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Location: Binghamton, NY
Business: As a leading independent foodservice distributor, Maines has been delivering exceptional products and customer service since 1919.
Task: Dominus Systems had the role of Vertex Consultant and Lead on the SAP Project to implement the Vertex O Series for Amsted Rails operations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico in 2011. Maines is a privately-held distributor of paper & food products to restaurants, including Burger King and the Darden group of restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52 and Eddie V's). Maines Sales were over $3B for 2011.
- Complete Configuration & Customization in SAP ECC6.0 & Vertex O
Series version 6.0 on Windows Servers. Work included configuration of AR/SD
and FI/CO Modules, and Customization of the Taxability Manager in O Series to automate tax categories like food and paper products for the 32 states where Maines does business. Maines has 14 companies that needed configuration.
- The project also included ABAP development in SAP and creation of Tax Assist module configuration to automate tax rules & exceptions in the Taxability Manager for food & beverage, chemicals.
- Performed debugging through turning on logs in the RFC call, Function call, the Sic.log and Web Services property changes. Also debugging by stepping through the ABAP programs with stops placed in the code.
- Installed and configured the Tax Returns Module Release 9. Performed initial setup of the company information and setup of tax returns. Tested with data feeds from Vertex O and Vertex Q.
- Training of tax department and documentation of Vertex Setup, SAP Setup in SD/AR and FI/CO as it relates to the Vertex System, and Tax Returns.
Bobby MacLean worked directly with Derek Starr, the Tax Manager at Maines: "Bobby MacLean was able to categorize all of our food products within SAP, and using flexfields successfully setup the taxability matrix using SAP’s user-exit, and Vertex’s Tax Assist and Taxability Manager modules. The taxability of all of our products and we have over 100,000 products is easy to maintain with Vertex O Series now. Our tax General Ledgers within SAP reconciled to the penny with the Vertex reports; this was not the case before at Maines!" >>Visit this site...
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Location: Chicago, IL.
Business: Industry Leaders in wheels, bearings, side frames &
bolsters, and rail anchors. For more than 100 years, heavy haulers count on Amsted Rail to perform in the world’s toughest rail environments.
Task: Dominus Systems had the role of Vertex Consultant and Lead
on the SAP Project to implement the Vertex O Series for Amsted Rails operations
in the U.S., Canada and Mexico in 2011. Amsted Rail manufactures the under carriage of a rail car and is a privately held global company with sales of $4B per year.
- Complete Configuration & Customization in SAP ECC6.0
& Vertex O Series version 6.0 on IBM Servers. Work included
configuration of AR/SD, AP/MM and FI/CO Modules, and Customization of the Taxability Manager in O Series to automate the business tax rules.
- The project also included ABAP development in SAP and creation
of Tax Assist module configuration to automate tax rules & exceptions for the automation of taxability of purchases for Plant Operations. GST, PST, HST and QST in Canada and VAT tax imposition rules were setup in Mexico.
- Performed debugging through turning on logs in the RFC call,
Function call, the Sic.log and Web Services property changes. Also debugging by stepping through the ABAP
programs with stops placed in the code. >>Visit this site...
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Location: Coral Gables, FL .
Business: MasTec is a leading specialty contractor for communications companies, utilities and governments throughout the United States. MasTec designs, builds,
installs, maintains and upgrades infrastructure that is the backbone of the nation's telephone, high-speed Internet, electric, water, sewer and natural gas as well as provides installation and maintenance services for satellite and cable television services.
Task: Bobby MacLean had the role of Vertex Project Lead on the Oracle Financials 11i Project. Mastec, a 2 billion dollar company, has grown through acquisition and has many divisions that are run independently, including Energy Group, Power Partners, Central Office, USG and Essential Services. Mastec’s Vertex System needed to be upgraded and completely redesigned due to the complexity of the original system, and transition of personnel in the tax department.
-Enhanced and redesigned the API’s for both the Project Accounting/Accounts Receivable and the Accounts Payable Interfaces to Vertex. This included PL/SQL enhancements and customizations using DFF’s.-Performed the Upgrade to the latest version of Vertex in Oracle, including database creation, installation and creation of the database objects, rate, geocode and TDM database migrations. -Completely redesigned the Vertex Tax Decision Maker (TDM) Database that contains the Division, Project, Jurisdiction, Customer/Vendor tax exceptions and simplified it from over 1 million records down to a few thousand (through analysis, Product Hierarchy Simplification, Company/Division simplification and data cleansing).Customizations to the API’s was required for this effort. The TDM Database has become unmanageable and was the source of most of their tax problems for all of their divisions.. >>Visit this site...
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Business: MasTec is a leading specialty contractor for communications companies, utilities and governments throughout the United States. MasTec designs, builds,
installs, maintains and upgrades infrastructure that is the backbone of the nation's telephone, high-speed Internet, electric, water, sewer and natural gas as well as provides installation and maintenance services for satellite and cable television services.
Task: Bobby MacLean had the role of Vertex Project Lead on the Oracle Financials 11i Project. Mastec, a 2 billion dollar company, has grown through acquisition and has many divisions that are run independently, including Energy Group, Power Partners, Central Office, USG and Essential Services. Mastec’s Vertex System needed to be upgraded and completely redesigned due to the complexity of the original system, and transition of personnel in the tax department.
-Enhanced and redesigned the API’s for both the Project Accounting/Accounts Receivable and the Accounts Payable Interfaces to Vertex. This included PL/SQL enhancements and customizations using DFF’s.-Performed the Upgrade to the latest version of Vertex in Oracle, including database creation, installation and creation of the database objects, rate, geocode and TDM database migrations. -Completely redesigned the Vertex Tax Decision Maker (TDM) Database that contains the Division, Project, Jurisdiction, Customer/Vendor tax exceptions and simplified it from over 1 million records down to a few thousand (through analysis, Product Hierarchy Simplification, Company/Division simplification and data cleansing).Customizations to the API’s was required for this effort. The TDM Database has become unmanageable and was the source of most of their tax problems for all of their divisions.. >>Visit this site...
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Location: Seattle,WA
Business: Nordstrom, Inc. is one of the nation's leading fashion specialty retailers, with 238 U.S. stores located in 31 states.
Tasks: Dominus Systems was the technical Lead on the SAUTR Project at Nordstrom in 2008. The Sales and Use Tax Replacement (SAUTR) project comprised replacing the Legacy version of Vertex with the web-based O Series version of Vertex for Sales & Use Tax, including the Vertex POS Solution, Vertex LITE and Vertex BCI. In addition the Vertex Reporting & Analysis Module was used to generate custom reports. >>Visit this site...
Business: Nordstrom, Inc. is one of the nation's leading fashion specialty retailers, with 238 U.S. stores located in 31 states.
Tasks: Dominus Systems was the technical Lead on the SAUTR Project at Nordstrom in 2008. The Sales and Use Tax Replacement (SAUTR) project comprised replacing the Legacy version of Vertex with the web-based O Series version of Vertex for Sales & Use Tax, including the Vertex POS Solution, Vertex LITE and Vertex BCI. In addition the Vertex Reporting & Analysis Module was used to generate custom reports. >>Visit this site...