Plant management and production
Supply Chain Management / Logistics
Purchasing
Project Management / Consulting / Management Consulting
Quality assurance
Human Resources Management
Plant management and production
- Management of production plants with over 50Mio. € Turnover p.a.
- Strategic planning and business planning, P&L responsibility
- Develop and enforce standards and guidelines
- Management of task forces to ensure the achievement of objectives
- Restructuring of production areas, cooperation in projects for organizational development
- Planning of production sites (order of magnitude 20.000sqm floor space, up to 20 Mio. € investment)
Supply Chain Management / Logistics
- Management of production and shipping logistics with over 20 employees, turnover approx. € 100 million p.a.
- Optimization of the process chain from supplier to end customer
- Reduction of logistics costs through optimization of inventories and logistics processes
- Reduction of logistics complaints and improvement of delivery performance
- Implementation of an IT-supported production supply system (MES), a supplier connection via EDI as well as Handling Unit Management (HUM)
- Planning of a new shipping warehouse
- Inventory reduction in the context of a site closure
Purchasing
- Management of the Strategic Purchasing, Operational Purchasing and Project Purchasing departments
- Purchasing of productive materials, capital goods, H&B materials and services
- Contract and price negotiations, supplier management and selection
- Restructuring of purchasing
- Significant price reduction compared with previous year
- Missing parts reduction
Project Management / Consulting / Management Consulting
- Lean production projects, reduction of manufacturing costs by up to 30%.
- Assembly and material flow planning
- Product launch management for various new products
- Optimization of internal order processing
- Development of a production planning software tool
- Tools: Value stream mapping, push/pull principles, MES, TPM, 5S, KANBAN, CIP.
Quality assurance
- Leading a quality drive in France to reduce field failure rates.
- Reduction of scrap, rework and inspection costs
- Quality planning and monitoring at an OEM in the automotive industry,
- Participation in recertification audits
Human Resources Management
- Management of several hundred commercial, technical and industrial employees
- Personnel selection, recruitment and release
- Personnel development (target agreements, employee appraisals and evaluations)
- Workshops
- Trusting cooperation with employee representatives
