Mr Michael Altenburger (MBus, WU Vienna) worked for SAP as consultant in Germany, Austria, and Australia. In 1993, he left SAP to found his own consulting company in Heidelberg (Germany), and in 1999, he sold his shares to PLAUT International Management Consulting. Michael was appointed Director of PLAUT Australia in January 2000. In the meantime, he has established his own consulting company in Australia. Michael has consulted companies in nine European countries, in the USA, and in Australia/NZ. His customers include BHP, Caltex, Comalco, Esso, FESTO, German Telekom, Hoechst, ICI, Mobil, NEC, Phillips, Philip Morris, Siemens, and Telstra. Michael currently teaches the subject 22782 'Business Process Integration with ERP'.
Mr Wolfgang Eddigehausen was born and grew up in Germany. He studied at the Technical University in Darmstadt where he earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Finance and Accounting. After completing his degree, he started to work for a large German multi-national company in 1986. Based on the subjects studied, it was a natural progression getting involved in the Supply Chain Management. He gained a wealth of knowledge in the warehousing and distribution areas as a project member in various countries such as France, Great Britain, and South Africa. In 1992 he took up an offer as a project manager for the SAP R/2 implementation of the Material Management and Production Planning modules in South Africa. From there it was a small step to get involved in SAP R/3, which he did when joining a local South African consulting house in 1994. He is currently still working with the same company, specializing on the SAP R/3 Logistics Modules, and lately on the SAP New Dimension Product, APO.

He is a certified SAP consultant in Material Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), and Accelerated SAP (ASAP). During the last years he was involved in various activities and projects in Europe, South Africa, Singapore, Australia, and the USA. Currently residing in the USA, he is fully dedicated towards the Supply Chain Management area and the use of SAP APO in particular. His area of expertise includes not only the general Supply Chain Management area, but also a very detailed knowledge of the APO package. Knowing the problems accompanied with getting started on a new platform like APO, he decided to write this book to the benefit of all who need to gain an in-depth knowledge of APO.

Former Lecturers

Mr Francesco Giacobbe
Associate Professor Peter Best taught the subject 22766 'Assurance for Business Information Systems'. Dr Best (BCom(Hons), MEngSci, PhD) is an Associate Professor in the School of Accountancy at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane. He has qualifications in accounting, operations research and information technology. His teaching, research and consulting experience includes information systems security (including operating system review, eg. UNIX, and SAP R/3), computer assisted audit techniques (in particular, audit software eg. ACL, SAS, and Computer Aided Testing Tool (CATT) in SAP R/3), knowledge based systems and anomaly/intrusion detection in multi-user computer systems. Dr Best initiated the introduction of SAP R/3 based postgraduate teaching in the Faculty of Business at QUT in 1999. He specialises in teaching the functionality and configuration of the FI - Financial Accounting and CO - Controlling Modules, and information systems auditing with special focus on SAP R/3.
Professor Alexander Prosser was the school's guest professor to teach SAP R/3. Alexander Prosser teaches at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in Austria. He holds a PhD and a Master's degree from the University of Economics and Business Administration. He has taught at the Department of Industrial Information Processing since 1993, and was a Visiting Professor at HEC, France from February to April 1999. His main research areas include Institutional Economics, Non-cooperative Game Theory, Electronic Commerce, and Data Warehousing Habitation. Alexander Prosser's recent industry projects include "Installation of group-wide knowledge management system", "Design of data warehouse for motorway construction and maintenance", "Design of data warehouse for the entire retirement and pensions part of the Social Insurance", and "Quality Assurance for introduction of SAP R/3 for federal budgeting and procurement".
Professor Andreas Mild (MBus, PhD, WU Vienna) is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Production Management, WU Vienna. He completed his PhD in 2000 and published in several major IS-journals, incl. MIS Quarterly. His computing skills include substantial skills in MATLAB, SPSS, Latex, Office, UNIX, SAP R/3, HTML. Andreas has teaching experience in production management, production logistics, and project management with SAP R/3. Andreas taught the subject 22783 'Project Implementation and Control' in 2000 and 2001.
Professor Hans-Juergen Scheruhn, Dr.-Ing., was a Professor at Harz University in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, Department of Business Administration, since 1994. Professor Scheruhn teaches model based implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP), incorporating database management and e-commerce. At UTS, he taught certain e-business topics in 22759 'Accounting and ERP'.