Mark Acker Email & Phone Number

Deforest, Wi, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

KnowledgePath Consulting - A RubinBrown Company, is a management consulting firm that specializes in identifying business process improvement and transformation opportunities with our client companies. Our core service offerings have been strategically designed to cover areas required to create significant and lasting operational excellence. Clients look to us for the unbiased leadership to transform their most important business initiatives into reality. KnowledgePath is pro-active, hands-on and determined on improving and growing your business.We accomplish these objectives through our unique project methodology and our experienced staff of consultants. We manage client engagements in areas such as Business Strategy and roadmap development, ERP selection and deployment, organizational change management, training and education, and business transformation through continuous process improvement.KnowledgePath works closely with its cooperating companies and partners to enable customers to realize their visions by leveraging technology, people, and leading business processes and practices. We leverage our expertise to deliver consulting services that make it faster, easier and more affordable for companies to achieve business initiatives, regardless of complexity, industry or critical requirements.

Wisconsin, United States

United States

KnowledgePath Consulting is a management consulting firm that specializes in identifying business process improvement and transformation opportunities with our client companies. Our core service offerings have been strategically designed to cover areas required to create significant and lasting operational excellence. Clients look to us for the unbiased leadership to transform their most important business initiatives into reality. KnowledgePath is pro-active, hands-on and determined on improving and growing your business.We accomplish these objectives through our unique project methodology and our experienced staff of consultants. We manage client engagements in areas such as Business Strategy and roadmap development, ERP selection and deployment, organizational change management, training and education, and business transformation through continuous process improvement.KnowledgePath works closely with its cooperating companies and partners to enable customers to realize their visions by leveraging technology, people, and leading business processes and practices. We leverage our expertise to deliver consulting services that make it faster, easier and more affordable for companies to achieve business initiatives, regardless of complexity, industry or critical requirements.

Columbus, Wisconsin

Green Bay, Wisconsin Area

Helping clients deliver results with their SAP design and building greater process execution and integration, focusing on Product Costing and Master Data areas.

Greater Milwaukee Area

SAP FICO Manufacturing Operations Finance, SAP BI and business process execution consulting. Helping clients deliver results with their SAP design and building greater process execution and integration.

Chicago, Illinois

Lead the IT integration for Manufacturing blueprinting business process work shops for business process execution for plant operations and manufacturing. Facilitated integration workshops with finance and costing functions to insure the manufacturing and costing designs were integrated and identified any process design gaps. Developed integration manufacturing process training materials for deployment teams. I was the lead process trainer for manufacturing deployment teams. Developed change management training materials for the plant business adaption teams. Subject matter expert for all SAP BI end user operations and manufacturing data queries.

Northfield, Illinois

Work with manufacturing operations facilities developing and harmonizing manufacturing processes to insure accurate manufactured product costs and material valuations, including process execution best practice support for shop floor, materials management and quality management. Lead SME for SAP BI end user queries for manufacturing operations.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Worked in the Oscar Mayer business unit Continuous Improvement group. Leverage SAP systems knowledge and business process knowledge to lead business unit and plant level CI Managers through training to utilize SAP actual data to identify and quantify CI projects and lead data driven projects. Also was the Oscar Mayer BU Manufacturing Lead project manager for the company split in October 2012. Achieved my Green Belt in IL6S.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Business Process Manager - Product Costing, lead manufacturing finance and plant finance teams through SAP process training and execution, including product standards build, labor standards build. Leverage SAP BI process order results based queries to enhance plant results analysis. Delivered process order life cycle training to business unit level finance and operations associates and also plant level operations group associates.

Middleton, Wi

• Lead Cognos Planning implementation at six facilities, trained 100 end users• Administrated and manage the company’s budgeting software, Cognos Planning, managing nine Contributor applications with 100 users• Lead cross-functional team of six associates to develop our Business Intelligence strategic landscape working closely with our Information Technology group• Facilitated annual detailed fixed budget process, sales and margins, 70 fixed departments and 52 variable production departments at seven facilities and consolidate results for the core company and two acquired companies • Developed targets for annual fixed budget process with 20 senior managers and directors to allow for more effective budget timeline management and communication of expectations

Middleton, Wi

• Executed proforma analysis of proposed customer and sales programs to insure the programs met the financial expectations of the company and did not erode profitability• Developed product margin analytical tools in Business Intelligence query analyzer software to allow in-depth margin analysis review by product managers• Performed finance department training around team concepts, project management skills and general finance topics to improve financial knowledge 60 + non-finance managers

Millston, Wisconsin

Corporate Controller, managed all aspects of company financials. I focused on balance sheet performance and P & L excellence and return, cash flow driven, cash gap and inventory management. Privately-held family-owned company.

Spartanburg, South Carolina

Lead business process development and training for company ERP project deployment, BAAN ERP system

Savannah, Georgia

Lead in-house legacy systems design and Blueprint specifications for standard costing and actual costing system

Tomah, Wisconsin

Assistant Plant Controller, assist with month-end close for the plant, assist in preparing annual budget for the plant, assist in preparing quarterly plant forecast, perform weekly and monthly standard and actual cost variance analysis and special projects as assigned

Bs, Accounitng & Economics

Activities and Societies: Member of Student Activities Board - 1989-1991 Member of College Business Leaders' 1989-1991 Member.

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