Ferenc Rákóczy

Management and control of 12M CHF inventory from point of receipt until finished goods sales, with approximately 120 people. Continuous improvement of warehousing, shop floor materials and inventory control processes. Head of local Warehouse Management System, called Material Toolbox application development team.

Create, drive and execute continuous improvement programs in Warehousing and Shop floor logistics for NCR Hungary, including the leadership of CI activities for the 3PL logistics provider.

Management and an approximately 10m USD cost control of the strategic, tactical and operational activities and continuous improvement of the USD 60M annual turnover Business Unit SC including Purchasing, Warehousing, Customs and forwarding, Production Logistics and Supplier Quality with 20+ direct white-collar and 60+ blue-collar subordinates, reporting to General Manager, Elcoteq Manaus.

Management of the inbound materials activities on the sites within Home Communications Business Area in a cost-saving manner with 8 dotted-line subordinates The factories located at Pécs (Hungary), Tallinn (Estonia) , Beijing, Shenzhen (China), Juarez (Mexico), Manaus (Brazil). Reporting to the Director, Operational Excellence.

I was responsible for the production planning and an approx 2M EUR shop floor inventory management of Pécs Finn plant with 3 production planners and 7 inventory controllers. Application of various planning techniques from MTO to a kan-ban card-based pull system, using several planning philosophies such as lean, MRP or TOC. WIP inventory mgmt included the execution of all related transactions real-time in corporate system, cycle counts, stocktakings and the ownership of replenishment system.

Manage the Tatabanya (Hungary) Business Unit’s material planning and procurement processes of Ericsson (70 percent of total BU sales) and Valeo (NPI) accounts, Reporting to the Materials Manager.

discussion and consolidation of retail stores, purchasing and forwarding management, participation in new collection presentation and item selection in Manchester, UK.

supply chain management; Degree thesis: Production planning strategies in EMS industry