Jeffrey Walters
Sugar Land,TX
Summary
Mr. Walters has over 25 years of experience in managing projects across various aspects of SAP solutions including 12 full Life Cycle SAP implementation and 1 World Wide Global S4/Hana implementation in various verticals of SAP primarily in Production Planning (PP) along with SD,MM,PM,QM,VC,HUM,CS. He has broad expertise in Delivery Lead, Project Management,Business process design, Blueprinting, Process re-engineering, Unit & Integration testing, Configuration, System Integration, Conversions, Functional Specs, Documentation, Project Management and Production support. He has experience in diversified client environments pertaining to different industrial, consumer products and Aerospace and Defense. His focus within the PP module has been in Shop Floor Control, Capacity Planning, Sales and Operation Planning (SOP), Demand Management (DM), MRP, Variant Configuration, Product Costing and production life cycles (MTO,MTS) and has strong integration experience into SD,FI,MM,QM modules. He is multifaceted with a combination of strong technical, communication and analytical skills and easily adaptable to any work environment.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Jeffrey Walters, 3514
Hidden Creek, Sugar Land, United States
05.2022 - Current
- Mobile phone:
- E-mail: jsw735@hotmail.com
- LinkedIn: jeffrey-walters-519543276
- Developed player loyalty program, established coupon system to attract new players, implemented incentives for existing players, and leveraged AI chatbot for player chat conversations and frequent asked questions
- Built marketing strategy based on own market research and developed marketing schedule with weekly targets to reach new and high value customers
- Implemented reporting for P&L, expenses and customer disputes
- Developed consulting arm to the turnkey entire process for fixed rate while incorporating a subscription model to ensure long term revenue.
Senior Director SAP Delivery
C&A Technogy
Sugar Land, TX
10.2023 - Current
- Developed and implemented strategic plans to maximize organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability.
- Lead cross-functional teams in developing creative solutions to challenging problems.
- Promoted a culture of collaboration among staff members through regular communication, feedback, and recognition.
- Coordinated with stakeholders across multiple departments to develop innovative strategies for problem solving.
- Built relationships with external partners, vendors, and customers in order to foster collaboration.
- Established key performance indicators to track progress towards goals.
- Facilitated meetings between internal teams to ensure alignment on initiatives.
- Assessed current organizational systems and infrastructure, recommending changes as needed.
- Analyzed customer feedback data to identify areas for improvement in service delivery.
- Mentored junior staff members in their professional development journey.
- Set and managed master schedules for programs and projects.
- Oversaw budgeting processes and ensured fiscal responsibility was maintained throughout the year.
- Analyzed financial performance metrics and identified areas for improvement.
- Provided guidance on best practices in project management to ensure successful outcomes.
- Directed the design of data analytics solutions for complex business challenges.
- Analyzed problematic situations and occurrences to provide solutions and facilitate company survival and growth.
- Guided and motivated staff to drive maximum performance.
Director SAP Architecture/Program Manager
SC Johnson
Racine, United Kingdom
04.2016 - 05.2022
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Project Scope: Managed the transformation of the business requirements into Systems
- Applications and Products (SAP) solutions and to present practical business solutions
- Additionally, he designed business strategies that address complex business issues, develop best-in-class SAP solutions, and support executive management and project teams in SAP technology decisions
- Was chief architect for SAP Greenfield implementation for M&A that implemented
- SAP/S4 Hana across the globe., (US&UK)
- Managed team of 10 employees from Associate Managers to Senior
- Managers and team of consultants up to 75 people
- Responsible for resource management and allocation for broader SCJ projects or incentives
- This included finding and acquiring new talent to ensure headcount was adequate for M&A
- Managed relationship with SAP and consulting partners for implementation and staff augmentation
- Managed project timelines, project scope, acted as Chief Architect and provided weekly report out to stake holders
- Created and implemented template for S/4HANA as well as liaison with SME for additional bolt-ons
- Ensured overall landscape was within enterprise architecture guidelines and fit into SCJ's 5-year plan
- Responsible for implementing S/4HANA for professional side of business, approximately $500M
- Accepted assignment in London, UK for 9 months as Program Director to oversee European rollout to largest facilities within professional business, approximately $45M
- Responsible for employee training plan, mid-year reviews and staying with-in budget, Responsible for development of plan for DR
- Employee training plan and mid-year employee reviews
- Lead for PP,QM,CS for North American – Pentair Valves and Control, Industry: Oil & Gas
- Project Scope: Lead for PP,QM,CS for North American implementation for Valves and Controls using Tolling Model
- Specific Role: Process Consultant North America Production Planning(PP), Quality Management(QM), and Customer Service (CS)
- Lead
- Manage team for implementation and support, while ensuring open issues get resolved within SLA and meeting project deadlines
- Rolled out Tolling model
- Work to project plan to ensure milestones are completed on time
- Redesign overall availability checks and ATP rules globally for Sales, Production, Purchasing(STO), Shipping and Service
- Design and implement serialization strategy used globally within the world
- Design global process for planning and scheduling and allocations and commitments
- Work heavily with Engineer to Order(ETO), Make to Order(MTO), Assemble to Order(ATO), Make to Stock(MTS)/Buy to
- Stock(BTS)
- Heavily use Variant configuration within ETO/ATO/MTO environment
- Full understanding of processes in ETO/MTO environment with special requirements, special testing
- SME for integration points and design between functional areas(ie production to sales , STO, production and service)
- Overall responsibility for delivering training
- Utilize CS module for service business to drive resource related billing using fixed and actuals, activity related billing,spare parts, labor and expenses
- Setup custom notification and actions for CS
- Setup and maintain DIP profile for CS(customized for value stream)
- Part of project team that helped transform business to TESCUM model
Production Planning Lead
Vallourec
Houston, Tx
07.2014 - 04.2016
Production Planning Lead
Houston, Tx
06.2013 - 01.2014
- Oil & Gas
- Project Scope: Support the production planning module, Document the as-is process and work with management to incorporate lean manufacturing concepts into the to-be process
- Specific Role:
- Daily support of the production planning module and VC
- Conduct meetings and workshops to understand the current SAP process within MRP,ShopFloor and Planning
- Work with supply chain management and LEAN team to propose new process for manufacturing and MRP
- Provide on-site support and training to user community
- P2M(MFG) Solution Architect and Work Stream Lead – Tyco Valves/Pentair, : Industrial Goods - Oil & Gas, Military, Technology
- Project Scope: Configuring and Implementing PP- Shop Floor Control, MRP, Sales and Operation Planning, Capacity Planning
- Quality Management and Batch
- Management - Business is using ETO,MTO,MTS and VC
- Specific Role: P2M(Manufacturing) Solution Architect and Work Stream Lead
- Responsible for overall P2M global design and integration
- Work with global business to develop and roll out a global template to all sites in scope
- Coordinate integration testing and user acceptance testing
- Facilitate gap fit sessions at local site to identify local gaps
- Train super users
- Work with business to understand business roles for SAP roles
PP-PI Functional Lead/Project Manager, Lead/Project Manager
Westlake Chemical
Houston, Tx
09.2011 - 06.2013
- Petrochemicals and Fabricated Products
- Project Scope: Job responsibilities include managing and supporting the production planning module,Acsis DataPass Shop Floor and Inventory control systems
- Specific Role: PP-PI Functional
- As the functional lead created, communicated and secured sign off's for statement of work from the business sponsors and the CTO
- Each statement of work once signed became a project and was tracked and monitored via bridge track (Project
- Management tool)
- Managed fulltime employee and coordinated the work
- Maintain project plan, work hours, progress reports, issue logs and meetings with the various business stakeholders including weekly status meetings with the senior business management
- Met the business needs for very distinct divisions of the company (US, Canada and China):
- Polymers
- PVC pipe
- Caustic
- Vinyl
- Feedstock
- Profiles
- Met the business needs for the various production plants owned by the company
- Successfully implemented following SAP processes:
- Implement DataPass Shop floor and bar-coding system at 15 Plants under budget
- Make to Order process (Valuated and Non-Valuated)
- Handling Unit Management
- MRP for Fabrication Plants o Product Costing for Fabrication Plants
- Demand Management (DM)
- User exit updates
- Cycle Count process for HU
- Equipment Serialization
- Several custom reports - SAP R/3 and BI
- O Standardize Plants and convert Chemical plants from production to process order functionality
- Implement LIMS quality system for Chemical plant
- Implement MIMI (AspenTech) scheduling at Chemical plant
- Work with QM team with COA,Batch Management,Results recording
- Material Specifications, Inspections plans, Inspection Characteristics
- Sales and Operation Planning(SOP) - Worked with all sites(16) to devise a Sales Forecast using historical sales and based on market expectation the plan was adjusted by a percentage +/-
- This plan was converted to a production plan and then fine-tuned and passed to demand management via planned independent requirements
- Both proportional product groups and material SOP was used for the sites
- Manage the day to day production support tickets
- This includes master data updates, configuration updates, reporting changes, audit requirements, user training, month end and quarter end close issues
- Act as a liaison between business and new customers, auditors, legal and fiscal requirements.
Production Planning Consultant
Raytheon Missiles
07.2007 - 08.2011
- Aerospace and Defense
- Project Scope: Production Support/Deploy SAP to additional sites
Production Planning Consultant
SAP
01.2007 - 07.2007
- Mr
- Walters provide PP functional expertise to an after market operation in a competency center environment
- While sustaining and being responsive to customer IT needs
- He provides system expertise and handle issues associated with, business applications for manufacturing, supply chain management and BW reporting
- He supplied baseline support and elasticity as subject matter expert in solving system issues and business processes while at the same time following Raytheon's procedures and documentation requirements
- Some of tasks were to work with Raytheon business analyst to support the corporate market and sales forecast by using, SOP and DM to drive a sales and production forecast
- Also responsible for fine tuning MRP parameters to minimize high inventory and long lead time
- Also on the implementation team that deployed SAP for additional Raytheon companies.
Founder and Director of Operations
Global Gaming Co LLC
Sugar Land, TX
- Started LLC, sought investors, negotiated with Sweepstakes vendor to secure LCO (lowest cost ownership) coins
- Strawman and framed best in class website to fully automate user creation, registration, accept payments, automated payout process while leveraging industry standard API.
Education
B.S - Information Technology
University of Phoenix
11.2003
B.S - Information Technology
University of Phoenix
01.2003
Skills
- SAP SKILLS
- Project Management
- Program Manager
- Delivery Lead
- UAT Lead
- Testing Lead
- Cutover Lead
- S4/Hana
- PP,QM,SD,MM,WM,FI,CO,PM
- OTC,PTM,PTP,RTR
- ABAP
- Aspentech
- BAPI
- ERP
- MRP
- Planning Modules
- SAP
- Enterprise Architecture
- MIMI
- Technical Specification
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- ETL
- HANA
- Rollout
- Gather Business Requirements
- Intergration Lead
- Budgeting
- Resource Planning
- Project Timeline
- Agile
- Scrum
- Customer Relations
- Cultural Awareness
- Team building
- Training & Development
- Multitasking
- Flexible and Adaptable
- Organization
- Relationship Building
- Leadership
- Self-Directed
- Critical Thinking
References
REFERENCES
Additional job references available upon request
Timeline
Senior Director SAP Delivery
C&A Technogy
10.2023 - Current
Jeffrey Walters, 3514
05.2022 - Current
Director SAP Architecture/Program Manager
SC Johnson
04.2016 - 05.2022
Production Planning Lead
Vallourec
07.2014 - 04.2016
Production Planning Lead
06.2013 - 01.2014
PP-PI Functional Lead/Project Manager, Lead/Project Manager
Westlake Chemical
09.2011 - 06.2013
Production Planning Consultant
Raytheon Missiles
07.2007 - 08.2011
Production Planning Consultant
SAP
01.2007 - 07.2007
Founder and Director of Operations
Global Gaming Co LLC
B.S - Information Technology
University of Phoenix
B.S - Information Technology
University of Phoenix