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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Transglobal merger of Engineering and Technical Services into one global business unit
Situation Uncoordinated product developments and poor planning have had a considerable economic impact. This was mainly due to product availability targets not being met, which had a negative impact on business planning. The lack of coordination meant that resources were used inefficiently and development processes were delayed. In addition, the competitive situation deteriorated considerably as […]
Interim Director of Operations – Transformation Manager
Situation The organization is responsible for managing the applications for its 34 customers (30,000 end users). These applications (similar to ERP applications) are different for each type of customer and hardly have a standardized approach, neither at the process level nor in terms of data. Pain points: The applications are a mixture of “on-premise” and […]
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 […]
Can a new sales strategy turn the corner?
Turnaround in the system furniture industry with industry and methodological knowledge Situation European furniture maker O, with a turnover of 400 million euros, has a subsidiary in D who has been writing red numbers for years. The systems are sold through both sales representatives and their own sales. The sales representatives and the sales representatives […]
Group Controller in the steel industry
Controlling system optimization during relocation by Interim Group Controller. Situation The semi-finished product manufacturer Z AG is based abroad. The Financial Data Processing division will also be relocated. The administration’s move adds to the pressure on affected employees as day-to-day operations must continue without interruption. A public company must report regularly. The move is a […]
