Gregory Cheradame
Senior Manager, Solution Architect ERP | Enterprise Architect | SAP & Digital Transformation
Verona, New Jersey | gregory.cheradame@gmail.com | linkedin.com/in/gcheradame
Professional profile
ERP and enterprise solution architecture leader with approximately 20 years of SAP and business systems experience, progressing from SAP technical development and functional consulting to project leadership, enterprise integration, application portfolio architecture and ERP transformation.
Core expertise
SAP SD | SAP MM | ABAP | SAP FI | Solution architecture | SAP S/4HANA | SAP WM | IDoc | Data migration | Cegid | Point of sale | SAP CO | SAP BW | SAP ECC
Professional experience
Brother International Corporation | Senior Manager, Solution Architect ERP | Dec 2024 - Present
Employee
- Integration architecture for an acquired business: Documented the current processes and systems of an acquired business and prepared integration scenarios for review.
- Application portfolio and capability mapping: Connected applications to business capabilities and identified application ownership as part of an application portfolio management effort.
- Architecture governance and standards: Contribution to architecture governance through design reviews, architecture decision records, integration patterns and API standards.
- Cross-functional solution design requests: Solution reviews for business and IT teams on discrete ERP, data and process questions, alongside the larger programs.
- Other assignments (2024-2026): Enterprise integration and EDI architecture, Warehouse systems architecture assessment, Multi-country SAP S/4HANA architecture reviews, SAP cloud architecture.
VISEO USA | Technical Lead · Functional Consultant · Project Manager | Aug 2011 - Dec 2024
Consultant | client assignments
- Christian Dior Couture (2023-2024): Managed the IT side of merging Dior's US e-commerce logistics into the existing retail warehouse run by a third-party logistics provider, from interface requirements through cutover, hypercare and warehouse operations.
- ID Logistics / Kane Logistics (2022-2023): Rolled the ID Logistics SAP S/4HANA core model out to its newly acquired US subsidiary Kane Logistics, adapting Kane's billing structure to the core sales and purchasing processes.
- Tiffany & Co. (2021-2022): Worked on the deployment of Cegid as the store system for Tiffany's US stores, covering master data, stock transfers and their interfaces.
- Other assignments (2011-2021): Lacoste, Christian Dior Couture, Ingenico, Longchamp USA, Adisseo / Nutriad, Nemera, Ingenico, U-shin, Parbel of Florida (L'Oréal), L'Oréal USA.
VISEO France | SAP Technical Consultant | Nov 2010 - Jul 2011
Consultant | client assignments
- L'Oréal (France) (2010-2011): Reinforced the development team of a group-wide L'Oréal program that optimized logistics replenishment flows on SAP SD and MM, building ALV reports, interfaces and user exits.
- L'Oréal (France) (2010): Set up a ReadSoft invoicing flow into SAP for L'Oréal's perfumery division, alongside SD bug fixes, performance work and user-exit programming.
Accenture Technology Solutions France | SAP Technical & Functional Consultant | Dec 2006 - Nov 2010
Consultant | client assignments
- Univar (2010): Reinforced the SAP SD development team of Univar, a global distributor of industrial and specialty chemicals, on enhancements and production fixes.
- Total (2009-2010): My first functional role: configuring a new pipeline-sales flow in SAP SD on top of IS-Oil TSW for Total's bulk oil logistics, and acting as the functional analyst and test lead for an offshore ABAP team in India.
- Allianz France (2008-2009): ABAP developer in Allianz France's SAP competence center for FI/CO and BW. Redesigned a legacy accounting-data load in object-oriented ABAP and monitored the nightly finance loads into BW.
- Other assignments (2006-2008): Gaz de France.
Earlier experience: LK Concepts, SAP BW Technical Consultant (2006) | Katoen Natie, Stock Supervisor (2005)
Education, training and languages
Bachelor's degree (Licence) in Computer Science - MIAGE, computer methods applied to business management, Université Paris Cité, France (2022); Associate degree in computer application development (French BTS), GRETA, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France (2005); SAP HA400 - ABAP Programming on SAP HANA (2013); SAP SCM600 - Sales Order Management (2009); SAP XI training (2008); SAP BC400, BC401, SAPTEC, SAP01 (2006); Salesforce Certified Administrator (ADM201), expired. Languages: French (native), English (fluent).