Shawn Rhuda
Salem
Summary
Motivated Supply Chain Planning, Operations, and SAP/ERP Professional with extensive experience in deployment and process leadership. Delivered impactful results through strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Committed to overcoming challenges and contributing effectively in both independent and team settings.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Scheduling FE/OMP Scheduling Lead/PM
Mars Petcare
12.2024 - Current
- Led on-site engagements across multiple PetCare facilities to capture high-level functional design requirements and translate operational insights into strategic direction for solution design across all project phases.
- Built deep technical expertise within the UTL and OPR layers of OMP, enabling effective guidance, coaching, and leadership of training initiatives supporting new ways of working.
- Directed the creation of comprehensive future-state process documentation to ensure clear, scalable, and user-aligned OMP workflows.
- Championed continuous improvement by identifying system defects, escalating findings to cross-functional teams, and partnering with OMP stakeholders for root-cause analysis and resolution.
- Oversaw the validation of OMP functional design deliverables, ensuring solutions consistently met operational, business, and stakeholder requirements.
- Performed data transformation, ensuring compliance with new system structures and enabling a seamless transition to updated platforms.
- Instituted rigorous data audit practices to safeguard data accuracy, completeness, and integrity across all system uploads.
- Developed tailored site-level configurations and documentation, enabling optimized and user-specific Gantt visualizations that enhanced planning efficiency.
- Designed reporting tool that mitigated change impacts and strengthened calendar management across operations.
- Created Mass Update tool to streamline assignment of color attributes to product- and location-specific materials, enhancing scheduler productivity.
- Acted as a change ambassador, promoting adoption of new processes, tools, and best practices that enhanced operational effectiveness and reinforced alignment with organizational goals.
- Delivered targeted training and ongoing support for both group and site teams, ensuring successful knowledge transfer and readiness to meet the technical demands of key operational roles.
Senior Business Analyst Lead/Manager
Edwards LLC
12.2022 - 10.2024
- Translated business needs into detailed requirements for SAP deployment, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Collaborated with Rollout Manager, Solution Architect, and business stakeholders on design activities, capturing high-level system flows and SAP solutions to facilitate implementation.
- Engage with local system users to conduct gap analysis, documenting where functionality changes may be required to support Business requirements.
- Support technical delivery activities by advising Functional Consultants, Developers, etc. on expected system behavior, informed by clear Business requirements.
- Perform functional testing on delivered solutions, ensuring it fulfils detailed business requirements.
- Document as-is and to-be system processes, identifying areas for overall system process improvement.
- Developed SAP user guides and training materials, trained end users/support teams to enhance SAP template adoption and maintenance.
- Supported the Rollout Manager in identifying areas for additional security and compliance considerations.
- Provide coaching to other Business Analysts in the Rollout team.
New England Process Analyst Lead
3M
Chelmsford
10.2012 - 12.2022
- Forecast to Schedule Superuser/Subject Matter Expert and site lead for Business Transformation to SAP.
- Developed and maintained scheduling wheels in SAP for critical production areas, minimizing downtime and startup waste while maximizing throughput.
- Formalized Phase-In/Phase-Out documentation tool to control parameter management, improve cross team communication and enhance data integrity.
- Executed strategic projects for planning improvements, enhancing backorder recovery projections, supporting planning systems adoption, and optimizing capacity planning.
Logistics Analyst Lead
Polaroid/3M
Norwood and Methuen
09.1993 - 10.2012
- Led supply chain team in implementing Baan ERP system, streamlining operations and enhancing data management.
- Supply Chain team lead for implementation of I2 Factory Planner.
- Project Lead for multiple Lean Six Sigma cash and cost savings projects.
- Managed sourcing of prototype raw materials for new product introductions, ensuring alignment with design and quality specifications.
- Defined and deployed control documents for monthly sales forecasting procedures, enhancing forecast accuracy and reliability.
- Generated and issued detailed manufacturing schedules including but not limited to subcontract manufacturing and quality supporting aircraft/aviation markets.
Education
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (incomplete) -
Northeastern University
Boston, MA04.2000
Skills
- OMP
- SAP
- Microsoft Office
- Agile/Jira
- Power BI
- MES
- PeopleSoft
- I2 Factory Planner
- Scheduling optimization
- ERP implementation
- Data analytics
- Process improvement
Career Interests
- SAP Analyst
- SAP Deployment Specialist
- Business Systems Analyst
- Supply Chain Professional
- IT Solutions
- Business Transformation
Timeline
Scheduling FE/OMP Scheduling Lead/PM
Mars Petcare
12.2024 - Current
Senior Business Analyst Lead/Manager
Edwards LLC
12.2022 - 10.2024
New England Process Analyst Lead
3M
10.2012 - 12.2022
Logistics Analyst Lead
Polaroid/3M
09.1993 - 10.2012
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (incomplete) -
Northeastern University