Ray Adams

About Ray Adams

Senior Manager at Accenture focused on SAP in the chemicals industry, driving innovation and digital transformation with a focus on value realization.*Business and solution development at SAP for the chemical industry with a focus on digital transformation, integrated business planning, sales and operations planning, pricing/portolio management and intellectual property/security.*Global partner manager for both implementation and solution providers. Developed strategy for hosted deployment of Best Practices.*Recently worked with SAP Solution Mgmt on a cloud deployment S & OP solution, featuring in-memory technology, social collaboration and intuitive UI/HTML-5. Client-specific co-innovation project to develop a complete public cloud instance of SAP S/4HC.*Founding member of CISUG, Chemical Industry SAP User\'s Group. Over 1500 members on LinkedIn, over members thru ASUG, discussing strategic issues for the chemical industry and how technology can better leverage the needs.*Frequent speaker at various industry and SAP events for a range of topics, including digital transformation, integrated business planning, best practices, industry roadmaps. C-level engagements with direct customer workshops.*Initiated influence council to review export controls and intellectual property issues for the chemical industry as a result of growing demands in Asia amidst single global ERP instances.*Various industry publicationsSpecialties: Mergers/DivestituresSolution DevelopmentTechnology RoadmapsChemical Industry Landscapes

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Chemicals and Natural Resources Practice

   Accenture

   Apr 2019 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

   Key responsibilities:Business DevelopmentSAP S/4 ImplementationsSAP Business Case and Roadmap developmentBusiness Process Hierarchy SAP Model Company and Accenture myConcerto/ChemdirectSAP Recruitment ChampionCommunity Relationship Manager, Philadelphia Futures

Education

• University of New Hampshire

  BS, Chemical Engineering

• Santa Clara University

  MBA, Operations

Skills

• Project Management
• Supply Chain
• Saas
• Sap Erp
• Strategy
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Customer Service
• Time Management
• Management
• Process Improvement
• Logistics
• Training
• Customer Satisfaction
• Inventory Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Coaching
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Process
• Process Engineering
• Business Analysis
• Sap R/3
• Sap
• Six Sigma
• Teamwork
• Change Management
• Erp
• Crm
• Enterprise Software
• Pre-Sales
• Leadership
• Integration
• Master Data
• Materials
• Cloud Computing
• Transportation
• Manufacturing
• Solution Development
• Business Intelligence