Freelance SAP Analytics Consultant | BPC | BW4HANA | HANA SQL
Opvelp, Belgium
Belgium
Opvelp, Belgium
Belgium
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SAP ABAPAccountingAdobe InDesignData AnalysisArchitectureAuditingBusiness To BusinessCustomer Relationship ManagementBusiness EconomicsFinancesSalesFinancial PlanningMaterials ManagementSAP NetWeaverSAP ApplicationsSAP BPCSAP Business SuiteSAP NetWeaver BISAP Functional ConsultingSAP HANAStored ProcedureSQL DatabasesStakeholder ManagementStock ControlConsolidation (Financial)
Wouter Vanhoutte is a Freelance SAP Analytics Consultant and can offer you :
- Long-term engagements leading SAP BPC and BW4HANA transformations.
- Fixed Price design of to-be SAP architecture of your datawarehouse and planning systems, including insights on direct license cost impact and long-term cost of ownership of different scenarios.
- Thorough estimations and methodology of different projects needed to implement the to-be architecture.
- Fixed Price developments in SAP BPC standard and embedded
- Fixed Price developments in BW4HANA , including HANA SQL stored procedures and/or calculation views and CDS views
Wouter graduated as a Commercial Engineer in Business Economics & Strategy at the KU Leuven, complemented with a specialization in accountancy & auditing.
Wouter started his career as a SAP consultant in 2007 engaging in financial and custom-built SAP deployments before he moved to the area of SAP Business Warehousing in 2008, where he worked for consultancy firms Eozen and Accenture.
During his career, Wouter became knowledgeable in different SAP functional areas like Finance, Controlling, Material Management, Sales & Distribution and Customer Relationship Management. Most of the knowledge is centered around the Controlling side, while he was also engaged in building custom-built controlling solutions in SAP BW. Since 2013, Wouter has focused on SAP BPC implementations, both with SAP Netweaver (standard & embedded) and SAP BPC Microsoft, where he was acting as a technical expert assisting in design and development of BPC Badis, script logic, HANA calculation views and stored procedures, complex report and SAP BW ETL. Wouter also has experience acting as lead consultant with a green field BW/4HANA implementation. Complementary to this , he has worked with various business stakeholders where he has developed a very good understanding of the financial business processes involved in financial planning and consolidation.
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Project history
SAP BPC consultant for consolidation process
Deceuninck
Goods & Retail
5000-10.000 team member
Project :
Upgrade of SAP BPC Microsoft to SAP BPC 10.1 NW
Role:
SAP BPC consultant for consolidation process
Process configuration for consolidation in 2 models
EPM input & Report building
Script logic development
UAT & Go-live support
SAP BPC consultant for consolidation process
IATA
Government and Public Services
5000-10.000 team member
Project :
Implementation of SAP BPC 10.1 for Financial Consolidation
Role :
SAP BPC consultant for consolidation process
Architecture for BW ETL to SAP BPC
Process configuration for consolidation in 2 models
EPM input & Report building
Script logic development
UAT & Go-live support
Coaching of junior colleague
SAP BPC lead consultant for the Sales & Gross Profit model
Atlas Copco
Industry & Mechanical Engineering
>10.000 team member
Project :
Implementation of SAP BPC 10.1 for consolidation & management reporting process
Role :
SAP BPC lead consultant for the Sales & Gross Profit model
Functional analysis & Technical design of the SALES GP model
ABAP programming / SQL procedures in HANA
Support of user acceptance testing & parallel run
Build and support of other supporting models for consolidation
functional analyst for logistics workstream
Umicore
Other
>10.000 team member
Project :
The MC project is the 3rd and final phase of the RADAR program for Umicore’s business unit “Precious Metals Refining” (1st project Metals Desk and 2nd Metals Stocks). After the MC project, all mainframe applications and other non-integrated systems (sales, quote,…) will be replaced by a 100% custom built SAP solution. The MC project will be designed and implemented for the Hoboken and Hanau plant.
Role :
functional analyst for logistics workstream.
Creating technical designs, testing and assisting key users in testing.
Specifying the queries and logic needed to build the transactions
Be the SPOC in the sampling and assaying domain; these include the custom built transactions comparable to the standard SAP QM module.
Organizing the testing activities in a way that errors are minimized in tested transactions
Improving the datamodel, assisting the programmers in building the transactions and ensure that the functional specifications are met.
Financial Management Reporting Architect during the Analysis Phase
AB INBEV
>10.000 team member
Project :
Anheuser-Busch InBev is the leading global brewer and one of the world’s top five consumer products companies. Zone Mancom has made a decision to enhance the current zone BI platform through a BI finance initiative as a pilot.
The goal is to cover all Finance reporting needs at Zone level. BI Finance should replace all existing reporting capabilities from the countries that will roll out Global SAP ERP.
Role :
Financial Management Reporting Architect during the Analysis Phase
Leverage SAP BI and SAP FI/CO knowledge to perform sourcing analysis for all the different financial subject areas
Deliver fit-gap analysis report for the subject areas
Propose functional dataflows per subject area
SAP BW4HANA/BPC lead technical consultant
VPK PACKAGING
Goods & Retail
Project :
Implementation of BW4HANA and SAP BPC 11 for management reporting & budgeting
Role :
SAP BW4HANA/BPC lead technical consultant
Architecture for BW4HANA ETL to SAP BPC in a green field BW/4HANA setup
ABAP programming / SQL procedures in HANA
Coaching of junior colleague
SAP BPC lead technical consultant
ONTEX GROUP
Goods & Retail
>10.000 team member
Project :
Implementation of SAP BPC 10.1 for consolidation
Role :
SAP BPC lead technical consultant
Architecture for BW ETL to SAP BPC
ABAP programming / SQL procedures in HANA
Logic Script in SAP BPC
Development of Journal Input Schedule in EPM
SAP BPC embedded consultant
ETEX GROUP
Industry & Mechanical Engineering
>10.000 team member
Project :
Implementation of SAP BPC embedded for sales quantity planning
Role :
SAP BPC technical consultant
Functional analysis & Technical design of the sales quantity process
Development of planning functions and planning process
FOX scripting / ABAP programming / SQL procedures
Support of user acceptance testing
SAP BPC embedded consultant
TESSENDERLO GROUP
Industry & Mechanical Engineering
5000-10.000 team member
Project :
Implementation of SAP BPC embedded for sales budget / Implementation of SAP BPC standard for budget gelatins division
Role :
SAP BPC technical consultant
Design of embedded BPC model
Development of planning functions and planning process
FOX scripting / ABAP programming / SQL procedures
SAP BPC lead consultant
FOD B&B
Government and Public Services
>10.000 team member
Project :
Implementation of SAP BPC 10.1 for the federal budget process
Role :
SAP BPC lead consultant
Technical design of the Budget model
Setup BPF process and configuration
Script Logic & ABAP development
EPM input schedule development
Coaching of junior colleagues
Support of user acceptance testing
SAP BW BPC Consultant
SES ASTRA
>10.000 team member
Project :
Upgrade of SAP BPC v7.5 Microsoft to SAP BPC v10 Netweaver, scope including consolidation and planning.
Role :
SAP BPC consultant
Migration of input forms and reports to EPM technology
ABAP development to support Consolidation process
SAP BPC Consultant
Rezidor Hotel Group
Other
>10.000 team member
Project :
Rezidor’s SAP BPC application, version for Microsoft, is used for both consolidation and planning. A technical upgrade was necessary to version 10, in parallel with a new model for forecasting.
Role :
SAP BPC consultant
Executing migration tasks
Analysis of requirements for new forecasting model
Build of necessary planning logic and input forms
Support of user acceptance testing
After Go-Live support
SAP BW Consultant
Asahi Kasei
Industry & Mechanical Engineering
5000-10.000 team member
Project :
Technical SAP BW upgrade, 3.0 à 7.3
Role :
SAP BW consultant
Analyzing existing SAP BW dataflows
Desing of new dataflows in SAP BW 7.3
Build and unit testing of new dataflows
SAP BW BPC Consultant
BIA Group
Transport & Logistics
5000-10.000 team member
Project :
Implementation of SAP BPC V10 for consolidation for BIA Group, on top of SAP Netweaver.
Role :
SAP BW-BPC consultant
Analyzing data integration with SAP FI
Design of dataflows towards SAP BPC
Build of BPC packages and reports
Training end-users on the SAP EPM add-in
SAP BW functional lead for logistics track
Electrolux
Goods & Retail
>10.000 team member
Project :
COMPASS program to transform’s Electrolux business processes to run on SAP platform
Role :
SAP BW functional lead for logistics track
Analyzing business requirements and design BW reporting solutions
Project management of different BW developments
Manage off-shore development team
Support UAT sessions
Lead Consultant in SAP BW upgrade
Umicore
Other
>10.000 team member
Project :
Umicore’s business unit ‘building products’ is engaging in an SAP BW upgrade from 3.1 to 7.0 in order to set up a proof of a concept to pick a new front-end reporting tool.
Role :
Lead Consultant in SAP BW upgrade
Lead activities in upgrade of SAP BW system from version 3.1 to 7.01
Project Planning
Analysis of to-be migrated BW objects
Technical design of new dataflows
Follow-up of daily Build/ Test activities and communication of status to stake holders
Ensure timely delivery in acceptance for end users
Coach junior consultant in design-build-test
SAP BW transition lead
Telindus
Internet & IT
5000-10.000 team member
Project :
The complex EPS SAP implementation (including SD – MM – SRM – FI – CO – PS - CRM –MDM – BW – BO) has gone live with an unstable and unfinished system. Accenture is taking over the support and delivery of change requests.
Role :
SAP BI transition lead / implementation consultant
Responsible for the smooth transition of support activities in the BI domain to Accenture peers
Conduct workshops to ensure all knowledge gets transferred
Delivery of change requests regarding to reporting on SAP CRM service, PS and CO/ COPA
Guide the transfer of support activities to onshore resources
SAP BW BO BPC Consultant
SITA SUEZ
Energy, Water & Environment
>10.000 team member
Project :
The NEWS WBINS project implementation is necessary in order for NEWS to become a better organized and managed Business Unit. The scope of the BI Implementation is the sales, operational and financial reporting in a BW/BO environment.
In order to facilitate the calculation of standard prices in CO, SAP BPC is implemented for operational and financial planning.
Role :
Responsible for the implementation of Sales Reporting in SAP BW :
Enhancement of LIS extractors
Design and implementation of dataflow
Unit Testing
Responsible for the implementation of the SAP BW Interface
with SAP BPC Netweaver 7.0 :
Design of BPC applications
Design and Implementation of masterdata interface Design and Implementation of transactional data interface Build of Input Sheets
Go-Live support
Responsible for the implementation of the SAP BW Interface
Extranet : Perform Functional Design
Technical Design and build of BO Webi Reports
Presales
SAP Belgium
Internet & IT
>10.000 team member
Preparation and presentation of a SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Demo at the SAPience user day. The focus was on the Netweaver version. The demo presented two main topics :
Setting up of a planning screen
Integration with SAP Netweaver
SAP BW Consultant
Delhaize
Goods & Retail
5000-10.000 team member
Project :
The SAP4Begelux project covers the implementation of the FI/CO module for the Belgian, German and Luxembourg Company Codes. The scope of the project is very large; it implies
implementation of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Project
Systems, Cost Center Accounting, Supplier Relationship Management, Business Intelligence,
…
Role :
SAP BI Consultant in BI 7.0
Design of the dataflows for General Ledger, Capital Expenditure, Cartesis Interface, Winbudget Interface
Configuring the dataflows in SAP BI, programming in ABAP where necessary
Design and building of the Queries
Building reports and front-end developing in VB.NET
Process chain design and implementation
Operational support SAP FI-AP system
Agfa Healthcare
Pharmaceuticals & Medical Technology
>10.000 team member
Project : After the implementation of the new SAP AP (Accounts Payable) system at Agfa Healthcare, the backlog of vendor invoices increased dramatically because of system failure. Even after the system was up, there were still some flaws in the workflow which needed to be addressed properly.
Role : - Operational support for the new FI-AP system
- Daily reporting the backlog status of the AP system
- Assisting In the monthly closing runs and the year end closing
- Ensure workflow and reporting improvement