Logistics and Supply Chain Expert

5/2008 – 5/2011

Job description/ Responsibilities
 Leading country operations with functional responsibilities over 6 sites in Romania with more than 500 employees reporting directly to the Country Manager and functional to EE Operations Manager
 Operations setup, project management & implementation
 SOP documentation & validation
 KPI setup and implementation performance management tools accordingly to customer requirements and internal business strategy
 Leading the performance on all sites to operations excellence
 Lean logistics management & reporting – setup and follow up yearly and monthly targets and budgets for sites
 Driving continuous improvement programs – Kaizen targets & follow up
 Annual country budget building & budget follow up
 Financial reporting
 Price and transaction tariffs renegotiations with customers
 Integrated quality management implementation
 Process design & new operational solutions
 Mentoring talent development programs
 Internal CAPEX documentation for new investments and projects and drive approval process to CEVA board
 Business Development – tender management, solution design & commercial negotiations
 Steering committee and business review meetings with customers
 Project management and new customer and internal project implementation
 Business continuity & risk management
 Deputy for Country Manager
 Interim country management role between September 2009 and August 2010



Major Projects:

Implementation for Nokia Factory in Jucu, Romania in-house inbound and production-supply logistics as operational coordinator and logistics operations design for Romania and India parallel projects
Contractual and price negotiations with Nokia
Contract renewals with Vodafone and Pirelli within the tender process
Leading operations excellence programs for all sites in Romania

Reporting, AIX, Technisches Qualitätsmanagement / QS / QA, Projektmanagement, Risikomanagement, Compliance management

1/2007 – 4/2008

Job description/ Responsibilities
 Leading project implementation and GoLive in Romania
 Solution design & operational setup
 Coordinating all involved work streams and global project team members : IT, procurement,
operations, legal
 IT solution setup.(DLX Dispatcher)
 Train the trainers & training support for end users
 SOP documentation and validation with customer
 Business continuity & risk management
 Health & safety procedures implementation
 Organizing steering committee meetings
 Leading operations takeover and inventory management
 Implementation Lean Logistics together with global lean experts team
 Driving the continuous improvement and Kaizen trainings
 Monitoring performance and efficiency and implementing corrective and preventive actions at
deviations
 Driving operations to steady state and handover to local site management

Major projects:

 Implementation of logistics services for Vodafone, Romania as project manager
 Implementation of in-house logistics services for Pirelli, Romania as operations coordinator
 Lean logistics implementation on local sites as operations manager

Schulung / Training (IT), Projektmanagement, Risikomanagement, Schulung / Coaching (allg.), Compliance management

5/2003 – 12/2006

Job description/ Responsibilities
 Implementation, documentation and certifying of integrated management system (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHASAS 18001) with local & regional responsibilities
 Product quality control
 Internal process and system audit, management review report
 Inventory management – manage cycle counts, annual inventory, loss & damage reporting, stock reconciliation with customer, product parameters setup, warehouse layout, ABC -analysis
 Customer service - claim solving & reporting, KPI reconciliation
 Operational process design and new project implementation
 Lean logistics – implementation on site, reporting, internal trainings
 Kaizen – training, reporting, idea management, solution implementation
 KPI reporting (internal & customer)
 SAP R3 key user – process documentation and design, global key user meetings active participation, upgrade project SAP Enterprise at Mann + Hummel, user training & training documentation
 LOGOS Key user – process design & implementation, user training, change request management
 Calculation transaction prices
 SOX compliance documentation & reporting on local and regional level
 Functional responsibilities with direct reporting to Contract & Regional Manager in a warehouse with 80-100 employees and functional responsibilities on regional level
 Operational implementation support for regional projects

Major projects:

SAP/ R3 release upgrade for Mann+Hummel as key user SAP and logistics operations solution design on site and Mann + Hummel logistics operations
Implementations SOX compliance documentation on 3 operational sites
Support for ISO certifications and certification renewals for Mann+Hummel, Pirelli and EMI Music sites

Reporting, Risikomanagement, Schulung / Coaching (allg.), Compliance management

2/2002 – 4/2003

Job description/ Responsibilities
 Leading operational flows
 Order management and processing
 Coordinating pick & pack activities
 Resources planning & scheduling together with shift leaders
 KPI reporting
 Leading a team with 45-60 employees direct reporting to warehouse operations manager
 SAP / R3 Key user (modules WM and MM)

Major Projects:

Development and implementation for a self programmed (MS Access) order and performance management system
Optimization of logistics processes on site

Reporting, SAP MM, SAP LE-WM