Warehouse Management System Experts in Germany

• 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

• 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

• Building a data integration platform for high, medium, and low voltage assets for contextual analysis of time series with master data from the SCADA control system (IEC 60870 104), INIS, and SAP.
• Responsibility for the architecture and implementation of the solution, as well as sparring partner for the Product Owner.
• Use of Kotlin, Spring Boot, Maven, TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL, liquibase, Elements IoT, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Python, jupyter, and various API gateways.

• 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

• 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

• Interim leadership responsibility for realigning the entire leadership organization – away from classic target setting and solution specification toward a teal-oriented organization with clear responsibility for each individual employee.
• Stabilization of production processes and reduction of the backlog in all customer projects.
• Building up the necessary material inventory (agreed with end customers by contract) – eliminated backlogs and special runs, achieved 2 weeks of material inventory.
• From the start of the assignment, also took over overall technical responsibility for Research & Development (R&D).
• In addition to the CSO/COO role, took over responsibility for controlling and finance in the last 9 months.

• 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.

• Assignment to the Project Management Office (PMO) for professional consulting and support of several parallel projects, focusing on savings potential and process optimization
• Analysis of existing workflows and development of optimization proposals in close cooperation with specialist departments
• Monitoring of project progress, deadlines and achievement of objectives
• Increasing efficiency and digitalization in procurement
• Process optimization in logistics
• Temporary staffing support in operational procurement
• Savings in procurement equivalent to a total of 1.6 FTE