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Switzerland

Switzerland

Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland

Supply Chain Planning

Operations Management

Sankt Gallen Area, Switzerland

Case studies in Supply Chain Management

Leading a team of professionals in driving change across the Sulzer Division APS (Applicator Systems) from suppliers to customers to enable profitable growth. Main focus areas are: - Designing Supply Chain Network and implementing cost and service optimal set-up (e.g. centralwarehouse in Luxembourg, new production plant in Poland, make or buy decisions.

Haag

- Global transportation: consolidation of forwarders to achieve cost reduction >10%- Global inventory management: Implementation of inventory optimization program to ensure right level of service while reducing overall inventory (>5%)- Set-up of bonded warehouse in US: responsible for project covering location, legal, finance, processes, full ERP and.

Berlin Area, Germany

- Acting as interface between Operations and further departments (e.g. Sales, Purchasing, Finance, Warehousing and IT)- responsible for Operations-part in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Process- Process Owner for "WMO-Process" (reduced routing of customer orders to multiple warehouses by 17% by balancing inventory to right location)- Project Manager.

Berlin Area, Germany

Category Management / Purchasing-facing:* Development and implementation of split-orders to reduce working capital / inventory without negative impacts on availability and process efficiency* Launch of internal Wiki containing SOPs and manuals for all relevant buying processes, including process to ensure creation and monitoring of user-generated content*.

Democratic Republic Of The Congo

- Responsible for all Supply related activities (purchasing, transportation,warehousing) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, supporting operations innine Projects and four hospitals- Leading a Team of 15 in highly volatile environment- Managing growth of volume by a factor of 6 due to emergencies

Democratic Republic Of The Congo

- Management and coaching of a team of seven national employees- Implementation of lean principles like 5S and Kaizen resulting in a reductionof inventory losses from 30% to 5% while also improving picking times anddelivery quality

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Responsible for product line Drilling and Demolition in the US and Canada- Forecasting, Inventory Management, Distribution, Purchasing- Auditor for Warehouses and external suppliers- Project Leader and Member for some US and international projects e.g. Segmentation, Network Re-design

Liechtenstein

Business and Process Development Supply Chain- implementation of pruning process and elimination of 14.000 SKUs in Europe- global implementation of economic order-quantities saving 1.5Mio CHF- implementation of best practices in market organizations around the world- project manager of strategic project „End-to-End Materials Management“- eliminating.

Evaluation, preparation and analysis of research data

support on statistics and IT-related topics

Executive Programme, Management

Summer programme on sales and operations planning, S&OP

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Strategy

Exchange, Strategy

Magister, Management Science, Operations Research, Statistics, Finance, Marketing

Activities and Societies: AIESEC

Summer Course, General Management

course on corporate social responsibility