Interim Management

Business activity: Interim management for the manufacturing industry.

Core competencies:

• Vacancy bridging (plant, operations, production management)
• Production optimization
• Planning and control
• Change management
• Process analysis and optimization

Expertise / implemented measures:

• Bridging vacancies when executives are absent – production, operations, plant management
• Production planning and control
• Production optimization
• Production relocations
• Analyzing, evaluating, and optimizing processes
• Turnaround processes
• Increasing productivity
• Lean management processes
• Optimizing intralogistics
• Procurement (machines, equipment, tools)
• Planning and implementation of series production
• Feasibility analyses
• Resource planning
• Investment planning and implementation
• Support for startup companies

with approx. 350 employees exhaust systems, seat structure parts, body parts, module carriers, heat shields Responsibility for approx. 250 employees

• Areas of responsibility: press shop, toolmaking, maintenance

• Reports to Executive Management

• Personnel development in technical areas

• Further development of production planning and control

• Introduction and development of temporary work

• Continuous workflow optimization

• Resource planning

• Planning and implementation of investments

• Reducing piece-rate costs by increasing automation

• Optimizing and managing maintenance measures

• Switching to just-in-time production and delivery

• Ensuring first-in, first-out

• Conducting feasibility analyses

• Project evaluations

• Implementation of DIN ISO 9001 / TS 16949 / ISO 14001

• Make-or-buy analyses

• Prototype manufacturing

• Coordinating series launches

• Working capital management – continuous inventory reduction

• Implementing an ERP system

• 300,000 employees in the group / >€50 billion revenue

• Ensuring and accelerating parts supply

• Continuous tracking of processes and measures

• Cost reduction

• Identifying acceleration potential

• Defining and coordinating measures

• Verifying and optimizing just-in-time delivery

• Building a project activity plan

• Coordinating stakeholders at various locations

• 100 employees

• Make-or-buy analyses

• Implementing work preparation

• Creating production plans and bills of materials

• Preparing specifications

• Advising executive management

• Training employees

• Auditing suppliers

• Visualizing production workflow

• Implementing basic maintenance

450 employees

• Stabilizing and optimizing production
• Status quo analysis
• Weakness and error analysis
• Filling and refilling several management positions
• Optimizing productivity and delivery performance
• Coaching second and third management levels
• Implementing change management processes
• Optimizing shop floor management
• Process optimization and stabilization
• Optimizing maintenance processes

approx. 150 employees at multiple sites

• Realigning and stabilizing business processes
• Current state analysis at multiple sites
• Extensive change management process
• Preparing status overview and action plan
• Developing concepts for management
• Standardizing procedures
• Planning new production facilities
• Supporting/coaching the QM manager
• Restructuring work preparation and appointing new lead
• Extending assignment to other sites
• Planning closure of a production site and integration into a subsidiary

approx. 1,300 employees at 6 sites worldwide

• Organizing and realigning project planning
• Process optimization and structuring
• Managing multiple production sites (DE/PL/HU)
• Coaching second and third level managers
• Budgeting and cost tracking
• Conducting project status meetings
• Coordinating actions in foreign plants
• Supporting shop floor management implementation
• Temporarily leading several production areas
• Relocating a production unit

• Optimizing materials management processes
• Reorganizing the warehouse
• Ensuring material supply to wind farms
• Developing and implementing warehouse concept
• Analyzing process chains and interfaces
• Analyzing and optimizing organizational structure
• Streamlining process flows
• Initiating and implementing continuous improvement measures
• Ensuring wind farm supply
• Coaching storekeepers

• 300 employees

• Full operational responsibility (procurement, work preparation, production, quality, HSE, maintenance, intralogistics, warehouse, shipping)

• Optimizing all processes and production areas

• Implementing a multi-shift model

• Switching from workshop to flow production

• Leaning work preparation and realignment

• Significantly reducing lead times

• Optimizing workforce planning

• Validating maintenance with focus on prevention

• Appointing QM manager and standardizing processes

• Restructuring multiple departments including leadership appointments