10/2012 ? 07/2014 - Supply Chain Management and S&OP

Design and implementation of Sales- & Operations Planning processes together with redesign of SAP APO DP

Client: Grünenthal Pharma GmbH

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Country: Germany, Italy, Switzerland

Language: German / English

Position: Project Lead Workstream ?Supply?, Consultant DP

Responsibilities:

• SCM consulting lead for work stream ?Supply? (API-, bulk-, finished goods-production and procurement)
• (Re)definition of processes for rough-cut capacity planning, production scheduling, planning time fences, emergency changes according to S&OP principles
• Implementation of planning processes in SAP and offline tools
• Implementation of global master data office and a global creation/maintenance process
• Set up of reasonable KPIs in BW to measure defined processes and overall supply chain performance (e.g. OTIF, lead time, adherence to plan, forecast accuracy)
• Definition of data model, info-providers and extraction rules/sources for SCM reporting in SAP BW.
• Consulting of project work stream ?Demand Planning? in redesigning of SAP APO DP towards a global template
• Definition of global demand planning and (statistical) forecasting process, embarcing ATP checks
• Creation of global DP blueprint (planning area, CVCs, planning books, selections, macros, transfer rule/jobs and KPIs)

04/2012 ? 09/2012 - Production Network Planning and Optimization

Synchronization and optimization of production plans of different production stages across different sites

Client: Bayer CropScience AG

Industry: Chemicals

Country: France / Germany

Language: English

Position: Lead Consultant PP/DS

Responsibilities:

• Team lead for design and specification
• Create user requirements specification (URS) together with business users
• Develop concept to align production and scheduling plans of different sites (finished goods filling, bulk production)
• Creation of feasibility study and effort estimation
• Setup of a prototype with SAP APO
• Customizing of PP/DS planning board profiles, alert monitor, setup matrices and MRP heuristics
• Customizing of scheduling heuristics and for automatic top-down/bottom-up scheduling according to pegging relationship criteria
• Writing of functional and technical specification (Blueprint) for scheduling, planning and sorting heuristics.
• Tests and coordination with business users and ABAP developers

11/2011 ? 03/2012 - Supply Chain Stock Reduction / Planning Heuristics

Design, development and roll-out of complex APO PP/DS planning heuristics for alternative stock consumption

Client: Bayer CropScience AG

Industry: Chemicals

Country: Germany, France, Brazil, Mexico, Philippines, Korea

Language: English

Position: Project Manager and Lead Consultant PP/DS

Responsibilities:

• Target: Inventory reduction on raw materials
• Task: Design of a complex PP/DS planning heuristic for the use-up of alternative stocks, due to high inventory on alternative materials with different material code
• Write functional specification with business users
• Concept to make MRP run consider stocks on alternative raw materials in planned orders
• Write of technical specification to implement in PP-PI and APO PP/DS
• Creation of business case. Implementation led to significant inventory reduction on raw materials.
• Coordination of ABAP developers and tests
• Key user trainings including process- & system documentation
• Change management and transportation management with SAP Solution Manager (SOLMAN)
• Go-live-activities and hyper-care, including user support and incident management
• Roll-out to production sites in Germany, Mexico, France, Brazil, Korea and Philippines

05/2011 ? 10/2011 - SAP APO DP Redesign

Redesign and Realignment of SAP Demand Planning (DP) processes and data due to post-merger integration

Client: Bayer CropScience AG

Industry: Chemicals

Country: Netherlands / Belgium

Language: English

Position: Lead Consultant DP

Responsibilities:

• Review of demand planning processes to merge two company codes in SAP
• Due to connected systems and running business, very complex cut-over and migration planning
• Fit-gap- and impact-analysis
• Customizing in DP (planning object structure, mapping rules, ATP rules, etc.)
• (Re)generation and realignment of characteristic value combinations (CVC)
• Change of relevant mapping rules from/to ECC, SAP BW and SAP APO
• Data and history cleansing for master data, sales data and other movement data in ECC, BW and APO DP
• Change management and transportation management with SAP Solution Manager (SOLMAN)
• Cut-over-, migration-, go-live-activities and hyper-care
• User support and incident management

11/2010 ? 04/2011 - Implementation of SAP APO and R/3

Roll-out of SCM planning processesandImplementation of SAP APO (DP, PP/DS) at South Korean & Philippines division

Client: Bayer CropScience AG

Industry: Chemicals

Country: South Korea, Philippines

Language: English

Position: Lead Consultant PP/DS, DP

Responsibilities:

• Lead consultant APO roll-out
• Implementation of PP/DS at 2 production sites and DP at 4 cascaded regional warehouses
• Implementation of tolling process in PP/DS for 2 production sites
• Implementation of demand planning (DP) with upload portal from Excel forecasting tool
• Country-specific customizing for APO modules DP (planning books, macros, selections, profiles) and PP/DS (CIF integration models, setup matrices, planning board and alert profiles, planning calendars, ATP, heuristics, MRP run, resources, transportation lanes)
• Fit-gap-analysis of country-specific requirements towards existing ERP/SCM solution and alignment with global SAP APO template
• Planning, preparation and conduction of user acceptance tests (UAT)
• Key user trainings including process- & system documentation
• Change management and transportation management with SAP Solution Manager (SOLMAN)
• User role and authorization concept according to template
• Cut-over-, migration-, go-live-activities and hyper-care
• User support and incident management

05/2010 ? 11/2010 - Implementation of SAP APO and R/3

Roll-Out of SCM planning processesandImplementation of SAP APO (DP, PP/DS) at Brazilian division

Client: Bayer CropScience AG

Industry: Chemicals

Country: Brazil

Language: English

Position: Lead Consultant PP/DS, DP

Responsibilities:

• Lead consultant APO roll-out
• Implementation of PP/DS at 1 production site and DP at 7 cascaded regional warehouses
• Implementation of tolling process in PP/DS for 2 production sites
• Implementation of demand planning (DP) with upload portal from Excel forecasting tool
• Country-specific customizing for APO modules DP (planning books, macros, selections, profiles) and PP/DS (CIF integration models, setup matrices, planning board and alert profiles, planning calendars, ATP, heuristics, MRP run, resources, transportation lanes)
• Fit-gap-analysis of country-specific requirements towards existing ERP/SCM solution and alignment with global SAP APO template
• Planning, preparation and conduction of user acceptance tests (UAT)
• Key user trainings including process- & system documentation
• Change management and transportation management with SAP Solution Manager (SOLMAN)
• User role and authorization concept according to template
• Cut-over-, migration-, go-live-activities and hyper-care
• User support and incident management

11/2009 ? 05/2010 - Implementation of SAP APO and R/3

Roll-Out of SCM planning processes and Implementation of SAP APO (DP, PP/DS) at Mexican division

Client: Bayer CropScience AG

Industry: Chemicals

Country: Mexico

Language: English

Position: Lead Consultant PP/DS, DP

Responsibilities:

• Lead consultant APO roll-out
• Implementation of PP/DS at 1 production site and DP at 8 cascaded regional warehouses
• Implementation of tolling process in PP/DS for 1 production site
• Implementation of demand planning (DP) with upload portal from Excel forecasting tool
• Country-specific customizing for APO modules DP (planning books, macros, selections, profiles) and PP/DS (CIF integration models, setup matrices, planning board and alert profiles, planning calendars, ATP, heuristics, MRP run, resources, transportation lanes)
• Fit-gap-analysis of country-specific requirements towards existing ERP/SCM solution and alignment with global SAP APO template
• Planning, preparation and conduction of user acceptance tests (UAT)
• Key user trainings including process- & system documentation
• Change management and transportation management with SAP Solution Manager (SOLMAN)
• User role and authorization concept according to template
• Cut-over-, migration-, go-live-activities and hyper-care
• User support and incident management

08/2009 ? 10/2009 - Feasibility Study, Design and Blueprint for SAP R/3

Business blueprint of production planning processes / MRP run and production planning processes in SAP ECC

Client: MEG GmbH & Co. KG

Industry: Consumer Goods (FMCG)

Country: Germany

Language: German

Position: Consultant PP-PI, QM and MES integeration

Responsibilities:

• Customer workshops to analyse and harmonize production planning and capacity planning processes for different product devisions (fast moving consumer goods: chocolate and beverages)
• Support customer in user requirement specification (URS)
• Creation of feasibility study with SAP PP-PI, MRP and QM
• Customizing of individual MRP planning strategies, PP-PI and for process orders
• Build up of system prototype and proof of concept
• Writing of functional and technical specification (Blueprint)
• Interface specification to non-SAP QM and warehousing systems. Work with different software vendors.

01/2008 ? 07/2009 - Implementation of SAP R/3 and APO

Redesign of SCM planning processes and Implementation of SAP APO (DP, SNP, PP/DS)

Client: Bayer HealthCare AG

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Country: Germany

Language: English / German

Position: Consultant PP/DS, PP-PI, SNP, CIF and MES integeration

Responsibilities:

• Lead consultant for PP/DS integration with ECC PP-PI and legacy systems
• Leading of PP/DS design workshops
• Planning with shelf-life in APO, inheritance of batch data across production orders (via pegging)
• Integration between APO, ECC, and MES/shop-floor systems for orders, batches and process orders plus confirmations
• Ensure reasonable master data for supply network planning (SNP) and optimizer
• Integration of production related master data with APO (recipes, BOMs, PDS, capacities, resources, calendars, etc.)
• Configuration and maintenance of setup matrices
• Customizing of planning board profiles, planning strategies, propagation ranges and planning heuristics
• Functional/technical specification for CIF-, PP/DS- and PP-PI- enhancements and  MES interface
• Coordination of ABAP developers
• Pharmaceutical GMP validation and tests of developments/customizations
• User Acceptance Tests (UAT) for PP/DS Planning board, PP-PI and shop-floor integration
• GMP relevant cut-over and migration activities for PP/DS and PP-PI
• Key user trainings including process- & system documentation
• Change management and transportation management with SAP Solution Manager (SOLMAN)
• Cut-over-, migration-, go-live-activities and hyper-care
• User support and incident management

09/2007 ? 12/2007 - Business Case / Feasibility Study of SAP APO

Strategic evaluation of the SCM production planning processes and systemsdue to post-merger integration

Client: Nycomed Group

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Country: Norway, Germany, Switzerland

Language: English

Position: Consultant PP/DS

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and documentation of SCM production planning processes
• Conduct process workshops for production planning, capacity planning and scheduling
• Creation of feasibility study (SAP ECC PP-PI and/or SAP SCM APO PP/DS) and fit-gap-analysis
• Development of to-be scenarios and decision memo for process and systems
• Customizing of prototypes in PP-PI and PP/DS
• System demo and proof-of-concept for gATP functionality

04/2007 ? 08/2007 - IT-Strategy & -Architecture / Project Management

Development of an global Procurement Systems IT-Architecture across the group

Client: Siemens AG

Industry: Electronics, Automotive, High-tech

Country: Germany

Language: German

Position: IT Strategy- and SAP-Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Development of an IT-architecture for all procurement related systems across the group
• Derive targets for procurement systems (operative, controlling, reporting, SAP R/3, SAP BW, etc.) from group?s IT strategy
• Identification and functional clustering of procurement related systems
• Development of to-be architecture by technical/functional harmonization and following IT strategy targets
• Creation of milestone plan for IT-architecture transition
• Coaching for methodology and project management

02/2007 ? 03/2007 - Project- & Program-Management / IT-Governance

Development of a global IT-Governance assessment

Client: Siemens AG

Industry: Electronics, Automotive, High-tech

Country: Germany

Language: German

Position: IT Strategy Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Development of an assessment framework and questionnaire
• Measure degree of compliance and maturity of group?s IT/IS systems
• Definition of assessment criteria according to group?s global IT strategy
• Focus: group?s global and local IT departments
• Customer: group?s global IT strategy department
• Roll-out and implementation planning for global assessors

12/2006 ? 01/2007 - Project- & Program-Management / Portfolio Management

Development and implementation of a process to visualize, analyze and decide on global IT project portfolio

Client: Siemens AG

Industry: Electronics, Automotive, High-tech

Country: Germany

Language: German

Position: IT Strategy Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Development of a strategic business process to visualize, analyse, assess and decide on project portfolio
• Focus: group?s global strategic IT project portfolio
• Customer: group?s global IT strategy department
• Development of decision criteria to evaluate cost/benefit of (multi-)projects
• Creation of templates and documentation for quarterly/yearly process

10/2006 ? 11/2006 - Project Management / Implementation of SAP R/3

SAP Authorization- & Role-Concept and Migration due to post-merger integration

Client: Siemens AG

Industry: Electronics, Automotive, High-tech

Country: Germany

Language: German

Position: SAP R/3 Authorizations Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Planning, coordination and implementation of SAP authorization concept
• M&A system consolidation project
• Technical migration of roles and authorizations from SAP R/3 release v4.0 to 4.7
• Facilitation of implementation of new organizational roles and responsibilities in collaboration with involved companies/divisions

08/2006 ? 09/2006 - Feasibility Study / Design and Blueprint for APO

SAP SCM Design and Blueprint for Production Planning in PP/DS and PP-PI

Client: Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co. KG

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Country: Germany

Language: German

Position: Consultant PP/DS and PP-PI

Responsibilities:

• SCM production planning process workshops
• Documenation of processes and requirements
• Creation of blueprint for production planning processes in SAP PP-PI and PP/DS
• Feasibility study, fit-gap-analysis and alternatives evaluation
• Prototyping in SAP PP-PI and PP/DS
• Part of project management team
• Preparation and execution of the process and system trainings for the key-users

05/2006 ? 07/2006 - Implementation of SAP APO

Redesign of PP-PI master datafor PP/DS

Client: Haupt Pharma AG

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Country: Germany

Language: German

Position: Consultant PP/DS and PP-PI

Responsibilities:

• Design, implementation and testing of redesigned master data structures in PP-PI for the use of PP/DS with PPMs.
• Change of recipes, production versions, capacities and resources according to APO PP/DS requirements (e.g. formulas, setup matrices, etc.)
• Necessary customizing in PP-PI and creation of integration models in CIF
• Migration of recipes and bill of materials (BOM) in SAP ECC PP-PI
• User acceptance tests (UAT), Cut-over & Go-Live activities
• Hyper-care support

03/2006 ? 04/2006 - Business Case & Opportunity Assessment

Feasibility Study, Software- and process evaluation for Supply Network Planning

Client: Klöckner Pentaplast GmbH

Industry: Mills / Chemicals

Country: Germany

Language: German

Position: Consultant for Supply Network Planning

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of as-is planning processes and European production network
• Development of strategic to-be planning processes for supply network planning and global available to promise (gATP)
• Assessment, requirements/functionality mapping and comparison of different software solutions (Greycon, Quintiq, SAP SCM APO)
• Creation of fit-gap-analysis, cost estimation and implementation timeline
• Creation of prototype and demonstration and in SAP SNP and PP/DS

09/2005 ? 03/2006 - Supply Chain Management / Performance Measurement

Conceptual design of a Supply Chain Performance Measurement-System

Client: MHP - Mieschke Hofman & Partner GmbH

Industry: Consulting Services / Automotive

Country: Germany

Language: German

Position: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design of strategic supply chain performance measurement system for an automotive 1st-tier supplier
• Development of industry specific reference (based on balanced scorecard) model and a general step by step approach
• Derive and develop reasonable KPIs from suppy chain strategy
• Analysis of different software products (SAP SCM/APO, ECC, BW, Cognos, Business Objects, i2, ICON) about coverage and feasibility

04/2005 ? 08/2005 - IT Outsourcing / Project Management

Transfer of customer?s IT landscape to an IT service provider

Client: NORD/LB / IBM

Industry: Financial Services

Country: German

Language: English

Position: Project Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creation and maintenance of project plan
• Project portfolio break down into sub-projects and tasks
• Decision preparations for kick-off and steering committee meetings
• Staffing management for sub-projects and tasks
• Administration of project resources and infrastructure
• Project controlling and task tracking, cost-effort estimations

03/2004 ? 08/2004 - Implementation SAP R/3/ Performance Measurement

Project administration and controlling in a SAP R/3 roll-out project

Client: Bosch Automotive Systems Corp.

Industry: Automotive

Country: Japan

Language: English

Position: Project Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assistant to project manager, member of project office, supporting sub-projects
• Visualizing users? requirments, creation of alternative comparisons
• Preparation of steering committee meetings and meetings with board of directors meeting
• Creation of internal reporting / performance measurement for SAP development department to keep track of SAP enhancements and budget
• SAP role and authorization concept for modules PP, SD and MM

09/2002 ? 03/2003 - Implementation SAP R/3

Blueprint and prototype of a project- and production planning system for a tool-shop

Client: BMW Group AG

Industry: Automotive

Country: Germany

Language: German

Position: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct process workshops to gather user requirements
• Process analysis and business process redesign (BPR)
• Development of to-be processes
• Creation and maintenance of process model in ARIS
• Customizing and testing of prototype in SAP PP, PS and MM
• Assisting project manager for cost estimations and benefit analysis, software vendor assessments