Roles:     

• October 2015 - October 2018: Senior Consultant SAP Retail

• February 2018 - July 2018: Project Manager Preparation Conservion 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
• 3^rd-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

November 2012 – December 2014

• 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)

May 2007 – October 2012

• January 1999 – December 2003: Department Manager Logistics Systems
• January 1993 – December 1998: Project Manager
• November 1991 – December 1992: Programmer

• 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. 1^st- and 2^nd-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

Mandatory 15-month basic military service, Bundeswehr, Germany

August 1982 - July 1984

August 1979 - July 1982

• Standard software: SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Retail, SAP LES, ALWIS warehouse management, WAMAS warehouse management
• Microsoft Office including Project und Visio
• Programming: PROGRESS 4GL
• OS-Administration: UNIX, Microsoft Windows
• Database administration: ORACLE, PROGRESS-RDBMS

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

• Guide and motivate staff and colleagues
• Basic Management Training
• Leading in Projects
• Moderate and convince professionally
• Executive suddenly
• Effective presentations
• Moderation
• Efficient Project Management

SALES OF IT-SERVICES

• Several IT sales trainings
• Delivery Sales School (international training in the USA)

ORACLE

• ORACLE database administration
• ORACLE SQL for database changers

PROGRESS programming and database administration

• PROGRESS System Administration
• Programming with PROGRESS

UNIX system administration

• Workshop OpenUNIX 8
• TCP/IP and NFS
• System management with SCO UNIX
• UNIX – overview / basics / extensions

SAP R/3

• Processes in SAP Transportation Management
• Warehouse Administration
• Processes in Logistics Execution
• SAP Promotion Management for Retail
• SAP Allocation Management for Retail
• SAP Translation Hub in a Nutshell
• SAP Screen Personas: Introduction and Building Mobile Applications
• SAP Business ByDesign Supply Chain Management
• SAP Digital Boardroom in a Nutshell
• An Introduction to SAP HANA / In Memory Data Management
• Blockchain – Hype or Innovation?
• Introduction to Ariba

SAP S/4 HANA

• SAP S/4HANA – Deep Dive
• SAP S/4HANA – Use Cases
• Implementation of SAP S/4HANA
• Data Migration to S/4HANA
• SAP Leonardo – Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise
• SAP Retail Omnichannel Commerce
• Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA
• SAP BW/4HANA in a Nutshell
• SAP Solution Manager for SAP S/4HANA Implementation in a Nutshell
• Innovative logistical processes in SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management

OTHER

• Various trainings in logistics basics
• System administrator for the warehouse management system ALWIS
• Isotec – Methods of requirements analysis
• Time- and Self-Management
• Certified Retail Industry Generalist