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Our Story

It all started in 2004 with a business idea and a TV show.

Stefan Mayer has always been adventurous and no one was surprised that the entrepreneur from Cologne and his family wanted to emigrate to New Zealand to turn his idea into reality.

His business idea was to take advantage of the time difference between Europe and New Zealand to offer SAP support for European companies during their nighttime. The rest is history. Today Centrix has 35 employees with headquarters in Hamilton, New Zealand, and a local office in Cologne, who share the same language (most of our team speak German), culture and way of working with our partners and clients in the DACH region.

Centrix’s mission is simple. We want you to have a peaceful, uninterrupted night, no more callouts. We work while you sleep. It is a win-win situation.

The Mayer’s story was documented in the television program “Die Auswanderer” – and luckily ended happily.

ISO 9001 & ISO 27001 Certified

Centrix is ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified, a testament to our commitment to safeguarding sensitive data and exceeding client expectations. With ISO 27001, we ensure the highest level of information security, instilling confidence in our clients. Meanwhile, ISO 9001 highlights our dedication to superior customer support, efficient processes, and ongoing improvement.

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Our Management Team

Stefan Mayer

Managing Director & Senior SAP Consultant

30+ years of experience in SAP Consulting

About Stefan

Skills:

  • SAP BW, S/4HANA
  • SAP ECC Retail, SD/MM/FI/CO/HR/PP
  • SAP Master- and structure-data
  • SAP PI, SolMan, CRM
  • ABAP, LSMW

 

Qualifications:

  • SAP Certified Business Associate with SAP BW 7.0
  • Training in SAP BI, SAP ERP, SAP HANA, Business Objects

Thomas Wolff

Head of Sales and Marketing

30+ years in International Business Development
+ Sales Roles in Applications, ERP, Managed Services, Projects

About Thomas

Skills:

  • Sales and Marketing
  • Business Development
  • Relationship Building
  • Strategic vision and planning
  • Communication and Negotiation
  • Closing Deals
  • Problem Solving
  • Data Analysis and Decision-Making
  • CRM

 

Qualifications:

  • Value Selling Certified
  • ITIL Certified

Jürgen Scheffler

Business Development Manager

20+ years of experience in management

About Jürgen

Skills:

  • Industry experience in electrical, consumer goods and pharmaceutical industry, education and human resources
  • Consultancy skills in commercial environment, mentoring and coaching experience
  • Leadership experience of team and department management, conflict management and problem-solving skills
  • Project management of SAP system implementations, projects in commercial services
  • CRM systems: SAP/ Salesforce / Freshsales and Sage
  • BI Systems SAP BW
  • Sales experience in the IT system environment

Andries Yssel

Professional Services Manager & Senior SAP Solution Architect

31+ years of experience in the IT industry, including approximately 28 years of extensive SAP experience across SAP Basis, SAP ABAP, and other SAP technology areas

About Andries

Skills:

  • SAP Solution Architect
  • SAP Managed services
  • SAP on-premise to Microsoft Azure migration discovery, planning, architecture, and execution
  • Microsoft Azure architecture, networking, landing zones, and SAP infrastructure design
  • Near Zero Downtime (nZDT) SAP upgrades and migrations
  • High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture for SAP HANA
  • SAP Technical Landscape Owner and Operations Manager for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)
  • SAP Technical Project Management for data centre migrations to SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
  • SAP capacity planning, performance analysis, and reporting, including Weekly EarlyWatch Alert (EWA), monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting
  • Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery (DR), and business continuity testing
  • ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and ISO 22301 compliance for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud environments
  • SAP Technical Liaison for customer onboarding to RISE with SAP
  • SAP Solution Architecture for complex ICT and enterprise transformation projects
  • Hardware refresh, migration planning, and execution
  • SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), Digital Boardroom, analytics, and dashboard implementation for spatial data visualisation
  • SAP Basis and Technology administration from SAP R/3 3.1 through SAP S/4HANA 2025 FPS01
  • SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise (BOE), SAP IDES, SAP CRM, SAP RPM, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Fiori, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP MII, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP IS-U, SAP Lumira, and SAP Extended Planning and Analysis (XPA/XPD)
  • SAP Enterprise Portal functional integration, including MSS/ESS, SAP Travel Management, Nakisa LSO, Universal Worklist (UWL), Content Management and Collaboration, SAP Business Workflow, and Federated Portal technologies
  • SAP Enterprise Portal integration with SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Ariba
  • SAP Fiori and SAP Enterprise Portal user experience (UX), branding, theming, and look-and-feel design
  • SAP landscape sizing, capacity planning, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) optimisation
  • SAP Single Sign-On (SSO), SAML, and enterprise identity integration
  • Database administration and technologies, including SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP MaxDB, and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
  • Enterprise workload automation and batch scheduling using Honico BatchMan and Control-M
  • UNIX and Linux administration, including HP-UX, IBM AIX, Tru64 UNIX, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Enterprise backup, recovery, and monitoring solutions, including HPE
  • Data Protector (OmniBack), IBM Tivoli, and HP OpenView
  • ITIL Service Management and operational best practices
  • BMC Remedy AR System (ARS), BMC Patrol, and Service Desk integration
  • Software development using ABAP (Reports, SAPscript), Java, COBOL, and Pascal
  • SAP partner application integration, including OpenText Documentum, OpenText Livelink, and Mecator
  • SAP integration with Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange Server
  • Novell NetWare administration
  • IT infrastructure, security, and systems administration
  • SAP systems monitoring, administration, optimisation, and preventive maintenance
  • End-user support, change management, release management, and service transition
  • Help Desk and Service Desk operations, process integration, and service delivery

 

Qualifications:

  • Information Technology Diploma
  • TOGAF® 9.2 Certified – Level 1 & Level 2 (Enterprise Architecture Foundation and Practitioner)
  • SAP BASIS Administration Training
  • SAP ABAP Development Training
  • SAP Process Orchestration (PO) Training
  • Hewlett Packard Technology Training
  • UNIX / Linux Administration Training
  • Oracle Database Training
  • BMC Patrol Monitoring and Administration Training
  • ISO 9000 Quality Management Training
  • OpenSAP Training (SAP Learning Platform)

Oliver Schürmann

Professional Services Manager & Principal SAP Consultant in AMS

20+ years of experience in SAP Consulting

About Oliver

Skills:

  • SAP SD
  • SAP WM/EWM
  • SAP PM/CS, LE, MM and ETM
  • SAP FSM
  • Operational support
  • SAP Implementation experience
  • Estimation, design and build of change requests

 

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSc)
  • In-house training in SAP
  • SAP Certified Application Associate – Extended Warehouse Management with SAP S/4HANA 2020

Thao Tran

HR & Administration

7 years of experience in Human Resource Management
12 years of experience in Project Management

About Thao

Skills:

  • Project management
  • Resource management
  • Policies and process
  • Contract Management
  • Employment Relation
  • Documentations and reports
  • Recruitment
  • Payroll, invoicing
  • Relevant SAP skills

 

Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in business management
  • Postgraduate Certification in Human Resource Management
  • New Zealand Diploma in Business, Human Resource Management
  • Bachelor’s degree in German Linguistic
  • Certification in Professional Speaking

Robert Hocking

General Manager Operations

25+ years of experience in SAP BASIS and IT Management

About Robert

Skills:

  • Capital & Overhead Budgets
  • Project Management Tools
  • ITIL Best Practice Methods
  • PRINCE2 Project Delivery
  • SAP Basic / SAP Technologies
  • Oracle Admin / ‘Quest’ Toolset
  • ISO 20,000 Certification
  • IT Data Centre Migration
  • Database Management
  • Oracle Technology
  • UNIX Admin / HPUX
  • MS SQL Administration
  • Migration to Windows Active Directory
  • MS Exchange Mail Environment
  • Implementation of AMC/Avaya CTI Solution
  • Enterprise-wide ERP Solutions
  • MS Windows Administration
  • Team Performance Management
  • IT Security & Administration
  • Management of Batch Processing
  • Help Desk & Service Desk Teams
  • Systems Monitoring & Maintenance
  • Sunrise Enterprise Helpdesk Application
  • Desktop Support & Web Services
  • Delivery of End-User Support
  • CRM System Deployment
  • Business Process Re-engineering
  • Business Change Management

 

Qualifications:

  • ITIL Foundation Certificate Qualified
  • PRINCE2 Practitioner Qualified
  • MCSE qualified in Windows NT4

Thomas Gollwitzer

Professional Services Manager in SAP Logistics

18 years of experience in WM, EWM and automated warehouse solutions

About Thomas

Skills:
  • SAP Warehouse Management (WM, EWM)
  • SAP ERP: SAP IM configuration & process design, SAP SD integration, interfaces to SAP QM & PP, and SAP EHS
  • 3rd-party System Integration (non-SAP)
  • ABAP debugging for troubleshooting and process analysis
  • SAP performance analysis and optimisation
  • SAP BI reporting
  • SQL, basic C# and Java
  • Project & collaboration tools (MS Office, MS Project, JIRA, Trello, ALM Octane)
  • ITIL-based incident, problem & change management
  • SAP module trainings across WM, EWM, IM and S/4HANA topics

Qualifications:

  • Industrial Engineering Graduate Engineer, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) – Equivalent to NZ Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)

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