John Guttmann

Principal business systems engineering consultant specializing SAP Project Management, Risk Analysis, Quality Assurance and Integrated Supply Chain Solutions Architecture services. Often engaged to consult in-house teams on high-stakes projects, adding best practice SAP processes and mentoring to in-house professionals on system improvements that transform companies. Expert project leadership skills that create next-level process and accountability for client shareholders. Technical expertise to build systems that offer of end-to-end SAP enabled solutions for the achievement of desired business outcomes.

Owner and operator of property holdings and management company specializing in short-term vacation property development, rentals and sales. Directly accountable to customer satisfaction through the seamless integration and continuity of all critical business functions, including but not limited to, sales, marketing, guest services and property management. Some notable achievements listed below: • Maintaining an average customer satisfaction rating of 4.9 out of 5.0. • Maintaining an annual occupancy rate >50%. • Maintaining 10-15% annual growth since opening year 2017

Led Multi-year, 17M Greenfield SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud implementation project. Roles & Responsibilities • IT Project Management (Activate), IT Cutover and Hypercare Management Notable Results • Effectively managed scope to deliver on time and on budget. • Managed project team of 30 functional, technical and project management resources. • Delivered multiple phases of testing, each prepared by one of four full end-to-end mock cutovers, two system integration cycles, two user acceptance cycles and one day in the life production performance test cycle. • Managed conversion of ~80 master and transaction data objects including ~2500 WIP production orders.

Led SAP project-turnaround effort to support European supply chain during COVID-19 disruption. Centered on the application of best practices after critical order-to-cash functional requirements were missed during the requirements elicitation phase of the project. Directed the analysis and stabilization of system, post go-live, to support a multi-year strategic systems development effort aimed at consolidating all European and North American SAP instances otherwise known as GlobalOne. Roles & Responsibilities • IT Project Management (ASAP, Kanban), Business Systems Analysis, IT Integrated Supply Chain Solutions Architecture, SAP Configuration, IT Quality Assurance & Audit, IT Cutover and Hypercare Management Notable Results • Established company’s first Requirements Trace Matrix. • Established company first agile project methodology and toolset required for post go live/hypercare elicitation and development of missed business critical requirements. • Automated all intercompany processing • Implemented all foreign VAT • Automated sales, operational and inventory planning • Reduced 4 FTE resulting from system improvements. • Significantly improved average sales order confirmation time from >1 month to <48 hours.

Led SAP project-turnaround effort to support European supply chain during COVID-19 disruption. Centered on the application of best practices after critical order-to-cash functional requirements were missed during the requirements elicitation phase of the project. Directed the analysis and stabilization of system, post go-live, to support a multi-year strategic systems development effort aimed at consolidating all European and North American SAP instances otherwise known as GlobalOne. Roles & Responsibilities • IT Project Management (ASAP, Kanban), Business Systems Analysis, IT Integrated Supply Chain Solutions Architecture, SAP Configuration, IT Quality Assurance & Audit, IT Cutover and Hypercare Management Notable Results • Established company’s first Requirements Trace Matrix. • Established company first agile project methodology and toolset required for post go live/hypercare elicitation and development of missed business critical requirements. • Automated all intercompany processing • Implemented all foreign VAT • Automated sales, operational and inventory planning • Reduced 4 FTE resulting from system improvements. • Significantly improved average sales order confirmation time from >1 month to <48 hours.

Responsible for the migration of all North American commercial business to Baxter Healthcare following acquisition of Gambro Renal Products in 2013; far exceeding any acquisition Baxter had attempted to date in both size and complexity. Managed 4 direct and 10-15 indirect reports across North America and India. Called “the most successful large-scale project ever executed by the company to date,” by Baxter executive leadership. All commercial data and processes were successfully transferred to Baxter operations and systems with no measurable impact to customers, company operations, or product quality. Roles & Responsibilities • IT Project Management (ASAP), IT Quality Assurance & Audit, IT Integrated Supply Chain Solutions Architecture, Business Systems Analysis, SAP Configuration, IT Change Control and Governance, IT Test Management, IT Cutover and Hypercare Management, IT Incident and Problem Management Notable Results Converted and transferred the following from Gambro Renal Products: • $2.2B annual customer & I/C sales • $369M open customer & I/C sales • $31M on-hand inventory • $18M open purchasing • 3100 materials • 6 third party logistics distribution centers • 1400 customers • 3 production plants (dialyzers & solutions)

Responsible for the operational continuity and supply chain optimization for the #1 global leader in the development and supply of renal therapies; resulting in quality of life improvements for millions of dialysis patients worldwide. • Led onshore and offshore business analysts, solution architects, and developers to deliver and optimize supply chain business process and SAP system solutions supporting order-to-cash, demand-to-supply, and procure-to-pay functional areas. • Responsible for strict IT validation, compliance, and controls – including accountability to U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulatory audits and corrective actions. Roles & Responsibilities • IT Project Management (ASAP), IT Quality Assurance & Audit, IT Integrated Supply Chain Solutions Architecture, Business Systems Analysis, SAP Configuration, IT Change Control and Governance, IT Test Management, IT Cutover and Hypercare Management, IT Incident and Problem Management Notable Results • Established comprehensive, risk-based business process model • Established a strict document management system ensuring GxP relevant documentation was tightly controlled, accessible and aligned to all requirements needed to maintain traceability throughout the SDLC • Established and maintained full compliance with FDA GXP regulations and audit • Implemented and maintained six fully integrated 3PL locations • Implemented fully automated cradle-to-grave batch and equipment track and trace throughout the end-to-end supply chain. • Implemented medical device excise tax (MDET) • Implemented all freight pay and accruals

Served as lead SAP practitioner and consultant successfully delivering 19 full lifecycle SAP system implementations to global industrial, commercial and retail product manufacturing clients.