the project status to the Project Manager on a daily and weekly basis.
· Performing weekly reviews of the work plan with the Management Team and the Project Team to update the work plan with the completed and in progress tasks, and evaluating the remaining work.
· Management of issues and major problems, evaluating available options and taken the course of action of what would be the best alternative.
· Working with the Project Sponsor to manage the scope of the project according to the Project Definition.
· Responsible for the risk management of the project, identifying and solving potential problems before they occur.
· Conducted training sessions for the CO implemented modules of SAP and also provided training manuals.
· Provided training to end users on all the CO implemented modules.
Environment: Windows XP; HP-UX SAP Operating System, SAP V6.0 modules: FI/CO, SD, MM, PP, QM.
Client: TPI Mexicana, Mexico City, Mexico.
Industry: Beauty & Personal Care Manufacturing
Description: Alcan is a world leader in specialty packaging serving the food and beverage, pharmaceutical and medical, beauty and tobacco markets. Alcan Packaging strives to deliver the highest quality packaging products and services to its customers.
Project: Oracle Financials Upgrade. Aug 06 to Dec 06
Description: SAP Mexican rollout project for the following modules: GL, AR, CP, AA, CCA, PCA and IO. This project was controlled by the base team located at France and it was as part of the business technology expansion.
Role: Team Leader.
· Fit/gap analysis of Master Global Template processes with the local requirements of TPI Mexicana.
· Suggesting the best practices in the industry in conjunction with local requirements and within the preview of Global Template.
· Played a key role in performing the plan provided by France in order to meet time expectations in the Mexican rollout.
· Defined the technical specifications from the legacy data conversion to SAP data.
· In charge of 2 consultants and 1 ABAP programmer to approach the rollouts specifications.
· Provided training to end users on all the implemented modules
Environment: Windows XP; SAP V5.0 modules: FI/CO.
Client: Rexcel, Mexico City, Mexico.
Industry: Manufacturing
Description: Rexcel is the premier producer of high pressure decorative laminates, low pressure thermofused melamine boards, finished foil paper laminates, and particleboard. Rexcel is fully integrated, internally producing melamine, urea formaldehyde and Phenolic resins. Rexcel also produces the particleboard substrates used in its Panelart.
Project: COSMOS May 2006 to Jul 2006
Description: SAP implementation of the following modules: MM, SD, PP, QM, FI and CO.
Role: SAP FI-CO Senior Functional Consultant
· Team member in charge of the implementation of CO modules: CCA, PCA, IO and PC.
· Analysis of business processes in order to do the business blueprint document.
· Configuration of CCA, PCA, IO and PC modules.
Environment: Windows; SAP V5.0 modules: FI/CO, SD, MM, QM and PP.
Client: Owens Corning, Mexico City, Mexico
Industry: Manufacturing
Description: Owens Corning Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of fiberglass and related products. The company also manufactures other building materials systems and composite solutions including roofing, stonework, and glass composite materials used in transportation, electronics, telecommunications and other high-performance applications.
Project: SAP Mexican Rollout Jul 2005 – March 2006
Description: To unify Owens Corning in a single business system, the company replaced the 250 disparate legacy systems of its recent past with a corporate-wide system using SAP R/3 ERP and Oracle Database. The project was called Advantage 2000.
Role: Team Leader
· Team Leader of the Controlling module implementation.
· Fit/gap analysis of Master Global Template processes with the local requirements of Owens Corning.
· Configured the CCA, PCA, Cost Element Accounting, IO, PC and CO-PA modules.
· Conducted training sessions for the CO implemented modules of SAP and also provided training manuals.
· Provided training to end users on the CO implemented modules
· Carrying out regression testing and data validation.
· Carrying out User Acceptance Tests.
· Providing post implementation support.
Environment: Oracle Database version 7.3.4, SAP V4.7 modules: FI/CO, SD, MM and PP.
Client: AMCOR PET Packaging, Tlaxcala, Mexico
Industry: Manufacturing
Description: Amcor PET Packaging is a plastic closure manufacturer and is the world’s largest PET container supplier.
Project: SAP rollout implementation. March 2005 – Jul 2005
Description: Project scope involved implementation of SAP V4.6C modules: CCA, PCA, Cost Elements Accounting, IO, PC and CO-PA.
Role: SAP FI-CO Senior Functional Consultant
· Fit/gap analysis of Master Global Template processes with the local requirements.
· Suggesting the best practices in the industry in conjunction with local requirements and within the preview of Global Template.
· Configured the CCA, PCA, Cost Element Accounting, IO, PC and CO-PA modules.
· Conducted training sessions for the CO implemented modules of SAP.
· Conducted and prepared test scripts, training manuals, end user guides for the implemented modules and all related documentation of the project.
· Provided training to end users on the implemented modules.
· Carrying out regression testing and validation of data for this rollout.
· Carrying out User Acceptance Tests.
· Providing post implementation support.
Environment: Windows NT; SAP V4.6C: FI/CO, SD, MM and PP
Client: Secretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico, Mexico City, Mexico.
Industry: Government.
Description: Secretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico (SHCP) is the Mexico’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit which one manages the annual budget of the country and continuously looks for ways to decrease operational costs and increase efficiency.
Project: Preparation of one GRP System Implementation. Oct 2003 – March 2005
Description: Design processes of the SHCP oriented and adaptable to any GRP system.
Role: Senior Functional Consultant.
· Analysis of business processes.
· Business requirements mapping for GL, AR, AP, CCA, PCA, and IO modules.
· Prepared GRP implementation scenarios.
· Identify gaps in the business processes.
· Interaction with users with regard to report and printing requirements in the financial modules.
Environment: Windows; VISIO.
Client: Henkel, Mexico City, Mexico.
Industry: Manufacturing
Description: Henkel is the world market leader in adhesives, sealants and surface treatments for consumers, craftsmen and industrial applications.
Project: Asset Management Improvement. Sep 2003 – Oct 2003
Description: This customer needed support for its Assets Management module, it had been configured incompletely but they were not able to start in time with the module. When I was hired by them I made a review on its configuration and I solved its problems in the configuration.
Role: SAP FI-CO Senior Consultant.
· Improvements to the Asset Management Module.
Environment: Windows; SAP V4.6C: FI/CO, SD, MM & PP
Client: Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc., Spain and Hungary.
Industry: Manufacturing
Description: Seminis is the largest developer, grower and marketer of fruit and vegetable seeds in the world. Their hybrids improve nutrition, boost crop yields, limit spoilage and reduce the need of chemicals.
Project: Seminis Europe SAP Implementation. Dec 2001 – Mar 2003
Description: SAP Implementation at the factories in Europe (Hungary and Spain).
Role: SAP FI-CO Senior Consultant / SAP FI-CO Team Leader
· Analysis of business processes.
· Responsible of FI-CO modules configuration (GL, AP, AR, FA, TR, CCA, PCA).
· Configured FI-CO modules (GL, AP, AR, FA, TR, CCA, and PCA).
· Elaboration of testing scenarios
· Elaboration of User manuals.
· Elaboration of Configuration manuals
· Training for key users and end users.
Environment: Windows; SAP V3.0D: FI/CO, SD, MM and PP
Client: Euzkady (Mexico), INSONIT (Spain), Cementos El Salvador (El Salvador).
Industry: Manufacturing
Description: Companies with different business and in different countries that already had SAP installed and they needed just specific solutions for some issues they had since their SAP implementations.
Project: SAP Consulting Nov 2000 – Dec 2001
Description: During this period I worked for different customers specifically doing some improvements in their SAP finances modules.
Role: SAP FI Senior Consultant Started.
· Analysis of the FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-CO to identify the current process of the company and the TO-BE processes (Business Process Reengineering).
· GAP analysis.
· Training for key users and end users.
· Documentation of the SAP configuration and user manuals.
Client: Volkswagen Group of America, Inc, Auburn Hills, Michigan USA.
Industry: Manufacturing
Description: Sometimes referred to as Volkswagen of America, abbreviated to VWoA is the United States operational headquarters, and subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group of automobile companies of Germany. VWoA is responsible for five marques: Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, and Volkswagen cars. It also controls "VW Credit, Inc." (or "VCI"), Volkswagens own financial services and credit facility.
Project: SAP Consulting Apr 1999 – Sep 2000
Description: My activities were to detect new requirements and fix some gaps in the FI-CO configuration.
Role: SAP FI-CO Senior Consultant.
· Analysis of the FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-CO to identify the current process of the company and the TO-BE processes (Business Process Reengineering).
· GAP analysis.
· Training for key users and end users.
· Functional specifications for ABAP programs.
· Documentation of the SAP configuration and user manuals.
· Specific company’s requirement and additional enhancements to the standard system.
Client: Cartones Ponderosa, Ecofibras Ponderosa and Aluprint, San Juan del Rio, Mexico.
Industry: Manufacturing
Description: Cartones Ponderosa, based in Mexico, is the leading company that produces and sells recycled coated board for the manufacture of folding cartons. The Company produces more than 50% of the total Mexican recycled coated board made, and is the only one exporter in its field.
Project: SAP Implementation Nov 1995 – Mar 1999
Description: SAP Implementation in order to replace the AS 400 system for the finances applications. The SAP implementation was initially at Cartones Ponderosa then it was rollout for Ecofibras Ponderosa and Aluprint that are part of the group of companies belong to Cartones Ponderosa.
Role: SAP FI-CO Senior Consultant.
· Analysis of the FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR and FI-CO to identify the current process of the company and the TO-BE processes (Business Process Reengineering).
· Configuration of the Financial Accounting module.
· Specific company’s requirements and additional enhancements to the standard system.
· Training for key users and end users.
· Documentation of the SAP configuration and user manuals.
Other Experience
Price Waterhouse Coopers - Queretaro, MEXICO Sep 1992 - Oct 1995
Education
· Engineer in computer systems, Instituto Tecnologico de Queretaro, Mexico 1988 - 1992
Certifications and Continuing Education