Wouter Amersfoort
Algemene voorwaarden: Algemene voorwaarden-zakelijke-dienstverlening.pdf
IT Management, Demand management, Solution Architect and projectmanager
Family owned company, non-profit, Atos, AkzoNobel Coatings and Chemicals, Stahl, Europool System
Masters Business Administration and Management and Project Management
Global project on SAP and MES.
Details
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.
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
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
Live date |
Project description |
Role |
2022 |
LOOP; roll-out of SAP Business Suite on Hana in 20+ countries in Europe |
Manager Business Applications
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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. |
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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). |
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2013 |
Merge of 2 SAP systems (1200 + 900 users) via SAP SLO (system landscape optimization) using technical merge + alignment where possible. |
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2012 |
SAP Warehouse management |
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2011 |
SAP Plant Maintenance implementation site Cologne. Implement PM for multi site for ~200 users |
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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. |
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