Jerome Mungapen

San Francisco Bay Area · linkedin.com/in/jeromemungapen · Contact

Summary

Independent SAP supply chain consultant.

• 19+ years running Mungapen Consulting, Inc. and 20+ years with PwC Consulting and IBM, including as an IBM subcontractor
• Clients are large, well-known multinational brands
• Most recent work: S/4HANA at a leading data-storage company and a leading frozen-potato products company
• APICS CSCP; SAP PP certified since 1997

Core Skills

• Program and project management of complex projects; delivery: Waterfall; Agile (Scrum/Kanban hybrid)
• Solution architecture
• SAP: S/4HANA, ECC, PP, MM, SD, TM, WM, IM, PS, PM and EAM, APO, SRM, Ariba, BW, LTP and MRP
• Integration: EDI, RosettaNet, IDoc, B2B interfaces
• Pre-sales, estimation and SOW writing; interviewing and staffing; workshop facilitation; M&A integration; data conversion
• AI automation and development

Professional Experience

Mungapen Consulting, Inc. · Founder and Principal ConsultantJan 2007 – present · San Francisco, CA

a leading frozen-potato products company · S/4HANA, SD/TM/WM, heavy EDI, WaterfallAug 2024 – Sep 2026

The three delivery projects all delivered on schedule and within the approved (revised) budget.

• Transportation outsourcing project (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026), project manager, COO as executive sponsor: moved transportation management to a leading road and rail transportation provider, unplugging the client's internal TM and reworking TM processes, with EDI in the TM and WM areas; teams of about 10 consultants, 30 client business, 20 provider business and 30 provider IT staff. Go-live Jul 2026, hypercare to Aug 2026, roll-off Sep 2026. The go-live was lauded as one of the client's most successful in the SAP area.
• Factory and warehouse transition (Apr 2025 – Aug 2025), project manager: brought a client-owned manufacturing site and warehouse in line with the other 3PL-run locations by introducing EDI so the warehouse behaves like a 3PL (MM, WM, TM); teams of 5-8 consultants, 10-15 business staff and about 3 in the external WM system group. Go-live Aug 2025.
• Transportation EDI integration with a global freight-forwarding partner (Nov 2024 – Apr 2025), project manager: integrated transportation management (primarily TM, plus order-to-cash) with the partner by EDI; teams of about 8 consultants, about 10 client and about 5 partner staff.
• Supply chain pain-points assessment (Aug 2024 – Nov 2024), senior management consultant: ran workshops and interviewed senior order-to-cash and distribution executives and managers; presented the executive review deck to the CIO, SVPs and COO. The solutions identified became the project list for the later projects.

a leading data-storage company · S/4HANA, contractMar 2023 – Apr 2024

• S/4HANA version upgrade (HANA and BW technical upgrade) (Dec 2023 – Apr 2024), project manager: ran a complete HANA and BW technical upgrade for many hundreds of users with a project team of about 15. The project was placed on hold at roll-off in Apr 2024.
• S2D (sales-to-distribution) Consultant (Mar 2023 – Jan 2024): worked as utility consultant in the sales-to-distribution and order-to-cash areas (WM, TM, SD).

a leading memory manufacturer · Program/Project Manager and Solution ArchitectApr 2010 – Jan 2023 · subcontract via IBM

Nearly 13 years as program and project manager, solution architect and Procure to Pay lead across three acquisitions, Ariba, MRP, parts interchangeability, product costing and enterprise asset management. Agile (Scrum/Kanban hybrid) on the 2018 – 2023 projects.

• Contract Manufacturing MRP (Sep 2021 – Jan 2023): project manager and solution architect for 10 consultants and about 20 client staff; represented contract manufacturers' plants as IM-managed plants through interfaces to a third-party supply-chain network platform. Technical go-live, with knowledge transfer to the client's IT before roll-off.
• Internal Assembly MRP (Jun 2018 – Sep 2021): project manager and solution architect for a full-time team of 12 and 30+ part-time business staff, within the surrounding MRP program; designed an MRP/LTP solution separating fully constrained manufacturing signals from purchasing signals, with a Fiori tool, custom BAdIs, two-way vendor confirmation interfaces and EDI re-implementation.
• Acquisition integration of a Taiwan memory manufacturer (Jan 2016 – Jul 2017): scoped the Procure to Pay stream and wrote the SOW, then managed 6 consultants and a client team of about 60 through Day One (legal acquisition) and Day Two (systems integration), with workshops in Taiwan.
• Ariba (Jul 2014 – Mar 2016): project manager and ECC integration lead; started the As-Is / To-Be work before the Ariba engagement and managed two consecutive module implementations, spend visibility and then procurement.
• Acquisition integration of a Japanese memory company (Oct 2012 – May 2014): managed 6 consultants and a client team of 30+ integrating the Procure to Pay stream of the acquisition; also facilitated workshops, designed the blueprint and ran integration testing and data conversion.
• Acquisition integration of a memory-industry joint venture (Apr 2010 – May 2011): led a team of 4 consultants integrating the Procure to Pay and raw-materials inventory processes of the acquired joint venture (between two semiconductor companies) into the client's landscape, from requisitioning to invoice verification, including IM, WM and QM.
• Also: Supply Chain Resilience; Forecast Collaboration; Materials Requirements Planning Program (program manager); Parts Interchangeability (PIC); Enterprise Asset Management; Finance Transformation; APO Master data BOM; Italy Tax Restructure; Joint-venture plant harmonization (built an Access/Visual Basic conversion tool that cut weeks of conversion work into hours); Singapore Consignment / Tax Restructure.

a leading analog semiconductor company · PP lead, then MM-Purchasing leadNov 2007 – Feb 2010 · subcontract via the enterprise-software vendor

• Blueprinted production planning as PP lead, then led the MM core team on a greenfield implementation: procure-to-pay across fab, sort and end-of-line organizations; went live Oct 2009 with minimal business disruption.

a video-game publisher · Lead PP and APO integration consultantJan 2007 – Nov 2007

• Hired directly; integrated an APO CTM planning solution with R/3 and an existing custom PS solution, and built a custom master data transaction for APO; go-live Oct 2007.

PwC Consulting / IBM Business Consulting ServicesMay 1999 – Jan 2007 · San Francisco, CA

Roles: Management Consultant (May 1999 – Jun 2001); Principal Consultant (Jun 2001 – Sep 2002); Senior Consultant (Oct 2002 – Jun 2004); Managing Consultant (Jun 2004 – Jul 2006); Senior Managing Consultant (Jul 2006 – Jan 2007). PwC Consulting was acquired by IBM in Oct 2002; same employment.

• a leading European semiconductor company (Nov 2006 – Jan 2007): semiconductor SAP SME brought in by IBM to benchmark the client's SAP landscape against a 35% IT-spend reduction goal and build a roadmap; findings presented to C-level management.
• a leading flash-memory producer (Jul 2005 – Nov 2006): separation of the business from its former parent company (a divestiture), went live globally; team lead for the EDI transition (3 FTE plus 4 client staff) and Cross Shipping (3 FTE, 5 client staff, 3 offshore), and MM/SRM lead. Also project manager for the RosettaNet B2B integration and the archiving project.
• a leading Japanese semiconductor manufacturer (May 2004 – Jul 2005): SD team member in the order-to-cash team of a global supply chain implementation (customer returns, intercompany, warranty repairs).
• a life-sciences company (Feb 2004 – May 2004): project manager and PP SME on an MRP II assessment; the client moved forward with the implementation as recommended.
• a leading optical-disc (DVD) manufacturer (Nov 2002 – Nov 2003): PP lead and solution architect; designed custom shop-floor data collection tightly integrated with SAP PP.
• a leading global semiconductor manufacturer (Jun 1999 – Oct 2002): PP team lead and primary solution architect for a capital-equipment procurement and asset-management system (PP, MM, PS, PM on SAP 4.6b, 43 sites, 30+ legacy systems); supported a client team of 15, led regression-test automation, and reused semiconductor manufacturing equipment for multi-million dollar cost savings.
• Also: a global technology company (server division, Integrated Demand Supply, PP lead, Dec 2003 – Feb 2004); a leading semiconductor and infrastructure-software company (pre-sales); a leading semiconductor company.

Druid Systems (UK)Oct 1996 – May 1999

Roles: Management Consultant (Oct 1996 – Jun 1998); Senior Consultant (Jun 1998 – May 1999).

• a major plumbing-products manufacturer (PP lead, four go-lives across 11 sites, 1998 – 1999); a global process-additives company and a leading foodstuff manufacturer (S&OP); a leading jet-engine overhaul company (forecasting lead, 1996 – 1997); taught SAP Level two and Level three courses at the UK organisation of a leading enterprise-software vendor; a global alcoholic-beverage manufacturer and a global automotive-components supplier.

Michelin Tyre plc (UK)Aug 1993 – Oct 1996

Roles: Industrial Engineer (Aug 1993 – Feb 1995); Senior Industrial Engineer / Manufacturing Engineer (Feb 1995 – Oct 1996).

• Completed stock-reduction (JIT, Kanban), SMED capacity-optimization and statistical process control programs in manufacturing.

Internal Production Projects

Mungapen Consulting, Inc.2026 – present

• Built DevShop, a test-first, hook-enforced method for building software with AI agents.
• Built and run Blucanto, a production AI SaaS that helps would-be entrepreneurs identify and start a business.
• Wrote EmailAutomationSAP, a LangGraph and Claude Haiku 4.5 pipeline that extracts structured SAP-offer data from email; runs on a personal mailbox; 767 tests at 98% coverage as of Sep 2026.
• Set up a local GPU fine-tuning workbench and ran test fine-tunes (Unsloth QLoRA).
• Use AI agents daily in own practice.
• Wrote 16 LinkedIn articles on AI delivery in 3 series.

Education and Certifications

• B.Eng (Hons), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Integrated), 2.1; University of Salford, UK (1989 – 1993)
• APICS CSCP; SAP PP certified (since 1997)