Management & Technology Consulting

Edward at SAP Waldorf Germany as SAP trainee consultant, early 1990s.

Management Consulting

Edward’s consulting assignments span across diverse industries covering end-to-end digital solutions implementation from supplier sourcing to selling to end-customer. Edward began his consulting career with a German software firm – SAP, at its’ Waldorf development centre and later with ex-‘Big Six’ management consulting firms. He held senior roles with international management consulting firms including Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (now IBM Business Consulting).

On strategy, process and operations management, Edward has over 20 years experience in helping organisations big and small in the analysis, benchmarking, design, modeling and improvement of businesses processes. He played key roles on various international assignments which involved formulating supply chain strategy, best practices benchmarking, design and improvement of supply chain and business processes.

Key consulting clients include:-

Agricultural (ABB Grain, Murray-Goulburn Cooperative, Ricegrowers Cooperative),
Automotive (Bosch, General Motors, Holden, Kubota Tractor, Toyota, VDO, Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Company),
Bank (ANZ)
Consumer products (Adidas, Cadbury Schweppes, Fonterra, Nestle, Sancella, Phillips Morris, PZ Cussons),
Electronics (Amkor Technology, Applied Materials, Ericsson, Macronix Semiconductor, Sony Computer Entertainment, Phillips Consumer Electronics, Texas Instrumemnt-Acer),
Forest, Paper & Packaging (Amcor Packaging, Nefab, Tomasetti),
Mining (Pasminco Mining),
Oil & Gas (Petronas, Shell),
Life Science (Aventis Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, Roche Consumer Products, Jabil Nypro, Beckon Dickinson),
Distribution & Transportation (Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, Penang Port Commission, Aurizon/Queensland Rail National),
Government (Department of Human Services, Queensland Government)

Technology

Edward is a hands-on technology professional and project leader with experience on every facets of complete project lifecycle including requirements gathering, software selection, feasibility study, fit/gap analysis, solution design, prototyping, functional specification (WRICEFP), configuration, data migration, testing (SIT, UAT), interfaces/integration, change management, user training, post-live support and trouble-shooting.

Edward is an expert on SAP SD, MM, WM, RF, APO DP, SNP and Experienced in PP, QM, PM (EAM/LAM), SAP business intelligence (BI/BW) KPI & performing reporting, SPSS (statistical and predictive analytics tool), ARIS & WebSphere Business Process Modeling Tool (WMB). He also had some exposure to SAP PPDS, EWM, S4 HANA Logistics/Enterprise Management on premise and cloud, IBP, ABAP, MYOB accounting, Ariba S2P, WordPress, HTML basic, HPQC IT tickets & helpdesk support.

Industries which Edward had technology consulting assignments include:-Agricultural (ABB Grain, Murray-Goulburn Cooperative, Ricegrowers Cooperative), Automotive (Bosch, General Motors, Holden, Kubota Tractor, Toyota, VDO, Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Company), Consumer products (Adidas, Cadbury Schweppes, Fonterra, Nestle, Sancella, Phillips Morris), Electronics (Amkor Technology, Applied Materials, Ericsson, Macronix Semiconductor, Sony Computer Entertainment, Phillips Consumer Electronics, Texas Instrumemnt-Acer), Forest, Paper & Packaging (Amcor Packaging, Nefab, Tomasetti), Mining (Pasminco Mining), Oil & Gas (Petronas, Shell), Pharmaceutical (Aventis Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, Roche Consumer Products), Distribution & Transportation (Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, Penang Port Commission, Aurizon/Queensland Rail National), Government (Department of Human Services, Queensland Government)

Some certifications and training courses Edward completed include:

Executive Data Science Specialisation (Crash Course in Data Science, Building Data Science Team, Managing Data Analysis, Data Science in Real Life) Johns Hopkins University, 2017
Certified Solution Consultant – Advanced Planning with SAP SCM APO
Certified R/3 Logistics Applications Consultant
Online Courses AR510/AR520/AR530 (prerequisite for SAP Certified Application Associate – Ariba Procure-to-Pay), SAP Learning Hub 2016
SAP IBP Partner & Sales Enablement: Integrated Business Planning for Supply/Demand/Inventory/S&OP/SC Control Tower 2016
S/4HANA Deep Dive – OpenSAP courses
Salesforce – Intro to Point & Click Web and Mobile App Building, Udacity 2016
HTML & CSS Foundation, Udacity 2016
SAP eWM 100 Processes & 110 Customization, SAP Melbourne 2011
SAP SCM APO 5.0 re-certification courses, IBM 2010
IBM Websphere Business Modeller, IBM GBS 2009
SAP Netweaver Portals Fundamentals, IBM GBS Summer School, Melbourne 2008
Business Intelligent Reporting SAP Netweaver, IBM GBS Summer School, Melbourne 2008
Business Strategy Foundations BCS Summer School, Melbourne 2006
SAP APO Delta 3.0, SAP Sydney, 2001
SAP CRM (Sony-specific), Sony/SAP Sydney, 2000
E-Business Practitioners’ Master Class, PwC Melbourne, 2000
SAP Supply Chain Solutions (APO Overview, DP, SNP), SAP Melbourne, 1999
SAP EH&S, IBM BCS Sydney 2003
Internet-Enabled Solutions, SAP Melbourne, 1997
SAP R/3 (all logistics modules i.e. QM, PP, SD, MM, WM, PM, PS) Conversion Training, SAP Singapore, 1993-94
SAP R/2 Logistics Consultant Trainee Program, SAP Waldorf, Germany (six months full-time program at SAP Development Centre; trained on SAP architecture, basis, ABAP/4, all R/2 RM (=R3 MM, WM, PP, PS, PM, QM) & RV (= R3 SD) modules, SAP consulting skills, 1991-1992

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