Dieter Rößner
Consultant
Experience
Feb 2025 - Present
6 months Berlin, Germany
Consultant
Grover Group
- Scale up company
- Restructuring project
- Streamline processes, reduce significant cost structure and develop robust supplier structure in the area of Supply Chain, Operations and Procurement
May 2024 - Oct 2024
6 months Waddinxveen, Netherlands
Consultant
Fresh Solutions GmbH
- Turnover ~ €1 billion
- 4 DCs with 1000 employees
4500 containers inbound of fruit and vegetables from overseas p.a.
- Daily supply of all German Rewe DCs with fruit and vegetables
200 employees in production
- Responsible for the most efficient use of all DCs including planning and coordination between the 4 DCs in order to achieve best-in-class cost structure
- Develop and implement standardized processes across all DCs
- Implement reporting system with expressive KPIs
- Analyze and streamline processes
- Analyze and launch efficient organizational structure
- Strong support in reducing production cost and stock levels
- Lead, develop and coach 4 DC leaders
- Develop blueprint for new landscape for Fresh Solutions in Europe
Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
10 months Mannheim, Germany
Consultant
Aliaxis Holing DACH GmbH
- Manage and adjust operations in the biggest European plant with a significantly declining market
- Restructuring of Operations and Supply Chain
- Streamline processes in Operations
- Responsible for procurement for EMEA region
- Implement S&OP planning for 18,000 SKUs for EMEA region
- Manage Logistics (inbound, outbound and warehouse with 18,000 pallet places for EMEA region)
Jan 2020 - Present
5 years 7 months Würzburg, Germany
Consultant for Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement, Production and Restructuring
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
3 years Düsseldorf, Germany
Consultant
Saint Gobain Weber GmbH
- 14 factories in Germany
- 6 external warehouses
- approx. 1200 SKUs
- 3 different sales and product segments
- approx. 1.4 million product moves
- End-to-end Supply Chain optimization
- Logistics purchasing optimization (4 different transport areas)
- Development of concept for CO₂ reduction
- Inhouse goods flow optimization
- Restructuring and closure of different logistics locations (from local Logistics to central Supply Chain)
- Streamline processes in Operations
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
3 years Philadelphia, United States
Vice President Global Supply Chain, Procurement and Manufacturing (member of German executive board)
ERT Group
- Life science industry
- Part of Nordic Capital (private equity)
- Restructuring and Development of new global Supply Chain strategy with significant economic impact and unique Supply Chain features (from local logistics to global Supply Chain)
- Development of new assembly line for used cells, notebooks, PCs etc.
- Development of new global strategic sourcing strategy with significant economic impact on purchase costs
- Global responsibility for all production/logistics sites around the globe (GMP rules) (US, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, UK, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland)
- Successful integration of several M&As globally
- Global responsibility for >$190 M purchase volume
- Global responsibility for medical device production
- Set up global demand and supply planning process
- Development of global contingency plan for operations
- 6 direct reports and 150 indirect
- Allocation of medical device production globally based on requirements
- Set up new production/supply chain fulfillment center for all US and close and integrate 7 sites into US Supply Chain fulfillment center
- Close 4 production/logistics sites in EU and integrate them into one center for EU/Asia
- Transition from local logistics to global Supply Chain structure and organization
- Set up global procurement organization with strategic sourcing strategy
- Ensure global service level >98%
- Cost reduction program
Sep 2014 - Dec 2016
2 years 4 months Andechs, Germany
Consultant for Supply Chain, Value Chain and Operations
Dairy Scheitz Andechs
- Private owned dairy company
- Revenues: approx. €200 million
- Reengineering of the purchasing structure/department
- Set up new end-to-end Supply Chain structure, processes and organization
Sep 2014 - Dec 2016
2 years 4 months Bremen, Germany
Consultant for Supply Chain, Value Chain and Operations (member of the German management Board of Wessanen)
Wessanen Group Germany
- Organic food
- Restructuring of Operations/Procurement processes and organization
- Set up new production planning process for 3 plants and increase efficiency across all plants through significant reduction of complexity and lot size optimization
- Interim plant manager of the biggest plant of Wessanen Group including quality and R&D
- Development of new shift models for 2-shift and 3-shift depending on market requirements
- Implementation of new production allocation rules for German plants
- Optimization of MRP process
- Establish value engineering process in all plants
- Significant increase of CSL up to 98.7% (from 85.4%) and forecast accuracy up to 79% with 1100 SKUs
- Ensure significant reduction of working capital
- Work out new logistics network concept for all Europe
- Efficient management of highly saturated production lines
- Implementation of advanced S&OP process and demonstrate savings across 5 different sales channels including export and intercompany business
Apr 2013 - Aug 2014
1 year 5 months Saarbrücken, Germany
Branch Manager HUB Europe/Logistics Center Saarland
Group Dachser
- Revenues: €5.2 billion
- Manage the HUB Europe and the Logistics Center Saarland as a profit center
- Approx. €80 million revenues with full P&L responsibility
550 FTEs
- Yearly volume moved >1 million tons
- Key account responsibility for top 5 key clients (e.g. Chair of Supervisory Board Villeroy & Boch)
Jul 2011 - Mar 2013
1 year 9 months Paris, France
IAR EMEA Supply Chain Director (member of EMEA executive board)
Stanley Black & Decker
- Business: hand tools and electrical devices
- Revenues: $13 billion
- Direct report to VP Operations in the US
- Supply Chain and Purchasing for 60,000 SKUs (incl. ~10,000 SKUs on MTO) with sourcing 75% from Asia, 10% from USA, 15% from Europe
- Managing the sourcing process including supplier management, supplier selection and evaluation
- Optimization of the NPD process
- Development of investment plan for all plants for the budget
- Lead of continuous improvement process in own plants and with third-party suppliers
- Set up and optimization of S&OP and ESOP process
- Significant increase of Service level from 79.2% to 93.2% within 18 months with parallel reduction of European DCs from 5 to 3 sites
- Increase of forecast accuracy from 66.1% to 86.7% within 18 months
- Launch of expressive dashboard
- Anticipation of seasonal effects (Chinese New Year, plant holidays, bank holidays etc.)
- Reduction of inefficient complexity in plants
- Significant reduction of working capital
- Implementation of new route to market process
- Development of new Supply Chain structure and organization
- Preparing VMI process upstream and downstream
- Implementation of consignment stock
- Support of due diligence process in M&A in Europe
Apr 2010 - Jun 2011
1 year 3 months Stuttgart, Germany
CEO of Movianto Group Europe
Movianto Group Europe
- Group: Celesio, Stuttgart
- Business: Logistics Provider (Health Care and Life Science)
- Revenues: approx. €200 million in 2010
- Operations Europe (warehousing, transports, IT validation, quality, procurement, M&A and postponement) (GMP rules)
- Regional P&L responsibility for 4 countries (France, Denmark, Slovakia and CZ)
- Team members across Europe >1000 employees with 12 direct reports
- Achieve high and ambitious budget targets in the region
- Restructuring of the operations process in UK
- Lead of cost saving program across Europe
- Build a European operations community and share best practices
- Challenge operations team to reach “best in class” goal
- Create and launch a proper European end-to-end supply chain solution
- Development of business model blueprint
- Define Movianto Group Europe operations and quality KPIs
- Approve and monitor local country projects, investments, restructuring projects and go-live of new key clients
Oct 2009 - Mar 2010
6 months Stuttgart, Germany
Operations/Regional Director
Movianto Group Europe
- Group: Celesio, Stuttgart
- Business: Logistics Provider (Health Care and Life Science)
- Revenues: approx. €200 million in 2010
Jan 2009 - Sep 2009
9 months Warsaw, Poland
Consultant for Logistics, Supply Chain and Value Chain
Group Ferrero, Division Eastern Europe
- Set up new advanced S&OP process for Eastern Europe
- Operations optimization with focus on end-to-end process/goods flow for the plant operating 364 days p.a. in 3 shifts
Jan 2009 - Sep 2009
9 months Germany
Consultant for Logistics, Supply Chain and Value Chain
SCA Germany
- Division Health Care
- Development of end-to-end supply chain planning process including invoice process with health insurance for the TENA brand
Oct 2005 - Dec 2009
3 years 3 months Zürich, Switzerland
Supply Chain Director Germany and Switzerland (member of management Board Danone DACH)
Danone Deutschland GmbH
- Group Danone, Paris
- Business: Dairy Products, FMCG
- Public Company, 110,000 employees
- Revenues: €13 billion in 2009
- Logistics, customer service, procurement and supply/demand planning, production planning
- 4 direct reports, 26 team members
- Moving volume ~500,000 tons p.a., budget €55 M
- Implementation of new production allocation rules for German plants
- Significant reduction of raw materials and packaging stock
- Lot size optimization on production lines through advanced production planning process
- Implementation of tailor-made MRP process
- Launch of advanced S&OP process
- Optimization and coordination of production allocation across all plants in terms of efficiency and significant reduction of complexity
- Coach of the improvement process owner in the plants
- Development of logistics strategy plan for Germany, Switzerland and Greece
- Lead of change management projects
- Build up new supply chain structure from scratch in Switzerland including launch of SAP R/3
- Launch of cost variance analysis in operations
- Tender management for raw materials, packaging, transports and warehouse operations for Northern Europe
- Build up new supply chain team
- Team member of European SC projects (Russia, Poland, and Northern Europe)
- Development of pooling concept with non-competitor
- Relationship management with works council
- Relationship management with suppliers and clients
- Best in class in AIB Audit (security, quality and hygiene audit) for plants and warehouses within Group Danone worldwide
- Winner of ECR Best Practice Award 2007
Mar 2003 - Sep 2005
2 years 7 months Ljubljana, Slovenia
Supply Chain Director Austria and Slovenia (member of management board Austria and Slovenia)
Danone Österreich Ges.mbH
- Group Danone, Paris
- Business: Dairy Products, FMCG
- Public Company, 110,000 employees
- Revenues: €13 billion in 2009
- Logistics, customer service, procurement and supply/demand planning
- 3 direct reports, 38 team members
- Moving volume ~40,000 tons p.a., budget €8 M
- Launch of sales and operations planning process
- Implementation of efficient SKU management
- Build up new supply chain structure from scratch in Slovenia
- Extension of customer collaboration for VMI and CPFR processes from 32% to 80% by volume
Sep 2002 - Feb 2003
6 months Memmingen, Germany
Operations Manager
T&B Allgäuer Frischelogistik GmbH
- Group: Tibbett and Britten
- Business: Logistics Provider (3PL)
- Launching of new chilled warehouse for cheese business
- Warehouse capacity 14,000 pallet places
- Recruitment, training and development of a new team
Jan 1997 - Aug 2002
5 years 8 months Strasbourg, France
Logistics Director (member of management board Germany)
Bongrain Deutschland GmbH
- Group Bongrain, Paris
- Business: Cheese, FMCG
- Public Company, 90,000 employees
- Revenues: €9 billion in 2009
- Logistics, customer service, procurement and supply/demand planning
- Launching of SAP R/3 within 6 months, key user for modules MM and SD
- Efficient finished goods flow in inbound with 25 French, 2 Spanish and 2 Italian plants
- Improvement projects in the plants
- Establishment of new expressive logistic controlling system for 7 sales divisions
- Development of strategy and concept for new warehouse location with service level increase and cost savings
Apr 1991 - Dec 1997
5 years 9 months Munich, Germany
Logistics Manager
Danone Deutschland GmbH
- Group Danone, Paris
- Business: Dairy, FMCG
- Public Company, 110,000 employees
- Revenues: €13 billion in 2009
- In addition, head of distribution center with 270 employees
- Launching of new central highly automated warehouse
- Implementation of concept for 3-shift warehouse operations
- Lead of outsourcing project for warehouse operations
- In charge of 4 warehouse locations
Mar 1988 - Mar 1991
3 years 1 month Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Supply Manager
Ferrero Deutschland OHG mbH
- Group Ferrero
- Business: Sweet Products, FMCG
- Privately Owned Company, 45,000 employees
- Revenues: €9 billion in 2009
- Support of regional distribution center in Berlin after fall of the Wall in Berlin in 1990
- Launching of regional distribution center within the newly formed German state of Sachsen-Anhalt in 1990
Jan 1983 - Dec 1987
4 years Poppenhausen, Germany
DC Manager
BAL GmbH
- Business: building materials
- Privately Owned Company, 8 employees
- Revenues: €1 M
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Intermediate
Education
Oct 1988 - Jun 1991
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Diploma in Economics, focus on logistics and operations · Economics · Frankfurt, Germany
Secondary School Gerolzhofen
Secondary School Graduation · Gerolzhofen, Germany
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