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Berne, Switzerland

Basel, Switzerland

Deployment Lead for S/4HANA Central Finance (MDG, System of Report, Transactional Finance): first ever activation of Central Finance in Brazil.

Langenthal, Berne, Switzerland

Leading a team of subject matter experts and extended team of local superusers responsible for the global business process management in manufacturing operations: end-to-end quality management, plant maintenance, production execution & warehousing.- Implemented a successful blueprint of system and process support I had built for Europe- Triaged and.

Bern, Berne, Switzerland

Led system and process stabilisation & optimisation for 42 facilities deployed on SAP in Europe covering production planning, manufacturing execution, quality management, warehouse management and plant maintenance. Direct reports of 15 subject matter experts in all aspects of the above scope, with an overall responsibility covered >200 superusers across.

Bern Area, Switzerland

Led the Make To Deliver team to design and deploy a financially centralized distribution model with Principle in SAP. Responsible for subcontracting, warehouse management, batch management & material master migration from legacy systems to SAP.Cross-functional integration with order management, distribution, sourcing, planning, and finance to implement.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Manufacturing lead in 3M Chemicals for pilot SAP deployment to successful Go Live, June 1, 2011.Blueprinted benchmark business practices across >30 European manufacturing sites for global SAP template.SAP ASAP, Change Impacts Analysis, Role-mapping, testing, cutover planning, business process documentation.

United Kingdom

Implemented Lean techniques focused on cycle-time reduction, delivering inventory savings > $10m p.aDeployed Value Stream Improvement Methodology across 11 UK manufacturing locations.Led & coached cross-functional Kaizen workshops as required by client plants.Worked with key customers, including automotive repair bodyshops. Delivered a 50% cycle time.

United Kingdom

Manufacturing leader for European supply of abrasives: 130 reports, revenue $130m p.a, SKUs > 4000Delivered >£1m operating profit from manufacturing operations annually through improvement programmes of yield and productivity improvement.Project managed source of supply changes from US to UK.Implemented organization changes in shift leadership, crewing, &.

United Kingdom

Responsible for Product & Process Engineering, IT, Quality, Materials Control departments.LED Six Sigma project to deliver £1m sourcing savings by designing & implementing a Vendor Management function in the plant.Delivered annual improvements in factory cost and inventory £1-2m p.a cost reduction from a factory cost of £32m and doubled inventory turns on.

United Kingdom

Manufacturing manager for Tier 1 supplier to AOEMs. 70 personnel, revenue $17m p.a.Project managed transfer of manufacturing operations from US to the UK site.Implemented Sales & Operations planning process.Implemented physical re-layout of UK operations to improve material flow.Delivered KPI improvements: OTIF from 60% to 100%, stock availability from 92%.

United Kingdom

Responsible for multiple medical aerosol manufacturing lines, 24/7 operation, 60 personnel, revenue £100m p.a. GMP trained.Led the change from a tradition "operator - supervisor" to the first university graduate supervisor.Developed & delivered site-wide GMP training improvement packageManaged all aspects of permanent recruitment and temporary labour to.

United Kingdom

Implemented CONWIP scheduling in tablets manufacturing operation, reduced lead time through operation by > 50%

United Kingdom

Graduate development program running concurrently with University education, including personal development training & industrial experience working across multiple chemical plants.

Meng, Manufacturing Engineering

Mba, Finance & Strategy

Cdipacfin, Accounting & Finance