Adendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany
Strong people management skills and broad experience to lead Customer/consumer focus Idea leadership, business acumen linked with international experiences Strategic agility based on strong analytical / conceptual skills and excellent project management Communication and negotiation skills to manage cross functional teams and projects Financial skills for budgeting and costing
Leading and managing the S&OP process for the business units Food, Beverages and Plastic Production / Recycling, in total 13 Manufacturing Units, two distribution centres and multiple plant distribution hubs. Developing and leading implementation of supply chain and logistic strategies and practices, aligned with short and long-term business objectives such as implementing an integrated business planning tool (OR-Soft SAP Add On) across all business units/plants including Demand- / Production Planning, Production Scheduling and Procurement Planning. Ensure supply chain metrics and key performance indicators are tracked and drive appropriate responses in terms of deviation from plan. Merge Supply Chain KPIs in digital dashboards in accordance to Schwarz Group’s digitalizing agenda Identify cost reduction opportunities based upon benchmarking data and key cost driver analysis, initiate and run logistic process improvements, setting standards for supply chain and logistic operation processes while managing logistics cost (warehousing, transportation and distribution) 100 million € p. a. effectively. Run key network optimization projects, e. g. building and integrating EU largest high bay warehouse for frozen products (83.000 pallet bins) into the running ice cream business; implementing acquired ice cream factory from supply chain perspective in time/in budget as well as meeting customers first shipment requirements. Direct Reports: 4 / 30 FTE; Functional responsibility of > 400 FTE
My responsibility was comprised of Demand- / Supply Planning, Logistics Operation like Warehousing, Inbound- / Outbound Transportation, Custom Affairs/Export Management. Facts & figures: 5 plants, 3 warehouses, about 700.000 pallets finsihed goods production resulting into about 500+ M€ net Revenue. Head of 5 departments, managing an annual Budget of 50+ M€.
Supply Planning Biscuits at Mondelez is about supplying 529.000 tons finished goods or 3.500 skus from 19 Biscuits plants in Europe and from about 15 CoManufacturers to the European markets. This in best balance of low inventory/cash flow, lowest manufacturing cost and highest degree of availability in terms of lead-times and freshness. The organisation is comprised of five remotely managed planning hubs spread across several European countries totalling to 30 headcounts, centrally lead as part of our category model from Switzerland.
Since 1991 with Kraft Foods, I hold various Positions starting from Project Engineer Industrial Engineering, I hold several Management Positions within Manufacturing and Customer Service and Logistics building a broad experience along the Supply Chain in Europe and North America. In this position responsible for managing global projects related to Kraft Foods On Demand Coffee Brewer namely Tassimo covering demand planning, inventory and service level management, product commercialisation and global product change management. Integrational part for the design of future supply chain strategies based on category growth plans in collaboration with manufacturing, marketing, sales and customer service.
Project Catalyst is about implementing SAP as the common ERP system across the US and Canada after SAP had been implementend in Europe back in 2004. Leading the design and deployment of External manufacturing and Materials Management within the Materials To Inventory (MTI) team. Responsible for designing the SAP processes in accordance to the business needs whilst keeping the standardisation and harmonisation across the countries and business teams in scope.
Run weekly production plans with a horizon to 12 month, finite scheduled for the first 4 weeks to optimize conversion cost, keeping inventory as low as possible whilst ensure highest degree of product availability for 550 products shipped into 13 different countries. Implementing finite scheduling tool (ScheduleX) as a pilot implementation for the European production network. SAP key user for Production Planning leading best practice implementation at Kraft in Europe.
As a project engineer in Industrial Engineering Food Europe, I was responsible to identify, implement and review productivity projects at our food plants in Europe. In addition building captial budget plans on a yearly basis and tie those into the European Food Manufacturing Network. Create appropriation request for bigger projects by creating all financial supporting documents (lease vs buy; IRR calculations etc.) and get buy in from plant and HQ Senior Managemet levels. Set up standards for SKU costing utilizing SAP and Microsoft Office tools.