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SAP Solution Architect

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  • 01.05.2024

Kurzvorstellung

20+ Jahre Erfahrung mit SAP Implementierungen in vielen Bereichen. Schwerpunkt CO, CO-PA (auch in S/4HANA), BPC (auch BPC Optimized in S/4HANA), Architektur, Integration, BW, BI-IP

Qualifikationen

  • SAP BI-IP3 J.
  • SAP BO-PC6 J.
  • SAP BW6 J.
  • SAP CO9 J.
  • SAP CO-PA9 J.
  • SAP S/4HANA

Projekt‐ & Berufserfahrung

S/4HANA Architect for CO-PA and FICO Planning in BPC Optimized
Pioneer Foods, Cape Town
3/2019 – 9/2019 (7 Monate)
Konsumgüterindustrie
Tätigkeitszeitraum

3/2019 – 9/2019

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Design and Blueprinting (Fast-moving Consumer Goods Industry)
• Responsible for overall FICO Planning Strategy and architecture roadmap scenarios with BPC optimized in S/4HANA and BPC embedded in BW/4HANA.
• Prototype and blueprint of selected FICO budget and forecast planning solution on BPC optimized in S/4HANA
• Prototype and blueprint of Account-based CO-PA Solution in S/4HANA

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP BO-PC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BI-IP, SAP BW, SAP CO-PA

SAP Planning Solutions Architect for BPC Embedded
Distell, Stellenbosch
11/2017 – 12/2018 (1 Jahr, 2 Monate)
Konsumgüterindustrie
Tätigkeitszeitraum

11/2017 – 12/2018

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Design and Blueprinting (Manufacturing: Wine, Spirits and Beverages Industry)
• Responsible for blueprinting various applications in the Manufacturing Accelerator (Price planning, Volumes planning, Exchange Rate planning) for a manufacturing customer.
Build
• Responsible for build/test of Price planning and Exchange Rate planning applications for a manufacturing customer on BW 7.5 on HANA: datasources, planning ADSO’s, composite providers, levels, filters, functions, queries, A4O workbooks, dataslices with exit variables, authorizations, BW ETL, process chains.
• Build/test of ODP-enabled master data (infoobjects) interface between BW systems.
Coding
• Coded various functions in FOX
• Spec’d and tested/debugged various AMDP functions (SQLscript) on HANA. One was very complex in that it spanned multiple ADSO’s and tables, valuating planned volumes using planned prices over multiple access sequences and pricing procedures, then using ERP account determination, posting the simulated Gross Profit to the Financial Results application/ADSO (similar to Account-based CO-PA)

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP BO-PC, SAP ECC, SAP BI-IP, SAP HANA SQLScript

Domain Architect for Finance (Festanstellung)
Shoprite Holdings, Brackenfell
6/2015 – 10/2018 (3 Jahre, 5 Monate)
Großhandel
Tätigkeitszeitraum

6/2015 – 10/2018

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Finance Functionality and Design (Retail Industry)
• Responsible for roadmap design of overall Finance architecture for Africa’s largest retailer, across all ERP systems, including path to S/4 HANA Enterprise.
• Responsible for design of overall FICO functionality and integration across two SAP ERP systems (Master Data and Statistical Key figure replication. A/R, A/P, and selected GL accounts using ALE) and between SAP and various other systems, e.g. PO’s from supplier portal, Expense/asset purchasing from stores/DC
• Responsible for design of ‘end state’ ERP/BW/BPC architecture
• Responsible for design, build and test of two primary interfaces (POS/sales, expenses) between SAP ERP systems using delta-enabled ODP architecture in combination with SAP Data Services, ABAP and BRF plus
• Responsible for design of daily Flash Sales reporting platform in BW
• Responsible for design of budget retraction interface from BW-BPC and ECC6 on HANA using Smart Data Access
• Responsible for design of ‘co-existence’ accounting/clearing between old Stores system, old DC system, old ERP system and new ERP system during rollout phase of new ERP system.
• Responsible for documentation of all finance-related interfaces in ARIS
• Oversight of fully-absorbed Cost of Sales solution (Moving Average Cost, Rebates using Condition Contract Settlement, DC costs, & Transportation)

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP BO-PC, SAP ECC, SAP ALE, SAP BW, SAP HANA, System Architektur, Aris Software

BW-BPC Project Team Member
Pick ‘n Pay, Cape Town
1/2012 – 2/2014 (2 Jahre, 2 Monate)
Großhandel
Tätigkeitszeitraum

1/2012 – 2/2014

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

BPC Project Team Member – BPC Integration with Netweaver and ERP (Retail Industry)
• Co-design and testing of BPC Master data loads (BW ETL and process chains) from ERP and BW. This included hierarchies.
• Co-design and testing of BPC Transaction data loads (BW delta ETL and process chains) from ERP and BW. External companies using BPC Data Manager.
• Design and build of BPC Security solution (BW roles and BPC)
• Design, build and execution of interim sales budget landscape throughout various stages of BPC SALES model development. Integrated Planning functions in BW process chains used to integrate/force-balance BPC sales budgets with BPS Sales Forecaster and BW.
• Co-design and testing of Integrated Planning functions and BW process chains that form part of the end-state BPC Budget process
• Design and build of BPC UJ_VALIDATIONS (BADI enhanced to detect origin of postings: Journal, Input schedule, Data Manager)
• Design and build of custom solution to enable drill-through from BPC-EPM report to ERP GL report (FGI0)
• Design and build custom solution to enable passing of BPC variables from BPC to IP planning functions using BADI
• BPC Client installations (EPM) and updates via the web
• Designed BPC Audit Trail Data Archiving Strategy


BPC System Administrator (Retail Industry)
• BPC Master data loads, backups and issue resolution from ERP and BW
• BPC Transaction data loads, issue resolution and reconciliations from ERP and BW
• Running and streamlining BW Integrated Planning process chains for BPC Budgets
• BPC End user issue resolution and trouble-shooting system performance issues
• Managing BPC Security
• BPC client installations on user machines
• BPC Transports
• Knowledge transfer to BW Application Support and Helpdesk teams

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP BO-PC

Lead BI Consultant for Corporate Finance
Pick ‘n Pay, Cape Town
11/2009 – 11/2011 (2 Jahre, 1 Monat)
Großhandel
Tätigkeitszeitraum

11/2009 – 11/2011

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Blueprint, Realization & Go-live in Southern Africa (Retail Industry)
• Lead BI consultant for Corporate Finance – requirement gathering, design and configuration “Trading Update” dashboard reports presented to the Board every week.
• The solution involved design and build of BW queries which were embedded in BEx workbooks. Wrote Visual Basic (VBA) code in Excel to provide missing functionality and built flexible presentation layer using Excel 2007 pivot tables with conditional formatting.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

Microsoft Windows (allg.), SAP BW

Lead BW-BPS Consultant
Pick 'n Pay, Cape Town
1/2009 – 10/2009 (10 Monate)
Großhandel
Tätigkeitszeitraum

1/2009 – 10/2009

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Blueprint, Realization & Go-live in Southern Africa (Retail Industry)
• Lead BW-BPS consultant – requirement gathering, design and configuration of BPS and BW for the replacement of Pick n Pay’s bespoke legacy Financial Sales Forecaster.
• Design and implementation of custom functions (FOX code and ABAP) to forecast the sales by department by day in every store.
• Achieved a large improvement in forecast accuracy and provided a modern, ergonomic, fully integrated forecasting platform.
• Provided detailed Business Process documentation and training.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP BI-IP, SAP BW

BW-BPS Consultant
Pick ‘n Pay, Cape Town
11/2006 – 12/2007 (1 Jahr, 2 Monate)
Großhandel
Tätigkeitszeitraum

11/2006 – 12/2007

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Blueprint and Realization (Retail Industry)
• BW-BPS Project Manager
• BW-BPS Consultant, working with SAP Africa’s Lead Consultant to build Pick n Pay’s Financial Budgeting platform.
• Lead consultant on ERP vs BW integration issues
• Specification and testing of BPS developments and function exits
• Data loads into BW-BPS
• Design of end-user training courses
• Documentation of Financial Budget business processes.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP BI-IP

Lead CO, IM & New GL Consultant
Pick 'n Pay, Cape Town
2/2006 – 12/2007 (1 Jahr, 11 Monate)
Großhandel
Tätigkeitszeitraum

2/2006 – 12/2007

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Realization & Multiple Go-live Phases in Southern Africa (Retail Industry)
• Lead CO consultant – configuration of Controlling: CCA, Internal orders and EC-PCA.
• Lead Investment Management (IM) consultant – configuration of IM using internal orders as Investment Measures, settling to assets and cost centers.
• IM budgeting and planning with realtime Availability/Spend Control.
• CO & IM data take-on strategy and execution using LSMW.
• Review and reengineering of Capex business process
• Preparation of comprehensive ‘IM Super User Handbook’, and training of business processes.
• IM monthly and year-end support
• MM Purchasing config and go-live support for Capex buying
• Flexible Ledger planning configuration and custom interface from BW
• Flexible Ledger allocation design and config.
• Flexible Ledger report painter reports design
• Flexible Ledger Validations and Substitution exit design
• Flexible Ledger secondary index design for performance gains
• Design of Debtors Accounting and Interface format between UNISOLV system (pharmacy) and SAP GL using Process Integration (PI) adapter.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP ECC, SAP CO, SAP FI, SAP Implementation

CO Consultant
CadburyAdams, Parsippany
7/2004 – 4/2005 (10 Monate)
Konsumgüterindustrie
Tätigkeitszeitraum

7/2004 – 4/2005

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Go-live and Post-production Support (Manufacturing: Fast-moving Consumer Goods)
• Design and build of CO Profitability Analysis painter reports
• Design and testing CO-PA user exits and custom reports
• Design, implementation and testing of custom ‘Special Pack Explosion’ suite in CO-PA and EC-PCA. These programs used complex algorithms to distribute P&L values and quantities to the lowest product levels.
• Performing month-end reconciliations of FICO area and ‘Special Pack explosions’.
• Go-live, post-production, and period-end close support of US business in FICO
• Reconciliations between Cognos and Essbase and CO-PA.
• Training permanent support staff in maintenance of the above.
• Designing IDOC interface between two SAP instances.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP ALE, SAP CO, SAP CO-PA

CO & PS Consultant
Lucent-Alcatel (Bell Labs), Murray Hill, NJ
4/2002 – 5/2004 (2 Jahre, 2 Monate)
High-Tech- und Elektroindustrie
Tätigkeitszeitraum

4/2002 – 5/2004

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Realization & Multiple Go-live Phases around the globe (ICT Industry: Engineer-to-Order)
• Configuring PS Module in areas of CO, Results Analysis, and Revenue Recognition.
• Design and implementation of custom ‘Percentage of Completion’ Revenue Recognition’ solution using Results Analysis exits and custom distribution programs.
• Design and implementation of custom ‘Deferred Revenue’ requirements using Revenue Recognition functionality of IS-Software industry solution bolt-on.
• Implementing advanced performance enhancements for Results Analysis and Settlement required by large volumes of WBS Elements.
• Consulting on project Work Breakdown Structure design for large individual projects of up to $1 billion.
• Performing and documenting month-end reconciliations for all project business.
• Leading FICO conversion strategy of legacy project systems into SAP
• Leading PS Financial reporting strategy & building/spec’ing reports
• Leading CO-PA reporting strategy & building CO-PA reports.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP CO, SAP CO-PA, Sap Ps

Lead CO Consultant
Honeywell Chemicals International, hannover
1/2001 – 12/2001 (1 Jahr)
Chemieindustrie
Tätigkeitszeitraum

1/2001 – 12/2001

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Blueprinting, Realization & Go-live Phases (Chemicals Industry: Process Manufacturing)
• Trained European project team in Honeywell system design and configuration.
• Facilitated numerous workshops with project team and business leaders.
• Designed further enhancements to facilitate the European forecasting needs and architecture.
• Designed custom automatic Sales/Purchase processing interface of goods and services between Honeywell and on-site third party companies, whose logistics and production processes are tightly integrated with those of Honeywell.
• Led the design of more complex business scenarios, such as inter-company billings and settlement, and international cross-company drop-ships.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP CO, SAP CO-PA, Sap Ps

Lead CO Consultant
Honeywell Chemicals International, Morristown, NJ
3/1999 – 12/2000 (1 Jahr, 10 Monate)
Chemieindustrie
Tätigkeitszeitraum

3/1999 – 12/2000

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Go-live phases (Chemicals Industry: Process Manufacturing)
• First and Second Rollouts successfully implemented.

Realization phase:
• Configured CO-PA (Account-based) to track Actual vs. Budget and Rolling Forecasts.
• Redesigned and implemented a fully integrated budgeting and forecasting landscape. The solution integrated CO-PA , EC-PCA, PS with PP-SOP and CO-PC, as well as custom interfaces to legacy and offline sales forecasting systems.
• Designed and built CO-PA report portfolio.
• Configured EC-PCA, and integrated the company P&L.
• Lead Consultant on all CO and PS integration topics.

Blueprinting phase:
• Trained project team in CO level 2 and 3 courses in preparation for system design.
• Facilitated numerous workshops with project team and business leaders.
• Designed complete Controlling solution in collaboration with the ‘Global standards’ team. Modules included EC-PCA, CO-PA, CO-PC, CO-OPA, CO-CCA, and PS, integrated with CATS, FI, SD, MM & PP-PI.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP CO, SAP CO-PA, Sap Ps

Project System Consultant
SAP USA, Philadelphia, PA
3/1998 – 3/1999 (1 Jahr, 1 Monat)
software
Tätigkeitszeitraum

3/1998 – 3/1999

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

• System Demos (Engineering & Construction, as well as Aerospace & Defense Industries)
• Created integrated PS demo scenarios and scripts for use by Product Engineers and for Sapphire.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

Sap Ps

CO-PA & EC-PCA Consultant
Symbol Technologies, Bohemia, NY
4/1997 – 2/1998 (11 Monate)
High-Tech- und Elektroindustrie
Tätigkeitszeitraum

4/1997 – 2/1998

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

Blueprinting/Test/Go-live phase (Hi-tech Manufacturing Industry)
• Worked with Finance, Sales, Marketing and Operations teams to develop a comprehensive CO-PA (Costing-based and Account-based) reporting database and reporting portfolio.
• Served as 'Integration Issues' consultant.
• PA Solution utilized by all subsidiaries around the globe.
• Trained key users for the client and aided in end-user training.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP CO-PA

Senior CO-PA Consultant
AKZO Nobel Chemicals, Chicago, IL and Tarrytown, NY
10/1995 – 9/1996 (1 Jahr)
Chemieindustrie
Tätigkeitszeitraum

10/1995 – 9/1996

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

(Chemicals Industry: Process Manufacturing)
• Worked with Sales and Marketing teams to develop a comprehensive Profitability database solution. The design was global in nature, and was adopted by head office in Holland.
• Designed comprehensive margin reporting including configuring the links to SD, FI, CO and MM.
• Configured PA for use of Actual vs. Budget and Rolling Forecast.
• Designed user exits to allow for additional functionality.
• Trained key users for the client and aided in end-user training.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP CO-PA

CO & PS Consultant (Festanstellung)
Siemens, Johannesburg
1/1994 – 7/1995 (1 Jahr, 7 Monate)
High-Tech- und Elektroindustrie
Tätigkeitszeitraum

1/1994 – 7/1995

Tätigkeitsbeschreibung

(Blueprint/Test/Go-live: Multiple Industries)
• Aided in the redesign of business controlling procedures.
• Designed and configured the necessary Project System functionality.
• Configured CO-PA to support the new business processes.
• Aided in the design of interfaces to augment the sales information in CO-PA.
• Trained key users from various international Siemens companies on new design and functionality to help accelerate their implementations.

Eingesetzte Qualifikationen

SAP CO, SAP CO-PA, Sap Ps

Ausbildung

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
1992
Kapstadt

Über mich

Hot skills: 'BPC Optimized' in S/4HANA, CO-PA in S/4HANA

Weitere Kenntnisse

SAP FICO, SAP CO-PA, SAP BPC, SAP BW, SAP BI-IP, SAP architecture, Enterprise architecture, Integration

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  • Deutsch (Muttersprache)
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Berufserfahrung
30 Jahre und 10 Monate (seit 01/1994)
Projektleitung
1 Jahr

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