SD / MM / WM Senior Consultant - Project Manager

Stefan Ehlen has more than 20 years’ experience in SAP implementation and Consulting, especially in Pharmacy, Chemical industry and consumer products. 
Mr. Ehlen worked in different projects as project leader and transformations architect. 

• Integration Manager SAP R/3 – logistics
• Functional as-is analysis and to-be process definition (concept and design)
• Project management for SAP R/3–implementation 
• Customizing of SAP modules with SD, MM, WM
• Harmonization of master data (concept, design and implementation 

He has especially deep knowledge in processes and functions.

• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• OtC (Order to Cash)
• PtP (Purchase to Pay)
• Returns processing and dispatch
• Integrated Warehouse Management Systems (WM)

Following strengths perfects the profile of Stefan Ehlen:

• High soft skills and expertise
• Assertiveness and focus on results
• Role perception and team work
• Convincing appearance  and presentation skills

01/2016-
until today 
Huber + Suhner AG
Herisau (Schweiz)
 
Project: STRATOS
Roll-out of a template in France, Tunisia and North America.
Consulting and customizing in SD. Interfaces to APO, PP, MM and FI/CO.
Fit/Gap analysis. Transformation of the regional requirements in SD.
Support und trouble-shouting.
Using of SAP SolMan. documentation and adaption of the business blueprint and technical spezificationen.
Using of IS-MILL. Variant configuration in SD. 
SD Senior consultant
 
01/2015-
12/2016
 L\'ORÉAL Germany GmbH (Karlsruhe) 
 
Consulting and Customizing in SAP SD and MM
- Ticket handling for SAP SD and MM
- Analysis, Customizing, Testing and  
  Training of the users
- Implementation / Transportation oft the
  solution in the SAP R/3 ECC System
- Analysis / Debugging (ABAP) in the
  module of SD / MM  
- Prioritization of the Ticket
- Creation of the technical solution
- Testing in HP ALM and Solution 
   Manager (SolMan)
- ABAP Debugging 
Projekt: NEW GEAR
(Bopenhagen, Brussel, Karlsruhe)
- Creating of mapping rules
- Documentation of test results  in Solution Manager  and HP ALM
- Planning of cut over activities 
Outcome:
 -Consultance Protocol
- Source code documentation
- Object code documentation
- User and Training documentation 
SD / LE / MM Senior consultant
 
09/2014
12/2014 
KEMIRA Helsinki
(Finland)
 
Member of the Central Core Team EMEA and APAC
Implementation of 50 Plants worldwide. Template Customizing. Training of the regional teams.
SPOC (single point of contact) for all relevant MM and QM questions. UAT and CIT Training and Support. Trouble shooting (Action & Issue List).
Going-Live Support. 
MM / QM consultant

03/2014
08/2014 
3M Neuss (DE)
 
2nd Level Support for the moduls LEX (Logistical Execution and WM), OTC (Order to Cash) and GTS. Support the Going-Live in the biggest warehouse of 3M in Jüchen (Germany) and SOA (France) . Reporting of the Idoc stats for Bedford (UK), Dabrowa (PL), SOA (FR) and Jüchen (DE).
Supporting the “HyperCare Phase” 
WM (LEX) / SD consultant 

7/2013 –
02/2014 
Hiestand Food
Zürich / Schlieren (CH) and Gerolzhofen (DE)
 
Roll-out in eleven different Warehouses (with and without HU management) in Germany, Austria and the Switzerland. Testing and documentation of all inbound and outbound processes. Intensive training of the key user on site.
6 plant with WM (LEX) and HU Management and 5 plant only MM-IM with HU Management. 
SD / WM / MM Senior-Consultant 

02/2013 –
06/2013 
Federal Mogul
Automotive
Ludwigsburg (DE)
 
Carving-Out Project
Responsible for all Inbound and Outbound processes.
As-Is Analyses and Fit / Gap Analysis of the Federal Modul and Beru SAP System.
Writing Business Blueprint and technical specifications for WM and SD. Customizing of all WM scenarios and SD scenarios (Order entry, Delivery, Billing, Scheduling Agreements). Transition of the billing documents to an external GTS Server.
Testing of all OTC, PtP and WM processes. Reporting of the Intra- and Extrastate notification. Demonstration, UAT (User Acceptance Test) and documentation.
ABAP Debugging. 
WM / SD Senior-Berater 

09/2012 – 
02/2013 
ESGE,
Apparel Industry
Albstadt (GER)
 
Handling all picking operations with handling units (individual transports, delivery across transport and 2-step picking).
Transportation and freight cost calculation.
ABAP Debugging. 
WM / MM Expert 

05/2012 – 
08/2012 
Kronotext,
Wood-processing, Heiligengrabe (GER) 
 
WM spare part team lead 
Analysing the warehouse structure with the result of a weak-point analysis.
Furthermore conceptual design of a re-organisation from 33 to 6 storage areas. Re-setting from a fix bin location (MM-IM) to a WM bin-strategy.
Prototyping of an implementation with a handheld „Motorola MC9090“.
Team Lead /
Senior Consultant 

01/2012 – 07/2012 
Chem-Trend,
Chemical Industry, Norderstedt (GER)
 
Analysing the warehouse structure as a part of the preparation of a
„Roll-In“ with the result to get a Fit/Gap Analyse. Especially for all process which have contact with the warehouse (End-To-End processing)
The following processes were analysed:

• Purchase to Pay (PtP)
• Order to Cash (OtC)
• Retouren
• Make to Stock (MtS)
• Make to Order (MtO)

Conceptual design of the system- und warehouse architecture 
SAP Solution Architect
 
 08/2011 – 01/2012 
Fressnapf plc,
Pet Food,
Krefeld (GER) 
 
Within of the project “Compass” at the Fressnapf plc in Krefeld.
Responsible of two different interfaces.
Connection of an extern warehouse management system, called “LFS” from the company Ehrhardt & Partner and the other one was an interface to run MRP (material resource planning) and schedule the routes from the company Remira.

• Managing of the logistics team / Leading the Workshops
• As-Is analysis of the interface structures
• Writing of the concept of the system architecture according to „Best-Practice“ scenarios.
• Implementation of the return / complain processes in SAP. Subproject Leader in logistic

 05/2011 – 08/2011 
Siemens,
Energy Fossil,
Erfurt (GER)
 
Implementation of master data integration fort the „OneP“ project in Erfurt.
Harmonization and creation of master data (customer, buyer, bill-of-material and material master data)

• Creation of harmonized master data
• Controlling of the migration objects
• Error analysis
• Support by integration testing
• Documentation and preparation of the test scripts
• Coordination of the tests 

Project lead, Senior Consultant