• partial Project Manager (Teilprojektleiter) for procurement, logistics and batches ? scope & capacities tracking, providing guidance at issue resolution, focused on migration topics and issues as well as EHS, hazardous goods management and DMS
• feasibility & PoC on PP-PI with X-Steps, migration approach from recipe to PP routings
• quick prototyping on GTS, client stopped implementation after 3 months

• Conceptual work / pre-study / Explore / realization for moving a warehouse, switch to S4H and integration into existing distribution network for spare parts (eSPP solution); pre-study/feasibility concept for GTS, Integration to MM and SD, developed concept and solution for Kitting in warehouse with special consideration of ATP constraints ? lead versus optional components with different usage probabilities and their common use in sales and in-house kitting components under Supply Protection versus components which are not
• Special solution for ?triangle? traffic ? procured parts, which are not to be delivered to warehouse but to subcontractor and pre-packer ? with custom ATP solution.

• Explore Phase PP-PI, PP & QM (part time & 95% remote) ? Manufacturing Project Lead for Production Value Chain ? Shop Floor Control, monthly Planning and Production Master Data
• Special topics included PI sheets with X Steps (process description and value recording within several process steps within the operations, batch inheritance and derivation, GxP relevant documentation (EHS, DMS, HazMat) and special QM and capacity planning requirements.
• Developed integrative scenario with IBP/OBP and PP / PP-PI (incl. X-Steps)

• Team Manager (7 Members) S4H SAP Logistics, Procurement & Production ? PP/PP-PI (Recipes, MDG) +XSteps & MM, SD, MDG, PLM ? including coaching of team
• participation on Release Management Sessions

• Manufacturing Team Lead for Manufacturing Value Chain, Sales and Operational Planning, Production Shop Floor Control and Production Master Data - QM, PP, PLM, PP-PI/X-Steps, PP/DS - Explore, Design & Realize phases ? part time & 85% remote QM ? me, PP and ePP/DS - 2 other consultants part time in the team), coaching of 3 consultants and 8 planners
• Rapid prototyping of GTS solution with Atlas/Seeburger; client postponed implementation
• Analysis of effectivity and added value of ?Segment Planning? (existing custom solution) in an MTO Scenario
• Reviewed special MRP and SOP scenarios
• Release Management for Manufacturing/Logistics
• Detailed analysis of existing custom solution for polymer production and potential value increase with S4H integration into PP / PPDS
• Analysis of current solution for Global Service Stream and proposal for Service / Spare parts planning

• Focus on Interfaces for package handling and truck positions and arrival notifications
• Also involved in all relevant material handling processes, e.g. pre-packaging and delivery to construction sites with aspects of seasonality.

• lead od small team (4 members) for prototype development for drinks fill out line capacity evaluation and order sequence planning with external AI (Potassco, open source solver) 
• project delayed and then subsequently cancelled

Supporting a US PP rollout for Romer (Austrian pharma company (S4H on cloud).

• Overall, process ownership in Greenfield implementation in Eastern Europe for analysis, design realisation and testing. 
• Full configuration on Visualisation tools including scheduling Planning board and heuristics design. 
• Optimization engine for one location design for setup minimization considered/in scope. 
• PoC & demo work for PP-PI/XSteps and electronic PI Sheet for coffee operations. 
• Also managed issues on EHS, Material origin and material storage conditions in WM (Food Compliance)

• Initiated and coordinated installation of a test room for manufacturing & logistics for testing all label printing and scan related processes. Checked current solution in Capacity planning and advised in improvements using PPP/DS Capacity Planning and Optimizer. 
• Prototyped in Test Environment and demonstrated feasibility. 
• Evaluated and quality checked Change Requests for reporting in SAP HANA and estimated efforts. 
• Supervised programming efforts (Scrum) for PLM-SAP HANA Interface (Windchill & .Riess) for Engineering BoMs and Material transfer. 
• Also involved in Release Change preparations. 
• Issue resolution in the process of truck entry and positioning / warehouse door allocation

SAP SD, TM & PP Solution Architect / Consultant / partial project ownership for manufacturing for Quarries, Emulsion- and Asphalt plants (report to client director with budget responsibility), lead of team with 12 members

• Greenfield Project ? SAP HANA Implementation with full Fiori Apps: Project Leader, Solution Architect & ownership (time, quality and budget) for MM, SD (ETO for some parts, also with TM Integration incl. VSR Optimizer), PP with ATP and SAP AVC (Super-BoMs, Super Routing, characteristics, Sales Configuration of Product), production relevant FI/CO, PP-PC and some CO-PA aspects. 
• Developing Global Project-, Test-, and Rollout plans, presenting solutions to steering committee and holding Milestone and Status meetings with team-leads and Stakeholders. 
• Managing overall project execution. 
• Full Lifecycle Implementation ? responsible for 100 plants. 
• Providing leadership for custom developments utilising SAFe & Scrum methods for automatic sales order creation based on incoming IDOCS for procurement (from Ariba). 
• Also responsible for bi-directional MES Interface design to Asphalt, Emulsion and paint plants as well as Integration to SAP PS (Project System/PPM). 
• Prototyping on SAP R&D (PLM/EPLM & Product Engineering ? for bridges), PP/DS Capacity Planning and Optimizer (for minimizing setup times overall mainly) and aATP, but client decided not to implement these modules. 
• Demonstrated also PP-PI Interface for paint plant, decision for implementation pending. 
• Heavy prototyping in LO-VC/aVC (multi-level Super BOM, Super Routing with constraints (also for procurement), procedures etc. for characteristics dependencies on BoM items and Resource selection) for traffic sign plant in Biarritz. 
• For Asphalt- and Bitumen production solving issues on truck routing and management as well as some prototyping in TSW, but client did not implement it. 
• We also underwent one Release Change during my tenure where I took ownership on the manufacturing side.

• S/4 HANA Support Consulting 3rd level global Support and project work for paint manufacturing. 
• Projects included the introduction of Batch Management for 2 locations, retrofit of SD (with HUM), EWM with TM and ATP integration (demonstrated also aATP), introduction of a newly programmed scanner solution in production (custom HMI solution) and implementation of scanners in warehouse in 2 plants (southern Germany and Finland) as well as a number of Zebra printers with integration to MM and SD. 
• Resolving tickets and issue related to PP/PP-DS, PP-PI, MM, PLM and QM. 
• Prototyping work on LO-VC/AVC for special paint kits; PLM/EPLM & IBP (mostly OBP) planning solution for demo purposes. 
• Work on process instructions towards process control system and electronic PI sheet utilizing XSteps. 
• Overall ownership in time, quality and budget for all projects as well as managing release changes. 
• Supported release changes as well. 
• Worked on PM & QM issue for asset master data, maintenance orders, sample taking and usage decisions for production and procurement. 
• Rapid Prototyping for PoC on TP/VS; client decided not to implement.

• Project Lead for Electronic components manufacturer / aircraft industry with Industry Solution DIMP including SAP PP multi-level Variant Configuration (LO-VC/advanced VC) for cabin electronics (ETO process) and Kanban processes. 
• Day to Day Support (PP/PP-DS, PLM/EPLM, SD/CS/HUM, EWM, LE, QM and PM) and project work (esp. design phase and Test Management, developed detailed test plan for some complex testing), projects include retrofit for capacity planning, supervising Export control enhancements (GTS (interfaces to Atlas & Seeburger), SD (plus TM prototyping), automation of process for web portal, estimation of efforts for Digitalization project and report requirements; developing project plan and coaching team. 
• Worked on process improvement for electronics testing operations by developing a set of test instructions with XSteps in PP& PP-PI (GxP req. compliance). 
• Monitoring and supervising interfaces for BoM?s to external system. 
• PLM Interface issue resolution and debugging. 
• Support and Issue resolution on PM master data, PM Orders and QM notifications. 
• Solving issues in product costing

• Overall ownership (time, quality and partly budget) for DP, IBP and SNP in terms of global Template
• Overseeing several regional rollouts (development and ownership of rollout plan) of the DP, IBP and SNP template in LATAM and Asia
• Also SPOC for DP & IBP rollout UK, Ireland and Nordics for technical and business aspects
• Managing Enhancements, e.g. Promo Details report, overseeing development of interfaces to IBP and BMS. Leading batch tracing and serialization project (esp. LE, EWM) and in MM (inventory, procurement, physical inventory) and SD, prototyping of SAP R&D, SAP F&R and SD/HUM AATP (did not go live, put on hold during my tenure)

• During my tenure we underwent 2 release changes, therefore I had to manage this as well for the ERP and APO side.

• Overall ownership & Project Manager for manufacturing Rollout Wave2 (6 locations, Kenya, Nigeria) & Wave3 (8 locations, UK, Greece, Australia) work in the EMEA for Detergents, Personal Care, Food and Cooling business units. 

• Scope: Project Planning, Stakeholder Management, Design & customizing (FDD?s & CDD?s) Budget Control, Release Management and Project Steering for entire PP/PP-DS plus PM & QM (e.g. recipe related master data, characteristics setup and sample taking issues in production, Asset master and maintenance orders) and PM incl. Product Costing and CI/CO reporting with links and interfaces to Inventory (EWM) and Logistics Execution as well as MM and SD/HUM. 

• Also CR work, Enhancements implementation in PM, supervising training, work with Super Users on fixes. 

• Rollout APO, F&R & IBP Solution to Seeds Cotton Business Unit in the US
• Also COE work, Enhancements implementation, Supervising Developers, Work with ABAP resource on fixes. Enhancements included Stretch and Shrink function on operations in graph
• Planning board and new logic for setup costs for SNP Optimizer
• Also carried out a feasibility study / white paper on SNP Optimizer for new business unit
• Prototyped and demoed SAP PLM and TM VRS Optimizer

• Project Manager leading upgrade projects and subsequent testing and Enhancement work for 3 different APO Systems (Rel. 713, IS Retail Solution) and 9 different plants for all logistics modules (PPDS, PP, QM, LE, EWM, MM (inventory control, procurement, SD (SO’s, Deliveries, Schd. Agreements, pricing, Handling Unit Management), QM)
• Led special CIF Monitoring project (due to high number of incidents) and subsequent error resolution, processing of incidents, user training usw for approx
• 250 users
• Initiated sub-project of new MRP Design in one APO instance and supervised the Application of several OSS notes in the CIF, PPDS and Basis area
• Work with ABAP resources on fixes

• Feasibility and prototype work for a Wood Manufacturer
• In scope was PP with SAP VC, CIF interface, historical data retrieval from ECC, SAP DP (Demand Planning) and F&R with integration to Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Supply Network Planning und Demands Transfer to PPDS
• Features included Allocation, special interface to WM and ATP solution

• Rollout work, building & testing (utilizing eCATT) for 82 markets IBP and DP functionality including process chains for Forecast and interfaces to BI and 3rd party systems
• Demo of SAP F&R functionality and (limited) testing, not being used

• Data Validation Project in current production global environment (> 100 locations, plants and DC’s)
• Ownership (time, quality, budget partly), Stakeholder Management for Data analysis and working with business on strategies and action points to improve systems and data
• Monitoring of CIF interfaces in multiple System environments

• Project for overall Training for Kerry, responsible for Germany and Ireland with several locations (Cork/Ireland, Kleinheubach, Wittstock and Hocheim in Germany)
• Developed training plans, Supervision and Quality Control of training material (all above mentioned Modules) and issue resolution, guidance of user activities
• Monitoring training delivery in all sites (2 day classes) for PPDS advanced scheduling and SNP
• Designed training document for special customized CIF interface and held training for 3rd level support staff myself

• Logistics and special MRP-ATP Consultant for a LEAN Project, responsible for EU with several locations (NL, Sweden Germany as Pilot sites)
• Introduction of new functionality in the ATP, SD, MM (e.g. procurement. Tolling) LE, WM, QM and MRP areas
• Managing roll-out related activities, e.g. master data changes, training and localization
• Creation of training material and issue resolution, guidance of user activities

• Consultant with partial project responsibility for a SNP Rollout Project, responsible for EU with several locations
• Managing roll-out related activities, e.g. master data changes, training and localization
• Creation of user selections, Authorizations and training material
• Delivering of user training and support
• Some TSW prototyping for a pilot project on the side
• Provided training re integration via CIF interface to Product Support

• Solution Architect for ‘Complexity Reduction’ Project introducing/prototyping new functionality – ‘committed volume’ and ‘customer-material priority’ for DP/ATP/SD/PPDS (advanced scheduling), BI/BW and MILP (external optimization tool)
• Proof of concept, writing functional development document and supervising BI / ABAP resource, Unit testing
• Additionally working on a prototype for GATP (Multi-Level Global ATP and rule based ATP check
• Support in ‘UoM change’ project as well
• Prototyping work on TSW for a feasibility study
• Supervised re-design of CIF interface in connection with above functionality