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SPEZIAL
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CONTROLLING INTERNATIONAL
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ISSUE 12
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SEPTEMBER 2015
CONTROLLER
ICV
Herwig Friedag is the leader of the new ICV “Interna-
tional working group”. The group is English-speaking
only, including a new “business model” for ICV work-
ing group members: the task for every year will be
to work as a consultant for one company. Herwig
Friedag has written a report about the first working
group meeting held on June 5–6, 2015, in Poland.
It was a warm and sunny weekend when 13 participants,
controllers and consultants from Romania, Croatia, Slovenia,
Poland and Germany, met in Piekary Śląskie, Silesia, in the
south-west part of Poland at NOMAX trading.
Most of the participants arrived already the evening before,
so they could have a typical Polish meal in the Rezydencja
Luxury Hotel restaurant, one of the best in Silesia. The next
morning some used the time to have a short visit to Bytom,
an old diggers town with an eventful past.
The meeting started at noon with a warm reception by
Lukasz Janus, one of the (family) owners of NOMAX trading
and the personal presentation of all working group members.
Next, Janusz and Mateusz Rozanski (controllers), Anna
Domagala (head of sales) and Alexey Galuskin (head of
production) gave an introduction to the company. More than
250 employees are producing meat nets especially for the
Polish markets. As market leader in Poland with a market
share of about 80% they intend to penetrate the European
Union market with their innovative products and flexible
production. A walk through the production lines gave us an
impression of the modern structure of this company.
Nevertheless Janusz asked us to look at NOMAX trading
with open eyes, because after so many quite successful
years for people working there for more than ten years the
outlook on the company’s future is limited.
The consultants and controllers, all with at least five years’
experience in this business, had many questions, ideas
for change and opportunities, and suggested new ways of
thinking.
The working group leader asked the NOMAX management
before to think about some questions we should help to
answer. These were:
1.
How to enter German/European market
of meat packaging
2.
How to establish a production plant in Ukraine
in regards to current geopolitical situation
3.
Sales controlling as motivation and assessment tool
4.
Revision of management KPI dashboard
5.
How to implement a robust cost reduction program
across the whole company
THE CONTROLLERS ADDED:
6.
Administration processes and costs –
ways for renewal and reduction
7.
What kind of recommendations to initiate the
strategy process
In the evening we were invited to an exquisite dinner in our
hotel.
The next morning we formed three teams, each consisting of
members from different countries to work on the topics (1)
European markets, (2) sales controlling and (3) management
KPI dashboard.
After a short lunch the groups presented their first ideas and
results of the team discussion and presented their intended
procedure for the next months’ work. In October 2015 we
will meet again in Silesia to present and discuss the results
of the international working groups teams.
At 4 p.m. we left sunny Silesia with good impressions and
the feeling of having made new friends following the interna-
tional working group’s motto:
COME TOGETHER, WORK
TOGETHER, LEARN TOGETHER,
DEVELOP TOGETHER
ICV INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP:
FIRST MEETING WITH
A NEW CONCEPT
Dr. Herwig R. Friedag
Leader ICV International
Working Group
International
working group at work
