Chief Operations Officer/ Turnaround Management
Situation The client is a medium-sized automotive supplier. Following the takeover by a strategic investor, the aim was to develop the company from a niche supplier to a 1st tier series producer. A production site was established in Eastern Europe, where newly acquired projects were to be launched. The plant was unable to meet customer […]
Interim Taskforce Manager stabilizes supply chain and reduces escalation level
Situation The task force project at a plant belonging to a leading international automotive supplier was triggered by a number of challenges that impaired efficient operations. The main problems included high backlogs in the supply chain, production downtimes at the company and at the customer, increased special trips and special flights, staff shortages and a […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
Transport Expert for an international automotive supplier
Situation The German TIER1 automotive supplier with ten thousand employees worldwide had hired two transport experts and managers to analyze inbound transport costs, implement a transport management system in Europe and train all logistics employees at nine production sites in Europe as well as their main suppliers in the use of the transport management system. […]
Operations manager in a used car outlet
Situation The client is an insurance company that offers its policyholders the remarketing and valuation of vehicles as a service. The insurer has around 70 valuation offices throughout Germany, which have the relevant expertise in purchasing, valuation and logistics in cooperation with a garage chain and an auction house. Once the vehicle has […]
Restructuring of a medium-sized automotive supplier in the PE environment
Situation The group of companies was family-owned for 70 years and went bankrupt in 2020. The group of companies consisted of 6 production plants at 6 different locations in Germany, Hungary and Romania. The insolvent group of companies was acquired by a private equity boutique in 2020. Immediately after the takeover, one plant was closed […]
Interim’s plant manager successfully expands US plant
Situation Automotive supplier Z GmbH has more orders for its plant in the USA than it can deliver. The permanent plant manager cannot drive forward the expansion of production capacity in parallel with day-to-day business. New machines are on standby. They need to be set up and put into operation. Additional staff need to be […]
Should the Interim Human Resources Manager be overqualified?
Increasing the efficiency of an automotive plant with an interim HR manager Situation The plant, with 400 employees of the international Tier1 Automotive supplier, was one of the best of 30 plants in Europe. It has often been cited as an example of efficiency in production within the group. European management therefore saw no reason […]
Interim supply chain manager saves costs
Return on interim management within 12 months Situation Tier 2 supplier A GmbH for the automotive industry with 200 employees is part of 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 […]
eMobility – new Emphases for the Supply Industry and Plant Manufacturers
Securing Change Projects’ success with Interim Management Expertise No question, any forecasts about E-Car distribution in Europe were extremely optimistic and never met the reality. Just the Netherlands and Norway seem to be pretty well on track. Even, if there is still no clear picture about the break through, but nowadays, there is no doubt about […]
