Warehouse Management System Experts

• Industry: Insurance, Trade, IT
• Customers & Projects: Consulting and selling insurance and similar services
• Main tasks: Insurance consulting (health insurance, retirement planning, wealth building); commercial services, inside and field sales; sales data analysis and forecasting; customer consulting and support; opening a new sales headquarters for private and business customers; business development & innovation management; business use case development; process optimization; stakeholder management; team leadership and training; preparation and delivery of trainings;
• Technologies used: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Draw.IO, Camunda 8, Java (8, 17,21,25), Git, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Data REST, Spring Web, Spring Security, J-Unit, Playwright, Lombock, Vaadin, H2, PostgreSQL (16, 17 18), pgAdmin, Docker, LLMs, JasperSoft Studio, JasperReports

• Company description: Toy manufacturer

• Employees: 700

• Revenue: 0,7 billion

• Global project management of Customization Hubs with 12 working groups and several production sites

• Design, planning, and professional support for establishing regional Customization Hub and Decoupling Point structures within an international supply chain

• Analysis of existing supply chain, logistics, and product availability processes

• Design and structuring of the project organization, including work packages, milestones, role models, and project dependencies

• Professional support during the pilot, ramp-up, and go-live preparation phases

• Documentation of project results, decisions, and implementation recommendations

Responsible for leading the commissioning, testing, and acceptance of TGW intralogistics systems on site to ensure smooth project delivery and maximum customer satisfaction. The project volume is approximately €90 million. The facility is equipped with 60 Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), an Automated Small Parts Warehouse (AS/RS) with 93,000 storage locations, and a pallet high-bay warehouse with 34,000 pallet locations. The role combines project management, on-site coordination, and technical integration, including oversight of all functional, performance, and availability-related testing before final handover.

Key responsibilities and results:

• Led commissioning and ramp-up phases from system installation through customer acceptance, including functional leadership of a 25-person on-site commissioning team, ensuring full compliance with contractual and technical specifications and supporting project management with planning and workflow optimization.
• Coordinated and optimized interfaces between TGW teams, subcontractors, and customer representatives to ensure successful project delivery and integration of lessons learned.
• Planned, prepared, and conducted pre-tests, mass tests, and operational readiness tests, including facilitating and reporting results and KPIs for transparent project tracking.
• Continuously identified risks and managed escalations, fostering a safe, structured, cooperative, and solution-oriented on-site environment.

• Creation of detailed concepts for all relevant GTS modules (compliance, pricing, customs clearance, Intrastat, preferences)
• Planning and conducting workshops, including scheduling and documentation
• Development and consulting of the organisational structure and its master data
• Setup and customisation of compliance functions: sanctions list review, embargo, legal control, US re-export
• Uploading and maintaining sanction and commodity lists
• Implementation and validation of integration tests
• Setup and customisation of the modules: pricing (including uploading of customs tariff numbers and STAWN data), customs clearance (including application for test operation with customs), Intrastat and preferences (including preference calculation and LLEs)
• Development and presentation of prototypes
• Derivation of insights for the final concept

Available for interim and contract mandates

• Project management, new business implementation, analysis of organisations and processes, RFQ support, logistics planning, automation.
• 03.2025: Follow-up with end customer (automation).
• 02.2023 - 02.2025: Interim manager Engineering & Automation for a global LSP.
• 01.2022 - 11.2022: Project management for the implementation of a new site for a logistics service provider (30 000 sqm), including robots/automation.
• 09.2021 - 01.2022: Consulting, analysis of processes and organisational structure, recommendations for workflow optimisation across all functional areas.
• 01.2021 - 09.2021: Support for engineering and sales at a global logistics service provider in preparing RFQ responses for German OEMs.

• Interim assignment until a new plant manager was found
• Ensured production control and on-time order processing.
• Introduced transparent weekly and monthly planning as well as forward-looking capacity management.
• Cleaned up and structured bills of materials, master data and work documents.
• Held team leader meetings and coordinated the production areas.
• Took over the professional management of the production teams.
• Promoted an open, constructive leadership culture and involved employees in change processes.
• Coordinated with adjacent areas (production planning, supply chain, quality, development).
• Documented measures and prepared the handover to permanent management

The consultant's responsibilities/actions are:

• Consulting on the migration of material master & PP Master data
• Prepare Article List template for Cutover Phase
• Implementation of data cleansing measures using individual and bulk changes
• SAP all mandatory fields data extraction regarding Business needed
• SAP migration, Cutover, Testing, BAT, UAT
• Align with the multiple Stakeholders regarding Data from Legacy and SAP System
• Deployed SAP MM best practice (guided configurations, active methodologies and road map for project initiation)

SAP ERP | SAP GEMINI | SAP Fields Coordination | Documentation | SAP IDoc | SAP Integration | SAP End-to-End Process | SAP MM (Material Management) | SAP Functional Consultant | SAP Gap analysis | SAP MDM (Master Data Management) | Data Migration & Management

• Tendering, IT architecture and implementation
• Project and budget planning, resource management
• Stakeholder management and risk management
• The project was delivered “on time and within budget”
• Implementation of SAP IBP Cloud S&OP Demand & Supply
• Building materials group with revenue of €1.3 billion and 30 plants

Analysis of global procurement flows, and planning, tendering and implementation of an import warehouse and a warehouse for loading and unloading site containers

• Analysis of existing procurement transport from suppliers to plants, e.g. transport flows, frequencies, modes of transport, shipment sizes, Incoterms
• Development of operational processes for a central import warehouse and a warehouse for loading and unloading site containers
• Tendering for the import warehouse and the site logistics warehouse (shipping and returns management)
• Negotiations with bidders, followed by final selection and contract drafting with the selected service provider
• Specialist support and oversight of warehouse implementation through to go-live with the selected service provider
• In parallel, analysis of spare parts warehouse operations in-house and outsourced, providing a sound basis for a make-or-buy decision

• Enterprise WMS customisation for Albert Heijn and EDEKA.
• Owned end-to-end test planning, automation, and performance validation for logistics automation software serving high-volume grocery warehouse operations.

• Created project management plans and mobilized resources
• Coordinated third-party and offshore stakeholders for carve-out of two companies in Supply Chain and Finance/Treasury streams

• Analysis of the production and logistics relocation to Poland, development of an action plan, logistics process analysis

• Engaged business stakeholder to define levels 1, 2 3 & 4 processes.
• Engaged stakeholders to model the As-IS & To-Be business processes in Seeds Processing, Quality Management onto SAP Signavio.
• Identified and highlighted integration points between plant-to-Stock processes and other process areas such as finance and controlling.
• Documented business requirements as user Stories in Jira and categorized each user story as either Gap or Fit.
• Configured and demonstrated Variant Configuration in SAP PP to process owners and stakeholders as proposed solution to satisfy business requirements.
• Proposed workarounds or enhancements to meet requirements that are categorized as gaps.
• Planned the Sprints for Plan-to-Stock, assign and monitor the progress being made in completing user Stories for the active Sprint.
• Created the following PP Variant Configuration master data: Class of Class type 300, Configurable material of material type KMAT, Material variants of material type FERT & assigned the KMAT material to each FERT Material Variant, Super BOM & linked the Super BOM of the configurable material to FERT material variants, Routing and Production version for KMAT material.
• Reviewed list of custom reports currently in use in ECC and identified S4Hana standard analytical reports that satisfies these custom reporting requirements.