Doug Rogala Email & Phone Number

Deerfield, Il, Us

Currently leveraging my 20+ years of SAP and system implementation experience to help ensure a successful transition to the SAP Retail Solution. I have deep expertise in finance business processes and FICO modules including extensive knowledge of integration with supply chain business processes and supply chain SAP modules.

I provide clients with the benefit of my deep SAP FI-CO module and finance functional knowledge and experience to solve their business issues, augment their SAP support organization or manage the implementation of their project. I leverage my extensive SAP consulting experience which covers all aspects of SAP implementations from hands on, (analysis, functional and technical design, configuration, testing and go-live) through project management. I have excellent problem solving skills and experience in the SAP FI-CO area that extends into the integrated modules of SD, MM, PP, PS.

Gb

Managing the finance team, running blueprint sessions to define business requirements, defining and documenting functional specifications for non standard SAP business requirements, configuring SAP finance functionality, testing, training, cutting over to production and post implementation support. Experienced in the following implementation methodology phases:Project Prep- Working with client executives and the project team to: 1) leverage best practices to develop a vision for the finance function 2) develop the strategy to achieve the vision 3) create the project plan to implement the visionBlueprint/Design 1) Project management - project plan and budget, issues management, risk management 2) Create workshop content based on best practices / gather current process maps and procedures 3) Design the to-be new processes 5) Document gaps and confirm workshop results with end users 6) Develop functional specifications for gap resolution 7) Identify change management requirements (business process, technology, organizational) 8) Identify technology requirements and establish development landscape 9) Identify governance and risk compliance requirements, (system and internal controls)Realization / Build 1) Configure system, develop and test custom code, execute change management communications and organization redesign 2) Test systemFinal Prep 1) Execute end user training 2) Execute user acceptance testing 3) Execute cut over testingGo-Live and post implementation support 1) Execute cut-over 2) Post implementation support

Ismaning, Bayern, De

Provided clients with leading practices for how to design and implement SAP FS-RI and FS-CD functionality.Experience:• Experienced in all dimensions of an implementation project• Project planning• Project cost estimation• Project monitoring• Issue management and issue resolution/escalation• Risk identification and risk mitigation• Communicating and working with senior executives, (CEO, CFO, Controller)• Leveraging best practices to design new business processes• Writing functional specifications and working with technical resources to develop custom code solutions• Configuring the system to support business requirements• Integration and user acceptance testing• Change managemento Process changeo Technology changeo Trainingo Organization change• International Experienceo Implementation of international software (FR-RI) functionality in Munich Germany, (Munich RE). This was in association with Munich RE America in New Jersey.

Gb

I began my career with PwC implementing mainframe financial applications, (M&D and JDE) in the manufacturing industry, In 1995 I switched to SAP and began managing projects. I focused on the the finance function and integration with other SAP modules, running blueprint sessions to define business requirements, defining and documenting functional specifications for non standard SAP business requirements, configuring SAP finance functionality, testing, training,cutting over to production.and post implementation support. I was the overall project manager on multiple large SAP projects. My responsibilities included developing and managing the project plan, managing the budget, identifying risks and risk mitigation strategies, issue identification, resolution and escalation, managing project resources, status reporting including reporting to the steering committee.Experience:• Experienced in all dimensions of an implementation project• Project planning• Project cost estimation• Project monitoring• Issue management and issue resolution/escalation• Risk identification and risk mitigation• Communicating and working with senior executives, (CEO, CFO, Controller)• Leveraging best practices to design new business processes• Writing functional specifications and working with technical resources to develop custom code solutions• Configuring the system to support business requirements• Integration and user acceptance testing• Change managemento Process changeo Technology changeo Trainingo Organization change• International Experienceo Project lead for SAP project in Amsterdamo Business process lead in Waldorf working at SAP • Part of a team that co-authored a book for SAP and PricewaterhouseCoopers entitled The E-business Workplace