My Experience
I have a passion to develop systems for Configurable Products. I started 1988 to develop, document, train and maintain a very complicated Inhouse ERP application with a set of Product Configurators and Master Data Governance at ABB LV Switchgear in a small team. That continued partially until 2018 as ALM project.
This familiarized me on E2E business process steps in detail for Manufacturing industry as well as gave excellent experience in working at multicultural application development and specification projects.
From 2006 I additionally built a family of SAP Variant Configurators and I started working more widely with SAP as MM & PP Solution Consultant with design and implementation projects in Discrete manufacturing & Process industry businesses.
The three latest implementation projects have been S/4HANA projects and in 2 latest of them I have represented the Customer’s organization.
My expertise areas in SAP are
- Variant Configurator (AVC and LO-VC) as part of PLM
- Engineering Change Management (ECM) as part of PLM
- Classification as part of AVC and LO-VC
- Master data governance (Materials, BOM’s, Routings, Recipes, Business partners)
- Plan to Deliver (P2D PMD/PL/PE)
- Plan to Produce / Production Planning & Executing (PP), also when integrated with MES
- Materials Management (MM) with specification of storing EUDR required data
- Specification on Integrations mainly with Sales configurators, MES systems and PDM/PLM systems
- Specification of Data models with Special Tables
having additionally general knowledge on Sales, After sales, Plant Maintenance (PM) and PS (Project system).
I have good understand business areas of Process and Manufacturing industries, especially with CTO, ETO with PS, MTO and MTS production processes with the whole Product Lifecycle chain.
I do have excellent experience (30+ years) on working in intercultural organizations with all levels of stakeholders.
Five of the projects have followed Agile method and especially the project assignment on 2022 was very tightly using SAFe method. My task was to act as Stream Lead and Scrum Master additionally to Consulting tasks in my team.
My flow of work
My work history started at Strömberg Research Centre in 1984, as Electrical Engineer being responsible on tests of Strömberg electrical products (Transformers and switchgear mostly).
In 1986 I moved internally to Switchgear division’s R&D Department for Product development being responsible on new generation of heavy switchgear testing.
In 1988 I started working on developing, maintaining and supporting users of a very complicated inhouse ERP/Product configurator system which was used for ETO/CTO E2E process of low voltage switchgear products.
On November 2003 our systems development team was outsourced to TietoEnator where I continued with same ERP and Engineering system. This long living ALM project lasted up to 2018. Additionally, from 2006 I have mainly worked with SAP implementation projects at industry business in several different roles as SAP Solution Consultant at Tieto.
On spring 2023 I started my own company RapidAgi Oy and have been working as an independent consultant since.
My “Highschool” to understand E2E process of ETO with configurator
ABB LV Systems inhouse engineering and ERP Development and Maintenance
Time: 1988-2018
Role: Product configurator & ERP development, maintenance and support inhouse
Languages: English, Finnish
Responsibility:
- Lead developer of an ERP and Engineering system for ETO scenario products at ABB Low Voltage Switchgear division (from 2003 as consultant in Tieto).
Developing, maintaining and supporting users of a very complicated Sales and Product configurator with an internal ERP and Engineering system which was used for CTO/ETO E2E process of low voltage switchgear products.
The system included following main features:
- Master data maintenance (materials, multilevel BoM’s, Routings) module
- Sales related BoM Maintenance module with optimized functional unit arrangement and frame and busbars generation feature
- Automatic online Sales order Costing
- Generation of Purchase Requisitions with automatic JIT calculation
- Running forecast for stock material needs
- Offer price calculation
- Product documentation for Customer and Production
- Load information for Sales
- Integration from actual work times
- Integrated Sales order creation to SAP