Markus Blum
Project lead / MDM
Experience
Project lead / MDM
Aenova
- System introduction from SAP R/3 and non-SAP systems into an SAP R/3 system to consolidate processes per site and data per system.
- Coordination with business stakeholders and planning the migration of master and transactional data.
- Implementation of the Nagarro master data add-on: Nagarro Data Care to identify current data.
- Co-project lead for master data.
Project lead / MDM
OXG
- System introduction from SAP S/4 Public Cloud and migration of data from legacy systems via XML files and DMC into the new S/4.
- Subproject lead and project controlling.
Project lead / MDM
CEWE
- Planning a S/4HANA system implementation, including the migration of master and transactional data.
- Introduction of the Nagarro master data add-on: Nagarro Data Care in SAP S/4HANA.
- Project lead, customizing and design for additional customer requirements.
- Implementation of a tool to set up checks to determine which records are still active or already inactive.
- Coordination of data migration via DMC.
Project lead / MDM + MDG
EEW
- Migration of master and transactional data for the S/4HANA Cloud implementation.
- Introduction of the Nagarro master data add-on: Nagarro Data Care in SAP S/4HANA.
- Setting up an MDM department and planning the creation of workflows for creating material master data and business partners in different countries and areas.
- Harmonization of processes.
- Project lead, customizing and design of additional customer requirements.
- Setting up checks for continuous monitoring of master data quality.
Project controlling
Röhm
- Ensuring quality in the implementation of SAP S/4HANA.
- Assisting the client in managing their IT service provider.
- Supporting development with 20 developers from various service providers.
- Creating and reviewing ABAP developments and managing transport requests.
- Testing and setting up interfaces to external systems (IDoc, API, file).
- Setting up the BTP.
- Supporting the migration of master and transactional data.
- Checking and monitoring the completion of documentation (Stories-FDS-SOLMAN-TDS).
- Supporting software and process tests.
- Supporting system validation by auditors.
Project Manager / MDM + MDG
INSTA
- Project manager in an S/4 transition and migration of master data from legacy systems to S/4 HANA systems.
- Designing programs to analyze and migrate a wide variety of data objects.
- Preparing budget, project and load plans to transfer master and transactional data.
- Coordinating the migration of data and RICEFW.
Project Manager
MTU
- Project manager for setting up SAP S/4 with migration of master data from legacy systems to an S/4 HANA system.
- Designing a program to analyze master data for harmonization and migration of customers, vendors and materials in SAP.
- Organizing and reviewing customizing.
- Preparing project and load plans to transfer master and transactional data.
- Planning and coordinating the migration of data and RICEFW.
Migration Lead / MDM + MDG
Veritas
- Consulting in the area of Master Data Management.
- Coordinating and establishing MDM and PLM processes.
- Analyzing requirements to replace an existing PLM solution and implement MDM software for creating business partners, customers, vendors and materials.
- SAP environment: Master Data Management, ABAP/OO.
MDM + MDG Consultant
Van Hees
- Consulting in Master Data Management.
- Coordinating and establishing MDM processes, organizing the creation of master data.
- Gathering requirements from the client, comparing different solutions and selecting a master data software.
- International harmonization of creation and change processes.
- Implementing and customizing programs to analyze and control master data quality and to create primary master data with workflows.
- Development in R3, S/4HANA.
- SAP environment: Master Data Management, S/4HANA.
Project Manager
Poppe
- Manager supporting the IT director in implementing SAP.
- Project and team responsibility (8 team members).
- Coordinating and establishing MDM processes, managing internal and external staff.
- Analyzing customer-specific MDM requirements as well as comparing and selecting MDM software.
- Comparing SAP with many third-party solutions.
- International harmonization of creation and change processes in 5 countries using a workflow tool.
- Building a data mart and designing a program to analyze master data for harmonization and migration of customers, vendors and materials in SAP.
- Organizing and reviewing customizing.
- Preparing project and load plans to transfer master and transactional data.
- Development in S/4HANA, HANA on-premise and in the cloud.
- Environment: ABAP, LSMW, Master Data Management, S/4HANA.
Consulting / Project Management
Software Development
- Designing a "Master Data Service Suite" for working in the "Data Life Cycle" areas such as data migration, data creation, data analysis, data privacy (DSGVO/GDPR), data masking, data archiving.
- Gathering client requirements while considering legal regulations.
- Creating programming specifications and leading the team (3 developers).
- Environment: Master Data Management.
Interim Manager / MDM Consulting
ASK
- Interim manager for organizing the production relocation from various European countries to the UK.
- Analyzing data and aligning processes (planning, production, warehousing, procurement, sales, transportation, EH&S, and accounting) with all stakeholders.
- Organizing and mapping the new processes in the company, as well as analyzing the necessary data in the SAP system.
- SAP environment: PP, MM, MDM.
MDM Consulting / Project Management
ASK
- Planning and preparing another migration of master data from 4 systems into an SAP system.
- Analyzing, planning, and coordinating the methodology for data migration.
- Communicating with all responsible parties in the respective countries.
- Selecting programs for data analysis and migration.
- Creating project and load plans for transferring master and transactional data.
- SAP environment: MDM.
- Coordinating data migration and RICEFW.
Interim Manager / Consulting
Bayer
- Interim manager for Global Master Data Management.
- Project and team responsibility (12 team members).
- Aligning and establishing MDM processes, organizing employees and service providers.
- Analyzing customer-specific MDM requirements, comparing and selecting MDM software.
- Comparing SAP and third-party solutions.
- Selecting, implementing, and customizing an MDM application in SAP for creating, maintaining, and analyzing master data for harmonization and archiving.
- Migrating / integrating materials from 2 Spanish plants.
- International standardization of creation and change processes in 11 countries.
- Migrating customers and materials from an acquisition for 7 plants in 7 countries.
- SAP environment: MDM / MDG.
Consulting / Project Management
COMPUT
- Consulting in the transition of developments for SAP systems.
- Creating programming specifications for an external service provider in coordination with business stakeholders in MM, SD, Master Data, IDoc, RFC interfaces, and monitoring of system and business processes.
- Testing programs, functions, and enhancements with the business stakeholders.
- Documentation in SAP Solution Manager.
- Monitoring costs and deadlines of the external provider in India.
- Developing fixes and solutions for process automation.
- SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, EDI, IDoc, MM, MDM, SD.
Consulting / Project management
Bayer / BBS
- Outsourcing support and development activities from Germany to India.
- Coordinating requirements in Germany, creating concepts/programming guidelines, and monitoring implementation in India.
- Quality checks.
- Planning of various resources.
- Training colleagues from India, serving as service and contact for adapting SAP programs, as well as training and assigning the necessary developers.
- International planning and coordination of staff for data migration and SAP basis support in Germany and India.
- Setting up ALE, EDI, and IDoc interfaces, distribution models, and partner agreements.
- Developing custom IDoc message types, function modules, and various interface programs using BATCH, LSMW, BAPI, and ABAP.
- Consulting and developing multiple ABAP programs in SAP.
- Automating master data checks to see if they are used in different parts of the organization or can be cleaned up.
- Advising on several phase-out procedures to set up material master data in various dependent objects and organizational structures.
- SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, MM, PP, SD.
Consulting / Development
Junisphere
- SAP basis; programming in the in-house developed SABMON.
- Creating checks for global work processes and integrating them into the SABMON interface.
- Further developing and expanding an SAP monitoring tool for automatic monitoring of system and business processes in SAP using ABAP and ABAP/OO.
- Designing and developing new test routines to check and monitor various basic and business transactions according to individual customer requirements.
- SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, Basis, MM.
Consulting / Project management
Bayer
- Organizing maintenance and enhancement of ABAP programs.
- Consulting and conceptualizing the creation of new SAP programs for workflow-driven maintenance and control of master data.
- Supporting release upgrades.
- Advising on master data maintenance, distribution, and cleansing.
- Basis and IDoc monitoring of 20 SAP systems.
- SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, CO, BC, FI, MM, SD, WM.
Consulting / Organization
BBS
- Coordinating tasks, structuring responsibilities, selecting monitoring programs, and organizing archiving.
- Coordinating customizing and developments in SAP systems.
- Transition/outsourcing of support and customizing activities from Germany to India.
- Aligning activities between Germany and India.
- Training colleagues from India in customizing and monitoring in SAP systems.
- Advising on master data maintenance, distribution, and cleansing.
- SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, CO, BC, FI, MM, SD.
Consulting / Development
Berner
- Consulting, analysis, and development for migrating and cleansing master data (MM, SD, PP) such as material, customer, vendor, bills of materials, and purchasing info records from various systems into a live SAP system using LSMW, ALE, and IDoc.
- Creating custom IDoc message types and inbound function modules in SAP.
- Creating custom message types using transactions BD35, WE30, and WE31.
- Extending IDoc segments with additional data fields.
- Assigning message types and IDoc types, and creating and maintaining extensions using transaction WE82.
- Setting properties for inbound function modules using transactions BD51, WE42, BD57, etc.
- Creating and maintaining transaction codes and logical messages.
- Creating and maintaining assignments of function modules to logical messages and IDoc types.
- Creating and maintaining partner agreements.
- Generating IDoc test data using transaction WE19.
- Editing IDocs using transaction BD87.
- Aligning implementation rules with business units in various countries.
- SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, MM, SD, PP, LSMW, ALE, IDoc.
Migration / MDM
BHC
- Consulting on building a global SAP system with multiple migrations from different country systems into an existing SAP system using IBM Data Stage, LSMW, ALE and IDoc.
- Analyzing data and aligning implementation rules with business units in different countries.
- Designing and developing programs to check various master data (FI, CO, MM, SD) for quality, validity, and usage for cleanup.
- Data cleansing, data harmonization and data migration.
- SAP environment: ABAP/OO, FI, CO, MM, SD, LSMW, ALE, IDoc.
Project Lead / MDM
BCS
- Creating concepts for data cleansing, data harmonization and data migration from different country systems into a single global system via ALE and IDoc.
- SAP data migration to integrate 4 company codes into a single company code.
- Aligning implementation rules for data from CO, FI, MD, MM, PP, SD, WM.
- Designing concepts and programs for data implementation and migration via LSMW, ALE and IDoc with teams in different countries.
- Developing custom IDoc message types and inbound function modules in SAP.
- SAP environment: ABAP, ABAP/OO, CO, FI, MM, PP, SD, LSMW, ALE, IDoc.
Consulting / Development
NO
- Consulting and team leading for connecting an external recruitment software to SAP HR.
- Transferring applicant data to SAP via ALE, IDoc, BAPI and CALL TRANSACTION.
- SAP environment: HR, ALE, IDoc, BAPI, CALL TRANSACTION.
Consulting / Development / MDM
BBS
- Consulting and concept design for checking and cleansing master data with IBM Data Stage.
- Developing extraction programs to connect four regional SAP systems to IBM Data Stage.
- Designing concepts for migrating master data to build a global system with SAP ECC 6.0.
- Upgrading from SAP 4.6B to ECC 6.0 and converting programs from non-Unicode to Unicode.
- Handling SPAU and SPDD.
- Transferring and updating documentation in the SAP Solution Manager.
- Coordinating program changes with teams in India.
- SAP environment: ABAP, FI, MM, WM.
Project / Development Lead
Schröder
- Designing and developing an interface from SAP to a collection of different customer information sources like Wikipedia, Intranet, SharePoint, manuals, etc.
- Linking SAP F1 help to the client's company knowledge.
- CODADIC – Company Data Dictionary.
- SAP environment: ABAP, Basis.
Consulting / Development / MDM
BBS
- Consulting, analysis and development for several master data migrations such as material, customer, vendor, bills of materials and recipes from various legacy systems into a live SAP system using IBM Data Stage as well as LSMW, ALE and IDoc.
- Creating and adapting custom IDoc message types and inbound function modules.
- SAP environment: ABAP, FI, CO, MM, SD.
Consulting / Development Lead
BCS
- Support in the area of organization and information (FI, CO, MM, SD).
- Designing and developing an ABAP program to check and change reporting units and profit centers.
- The program thereby enables controlling per product hierarchy.
- Designing an ABAP program for master data analysis.
- Fixing ABAP programs as well as user and customer exits for an upcoming release upgrade to SAP ERP 7.00.
- SAP environment: ABAP, FI, CO, MM, SD.
Consulting / Development
Bayer
- Consulting and development in the area of Master / Enterprise Data Management (MDM / MDG).
- Exchange and control of master and transactional data with external systems.
- Classic migration of new companies into a live system.
- Setting up EDI and IDoc interfaces.
- Developing custom IDoc function modules as well as various interface programs using LSMW, BAPI and ABAP.
- Maintenance and monitoring of interfaces.
- SAP environment: ABAP, MM, PP, MDM, EDI, IDoc, LSMW, MDM, MDG.
Consulting / Development / MDM
Bayer
- Consulting and development in the area of data quality and Master Data Management (MDM).
- Leading and supporting a team of three developers.
- Designing and developing validation programs for automatic and ongoing data quality checks and logging as KPIs to set up an SLA/SLM.
- Development guidelines, naming conventions, budget control.
- SAP environment: ABAP, MDM, MDG, MDQ.
Consulting / Development Lead
Junisphere
- Consulting and development leadership.
- Leading and supporting a team of five developers.
- Development guidelines, naming conventions and budget control.
- Knowledge transfer to the client.
- Designing and extending a validation program to evaluate and weight various SAP R/3 data.
- Data weighting and passing as KPIs to an external web-based overview program for presenting and securing the data as an SLA (Service Level Agreement).
- SAP environment: ABAP.
Consulting / Project Management
Freight forwarding company
- Consulting and development in SAP R/3 Basis with ABAP, RFC, CCMS as project manager responsible for three developers.
- Design and development of a program to monitor and evaluate 15 different SAP R/3 system data as KPIs.
- Interface to an external web-based monitoring program to display and evaluate the data as an SLA (Service Level Agreement).
- SAP environment: ABAP, RFC, CCMS.
Consulting / Development / MDM
BBS / BCS
- Consulting and development in master data management (MDM) for materials, customers, vendors.
- Design and development of programs and interfaces to set up a European server and transfer master data for integrating different country systems via IDoc and LSMW.
- Consulting on building a master data server to distribute, analyze, maintain, and harmonize master data via ALE and IDoc.
- Design and programming of an SAP module for a cross-system overview of organizational data.
- SAP environment: ABAP, MDM, IDoc, LSMW, MDM, MDG.
Consulting / Development
BBS / BCS
- Consulting and development of interfaces (MM, PP, WM) with ABAP, IDoc, RFC, BAPI, BATCH, LSMW.
- Design and development of programs and interfaces to set up a European server and transfer master data for integrating different country systems into a running R/3 system.
- Data objects: customers, vendors, materials, recipes, and WM data.
- Design and development of several dialog programs to integrate and call various interfaces and control programs to check data quality.
- Recipe transfer program via RFC, including development of customer-specific IDocs and transaction codes.
- Master Data Conversion Cockpit for overview of old and new master data object numbers.
- SAP environment: ABAP, MM, PP, WM, IDoc, RFC, BAPI, BATCH, LSMW, MDM, MDG.
Consulting / Concept / Development Lead
RWE
- Consulting / concept / development lead (CO, FI, IS Real Estate, SD).
- Team leadership, development guidelines, naming conventions, budget control.
- Quality assurance of a fully automated SAP process for cross-company code and cross-system settlement of maintenance orders.
- Implementation in a custom development class using custom interfaces.
- SAP environment: ABAP, CO, FI, IS Real Estate, SD.
Consulting / Development
BBS
- Design and development (IDoc, LVS, MM, PP, SD, WM).
- New SAP implementation and collaboration in rebuilding an SAP R/3 system.
- Design, development and optimization of the required interfaces using ALE, IDoc, batch input.
- Development of additional programs for control and analysis / master data cockpit.
- SAP environment: ABAP, IDoc, LVS, MM, PP, SD, WM, ALE, IDoc, MDM, MDG.
Consulting / Development
RWE
- Concept and development (FI, IS Real Estate).
- Complete implementation of the SAP industry solution Real Estate Management/Real Estate.
- Consulting and development of interfaces for transferring master and transaction data.
- Creation of various reports for different analyses.
- SAP environment: ABAP, FI, IS Real Estate.
Consulting / Development
GLS
- Concept and development (FI, HR).
- Development of various reports in the FI and HR modules and interfaces to external systems.
- Development of reports to analyze HR and FI data.
- Consulting on the creation of development guidelines and naming conventions.
- Training of client developers in SAP dialog programming.
- SAP environment: ABAP, FI, HR.
Consulting / Development
RWE
- Consulting, concept and development of a custom module for cross-system service processing.
- Customizing in the MM area and interfaces for cross-system and cross-company-code ordering.
- Development of 8 large dialog programs with many dynpros and over 20 reports in ABAP.
- Development of a program for archiving own data.
- ABAP development to automate billing between companies.
- SAP environment: ABAP, CO, FI, MM, SD.
Development in ABAP/SQL
Rose
- Concept and development of a dialog program in ABAP for BOM explosion.
- Maintenance transaction for automatic creation of materials and BOM items in SAP from an external system using native SQL directly in Oracle.
- Creation of program specifications for other developers.
- SAP environment: ABAP, MM, PP, SD.
Consulting / Development
CULINA
- Development and release upgrade from 4.0B to 4.6C.
- Processing of SPAU and SPDD transactions.
- Review and further development of customer programs in ABAP.
- Extension of interfaces and performance improvement in SD and FI.
- Development of startup transactions and user menus through dialog transactions.
- Custom development of an empty container management add-on to meet customer requirements.
- SAP environment: ABAP, FI, MM, SD.
Development / Training
DASA
- Development and upgrade from 3.1I to 4.6B.
- Processing transactions SPAU and SPDD.
- Customizing and further development of customer programs in ABAP.
- Training the customer's developers in workbench/dialog programming.
- Developing extensive analyses / interactive reports in CO.
- Creating dialog programs in CO and PP.
- Programming user and customer exits.
- Developing and using CATT.
- SAP environment: ABAP, CO, FI, PP.
ABAP Development
Kunststoffverarbeitung
- Processing transactions SPAU and SPDD.
- Connecting two SAP systems for ordering, order creation, order confirmation, and billing via IDoc.
- Extending standard IDocs for additional data in SD orders.
- Programming customer exits for communication with IDocs.
- Stock control in the other system via RFC.
- SAP environment: ABAP, ALE, IDoc, MM, SD.
Consulting / Development
Müller Milch
- Implementing SAP R/3 4.0B (complete new rollout).
- Interfaces for legacy data transfer in MM/SD and to external systems via IDoc, EDI, BATCH.
- Adding additional fields to the standard material master screen.
- Designing and developing custom programs in MM, SD, FI, CO modules.
- Developing initial and maintenance transactions as dialog programs.
- Integrating a telesales program via EDI/IDoc.
- SAP environment: ABAP, CO, FI, EDI, MM, SD, IDoc.
Development / Training
Rheinische Post
- Upgrading from SAP R/2 to R/3 4.0B.
- Customizing and enhancing customer programs in ABAP in MM and FI.
- Training staff on R/3 interface and reporting.
- SAP environment: ABAP, MM, FI.
Development
Stahlindustrie
- Implementing SAP R/3 3.1.
- Developing a comprehensive dialog transaction for freight cost calculation.
- Simplifying packing processes, various analyses and reports in SD.
- SAP environment: ABAP, MM, SD.
Consulting / Development
Bayer
- Implementation of SAP R/3 3.1.
- Development and consulting in the MM and SD modules.
- Development of programs and reports in MM, SD using ABAP.
- Interfaces for data transfer and extensions in SAP.
- SAP environment: ABAP, MM, SD.
Development
Toyota
- Upgrade from SAP R/2 to R/3 3.0.
- Development/extension in MM / WMS to find optimal storage locations.
- Development of a dialog program in goods receipt / WMS.
- Development of various ABAP programs for reporting in MM.
- SAP environment: ABAP, WMS, MM, WM.
Consulting / Development
Elektroindustrie
- Implementation of SAP R/3 3.0.
- Capture and mapping of organizational structures.
- Customizing in the MM area.
- Development of ABAP programs for legacy data migration.
- Training of employees in MM and development.
- SAP environment: ABAP, MM.
Design / Development
International Freight Forwarders
- Design and management of an IT-based controlling system for cost monitoring and route optimization.
- Design and management of an IT-based empties management system in automotive supply, with personnel and budget responsibility.
- Collaboration on building an IT-based shipment tracking system.
- Support in the implementation of an IT system for truck handling with interfaces to financial accounting and warehousing.
- Platform: COBOL/AS 400.
IT / Administration
Bundeswehr
- Served for 15 months as a conscript in warehouse operations.
- Implementation of the PERFIS software for recording and managing personnel master data.
- Monitoring and correction of personnel data using the PERFIS system.
- Creation of statistics and reports in the personnel department.
- Determination of the daily company strength and management of the leave records.
- Other administrative tasks.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Transportation, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Pharmaceutical, and Chemical.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Operations, Quality Assurance, and Product Development.
Skills
Abap In R/3 And S/4
Abap/oo In R/3 And S/4
Dynpro / Alv Grid / Tree
Webdynpro
Idoc / Ale / Edi / Dmc
Rfc / Bapi / Badi / Interfaces
Adobe Forms / Smart Forms / Sapscript
Xml
Lsmw
Developer Module Skills: Mm, Sd, Wm, Mdm, Stms, Sap Basis
Developer Module Skills: Fi, Co, Re, Ccms, Solman, Pp
Developer Module Skills: Fs-cd, Hr, Pi, Hp-sm
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Subproject Manager
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Mdm / Mdg Consultant
Supporter
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Data Analysis / Data Cleansing
Data Migration Lsmw / Dmc
Sap Data Migration Cockpit
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Certifications & licenses
Certified By SAP
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