Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
I am a Senior Freelance EDI & ERP Integration Consultant with over 20 years of international experience across Europe and ASEAN. My expertise lies at the intersection of Business and IT, where I lead complex B2B integration and ERP transformation programs across Supply Chain, Finance, and Logistics environments. I specialize in: • SAP S/4HANA migrations and EDI onboarding • Multi-country e-invoicing compliance (EU regulatory frameworks) • WMS and 3PL integrations • Cross-border trading partner onboarding • Harmonization of EDI frameworks across regions Over the past decade, I have led large-scale integration initiatives across 15+ countries, onboarding more than 120 trading partners and designing scalable EDI architectures supporting hundreds of message flows. With an operational background in Supply Chain and Logistics, I bring a dual perspective: I understand business constraints as deeply as I understand system architecture. I have worked across multinational environments including: PPG Industries L'Oréal Reckitt Benckiser Multilingual (French, English, Italian), experienced in multicultural teams, and comfortable operating in matrix organizations. I am currently open to: ✔ Senior freelance EDI / SAP integration missions ✔ ERP transformation leadership roles ✔ Cross-border digital supply chain programs Based in Italy and operating across EMEA and APAC Specialties: SAP S/4HANA | SAP ECC | Oracle R12 | JD Edwards | EDIFACT | XML | AS2 | Seeburger BIS | e-Invoicing | WMS Integration | ERP Migration | Digital Supply Chain | B2B Architecture | Change Management
B2B EDI support and services consultant to PPG Europe Middle-East Africa and Asia Pacific. The company is registered in France but I am settled in Alessandria Italy and working from here as an EDI and SAP Consultant. • The mission is extremely similar to my responsibilities while B2B Business Analyst : i.e. the interchange of business information and documents in electronic format between PPG and its Trading Partners (Customers, Suppliers, Logistic Providers, Banks and Service Providers). But with a broader brush. • Acting as a Facilitator between my clients : the PPG Business Units / Regions requesting a B2B implementation and the Service Provider (Seeburger) for implementing the technical solution. • ACHIEVEMENTS: • Project REVOCOAT. SAP S4 HANA and EDI Onboarding. Transition from ERP SAGE to SAP S/4 HANA for a PPG Business unit. Countries in Scope: France, Spain and Marocco. 120 trading partners onboarded, and 500 messages exchanged. • SDI Fattura PA : Italian mandatory E-Invoicing solution for all PPG Business Units. • ARO-AUC / ARO-ACP / ARO-PMC : a trans-European web-invoicing project from the PPG automotive, aerospace and marine coating businesses consisting in setting up 11 standard Oracle based XML Invoices and 2 stand SAP based Invoices across Europe and legal archiving services with service provider Anachron. Countries in Scope : Germany, Spain, France, France Aerospatiale, Great-Britain; GB-Kansai; Italy, Poland, Portugal (2 formats) , Turkey , UAE • DSV SOLUTIONS SPAIN : a WMS harmonized solution kicked off between Architectural Division of PPG in Spain and its third party logistic providers. With the additional functionality of being a standard WMS EDI message format on 9 different types of messages which can be plugged into any new 3rd party provider without further customization. • WEB-SERVICES : EDI adapted to Webservices and E-Commerce with Clients such as AMAZON, CDISCOUNT, MANOMANO, MANOMANOPRO, TRUFFAUT, FRANCE ABRIS, BRICO DEPOT.
B2B EDI support and services consultant to PPG Europe Middle-East Africa and Asia Pacific. The company is registered in France but I am settled in Chiang Mai -Thailand - and working from here as an EDI and SAP Consultant. • The mission is extremely similar to my responsibilities while B2B Business Analyst : i.e. the interchange of business information and documents in electronic format between PPG and its Trading Partners (Customers, Suppliers, Logistic Providers, Banks and Service Providers). But with a broader brush. • Acting as a Facilitator between my clients : the PPG Business Units / Regions requesting a B2B implementation and the Service Provider (Seeburger) for implementing the technical solution. • ACHIEVEMENTS: • ARO-ANACHRON: a trans-European web-invoicing project from the PPG automotive refinish business consisting in setting up 12 standard XML Invoices across Europe and legal archiving services with service provider Anachron. Countries in Scope : Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain; Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland) • PMC WMS : an ASEAN setup for the Marine Coatings Division of PPG to transfer WMS EDI messages between PPG and its 3party logistic providers. Kicked off in Indonesia (LINC & DB SCHENKER INDONESIA) , followed by Singapore (MARQUIS 3PL), Thailand (LESCHACO), now rolling out to Malaysia. • SAIMA AVANDERO : a WMS harmonized solution kicked off between Architectural Division of PPG in Italy (PPG UNIVER) and its third party logistic providers. With the additional functionality of being a standard WMS EDI message format on 9 different types of messages which can be plugged into any new 3rd party provider without further customization. • MAESTRO : the grouping of two physical warehouses (Norbert Dentressangle Logistics - XPO and ID LOGISTICS GROUP - Genlis ) and the fusion of the EDI WMS specificities of Trade, Wholesale and Retail business requirements.
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Job function: Part of the Business/Function Consulting track within the IT function, this positions' primary role is to partner with business units / functional groups to clarify and communicate business requirements, assuring products and services are aligned with business needs. Incumbent to become business specialists and technology generalists, providing an array of services such as business process improvement, priority-setting facilitation, gatekeeper of proper EDI standards across EMEA and broker IT and contract services. Job Requirements: • Ability to rapidly assimilate assigned business area's products and processes • Knowledge and experience in gathering requirements, functional design, and working with business processes • Understanding of how IT affects an organization and ability to link it to redesigned business processes • Good technical knowledge and ability to express complex technical concepts in terms that are understandable to the business • Strong analytical and conceptual skills • Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills • Strong oral and written communication skills, including technical writing • Track record of participation on IT project teams • Strong systems and process orientation skills • Must be able to work without close supervision • Problem solving capabilities • Pro-activity • Knowledge on business processes involved in B2B flows is required (Order To Cash, Procure To Pay, Warehouse & Distribution and Finance) • Basic Knowledge in some of the main ERPs modules involved in B2B integration flows is recommended but not mandatory (ORACLE: Order Management, Account Receivable, Shipping -- SAP: Sales and Distribution, Logistics, FICO) • Knowledge on ERPs module and transactions used to control B2B flow is recommended • Capability to query data in the ERP database • Understand Company’s strategy and market’s direction in order to build added value solutions