Simon Kariuki

A seasoned SAP Business One consultant with extensive experience in ERP implementations, support, finance, business and systems analysis, and management consulting. Adept at leveraging SAP B1 modules to drive business process improvements and optimize organizational efficiency.

Lead Consultant – SAP Business One - Goandroy Technologies Ltd

(2024-03)

• Project Management and Coordination: Leading project activities, ensuring alignment between technical and functional teams, and managing timelines, resources, and deliverables to meet client objectives.
• Requirements Gathering and Analysis: Collaborating with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements, translating them into functional specifications, and designing SAP B1 solutions tailored to business needs.
• System Configuration and Customization: Configuring SAP Business One to match organizational workflows and customizing settings for modules like finance, sales, and inventory to optimize business processes.
• Continuous Improvement and Solution Optimization: Assessing current SAP B1 system functionality, identifying areas for improvement, and recommending best practices and upgrades to improve operational efficiency and productivity.
• End-User Training and Support: Conducting training sessions, creating user guides, and providing ongoing support to end-users to enhance system adoption and proficiency.
• Creating Supporting Documentation and SOPs: Developing and maintaining comprehensive documentation, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), process flow diagrams, and user guides, to ensure consistency, clarity, and accessibility of SAP B1 processes for all stakeholders.
• Providing Expert Advice on ERP Utilization and System Audits: Offering specialized guidance on maximizing ERP functionality and conducting regular system audits to ensure optimal performance, compliance, and alignment with business objectives.
• Performing System Testing and Quality Assurance: Conducting comprehensive testing and quality checks to verify that system configurations and customizations align with client requirements and expectations.
• Pre-Sales Consultation and Support: Providing expertise during the pre-sales phase, including solution demonstrations, addressing client inquiries, and showcasing SAP Business One's capabilities to support the sales process.

SAP B1 Management Consultant – Functional - Simlogic Solutions Ltd

(2023-07 - 2024-02)

• Maintenance of multi-landscape SAP B1 environments.
• Configuration and installation of SAP B1 applications, implementation, and provision of post go-live support.
• Ensuring SAP best practices and methodology for all applications and infrastructure is followed.
• Scoping and requirement gathering.
• Providing functional assistance to developers on integrations and add-on developments.
• Developing and maintaining expert knowledge of SAP B1.
• Developing crystal reports/layouts, query reports, alerts, approvals, SQL views, and stored procedures
• Analytics initialization and implementation.
• Pre-sale demos.
• End-user trainings and support.

IT Support & SAP Techno - Functional Consultant - Ramco Plexus Ltd

(2022-05 - 2023-06)

• IT consulting in SAP Business One.
• Functional consultant – implementation and support on SAP B1 HANA.
• SAP B1 Administrator – day to day administrative tasks; technical support, user administration and system enhancements.
• Business process champion. Creating and maintaining up-to-date system manuals and process flows that reflect organizational best practices.
• Spearheading company-wide user training in the use of SAP B1.
• Ensuring that SAP functionalities and capabilities are fully utilized in manner that enhances business efficiency and productivity.
• Creating Supporting Documentation and SOPs: Developing and maintaining comprehensive documentation, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), process flow diagrams, and user guides, to ensure consistency, clarity, and accessibility of SAP B1 processes for all stakeholders.
• Providing Expert Advice on ERP Utilization and System Audits: Offering specialized guidance on maximizing ERP functionality and conducting regular system audits to ensure optimal performance, compliance, and alignment with business objectives.
• Performing System Testing and Quality Assurance: Conducting comprehensive testing and quality checks to verify that system configurations and customizations align with client requirements and expectations.
• Pre-Sales Consultation and Support: Providing expertise during the pre-sales phase, including solution demonstrations, addressing client inquiries, and showcasing SAP Business One's capabilities to support the sales process.
• Conducting system enhancements, upgrades, client machine installations, query and crystal reports, and implementation in Plexus companies as per business needs.

SAP Business One Consultant - OneBit Solution Ltd

(2020-01 - 2022-05)

• Handling of project from sales team and through the implementation cycle.
• Blueprint documentation and reviews; handling workshops sessions with users/process owners and developing to-be process flows.
• System configuration and customizations from the business process.
• Data cleansing and migration from legacy systems to SAP Business One.
• System testing using different scenarios.
• Customized reports creation by HANA Calculation views, complex SQL Queries and Crystal Reports.
• Training – one-on-one, classroom setups – for users and super users.
• Maintaining client updates for the progress of a project.
• Go-live support – maintaining an issue log for live supports.
• System updates to higher versions.
• Working with the technical team in creation of add-ons where necessary.

Web Design and Development - Freelance

(2018 - 2020)

• Projects on web design and development.
• Provision of IT support and other IT solutions.

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics (Statistics) and Computer Science - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology