Myron Jefka 2017
- 1. Myron Jefka 6364 Eastbrooke West Bloomfield, MI 48322 (248) 660-6686 mjefka@gmail.com Objective: Hands-on SAP ECC Specialist, Architect, Project Leader or Management Consultant, specializing in materials management, warehousing, and logistics execution for manufacturing or distribution operations. Personal Overview: U.S. Citizen with a Public Trust B1 Security Clearance Married Road warrior, but will not relocate in the US Fluent in German Immediately available for full-time or contractual employment in the Detroit area, as a road-warrior consultant, or for Corp-to-Corp consulting anywhere in the world which is safe and where traveling expenses are covered SAP Overview: 21 years experience (19 years of R/3 with 5 complete implementations, 2 years of R/2 with 1 complete implementation) 17 years experience configuring and customizing MM-Purchasing, MM-Inventory Management and Warehouse Management, including RF/Sapconsole Hands-on Team Leadership experience in 4 major implementation projects Comprehensive understanding of MM, WM, PP, PP/PI, QM, Equipment and Asset master data and their integration with each other and with Production Planning (forecast and consumption-based), Production Control (discrete, repetitive and process), SD-Delivery, PM/SM, FI/CO and PS. Education: - B.A. at Brooklyn College, M.A. at City College of New York, PH.D. at City University of New York
- 2. - SAP Certified Solution Consultant SAP Solution Manager 4.0 Implementation Tools -SAP Certified Application Associate Logistics Execution & Warehouse Management with SAP ERP 6.0 - SAP R/3 Certified Application Consultant Materials Management for System R/3 Release 3.x - System SAP R/3 training: Materials Management, Quality Management, Warehouse Management and Extended Warehouse Management Experience: Senior Consultant for an Italian consultancy in Southeast MI. 6/2016 present. Wrote test scripts for, and tested enhancements to, the NAFTA roll-out of a custom Transportation System for a major automotive manufacturer. Specialized in Planning (simulating Forecasts and Budgets) and Transport scenarios for routes from assembly plants to dealers, covering the tracking and costing of each purchased provider move and service segment for thousands of domestic and international routes. Director for Answerthink, an SAP Re-Seller and Consulting Practice (4/2015 3/2016). Management Consulting and Sales Support for rapid implementation projects for multiple clients in the US, Australia and New Zealand. Materials Management Team Lead for an Australian based international Phase 2 rollout of Process Manufacturing and Quality Management processing for Sirtex Medical Ltd., 10/2015 02/2016. Completed Blueprint and Playback 1 configuration and documentation activities for a manufacturer of radioactive medical implants, including design documents, multiple WRICEF functional specifications for Purchasing, Inventory Control, 2-Dimensional Label Management, Delivery optimization and primary responsibility for Material Master conversion activities. Project Manager for a post-implementation stabilization of Warehousing and Distribution functionality (8/2015 10/2015). Single handedly supported the cleanup and optimization of poorly implemented MM, Lean-WM and SD-Delivery functionality for the Charlotte, NC distribution center of Gutermann, a major German thread manufacturer. Senior Consultant/Manager for CSC Logistics Modernization Project with the US Army (1/2013 2/2015) Business Analyst for National Maintenance Project 08/2014 2/2015. I specialized in Integration and Security Role Testing of a custom front end to the SAP ECC Project Systems
- 3. module, which authorized, funded and did the product-costing for Maintenance Projects. These Projects were fulfilled by Production Orders and Purchase Orders. This involve extensive IDOC processing to generate Sales Orders and Production Orders or sub-contracting Purchase Orders, and to Issue unserviceable parts to them and Receiving serviceable parts back into stock. It also involved Invoicing, Billing, Disbursement and closing Projects on the financial side. Business Analyst for Data Team on implementation and enhancement projects through 08/2014. I specialized in the migration of data objects for the IM/WM and Plant Maintenance using SAP (ECC and EWM) business applications. The work consisted of mostly blueprinting, preparing documentation for scope reviews, process design, software development, and data mapping from legacy to client systems. My analyses and designs culminated in the development of functional and technical specifications for load programs, error handling routines and test scripts for the end to end data-migration and data-conversion processes, leading to mass amounts of automated SAP transaction postings. Major data objects were Batch Records, Inventory Balances at the IM and WM or EWM levels, Open Stock Transport Sales Orders generating STO Purchase Orders, PM Work Order Task Lists, and multiple aspects of Serialization and Item Unique Identification (IUID/UII). Managing Consultant for Lodestone Management Consultants (8/2012 12/2012). Warehousing and Logistics team leader for a US-based international base-line blueprint project for the Alcon division of Novartis, a large life-sciences corporation. Covering three business franchises (Pharmaceutical, Surgical equipment and Contact lenses), I led a team of one other consultant and two SMEs responsible for ECC 6.0 Inventory Management, Warehouse Management and LE-Shipping and LE-Transportation through a series of blueprinting workshops. Harmonized and documented requirements, fit/gaps, process flows and to-be proposals using such tools as MS-Share- point, -Power-point, -Excel, -Visio and Word, for multiple manufacturing plants, distribution centers (DCs) and affiliates. Strictly regulated environment included batch management, serialization, handling unit management and multiple interfaces with third party logistics providers (3PLs) and DCs and affiliates still using other warehouse management systems such as Red Prairie DLX. Senior MM, WM and Logistics Execution Consultant for SAP America, Inc. (6/2007- 7/2012) Procurement or Manufacturing functional support for pre-sales Workshops and Statement of Work documentation (1/2011 present) Developed multiple deliverables covering business
- 4. process scope and resource requirements, defining required development objects for the following pre- sales opportunities: - A Pennsylvania-based furniture manufacturer (Manufacturing, including Inventory, Warehouse and Handling Unit Management) - A Texas-based oil-industry service organization (Procurement of Services and Equipment) - Pepsico, a Houston-based beverage manufacturer and distributor (Procurement and Inventory Management) - A Houston-based chemical manufacturer (Manufacturing and Engineering, including Inventory and Warehouse Management) Post-implementation support for escalated problems - For Bobs Discount Furniture, a Connecticut-based furniture distributor using a custom front-end portal for ECC 6.0 IS-Retail, SD and MM (11-12/2010) enabling team to catch up on huge backlog of Special (Sales)Orders (which auto-generate Purchase Orders) - For a UK-rollout of ECC 6.0 MM and WM to 3 Cargil plants where animals were slaughtered, the meat packaged, and distributed (8/2010), enabling team to improve accuracy of inventory balances QA Assessments for Mexico City-based beverage companies - ECC 6.0 roll-outs of Inventory and Warehouse Management (9/2010 and 7/2010) at Grupo Modelo (manufacturer and distributer of Corona Beer), including Bulk Storage, Returnable Packaging, Cross Docking and Handling Unit Management - ECC 6.0 South American roll-outs to Mexican and Brazilian distribution centers of Warehouse Management (10/2008), Inventory Management (7/2008) for Coca Cola distributer FEMSA Project Manager and WM Consulting at the Canadian British Columbia Ministry of Labor (9/2011- 11/2011) - Planned, supervised, executed and documented the implementation of Warehouse Management functionality for distribution centers in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island for all outbound functions, including the design of multiple RF and GUI transactions and reports. Realization included integration with a third-party Carousel storage and picking system and a packing station. Coordinated the testing activities of users and super-users at both sites, and supervised the development work of two ABAP programmers, based upon my own specifications. WM consulting at Owens Corning, a Toledo, OH-based manufacturer of fiberglass cable (4/2010 5/2010) - Design, configuration and testing support for the localization of two warehouses for a US-led international template, adapting WM-Storage Unit Management for Inbound Deliveries and for both External- and Production Receiving and Cross Docking in a Handling Unit Managed environment WM consulting for an international roll-out at Roche-Ventana, a Tucson, AZ-based manufacturer of Chemical Diagnostic (Medical) Supplies (1/2010 3/2010) - Design, configuration and testing support for the US localization of two warehouses for a Swiss-led international template, adding new WM and RF processes, including RF-automation of Outbound Delivery scenarios, in a strictly regulated environment. Enabled the WM/RF team, which had
- 5. not completed a blueprint, to design, prototype, Unit Test and catch up to the Integration Testing schedule of the other project teams ERP consulting for Misumi, a Tokyo-based international distributor of automotive and other machine parts (11/20008 10/2009) - Participated in and then lead a small Application Team composed of CRM and ERP configurers, data modelers and developers - Design, documentation, ECC 6.0 configuration and testing for a multi-year international implementation of multiple SAP and other platforms based upon Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using Event-driven process design, including a custom User Interface, CRM Sales Order generation, ERP Supply and Order fulfillment and master data with standard and custom Variant Configuration and global ATP-checking, using multiple Middleware platforms for numerous global trade scenarios for the purchase of outsourced manufactured parts and their shipment to and handling at distribution centers throughout Japan and the Asia Pacific region, Logistics Execution Consultant for Manitowac, a Pennsylvania and French-based manufacturer of Cranes (4/2008 -7/2008) - Blueprinting, design and configuration of Distribution processes, including SD-Delivery, LE-Transportation and Foreign Trade for exports of large cranes and spare parts based upon Variant Configurator-generated Sales and Production Orders. - Designed a custom solution for Transportation Planning before Production Execution, including screens, tables and reports. Also configured and documented scenarios for Delivery Processing, Transportation Execution and Shipment Costing. Outbound Logistics Consultant for post-implementation support of escalated problems at Rockwell Automation, a Milwaukee-based high-tech manufacturer (8/2007 -10/2007) - Re-design, documentation and configuration of outbound processes from production receiving through load staging and shipping, which were originally based upon the mis-use of MRP Areas and were not properly working, in collaboration with users on the shop floor and shipping bays. WM Lead for Tahoe Partners, Chicago IL (4/2006- 4/2007) R/3 4.7 Optimization, adding Inventory Management RF Warehousing at Mullins Foods, a contract manufacturer of small food packets (ketchup, mayonnaise etc.) for MacDonalds. I completed stand-alone Blueprint project for this foods manufacturer. Design, user workshops and high level documentation of a custom RF warehousing solution, without having to implement WM. Site Leader for Realization project, designed and developed a custom pallet-based RF Warehousing System, based upon standard R/3 Inventory Management with about 50 custom objects (especially RF-
- 6. transactions, GUI-transactions, User-Exits and Labels). Accomplished the paperless Bin-tracking of most activities throughout a large warehouse. Featured were a MIGO back-end to print Pallet labels, a reconciliation process for Production Order put-backs and discrepancies, picking queues for production and delivery staging, ability to handle pallets with mixed batches or materials, and SD-Delivery functionality, as well as full bin-level Inventory Adjustment, Physical Inventory and Cutover functionality. Manager for Bearing Point (8/2005 3/2006) R/3 4.7 Logistics Consultant for Honeywell ACS, a Minnesota-based high tech manufacturer (8/2005 9/2005), defining requirements for MM/IM, WM, RF and SD/Delivery and planning realization phase. R/3 5.0 Purchase to Pay Consultant for Hospira, a Lincolnshire, IL pharmaceutical manufacturer (9/2005 12/2005) Template roll out, coordinating upgrade and new development testing for Purchasing, MM-Master Data and Accounts Payable, and documenting Purchasing development objects. Senior SAP Consultant at Schwarz Pharma, Seymour, IN (3/2005 7/2005) Representing EPC, an Irish-based consultancy, I completed blueprinting and began configuring Materials Management and RF-based Warehouse Management for a 4.7 implementation at a highly regulated and German-owned pharmaceutical process manufacturing facility. I organized User Requirement Specification workshops and documentation for Direct and Indirect Purchasing, Inventory Management and Warehouse Management. Developed standard and custom RF solutions for Goods Receipts (with Batch Management), WM bin to bin transfers (with and without Storage Unit Management), Replenishing forward picking and production staging areas), Inventory Adjustments, SD-Delivery Picking, Packing and Returns. SAP User Acceptance Testing Lead at Abbott Laboratories, Lincolnshire, IL (12/2004 - 2/2005) As a consultant for Grom Associates, I organized the User Acceptance Testing for the Purchasing part of a Purchasing and Financial 4.7 implementation at a large pharmaceutical company. Set up scripting procedures and organized and tracked manual test script development, supervising consultants and personally developing many scripts, including two for the system Integration Testing a major interface.
- 7. MM Consultant at Saudi Aramco, a giant Middle East Oil Company (12/2003 to 11/2004) Representing Wipro Infotech of Bangalore, India, I was responsible for customizing and maintaining SAP/R3 4.7 solutions for material supply and tracking for giant oil producer Saudi Armcos Drilling and Work-over Division. I was the primary Materials Management consultant for their Projects and Capital Maintenance design team which customized MM, PM, AM and PS modules for all drilling consumable materials and reusable equipment. Designed, supervised the development, documented, and supported the implementation, deployment and daily maintenance of a custom SAP-based Drilling Rig Supply System, which tracked all requests for materials and equipment (capital and non-capital) using standard and custom workflow processing, as well as a Drilling Equipment Tracking System. Both systems required multiple custom transactions, screens, reports, and data base tables, including adding many fields to the Asset Master to handle equipment (defined as non-capital assets) and for drill pipes. I developed custom data bases, transactions, screens and reports for the distribution and inventory tracking of stock materials, and also materials and equipment which had already been expensed to a cost center or WBS element. Implementations of both systems required the loading of PM Equipment Masters and Asset Masters for all drilling equipment, and the roll-out to 58 oil rigs throughout the country, as well as ongoing production support and further development. I also developed a 130-page User Manual for all Drilling users, including Workflow procedures. Consultant at Medsite Inc., a medical supplies internet distributer, Bloomfield NJ (8/2003 to 12/2003) I representing Samsung Data Systems of San Jose, California as MM and RF consultant for a rapid 4.6c implementation of a web-based distributor of medical supplies and books. Designed and wrote functional specs for a custom IM-based RF solution for goods receipts, physical inventory, and SD- Delivery picking and packing, using fixed IM bins, and saving the client the expense of having to implement WM. Built hand-held to Telnet Server to Sapconsole to SAP/R3 interface. Configured consumption based planning, purchasing with outbound EDI 850 and inventory management. Also configured and developed functional specs for the loading and updating of the Material Master, Vendor Master, Info-Records and Stock Balances and Open Purchase Orders. MM Consultant for the Delphi Automotive Competency Center (1/2000 to 1/2003) Member of Purchase to Pay team of internal consultants (full-time Delphi employees) called the Competency Center in Troy, MI, responsible for development and production support of SAP R/3 4.6c
- 8. baseline for multiple Delphi divisions. Delphi Automotive, at that time, was a relatively recent spin-off of the parts division of General Motors Initially (1/2000 to 6/2001), I was Purchasing Lead for 4.0 to 4.6 Chassis division upgrade, with gap analysis expanding the baseline configuration to cover unique requirements of four other Delphi divisions. I held together a disparate purchasing team of up to 15 power users from multiple divisions and consultants form Delphi, SAP and Deloitte, throughout an 18 month project. I educated and developed a super-user, whom Deloitte recommended being removed from the project, into one of the most productive users on the team. Upgraded configuration was extended to meet the requirements of all divisions represented on the user core team and included complex scenarios for Direct Purchasing (scheduling agreements and spot buys, source lists and info-records, forecast-based MRP, scheduled lines, EDI outbound Delfors (862), Deljits (830) and inbound ASNs (856)), and for Indirect Purchasing (consumption-based MRP for MROs, purchase requisitions and release strategies, automatic purchase orders, RFQs and quotes, Purchase Orders for text materials and services, contracts and periodic payment orders). I specialized in developing a custom minority reporting sub-system (using CO-Profitability Analysis tables, Bills of Materials and where-used function modules, user exits, multiple custom ABAP programs, Z-tables and Z- transactions), preparing functional specs for conversions and data loads, preparing training documentation for end-users and training super users, organizing ASAP BPP documentation, security authorizations, archiving, and the planning, leading and documenting of integration testing. Supply Chain Lead (6/2001 - 12/2001) for scoping and planning the entire logistics side of an Aftermarket division implementation, including PP, MM, SD. I provided the project with continuity on the logistic development side by clearly scoping out the supply chain requirements, resources and functionality. I then assured a high quality on time delivery on the supply fulfillment side despite inadequate functional consulting resources, which forced me to do much more hands-on configuration than originally planned. During realization I was responsible (12/2001 - 1/2003) for hands-on leadership of the Supply Fulfillment effort of up to 10 consultants and power users (including Material Master, outbound and inbound interfaces with an external forecasting system, MRP, Scheduling, Purchasing and Invoice Verification, EDI processing, standard BW cubes and queries, Third-party Warehousing and integration with SD-Delivery and FI/CO) through development, integration testing, cutover and production support. Had personal configuration responsibility for configuring Inventory Management, including inbound processing for IM- and WM-managed storage locations, sub-contracting, custom RF-enabled Mobile Data Entry (Logistic Execution-MOB using Sapconsole) for receiving, serialized pallet labeling, bin placement, bin-to-bin transfers, replenishment, physical inventory, and return order processing in a complex WM warehouse. I designed the entire inbound process for receiving, labeling and pallet management in a complex WM
- 9. warehouse managed by Caterpillar Logistics for Delphi Aftermarket. This involved expanding and improving Delphis already customized RF/Mobile Data Entry functionality, which simulated aspects of standard WM 4.6 handling unit management (which was ruled out of scope before I got involved). Senior Consultant for CSC Consulting (Global SAP Practice) (1998 to 1999) MM/WM Consultant supervising a team of up to 10 CSC and SAP consultants and GMLG users, at client General Motors Locomotive Group, LaGrange, IL (1/99- 9/99). During ASAP planning phase I was able to persuade the client that their legacy Distribution Resource Planning scenarios could be configured with standard SAP R/3 PP and MM functionality, using Flexible Planning for push forecasting MRP from the central warehouse, supplemented by pull replenishment MRP to source requirements from the product distribution centers and contract maintenance facilities. During ASAP realization phase I did hands-on configuration of MM-Inventory Management and Warehouse Management (including mixed stock, addition to existing stock, FIFO picking for SD-Delivery and Lean WM for non-WM-managed storage locations, sourcing SM Service Orders, and physical inventory) for the needs of the Aftermarket business for service parts and Canadian Defense vehicles, up through prototyping phase of an R/3 4.0b implementation. I had to design manual bin-partition procedures since the business-mandated first-in-first-out (FIFO) retrieval strategy was incompatible with the put-away strategy of addition to existing stock, since batch management and standard WM 4.0 storage unit management (alternative methods of serializing pallets and other storage units) were ruled out of scope, against my advice. I also configured inbound Routing and Tracking to monitor third-party warehouse activities using Quality Management inspection plans (Task Lists with Reference Operation Sets, making it unnecessary to have a Production Order for each inbound line item), prepared extensive functional specifications for conversions, interfaces and forms, and prepared test scripts for integration testing. Testing Lead for client DuPont's Global Shared Design, Wilmington, DE (8/98 -10/98). I supported multiple implementations, organizing the selection of testing Tools, resulting in the purchase of Mercury's WinRunner and LoadRunner. I also planned the integration of automated and manual testing strategies. Single-handedly drafted and implemented the initiating proposal dividing the American SAP practice into Functional Groups, including their organization and continuing practice-wide coordination. Consultant for Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems (1997 to 1998) MM/Inventory Controlling & Purchasing for client Purina Mills, a manufacturer of animal foods in St. Louis, MO (9/97-12/97). Assisted in completion of prototyping and integration testing.
- 10. Set up Logistics Information System, designing reports tracking Process Orders. R/3 3.1g implementation project for pilot plants included integration with PPI. MM/Inventory Management for tractor manufacturer John Deeres Funk Manufacturing, Coffeyville, KS (4/97 - 9/97). Analyzed, prototyped, configured, unit-tested, documented and supported integration testing for goods receipts and returns, transfer posting, goods issues, physical inventory/cycle counting, as well as vendor evaluation. Big bang R/3 3.0e implementation project included integration with WM, QM, PP (discrete Production Orders and repetitive Run Schedule Headers), SD, PM, SM and FI/CO. Consultant for Spearhead System Consultants (1996 to 1997) Co-taught a 2-week SAP Production Planning course to ten users for client Nabisco Royal, a food manufacturer in Cali, Columbia (11/96). Worked together with another consultant and translators. Also advised project team, afterwards, on developing a strategy and plan for the R/3 3.0c implementation of FI/CO, MM, PP and SD. MM-Purchasing for client Anheuser Busch, a beer manufacturer in St. Louis (08/96 to 10/96). Prototyping, including configuration, testing and scripting on Release 3.0d R/3 system implementation for entire spare parts procurement cycle (consumption-based MRP, Purchase Requisitions, RFQs and quotes, and automatic purchase orders) for vendor consignment goods in particular and stock purchasing in general. Technical Consultant for ConAgra Frozen Foods, Omaha (9/1995 to 3/1996) Configured business processes for sales and distribution using SAP R/2 RV with an RM-MAT front end and RF back end. Prototyped sample orders and non-trade receivables from RV to RF. Designed process documents, scripts and ATAB tables for defining products and prices, order through invoice, and product supplying and delivery. Also developed design documents for data base maintenance, file conversions, inventory accounting, and EDI interfaces for both sales order processing and inventory management. Application Software Manager for Fiserv, Inc., an IT facilities manager for Commercial Federal Bank in Omaha, NE (12/1994 to 5/1995)
- 11. Controlled the end phase of a new release installation of Data-Links Mortgage Accounting System and year-end processing. Organized new release implementation project for Computer Associates Infopoint Installment Loans system.