Curriculum Vitae Rainer Wirth

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1 Personal Data Address in Australia Brunswick, VIC 3056, Australia Telephone: +61 (0) Address: Nationality: Languages: German Australian Visa 856 Permanent Residency Holder German (native), English, Italian and French Work Experience Summary General skills Business Process analysis and design in sales, manufacturing, warehouse and shipping processes Team Lead experience ; functional logistics consultants Project management or project team lead (6 full SAP project life cycles and > 20 other projects since 1991). EDI, interfaces, variant configuration Training for consultants (SAP PP, SD, MM certifications) or end users in many SAP projects Documentation of business processes and functions SAP Modules functional knowledge: PP, MM, SD, LE (each > 4 years), IS Retail distribution (1.5 years), SAP CRM Sales and Service (1.5 years) SD, PP & SAP project methodology certification (since 1999) Industries: Operational work experience: Manufacturing (mechanical, automotive, electronics), Process Industry, Distribution logistics, Retail Shop floor control, sales planning, material requirements planning, warehouse management, controlling School and University Education School University degree: Study related placements: 1980 German Abitur at Ludwig-Meyn-Gymnasium Uetersen/ D 1985 Diplom-Ingenieur Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, equivalent to masters degree (Mechanical Engineering/Business Administration), Technische Universität Berlin 1980/81 9 months in a mechanical workshop and a paper mill 1985/86 7 months in a technical gas production company at Monza / Italy

2 Actual Self-employed Supply Chain Consultant / Solution Architect SAP ECC6, SCM-Processes, Integration ERP core system to CRM and SCM since 11 / 2013 Hanson AU (Concrete Manufacturer) Brisbane / Sydney Master data change from 50,000 sales materials to just 1 material using variant configuration. Re-engineering of sales, pricing, production and delivery processes as well as improved VC based margin control. Design and build of variant master data, link to automatic ABAP based BOM calculation, build of an ALE model to distribute master data, pricing / costing integration Design and integration of an ABAP based user interface in sales Rollout planning for around 250 plants in Australia 7 / / 2013 MMG (Mining) Melbourne Extension of purchase processes for exploration activities to some American purchasing organizations 3 / / 2013 BIC AU National sales organisation (Stationary articles) Melbourne Comprehensive solution to link SAP procurement and MRP to a central worldwide BIC demand and forecast planning solution using JDA 7/ /2012 Clarity Consulting Group Melbourne / Australia Consultant / Solution Architect SAP ERP Logistics and CRM Clarity delivers SAP implementation and support services in Victoria only Business process improvement 2011 / 2012 Honeywell AU safety products Melbourne (2 x 3 months) Used modules were SAP ECC6 SD and LE Design, implementation and test of an EDI interface generating sales orders, sending shipping notifications, order confirmations, invoices Design, implementation and test of a file interface to carrier. Manifest creation and electronic transfer of manifest to carrier via FTP 2011 / 2012 Paperlinx AU paper trading Melbourne (5 months) Used modules were SAP ECC6 SD and SAP E-commerce 7 Implementation and test of a B2B web-shop enhancement Design, implementation and test of catalogue and document management; design of product search using SAP TREX 2010 / 2011 MOFFAT / Manufacturer of kitchen appliances Melbourne / Christchurch (2 x 1 month) Used modules were SAP ECC6 SD, EDI/ALE and PP Re-Organisation of sales order entry, planning, MRP, scheduling and availability processes integrating distribution centre and assembly plant as well as demand, MRP, capacity planning in assembly plant 2010 Harris Scarfe Retail / national distribution centre Melbourne (3 months) Used modules were SAP ECC6 LE, LO and MM Design, implementation and test of an automated cross-docking solution for all store related deliveries Design, implementation and test of an RF solution assigning packaging units to pallets / deliveries by ship-to party (store) 2010 / 2012 Support at various customer sites running SAP ECC6 in Melbourne Modules SD, MM, WM, CRM, typical assignments of up to 2 months Pre-Sales assignments at Clarity delivering solution designs / demos 2011 (3 months) Build of an integrated SAP CRM / ERP and e-commerce demo system Data replication, pre-sales, sales, service processes and a B2B webshop 2012 (2 months) Build of an SAP ERP prototype for a Logistics Service Provider covering: Packaging units, service sales and billing, rail / truck / intermodal transport planning / execution, vehicle management, 3PL warehouse, cost analysis

3 8 / / 2010 Fujitsu Australia Sydney and Melbourne / Australia Start as Senior Consultant, later Practise Lead SAP Supply Chain Business Unit Enterprise Application Systems / SAP Project overview 11 / / 2010 Integration manager and solution architect System environment SAP ECC 6 IS Mills and SAP PI ABL Cement & Lime Division Adelaide and Perth / AU ABL is the second biggest manufacturer of cement, lime and building products in Australia Designing the general solution in conjunction with the functional consultants in an industry specific solution using the modules HR, PM, SD, MM, PP and MRP, LE, FI, CO, CO-PA Planning and supervision of system integration test and user acceptance test covering all main SAP modules Planning, execution and supervision of data conversion Developing the solution for the biggest operational interfaces covering around 200 transports daily in purchasing, sales and stock transfer for bulk materials. This interface is connecting a weighbridge system to SAP and covers around 2/3 of overall product volume delivered 1 / / 2010 Support for ABL after go life in Adelaide and Perth 3 / / 2008 Consultant System environment SAP IS Retail OXFAM Australia Melbourne / AU Business process design / blueprint of supply chain processes for Australian distribution centre and 25 stores covering a wide range of fair trade and international products to support communities in poor countries International purchasing and invoice verification Inventory and warehouse management Shipping into warehouse and to stores MRP and allocation in distribution centre for seasonal products 9 / / 2008 Consultant and User Support System Environment SAP ERP ECC6 Olympus AU Medical Division Melbourne /AU National sales organisation as well as national service and repair centre for medical products Reinstall daily operations in warehouse and shipping department 6 weeks after a go live of an extended SAP system. Successfully sorted 6 weeks later Business process redesign of warehouse and shipping processes Finish design and later test of pick and put away processes with RF devices in the warehouse Integration of serial numbers and consignment stock into RF Support for logistics processes (sales, planning, purchasing) Implementation of new make-to-order process for hospital imaging systems using a basic VC model and some MRP adaptations Customer and material master redesign in conjunction with merger of two more companies in AUS and NZ into the SAP system

4 5 / / 2007 Self-employed Consultant SAP R/3 logistics modules PP, MM, SD, and LE Logistics processes 2 / / 2007 Trainer SAP ERP Release 5.0 at Bucarest / RO, modules SD and LE 7 / / 2006 Team Lead Logistics System environment SAP IS Retail AFS Esprit Europe Ratingen / D Feasibility study and design of to be processes for supply chain inbound transport warehouse and shipping outbound transport. The volume comprised a sales volume of > 2 billion EUR or > 120 Mio pieces As is analysis of logistics processes mainly from suppliers in Asia to customers in Europe via distribution centre in Germany Define optimisation potentials in supply chain Design of to be processes and functions inbound transports to distribution centre, inventory and warehouse management, picking and packing, outbound transports to stores Verify processes and functions against SAP AFS solution 1 / / 2006 Consultant / User Support System Environment SAP IS Retail AFS Triumph International Rollout Bergamo / IT SAP modules MM, LE-WM and shipping Design and test of some shipping processes in the Italian warehouse Developing and performing integration tests in Italian User training and support after Go Life Data migration of inventory, retail store and warehouse stock 7 / / 2005 Consultant / User Support System Environment SAP R/3 4.7 Tenneco Automotive Laval / FR Integration of SAP purchasing to INFOR SupplyWeb as web based portal for suppliers to manage deliveries for the purchase orders Design of some purchasing processes integrating SAP, EDI and SupplyWeb User support in 3 plants Designing and performing integration tests across the 2 systems used Preparation of Go Life for various plants 5 / / 2005 Senior Consultant and Team Lead Logistics System Environment SAP R/3 4.7 IS Automotive Hella KG Lippstadt / D Hella is an automotive supplier of headlamps and car electronics. The project was the first and biggest rollout of a template to Hella s biggest plant with then 2500 workers and employees Design of shipping, purchasing, warehouse, KANBAN, material supply and MRP processes Migration of all relevant production and logistics master data like materials, BOM, routings etc. Configuration and testing of modules MM, WM, PP Kanban End-user training, creation of process manuals and support Go-Live Easter / / 2004 Travel to Australia and New Zealand

5 9 / / 2003 gedas deutschland gmbh Berlin (100 % Volkswagen AG until 2005, then merged into T-Systems Automotive) Project Manager & Practise Lead SAP Logistics The role comprised some project assignments typically as project leader and also for 2 years the operational lead of a group of 12 consultants in the areas of ERP logistics, CRM, B2B Project lead / management in SAP R/3 projects: 7 / / 2003 Blueprint and implementation for the German sales force of electronics components and control device manufacturer Moeller GmbH Bonn / D Scope: Sales, make to order, variants, EDI, repair and return shipping processes for 12 regional sales offices and the central back office at Cologne Blueprint and design of sales, complaint and billing processes Configuration and testing of sales processes using module SD Configuration and testing of MRP integration Design and migration of material and pricing master data Design of ALE connections among sales offices and plants End-user training and creation of process manuals 4 / / 2000 Implementation project for the central qualification dept. of Siemens AG Munich / D (> 100,000 participants / year) Scope: Self-registration and billing for internal Siemens users in the Intranet Portal and execute all course administration and billing tasks in SAP. The solution was a starting point for today s SAP learning solution. Modules used were HR-VM, SD and integration to an internet portal Design of sales and billing processes of courses Design of self-billing functions in the Intranet End-user training 1 / / 2002 Project participation in SAP R/3 and my SAP CRM projects (each assignment around 3 4 months): Blueprint mysap CRM VW UK Design of service and complaint processes Design of material, pricing, customer master data use Prototype mysap CRM at INFINEON AG Munich Design of pricing and quotation processes for chips Configuration and replication of pricing and customer master data in SAP R/3 and CRM Feasibility study SAP IS Automotive VW North America at Detroit covering the complete supply chain plant national sales organisation dealer for cars/year. The results were used as for an implementation project in North America and a similar study at VW in UK Analysis and design supply chain; dealer sales organisation plant Analysis and design of car configuration, availability check, integration of planning matrix with SAP APO 9 / / 2000 Blueprint, development, supervision of interfaces for SAP R/3 implementation at VW Portugal covering all FI, CO and MM master data Other activities: Participation in a business case to develop a car dealer system based on SAP IS Automotive and CRM for German VW dealership Start of first consultants groups of mysap CRM, APO and EBP; including supervision of training, coaching and pre-sales in various Volkswagen projects in these topics

6 10 / / 1999 Self-employed consultant 1 / / 1998 Project team lead logistics for ALFA Laval Agri, (actual name DeLaval, then and now part of the TetraPak group) specialising in dairy farming technology like milking carrousels, milk cooling tanks and accessories Working in the distribution centre Western Europe Hamburg / D Project Lead in a program to first implement a template at Hamburg and later extend the template to 4 factories in Germany, Belgium and Netherlands Blueprint and implementation to move the existing SAP R/2 system to SAP R/3 and integrate the warehouse and shipping processes from separate legacy systems into SAP After the implementation conducting ongoing user support Project tasks in the template: Design of warehouse, shipping, material requirements planning and purchasing processes Configuration and testing of modules MM, WM, LE Migration of logistics master data and prices Design of EDI connections to customers and plants End-user training, creation of process manuals Project management and liaise internal and external consultants Project participation in rollouts of the template: Blueprint and implementation SAP R/3, EDI and master data reorganisation in 4 manufacturing plants in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands Design of sales processes, MRP and master data Design of variant configuration of cooling tanks and relevant processes in sales and production at Groningen plant Design of variant configuration rules of cooling tanks and relevant processes in sales and production at Groningen plant Configuration and testing of modules SD and PP End-user training Project management 10 / / / / 1999 Trainer at IBM International Education Centre Brussels / BE conducting SAP R/3 module certification courses for consultants of the modules PP, SD and MM; SAP R/3 Release 4 (6 courses) Participants in these courses achieved typically the certification by > 90 %, although many had their first encounter with SAP software at all

7 7 / / 1996 Sercon GmbH Hamburg (100 % IBM in Germany) SerCon was founded in the early 90 s in Germany to accelerate IBM s approach to the SAP R/3 consulting and AS/400 application software markets Senior Consultant & Team Lead specialising in manufacturing projects using SAP R/3 software Team Lead in SAP R/3 projects: Blueprint and implementation SAP R/3 in a plant of ContiTech AG (600 workers) at Cologne / D. The results of this and 3 other parallel projects were used as a template for a rollout project to some 20 other plants of ContiTech Project tasks: Design of production processes, MRP and master data maintenance for 3 business units; make-to-order production of conveyor belts for mines, repetitive manufacturing of parts for the near Ford Cologne plant, lot-size production for rubber composites Design of variant configuration of conveyor belts Configuration and testing of modules PP, MM Preparation of all production relevant master data Preparation of technical variant configuration rules for various product groups like conveyor belts used in mines End-user training and support Project participation in SAP R/3 projects: Coaching of blueprint and implementation in various projects at plants of ContiTech AG (each workers) at Hannover in the modules PP and MM, used in repetitive manufacturing and make-toorder processes Blueprint for manufacturing and materials management processes in a chemical plant of Chemetall (manufacturer of special chemical agents like Lithium) Team lead for 8 logistics consultant looking for assignments, career management and general management other activities: Development of internal training courses for consultants in modules SAP R/3 PP and MM to facilitate a quick start in the respective areas Development of implementation primers for consultants in product costing; material requirements planning; and assembly line replenishment using KANBAN and WM

8 5 / / 1994 DeTeWe AG Berlin (Telecommunication devices and telephones, at the time one of the 5 leading manufacturers in this area in Germany, today still delivering switchboards and PABX devices) Production engineer in the department CIM / CAQ systems conducting a series of projects in shop floor control and warehouse management Project lead in 2 projects in assembly plants (> 2000 workers): Blueprint, implementation and support of shop floor control system for printed circuit board production, telephone and telecommunication devices assembly Blueprint, implementation and support of an integrated warehouse management and shop floor control software in a greenfield telephone assembly plant Project participation: Material flow and logistics design within this new plant SAP R/2 RM-MAT implementation; Operating interfaces for production orders and material movements to the factory systems 9 / / 1991 Fraunhofer Institut für Konstruktions- und Produktionstechnik Berlin Head of a research team in shop floor control in one of the 40 German Fraunhofer institutes of applied research Project participation: Design and development of a PC based expert system to find rules optimising sequencing in a steel plant Design and development of modules capacity planning and sequence simulation of a shop floor control system, which was later used in 2 companies in Berlin. Optimisation of shop floor control processes in the electronics industry (printed circuit boards and telephone assembly lines) using mathematical methods like cluster analysis 5 / / 1989 Drägerwerk AG Lübeck (Medical, breathing and safety devices for hospitals, fire brigades, diving) Trainee in the central logistics department; 1.5 years Production planner in business unit compressed gas technology ; 2 years The trainee program comprised phases of 3 months in sales planning, MRP, shop floor control, purchasing, inventory management. In any phase of the program participation in projects like lead time reduction initiatives for complex products; transferring sales forecast to the then new technology of spreadsheets; assisting with the transfer of a complete assembly line to Newcastle / UK In the role of production planner I was responsible for production planning as well as cost controlling for a range of around 2000 sales products In 1988 I was overseeing a comprehensive program to cut lead times and production costs for the whole product range. MRP Planning routines were changed; many products were re-designed to reduce the number of parts used, purchasing contracts and delivery times were adapted; a J.i.t assembly process for gas control valves was introduced to reduce assembly time to 1 day instead of weeks. Results were a general overall lead time and stock reduction of some 50 % and an overall cost of goods sold reduction of some 10 %