summary
Lori has been involved with Information Technology since 1988
and SAP since 1995. Of her 14+ years' SAP experience, at
least 5 years were spent in the technical, funcational and
data analysis areas of SD and its touchpoints. She configured
the full array of functional activities for the Sales and
Distribution module from Order Entry through Invoicing. In
addition, she configured all aspects of Pricing, ATP, Copy
Control, Customer Master, Material Master, Number Ranges and
Material/Partner/Output/Route determinations. In the
technical arena, she coded ABAP solutions via User Exits,
reports, interfaces, conversions, debugging, BDC sessions and
RFC functionality. She has been an SD consultant in more than
six SAP installations, as well as upgrade and company merger
projects ranging from verstions 2.2d to ECC 6.0.
SAP Experience
Aug 2009 to Jan 2010 Hoerbiger Compression
Technology Houston, TX
SAP Logistics Support for the Americas
A month after Hoerbiger went live on ECC 6.0, resolved many
Logistics issues ranging from sales order item categories to
delivery splitting to invoice output.
Configured item categories, ATP, route determination, document
copy control, incompletion procedures, pricing, billing, etc.
by creating functional specifications and following through to
getting business approval of solution and testing.
Designed several Sales reports to assist the business in being
more productive and meeting external customer needs.
June 2009 to Aug 2009 HP Houston, TX
EDS Integration Project SAP Senior SD Business Analyst
HP acquired EDS in 2008 and this merger project was to migrate
EDS business to the HP ECC 6.0 environment.
Identied gaps, dependencies and constraints in numerous SD
legacy applications so that they could be integrated into HP's
newly configured landscape to enable EDS Services business
requirements.
Planned retirement of the EDS assets that have Sales &
Distribution functionality wich included: Analyze, Design,
Configure, Test/Train, Deploy and Decommission legacy
applications into the HP SAP ECC environments.
May 2007 to Dec 2008 Shell Oil Products Houston,
TX
Global Implementation SAP Senior SD Business Analyst
Incorporated detailed business requirements into
specifications for system additions and changes needed to
complete Global SAP ECC 6.0 design for US and Canada
Lubricants business.
Streamlined business processes for list and fixed prices,
channel differentials, sales discounts and allowances,
surcharges, accruals, taxes, distributor commissions and fees.
Performed numerous test cycles, cutover and provided post
go-live support for all Shell Lubricants pricing.
Successfully transformed four million pricing records from the
Legacy system with over 98% billing accuracy.
Sept 2005 to April 2007 Baker Hughes Houston, TX
Senior SD Business Analyst
Supported design, testing, and go-live for country-by-country
roll-out implementations of SD Order to Cash.
Configured all major SD objects where business units requested
changes to the current system setup.
Gathered business requirements for these requests and worked
as a liaison between the technical teams and business units to
ensure that deliverables met requirements.
Tested SAP deliverables and gained business approval before
implementing into Production.
May 2005 to Sept 2005 Keane, Inc at Baker Hughes
Houston, TX
Senior SD Consultant / Business Analyst
Researched user-reported issues or enhancements, determined
solutions and created customer requirements to accomplish the
requested results.
Acted as a liaison between the business units and technical
support.
Configured pricing, billing and output components.
Feb 2005 to May 2005 Smith and Nephew Memphis, TN
SD Technical / Functional Consultant
Created Intelligent Backorder Messaging by coding ABAP
programs and user exits to text message or email sales reps if
a sales order had any backordered product.
Nov 2004 to Feb 2005 Halliburton Houston, TX
SD Technical / Functional Consultant
Automated Commodity Code Report to print at invoice save time.
Improved several custom sales reports.
Modified custom objects to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley
requirements.
Aug 2004 to Nov 2004 Smith and Nephew Memphis, TN
SD Technical / Functional Consultant
Improved Release Customer Expected Price standard SAP
functionality.
Provided various production support roles on SAP R/3
Enterprise.
JULY 1997 TO JULY 2004 PENNZOIL-QUAKER STATE/SHELL
OIL PRODUCTS HOUSTON,TX
SD Functional Consultant / Independent Contractor
Shell Oil Products US Implementation Merge into
Pennzoil-Quaker State
Configured Output Determination for the new Shell plants on
the PQS system.
Maintained Material Determination for cross-reference of PQS
vs. Shell materials.
Converted Shell's Routes, Freight Rates and Shipping Point
Determination.
Served as backup Operations Team Lead, which entailed task
management, chairing meetings and providing status updates to
senior management.
Inventory Management
Added ATP functionality to existing inventory replenishment
tool created by QS.
Implemented shipping data determination on stock transfer
purchase orders.
Performance Improvement
Implemented automated process, via user exits, to source and
populate inbound electronic Jiffy Lube sales orders.
Implemented recommendations from SAP to improve performance in
the areas of customer order management, pricing and output
determination.
Supply Chain
Created ATP picking output document and configuration for
Marketing plants.
Upgrade 3.0f to 4.6b
Evaluated and conformed user exits and miscellaneous
configuration to ensure that functionality would not be
negatively impacted by the upgrade.
Quaker State Implementation Merge
Designed and implemented QS customer master merge into the
Pennzoil system.
SD Implementation
Provided excise tax solution in lieu of standard IS-Oil
functionality. This involved configuring pricing procedures,
document copy control and incompletion procedures.
Trained tax personnel on the use of new excise tax
functionality.
Feb 1998 to Aug 1998 Mobil Houston, TX
SD/MM/FI Functional Consultant
Provided production support directly after go-live onto SAP.
Performed end-user training on newly installed SAP system.
Oct 1995 to June 1997 Star Enterprise Houston,
TX
SD Implementation Technical Team Lead
Participated in one of the first IS-Oil implementations by
SAP.
Utilized quotations to extract price notification data and
price condition records.
Modified SAP user exits to handle special tax law
requirements.
Other Jan 1995 to Oct 1995 Star Enterprise Houston,
Experience TX
Systems Analyst
Developed an Oracle application, which was a data warehouse
for all Oil and Gas transactions affecting refined product
inventory.
Expanded an organizational hierarchy application for the
Marketing department using Microsoft Access 2.0 and Oracle to
include greater relationship capabilities.
Jan 1990 to Dec 1994 Texaco Refining and
Marketing, Inc. Houston, TX
Systems Analyst
Maintained mainframe marketing Oil and Gas applications using
COBOL, COBOL Workbench, JCL, SyncSort, PL/1, DB2, IMS and
APLDI.
Led several Quality Action Teams for process improvement on
different applications, as well as everyday work processes
such as customer satisfaction and productivity.
Education
1985-1989 Mississippi State University Starkville, MS
B.B.A. Business Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis
Graduated Cum Laude with GPA of 3.6
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