Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area
1. Experienced Supply Chain Director with extensive leadership (over 20 years) across established and emerging markets in consumer goods industry working on internationally stock listed companies. Strong operations professional skilled in fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) with deep knowledge in logistics (warehousing, transportation, distribution), Supply Chain E-Commerce (D2C), Planning (Demand & Supply Planning, DRP, Inventory Management, S&OP, SAP (APO), Network Optimization, CoMan and to a lesser extent Manufacturing Additionally, I gained experience in Quality, Procurement and Brand Protection 2. Proven success in the establishment and further development of Supply chain strategies and delivering successful multifunctional projects, building value-added business processes and change management to increase corporate results. Additionally I developed and implemented the S&OP Process on local and global level. 3. My leadership style emphasizes team development, strategic thinking with a healthy pragmatism and flexibility to enable me to inspire and motivate individuals and teams, peers and senior management. My leadership values include openness, honesty, trust, transparency, respect, collaboration and empowerment
• S&OP Implementation for the e-commerce business globally to reduce out of stock, obsolete stock, increase NSV and launch quicker Innovations • Center of Excellence function (COE) – Integrated and documented for two departments the processes as ‘best in class’ • E-Commerce Webshop – Projectmanager for new own webshop to ship single bottles globally, which resulted in higher service level and NSV • Brand Protection – created of new cross functional team and protected global Brands by removing counterfeit and fake webshops which resulted in higher NSV and consumer health • Close engagement with global senior Stakeholders to align strategy and owned successful either monthly or quarterly meetings with clear reporting • Case Management System – Projectmanager for developing, tendering and installation of new system to track all customer service and quality requests which increased service levels and met compliance requirement • Management and implementation of new 3 PL Providers with KPI monitoring at lower costs • Digital Transformation – Analyzed status quo and build Roadmap for next 3 years • Great Place to work - received over 80% satisfaction for Team of 9 global employees
· Responsible for the Distribution (Transport, Warehousing, Planning, S&OP, Customer Service, Procurement for Germany and Austria (150Mio NSV) and increased Service Levels, maintained costs with new reportings · Management of 3rd Party Logistics Providers (incl. negotiations) to increase Service, reduce leadtimes and keep costs at same level · Responsibility for 34 distributor countries (220 Mio. NSV) from Supply Chain perspective which resulted in higher Service Levels and opened new own Route to Market in South Africa · S&OP Implementation within Beamsuntory and outside with key distributors in regard to ‘One Number’ (Volume to value) for standard Products, innovations, VAPS and allocations which resulted in higher Forecast accuracy · Optimization of the Supply Chain in and outside of these countries which reduced Lead-times and transport costs · E-Commerce counterpart for ‘Cross Border Sales to Amazon’ which increased NSV · Responsible for 18 employees in different Markets in EMEA
· Reporting - implementation of monthly KPI Deck which improved cost and service · Inventory - optimization of forecast to reduce standard stock and installed new process for obsolete stock to improve the cash flow for 120 Mio NSV · Implementation of the new S&OP Process with Sales, Marketing and Logistics which improved the forecast accuracy by 10% (Volume to value, One Number, Innovations, VAPS and Allocations) · Customer Service Process improvement to secure value-added Packages (VAPS’S) in time for the requested Promotional Slots at the Customer for 1 Mio bottles which was achieved every year · Optimization of the complete Supply Chain in and outside of Germany · Customer Negotiations to increase Service Levels and costs with 3 PL Involvement · Quality Manager for German and Austrian Market to secure compliance guidelines · Responsible for 14 employees in Supply Chain, Procurement and Office Management and had over 80% satisfaction rate
· Implementation of S&OP Process for Germany and Austria and implementation of SAP APO in all three countries incl. new central Masterdata file · Achievement of the TOP5 targets as Inventory, Service, Customer, People and Compliance in the last two years which supported strongly the cost agenda and released cash · Active involvement in strategy decisions and responsible to support growth agenda of company (120 Mio NSV) · Leadership and Relationship building with local and international stakeholders which enabled funding for important projects · Optimization and continuous improvement of the Supply Chain Management · Achievement of the internal ‘Overall Champions Award’ for the supply chain department in 2012 due to outstanding performance of the complete team of 6 employees and attended internal leadership program
· Responsibility for Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as for Guinness Beer Germany · Ownership of the complete Supply Chain from end consumer to Production incl. RTD (Ready to Drink) and the move to new Production facility which produced around 60million bottles/year · Implementation of relationship Projects between Sales, Marketing and Logistics · Harmonization of the central Warehouse in Switzerland · Reporting of monthly KPI Deck which reduced the Cost per Case Rate · Redesign of the innovation process to launch processes more efficient and cost effective into the Market · Creation of a service minded Team with five employees
· Responsibility for complete Distribution for Germany and Austria and secured 48 hour deliveries · Project Management which improved Transport KPI and Warehouse KPI · Warehouse Tender and move to one central Warehouse which reduced inventory and costs by over 20% · Installation of new KPI Reporting for Customer Service and Planning Team to reduce out of stocks and obsolete stocks · Masterdata Strategy Development (One World Sync) which was used from all departments and all customers · Teamlead for four employees with functional leadership
• Responsibility for complete Backoffice functions with 12 employees (incl. Headoffice and Subsidiaries) to secure efficient process, controlling and invoicing for the agreed services
- Responsible for the Warehousing and Transport for the German and Austrian Market (120Mio NSV) - Projectmanagement for implementing the new fully automated Warehouse with SAP - Responsible for Team of 5 employees