HK INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING - Key Persons
An experienced practitioner and proven expert specialized in supply chain management and global sourcing. In a career spanning more than 15 years, he has acquired broad knowledge and expertise in the automotive, retail, logistics, HR and manufacturing industries.
In the course of his career, Mr. Döring has been responsible for many interesting and challenging projects with the following tasks:
For more than 30 years, the passionate change manager, who lives in Germany, the USA, Hong Kong, and since 2009 in Switzerland and Sweden, has not only been changing the digital landscape in purchasing and supply chain management worldwide, but also in the related business areas of SMEs and DAX companies.
In his role as a partner at HK International Consulting, he advises executives, board teams and their employees on all aspects of digital transformation, innovation, new business models, restructuring and organisation, with a focus on procurement, supply chain and operations. As a supply chain expert, he has focused on supporting clients and partners in the joint definition and goal-oriented implementation of digital transformation strategies worldwide.
As a positive influencer, with a direct and straightforward delivery of exceptional business process transformation experiences, he has propagated the market in his role as a digitalisation expert, coach and mentor for start-ups, keynote speaker, author (Industrie 4.0 - The Digital Future in Purchasing).
He gained his successful and versatile industry experience (automotive, furniture, paper, electrical, optical, IT industry, insurance/banking,...) in well-known companies such as Faurecia Automotive, Westfalia Automotive, Frimo Group, Leica Camera, Weko Büromöbelfabrik, Papierfabrik Utzentorf, Air Liquide, and many other successful companies known worldwide. He was also a co-founder of the largest knowledge initiative in the field of digitalisation in German-speaking countries. He is currently involved as a board member in Kigali, Rwanda, with Ayambe Talent Solutions to promote climate financing in developing countries.
A practitioner with over 15 years of professional experience gained both in the international and domestic environment of procurement, sales and project management. She gained her expert knowledge mainly in the retail and wholesale sector and managed as a consultant optimization projects in the FMCG sector, public services and professional services for business.
She worked, among others for Praktiker Polska and for consulting companies such as Kloepfel Consulting or Leanpassion.
Peter started his consulting career after 10 years of several procurement managing positions in automotive and HVAC sectors. His core competence was primary strategic sourcing and TCO reduction projects. Further he developed his skills in lean transformation, (improvement of OEE by TPM, process optimisation, Shopfloor management), turn around and project management (make or buy analysis and production site relocations).
He launched on-site projects for his clients in western Europe (Great Britain, Germany, Swiss, Austria, ) and eastern Europe (Poland, Czech republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Russia).
Practitioner for most of his career, he was working in the automotive industry, where he gained knowledge and experience working for global Tier I suppliers - Lear Corporation, Magna International and Boryszew / Maflow.
Eventually, he achieved the position of Global Purchasing Director, when he was responsible for the strategy and all purchasing processes for 10 production plants located in Europe, Asia and South America.
For several years he has been running an independent consulting activity in the field of supply chain management. He has successfully completed optimization projects.