Establishment of battery production by interim managers
Situation Now that car manufacturers have decided to produce and launch millions of electric vehicles on the market within the next three years, it is only logical that they have also decided to build corresponding gigafactories for battery production in Europe. In electric vehicles, the battery is the most important component of value creation. Asian […]
Interim automotive logistics manager adjusts organization worldwide
Situation Tier 1 automotive supplier B has problems worldwide due to fluctuations in demand and management deficits in the logistics area. The logistics costs are too high. B’s customers are dissatisfied. Delivery often only works through troubleshooting. All too often, parts have to be flown to the plant by helicopter so that the production lines […]
Interim CFO in the metal industry
Situation The internationally active group acquires C, a metal processing company from Germany. After the takeover, the ERP system is adapted. The business processes are transferred from SAP R3 to SAP Hana. The current SAP system is leased from the seller. He no longer makes any changes. The data must be retrieved as it is […]
Interim HR manager for the closures
Situation The internationally active Group A maintains a production site for the electrical industry with more than 120 employees in Germany, which is no longer profitable and cannot be expanded any further. Own locations in Eastern Europe still have capacity. The site is therefore to be closed. The foreign management of A has no experience […]
Interim experts for logistics/purchasing and transport save millions through digitalization
Situation Automotive supplier B operates production sites in several European countries. The in-bound transportation of our own suppliers is mainly handled by a freight forwarder. B has no overview of the costs per trip. 2 interim experts from the fields of logistics/purchasing and transportation put individual trips out to tender to test the market for […]
Interim purchasing manager pays off
Return on interim management within 12 months Situation: Supplier A GmbH for the automotive industry with 200 employees belongs to an American group of companies. A GmbH is profitable. However, comparative analyses have shown that the costs of purchasing, logistics, warehousing, transport are too high. The longtime purchasing manager does not speak English. Therefore, the […]
Transition Interim Manager Supply Chain & Production
Operational Excellence in SUPPLY CHAIN & PRODUCTION | GERMANY | 7 MONTHS | ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING APARATUS CONSTRUCTION Situation Between August 2020 and December 2020, our Interim Manager was commissioned to carry out the transformation in the Supply Chain & Production area towards operational excellence at our client’s main German plant. Targets for its mission were […]
Interim Manager Operational Excellence
Situation A private equity company based in the Netherlands took over a 15-year-old production facility in Germany. They hired a German interim manager to implement the existing management structure with 4 additional production sites in Europe. Challenges Form and lead an operations team to improve lead time from the current 60% to at least 90%. […]
Interim Senior Project Manager
Situation The customer, a large automotive supplier, needed help with its Austrian subsidiary. The factory had a new product that had only been in production for 6 months. Due to the complexity of this new module and the production requirements, the production ramp-up at the plant proved difficult. The financial targets and production targets were […]
Interim Managing Director
Situation In 2018, Van de Groep & Olsthoorn in the Netherlands and AC Alpha in Germany worked together to find an interim manager in southern Germany near Munich. The company is one of the largest food production groups in the Netherlands and has factories in Belgium, France, Germany and several other European countries. This client […]
Interim HR Manager
Situation The SMW partner CTER SP. based in Warsaw, Poland, was approached by a multinational Tier 1 automotive company. The company operates one of the largest plants in Poland and currently employs over 800 people. In the recent past, the company has undergone many major changes, including the rapid development of production, the implementation of […]
Interim CEO
Situation Our customer is a leading global manufacturer of medical textile products, such as compression textiles and stockings. The group is family-owned with headquarters in Switzerland and has been in business for over 150 years. They have production facilities in Europe, the USA and Asia. Other interims had been placed with the company over time, […]
Head of Human Resources
Situation The customer is a EUR 35 billion automotive supplier with a global presence in forty countries, focusing on drive technology for passenger cars, including dual-clutch transmissions. This division employs 1,300 permanent staff and 500 temporary workers. With an annual turnover of around 360 million euros, the company produces gearboxes for all major car manufacturers […]
Operations & Product Manager
Situation Our customer is a manufacturer of electronic components in the southwest of Hungary. It is a private company that has been owned by the same family for two generations. You are a TIER2 supplier to multinational automotive companies. The client got into difficulties because the next generation had other personal plans than to take […]
Interim CFO
The situation The client was a prestigious family-owned French retailer that is very active in the fashion industry and is distributed in 35 countries with over 800 points of sale and 6000 employees. The company had decided to close its German hub, which covered both Germany and Austria, in order to reduce ongoing losses in […]
Managing Director and CTO in two subsidiaries
Situation The client, an Austrian global leader in industrial and medical goods, has completed the acquisition of a German competitor after lengthy negotiations. The successfully signed contracts were concluded at very short notice. Prior to the merger, the acquired company was managed by a strong entrepreneurial personality and the clear aim was to get off […]
Interim MANAGER Business Development
Situation Our client, a successful Swedish company with over 200 years of tradition and private owners, took a 10-year strategy into the execution phase. The company has a strong global presence with factories in Europe, the USA and China. The disruption of electrification in the automotive industry has been recognized as an important factor for […]
Transition Interim Manager Supply Chain & Production
Situation Between August 2020 and December 2020, our Interim Manager was commissioned to carry out the transformation in the Supply Chain & Production area towards operational excellence at our client’s main German plant. Targets for its mission were defined in the areas of inventory reduction, production efficiency and Industrial On Time Delivery (OTD). In addition, […]
Interim managers increase the efficiency of your organization
They work with lean management methods and improve efficiency by up to 30%. They not only bring their extensive expertise and many years of experience to the table, but also a fresh perspective from the outside. As temporary managers, interim managers are able to react quickly to the needs of your company and bring about […]
Interim Manager Operational Excellence
Situation A private equity company based in the Netherlands took over a 15-year-old production facility in Germany. They hired a German interim manager to implement the existing management structure with 4 additional production sites in Europe. Challenges Form and lead an operations team to improve lead time from the current 60% to at least 90%. […]
