1. PROFESSIONALSUMMARY
For the last20 years I have worked in the SAP industry both as a service
provider and as a customer. I have held various SAP consultingleadership
roles on largeand small SAP business transformation programs.As a
ManagingConsultantI lead teams and develop junior colleagues as well as
customer counterparts. I have been an advisor to Project Managers,
Integration Manager, Testing Lead, and Trainer.
11 full cycleimplementations,multipleGlobal Template releases, 18 PMO
advisement projects for projectstandard and tools,8 upgrade assessments
and 1 upgrade project for SAP, 1 SAP SLO project.
Expert at teasingout the relevant business processes atmy customers and
mappingthese to SAP to design and build the best solutions.12 years
functional experiencein Procurement providing a bigadvantagein
designingsolutions. Procurementexpertise progressed to Global Sourcing
Process Lead from Senior Buyer, Buyer & ReceivingSupervisor.
Principal Methods & Tools Consultantas partof SAP’s Solution Manager
practicespecializingin Solution Manager on 18 projects,advisingPMO,and
trainingprojectteams for implementations and operations.Instructor for
SAP’s internal Team Lead trainingprogram.
Industries Served: Aerospace and Defense; Pharma,Beverage, Medical
Devices, Utilities,Consumer Products,Public Sector, Manufacturing,Retail,
Information Technology, Construction
Specialties:Procureto Pay process design & implementation, PMO / ASAP
methodology, MM, SAP, SRM, SAP Global Template build and roll-out,SAP
Best Practices / Rapid Implementation, Certified in Solution Manager, Test
Manager, HPQC, LSMW. Extensive experience with all phases of the
application development lifecycle , roadmap development, solution
architecture, governance, application management, quality assurance,
upgrades, business casedevelopment, and virtual team management.
EXPERIENCE
HCL Axon America
August 2010 to present
Significant Project Experience:
 UTC Aerospace Systems – Charlotte, NC
 Sikorsky Aircraft – Stratford, CT
 Miller Coors – Milwaukee, WI
 UTC Aerospace Systems (formerly Goodrich) – Charlotte, NC
 EMC – Hopkinton, MA
Kathleen Brant
Supply Chain Consultant
2534 Roseland Drive
Ann Arbor, MI
48103
M 803-422-1781
kjbrant@hotmail.com

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et alia,LLC – SAP channel Partner, construction solution
October 2009 to July 2010
Significant Project Experience:
 Enerfab, Inc.– Cincinnati,OH
SAP America
January 2005 to October 2009
Significant Project Experience:
 FirstSolar –Tempe, AZ
 Vought Aircraft– Grand Prairie,TX
 Lockheed Martin – Fort Worth, TX
 Pepsi International –Chicago,IL
 Chicos – Fort Myers, FL
 Waste Management – Houston, TX
 Performance Food Group – Richmond, VA
 Brown Forman – Louisville,KY
 Lord Corporation – Erie, PA
 Steifel Labs – Coral Gables,FL
 National Gypsum– Charlotte, NC
 City of Houston – Houston, TX
 Smith & Nephew – Memphis, TN
 McKesson – San Francisco,CA
 Banctec – Irving,TX
 Limited Brands – Columbus,OH

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Kathleen Brant, Independent Consulting
December 2000 to December 2005
Significant Project Experience:
 Oncura (cancer treatment manufacturer) –Plymouth Meeting, PA
 North Carolina Dept.of Transportation – Raleigh,NC
 Iberdrola (formerly Energy East) – Rochester, NY
Owens Corning
January 1989 to December 2000
Significant Project Experience:
 Advantage 2000 - Owens Corning’s SAP Global Template project
 Project dates April 1995 to January 1998
PROJECTEXPERIENCE DETAIL
Experience details areavailableas an addendumupon request.
EDUCATION
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
 Bachelors in Business Administration. Materials and Logistics
Management
SAP Conducted Courses
 Procurement(all 500 level courses)
 Invoice Verification
 ConsumptionBasedPlanning&Forecasting
 InventoryManagement&Physical Inventory
 SRM Bootcamp
 SolutionManagerBootcamp –
 Business Warehouse
 IDS Scheer– ARISBusinessProcess Modeling
REFERENCES
References are availableupon request.