Richard J. Cimino
Principal, Advisory
Rick leads the national SAP practice at KPMG in the U.S. He is based out of the firm’s Philadelphia, PA office. Rick has over 31 years of consulting experience focused on implementing SAP for the manufacturing, chemicals, oil & gas, and life sciences industries. Rick was previously the Technology Lead for KPMG’s Industrial Manufacturing practice. Rick has extensive experience in successfully leading & managing large-scale, complex global SAP implementation programs spanning the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Rick has successfully led many business transformational change initiatives enabled by SAP at companies of all sizes. This included Design thru Build, Test, Deploy / Roll-out, & On-going Production Support. Rick has also spent a significant amount of time leading SAP front-end loading initiatives such as: project planning, scoping, & analysis; SAP work effort & cost estimating; SAP business case cost justification & benefits identification / realization; & SAP fit assessment / gap analysis initiatives, as prerequisites to SAP implementation programs.