Owner

• Leading the global purchasing team for raw materials and indirect purchasing

• Organizational development

• Defining roles

• Taking over the Global Logistics function

• Developing a global transport strategy for 6 sites (DE, US, CN, VN)

• Tender management

• Defining logistics processes and mapping them in ERP Canias

• Negotiating prices and contracts for raw materials and CAPEX

• Implementing a global purchasing structure

• Defining a qualification matrix and qualification requirements

• Defining a product group strategy

• Defining and implementing global logistics and transport standards

• Reducing transportation costs by 45%

• Planning and coordinating sourcing activities

• Preparing and analyzing cost breakdowns

• Creating RFI/RFQ documents

• Conducting price negotiations

• Coaching and sparring with the purchasing team and other subproject managers

• Advising on optimizing processes in the purchasing team/project purchasing

• Optimizing task distribution and setting targets

• Advising on project management and project controlling

• Improving communication and meeting structures

• Advising on identifying and implementing cost-saving potentials

• Meeting target costs of the bill of materials

• Sourcing all components and prequalifying a 1st and 2nd source

• Defining target processes

• Organizational development

• Defining product category and supplier strategy

• Supporting the introduction of a shop floor data collection system

• Establishing a state-of-the-art procurement function

• Reducing material prices by approx. 15%

• Reducing working capital by approx. 20% while ensuring secure supply for operations

Mapping the entire order network and demand planning

• Project management (team of 4)

• Concept development

• Specification document creation

• Tendering, negotiation of the framework agreement

• Implementation

• Reduced order process costs by >20%

• Implementation of an MES system

• Increased customer on-time delivery by 15%

E-procurement platform for all non-stock materials (indirect, services, etc.) at 3 German sites (pilot project for global rollout) including catalog content

• Project management (team of 3)

• Concept development

• Specification document creation

• Tendering, negotiation of the framework agreement

• Definition of target processes

• Restructuring of commodity group taxonomy

• Implementation

• Reduced order process costs by 15%

• Reduced purchasing costs by an average of 5%

Digitized allocation of loading times for about 200 transports daily across 7 locations (30 loading points, 3 countries)

• Project management (team of 12)

• Concept development

• Requirements specification

• Tendering, framework contract negotiation

• Implementation

• Reduced idle-time costs by over 80%

• Reduced personnel costs by about 15%

Transfer of warehouse logistics to an external logistics partner

• Project management (team of 2)

• Concept development

• Requirements specification

• Tendering, framework contract negotiation

• Implementation

• Reduction of fixed costs, introduction of system-based inventory management