Matthew Bertino

NB Consulting, LLC

mbertino@nbconsultingllc.com

206-984-3266 (voicemail service)

 

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

 

·           Twelve years SAP R/3 experience in Sales and Distribution with six full project lifecycles

·           Nine years experience in Variant Configuration

·           Specialist in Team Leading, End User and Project Team Training and Functional Consulting roles

·           Expert Sales and Distribution and Variant Configuration skills with excellent integration skills to Materials Management, Finance, Controlling, Business Warehouse and Production Planning modules

·           Ensured all SD designs were built on a sound understanding of SAP’s strengths and weaknesses

·           Deep knowledge of business-unit operations and core processes

·           Expertise in gathering requirements and modeling business process flows

·           Possess US and Italian citizenship

 

PROJECT EXPERIENCE DETAIL

 

December 2006-present

NB Consulting, LLC

Huron Real Estate

Endicott, New York

• Implementing SD Shipping and Transportation template for a third party warehouse business solution in SAP version 4.6c
• Template will be easily adaptable to future customer specific requirements
• Template improves business process for deliveries, shipments and commercial invoices
• Documenting configuration to allow for business analyst self sufficiency in template maintenance and adding additional functionality as requirements arise
• Business analyst has been trained on design in the sandbox and has been able to re-configure the solution using the documentation and training I provided into the clean development system
• Project Phases: business blueprint, requirements gathering, configuration and training. Project still in progress
• SAP Skills Used: Customer master, organizational structures, shipping and transportation

 

 

August 2006-present

NB Consulting, LLC

Kohler Company

Kohler, Wisconsin

• Provided resolution to SD and VC design issues in SAP Version 4.7
• Trained project team members in SD and VC functionality
• Conducted design reviews in all modules and offer best business practice solutions
• Remain available remotely as needed
• Project Phases: role was as an adviser to the integration and simulation testing phases of the project
• SAP Skills Used: all sub modules of SD, VC in PP, SD and Purchasing.  Advised on cross functional design issues

 

July 2006-Present

NB Consulting, LLC

Millipore Corporation

• SD Support as needed remotely
• Provide detail where needed on SD design as Millipore has acquired Serologicals and will be replacing SAP with Oracle

 

 

January 2006-July 2006 SD Team Lead

Upstate Ltd (a division of Serologicals Corporation)

Dundee, United Kingdom

 

• Completed an SD rollout to Upstate Ltd in Dundee, Scotland in SAP Version 4.6c
• Complexities included value contracts, release orders, a complete redesign of VAT and designing (with a technical resource) a custom sales order upload from Excel
• Evaluated SAP’s Revenue Recognition solution and opted for a ABAP and manual solution due to time constraints
• Project Phases: business blueprint, requirements gathering, gap analysis with existing design, configuration, data conversion, training, go live support and functional specifications for; custom programs, reports, output and data conversion
• SAP Skills Used: Customer master, material master, organization structures, order and contract management, pricing, billing, batch management,  account determination, shipping and periodic billing plans

 

July 2005-September 2005

Celliance (a division of Serologicals Corporation)

Atlanta, Georgia

 

• Design, configuration, training and go live support for SD Batch Determination and Batch Classification in 4.6c

 

 

January 2005-June 2005 SD Team Lead

Chemicon International (a division of Serologicals Corporation)

Temecula, California

 

• Completed an SD rollout of version 4.6c to Chemicon’s operations in the US, UK and Australia
• Complexities included a dry ice pricing and packing requirement and an interface to Federal Express using SAP’s XSI Delivery Cockpit
• Project Phases: business blueprint, requirements gathering for the US, Europe and Australia, conceptual design, configuration, data conversion, training, functional specifications for customer reports, data conversion, functional specifications for; custom programs, reports, output, data conversion and go live support

• SAP Skills Used: Customer master, material master, organizational structures, order management, pricing, credit management, billing, output, batch management (including VC dependency code), VAT,  sales tax, account determination, shipping, XSI Delivery Cockpit, packing, cross selling, material determination, listing/exclusion, partner determination, text determination, availability checking, transfer of requirements,  inter-company billing, billing plans and lastly exposure to credit card processing

 

November 2004 SD/VC Lead Consultant

Thermo Electon Corporation

Gloucester, United Kingdom

 

• Conducted requirements gathering for blueprint of the Gloucester site for a roll out of the Thermo template for SD and own design for VC

 

 

July 2004-October 2004, Variant Configuration Designer/Trainer

Thermo Electron Corporation

Winsford, United Kingdom

 

• Designed, trained and documented a variant configuration solution for Thermo’s Winsford plant in SAP version 4.7
• Built a fully maintainable system that allows users to create more complex variant structures in the future should the need arise, without consultant intervention
• Developed naming conventions for all applicable VC objects such that the each plant or business unit can share, but not have conflicting VC structures
• Built templates into VC such that objects and rules can be re-used and/or copied to ease maintenance
• Drove business to clean up ambiguous product rules to enhance usability and benefits of SAP’s Variant Configuration
• As VC can be difficult both to train and understand, developed user documentation specific to complex dependency syntax demonstrating examples of most efficient and less efficient dependency syntax to achieve the same result.  Documented syntax not yet required in anticipation of future requirements

• Project Phases: requirements gathering ,conceptual design, VC master data conversion,  and training

• SAP Skills Used: Variant Configuration

 

 

August 2002-March 2004, SD Team Lead

Visteon Corporation (contract to CGEY) 

Dearborn, Michigan

 

• The project replaces multiple legacy systems with a global design in Quote to Contract, Bill of Material and Engineering Change Management with one SAP R/3 Version 4.7

• Project Phases: business blueprint, requirements gathering in the US and Europe, conceptual design, configuration, training preparation, functional specifications for customer reports and data conversion and user acceptance testing.

• SAP Skills Used: Customer master, material master, quote and contract management and pricing

·         Responsible for SD design that benefited Visteon by enabling a business and system process for processing change requests (even though there is no SAP integration between ECM and SD modules) This included:

§         Assessed and discarded the requirement to use Variant Configuration

§         Quote management: single point of entry for all customer quotes, analysis of lost quotes, analysis of elements of the customer price and the Visteon cost of quoted materials, integration of quote management and the change management process

§         Contract management: A contract price master for product changes, component changes, precious metal content changes and year on year productivity changes

§         Linkage of OEM and Service contracts to enable consistent application of changes to both lines of the business

§         Configured an automatic SAP standard solution for periodic price changes for materials with precious metal content which is a time and cost saving operation for Visteon

§         Enabled EDI and manual customer PO entry and comparison of customer expected price.  Designed custom report for analysis of Visteon and customer expected price differences which aides Visteon in resolving disputes with customers

 

December 2000-December 2001, SD Team Lead

Sony Computer and Perphiphals and Components (CPCE)

Weybridge, United Kingdom

 

·         The project replaced the legacy system for CPCE business with SAP 4.6c across Europe in ten months

·         Roll out of Sony’s heavily developed Phoenix SAP to a business that included: 17 outsourced plants (5 EDI), centralised customer service, order to cash,  procurement and logistics

·         Project Phases: conceptual design, configuration, data conversion, test, conversion and go live support. Conducted training, wrote design documents, user manuals and user procedures.  Supported go live environment to 25 users

·         SAP Skills Used: Designed and configured organizational structures, order management, customer master, material master, pricing, rebates, variant configuration, credit management, billing, output, batch programs, duty management, some VAT, order fulfilment, and delivery processing

·         Designed the CPCE “Pull Process” which was unique to Sony, which included elements of Self Billing, EDI Order Creation, design of custom programs and change management

 

July 2000-Nov 2000, SD Team Lead

Uniq Convenience Foods

Swindon, United Kingdom                                                     

·         Was senior functional consultant on site assisting Syntegra with the evaluation of SD 4.6 for Uniq Convenience Foods (formerly known as St.Ivel)

·         Aided in overall strategy decision as to which SAP environment the project should be built (separate instances for transactional and master data)

·         Project Phases: Evaluation and Conceptual Design

·         SAP Skills Used: Order to Cash, Customer Master, Material Master, Pricing, Rebates and Billing

 

July 1997-June 2000 Principal Consultant, SD Integration Manager and SD Team Lead

PriceWaterhouseCoopers                         

London, United Kingdom

Xerox Europe Shared Financial Services SAP Implementation, Aug 98-June 2000

·         The project was a Pan European core design for a new Financial Shared Services department

·         Fulfilled roles including: SD integration manager, order management consultant and variant configuration specialist for a sixteen country roll out design

·         Project Phases: Conceptual Design, Configuration, and Testing

·         SAP Skills Used: Designed and configured organizational structures, order to cash, contract management, customer master, make to order processing, order fulfillment and some delivery processing.  This included an order/contract management set up of over 100 sales document types to enable the Xerox business to operate with its complex business model including a commissionaire organization structure,  leasing, rental, service sales, and equipment sales

·         Designed variant configuration for all Xerox products and developed a variant configuration template to ease creation of future variant bills of material

·         Designed a contract and billing solution using variant configuration, resource related billing, pricing, equipment master, serial number updates and service orders to facilitate the servicing and consumable usage of leased/rented photo-copiers to Xerox’s large customer base

 

Bristol Myers-Squibb Order to Cash SAP Implementation

SD Team Lead

August 1997-June1998

United Kingdom, France, Italy and Germany

·         The project was a global implementation of the order to cash cycle within Bristol Myers Squibb (3.1H) with an initial roll out in the United Kingdom in June 1998 followed by rollouts in Italy, France and Germany for February 1999

·         Responsible for the design and configuration of SAP R/3 for all aspects of Order Management for United Kingdom implementation.  Integrated Order Management design with existing FI/CO, MM and PP design

·         Successfully implemented and supported June 1998 UK implementation

·         Conducted on site GAP analysis as the SD team lead for the design, construction and configuration for the roll out of Italy, France and Germany

·         Project Phases: was SD team lead of 3 through conceptual design, configuration, test, data conversion and go live support. Conducted training, wrote design documents, user manuals and user procedures using PWC’s methodology.  Supported go live environment to 20 users

·         SAP Skills Used:  Designed and configured organizational structures, order management, billing, output, availability checking and transfer of requirements, delivery processing and a rather complex listing and exclusion process

 

 July 1996-April 1997, Training Manager

Software Consulting Partners

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

·         Responsible for beginning the SAP R/3 training operation. This included assessing training needs, designing, writing, delivering and evaluating training

·         Obtained SAP Partner Academy Certification, Sales and Distribution 3.0

·         Project Phases: Conceptual Design, Configuration and Training

·         SAP Skills Used: Order Management, Delivery Processing and Billing.  Trained users in the entire Sales and Distribution module.  Obtained SAP Partner Academy Certification, Sales and Distribution 3.0

 

June 1995-July 1996, OTC Training Lead

Unisource Worldwide

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Lead instructor for the Customer Service segment of the SAP 2.2 design.  This included classroom instruction, one-on-one live instruction, system update and review classes and the preparation of training data and manuals

·         Project Phases: Training and Go live support

 

EDUCATION

 

Bachelors of Arts Degree in History from Fordham University, New York City 1993

Completed coursework for Certification in Social Studies High School Education, Graduate School of Education, Fordham University, New York City 1993     

             Semester Abroad, Temple University, Rome, Italy 1992

             Completed coursework in Business Italian, Scuola di Leonardo da Vinci, Rome, Italy 1994

 

Honors

Phi Alpha Theta-National Honor Society In History

Kappa Delta Pi- International Honor Society In Education

 

Language

Italian

 

Passports

Italy and USA

 

Certification

Sales and Distribution 3.0 Certified by SAP Partner Academy, Toronto

New York State Provisional Certification in Social Studies in grades 7-12

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Provisional Certification in Social Studies in grades 7-12

 

SAP COURSES ATTENDED

                         July 1998        SD Delta Review (R/3 version 4.0)

August 1998  Production Planning (R/3 version 3.0)

                          October 1996 SAP SD Partner Academy (R/3 version 3.0)

                        

References Available Upon Request