Christoph (M.) Reich
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 UK (1 full cycle).
- Mapping product variants with AVC and LO-VC.
- Implementation of service processes, activity-based billing.
- Role-based selection of suitable FIORI apps for a “FIORI only” approach.
- Implementation of rule-based functions with BRF+.
- Setup pricing, price maintenance, price migration.
- (Adobe) forms, adaptation.
- Integration of third-party systems, definition of interfaces and mixed application scenarios.
Mar 2021 - Dec 2023
2 years 10 monthsTechnical Architect (ALE, IDOC, SOAP), Logistics Consultant (LE, SD, MM, WM)
Merz
- Project: integration of 3PL warehouse system.
- Industry: pharma.
- Setup and documentation of relevant logistics processes (goods receipt/issue) involving a logistics provider.
- Definition of interfaces to the external provider.
- Project management with the external provider, test management, integration management.
- Development and customizing of logistics and warehouse processes: ordering, goods receipt and issue, batch determination, message determination, reporting.
- Development and adaptation of interfaces (IDOC, SOAP, SFTP) within SAP.
- Supervision and control of technical interface development between PI/PO and Lobster.
- Data migration and cut-over 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 introduction – connecting sales processes to existing R/3 system.
- Industry: industrial manufacturing.
- Setup cross-system sales processes in S/4 mirroring legacy R/3.
- Variant configuration, pricing, intercompany processing.
- Development of interfaces for intercompany and internal procurement processes.
- Solution design for configured products in two systems.
- Integration of external product configurator via web services into S/4.
Jun 2018 - Present
7 years 2 monthsSD Consultant, Developer
Minimax
- Project: adjustment and establishment of cross-plant production processes.
- Industry: industrial discrete manufacturing.
- Ongoing support.
- Design and mapping of multi-level sales processes, customizing of sales documents and creation of info monitors.
- Customization and development for scheduling and execution of subprocesses in cross-plant production.
- Adaptation of routings/bills of materials and interfaces and data exchange to/from MES.
- Setup additional production options for (pre-)configured materials.
- Insertion of extra documents and steps in document workflow, IDOC adjustments, adaptation of ATP logic for delivery date determination.
- Adjustment of pricing for internal settlements including production 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.
- Development and review of functional and technical concepts with business units in SD, LE, CS, MM.
- Project management, regular reporting and alignment with departments and project lead using SAP Solution Manager and JIRA/Confluence.
- Organization of development activities for a team of ~8-15 developers.
- Conduct code and development reviews for quality assurance in a validated SAP environment.
- Lead development for integration of a warehouse solution (KARDEX) to SAP-WM.
- Standardization and adjustment of batch management in QM area.
- Further development of enterprise interfaces (PI/PO) in LE, PP and QM.
- Support 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 introduction for stores.
- Industry: retail / fashion.
- Technical and functional responsibility for integrating the POS solution (GK) into SAP via CAR, SLT.
- Setup and operation of SLT (system landscape transformation) to feed CAR with master and transactional data from Retail / SAP ERP, performance tuning, ongoing monitoring and platform enhancements.
- Implementation of project scope for CAR (POSDTA), data exchange via standard interfaces with ERP, implementation of back-office POS processes, fit-gap analyses.
- POS integration GK, management of data mapping from GK POS (POSLOG to TLOG) to SAP TLOG.
- Design of process architecture for stores, lead testing and handover/acceptance of POS processes with business process owner.
- Customizing order types, pricing, article master data, ATP logic for store replenishment.
- Support in operating a SAP HANA landscape: authorizations, upgrades, maintain HANA Cloud Platform for prototyping.
- Implementation of various SOAP/REST interfaces to the CAR data base with ODATA / HANA for POS and assortment planning, CDS Views.
- Data migration of reporting data to CAR.
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
5 monthsSenior Consultant SD
Puma
- Project: international template rollout.
- Industry: retail / fashion.
- Further development and regional adaptation after go-live of a country template (Italy, Spain, France).
- Optimization and expansion of the template.
- Adaptation of pricing to local conditions and tax regulations.
- Price distribution: concept for stepwise optimization of article price distribution, addition of change indicators and automatic sending of price IDOCs after central changes.
Jan 2015 - Dec 2018
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IT Consulting Christoph M. Reich
- New Retail: setup of a test architecture with SAP/HANA, CAR, SLT, HYBRIS, IoT.
Mar 2014 - Dec 2016
2 years 10 monthsSenior Consultant SD / CS (ARM), Interface Development, Development Lead
Dodenhof
- Project: SAP IS/Retail introduction, solution development for furniture sales.
- Industry: retail.
- Process development for order-to-cash, integration of external planning tools into sales processes.
- ARM / claim management: definition of customer service processes into 2 main processes with 4 variants each, implementation of a configuration monitor, support and automated handling of service processes.
- POS shop-in-shop concept, custom implementation of a stored-value card solution.
- PIM integration: automated creation of articles via an external tool.
- Automatic completion of order templates via order confirmations.
- Integration of store handheld solution for inventory, price and article maintenance.
- Mapping special retail scenarios for furniture pickup and delivery, adaptation of ATP logic to scenarios.
- Sales analyses for rack jobbers for vendor reporting.
- Process design and solution development for sales-related and logistics functions: goods receipt, inspection and distribution.
- Project management and steering of custom developments, management of 6 developers with budget ~1,500 man days.
Jun 2010 - Mar 2014
3 years 10 monthsDenmark
Consultant SD-Retail
Dansk-Supermarket
- Project: SAP IS/Retail introduction, solution development for promotions, 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": control of picking for 470 stores.
- SAP promotion management, workflow development for promotions, monitoring actions and procurement processes to ensure store supply.
- F&R data feed via POSDM, integration of results into ordering process.
- MIM: coordination of development to expand store portal (logistics processes in store): extension and new Web Dynpros for goods receipt, order processing and overview.
- EWM: coordination of CIF interface adaptation for ECC master data and legacy for three central warehouses, mobile RF adjustments.
- Omnichannel: integration of webshop/kiosk, design of article and price interfaces for master data exchange via PI. Staffing, planning and management of an international developer team with ~25,000 FTE budget over 4 years (including AMS support).
- Integration of POS systems (~1,600 stores), design and rollout of POS inbound/outbound processes for POS-DM integration (articles, price labels, promotions, daily POS data with external POS), integration of bonus-purchases and mapping to 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 (MS-SQL Server based) with SAP; integrated calls in VB/.NET via DB server and RFC/BAPI, DB design and tuning, automatic creation of notifications and transfer of order-relevant data to service processing, adaptation of forms (SmartForms) and workflow.
- Design of master data management system for equipment, management of offshore development, global cross-system exchange of installed base, go-live early 2010.
- System design for local integration of external measurement points via SCADA interface to SAP, initiation of maintenance and repair processes from external monitoring (MS-SQL Server) in SAP via notification creation and workflows.
Feb 2009 - Jun 2009
5 monthsSenior Consultant / Support
BrainLab AG
- Project: CS, SD, PM support, troubleshooting.
- Industry: healthcare.
- Concept 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 Lead, Senior Consultant
Chiron
- Project: rollout.
- Industry: mechanical engineering.
- Project lead rollout: country templates for USA, Poland, China.
- Settings for cross-company sales, cross-company stock transfer orders, SD/CO/FI customizing.
- USA rollout: automatic data transfer of full FI and parts of SD data with LSMW, RFC, IDOC, custom programming and form adjustments (SmartForms and SAPscript).
- Translation to English of customizing data, training materials and documentation, go-live 10/01/2008.
Nov 2007 - Apr 2008
6 monthsSD Pricing Specialist and ABAP(-OO) Developer
HansaFlex
- Project: SAP introduction (SAP-SD).
- Industry: industrial trading.
- SD pricing, development and introduction of special solutions for product pricing: cumulative prices in customer sets, calculated based on production BOMs and planned prices.
Mar 2007 - Mar 2009
2 years 1 monthSenior Consultant, Software Architect
Butting
- Project: SAP introduction, sub-project production/PLM/QM (with breaks).
- Industry: stainless steel pipes, mechanical engineering.
- Focus on variant configuration, standards and material catalogs, control of production and quality inspection for 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), preparation for go-live, data migration (LSMW), go-live 01/2009.
Oct 2006 - Mar 2007
6 monthsSenior Consultant, Software Architect
Chiron
- Project: integration of order control (SAP-PS).
- Industry: mechanical engineering.
- Integration and synchronization of external order progress data, design of SAP network plans (PS) and assembly planning, adaptation via BADI, integration with external mobile systems.
Jan 2000 - Present
25 years 7 monthsSAP Consultant / Senior Consultant / Architect
IT Consulting Christoph M. Reich
- SAP consulting.
- Lead roles as senior consultant/architect in SD, MM, EAM, PP.
- Industries: retail, pharma, contract manufacturing.
- Coordination of in-house and offshore development in SAP projects.
- Lead development and integration of technical solutions.
- Extensive project management experience in all phases and levels of organizations, especially for development-heavy processes.
- Project management, business leadership and coaching in project management (SAP or IT projects).
- Functional and technical consulting in 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, rebate and commission processing (incl. FI), EDI and B2B processes (20+ years).
- PLM, PM, MD: classification, variant configuration and its use in SD and PP, serialization, equipment, master data and document management (18 years).
- MM, LES, TRA: procurement and purchasing processes, WM, picking, shipping, handling unit management, transportation, IDOC orchestration (20 years).
- PP (discrete manufacturing): routings, BOMs, scheduling, network plans (PS), customer-specific manufacturing, confirmations, production orders, batch management, ATP (20 years).
- Retail: order-to-cash, CAR, POS/POS-DM, POS integration (GK), EWM, vendor and warehouse processes (RF, WM and EWM), master data extensions (articles, vendors) (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 Division Manager
Medium-sized Machinery Manufacturer
- Head of software development and deputy division manager at a medium-sized machinery manufacturing company.
Jan 1990 - Dec 1995
6 yearsInternal Consulting (Project Lead), Head of Information Management
Otto Versand
- 4 years in internal consulting (1.5 years as project lead).
- Project management with interdisciplinary teams from line management functions.
- Head of information management.
Languages
German
AdvancedEnglish
AdvancedFrench
Intermediate Education
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Dipl. Wirtschaftsingenieur · Industrial Engineering · Hamburg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
SAP Solution Consultant - BPT
SAP
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