Andreas K.
Professional Performance Improvement
Experience
Jan 2024 - Present
1 year 11 monthsGermany
Founder and Managing Partner
Properim GmbH
- Eliminated backlogs for OEM customers at a supplier in the Czech Republic.
- Prioritized optimization measures in production, control and logistics, including integrating a foreign site.
- Started implementation and handed over to native-speaking teams.
- Led a backlog reduction task force.
- Conducted value stream analysis.
- Migrated Excel processes back into SAP.
- Introduced shopfloor management.
- Performed total cost assessment for processes and product groups/sites.
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
2 yearsGermany
Automotive Tier 1 Allocations Management Support
Brose Fahrzeugteile
- Took over semiconductor supply topics within the customer team along the global supply and delivery network, and handled ad hoc tasks.
- Helped improve supply reliability and transparency within supply chain value stream networks.
- Identified optimization potential and supported implementation.
- Facilitated operational supply and control meetings with multinational internal and external suppliers, production sites, and OEM customers.
- Attended internal and external management meetings and task forces. Developed semi-automated monitoring and control tools using SAP.
- Established process standards for semiconductor management.
- Used existing and developed additional tools for supply monitoring and control.
- Allocated critical components to respective sites or applications.
- Checked compliance with agreed delivery dates and quantities, and escalated supply chain issues.
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
2 yearsGermany
Automotive Tier 1 Allocations Management Support
Magna Mirrors
- Implemented a monitoring and control tool.
- Managed coverage and supply along the supply chain.
- Produced consolidated reporting of supply chain performance.
- Communicated with OEM customers.
- Optimized supplier processes through value stream analysis and design.
- Monitored and escalated supply issues for electronic components and their multi-level applications.
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
2 yearsGermany
Consulting and Freelance Project Manager
Properim GmbH
- Developed the online seminar “Strategic Planning and Result Assurance.”
- Built a structure for creating online seminars.
- Conducted market analysis on alternatives to on-site project work.
- Performed requirements analysis for online seminars.
- Carried out various marketing and sales activities.
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
3 yearsGermany
Project Manager Production Optimization
Heraeus Medical Components
- Split production at a medical technology manufacturer into high-volume series, small series, and prototype manufacturing with dynamic S&OP planning.
- Improved product quality and productivity (EBIT), as well as lead times, delivery performance, on-time delivery, and employee motivation.
- Introduced autonomous teams based on the Hancho concept.
- Established and implemented a value stream organization with integrated supply chain management.
- Awarded 1st place in an internal corporate Operational Excellence competition.
- Improved EBIT.
- Introduced value stream analysis and design.
- Conducted project analysis, planning, and execution.
- Coached multinational technical and management staff.
- Developed and implemented organizational changes.
- Involved support functions, including customer service.
- Integrated supply chain management.
- Advised on strategic direction.
- Introduced leveled production with partially autonomous teams.
- Led personnel and organizational development.
- Applied insights to a factory planning project.
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
1 yearGermany
Brand Owner and Freelance Project Manager
Properim GmbH
- Founded the Properim brand.
- Launched a Lean 4.0 seminar to the market.
- Engineering company: strategic planning and operational implementation.
- Various marketing and sales activities.
- Conducted Hoshin Kanri and value stream analysis.
- Qualified, quantified, and prioritized actions.
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
1 yearGermany
Brand Owner and Freelance Project Manager
Properim GmbH
- Negotiated projects with companies in the pharmaceutical and aerospace sectors.
- IT forensics company: strategic planning and operational implementation.
- Various marketing and sales activities.
- Conducted Hoshin Kanri and value stream analysis.
- Qualified, quantified, and prioritized actions.
Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
2 yearsGermany
Director Lean Business Coperion Group
Hillenbrand Germany Holding GmbH
- Implemented business goals through team- and project-based optimization activities.
- Developed and executed an implementation roadmap for the targeted areas.
- Achieved measurable and budget-impacting results (EBIT).
- Started a cultural shift toward a learning organization.
- Actively drove and supported this change through leadership.
- Built lean competence in the line organization among specialists and managers.
- Initiated a professional change process in the company.
- Created conditions for flexible, robust, and transparent processes.
- Improved overall process understanding among participants.
- Transformed from a function-oriented to a value-stream-oriented organization.
Jan 2011 - Dec 2013
3 yearsGermany
Freelance Management Consultant and Project Manager
Properim GmbH
- Carried out a lean transformation at a specialist commercial vehicle manufacturer in Germany.
- Introduced standard work and shop floor management.
- Optimized planning, scheduling, and forecasting processes.
- Supported the introduction of configuration management.
- Prepared and implemented lean transformations at multiple sites of a Tier-1 automotive supplier in Germany and Spain.
- Assessed the current state and defined the target state.
- Prioritized and implemented optimization measures to achieve overarching business goals.
- Ensured sustainability.
- Introduced lean practices at a food packaging manufacturer.
- Conducted potential analysis and implementation planning.
- Reduced delivery times by introducing more flexible production.
- Optimized planning and control in the order fulfillment process.
- Modeled business processes for a company in the aerospace industry in Germany.
- Introduced a process modeling software.
- Created a process map.
- Modeled pilot processes considering regulatory requirements.
- Implemented lean production at a turbine manufacturer for hydropower plants in Argentina.
- Conducted potential analysis and implementation planning.
- Built lighthouse areas.
- Set up and stabilized shop floor management including coaching of specialists and managers.
Jan 2010 - Dec 2011
2 yearsGermany
Senior Lean Consultant
Staufen AG
- Optimized spare parts logistics at a commercial vehicle manufacturer.
- Cleaned up warehouses and reduced inventory.
- Optimized order fulfillment processes.
- Executed a Lean warehouse project at a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland.
- Conducted current-state assessment and potential analysis.
- Developed logistical target processes with IT integration and layouts.
- Optimized inventory levels and lead times.
- Trained and coached management and lean experts at an electrical equipment manufacturer in Mexico.
- Led lean basics workshops with 5S and visual management.
- Applied problem-solving methods.
- Contributed to developing logistics concepts for multi-stage production.
- Developed supply concepts using ABC-XYZ analysis.
- Planned milk run implementation with supply and disposal strategy.
Jan 2008 - Dec 2010
3 yearsGermany
Lean Consultant
RWD Technologies Germany GmbH
- Implementation of a TPS-based, company-specific production system for an aerospace industry customer.
- Value stream analyses for production, logistics, development, and administration.
- Bottleneck analyses and prioritization of actions.
- SWOT analyses.
- Development, qualification, quantification, and prioritization of optimization potentials.
- Preparation and support for Kaizen workshops.
- Training and coaching of all management levels at the plant.
- Training Lean specialists in theory and practice.
- Knowledge transfer.
- Support in logistics outsourcing projects.
- Optimization of material and information flow, layout, and visualization.
- Conducting deep dive analyses in the optical glass fiber industry.
- Value stream analyses.
- Definition of target processes.
- Involvement of operational staff and stakeholders.
- Assessment of the current state of Lean implementation.
- Lean training across business units.
- Preparation of a Lean Learning Academy for Green Belt training.
- Sales support: actively examining the market for Lean project opportunities, acting as technical Lean specialist in customer presentations, and creating project proposals for clients.
- Development of a new business model considering the company's own products and services, including implementation of ERP software (SAP) based on the Blue Ocean method.
Jan 2007 - Dec 2008
2 yearsGermany
Lean Promotion Director
Terex Germany GmbH
- Establishment of an internal Lean organization.
- Central management of projects at the sites.
- Training, support, and coaching of the Lean Promotion Officers.
- Definition, setup, and training of internal Lean Experts.
- Participation in developing and aligning activities with corporate-wide goals.
- 5S implementation.
- Synchronization of production supply areas, pre- and final assembly to the customer takt time in excavator production.
- Conversion from departmental to flow production (U-cell) in the production of hydraulic cylinders, including metalworking, assembly, quality assurance, and packaging.
- Integration of national and international suppliers.
- Reorganization of incoming goods.
- Layout optimization of material and vehicle flow.
- Implementation of pull and consignment processes.
- Delivery of sequenced, preconfigured assembly kits by suppliers using standardized returnable packaging.
Jan 2005 - Dec 2007
3 yearsGermany
Project Manager CLM (Corporate Logistics Management)
Hella KGaA
- Inventory management at group level.
- Reorganization of logistics processes at the Mexican sites.
- Ensuring optimal inbound and outbound control within technical change management.
- Application of Lean Management methods in logistics projects.
Jan 2004 - Dec 2007
4 yearsGermany
Corporate Process Manager ECM OtD (Engineering Change Management Order-to-Delivery)
Hella KGaA
- Responsible for company-wide development, standardization, and sustainable implementation of technical change management.
- Analysis of current processes in terms of value creation.
- Definition of legal, industry, and company-specific requirements in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
- Development, testing, and implementation of new streamlined processes as company-wide standards.
- Implementation of processes based on PDCA, including training, coaching, and continuous improvement processes.
- Introduction of an ECM expert organization at all sites with process training in theory and practice.
- Establishment of topic-related networks to ensure standardized best-practice processes.
- Freight optimization regarding material, information, and value flows.
Jan 2002 - Dec 2005
4 yearsGermany
Project Manager SHARP (Standardization and Harmonization of Processes with SAP)
Hella KGaA and Electro Óptica S.A. de CV
- Collaboration in creating a SAP master/template based on streamlined best-practice processes.
- Participation in SAP roll-out at the pilot plant.
- Project management for the rollouts at the sites in Mexico.
- Setup, training, and support of SAP key users in their work areas.
- Sub-project management for the ECM module in all national and international rollouts.
Jan 1999 - Dec 2002
4 yearsGermany
Kaizen Manager VBM Improvement Management
Hella KG Hueck & Co
- Official launch of Lean Production/Kaizen with an international consulting firm in a pilot area of main headlight manufacturing.
- Continuous scope expansion and roll-out activities across the entire plant and the supply chain.
- Roll-out to other national and international sites.
- Training and coaching of managers.
- Setting up a central packaging area and moving the packaging processes from production into the new central area.
- Developing a concept and leading KAIZEN workshops in production and logistics (assembly lines, pre-assembly, plastic parts production, production supply – parts pull and material supermarket).
- Cross-company container management project including supplier integration.
- Supervising students with their thesis work.
- Running lean trainee programs for future managers.
Jan 1991 - Dec 1999
9 yearsGermany
Group Leader Order Control in headlight production for OEM, customer service and trade
Hella KG Hueck & Co
- Production planning and control.
- Allocation control.
- Disposition for internal and external material.
- Responsible for just-in-time / just-in-sequence delivery to customers.
- Setting up and conducting ERP training for users.
- Process optimization for production and material flow.
- Contributing to the setup of a new production site.
- Establishing order control for a new production site for OEM manufacturing.
Jan 1991 - Dec 1991
1 yearGermany
Purchasing Manager
Kajo Chemie GmbH
- Developing professional purchasing processes.
- Monitoring requirements from ordering through goods receipt to production supply.
Jan 1987 - Dec 1991
5 yearsGermany
Production Control for headlight assembly lines for OEM, customer service and trade
Hella KG
- Production planning and control and its implementation on the shop floor.
- Allocation control.
- Disposition for internal and external material.
- Ensuring JIT/JIS deliveries to customers.
Jan 1986 - Dec 1987
2 yearsGermany
Corporal in staff service
Bundeswehr
- Basic military service.
Jan 1983 - Dec 1986
4 yearsGermany
Purchasing / Customs Clearance and Foreign Payments
Westfälische Metall Industrie KG (Hella)
- Procurement of electronic components.
- Customs clearance and bonded warehouse.
- Duty suspension processing.
- Handling foreign payments with letters of credit and collections.
Summary
Profile Andreas Kückelmann
Summary Supply chain executive with over 20 years of global OEM experience in automotive, mechanical engineering & medical technology. Specialized in end-to-end planning, S&OP, inventory optimization and SAP-based control. Led cross-functional teams and achieved double-digit EBIT and OTD improvements.
Core expertise
- Value stream management • Mapping/design/implementation • Lean logistics • Pull/kanban, VMI, inbound/outbound logistics • Production planning and control • SAP, internal/external • Inventory & coverage management • ABC/XYZ, supply assurance • Change & stakeholder management • Communication, objection handling • KPI development • Safety, quality, cost, delivery, performance • Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) • Demand/supply balancing • Intercultural project leadership (EU/US/LATAM/APAC)
Professional experience (selection) 2024 – present – Owner & Managing Director, PROPERIM GmbH
- Reduced OEM customer backlogs by 85% in 16 weeks (Erich Jaeger, CZ) • Re-implemented SAP-based fine control, eliminated Excel silos 2022 – 2023 – Supply Chain Allocations Manager, Brose Automotive Tier 1
- Semiconductor allocations: 100% customer supply in a highly dynamic environment • Automated coverage monitoring from OEM customer to supplier 2021 – 2022 – Supply Chain Allocations Manager, Magna Mirrors
- Like Brose, but focused on supply and supplier development • 100% customer supply, 50% supplier performance increase 2001 – 2021 – Various lean and SCM deployments
- Medical technology: Heraeus Medical Components, mechanical engineering: Hillenbrand/Coperion, Hilti, IMPSA (Argentina), aerospace: Airbus, automotive: Johnson Controls in DE and ES, Hella
Education (extract)
- DGQ – Quality Management in organizational development • University of Bremen – Project Management • Lean Specialist & Trainer (KPC, Staufen, Simpler Academy, Shingijutsu)
- Industrial Clerk (IHK)
Languages, others
- German (C2), English (C1), Spanish (C1)
- Willingness to travel internationally
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedSpanish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 1980 - Jun 1982
Westfälische Metall Industrie KG Lippstadt
Industrial Clerk · Lippstadt, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Certificate in Management Consulting Essentials
Institute of Business Consulting
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