Samuel - Chef de projet SAP MM

SYSTEM AND TECHNOLOGY LTD MARCH 2004 TO PRESENT
I decided to seek contract employment in the UK and European markets, having gained experience of project management, business processes, organisational design and ERP solutions through previous projects completed. As a result of this, I formed my own company “System and Technology Ltd” in March 2004.

January 2007– June 2007 Electrocomponents PLC, contract extension

Function Subsystems Co-ordinator - Europe, Technical Co-ordinator, interim Technical Manager
Location Corby, UK - Madrid, Spain - Amsterdam, Holland - Dublin, Ireland - Copenhagen, Denmark
Environment SAP R/3 4.6C Retail

I continued to support the EBS roll-out across the remaining 4 of Electrocomponents’ 12 European Operating Companies (OpCo’s). For this 6th release (R6), I kept the position of “European Subsystem Co-ordinator”, ensuring that the warehousing subsystems in France, UK, Germany and Italy, already linked to the EBS platform, would not be adversely impacted by the R6 changes.
For this release, I also co-ordinated the complex EBS printing solution (interfaces between SAP, HP Output Server - HPOS- & Enterprise Form Solutions -EFS- and the warehousing subsystems) and acted as interim Technical Manager preparing a Business Volume Test (BVT) across the 12 OpCo’s simultaneously.
In this role, I had to ensure that the business requirement for this test was covered across all the technical landscape: SAP (MM, WM, FI, EH&S), Printers, interface to subsystems (Enterprise Application Integration -EAI- / Websphere, print servers / HPOS & EFS, e-commerce / Broad Vision, CCS, WMS) and managed 50+ persons.

March 2006 – January 2007 Electrocomponents PLC, contract extension

Function Subsystems Co-ordinator - Europe, Technical Co-ordinator.
Location Corby, UK - Beauvais, France - Milan, Italy - Frankfurt, Germany - Gmund, Austria
Environment SAP R/3 4.6C Retail

I joined the Electrocomponents central project team with System and Technology to upgrade the first EBS release in France and to continue its implementation across 3 of the Electrocomponents 12 European OpCo’s. The UK based team rolled out the previously designed template for R4 & R5. One of my roles was to co-ordinate the actions of 2 local project managers in Germany and Italy. I also ensured that the other warehousing sub systems in France and UK, already linked to the EBS platform, would not be impacted by the R5 changes.
The German and Italian WMS (Warehouse Management System) were interfaced with SAP through third party software (Enterprise Application Integration -EAI- / Websphere) and I supervised its enhancement and testing.
For this release, I was also responsible for the SAP printing solution, ensuring that the 3 Operating Companies had the relevant printers installed on time and that the output determination (mapping of SAP output to the relevant printer across Europe) in SAP would be in line with the business requirement
I was acting as technical co-ordinator and business liaison in this role.

February 2006 – March 2006 RS Components Ltd, contract extension

Function Technical support.
Location Corby, UK.
Environment SAP R/3 4.6C Retail

I supported RS Components UK Operations in their post go-live improvement process in analysing the failures and issues, liaising with the technical and template team and proposing and facilitating enhancements, both in SAP or process improvement. I held a role as technical adviser to the business and as business interface with the technical team.

March 2004 - February 2006 RS Components Ltd

Function Project Manager.
Location Corby, UK.
Environment SAP R/3 4.6C Retail

I joined the RS Components delivery project team with System and Technology during the realisation phase of the EBS implementation in UK. I was responsible for the project management of the VanDerLande CCS (Conveyor Control System) replacement and for its interface with SAP. I was also responsible for the interfacing of the warehousing sub-systems with SAP WM through third party software (Enterprise Application Integration -EAI- / Websphere).
In addition I supported the central project team in the analysis and design of the “to-be” business processes. The UK project team added detail to a global design template that it had previously led in designing. I facilitated the running of workshops and meetings with senior process owners and ITMs (Implementation Team Members). A major part of my remit was helping in the configuration of R/3.
As project manager of the CCS implementation, I was responsible for the delivery - on time and in budget (over £400K) - of the upgrade of the former CCS and the interfacing with SAP R/3. I produced and maintained a complex and consolidated project plan using MS Project. I established and supervised the project documentation such as Project Initiation Document (PID), Investment Proposal (IP), Technical Requirements, Functional Design Specifications (FDS), test scripts (including data requirements), as well as all the various communications with the project “customers” and other project stakeholders.

I worked directly for the UK Logistics Programme Manager and managed a team of 5 people. I also managed the subcontractor (VanDerLande Industries) and occasionally, during the test phases, 10+ project resources.

RADIOSPARES COMPOSANTS JANUARY 2001 – MARCH 2004
Radiospares is a French market leading distributor of electronic, industrial maintenance & repair products. It is a subsidiary of the UK group Electrocomponents PLC.

March 2002 – March 2004 Project Manager

The EBS project is a European wide initiative implementing a SAP based ERP solution across Electrocomponents’ twelve operating companies.
I supported the realisation and design of the local warehousing and logistics aspects of the project, based on a SAP R/3 solution. The design included RDT solutions using SAP console, as well as interfaces to the WMS and the CCS.
I also assisted the UK based Project Manager with the replacement of the Siemens Dematic CCS, responsible for the interfaces with SAP WM. I was in charge of liaison/communication between the British project manager and the French stakeholders, as well as ensuring that the requirements of the French business were totally covered in the specifications. I was heavily involved in the blueprint.
The project role also comprised the co-ordination and execution of the CCS and SAP testing between the SAP core team and local resources, setting up the training courses for the new CCS and delivering them to the end users.

January 2001 – March 2002 Project Manager

I was Project Manager for the PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) implementation in preparation for the SAP rollout.
I was also in charge of reviewing processes and systems used in the warehouse, in order to propose improvements. Once validated by local management, I managed their implementation.