Sammy D. Rice III
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Summary
Experienced manager with success as, SAP Business Analyst, Supply Chain Management, Supplier Management, Material Management, Plant Maintenance, Project Management, and Continuous Lean Facilitator.
Experience & Work History
B2B Workforce (Client – Dura-Line) October 2012 – October 2012
Sr. SAP Plant Maintenance Consultant
• Assist with multiple full phased projects. Requirements Gathering and Design of a Plant Maintenance solution for a Global, multi-plant operation. Target two sites for design and document using Solution Mgr 7.1.
• Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.
Caterpillar Hydraulics July 2012 – September 2012
SAP Mach 1 Data Lead Supply Chain/Plant Maintenance Planning Engineer
• Responsible for performing work to achieve corporate supply chain performance targets focused on inventory reduction, increased inventory turns, improved order-to-delivery results, and inventory record accuracy.
• Key team member working on the deployment of the Supply Chain Planning Process, which develops the Plan for Every Part and Pull Replenishment methods for a facility.
• Work effectively with diverse, multi-functional teams in order to apply the supply chain planning process
• Lead team efforts to develop lean material flow plans for a facility, which include implementing changes to factory floor layout and material presentation at the point of use.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining a site level Flow Map for parts used in production. Enables / coaches facility employees to utilize PFEP templates to load and maintain data in PFEP Web Tool, and provides reports and information to facility resources requiring PFEP information
• Key team member to lead deployment teams, in the execution of Pull Material Replenishment processes in a plant using material replenishment analytical tools, establishing and sizing material supermarkets, working with pull trigger systems, enhancing communications throughout a material flow path, and working with material handlers and other factory personnel to drive common replenishment processes in a plant
• Involved in one Full life cycle implementation of SAP using ASAP methodology - project preparation, business blueprint, realization, final preparation, go live and post implementation support
BMW Manufacturing Corporation, LLC June 1994 –– May 2012
Continuous Improvement Facilitator
• Lead several Lean / Kaizen Continuous Workshop Projects
• Developed high-performing team(s) by helping team members quickly agrees on how they can be most effective and successful for key processes.
• Responsible for Painted Body Logistic functions through Lean Six Sigma Practice.
• Used 5ME to describe the 6 main causes of problems: man, method, machine, material, measurement, and environment
• Developed team members skill set with value stream maps to analyze the process in detail from the process participant’s and the customer’s viewpoints
• Taught value stream mapping as a critical skill to eliminating waste in the existing process
• Educated team members on Project Mechanical – The use of forms, formulas, and reports to help team determine:
How much was spent
Where it was spent
How much of the work remains to be done
How much money is left to do the work
• Educated team members on Project Conceptual – The ability to understand the budget and financial implications of any decisions that they make
• Used features of different approaches to value stream mapping to enhance team learning
• Implemented DMAIC methodology for various Lean Projects Charters
BMW Manufacturing Corporation, LLC, January 2012 – May 2012
Painted Body Logistic Project Planner
• Provide Logistic Project support to the Painted Body Planning Department.
• Responsible for Painted Body Logistic functions through Lean Sigma Practice.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities to transform them into viable lean processes.
• Worked with various suppliers to improve lead-time, and cost analysis.
• Excellent team member, motivated to learn new technology, maintaining good interpersonal relations, client interaction, strong communication and presentation skills, and hard working.
• Process supplier data for SAP Reporting to Procurement Provide Logistic Project support to the Painted Body Planning Department.
BMW Manufacturing Corporation, LLC : June 1994 – December 2011
Paintshop Equipment Services Maintenance / Material Planner
• Experienced in SAP recommended ASAP methodology on all stages of projects including Business Process Analysis, As-Is and To-Be designing, Business Blueprint Mapping, Gap Analysis to customization, Go-live, post live production support, User training and Documentation.
• Experienced in SAP ECC implementation, configuration, customization and testing, with specialization in Plant Maintenance (PM), Material Management (MM) and Financial Controlling FI/CO
• Involved in one Full life cycle implementation of SAP Plant Maintenance module using ASAP methodology - project preparation, business blueprint, realization, final preparation, go live and post implementation support Implemented Preventive Maintenance Program for BMW Manufacturing Corp. Paint Shop.
• Trained entire Paintshop consisting of over 100 Technicians’ and 6 Managers and 10 Planners on SAP Plant Maintenance Module
• Developed User Training Manuals, conducted classroom and hands-on training for SAP Plant Maintenance users
• Trainer in Preventive Maintenance, Breakdown Maintenance and Refurbishment processing.
• Experience in integrating PM with QM, MM, PP, and FI/CO modules
• Experience in SAP data migration from legacy to SAP system using Legacy System Migration Workbench.
• Experience in multiple industry domains that include Automotive, Manufacturing and Discrete.
• Good knowledge in SAP Material Management (MM), Quality Management QM) module
• Establish spare parts MRP Planning for inventory management.
• Establish MRO process for spare parts and warranty parts
• Co-developed Procure to Pay Process for BMW Manufacturing and trained users on the new process
• Excellent team member, motivated to learn new technology, maintaining good interpersonal relations, client interaction, strong communication and presentation skills, and hard working.
• Responsible for PM module configuration and involved in production support.
• Evaluated the existing maintenance processes and scenarios in the production departments and the maintenance departments and adapted them to SAP.
• Created master data templates for data gathering and assisted in loading data into system.
• Developed maintenance strategies, general maintenance task lists, maintenance plans and scheduled using deadline monitoring.
• Determined necessity of additional reports and wrote functional specifications for developers for enhancements using user exits and modified work order print-outs.
• Coordinated preparation of business process procedures and created configuration documentation.
• Worked extensively with the material master teams for spare part material master design and performed data preparation of material data from legacy systems.
• Configured and created PM Master Data - Functional Locations, Equipments including PRTs, Materials and Material BOMs and Work Centers, and maintained authorizations for those data elements
• Implemented ABC indicator to classify the importance of technical objects within the production areas of the plant
• Created General Maintenance Task Lists for inspection, maintenance and repair processes of equipments and used these task lists for Preventive Maintenance instead of creating Equipment Task Lists
• Preventive Maintenance - performed necessary configuration for creating time-based and performance-based maintenance plans, scheduled maintenance plans for defined cycles to generate maintenance calls and processing of maintenance calls
• Created test scenarios, performed Unit testing and Integration testing and involved during String testing and Archive testing
• Created detailed documentation, trained end users and provided post implementation support
• Responsible for data and system requirements analysis along with writing, testing the BW extracts and reporting functionality.
• Using defined KPI's/other metrics and proactive monitoring, identified process efficiency and improvement items intervenes when necessary to implement solutions and drive continuous improvement.
• Functional & Technical involvement in the Analytics & reporting development effort based on functional specifications and deliver high quality reports, dashboards and analytics to meet the needs of Plant Maintenance business group and Executives.
• Function as the SAP Reporting key user, or in-house technical expert, working closely with associates of Maintenance and related business functional areas to assist them in developing their own ad-hoc reports or pointing them to pre-existing reports that may be available.
• BMW Manufacturing Corporation, LLC : June 1994 –– December 2009
Section Leader ESA / Logistics
• Maintain Material Management Master Data, ESA spare parts information, inventory update, budget, documentation, financial recovery/replacement, cost improvement, supplier analysis, warranty, and equipment downtime.
• Manage departmental consumables inventory budget.
• Manage cleaning budget in excess of $3.4 million dollars and manage over 100 employees.
• Coordinated Logistic functions for BMW Paintshop Department. Establish spare parts MRP Planning for inventory management.
• Establish MRO process for spare parts and warranty parts
• Administered annual training to Managers on proper use of SAP Financial general ledgers for accounting purposes.
• United States Air Force Reserve : March 1983 – 2008
Logistics Supply Chain Functional Manager
• Supported military base in operations with Logistic Support for all assigned tenants.
• Managed supply activities involved in developing, operating, implementing, and analyzing manual and automated supply systems.
• Managed the execution of item and monetary accounting procedures, and manages inventory control, financial planning, procurement and receipt, storage, and issue of supplies and equipment to base customers and manage budget in excess $20 million dollars.
• Analyzed supply tasks and uses microcomputer technologies to enhance supply operations. When assigned to organizations outside the supply complex, managed supply tasks related directly to the operation of the Standard Base Supply System (SBSS) and Integrated Logistics System-Supply (ILSS).
• Bausch & Lomb Corporation: February 1991 - June 1994
Supply Maintenance Clerk
• Co-managed the site storeroom.
• Responsible for procuring MRO parts, receiving parts, issuing parts, and maintaining parts stored in location.
• Process daily work orders. Create program files. Write Purchase Authorizations.
• Responsible for Cycle Inventories in excess of 1.3 million dollars.
Education
Southern Wesleyan University
Master of Science in Management
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BS)
Associate Degree of Business
Community College of the United States Air Force
Associate of Logistic Degree
Software Skills:
ERP Systems
SAP R/3 4.5B, R/3 4.6C, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0
Modules
PM/ MM/FI CO
Testing tools
HP Quality Center
Modeling tools
MS VISIO, ARIS
PLM000, 300, 20, 30 L0816 MS Office – Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project
Awards/Recognition
BMW Road To Excellence – “Turning Point” for Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees
Continuous Improvement Facilitator Certification
Retired Master Sergeant – United States Air Force (25 years)
SAP Full Implementation experience
Lead Business System Analyst / Key User/ Internal Departmental Trainer for SAP Programs
Key member and co-author of creating BMW SAP Procure to Pay Program
18 years experience using SAP programs
Implemented Plant Procedure for Preventative Maintenance at BMW Manufacturing Corporation, LLC
Senior Non-Commissioned Officer of the 4th Quarter for 2006 315th Civil Engineering Squadron, Charleston AFB, SC.
Medal in honor of “Operation Noble Eagle” for the War on Terrorism.
Nominated as one of “Twelve Outstanding Airman” for the Pacific Air Command, Suwon AB, Korea
Numerous “Support Person of the Month” Awards during seven years of Air Force active duty 1983-1990.
The State of South Carolina Notary Public