Manager to implement operational optimization measures
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Your Challenge
Your actually established and successful organization in mechanical engineering or plant construction has been facing growing quality problems for some time. Delivery performance is increasingly deteriorating. Possibly, the interaction between plants within your value chain is also disturbed.
Our Mission
We strengthen your team with the perfect resource for analyzing and optimizing your entire value chain in mechanical or plant engineering. In addition to restoring technical performance, we also take a look at causes at the interpersonal level, coach managers at the foreman level and second level, or release them if necessary.
Your Solution
The Atreus Approved Manager is responsible for solving the performance, quality and delivery crisis. He accompanies the cultural change and ensures a healthy working atmosphere, establishes sustainable open and appreciative communication, introduces a culture of error and a best-case approach, installs a knowledge database and professionalizes the organization.
Purchasing Manager to set up alternative suppliers
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Your Challenge
As a machine manufacturer, you are confronted with delivery bottlenecks. In view of resulting line stoppages, you are facing liquidity problems, your inventories are growing. You cannot invoice your customers because you cannot produce.
Our Mission
We strengthen your team with the ideal resource to perform a supplier and risk analysis or make-or-buy analysis. We explore new procurement channels and establish new supply chains for you while ensuring quality, delivery reliability and cost efficiency. At the same time, we provide comprehensive optimization of your processes and coaching of your team until they are working independently.
Your Solution
The Atreus approved purchasing manager with in-depth expertise in mechanical or plant engineering is responsible for on-time production and timely delivery of goods. He minimizes the risk of delivery interruptions, increases OTD as well as customer satisfaction, and achieves savings. He also implements e-procurement solutions and e-purchasing platforms as needed. Team members are more motivated and work at a higher level of performance.
Engineering Manager to overcome start-up difficulties during ramp-up
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Your Challenge
You face difficulties in ramping up new technologies. Although some prototypes with potential exist, there is a lack of know-how on industrialization and the latest technologies.
Our Mission
We provide you with the right resource with a track record in ramp-up and further development of complex technologies. At the same time, we ensure networking with engineering companies and talents in relevant technology fields (for example, materials, electromechanics, automation or IoT/digitization).
Your Solution
The Atreus approved R&D or Engineering Manager is responsible for scaled processes during ramp-up and stabilization of the R&D and Engineering team. Thanks to his market knowledge, he provides access to the latest technologies and leads your project to success with his implementation experience in the industrialization of products and solutions.
YOUR CHALLENGE
You are concerned about the overall productivity of your operation. Sick leave in your workforce is increasing while motivation is decreasing. You are struggling with high scrap and insufficient quality. There is a partial lack of transparency in standards and KPIs. A continuous improvement process is not in place.
Our Mission
We provide your team with the right resource to define and standardize KPIs together with employees. We ensure full transparency, the implementation of pilot and lighthouse projects, the optimization of store floor management and the promotion of cross-functional collaboration.
YOUR SOLUTION
An Atreus approved plant manager is responsible for optimizing all important KPIs. He helps employees to take responsibility for themselves and initiates a sustainable change process that is embraced by the employees. At the same time, he identifies hidden champions among the employees, trains the workforce in lean methods and ensures continuous improvement.
Program Manager for the implementation of production relocations
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Your Challenge
In the course of your production relocation, the receiving and the sending production site do not cooperate sufficiently. The ability to deliver is not guaranteed during the relocation, and the development of know-how and the transfer of knowledge to the new site are proceeding slowly. Negotiations on the reconciliation of interests with the works council and trade unions are difficult and tough.
Our Mission
We reinforce your team with the perfect resource for planning and managing the relocation process, including building a product buffer. She takes a neutral position in negotiations, develops training plans for employees at the new site, optimizes existing and identifies new sourcing channels for the receiving site.
Your solution
The Atreus approved program manager with many years of experience in mechanical engineering or plant construction ensures that production is relocated without interrupting deliveries. She handles the outgoing site and facilitates the optimization of the value stream at the new site, negotiates a reconciliation of interests and establishes transfer companies. She ensures that the supply chain is completely converted to the new location, secures the transfer of know-how and guarantees the optimal reuse of the machinery and equipment.
Project manager for relocation of sites
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Your Challenge
You need to adjust your footprint to optimize manufacturing costs, enter new markets and reduce lead times. At the same time, you want to minimize the complexity and risk of your relocation.
Our Mission
We strengthen your team with the matching resource for accurate planning as well as the creation of transparency and reliability in the relocation process. At the same time, we ensure risk management for you, negotiations with the various stakeholders, and support for the production ramp-up at the receiving site.
Your Solution
An Atreus Approved Manager takes responsibility with a fact-oriented and non-political approach. He sets up a consistently managed relocation process without interrupting the customer’s supply and ensures the transfer of know-how from the supplying site to the receiving site – with maximum equipment re-use.
Lean management expert to implement a store floor management system
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YOUR CHALLENGE
Your organization has an urgent need for change on the store floor. You need an operational excellence program or customized production system.
Our Mission
We strengthen your team with the ideal resource to implement an effective store floor management system. Via digitalization, we enable you to achieve maximum transparency and accelerated change on the store floor.
Your Solution
An Atreus approved lean management expert is responsible for increasing your operational excellence on the store floor. He establishes a store floor management system, initiates LEAN training and implementation workshops, and coaches all managers to reduce waste and increase productivity.
Expert for the introduction of a HSE concept (Health, Safety, Environment)
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Your Challenge
You want to establish or optimize an HSE concept in your customer-specific production system in order to anchor the entire range of sustainability in your company, from occupational safety to zero emissions.
Our Mission
We strengthen your team with a resource with experience (international as well) in the areas of Safety, Health & Environment in order to anchor the “Safety First” idea in your operations team with the help of concrete measures.
Your Solution
An Atreus approved manager is responsible for the further development of your sustainability management, including the associated reporting and training of the teams, some of which are interdisciplinary.
SCM Manager for the analysis of the material flow
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YOUR CHALLENGE
Lack of transparency in your supply chain brings growing risks and delivery failures. Contractual agreements are missing, processes are manual and non-transparent. The team has only worked locally so far and therefore has not yet managed an international material flow.
OUR MISSION
We strengthen your team with the perfect resource for analyzing, implementing and optimizing the sales & operations planning process, enabling the flawless mapping of an end-to-end supply chain process. Among others, we ensure the daily material flow planning across the entire value chain, the execution of make-or-buy analyses and cost saving programs as well as the optimization of the entire logistics.
YOUR SOLUTION
The Atreus Approved SCM Manager is responsible for optimizing processing times on the basis of a planning process on the sales, production, and purchasing side. He increases customer satisfaction through on-time delivery and saves costs through bundling effects or outsourcing of value creation (make-or-buy). He digitizes processes in ERP, EDI, e-procurement and e-platforms, providing customers with up-to-the-minute transparency. At the same time, he minimizes the risk of supply bottlenecks and failures.
Bottleneck manager to ensure material availability
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YOUR CHALLENGE
Material availability in your production is not guaranteed, causing your inventories to increase and your liquidity to suffer. You cannot produce and invoice to the customer.
OUR MISSION
We strengthen your team with an experienced resource for the introduction and implementation of a compelling taskforce management – including daily missing parts, inventory and order reporting. At the same time, we ensure consistent escalation management on the supplier side and de-escalation management on the customer side. We optimize your component supply via alternative sources (manufacturers, distributors and technical offices).
YOUR SOLUTION
An Atreus certified bottleneck manager is responsible for defining the necessary processes, creating transparency for planning and implementing measures, and forming and coaching an effective team for your bottleneck/task force management. On this basis, inventories are continuously reduced and component supply is guaranteed. Production and invoicing can be carried out.
Operations Manager for Logistics and Material Flow
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YOUR CHALLENGE
You lack information about the exact location of your semi-finished and finished products. Deficiencies in warehousing increase the additional effort in intralogistics and increase throughput times. Your production is incompletely and sometimes contradictorily mapped in the IT, which massively affects the ability to plan.
OUR MISSION
We strengthen your team with the perfect resource that quickly establishes visibility over your material flows and, thanks to many years of experience, can point the finger at the problem. Thanks to an optimization of machine layouts and the introduction of self-regulating processes in combination with useful key performance indicators, we significantly reduce your lead times while increasing plannability.
YOUR SOLUTION
An Atreus approved Operations Manager is responsible for the optimal use of all available resources and quickly increases the transparency of material flows in the organization. At the same time, he ensures acceptance within the team through a sensitive approach.
YOUR CHALLENGE
The external value-added share of your company is constantly increasing. You need alternative suppliers to secure and expand your profitability in the long term.
OUR MISSION
We strengthen your team with the appropriate resource to establish coordinated interfaces to suppliers and to introduce an objective supplier evaluation – with a clear focus on the establishment of decentralized supply chains. At the same time, we evaluate specialized online platforms for you, depending on the industry.
YOUR SOLUTION
An Atreus Expert is responsible for increasing supply capability through a broader and more decentralized supplier network, as well as reducing dependencies, achieving additional cost savings, and maximizing transparency.
Expert for holistic planning (S&OP)
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YOUR CHALLENGE
Your company lacks end-to-end transparency across the supply chain. Even within your own company there are different levels of planning and data. Particular interests stand in the way of the overall optimum. Frictional losses during coordination and insufficient transparency make effective decisions difficult.
OUR MISSION
We strengthen your team with the perfect resource for setting up a holistic planning process, consulting in the selection of suitable tools, support in the implementation or integration into the ERP system as well as the neutral moderation of cross-functional workshops.
YOUR SOLUTION
An Atreus approved Expert is responsible for implementing an S&OP and ensures transparency along the value chain. He or she identifies root causes, quickly highlights anomalies, and trains and motivates the team.
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