Wouter Amersfoort

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Skills

IT Management, Demand management, Solution Architect and projectmanager

Professional experience

Family owned company, non-profit, Atos, AkzoNobel Coatings and Chemicals, Stahl, Europool System

Education

Masters Business Administration and Management and Project Management

Projects

Global project on SAP and MES.

 

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Details

 

Skills

 

Core Competencies:

1.    People management – 18 years, up to 25 global spread direct reports

2.    Business Administration – master level, graduated in 1995

3.    SAP systems – 23 years

4.    MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems; Proficy, ISA-95) – 4 years

5.    Project management – 19 years

6.    Change management – 8 years

7.    CRM – 4 years

8.    Setup “in control” internal working procedures and implementation – 13 years

9.    Vendor management / purchasing (service providers, external consultancy) – 4 years

10. Global experienced; with focus on The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, US and China

11. Others: IT security compliance (setup and auditing/monitoring, SOX), Incident-, Problem-, change-, and Release management, ITIL, Contract management (SLA’s, Purchasing, commercial contracts, service delivery), Consultant hiring, Social Events organizing, Ken Blanchard’s Optimal Motivation theory & practice, Situational Leadership,

12. Businesses: Chemicals, Coatings, Pet food, Retail, Marine, IT-Consultancy

SAP Knowledge:

1.    Manufacturing (Sales & Operational planning, Demand planning (incl. APO) Production planning, Scheduling, Execution and reporting).

2.    Quality Management

3.    Order to cash

4.    Materials Management (inventory management, purchasing)

5.    Business Intelligence

6.    Developments & interfaces

7.    SAP Basis and TAM (Technical Application Management)

 

 

Personal strengths:

1.    Achiever; f.e. merged 4 departments into one global team of 15 internal + 10 external members.

2.    Responsibility; f.e. measure progression of team members and projects structurally with, at least monthly, meetings. Report on it and make decisions needed.

3.    Activator, f.e. convert good ideas, like remove obsolete steps in working procedures, into implemented improvements.

4.    Positivity, f.e. by celebrate successes and giving positive direct feedback.

5.    Relator, f.e. enable a working environment where engagement, openness, having fun and friendships are stimulated.

 

Professional experience 

Function     : Manager Business Applications

Period         : ’18 - now

Company     : Europool, 2020 revenue 621 mEur, 1200 employees. The Euro Pool Group is the largest logistics service provider of reusable standard

                         packaging in Europe. With Euro Pool System (EPS) trays and La Palette Rouge (LPR) pallets the (fresh) supply chain is offered optimum

                         reliability, sustainability and efficiency.

Activities     : Optimize support and participate in a green-field SAP implementation (project)organization. The organization is moving gradually from legacy own

                         build applications into SAP systems, facilitating the fast growing business in 18 countries. Stabilizing and converting a team from a setup with a

                        small team with a high turnover, mostly leaning on external SAP partners, into a knowledgeable and engaged team with a flexible part of external

                         resources. The team is growing and learning and more insourcing is planned. Setup ITIL processes and decent change management

                         governance. By only 35% of the business on SAP many steps to be made to finish the global rollout and establish a 24/6 support organization.

 

Function       : Service & Delivery manager

Period           : ’15 - '18

Company     :  Stahl, 2016 revenue 650 mEur, 2100 employees. Global company in process chemicals for leather products and performance coatings

Activities     :   Setup global competence center with Application Managers/Solution Architects and a support organization with local

                            SAP functional information managers and local partners. Implemented ITIL and Change governance processes. Acting as

                            functional lead on SAP Basis, SD, MM and Authorizations. Projects: Integration acquired businesses into single client ECC,

                            Upgrade to ECC latest EHP and HANA DB, Authorisation governance (setup and tooling).

 

 

Function       : EU-Central IT manager – functional and technical appl.mgt.

Period           : ‘13 – ‘15

Company     : AkzoNobel; 2013 revenue 14,6 bEur, 49.600 employees. Global

  producer of Paints, Coatings and Specialty Chemicals.;

  Busines Area: Specialty Chemicals.

Activities     : 1) Manage a group of Application Managers. Made a solid engaged team in one year, from 4 separated teams before. They perform enhancements and projects on business applications a.o. SAP.
2) Next, responsible for technical application management of the main business applications, organized a global pool of developers coordinating and performing the own developments and interfaces. From scattered SAP Technical Application Management formed a global team performing managed operations and projects; for the 7000 users SAP systems. In 2014 successfully finished a move of SAP ECC and BI systems to a new platform (OS and DB) and service provider. This project has a team of 50+ members. Quote from the sponsor for this project from the bonus letter: “You and your team delivered an extremely complex and very business critical project on time and with a minimal business disruption. This was done making lots of efforts to keep the global project team stakeholder community aligned. Job well done!”
As Global TAM manager responsible for the Masterdata Mgt. tools and Test Automation setup.

 

Function       : IT manager SCM area
Period           : ’10 – ‘12
Company     : AkzoNobel Paint & Chemicals global company, Business Unit
                        Functional & Polymers chemicals.

Activities         : Manage team of Supply chain application managers and managed several IT projects, mainly SAP. Rollouts, replacement of legacy systems for acquired companies. A.o. Warehouse Management implementations, Plant Maintenance and merger of 2 major SAP systems. Global organized, with focus on The Netherlands, Sweden, the US and China.

Function       : SAP Project Manager and Solution Architect SCM
Period
           : ’04 – ‘09
Company     : AkzoNobel Paint & Chemicals global  company; Business Unit
                       Functional Chemicals

Activities     : Accomplished IT for green field multisite in China; from the Information Plan creation and funding till handover project result to support organization. Rg. ICT, MES, ERP and project management. Safeguard SCM global template, achieved several projects.

 

Function       : SAP Application Manager SCM

Period           : ’01 – ‘03
Company     : AkzoNobel; Paint & Chemicals global company; Business Unit
                          Functional Chemicals
Activities     : Accomplished new business integration projects and implementation
                       in SCM area; MRP / Production planning & execution, Plant
                       Maintenance, Quality Management.

Function       : SAP ECC Logistic consultant
Period           : ’98 – ‘01

Company     : Atos-Origin, IT consultancy and IT managed operations organization

Activities      : Active as SAP consultant on Order to Cash, Materials Management and Business Intelligence projects. For some project acted as Technical Project Manager.

 

Function       : Project manager Information Management

Period           : ’94 – ’98

Company     : AkzoNobel Coatings; Paint & Chemicals global company 

Activities      : Performed projects for Dutch Coatings sales and distribution organization. Business applications: SAP R/2, CRM (Matrix Sales from Baan company), Cognos Powerplay. In ’96 headed a conference-room pilot project for SAP R/3 combined with a Point of Sales system (Siemens Nixdorf).

 

Function       : Project manager Marketing Information Systems

Period           : ’90 – ‘94

Company     : AkzoNobel Coatings; Paint & Chemicals global company 

Activities      : Implemented a CRM (Matrix Sales) system for 80 sales
                       representatives and sales offices, in total 300 users.

    

Function       : Information Consultant

Period           : ’88 – ‘90

Company     : Drechtwerk, sheltered workshop, 1600 persons, public organization

Activities      : Participate in implementation project of ERP system (Bestmate;
                        AS400).

 

Function       : General employee

Period           : ’85 – ‘88

Company     : Amersfoorts Veevoederfabriek; feed mill, 20 employees.

Activities      : Production and administrative employee in family company

 

Education

 

1.    Graduated (drs.) Business Administration; - ’95 (Open Universiteit)

2.    Bachelor HEAO; - ’89 (Haagse Hogeschool)

3.    HAVO; - ‘85

4.    Management training:

a.    Team coaching; - ‘08

b.    Management Essentials Program; - ‘10

c.    Managing multi-cultures; - ‘11

d.    Engagement Catalyst; - ‘12

e.    Mgt. Talent Development; -‘13

f.     Mgt. Leadership; - ‘13

g.    Mgt. Leading multi functional teams - ‘14

5.    Project & program management trainings; - ‘93 – ‘10

6.    SAP module trainings; Supply Chain, Purchasing, Reporting; - ’00 – ‘02

7.    Personal performance trainings; - ’93 – ‘14

8.    L6S Yellow Belt training; -‘14

 

 Projects

Live date

Project description

Role

2022

LOOP;  roll-out of SAP Business Suite on Hana in 20+ countries in Europe

Manager Business Applications

  1. Part of program management team,

  2. QA role and change governance

  3. Lead Change Advisory Board

  4. Release/ Change management

  5. Project control (IT Audit)

2015

Emerge; reimplementation SAP (ERP and BI) for 2 Business Units by Chemicals template system. Add another 3000 users from 2 legacy SAP systems and harmonize business processes.

Team lead SAP-Basis track

1.     Prepare SAP Basis track, made Project Description Report and Project charter for this part.

2.     Coordinate:

a.     Developments (carry over developments and convert them according to defined Chemicals standards)

b.    Interfaces

c.     Other SAP Basis activities like setup Project street, printers, system and client copies, users etc.

3.     Deliver resources from my team to SAP Basis and Process tracks.

4.     Participate in project management team.

5.     Project is running, report on status etc.

2014

Platform migration SAP system of 4000 users, 3.3 TB DB.

Move from one service provider and OSDB: Wintel / SQL DB system to different provider and different OSDB: AIX (IBM Unix) / DB2 (IBM).

Project manager, with main tasks:

1.     Prepare project, free up budget, provide project charter

2.     RFP process to 3 service providers, evaluate and select

3.     Arrange detailed budget & approval, resource staffing (up to 50+ people during cutover weekend) and Project Definition Report

4.     Manage money, schedule and quality during the whole project

5.     Lead role during the cutover weekend

6.     Manage handover to support

2013

Merge of 2 SAP systems (1200 + 900 users) via SAP SLO (system landscape optimization) using technical merge + alignment where possible.

Project member, with main tasks:

1.     Define strategy (re-implementation or full SLO or mix of SLO and technical alignment)

2.     Participate in the selection team

3.     RFP process and select system integrator

4.     Arrange staffing, part of my team did join

5.     Safeguard template and architecture around SCM

6.     Receive project result in standing organization

2012

SAP Warehouse management

Project executive:

1.     Define the program (implement a template to rollout to first two plants, following by other plants)

2.     Select system integrator and other partners (for barcode mobile readers and infrastructure).

3.     Heading Steering committee

4.     Safeguard template and architecture around SCM

5.     Receive project result in standing organization

2011

SAP Plant Maintenance implementation site Cologne.

Implement PM for multi site for ~200 users

Project manager

1.     Define project charter and plan

2.     Arrange budget and resources

3.     Manage money, schedule and quality during the whole project

4.     Manage handover to support

2007-2011

Greenfield implementation for new plants in China (Ningbo). From drawing board support the organization with IT support. Several go live moments, first Finance, Controlling, Project Systems and Procurement. Later Plant Maintenance and Document Management System and MES (GE Proficy) to facilitate receiving the as build buildings and equipment’s. Following by the logistics modules for OTC and SCM.

Program manager

1.     Made information plan for IT aspects of new plant, deliver input for budget requests.

2.     Made program for different phases in the project.

3.     Arrange staffing, organized the project (design workshops, awareness sessions, trainings, testing, go live moments etc.)

4.     Manage money, schedule and quality during the whole project

5.     Manage handover to support

 

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