SAP Solution Architect

1/2012 – 2/2014

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

SAP BO-PC

11/2009 – 11/2011

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.

Microsoft Windows (allg.), SAP BW

1/2009 – 10/2009

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.

SAP BI-IP, SAP BW

11/2006 – 12/2007

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.

SAP BI-IP

2/2006 – 12/2007

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.

SAP ECC, SAP CO, SAP FI, SAP IM

7/2004 – 4/2005

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.

SAP ALE, SAP CO, SAP CO-PA

4/2002 – 5/2004

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.

SAP CO, SAP CO-PA, SAP PS

1/2001 – 12/2001

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.

SAP CO, SAP CO-PA, SAP PS

3/1999 – 12/2000

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.

SAP CO, SAP CO-PA, SAP PS

3/1998 – 3/1999

• 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.

SAP PS

4/1997 – 2/1998

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.

SAP CO-PA

10/1995 – 9/1996

(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.

SAP CO-PA

1/1994 – 7/1995

(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.

SAP CO, SAP CO-PA, SAP PS