Independent consultant for JLM Workflow, Inc.

See Project information for BPX Energy, Chevron Phillips Chemical, Halliburton

Worked as W2 for DISYS, client: LyondellBasell

• Designed and built several workflows using the full object oriented functionality of the ABAP Classes.  Integrated older workflow technology (BOR) with new class-based so that one workflow could have different tasks that could call either.  Converted BOR-based workflows to object-oriented class-based workflows when benefits could be achieved from OO.
• Designed custom LSO (Learning Solutions) booking and cancellation approval workflows.  The approval step was a BSP.  These workflows utilized the standard LSO BOR events that were raised via the portal.  The custom LSO workflows were designed with OO Class functionality.
• Developed HTML email notifications for HR Personnel Transfers actions.
• Provided production support for many complex workflows in FI, MM, HR modules.
• Developed multiple custom workflow for various cross system applications that integrated web based front end with SAP using web services and XML and HTML.

SAP Workflow and ABAP Consultant

Key clients: ExxonMobil, Eli Lilly, Anadarko Petroleum, Mooney Aircraft; actual dates upon request

• Workflow Solutions - Materials Management
• Created SRM (Supplier Relations Management) EBP (Enterprise Buyer Professional) Shopping Cart Requisition Approval Workflow.
• Three full implementations of the AP Invoice Imaging Workflow.  Some AP solutions incorporated EDI and OCR, some interfaced with Documentum. One implementation required decision logic to determine if the EDI document should result in a GR-IV Invoice or an FI Invoice, depending on the object to be created, either a BDC or a BAPI was used to build the invoice.  Needed ability to attach supplemental images to invoice objects as supporting attachments.
• Implemented numerous custom and standard SAP Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order Release Procedure workflows. Solutions allowed requisitions to be released at the item or pseudo header level.  Used ALE to move release procedure classification data from system to system.
• Developed several custom material creation/modification approval and/or notification workflows. Some required material input from at least 4 different agents; all triggered by SAP Change Documents and all updates made via BDC.
• Designed cross-module MM/SD workflow that updates a PO with information from a sales order; cross-module MM/SD workflow that updates sales order when a vendor unable to supply the requested amount.
• Built several goods movement workflows.  Goods movement 122 results in workflow using a BDC to build a credit memo; other goods movements would trigger a notification to accounting, etc.
• Automated SAP’s 3rd party order processing by using SAP Workflow to create seamless procurement form web-based ordering.
• Workflow Solutions – Sales and Distribution
• Created countless SD workflows to notify CSR or Credit Rep and/or block the sales order based on various sales order trigger points and events during the life cycle of the sales order.
• Designed a returns process workflow - notification is sent if return does not match RMA, if return does match the RMA then workflow will remove the billing block on the RMA.
• Workflow Solutions – Human Capital Management
• HR Training and Event workflows: created workflows to handle all transaction correspondence. Activities triggered workflows that sent HTML notifications in multiple languages to Lotus Notes.
• Implemented many HR career & succession planning workflows. Created event trigger for employee updates via ESS (Employee Self Service) that sent an HTML qualification report. Extensive error handling via SAP distribution lists.
• Created a notification workflow that used a custom configuration for HR personnel action events.
• Sent an HTML report of organization changes when changes in the organizational structure occurred.

ABAP Programming

• Integrated PO's and requisition approvals with Blackberry and Outlook via XI (now PI) and BackFlip.
• Created several workflow related reports:  statistical report for work item duration by agent, total business process statistics, etc.
• Provided all ABAP and workflow updates required for SAP upgrade from release 3.1i to 4.6c.
• Built ALV interactive report that mimicked all the AP workflow functionality by calling the workflow APIs directly from report; actions taken on the Invoice Interactive Report were automatically acknowledged by the workflow via events and vice versa.  This report allowed users to perform their duties by running the interactive report or working their SAP Business Workflow Inbox, each updating the other seamlessly.

ABAP Interfaces

• Designed and Implemented a UPS shipping and tracking interface with the SAP SD module
• Interfaced SAP SD module and a warehouse management system, sending delivery information to WMS system upon save of the delivery document.
• Interfaced SAP with Kronos, a bar-coding time recording system,  The time entries recorded in Kronos were uploaded into SAP via a production order time ticket BAPI