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Minerals Technologies, Inc
Bethlehem, PA
Oracle Applications Functional Consultant
Description
Minerals Technologies Inc. is a resource- and technology-based company that
develops, produces and markets worldwide a broad range of specialty mineral,
mineral-based and synthetic mineral products and related systems and services
Scope
Minerals Technologies Inc. uses Oracle Applications Suite (11.5.10.2) as its main
system for its business along with other Custom applications, Supply Chain,
Distribution and Financial modules. The modules that are widely used include
Order Management, Inventory, Purchasing, I Procurement, and Enterprise Asset
Management.
Responsibilities
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Port of Oakland
Feb 2012
Oakland, California
Oracle Applications Functional Consultant
August 2011-
Description
Port of Oakland is a public sector enterprise constituting three major revenue
divisions Maritime, Aviation and Commercial Real Estate in the city of Oakland.
Scope
Port of Oakland uses Oracle Applications Suite (R12) as its one and only ERP
system. The modules that are widely used include Inventory, Enterprise Asset
Management, Purchasing, Sourcing, General Ledger, Procurement Contracts,
Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Oracle Time and Labor, Oracle HRMS,
Projects, Grants, Property Manager, Fixed Assets, Cash Management
Responsibilities
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Incorporated the Public Sector purchasing norms into the purchasing module,
sourcing module and procurement contracts modules with Legal acceptance
Worked with the technical team in designing a seeded Oracle Workflow for
requisition approval which requires customization via Oracle Approval
Management (AME) for parallel approval process
Conducting solution design workshops for a decentralized, challenging
purchasing environment at the port and providing a solution that adhered to the
Public sector standards and norms.
Trained the power users with the functionality of Oracle Purchasing, Sourcing,
Inventory and Procurement contracts through state of art technology which
helped them to develop insightful ad-hoc analysis and dashboard publishing
skills
Designed an oracle solution of having a repetitive supplier purchasing
phenomena without using Oracle Approved supplier list, sourcing rules and
Blanket Purchase Agreement, Release functionality which was a huge challenge.
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Worked with the product support team and lead a team of 6 members in
finalizing the attributes, defining Approved Supplier lists, extracting data from
Legacy systems and Loading the items into oracle with IDS (Item Definition
System).
Worked with the development team in designing a customized OTC (over the
counter) order process with oracle, which included establishing payment terms,
printing receipts, ship confirming the OTC orders and processing OTC customer
payments. (This is a custom process for walk-in-customers to MASCO divisions).
Prepared specs for custom Load-in forms and Load-out forms that store interim
data in the staging tables without hitting the accounts and changing the
inventory levels.
Worked with the development team in defining back-to-back order process, ATO
process (Buy and Make), PTO process, custom line types like
(MCS_Item_Backcharge_Line type) and drop shipment process for MASCO
Implemented Barcode Receiving, receiving through standard oracle forms and
buyer less purchasing
Deployed a customized Quote to Cash cycle which involved configurator based
quoting process, advanced pricing formulas to all the product lines and price
lists.
Prepared user guides for Truck Mounted devices (TMD) and barcode
enhancements which was later used for the deployment process
Trained the Division managers with Demantra Replenisher, Demantra
Fulfillment, Demantra Planner, content panes, managing the workbench,
creating work sheets and personalizing the collaborator workbench
Used Collaborator workbench in Demantra for forecasting and revenue
Prepared User Productivity kit using Oracle Tutor and created HTML versions
which included hyper sensitive flowcharts and hyperlinks to other documents
that are included in the process.
Deployed a new custom Schedule module (MASCO developed process) to all the
4 divisions.
Involved in validation of Cycle Count, Physical Count, Label Reprint, and LPN
Maintenance change request. To verify that the transactions will work from an
end to end perspective, that they will have XML functionality to talk through the
JMP Server to the Message Broker to the Oracle Backend was also involved in
the initial testing of the hand held device with connection to Masco Oracle
Instance and a Masco JMP server.
Defined custom pricing attributes to the first segment of the item category flex
field and created pricing contexts and defined a net price calculation program
which looks into the external zones to derive requisition price.
Worked with the development team in defining OIC cross sell formula for the
sales representatives in MASCO
Conceived the concept of auto assigning items to the org to the MASCO Oracle
development team through two concurrent programs and a custom table
Deployed a new custom Dispatch module (MASCO developed process) to all the
4 divisions
Oracle point of contact for resolving all the issues that arise in the pilot sites
and creating service tickets with oracle development team for the gaps in the
solution.
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Office Depot
2009
Delray Beach, Florida
Oracle Applications Functional Consultant
Description
Office Depot is one of the largest retailers of office supplies. Office Depot is the
global leader in
Office supplies and business solutions with sales of approximately $14.5 billion
and over 1,500
Retail stores worldwide. Office Depot partners with neighborhood startups, public
sector organizations.
Scope
Office depot uses Oracle release 11i for the financials and supply chain
applications. People soft is used
for human resource and payroll
applications. Oracle modules used are Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable,
Purchasing, I procurement, Discrete Inventory, General Ledger
Responsibilities
Resolving business critical testing issues in Procure to pay area and contributing
to the overall testing phase success (SIT01) and meeting their timelines
Created tutorials, training materials and quick reference notes for Advanced
pricing, Inventory, Purchasing and I procurement modules
Interacting with business leads (count of 6-10) every alternate business day to
report on the testing status, providing an approach for testing custom objects
so that the customizations developed are future proof.
Development of reusable intellectual capital (TE040 & TE060s) in PROCURE TO
PAY and also across tracks activities worked with IBM cross track leads in
designing their testing deliverables and contributes to delivery excellence.
Provide thought leadership, mentor, resolve issues, foster a creative
environment, and exceed client expectations. Leading PROCURE TO PAY team
members (count 3) on defect-resolution handling, organizing and addressing
well in client meetings for the issues they are responsible for.
Resolving Severity one defects and providing root cause analysis in
procurement track, which led to completion of testing on time and appreciation
by business leads
Lead and executed first period close successfully across financial, projects and
supply chain modules. This was a tough challenge
Worked with the technical team in gathering specifications for preparing an
extension referred to as Virtual Private Database (VPD). This extension will allow
Office Depot to control what Purchase Orders a user is able to view and update.
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Worked with the technical team in designing a seeded Oracle Workflow for
requisition approval which requires customization via Oracle Approval
Management (AME).
Worked with the technical team in gathering specifications for preparing an
extension that auto assigns items to a large group of existing organizations or
auto assign newly defined organization to the existing items
Worked with the technical team on consolidation of Hyperion, planning and
analysis of the applications
Extensively worked on Price Lists, Modifiers, Qualifiers, Pricing Attributes in
Advanced Pricing and created the setups in TEST instance
Customized workflows for multiple approvers for clauses and templates in
approving purchase orders and approval of a contract template before
publishing
Associated layout templates to all document types, defined clauses, templates,
deliverables, variables, folders, sections, contract document attachments while
implementing contracts with office depot
Implemented multi organizations access control in contract terms library
Implemented and enabled supplier user management and prospective vendor
registration and profile management
Worked on setting up ERS Vendors and customizations involved with the
Supplier interface.
Worked with Quality Center in entering and acted as an active member of the
defect resolution team
Worked extensively on Customizations with Positive Pay. Worked on integrating
Positive pay with Payee match
Worked on customizing the standard tax ware/AP interface to maintain a clean
audit trail and create debit memos for tax undercharge/overcharges on AP
Supplier invoices.
Worked for form personalization to restrict the user from changing the cost
center while creating a purchase requisition. This is configured at responsibility
level
Trained the users in setting up demand workbench, enabled award approval
and sourcing optimization in sourcing
Applying secure attributes to custom responsibilities, assigning responsibilities
to internal users, and enabled function securities for iSupplier portal and I
procurement
Conducted workshops on Modifiers functionality and types of modifiers and
their usage.
Lead an exclusive team of 5 people and successfully worked in designing
custom reports for buyer day-in-life and management auditing for Purchasing,
payables modules
Worked with Tax-ware team (TWE) to confirm purchasing sales estimation. The
calculation of tax for the purchase order will be done outside oracle using tax
ware
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September 2004 -
Description
Impecsoft provides Enterprise Resource Management solutions to small and
medium size enterprises also builds ERP products to niche areas.
Scope
Impecsoft uses R12.0.6 Oracle applications suite as its main system. The Modules
that are widely
used include Order Management, Purchasing, Accounts
Payables and Inventory Modules.
Responsibilities
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