Our Principal Consultant - Raymond Yap
With over 27 years of experience in the ERP industry, Raymond has a wealth of knowledge and expertise to offer. He began his career as an ERP end-user project manager in a manufacturing company but quickly progressed to work with ERP vendors in various roles, including consultant, pre-sales, sales, and senior manager. Raymond has a proven track record of successes, having started a profitable subsidiary of a regional ERP business and successfully turning around another regional ERP business as its country manager. In addition to his extensive experience, Raymond understands the needs and challenges faced by both companies looking for ERP solutions and ERP vendors. As such, he offers training and consulting services to help vendors improve their business performance and meet the needs of their clients.
Consultant Profile - Raymond Yap
Career Experience
Career in End-User Environment
- Business Process Manager and Assistant General Manager of a local Manufacturing SME
- Division Manager of Strategic Business Unit (SBU) of an MRO Engineering multinational corporation
- Purchasing Executive of a government-linked engineering corporation
- Manager of HR, Admin and Training Departments in the public sector
- Engineering Technical Office and Executive managing engineering workshop in public sectors and government-linked corporation
Career in ERP Vendor Environment
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Consultant
- Pre-Sales Consultant
- Business Development Manager
- Country Manager of a Multinational ERP vendor
- Managing Director of a regional ERP start-up
Training and Academic Experience
- Adjourn Lecturer of
- Nanyang Polytechnic
- Temasek Polytechnic
- Queensland University of Technologies
- Public Speaking on ERP Topics at Mauritius and Singapore
Career Achievements
- Successfully built and grew a start-up ERP consulting business to one of the most reputable ERP implementation partners known for its outstanding project delivery capability with excellent profitability
- Successfully turnaround a loss-making ERP company within 1 quarter and maintained consecutive profitable quarters after that
- Facilitator of multiple gold and silver-winning Work Improvement Teams at National QCC Conventions
- Summit Club Winner at Tectura (The world’s largest Microsoft ERP company during that period) as the top Business Development Manager of the region
Academic Achievements
- A distinction in MBA (Entrepreneurship) from the University of Louisville
- First Class Honor BEng from University of Surrey
- Outstanding Project Award from University of Surrey
Unique 360-Degree Quality
Raymond’s rare and unique quality comes from his 360-degree vast hands-on experience, history of success, and knowledge through outstanding academic qualifications. This enables him as a successful problem solver and leader employing both academic and hands-on experience in business management, training, and consulting services.
His 360-degree ability enables him to see issues from multiple angles whether it is from the vendors, users, public services, and more importantly, their interacting relationships and effects. He can offer solutions and results with more comprehensive diagnostics than average consultants in the industry.
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