About me

About

Olaf Jorritsma is a food technologist who after several ERP software implementations as a customer, moved to the other side of the table, first as a consultant, then in various roles on the development side of ERP software.

In food

In 1993 he started at a small brewery in the south of The Netherlands, moved to a candy manufacturer as shift-leader production and came in contact with his first ERP software, namely SAP R/3 and was involved in the implementation of manufacturing and warehousing at that time.

After a few years he moved in 1997 to a company which made fruit- and vegetable preparations for dairy and bakery manufacturers, started as shift-leader production and made a career change to the logistical side of the company and worked on implementations of BaaN 4c3/4c4 and Navision 3.7.

His last role on the customer side was a logistical function in a company which manufactured and traded Mexican guacamole and Tex-Mex appetizers, and as usual implemented ERP software, this time it was Unit4 Agresso Wholesale and did his first CRM software implementation, SuperOffice.

The other side of the table

Olaf became a consultant on Dynamics NAV December 2015 and did a few implementations of a food vertical on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, in 2017 he switched to the development side in different functional roles on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central including building extension apps for AppSource.

Since 2021, at his second Microsoft ISV, where he started again on a food vertical on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and made a move from ERP software to the Power Platform and Azure, creating integrations with Dynamics 365 apps and building a Customer Portal with Power Pages.

Writes about

Olaf likes to share his knowledge on the Microsoft stack, it doesn’t matter if it is about ERP or the low-code Power Platform, he likes it all and wants to engage others to use it.

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