Jose M Aguirre Senior SD/MM/Retail consultant Summary of Experience and Qualifications Mr.

Jose Aguirre holds a vast experience spanning over 17 years in SAP Solutions in multiple retail verticals including Grocery, Fashion, Footwear, Direct Sales, Convenience Stores, Consumer Products and others. He has worked in multiple end-to-end SAP Retail Projects along with specific focus on Retail planning and multi channel supply chain areas across the globe. His expertise in retail processes and domain understanding combined with his vision, leadership and business management skills, constantly guides the organization towards success, growth and repute for excellence. He has a unique blend of process orientation & deep operational insights, and has developed his professional SAP experience while working for several Fortune 500 companies. Highlights of his professional career include: FI and master data Integration experience with Materials Management, Inventory Management, Sales and Distribution, Logistics Execution including WM, POSDM, Allocations, Forecasting and Replenishment, AFS, NetWeaver, EP, XI/PI, BW & R/3, upgrades to ECC & custom application development (SDLC). Experienced as solution architect. 11 full lifecycle implementations in SAP with participation in 7 IS Retail ECC 5.0/6,0 with strong AFS (Apparel and Footwear Solution) Integration experience. Experienced in SAP CRM 4.0 using Sales and CIC. Experienced in designing SAP landscapes Specializes in providing guidance to clients for the implementing various modules of SAP (Retail, SDMM-PP and FI), solution architecture using various technology platforms and solutions & defining roadmap to achieve it. Deep experience in defining procedural designs, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines. Experience in business intelligence, multi-dimensional business analytics, data management, large data warehouse environments, and data standards and data quality. Specialties: SAP IS Retail Implementations Solution Analysis - Prototyping, Proof of Concept, Pre-Sales Solution Architecture and Blueprinting Configuration, Unit, Integration & Volume Testing Cut over Planning and roll-out strategy including Post-Production support Project management Main modules SD/MM/PP/FI-CO-PA

Professional Experience Amaranta consulting 2006 Current. Founder professional services company, experienced with practice development, budgets, HR processes and sales presentations / calls. Project Experience: Supply chain planning lead (February 2010 Current). Client is a Canada based retailer with over 1,000 stores and multiple Distribution Centers, currently the largest SAP Retail project in North America. Joined as SME/Lead in the IS-Retail solution in general with a focus in advanced planning functions for supply chain. Developed the project plan for all phases of the project, and completed integration with master plan. Served as project manager for all planning functionality, and delivered the project form the planning phases to production support. Solution design includes integration with JDA planning for stores and DCs. Completed blueprint, build and currently on final preparation for

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go-live. Scope includes integration with best of breed 3 party systems for WMS (Manhattan), Planning (JDA) and TMS and POSDM. Key design components include forecasting, replenishment, promotion planning and execution in PMR, advanced F&R integration, allocation tables, POs & STOs, Iviews, Webdynpros, planograms and other key retail functionality. Defined new metrics to measure service level for inventory, DC operations and vendor performance. Project Manager for apparel and footear retailer (November 2010 April 2011). Completed the design and implementation of Pricing and promotions related functionality. Leaded blueprint design, SME for the configuration, unit test and user acceptance phases. Scope included Promotion definition, discount conditions, pricing procedures, price determination, bonus buys, free goods, price activation, and integration with SAP POS 2.2 and POSDM. Forecasting and Replenishment lead for retailer (June 2009 December 2009). Client is a US based retailer with over 1,000 stores and several Distribution Centers. Joined as SME in the IS-Retail solution in general with a focus in F&R. Leaded blueprint design and building proposed functionality for DC to store, vendor to store and vendor to DC replenishment best practices. Scope included retail replenishment and cross docking/flow through functions. Physical Inventory for apparel and footwar retailer (April 2009- May 2009). Client has both instances of AFS and IS-Retail. Managed the design and implementation of Physical inventory for manufacturing and Retail facilities. Activities include Configuration in AFS and IS-Retail, Process definition, integration with third party vendors for transfer of data, modifications to AFS and Retail material master data and rollout strategy. Solution architect and Team lead for wholesale manufacturer/retailer (April 2007- March 2009). Performed as a Merchandise Management lead for the integration of a custom payment processing system based in ECC 6.0 and POS 2.1 (Triversity). This included the configuration of purchasing pricing, Sales Pricing, Retail Pricing, Transfer prices, Markdown planning, Promotion management, forecasting and replenishment, Vistex (Commissions, Rebates etc.). Installed Transactionware 10 and the necessary XI content to enable communication to ECC, Designed POSDM enhancements for several activities, and configuration of POSDM. Responsibilities also included the full design and conversions of POS inbound-outbound to Triversity file layouts. Project Manager, for large Professional services company. (October 2006- May 2007). Performed as a PM for European rollout, participating in the Blueprint and realization phases. General responsibilities included: build project plan, gap resolution, team meetings, updates to Program Management, making sure all activities are completed in time and within budget. Team size of 35 consultants and business users. Configuration implemented includes Cprojects, Cfolders, and design of BW reports, quotes, contracts, RRB, pricing, portal (SRM), and CRM and Portal integration. ERP 2005 / IS-Retail Team Lead for vacuum products wholesale/retailer (July 2006- Sept 2006). Performed as a merchandise management team lead in the Blueprint Phase, developing configuration in the following SD/MM areas: Material Master, Customer Master, Site Master, Pricing, Promotions, Markdown Planning, and POSDM sales audit/loss prevention. Conducted meetings for the definition of the merchandise category hierarchy. Design included Triversity POS system blueprint. Mapped and designed the conversion of Transactionware files including file layouts for Articles, customers, price, tax tables, store, promo etc.

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Large Global services corporation 2004 to 2006 Managing consultant. Joined as subject matter expert for their IS-Retail group. Participated in conference calls, proposals, orals and other sales activities. Leaded several practice development activities. Project Experience: ERP 2004 / IS-Retail Team Lead for 1Bn retailer in the Apparel /Fashion business (February 2005 July 2006). Performed as team lead for the merchandise management area, designing and configuring the following SAP areas: Material Master, Customer Master, Site Master, Merchandise

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hierarchy, Pricing, POS inbound and Outbound, POSDM, integration with AFS (design and configuration of Grids, categories etc), BW extractors, and configuration and integration of AFS and retail supply chain (Purchase orders, quotations, ASNs, logistics invoice verification etc). IS-Retail SME for Muebleria Mendoza (Puerto Rico, November 2004 December 2004) performed a quality assessment of an IS-Retail implementation. Recommended several business process redesigns, identified issues with configuration, Master data and change management. Assessed security standards for payment card information. Performed the QA assessment in a short period of time, interviewing VPs in many areas as well as key users. Reviewed the areas of merchandise planning, assortment planning, markdown and promotions, allocations, store operations, DC operations, logistics and a POS SAP in-house developed system.

Deloitte 2002 to 2004 Senior Consultant. Project Experience: Project delivery Experience includes among others roles as SD Team lead, SD Data Management Project Manager, SD/MM Global template implementation roll-out lead. Very high profile companies include Grainger, The Coca Cola Company, Diageo, SCJohnson and Grainger. Activities included leading the development of a global template, and the roll out strategy, and one roll out to a group of countries in Latin America and later Asia. Also served as data conversion lead for the group of countries data loads which included: BOMs Materials, Production Planning Recipes, product costing sheets, sales orders, pricing conditions, translation to multiple languages etc. Legacy systems include JBA and JDedwards.

PwC 1999 to 2002 Senior Consultant. Joined as experienced SAP consultant supporting several sales pursuits and conducting practice development activities. Project Experience: Project delivery Experience includes roles as SD Team lead, SD/MM Project Manager, SD/MM Global template implementation roll-out lead, and PP SME performing Quality assessments. Companies include Purina Mills, Goodyear. Also participated in an IS-Retail project as SME. Activities included leading the development of an Open to buy system for a leading shoe retailer in Puerto Rico.

Deloitte consulting 1997 to 1999 Senior Consultant. Joined as experienced SAP consultant and performed several important practice development and sales activities. Performed as team lead in several engagements. Project Experience: Project delivery Experience includes roles as SD Team lead, IS-Retail Merchandising and WM lead. Clients include Gruma, Montell international, Supermarkets Cuesta, and Delphi International. Retail experience includes 2 different is-Retail projects, which range in industries from convenience, grocery supermarkets, Book stores, Shoe retailers, hard goods and Furniture. Activities included blueprinting, design and implementation of all merchandise management areas, MCH, company structure and others.

Consultant, Mexico 1996-1997 Team member or the implementation of SAP R/3 3.0, for the sale of vehicles and aggregates. Developed and implemented procedures to document and control changes. Conducted Blueprint sessions for the Sales-logistics processes in collaboration with key users, and configured key SD and logistics areas. Project Manager CFE Mexico (1994-1996) Managed the Implementation and Migration from a standard training to a multimedia CBT training environment. Developed a strategy for deployment. Analyzed technical requirements. Implemented client server strategies for large training facilities SYSTEM EXPERIENCE

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Software / Products: ERP: SAP, JDEdwards Financial reporting : Hyperion reports Development Tools / Languages: ABAP/4, Webdynpros, Smartforms, HTML, XML, C++ Hardware / Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux Middleware / Databases: XI, Tibco, Websphere, Oracle General Tools: Testing tool: HPQC 11.0, Training: ANCILE uPerform EDUCATION Bachelor Degree in computer Science, Tecnologico Mexico. TRAINING SAP: SAP SD certification, Mexico city 1997, SAP MM certification, Mexico city 1998 Warehouse Management - Mexico city1998 Workflow , PwC training center - Philadelphia 2001, 4.6 Delta PwC training center - Philadelphia IS-Retail PwC Retail solutions Centre - Swindon, UK 2001 Data warehouse - Dallas 2002. Variant Configuration - White plains - NY 2003 Resource Related Billing focusing on A&D White Plains, NY 2003 CRM Dallas, August 2003, ERP 2005 IS-Retail Germany, 2006. BW 3.5 configuration SAP training, 2006, POSDM Data Manager Atlanta, 2006 FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS: Fluent in Spanish

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