Bill Wood

Current

MM Consultant - SSC Atlantic (Navy ERP) at SPAWAR

Past

SD trade promotion, pricing, and configuration. at Novartis Animal Health
SAP - SD, MM, PP, LE, FT and e-commerce at R3Now Consulting, LLC.
Consulting Project Manager with heavy PP configuration at PolyVision

SAP SD / LE / FT / Internet Sales Lead at RJ Reynolds - Bearing Point
SAP Cross-Company Supply SD-MM-FI-EDI at Coca-Cola Enterprises
Consulting Project Manager and SD / MM Support at Getrag
SAP Manager / SAP Knowledge Manager at Hitachi Consulting
SAP SD / LE Team Lead and ASAP (ValueSAP) Project Administration at Champion Technologies
SD / LE Lead, FDA Pharmaceutical Validation, Security Management, and ASAP Project Mgmt at UCB
SAP SD, MM, LE, SIS / LIS and Internet Sales at Sigma / Grant Thornton / DVA. com
SAP Training, Security, and Support Consultant with Grant Thornton at Plastic Omnium
SAP SD, MM, WM, PP, FI, CO Training and Doc at Osprey Systems
SAP MM - FI/AP - FI/AM Training and Documentation at Compass Group

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Bill Wood
R3Now Consulting
Results Oriented SAP Solutions
http://www.r3now.com
+1 (704) 905 - 5175 (cell)
wjwood64 (at ) yaho o ( dot) com

Career Highlights:

IT experience beginning in the mid 1980’s; more than 20 SAP projects in various industries and project roles since 1994. Mensa member, SAP SDN (Software Developer Network) Business Process Expert Blogger, quoted in the SAP Green Book “Thrive after Go-Live” (2009), and former Knowledge Manager for the Grant Thornton / Hitachi Consulting U.S. SAP practice.

Delivery Summary:

Implementation project management, integration test management, change management, training and security management, ASAP certified, methodology development, various modules team leadership, and data conversions. Implementation assessments, corrections, ROI, and business case development.

Complete configuration for entire Requisition to Pay (MM), Order to Cash (SD), and Forecast to Stock (PP) processes with FI / CO and other integration points. Twelve (12) full-lifecycle projects including nine (9) MM (+IM/WM/HUM/AP), SD (+FT/LE/AR), PP, configuration projects (3 were in a dual role as the implementation project manager while doing some or all of the SD, MM, PP or LE configuration) and 3 full lifecycle training and documentation projects; 9 additional SAP projects (various configuration and training roles or less than full projects). Complex SD & MM pricing, full SD-MM-FI-EDI cross-company integration, heavy MM & PP integration with ATP and MRP, SAP e-commerce, queries, EDI / ALE, SD-MM-PP user exit knowledge. End-user and project team training in SD, MM, FT, WM, LE, FI, CO, and PP. Some ABAP coding in user exits, pricing form routines, ABAP query reports. Public sector FM-PS-SD-MM-FI integration and support.

Modules and Versions:

SAP SD, SAP MM, SAP PP, SAP FI, SAP FM, SAP EDI, SAP ALE, SAP DIMP, SAP 2.2, SAP 3.0, SAP 3.1, SAP 4.5, SAP 4.6, SAP 4.7, SAP ECC 5.0, SAP ECC 6.0

Bill Wood’s Specialties:

Chemicals (4), Automotive (4+1), Consumer Products (3+1), Food Service (2), Pharmaceutical (2+1), Public Sector (1), Other (2)

Bill Wood’s Experience

MM Consultant - SSC Atlantic (Navy ERP)

SPAWAR

(Government Agency; Defense & Space industry)

April 2009 — Present (9 months)

U.S. Navy, SPAWAR / Navy ERP rollout – ECC 5.0 Atlantic Region integration and go-live support (April 2009 - current) MM-SD-PS-FM-FI integration and conversion support. Data conversion, process and go-live support for Navy ERP rollout to SPAWAR LANT (Space and Naval Warfare, Atlantic). Supported MM (procurement), SD (funding execution), PS (cost and fund integration), FM (funds management) and FI integration for the Atlantic Region (Charleston, SC and Norfolk, VA). Process integration, data conversion, and user community support.
SD trade promotion, pricing, and configuration.

Novartis Animal Health

(Public Company; NVS; Pharmaceuticals industry)

August 2008 — April 2009 (9 months)

Development of a custom trade promotion execution solution: free goods, grouped items to qualify, discounts, buy X get Y free or get Y at a discount, buy X combination of materials and get Y combination or individually, promotion limits by quantity or dollar amount, limits by groups of products, etc. Used both a custom table-driven application and standard SAP pricing options to reduce the custom-coded validation problems. Assessed SD and MM functionality and provided supply chain process improvements. KPI related reporting solutions for BI/BW to address order fulfillment, backorders, on-time delivery, and vendor performance for PO’s and Goods Receipts.
SAP - SD, MM, PP, LE, FT and e-commerce

R3Now Consulting, LLC.

(Management Consulting industry)

November 1994 — April 2009 (14 years 6 months)

Independent SAP contracting and editor for R3Now.com focused on how businesses can get real benefits from their SAP implementations.
Consulting Project Manager with heavy PP configuration

PolyVision

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 4 months)

Project Management and Discrete Manufacturing with Repetitive Planning in ECC 6.0 (MySAP 2005) DIMP 6.0

Project Plans, Risk / Issues / Scope planning and management, templates, standards, staffing (including interviews), presentations, communication and change management plans, training plans, integration test planning, task and resource leveling. Configuration of PP Capacity planning, Production orders, S&OP, MRP, Work Centers, BOMs, Routings, Production Versions, Repetitive MFG, LIS, Discrete Production with Repetitive Planning, unique Pipeline solution for simplified VMI processing. Setup of Accounting and Production Information Systems (reporting) as well as various SAP / ABAP Query reports. Project delivered on time and under budget for 2 U.S. Plant rollouts, “textbook smooth” go-lives with few issues and no significant problems; “boring” go-lives!
SAP SD / LE / FT / Internet Sales Lead

RJ Reynolds - Bearing Point

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Goods industry)

April 2005 — April 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Orders, deliveries, billing, shipments, credits, debits, item categories, pricing for SD / MM (sales orders, PO’s, and STO’s), SD-GL account determination, listings / exclusions, sales activities, ATP, product hierarchy, lean WM with auto TO creation, print / e-mail / fax / EDI output processing. B2B Internet Sales 4.0: XCM setup, product catalog, online store, technical specs, specialized shop redesign to meet new business requirements, etc. MM-STO cross-company integration with SD delivery, billing, and pricing using SAP IDoc processing to automatically create offsetting accounting documents in the partner company code in the background. Foreign trade export: AES, legal control (licenses), comm codes (Schedule B), denied parties, export shipment processing, AES, etc. ALE setup and transfer of customer, material, and product catalog data to other clients. SAP Query drill-down reports. SOX compliance and InfoPak documentation.
SAP Cross-Company Supply SD-MM-FI-EDI

Coca-Cola Enterprises

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Goods industry)

August 2006 — November 2006 (4 months)

Euro cross-company integration with SD delivery, billing, and pricing using SAP IDocs to automatically create offsetting accounting documents in the partner company code in the background (no development needed) with HUM, batch, and WM integration. European Intrastat VAT tax. User Exit troubleshooting for intercompany processing. SAP implementation fit gap and improvement assessment for the existing R3 implementation.
Consulting Project Manager and SD / MM Support

Getrag

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Automotive industry)

May 2004 — April 2005 (1 year )

Project plan creation, manage deadlines and activities for the project, task and resource leveling, budget adherence. Define deliverables, milestones, and final scope. Identify risks, develop mitigation plans, perform integration test management, and support security. Re-implementation project to move from a dramatically modified version of 3.1 to a more “vanilla” standard version of 4.7 while adding significant new functionality. MM / SD configuration support while performing project management functions; MM and SD schedule agreements, SD JIT sequenced schedule agreements with delivery orders, delivery processing for SD and MM, SD output determination, custom material types for packing and handling, IM bar code integration with SAP Console, physical inventory, cross-company STO’s with delivery and billing (SD-MM-FI-EDI), MM quota arrangements, requisition release procedures with classification and workflow and LIS/SIS reporting. InfoPak.
SAP Manager / SAP Knowledge Manager

Hitachi Consulting

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

September 1998 — April 2005 (6 years 8 months)

SAP Consulting - started the SAP Knowledge Manager position for the U.S. SAP practice in July 2001. Full SD / MM / LE configuration on numerous SAP projects. As the SAP Knowledge Manager, internal practice and methodology development for SAP improvements, enhancements, ASAP / Solution Manager supplements and ROI modeling. Developed an ASAP / Solution Manager methodology supplement to training and security for SAP implementations to significantly reduce time, effort, and complexity of training and security on SAP projects. Developed ASAP / Solution Manager project management tools and rapid implementation supplements. Knowledge management planning with supporting infrastructure development. SAP sales, pre-sales, and client relationship development.
SAP SD / LE Team Lead and ASAP (ValueSAP) Project Administration

Champion Technologies

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

April 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 2 months)

Sole SD consultant for 17 US and 6 Latin American distribution channels (6 sales orgs) while managing the ValueSAP tools. Quotes, third party orders, consignment, schedule agreements, contracts, billing, billing plans, service and product processing together on the same delivery docs (services with picking). Complex pricing, SD-GL account determination, credit management, MRP and ATP with both service and product orders. SD / FI tax setup, customer master, customer hierarchies, AR, EDI, LIS/SIS reporting, and SD security / authorizations. Design and implementation of a GPS satellite-upload route delivery system with Qualcomm units for real-time delivery and service processing of SAP schedule agreements, delivery documents, and inventory from pump trucks at remote well-head locations. Performed all SD data loads (using CATTs and MS Access) and development of SAP Query drill-down reports.
SD / LE Lead, FDA Pharmaceutical Validation, Security Management, and ASAP Project Mgmt

UCB

(Public Company; Pharmaceuticals industry)

January 2002 — November 2002 (11 months)

Pharma and Chemical 3.0f – 4.6c Upgrade. Org structure, customer master and customer hierarchy, pricing conditions, output determination, business partners, sales doc types, contract types, billing types, delivery processing, sales / shipping / billing output, EDI and external system interfaces, etc. Implemented CATT and SAP Test Workbench processes for positive, negative, and regression testing to meet ISO, EPA, and FDA part 11 (21 CFR 11) requirements. Training development, security / authorizations, validation, and quality control processes for the project. Used ASAP methodology to develop project plans and project tasks with project manager. Task and resource leveling, integration test management, FDA validation coordination for SD and MM.
SAP SD, MM, LE, SIS / LIS and Internet Sales

Sigma / Grant Thornton / DVA. com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 1999 (less than a year)
SAP Training, Security, and Support Consultant with Grant Thornton

Plastic Omnium

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )
SAP SD, MM, WM, PP, FI, CO Training and Doc

Osprey Systems

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )
SAP MM - FI/AP - FI/AM Training and Documentation

Compass Group

(Management Consulting industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )