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Foston & Scropton, England, United Kingdom

Key Roles and Responsibilities• Supporting and developing business processes, and functional solutions for Derby Factory, in preparation for expansion to new Corby Factory.• Acting as Subject Matter Expert for the EWM warehouse, to deliver a fit-for-purpose solution, to meet the business needs.• Improving stock accuracy, and traceability via accurate and timely goods movements.• Providing additional training to support the business, for both SAP and Microsoft software.• Further development and roll-out of Fiori and SAP Enable Now

Foston & Scropton, England, United Kingdom

Key Roles and Responsibilities• Supporting and developing business processes, and functional solutions for Derby Factory, in preparation for expansion to new Corby Factory.• Acting as Subject Matter Expert for the EWM warehouse, to deliver a fit-for-purpose solution, to meet the business needs.• Improving stock accuracy, and traceability via accurate and timely goods movements.• Providing additional training to support the business, for both SAP and Microsoft software.• Further development and roll-out of Fiori and SAP Enable Now

Telford, England, United Kingdom

Key roles and Responsibilities• Involved in the implementation of EWM, at the Lisner’s Raw Material Warehouse in Poznan, Poland.• Implementation of EWM as part of the Muller Yogurt and Desserts’ £50 million PL500 investment project at Telford.• Implementation of MM module for raw materials warehouse, following Dairy Crest acquisition at Severnside site for dairy milk manufacturing.• Introduction of Positive Goods Issue (PGI) consumptions to enable a saving in excess of £250,000 per annum on packing components, and £150,000 per annum of dairy products. Plus, additional benefits of improved stock holding and increased traceability.• Migration of WM module from existing NÖM Dairy SAP system into Muller SAP system followed £25m takeover, including development of new SAP software for WM module on handheld RF devices, alongside external IGH Infotech consultants.• Maintenance of three existing WMS systems across Market Drayton and Minsterley, and Culina Businesses.• Providing warehousing 1st & 2nd Line support to the Polish & UK business units, including liaising with external DAI and Dematic consultants, and interfaces to the process control system ProLeit.• Development of SOPs, Process Flows, Presentations and general Training documentation, including trouble-shooting Knowledge Articles within 4me to allow end users to resolve issues before contacting the help desk.• Incident Management and Resolution using 4me software, including development of warehouse dashboards to show open & resolved tickets, and Knowledge Article usage.• Ongoing development of automated test scripts using Worksoft Certify to reduce effort during test cycles.• Started to develop training documents within SAP Enable Now.

Telford, England, United Kingdom

Key Roles and Responsibilities• Implementation of the SAP WM, MM and PP-PI modules within a new £65m manufacturing site, Provided 1st and 2nd line support within 24/7 role.• Maintaining accurate backflushing following production, using both manual and automated processes including the use of idocs.• Integration between external manufacturing system ProLeit, and SAP.• Master data maintenance of new products, within SAP using BOMs, Routings and Product Versions.• Use of EDI messages and idocs, to maintain the stocks held at multiple external 3PL warehouses, with the use of sales and stock transport orders. • Development of SAP ITS for use in the Raw Materials Warehouse, using handheld RF devices, to maintain accurate stock levels.• Contacting raw material suppliers, to ensure pallet labelling meets necessary specifications, in line with GS-1 standards.• Developed and delivered training documentation, to assist in the SAP implementation process, and to establish site Super Users.• Developed suits of Business Warehouse reports to show site efficiency and productivity.• Assisted in BRC inspections and customer audits,• Administrator for the annual raw material stock take – 7 audits successfully completed with 100% accuracy working with external auditors.

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Key Roles and Responsibilities• Coordinated discrete pieces of educational data, to contribute to the development of data collection operations used in the allocation of £12 billion education funds.• Management of Learner Information Suite (LIS) application, used for data collection and reporting within the Further Education Sector.• Generation and maintenance of documentation including User Guides, Known Issues and FAQs, for publication to the corporate internet website. • Executed User Acceptance Testing.• Incident Management and Resolution using Magic software.

Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom

Key Roles and Responsibilities• Transitioned 3000+ user accounts from Business Objects v6.5 to Business Objects XI, including implementing standardised user account naming convention within Business Objects Supervisor and Central Management Console (CMC).• Streamlined the use of 180+ ad-hoc reports. Resulting in the creation of 10 Reference Table and 8 Generic Sales data reports for “EPV” Support team. Introduced Pharos User access software to enhance security access approval process.• Provided 1st line support for “EPV” (Enterprise Performance Visibility), a global Financial and Supply Chain Monitoring reporting system, across the UK and Australia• Problem investigation, resolution and / or escalation, using FUSION software, to manage Problem Logging and Change Control.• User account maintenance for “EPV”.• Development and provision of specialist reports to meet global customers’ requirements.• Published announcements to corporate intranet website, using internal AZGard software.

Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom

Key Roles and Responsibilities• Provided SAP 1st line support role for the WM and PP-PI modules across the manufacturing site.• Performed role of System Controller for “Odyssey”, a local web-based, data entry application, using Business Objects for reporting. • Developed the ‘Know-Zone’, an internal web-based training tool to enable SAP and “Odyssey” problem resolution, for the end users, by identifying the source of data problems, recommending solutions and training to the UK pharmaceutical manufacturing community. • Managed the Change Control panel and user account maintenance for “Odyssey”.• Executing SAP system audits for data accuracy and where appropriate data corrections.• Performed User Acceptance testing (UAT) on both SAP and Business Objects.• Delivering SAP and Business Objects training, on an individual basis or in a classroom environment, to users at all levels of the management hierarchy. Including floor walking and conducting presentations.• Monitoring interfaced data from SAP and two analytical databases (QALIMS & LinX) into “Odyssey”. • Generating, maintaining, and enhancing Computer Validation documentation for “Odyssey”, including User Requirement Specifications (URS), Functional Specifications (FS), Testing plans, User Acceptance Test scripts (UAT) and Components Index. • Assisted in FDA, MHRA and Japanese regulatory inspections.

Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom

Key Roles and Responsibilities• Implemented SAP ECC Warehouse Management (WM) and Production Planning for Process Industry (PP-PI) modules primarily across the Zoladex department, but also supporting other departments, within the Macclesfield manufacturing site. • Included interactions with Materials Management (MM) and Quality Management (QM) modules, as appropriate.• Created initial training documentation for SAP 4.5 implementation, and upgrade to 4.7.• Executed SAP user acceptance testing (UAT).• Developed an electronic packing plan for Planning department, Warehouse and Packing lines.• Provided manufacturing batch documentation and packing schedules for sterile and non-sterile pharmaceutical production, including multiple schedule revisions due to unexpected interventions.• Collated data to maintain the Manufacturing (MRP), Analytical (QALIMS) systems & Technical databases.• Coordinated the inventory management of raw materials and multi-stage packing components.• Staged and replenished components for manufacturing processing and packing lines.• Reviewed and approved quality documentation to ensure compliance with cGMP, including manufacturing documentation within agreed timelines to support product release.

Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom

Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom

Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom

Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom