Ronald L. Schmidt

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SUMMARY

Senior Functional and Business Consultant with 26 years of experience in SAP working on 17 implementations. Team lead and team member responsible for conducting business process re-engineering, application design, system configuration, training and implementations / rollouts. In-depth knowledge on the SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) module (19 years of order-to-cash, pricing, rebates, and LIS), with an excellent understanding of the Service Management (SM – 1 year), Materials Management (MM – 9 years), and Finance (FI – 9 years) modules, Warehouse Management (WM – 6 years), Logistics Execution (LE – 10 years), as well as Master Data Maintenance (MDM – 8 years). I am also capable of reading and debugging ABAP code, even though I no longer write code.

PROFESSIONAL IT / SAP EXPERIENCE

Contractor for NTT Data, Irving, TX 2016 – 2016

Senior Principal Consultant

Doosan/Bobcat – Fargo, ND & Suwanee, GA (8/2016 – 12/2016)

Member of the SAP Production Support team assisting business users with issues they reported in the Production system. I helped resolved issues in the SD, LE, MM, and FI modules around copy control, modifications of forms, serial numbers for machinery and how they get assigned to sales orders, etc.

NTT Data, Irving, TX 2016 – 2016

Senior Principal Consultant

Monsanto – St. Louis, MO (4/2016 – 5/2016)

Member of the archiving team in charge of the SD module and the necessary enhancements to their current process. Also help the material master archiving team by doing data analysis of numerous files.

BYK South – Gonzales, TX (2/2016 – 3/2016)

Helped define the proposed to-be process, for SD, by integrating the current as-is processes into the global template. I also helped define, and then document, gaps between the to-be and global template.

KPIT, Folsom, CA 2015 – 2015

Principal Consultant

Brown-Forman - Louisville, KY (10/2015 – 12/2015)

Helped the SD group, for a worldwide distributor of alcoholic beverages, determine the movement types, and the reasons why, for material movements thru the use ABAP queries. I was laid-off after my job was completed.

Optimal Solutions, Irving, TX 2013 – 2015

Principal Consultant

Wise Alloys/Constellium – Muscle Shoals, AL (3/2014 – 10/2015)

Provided production support for the SD, MM, LE, and FI modules. I had to understand the numerous interfaces that were used and try to eliminate them, if possible. I also implemented new LIS structures to aid the Sales and Financial departments reporting.

Sysco – Houston, TX (11/2013 – 1/2014)

I was brought in to support the PDPE pricing initiative, as well as the ongoing SD customer and pricing requests, which also included the use of VISTEX with how it interfaced with pricing. Generated numerous reports (SQVI and table dumps) supporting the customer analysis. After 2 months, the PDPE budget was cut and I was forced to leave the project.

Abeam Consulting, Irving, TX 2012 – 2013

SD/CS Functional Consultant / Senior Manager

Participated on sales call and proposals. Worked as a member of the AMO team supporting different clients, Maruchan and ELO Touch, with their post go-live implementation of SAP SD. Also worked at KAO for new functionality in pricing.

HCL Axon, Jersey City, NJ 2011 – 2012

SD Functional Consultant / Managing Consultant

Tyco Valves and Controls - Stafford, TX, Reno, NV, and Pelham, AL (5/2011-10/2012)

Responsible for Designing, writing functional specifications and implementing numerous configuration objects and forms for the order entry, ship, and invoicing departments.

Designed and implemented a lean Service Management module for the client using SAP, and traveled to all production sites (4) to implement this functionality.

Did all of the configuration for scheduling agreements, contracts, rebates, and sales orders to meet the business requirements.

Performed numerous training sessions of the Sales & Distribution design for the global roll-out.

Dell/Perot – Treehouse Foods, Plano, TX 2010 – 2011

SD Functional Consultant

As a SD functional consultant, I designed and wrote functional specifications, and implemented numerous forms for the order entry, ship, and invoicing departments.

CSC, Cleveland, OH 2004 – 2010

SD Senior Functional Consultant / Team Lead

Client: Pacific-Cycle (08/2009 – 09/2009)

SD Functional Consultant, responsible for the testing of business processes, of a bicycle manufacturer/ distributor, in their upgrade from SAP 4.6C to SAP ECC6.0.

Completed and documented configuration changes that were required for the new environment

Client: Smurfit-Stone (09/2008 – 04/2009)

SD Functional Consultant and Team Lead responsible for the blueprinting, design and implementation of the pricing and rebate processes for an SAP ECC 6.0 implementation for a corrugated packaging company.

Also assisted with the SD Order to Cash process, Customer Master Data and Financial Account Determination

Client: Federal-Mogul (06/2007-08/2008)

SD Functional Consultant on an SAP ECC 5.0 implementation project for an automotive aftermarket part supplier.

Responsible for redesigning and enhancing their pricing and rebate processes. For rebates, created new access sequences and condition types, along with new rebate agreement types. Because of the types of rebates they had, we had to run retroactive rebate processing monthly.

Worked on the definition and configuration of the sales organization structure, scheduling agreements, LIS/SIS structures and interfaces

Client: Rich Products (03/2006 – 1/2007)

SD Team Lead for a food manufacturer in an SAP R/3 4.7 environment, responsible for the design and implementation of multiple business processes focused on the sale of products to schools and military bases.

Assisted with the implementation of SAP's shipping process and integration with WM module

Client: Briggs & Stratton (03/2005 – 2/2006)

SD Lead Functional Consultant on an SAP R/3 4.6 implementation project for a power equipment manufacturer. Responsible for designing and implementing a rebate process that required product registration thru the internet.

Designed and built a sub-system to SAP that handled their Co-Operative Advertising process. This process pays the customer a percentage of their sales for advertising the company’s product

Client: LMP (05/2004 – 12/2004)

SD Functional Consultant for the implementation of SAP's Solution Manager for a Military Modernization Program. Involved with the testing and validation of the business processes around the SD module.

Once validated, was responsible for the loading of documentation into Solution Manager

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Cleveland, OH 1993 – 2003

SAP Senior Consultant

Client: Novellus (2003)

SD Functional Consultant on an SAP R/3 4.6C implementation for a high-tech company that manufactured machines for the printing of circuit boards in Asia.

Designed and configured numerous pricing solutions, based on business requirements

Client: Chef Solutions (2001-02)

SD Team Lead for multiple rollouts of an SAP 4.6C implementation for a food manufacturer of appetizers and bakery items, was the Team Lead for multiple rollouts of an SAP 4.6C implementation.

Duties included the design, specification, configuration and implementation of numerous interfaces and reports in the SD and MM modules, as well as working on different pricing and order processing solutions.

Led a team of 4 resources in the configuration, testing and documentation of the solution

Client: DuPont (2000-01)

SD Functional Consultant working on multiple SAP implementations (4.0B and 4.6C) at a major chemical manufacturer of polymers and coatings.

Helped develop and design major interfaces, from sales and financial, to their legacy systems.

There was extensive client involvement in definition of requirements and transferring knowledge of the business processes and configuration

Client: Monsanto (2000)

SD Functional Consultant for a major chemical manufacturer of chemically enhanced seeds and insecticides. Helped design and implement a Business Recovery/Continuity Plan in case of an SAP outage.

The plan would allow the plant to continue to make and ship product, capture the information pertaining to the manufacturing and shipping of the product into a form/log for re-entry into SAP when it resumed processing

Client: Aventis (1999-00)

SD Team Lead for the merging of two agro-chemical companies, makers of insect resilient products, into one SAP R/3 3.1I system.

Led a team of 8 resources in the analysis of the as-is business processes, defining of to-be processes and facilitating workshops for consensus on the best practices for the new company.

New pricing and export processing, with interfaces to EDI, were designed configured and implemented, along with the re-definition of customer master data

Client: Millenium (1998-99)

As a SD team member with the global (Asia, North America and Europe) implementation of SAP R/3 3.1I for a chemical manufacturer of coating, colorings, polymers and pigments.

Responsible for ensuring that the rebate process and pricing (including taxes) would be valid for all legal entities around the world

Client: Rhone-Poulonc (1997)

SD Team Lead for a full life cycle SAP R/3 3.1H implementation for a chemical manufacturer of ingredients for plastics, rubber and fuel.

Led a team of 4 resources in the configuration and implementation of the SD module for incorporating the pricing, export and rebate process. Also participated in the as-is and to-be workshops with client personnel

Client: Roche (1996)

SD Team Lead that led the design and implementation of interfaces from the legacy systems to SAP R/3 3.1C for a pharmaceutical company of healthcare products.

Involved travel to Europe to interview corporate personnel and define requirements. After returning, was also involved with the pricing design and implementation based on the overseas requirements

Client: Akzo-Nobel (1995-96)

As a SD Functional Consultant, led a team of 3 resources for a full life cycle implementation of SAP R/3 3.1C for a chemical manufacturer of catalysts for the chemical industry, The functionality included order entry, shipping, billing, pricing and rebates.

Responsible for the design, configuration and implementation of SD module

Client: Emco-Maier (1994)

Participated on a team that implemented SAP R/3 2.2 for a manufacturer/distributor of specialized machinery and spare parts. Responsible for validating business requirements against SAP.

Worked closely with team members around interactions between modules to make sure that everything was functioning properly

Client: Zeneca (1993-94)

Team member involved with the a implementation of SAP R/2 RV for an agro-chemical client of crop science products, participated as

Assisted in the configuration of the sales order process to meet business requirements.

Participated in documenting as-is and to-be process flows. Also assisted in training the end user community

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