Ade John

Experience/Project Work:

Industry: Retail Mason, OH Duration: July 2022 till Present

Project Description/Scope: This is an SAP S/4HANA/Central Finance Private Cloud (Rel. 2022) implementation. The scope of the project is to implement Central Finance for U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, and Mexico Legal Entities. 1 SAP ECC 6.0 Source System. The project consists of 2 Phases;

Phase 1: Central Reporting

Phase 2: Central Payment.

Role: S/4HANA/ CFIN Solution Architect

Industry: Pharmaceutical New Brunswick, NJ Duration: 16 months

Project Description/Scope: This is an SAP S/4HANA/Central Finance (Rel. 1909) implementation. The scope of the project is to implement Central Finance for all the Global Legal Entities. There are ~20 SAP ECC 6.0 and non-SAP systems.

Role: S/4HANA/ CFIN Solution Architect

Industry: Telecommunications Lake Mary, FL Duration: 12 months

Project Description/Scope: This is an SAP S/4 HANA/Central Finance (Rel. 1709) implementation. The scope of the project is to implement Central Finance for some Legal Entities (~500) and Full-blown S/4HANA Finance for other Legal Entities (~100). There are 2 SAP ECC 6.0 and 4 Non-SAP systems.

Role: S/4 HANA/ CFIN Solution Architect

Industry: Consumer Product Goods (CPG) Minneapolis, MN Duration: 6 months

Retail and Commodity Products

Project Description/Scope: This is an SAP S/4HANA Central Finance (Rel. 1709) implementation. The scope of the CFIN project are one SAP ECC 6.0 and 12 Non-SAP systems.

Role: S/4 HANA/ CFIN Lead

Industry: Media Los Angeles, CA Duration: 3 months

Project Description/Scope: This is an SAP S/4HANA Central Finance (Rel. 1610) implementation. The scope of the CFIN project are one SAP ECC 6.0 and 12 Non-SAP systems.

Role: S/4HANA/ CFIN Expert

Industry: Paper and Packaging York, PA Duration: 3 months

Project Description/Scope: This was an SAP Greenfield S/4HANA 1610 project. The customer migrated from SAP ECC 6.0 Classic G/L SAP S/4HANA 1610.

Role: S/4HANA Finance Lead

Industry: Financial Services Manhattan, NY Duration: 5 months

Project Description/Scope: This is an SAP Simple Finance (sFIN 1605) migration project. The customer migrated from SAP ECC 6.0 Classic G/L to Simple Finance 1605.

Role: S/4HANA Finance Lead

Industry: CPG – Hershey, PA Duration: 6

Project Description/Scope: This is a Global SAP project. This project involved implementation of SAP Central Finance for the corporate Finance team. This project would provide the customer to transition to SAP S/4HANA 1511 without disruption current systems and processes. Customer has adopted to use SAP Activate project methodology for the project.

Role: S/4HANA and Central Finance Architect months

Industry: Wholesale Distributor – Dublin, OH Duration: 17 months

Project Description/Scope: This was a Global SAP project. Support the Global Blueprint Phase. There are 3 phases defined for this project with phase 1 (i.e. Foundational Rel.) go live planned for February 2017.

Role: Finance and CO-PA Lead

Industry: Automotive Distributor – Erlanger, KY Duration: 7 months

Project Description/Scope: This was an SAP RDS Simple Finance (sFIN) 2.0 project. As part of the customer’s SAP global template, the implementation would leverage sFIN Best Practice solution for the 2 Company Codes that are in scope.

Role: Finance/sFIN Lead

Industry: Automotive / Lift Truck Company – New Bremen, OH Duration: 11 months

Project Description/Scope: This is an SAP A2O project. As part of the customer’s SAP global template, the implementation will leverage the World Template RDS/A2O methodology. The customer requirement was to have U.S. to be the pilot country. The customer will implement machinery/automotive manufacturing industry Best Practices.

Role: FICO Team Lead

Industry: Automotive / Tractor Company – Duluth, GA, Beauvais, France Duration: 6 months

Project Description/Scope: As part of the customer’s SAP re-implementation and standing up new global template, the implementation will leverage the World Template RDS/A2O methodology.

Role: FICO Team Lead

Industry: Retail Company – Manhattan, NY Duration: 6 months

Project Description/Scope: As part of the customer’s international expansion supply chain operations to Europe. A new Company Code was created in Luxemburg with multiple Plants Abroad created Netherlands, Poland and Great Britain. The business requirement was to have inventory goods movement from China to the warehouse in Netherlands as well as to EU customers. In addition, the customer also migrated from Classic Withholding Tax to the Extended Withholding Tax.

Implementation of Plants/Sites Abroad, Inventory Accounting, Moving Average Price (MAP), FI/MM Account determination, GR/IR, Invoice Verification, VAT, Intrastat and EC Sales List (ECSL).

Role: FICO Team member

Industry: Shipbuilding Company – Philadelphia, PA Duration: 6 months

Project Description/Scope: Customer went live in SAP and after Go live, customer was not able to close the book in a timely manner due to bad implementation. Customer had to call on SAP for a Solution Review. Expose process and design shortcomings by way of documenting findings and recommendations jointly produce a roadmap and next steps with the management.

Role: FICO Team Lead

Industry: Pharmaceutical Company – Richmond, VA Duration: 9 months

Project Description/Scope: As part of the customer’s larger divestiture strategy, the customer has sold the Richmond Consumer Products manufacturing site to a new customer. The new customer is a privately held international contract-manufacturing firm that operates in four business segments, homecare and industrial, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food.

Role: FICO Team Lead

Industry: Global Musical Company – Los Angeles, CA Duration: 5 months

Project Description/Scope: This was an upgrade (re-implementation) project from SAP Rel 4.7 to ECC 6.0. Ade involved with most of the FI/CO modules with integration with SD and MM from the project design phase to Go Live and transition to support team.

Role: FICO Team

Industry: High Tech Company MFG – Boston, MA Duration: 12 months

Project Description/Scope: This is a Global implementation ECC 6.0 project for the company operations in North America, EMEA and APAC. The company has 4 manufacturing plants spread over the 3 regions, Europe, North America, and APAC. My role involved implementing FI/CO modules (G/L/Profit Center, A/R, A/P, Foreign Currency translation and revaluation (Functional Currency, Group Currency (aka Reporting Currency) as required by FASB52, Cost Center Accounting CO-PA and Product Costing), including Revenue Recognition. I was responsible for integration with Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM). The company has a very complex Commissionaire process for its operations in Europe and also Intercompany (Buy/Sell) scenarios including VAT and Intrastat.

Role: FICO Team

Industry: Consumer Product Goods (CPG) Richmond, VA Duration: 17 months

Project Description/Scope: 4.5b, 4.7, ECC 6.0. Existing SAP customer. Created two Company Codes for sales and marketing company codes separate from the manufacturing Company Codes in order to facilitate inter-company transactions and inter-company eliminations between the manufacturing plants/company codes and the newly created sales and marketing company codes in for Phase 1.

Role(s): FICO team member

Industry: Retail: Long Island, NY Duration: 4 months

Project Description/Scope: Rel 6.0, BI Net Weaver 7.0. This was a Global SAP Retail implementation. Client has operations in North America and Europe. Designed VAT structure for the European countries and also other FI/CO modules. User training documentation and functional design documentation provided.

Role(s): FICO team

Industry: Consumer Product Goods (CPG) Minneapolis, MN Duration: 6 months

Retail and Commodity Products

Project Description/Scope: Rel 6.0, BI Net Weaver 7.0. This role involved working with Trading team and SAP integration with third party system (Triple Point) to design a Global Template for the trading business processes in SAP from sales contract and purchase contract creation in SD and MM to Finance.

Role(s): FICO team

Industry: Consumer Product Goods (CPG) – Chicago, IL Duration: 6 months

Project Description/Scope: Rel 6.0, BI Net Weaver 7.0 Solution Architect for FI/CO/BI/BPS. This role involved reviewing all FI/CO RICEFW and make adaptations / recommendations where possible.

Role(s): FICO/BI/BPS Team (Solution Architect)

Industry: Consumer Product Goods (CPG) – Chicago, IL Duration: 6 months

Project Description/Scope: Rel ECC 6.0. This project was for a net new customer. This was an SAP implementation of new Industry Solutions “Catch Weight Management” (CWM) and DSD for the company operation).

Role(s): Team Lead Finance, Controlling

• Responsible for most of Philips Global SAP roll out projects across Europe.
• The Global project involved the implementation of SAP R/3 Finance, Controlling, Materials Management and Sales & Distribution, Production Planning modules, Warehouse management (WM) and Business information warehouse (BW) across all Philips’ plants in Europe and its Head office using European Template.
• Provided advice on operational processes, business development initiatives, organizational changes and other areas of improvement.
• Facilitated workshops with cross-functional teams to review current practices related to innovation and growth opportunities.

Supported the implementation on Rel 4.0

The project involved implementation of SAP Vendor Payables Work Order functionality for the U.S Factory sites using CO module of internal order functionality. I established the business requirements, business processes for this implementation.