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Zelhem, GE, NL

Netherlands

Lemmer, Netherlands

Europe

Support the site development programs in Delden and Moerdijk by structuring and planning the programs.

Ambt Delden, Overijssel, Netherlands

Work smarter instead of harder.Improve quality, speed and decrease technical issues without CAPEX investments to better meet customer demand.Resulting within 6 months, with 6 teams lead by (lead) operators, in:Decrease in planning changes, a more stable outputSaving 850K Euro per year, including 2715 production hours per yearThe program is continued for.

Netherlands

At this diagnostic company covering the north of the Netherlands I managed several projects where business, healthcare and IT are meeting each other. The focus of the project I worked on covered workflow optimization and digitalization from the order request till the lab stage of the order. This resulted in less errors and rework, increased efficiency with.

Almelo, The Netherlands

Process improvement Media Diensten department- Implement KPI's to have a better visibility on the progress and solving bottle necks in de process- Taking out non value adding process steps- Improve communication with internal and external customers and suppliersThis resulted in more control, decreased back-log and increased customer satisfaction, energy in.

Delden, NL

Facilitate the start-up of the improvement teams to make it possible to reshuffle capacity and make volume growth possible with a stable headcount at this 24/7 chemical production facility in Delden (200 FTE).Project results during the period of my support:- Eliminate the QC nightshift, which freed up 1,5 FTE- Improve warehouse efficiency which resulted in.

Network of professionals to add together more value to customers.

Weert

Transfer the warehouse proces and stock to a 3 PL. Part of the program is:- To integrate the (IT) processes. Fit in the 3 PL standard- Introduce new processes like advanced supplier notifications- Transfer the stock in 1 week. About 10.000 locations, 6000 SKU's, 200 truckloads.- As steep as possible ramp-up (5 weeks to burn down the backlog after the.

Vlissingen

Host the engineering team to a common vision and one team. The tools we used are the teamwork pyramide of Lencioni and participative leadership tools like The Circle, World Cafe and Design for Wiser Action and visual harvesting.

Gliwice, Silesian District, Poland & Deventer, The Netherlands

- Program manager for the Footprint Optimization project at the international (GMP) chemical company Avantor Performance Materials. A successful transfer of production (over 3500 products) and the supporting departments from the Dutch facility to the Polish facility. I used the scrum methodology to manage the project, 40 sprints of 3 weeks were needed to.

Marknesse

Get more structure in the organization (dairy and agriculture farm) and make the people more self-reliant in communication, finance, maintenance and teamwork. Be able to take decisions in line with the company philosophy: Work in a way that is good for people and cattle.

Leeuwarden Area, Netherlands

Manager of production planning, purchasing, warehouse and customer service. Member of the Management Team. Implementing project management and continuous improvement. Training the company in Leeuwarden in lean-six-sigma. Improved the on time delivery and reduced the lead-time of RFQ’s. Improved delivery performance and managed the Leeuwarden project to.

- Opex (Lean-six-sigma) project at a pharmaceutical factory- Opex (Lean-six-sigma) implementation at a chemical factory- Project manager in Dortmund (D) of an ERP implementation. - Process manager of a technical and commercial due diligence of a new to be built factory.- Opex trainer and Workshop facilitation trainer

See DCE Consultants (same company)

Improve logistics in production and implement leanmanufacturing. Project examples: Reduction of Replenishment Leadtime Shavers (blackbelt project), flow production, organize kaizen events, improve delivery performance powersupplies (greenbelt project manager).

Responsible for the planning and procurement fullfillment of several customers and the expediting department. Managing 6 planners and 2 expediters.

Managing planning and procurement in the order driven part of the factory

Managing planning and procurement in de proces driven part of the factory

Planning the final assembly lines short term and long term

Facillitating the company the be able to grow. A Syntence project to help Midden en Kleinbedrijf.

Finding and checking worlwide data about the commercial part of sport

Black Belt, Lean Six Sigma

Cpim, Apics-Cpim

Msc, International Business

Ing, Technische Bedrijfskunde

Activities and Societies: Introduction committee freshmans, Sempiternus Technische Bedrijfskunde

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