Freelance Interim Manager and Consultant for Supply Chain Management
scm-expert
Jul 2008 - Feb 2010
1 year 8 months
Ranstadt, Germany
Supply Chain Manager
RCP Ranstadt GmbH
Responsible for Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), CRM as well as operational and strategic purchasing (14 employees).
Head of the 'Budelpack International S&OP System' for the entire group.
Successfully introduced SAP material planning and configuration (MRP).
Appointed group Supply Chain Manager before insolvency.
(Formerly Budelpack (BPI) – sold due to insolvency).
Feb 2008 - Jun 2008
5 months
Bad Schmiedeberg, Germany
Sales Manager
CZEWO Full Filling Service GmbH & Co.KG
Managed CRM for all customers, including inside sales (5 employees).
Costing and profit control.
Special project: Integration of the key account Henkel while streamlining the small customer portfolio (consolidating small customers to distributors).
Feb 2006 - Nov 2007
1 year 10 months
Fulda, Germany
Project Manager Co-Packing Germany
SCA Packaging Deutschland
Developed the contract packaging (Co-Packing) business unit for existing customers and selected potential additional contract packaging partners.
Built a network of Co-Packing partners.
Mar 2003 - Jan 2006
2 years 11 months
Euskirchen, Germany
Operations Manager SONOCO Europe
SONOCO / Procter & Gamble (P&G) Pack Centre
Sole responsibility for budget and profit (P&L) with up to 150 employees, reporting lines to UK and USA.
Project planning and commissioning of new production equipment.
Implemented Lean Production principles and P&G quality management according to GMP.
Complete implementation of an IT structure combining P&G, SAP, SONOCO, Navision and an operational MES system.
Apr 2001 - Jul 2003
2 years 4 months
Wiesbaden, Germany
Supply Chain Manager
SONOCO / Mitsubishi Polyesterfilm
Coordinated all indirect procurement (7 FTE) and logistics (5 FTE).
Managed shipments to 36 countries with 12,500 deliveries and a 5,000-ton inventory.
System implementation of SAP processes.
Feb 1999 - Mar 2001
2 years 2 months
Brussels, Belgium
Coordinator of the SONOCO Purchasing and Logistics Council (P2P Process) for Germany and Eastern Europe
SONOCO
Responsible for approx. €80 million procurement volume, approx. €20 million logistics volume, 12 sites and 18 employees – cross-divisional.
Selection and negotiations with all strategic suppliers and logistics partners worldwide.
Introduced cost saving tracking system for procurement and logistics including operational KPIs.
Mar 1994 - Jan 1999
4 years 11 months
Merzenich, Germany
IT, Controlling, Purchasing and Logistics Manager
SONOCO Deutschland GmbH
Initially IT and Controlling Manager (from 03/1994) with additional responsibility for finance and production metrics at the Merzenich site.
Also Purchasing Manager (from 07/1995) with additional responsibility for global procurement with a purchasing volume > 10 million DM.
Also Logistics Manager (from 01/1996) with additional responsibility for 12 employees, logistics costs >2 million DM.
Member of the European transport team for logistics analysis SONOCO Europe + USA (from 07/1995).
Founder and head of the German procurement team (from 01/1996).
Member of the SONOCO Merzenich management team (from 04/1996).
Jul 1984 - Feb 1994
9 years 8 months
Düren, Germany
IT Manager
MBS GmbH
Responsible for the entire IT landscape.
(The company was acquired by SONOCO on 01/01/1994).
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Aug 1987 - Jun 1990
Commercial Schools of the Düren District
State-Certified Business Economist · Düren, Germany