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Home Address: 6503 Winding Arch Drive Durham, NC 27713 Mobile: (919) 323-5171 Email: Christopher.Prall@gmail.com | ||
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Professional Summary |
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- Extensive work experience specifically in supply chain and sourcing/procurement - Excellent communication and presentation skills - Skilled in project management, leading diverse and remote teams, and in problem resolution - Ability to work in challenging environments and gain the confidence and trust of team members and stakeholders - Work extensively with Global and Fortune 500 companies
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Recent Experience |
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Ariba |
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Sunnyvale, CA |
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Senior Consultant |
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October, 2005 - Present |
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Indirect Strategic Sourcing Lead Diverse Manufacturing - Responsible for delivering six category strategy assessments and cost reduction projects - Assist client to collect spend data, review contracts, and precisely analyze business relationships with suppliers - For identified viable sourcing opportunities, lead and manage a global team through the strategic sourcing effort from RFP to contract award - Support other cost reduction initiatives such as demand management and business-as-usual changes - Provide on site eSourcing coaching as needed to the client
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Source to Contract Pilot Program Manager and Strategic Sourcing Advisor Global 500 Pharmaceuticals - Managed and provided support for the Pilot program via involvement in client’s day-to-day activities - Defined the Pilot Program, placing structure around the process so results could tracked, measured, and achieved - Supported Pilot teams as they enabled global commodity plans and sourcing projects on the new solution - Held weekly status meetings to discuss feedback and identify potential improvements - Provided best practice advice on general system rollout, assisted with implementation and testing of system change requests, quality assured the training materials, and assisted with delivery of train-the-trainer sessions
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Upstream Implementation Project Management Global 500 Pharmaceuticals - Delivered an integrated upstream solution in under 10 weeks – on time and under budget - Managed a 10 person team of colleagues and clients in the implementation of Ariba Category Management and Ariba Analysis on an Ariba Sourcing hosted instance - Responsible for all aspects of project’s success; held weekly status report meetings with Ariba and client sponsor - Oversaw the change management plan for the adoption phase (post-implementation) of the upstream solution - Simultaneous management of the upstream implementation project, and support and development of the client’s global eSourcing program
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eSourcing Program Management Global 500 Pharmaceuticals - Supported Ariba Sourcing client owner in developing version 1.0 of eSourcing program objectives, structure, process, and documentation - Provided sourcing program strategies and guidance along with best practice documents and information - Served as the main liaison for upgrades and testing from Ariba perspective - Provided sourcing project strategy and guidance across multiple commodities |
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eSourcing Program Support Global 500 Pharmaceuticals - Increased user knowledge and familiarity with Ariba Analysis, Ariba Category Management, and Ariba Sourcing - Developed and delivered training material for the client’s procurement members - Developed a pipeline of at least five additional sourcing events per buyer - Supported the buyers continuously through one on one meetings, group sessions, and site visits - Over 60 projects were started and completed during the 12 week period, RFx events resulted in approximately $10 Million in Identified Savings, more than $60 Million in identified projects for the following year |
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Other Experience |
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Brulant |
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Cleveland, OH |
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Consultant |
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January, 2005 – September, 2005 |
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Project Management Nonprofit Organization - Managed 3 web development and enhancement efforts - Interacted daily with the clients to update project progress, identify and resolve outstanding issues, and provide the clients confidence that the project was operating as planned |
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Supply Chain - Rapid Sourcing Assessment Diverse Manufacturing - Completed a rapid spend assessment on a mid-cap manufacturing company - Identified high opportunity commodities with significant bottom line impacts - Strategic Sourcing team was assembled for the full engagement |
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Data Quality Management – Customer Data Quality Assessment Fortune 500 Commercial Bank - Analyzed the Fortune 500 financial client’s test population data for population, completeness, and validity using data analysis software - Delivered a baseline for the client to begin improving data quality improvement initiatives - Provided the analytics for other observations, such as common values, other default values, etc. - Assisted in compiling the results to present to all the Lines of Business at the client - Client was pleased with assessment and will be using the results to kick off data quality initiatives
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Accenture |
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Cleveland, OH |
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Consultant |
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September, 2001 – December, 2004 |
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Supply Chain – Strategic Sourcing Global 500 Metals - Completed a commodity profile on Refractories in the steel industry analyzing total spend, current suppliers, and capabilities. - Completed a global Industry Market Analysis for the Refractory commodity being sourced - Worked with the buyers, operators, and engineers on the scopes of work to follow their needs - Developed strategy for bids and how to approach suppliers, achieving total cost reduction - Client has accepted and is implementing the strategy as proposed |
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Supply Chain – Sourcing/Procurement Assessment Global 500 Metals - Analyzed Fortune 500 steel client purchasing spend data and was able to illustrate client’s spend fragmentation - Interviewed client to understand current procurement approach; presented recommendations - Procurement Transformation Team was assembled to implement the recommendations |
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Supply Chain – Sales and Operations Planning Global 500 Metals - Analyzed Inside and Outside Sales staffing levels of the client. Conducted interviews and processed workload data to make recommendations on optimal workforce capacity - Developed business planning tools for forecasting facility supply capabilities through Sales demand. Requirements were determined through meeting with clients and analyzing current practices - Verified capability strategy using MS Excel constraint models |
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Education |
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Case Western Reserve University |
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Cleveland, OH |
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- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 2001 - Professional Engineers EIT Test certified - Co-ops and internships at: LTV Steel, Clark-Reliance, and Siemens Languages: Familiar with Brazilian Portuguese Software Experience: Microsoft Office Suite including PowerPoint and Excel, and VBA; SAP CRM; Ariba Sourcing (AS), Ariba Analysis (AA), Ariba Category Management (ACM) |
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