This Maven is Business Development Director and at VISTEM GmbH und Co KG. He is specialized in supply chain management, production management, project management and strategy and tactics development. He has more than 40 years experience in industry and consulting.
This Maven helps clients capture immense value in their 'white spaces'. (White spaces are resource capacity and resource time 'wasted' by inappropriate focus.
This Maven can either be your advisor or recommend another equally expert colleague.
Projects can be delivered on time close to 100% of the time (any delays that might occur are small); projects are completed with shorter lead-times and the existing organization can do more without adding. Control is visual, easy to use management constantly has the up-to-date project status across the project portfolio and can easily identify where action is needed.
Production lead-times can be cut 50%, work-in-process by a similar amount and delivery reliability (or stock availability) can be close to 100%. Similar to projects management has the necessary visibility to ensure the performance and focus their improvement efforts in the correct place - for greatest impact.
Such a step change in performance requires new or revised strategies and tactics to capitalize on the vastly improved capabilities and to ensure these capabilities and competitive advantages are sustained.
Clients have cut project lead times by up to two thirds.
Production lead-times and work in process have been cut by 40-50%.
The number of completed projects per time period has been doubled - without adding significant resources.
1. Develop new customers primarily in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 2. Train and educate consultants at VISTEM GmbH und Co KG; train others that want to take the various examinations in the Theory of Constraints (as a member of the Theory of Constraints International Certification Office. 3. Act as senior consultant at selected clients. 4. Audit consulting projects Some of the Maven's Articles: http://www.box.net/files/0/f/23638120/Public The Maven's Blog: http://www.toc4u-focus.com/ Rudolf G. Burkhard Rudi brings more than 40 years of varied business experience to his customers. He held positions in finance, technical, sales, marketing, supply chain, project management, business management and most recently business and supply chain consulting at Du Pont’s European headquarters in Geneva. Except for a short period running a small company all of his experience comes from working in many of Du Pont’s business units. Rudi left Du Pont at the end of 2001 to focus on Theory of Constraints consulting. Since then he has been a part of Goldratt Consulting (2003-2005). Between 2005 and 2008 he again worked as an independent consultant. Since 2008 is Business Development Director for VISTEM GmbH & Co KG in Germany. He is the author of the article ‘You Can’t Spot Serious Shareholder Value? Check your Paradigms.’ This essay won the PricewaterhouseCoopers prize for the best article on the subject ‘Can you Spot Serious Shareholder Value?’ You can obtain a copy on request. The essay is a reflection of his adoption of Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints (TOC) to help clients not just improve, but achieve a step change in their (bottom line) results. He applies TOC constraint management across all business functions although customer demand causes an emphasis on project management and the supply chain (production and distribution). Using TOC critical chain project management Rudi, and his VISTEM colleagues have helped businesses implement projects more quickly, reliably meet project due dates and find the capacity to do more without the necessity of adding resources. Projects pay for themselves much more quickly; business results are much improved. Rudi can be reached here: Rudolf G. Burkhard Essex House 13 chemin du Pré Rouge CH-1187 St. Oyens/VD, Switzerland Email: rgb@vistem.eu Tel: +41 21 828 4051 Mobile: +41 79 413 5709
1969 - 1971
MBA
Operations
1964 - 1969
MSc
Chemistry
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