Eero Soralahti
Highlights
20+ years' experience in developing and hands-on operating complex operations and supply chains, in several industries and under challenging situations.
Operating
Microsoft
Operational leadership and accountability for performance and availability for ~350M€/year purchase value global supply chain in supplier interface. Secured 100% availability and 0€ excess with 10-14 day inventory buffers in extremely turbulent business conditions.
Defining and coordinating the execution of S&OP decisions to maximize life-time margin across ~100 suppliers for short life-cycle electronics assembly products.
Developing - In-house
Nokia
Setting up and operating Turnaround Program Management Office to fundamentally re-shape operative set-up across supply chain divisions to reduce Cost of Sales by >1 000M€/year without compromising customer service levels during transition.
Coordinating supplier portfolios and developing sourcing business models for >10B€/year purchase value across dozen high-tech industries to achieve e.g. consistent 2-5% quarterly cost reductions.
Revising and implementing supplier business models to achieve e.g. 100M€/year OEM bottom-line improvement.
Developing - Selected examples
Sales & Operations Planning
Sales & Operations Planning
Sales & Operations Planning
Several projects on defining, setting up and rolling out improved S&OP practices and complementing digital tools
Accelerating S&OP process from monthly to weekly cadence to keep up with fast changes in customer demand
Sourcing
Sales & Operations Planning
Sales & Operations Planning
Several assignments to improve Sourcing practices e.g. via processes and RFQs
Designing and implementing fact-based sourcing tools that account for e.g. forward looking demand outlook
Reducing material costs by harmonizing material portfolio and re-allocating business split across supplier portfolio
Profitability improvement
Sales & Operations Planning
Business Process Improvement
Setting up and operating program management offices to coordinate EBIT improvement actions across different top-line and cost initiatives
Revising very complex multi-company business model to radically adjust the split of value chain total margin
Business Process Improvement
Business Process Improvement
Business Process Improvement
Improving process efficiency to get better results with >85% less process work time
Improving production efficiency to enable growth with existing capacity investments
Inventory management
Business Process Improvement
Product portfolio management
Several assignments to permanently reduce inventories and improve availability at the same time e.g. via business model changes or revising inventory steering models and practices
Coordinating product portfolio transition to new base technology without causing temporary spike in needed inventories
Product portfolio management
Business Process Improvement
Product portfolio management
Assessing the efficiency, performance and connections of 10 - 100 000 SKU product portfolios; supporting the execution of rationalization actions via PMO
Tracking and assigning previously hidden costs to material and product portfolios; confirming and executing roadmaps to fix outliers
Operative efficiency
Operative efficiency
Operative efficiency
Several capacity and logistics efficiency assessment and improvement projects
Several capacity ramp-up projects for new operations, production lines or factories
Cost management
Operative efficiency
Operative efficiency
Designing and fully implementing activity-based costing model for process industry company to manage material margin across factories, products and customers
Revising and fixing assembly business complexity cost and BOM variant accounting to pinpoint products with insufficient margin
Improving and deploying Cost Break Down models for Sourcing to optimize life-cycle total costs and support material cost reductions.
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