Michael Kunisch

Freelance Project Lead (Area: IT & Organization)

Blaichach, Germany
Experience
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
7 months

Freelance Project Lead (Area: IT & Organization)

Tepo – Gebäudedienste GmbH

Office organization and IT infrastructure optimization:

  • Replace and renew existing client PCs with update to Windows 11 - mobile workstations with laptops and docking stations
  • Introduce Office 365 with use of OneDrive
  • Introduce e-invoicing with Datev accounting software
  • Revise standard programs used in daily office work
  • Store data in SharePoint instead of local storage
  • New permission structure for users
  • Use Microsoft accounts to sync profiles
  • Reorganize document scanning process with storing data in SharePoint
  • New backup concept in addition to Microsoft cloud solution
  • Introduce new data structures: review and separate existing data into active, inactive, private, business
  • Simplify processes
  • Increase data security, improve security
  • Continuous data availability at all internal and external workstations
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
1 year 4 months
Füssen, Germany

Freelance Project Lead (Area: Controlling & Logistics)

PMG GmbH

Project B: Sales, logistics, production planning, and procurement with SAP R3:

  • Controlling of production relocation to Romania
  • Contribution margin calculations at part level as part of relocation to the production site in Romania
  • Budget planning 2024 - material usage, capacity, inventory valuation, personnel planning
  • From January 2024 based in Füssen, responsible for logistics, procurement, production control, and planning
  • Optimize SAP for production planning in Romania
  • Coordinate sales processing and deliveries from Füssen
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
4 months
Füssen, Germany

Freelance Project Lead (Area: Controlling & Logistics)

PMG GmbH

Project A: Sales and production controlling in connection with SAP R3:

  • Create data exports from SAP functions
  • Data exports and integration of EDI calls into contribution margin calculations
  • Standardize, optimize, and automate existing controlling reports
  • Automate presentations for monthly reports
Feb 2023 - Sep 2024
1 year 8 months
Hawangen, Germany

Freelance Project Lead (Area: Logistics & Production)

Robert Plersch Edelstahl GmbH

Project A: Installation of a new product line (Duration Feb. 2023 – Jan. 2024):

  • Setup project for production, logistics, organization, controlling
  • Concept for packaging these products
  • Create capacity planning, determine personnel needs for the project
  • Improve and simplify processes of this new product line as part of zero-series production

Project B: Installation of OEE process for the standard business process in connection with AP+ (Duration Jul. 2023 – Sep. 2024):

  • Align capacities and order planning in the overall process
  • Compare target vs actual times in production and identify possible improvements
  • Improve and simplify processes in organization, software, and production
  • Align existing KPIs in the ERP system AP+
  • Install AI dashboards in AP+ for Shopfloor Management (SFM)
Jan 2023 - Present
2 years 7 months
Blaichach, Germany

Project Manager and Interim Manager

Ingenieurbüro Kunisch

  • Interim management, project management, consulting, control, implementation services
  • Target group: medium-sized companies
  • Areas: IT, organization, production, logistics, controlling, work preparation, procurement

Since 2023 independent consultant and interim manager, specialized in planning and implementing improvement projects in medium-sized manufacturing companies.

Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
6 months
Weißenhorn, Germany

Freelance Project Lead (Area: IT & Organization)

Claus Oehme Büro für Allfinanz DVAG

Office organization and IT infrastructure optimization:

  • Replace and renew existing client PCs with update to Windows 11
  • Mobile workstations with laptops and docking stations
  • Introduce Office 365 and link to DVAG system
  • Revise standard programs used in daily office work
  • Store data in SharePoint instead of local NAS to allow home office use
  • New permission structure for users
  • Use Microsoft accounts to sync profiles
  • Reorganize document scanning process with storing data in SharePoint
  • New backup concept in addition to Microsoft cloud solution
  • Introduce new data structures: review and separate existing data into active, inactive, private, business
  • Simplify processes
  • Increase data security, improve security
  • Continuous data availability at all internal and external workstations
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
6 years
Nesselwang, Germany

Head of Stamping & IT Division

Klaus Baier GmbH & Co. KG

Product area: Manufacturing and distribution of stamped parts, molded parts, and toolmaking. Industry: automotive, mechanical engineering, environmental technology, white goods. Revenue: approx. €20 M. Areas of responsibility: work preparation, production, procurement, logistics, maintenance, IT.

Projects and content:

  • Project 26: IT / production (Period 2017 to 2018)
  • Update server structure, clients, mail & network
  • Sales & capacity planning for stamping
  • Reduce overtime in manufacturing
  • Project 27: Production (Period 2018 to 2020)
  • Bottleneck control of production
  • Introduce lean management in stamping department
  • Introduce monthly inventories with valuation
  • Install KPIs in production
  • Reduce production costs of stamping
  • Project 28: IT / production (Period 2020 to 2021)
  • Install Kanban warehouse at Nesselwang site
  • Introduce ERP system AP+ with digitization
  • Reduce inventory of these products
Jan 1993 - Dec 2016
24 years
Immenstadt, Germany

Manager in various leadership positions

Kunert AG und deren Tochtergesellschaften

Product areas: Manufacturing and distribution of legwear for women and men, outerwear. Industry: textile. Revenue 1993: approx. €300 M. Responsibilities: work preparation, logistics, production, IT, customs, controlling.

  • Comprehensive interdisciplinary expertise
  • Skilled in leadership and motivation of employees
  • Quick comprehension and strong customer focus
  • Entrepreneurial thinking and action
  • High social competence and integrity
  • Creative engineer with focus on processes and process costs
  • Experienced and successful in project management for IT, logistics, and production

Excerpt of projects as leader, project manager or key user:

  • Project 1: Introduction of planning system (Period 1994 to 1995)
  • Monthly planning with quantities and values at item and group level
  • Forecast calculation for standard items based on past data
  • Projection of fashion items based on past data
  • Improve planning deviations
  • Reduce processing time
  • Project 2: Introduction of sales planning system (Period 1996)
  • Primary requirements calculation considering inventory, safety stock and planning data, production orders
  • Reduce inventory, improve delivery
  • Project 3: Introduction of capacity calculation (Period 1997 to 1998)
  • Introduce capacity groups at bottleneck work steps in 4 different production sites for brands Kunert, Hudson, Burlington
  • Reduce idle costs
  • Increase on-time delivery performance of plants
  • Project 4: Internet (Period 1998)
  • Prepare and implement Kunert AG internet presence
  • Design a web shop with inventory connection for Kunert Fashion GmbH
  • Digitize information system of Kunert AG for shareholders
  • Increase internet presence of Kunert brand
  • Project 5: ISO9001 certification (Period 1997 to 1998)
  • Certify Kunert Fashion GmbH according to ISO9001 including creation of the QMB manual
  • Standardize business processes and meet market certificate requirements
  • Project 6: Logistics (Period 1998)
  • Introduce batch in ERP system Kunert AG as separating criterion in warehouse and production to distinguish additional attributes as supplement to item identification
  • Reduce packaging costs
  • Improve planning with price changes and packaging changes
  • Project 7: Field sales software (Period 1998 to 1999)
  • Introduce Lotus Notes as mail system with Gedys databases for order entry for field sales
  • Transfer master data: customers, prices, items
  • Transfer customer orders, sales and shipment data from history
  • Reduce order throughput times
  • Better information system for field sales
  • Project 8: Year 2000 software (Period 1999)
  • Prepare and review all systems, programs, applications for Year 2000 compliance or replace or newly acquire systems as needed
  • Prevent system failures at year-end
  • Project 9: ERP system (Period 1999 to 2000)
  • Introduce Infor AS as ERP system at Stuttgart site
  • Replace old hardware & software with standard software
  • Project 10: ERP system (Period 2000 to 2001)
  • Reengineering and introduce Infor AS as ERP system at Immenstadt site
  • Introduce standard software across group
  • Reduce software maintenance effort
  • Project 11: ERP system (Period 2002)
  • Design / introduce data warehouse for sales statistics
  • Reduce paper use by stopping old statistic lists and central controlling of sales data
  • Project 12: Logistics (Period 2003)
  • Design/implement relocation of distribution center Mindelheim to Immenstadt
  • Reduce logistics costs for these products
  • Project 13: Logistics (Period 2004)
  • Design/implement relocation of distribution center Hudson to Immenstadt
  • Reduce logistics costs for these products
  • Project 14: Controlling (Period 2005)
  • Build reporting of inventories with a data warehouse
  • Design MIS system for cost center controlling with link to optical archive for document display
  • Reduce inventory and central controlling of cost centers
  • Project 15: Logistics (Period 2006)
  • Design/implement relocation of distribution center Burlington to Immenstadt
  • Reduce logistics costs for brand Burlington
  • Project 16: ERP system (Period 2007)
  • Introduce Infor AS as ERP system for company Burlington
  • Relocate Burlington site to Immenstadt
  • Reduce administrative costs for brand Burlington
  • Project 17: Production (Period 2007)
  • Develop key performance indicators for production in Immenstadt and Morocco
  • Feedback and progress postings of production orders by completion rate and rescheduling delivery date
  • Optimize on-time delivery
  • Improve production costs
  • Project 18: Production (Period 2006 to 2008)
  • Relocate production from Hungary to Morocco
  • Reduce production costs for these products
  • Set up joint venture in China (Qingdao) for 200 knitting machines with integration to production control Immenstadt (AS/400 I-Series)
  • Reduce production costs for these products
  • Project 19: ERP system (Period 2008)
  • ERP Infor AS version upgrade from 1.2 to 2.2
  • Update ERP system to current standard
  • Activate additional standard modules in Infor AS such as customs and address checks
  • Project 20: Production (Period 2008)
  • Relocate coarse knitting in Germany to Morocco – 300 knitting machines
  • Integration to production control Immenstadt (AS/400 I-Series)
  • Reduce production costs for these products
  • Project 21: Financial accounting (Period 2009)
  • Consolidate 6 subsidiaries in financial accounting MAS90 and synchronize with Infor AS
  • Align cost center plans
  • Build new reporting structure and profit & loss reporting
  • Build cash flow planning including open items, payment terms, and purchase orders
  • Reduce time required for monthly closing
  • Project 22: Logistics / ERP system (Period 2010)
  • Relocate Hudson items to Ecom shipping center in Berlin
  • Integrate Herlitz field sales into Infor AS for order processing
  • Use existing Herlitz infrastructure for field sales and logistics
  • Project 23: Knitting production (Period 2010 to 2011)
  • Design and implement partial relocation of fine knitting to Morocco – 160 machines
  • Reduce production costs for these products
  • Project 24: ERP system (Period 2012)
  • Automate customs processing – customs invoice – passive toll refining – proof of origin – preferential rights – sanctions list address checks
  • Reduce effort for customs processing
  • Project 25: ERP system / controlling (Period 2013 to 2014)
  • ERP Infor AS version upgrade from 2.2 to 3.1
  • Optimize inventory valuation and contribution margin accounting at plant and item level
Summary

Over 30 years of experience in: organization & IT, planning, logistics, procurement, production, and controlling

Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Advanced
Education
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Diploma in Industrial Engineering (University of Applied Sciences) · Industrial Engineering

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