Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Supply Chain Professional with 15+ years' international work experience in strategic supply chain management and logistics ✔ Proven track record of delivering successful assignments to enhance operational performance in large complex production environments, launches, relocations, and 3rd party operations ✔ Expert in process improvements, supply chain cost reductions, preparing businesses for growth, and Lean Management principles ✔ Strong education background with an MBA at a top Business School KEY SKILLS: 3rd Party Operations (3PL) | Airfreight | Allocation Planning | Analysis | Automotive | Betäubungsmittel (BTM) | Budgeting | Business Process Design | B2B | B2C | Capacity Forecast | Coaching | Cold Chain | Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) | Continuous Improvement | Contract Compilation | Contract Manufacturing | Cosmetics | Cost Analysis | Danaher Business System (DBS) | Digitalization | Distribution Planning | eCommerce | Employee Involvement | Fast-moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) | GDP (Good Distribution Practice) | Generics | Global Expertise in US, Europe, and Asia | Implementation | International and Global Supply Chain | Inventory Management | Kaizen | KPIs | Large Client Relationship Management | Leadership | Lean Management | Logistics | M & A / Mergers and Acquisitions | Manufacturing | Materials Management | Narcotics | Negotiation | Network Design | Operations | Packaging | Performance Analysis | Pharma | Pharmaceutical | Practical Problem Solving (PPS) | Process Design | Production Planning | Production Scheduling | Project Management | Purchasing | Reefer | Retail | Root Cause Investigation | Routing | SAP WM | S&OP / SIOP | Seafreight | Serialization Silk Route | SKU Management | Sourcing | Supplier Management | Supplier Relationship Management | Supply Chain Cost Reduction | Supply Chain Strategy Development | Supply Chain Visibility | Team Building | Transformation | Transportation | Variance Analysis | Vendor Relationship Management | Visualization | VMI | Warehousing | Wholesale Language skills: English, German, Spanish Computer skills: MS Office; BPCS/ AS400, Infor, Mapics, DAX, SAP (ERP, MRP); FAS/MS, MPS, SLIM4 (Planning Software), Hyperion, Cliqview, Tableau, PowerBI (data consolidation); PeopleSoft, ADP, Hero, Cora, Ariba; Windows, Mac
STADA Arzneimittel AG focuses on a three-pillar strategy consisting of consumer healthcare products, generics, and speciality pharma. Approx. 120 countries, €3.8 B sales, 13.000 people ✔ Strategy - Created first ever logistics cost reporting + Tableau Dashboard, recognized by CFO TechOps as “significant contribution to company success in 2021” - Created contract and service level (KPIs) templates for air & sea transport as well as for storage for group-wide usage - Developed transport strategy (e.g. airfreight approval flow) and conceptualized global distribution network and warehouse tender calendar - Initialized contract negotiation with largest (narcotics-) warehouse provider incl. internal & external stakeholder management - Member of the Global Supply Chain Leadership team - Set up Global Logistics Community meetings and best practice sharing ✔ Cost Savings - Saved 2.3 Mio. € through transport transformation (several process-re-design & tenders) - Piloted silk-route by GDP certified train to and from China to proof concept - Advised executives on newly set-up SC and its costly shipping routes and saved 1 Mio. € through tender ✔ Process improvements - Digitalized processes to obtain COAs and to visualize major transport flows - Relocated international distribution from one warehouse to other to ensure growth ✔ Projects - Participated in due diligence prior to merger & acquisition (M&A) activities and integrated new production site incl. distribution to 30+ countries and 7 joint markets into existing supply chain - Set-up 5 ad-hoc overflow pharma warehouses within 5 months during Covid-Emergency, monitored capacity and slowly ramped down operations (project received agility award) - Avoided write-offs through guiding process owners in emergency shipments due to artwork change or track & trace implementations
Founded in 2000, Rituals is the first brand in the world to combine Home & Body cosmetics. Inspired by natural ingredients and ancient Eastern beauty traditions Rituals aims to produce inspiring products for the care of your body and home. Rituals transforms everyday events into something extraordinary. At the brands core is the belief that happiness can be found in the smallest of things. ✔ Managed all operational matters for multiple business units including Demand Forecasting, Capacity Planning, Inventory Management, and Logistics ✔ Developed strategies and guided operational market development in different geographical regions in the US ✔ Saved 7 days transportation time for import by optimizing international sea shipments from central warehouse in Europe to the US ✔ Created and Implemented S&OP wholistic process which encompassed all 1000+ active SKUs ✔ Set up new fulfilment center for 30.000 daily orders incl. RFP, supplier selection, geographic siting ✔Led (remotely) staff in the New York e-Commerce warehouse incl. hiring / terminations, bonus, and performance reviews
✔ Managed the supply chain for all business units, reporting to CEO USA ✔ Developed and implemented logistics plans incl. supplier contracts, routing guidelines, problem resolution, and cost containment ✔ Increased B2C on time delivery (OTD) from 60% to 97% through process improvement of order processing in warehouse and setting new goals ✔ Reduced out of stock situation by 70% through forecast-process ✔ Created new distribution channels including the design of all administrative, logistical and financial processes, and reduced obsolete inventory by 170K € ✔ Led team in local fulfilment center
Pantone is the leading international color standards company used by designers and manufacturers across industries and geographies. Pantone has expanded from professional B2B products and services into a consumer brand with licensed products in cosmetics, fashion, home, and hospitality. Pantone is a subsidiary of X-Rite, the global leader in color science and technology. X-Rite is an operating company of Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR). Danaher (59,000 associates, $16.5B revenue, #133 on Fortune 500) is among the best performing NYSE listed companies with outperforming the S&P 500 by more than 2,000% over 20 years. Head of global logistics with supervision of 8 associates on site and management of several 3PLs locations worldwide. ✔ Increased on-time delivery from 95% to 99+% ✔ Participated in week-long Kaizen event for inventory transactions and reduced leadtime by 18 days ✔ Participated in week-long Shingijutsu-Kaizen event for freight cost optimization for usage of reefers in a cold-chain environment at Leica Biosystems. Savings > 160K pa. ✔ Accompanied new product launches from a logistics perspective for Color of the Year 2017 campaign with worldwide impact across various industries ✔ Initiated Kaizen event for improvement of existing Kanban cycles and reduced missed scans and enhanced inventory visibility ✔ Implemented TPM logic for daily management in warehouse with >10,000 SKUs to improve logistics quality ✔ Formulated and executed strategic plan for global logistics incl. ecommerce
GKN Driveline develops, builds and supplies a range of automotive driveline products and systems for use in the most sophisticated premium vehicles - 90% of car manufacturers work with GKN (56,000 employees; $7.2B revenue) Head of logistic department in production plant with supervision of 25 full-time employees and additional temps | 380 employees | yearly turnover approx. $100M ✔ Managed a 25-person logistics team handling warehousing (86 suppliers, > 600 monthly FTL / LTL, 39 customers), material movement & production planning and scheduling (ca. 1,000 SKUs) with an operational budget of $1M ✔ Launched successfully large customer to serial production with an impact of 20% of total sales ✔ Developed and built up new supplier for barshafts (with outsourcing cutting process) to save yearly $300K ✔ Ramped up effectively temporary emergency support for Fortune 10 customer (incl. ad hoc EDI and ASN connection and packaging) and increased number of shifts per week from 15 to 20 ✔ Standardized inventory management by defining planning guidelines & instructed staff on new processes; saving $200K in obsolete inventory, decreasing backlogs by 90%, and improving delivery schedule from 43% to 92%, all within first 6 months ✔ Adapted lean management principles on packaging and yielded $4 - 20K on multiple applications by optimizing lot size in container and foldable / unfoldable or one-way / returnable properties ✔ Designed annual strategy aligned with international business units and prepared budget expenses for working capital, which resulted in better optimization of the budget ✔ Organized 110K f2 / 10K m2 of warehouse area and balanced work intensity over 3 shifts and 7 days ✔ Established parameter guidelines for short-, medium- and long-term planning and held SIOP / S&OP meetings for a standardized inventory management process to improve working capital ✔ Constantly verified compliance to policies, standards, and governance
Responsible for strategic supply chain management in Europe | 17 locations | yearly turnover approx. $2B Simultaneously led multiple international cross-matrix projects and held functional leadership for inter-plant material flow (level 3 pull flow), transport, and packaging ✔ Coordinated sub-project "Logistics" of large (> $1B) global program launch, synchronized international collaboration on packaging development, re-negotiated InCoTerms with large customer and conserved 6 days of inventory (DOI) ✔ Analyzed data on inter-plant material movements and assessed need for inventory transparency, identified rollout roadmap for new ERP extension, served as super user, and incorporated tool in 7 plants which consolidated inventory by 23% ✔ Shaped strategic sourcing decisions for new business projects (RFP/RFQ) and made recommendations to executive level, facilitated transportation project after merger and reduced lead times by 2 days ✔ Audited incoming freight from 54 suppliers to a production site, negotiated with logistic vendors to work out ideal transportation costs and lead-time through 4 sea ports, Free Trade Zones & customs for approx. 700 SKUs ✔ Drove innovation in material flow & supply, packaging, and warehousing by implementing best practice solutions within and outside industry, such as airport trailers as means of transport for finished goods between assembly and external warehouse ✔ Provided comprehensive feasibility of each packaging to define function, manufacturability, (tooling) pricing, development lead time, risk & global consistency, and conceptualized standards for lean packaging ✔ Trained 15 senior leaders on Value Stream Mapping and coached one senior manager over a period of 1 year in lean management tools ✔ Maintained 3rd party deliveries from Asia (China) in Vendor Management Environment (VMI) ✔ Awarded with 1st place in European Supply Chain Competition "Fresh Connection" co-facilitated by APICS
Responsible for supply chain projects in North European region | 8 locations | yearly turnover approx. $1B ✔ Managed several international cross-matrix projects for 8 production sites located in different countries, on time and within budget ✔ Established Excel-based E-Kanban system (inventory transparency tool) and implemented pilot applications between 2 plants that decreased stock by 67% for 2 product lines ✔ Analyzed all material movements in a production site, documented process flows, and solved logistic issues that sped up the onsite material distribution ✔ Operated warehouse relocation (22K f2 / 2K m2) incl. (IT) equipment and layout design ✔ Co-Developed Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (S&OP / SIOP) tool in Excel for inventory forecasts, and prepared regional rollout map ✔ Created the skills matrix for all supply chain & logistic personnel, which allowed company to target training needs ✔ Calculated the impact of large-scale pre-launch-production for OEM on storage, warehouse, capital lockup, packaging, manpower, and management, which was basis for 100% expense reimbursement ✔ Examined intra- and interplant material flows principles (forklifts, tow trains, trolleys with small load carriers), organized supplier day for public tender & RFP, elaborated and conducted viability tests with support from functional departments, and consulted leadership on best direction ✔ Originated and introduced procedures to evaluate supply chain expenses ✔ Representative reporting to division of logistical KPIs (sales, backlogs, customer DSA and supplier performance, inventory / stock level, special freight costs) ✔ Wrote articles about supply chain strategies in company internal staff magazine ✔ Participated in leadership development program focused on lean management (see below)