Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Experienced Supply Chain Manager with a rich track of records in the Steel industry. Strong operational skills in Strategic Purchasing & Sourcing, Supply Chain (S&OP and Production Planning tools), Roll-out of ERPs (SAP), and Continuous Improvement in multi-cultural environment.
Production of dairy products for own brand and private labels (Turnover: approx. 100 million euros - SC relevant stock value approx. 7.5 million euros) My Tasks : Management of an End-to-end Supply Chain - Management of the teams (approx. 60 FTEs of which 25 Shopfloor FTEs) - Responsibilities : Strategic and operational purchasing (ingredients & packaging), production planning, logistics : raw and finished material warehouses, transport & dispatch - Supply Chain Standardisation : Introduction of overall and team specific KPI's with corresponding targets as basis for the Continuous Improvement Process - New design of the S&OP process : from a monthly meeting focusing on specific issues to a classic S&OP meeting structure. - Introduction of a new forecasting tool (FutureMaster), resulting in significant Forecast-Accuracy improvement (from approx. 45% to 80% for MTS SKUs) - Run of a stock design Results: Improvement of delivery performance from 91 to 97% Finished Goods stocks -45% Product losses - 55% - Management of Intercompany Business : from 300 to 1100 to per year in one year
Automotive Tiers 1 : Delivery in JIS/JIT of OEMs like Audi, Daimler, Ford for Serial and Spare-Parts - Member of the plant management team - Management of the Supply Chain Team (58 people, of which 38 Shopfloor) - Tasks : * Supply Chain Transformation : Introduction of a new SC organisation, Competence Matrix, new job descriptions, identification of training/training needs, change management) * Supplier management in cooperation with the purchasing Head Office - Raw material suppliers of paint products, plastic granulate, components (e.g., parking sensors,,,) - Transport suppliers : for delivery to the customer and collection from our suppliers - Suppliers of logistic services : - Packaging deliveries to the plant in JIS, combined with consignment stock - Management of external warehouses : Supply of trading goods and further processing of parts, direct dispatch to customers Monthly evaluation of the delivery performance Success : Closure in 3 months of external warehouse with immediate savings effect * Introduction of a S&OP and planning / control of production tool redesign for serial parts (as well as for the aftermarket business) for automotive OEMs such as Ford, Daimler, Audi, VW, BMW,,,, Successes: No missed deliveries (Dummies/Cripples) from 10.2019 until 01.2020 incl. Reduction of the spare parts order backlog (-50% in 01.2020 vs 01.2019) * Inventory management : - Introduction / generalisation of zoning for each type of products - Introduction of permanent inventory process Successes : 30% stock reduction in Quarter 4 2019 Annual Stock-Take result end 2019 : radical improvment vs 2018
Supply Chain Service Development : Supply Chain department dedicated to strategic Group Customers : OEM's : Jaguar Land-Rover, Ford, PSA,Volvo, Volkswagen Tiers 1 : SNOP, Gestamp, Benteler, Magna Yellow Goods : JCB Packaging : Ball, Crown, Silgan * Participation to the S&OP Project at group level : scope Distribution Units Extensive use of Agile methodology * Interaction with Group Strategic Marketing and Sales on the definition of Strategic Customers * Development of a Supply Chain Toolkit to support tailor-made Supply Chain Projects propositions to the customers (for ex : Connected SC for OEMs, End-to-End Supply Chain Dashboards) * Development of a Supply Chain Control Tower particularly for overseas customers to make material flows transparent and feed into Automatic Replenishment tools * Risk Management : Risk Champion for Commercial (incl. Sales, Supply Chain, Production Planning, Logistic and IT) : Regular crtitcal review of identified Risks, financial evaluation with the Risk Owners, identification of new Risks, Reporting to Group Risk Management Organisation * Develpment of tools to analyse Customer Forecasting Behaviour and Accuracy
- Create one Supply Chain Organisation accross LG * Develop and Implement one S&OP Process * Harmonize Processes and Reporting accross LG - Deliver improvement in Delivery Performance to Customers - Develop and implement sourcing approach LG - Achieve operational targets (stock targets, implement Sourcing Approach)
My responsabilities included : - Support creation of a common Supply Chain for 3 Service Centers (SSC's) in Germany and in the Netherlands - Support the creation and organization of structured material flows between the suppliers (mills) and the SSC's in order to increase availability and decrease stocks (OFID process) - Harmonize specifications within a site and cross sites in order to create new runners and repeaters (OFID+ Process) - Implement IT-tools in order to increase transparency and efficiency in the supply chain (Rapid environment) - Manage the change with the local teams and management
Purchasing Manager for Flat Steels (11 Mo Euros, ca. 18.000 to) - Negotiation of prices and volumes for the various European production sites (ca. 15.000to) - Implementation of centralised purchasing management in this new structure - Supplier and material resourcing to improve purchase prices Purchasing Manager for Spring Wire (6 Mo of Euros, ca 2.500to) : This new product family was taken over during the year. Meeting of local sites teams (2 in France, 1 in the Netherlands, 1 in Great Britain) and of the suppliers : - Learning the specificities of drawing and the different fields of application. - Implementation of purchasing strategy, supplier panel (sourcing), reporting