Markus Blum - Project Management

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Niddatal, Germany

Experience

Project Manager

Automotive Industry (Poppe)

Managed support for the IT director in rolling out SAP.
Project and team responsibility (8 team members).
Defined and set up MDM processes, organized internal and external staff.
Analyzed customer-specific MDM requirements and compared and selected MDM software.
Compared SAP and multiple third-party solutions.
Standardized asset creation and change processes across 5 countries using a workflow tool.
Built a data mart and designed a program to analyze master data for harmonization and migration of customers, vendors, and materials into SAP.
Organized and reviewed customizing.
Created project and load plans for transferring master and transactional data.
Developed solutions in S/4HANA and HANA on-premise and in the cloud.
Environment: ABAP, LSMW, Master Data Management, S/4HANA.

Developer

Automotive Industry (Toyota)

Upgraded SAP from R/2 to R/3 3.0.
Developed and enhanced MM/WMS to find optimal storage locations and containers through a dialog program in goods receipt/WMS.
Created various ABAP programs for MM reporting.
SAP environment: ABAP, WMS, MM, WM.

Head of Migration / MDM + MDG

Automotive Industry (Veritas)

Advised on master data management.
Defined and implemented MDM and PLM processes.
Analyzed requirements to replace an existing PLM solution and implemented MDM software for creating business partners, customers, vendors, and materials.
SAP environment: Master Data Management, ABAP/OO.

IT / Administration

Military (Bundeswehr)

Conscript for 15 months in Münster / supply depot.
Implemented PERFIS software for capturing and managing personnel master data.
Monitored and corrected personnel data using the PERFIS IT system.
Produced statistics and reports for HR.
Determined daily company strength.
Maintained leave records for two companies.
Other administrative tasks.

Consultant / Project Manager

Business Services (BAYER)

Organized maintenance and enhancements of ABAP programs.
Advised and designed new SAP programs for workflow-controlled master data maintenance and validation.
Supported release upgrades.
Advised on master data maintenance, distribution, and cleanup.
Monitored base and IDoc across 20 SAP systems.
SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, CO, BC, FI, MM, SD, WM.

Interim Manager MDM Consultant

Chemical Industry (ASK)

Interim manager for organizing production relocation from various European countries to the UK.
Analyzed data and aligned processes (planning, production, warehousing, purchasing, sales, transport, EH&S, accounting) with stakeholders.
Mapped new processes in the company and analyzed required SAP data.
SAP environment: PP, MM, MDM.

MDM Consultant / Project Manager

Chemical Industry (ASK)

Planned and prepared a migration of master data from 4 systems into one SAP system.
Analyzed, planned, and aligned migration methodology.
Communicated with responsible parties in each country.
Selected data analysis and migration tools.
Created project and load plans for master and transactional data.
SAP environment: MDM.
Coordinated data migration and RICEFW.

Consultant / Developer

Chemical Industry (BAYER)

Rolled out SAP R/3 3.1.
Developed and advised in MM and SD.
Created ABAP programs and reports for MM and SD.
Built interfaces for data transfer.
Extended SAP functions.
SAP environment: ABAP, MM, SD.

Consultant / Developer

Chemical Industry (BAYER)

Consulted and developed in Master/Enterprise Data Management (MDM/MDG).
Exchanged and validated master and transactional data with external systems.
Conducted standard migrations of new companies into live systems.
Set up EDI and IDoc interfaces.
Developed custom IDoc function modules and various interface programs with LSMW, BAPI, and ABAP.
Maintained and monitored interfaces.
SAP environment: ABAP, MM, PP, MDM, EDI, IDoc, LSMW, MDG.

Consultant / Developer / MDM

Chemical Industry (BAYER)

Advised and developed master data quality and management (MDM).
Led and supported a team of three developers.
Designed and built validation programs for continuous data quality checks, logging KPIs for SLA/SLM.
Set development guidelines, naming conventions, and budget controls.
SAP environment: ABAP, MDM, MDG, MDQ.

Interim Manager / Consultant

Chemical Industry (BAYER)

Interim manager for global master data management.
Project and team lead (12 members).
Defined and set up MDM processes, organized staff and vendors.
Analyzed customer MDM requirements and compared and selected MDM software.
Compared SAP and third-party solutions.
Selected, implemented, and customized an MDM module in SAP for creating, maintaining, and analyzing master data for harmonization and archiving.
Migrated and integrated materials from two Spanish plants.
Standardized asset creation and change processes across 11 countries.
Migrated customers and materials from an acquisition for 7 plants in 7 countries.
SAP environment: MDM/MDG.

Consultant / Developer

Chemical Industry (BBS)

Designed and developed (IDoc, WMS, MM, PP, SD, WM).
New SAP rollout.
Helped rebuild an SAP R/3 system by extracting master data from a live R/3 system within a group and establishing a regional instance.
Conceived, developed, and optimized interfaces using ALE, IDoc, batch input for master data like materials, customers, vendors, WM data, capacities, formulas, routings, BOMs, etc., plus additional programs for control, analysis, and a master data cockpit.
SAP environment: ABAP, IDoc, WMS, MM, PP, SD, WM, ALE, MDM, MDG.

Consultant / Developer / MDM

Chemical Industry (BBS)

Advised, analyzed, and developed for multiple master data migrations (materials, customers, vendors, BOMs, formulas) from various legacy systems into a live SAP system using IBM DataStage, LSMW, ALE, and IDoc.
Created and customized IDoc message types and inbound function modules.
SAP environment: ABAP, FI, CO, MM, SD.

Consultant / Developer / MDM

Chemical Industry (BBS)

Advised and designed master data cleansing and validation with IBM DataStage.
Developed extraction programs to connect four regional SAP systems to IBM DataStage.
Wrote migration strategy for a global SAP ECC 6.0 system.
Upgraded SAP from 4.6B to ECC 6.0 and converted programs from non-Unicode to Unicode.
Handled SPAU and SPDD tasks.
Updated and revised SAP Solution Manager documentation.
Coordinated program changes with teams in India.
SAP environment: ABAP, FI, MM, WM.

Consultant / Developer

Chemical Industry (BBS, BCS)

Consulted and developed interfaces (MM, PP, WM) with ABAP, IDoc, RFC, BAPI, batch input, LSMW.
Designed and built programs/interfaces for a European server to integrate country systems into R/3.
Data objects: customers, vendors, materials, formulas, WM data.
Developed dialog programs to trigger and call interfaces and control programs for data quality checks.
Created RFC-based formula transfer program with custom IDoc types and process codes.
Built a Master Data Conversion Cockpit to track old/new master data IDs per source system with append search helps/matchcodes.
SAP environment: ABAP, MM, PP, WM, IDoc, RFC, BAPI, LSMW, MDM, MDG.

Consultant / Developer / MDM

Chemical Industry (BBS, BCS)

Advised and developed Master Data Management (MDM) for materials, customers, and vendors.
Designed and created programs/interfaces for a European server to integrate country data via IDoc and LSMW.
Advised on setting up a master data server for distribution, analysis, maintenance, and harmonization via ALE and IDoc.
Designed and coded an SAP module for cross-system overview of organizational data.
SAP environment: ABAP, MDM, IDoc, LSMW, MDG.

Project Manager / MDM

Chemical Industry (BCS)

Wrote strategy for data cleansing, harmonization, and migration from country systems into a global system via ALE and IDoc.
Handled SAP data migration to merge 4 company codes into one.
Aligned rules for CO, FI, MD, MM, PP, SD, WM data, designed programs for migration via LSMW, ALE, and IDoc with teams in multiple countries.
Created custom IDoc message types and inbound function modules in SAP.
SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, CO, FI, MM, PP, SD, LSMW, ALE, IDoc.

Migration / MDM

Chemical Industry (BHC)

Advised on building a global SAP system and migrating data from various country systems using IBM DataStage, LSMW, ALE, and IDoc.
Analyzed data and aligned transformation rules with business units in multiple countries.
Designed and developed programs to validate master data (FI, CO, MM, SD) quality, validity, and usage.
Performed data cleansing, harmonization, and migration.
SAP environment: ABAP/OO, FI, CO, MM, SD, LSMW, ALE, IDoc.

Project Controller

Chemical Industry (Röhm)

Ensured quality in SAP S/4HANA implementation.
Supported client in managing their IT vendor.
Coordinated 20 vendor developers.
Reviewed ABAP developments and organized transports.
Validated and set up interfaces to external systems (IDoc, API, file).
Configured BTP.
Assisted in master and transactional data loads.
Checked and monitored documentation completion (stories, FDS, SOLMAN, TDS).
Supported software and process testing.
Helped with system validation by auditors.

Consultant / Developer

Service Provider (Berner)

Advised, analyzed, and developed for migration and cleansing of master data (MM, SD, PP) including materials, customers, vendors, BOMs, and purchasing info records, into a live SAP system via LSMW, ALE, and IDoc.
Created custom IDoc message types and inbound function modules in SAP.
Defined message types via BD35, WE30, WE31.
Extended IDoc segments with additional fields.
Mapped message types to IDoc types and maintained extensions with WE82.
Set properties for inbound function modules with BD51, WE42, BD57, etc.
Managed process codes and logical messages via WE41/WE42.
Mapped function modules to messages and IDoc types with WE57.
Maintained partner profiles with WE20 and BD64.
Generated IDoc test data with WE19.
Edited IDocs via BD87.
Aligned transformation rules with business units in various countries.
SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, MM, SD, PP, LSMW, ALE, IDoc.

Project Manager / MDM

Printing Products (CEWE)

Planned S/4HANA rollout including master and transactional data migration.
Implemented Nagarro Data Care add-on in SAP S/4HANA.
Project management, customizing, and design for additional customer requirements.
Introduced a tool to set validations for active vs. inactive records.
Coordinated data migration via DMC.

Consultant / Developer

Electronics Industry

Rolled out SAP R/3 3.0.
Captured and mapped organizational structures.
Customized MM.
Developed ABAP programs for legacy data loads.
Trained staff on MM and development.
SAP environment: ABAP, MM.

Project Manager / MDM + MDG

Electronics Industry (INSTA)

Led S/4 transition and data migration from legacy systems into S/4HANA.
Designed programs to analyze and migrate a variety of data objects.
Created budget, project, and load plans for master and transactional data.
Coordinated data migration and RICEFW.

Consultant / Developer

Energy Supply (RWE)

Advised, designed, and developed.
Built a custom module for cross-system service processing/central purchasing across multiple company codes in SAP 4.6C.
Customized MM, integrated orders, confirmations, and invoicing via RFC, CALL TRANSACTION, batch input, and IDoc for service processing across eight dialog programs and 20+ ABAP reports.
Triggered messages with custom message types.
Developed an archiving program for custom data.
Automated inter-company billing with ABAP.
SAP environment: ABAP, CO, FI, MM, SD.

Project Manager / MDM + MDG

Waste Management (EEW)

Migrated master and transactional data for S/4HANA Cloud implementation.
Implemented Nagarro Data Care add-on in SAP S/4HANA.
Built an MDM department and planned workflows for material and business partner creation across countries and divisions.
Harmonized processes.
Project management, customizing, and design of further requirements.
Set up validations for continuous master data quality monitoring.

Consultant / Project Manager

IT Services (BAYER / BBS)

Outsourced support and development from Germany to India.
Aligned requirements in Germany, wrote specs, and controlled implementation in India.
Ensured quality.
Planned resources.
Trained Indian colleagues and served as contact for SAP program adjustments.
International planning and coordination for data migration and basis support in Germany and India (BC, FI, LSMW, MASTA, MD, MM, PASTA, SD, WM, ZMDT).
Set up ALE, EDI, and IDoc interfaces, distribution models, and partner profiles.
Developed custom IDoc types, function modules, and interface programs with batch, LSMW, BAPI, and ABAP.
Advised and built multiple ABAP programs.
Automated master data checks for cross-entity usage and cleanup.
Objects: materials, customers, and sales.
Advised on phase-out procedures for material master in various dependent objects and org structures.
SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, MM, PP, SD.

Consultant / Organizer

IT Services (BBS)

Coordinated tasks, defined responsibilities, chose monitoring tools, and organized archiving.
Coordinated customizing and development in SAP systems.
Managed transition of support and customizing from Germany to India.
Aligned activities between Germany and India.
Trained Indian colleagues in SAP customizing and monitoring.
Advised on master data maintenance, distribution, and cleansing.
SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, CO, BC, FI, MM, SD.

Consultant / Project Manager

IT Services (COMPUT)

Advised on transition of SAP system developments.
Created programming specs for external vendor after consulting business owners in MM, SD, master data, IDoc, RFC, and monitoring.
Tested programs, functions, and enhancements with business owners.
Documented in SAP Solution Manager.
Monitored vendor cost and schedule in India.
Proposed fixes and automation solutions.
SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, EDI, IDoc, MM, MDM, SD.

Consultant / Developer

Real Estate Management (RWE)

Designed and developed (FI, IS Real Estate).
Full implementation.
Assisted in rolling out SAP Real Estate solution.
Advised and built interfaces to load master and transactional data (customers, vendors, open items) via data migration techniques, CALL TRANSACTION, and batch input.
Created various reports for analysis.
SAP environment: ABAP, FI, IS Real Estate.

Project Manager / MDM

Industry (OXG)

Rolled out SAP S/4 Public Cloud and migrated data from legacy systems via XML files and DMC into S/4.
Sub–project lead and project controlling.

Consultant / Architect / Dev Lead

Maintenance (RWE)

Consulted, architected, and led development (CO, FI, IS Real Estate, SD).
Led the developer team.
Set development guidelines, naming conventions, and budget controls.
While working two days a week in the chemical industry project, developed and QA’d a fully automated cross-company code and system–wide process in SAP for maintenance order billing in real estate management with auto posting in partner system.
Built custom classes with RFC–enabled function modules and table controls in custom dialog transactions.
SAP environment: ABAP, CO, FI, IS Real Estate, SD.

Architect / Developer

International Freight Forwarders

Designed and led an IT-based controlling system for cost monitoring and route optimization in international transport with staff and budget responsibility. Platform: COBOL/AS400.
Designed and led an IT-based reusable packaging management solution for automotive supply with staff and budget responsibility. Platform: COBOL/AS400.
Contributed to building an IT-based shipment tracking system. Platform: COBOL/AS400.
Assisted in implementing an IT system for truck handling with interfaces to finance and warehouse.

ABAP Developer

Plastics Processing

Handled SPAU and SPDD.
Linked two SAP systems (3.1 and 4.0) for ordering, order confirmation, and billing via IDoc.
Extended standard IDoc for extra SD order fields.
Coded customer exits for IDoc communication.
Checked stock in the other system via RFC.
SAP environment: ABAP, ALE, IDoc, MM, SD.

Consultant / Developer

Food Industry (Müller Milk)

Rolled out SAP R/3 4.0B.
Complete implementation.
Built interfaces for legacy data transfer in MM/SD.
Connected to external systems via IDoc, EDI, batch.
Added fields to standard material master screens via append, customizing, and user exits.
Designed and built custom programs in MM, SD, FI, CO, reporting, and dialog in ABAP.
Created dialog maintenance transactions.
Integrated a telephone sales program via EDI/IDoc with Seeburger tool.
SAP environment: ABAP, CO, FI, EDI, MM, SD, IDoc.

MDM + MDG Consultant

Food Industry (Van Hees)

Advised on master data management.
Defined and set up MDM processes and master data creation.
Gathered requirements, compared solutions, and selected master data software.
Standardized asset creation and change processes internationally.
Implemented and customized programs to analyze and control master data quality and create primary master data with workflow.
Developed in R/3 and S/4HANA.
SAP environment: Master Data Management, S/4HANA.

Consultant / Project Manager

Logistics (Freight)

Concurrent with the prior project, consulted and developed in SAP R/3 Basis with ABAP, RFC, CCMS as project lead for three developers.
Designed and built a program to monitor and report KPIs from 15 SAP R/3 systems with an interface to an external web-based monitoring tool for SLA display and alerts per customizing.
SAP environment: ABAP, RFC, CCMS.

Project Manager

Aerospace Industry (MTU)

Led SAP S/4 rollout with master data migration from legacy systems and designed a program to analyze master data for harmonization and migration of customers, vendors, and materials.
Organized and reviewed customizing.
Created project and load plans for master and transactional data transfer.
Planned and coordinated data migration and RICEFW.

ABAP/SQL Developer

Mechanical Engineering (Rose)

Designed and developed an ABAP dialog program for BOM explosion with a maintenance transaction to auto-create materials and BOM items in SAP via native SQL on Oracle.
Prepared specs for other developers (Release 4.5B).
SAP environment: ABAP, MM, PP, SD.

Consultant / Developer

Parcel Service (GLS)

Designed and developed (FI, HR).
Built various reports in FI and HR and interfaces for legacy data loads and ongoing data exchange in FI and HR.
Developed HR and FI data analysis reports.
Advised on development guidelines and naming conventions.
Trained client developers in SAP dialog programming.
SAP environment: ABAP, FI, HR.

Project Manager / MDM

Pharma Industry (Aenova)

Rolled out SAP R/3 and non-SAP systems into a consolidated R/3 system per site.
Aligned with business owners and planned master and transactional data migration.
Implemented Nagarro Data Care add-on to identify current data.
Co-led master data subproject.

Developer / Trainer

Press Publishing (Rheinische Post)

Upgraded SAP R/2 to R/3 4.0B.
Adapted and enhanced custom ABAP in MM and FI.
Trained staff on the R/3 interface and reporting.
SAP environment: ABAP, MM, FI.

Developer / Trainer

Aerospace Industry (DASA)

Developed and upgraded from 3.1I to 4.6B.
Handled SPAU and SPDD.
Adapted and enhanced custom ABAP.
Trained client developers in workbench/dialog programming.
Built extensive interactive CO reports.
Created dialog programs in CO and PP.
Coded user and customer exits.
Developed and applied CATT.
SAP environment: ABAP, CO, FI, PP.

Consultant / Dev Lead

Data Center (Junisphere)

Consulted and led a team of five developers.
Set development guidelines, naming conventions, and budget.
Transferred knowledge to the client.
Expanded a validation program to analyze and weight R/3 data from BD87, SM35, SM37, SP01, ST22, SM13, SM21, SM12, SM58, SM59, SLG1, SM50, SM04, STAT, STAD, DB02, SERV, ST03, STMS, SE10.
Weighted data and passed as KPIs to an external web-based overview tool for SLA display and alerts per customizing.
SAP environment: ABAP.

Consultant / Project Manager

Software Development (Intern)

Designed a Master Data Service Suite for data lifecycle tasks: migration, creation, analysis, GDPR compliance, masking, and archiving.
Gathered customer requirements and legal needs.
Wrote specs and led a team of three developers.
Environment: Master Data Management.

Consultant / Developer

Software Development (NO)

Advised and led team to connect external recruitment software to SAP HR.
Transferred applicant data to SAP via ALE, IDoc, BAPI, and CALL TRANSACTION.
SAP environment: HR, ALE, IDoc, BAPI, CALL TRANSACTION.

Project / Dev Lead

Software House (Schröder)

Designed and developed an interface from SAP to a repository of customer knowledge like Wikipedia, intranet, SharePoint, manuals, etc.
Linked SAP F1 help to the client’s knowledge base.
CODADIC – Company Data Dictionary.
SAP environment: ABAP, Basis.

Consultant / Developer

Software House (Junisphere)

Worked in SAP Basis and developed in custom SABMON.
Created checks for global workflows and integrated them into the SABMON interface.
Extended a SAP monitoring tool for automatic system and process monitoring in ABAP and ABAP/OO.
Designed and built new validation routines for various basis and business transactions per customer requests.
SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, Basis, MM.

Consultant / Developer

Freight Forwarding (CULINA)

Upgraded from 4.0B to 4.6C.
Handled SPAU and SPDD.
Reviewed and enhanced custom ABAP.
Extended interfaces and improved performance in SD and FI.
Built dialog starter transactions and user menus.
Developed a custom reusable packaging management add-on in 4.6C.
SAP environment: ABAP, FI, MM, SD.

Developer

Steel Industry

Rolled out SAP R/3 3.1.
Built a comprehensive dialog transaction for freight cost calculation, packing simplification, and various SD reports.
SAP environment: ABAP, MM, SD.

Consultant / Dev Lead

System Integrator (BCS)

Supported organization and information areas (FI, CO, MM, SD).
Designed and built an ABAP program to control and modify reporting units and profit centers for product-hierarchy–based controlling.
Conceived an ABAP program for master data analysis.
Corrected ABAP and user/customer exits for an upcoming upgrade to SAP ERP 7.00.
SAP environment: ABAP, FI, CO, MM, SD.

Summary

I have extensive experience in leading complex projects and teams, especially in the SAP environment. My background includes managing migration projects, harmonizing data processes, and establishing master data management systems on a global scale. I have successfully guided teams in implementing SAP S/4HANA, handling diverse data objects and integrating multiple systems in industries like automotive, chemical, and energy.

I excel in analyzing customer-specific requirements, selecting the right software solutions, and coordinating international project activities. With a hands-on approach in ABAP, MDM, and MDG, I consistently deliver efficient solutions and optimize operational processes.