Master Data Consultant – Specification Management & MES – MOMS Project

October 2021 - April 2023 | Teijin Aramid | Emmen

Teijin Aramid produces various high-strength fibers for industrial purposes which finds applications in numerous markets, such as automotive (tires, hoses, belts), aerospace, civil engineering, construction, leisure goods (e.g. boats), protective clothing (bullet-, fire- and cut-resistant clothing), optical fiber cables, friction and sealing materials and more.
In my role as Master Data Consultant I guide the business in collecting and migrating data from various legacy systems to one new Specification Management environment.

Data Migration

Data Collection
Data Transformation & Validation

Data Governance

Managing Master Data in a complex(system) landscape can be challenging, good Data Governance will support Data Maintenance.

Identify Data Objects
Assign Data Owners
Set-up data maintenance Process

Bake a Cake

October 2019 - December 2021 | Astellas Pharma | Meppel

Documentation, and especially documentation structure is not always easy to understand. When discussing what content belongs in what kind of document people tend to fall back in the familiar. To break the content bias and legacy way of doing things an example completely out of scope of the daily business could help.
To enable the discussion on document structure I’ve created a complete set of process documents on the topic of ‘Organizing a Birthday Party the Dutch Way’. With this set of documents, a shopping bag full of props and a nice PowerPoint presentation this formed the basis for various “Bake a Cake” sessions in which the document structure was explained and the proper content level of different document types was discussed.

World Trial Qualifiers – 2020

October 2018 - December 2020 | Dutch Sheep Dog Society

In September 2020 the International Sheep Dog Society will organize the World Sheepdog Trial in York, England. As Dutch Sheep Dog Society we are invited to select a team to represent the Netherlands on this World Trial. This year we will organize Qualifier trials to select the best combinations of Handlers and Dogs for the Dutch Team.
Organizing this Qualifier series starts long before the first trial, In October the Trial Committee starts with making an initial planning and reviewing the rules and regulations (based on lessens learned from previous trials). Changes in the rules need to be published before december 1st to be eligible for a vote on the next AGM. From December 1st to December 31st our competitors can pre-register, based on those registrations we can make final adjustments to our planning. Meanwhile there are all kind of activities like making sure everybody is aware of the activities, finding suitable locations and getting sponsors and other partners on board.

Onward to the first Qualifier Trial in April operational activities will take place to make sure there will be series of challenging but fair trials. Also the final registration will take place and our competitors will have a lot of questions which need to be answered.

With a small team you need to be able to switch quickly between tasks. My tasks in this project;

- Supporting members in writing and submitting rule change proposals
- Update Documentation based on approved proposals
- Setting up (pre)registration tools (Google Sheet, Google Form)
- Finding sponsors
- Selecting and inviting (international)Judges
- Make travel arrangements for judge & volunteers
- Preparing Trial Field
- Calculate and publish scores and rankings

Master Data Request Automation

October 2017 - November 2017 | Syngenta Seeds | Enkhuizen

Within Syngenta Master Data Management is complex, many tasks are outsourced. The translation from business requirements to workable request for the third-party service provider is crucial for successful Master Data Management.
The process of creating Master Data request involves a lot of repetitive actions and is based on a given set of possible choices. To simplify the request processing I was assigned the task to improve the used templates with data checks and request validation.

The more automation I could put in within the given timeframe and restrictions the better. This was a big challenge because from the beginning I was convinced it was possible to automate the process from start to end. Biggest limiting factor was the wish for the new tool to be fully maintainable by the MDM Team, this resulted in a decision on using Excel without VBA and any formula more complex than a VLOOKUP.

The final result was a stable and user maintainable tool built in Excel providing accurate suggestions on what to request and how to fill a request template.

World Trial Qualifiers 2017

December 2015 - July 2017 | Dutch Sheep Dog Society

Once in every three years the International Sheep Dog Society organize the World Sheepdog Trials. For this championship we, the Dutch Sheep Dog Society, as associate of the ISDS, are asked to create a team which will represent the Netherlands on the WT in 2017. For selecting the Dutch Team we organized 4 qualifying trials. A place in the Dutch Team is, for many handlers, a valuable thing there is a lot of pressure to have a fair set of trials. This all starts with good rules and regulations and selecting the right judges. But also every minor detail counts, where on a regular trial you can get away with asking a running handler to help, on a qualifier trial this can be(or even look) unfair, therefore a lot of volunteers is needed.

My tasks in this project;

Updating documentation and get approval from the members
Selecting and inviting (international)Judges
Inviting Volunteers
Make travel arrangements for judge & volunteers
Calculate and publish scores and rankings

Transfer Price Upload

December 2014 - January 2015 | Syngenta Seeds | Enkhuizen

At the end of the year new (inter-company) transfer-prices are established and need to be loaded into SAP. This process is a joined effort of the Transfer Price Team and MDM operations and will be managed by the Client Engagement Manager.

Monitor and mange the overall process
Indicate and escalate potential issues
Communicate status updates with business stakeholders
Be the first point of contact for the business
Indicate and document possible improvements and initiate follow-up

Master Data Retrofit Turkey

April 2013 - May 2013 | Syngenta Seeds | Enkhuizen

For the Syngenta Flowers Turkey production plant a new way-of-working is about to be introduced. This new way-of-working requires new material master data and a major update on the already existing material master data.
In this project I was responsible for the Material Master Data design and implementation.

Design new MDM workflow based on new business requirements, system functionality and global design rules
Implement new MDM strategy
- Monitor (and take action on) precondition (open orders e.g.) for a successful MDM Transition
- Design new MDM elements like BOM & Recipes
- Trigger and monitor material creation by the offshored Master Data Team

SAP Support Consultant – SAP Rollout Wholesale Division

January 2012 - August 2012 | Heineken Nederland B.V | Zoeterwoude/Amsterdam

Heineken is a Dutch multinational brewing company, founded in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam. Heineken N.V. is the number one brewer in Europe and one of the largest brewers by volume in the world. Next to their brewing activities Heineken Netherlands also offers wholesale (soft drinks, waters, spirits, wines, tea and coffee) activities to the Dutch hospitality sector.
For this Wholesale division Heineken is Rolling out SAP. In my role as Support Consultant I’ve trained and supported end users in using this new SAP implementation.

Training

Train end-users in using SAP
Support end-users after Go-Live
Create and update user manuals and training material

Optimizing and Testing

Optimize Way of Working using available functionality
Optimize Master data
- Material Master: Introduced new planning type to improve purchasing process for non-forecast articles
- Purchasing Contracts: create contracts for a new IC Purchasing process
Test new SAP functionality
- IC Sales & Purchasing
- Excise Duty & Tax Warehouse (alcoholic beverage)
- Non-WMS warehousing