Slaithwaite, England, United Kingdom
Strong SAP and digital techno-functional and leadership management skillset. In depth technical knowledge in SAP (including S/4 HANA) Sales and Logistics (SD/MM/LE), CRM (Sales and Service) and ABAP OO. Profound expertise in SAP PM/CS/FI/CO, middleware, SAP BW, SAP Hybris C4C, Web & Digital integration via ABAP/4 and OO, EDI/ALE, SAP Gateway, data architecture and migrations. Multiple full life cycles of complex SAP and digital development and international large-scale SAP rollout projects in leading technical roles as SAP Sales, Logistic and ABAP solution architect as well as in leadership capacities as Project (Agile and Waterfall), Program and SAP Centre of Excellence Manager. Expert in handling technically complex business processes and recovery of problem projects. Native German/ fluent business English. At ease in collaborating closely with CxO’s and various management and staff levels as well as with SI partners, consultants and developers in multi-cultural environments. My passion is to deliver future proof business focused SAP solutions that are built on a technically solid but agile software architecture. I enjoy challenges, learning new technologies and motivating teams to maximise benefits and their outputs.
I am a versatile and dynamic Senior Techno-Functional SAP Sales, Logistics, CRM/e-commerce and ABAP Consultant that has successfully implemented multiple full life cycles of complex digital and SAP development and international large-scale rollout projects in leading technical roles as SAP Sales, Logistic and ABAP solution architect as well as in leadership capacities as Project/Program and SAP Centre of Excellence Manager. For over 20 years SAP has been a passion for me and I possess in depth technical specialist knowledge of the SAP S/4 HANA/ECC/CRM Sales and Logistics modules (SAP SD/MM/LE, SAP CRM Sales and Service), Web & Digital integration via ABAP/4 and OO, EDI/ALE, SAP Gateway, data architecture and migrations. I also have a profound expertise in touching modules and systems like PM/CS/FI/CO, SAP BW, SAP Hybris C4C etc. Due to my strong techno-functional and management skillset I am often called in to resolve issues around technically complex business processes and recover problem projects. I am a native German with fluent English with strong international senior stakeholder management experience so that I am at ease in collaborating with CxO’s, various management and staff levels as well as with SI partners, consultants and developers in multi-cultural environments to drive things forward and inspire teams. My broad and in-depth technical knowledge and business acumen helps me to bridge gaps and “translate” between business leaders, operational business users and technical experts in the SAP and web/digital world. I have 15+ years SAP experience in customer facing leadership capacities managing teams of 25+, budgets of more than €3.5 million and user bases of 1500+ in multifaceted system landscapes. My passion is to deliver future proof business focused SAP solutions that are built on a technically solid but agile software architecture. I enjoy challenges, learning new technologies and motivating teams to maximise benefits and their outputs.
Project: SAP S/4 HANA Greenfield Implementation (world-wide) based on SAP Best Practice Processes and latest SAP S/4 HANA Technology and functionality. Company: SYSMEX EUROPE (Hamburg) • Medical Equipment (Diagnostics, Life Science and Medical Robotics) • The Sysmex Corporation is one of the most innovative companies in health care equipment & services and holds a leading position in its global markets (Top5). My Role: SAP Techno-Functional Consulting and SAP Business Process Solution design in the European OTC (Order to Cash) stream of the project. I was responsible for Process design and configuration of key OTC processes using SAP Best Practice and for the techno-functional Analysis of complex issues related to OTC and Logistic processes (incl. Debugging, process review and redesign). Accomplishments: • Multiple successful Solution designs and implementations of technically complex business processes. • Solution design/Configuration of the intercompany processes (End to end: Pricing and Logistics process SD/MM, Documents flows (IDocs), Development of BADi’s, FI integration) • Solution design/Configuration of SAP Condition Contract Management for Sales Rebates, Sales Commissions and Royalty payments (incl. Settlement Management) • SAP Business Partner Management - Resolution of technical issues and improvement of process (incl. SAP MDG) • Solution Design/Configuration of SAP Advanced Returns Management (Returns process, third party Returns and returnable packaging) • Successful set up, go live and rollout of all OTC processes in all EMEA countries and to African and Arabic region. • Carried out solution design, configuration, analysis of technically complex issues in SAP S/4 using SAP Configuration, Debugging, ABAP OO /BADI/BRF+ developments and successfully set them live. Environment: SAP S/4 HANA, SAP ECC6, ABAP OO, BRF+, SAP Fiori, NetWeaver, ALE/EDI/IDocs, SAP Solution Manager, MS Dynamics, CSV/GxP, JSOX
The Heraeus Group is a leading international family-owned portfolio company which includes businesses in the environmental, electronics, health industries and industrial applications sectors. In the 2019 financial year, Heraeus generated revenues of €22.4 billion with approximately 14,900 employees in 40 countries. Project: SAP MDG Rollout and Hypercare Support (Heraeus Group, Hanau) Strategical SAP Business process and System Standardisation project including Master Data standardisations via SAP MDG (SAP Magellan project) Role: My role included the review and analysis of SAP MDG system, process and interface issues around SAP Business Partner Management with view to stabilize and improve the system and MDM process setup. (including integration with SAP backend and improvement of SAP Customer Vendor Integration (SAP CVI) processes) Accomplishment: - Incident, Change and Problem Management of SAP MDG Business Partner Master Data Management processes and SAP class and characteristics maintenance. Reduced SAP Business Partner related Incidents to close to zero by applying multiple root cause fixes. - Multiple successful improvements of highly complex technical process issues covering MDM process, SAP MDG, Web Dynpro applications, SAP Workflow, BRF+. SAP ECC, SAP CVI and more - Configuration in SAP MDG, SAP ECC and SAP Web Dynpro applications Environment: SAP MDG, BRF+, SAP ECC6 EHP7, ABAP OO, SAP Workflow, SAP NetWeaver, Web Dynpro, ALE/EDI/IDocs, SAP Solution Manager, GxP Environment
Project: Digital Transformation project incl. SAP S/4 HANA Greenfield implementation Project requirement was to keep a S/4 HANA and SAP ECC legacy system that contained a lot of customer own developments running in parallel Role: Cross between Techno-functional and project management role which included the review, architecture and set up of the cross-system master data maintenance process including design of the technical distribution and migration. I was also responsible for the design of the Master Data Governance workflows and the project management of the Master data management (MDM) project. Accomplishments: Full review of Master Data Management processes for objects Business Partner (customer, vendor and employee) and Material Delivered Migration concept to convert business partner from multiple country individual SAP ECC customer and vendor objects into one central S/4 HANA business partner object Carried out SAP S/4 and SAP ECC analysis and designed cross system master data maintenance process Project management of Master Data Management project team Configuration in SD/MM/HR and ALE/EDI Environment SAP S/4 HANA 1909, SD/MM, OTC, PTP, ALE/EDI/IDocs, SAP Solution Manager 7.2
Project: SAP Intercompany pricing business process redesign for OTC (Order to Cash) and P2P (Purchase to Pay) My role was in summary a techno-functional SD/MM role including project management tasks - Designed technical solution architecture for the process - Carried out complex configurations in SAP SD, MM - Development of Badis/ User exits using ABAP OO - Project Management of the development, tests, cut over and post go live support. Achievements: -Successful implementation of a completely new Intercompany pricing process template in a very complex environment covering subsidiaries spread all over the world. -Functional design and technical implementation of the solution using customising (condition records, pricing procedures, exclusion groups, etc.) and ABAP/4 OO development (BADI development & pricing requirements) Environment: SAP S/4 HANA SD, MM, FI/CO, Intercompany Pricing, ABAP OO, BADI/User exit techniques, EDI/IDocs, SAP Solution Manager 7.2 (CharM, Incident management and Focus build)
Project: Logistic processes Review and improvement (including Interfaces to the WAMAS Warehouse Management System – managed via SAP AIF) My role was a mix of Logistics (MM, EWM) Business process analyst and architect, technical SAP AIF Interface process analyst and Project manager. Tasks: - Error analysis and process corrections in the MM, LE, EWM, (APO) and SAP AIF, EDI/ALE IDoc area - Project management and coordination with near shore team members (Italy) - Logistics process solution design including configuration in SD/MM/SAP AIF and ABAP OO development Achievements: - Successfully resolved all major business impacting issues within 3 months. - Decreased operational workload for the business power users to a minimum as the SAP AIF interface errors reduced close to zero and the business processes are now much smoother to handle a consequence Environment: SAP S/4 HANA SD/MM/eWM, P2P, SAP AIF, ALE/EDI/IDocs, ABAP 00, SAP Solution Manager 7.2, WAMAS (Ext WMS system)