Christoph R. - SD Consultant (Order-to-Cash) for machinery, spare parts sales and services

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Ammersbek, Germany

Experience

Apr 2024 - Dec 2024

9 months

SD 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 months

Technical 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 months

Senior 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 months

SD 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 months

Application 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 years

CAR Architect

IT Consulting Christoph M. Reich

S/4 HANA (Retail, 1610) Implementation as CAR Architect.

Jan 2017 - Mar 2018

1 year 3 months

Senior 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 months

Senior 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

4 years

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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 months

Senior 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 months

Denmark

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 year

Senior 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 months

Senior 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 months

Poland

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 months

SD 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 month

Senior 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 months

Senior 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 years

SAP 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.