Christoph (M.) R.
SD Consultant (Order-to-Cash) for machinery, spare parts sales and services
Experience
Apr 2024 - Dec 2024
9 monthsSD Consultant (Order-to-Cash) for machinery, spare parts sales and services
Fette
- Project: S/4 Greenfield implementation.
- Industry: mechanical engineering / pharma.
- Mapping OTC processes in an S/4 landscape, go-live in the UK (1 full cycle).
- Mapping product variants with AVC and LO-VC.
- Implementation of service processes, effort-based billing.
- Role-based grouping of suitable FIORI apps for a 'FIORI only' approach.
- Implementation of rule-based functions with BRF+.
- Setting up pricing, price maintenance, price migration.
- (Adobe) forms, customization.
- Connecting third-party systems, defining interfaces and heterogeneous application scenarios.
Mar 2021 - Dec 2023
2 years 10 monthsTechnical Architect (ALE, IDOC, SOAP), Logistics Consultant (LE, SD, MM, WM)
Merz
- Project: Integration of a 3PL warehouse system.
- Industry: pharma.
- Setting up and documenting relevant logistics processes (goods receipt/issue) involving a logistics service provider.
- Defining interfaces to the external provider.
- Project management in collaboration with the external provider, test management, integration management.
- Development and customizing of logistics and warehouse processes: ordering, goods receipt and shipment, batch determination, message determination, reporting.
- Development and adjustment of interfaces (IDOC, SOAP, SFTP) within SAP.
- Managing and overseeing the development of technical interfaces between PI/PO and Lobster.
- Data migration and cutover to activate the new logistics site.
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
1 year 3 monthsSenior Consultant Interfaces (ALE, IDOC, SOAP), Logistics (SD, MM, PP, VC)
Minimax / VIKING
- Project: S/4 implementation – connecting sales processes to an existing R/3 system.
- Industry: manufacturing.
- Building cross-system sales processes in S/4 similar to the legacy R/3 processes.
- Variant configuration, pricing, intercompany processing.
- Developing interfaces for intercompany processing and internal procurement processes.
- Solution design for configured products in two systems.
- Integration of the external product configurator via web services into the S/4 system.
Jun 2018 - Present
7 years 7 monthsSD Consultant, Developer
Minimax
- Project: Customizing and establishing cross-plant manufacturing processes.
- Industry: industrial, discrete manufacturing.
- Ongoing support.
- Designing and mapping multi-level sales processes, customizing sales documents, and creating suitable information monitors.
- Customizing / developing new features for scheduling and executing sub-processes in cross-plant manufacturing.
- Adapting routings/bills of materials and interfaces and data exchange to/from MES.
- Setting up additional production options for (pre-)configured materials.
- Adding extra documents and steps in the document workflow, IDOC adjustments, adapting ATP logic for delivery date determination.
- Adapting pricing for internal billing and including manufacturing costs.
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
1 year 11 monthsApplication Development, Senior Consultant 'Logistics' (SD, LE, CS, MM)
Fresenius
- Project: Creation and rollout of country templates / logistics.
- Industry: healthcare.
- Developing and reviewing functional and technical concepts for solution design with the business units in the SD, LE, CS, MM modules.
- Project management, regular reporting and coordination of content with the relevant departments and project management using SAP Solution Manager and JIRA/Confluence.
- Organizing development activities for a team of about 8 to 15 developers.
- Conducting code and development reviews as a quality assurance measure in a validated SAP environment.
- Leading development for integrating a warehouse solution (KARDEX) with SAP WM.
- Standardizing and adjusting batch management in the QM area.
- Further development of enterprise interfaces (PI/PO) in LE, PP, and QM.
- Supporting daily operations during go-live and hypercare ("stabilizing").
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
2 yearsCAR Architect
IT Consulting Christoph M. Reich
- S/4 HANA (Retail, 1610) Implementation as CAR Architect.
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
1 year 3 monthsSenior Consultant SD-OTC, POS / CAR
Gerry Weber
- Project: SAP S/4 HANA IS-Retail rollout for the retail store area.
- Industry: Retail / Fashion.
- Responsible for the technical and functional integration of the store checkout solution (GK) into SAP using CAR and SLT.
- Set up and operation of SLT (System Landscape Transformation) to feed CAR with master and transaction data from the Retail / SAP ERP, performance optimization, continuous monitoring, and platform development.
- Implemented the project scope for CAR (POSDTA), data exchange via standard interfaces with the ERP system, back-office checkout process implementation, and fit-gap analyses.
- Connected the GK checkout and managed the data mapping from POSLOG to SAP TLOG.
- Designed the process architecture for stores, led testing, and handed over/approved checkout processes in collaboration with the business process owner.
- Customized order types, pricing, product master data, and ATP logic for store replenishment.
- Supported the operation of an SAP HANA landscape, authorizations, upgrades, and maintained the HANA Cloud Platform for prototyping.
- Implemented various SOAP/REST interfaces to the CAR database with OData/HANA for checkout and assortment planning, and CDS views.
- Migrated reporting data into CAR.
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
5 monthsSenior Consultant SD
Puma
- Project: International template rollout.
- Industry: Retail / Fashion.
- Enhanced and regionally customized a country template after go-live (Italy, Spain, France).
- Optimized and expanded the template.
- Adapted pricing to local requirements and tax regulations.
- Price distribution: Developed a concept for stepwise optimization of product price distribution, added change indicators, and automated price IDOCS sending after central updates.
Jan 2015 - Dec 2018
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IT Consulting Christoph M. Reich
- New Retail: set up a test architecture with SAP/HANA, CAR, SLT, Hybris, and IoT.
Mar 2014 - Dec 2016
2 years 10 monthsSenior Consultant SD / CS (ARM), Interface Development, Development Lead
Dodenhof
- Project: SAP IS-Retail implementation, solution development for furniture sales.
- Industry: Retail.
- Process development for the order-to-cash sales process, integrating external planning tools into sales processes.
- ARM/Claim management: defined customer service workflows into two main processes with four variants each, implemented a monitor for configuration, support, and automated processing of service requests.
- POS shop-in-shop concept, in-house implementation of a stored value card solution.
- PIM integration: automated creation of products via an external tool.
- Automatic completion of order templates based on order confirmations.
- Connected and integrated the store MDE (handheld) solution for inventory, pricing, and product maintenance.
- Defined specific retail scenarios for goods issue and furniture delivery, and adapted ATP logic to these scenarios.
- Conducted sales analyses for rack jobbers for supplier reporting.
- Designed processes and developed solutions for sales-related and logistics functions: goods receipt, inspection, and distribution.
- Project management and coordination of additional developments, managing 6 developers with a budget of approx. 1,500 man-days.
Jun 2010 - Mar 2014
3 years 10 monthsDenmark
SD Retail Consultant
Dansk-Supermarket
- Project: Implementation of SAP IS/Retail, solution development in the areas of promotion, POS, portal, EWM, process monitoring (rollouts in SE, PL, DE, and DK).
- Industry: Retail.
- Process and application design for delivery and picking processes in WM, "picking monitors": picking control of deliveries for 470 stores.
- SAP - promotion management, workflow development for trade promotions, monitoring campaigns and their procurement processes to ensure sufficient supply of the stores.
- F&R data supply via POSDM, transfer of results into the ordering process.
- MIM, coordination of development for expanding the store portal (in-store logistics processes): extending existing and developing new WebDynpros for goods receipts, order processing, and overview.
- EWM: coordination of interface adjustments (CIF) for ECC master data and legacy for three central warehouses, mobile RF adjustments.
- Omnichannel: connection of a webshop/kiosk, design of material and price interfaces for master data exchange via PI. Staffing, planning, and management of an international team of developers with a budget of approx. 25,000 FTE over 4 years (including AMS support).
- Connection of POS systems (approx. 1600 stores), design and introduction of POS in- and outbound processes for cash register integration with POS-DM (materials, price labels, promotions, cash register data with an external POS system), integration of bonus purchase families, and mapping to appropriate POS objects via locking mechanisms.
May 2009 - Apr 2010
1 yearSenior Consultant / Application Architect
Siemens Wind Power
- Project: CS, PM, mobile.
- Industry: Energy.
- Integration of an external monitoring system (based on MS-SQL Server) into SAP, integrated call of functionality in the application (VB, .Net) via the DB server and RFC/BAPI, DB design and tuning, automatic creation of notifications and transfer of order-relevant data into service processing, adjustment of forms (SmartForms) and workflow.
- Design of a system for master data management of equipment, control of offshore development, global (cross-system) exchange of the installed base, go-live early 2010.
- System design for local integration of external measurement points via the SCADA interface to SAP, starting maintenance and repair processes from external monitoring (MS-SQL Server) in SAP via notification creation and appropriate workflows.
Feb 2009 - Jun 2009
5 monthsSenior Consultant / Support
BrainLab AG
- Project: CS, SD, PM support, troubleshooting.
- Industry: Healthcare.
- Concept design and further development in PM/installed base, planned maintenance, notification processes, optimization of intercompany service processes, migration and data integration from JD Edwards, integration of in-house developments with SAP.
Apr 2008 - Nov 2008
8 monthsPoland
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
Chiron
- Project: roll-out.
- Industry: Mechanical engineering.
- Roll-out project management: country templates for USA, Poland, China.
- Settings for cross-company sales, intercompany transfer orders CC, SD/CO/FI customizing.
- USA roll-out: automatic data transfer of complete FI and parts of SD data with LSMW, RFC, IDoc, custom programming and form adjustments (SmartForms and SAPscript).
- Translation (->EN) of customizing data, training materials, and documentation, go-live on October 1, 2008.
Nov 2007 - Apr 2008
6 monthsSD Pricing Specialist and ABAP (OO)
HansaFlex
- Project: SAP implementation (SAP SD).
- Industry: Technical trading.
- SD pricing, development and implementation of special solutions for product pricing: cumulative prices in the customer set, calculated based on manufacturing bills of materials and planned prices.
Mar 2007 - Mar 2009
2 years 1 monthSenior Consultant, Software Architect
Butting
- Project: SAP implementation, subproject manufacturing/PLM/QM (with interruptions).
- Industry: stainless steel tubes, mechanical engineering.
- Focus: variant configuration, standardization and material catalogs, control of manufacturing and quality inspection via configured products, long-term archiving of QA approvals, cleanup and extension of existing solutions (dialog programming, ABAP-OO) in PP / MM / SD / quality management (inspection plans), go-live preparation, data migration (LSMW), production go-live 01/2009.
Oct 2006 - Mar 2007
6 monthsSenior Consultant, Software Architect
Chiron
- Project: integration of order control (SAP-PS).
- Industry: mechanical engineering.
- Connection and synchronization of the external order status, design of SAP network diagrams (PS) and assembly disposition, adjustments via BADI, integration with external mobile systems.
Jan 2000 - Present
26 yearsSAP Consultant / Senior Consultant / Architect
IT Consulting Christoph M. Reich
- SAP consulting.
- Lead roles as senior consultant / architect in the modules SD, MM, EAM, PP.
- Industries: retail, pharma, contract manufacturing.
- Coordination of in-house and offshore development within SAP projects.
- Management of development and integration of technical solutions.
- Extensive project management experience in all phases and at all levels of companies, especially for development-heavy processes.
- Functional project management leadership and support in coaching project leadership (SAP or IT projects).
- Functional and technical consulting in SAP modules SD, MM, EAM, PP, and PLM.
- Experience with JIRA and SAP Solution Manager.
- SAP module expertise:
- SD, CS: pricing, messaging, billing, ARM, (mobile) maintenance and service processes, make-to-order processes, bonus and commission processing (incl. FI), EDI and B2B processes (20+ years).
- PLM, PM, MD: classification, variant configuration and their application in SD and PP, serialization, equipment, master data and document management (18 years).
- MM, LES, TRA: procurement and purchasing processes, warehouse management (WM), picking, shipping processing, handling unit management, transportation, IDOC orchestration (20 years).
- PP (discrete manufacturing): routings, bills of materials, planning, network diagrams (PS), order-specific manufacturing, confirmations, production lots, batch management, ATP (20 years).
- Retail: order-to-cash, CAR, POS/POS-DM, cash register integration (GK), EWM, suppliers, warehouse processes (RF, WM, and EWM), master data extensions (material, vendor) (15 years).
- Certification SAP Solution Consultant - BPT (07/2006) SAP ECC 5.0.
- Development experience: ABAP: OO, Dynpro, reports, BAPI, IDOC, RFC, web services (SOAP/REST), SmartForms, FIORI, Personas, debugging, Workflow and WebFlow, CDS, (relational) database design, HANA, SQL, ADT and HANA Studio.
Jan 1996 - Dec 2000
5 yearsHead of software development and deputy department head
Medium-sized mechanical engineering company
- Head of software development and deputy department head in a medium-sized mechanical engineering company.
Jan 1990 - Dec 1995
6 yearsInternal corporate consulting (project manager), head of information management
Otto Versand
- 4 years of internal corporate consulting (1.5 years as project manager).
- Project management with interdisciplinary teams from line management functions.
- Head of information management.
Languages
German
AdvancedEnglish
AdvancedFrench
IntermediateEducation
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Dipl. Industrial Engineer · Industrial Engineering · Hamburg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
SAP Solution Consultant - BPT
SAP
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