Thomas Herbst, a Graduate Industrial Engineer from the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen, worked as a Professional Services consultant at Hewlett Packard for six years. During this time, he conducted various projects for well-known international customers, all of which focused on the use of appropriate SAP-based IT solutions to optimize procurement/materials management. Following his move to Heiler Software AG, Thomas Herbst established a highly-qualified consulting team that specialized in implementation projects pertaining to SAP Supplier Relationship Management. He later assumed responsibility for the entire consulting area.
In early 2005, together with Tim Kollmeier, he co-founded apsolut GmbH, which was the first consulting company to focus solely on SAP eProcurement solutions and, by doing so, acquired very successful international customers.
Tim Kollmeier, a Graduate Business Data Processing Specialist (BA), completed a dual program of study at the University of Cooperative Education in Mannheim and IBM, and acquired experience in the field of SAP Logistics while working on international customer projects at debis. Following his move to itelligence, he assumed responsibility for SAP SRM and implemented the company's first SAP SRM (B2B) projects in 2000. Since then, he has remained faithful to this field of expertise and can now boast over 8 years of SAP SRM experience in various national/international projects and different industries. For two years at Heiler Software AG, he was also responsible for expanding the SRM business fields in Northern Germany and Northern Europe.
Jean-Paul Wehrens, Master of Science in International Business, completed his studies at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands in 2001. He embarked on his career at Hewlett-Packard GmbH in Germany, where he was to remain as a consultant for six years. During his first four years at HP, he was responsible for a number of key accounts, managing both national and international projects in the areas of SAP SRM and Catalog and Content Management. After successfully expanding the CCM line of business within Germany between 2002 and 2004, he stepped into a new role as EMEA Account Program Manager for large global customers in the Outsourcing Management service area. In July 2007, Wehrens took the helm as Director of SAP SRM Process Consulting at apsolut GmbH. Since January 2009, he is accountable for Supplier Management, Contract Lifecycle Management as well as Reporting & Controlling in the role as Associate Partner for apsolut GmbH.
Jürgen West is a business administration graduate, who worked in a management capacity (as a company officer with power of attorney) in the tourism industry until 2000. He then changed course, and devoted himself to web programming and SAP application programming. This new direction took him firstly to the University Hospital of Münster, where he assumed the role of in-house consultant and developer, working on the internal SAP SRM system. In this role, he was responsible for the enhancement and rollout of the system to the peripheral areas of the hospital and the labs. Jürgen West joined apsolut GmbH at the start of 2006. In his new role, he worked with various SRM versions and took on a variety of development tasks. He was the driving force behind the establishment of a framework for SAP SRM development, which has proven essential to efficient implementations in customer systems. In July 2010, Jürgen West took over as head of SAP SRM development at apsolut GmbH, an area that is divided into "Team North" and "Team South". Since January 2011, he has been an Associate Partner with special responsibility for the development department of apsolut GmbH.
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