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Russell Bernstein

SAP Senior Logistics Consultant
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    On-demand
  • Experience15+ years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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London, England, United Kingdom
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  • and around London (up to 50km)
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Industry fields of expertise
Automotive supplier
Plant and Machinery
Metallurgy and Mining
Food and Beverage
Public Sector
Russell in a few words
SAP Logistics Consultant and Team Lead, adept at understanding complex business and technical requirements and transforming high-level vision, into workable SAP ECC or S/4 Hana solutions, with clearly scoped project roadmaps that consistently deliver on time and to budget.

Key strengths include: leading and delivering complex SAP implementations from blueprint phase through to UAT and post go-live support ensuring alignment with client specifications; leveraging 20+ years of SAP experience including core MM process from procurement, inventory management and invoice verification; leading, training and mentoring cross-functional teams on a global scale to ensure successful use of SAP systems in line with business needs; and analysing current scene to propose ideal solutions in line with SAP best practices.

I am happy to travel 100% to European or Asian or African or American locations.
Experience
  • HCL Technologies Ltd
    IT Consultant
    September 2016 - Today (8 years and 3 months)
    Client: Staples B.V. (Amsterdam) (Supplier of office stationery with stores across Europe)
    • Bridge between core configuration team and local Dutch users.
    • Drive local deployment activities.
    • Co-ordinate with business users in local fit gap sessions.
    • Data mapping with business and master data team.
    • Article master data gathering & correct mapping of legacy systems master data to SAP IS Retail systems requirements.
    • End to end plan for business users and data readiness.
    • Local adoptions, change impacts tracking, end user support.
    • Support Local Netherlands Fit/Gap co-ordination, drives alignment against Staples template design.
    • Support collection of Local Tax, Legal, Statutory requirements during Local Fit Gap assessment for full FICO integration.
    • Support identification/collection of local configure values (enterprise structure etc.) during Fit Gap.
    • Support Core central process CoE teams & Offshore tech teams with delivering local requirements & testing.
    • Support local Data mapping with core team, drives local data clean up with business users.
    • Manages local data provision to core testing and data plan.
    • Identifies with core team, local cutover activities.
    • Business and user readiness, go-no go.
    • Support User training
    • Determine best fit for IS Retail solution.
    • Blueprint design in keeping with SAP best practices for IS Retail solutions.
  • Ruscom Ltd
    Independent Consultant / SAP Logistics Consultant
    January 1988 - August 2024 (36 years and 7 months)
    Cork, Ireland
    • Ruscom Ltd (my limited company) provides clients across diverse sectors with SAP implementation, SAP Logistics consultancy, team leadership, project management and change management.
    Key Projects and Achievements ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cork, Ireland March 2024 to Aug. 2024 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  • IBM IRELAND
    P2P Consultant
    March 2024 - August 2024 (5 months)
    End Client: Health & Safety Executive (Irish national health service)

    KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
    • Liaise with the HSE & IBM (SI) to ensure a smooth rollout as per the design template.
    • Engage with end users, key stake holders & management regarding issues, gaps, improvements & propose enhancements.
    • Deliver multiple workshops enlightening users & provide knowledge transfer about key changes being implemented.
    • Identify gaps, statutory & regulatory requirements for a compliant roll out.
    • Provide change management for end users.
    • Gather local requirements from the region for the central team for inclusion in the national template.
    • Guide end users in completing templates with information needed for SAP system configuration.
    • Provide dedicated practical assistance and support to HSE regional team /local SMEs during all phases of the implementation.
    • Assist local representatives to prepare inputs for Fit/Validation workshops.
    • Work with local representatives in the identification of change impacts and creating / managing change impact plans.
    • Responsible for liaising with HSE regional team /local SMEs to supply build inputs (e.g. purchasing groups, interface mapping).
    • Enable and support HSE regional team /local SMEs perform data cleansing and enrichment tasks.
    • Guide and facilitate local data owners in data validation responsibilities during test and production load cycles.
    • Perform execution of system integration testing (particularly on 3rd party integrations).
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Education
  • Bachelor of Science
    Univ. of London
    1991
    Bachelor of Science in Mathematics & Statistics