Let´s transform to best in class.
global. procurement.
Customer satisfaction begins with purchasing.
My name is Richard Porstmann, Interim Expert international.
As CPO, COO, Head of Procurement or as Head of Special Projects, I go to internationally operating medium-sized and family-owned companies that usually have several locations worldwide. These are manufacturing companies from the mechanical and plant engineering, automotive and supplier industries as well as the aerospace industry.
I manage global transformation and purchasing projects and take on the establishment, optimization, and sustainable integration of purchasing. Likewise, I stand by my clients as an ad-hoc crisis manager.
As a supervisory or advisory board member, I ensure sustainable results and long-term success.
OFFER MODULES
Global transformation and purchasing projects
- Future-oriented management and positioning of global purchasing, international business development and change management
- Establishment and development of organizations
- Sustainable process and cost optimizations in purchasing
- Coaching
Sustainable integration of purchasing
- Strategic Purchasing
- Establish SCM in the plant or branch establishment
- Material group management
- Supplier Management
- Material cost reduction
- Controlling
- Digitalization
- Negotiation
- Optimization of operative purchasing, e.g. material availability
Crisis management in purchasing
- Short-term realization of cost savings
- Restoration of material availability
- Assurance of the quality and quantity of preliminary products
- Implementation of customer information and communication systems
- Observation of supply and process chains
- Modernisation of procurement management
- Pareto analysis
CORE EXPERIENCES
LEADING:
- Leadership experience
- Strategic and operational
MECHANICAL AND PLANT ENGINEERING:
- Eexperienced in international mechanical and plant engineering companies
TRANSFORMING:
- Business
- Products
- Solutions
COMMUNICATING:
- Develop jointly
- in communication with others
PROCURING:
- Strategic Purchasing, global
- Supplier Management
- Global / low-cost-country sourcing
INTERNATIONAL:
- Intercultural Management
- Experienced abroad: Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America (incl. Brazil)
»Think global. Act local.«
Richard Porstmann
PROJECT REFERENCES
Transformation in purchasing & SCM at an international automotive supplier
Goal: Identification and verification of optimizations to improve results in purchasing | Improvement of material availability | Development of the purchasing organization
Establishment of a global network
Goal: Establishment of a global network to promote trade relations through identification and development of distribution partners in Latin America and Asia
Marketing of Brazilian raw materials in Europe
Goal: To introduce a Brazilian supplier of raw materials on the European market
