Latest CV

1. EDI/B2B/ERP Specialist
Anthony (Tony) Dommett L.R.P.S
Mobile: + 44 (0)7884 492421 E-Mail: tony.dommett@gmail.com
Summary
Experienced, dedicated and versatile ERP/EDI Analyst/Consultant, with a specialisation in E-Commerce and EDI
interfacing, involved with many pan European and US EDI projects having exposure to many business sectors
from Manufacturing, Logistics, Retail, Insurance, Inland Revenue, implementing systems for SME’s to major
international corporations utilising a wide range of hardware and software platforms with differing ERP, E-
Commerce and EDI enabling systems.
Having spent the past 27 years mainly in end to end B2B integration and ERP analysis, has meant the
accumulation of a huge individual knowledge base, also gaining experience of communicating with people from
board level to shop floor and the acquiring of many and varied skill sets, the following bullets points give a very
brief overview
• Analysing in-house procedures/systems to enable selection/implementation/migration of integrated solutions
• Analysing in-house ERP systems to enable integration mainly for B2B communications
• Migrating from legacy to new in-house or outsourced solutions
• Developing workshops for partners/employees to inform/promote the companies business processes
• Analysing business requirements, then designing the solution and creating necessary documentation
• Hands on development of the solution
• Organising test plans and controlling FAT, UAT and CAT processes,
• Establishing backup processes if any part of the data flow should fail
• Writing and giving (hands on) training courses, either generic to a product, or tailored for a customer
• Mentoring customer and in-house staff to ensure business continuity
• On-going dialogues with partners to enable changes in the business flow/relationships
• Working in and with Scrum/Agile environments/methodologies
• Disaster Recovery plans
• Writing RFI/RFP’s either for in-house or out-sourcing solutions, these can be very different
Experience and Work History:
Nov 16 – Sep 17 Kingspan Insulation Ltd BA EDI Divisional EDI Coordinator
With Shared Skills Ltd now virtually in moth balls, due to majority of Customers outsourcing, I decided to move
back into full time employment as a Business AnalystDivisional EDI Coordinator with Kingspan Insulation
based in Pembridge near Hereford from where they manufacture insulation for the building trade.
They use SAP as ERP system with XML IDOC’s with Interfaces to and from EDI using ANSI X12, Edifact and
Tradacoms standards for Orders, ASN’s, Invoices, Staements, Inventory Status and control confirmation
messages currently in the US, Australian and UK and Irish markets with new projects currently in progress for the
Nordics some Edifact but with complete e-invoicing and payment messaging with Danske Banks
My responsibilities was liaision with divisional departments in various countries and their customers and external
EDI enablers, then organise business and mapping documentation, project roll out via our 3rd
party EDI enabling
company ensure FAT, UAT and CAT, training users on use of the EDI track and trace software ongoing BAU
support
May 00 – Nov 16 Shared Skills Ltd Principal Consultant
Owner of Shared Skills Ltd supporting customers on an ad-hoc basis and taking short term contracts/projects as
detailed below, this is apart from the 3 years at Nestle where I was full time employed in Switzerland but was still
supporting SSL customers initially with 4 employees ending with one employee for minor developments and
problems.
Shared Skills was initially a small group of people who all worked within the Analyst/Consultancy environment
with each individual having extended skills in certain fields such as Java programming, Unix administration,
XML/XSL, EDI, training etc.

2. For this period of time at Shared Skills, I have been supporting and advising a small customer base taking
contracts on an ad-hoc basis when the current customer base had no requirements.
Contracting and supporting a retained Customer base (approx 11) using SAA’s ETS/Reims EDI system.
Supporting and developing our own in house DMX32 EDI solution, which is aimed at very small business with
maybe one or two trading partners, also supplying, implementing and supporting various EDI enabling tools for
our customers.
Major projects/contracts undertaken
• Nov15 – May16 Working on contract at Coopervison who manufacture and supply contact lenses this has been based
in Fareham with some remote working, the inhouse systems are based on BAAN ERP and Sterling Integrator my main
function was to onboard new customers for EMEA and ANZ using a vast range of file formats, XML, traditional EDI,
delimited files, excel spreadsheets and fixed format files.
• Oct 2015 Contracted by Wipro to assist end customer Homebase with a 3 week project to ensure compliance with the
new rules from HMRC regarding Prompt Payment Discounts (PPD) this meant analysing and then updating Sterlings
Gentran EDI software and creating documentation for internal support and external suppliers to ensure HMRC compliance.
• 2013 – 2014 Working on contract to GXS on migration projects from inhouse to outsourced EDI I provided a human
interface between GXS and its Customers, visiting customers analysing their migration requirements, this was mainly for
Interfacing files EDI/XML/CSV/VDA etc. to and from varied ERP systems, responsible for validating customer supplied
documentation and generating mapping specifications for offshore development liaising with off shore development teams
and customer during FUT, UAT and CAT testing phase and hand holding during go live.
• 2012 On contract with Palmer & Harvey (P&H) to enable the migration of their EDI/E-Commerce requirements to
an external managed service. Working both at their head office in Brighton UK and remotely from home, my
responsibilities were to check and update all mapping documentation and liaise with the managed service provider with
both their on and off-shore teams through testing to go live for approx 45 individual maps and 150 trading partners
delivering the solution one month earlier than expected.
• 2008 – 2011 Working for Nestle Switzerland mainly on migration to an outsourced solution. (see full description
below)
• 2007 Working with Johnson & Johnson documenting a legacy EDI system including EDI messages and Integration
information with SAP IDOC’s to enable conversion to a new EDI system.
• 2000-08 The specification and development of a process for CIH (Euronics), the 3rd
largest electrical goods
purchaser in the UK, they receive Purchase Invoices in a Tradacoms EDI format which are then used to generate IDOC’s
for Purchase Orders, Sales Orders and Purchase Invoices into an NT based SAP system.
• 2006 Working with Nestle (UK) in York, I was required to provide and manage a small team to control a project that
enabled the documentation of their legacy EDI systems, this was to provide mapping documentation detailing all required
fields and qualifiers to and from SAP IDOC’s, using varying Tradacoms and Edifact standards for approximately 50
trading partners utilising 20 different EDI message types/standards, also the writing of the test plans for the new EDI
system all delivered on time and within budget.
• 2003-2007 On and off over 4 years working with Boots on a Unix based Reims system providing an expert overview
and mentoring to internal staff, also the generation of EDI and project documentation for several internal projects. The
first, controlling a roll out of EDI messaging to all Boots customers in Holland. Second was the development of outgoing
Remittance Advice EDI messages from SAP to replace a legacy mainframe system, which was followed by Purchase
Orders out and Invoices in from suppliers who were supplying goods not for retail. Thirdly assisting with the conversion of
Boot’s Healthcare International legacy EDI system to a SAP system interfaced with Reims 4.3.
• 2004 Working with IS Integration in Preston on a project for Capgemini who were providing a new EDI enabling
system for the Inland Revenue, my responsibilities included the review of the IR’s EDI messages and the overview of the
generation of test plans for the new EDI system.
• 2004-2005 Working with BSS in Leicester a manufacturing, distribution and retail plumbing and heating systems
supplier, my remit was to review the current EDI processes, suggest enhancements and improved process flows, also to
enable new suppliers to trade either by EDI, XML or some bespoke flat file formats, also generating test plans to enable
this. Also create a complete documentation and testing of an EDI Disaster Recovery setup

3. • 2002-2003 A contract with United Biscuits to migrate from a Gentran EDI system, based in the US, to a Unix based
Reims EDI system integrating 7 different EDIFACT messages via IDOC’s to and from SAP.
• 2002 For Fisons the design, specification and coding for the transformation of an EDI invoice file to a PDF
formatted print via XML and an XSL process utilising the FOP processor and the automatic e-mailing of the documents to
approx 200 small customers.
• 2000 For Toyota manufacturing, the design, development and implementation of EDI Edifact messages for Self-
Billing Invoices, Orders and Delivery Forecasting. Also the control of a roll out of these to over 200 suppliers.
Jul 08 – Sep 11 Nestle (Globe Switzerland) EDI Consultant
Working on the Nestle Globe B2B migration project in Switzerland, this project is aimed at providing one unified
B2B system for use in all Nestle Markets worldwide (118 countries, 600 markets) based on Global interface
templates both for SAP IDOC’s and other Complementary Applications including Influe’s CMI/VMI application,
although a global solution is required, modifications for localised legal and processing requirements had to be
taken into account, the scope covered traditional EDI and XML file processing, E-Invoicing and Archiving,
Customs declarations, Banking, secure large file transfer, EDI to Fax and Fax to EDI and many other electronic
B2B process.
Working as part of a small team within the ICC (Interface Competency Centre), utilising Agile & Scrum
methodologies. I had responsibility for applying governance and project management to all B2B migration
requests, submitted from individual Nestle Markets by checking correctness of Functional Specifications and
associated mapping documentation before passing to off shore development units. Also liaising with markets to
discuss localised business requirements and translate these into EDI solutions for Partner On Boarding and new
message formats.
I also had personal responsibility for creating all RFI and RFP documentation, initially for a replacement internal
worldwide EDI solution, this requirement was then changed to outsourcing all Nestle EDI/B2B requirements
worldwide to a managed service for which I was part of the team that assessed all quotes and options and when
solution was implemented responsible for testing and migrating each new partner message combination as
delivered by provider, this eventually meant my skills were no longer required due to the outsourcing.
Dec 91 – May 00 SAA Consultants Principal Technical Consultant
SAA Consultants provide the EDI enabling products ETS & REIMS. I worked within the implementation
department starting on System 36 through to AS400 then mainly upon Windows based platforms finishing up
working on Unix based systems. I was providing pre and post sales support for the analysis, design and
implementation of Business-to-Business document transfer solutions based on EDI but also XML and other
bespoke file formats. Also updating/writing and giving the Reims product-training course/work shops on both
Windows and Unix platforms,

4. Skills Matrix
Skill Level Years Skill Level Years
E-CommerceEDI Messaging Standards Network ProvidersCommunications
EDIFACT and subsets Expert 20+ Tradanet Expert 20+
Tradacoms Expert 20+ Geis Experienced 4
VDA Experienced 5 ATT Expert 20+
ANSI X12 Experienced 10 BT Expert 20+
EBXML Knowledge of 1 IBM IE Expert 20+
XMLXSL Good 4 AS2 Good 10+
EDI Enabling (Mapping) Tools ERP Integration/Interfaces
Reims Expert 20 SAP IDOC’s Expert 20+
ETS Expert 10+ Oracle Accounts Have used 1
JCommerce Experienced 6 EFAC’s Good 4
DMX 32 Experienced 7 MAPPICS Old Experience 10+
Gentran Good experience 1 BAAN Good 4
MFGPRO Good 3
Influe (CMI/VMI) Good 3
Databases Operating Systems
Oracle Good 10+ Unix (Solaris, AIX) Good 5
SQL Server Good 5 DOS Experienced 10+
MySQL Good 3 Windows NT Experienced 8
Informix Good 2 Windows 2000 Experienced 10+
Sybase Good 2 Windows XP/Vista/7 Good 10+
Access Experienced 10+ OS400/34/36/RPG Old Experience 10+
ERP Appplications General
SAP SD Good 8 Project Management Good 20+
SAP MM Knowledge of 1 Business Analysis Expert 20+
SAP Basis Knowledge of 1 Giving Training Courses Experienced 15+
MAAPICS Old Experience 10+ Mentoring / Instructing Experienced 10+
Agile/Scrum Good 2+
Languages Courses attended.
French Level A1 Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) 03/02/2006
WordPress 01/10/2015
Other Qualifications
Licentiateship Royal Photographic Society
Personal Details:
Date Of Birth 31st
May 1954
Marital Status Married 3 Children
Passport UK
Driving Licence Full, clean
Interests Photography, Rugby, Cricket, Golf, Surfing, Sailing, Travelling.