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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
In Detail I was involved as a Freelancer in the following projects:
| Period | Customer | Project | Role | SAP modules | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/2025 | Sabbatical | planned break | |||
| 11/2024 - 02/2025 | ![]() | DEPOT - Gries Deco Company - Retailer for gift items with around 300 stores in the DACH region | Ensuring regular operations | Interim Department Manager SAP | MM, SD, CAR, WM, FI, CO |
| 08/2024 - 10/2024 | ![]() | SYNTEGON - 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 | ![]() | BOOSTER PRECISION COMPONENTS - 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 | ![]() | Fresenius - 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
Further details to my projects with Syntax
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:
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October 2015 – October 2018: Senior Consultant SAP Retail
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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
Further details to my projects with Lidl January 2015 – September 2015
Wincor Nixdorf Retail Consulting GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany |
(now Diebold Nixdorf)
Industry: ConsultingSenior Consultant SAP Key achievements:
- 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
Further details to my projects with Wincor Nixdorf
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)
Further details to my projects with Accenture May 2007 – October 2012
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 |
Industry: Retail
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
Further details to my projects with Tengelmann
January 1986 – July 1986
Wagenfelder Spinning Group, Wagenfeld, Germany |
Textile Industry
Administrative clerk
Lackdraht Union GmbH, Sulingen, Germany |
Metal Industry
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












