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GarhettM.Rittenhouse
Park Ridge Consulting, Inc.
1189 RUSH SCOTTSVILLE ROAD
RUSH, NY 14543
GRITTENHOUSE@YAHOO.COM
513-252-4181
Experience Overview
Mr. Rittenhouse has over twenty years of industry experience, including sixteen years as a consultant;
seven spent with two of the largest consulting companies in the ERP space. He has helped clients shift
their focus from standalone systems to integrated platforms utilizing SAP. His industry background plus
his consulting experience provides him with extensive insight of the Order-to-Cash process. His primary
focus has been in the logistics aspects of those businesses. This entailed integrating SAP with;
Transportation Planning and Vehicle Scheduling (part of SAP’s APO suite), Manufacturing Execution
Systems, legacy load planning/rating systems, and EDI with the client’s third party warehouses and
carriers. Mr. Rittenhouse worked with Quality Management during his stint in the aviation industry adding
to his understanding of production planning processes and manufacturing standards. Finally, he gained
significant order management and pricing experience in the consumer products industry.
SAP Expertise: SAP ECC 6.0 – Experience with all aspects of Order-to-Cash processes
including: SD, LE, WM, WM/RF, HU, EDI, QM, MM, and APO – TPVS.
Five full project lifecycles from blueprint through support. Utilized expertise in
logistics, transportation, and supply chain management to deliver fifteen “Go
Lives” across number plants and distribution centers.
Training class in Transportation Management 8.0 (completed May 2012)
Industry Expertise: Chemical, Packaging, General Aviation, Disposable Plastics, Process and Forest
Products, Retail, Manufacturing, and Distribution
Positions Held: Principal, Manager, Senior Consultant, Consultant, Business Analyst, and Field
Service Engineer
Education Masters of Business Administration, Xavier University
Bachelor’s of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Clarkson University

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SAP Related Capabilities
Module Ability Explanation
Solution Architect Advanced Two implementations as the Solution Architect at discrete
manufacturers which covered the Quote-to-Cash solutions.
Significant interface design and development to and from
legacy systems. Role also required being the Integration Test
Lead.
SAP Logistics Execution (LE) Expert Configured and delivered logistics functionality in multiple
versions, including: delivery types, item categories, pick/pack
functionality, ship conditions, route determination, and export
requirements. Functional knowledge of Transportation
Planning and Vehicle Scheduling (Completed: Transportation
Management Planning 8.0 Training - May 2012)
SAP Shipment Interfaces Expert Determined necessary IDocs for interfacing to manufacturing
applications, legacy applications and EDI systems including
3PL’s.
SAP Warehouse Mgmt (WM) Advanced Configured storage types with open and fixed bin picking,
putaway and withdrawal strategies, enhancement to split
deliveries based on transfer order split. Supported
implementation of full WM solution with SAP RF.
SAP Sales and Distribution
(SD)
Advanced Fully configured pricing procedures, condition types including
bracket pricing, scale pricing, access sequences, and provided
functional specifications for routines. Also configured item
categories, schedule line item categories, and text
determination procedures.
SAP Quality Management
(QM)
Intermediate Configured quality notifications including creating functional
specifications for custom screens, knowledge of workflow,
quality inspections, and quality master data.
SAP Materials Management
(MM)
Advanced Extensive knowledge of stock transfer orders, subcontracting
functionality, and configuration for purchasing.
Discrete Industry / Mill
Products (DIMP)
Advanced Utilized Product/Proportional Unit of Measure and “Fast
display” of characteristics.

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Relevant Project Experience
Client: Fittings and Fluid Control Manufacturer, April 2013 to Present
Industry: Heavy Manufacturing
Project Scope: Version: 6.0, Modules: SD, LE, WM, PP, MM, FI/CO, APO
Specific Roles: Integration Test Lead / Solution Architect
 Led the on-site support effort at one of their plants across order entry, planning,
and logistics. Provided hands on assistance to the users, enhanced their training
and documentation, and resolved issues. Educated the managers about the
available reports to provide a status of their operation. The efforts in this group led
to an extension at the client.
 Developed and lead test strategy for the client. Focused on the test scenarios to
confirm the full solution and requirements would be tested.
 Conducted approximately 75 integration scenarios (primarily Quote-to-Cash) over
seventeen weeks as well as 1000 string tests and innumerable unit tests on the
client solution.
 Utilized HPQC test manager to record test scenarios and defects.
Client: Fittings and Fluid Control Manufacturer, October 2012 to April 2013
Industry: Heavy Manufacturing
Project Scope: Version: 6.0, Modules: SD, LE, WM, PP, MM, FI/CO, APO
Specific Roles: Quote-to-Cash Lead
 Arrived at the Realization Phase of the project where the design had been
completed but required in depth analysis and refinement.
 Had a fantastic team of three main consultants and eight client counterparts where
the team designed 34 interfaces to their legacy Make-to-Stock system and eight
more around their legacy Make-to-Order system. Their MTS interfaces were more
significant because they also addressed the logistics functionality for both MTS and
MTO.
 Client’s Quote-to-Cash solution covered MTS, MTO, Consignment, Third Party,
gATP, Deliveries, Invoice, Intercompany Invoice, along with Plants Abroad
functionality. It also required Variant Configuration which was maintained by a
separate team, and the QTC team handled the variant pricing.
Client: Army LMP Rock Island Arsenal, May 2012 to August 2012
Industry: Government / Defense

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Project Scope: Version: 6.0, Modules: SD, LE, WM, PP, MM, FI/CO
Specific Roles: Sales and Distribution, Warehouse Management, Production Planning Support
 Acted primarily in support of the client on their daily task lists. When possible,
addressed "exceptional" issues which would not arise in their typical business
(including items such as consignment orders and custom programs).
Client: Ingredion (formerly: Corn Products International), December 2011 to April 2012
Industry: Chemical/Food Products
Specific Roles: Sales and Distribution Lead
 Mr. Rittenhouse focused on driving completion of the requirements, performing
issues management and containing scope.
 Served as an intermediary for the user team to the System Integrator to allow the
design to move forward while testing occurred, especially in the pricing area.
 Performed the requirement gathering, wrote the functional spec, and tested the
development specifically for EDI export documents (304/301).
 Developed and coordinated the cutover task list from the SD/LE team with the with
the client PP lead and the client EDI lead so timing was understood and shared.
Client: Caterpillar (formerly Bucyrus International), November 2010 to November 2011
Industry: Manufacturer of Giant Mining Equipment
Specific Roles: Warehouse Management / Logistics Execution Lead
 Configured WM search strategies for removal of inventory, movement types for
goods issues and goods receipts, and changes to storage types between fixed bin
and open bin strategies.
 Extensive effort required around printing MM/WM output documents including
transfer orders, labels, goods receipt slips. Took over Packlist and Bill of Lading
documents from SD team. Finally, created functional specifications and
enhancement specifications for the outputs.
 Supported SD and MM teams for their configuration including kits, output, text
determination, stock transfers, and inbound deliveries.
 Developed functional specification for enhancement of delivery splitting based on
transfer order split.
 Configured a pilot project of SAP RF which required an enhanced put away
transaction.

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Client: Smurfit Stone Container Corp, September 2008 to October 2010
Industry: Manufacture and Distribution of packaging products
Project Scope: Version: 6.0, Modules: SD, LE, DIMP, PP, MM, FI/CO, PCA, AICOMP Paper4Pak
Specific Roles: Solution Architect / Interface Design / Logistics Execution
 Mr. Rittenhouse completed his tenure on the COMPASS project as the project
manager for the CSC’s project team. Managed ten resources and provided
guidance to Smurfit’s Directors.
 As the Solution Architect, established consultant and client methodology for
Process Design Documents, Business Process mapping, Configuration
Documentation, and RICEF-W creation.
 Designed the interfaces for roll stock order management system. It required seven
interfaces including inbound and outbound purchase order interfaces (IDoc:
ORDERS05), inbound delivery creation (IDoc: DELVRY05), batch creation and
use of characteristics, and receipts (IDoc: WMMBID01). Further enhancements
designed for the subcontracting process for roll stock coating which required
processing pick records into SAP (IDoc: SDPIID01) and batch determination.
 Supported logistics team for Handling Unit Management (HUM) configuration. The
design utilized Handling Unit Management (HU) with Batch Management. Spent
time “on the ground” to implement the solution, troubleshoot, and provide
support/guidance to the client.
 Discrete Industry/Mill Products configuration functionality encompassed work
around SAP’s Product/Proportion Unit of Measure. It was utilized to keep track of
roll stock in a base unit of measure but to track the cost in an alternate unit of
measure.
Client: International Paper, November 2007 to August 2008
Industry: Manufacture and Distribution of packaging products.
Project Scope: Version: 4.7 (Enterprise) and SCM 5.0, Modules: SD, LE, TPVS, Event Mgr, RCX,
and MM.
Specific Role: V2 Logistics Execution Consultant
 Focused on a specific design called “flexible shipping” for the Containerboard
Americas Division. An interface intensive project, it required the “demand” (stock
transfer orders (STO) be sent to the warehouse system followed by “shipment
shells” with no direct link to the STO. Within the warehouse system, the demand
was linked to the shipment shell, and then returned to SAP to join the STO delivery
to the shipment shell, perform picking, packing, and goods issue.
 Supported the manufacturing execution system interface (SAP-to-Kiwiplan) which
provided status updates from the production system to the transportation planners.
Status updates were necessary so the transportation planners knew the estimated
dates/times for shipment creation and to update the warehouse system (see next
bullet).
 After the purchase of another company International Paper shelved the project.

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Client: Eclipse Aviation, February 2007 to October 2007
Industry: General Aviation
Project Scope: High volume, start up aircraft manufacturing company focused on new category of Very
Light Jets (VLJ).
SAP Competency Center – Version: ECC 6.0, Modules: SD, HR, PP, MM, QM, PLM
(including c-folders and Inventory Collaboration Hub (ICH)), Visual Composer (Quality
Mgmt portal for Suppliers), Workflow, SCM 5.0, BW 7.0, and Adobe SMARTforms.
Specific Role: Quality Management and Material Management Analyst
 Led blueprint meetings to gather requirements for creation of new quality
notifications necessary for capturing non-conformances in the production of the
aircraft, configured the notifications, wrote functional specifications for custom
screens, tested, and implemented.
 Led cross functional team of business users to redefine the process for the material
master creation. Facilitated process mapping exercise defined bottlenecks and
established team meetings for continued improvement of master data creation.
 Supported the full purchasing process from requisition to goods receipt, including
the inspection lot processing. Focused on support, training, and leading the users
through the master data support.
Client: Solo Cup, December 2005 to November 2006
Industry: Disposable Packaging and Plasticware
Project Scope: Version: ECC 5.0, Modules: SD, MM, PP, LE, PLM.
Specific Role: Team Lead, Pricing
 Served as the team lead (two consultants, three business resources) responsible
for pricing and integration to sales orders, invoicing, and costing processes.
 Led blueprint workshops to gather requirements for pricing including geographic
pricing, customer specific pricing, bracket prices (SAP scales), discounts, and
surcharges.
 Identified unique processes requiring custom functionality. Wrote functional
specifications and tested functionality for implementation.
 Configured ten pricing procedures, access sequences, condition tables, and
condition types to handle the unique functionality between the food service and
retail businesses. Required procedures covering normal business, free of charge
orders, and returns.

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Client: International Paper, March 2003 to March 2005
Industry: Manufacture and Distribution of pulp, kraft papers, and fine papers.
Project Scope: Version: 4.7 (Enterprise) and SCM 4.1, Modules: SD, LE, TPVS, Event Mgr, RCX,
and MM.
Specific Role: Co-Lead Deliver IT Team
 Coordinated the efforts of three SAP functional consultants and three plus internal
IT consultants for the SAP Enterprise functionality in Logistics Execution.
Coordinated efforts with TPVS lead, data conversion, and third party
subcontractors.
 Led business process mapping efforts for SAP team to identify key trigger points in
the process which would require updates to Supply Chain Event Manager.
Provided “swim lane” diagram so the team could identify which system would
receive the carrier information (TPVS for the tender/accept/reject messages) and
Enterprise (shipment status updates and rail tendering). As well, provided
guidance so the client knew when carrier should update the portal and generate
triggers at “unexpected events” from portal application.
 Led mapping efforts and requirement gather sessions for the export shipping
process. Defined requirements for the APO and order entry teams so the client
could track inventory from paper mill, drayage to the port, and shipment from port
to the customer. Provided guidance on necessary paperwork required for export
shipments and how freight forwarders could integrate to the process.
 Created functional specifications for mapping shipments to the legacy
Manufacturing Execution System from SAP shipments. Knowledgeable of
available user exits for data checks on the shipment, triggers for IDocs, and BADI’s
for shipment updates.
 Intimately familiar with the different modes of transportation planning, including;
LTL, truckload, trailer on a freight car, rail car, and ocean going vessel. Have
configured the ship conditions and route determination as necessary to provide
appropriate pick, pack, and lead time functionality in SAP.
 Knowledge of EDI transactions 204, 404, 210, 410, and 214, 414 for tender,
accept/reject, and shipment status, respectively (used highly customized
SHPMNT05).
 Configured deliveries for inbound, outbound shipments, returns, and
subcontracting functionality.
 Designed and process mapped the functionality for support of third party
warehouse providers. Knowledge of EDI transactions 940, 945, and 856, for
warehouse notification of order, shipment of order by warehouse, and advanced
shipment notice to final customer (utilized highly customized SHPMNT05 to map to
SAP).
 Created basic pricing procedure for full truckload shipments for further
understanding of SAP freight costing functionality.

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Client: Meadwestvaco – Consumer and Office Products Division – Latin America
(November 2002 to February 2003)
Project Scope: SAP R/3 4.6C implementation covering LE, SD, FI/CO, and MM
Specific Role: Lead Consultant – Mr. Rittenhouse had a broad role on this project as the main
consulting support on-site covering all modules. It was his last role at this client which
spanned three and one half years of implementations.
 Change management in Logistics focused on training 3PL in manual delivery
processing.
 Configured route determination within Mexico and to all Latin American countries.
 Configured, trained, and implemented the subcontracting processes.
 Survived my first earthquake while successfully achieving Go Live.
Client: Meadwestvaco – Consumer and Office Products Division (May 2002 to November
2002)
Project Scope: SAP R/3 4.6C implementation covering LE, WM, RF, SD, FI/CO, and MM
Specific Role: Training – His chief role on the MCOP project was to train the division site process
representatives to thoroughly test the design and to perform knowledge transfer for the
EDI processes supporting the 3 PL’s. It was to be the team’s first VERY high volume
shipping experience so it was important the users could test the process, identify gaps,
and fix the process before “go live”.
 Provide technical guidance for the alteration of the SDPICK and SHPMNT03 IDoc’s
(already highly customized) to handle “packing” (handling unit) functionality.
Guided the new support person for creation of a new functional specification,
integration and regression testing of the transactions (EDI: 940 and 945).
 Blueprint the export process, especially output documents to confirm the
requirements were met for shipping office goods. Required modification,
specifically to Canada Customs Invoice.
Client: Meadwestvaco – Speciality Paper (December 2001 to April 2002)
Project Scope: SAP R/3 4.6C implementation covering LE, WM, RF, SD, FI/CO, and MM
Specific Role: Integration Test – Mr. Rittenhouse joined this project after the requirement gathering
phase. His main role was to identify and resolve gaps in the logistics processes, then
support “go live”.
 A new Make-to-Contract design required a functional specification for updates to
the RF scanning functionality (Acsis RF).
 Redefined the process to allow the business to load plan based on these contracts
and identify available inventory for their shipments.
 Had to thoroughly test existing functionality as team also participated in upgrade
from 4.5B to 4.6C shortly before this “go live”.

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Client: Meadwestvaco – Containerboard Division (June 2001 to November 2001)
Project Scope: SAP R/3 4.6C implementation covering LE, WM, RF, SD, FI/CO, APO and MM
Specific Role: Logistics Consultant – Mr. Rittenhouse’s technical role was to further improve
interface between SAP and the Manufacturing Execution System (OptiVISION).
 Tested the SAP/Opti interface for load planning functionality and the
SAP/Opti/Acsis interface for picking functionality. This also required 7X24 testing
of Opti/Acsis functionality.
 Trained the end users on the transportation planning process so they could build
full truckloads or full railcar loads, and load directly from production line to the
vehicles.
 Performed fit/gap on the process to provide the users with the necessary reports
for loading and confirming shipments had been completed.
Client: Mead – Papers Division (June 2000 to May 2001)
Project Scope: SAP R/3 4.5B implementation covering LE, WM, RF, EDI, SD, FI/CO, APO and MM
Specific Role: Logistics Consultant – Mr. Rittenhouse designed and tested the SAP interfaces
necessary to communicate through EDI with third party logistics providers. He also
refined the interface between SAP and the Manufacturing Execution System
(OptiVISION).
 Gathered requirements from the EDI team for the use of the 940, 945, and 856
transactions.
 Created functional specifications for each of these transactions (mapped
transaction field-to-field, identified the IDocs to be utilized, and documented the
integrated flow between the third party warehouse and Mead’s system).
 Thoroughly tested each of these transactions (point-to-point, functional tested, and
integration test). It resulted in a 95% success rate for these transactions across
four third party warehouse suppliers with approximately 320 shipments per day
(approximately 900 IDocs).

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Client: Mead – Coated Board Division (October 1999 to May 2001)
Project Scope: SAP R/3 4.5B implementation covering LE, WM, RF, SD, FI/CO, APO and MM
Specific Role: Consultant – Mr. Rittenhouse started as a member of the Customer Service team to
test pricing and plant configuration. The Coated Board design utilized APO to allow a
make-to-order environment through outside warehouses.
 Joined the Logistics team to test and refine SAP Shipments to Legacy
Transportation Planning System (TPS) interface. It required interfacing to a
mainframe (third party system, Sureship, to schedule carriers and a homegrown
freight rating system, “Trics”). First exposure to transportation management in
SAP.
 Performed support at “Go Live” working with the Acsis RF picking transactions and
with the Load Planning for a smooth transition to SAP.
 Finally, as an “optimization” project, Mr. Rittenhouse worked with the Planning and
Scheduling team on the version upgrade of APO from 1.1 to 2.0.
Company: Makino, Inc. (October 1997 to September 1999)
Project Scope: SAP R/3 4.0 implementation covering SD, SM, PS, MM, WM, RF, and PP.
Specific Role: Business Analyst – Mr. Rittenhouse’s responsibilities included implementation of the
SM module and the SD module for the Repair Parts department. The design utilized
“lean warehouse management” functionality. Additional roles were supporting the
sales order “configurator”, and delivery of the equipment through delivery of Project
Systems functionality.
 As a member of the SD team, Mr. Rittenhouse focused on the requirements for the
technical service and repair parts division. Participated from RFQ to go-live
support.
 As a first project, the main role was to identify processes to be configured in the
system, output documents to be created, basic functional specifications (table
identification), testing, and implementation support of SAP.

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Employment History
Park Ridge Consulting, Inc
October 2007 to Present
Owner of a consulting company focused on SAP supply chain solutions.
Computer Sciences Corporation – Smurfit Stone Container Corp – Project Compass
May 2009 to October 2010
Principal consultant focused on the delivery of SAP solutions. Acted as a Solution Architect for a large
corrugated packing company.
Eclipse Aviation
February 2007 to October 2007
Materials Management Analyst for startup Aviation Company focused on brand new Very Light Jet (VLJ)
market.
Deloitte Consulting – Solo Cup Project
April 2005 to November 2006
As a Manager for Deloitte performed as team lead for one major SAP Order-to-Cash project in the
disposable packaging industry.
IBM – International Paper and Mead/Meadwestvaco
September 1999 to March 2005
Mr. Rittenhouse was a Senior Consultant for IBM in their Business Consultant Services division. He
worked with two large clients in forest products/paper industry earning many extensions during his tenure.
Makino, Inc
June 1994 to September 1999
Mr. Rittenhouse acted in many roles during his time at Makino. He joined as a field service engineer
directly from college, worked in their technical support department focused on “challenging accounts”,
including the largest implementation of production machines in the company’s history. His broad
background eventually led to his joining of the SAP team, and beginning a new career in consulting.

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