Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

My Profile: Many years of experience as Head of Inhouse Consulting BOSCH/BSH and in leading national and international management positions

(see also my website: www. gpl-consulting.de)

Through my many years of experience at national and international level in leading operational functions and as long-time head of Inhouse Consulting in the central department Bosch/ BSH Munich, my focus areas are in the fields of production systems, Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Lean Administration, strategy development and factory planning with the approach of process optimization throughout the entire value chain.

Strategic knowledge through many years of experience as head of the internal corporate consulting for production systems (optimization of production, logistics, and business processes & productivity consulting) at BOSCH/BSH, a globally successful and leading company in the home appliance industry.

Method and analysis competence through collaboration with renowned management consultancies, e.g.: Boston Consulting Group, Runge Industrieplanung, Abels & Kemmner, Porsche Consulting, Siemens Supply Chain Consulting, Seidenschwarz & Company, GlobalSense, Bosch Inhouse Consulting & McKinsey.

Leadership experience & operational detailed knowledge along the entire value chain through my leading positions in the areas of Industrial Engineering, Production, Maintenance, Occupational Safety, Dispatching, Logistics, Purchasing, Technical Management up to Site Management and General Management.

International and intercultural experience through several years of assignments abroad in France & USA and through project assignments in Western and Eastern Europe, China, India, and Africa.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Fluent
French
Conversational
German
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Karlsruhe (up to 50km), Frankfurt am Main (up to 50km), Stuttgart (up to 50km)

Neff GmbH
Head of Supply Chain Management
October 2013 - September 2014 (11 months)
Bretten, Germany
Head of Supply Chain Management with the departments SC Warehouse, SC Suppliers, SC Factory, SC Planning and SC Efficiency with approx. 150 employees
Bosch BSH: Technische Zentrale Produktion
Head of Inhouse Consulting Production
October 2014 - October 2024 (10 years)
München, Germany
Support of 42 plants in the Bosch BSH Group (Germany, USA, Mexico, China, India, Poland, Spain, France, Slovenia, Egypt)
• Introduction and further development of the Bosch Production System
• Responsibility for global production strategy
• Global execution of productivity audits
• Global execution of efficiency projects for productivity increase
• Global responsibility for qualification and training in production
• Coordination of the Factory Planning working group
• Participation in investment planning within the framework of PMT-IE
• Various topics (project proposals, implementation of planning guidelines for new factory planning, global time management, BCM, etc…)
Lean Production Factory Planning Supply Chain Footprint Corporate Strategy
BOSCH SIEMENS GAGGENAU INDUSTRIE
General Manager & Site Manager
May 2006 - July 2010 (4 years and 3 months)
Bretten, BW, Germany
Overall responsibility: Development, Industrial Engineering, Production, Dispatching, Logistics, Purchasing, Controlling, Human Resources, Quality Management, Maintenance & Occupational Safety

Successes:
Restructuring: Successful reorganization of the French Gaggenau Industrie site into a competence center for steam for the Bosch, Siemens & Neff brands (see report Welt am Sonntag)

Productivity: Conception and implementation of a production increase program with an 8% productivity increase in 2008 and 5.6% in 2009 at the Lipsheim site in France

Negotiation skills: Successful conclusion of annual salary negotiations with French unions CGT, CFDT and CFE-CJC with agreements below the collective agreements of the German plants

Lean Administration and Process Optimization: Initiation and implementation of overhead programs in indirect areas with savings of several million in ratio, quality, overhead, purchasing and inbound.