Gerardo Palafox Cardoso
West Vancouver,Canada
Summary
With over 20 years of experience as an SAP Solution Consultant, I have worked in various industries including mining, utilities, life science, consumer products, and chemicals. Throughout my career, I have held roles such as project manager, team leader, test leader, functional consultant, and tester in countries such as Canada, Mexico, USA, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. Currently, I serve as an SAP Mining Solution Manager, responsible for defining, planning, tracking, and managing changes related to the Mining Solution. I also have hands-on experience in customizing modules like Production Planning and Process Industries, Material Management, and Plant Maintenance. In my role, I actively engage with stakeholders and key users to identify critical tasks for improvement and create enhancements to streamline work processes and facilitate better decision-making. With an MBA from ITESM (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) in Mexico and fluency in both Spanish and English, I bring a diverse skill set to any organization.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SAP Mining Solution Manager
Illumiti A Syntax Company
11.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Industry: Professional Services
- Responsible for the overall management of the Mining Solution Template
- Responsible for defining, planning, tracking, and managing the project, for identifying key resources and providing the direction they require meeting Mining Solution Template objectives
- Responsible of providing leadership to cross-functional teams for delivering project outputs to time, budget, and quality criteria
- Industry: Professional Services
SAP Solution Lead
Stemcell Technologies
05.2020 - 11.2022
- Company Overview: Industry: Biotechnology
- Supporting Stemcell’s growth and continuing building new solutions in its S4HANA system
- Oversees all aspects of the system solutions within the areas assigned (MM/PP/QM/EWM)
- Working together with business users to find the best technical solutions for new business processes and existing business problems
- Recommend improvements based on SAP Best Practices solutions
- Global production support on SAP issues
- Supporting on projects, enhancements, configuration, documentation, testing, training, go-live and on-going support
- Provide quality control on outsourced work
- Industry: Biotechnology
SAP PM, MM and PP Functional Consultant
Procon Mining and Tunneling, Fortuna Silver Mine, Equinox Gold, AE Concrete
05.2019 - 05.2020
- Company Overview: Industry: Mining/Concrete
- Provided support as Functional Consultant on S/4 HANA for the following activities:
- Making configurations changes for PM shop paper
- Training session regards PM Reports
- Meeting with Power users to identify new enhancements and elaborate the Functional specification documents
- Troubleshooting issues about Time entries
- Troubleshooting issues about Inventory Management
- Making configuration changes on Purchasing>Release Strategies
- Making configuration changes on Factory Calendars
- Prepare training material for Purchase to Pay scenario
- Industry: Mining/Concrete
SAP PM Functional Consultant
BCLC
07.2019 - 07.2019
- Company Overview: Industry: Casino
- Configure and set up the S/4 HANA EAM Solution to support the follow BCLC scenarios:
- Slot machine is under breakdown, then technicians go for repair and replaces the parts and performs system entry to consume part against standing work order
- Work Order cost settlement to Cost Center
- Generate the FI documents postings details
- MRP execution
- Purchase Requisition to Purchase Orders conversion
- Good receipt against Purchase Orders
- Provide Standard SAP Reports and Fiori applications
- Provide the S/4 HANA Security roles and the Fiori apps to support the BCLC Casino Proof of Concept
- Elaborate the Presentation Demo to BCLC Casino Representatives
- Industry: Casino
SAP EAM Functional Lead Consultant
BC Hydro
09.2014 - 05.2019
- Company Overview: Industry: Utilities
- Provided Design and Support as Team Lead and Functional Consultant for the following activities:
- Design and support several mobile applications for Work Orders
- Meeting with Power users and Key Stakeholders to identify new enhancements/improvements
- Involved in gathering requirement from the business and updated functional requirements documents for the following applications Scheduling, Work Allocation, and Review Work tools, the interface Work Order Enhancements and Contractor Portal
- Performing cut-over tasks and testing of changes/defect
- Loading master data through LSMW and updating several custom tables to meet the business requirements
- Making configuration changes for Capacity planning combinations profiles
- Making configuration changes under IS-U for EC appointments
- Supporting the stabilization and Work Program phase of DWS project
- Knowledge of operational account assignment work orders
- Use of Solution Manager (SOLMAN) and Remedy to create incidents, change requests for configuration, development and security
- Worked with ABAP team to resolve production issues
- Industry: Utilities
EHS Sustainment Team Lead
Goldcorp Inc.
05.2010 - 12.2014
- Company Overview: Industry: Mining
- Provided ongoing support and development including trouble shooting for functional problems, implemented solutions and designed new functionalities for the Industrial Hygiene and Safety and Occupational Health modules
- Acted as project manager and lead tester in the implementation of new enhancements such as Webdynpro Incident and Safety Measure screen
- Performed and coordinated unit, integration and acceptance tests
- Provided ongoing support and troubleshooting functional problems for the EHS BW reports, such as Near miss, Incidents by Work Areas, Qualifications, etc
- Provided sustainment support for the EHS WWI (Windows Wordprocessor Integration) reports
- Prepared a Business Case to migrate from EHS to EHSM
- Provided sustainment support for integration points between HCM and EHS, e.g., Qualifications cards, absence assignment for HR persons
- Provided end user support and guidance, facilitated bi-weekly status meetings with key business stakeholders from Corporate Head office and 6 different mines
- Supported SAP Workflow Notification for Incident/Accident Logs and Safety Measure processes
- Had workshops with Key Users to gather business requirements and configured the SAP EHS Occupational Health module to meet mine site employee health monitoring requirements
- Provided sustainment support for Authorization management to display/edit: Incident/Accidents Log, to display Property tree, Classification system for EHS, phrases, among other
- Provided sustainment support for custom tables to receive Workflow Notifications
- Scheduled jobs for Medical Services on Occupational Health
- Worked with ABAP team to resolve production issue
- Industry: Mining
PP-PI Sustainment Team Lead
Goldcorp Inc.
01.2014 - 09.2014
- Company Overview: Industry: Mining
- Functional consultant lead for the PP-PI module, having workshops with end users to gather requirements from business and prepared Business Process Design Document (BPDD) document for the implementation of the SAP Production Planning module to support the new Zone Mining Cost process
- Planned and estimated SAP project activities, and data conversion/data cleansing activities
- Created new Master Data for Materials, BOMs, Recipes, Productions Versions and Resources
- Elaborated FRICE documents for the new enhancement implemented to support Zone Mining Cost project
- Led User Acceptance Testing
- Industry: Mining
PP-PI Sustainment Team Lead
Goldcorp Inc.
03.2007 - 03.2014
- Company Overview: Industry: Mining
- Provided consistent and timely ongoing support for:
- SAP Production Planning activities, e.g., creating master data, creating variants for some reports, solving Service Request
- Month end, STP (Short Term Planning Upload and LTP (Long Term Planning upload processes
- BI Production Planning Reports
- Delivered training on complex processes related to the Process Order Cycle, BW Reports, and Process Orders Time Entries in an easy-to-understand manner
- Designed and acted as lead tester for PP enhancements, i.e., Bonus Calculation
- Captured Key business requirements through one-on-one discussion to develop Production ABAP Reports
- Worked with ABAP team to resolve production issue
- Industry: Mining
EHS and Production Planning Functional Lead
Goldcorp Inc.
03.2013 - 01.2014
- Company Overview: Industry: Mining
- Reviewed and recommended consolidation of Enhancements, Interfaces, Workflow, BW reports, ECC reports, configuration for EHS and PP modules in a complex multi-client environment of Canada, US and Guatemala SAP Systems
- Included but not limited to: Industrial & Hygiene and Occupational Health Configuration between all the different clients
- Discharged and merged similar Workflow notification between the different clients
- Discharged and merged similar WWI reports between the different clients among other things
- Led the EHS data migration on Incident/Accidents, qualifications, safety measures, characteristics, and phrases, Work Areas, WWI reports, workflow simplifications, BW reports and SAP scripts from multiple clients to one client
- Worked with ABAP team to resolve migration issues
- Provided ongoing support offsite support for Waste Management module for Guatemala mine
- Analyzed, discharged and merged the EHS and PP Security roles
- Created and executed the LSMW scripts for mass creates of Master Data such as Work Areas for Guatemala mine
- Industry: Mining
Project Manager
Goldcorp Inc.
09.2009 - 02.2010
- Company Overview: Industry: Mining
- As a Project Manager, led a project team of 6 people to split the SAP ECC and SAP BW implementations of a two Company Code one client SAP system into two different clients by performing the following activities:
- Planned and scheduled the project
- Provided periodic status reports for stakeholders
- Performed a project risk assessment
- Developed and implemented project controls
- Held periodic meetings with the Client Split team
- Industry: Mining
BI Reports and PP Tester
Goldcorp Inc.
10.2009 - 12.2009
- Company Overview: Industry: Mining
- Successfully tested FI, EHS, MM, PP and TEM BI Reports
- EHS reports aggregated were particularly complex, aggregating data across clients and mine sites
- Acted as lead tester for all PP-PI functionality and developments Created detailed test plans and documented same
- Industry: Mining
PP Senior Consultant
Goldcorp Inc.
11.2008 - 12.2008
- Company Overview: Industry: Mining
- Successfully collaborated with the FI-CO team to re-design the implementation of the production planning module
- Created all the new SAP PP master data like: Materials, BOMs, Resources, Recipes, Production Versions
- Worked with the ABAP team to create new ABAP reports for the new Master Data
- Worked with BW team to update all the Production Planning BW reports with the new Master Data
- Improved the information accuracy for Product Costing and Engineering department by overseeing the implementation of new solutions in Production Execution
- Industry: Mining
PP Senior Consultant
Goldcorp Inc.
09.2008 - 12.2008
- Company Overview: Industry: Mining
- Responsible for testing all PP-PI functionality and custom development for the annual application of support packages
- Created the test documentation for Unit Test and UAT
- Industry: Mining
PP Senior Consultant
Goldcorp Inc.
01.2008 - 02.2008
- Company Overview: Industry: Mining
- Responsible for testing all PP-PI functionality and custom development
- Created test documentation for Unit Test and UAT
- Acted as lead tester for Unit and Integration PP test
- Acted as a lead tester for the BW PP Reports
- Industry: Mining
SAP APO SNP Jr Consultant
10.2006 - 02.2007
PP Senior Consultant
03.2005 - 10.2006
PP-PI Senior Consultant Core Team
03.2005 - 10.2006
PP-PI Senior Consultant Core Team
03.2005 - 10.2006
PP-PI Senior Consultant Core Team
03.2005 - 10.2006
Stabilization Engineer
11.2004 - 03.2005
Project and Sustainment Manager
07.2003 - 10.2004
PP-PI Consultant
01.1999 - 12.2002
Business Process Analyst
Government. Mexico
01.2001 - 09.2001
- Company Overview: Project Description/Scope: Durango’s Strategic Plan for 25 years
- Collected and analyzed information from diverse industries such as mining, agricultural, maquila plants to get identify industry trends in the Durango region of Mexico
- Coordinated SWOT’s analysis workshops (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) with key players of the following industries: mining, education, services, maquila plants
- Performed detailed supply chain analysis for mining, manufacturing, services, and education sectors
- The analysis was by the client to define strategies to address SWOT combinations and create short- and long-term goals for Durango in the following 25 years
- Project Description/Scope: Durango’s Strategic Plan for 25 years
Education
SAP APO- SNP and DP
01.2006
MBA - Finance
Instituto Tecnologico Y De Estudios Superiores De Monterrey
Mexico01.1996
Diploma - Administration
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
01.1994
BSc - Biochemical Engineer and Food Processing Management
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
01.1991
Skills
- SAP PP-PI
- EHS
- PM
- Workflow
- BW
- Solution Manager
- SharePoint
- HPQC
- SAP Workforce Performance Builder
- GRC
- Customer Engagement
- Fit-Gap Analysis
- SWOT Analysis
- Blueprinting
- Business Process Design
- Documentation
- Testing
- Support
- Supply Chain Process KPI design
- Project Management
- Power Utilities
- Mining
- Consumer Products
- Chemical
- Life Science
Certification
- Accelerate Cloud Implementations with SAP Cloud ALM, 05/01/23
- SAP S4H Cloud, Public Edition. Presales Demo Readiness, 03/01/23
- SAP Cloud ALM in a Nutshell (2022 Edition), 03/01/23
- Key Functional Topics in a System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA, 12/01/19
- Business Processes in SAP S/4HANA Asset Management, 10/01/18
- Find your path to SAP S/4HANA, 03/01/17
- Production Planning in APO, 11/01/16
Training
SAP Conference for Environment, Health and Safety Management, 2014
Skills
18 years of experience in SAP PP-PI, EHS (Implementation and Sustainment) and PM (Sustainment) including: 4 implementations, 2 upgrades and numerous smaller projects., Sustainment roles at 4 different companies., Extensive knowledge of all areas of the SAP PP-PI solutions., Functional and customization knowledge of EHS, PM, PC and MM., Functional Knowledge of Workflow, BW., Functional Knowledge of Solution Manager., Functional knowledge of SharePoint., Functional knowledge of HPQC and SAP Workforce Performance Builder., Working knowledge of GRC., Customer Engagement., Fit-Gap Analysis., SWOT Analysis., Blueprinting., Business Process Design., Documentation, Testing and Support., Supply Chain Process KPI design., Delivery of Quality, On-Time, On-Budget Solutions., Project Management., Power Utilities., Mining., Consumer Products., Chemical., Life Science.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
SAP Mining Solution Manager
Illumiti A Syntax Company
11.2022 - Current
SAP Solution Lead
Stemcell Technologies
05.2020 - 11.2022
SAP PM Functional Consultant
BCLC
07.2019 - 07.2019
SAP PM, MM and PP Functional Consultant
Procon Mining and Tunneling, Fortuna Silver Mine, Equinox Gold, AE Concrete
05.2019 - 05.2020
SAP EAM Functional Lead Consultant
BC Hydro
09.2014 - 05.2019
PP-PI Sustainment Team Lead
Goldcorp Inc.
01.2014 - 09.2014
EHS and Production Planning Functional Lead
Goldcorp Inc.
03.2013 - 01.2014
EHS Sustainment Team Lead
Goldcorp Inc.
05.2010 - 12.2014
BI Reports and PP Tester
Goldcorp Inc.
10.2009 - 12.2009
Project Manager
Goldcorp Inc.
09.2009 - 02.2010
PP Senior Consultant
Goldcorp Inc.
11.2008 - 12.2008
PP Senior Consultant
Goldcorp Inc.
09.2008 - 12.2008
PP Senior Consultant
Goldcorp Inc.
01.2008 - 02.2008
PP-PI Sustainment Team Lead
Goldcorp Inc.
03.2007 - 03.2014
SAP APO SNP Jr Consultant
10.2006 - 02.2007
PP Senior Consultant
03.2005 - 10.2006
PP-PI Senior Consultant Core Team
03.2005 - 10.2006
PP-PI Senior Consultant Core Team
03.2005 - 10.2006
PP-PI Senior Consultant Core Team
03.2005 - 10.2006
Stabilization Engineer
11.2004 - 03.2005
Project and Sustainment Manager
07.2003 - 10.2004
Business Process Analyst
Government. Mexico
01.2001 - 09.2001
PP-PI Consultant
01.1999 - 12.2002
Diploma - Administration
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
BSc - Biochemical Engineer and Food Processing Management
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
SAP APO- SNP and DP
MBA - Finance
Instituto Tecnologico Y De Estudios Superiores De Monterrey
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