Alejandro Bedolla Mtz

Introducing Business Process Management as a management system in the R&D organization for the Healthcare sector of Merck, acting as a project manager and supporting process owners as business process consultant. Supporting Change Management related activities.

Global Subject Matter Expert for the MDG-S (Master Data Governance – Suppliers) implementation for the Merck Group. Co-lead the purchase-to-pay (P2P) process stream in the SAP S/4 Hana / Ariba P2P implementation for the Merck’s healthcare division for Spain and BENELUX. Provided guidance and support to the P2P and vendor master management streams in the different ongoing ERP implementations for the Life Sciences and Performance Materials sectors of Merck.

By keeping close contact with top global procurement and controlling executives, ensured proper and timely communication inside procurement organization and with the different business units; enhanced the procurement performance reporting solution with sector specific data that allowed providing relevant information and advice to the business partners network.

Monitored and evaluated Procurement team's performance in Latin-American subsidiaries within internal and external compliance requirements. Point of contact between global and local teams for project and strategic initiatives implementation. Provided guidance on strategies, systems and available tools and proper category management methodology usage and implementation follow up.

Managed a multi-disciplinary team (Supply Chain, Technical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, HR, Quality) involving local and global resources, that successfully closed the Mexican manufacturing plant (Tlalpan) and opened optimized operations at new facility; ensured continuous supply to market, business continuity and avoided negative impact to company's image.

By applying informal authority, provided support and guidance to project and strategic sourcing teams, achieving for 2 years in a row to exceed region’s savings target. I was the communication channel between local organizations and regional & global teams. Subject Matter Expert for sourcing / procurement systems and processes for standardization programs for LatAm Countries. Supported regional bid processes and negotiations with participating vendors. Chair of Regional Change Management Board.

IT related spend owner. Achieved savings of more than 6% of total IT related spend. Project manager for BasWare (e-procurement tool) implementation in LatAm. Provide support and guidance for sourcing and e-sourcing processes (e-RFx) and corresponding tool (Emptoris); responsible to maintain and review compliance of purchasing related policies and procedures, in accordance with global and local guidelines. Review and implementation of sourcing strategies based on Category Management methodology.

Member of the Internal Novartis SAP Global support team. Single point of contact for Novartis Mexico Organization. Coordinated effort with regional support team; evaluating and challenging new business requirements; managing available internal and external resources for incidents resolution, enhancements and change management processes. Optimized usage of human and financial resources, including budget creation and followed up of deviations according to established service level agreements

Business Analyst at Project “GLOBE”: Global Business Excellence: Global implementation of best practices, data and processes standardization and complete SAP solution set for the Nestlé subsidiaries in Mexico (Nestlé, CPW, Waters, Purina) Responsible for the Globe Template implementation developed in Switzerland, in all related to purchasing processes (i.e. Procure to pay), as a Globe Center Americas representative in Mexico.

Responsible for the global configuration adjustment of the SAP R/3 Materials Management module in the Purchase to pay process team, to fit local requirements.

Involved in several engagements: Lead EBP implementation (SAP eProcurement engine). Coordinated and integrated parallel efforts for content management, configuration and middleware teams according to procurement and IT areas requirements for all 14 enterprises of the group. Managed procurement, plant maintenance and project systems processes teams of an SAP R/3 implementation. Supervised solution design, configuration, testing and final implementation efforts. Provided after go-live support.

Managed Materials Management module for an international SAP R/3 implementation during design, system and business test phases. Coordinated system configuration and design changes for the Brazilian subsidiary. Resolved system and process issues according to Brazilian specific requirements.