Matthias Schmitt

- Project Owner of big programs (~30 big programs per year, today 10 people) - Rollout of portfolio methodology to whole Zalando, overall ~200 projects - IT roadmap planning - Vendor Management: building relationships for a WIN to WIN with Zalando's most strategic IT vendors - Leading negotiation from strategy / demand alignment, negotiation itself and rollout / change management - Fulfilling external compliance requirements, e.g. DORA, EU AI Act

- Leading SAP consulting team for SAP performance and cost (effort, OPEX, license, ...) optimisation - Implementation of Benchmark database in the cloud based on MS Azure with SQL - Leading 17 customer projects with saving of avg. 20% of total cost - Development of S/4HANA and Cloud strategy as templates for consulting - SAP license optimisation as a consulting service (also benchmark based) - PreSales and customer alignment

- Realtech bought VMS benchmarking services - Head of benchmarking consulting services - Continue VMS services (SAP optimisation with benchmarking, advisory for IT strategy, sourcing strategy and governance, outsourcing projects, SAP license optimization, ...)

- VMS was a ninche consulting company for SAP optimization based on measurement and benchmarking - Over 1.650 measured SAP solution from 150 companies (D-A-CH Germany, Austria and Swiss) - Additional advisory for IT strategy, sourcing strategy and governance (also based on the benchmark base) - Leading several big outscourcing projects from vendor selection till end of transition - SAP license optimization based on measurement - Leading development for business measurement for process mining

- Fun project: founding mobile gaming app company - Create concepts for games, product description (Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNO_WYa4cyQ) - Coding was outsourced to Ukraine company - Agile ways of working - 3 apps succesfully published - Exit: Sold to xyreality

- Part of CIO Office responsible finance business application (~300 IT solutions), IT controlling, project management and IT planning (~100 projects) - Development of IT strategy (focus: SAP) - Steering of own IT service provider (~700 IT resources) - Project lead for IT integration merger for SAP BW - Setting up IT governance during the merger of BEWAG, HEW, Laubag and VEAG to Vattenfall (2nd biggest merger in utility in Germany) - Demand management, negotiation and cost optimisation

- Founding the internet B-to-C startup geschenk24 - COO responsible for IT, Logistics, Finance, HR - Founding of 1.5m€ and scaling to 15 employees with >1m€ revenue in the first year - successfully launched after 6 months and scaled till exit - Exit: sold to Metro’s eCommerce section: Primus-Online

- Development of supply chain management solution (SAP SCM - APO): definition and implementation of Key Performance Indicators for supply chain management and implementation inside SAP BW and technical link to APO - Project lead at ValueSAP, an American initiative using KPIs for business cases selling software. Definition of KPIs per industry section and connecting impact to SAP solutions

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