Manfred Muell Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, GP, ZA

Dublin, IE

• SCIENTRIX is an innovative Information Technology and Management Services Company which created a unique matrix-based thought architecture and digital platform. Scientrix helps organizations to structure and integrate.
• Consulting for international companies on strategy and execution
• Business development for Scientrix on an international basis
• Managing global strategic alliances
• Overseeing Scientrix operations.

Istanbul, Tuzla, TR

Johannesburg, ZA

Vicente López, Buenos Aires, AR

• Successful strategic reorientation of the company
• Sustained improvement of the Operating Profit from 10 m. USD to over 70 m. USD
• Increase of turnover above average from 220 m. USD to over 700 m. USD after a successful reorganization of the sales & marketing area from a functional to a product oriented focus
• Achievement of market leadership in all three commercial vehicle segments (trucks, buses, vans) despite pricing above competition
• Significant improvement of the company image from the 15th to the 8th position of the “most admired companies” in Argentina and best automotive company achieved by active press and public relations
• Almost complete implementation of company objectives in wage and union negotiations on highest political level with the Argentine Minister of Labour.

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, DE

• Design and development of a strategic re-orientation of the DaimlerChrysler Commercial Vehicle Division for the group management board,which, in the meantime, has been almost completely implemented
• Significant efficiency increase of the strategic planning process for the Commercial Vehicle Division
• Strategically relevant co-ordination of the due diligence process at Mitsubishi FUSO Truck & Bus in Tokyo
• Development of a branding strategy for the introduction of the Sprinter van in North America (Dodge-Brand)

• Successful negotiation and implementation of a joint-venture with a Brazilian bus-body manufacturer (Marcopolo)
• Efficient spin-off and transfer of the passenger car business from Mercedes-Benz to Chrysler within the Daimler-Chrysler merger.
• Two-digit million cost reduction through definition and successful implementation of an overhead optimization project
• Significant improvement of the quality and transparency of data by optimizing the use of SAP while reducing Finance staff by one third at the same time
• Integration of the Controlling and Finance processes for the truck business with Freightliner Corporation in the USA
• Review and further expansion of the sales financing business with fleet customers for trucks and buses

• Organization and implementation of the separation of DaimlerChrysler’s Gaggenau plant into three independent profit centres: axles, gearboxes and Unimog
• Creating transparency on cost and revenues
• Co-ordination of the McKinsey project „Business Process Optimization“ for the Axle Product Centre and reducing overhead costs by 20%
• Co-ordination of Kaizen workshops for the product centre and supervising the project from the controlling perspective

• First time introduction of a sequenced supply of seating systems to the assembly line for the MB C- and E-Class as well as for the Honda Civic
• Reduction of airfreight cost by more than 50% by stabilizing the logistics chain
• Achievement of the annual material cost reduction targets
• Certification of the areas Logistics and Procurement in ISO9000
• Ensuring the timely achievement of the Local Content targets for the production start of the Mitsubishi L200 and Honda Civic products
• Reduction of logistics costs by 10%