Don Zou

Professional Profile

Dr. Zou is an SAP SD/MM Consultant with 12 years of experience. He has worked in the industries of CPG, advertising, telecommunications, software, manufacturing and consumer/business electronics, providing business process re-engineering and industrial engineering solutions to enhance productivity. He has operated as a SAP consultant and is skilled in analyses surrounding package enabled business transformation ventures. Dr. Zou has an excellent project execution track record and is a team player with good leadership, strong communication and analytical skills.

Employer History

December 2005 – Present Puresource Solutions Inc.
Independent SAP Consultant
Dr. Zou has been working for a major CPG client in its SAP implementation. His expertise includes shipping, transportation and 3rd party logistics.

August 2000 – December 2005 IBM Global Services – Business Consulting Services
Senior Consultant
Dr. Zou designed and implemented SAP sales and distribution solutions for clients in the industrial sector. His expertise includes inventory management, order management and warehouse management.

April 1999 – August 2000 MAS Inc.
Consultant
Dr. Zou implemented SAP sales and distribution solutions for clients in the industrial sector. His expertise includes inventory management, order management and warehouse management.

January 1998 – March 1999 Palarco Inc.
Consultant
Dr. Zou implemented and developed Oracle CPG order management systems for a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Assignment History

• SAP SD Consultant for Unilever – Dr. Zou is part of the Business Engagement Order Fulfillment team in Project Vital, Igloo and Maple Leaf. The project goal is to bring two 4.6 instances onto a single mySAP system. Dr. Zou’s responsibilities include designing the order fulfillment process, including fitting the Foods business to the HPC (Home and Personal Care) template. Dr. Zou reengineered the Foods warehousing EDI process to fit the Vital design, implemented EDI message sets 850, 856, 940, 943, 944, 945, 947, 204, 852 and 996. He also worked in the areas of: Lean Logistics, Red Prairie WMS, CASS Bank, Walmart Private Fleet, CHEP reporting. He was also responsible for the integration with order management, Plan/Source/Make and BW. Besides these functional work, Dr. Zou worked as the central contact of several cycles of EDI testing, by coordinating the efforts among the business, the functional team, developers, the EDI team and 3rd Party Logistics. For the go-live effort, Dr. Zou participated in orchestrating the cut-over plan, coordinated the conversion of in-transit inventory. For user training, Dr. Zou prepared materials for the business trainers on warehousing and transportation workflow procedures. Dr. Zou also worked in pricing, inter-company process, production allocation, WICS/MDA.
• SAP SD Order Management Lead for Campbell’s– Dr. Zou is part of the North America Order to Cash team, responsible to design the order management business processes, EDI inbound (850, 855, 945) and outbound(940), implement and configure sales, pricing, listings/exclusions, production allocation, ATP, material determination, partners, texts, outputs and integration with Transportation, Material Management and Warehouse Management. Dr. Zou also developed functional specifications and coordinated with the technical team on custom developments.
• SAP SD Consultant for Pitney Bowes– Dr. Zou was part of the North America Order Fulfillment team, responsible to design the fulfillment business processes, implement and configure sales, outputs and integration with Material Management and Warehouse Management. Dr. Zou also developed functional specifications and coordinated with the technical team on custom developments.
• SAP SD Team Lead for Konica Minolta – Dr. Zou managed the wholesale Quote to Cash team consisting of 9 client personnel, including key users and IT support staff. He coordinated the evaluation of the fit-gap between the two merged companies, proposal of procedural and system solutions to handle major gaps such as pack-by-tech and the order entry website, analysis of the requirements in customer/material master conversion, and the integration testing / go-live plan. With his leadership and contribution, the team completed every phase of the project in time.
• SAP SD Team Lead for Heineken USA - Dr. Zou managed the order management team consisting of 3 client resources. He was responsible to evaluate business requirements and analyze gaps with the existing live SAP R/3 design/configuration, collect specific functionality requirements and draft functional specifications for new developments/configurations, provide functional consulting regarding best practice/solution in specific areas of Sales/Distribution operations, carry out SD/MM configuration to fulfill requirements, co-ordinate with development team in programming efforts, provide user-support in production environment.
• SAP SD Team Lead for Ogilvy Mather - Dr. Zou managed an SD team consisting of 3 consultants and 5 client personnel. He was responsible to design the Sales and Distribution business processes, implement and configure sales, billing, pricing, jurisdiction taxes, outputs and integration with Material Management. He also worked in the MM module on Purchase Requisitions / Orders, Vendor master, info record, source list, goods receipts and invoice verification. Dr. Zou also led the effort in the conversion of transaction and master data. The SAP R/3 system was implemented corporate wide across 10 company codes simultaneously.
• SAP SD Consultant for IBM Global Financing - As a member of the Pricing/Offer to Acceptance team, Dr. Zou was responsible for the design and configuration of key areas including master agreements, offer acceptance, pricing, reporting, date/status management, integration with workflows/actions and BW reporting. This Leasing Asset Management solution was implemented as the first wave as part of a world-wide rollout.
• SAP SD Consultant for Lotus Corporation - Dr. Zou conducted analysis of upgrade requirements, benchmark testing of upgrade scripts, configuration changes, data conversion and migration and documentation. He also conducted IS-SW delta training, CATTs configuration and end user training. This upgrade from SAP 3.1H to 4.5 and IS-SW from 1.3 to 2.0 was implemented corporate wide across multiple plants and regions simultaneously.
• SAP SD Consultant for Trumph - Dr. Zou was the Sales and Distribution consultant responsible to implement and configure pricing, commissions, jurisdiction taxes, consignment process, returnable packaging, outputs and integration with Warehouse Management. The SAP R/3 system was implemented corporate wide across 3 plants and headquarters simultaneously.
• SAP SD Consultant for Lotus Corporation - As part of an upgrade from SAP 3.1H to 4.5 and IS-SW First Customer Ship from 1.3 to 2.0, Dr. Zou conducted analysis of upgrade requirements, benchmark testing of upgrade scripts, configuration changes, SIS rebuilds, updates and analysis, data migration and data conversion analysis, and documentation. Dr. Zou contributed to the FCS IS-SW upgrade play book database to be referenced in Lotus upgrade of the production system.

Education and Background

• PhD in Chemistry from Temple University
• BS in Engineering from East China University of Chemical Technology (China)
• Fluent in Chinese

Summary

Industries: Consumer Packaged Goods (5 years - Unilever, Campbell’s)
Wholesale/Distribution (2 years - Heineken USA, KonicaMinolta)
Advertising (2 years - Ogilvy)
Leasing (1 year - IBM Global Financing)
Manufacturing (1 year - Pitney Bowes, Trumph)
Software/Hitch (1 year - Lotus)
Project Domains:
Financial Management Solutions; Managed Application Solutions; Systems Integration; Performance Improvement; Corporate & Operations Strategy; Business Process Re-engineering; Application Development.