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Oliver Schröder

Head of SAP GTS

Oliver Schröder, Head of SAP GTS
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Oliver Schröder brings over 35 years of experience in logistics and more than 20 years working with SAP, including around 15 years with SAP GTS. His deep understanding of supply chain management stems from extensive hands-on experience, allowing him to fully grasp the needs and challenges of customers.

His career began in 1992 as a shipping merchant. In 1998, he joined Panasonic Europe Ltd., where, starting in 2005, he became Import Manager, responsible for coordinating shipments from global production sites to Europe—by land, sea, and air. From 2007 to 2008, he shifted roles to IT Logistics Project Manager, overseeing the harmonization of IT processes across Europe.

In 2009, he moved to Minimax GmbH, where he optimized supply chain management processes as an IT organizer. From 2011 to 2012, he worked as an SAP GTS consultant at ITML GmbH, assisting clients with setting up their SAP GTS systems.

Oliver Schröder joined Tuleva AG in 2012, where he served as an SAP GTS consultant until 2016, providing expert consulting and implementing SAP GTS systems for clients across various industries. Since 2016, he has been the Head of SAP GTS at Tuleva AG. In this role, he leads the department while remaining actively involved in client projects.

With his deep technical expertise and extensive practical experience in logistics, supply chain management, customs, and foreign trade law, Oliver Schröder significantly enhances the performance and efficiency of the SAP GTS department at Tuleva AG.

Key Focus Areas:

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Customs & Foreign Trade

My area of expertise, with over 35 years of logistics experience.

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SAP GTS

Setup and management of SAP GTS systems.

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Consulting

Expert consulting in system setup and operation.

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Supply Chain Management

Process optimization and harmonization.

Selected Projects:

2020–today

SAP GTS Process Optimization

SAP GTS Consultant and Project Manager

Designing changes, customizing for Customs Management (Export, Import, Special Customs Procedures), customizing Compliance Management (Embargo, SPL), documenting customizations, creating user documentation, and training users.

[SAP ERP ECC 6.0 (MM, SD), SAP GTS 11.0 (Customs Management, Compliance Management, Electronic Compliance Reporting), MS Office]

2017 – 2020

Seminars in Collaboration with HZA Hamburg Customs Academy

Instructor

Conducted seminars covering an overview of SAP GTS, export control with SAP GTS, and preference processing with SAP GTS.

2012 – 2014
2011 – 2012

Implementation of SAP GTS Preference Calculation for Germany and Italy

Consultant

Review of legal foundations, configuring master data and document validation, leading testing, training staff.

[SAP MM, SD, GTS]

2011– 2012
2009– 2010

Implementation of SAP GTS / ATLAS

Subproject Manager

Review of legal foundations, configuring document validation, integration with Seeburger, leading testing, staff training, analyzing SCM process data.

[SAP GTS, SAP MM, SAP SD]

2001 – 2009
2005

Air Freight Direct Delivery Project

Subproject Manager

Ensuring separate orders to factories for selected models, transferring SD orders to the air freight forwarder’s system, integrating Track & Trace into SAP.

[SAP MM, SAP SD]

Ausgewählte Projekte:

SAP ERP Anbindung an neues SAP GTS

Projektleiter für mehrere Standorte

Konzeption von Änderungen, Überwachung und Kontrolle des Projekts.

[SAP ERP ECC 6.0 (MM, SD, PP), SAP GTS 11.0 (Customs Management), MS Office]

2020 – heute

SAP GTS Process Optimization

SAP GTS Consultant and Project Manager

Designing changes, customizing for Customs Management (Export, Import, Special Customs Procedures), customizing Compliance Management (Embargo, SPL), documenting customizations, creating user documentation, and training users.

[SAP ERP ECC 6.0 (MM, SD), SAP GTS 11.0 (Customs Management, Compliance Management, Electronic Compliance Reporting), MS Office]

2014 – today

SAP GTS Support

SAP GTS Consultant

Designing changes, implementing legal requirements (ATLAS, UCC), customizing for Customs Management (Export, Import, Special Customs Procedures), Compliance Management (Embargo, SPL), documenting customizations, creating user documentation.

[SAP ERP ECC 6.0 (MM, SD), SAP GTS 11.0 (Customs Management, Compliance Management, Electronic Compliance Reporting), MS Office]

2017– 2020

Seminars in Collaboration with HZA Hamburg Customs Academy

Instructor

Conducted seminars covering an overview of SAP GTS, export control with SAP GTS, and preference processing with SAP GTS.

2013

GTS Implementation

SAP GTS Consultant and Project Manager

Customizing Customs Management (Export, Import, Active Processing, Customs Warehousing), customizing Compliance Management (Embargo, SPL), documenting customizations, creating user documentation, user training, project management.

[SAP ERP ECC 6.0 (MM, SD), SAP GTS 10.0 (Customs Management, Compliance Management, Electronic Compliance Reporting), MS Office]

2012– 2014

Implementation of SAP GTS Preference Calculation for Germany and Italy

Consultant

Review of legal foundations, configuring master data and document validation, leading testing, training staff.

[SAP MM, SD, GTS]

2011– 2012

Implementation of SAP ERP for Indirect Material in SAP MM

Consultant

Process capture and analysis, customizing settings for purchasing and inventory management, leading testing, training staff.

[SAP MM]

2011– 2012

Implementation of SAP GTS / ATLAS

Subproject Manager

Review of legal foundations, configuring document validation, integration with Seeburger, leading testing, staff training, analyzing SCM process data.

[SAP GTS, SAP MM, SAP SD]

2009– 2010

Europe-Wide SAP Rollout (Including Eastern Europe and Russia)

Key User, BPO, Subproject Manager

Participation in the blueprint phase, conducting tests in MM, WM, LE, coordinating necessary adjustments in SAP, overseeing the rollout, and training staff.

[SAP MM]

2001– 2009

Air Freight Direct Delivery Project

Subproject Manager

Ensuring separate orders to factories for selected models, transferring SD orders to the air freight forwarder’s system, integrating Track & Trace into SAP.

[MS SharePoint, AngularJS, JavaScript, SASS, C#, WCF, Visual Studio, NodeJS, Gulp]

2005