Thierry Parente

o Improvement of internal flow to cope with an increase of activity ;
o Implementation of a Kanban system between packing lines and components warehouse ;

Sector: Health and pharmaceutical

Supervisor of components warehouse, Curver in Niedercorn (Luxemburg)
o Management of priorities, inventory and rationalization of place and costs;
o Management of 3 handlers.


Planner, Curver in Niedercorn (Luxemburg)
Replenishment
o I manage the replenishment of raw materials : 250 references and a purchase value of 10 millions €;
o Rationalization of the number of colors from 200 to 70 (european project)
o Stocks decreased by 35%, a decrease of 0.6 million €;
o Tools set up : increasing stock accuracy (permanent inventory), a fine follow up of safety stocks (statistical tools).

Follow up of a key account : Carrefour
o 200 references , 700 orders per year and 12 million € sales per year ;
o Service level increased from 88% to 99% ;
o New methods of safety stocks and the creation of new tools to anticipate and identify possible shortages ;
o This pilot scheme involves the development of procedures in order to apply the same rules in the company.

Central Planning Projects
o Forecasts accuracy (measurement of the monthly forecasts accuracy and analysis of deviation)
o Starting a software of Business Intelligence (definitions and training)

Sector: Plastics

Inventory analyst, France Transfo (a subsidiary of Schneider Electric) in Maizières-lès-Metz (France)
o Optimization of stock management parameters ;
o 6,000 references and 45,000 order lines per year ;
o Stocks decreased by 40% (annual savings of carrying costs = 450k€) ;
o Trainee of 4 months.

Sector: Electrical and electronic industries

Transport planner, Holcim France (2nd world biggest cement company) in Thionville (France)
o Daily Transportation planning ;
o 100 trucks and 200 deliveries per day in the North-East of France and in Germany;
o Project about the different steps of how the Supply Chain should be applied to anticipate to the company needs ;
o Project about the profitability of the transportation ;
o SAP R3 was used ;
o Trainee of 24 months.

Sector: Construction materials