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since July 2020
Freelancer |
Industry: Consulting
Project Manager & SAP Senior Consultant
Key achievements:
Execute SAP Projects as a freelancer for customers: SAP ECC and S/4HANA
- Migration from ECC to S/4HANA
- Implementierung von SAP IBP
- Carve-In of companies into a central SAP system
- Creating an SAP Template and the international Rollout to Germany, Slovakia, China and Mexico
- Release-Captain in the logistics area during the creation of an SAP Template to be used on 5 continents
- Support Consulting companies in creating / working on customer offers
Period | Customer | Project | Role | SAP modules |
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since 11/2024 | Retailer for gift items with around 350 stores in the DACH region | ensuring regular operations | Interim Department Manager SAP | MM, SD, WM, FI, CO |
08/2024 – 10/2024 | International manufacturer of packaging maschines | Implementation of SAP Logistics in a location in the United States | Interim Project Manager | WM |
12/2023 – 07/2024 | Sabbatical | planned break | ||
06/2023 – 11/2023 | Bio-Rad: Global manufacturer of specialized technological products for the life science research and clinical diagnostic markets | Creation of an SAP template | Release Captain | EWM, LES, GTS |
11/2022 – 05/2023 | International supplier of automobile manufacturers | Develop an SAP template for all locations | Project Manager SAP | MM, SD, PP, LE, FI, CO |
03/2022 – 10/2022 | Lactalis: German subsidiary of the largest milk producer in the world | Consolidation of various SAP systems. The integration of corporate acquisitions is also part of my tasks. | Project Manager IT | MM, SD, PP, LE, FI, CO, HCM |
11/2021 – 12/2021 | Customer of the Healthcare Industry | Collaboration in the implementation of SAP Integrated Business Planning | Consultant for the project | IBP |
05/2021 – 10/2021 | Wipro: Major international SAP implementation services provider | Participate in the preparation of proposals for the following opportunities: – SAP S/4HANA transformation for a large German operator of home improvement stores including definition of a transformation strategy – Global implementation of SAP S/4HANA for a large operator of online marketplaces and subsequent support of the customer with Application Managed Services. – Application Managed Services for an SAP logistics solution of a leading global automotive manufacturer -Rollout of SAP Finance with integration of SAP RMM (Retail for merchandise management) in various European countries for a leading international food discounter – Global transformation of SAP S/4HANA for a leading global manufacturer of cleaning equipment and systems -Implementation of SAP S/4HANA including integration of Salesforce and ServiceMax for a manufacturer of compressor technology, industrial technology, construction technology and mining technology -Assumption of complete IT responsibility (including SAP) for the carve-out of a unit of one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers -Greenfield implementation of SAP S/4HANA EWM in the logistics area of a large German food retailer that plans to offer its logistics services to external customers in the future. | Part of the Bidding-Teams | MM, SD, PP, LE, EWM, FI, CO |
07/2020 – beginning 2021 | Rheinmetall-Group: Middle sized customer from the defense industry | Preparation of remodeling the complete IT-landscape with the topics: – Conversion from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA following the Greenfield-approach – selection of standard-software for access-control, time-management, operational data collection, document management including archiving, management of incoming suppliers invoices, electronical sending of outgoing invoices, purchasing portal to get more efficiency in buying material, connection of CAD-systems, Software-support for export control and customs declarations | Project Manager | MM. SD, PP, LE, FI, CO, HCM, BW |
Syntax Systems GmbH & Co. KG, Weinheim, Germany |
Industry: Consulting
Principal SAP Project Manager
Key achievements:
- Implementation of SAP S/4HANA solutions for customers
November 2018 – June 2019
Daenisches Bettenlager GmbH & Co.KG, Jysk-Group, Flensburg-Handewitt, Germany |
(today Jysk Germany)
Industry: Retail
Head of SAP / Department Manager SAP
Key achievements:
- Disciplinary leadership of 25 Employees
- Operation and further development of the used SAP modules:
– SAP Retail (MM, SD, WM)
– SAP BW
– SAP CAR
– SAP CRM
– SAP Hybris Marketing
– SAP Solution Manager
Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG, Schwarz-Group, Neckarsulm, Germany |
Industry: Retail
Roles:
October 2015 – October 2018: Senior Consultant SAP Retail
February 2018 – July 2018: Project Manager Preparation Conversion of the Lidl-ERP to SAP S/4HANA
Key achievements:
- Project Manager for the preparation of the technical conversion of the Lidl-ERP-ECC-solution to SAP S/4 HANA
- Implementation of the SAP S/4 Model Company for Core Retail
- Concept of the procedure to use in the future solution as much as possible from the
S/4-standard-functionalities - Quality management for the international implementation of SAP for Retail powered by HANA in 28 different countries
- Project Leader Allocations Fresh Products
- Coordination of the change requirements with the responsible international departments
- Doing the needed customizing activities in the area of responsibility
- Creation of concepts for needed software changes and coordinate their implementation with the responsible developers
- Coordination and cooperation in the execution of needed test activities in the area of responsibility
- On-site support for international productive starts
- 3rd-Level-Support for the end users
- Consulting customers out of the Retail area / Collaboration in creating customer-offers
- Project Manager and Solution Architect for the implementation of a Standard-ERP-System at a middle sized Food-Retailer in Italy
Accenture GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany |
Industry: Consulting, System-Integration
- Project manager for different SAP implementations for customers coming from the consumer goods industry (for example located in Denmark)
- Cooperation/ Proposal Lead for the creation of different proposals to customers coming from different industries
- Management and assessment of the associated team members in the projects (up to 40 international colleagues)
Kaufland Information Systems, Schwarz-Group, Weinsberg, Germany |
Industry: Retail
- Project Manager for the implementation of SAP LES (including Pick-by-Voice) in
different foreign-country-locations of Kaufland logistics in Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. There I stayed in total 3 years in the foreign countries - Project Manager for a SAP Release Change (from 4.7 to 6.0) on 28 SAP systems in
7 countries - Management of international project teams with up to 30 team members coming from different countries
- Doing the complete planning activites of big IT projects (including budget calculation and control)
- Organization of user trainings for up to 700 colleagues per location
- Responsible for extensive system test activities
- Leading the activities of productive starts in logistics distribution centres, each with about 100,000 square meters warehouse area.
Salomon Automation GmbH, Dortmund, Germany |
(now SSI Schaefer)
- Leadership for 8 employees (Project-Leaders and Consultants)
- Responsible for cost centres
- Personnel planning
- Leadership of IT-Projects for implementing warehouse management systems with responsibility for costs, turnover, earnings and delivery on time
- Pre-Sales: Creating offers (including offers-calculation)
- Planning of Project budgets
Tengelmann Group, Wiesbaden + Muelheim/Ruhr, Germany |
Roles:
- January 1999 – December 2003: Department Manager Logistics Systems
- January 1993 – December 1998: Project Manager
- November 1991 – December 1992: Programmer
Key achievements:
- Leadership of the associated people in the department and in the projects
- Taking possession of the daily operation (hotline-management, problem-management, error-correction) and development (from the request to the implementation, training and productive starts) for the systems EUROLOG and DISPOS 2 (used for the fresh assortments of the Tengelmann Group)
- Guarantee the daily operation of all IT-systems in the logistics-area (ERP and warehouse management) of the discounter PLUS incl. 1st– and 2nd-level-support with 7 days, 24 hours reachability
- Evaluation of SAP Retail as a possible new system architecture for the Tengelmann Group
- Development of a proposal for a unification of the ERP-systems for the Tengelmann group with the documentation of as-is- and to-be-processes
- Leading of IT projects in the environment ERP systems logistics and distribution
- As-is-process-analysis and developing to-be-processes and their final lockup with the responsible user-departments
- Responsible for the implementation of an ERP-system in Spain, Poland and Czech Republic connected with stays of appr. 1 year in each country. In the countries I lead a project team of up to 25 members
- Participation in the design, development and practice implementation of a self-developed comprehensive ERP system, with interfaces to SAP R/3 and Data Warehouse. The system was used for the planning and the logistics of the entire fruit and vegetable assortment for 3,500 stores in Germany
January 1986 – July 1986
Administrative clerk
EDUCATION, MILITARY SERVICE |
October 1986 – October 1991
Degree: ´Diplom-Kaufmann`(equal to Master of Business Administration)
October 1984 – December 1985
Mandatory 15-month basic military service, Bundeswehr, Germany
August 1982 – July 1984
In-firm training ´Industriekaufmann`(industrial clerk); Lackdraht Union GmbH, Sulingen, Germany
August 1979 – July 1982
Grammar-school ‘Gymnasium Sulingen’, Sulingen, GermanyDegree: ‘Abitur’ (permission to join any University)
LANGUAGE SKILLS |
- German – native speaker
- English – excellent written and spoken
- French – basic knowledge
- Spanish – basic knowledge
TECHNICAL CORE COMPETENCIES |
- Standard software: SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Retail, SAP LES, ALWIS warehouse management, WAMAS warehouse management
- Microsoft Tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Project, Visio
- Atlassian Tools: Jira, Confluence
- Programming: PROGRESS 4GL
- OS-Administration: UNIX, Microsoft Windows
- Database administration: ORACLE, PROGRESS-RDBMS
CERTIFICATION |
06/2015 Certification as Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute
FURTHER EDUCATION |
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
- 2021 – Agile Project Management with Scrum, Kanban and OKR
- 1998 – Artemis – ProjectView
- 2015 – Certification to PMP (Project Management Professional) by PMI
- 2019 – Design Thinking and Challenge Management
- 2001 – Effective presentations
- 1995 – Efficient Projectmanagement
- 2009 – Guide and motivate employees and colleagues
- 2011 – Lead– Control- Motivate
- 2005 – Leading in projects
- 2005 – Management Training – Basics
- 1995 – Moderation
- 2004 – Moderate – convince professionally
- 2021 – PMI-Course: Basics of Disciplined Agile
- 2019 – SAP course ACT100 – SAP Activate Methodology
- 2001 – Suddenly an executive
- 2006 – Time and self-management
SALES OF IT-SERVICES
- 2013 – Delivery Sales School (international training in the USA)
- 2013,2015 – Several IT sales trainings
ORACLE
- 2002 – ORACLE database administration
- 2002 – ORACLE SQL for database changers
PROGRESS programming and database administration
- 1992 – Programming with PROGRESS
- 1994 – PROGRESS System Administration
UNIX system administration
- 1998 – CISCO-Routers – Level II – the depth of IP and IPX
- 1993 – System management with SCO UNIX
- 1994 – TCP/IP and NFS
- 1992 – UNIX – overview / basics / extensions
- 2001 – Workshop OpenUNIX 8
CLOUD SERVICES
- 2021 – Amazon AWS in practice – the big training for beginners
- 2021 –Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Fundamentals for Beginners
- 2021 – Microsoft Azure Operations training
SALESFORCE
- 2021 – Salesforce 101 – Introduction to Salesforce
SAP R/3
- 2014 – An Introduction to SAP HANA / In Memory Data Management
- 2015 – Introduction to Ariba
- 2021 – SAP ABAP Programming – overview
- 2018 – SAP Allocation Management for Retail
- 2017 – SAP Business ByDesign Supply Chain Management
- 2016 – SAP Digital Boardroom in a Nutshell
- 2018 – SAP Promotion Management for Retail
- 1999 – SAP R/3 overview
- 2018 – SAP Screen Personas: Introduction and Building Mobile Applications
- 1999 – SAP-course IRT110: Assortment design
- 1999 – SAP-course IRT120: Procurement and distribution of goods
- 1999 – SAP-course IRT250: Configuration and organization
- 2010 – SAP-course SCM601: Processes in Logistics Execution
- 2010 – SAP-course SCM630: Warehouse management
- 2013 – SAP-course TM100: Processes in SAP Transportation Management
- 2018 – SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell
SAP S/4 HANA
- 2020 – A First Step Towards SAP HANA Query Optimization
- 2019 – Agile Project Delivery with Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager
- 2020 – Building Tomorrow’s ERP with SAP S/4HANA
- 2018 – Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA
- 2020 – Delivering Value with Intelligent Innovations in SAP S/4HANA
- 2021 – Efficient DevOps with SAP
- 2018 – Introduction to SAP S/4HANA
- 2019 – Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell
- 2021 – Getting Started with SAP Fieldglass
- 2021 – Basics SAP Authorizations incl. Fiori
- 2021 – Guide Your SAP S/4HANA Project to Success
- 2020 – How to Deliver a Great User Experience with SAP S/4HANA
- 2016 – Implementation of SAP S/4HANA
- 2020 – Implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud with the Central Business Configuration Capability
- 2019 – Information Security Management in a Nutshell
- 2018 – Innovative logistics processes in SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management
- 2017 – Introduction to SAP Screen Personas
- 2020 – Key Functional Topics in a System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA
- 2020 – Key Technical Topics in a System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA
- 2018 – PMR Fiori Manage Promotional Offers
- 2020 – Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud
- 2018 – Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA
- 2019 – Reimagine Customer Experience with SAP C/4HANA
- 2021 – SAP: Supply Chain Logistics & Transportation in S/4HANA
- 2015 – SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA in a Nutshell
- 2017 – SAP BW/4HANA in a Nutshell
- 2019 – SAP Enable Now Framework
- 2021 – SAP Extended Warehouse Management – Fundamentals in SAP EWM
- 2020 – SAP Fiori Overview: Design, Develop und Deploy
- 2019 – SAP Leonardo – An Introduction to Blockchain
- 2018 – SAP Leonardo – Design-Led Engagements Demystified
- 2018 – SAP Leonardo – Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise
- 2019 – SAP Leonardo – IoT for the Intelligent Enterprise
- 2020 – SAP PLM in Process Industries
- 2018 – SAP Retail Omnichannel Commerce
- 2015 – SAP S/4HANA – Deep Dive
- 2015 – SAP S/4HANA – Use Cases
- 2021 – SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain Management Fundamentals
- 2021 – SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology
- 2017 – SAP Solution Manager for SAP S/4HANA Implementation in Nutshell
- 2021 – SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Testplan Management, Test Execution
- 2021 – Say Goodbye to Downtime with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- 2021 – The Complete SAP Analytics Cloud Course 2021
- 2021 – This is SAP Fieldglass
- 2017 – Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios
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OTHER
- 2018 – Blockchain – Hype or Innovation?
- 2018 – Business Englisch – Berlitz Level 6 CEF B 1.2
- 2013 – Certified Retail Industry Generalist
- 2019 – Digital Transformation Track
- 2016 – Imagine IoT
- 2017 – In-Memory Data Management
- 1993 – Isotec-methods of requirements analysis
- 2019 – Leadership in Digital Transformation
- 2005 – Logistics Basics
- 2002 – System administrator for the warehouse management system ALWIS