GOKHAN TASDEVIREN

General Manager of the Company
- Manufacturing
- Design and R&D
- Sales and After Sales
- Finance
- Quality

There are 230 employees and 1.400 people in outsourced assembly houses.
I lead all departments in the organization.

The company is in military defense and aerospace industry.
We produce electronic systems and complete mechanical&electronic products to Brasil, US, Pakistan, Turkey armies.
We have assembly factories in US, Czech Republic and Bulgaria.
Moreover we import our products to different countries.
I also manage R&D Center approved by Turkish Ministry of Industry.
We are going to invest in Semi-Conductor manufacturing factory with 2.500.000 m2 area in Turkey.

I am responsible for all manufacturing operations in Güriş Holding. There are three manufacturing companies and six different locations.

I am responsible totally six factory and 5.500 employees.

Parsan Company is one of the biggest forging&machining manufacturer in Europe.

Döktaş Company is also another group company of Güriş Holding. Döktaş also one of the biggest iron and aluminium foundry organization in Europe.

Moreover Omtaş company is another steel forging business in Europe.


As I am Lean Sensei (Continious Improvement Professional), my mission in the company is cultural transformation for Lean Thinking and Industry 4.0.

I manage more than 5.000 operators, 500 engineers, managers, directors totaly 5.500 employees.

I apply new robot cells, automotion systems and flow type manufacturing lines. Thus we increase the productivity and our quality level.

I lead Strategy Workshops in group companies environment.

Morever I lead three R&D projects approved by Turkish Industry Ministry.

Change management and Coaching Style Leadership is my way.

Best Regards

The company is a supplychain-hub of ZF Gearbox, CNH Tractors Europe and Steyr Tractor companies. The company is an entire SCM organization for its customers. We manage all RFQ, Purchasing, Quality, Delivery from suppliers and logistics operations to customers. Moreover we have CNC manufacturing plant for gearbox components.

The company has 20 suppliers such as casting, machning, sheet metal forming, welding, coating, heat treatment and window systems.What is more we have a machining factory for gearbox components.

We find suppliers, develope and manage them. We plan the weekly orders, collect the quotations and report to ZF on SupplyON system. We also manage daily shipments according to customer orders.

We audit the companies and push them to be more effective, have higher process quality and better JIT conditions.

I apply Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools to those 20 suppliers. I visit suppliers every week with my team. We apply:
-Kaizen,
-5S,
-SMED
-Poka Yoke
-Six Sigma Problem Solving and Continious Improvement techniques in suppliers's plants.

Moreover, I make audits respecting VDA 6.3 Process and Product approach. I am a certificated VDA 6.3 Auditor in worldwide.

We have material inspection and measuring laboratories in our organization. I manage all the teams related first sample inspection process, serial manufacturing controls in Teknotrans. Teknotrans also have a machining plant inside. I manage all the technical team from design to manufacturing.

We achieve ppm targets of ZF, Steyr, CNH.
Our logistics performance is %100.
We are in top 10 in quality, price and logistics criterions computed by ZF system.

We had %92 (2016) and %90 (2007) achievements by ZF VDA 6.3 Audits.

TÜV-Türk is an independent organization (German-Turkish JW) which legally gives a service for vehicle inspection supported by government.

I am the General Manager of the five inspection stations in Kocaeli, Sakarya and Düzce cities.

We applied lean Service techniques to those five services and we achieved some targets which are controlled by government:
a) Service time to customers: Decreased %50
b) Complaints of customers: Zero per months in 2014, the monthly avarage is 3 complaints for each station in 2013
c) Financially more income than expected due to shorter service time and more inspection service

We had awards from TÜV-Türk for those five stations such as;
1) Having the best Continious improvement processes
2) Customer happiness etc..

May '10 - .: WOODGROUP Adapazari Turkey
General Manager - Consultant- Board of Members

I managed the strategy for manufacturing, Turkey sales and creating export markets.

I decided the investment of machineries, increasing the capacity %300.

Advertising strategy for "Woodgroup" brand name and worked with Turkish Airlines, Newspapers and TVs.

I lead Lean implementations, Kaizen, 5S, Hoshin Kanri, Strategic Planning, Investment Planning. By means of these techniques the company sales turnover increased more than 40 times in two years.

When I was started to manage the company they have only 40 people and they have a sales turnover of 1.000.000 USD. Now the company has 400 employees and 20.000.000 USD turnover.

The company is now in second place for wooden door and kitchen manufacturing capacity only in two years in Turkey.

EBIT is %20

May '08 - May '10: TIRSAN TREYLER Istanbul&Adapazari Turkey
Consultant- Board of Members

Tirsan Trailer is the biggest trailer manufacturing&sales company in Turkey and the fourth biggest manufacturer in Europe.

Re-organization, re-engineering all organization, the transformation project started with 1.000 employees.

Decreasing warehouse inventories from 18 Million Euro to 6 Million Euro in six month!

Decreasing finished goods (trailers) from 1150 to 180 trailers in one year.

DAF Trucks -Holland strategic plan and strategic relationship

DAF trucks and Trailers sales by "Home Office" understanding and getting a rocket increase from %0, 8 to %5, 2 market share

%62 market share of trailer market in Turkey, fourth place in EUROPE.

New product development and great sales (Lightest trailer developed)

Euro norms achieved for low-beds, trailers, tankers.

R&D Center approved by Turkish Industry Ministry, getting task of
salary advantage

SAP Re-engineering and process engineering

Lean management by implementing Kaizen, 5S, VSM, O-Obeya all tools and all management tools

Dec '07 - May '08: WOODGROUP Adapazari Turkey
General Manager
New investment, new factory 10.000.000 Euro
Construction, layout realizing, machine procurement,
Increasing sales from 3 Million / annual USD to 34
Million USD/annual
Creating all departments in organization,
Reporting directly to Board of Directors

Sept '07 - Dec '07: ASAŞ ALÜMİNYUM Sakarya Turkey
Assistant of General Manager
TPM consultancy and TPM coordinator
Investment analysis
Lean Transformation Kaizen, 5S, Poke Yoke, Andon, Jidoka implementations
TPM Award by JIPM (Japaneese Total Productive Maintanence Award)

EL-BI ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL

COO- Sales & Marketing
COO - Technical & Quality & HR

Decreasing order to ship period from 90 to 5 days

Eliminating 6.000.000 USD inventory to 1.500.000
USD in 4 months,

Increasing sales from 19 Million / month USD to 40
Million USD/

Managing 61 Sales Representatives in 8 area in Turkey

Managing 33 Managers in different countries exporting totally 54 countries,

Decreasing turnover of HR from %20 to %4,

Defining sales budget by all 18.000 items on monthly base for five years budget plan (%88 achieved)

Merging project El-Bi and Ahlstrom Capital achieved

EBIT %14

February '06 - August '06: Yalınkaya Holding Istanbul Turkey
Purchasing & Logistics & Product Management
Director
Cost saving 1.200.000 USD by procurement techniques
Increasing sales of "Assortie" shops from 1.500
USD/months to 15.000 USD/months for 26
international shops in 5 months.
%63 of sales rising of Goldas stores in 5 months.
Establishment of Purchasing & Logistics department
which services to 11 companies of Yalınkaya Holding
Establishment of Supply Chain Management from supply to after sales.
Product management and responsibility of design
approval
Managing billion USD of purchasing budget from
Jewellery, diamond, sapphire to cnc machinery and women accessorize to IT products.
Creating our own ERP, B2B
Reporting directly to CEO
Product management, Design approve responsibility,
Decision responsibility of sales prices

November '05 -February '06: KIPSAN A.Ş. Istanbul Turkey

Assitant General Manager Factory&Technical&Quality

Management of 170 Blue Collars, 18 White Collars

%15 productivity increase and 150.000 USD of labour
cost saving,

6 months of avarage Ppm =2 (2 defect per million) Best Score in FORD Turkey suppliers

Shipment performance= %99.8

Increasing sales budget after Q1 award the company became an international automotive supplier

Q1 AWARD
Q1 Achieved by FORD Company, ISO 9000, TS 16949
backgorund implemented to company processes

November '95 -September '05: Otoyol IVECO, Turkey

My first six year was in Purchasing department
I managed SCM Department two years
I was Lean Coorinator at last two years.
Management of 650 Blue Collars, 180 White Collars
Totally 28 teams for continous improvement
%105 productivity increase (4 millions USD/yr),
8.000 m2 regained area ( 4 millions USD)
5 mil. Euro inventory elimination, Kanban utility % 85 of Lead Time elimination, mix-model production
Directly reporting to CEO and Koc Holding
BPR Management Consultant
Baan integration for Supply Chain Management
SAP BPR management
QUALITY
ISO 9001 established in 1997
Audits implemented
Suppliers audit implemented
Supply Logistics Manager
400 suppliers in Turkey, 71 suppliers in Europe
19 Engineers and officers, 18.000 items to manage,
MRP execution for different group of material such as cast, forging, sheet metal formed parts, complete parts, FAS (Final assembly schedule parts), Kanban management, Milk Run implementation and management
Cost saving of 500.000 USD/yr by Milk Run,
600.000 USD/yr cost saving by inventory elimination
Supply Chain Cost Engineering Manager
Just In Time implementation for 18 suppliers
Kanban for suppliers
Milk Run project and inventory elimination (%50;
600.000 USD/yr)

Purchasing Project Manager
2, 500.000 USD procurement savings by design economizing
NBF (New Bus Family) Project (1800 moulds, 3 Million Euro Mould investment decision& realization, supplier evaluation, project management, new product feasibility, cost analysis for every part and suppliers,
Genka Kikaku (Target Cost), Design to product management

August '91 - July '92: Saglam Is Steel Wire Mnf., Turkey
PLANT MANAGER

Managing all the factory.