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Riedel Names Oliver Zimmermann As Director Of Manufacturing

Brings experience as a physicist, supply chain professional and change management specialist with more than a decade of experience in the manufacturing business to his new role.
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Oliver Zimmermann, the new director of manufacturing at Riedel.

Riedel Communications has named Oliver Zimmermann, a physicist, supply chain professional and change management specialist with more than a decade of experience in the manufacturing business, as its new director of manufacturing.

“Oliver has always recognized the human being as the source of all improvement, considering every employee and every team an integral part of the overall organization,” says Thomas Riedel, CEO at Riedel Communications. “This mindset makes him just the right person to guide the Riedel manufacturing division through continuous development as a learning organization — an approach we believe to be vital in a volatile world undergoing an exponential pace of change.”

Zimmermann earned a doctorate in physics from Ruhr University Bochum and since then has leveraged his knowledge of models and processes to analyze systems, derive meaningful measures, and refine internal structures to help manufacturing organizations become more efficient. A supply chain and change management specialist, Zimmermann applies modern management models and optimization tools such as digitization and artificial intelligence to drive improvement.

He most recently served as director of operations for Telegärtner Karl Gärtner GmbH, with process responsibility for the supply chain of purchasing, logistics, warehousing, production, work scheduling, and industrial engineering. In earlier management roles with Poligrat GmbH and Steinert Elektromagnetbau GmbH, he led digitization and process optimization initiatives to transform sales, production, and administration.

“Through a holistic end-to-end approach, I strive to build highly integrative, collaborative supply chain networks with the capacity to enhance both adaptability and learning capabilities,” Zimmermann says. “As an organization, Riedel has always managed to complete major projects successfully despite constantly changing circumstances and inevitable challenges. This is a credit to the enormous motivation of individual Riedel employees, who are used to working in a very goal-oriented manner and with a high level of problem-solving competence. Going forward, we can build on these strengths by improving the interweaving of processes and people, as well as by gleaning more targeted lessons from each project we undertake. I look forward to the challenge.”

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