Background
Coluto AB was founded by Totte Lundén to help companies improve regulatory compliance and global trade management, achieved by implementing processes and dedicated system support where he has specialized in SAP Global Trade Services (GTS).
In brief, Totte's SAP GTS journey started as a curious end user, transitioning into a key user, eventually working as a specialist and implementation partner gaining extensive process and SAP GTS knowledge.
Totte has a high work ethic and works in a goal oriented fashion to achieve set expectations, professionally and personally, e.g. completing en svensk klassiker. He is known to get work done and consistently deliver high quality, at the same time being an appreciated co-worker able to handle technology and people alike.
Born and raised in Sweden he provides services in native Swedish and fluent English and has collaborated with companies in the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions.
Experience
Totte is one of few in Sweden with a broad and deep expertise in SAP GTS with over 10 years of experience. During that time he has helped companies implement business processes and system support to facilitate and support business operations for export control and customs management.
This experience has been gained in the roles of a key user, a process architect and since 2015 an implementation partner. The early experience as a recipient of a SAP GTS implementation provided a special insight into how daily operations are impacted by such a change, also after the project ends and the regular application maintenance team takes over the support. This experience has later helped avoid many common consultant oversights by understanding the new users' upcoming experience.
As SAP GTS depends on other systems for data he has experience of integrations with SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP MDG and several non-SAP systems using RFC and SAP PI. Integration activities include designing, customizing, testing and documenting integrations.
Most recently Totte has been implementing SAP GTS Customs Management in three European countries for a global manufacturing company integrating with SAP and non-SAP systems. Previously he has implemented SAP GTS Export Control and Customs Management in the manufacturing, telecom and pharmaceutical industries.
Working on projects, additional experience has been gained in related areas such as:
- Project management, define, plan and follow-up deliverables.
- Process implementation, define and document the implemented process.
- Integration with SAP and non-SAP systems.
- Documentation of solution, processes, configuration and developments.
- Test management and execution, alone, in team as member and lead.
- Training of key / end users and creation of training material.
- Support users and application maintenance teams after go-live.
- Incident management, troubleshoot and debug configuration, development and implemented solution.
A global trade management and SAP GTS functional consultant at the core, Totte has a natural curiosity that drives him to improve his skills in other fields, utilizing tools and scripts to reduce the time needed to perform tasks with software commonly available in the corporate toolbox. Like a skilled carpenter knows their toolbox, Totte wants to make the most of the computer and available software.
He is not a professional developer but knows enough ABAP to debug and collaborate effectively with developers, troubleshooting standard code but more often designing, developing and testing enhancements.
Totte contributed to the 2nd edition of Implementing SAP Global Trade Services published by SAP press.
Selected project experience
- Implement SAP GTS as global source of truth for export control and customs master data. Also required to build interface enhancements enabling integration and sending data to dozens of dependent systems using SAP PI.
- Integrate SAP GTS with several SAP and non-SAP systems to manage master data and transactional data for export control and customs management process.
- Implement SAP GTS to manage customs management processes via electonic filing direct to authorities as well as using broker instruction sheets.
- Implement SAP GTS in several countries to harmonize export control screening process across market units.
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