Richard Allbert

Customer projects included:Laser profile machine interface & specification database, Bead circumference machine operator interface via Siemens S5, KPI intranet reporting system, Business personnel wages system, Invoice management system, Profit & loss analysis / reporting system, iPhone business application

Scope Industrial Engineering: Management of factory headcount and efficiency, Definition and coordination of factory efficiency projects, Coordination of factory investment, efficiency and personnel planning - Scope Production Planning: Creation and Planning of factory production plan coordinating with logistics Germany & HQ Milan, Responsible for intercompany raw material supply chain planning from Germany, Steering of the factory resources with respect to process saturation, Kanban implementation

Scope Logistics & Distribution: Multiple warehouse management covering four markets – OE, Replacement, Truck and Inter Company, Supply Chain Management, Financial management – responsible for ca. €25m (including warehousing contracts), Maintenance of inter-functional relations between R&D, Quality, Sales, Marketing and Production- Scope Production Planning: Creation and Planning of factory production plan coordinating with logistics Germany & HQ Milan, Responsible for intercompany raw material supply chain

Supply ultra high performance tyres to OE customer market (e.g. Ferrari, Bentley, Porsche, Audi…), Manage 140 people in four departments: quality, efficiency, maintenance and production, Responsibility for internal and external (OE) finished product quality, safety, volume, product and process industrialisation, costs (labour, direct / indirect materials, maintenance), Maintain state of the art Quality Management System (to comply with customer audit standards)

Department of 160 people, Supplier to an internal customer, Responsibility for internal quality, safety, volume and costs, Main focus waste cost reduction and efficiency improvements using Six Sigma and Kaizen methodology

Responsible for the running of the whole plant on a shift by shift basis, Responsible for the materials planning using the Kanban materials ordering system

Factory improvement projects using Kaizen methods in operations management, industrial engineering, maintenance and quality maintenance

Industrialisation of products and processes