Interim Manager
Logistik & Supply Chain Management
In SCM, the process as a whole must be put in the center of the analysis. It needs to be seen, understood and evaluated from the very beginning until the very end.
Functional focuses
- Operative and strategic Supply Chain Management
- Process-development and -restructuring
- Contract-Logistics, Service Level Agreements / Service Level Management
- Supplier development
- Bottleneck- and Escalation-Management
Managementstyle
- Focusing on results
- Honest and open communication
- Values: respect, trust and clarity
- Hands-on, as I learned SCM from scratch
Industry sectors
- Automobile
- Machine construction
- Railway
- Cables
- Paper
- Metal packaging
Successful projects
2025 project ongoing - Details to follow as soon as successfully completed.
2024 Warehouse logistics- Merged 4 internal storage areas physically and systemically.
2023-24 S&OP - Ran and advanced the S&OP process.
2023 Re-insourcing - Previously outsourced processes re-integrated.
2023 RFQ Freight - RFQ and tender for european landfreight created, issued and executed.
2023 Charge-back-Process - Created and introduced a supplier-charge-back-process.
2018-22 3PL-Management - 3PL-Management incl. Service Level Agreements for 2 service-providers.
2018-22 Supplier-Management - OTIF from 72% to >88%.
2020 3PL-change - Pushed for, negotiated and executed the change of a 3PL.
2010-11 Greenfield - Set up the Supply Chain-department incl. staff, equipment and process-landscape.
2007-10 Bottleneck-Management - Bottleneck- and escalation-Management for customers and suppliers.
2008 RFQ Freight - RFQ and tender for european landfreight created, issued and executed.
2007 SAP-introduction- 14 mainframe-systems merged into one SAP-system. Lead für Supply Chain.
Flexible solution
I support you wherever you need it, whenever you need it and as long as you need it.
Bridging a vacancy
I take care of business and you gain the needed time, to find the right leader for your Supply Chain.
SC-Projectlead
I drive the project(s) and you concentrate on the daily business, the bottlenecks and priorities and secure customer satisfaction.
Availability
Currently open for project-offers
Daily rate
Gladly given upon request. Depending upon content, needed level of expertise and duration of the project.
Mobility
Open for exiting challenges nationally as well as internationally.
Projects / Interim mandates
Whether process-improvements via consulting, stabilization of the department or stepping into the line-organization and assuming direct responsibility: My mission will serve your organizations' needs.
Consulting
Automotive
OEM
Egypt
ongoing
Details to follow after the project is closed.
Interim Project-Manager SC
Consumer eletronics
Online B2B/C rentals
Berlin
ongoing
Details to follow after the project is closed.
Interim Project-Manager SC
Energysector
Cable plant
NRW
10 months
- Responsible for the Sales & Operations Planning.
- Physical merging of 4 internal storage areas and setting up the needed processes.
- Insourcing of packaging processes.
- Creation of an Excel-based inventory-analysis-tool
Interim Manager SC
Railway
Forging + mech. treatment
NRW
9 months
- Leading a team of 8 direct reports
- S&OP for the 3 German plants
- Bottleneck-Management for suppliers and contract manufacturers
- Prepare and initiate a quotation for the European road-freight
- Prepare and initiate a quotation for the world-wide Container-Transports.
Consulting
Tier1 automotive
Electronics
Hungary
5 months
- Project in Hungary
- Reporting to the customer
- Task-force Management
- Work out and implement process improvements in the areas of
- Procurement
- Inventory-reporting, inventory-analyses (abc/xyz) and inventory reduction (esp. obsolete and slow/no moving inventory)
Interim Manager SC
Tier 1 automotive
Adhesives
NRW
5 months
- Leading of 2 teams
- Order Processing/Sales
- Production Planning
- Restructuring: Merge the two depts. to an effective unit.
Professional milestones ...
... of more than 16 years of leadership experience:
Director Supply Chain
Railway
4+ years
- Leading a team of 5 managers as direct reports + approx. 150 staff in the areas
- procurement,
- shipping/receiving and storage
- production planning
- logistics processes
- Managing two service-providers with approx. 120 staff.
- Initiated, negotiated and executed a 3PL-change.
- Implemented cycle counting
- Supplier- and bottleneck-management
- Improved the OTIF (On Time In Full) from 72% to >88%.
Head of Logistics
Construction machinery
4 years
- Greenfield-Projekt:
- Plan and set up the department:
- Put the team together
- Analyze, lay out and procure all storage systems.
- Define and procure all needed floor-borne vehicles.
- Develop and implement the logistical process landscape.
- Definition and implementation of the SAP-Processes. Key-User for the PP- und MM-modules.
- Definition, Request for Quotation and renting of two external storage areas for the import from China.
Global Projecteader
Automotive
2.5 yerars
- Leading an interdisciplinary European team (Application, Launch, Purchasing and Sales staff) within a Matrix-Organisation.
- Global point of contact for the customer BMW. Close cooperation with the regional Project Leaders and the plants in Poland, China and Mexico.
- Directly responsible for all European Programs and customer plants.
- Definition of goals and milestones in regard to timing and technical and economic feasibility of new launches and technical changes.
Academic activities
Having completed a Diploma in Economics (Tübingen, Germany) and a Master of Arts in Political Science (Lawrence, Kansas) I share my knowledge with great pleasure:
Lecturer 2014/15
Masterstudies
Logistics Management
Title of the lecture: "Outsourcing and contract logistics"
Lecturer 2015/16
Masterstudies
Logistics Management
Title of the lecture: "Outsourcing and contract logistics"
Lecturer 2025
Bachelorstudies
General Management
Title of the lecture: "European Economic Policy"
Contact
Phone: +49 170 217 6403
E-mail: info@gedeik-consulting.de
Address: Zehntstraße 8, 50374 Erftstadt, Germany