Oliver Schröder
Head of SAP GTS
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:
Customs & Foreign Trade
My area of expertise, with over 35 years of logistics experience.
SAP GTS
Setup and management of SAP GTS systems.
Consulting
Expert consulting in system setup and operation.
Supply Chain Management
Process optimization and harmonization.
Selected Projects:
SAP ERP Integration with New SAP GTS
Designing changes, monitoring, and controlling the project.
[SAP ERP ECC 6.0 (MM, SD, PP), SAP GTS 11.0 (Customs Management), MS Office]
SAP GTS Process Optimization
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]
SAP GTS Support
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]
Seminars in Collaboration with HZA Hamburg Customs Academy
Conducted seminars covering an overview of SAP GTS, export control with SAP GTS, and preference processing with SAP GTS.
GTS Implementation
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]
Implementation of SAP GTS Preference Calculation for Germany and Italy
Review of legal foundations, configuring master data and document validation, leading testing, training staff.
[SAP MM, SD, GTS]
Implementation of SAP ERP for Indirect Material in SAP MM
Process capture and analysis, customizing settings for purchasing and inventory management, leading testing, training staff.
[SAP MM]
Implementation of SAP GTS / ATLAS
Review of legal foundations, configuring document validation, integration with Seeburger, leading testing, staff training, analyzing SCM process data.
[SAP GTS, SAP MM, SAP SD]
Europe-Wide SAP Rollout (Including Eastern Europe and Russia)
Participation in the blueprint phase, conducting tests in MM, WM, LE, coordinating necessary adjustments in SAP, overseeing the rollout, and training staff.
[SAP MM]
Air Freight Direct Delivery Project
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
Konzeption von Änderungen, Überwachung und Kontrolle des Projekts.
[SAP ERP ECC 6.0 (MM, SD, PP), SAP GTS 11.0 (Customs Management), MS Office]
SAP GTS Process Optimization
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]
SAP GTS Support
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]
Seminars in Collaboration with HZA Hamburg Customs Academy
Conducted seminars covering an overview of SAP GTS, export control with SAP GTS, and preference processing with SAP GTS.
GTS Implementation
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]
Implementation of SAP GTS Preference Calculation for Germany and Italy
Review of legal foundations, configuring master data and document validation, leading testing, training staff.
[SAP MM, SD, GTS]
Implementation of SAP ERP for Indirect Material in SAP MM
Process capture and analysis, customizing settings for purchasing and inventory management, leading testing, training staff.
[SAP MM]
Implementation of SAP GTS / ATLAS
Review of legal foundations, configuring document validation, integration with Seeburger, leading testing, staff training, analyzing SCM process data.
[SAP GTS, SAP MM, SAP SD]
Europe-Wide SAP Rollout (Including Eastern Europe and Russia)
Participation in the blueprint phase, conducting tests in MM, WM, LE, coordinating necessary adjustments in SAP, overseeing the rollout, and training staff.
[SAP MM]
Air Freight Direct Delivery Project
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]