Interim Manager und Problemdieb
Logistik & Supply Chain Management
4 years as a freelancer – Analytical, structured, and results-driven.
17 years in leadership & optimization – Developed teams; driven results.
9 years Supply Chain from scratch – Hands-on expert; know how down to the last detail
Projects:
Task force Project Lead
bb
2026
Task force Project Lead
Electronics, Automotive
2025-2026
Bottleneck-Management
Metal processing, Consumer goods
2025
Process-restructuring
B2B/C rentals, Consumer electr.
2025
Analysis of SC-potentials
Automotive OEM
2024
Merging of storage areas
Cables/wires-plant
2023-2024
S&OP-Lead
Cables/wires-plant
2023
Insourcing packing-processes
Cables/wires-plant
2023
RFQ land- and sea-freight
Metalprocessing, Railway
2023
Charge-back Process
Metalprocessing, Railway
2018-2022
Task force
Senior Consutant
Electronics, Automotive
2018-2022
3PL-Management
3PL-change
Railway OEM
2018-2022
Supplier-Management
Railway-OEM
2010-2011
Greenfield-Project SC-dept.
Assembly, Heavy Machinery
2007-2010
Bottleneck-Management
Automotive Tier1
2007
2007 SAP-introduction
Automotive Tier1
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.
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
Branch focuses
- Automotive
- Railway
- Heavy Machinery
- Manufacturing Industry
Managementstyle / Way of working
- Target-oriented
- Direct and open
- Values: respect, trust and clarity
- Hands-on, as learned from scratch
Availability
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.
Project Manager
Task force Project Lead
Tier 2 automotive
Mexico
1 month
Implementation of commnication & Task Force
- Improvement of Root-Cause-Analyses (RCA)
- Lead the team on-site in MX
- Steer and push Deep-Dive-RCAs over all functions
- Coordination of all RCA-workpackages.
Consulting
Supply Chain Processes
Consumer goods
Milan, ITA
2,5 months
- Analysis of the physical and systemic processes for the implementation of a Kanban/marketplace-solution.
- Preparation of the implementation of SAP/R3 PP.
- Optimzation of the planning processes.
- Inventory-anaylsis and determination of obsolete materials.
Interim Project-Manager Supply Chain
Consumer eletronics
Online B2B/C rentals
Berlin, GER
8 months
- Check/verify, document and trimming of all physical and administrative processes relating to the repair of returned products.
- Compile a decision-tree and a formula to automize and optimize the decision-making regarding repairs.
Consulting
Supply Chain Processes
Automotive
OEM
Greater Cairo, EGY
5 weeks
- Analyze the current Supply Chain processes in the plant.
- Sketch the value stream; determine waste and weaknesses.
- Elaborate an action plan for a potential follow-up improvement-project.
Interim Project-Manager Supply Chain
Energysector
Cable plant
Mönchengladbach, GER
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
Bochum, GER
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
Szekesfehervar, HUN
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
Remscheid, GER
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
+49 170 217 6403
Diplom-Volkswirt, University Bayreuth / University Tübingen
Master of Arts in Political Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence (USA)