Leader | SAP Business Intelligence | SAP Analytics Cloud | SAP BW4HANA | SAP Datasphere | Digitalization/Transformation Programs

Yamaha Motor Europe is going through a Digital Transformation program as part of a corporate initiative. Within that process, that encompasses the migration of current ERP Solution towards SAP S/4 HANA, I contributed on defining the target solution for the transition to new Analytic, Finance Consolidation and Planning solutions including:

• To support the Finance workstream: tool evaluation (SAP S/4 Group Reporting, One Stream, CCH Tagetik)
• To support the Analytics workstream on the new Analytic platform to support the business:
• Provided strategy, roadmap, architecture, required infrastructure and detailed implementation project plan
• Onboarded the offshore team located in India and making them main partners for the deployment (DevOps)

For the Industrial Solutions Business Unit at ThyssenKrupp (€ 5,6 billion in revenue) -> SAP BW greenfield implementation:

• Onboarded/offloaded resources based on development requirements within the project scope
• Defined architecture and roadmap for the Analytic solution (BW on HANA, Business Objects 4.x and Analysis for Office)
• Build solutions to support operational and analytics reporting for Portfolio and Project Management (PPM), Procurement, Logistics and Finance, following SAP LSA++ architecture and leveraging Business Content

Responsible for all aspects of the Business Intelligence solution in Europe, including Finance Consolidation and Sales Planning. Main achievements to support business grow goals (double revenue in 5 years):

• Finance area: reduced by 80% the time required for the Financial Month End Close in Europe by implementing standard tooling, processes and architecture (SAP SEM-BCS); setting the foundation for the corporate Finance Consolidation project
• Web channel business (B2C): increased the capability for launching new campaigns and doing follow up activities by using in-memory technology for data selections to support the CRM Segmentation processes (99% time response improvement in segmentation processes based on data selected from the Data Warehouse); Implement analytical capabilities for Product Life Cycle Management and Marketing Permissions; Redesign of the CRM analytics for Campaign Management, Sales and Marketing Activities
• Retail Business (B2C): implementation of analytical solution with daily sales targets derived from the Financial Budget to allow data driven business decisions to follow up the channel on daily and weekly basis, serving also as a data foundation for short (promotions and campaigns), mid (headcount, shifts) and long-term (opening of new stores) business decisions
• Dealer Business (B2B): supported the deployment of the Dealer Portal across the European dealer network by implementing analytics and metrics to monitor the Dealer portal adoption and usage
• Increase of the Business Intelligence footprint and adoption in Europe by 300% (on active users) and 350% (on passive users)
• Lead and coach a team of 7 FTEs / Budget responsibility (Capex and Opex) > 1 million Euros
• Implementation of SAP Layered Scalable Architecture framework (LSA)
• European member of the team responsible for upgrading the Global SAP BW system to version 7.4 on HANA
• European contributor and reference for the definition of a Data Framework and Architecture for BOSE Corporation

Main achievements to support the revenue and store growth:

• 87% improvement in time response for reports and analytics around Stock by redesigning of the Data warehouse stock model
• Facilitated the improvement of store traffic by developing a new analytical model that integrated external CRM Loyalty Program and Marketing Campaigns data combined with Sales and Stock data
• Implemented analytics on store visitors and Mystery shopper data to enable better monitoring and decisions on store execution level using standard retail KPIs
• Defined the Strategy and Roadmap to implement Net weaver 2004s / BW 7.0 including the usage of SAP in-memory technology
• Lead a team of 3 FTEs

• Responsible of the SAP BI Global Template and architecture for the Building Efficiency business unit
• Governance of the SAP BW Global Template and Regional Templates
• Provided guidance, coaching and support for the regional BW teams located in America and Asia
• Lead new developments, enhancements and roll out of the templates
• Implemented offshore model for BW requirements and support with Infosys
• Support for SOX, external and internal audits requirements
• Reduction of 70% of time required for user Maintenance by implementing SAP VIRSA
• Defined the required steps and procedure for Disaster Recovery
• Rolled out of the Global SAP BW Template and the Asian Regional SAP BW Template in Hong Kong
• GAP analysis for the implementation of the Global SAP BW Template in Spain

• Rolled out of the BW Global Template in Wuxi – China
• Implementation of a reporting solution to support the global purchasing process (MM-PUR)
• Upgrade of the BW system and extraction component, migration from BEX Excel to BEX Web Front End
• Improved the capabilities of the system to be available 24/7 all over the world by implementing new architecture for SAP BW
• Roll out of the new SAP BW Global template and the American SAP BW Regional Template in US and Mexico
• Implementation of "Go to details" capability using SAP Report to Report Interface
• 90% reduction on the support required for the interfaces to SAP BW by implementing SAP middleware (SAP-XI)

• HR Corporate Module: development and implementation of HR module (Genexus/Oracle database)
• Development and implementation of Sales module to support the export channel (AS/400 platform)
• Development and implementation of different Dashboards for the Board of Directors and Managers
• Development and implementation of Account Receivables Dashboard