Consultant

• Turnover ~ 1 billion €

• 4 DC’s with 1000 employees

• 4500 containers inbound of fruit and vegetables from overseas/p.a.

• Daily serve of all german Rewe DC’s with fruit and vegetables

• 200 employees in production

• Responsible for the most efficient use of all DC’s incl. planning and coordination between the 4 DC’s in order to become best in class cost structure

• Develop and implement standardized processes across all DC‘s

• Implent reporting system with expressive KPI‘s

• Analyze and streamline processes

• Analyze and launch efficient organisation structure

• Strong support in reduction of production cost and reduction of stock level

• Lead, develop and coach 4 DC leader

• Develop blueprint for new landscape for Fresh Solutions for Europe

• Manage and adjust operations in the biggest european plant with an significant declinig market
• restructuring of Operations and Supply Chain
• streamline processes in Operations
• responsible for procurement for EMEA region
• implement S&OP planning für 18.000 SKU’s für EMEA region
• manage Logistics (inbound, outbound and warehouse with 18.000 palett places for EMEA region

• 14 factories in Germany

• 6 external warehouses

• ca. 1200 SKU’s

• 3 different sales- und product segments

• ca. 1,4 mio to 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 close of different logistics locations (from local Logistics to central Supply Chain)

• streamline processes in Operations

member of the German management Board of Wessanen organic food

• Restructuring of Operations/Procurement processes and organisation
• Set up new production planning process for 3 plants and increase efficiency across all plants thru significant reduction of complexity and lot size optimization
• Interims plant manager of the biggest plant of Wessanen Group incl. quality and R&D
• Development of new shift models for 2 shift and 3 shift models depending on the requirements from the market
• 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 SKU’s
• Ensure significant reduction of working capital terms
• Work out new logistics network concept for all Europe
• Efficient management of highly saturated production lines
• Implementation of advanced S&OP process and show savings behind (for 5 different sales channels incl. export and intercompany business)

member of EMEA executive board Business: hand tools and electrical device Revenues: $ 13 billion Direct report to VP Operations in the US

• Supply Chain and Purchasing for 60.000 SKUs (incl. ~ 10.000 SKU’s 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 DC’s 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

member of management Board Danone DACH 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 Mio €

• Implementation of new production allocation rules for German plants

• Significant reduction of raws and packs stock

• Lot size optimization on the production lines thru 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 the scratch in Switzerland including launch of SAP R3

• Launch of cost variance analysis in operations

• Tender management for raws and packs, 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

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

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 shifts warehouse operations
• lead of outsourcing project for warehouse operations
• in charge of 4 warehouse locations

• Set up new advanced S&OP process for Eastern Europe
• Operations optimization with scope on the end to end process/goods flow for the plant who works 364 days/p.a. in 3 shifts