in technically oriented industries like mechanical or electrical engineering, electronics, automotive in companies or plants with 200 to 5000 employees.
Analysis of planning algorithms and planning procedures, lead time, stock, customer and supplier EDI processes. Based on this analysis a rough target definition and change plan can be achieved.
and design in production planning, shop floor control and PDC, warehouse management and MFS, shipping and transport, purchasing and sales order administration, web shop integration.
in order to obtain project tasks, scope, size, budget and potential organisational changes.
shall give a brief and comprehensive overview of possible contents:
Small enterprises face very often resource limits to execute good ideas. As logistics consultant for a national sales organisation of a safety equipment supplier in Australia a small team of 1 programmer and me realised a comprehensive EDI solution in 2 parts for such an enterprise in less than 50 days overall covering design, realisation and tests of a sales EDI interface for their 2 biggest customers (order, shipment notification and invoice) as well as a transport EDI interface (shipment) for the selected carrier. Principles of the solution are easy-to-use for end users and easy fixes once required, because it's file based.
Within a feasibility study and subsequent blueprint as principal consultant logistics to analyse the existing supply chain processes for a retail fashion company. The first project phase was an analysis of all inbound sea and air transports into Germany, the subsequent transport into the central distribution centre, storing and kitting, and finally merchandise distribution from warehouse to stores anywhere in Western Europe. Volume at the time was around 125 mio. pieces of garment / year. In the second project phase multi million Euro optimisation potentials were identified and the to-be processes designed.
As SAP logistics expert I was engaged in a huge feasibility study to investigate, if SAP IS Automotive would cover all needed processes of the national sales organisation of VW North America to sell and transport some 500.000 vehicles / year.. The study covered dealer, sales, billing, vehicle transport , availability check, planning and import functionality.
Engaged in two different positions as project leader and logistics process specialist in the design of a new assembly plant for telephone devices. In the role of project leader I was responsible for the implementation of an integrated shop floor control and warehouse management system. The role in the logistics team consisted of the design of material flows using self-programmed simulation software as well as handling processes in goods receipt and issue areas. A state of the art assembly plant including some extra functions like mobile picking in the warehouse, electronic quality inspections integrated in the shop floor processes, automatic handling robots in some parts of the warehouse. The achieved goal were assembly lead times of just one day and a minimal finished goods stock covering only the actual quantities of sales orders.
Quite early in my career I was given the opportunity to learn and use a wide range of procedures and measures to reorganise a sales program of some thousend articles representing a turnover of some 25 million DM. Engineering changes reduced the number of components by the hundreds, a j.i.t.-project in the final assembly shop floor reduced the leaad time to just one day for most of the orders, stock coverage and value could thus be reduced by 50 to 75 %, changes of planning and purchasing processes reduced the overall lead time for a range of make-to-order or make-to-engineer products to a maximum of two months (previously up to 6 months). The comprehensive program was finished within a year and helped to reduce production costs by around one million DM
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