The Freelancer has 10+ years working experience as functional consultant SAP SD and project manager in the SAP area. From his role as Solution Consultant at SAP Germany he brings experience of large-scale SAP implementation and roll-out projects with clients across Europe. As inhouse Business Analyst SAP SD at a consumer goods multinational (36,000 employees, 12bn EUR sales) he brings a broad experience with SAP in the context of a large global corporate IT department. This includes various roles including business analyst and functional consultant, project manager, global solution owner. In these roles he covered the full system lifecycle in a large enterprise context with ?build? and ?run? type of work, ensuring efficient maintenance and support with service management

/ ITIL. He worked on all kind of SAP project types such as greenfield implementations, localization and rollout, system integrations, organizational restructuring, mergers and carve-out, automation and improvements as well as ongoing maintenance and support. In his roles, communication with stakeholders has been very important. He held the role as Solution Owner Sales Processing being the main contact for business stakeholders and key users for improvement projects.

Project Examples - SAP

New Business Model: support the business organization in introducing a new business model with service based sales for medical devices. Custom solution using standards for consignment stock, and tracking of medical device numbers (serial numbers), contracts, service fees and periodical billing. Specification of custom built ABAP reports to support daily processes for this business.

Trade Conditions: Harmonization across European business division of on- and off-invoice discounts for better trade spend reporting. Analysis of current pricing logic and developing a target pricing template with new pricing procedures, conditions, CO-PA value fields and material master data fields. Cutover planning and migration of pricing conditions and open documents.

S/4 HANA Business Transformation: integration of CRM with SD, MDG, XI. Project planning with work packages, establish and moderate workshop series with business and MDG team to harmonize and design the new way of working. Review specifications, RICEFWs, organize testing and training. Represent CRM integration topics

CO2 Calculation: custom solution for CO2 calculation and reporting based on transportation mode, shipping point and customer address. Automatic updates of distance based on web API. Calculation on document and line item level via volumes and statistical pricing. Global reports for sustainability reporting towards headquarter. Key user training.

Tax Audit and new Intercompany Scenarios: To comply with EU regulations and prevent uncompliant direct delivery scenarios in cross-border business, a solution was developed to block certain scenarios, secure master data completeness (VAT registration no.) and corresponding notes on delivery and invoice documents.

Existing business scenarios were set up according to new company agreements Initially, external auditors were supported in their investigation by deriving

relevant business scenarios, exporting relevant mass data for audit purposes. Reports for accounting department were created to facilitate ongoing monitoring and audits.

Company Code Split: Split of factory from its warehouse into two legal entities. Customizing SD/MM for new entity, setup of new intercompany processes. Develop LSMW and ABAP for migration and conversion of master data, stock migration, and migration of open orders.

Greenfield SAP implementation: consultant for SD area including process analysis and requirements specification with business stakeholders of local sales organizations. Organize workshops to define business blueprint based on harmonized processes incl. business process master list and process flow. Define client and transport concept, Authorization concept based on job profiles and implementation of template roles and derived roles for countries SAP SD customizing, specification of forms, go live preparation, migration and cut-over

New SAP architecture with SOA: Definition of target architecture for a SOA based architecture with a standard core (SAP) and flexible solution for individualized functionality of the local sales organizations to reduce running costs and maintenance costs. Defining scope (process cut) covered by SAP vs. developed solution

Project Examples - Process Automation

Project: Customer Service

Role: Developer, Support and Quality Assurance

Tasks:

• Automation of contract handling process, starting from PDF document, maintaining contracts in custom web application, creating master data in SAP, adjusting contract data and price conditions in SAP, controlled human-robot interaction for exception cases, reporting
• monitoring and operational support for productive automation processes
• improvement of master robot template and overall orchestration, including pro-active alerts and license optimization

Technology:

UiPath: Automation Suite, Document Understanding, Action Center, VB.Net, JIRA, SAP (MDM, SD), Adobe PDF, web apps, Power BI

Project FinTech

Role: Solution Architect, Developer, Business Analyst

Tasks:

• data collection and cleansing of master data, ML module for clustering and sentiments analysis, API integrations, rule-based decision system, extensive testing and simulation framework for rapid prototyping

Technology:

UiPath: Automation Suite, AI Center, Communications Mining, JAVA, Python, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, REST-API, JIRA, Eclipse,

Project Master Data

Role: Solution Architect, Lead Developer

Tasks:

• automating substantial parts of vendor creation process across systems, incl. service management, SAP, external web applications (tax id, bank check, address, D&B, credit information, company information) to validate data, prevent duplicates and complement data

Technology:

Blue Prism platform, JIRA, ServiceNow, SAP (MM), web applications

Project Accounting

Role: Solution Architect, Lead Developer

Tasks:

• supporting the process of incoming dunning letter for accounts receivable by checking status and conditions in InvoiceTrack and SAP, communicating results and exceptions based on various scenarios with invoice recipient and approvers, accounts receivable department and external vendors

Technology:

Blue Prism platform, JIRA, InvoiceTrack, SAP (FI), Outlook, Power BI

Project Purchasing

Role: Solution Architect, Lead Developer

Tasks:

• reconciliation of purchase order status across different systems, involving owner of purchase order to confirm status when required, providing relevant information for efficient decision, then updating purchase order when needed

Technology:

Blue Prism platform, JIRA, SAP (MM), Ariba, Outlook