Supply Chain Accounts Payable
Resume:
MICHAEL E. WOLF
Houston, TX 77079
Cell: 919-***-****
Email: ad412u@r.postjobfree.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickey-wolf-3a403738
CAREER PROFILE
Proven leader with a demonstrated track record of success as the go to individual to execute change management within an organization which requires hands-on and operationally focused approaches to create value via continuous improvements rather than through financial leverage.
Provide the leadership and delivery of best-in-class business system solutions for the environment in which they must operate and directs the administrative and operational responsibilities to standardize, implement, manage and govern business process elements in an effective, efficient, safe and sustainable way. Detailed and team-oriented with excellent organization and communication skills. Creative problem solver with the ability to drive revenue growth, resolve conflict, improve morale, and consistently exceed profit goals. Thrives in fast-paced, multi-cultural, cross functional and multi-tasked environments. Proven track record of domestic and international success dedicated to uniting technology innovation and operational excellence to deliver exceptional results that advance an organization’s growth strategies while optimizing cost structures to improve working capital and retained cash. Leading global teams in finance, compliance, quality, integration acquisitions, divestitures, cost management, and enterprise risk. Business Blueprinting; DevOps; Functional Integration; Innovation Management Framework; Focus Build Process, Solution Architecture; and Transition Integration.
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
June 11, 2018 – May 15, 2024
Weatherford International
2000 St. James Place
Houston, Texas 77056
www.weatherford.com
Senior Director –
Source-2-Pay Supply Chain Business Process Transformation / Reengineering
Enterprise Master Data Governance (Product/Material, Customer, Vendor, Finance, HR, Real Estate/Location, System Architecture)
Global Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Strategy to Navigate Debt Restructuring
Global Accounts Payable (Trade, Logistics, Intercompany)
Global Inventory Redeployment and Manufacturing Demand Planning
Global Enterprise Resource Planning System Deployments (SAP, Oracle)
Global Logistics (Oracle Transportation Management and Trade Management)
Global Travel & Expense Program (Concur, BCD Travel, and Corporate Credit Cards - T&E and P-Card)
Global Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy/Reporting
Global Data Privacy Policy/Reporting
Global Bank Fraud Policy/Reporting
BI Analytics and KPI’s (Strategic/Tactical/Operating)
Responsible for the Supply Chain and Liquidity Management per the Financial Turnaround and Operational Restructuring Support Agreement of a $9 billion entity with $6.8 billion debt in preparation for a prepackaged Chapter 11 Filing, Reemergence and Fresh Start accounting. Execution workstream focused with fact-based decision-making tracked by measurable profitability outcomes. Strategic direction to liquidity management to business plan development to execution. Reducing cost structures and managing working capital to improve cash flow and return on capital. Focused supply chain initiative change management from a vertical procurement strategy to a horizontal sourcing strategy to expedite and realize retained cash, including global/regional/local sourcing.
Direct and lead the central business analytics function for the corporation. Including the projects, system design, and data architecture required to enable the databank functionality and reporting. Transformation and change agent responsible for Group Enterprise Master Data Governance. Governing the data responsibilities for all workflow domains to ensure Corporate, Country, Legal, Compliance and Business operating requirements, including acquisition integrations and divestitures.
Established Enterprise Master Data Governance Office (EDGO) and Transition to Global Business Service Centers to ensure end-to-end accountability for delivering all internal related services in accordance with business requirements. Establishing the meta-data and data/system catalog delivery domains for the functions, with each one dedicated to a defined set of business processes and their respective management organizations as stakeholders.
Direct and lead the following Global Transformation business domains:
Program Recovery Lead for the Oracle Transportation Management and Global Trade Management cloud deployment, including EDI, Freight Pay and Supplier Portal functionality/systems - 74 countries, $225M spend.
Global Pay/Mineral Tree (Inspyrus) Accounts Payable (AP) and Payment Automation global deployment (Trade, Freight, Intercompany) – 74 countries, 6 Geo Zones.
SAP Concur Travel, Expense, Vendor Invoice and Corporate Credit Card deployment, including Global T&E office, Policies and Compliance reporting - 74 countries, +19,500 employees.
Lead S22P global process transformation across all dependent functions (Finance, Manufacturing, Information Technology (ERP’s), Compliance, Reporting, Product Lines, to increase Creditor and Shareholder value. Lead S2P Financial Controls and Audit Services – KPMG.
Lead the Global Source to Pay restructuring process delivering $100 million retained cash within a 11-month time period, +$35 million inventory redeployment program further preventing cash draw. Spend range $3.6 billion annualized ($2.3 billion direct / $1.3 billion indirect).
Developed the roadmap and executed itemizing the complete JDE SCM workstream Item Master and executed the BI Analytics to Base Line Spend year on year to validate spend savings and delivered $100 million P&L impact (+PPV).
Developed and executed the Supplier Rationalization program to reduce the vendor master by 56%. Thereby, prioritizing preferred suppliers to achieve further price concession and realize net spend savings tracked to P&L
Ownership of the end-to-end supply chain master data, standards, and procedures. Including the S&OP’s for Global Business Service Centers processing with offshore third party service provide Tata consulting Services.
Developed and sensitized business plans to execute supply cost/spend management, inventory redeployment, and strategic sourcing functionality versus a single source procurement strategy. Harmonized vendor payment terms and method to improve net working capital and create positive cash flow.
Consolidated and Aligned Manufacturing footprint to optimize COGS and Customer Base firm order delivery
Formulated structure to optimize A&I as well as efficiency of deliverables and cycle counts.
Centralized BI Analytics and Reporting to provide One Source of Truth baseline for accurate and timely decision making.
Transformed the complete vendor master to include Family Tree Structure with Categorization of Spend and digitized the data into a Real Time BI Analytics Spend Dashboard with Spend Quartiles.
Established and Executed a Supplier Activation/Inactivation/Reactivation Policy and Procedure.
Itemized $1 Billion of Free Text Spend to enable clear Who/What/Where/Price spend analytics.
Established and Executed the Item Master Meta-Data requirements to enable the Oracle OTM and GTM module system implementation.
Established and executed the Citibank Corporate Credit Card program including the Concur Travel & Expense program for the organization globally.
August 1, 2008 – June 11, 2018
ABB (Asea Brown Boveri Inc.)
Corporate Headquarters-North America
12040 Regency Parkway – Suite 100
Cary, NC 27518 USA
www.abb.com
Director North and Latin America Enterprise Master Data Governance – Country Head - United States / Canada / Mexico
Member of the North American executive committee with the charter to partner with the business leaders to develop the operational and technology strategies to enable business goals. Key metrics are sustainable business operations which are productive and cost efficient in compliance with country, legal and internal standards. Designed, developed, and implemented the North American Enterprise Master Data Governance strategy, office and organization to harmonize and transform 20+ separate ERP systems, 30+ instances across 6 business divisions and 350 Leased/Owned locations into a single US SAP 6.0 Enterprise Resource Planning platform. 42+ acquisition integrations and transformations to date.
The Enterprise Master Data Governance Office (EDGO) was subsequently adopted as new operating model and rolled out globally. Reports cross functionally to Americas CFO, CIO and ABB Group Head Master Data Governance – Zurich, Switzerland.
Designed the organizational framework in collaboration with HR that develops and mentor’s future leaders. This includes providing the leadership needed to drive the cross functional and business unit’s collaboration to functionally execute.
Established GBSC Offshore Third-Party Management – (AP/AR/GA/SAS), Bangalore, India, Krakow, Poland, and San Luis Potosi, Mexico – Contract and Service Level Agreements.
Managed Americas Region data architecture for all Leased/Owned facilities and site reporting to include publication of services and reporting requirements (350 locations).
Revenue via mergers and acquisitions increased North America footprint from $4.5 billion to $19.5 billion.
September 25, 1989 – July 31, 2008
LANXESS CORPORATION / Bayer Corporation / Bayer AG Chemicals
Park West Corporate Center
111 RIDC Park West Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15275-1112
www.lanxess.com
(2003-2008) - Manager North America – Enterprise Master Data Governance
Corporate Data Management Lead for all mergers/acquisitions/divestitures/joint ventures/strategic investments/equity transfers/disposals. SME for (Material-Customer-Vendor, Manufacturing/Subcontracting, Asset Structure, Information and Financial Flow, Material Cost Structure, Bills of Materials, Routings, Warehousing, Logistics, Quality, Security and Tax). Turnaround management and integration competency after acquisitions.
Bayer Chemicals Corporation
100 Bayer Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9741
www.bayerus.com
(2001 - 2003) - Manager North America - Business Services Process Reengineering / Manufacturing and Quality Optimization
Developed the strategic asset, supply chain, product offering and business plan for manufacturing operations in North America. Presented plan to Global Operating Committee, received approval, and implemented the manufacturing asset optimization plan encompassing 10-specialty chemical manufacturing sites (6-USA, 3-Mexico, and 1-Canada) and 26 Third Party Contract Manufacturing facilities within North America. Directed the North America interface with European operations staff to align the global manufacturing and tolling network to decrease COGS and increase return on assets employed. Aligned manufacturing product mix, capacity, technology, logistics, and cost structure of 17 business units to defined market product demand. Enhanced relationships with external suppliers to leverage cost efficiencies while focusing resources on core activities. Implemented the Business Processes Re-engineering, Capital Allocation, and Sales and Operations Planning protocol for North America. Implementation of Lean Manufacturing practices to reduce production costs, reduce inventories, reduce cycle time, and increase asset uptime
Bayer AG -- Specialty Products Marketing
D-51368 Leverkusen, Germany
011-49-214-30-99-779
www.bayer.com
(1997 - 2001) - Global Product Manager - Specialty Chemicals
Managed the assigned $USD 30 million Specialty Chemicals business unit, i.e., profit/loss, sales and operations planning, business and product growth strategies, product stewardship, product launch, pricing, marketing, product development, budgeting, forecasting, inventory metrics, technical service, and product support functions. Including licensing, joint development agreements, and marketing alliances. In addition, directed sales, R&D, manufacturing, raw material procurement, inventory control, and regulatory and toxicology affairs for the assigned business group worldwide. Customer base constituted large original equipment manufacturers, component suppliers and distributors.
Bayer Chemicals Corporation
Industrial Chemicals Division
1588 Bushy Park Road
Goose Creek, SC 29445
www.bayerus.com
(1995 - 1997) - Senior R&D Chemist - Manufacturing Process Technology & Product Development
(1992 - 1995) - Manufacturing Supervisor - Finishing and Packaging
(1989 - 1992) - Research Chemist & Supervisory Positions - R&D, Manufacturing/Maintenance, Pilot Plant and Laboratories
Additional Employment
(1986 – 1989)
Southern Coatings / Pratt & Lambert, Inc. / Sherwin Williams
Group Leader R&D OEM Water-borne Coatings
(1985 – 1986)
Etna Products, Inc.
Polymer Coatings Chemist
Education
MBA, Webster University, 470 East Lockwood Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63119-3194
www.webster.edu
(10/09/1993)
B.Sc. Chemistry, Kent State University, East Main Street, Kent, OH 44242
www.kent.edu
(05/11/1985)
Foreign Language
Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Intensive German, Goethe-Institut, Senckenberganlage 31
60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
www.goethe.de
(08/22/1997)
Certifications
Center for Executive Development, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, 255 Wehner, 4144 TAMU, College Station, Texas, 77843-4114
www.mays.tamu.edu
(08/16/2019)
Senn Delaney – Organizational Culture Shaping, Los Angeles, 7755 Center Avenue, Suite 900,
Huntington Beach, California, 92647
www.senndelaney.com
(09/25/2018)
Lean Six Sigma White Belt, Lean Six Sigma Institute, 1061 Tierra Del Rey, Suite 204,
San Diego, CA 91910
www.leansixsigmainstitute.org
(10/24/2017)
Certified Process Professional Master, The BP Group CCP Level 1-4, The Process Management Institute, BP Group, New Bond House, 124 New Bond Street, London W1S 1DX
www.bpgroup.org
(12/16/2013)
Maximizing Your Leadership Potential, Center for Creative Leadership, One Leadership Place
Greensboro, NC 27410
www.ccl.org
(10/18/2013)
Project Planning, Analysis and Control, The George Washington University School of Business, 12040 Regency Parkway, Cary, NC 27518
www.business.gwu.edu
(09/22/2011)
SE & SW MDM Advisory Governance Councils
Co-founding member of the Southeast & Southwest Master Data Management Advisory Councils
In Cooperation with Dun & Bradstreet
(04/21/2014)
Professional Advisory and Service Engagements Administered
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG International Cooperative, Tata Consultancy Services,
IBM, Capgemini. Alvarez & Marsal.
Core Professional Skills
Unwavering Integrity, Confidence, Multi-Tasking, Time Management, Project Management, Problem Solving, Adaptability, Subject-specific Competency, Change Management, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Strategic and Tactical Decision Making, Operational Sustainability Perspective, Execution and Delivery Focused, Learning Agility, Trustful, Employee Development and Civic Mindness.
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