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Javier Santa

Miami,FL

Summary

SAP Solution Architect/Engineer with 11 years of experience in Procure to Pay and Warehouse Management, including 7 years in EWM SCM Systems, within the Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Wholesale, and Electronic Technology Industries. Proven leadership applying SaFe Agile practices throughout 3 Full-Life Cycle implementations with on hands experience within the SAP Landscapes including Blueprinting, Configuration, ABAP Development, Testing Lead, Training Development, and Deployment. Dynamic integrator with a keen knack for bridging the gaps between technical requirements and business organizational processes in SAP ERP ECC and S/4 HANA.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SAP Solution Architect ( PTP/EWM)

Bridgestone Americas
12.2022 - 10.2023
  • System Architect/Engineer managing the backlog to deliver the requirements of the current Program Increment for the Source to Pay and EWM modules in conjunction with the Product Owner and agile team following Safe Agile Practices using JIRA as the project management tool.
  • Led the offshore production support team of 7 members in India using ServiceNow as the Incident Management tool that included tasks such as break fixes, configuration activities, testing, and user training.
  • Supported Master Data Governance in conjunction with the TESS team in the Procurement, Inventory, and Warehousing.
  • Production Planning Master Data compliance including Bill of Materials, Routing, Work Centers, and Materials Requirement Planning ( MRP).
  • Supported the Configuration, Testing, Change Requirements, and Go-Live of the S/4 HANA EWM Implementation in Brazil consisting of 11 Distribution Centers.
  • System Engineer and Point of Contact of the platforms SAP ECC PeopleSoft (ERP), and JDA PMM (ERP) for Bridgestone Retail Operations in North America between the business users and the development offshore team in India.
  • Researched, designed, and integrated new solutions such as determining scope and impact in diverse and complex environments to enable the Architectural Runway for the S/4 HANA North America Implementation in the areas of Procurement and Warehousing.
  • Validate and certify current and future state products/services such as Documentum for document management, and HighJump for warehousing and assess potential impact across all enterprise systems using tools such as the Gartner Reports and direct networking with potential Vendors.

SAP Supply Chain Management Consultant

Deloitte
05.2021 - 11.2022

End Client: Sony North America

  • Led, as a Senior Consultant, a team of 6 members the business gathering requirements phase for the Source to Pay, Inventory, and EWM modules; mapping the business driven questionnaire within SAP Best Practices using SAP Activate for the S/4 HANA 2020 North America implementation.
  • Performed Fit-to-Standard analysis identifying the delta requirements, allocating 78% of those into the standard business process providing reduction in costs in the development phase and system maintenance.
  • Conducted Live Demos in SAP S/4 HANA within the Sandbox Landscape to show standard functionality of End to End Processes (Level 3 transactional) for PTP, and EWM modules.
  • Configuration of Master Data for the North America Region including Business Partners, Source List, Material Master ( MRP, Purchasing, Classification, Plant Data), Enterprise Structure, Activity Areas, Release Strategies, Putaway and Removal Strategies.
  • Facilitated change management strategies for the cross functional teams support the architectural runway to initiate the build phase using JIRA.

SAP MM/WM Functional Analyst II

TBC Corporation
01.2018 - 04.2021
  • Led a rotational team of 10 for the Greenfield Implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 for the MM and WM modules of 108 National Tire Warehouse from the previous ERP JDE.
  • Developed documentation materials as well as provided on-site and remote training to more than 1,000 end users via collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Citrix Webex, and Zoom.
  • Increased user satisfaction by resolving bug defects, configuration requests, and user error workarounds within less than 4 hours for 85% of incoming tickets using BMC Remedy as the ITSM tool.
  • Configured SAP Master Data, released procedures definition for purchasing documents, goods movement, WM enterprise structure set up, placement strategies, and unit management.
  • Configuration of "Procure to Pay" and "Warehousing" business process including Good Receipts, Good Issue, Physical Counting, Invoice Verification, Release Strategies, Warehouse Activity Monitor, Subcontracting and Consignment Processes.
  • RF framework configuration including GUI and user profiles set up.
  • Functional Requirements document development including RICEFW (Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancements, Forms, Workflows).
  • Technical Documentation including ABAP development and Debugging.

Professional ERP Functional Consultant

DXC Technology
05.2012 - 01.2018

End Clients: Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin

  • Brownfield full-lifecycle implementation from SAP ECC 4.7 to 6.0 in the Material Management and Warehouse modules which included requirements gathering, build, Unit and Integration Testing, and HyperCare support.
  • Test lead of the HSI (Helicopter Sikorsky Inc.) integration with Sikorsky to SAP S4 HANA with HPQC as the test platform.
  • Production Support and ABAP development Team Lead for the direct clients Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin Aerospace in MM, WM, and SCM EWM Systems modules.
  • Configured SAP EWM of goods receipt and goods issue processes, warehouse capacity and warehouse order rules, cross-docking process, transportation planning, and execution.
  • Configured and supported Intercompany stock transport orders, Intra-Company stock transport orders, Transfer Postings, and Physical Inventory. Interfaced and used Radio Frequency (RF) devices as well as SAP console integration to perform transactions at the warehouse floor, bar coding, and handled units.
  • Oversaw SAP MM process configuration in release strategies, subcontracting, 3rd party ordering processing, material and service contracts, consignment purchases, and others.
  • Migrated master data using batch data communication and legacy system migration workbench.
  • Implemented improvements based on KPIs such as lead time of incident resolution, coding fixes for recurring errors, and enhancements in standard SAP.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez
Mayaguez, PR
05.2012

Skills

  • ERP Packages: SAP ECC 60, SAP NETWEAVER 73, and SAP S/4 HANA 1610 and 1909, EWM 95
  • Business Process Requirements Gathering, Process Optimization, and Deployment
  • ITSM tools including BMC Remedy, ServiceNow, and Ivanti
  • Unit Test, Integration Test, User Acceptance, HPQC, and SAP NetSuite Test Case
  • SaFe Agile Architect, JIRA, SolMan for Release Management
  • JAVA, ABAP programming, and Debugging

Certification

  • SaFe Agile Architect
  • SaFe Teams Agilist
  • SAP Certified Application Associate - Extended Warehouse Management with SAP S/4HANA - In Progress

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Linkedin Profile

www.linkedin.com/in/javier-santa/

Timeline

SAP Solution Architect ( PTP/EWM)

Bridgestone Americas
12.2022 - 10.2023

SAP Supply Chain Management Consultant

Deloitte
05.2021 - 11.2022

SAP MM/WM Functional Analyst II

TBC Corporation
01.2018 - 04.2021

Professional ERP Functional Consultant

DXC Technology
05.2012 - 01.2018

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez
Javier Santa