Freelance Project Lead (Area: IT & Organization)

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

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)

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

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