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RHI MAGNESITA

Led Global Procurement and Supply Chain management of Recycling BU in North America, South Americas, Europe, India and China with annual budget over $100 million and regional teams.

Global Procurement

Recycling

Supply Chain Management

Situation
  • Recycling BU was formed inside a Company Global Organisation to deliver Net Zero products for clients across the globe

  • This mission involved higher recycling content, less CO2 emissions in finished products

  • Covid-19 brought it additional pressure on the company sales & operations demanding sustainable, agile, cost-efficient solutions

Task
  • Develop global sourcing and supply chain strategies that satisfy production volume and cost requirements in secondary raw materials

  • Align team structure and process globally to perform and deliver expectation on time, in full

  • Ensure cross-functional collaboration with speed and quality to accelerate new product development and launch

  • Develop full-range SCM Transformation Roadmap and focus to deliver key priorities

  • Assess company installed and used IT solutions and define functionality and suitability for company challenges  

Action
  • Integrated local and regional functions into global structure and aligned on single operations strategy with ‘make or buy’ scenarios

  • Resit New Product Development process with RnD, QA and Production units accelerating new supplier qualification and optimising total process time

  • Set up and led Integrated Business Planning system (IBP) for Recycling organisation

  • Improved ERP and methodology for Tactical Network Optimization (TNO) and Internal Carbon Pricing (ICP) adjusted for Recycling goals.

  • Managed implementation of process improvement and digitalisation projects utilizing SAP, Ariba, Service Now, Continuous Improvement methods and tools

Result
  • Increased Total Recycling Rate to 10% that optimised conversion cost by <5%

  • Reduced CO2 intensity by 12% eliminating annual 60 000t of CO2

  • Improved OTIF to 95% and reached Forecast Accuracy 97%

  • Reached backward-integrated, cost affordable Global Supply Chain for secondary raw materials

  • Delivered Financial, Operational and Investment KPIs in line with expectations

  • Implemented SAP Ariba Source-to-Pay into Global Procurement Organisation on time and budget

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