Background

The function Manager ICT is responsible for the total IT-environment and telecommunication of Prénatal. On of the most important activities within the department of IT is being intermediair between the business and the external developers of the used Oracle ERP application (Axi).

Responsibilities as Manager ICT

• Het totale ICT-beleid binnen Prénatal, voor zowel de filialen als alle afdelingen op het hoofdkantoor (ERP (Maatwerk op Oracle database), Kantoorautomatisering, HR-applicaties et cetera)
• ICT team of 4 persons
• Buying of IT supplies and services. Contract management with external suppliers concerning services such as Oracle DBA, Office automation, Helpdesk for stores, Service field engineering (stores) ERP development and more.

Achievements

In my role as Manager IT within the organisation Prénatal I implented a new ERP System (as Project Manager). This ERP system supplied Merchandise Management, Warehouse Management and Store Management. I managed a project team of 10 persons and totally implementation (replacement) took 4 years. The implementation of a new Point-of sale application and office automation was necessary due to unsupported lecacy.
This lead to a stable IT department. In my active period at Prénatal I also was involved, mostly as project manager, in several interdisplinair projects such as the introduction of a new informative website (2004), e-commerce site (2007), several logistic improvements, analysing shortcomings in Supply Chain, outsourcing of the deparment Finance and outsourcen van de logistics (warehousing) to Geodis (2010). In 2005 I renewed a IT outsourcing contract for 3 subsidairies of the previous owner of Prénatal, Retail Network, that involved a obligation of over 5 million euro.