Modeling for complex manufacturing using multiple instantiation

Derek Maak is a Senior Manager in Deloitte's SAP practice and an active member of Deloitte's Semiconductor Affinity group. He has 14 years of hands on and implementation management experience with a variety of SAP products including SAP ERP, SAP APO, SAP BW, SAP GTS and SAP Enterprise Portals. His industry focus areas are manufacturing, logistics and supply chain management in High Tech environments. Mr. Maak has global implementation and rollout experience having worked on and managed engagements in the US, Europe and Asia. He served as the Western Region Supply Chain practice lead within BearingPoint’s SAP practice with direct responsibility for 25 SAP supply chain resources

Mr. Prabakar is SAP VC/IPC Consultant with 5+ years of extensive configuration experience in Logistics and Variant Configuration (SD-VC).  He has worked on reconstruction of BoMs(Bill of Materials), Pricing strategies for configurable products, Services and Bundled SKU’s. He also has experience in the implementation of SAP CRM and Internet Pricing and Configuration (IPC). He has experience in both ERP and CRM Systems. In addition to Variant configuration he has proficiency in SD, MM, PP and CRM modules. His project experience spans across various industries: hi-tech, software, logistic and manufacturing. He has also published papers and presented at SAP PLM conference on migration of legacy products to SAP VC and IPC

Jerry Lesser has been working in the SAP R/3 environment for over eight years now. Four of those years have been devoted to working as a business application analyst focusing on process improvement, day to day business support as well as execution of key business functions and transactions. The final 4 years were spent working in IT as an SAP Application Support programmer/analyst supporting SAP versions 4.5 and ECC5. Jerry's main focus areas have been support SAP Sales and Distribution including order entry, shipping and billing processes. He has experience with Materials Management and Warehouse Management as well as hands on configuration experience in each of these key areas