Constantin Westkott

Constantin has extensive experience in supply chain spanning operations. He has been global operational excellence head in food supplier industry for more than eight years where he has been responsible for setting up a cost cutting programs, as well as a production system across production plants, implement Continuous Improvement, leading the lean organization and delivering various operational improvement projects. His experience further include operations strategy, lean manufacturing, production systems (Toyota Production System), Continuous Improvement, industry 4.0, maintenance design and smart sourcing.

Selected projects:

• Operational Excellence program leader for 18 production plants internationally (Food, Eurasia)
• Development and implementation of a group-spanning Production System (Food, global)
• Redesign of the main manual value adding processes (maintenance) in a fully automated environment (Food, EU-wide)
• Embedding of manual activities in a newly designed Industry 4.0 environment (Food, EU-wide)
• Delivery of lean manufacturing trainings and coaching to blue collar, shop floor teams in production sites (Food, global)
• Root cause analysis and resolution of customer quality claims (Food, EU-wide)
• Improvement of cycle time in production of an aerospace company (Aerospace, DE)
• Operational improvements in maintenance and overhaul of an airline company (Aerospace, UK)
• Planning and initiation of the extension of a German automotive assembly plant to a full production plant (Automotive, DE)
• Analysis and implementation of efficiency measures in warehousing operations (Media & Services, DE)