Stephan Schmitz

For further details please visit my LinkedIn profile.

For further details please visit my LinkedIn profile.

For further details please visit my LinkedIn profile.

In this SCM role, I led procurement and supply chain projects from a corporate perspective and on group level (automotive, fashion accessories, lingerie and consumer industry). Our global project and procurement team had 40 strategic buyers and professional managers on four continents and managed an annual spend of 240 million EUR. For further information, please visit my LinkedIn profile.

I managed a global procurement team of 13 direct reports on 3 continents and in 2 different industries (fashion accessories and consumer products), organized in 6 complex buying offices in Hongkong, Mainland China, Sri Lanka, India, USA and Germany and handled an annual spend of 170 million EUR. My team developed strategies and executed implementation plans for global procurement and cost reduction projects. For further details, please visit my LinkedIn profile..

After three successful years as Sourcing Director in China, I returned to the Prym headquarters in Germany and took-over a senior management position within the Holding’s corporate development department. As an in-house consultant, I focused on group-wide strategy approaches like cost control management, organic growth or mergers & acquisitions. For further details, please visit my LinkedIn profile.

As head of strategic procurement, I was member of the local management team. I supervised 3 managers and 7 staff members under my direct and technical assignment while colaborating the departments Sourcing, Purchasing, R&D and Quality within my department and resposnibilities. For further information, please visit my LinkedIn profile.

In the role as a sourcing manager my main tasks were to find and to qualify suppliers and sources in Asia; mainly in China. Beside the development of new products I transfered several product categories into Asian production and achieved significant savings while keeping or improving the existing quality level and optimizing the supply chain in regard to supplier performance and cost reduction. For further details, please visit my LinkedIn profile

Harmonisches Gesellschaftskonzept und seine Auswirkungen auf die chinesische Rechtsentwicklung

Reformiertes Recht: Das Eigentums- und das Erbrecht nach den Grundsätzen des Zivilrechts der 60er Jahre

Theorie und Ideengeschichte: Die Rechtsphilosophie im Guanzi: 法法 - Die Gesetzmäßigkeiten des Rechts

Forschungsthema: Chinesische Emigranten in Australien: Probleme, Herausforderungen und Besonderheiten

Sprachausbildung (Chinesisch)