The operator behind Vihren Labs
Petko
Petkov
Fifteen years inside enterprise IT - and on both sides of every deal. Ran SSC/GBS transitions across multiple European countries when shared-services consolidation was hitting its second peak. Ran finance workflows when SOX was teeth-on-the-floor. Sat on the vendor-distribution side of EMEA reporting across the world's largest hardware and software vendors.
More recently, leading enterprise master-data transformation - turning manual product and SKU creation into an automated, rules-based, governed pipeline, from vendor-catalogue ingestion through to touchless quoting and ordering. Vihren Labs is the catalogue of what that arc - operator to vendor to distributor - actually taught me: 28 paid products plus 3 free downloads, across seven product lines, written from the third seat of every deal.
Why this matters
"Most enterprise-IT content is written by consultants who manage projects or vendors who sell products. Vihren Labs is written from the third seat."
The operator who has sat on both the vendor-distribution side AND the buyer side of every deal - and watched what actually breaks at 4 AM on cutover weekend.
Career arc
Three clusters.
One through line.
Transformation operator
- Set up global business-process centres and shared services across multiple European countries
- Ran multi-country operations moves and offshoring programmes - process design, knowledge transfer
- Stood up and scaled multi-entity shared-services centres
- Finance AP/EP global process standardisation, SOX-aligned controls
Vendor-side honest broker
- EMEA vendor reporting for the largest hardware and software vendors in the world
- Vendor content quality, distribution economics, procurement patterns from inside
- Saw what buyers never see: the margin structure, the content gaps, the renewal mechanics
Master Data Transformation
- Master-data transformation across the Product, Vendor, and Customer domains at enterprise scale
- Turning manual product & SKU creation into AI-driven, rules-based, governed automation that holds at scale
- The catalogue pipeline pattern: ingestion - standardisation - enrichment - attribute rules - dynamic SKU creation - touchless quoting
- Operating model end to end - data owners, stewards, decision rights, controls - with agile delivery and engineering partnership
- Shipped the Vihren Labs catalogue alongside the day job - 28 paid products + 3 free, across 7 lines
The catalogue
Seven product lines.
Fifteen years, packaged.
What those years actually taught me, in formats you can open on Monday and ship by Friday - structured Excel workbooks, operator playbooks, regulatory registers, transformation toolkits, and full self-paced courses.
Procurement & Vendor Management
TCO, renewals, RFPs
Programme Delivery & Enterprise IT PMO
ERP modernisation strategy, business cases, scorecards
SAP / ERP Operations
S/4HANA cutover, hypercare, migration
Master Data Operations
Quality audits, maturity, governance
AI Adoption & Governance
Agent readiness, governance register, vendor TCO
Transformation & SSC/GBS
Transition, PMO, change, automation, cloud
Regulatory & Compliance
EU AI Act, ICT third-party-risk registers, real article citations
Guardrails
Not a consulting firm
No engagements. No project work. Templates only.
Not a vendor pitch
Nothing sold here is a platform or upsell.
Not a think-tank
Every claim is grounded in hands-on execution.
Not a content machine
One newsletter. One LinkedIn. That's it.
Ready to work
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years looks like
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Vihren Labs is an independent educational-publishing business. Views expressed are solely my own and do not represent any current or former employer.