The basic idea of VMS is to solve practical problems of SAP use using highly-developed methods of mathematical modelling. This requires complementary skills. In order to implement sophisticated scientific methods of mathematical modelling, both comprehensive SAP know-how and a deep scientific understanding are needed. Only this combination makes it possible to implement the comprehensive, tried and tested and highly-innovative VMS benchmarking approach.

Ralph K. Treitz

Ralph K. Treitz, was born in 1957 and is one of the founders and managing directors of VMS. As managing director, the computer science graduate is in charge of the Services and Company Development areas.

Ralph Treitz has a wide range of experience in working with SAP-systems and was a member of the initial development team for SAP R/3 in the early 1990s.

Before VMS was formed, he worked as Technology Consulting Manager for Europe at IMG in Switzerland for two years.

Before that, he occupied various positions in the development, presales, international marketing, partner management at SAP AG (Walldorf, Germany); his last position there was as Vice-President, Executive Marketing.

Ralph Treitz holds a degree in computer science from Kaiserslautern Technical University.

See the blog by Ralph Treitz:
http://blog.vm-s.com/rtblog.html

Prof. Dr. habil. Andreas Mielke

Prof. Dr. habil. Andreas Mielke was born in 1961 and is one of the founders and managing directors of VMS. Since the company's formation he has been in charge of Methods and Product Development.

He is a physics graduate and been involved with mathematical modelling for 16 years. This discipline is gaining in significance in the private sector and plays a central role in such things as complex cost models and detailed models of dynamic processes.

Andreas Mielke developed VMS' benchmarking methods.

Besides his activities at VMS, Andreas Mielke has been a Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Heidelberg since 2001, where he completed his doctorate in 1993. His main research speciality is statistical physics. He has spent extended periods conducting research at the ETH Lausanne, the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, the University of Budapest and the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Vienna.

This link will take you to the homepage of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Carl Ruprecht University in Heidelberg:
http://www.tphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~mielke/