Tobias Benz

Project Management, Consulting

Ehingen (Donau), Germany

Experience

Apr 2024 - Present
1 year 4 months
Göppingen, Germany

Project Management, Consulting

Stanz – und Spritzgußtechnik

  • Project management, consulting S/4HANA conversion
  • SAP Analytics consulting
  • Business analysis / process analysis and digitization
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
4 months
Leipheim, Germany

Project Management

Metallwaren Industrie

  • Project management migration of SAP HCM system from on-premise to the cloud
  • Database change from Oracle to Sybase
  • Leading project teams
  • Communication across various corporate levels
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
6 months
Heiligenhaus, Germany

Concept, Project Management, Architecture Consulting

Automotive

  • Concept, project management, architecture consulting for a Power BI application
  • Extraction of source data from SAP ECC, PS module using Theobald Connector Xtract Universal
  • Functional responsibility and project management for the overall project
  • Leading the Power BI development team
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
7 months
Zürich, Switzerland

Consultant

Lagertechnik

  • Extraction of SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA data using Theobald Connector Xtract DeltaQ and Xtract ODP to Microsoft SQL Server to create Power BI dashboards.
Mar 2022 - Present
3 years 5 months
Munich, Germany

Project Management, Concept, Consulting and Development

Automotive, Trucks & Busses

  • Project management, concept, consulting and development of BI / BW applications in various projects
  • Leading project teams
  • Communication across various corporate levels
  • Integration of S/4HANA into BW on HANA
  • Analytics architecture consulting
  • Preparatory measures for migration from BW on HANA to BW/4HANA
  • PoC, architecture consulting for Data Warehouse Cloud / Datasphere, Data Warehouse Bridge
  • Project management, consulting and development of procurement reporting with BW on HANA and SAC
  • Project management, consulting and development of an FI/CO project in the area of costing with BW on HANA and SAC
  • Project management, consulting and implementation of migration of all Business Objects reports to SAC
  • Process analysis and digitization
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
3 months
Hamburg, Germany

Consultant

Logistik

  • Conceptual design of a BI authorization concept for BW/4HANA integrated with S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), MS Power BI and SAP Datasphere
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
1 year 1 month
Wolfsburg, Germany

Consulting, Concept, Development and Project Management

Automotive

  • Consulting, concept and development of a planning solution based on SAP BW Integrated Planning, embedded BPC version 7.5 on HANA
  • Building a central planning solution for investment planning
  • Project management and leading the external development team
  • Communication across various corporate levels
  • Conducting and moderating requirements workshops
  • Documenting functional requirements and the technical BI concept
  • Documenting the technical architecture and the business planning processes
  • Planning and conducting developer tests, business tests and integration tests
  • Analyzing issues and finding solutions
  • Technical design
  • Business and technical consulting
  • Process analysis and digitization
  • Developing planning applications
  • Developing reports with BEx Query Designer and SAC
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
1 year 1 month
Montabaur, Germany

BI Project and Consulting Services

Packaging

  • Business and technical consulting for SAP BW concept design
  • Structuring and preparing various topics in different SAP projects
  • Gathering information and preparing topics and content for management meetings
  • Regular coordination with business units and stakeholders
  • Creating overviews & flowcharts
  • Preparing for, conducting and moderating management meetings
  • Presenting status reports and giving presentations at management level
  • Coaching internal colleagues in project management; taking on topics like structuring, requirement definition, scheduling, budgeting and moderation
  • International project management for approx. 40 sites worldwide
  • Process optimization in the SAP BW area:
  • Consulting at the interface between sales controlling, finance & controlling and the SAP BW development department
  • Project management in an international CRM implementation project: Salesforce as CRM system, SAP ERP and BW as central reporting system
  • Communication to all stakeholders: users, developers, site controllers from international entities, reporting at C-level
  • Responsible for project reporting, steering committees and training
  • Overall project management for the introduction of a global planning application for sales and cost planning in 40 countries based on SAP BPC
  • Project management, consulting and implementation of a migration project from BEx Analyzer to SAP Business Objects Analysis for Office for all BW users worldwide
  • Technical introduction and consulting for Analysis for Office
  • Business migration of SAP BW reports to Analysis for Office
  • Coordination of a prototype in sales reporting with Power BI
  • Sub-project management for SAP BW / BPC upgrade to SAP BW 7.5
  • Process analysis and digitization
  • Communication at all corporate levels
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
4 months
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Consultant

Pharma

  • Feasibility study and concept for a planning solution for 5 countries based on SAP BI Integrated Planning
  • Gathering information and preparing topics and content for management meetings
  • Regular coordination with business units and stakeholders
  • Creating overviews & process flows
  • Preparing for, conducting and moderating management meetings and requirement definitions
  • Presenting status reports in steering committees
  • Implementing pharma-regulatory requirements
Oct 2019 - Present
5 years 10 months
Ehingen, Germany

Managing Director & Consultant

d7 Consulting GmbH

Consulting.

  • International management of projects and subprojects in the SAP environment

  • Multi-project management

  • Leading internal and external project teams

  • Creating project charters and project plans

  • Scheduling, capacity, resource, activity and budget controlling

  • Communication in projects for all stakeholders

  • International process consulting in the analytics field

  • Structured, methodical architecture analysis and implementation of reporting requirements

  • Integration of new business units into reporting structures

  • Concept and consulting for new implementations, rollouts/re-designs

  • Digitization and mobilization of processes / reporting

  • Sustainable documentation for DIN/ISO certifications

  • Team coaching

  • Strategy consulting for company digitization

  • Strategic selection procedures for solutions

  • Strategy consulting on use of mobile solutions

  • Cost/benefit analyses

  • Identifying needs and deriving strategies

  • Moderation of strategy development workshops

  • Creating evaluation matrices for decision making

  • Feasibility and change impact analyses

  • Creating IT architecture concepts

  • Software selection

  • Development, modeling and design of analytics solutions

  • Coordination of integration tests

  • Responsible for service & support and introduction of support processes (ITIL)

Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
1 year 4 months
Berlin, Germany

Internal Strategic Projects / Corporate Development

IT-Informatik GmbH

  • Contributing to the acquisition of an SAP consulting firm
  • Integration process within the existing company
  • Responsible for expanding the SAP business at the Hamburg location
  • Overall responsible for the setup, founding and expansion of a subsidiary in Barcelona for SAP services
  • Regular coordination with all stakeholders and management
  • Presenting status reports to management
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
6 months
Öhringen, Germany

Project Management

Packaging

  • Project management for logistics SAP implementation in France, UK, Finland and Switzerland
  • Moderation of workshops and steering committees
  • Communication with customers and other SAP implementation partners nationally and internationally
  • Conducting integration tests
  • Designing subsequent reporting requirements
  • Gathering information and preparing topics and content for management meetings
  • Regular coordination with business units and stakeholders
  • Creating overviews & process diagrams
  • Preparing for, conducting and moderating management meetings
  • Presenting status reports and giving presentations at management level in the steering committee.
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
11 months
Ulm, Germany

Overall Project Management

Pharma

  • Overall project management for global chart of accounts harmonization in 25 countries
  • Leading international teams of business, IT, external partners & suppliers, approx. 100 project staff
  • Interface management
  • Collaboration with SAP SLT
  • Conducting UAT (User-Acceptance Tests)
  • Go-live
  • Moderation of status reports in steering committees at management level
  • Consulting / communication at C-level
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
1 year
Ulm, Germany

Overall Project Management

Pharma

  • Overall project management for introducing a web-based Executive Information System based on SAP BW with IBM Cognos front-end
  • Strategic software selection (SAP Business Objects / IBM / QlikView) based on proof of concepts
  • Architecture consulting
  • Performance analysis
  • Leading international teams of business, IT, external partners & suppliers
  • Moderation of steering committees
  • Consulting at C-level
Jan 2014 - Sep 2019
5 years 9 months
Ulm, Germany

Head of Business Unit SAP

IT-Informatik GmbH

Consulting.

  • Overall responsibility for SAP delivery at a consulting firm covering all relevant SAP consulting areas (Logistics, FI&CO, HCM, SAP Basis/Technology, Data & Analytics, development for SAP and Microsoft technologies, product development)
  • Disciplinary leadership of 125 employees and building a market-oriented organizational structure in the SAP consulting environment
  • Leading sales, consulting/development and product management teams
  • Profit and budget responsibility (approx. €15 million in revenue)
  • Expanding internationalization and growth strategy
  • Growing and managing key accounts and customer relationships
  • Personnel, resource and capacity planning, utilization planning
  • Employee leadership and development
  • Strategic leadership and development of the SAP and Microsoft consulting portfolio
  • Responsibility for product portfolio – building, establishing and enhancing solutions and products like OPRA
  • Technical sales (client meetings, events, etc.)
  • SAP partner management
  • Full responsibility for setting up the Barcelona location (currently 15 employees, independent company)
  • Participating in the analysis and acquisition of Mercoline into the IT-Informatik Group
  • Many years of experience as a consultant with clients and in projects in Business Intelligence (consulting, concept and development of BI solutions in the SAP environment)
  • Steering and coordinating nearshore teams
Jan 2009 - Dec 2014
4 years
Ulm, Germany

Head of Analytics & Head of Enterprise Services

IT-Informatik GmbH

Consulting

Jul 2006 - Dec 2009
3 years 6 months
Ulm, Germany

Team Lead Business Intelligence / Analytics

IT-Informatik GmbH

Consulting

Apr 2003 - Jun 2006
3 years 3 months
Ulm, Germany

SAP BW In-House Consultant

Merckle GmbH / ratiopharm

In-house consulting.

  • Training focus: SAP Business Information Warehouse
  • ABAP programming for R/3 sales reporting
  • Participation in SAP R/3 and SAP CRM projects
  • Personal development training, e.g. presentation skills, moderation, English
  • Project manager for SAP data archiving
  • Creating a comprehensive SAP R/3 archiving concept
  • Evaluating online access options to archived data within SAP BW
  • Introducing BW reporting in international entities Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland for SD and MM
  • Introducing BW web reporting in a custom ratiopharm BW web portal
  • Management cockpit
  • Web-based corporate reporting
  • Extensive BW introduction in Human Resources
  • Integration of BW data into SAP CRM Segment Builder
  • Introducing delivery service (sales reporting) for international entities
  • Introducing cost center and profit center accounting
  • Day-to-day tasks like:
  • SD support (orders, deliveries, invoices, delivery service, CRM, external market data)
  • MM (inventory, coverage, turnover, planning)
  • HR
  • Production
  • Cost and profit center accounting
  • User training
  • Consulting services for the business unit
Jan 2002 - Mar 2003
1 year 3 months
Meckenbeuren, Germany

SAP BW Implementation Thesis

European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company

In collaboration with Hewlett Packard Consulting.

  • Analysis and prototype development of dynamic content visualization for a management portal based on existing business data from SAP and other systems
  • Building a BW pilot project for the EADS Ulm site in project controlling
Augsburg, Germany

BW Support and Project Assistance

Aerospace

  • BW reporting in CO
  • Daily support
  • Project management for BW integration of client source systems into the central BI system
  • Integration of client source systems from Hamburg and Bremen into the central data warehouse
  • Coordination with other locations and business units
Weißenhorn, Germany

SAP BW Implementation

Aluminimschmelzwerk

  • Design of the reporting concept
  • Creating the architecture concept
  • Implementation and long-term support of BW reports
Bad Urach, Germany

Integration of SAP ERP Data into Microsoft BI System

Automotive

  • Delta extraction
  • Designing and implementing interfaces using Theobald connectors and Integration Services
  • Building the data model in SQL Server
  • Reporting Services
Ulm, Germany

Project Coordination SAP Implementation Project

Automotive

  • Taking over project organization before go-live phase for SAP ERP roll-out project
  • Support for go-live planning organization
  • Support for cut-over planning
  • Participation in process workshops
  • Consulting / support for local management in the SAP implementation project
  • Planning and conducting SAP user training
Ellwangen, Germany

SAP BW Implementation

Chemie

  • Introduction of a BW web reporting portal
  • Implementation of web-based standard reports and management cockpits for executive management
Bad Überkingen, Germany

Consultant

Lebensmittelherstellung

  • Implementation of SAP BW as a central reporting tool based on SAP BW powered by HANA
  • BW implementation of CO-PA for multiple profit centers
  • Analyzing reporting requirements in CO-PA
  • Introduction of a BW web reporting portal
  • Management cockpits
  • Performance optimization
  • BW implementation in HR (personnel administration, payroll)
  • BW implementation in logistics (orders, deliveries, transport, inventory for delivery service, order backlog, coverage, turnover)
  • Implementation of extensive production reporting (series production, maintenance data, routing)
Legau, Germany

Consultant

Lebensmittelherstellung

  • Implementation of SAP BW as a central reporting tool
  • BW implementation in sales (orders, deliveries, invoices, transport, handling units, service level)
  • Analysis of VIS structures
  • Replacing previous VIS structures from SAP R/3 to SAP BW using LIS extractors
  • Introduction of a BW web reporting portal
  • Management cockpits
  • Day-to-day support / outsourcing
  • BW implementation of CO-PA
  • Analyzing reporting requirements in CO-PA
Bremen, Germany

Strategy Consulting / Process Consulting / SAP BW Implementation

Lebensmittelherstellung

  • Moderating workshops
  • Architecture consulting / interface integration for external non-SAP CRM system and integration into existing SAP landscape
  • Integration of external suppliers
  • Project development and implementation
Göppingen, Germany

SAP BW Implementation

Modelleisenbahnen

  • Designing the reporting concept
  • Creating the architecture concept
  • Implementation and long-term support of BW reports
  • Introduction of FI-CO reporting in BW
  • Introduction of procurement reporting, inventory reporting
Heidenheim, Germany

SAP BW Implementation

Packaging

  • BW implementation in logistics (orders, deliveries, invoices, order backlog, service level)
  • Introduction of a BW web reporting portal
  • BW implementation of CO-PA
  • BW implementation of production data capture
  • Introduction of web-based standard reports and management cockpits
Frankfurt, Germany

Project Management SAP BW Implementation

Pharma

  • Responsible for concept creation and implementation of analytics during SAP new implementation
  • Development / modeling in CO-PA, sales controlling, project controlling
  • Introduction of a BW web reporting portal
  • Management cockpits
  • Coordination with other parts of the new implementation project
Kyiv, Ukraine

Ukraine Rollout SAP BW

Pharma

  • Rollout of BW reports in Ukraine
  • Project management for implementing a comprehensive management information system based on SAP BW and IBM Cognos
  • Project management for strategic software selection of a dashboarding tool
Sontheim, Germany

Consultant

Spannzeughersteller

  • Implementation of SAP BW as a central reporting solution
  • BW implementation
  • Analysis of VIS structures
  • Replacing previous VIS structures from SAP R/3 to SAP BW using LIS extractors
  • Introduction of a BW web reporting portal
  • Management cockpits
  • Day-to-day support
  • Introduction of project controlling – cProjects
  • Introduction of production analysis based on CO and production data
  • On-time delivery, delivery service
  • Sales planning - production planning
Ravensburg, Germany

Design and Implementation of Open Order Backlog in BW System

Spielzeugindustrie

  • Workshops for concept creation
  • Architecture planning
  • Interface integration
  • BW reporting of open order backlog combined with CO-PA valuations
Ulm, Germany

SAP BW Support

Spritzgußhersteller

  • Introduction of a BW web reporting portal
  • Management cockpits
  • Introduction of standardized reporting for multiple international entities
  • Day-to-day national and international support
  • Formatted reporting within the web interface
  • Legacy data migration for BW implementation in France
  • BW implementation in Finland
  • Support for profit center accounting introduction in BW
  • BW implementation for logistics transport and freight costs
  • BW reporting for quality management with BOM resolution
  • Migration of authorization concept
  • BW implementation for a new entity
  • Support for SAP BW implementation after the customer was acquired by a large Swedish group
Heidenheim, Germany

SAP BW Implementation

Textil

  • Designing the reporting concept
  • Creating the architecture concept
  • Implementation and long-term support of BW reports
  • Introduction of logistics reporting in BW
  • Introduction of procurement reporting, inventory reporting

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 1998 - Mar 2003

Fachhochschule Neu-Ulm

Diploma in Business Administration, Information Management · Business Administration · Neu-Ulm, Germany