Keywords
Skills
• Broad expertise in sales and demand planning and leading large scale cross functional projects • Strong analytical skills and leadership experience
• Pragmatic, hands-on approach, strong interaction with the business
• Broad international experience with five foreign languages
Project history
- Due diligence for VP Category Management on present implementation of a harmonized forecast and replenishment process
- Interviews and workshops with key stakeholders in Supply Chain, IT, finance, external software provider, key users on local and group level
- Identified areas for improvement and recommendation for next steps
- Coordinate supply chain, finance, regulatory, quality, commercial and buyer
- Document and map existing supply chain set-up for 800 SKU’s.
- Develop future supply chain set-up based on distribution, external manufacturer and Market Authority transfer scenarios
- Optimized accounting structure, financial systems and processes to increase cost visibility and cope with strong growth
- Operative controlling, budgeting and reporting
- Lead definition and implementation of stock inventory valuation systematic to maximize write-offs within tax regulations in cooperation with IT and external tax consultants
• Responsible for supply chain controlling for 12 plants
• Drove budgeting, forecast and reporting process for supply chain
• Drive and monitor successful implementation of cost saving projects
• Process owner Supply Chain Controlling for global introduction of S4/Hana
• Lead team of 8 controllers in production, logistics and purchasing
• Project lead in optimization of internal IT software for 7000 stores. Created and conducted IT compulsory, testing, piloting and rollout.
• Business analyses to identify and quantify areas of improvement
• Coordinated sales, logistic, software engineers, database and network specialists Responsible for timing, costs and functionality
• Project examples: Improved algorithm for proactive stock management and introduced permanent stock inventory approach, increased fleet capacity utilization and store availability, optimized forecasting promotional items, define algorithm to clean-up inconsistencies in master data, levelling capacity utilization in supply chain.
• Investigated root causes for backlog in batch releases. Set up interface between deviation system and SAP. Created visibility by automated report on status to senior management.
• Coordinated priorities between marketing, sales, quality management and supply chain
• Implemented process improvements to increase efficiency and to reduce backlog in batch releases in 6 months by 50%. Lead and coached team to support Qualified Person
• Responsible for setting up supply chain for new product launches (e.g. largest launch of recent years within Western Europe: sales > $100 MM, investment > $20 MM)
• Coordinating of interfaces between finance, purchasing, logistics, sales, marketing and product development, go to person for European management for all aspects of project
• Responsible for quality, time, investment and product costs
• Leading major regional margin improvement projects with several $ MM savings (lean & efficiency programs, outsourcing, production transfer, product portfolio optimization)
• Coordinate and align sales and demand between during scale up of new projects.
• Wrigley Supply Chain Innovation Award 2008 for investment saving $ 2 MM
• Achieving $ 0,5 MM saving by optimizing the product portfolio, realizing 20% productivity increase on packaging line
• Managing large international cross functional project teams (>20 employees)
Local Availability
Europe: 4 days per week