Clay Thomas

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About Clay Thomas

A Supply Chain Management professional, specializing in strategic guidance, implementation and optimization of SAP suite applications (>25 years). I also advise clients in partner management with SAP, sustained customer success, in addition to marketing and creative content creation in branding. Adept and experienced across entirety of the sales cycle, from business development, through pre-sales, sales and contract close activities, particularly working within SAP's mid-market space. Have executive experience in taking boutique consulting companies to acquisition size and through assimilating that company into the larger company ecosystem. My career began in industry with an ERP implementation for P&G, as a member of the Demand and Supply Team. I moved into consulting both at large and boutique consulting firms, training and working within S/4, ECC, APO, IBP, BW, CRM, Jam and Solution Manager solutions and primarily focused in supply chain management (digital) and business process optimization. Beyond SAP partner advisory, sales and marketing, I now typically engage with customers in assessing their business for fit with SAP tools/solutions, though will also deliver with implementation teams to remain close to tool capabilities and to feed those experiences back to sales cycle and project estimation activities. I earned my undergraduate in Industrial Engineering from the University of Florida with Minor in Statistics, as well as returning to my alma mater for my Master's in Engineering. Opportunities have taken me to seven countries on three continents, further broadening my global view on how businesses operate in different regions of the world and allowing me to apply learning from one area to another as an added value to clients. Technical Specialties: IBP and APO Design, Enhance and Implementation; ERP (S/4) MRP and MM implementation/integration; liaison between IT and Business groups to get useful information shared across SAP systems that includes S/4(ECC), Ariba, BI/BW and TM/LBN.