Dan Sulzinger, Sr.

Cell: 321-***-****

Email: ac23zx@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/coldan

SENIOR ENTERPRISE / SOLUTION ARCHITECT – SUPPLY CHAIN

Mr. Sulzinger Is a Senior Enterprise/Solution Architect and Leader With A History Of Creating Value For Clients Using Advanced EA Frameworks And Supply Chain Tools. Dan has 25+ Years of Supply Chain Consulting, Business Modelling, BPM, Manufacturing, SCM Transformation, and Global Deployment Experience to His Customers.

Dan has led and participated in some of the largest SAP-APO, IBP, and S&OP global transformation and deployment Programs and Projects. As a Sr. Enterprise/ Sr. Solution Architect Dan can and has mapped out complex Supply Chain Strategies and Processes with C-Level Executives, building precise Solutions to deliver results and institute value added metrics to monitor business benefits.

Proven expertise with design and deployment projects supporting multifaceted Supply Chain Dashboards and Control Towers. He also is an avid writer of Leadership, Supply Chain articles and white papers. His domain expertise spans Metals, Food & Beverage, Consumer Products (CPG), e-Commerce, A&D, Chemical, Transportation, and High Technology industry vertical.

Areas of Expertise

Manufacturing/Shop Floor

SAP APO – SNP, DP, PP/DS GATP SNC

Global Templates

IBP S&D, Inv., SCCT, S&R

Management Consulting

Enterprise/Solution Architecture

ASAP8/Agile/SCRUM/TOGAF

Supply Chain Control Towers

Global Development Projects

Hadoop, HANA & Fiori

Leadership

Program Management

Integration/Interfaces/ETL

SOW’s, RFI/RFP’s, & Budgets

CaaS, SaaS, PaaS, MaaS

Employment

Senior Supply Chain Enterprise/Solution Architect/Speaker/Mentor 10/2015 – Present

Independent Senior Supply Chain Enterprise/Solution Architect/Speaker/Mentor.

CSC 11/2012 – 09/2015

Associate Partner/Sr. Solution Architect/NA APO Team Lead in Americas SAP Practice

Publicly traded global leader of next-generation Information Technology (IT) services and solutions. FY 15 revenues of $12.1B, 70k employees, 90 countries. Selected client projects listed.

eConsulting Group, Merritt Island, FL 01/2000 - 11/2012

Sr. Solution Architect/Partner in the Global SAP Practice

Privately held firm offering management, consulting, training, and systems integration. Selected client projects listed.

OTJ Management Group, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca. & Merritt Island, FL 06/1986 - 12/1999

Architect/Partner/SME Global Aerospace and Defense Practice (A&D)

Privately held firm offering management consulting. Selected client projects listed.

U.S. Military and Government Service

ROTC/Active Duty/Reserve/National Guard/Government Service

Selected Projects

Senior Enterprise Architect – APO (DP/SNP) Client: CCBF 06/2017 – Current

Team Leader of major deployment and customization program for Soft Drink Bottler in Florida. Responsible for lead effort to fully utilize APO Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling. Set up statistical groups for Promotion Planning, Birth/Death, retail deliveries, marketing segmentation, and ranking to improve inventory utilization and deployment. Developed and deployed consistent business process across the Supply Chain organization.

Senior Supply Chain Enterprise Architect Client: Confidential 12/2015 – 1/2017

Client needed expertise in augmenting design of a fully integrated custom developed bi-directional Supply Chain Control Tower. The integration touch points included IOT Sensors (Containers, Ship, Trucks, etc.), SAP ECC, SAP APO, SAP SNC, and Integrated Factory components. Technologies: SAP APO, SAP SNC, SAP ECC, XI/PI, HCI, Datastage, Mulesoft, JAVA, Cloud, and IOT Advanced Sensors. Test drove: SAP/ Microsoft Azure IoT / Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT/ IBM Watson is an IoT platform.

Senior Supply Chain Enterprise Architect Client: Anheuser-Busch-InBev 12/2014 – 9/2015

Anheuser-Busch-InBev needed to replace 12 legacy planning systems for 13 U.S. breweries in 2014. As, led 15 technical consultants through design, development, and integration to/from some 20 Legacy applications, plus SAP APO, and SAP ECC with market leading Infor Advanced Planning (AP) & Advanced Scheduling (AS) brewery planning/scheduling solution. Team: of off-shore ABAP/SQL and ETL developers, on-shore architects, ETL developers, Infor consultants and Client Core Team. Technologies: INFOR AS/AP, INFOR IHUB, SQL, SQL Server, DataStage, MuleSoft, ABAP, HANA, ECC, SAP APO DP, SNP, S&OP, Factory of Future, & Historian. SAP HANA Training

Senior Supply Chain Solution Architect Client: PPG Architectural Coatings 01/2014 – 9/2014

PPG Architectural Coatings needed to consolidate, merge, & upgrade SAP in 2013 because of multiple acquisitions. Served as Sr. Supply Chain Solution Architect for an ECC (ERP), S&OP, and APO upgrade and integration project which supported operations in U.S, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Led S&OP to IBP-S&OP Upgrade Workstream and Core APO team using a global template from configuration to go-Live. Technologies: SAP APO 7.01, DP, SNP, PP/DS, ECC, IBP/S&OP, IBP/S&D, IBP/Inv. NetWeaver PI, BackOffice, EDI. Results: on time and within budget.

Senior MFG/SCM/APO/Integration Solution Architect Client: Anheuser-Busch-InBev 11/2012 – 04/2015

Anheuser-Busch-InBev needed to upgrade its legacy Supply Chain systems in 2012. As Senior APO/Integration Solution Architect for APO DP/SCM-FTS and SNP, S&OP, and legacy deployment project which supported operations in U.S. High complex design integrating with 20 legacy systems and ECC. SAP considers this implementation to be the most complex in the history of SAP APO globally. Upgraded S&OP to IBP-S&OP, prototyped IBP/SCCT, S&D, Inv., and Supply. Baseline: 13 Breweries, 4 DCs, 23 Wholly Owned Distributors, 642 Independent Wholesalers, 140 Non-Equity Wholesalers. Team: off-shore APO, S&OP, Hana Consultants, ABAP Developers, and ETL developers, on-shore developers. Technologies: NetWeaver PI, DataStage, Mainframe, RS/6000, BW, ABAP, ECC, SAP APO DP, SNP, S&OP, Teradata, Mulesoft, XI, DataStage, ABAP, SQL, BW, QlikView BI Dashboard and legacy applications. Results: retirement of 15 Legacy applications and legacy hardware (mainframe/RS6000), delivering a substantial cost reduction.

Senior SAP Solution Architect Client: Digital River 01/2009 – 5/2010

5ERP in 2011. As Sr. SAP Solution Architect, directed global deployment in 2009. Led Team of 20 consultants, 10 on-shore developers, & Client Core Team. Full Life Cycle project in a pure e-commerce workspace integration with real-time store fronts for some 4k sites & 10k+ fulfillers (Nikon, Microsoft, Canon, Kodak, etc.). Met the SLA of 100ms response time for global ATP Checks. Technologies: SAP SCM/APO 7.0 with DP, SNP, GATP, SNC 7.0, BW, NetWeaver, MDM, HTML, JAVA, Platform, Biztalk, Microsoft.net, etc. Results: a net sales growth of and transaction cost reduction.

Senior Supply Chain Solution Architect Client: Anheuser-Busch-InBev Canada 2010 - 2011

Anheuser-Busch-InBev Canada expanded use of SAP in 2010 to included SAP APO SNP, SNC, and PP/DS. As Senior Supply Chain Solution Architect supporting senior team of functional and off-shore developers through final 55 RICEF developments, PP/DS and SNP customization, testing, go-live, and support for 7 breweries, 25 DCs. Results: Replaced 6 legacy systems for Canadian operations, achieving $15M cost reduction. Technologies: SAP APO, SAP ECC, NetWeaver, BW, High-Jump WMS, and 12 mainframe/RS600 applications.

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Lead SCM Architect for the APO Solution Client: a global felt manufacturer 2008 -2009

Starting in 2008, a global felt manufacturer in Albany, NY had under-powered SAP. Lead SCM Architect for the APO Solution: included SNP, PP/DS Global-ATP, BW, and ECC (CIF) integrations with SD, MM, WMS, etc. Led team in crafting functional/Technical specifications for GATP in a complex global SNC/SNP/PPDS production and service workspaces with cost based Optimizer and Constraint CTM process. Designed interfaces to retired 15 legacy systems. Results: over $20M cost reduction. Reduced SLA for service & production order processing by 43%

Sr. SCM Solution Architect & MFG/SCM SME Client: U.S. Government 2006 - 2007

In 2006, a U.S. government contractor based in Virginia had significant logistics issues in the Middle East. Sr. SCM Solution Architect & MFG/SCM SME solved functional & technical issues using SNP-CTM-Optimizer. Reduced transportation and storage capacities costs by 18%. Deployed PP/DS & GATP for civilian and military operations in EMEA. Results: reduced MRO inventories by 22%, reduced replenishment orders by 25%, which resulted in $250M year over year direct cost reduction and subsequent cost avoidance.

Writer and Contributor, Client: SAPTips (ERPTips) 2003 to 2005

As SCM Associate Editor, wrote and contributed monthly articles focusing on functional and technical implementation and deployment issues for Advanced Planner and Optimizer. SAP Articles topics included SCM Deployment, SAP Basics GATP, Rules Based GATP, and Substitutions, and GATP deployment.

Sr. SCM SME and Architect: Client: An eCommerce retailer 2004 - 2005

An ecommerce retailer in Phoenix, AZ had difficulty managing inventory. Led the selection and deployment of SCM Solutions focusing on ATP and GATP. Improved replenishment which reduced FGI 31%, implemented ICH (SNC) focused on Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) scenarios for spares, shelf inventories and led the deployment of multiple ATP Servers in complex channel environment utilizing multiple DC’s. Delivered assessment and updates to configuration settings one quarter head of plan.

Sr. APO Consultant and Core Team Leader: Client: Nokia Mobile Phones 2000 - 2003

In 2000, a cellular phone manufacturer required Manufacturing consolidation and process improvement and connectivity to the production floor. Senior APO Consultant and SCM/MFG Core Team Leader. A global rollout of APO DP and SNP Integration to an updated ERP application (SAP). Led Manufacturing Process review and implemented new processes. Rollout encompassed three US Regions and two Regions in South and Central America, resulting in a 30% reduction in Min/Max and Intermediate inventories

Sr. Supply Chain/Integration Solution Architect Client: Silicon Graphics 1998 – 1999

In 1998, Silicon Graphics needed to implement a “Quote to Collect Program”. Sr. Supply Chain/Integration Solution Architect for an I2 and Oracle upgrade and integration project which supported operations in US. Led I2 team through system upgrade, testing, & deployment. Technologies: I2 Factory Planner, Oracle 10.0, SQL, and legacy application. Results: On-Time completion within budget

Program Director/Electrical Engineering Architect: Client: Aerospace/Defense Contractor 1978 – 1982

In 1978 an Aerospace/Defense Contractor wanted to design and deliver “Forward Looking Color Weather Radar” to Commercial and Government clients. As Program Director/Electrical Engineering Architect led team of 200 engineers and scientist from Design to Manufacturing. Successfully deliver FLCR and associated parabolic antenna six months early and under budget. Company achieved early deliver bonus of $5m.

Solution Architect – Advanced Manufacturing Client: Madosa (GE Venezuela)

Led the turn around and consolidation of Madosa’s Appliance Manufacturing Plants (10 – 5) in Venezuela. Implemented quick Die Change Programs, Led ISO Certification team for Five-(5) manufacturing plants. Implemented new painting systems using powder painting technology.

Senior APO Consultant and Core Team Leader, Munich, Germany

Solution Architect – Defense Contractor – Los Angeles, Ca.

Education:

University of Maryland, University College - Electrical Engineering

Certifications:

Senior Solution Architect

Senior Enterprise Architect

Certificate in Supply Chain Management – Notre Dame Mendoza Business School

Current SAP Training:

SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA in a Nutshell (s4h1)

SAP S4HANA – Deep Dive (s4h2)

Rapid Deployment of SAP Solutions (Update Q1/2015) (rds1)

Sales & Operations Planning on Demand Powered by HANA - Features and Configuration (SOP200)

Creating Business Value with User Experience (uxn2)

How the Internet of Things and Smart Services Will Change Society (IOT1)

Developing Mobile Apps with SAP HANA Cloud Platform (mobile2)

Leadership in Digital Transformation - Key Metrics and Insights (openSAP)

Project Management and Lean Staffing (scorm12_csc)

SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA (SUITEHANA1)

SAP Integrated Business Planning - Advanced Configuration (IBP300)

Sustainability and Business Innovation (sbi1-1)

SAP S/4HANA Use Cases (s4h3)

Leadership in Digital Transformation (ldt1-tl)

SAP NetWeaver Upgrades in a Nutshell (Update Q1/2015) (rds1-1)

Cybersecurity – The Essential Challenge for Digital Transformation ((cs1-tl))

SAP Business Networks in a Nutshell (bn1)

Implementation of SAP S/4HANA (s4h4)

Other Training

Airborne School (Jump School)

Army's Officer Candidate School ((OCS))

Infantry Officer Advanced Course (BLC)

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