SAP ChaRM Experts in Germany

• Designed and implemented enhancements in SAP BW on HANA 7.5 in the context of CRM migration and S/4HANA and BW/4HANA transformation programs
• Migrated SAPI data sources to the ODP framework as part of the S/4HANA migration
• Delivered SAP ECC data to Snowflake using BW data models and Calculation Views for Power BI analytics
• Integrated SAP and non-SAP data sources (including MS Dynamics)
• Improved reporting transparency through consolidated data models
• Optimized data loading processes for FI-CO data sources, significantly improving load times and system performance

• Defined S/4HANA finance solution architecture and led full project lifecycle — Blueprint through Hypercare — for global rollout.
• Designed global finance templates and COPA characteristics, harmonizing financial reporting across business units.
• Implemented role-based authorizations, SOD controls, and master data governance; managed provisioning and training for 200+ users.
• Coordinated cross-module integrations (MM, SD, PP) and third-party systems (Salesforce, SAP DRC, E-Invoicing), reducing month-end close from 5 days to 2 days.
• Prepared functional specifications, supported ABAP development, and drove problem management practices that reduced recurring incidents.

• Project Argo: SAP BW/4 Hana Project Lead, Program and Application Manager, SAP BW/4 Hana Consultant, Architect and Developer.
• Migration of FI data models from SAP BW 7.x to BW/4 Hana.
• Review and implementation of the user and authorization concept.
• SAP S/4 Hana, SAP Basis, SAP BW/4 Hana data modeling and use of the SAP BW Migration Workbench.
• Use of Business Content, BAPI, BW/4 Hana, Hana Studio, HANA Views, Analytical Views, virtual tables and Hana Native SQL.
• Work with ADSO, Open ODS Views, Composite Provider, Hybrid Provider, SAP Solution Manager, Query Designer, Analysis for Office, Lumira and Fiori.
• Use of SAP SAC (Stories, Data Models, Data Analyzer, CDS Views), as well as application management and monitoring of process chains and load jobs.

Following the Vaillant engagement, established independent practice focused on senior SAP advisory and building ASTRA — a methodology, not a tool. ASTRA is independent and unbiased: the same four pillars serve CIO / Business Leadership, SI / SAP Practice, and Programme Director / Principal with equal weight. No audience is primary.

ASTRA serves three audiences with equal weight — CIO / Business Leadership · SI / SAP Practice · Programme Director / Principal. ASTRA is independent and unbiased — it does not sit inside any SI practice and does not serve any single audience as primary customer. Each audience receives a role-calibrated output from the same analysis.

One methodology, two outcomes:

OUTCOME 1 — SAP TRANSFORMATION GOVERNANCE:

Any active SAP programme: ECC→S/4HANA Greenfield, Brownfield, Global Rollout, AMS. The four pillars answer the four questions that determine whether a transformation succeeds — for any of the three audiences.

• Are business requirements clean — or is the SI building what SAP standard already covers? (Functional Auditor → all three audiences)
• Is the custom object inventory healthy — or accumulating debt that blocks upgrades? (RICEFW Auditor → Director and CIO)
• Is the SteerCo reporting accurate — or is leadership seeing a Watermelon? (Truth Engine → CIO and Director)
• Are people ready for the system they are receiving? (Human Signal → CIO and Director)

OUTCOME 2 — AUTONOMOUS ENTERPRISE READINESS:

Any programme deploying Joule, pursuing RISE, or planning an AE migration. The same four pillars answer the questions SAP does not — again, calibrated per audience.

• Which custom objects block the 224 Joule AI agents? (RICEFW Auditor → SI gets remediation paths, Director gets verdicts, CIO gets financial impact)
• Is the Fiori deployment complete enough to activate Joule? (Truth Engine → all three audiences)
• Is the workforce trained for AI-native working? (Human Signal → CIO and Director)

Four pillars (each serves all three audiences):

• Functional Auditor: Clean Core Score 0–100. Section A (CIO): KG fidelity risk in €. Section B (Director): SI challenge questions, man-day saving. Section C (SI): Language Translation Ledger, SAP alternatives.
• RICEFW Auditor: Joule API Pathway Audit, Clean Core Level A–D, Technical Debt Index 1–10. Section A: financial impact of blocked AI agents. Section B: RETIRE/MIGRATE/REDESIGN/KEEP verdicts. Section C: BTP remediation paths.
• Truth Engine: Watermelon Detection, Fiori Deployment check, Programme Truth Score 0–100. Section A: 3 SteerCo questions. Section B: 48-hour action list. Section C: vendor friction map.
• Human Signal: three-stage Fiori adoption model, HITL Policy readiness, Human Signal Score 0–100. Section A: GUI training weight, AE adoption financial risk. Section B: go-live recommendation, stakeholder resistance map.

On-Demand SAP Advisory:

• SAP Programme Management — end-to-end governance, factory management, multi-stream delivery, vendor oversight, SteerCo reporting for Greenfield, Brownfield, Rollout and AMS programmes.
• Delivery Management — RICEFW oversight, Data Migration governance, Release & Cutover management, Hypercare, SLA/KPI management.
• Due Diligence & Landscape Assessment — SAP landscape review, AS-IS/TO-BE roadmap, RFP structuring, SI selection advisory.
• IT Strategy & CIO Advisory — transformation roadmap, Clean Core strategy, Autonomous Enterprise readiness planning.
• Programme Recovery — distressed programme assessment, rapid governance setup, escalation resolution.

Operating through senior professional networks across EMEA.

• SAP ERP/ECC, SAP S/4 Hana
• Analysis and documentation of SAP FI/CO, PSM, PSCD customizing
• Analysis, consulting and documentation of S/4 Hana apps for defining and executing statutory reports
• Clarification of the prerequisites for using S/4 Hana apps to define and execute statutory reports
• Analysis and documentation of customizing for in-house developments
• Consulting on the integration of SAP FI/CO as well as PSM, PSM-FM (Funds Management), Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (PSCD)
• Consulting and documentation of customizing adjustments in SAP FI/CO, PSM, PSM-FM, PSCD when introducing new company codes and other organizational structures
• Consulting and documentation of necessary process adjustments

• Support and consulting for the integration of SAP ECC into an SAP S/4HANA system, retirement of legacy systems, implementation, and process optimization in the new harmonized system
• Project implementation of S/4HANA Cloud Private & Public Sales & Services with SAP SCM/OTC/MM/LE/CS/PS, S/4HANA Cloud, CPI, BTP, EDI, IDOC, ABAP, User-Exit, SolMan, ITIL, SAP Cloud AL
• Customizing and optimization in OTC and MM, including condition maintenance, document type and item category extensions, integration with FI/CO, scheduling agreement configuration, material master and purchasing info record maintenance, release procedures, message control, and master data quality
• Ensuring integration of PTP with FI/CO, SD, and WM, process analysis, and efficiency improvement for the S/4HANA environment
• Process modeling in Signavio, workshops, and trainings
• 2nd & 3rd level support in OTC, MM, CS, PS, C4C Sales & Services, GTS, and MDG: incident and change tickets, feasibility analyses, service management, embedded analytics, customizing, tests, documentation, training, debugging, IDOC/EDI monitoring
• SAP S/4HANA migration: data migration, system harmonization, global rollouts, and template development
• ABAP development and optimization: reports, dialog programs, user exits, IDOC/EDI monitoring

I designed and developed an AI-powered multi-tenant platform on Azure that transforms SAP process recordings into technical documentation, presentations and automated tests, processing over 15,000 process recordings for enterprise customers like Würth. I owned the architecture, the production releases and the DevOps setup. I also designed a multi-tenant system with SSO and role-based access on Azure. Implemented an MCP Server with Dynamic OAuth Authentication.

Main Tasks:

• Sprint planning and feature preparation
• Design the multi-tenant platform architecture (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL row-level security for tenant isolation)
• Develop AI pipelines with Prefect for transcription (Azure Speech API), document generation and SAP screen-recording analysis (Claude, gpt-4-mini)
• Design and implement an MCP server to expose tenant knowledge to LLM clients (Claude), with async retrieval and reranking
• Implement LLM cost tracking, rate limiting and client pooling for Anthropic/OpenAI/Azure OpenAI endpoints
• Set up CI/CD: Docker images to Azure Container Registry, GitHub Actions, Azure Static Web Apps, Alembic migrations in containers
• Manage production releases and execute live data migrations for enterprise customers
• Define engineering standards and architecture patterns for the team

Environment: Azure / Azure Foundry / Python / FastAPI / Prefect / React / PostgreSQL

• Management of internal and external optics, electronics, and software developers and the subproject managers throughout the entire development process up to handover to production
• Conducting RfP and contract negotiations with German, Chinese, and Japanese manufacturers and tracking the agreed deliverables
• Conducting quality gates throughout the development process
• Responsibility for meeting commercial, technical, and schedule requirements (resource and budget planning)
• Continuous monitoring of potential project risks during all phases
• Ensuring compliant development (RoHS & REACH) and documentation for worldwide CE marking
• Project status reporting to upper management and the company board
• Central point of contact for third-party contractors and their coordination in the project

• SAP Basis operations for complex SAP system landscapes (ABAP and Java stacks)
• Administration, monitoring, and optimization of SAP systems with regard to availability, performance, and stability
• Planning and execution of data center moves as well as migrations of SAP systems and databases
• Handling of incidents, changes, and problems according to ITIL processes, including root cause analyses
• Creation of technical concepts, operations documentation, and implementation plans

Technologies: SAP NetWeaver, ITIL processes, technical migrations

• Conversion of Rewe's business processes to S4 Asset Management and Management Accounting in SAP S/4HANA
• Plan, build, run of SAP finance/controlling processes (S/4HANA, FI/CO, FSCM, PS/IM, WM, Concur) for Daimler, V Zug, Humbaur, WinGD, and others
• Management of carve-out/carve-in in FI(CO) at Megatech (2018) and EnBW (2019)
• Requirement engineering for the R2R stream (2017/18), Douglas franchise integration, Aveniq public cloud transition, and PG-FI stabilization
• Analysis and development of month-end closing in S/4HANA finance projects for ESA, Zür Rose Suisse, Dräxlmaier, Airbus, DB Schenker, GEA, and Bucher AG
• Application of SAP Activate methodology and Advanced Payment Management
• Playbook SAP Financials: Project Insights & Success supplemented

• Support and consulting in the authorization environment and license optimization

• Project planning and resource planning
• Requirements definition and technology selection
• Data migration and risk management
• Monitoring up to go-live
• Tools: Office365, Jira XRAY, Strato, Onboarding App

• Analysis of the state of SAP systems and optimization of parameters in relation to security
• Analysis of authorization requirements and security risks
• SAP Security and Audit
• User and role administration
• Key user support, 2nd and 3rd level support
• Daily business SAP basis support: performance optimization, dump analysis, patches, updates, notes, troubleshooting, RFC, interfaces, connections
• Transport management, job and printer administration

• Part-time 2-3 days/week
• Developments in the SD module and CRM Interaction Center
• Consulting, customizing in SD module
• Adapting Fiori applications in the SD module
• Approval workflow for credit memos: design, concept, implementation, customizing
• Credit memo request: object type BUS 2094
• If the credit memo request value is below a certain threshold -> automatic release and removal of billing block
• If the credit memo request value is above a certain threshold -> automatic determination of the responsible employee
• The employee receives a work item in their integrated inbox or in My Inbox (Fiori) -> the employee can reject, approve, or edit the credit memo request
• UML modeling in technical documentation
• Creating a Z-table for customer sample line items
• Merging COA1 (delivery) + COA2 (CAQ) forms and adding to the spool request as a single PDF
• Correcting workflow title according to NACE, fixing message "ZBMA title is displayed incorrectly in SBWP (Workplace)"
• Receiving PLM documents from an external PLM system, creating an RFC function module, storing PLM documents in the material master as GOS objects
• On releasing a production order, reading PLM documents from MM and saving them in a shared folder for the MES system
• Displaying the number of inspection methods in a popup when creating an order -> VA01/VA02
• Automatic stock reconciliation LVS IDOC INVCON
• Performing AQUA tests
• IDOC archiving for old IDOCs
• NL_PM_drawings and storing print output, informing MES via ZPPORDER IDOC, writing technical documents
• Using SD user exits, BADIs for various requirements
• Extending screens for customer requests via screen exits
• Creating message types for sales orders, purchase orders, and invoices
• Extending CRM Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> Contract with customer-specific requirements
• New Fiori application departure control with data from Z-table and standard equipment tables, displaying a pie chart, calculating "vehicles in operation"
• Extending Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> new tab on Overview Page with list tables for performance feedback, attachments from GOS objects
• Extending Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> new tab on Overview Page with list tables for PM quality notifications, attachments from GOS objects
• Implementing BADIs in CRM
• File storage on SAP server/UNIX server
• Using BOL/GENIL architecture in CRM development
• Project language: German