
Alex Agafitei
Senior EDI Consultant | SAP & Seeburger
Salary / Daily rate
Bucharest, Romania
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
EDI Consultant with 10+ years specializing in SAP EDI and Seeburger migration projects. Led successful migrations for 150+ trading partners and developed 50+ interface mappings with zero business disruption. Expert in cloud EDI transformations and cross-functional project management for automotive and FMCG industries.
Work experience
EDI Consultant
HILO Group
Dec 2024 - Present
1 year 11 months
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Leading end-to-end migration from legacy Seeburger on-premises to cloud EDI platform. • Managing strategy for 4 companies, 2 SAP systems, and 150+ partners with phased rollouts. • Coordinating cross-functional teams, delivering training, and ensuring zero business disruption.
Senior Electronic Data Interchange Consultant
EDI&SAP SOLUTIONS
Nov 2023 - Present
3 years
Bucharest, Romania
YANFENG AUTOMOTIVE Contractor – EDI Consultant (EDI migration project from QCE/QAD to Seeburger/SAP) Lead the onboarding process for a new EDI support team, ensuring their seamless integration into daily monitoring and support activities. Design and implement efficient processes for daily EDI monitoring and support, ensuring continuous and error-free operations. Act as a key liaison between technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating effective communication and collaboration for successful project outcomes. Oversee the migration of EDI customers and their interfaces from the legacy QCE tool to a modern Seeburger EDI environment. Develop and execute comprehensive migration plans, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruptions. Spearhead direct mapping development and meticulous testing procedures to ensure adherence to EDI standards and accuracy. Coordinate and align migration schedules with stakeholders for timely and smooth transitions.
Electronic Data Interchange Consultant
Goodbaby International
Dec 2023 - Jul 2024
8 months
95 Bayreuth, Germany
• Designed mapping specs for 50+ interfaces (ORDERS, DESADV, INVOIC, SLSRPT, XML UBL). • Developed structured testing plan, achieving smooth migration of 14 customers. • Provided post-go-live support and issue resolution, minimizing impact on operations.
Senior EDI Consultant - Development team & Business Integration Suite Admin
ams OSRAM
Jun 2021 - Dec 2023
2 years 7 months
Munich, Germany
Spearheading BIC (Business Integration Converter) mapping development initiatives for both Purchasing and Sales & Distribution business units. Overseeing the creation of new mappings and orchestrating updates for existing/new customers and suppliers within the EDI framework. Integral part of the BIS-Admin Team in the EMEA region, bearing direct responsibility for overseeing the management of Business Integration software, including B2B EDI and MFT (BIS 6.7). Showcasing expertise in Business Integration Suite (BIS 6.7) through active participation in the ams-OSRAM BIS-Admin Team, contributing to the seamless operation of integration processes.
Electronic Data Interchange Consultant
EDI&SAP SOLUTIONSFreelance
Jun 2020 - May 2021
1 year
Bucharest, Romania
Program Manager for ESS’s EDI Managed Services with main responsibilities in managing the Seeburger EDI Systems in a multi tenant cloud architecture. Contractor for ESS customers (Borgwarner Inc, Johnson Controls Europe, Yanfeng Automotive Interiors) involved in different EDI migration projects. ERP and Middleware-integration Software migration to SAP and Seeburger BIS 6.7. Contractor for OSRAM Gmbh as Senior Analyst, responsible for new mapping development and EDI mapping changes/updates for new/existing customers and suppliers. - EDIFACT, ANSI, XML, CSV, iDOC etc.
Electronic Data Interchange Consultant
PPG
Jul 2016 - May 2020
3 years 11 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Member of the Front Line IT team acting as a leant between business partners in the areas of Supply Chain, Sales and Finance and Seeburger EDI team for SAP and EDI related topics for 2 main regions (Region north and UK Region). Working with IT partners, Service Providers, Trading Partners and users to develop, test and implement EDI solutions as per requirements. Providing mapping specs, designing specific mapping conditions logic and support in testing for inbound and outbound interfaces with the Seeburger EDI team including 3PL EDI interfaces. Intimate understanding of EDI existing solutions in addition to business process Communication broker to translate business needs from business process owners to development specifications but also translation of technical issues into and understandable language for Business Process owners Conduct UAT, validate systems and obtain user sign off before Go Live of new systems or changes with Key result areas in: A. Requirements gathering of Requests B. Solution identification/Proposal C. Map Development/MAP Change D. Testing E. Break Fix, Analyze, Resolution F. EDI Systems Monitoring and support G. Customer Satisfaction H. New Partner Onboarding
Electronic Data Interchange Consultant
Federal-Mogul MotorpartsFreelance
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
9 months
Bucharest, Romania
• Developed and optimized 25+ EDI maps using Seeburger BIC (BIS 6.5.3). • Implemented INVOIC D96A Global Invoice within BIS5 for SAP. • Configured SAP partner profiles and BIS entities, ensuring reliable IDoc transmission.
Electronic Data Interchange Specialist
EDI&SAP SOLUTIONS
Jun 2013 - Oct 2015
2 years 5 months
Bucharest, Romania
EDI Specialist with Seeburger BIS and BIC responsibilities, involved in day to day monitoring and support activities for ESS's customers from various industries like FMCG, Automotive etc. Also responsible for new partner onboarding with tasks on communication setup, BIS configuration, with a track record of successful large environment onboarding projects. Expertise in engaging prospective trading partners and converting them into active production partners. Mapping development (double conversion also) and testing new EDI flows but also responsibilities on SAP trading partner setup, idoc monitoring, SAP EDI tables maintenance (EDPAR, EDSDC, PUMA etc.).
Education
Universitatea George Baritiu
Economist
2005 - 2008
4 years