SAP Globe Global Template Rollout, Nestle

The mandate

Early in my enterprise career I worked delivery on Nestle's SAP Globe program in Switzerland, one of the largest global SAP template efforts in consumer goods. This is where I learned what enterprise scale actually costs, and why the systems the business runs on are the hardest ones to change.

The problem

A global manufacturer running different processes in every country is a business fighting itself: no common view, no shared data, no way to move a practice from one market to another. The Globe answer was a single SAP template rolled out worldwide. The difficulty is never the template in the abstract. It is reconciling one intended way of working with the reality of dozens of countries that each do it differently, and doing it without stopping the business.

The work

• Global template rollout. Deploying a common SAP core across countries, holding the line on the standard while absorbing genuine local difference.
• Application management and testing. Owning the delivery discipline that keeps a rollout of this size stable, where a regression is not an inconvenience, it is an operational risk.
• Scale as the teacher. Working at the size where process, data and people all have to move together, and where nothing succeeds on cleverness alone.

What it proves

Before the AI work, this is the grounding: enterprise programs where the technology had to work at global scale and the cost of getting it wrong was measured in a running business. It is the same respect for the load-bearing core that shapes how I approach modernization now.