Adam Farrugia

Experience

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  Bathurst city council

  Jan 1995 - Jan 2001

  Senior Network Analyst
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  Mars

  Jan 2001 - now

  The R&D Regional FE Manager leads a team of Functional Experts and Functional Analysts within Asia Pacific. The function is critical in securing the establishment and maintenance of the regional Functional Expert teams to deliver functional expertise to the segments within playbook guidelines. This is dependent on successful interfaces and relationships with Corp functions, Segment’s representatives, and Mars DT. The role will manage a team to ensure the successful usage & deployment through close partnership and mentoring of the community of R&D systems managers and Key users.The role works effectively with various stakeholders and functions in Corporate, Segments and in Mars Digital Team to improve our digital R&D products, to enable compliance with our R&D process and ensure user friendliness & efficiency using the R&D systems.The R&D Regional FE Manager role will manage a team of functional Experts and Functional Analysts. Each FE and FA will be responsible to support a subset of the R&D digital Capabilities. The complete portfolio of R&D digital capabilities is: Data & Analytics reporting – Mission control, Spire, Eagle, Horizon Scanning Market traceability systems – Atlas MTR, Agnostic Inbound traceability & Testing and conformance systems – Atlas, RCLMS Specification management systems – Veritas Recipe management systems – Ara, RMS Core Quality Management systems – Nexus Quality Risk management systems – Nexus Supplier & Material Quality Management systems – Nexus Science & Regulatory Affairs management systems – Claims Show less Provide effectiveness of our systems and process. Developing Functional experts and business system strategies while program managing the deployment of key projects.• Development and deployment of change management within Mars Food Australia. Implementation of processes and metrics to support effective business change.• Business Continuity Manager responsible for the updating of all divisional functional plans and the manufacturing Continuity plan, Co-ordination of the Resiliency round table and final approval of all plans with the Business Continuity leader.• Functional Expert Mentor to ensure a healthy, knowledgeable and engaged functional expert community within Mars Food.• Business Process owner for all of Mars Food Australia corporate systems. The continued changing requirements and efficiency gains from Continuous improvement• S&OP+ step 3 member for the effective planning of MFA operations and supply to meet the ongoing business requirements• Co-pilot the delivery of Inventory and scheduling Improvement initiatives with the Supply Chain Manager• Active member of the MFA Supply Leadership Team responsible for all Supply Chain across the region.• Managing relations and business delivery with business units for total Mars Food responsibilities, representing MFA as part of the ANZ Business Process Team forums. • Business Program Manager of all system led initiatives at Mars Food – These have included Warehouse Management System Upgrade, Handling Unit SAP upgrade, Scheduling Tool Infor implementation.• Project Delivery of Actual Consumption of Bulk Raw materials• Active member of the Mars Food leaders forum at create the space to ensure the success and engagement of all Mars Food Associates Show less • Effective program management of all Mars IS Projects to support the build of a 100Million dollar plus factory build in Bathurst Australia.• Set Clear Critical Success factors for all stages of the project and have them agreed to up front by the Business Steering team.• Become part of the Business Steering team and represent Mars IS at the Bathurst Petcare Steerco meetings.• Development of effective reporting capabilities for Daily operations and S&OP processes• Building effective capability of business associates in the use of all processes and systems.• Monitor all risks of the project• Raise and manage the IT project budget for the successful delivery of the project• Co-ordination of all project managers both within Mars IS and also within the Mars Petcare Business for the successful delivery of all sub projects.• Line Management of 4 associates. Yearly objective setting and continuous focus on Development plans.• Team management and Talent development of ANZ deployment associates through coaching and mentoring.• Leading engagement sessions with broader Mars IS Deployment team Show less • Effective Project Management of SAP Quality and food Safety projects for Mars Petcare and Mars Food Australia.• Set clear Critical Success Factors for the project.• Manage Contractors to provide technical support for the delivery of testing and training• Co-ordination of business and Mars IS Resources• Periodic update of all stakeholders• Effectively manage the SFAR and Budget requirements of the project• Part of the global Functional expert communities in Quality and Food Safety. Show less • Effective Project Management of SAP Plant Maintenance to the Mars Food, Mars Petcare, and Mars Chocolate segments in Both Australia, New Zealand and China.• Successful implementation of the SAP PM module across 4 Factories in Australia, 1 in New Zealand and 3 factories in China.• Working with Global Template teams to deliver the most effective solution for all sites.• Working with a cross functional team of Mars IS and Business Associates co-ordinated the required budget and Project plan• Alignment on Global business processes. All IT operational policies and procedures identified and agreed after the initial requirements/gap review developed and published on the group document management system• The delivery of this project covered the following SAP modules Plant Maintenance, Material Maintenance, Material Requirements Planning and central data. Show less • Overall Resource Management of a team of 8 associates providing Continuous Improvement work for Mars Food, Mars Chocolate and Mars Petcare Australia and New Zealand.• Managing relations and business delivery with business units for total Supply Chain responsibilities • SFAR creation and Budgetary Monitoring and Control• Associate resource allocation and prioritisation.• Examples of projects that were delivered in this time;• Transport Management Review of Mars Petcare, Mars Food, Mars Snackfood. - Including Rate Accrual Setup, Shipment cost document corrections, Levy and surcharge adjustments, Transfer of pallet rate to weight rate (Mars Petcare)• Mars Petcare Distribution Store - Feasibility study on using the web to service Petcare Online Ordering requirements.• Mars Petcare Vendor change Warehousing Wodonga - Consulting for Technical changes required for Linfox• Mars E-Billing Project Management - Technical Lead for E-Invoicing for Woolworths, Technical Lead for ASN for Woolworths, GHPL, Technical Changes for WMS for ASN• SAP Forms Changes - Mars Delivery Note, Mars Invoice, Mars POA• Each of these required a business case analysis and process recommendations as well as project management and implementation strategies. Show less • SAP Inventory Management, From user requirements setup baseline IM configuration for Mars Snack food and Mars Petcare • Quality Conformance and Handling Units, Drove Justification for Mars Batch code on Case (Petcare and Snackfood). Work with business traceability requirements and implement suitable conformance processes for Mars Snackfood. Work with Mars SAP Template team to implement a global Positive release process.• Transport Management - Work with Mars SAP template team to build Pallet space logic into SAP. Work with business and Transport companies to implement EPS style rates for all Snack Transport. A method that allows a mutual benefit for both Carriers and Mars Snack food to optimise Truck efficiency.• Warehouse Management Systems integration and WMS interfaces, I have worked with the integration of 3 different warehouse management systems to SAP. Process design, Interface requirements and System Change requirements. Factory dispatch System Automation. As an extension of the FDS development work completed for Petcare I designed the automated Factory Dispatch process. This help support the reduction of headcount in the dispatch process. Show less WMS System evaluation and recommendationAs part of the WMS role I have been involved in the evaluation of Mars Australia's WMS system. This involved the evaluation of global solutions vs legacy systems and the implementation of process requirements.Implementation of Advanced Shipping Notices with WoolworthsWorking with Logistics Managers across Mars Petcare and Mars Snackfood I designed the processes and project managed the necessary technical changes to our WMS systems and interfaces to Woolworths Implementation of SSCC labels for grocery channelAs a precursor to ASN’s with our customers we were required to implement GS1 approved SSCC labels to all pallets of single SKU palletsImplement Tolas WMS system into Bathurst and Wodonga Domestic and export warehousesProject Management of Technical infrastructure to support WMS system. Wireless access points, routers, switches, Cat5e cabling, ISDN backup connections Show less

  • R&D Functional Expert Regional Senior Manager | Asia Pacific Region

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Traceability Regional Deployment Manager | Asia Pacific Region

    Oct 2018 - Jan 2023

  • Business Process Improvement Manager and Business Continuity Manager

    Jun 2015 - Oct 2018

  • Mars Information Services, Bathurst Factory Program Manager

    Jan 2011 - Jun 2015

  • Mars Information Services, SAP Quality and Food Safety Project Manager

    Dec 2009 - Jan 2011

  • Mars Information Services, SAP Plant Maintenance Project Manager

    Dec 2008 - Dec 2009

  • Mars Information Services, SAP Continuous Improvement Manager

    Nov 2007 - Dec 2008

  • Mars Information Services, Project Manager SAP Logistics and WMS

    Jan 2005 - Nov 2007

  • Business Analyst – Warehouse Management Systems

    Feb 2003 - Jan 2005

  • Systems Analyst

    Jan 2001 - Feb 2003