Yves Mulkers

🎯 Who I Am:
I am a Data Strategist and Thought Leader in the realm of data and analytics. With a background in chemistry and operational industrial environments, I've navigated my way through various technical terrains—from the early days of Commodore 64 and database development to object-oriented programming. Today, I'm engrossed in the exciting advancements in data management, analytics, machine learning, Large Language Models and artificial intelligence.

📈 What I Do:
I specialize in helping digital marketers, particularly those working in fast-growing scale-ups, to drive business impact through data. As the Data Strategist at 7wData and host of the Data Strategy Guru's Podcast, I use my deep understanding of vendor and scale-up solutions to provide tailored advice. My holistic approach to architecture ensures that you make future-proof technology choices on your journey to becoming data-driven.

🔥 Why I'm Different:

Tech for Good Advocate: I believe in the power of technology to make the world a better place and am a vocal defender of tech for good.
Dual Proficiency: I excel at both the technical and strategic levels, offering a balanced viewpoint that few can.
Holistic View: I bring a comprehensive understanding of architecture, ensuring all pieces of your data puzzle fit together seamlessly.
Quick Learner: New tech excites me, and I quickly incorporate it into solutions for my clients.

🎙️ Content Creator:
Through my blog, 7wData, Newsletter (220k subscribers) and my podcast, I evangelize what you can do with data and how to do it. I engage in panel discussions, write articles, and amplify your company message, helping you achieve thought leadership, brand awareness, and lead generation.

🎧 Personal Interests:
In my downtime, you'll find me immersed in music or personal development and leadership books. I'm an omnivert, adapting my energy based on the people and situations around me.

🤝 Let's Connect:
If you're a digital marketer striving to make your brand data-driven and future-proof, struggling with budgets, or looking to extend your reach, let's talk. I turn Data Pains into Business Gains!

Feel free to reach out for collaborations, speaking engagements, or just a good ol' fashioned chat about the latest in data and tech.

CREATIVE THOUGHT LEADER MARKETING AND AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS for B2B Tech Brands

7wData helps vendors creatively market their products through custom-tailored content creation best suited for each particular brand. 

Services include keynotes, live support, viewership and SEO reports, analytics, and high-frequency organic amplification to niche omnichannel audiences through authenticity and establishing authority and trust.

7wData consistently delivers hard numbers so that clients receive the most accurate information and know how to best allocate their content budget.

Data and Test Rescue! SAP Hana and ECC sites. 35 transformations and 12 ECC to Hana. I'm now looking to hire a recruiter to find me projects requiring very affordable resources. We cover 24/7 testing and data migration.

With more than 25 years in ERP transformations across SAP, Oracle, and Infor, I understand the full landscape, from infrastructure to master data. I focus on getting business users aligned, holding SIs accountable, and restoring confidence in complex, high-pressure programmes. My approach is steady, pragmatic, and built around clear communication and results.

1. Hard Financial ROI
✔ $500k–$2.5m saved on SI overruns

AI Experts reduce dependency on SI consultants by handling:
• functional Q&A
• config lookups
• document generation
• issue triage
• training
• data mapping support

Teams don’t wait 2–5 days for SI answers.
They get them instantly.
That cuts rework and SI change requests massively.

✔ 30–60% reduction in total consulting hours

When AI produces test scripts, training docs, story cards, BRDs, MD50s, config notes.
Consultants stop manually writing thousands of pages.

If you save a team 800–2,000 hrs, that’s $120k–$300k per phase.

✔ Data migration cycle cost drops by 40–70%

This normally requires 3–10 offshore analysts.
Your AI wipes out most of that bill.

2. Time ROI (This is what Programme Directors crave)
✔ 20–30% faster timeline overall

Why?
Because your agents eliminate the biggest time-killers:
• waiting for answers
• missing documentation
• unclear business processes
• inconsistent user knowledge

Your AI turns weeks into hours.

✔ Faster onboarding for new consultants (90% faster)

Instead of 4–8 weeks of knowledge transfer.
New joiners become productive within one day using your AI Experts.

✔ Training cycles drop from months to days

Your AI Experts give users just-in-time answers.

3. Risk Reduction ROI (This is how you justify premium rates)
✔ Eliminates knowledge loss

Everything learned in the project stays in the AI.
Not in someone's head.
Not in a SharePoint that nobody reads.

✔ Clean-core compliance is maintained automatically

The AI flags:
• Z-code risks
• customisation waste
• unnecessary modifications

This prevents the “technical debt bomb” that explodes 6–12 months post–go-live.

4. Strategic ROI (The reason you outperform every other ERP lead)
✔ You turn the entire business into a “self-sufficient transformation team”

Instead of business users waiting for IT or SI consultants.
Your AI Experts give them real-time support.
This increases adoption and reduces frustration that kills morale.

“When you hire me. your entire programme gets access to my AI Experts at no extra cost.”

Bret R.

Why Every ERP Programme Will Soon Need an ERP Intelligence Officer

And Why Bret Robinson Is Already Doing the Job

ERP programmes generate more information than most teams can realistically absorb.

Thousands of requirements.
Hundreds of integrations.
Large defect backlogs.
Complex data structures.
Test scenarios across multiple business processes.

Yet the success of the programme often depends on a small group of people trying to interpret all of this information manually.

Status reports are written.
Steering decks are prepared.
RAID logs grow longer.

But insight often arrives too late.

This is why a new role is emerging in ERP transformations.

The ERP Intelligence Officer.

Someone responsible for turning programme information into clear delivery intelligence.

Not just reporting what is happening.

But identifying where the programme is bleeding and what actions will move delivery forward fastest.

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What an ERP Intelligence Officer Actually Does

An ERP Intelligence Officer sits across the delivery workstreams and focuses on insight and acceleration.

They analyse and improve:

• Requirements quality and completeness
• Business analysis documentation
• Test coverage and defect prioritisation
• Data migration readiness
• Integration complexity
• Reporting and operational readiness

Using AI-driven tools and delivery expertise, they help teams move faster and make better decisions.

Instead of weeks spent analysing documentation, teams can understand programme health in hours.

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Bret Robinson Is Already Operating in This Role

For Bret Robinson, this is not theory.

It’s how he works on ERP programmes today.

When Bret joins a programme, he immediately begins building AI Experts trained on the programme’s documentation and delivery artefacts.

Once trained, these experts can analyse key areas instantly.

They help teams accelerate work that traditionally takes days or weeks.

For example:

• Requirements summaries produced in minutes
• Business analyst stories drafted rapidly
• Standard operating procedures outlined quickly
• Data field mappings prepared for migration
• Test scripts generated and validated
• Reporting specifications created

Instead of one person working faster, the entire delivery team gains access to tools that increase their productivity and insight.

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Bret’s Real Impact Is Team Acceleration

The real difference is not just Bret’s own output.

It is how quickly he brings the team with him.

Within the first week of arriving on a programme, Bret focuses on mentoring the delivery team to use AI Experts themselves.

The result is a team that becomes:

• More informed
• More productive
• Better aligned on delivery priorities

Requirements are written faster.

Documentation improves in quality.

Test scenarios become clearer.

Data migration preparation becomes more structured.

ERP Recovery & Acceleration Specialist ERP Transformations Data Migration rescue. I equip teams with expertise to plan, configure, and deliver transformations faster with fewer risks. Results within 1 week or no fee!

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How 50 SAP Tables Can Turn a £350k Migration Into a £1M Problem

Most ERP programmes don’t explode because of software.

They explode because of data no one has looked at in years.

Inside almost every SAP system there are 50 master data tables that quietly control the health of the entire enterprise.

Vendor records.
Customer structures.
Material master.
Finance configuration.
Organisational hierarchies.
HR structures.

These tables look harmless.

Until someone profiles them.

When they do, the same patterns appear again and again:

• Duplicate vendors
• Duplicate customers
• Missing bank details
• Invalid payment terms
• Materials with no plant views
• Missing valuation classes
• GL accounts without company code extensions
• Broken cost centre hierarchies
• Employees without organisational assignments

Individually, these problems seem small.

But across millions of rows, they become catastrophic.

And here’s the painful part.

Most organisations don’t discover these issues during planning.

They discover them during testing.

Data loads fail.
Interfaces break.
Migration cycles restart.
Manual cleansing begins.

That’s when the budget starts bleeding.

A £350k migration estimate quietly becomes £700k.
Then £1M.

Not because the ERP system failed.

Because the data was never understood.

The uncomfortable truth is this:

Across most SAP systems, 50 tables reveal 80% of migration risk.

Vendor tables like LFA1 and LFB1.
Customer tables like KNA1 and KNVV.
Material tables like MARA and MARC.
Finance structures like SKA1 and SKB1.
Organisational data like CSKS and CEPC.

Profile these tables properly and the real condition of your data becomes visible very quickly.

Ignore them and the truth will appear later.

Usually when your testing cycles start failing.

And by then it is expensive.

Very expensive.

Before you spend millions transforming ERP, spend 48 hours understanding your data.

If you want to know what’s really inside your system, run a 50-table data profile and see the truth for yourself.

Because surprises discovered later will punish your programme.

And your budget.

#ERP #SAP #S4HANA #DataMigration #DataQuality #MasterData #ERPTransformation #CFO #CIO #ERPImplementation #ProgramManagement #EnterpriseData

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The 50 SAP ECC Tables Every Oracle Fusion Migration Must Analyse First

Many organisations approaching an SAP ECC → Oracle Fusion Cloud migration assume the primary challenge is technical: extracting data, mapping tables, and loading it into the new system.
In reality, the biggest risks are often hidden inside the legacy master data itself.

Before any migration begins, there are roughly 50 critical SAP ECC tables that should be analysed to understand the true state of the data landscape. These tables underpin the most important business entities in an ERP system—customers, suppliers, materials, finance structures, and organisational hierarchies.

For example, in the customer domain alone, tables such as KNA1, KNB1, and KNVV contain overlapping but essential views of customer data. In suppliers, LFA1, LFB1, and LFM1 hold vendor master records and purchasing relationships. Materials depend heavily on MARA, MARC, and MVKE, while finance structures rely on tables such as BKPF, BSEG, SKA1, and CSKS.
Individually these tables look manageable. 

But collectively they often reveal challenges that can derail migration programmes:

Duplicate suppliers and customers
Missing organisational relationships
Materials without required plant views
Cost centre and ledger inconsistencies
Incomplete financial configuration data

These issues rarely appear during planning workshops. Instead, they surface during migration testing, when failed loads and inconsistent records suddenly require extensive investigation by already busy business SMEs.

Analysing the key ECC tables early provides something incredibly valuable in a transformation programme: clarity.

By profiling these datasets before migration begins, organisations can quickly identify duplicates, missing relationships, and structural inconsistencies. This allows teams to fix data issues before they cascade into repeated testing cycles and costly programme delays.

In many ERP transformations, the difference between a smooth migration and months of rework comes down to one simple step: understanding the data before the programme begins.

“Bret’s deep understanding of SAP ECC data structures and Oracle Fusion targets brought immediate clarity to our programme. The AI Experts team helped us visualise our data risks early, which significantly reduced anxiety across the business and increased user adoption by more than 40%.” — University Executive

ERP transformation is not just about moving systems. It is about understanding the information that runs the organisation.

And in most SAP migrations, the truth starts in those 50 critical ECC tables.

#ERPTransformation #SAPtoOracle #OracleFusion #SAPMigration #DataMigration #MasterData #ERPModernisation #PublicSectorTech #DigitalTransformation #DataGovernance

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