Supply Chain Excellence | Strategic Purchasing
Together we optimize the processes of your value chain and strategically align your purchasing
A high level of service, need-based inventories, short throughput times, competitive purchase prices, lean logistics - the degree to which these objectives are achieved has a high impact on customer satisfaction, operating results and liquidity of your company. In close cooperation with you, we analyse your value chain process, develop structural improvements and create the conditions for sustainable savings in purchasing. Trust my longstanding experience as supply chain and purchasing manager!
The path to your more efficient value chain
+ Assessing Status Quo
+ Optimizing processes
+ Enhancing strategic purchasing
+ Improving reporting
+ Improving structures
+ Developing Planning/Logistics
+ Realizing saving potentials
+ Accelerating digitalization
I am well acquainted with all these key issues that are of such importance for your business success. I’d support you with pleasure in
+ assessing and optimizing your locations and value chains (structure | processes)
+ strenghtening and supporting your Strategic Purchasing (saving potentials | supply security | structure | processes)
+ improving your Supply Chain Reporting - valuable navigation along the chain
For almost 20 years, I’ve been in charge of complex supply chains containing several sites (fully and semi-automated batch production, classic silo-, tank- and high-bay storage, filling from tubes up to containers) and have successfully improved them.
30 years of SAP-experience in all modules relevant for supply chain have decisively shaped my process thinking. I’d be happy to contribute in close collaboration with your team to the optimization process of your supply chain!
Holistic structure and process improvement
An excellent supply chain management coordinates all departments down the value chain - from the purchase, through the production to the dispatch of goods - without any needless frictions and waste of resources, controlled by a productive data and process management – it digitally connects the own company with its customers and distributors. A closely interconnection with the sales organization and the usage of IT-supported production planning tools support the forecast optimization as an important base for material procurement, production and human resource planning. The following strategic and operational topics are a central part of our joint analysis and optimization of your value chain:
> Site structure fit for strategy realization?
> IT-/data structure ready for digitalization?
> Purchase strategically positioned?
> Purchase savings/supply security?
> Efficient logistics systems/processes?
> Interconnected processes along the chain?
> Teamwork or "silo mentality"?
> Quality of material flow?
> Planning process supporting service level?
> Real-time reporting of key metrics?
Strategic Purchasing = profit contribution + security of supply
A professionally positioned purchasing department is able to deliver an enormous value contribution to the company. The close internal collaboration with Development and Sales imparts specific expert knowledge about the own portfolio and production processes, as well as about usage and function of applied raw materials and packaging. This expertise allows the strategic purchase to do a targeted, international research of procurement markets in order to take advantage of savings and to break through the dreaded “Single Sourcing” with alternative suppliers. A well-built purchasing structure ensures a more competitive purchase of machinery and equipment as well as the cost-effective procurement of C-parts due to the use of digital tools.
My support for your professional procurement
Thanks to my longtime function as Managing Director and Purchase Manager with the responsibility for sourcing more than 50.000 tons of commodities per year, I have gained a high level of expertise and looking forward to new challenges:
+ almost 20 years of experience in global purchase of chemical raw materials (polymers, plasticizers, fillers ...)
+ excellent network with globally leading suppliers
+ extensive experience and skills in strategic negotiations - I am happy to support you on site
+ well acquainted with all
organizational topics forming a professional purchasing structure and efficient processes
Supply Chain Reporting - the navigation along the process chain
In order to manage and permanently evaluate the efficiency of the supply chain it is indispensable to access most important key figures down the value chain process in real time. Ideally, an ERP-system fully integrated into the business processes provides the data basis and determines initial key figures (e.g. service level, quality of planning, days of inventory, logistic performance, material price development). I’d be pleased to support your team in improving your reporting toolbox:
+ real-time reporting - early warning | base for decision making
+ combining of key performance indicators (KPIs) in a data cockpit
+ visualizing metrics in a target/actual analysis
Proactive management of Supply Chain
My services in detail
Initial assessment with plant tour | exchange on relevant key figures
Status quo of current supply chain organization | projects and target setting
Detailed analysis: supply chain integration of purchase, planning, customer service, logistics, production
Assessment structural cost | analysis IT-/ERP system, logistics systems
Critical target/actual valuation: process quality, material/data flow, key figures, planning model
Joint project definition | Lean initiatives
Kick-off of agreed projects in the supply chain team
Monitoring and support of project work to increase Supply Chain-Excellence
Review of organization design to further improve professional supply chain structures
Holistic analysis of procurement organization with regards to strategy and structure
Support on establishing Strategic Purchasing structure and processes
Optimization of market research and internationalization to develop savings and second source
If required, support in strategically important purchasing negotiations (e.g. raw materials, machinery)
Support on optimizing the reporting system of supply chain key performance metrics (cockpit)
Sustainable implementation of process, cost and structural optimizations worked out in the project team
Monitoring of realization and target control