SAP & Applications Manager

• Feb 2023 - Present

SAP Business & Applications Analyst

• Aug 2020 - Feb 2023

• Work as the main point of contact for the Systems & Applications department of Vicwest providing SAP support, development and implementation of new processes of all modules such as SD, SD-LE, MM, MM-WM, FI, PP, BASIS, as well as EDI Gentran and SAP IDoc integration.• Gather business requirements, create a project plan, schedules, resources and status report to accomplish the final goal of the project• Research, discuss and determine the best solution for business requirements and consult with external resources to gather specific expertise advice.• Test the process from end to end, document the test results and create a test plan for users• Support & development of SD/SD-LE Logistics modules involving pricing procedures, ATP available to promise, lead time, route determination, item categories, deliveries & shipments, factory calendar and the end to end process of Order to Cash• Support & development of MM/WM Procurement and Warehouse modules involving PO release strategy, MRP, inventory control, physical inventory, end to end process of Procure to Pay • Support of Variant Configuration, dependencies, characteristics, classes• Support & development of PP Production module involving production scheduling & capacity, labels, routing, Bill of Materials, work centers, integration with Eclipse, scrapping.• Master data support (Customers, Materials, Output, Hierarchy, Pricing, Payment terms)• Basis support involving users and access, roles creation/maintenance, batch jobs• EDI mapping on Gentran, IDoc & partner configuration in SAP to exchange outgoing and incoming purchase orders, confirmations, ASN and invoices.• Provided basic support to Salesforce application. Show less

SAP Functional & Business Analyst

• Jul 2018 - Aug 2020

SAP PROJECTS:• Android barcode scanner Rollout Project – WM storage location and bin management scanners were deployed in different plant locations. The main goal was to streamline the process, reduce time to put away and locate products as well as avoid errors on the shipment load. Devices are managed through SOTI MobiControl and SAP is connected through Velocity.• EDI Projects – Implementation of EDI with multiple customer and vendors including 850, 855, 870, 856, 810. Configuration of partners, IDocs, outputs, incoming invoices in SAP, mapping EDI documents in Gentran and testing the process from end to end.• ATP – Available to Promise Project - The main goal of this project was to improve the Lead times as well as provide the most accurate delivery dates to our customers and communicate any changes or delays in a timely manner.• OTD – On time Delivery – The Production capacity check was implemented on this project to check Work Center and labor capacity adding up to the material availability check and improve lead times.• SAP Suite on HANA – Upgrade our current SAP NetWeaver version to 7.5 with HANA database. This project involved multiple testing of all functionalities, resolution for all types of errors presented on the upgrade to ensure the business had a smooth transition.• Structured Pricing Project – re-structure the pricing logic to facilitate what is currently manually entered in SAP with the main goal of reducing errors, defining different prices for non-standard colors and this project will improve an estimated $3M profitability. Show less

SAP FI Support Consultant

• Aug 2014 - Aug 2015

Provided support and development in SAP FI areas resolving day-to-day user issues from a variety of industries (manufacturing, construction and real estate, electric utilities, IT services and media and communication) ensuring the processes run at maximum quality and efficiency. Analysis and identification of gaps in the Accounting business processes recommending new developments to maximize the use of the SAP system reducing time and costs to the clients. ● Managed the tickets through CA Service Desk Manager System ensuring the incidents and problems are resolved with the stipulated SLAs ● Provided the Level 3 support in FI resolving day-to-day user issues pertaining to FI (AA, AP, AR, GL, TV) ● Analyzed errors re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code together with the programmer and identifying the problem resolution ● Developed new processes and reports, enhancements, interfaces and configuration in FICO according to business requirements ● Documented Request for Change, Functional Specification, unit testing and user acceptance testing ● Configured validations, substitutions rules, terms of payments, withholding tax, account determination, interest calculation, dunning procedures and financial statement versions ● Maintained payment program, payment method in Brazil, bank determination and house banks ● Developed a Travel Management cockpit report to streamline the user analysis: advance request open items, travel request pending approval, reimbursement pending approval, total of expenses completed ● Provided Travel Management support, workflow, travel expense manager (PR05), travel expense request and report (TRIP), settlement of trip data (PREC), creating posting run (PRFI), Posting run management (PRRW) and transfer of posting to Financial Accounting ● Participated on Knowledge Transfer with implementation project team to support new customers Show less

SAP FI Support Consultant

• Feb 2014 - Jul 2014

Vale is a metal and mining industry company and largest producer of iron and nickel. I participated in the Cutover plan and Knowledge transfer phase of the implementation team in Brazil and Canada. Provided support in SAP FI areas resolving day-to-day user issues focusing on travel management module. ● Post Go-Live and stabilization phase support in Level 3 for FICO modules ● Managed Tickets through HP Quality Center system resolving incidents and answering how-to questions from the users ● Supported travel management processes such as travel expense manager, creation of travel expense request, travel expense report, credit card clearing, travel management workflow approval ● Supported Travel Management workflow approval errors by analyzing HR master data, cost center/WBS element analysis and Organization & staffing workflow hierarchy analysis to find the approver by the employees hierarchy ● Error analysis in Z reports, automatic payment program, account reconciliation and exchange rate Show less

SAP Support Trainee

• Jul 2008 - Sep 2010

Voith Paper is a mechanical engineering company that supplies the international paper industry. I worked at the Voith IT department supporting and developing SAP FI processes and monitoring SAP interfaces with legacy systems. ● FI AP/AR support involved vendor/customer line items display, account reconciliation, exchange rate, tax/interest calculation, vendor down payment and automatic payment ● Monitored Interfaces SAP/Foreign Trade systems to find errors in data migration through SM37 ● Maintained HR master data for employee’s timesheet purpose and to correct HR interface errors originated from legacy systems Show less