Ralf Scherer

Serving as a senior strategic advisor and linchpin for high-impact global initiatives within SAP’s new Customer Engagement & Adoption organization. Operating under SAP Executive Board sponsorship, partnering with CIOs and business executives to navigate complex transformations, accelerate execution by driving sustained adoption, and increase decision velocity while acting as a senior liaison between customer executives and SAP. - Providing executive advisory as a trusted peer to align high-level business transformation targets with future-ready digital roadmaps. - Orchestrating architecture governance through "North Star" blueprints that integrate AI, Clean Core, and cloud strategies to manage technical debt. - Facilitating value acceleration via "Time-to-Value" assessments to ensure operational adoption translates into sustainable business outcomes. - Serving as a strategic innovation liaison between global customers and SAP’s product organizations to influence roadmap evolution. - Directing high-level strategic collaboration and governance to foster trust and accountability across the entire value journey

Bringing 100+ SAP systems (transactional & analytics) to the world of S/4 HANA, Cloud and Microservices...based on a clear target picture and concise strategy...Managing the BMW/SAP relationship on C-Level Global Head of - SAP Transformation - SAP RISE - SAP Strategy and Architecture - SAP Partner- & Contract Management - SAP Standardization & Template Management - SAP Services

IT Manager for all European regulated Markets for BMW Financial Services IT Manager for Commercial Finance, Insurance and Banking solutions globally 80 IT professionals across 5 European countries

We provide holistic analytics for all enabling processes (Finance, HR, Purchasing) at the BMW Group while taking care of the entire solution portfolio for all cost accounting solutions as well as the corresponding master data and underlying platforms. We have a broad technical portfolio ranging from Qlik and SAP to propriatry solutions on Oracle/Java and still keeping up some mainframe stuff. 112 dedicated professionals and 40+ associates and contractors in our SAP SSC in South Africa

Defining BMW Group's SAP strategy and SAP rel. IT Landscape planning. Managing all contractual issues of SAP and SAP partner products as well as the BMW/SAP relationship Defining Methods and standards for SAP implementations Evaluation SAP products Delivering SAP project services Leading 25 dedicated SAP professionals to manage 450 SAP systems

Project manager for RW/BW project: Implementation of redesigned SAP SRM/ERP/BI based purchase-to-pay process for indirect procurement, trial parts, tooling and plant maintenance incl. asset accounting and accounts payable (~120 FTEs, >5000 MD specific dev.; > 80 interfaces; > 12000 users). Managing the handover into Operations

Project manager for RW/BW Release 2.0 project: Implementation of redesigned SAP SRM/ERP/BI based purchase-to-pay process for indirect procurement, trial parts, tooling and plant maintenance incl. asset accounting and accounts payable (~120 FTEs, >5000 MD specific dev.; > 80 interfaces; > 12000 users).

IT Manager within the Finance IT VP area responsible for purchasing, corporate finance, customs, travel and tax systems (staff size: 19).

BMW specific implementation of real-time product costing for cars/engines before SOP (mySAP PLM; ~25 FTE, joint dev. project BMW/SAP)

Corporate IT program PRO-F-IT: Coordinator for the set up of of IT projects for new controlling systems

The SAP Advisory Council for Automotive is a forum for the active participation and engagement of automotive companies’ executives in order to discuss and candidly share key strategic directions of the industry to provide guidance to and reach common understanding about SAP’s strategy in this industry. Advisory Council members are customers of SAP belonging to the Automotive Industry and having made a significant investment into SAP’s solutions and having deployed them across some key processes of their business.

Large number of SAP – implementation projects in Germany and abroad Focus areas in projects: - Project- und Program-Management - Integration-Consulting Logistics/Financials, - IAS/IFRS - Controlling, especially Product Costing (CO, esp. CO-PC incl. all adjacent areas in FI/MM/SD/PP) - Complex MTO and project manufacturing processes Other activities at SAP: - Writer of the chapter on IAS11 of the SAP IAS Guide - ASAP/Value SAP: Content development for CO-PC - Responsible for CO issues within the consulting group in the Munich office - Participation in the “Controlling” work council of the European Support Group as interface to the SAP AG development - Sponsor for graduate employees - Extensive education and development program Customers: - BMW - BP - Siemens - Agfa/Bayer - Krones - EADS/Eurocopter - Giesecke/Devrient - Grundig - Pfleiderer - KAVO - FIAT/GM Power train - MAN - Warner Lambert - Kimberly Clark - Linde - Müller Milch

Large number of SAP – implementation projects in Germany and abroad Focus areas in projects: - Project- und Program-Management - Integration-Consulting Logistics/Financials, - IAS/IFRS - Controlling, especially Product Costing (CO, esp. CO-PC incl. all adjacent areas in FI/MM/SD/PP) - Complex MTO and project manufacturing processes Other activities at SAP: - Writer of the chapter on IAS11 of the SAP IAS Guide - ASAP/Value SAP: Content development for CO-PC - Responsible for CO issues within the consulting group in the Munich office - Participation in the “Controlling” work council of the European Support Group as interface to the SAP AG development - Sponsor for graduate employees - Extensive education and development program - Trainer for the courses AC040, AC505, AC515, AC530, CA705, CA710, SAP20, WDEIAS, YPM001

Large number of SAP – implementation projects in Germany and abroad Focus areas in projects: - Project- und Program-Management - Integration-Consulting Logistics/Financials, - IAS/IFRS - Controlling, especially Product Costing (CO, esp. CO-PC incl. all adjacent areas in FI/MM/SD/PP) - Complex MTO and project manufacturing processes Other activities at SAP: - Writer of the chapter on IAS11 of the SAP IAS Guide - ASAP/Value SAP: Content development for CO-PC - Responsible for CO issues within the consulting group in the Munich office - Participation in the “Controlling” work council of the European Support Group as interface to the SAP AG development - Sponsor for graduate employees - Extensive education and development program

Thesis: "Harmonized control of a PC assembly line - empirical analysis of polynomial heuristics for NP complete machine assignment problems / Harmonisierte Steuerung einer PC Montageline - Empirische Analyse polynomialer Heuristiken für NP vollständige Maschinenbelegungsprobleme"

Teaching lab course "Introduction into C programming" for undergraduate students of Business Administration and Economics

Department for ASICs sales. Assisting with monthly reporting.

Business process study: "Business reengineering of the order management cycle"

Wirtschaftsmathematik, Dipl. Math. oec. Operations Research, Optimierung, Algorithmen, Graphentheorie

Studium der Wirtschaftsmathematik (Diplom)

Graduate Student of Applied Mathematics Operations Research, Graph Theory