Vieremä, Finland, 2015-08-17 12:30 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Changes in Ponsse's organisational structure and management team
Ponsse Plc will carry out changes in its organisational structure, which causes also a change in the Ponsse´s management team. The objective of the change is to improve the efficiency of the factory's delivery chain from the order to the customer.
Ponsse's new organisational structure is based on three main processes: sales and maintenance, the delivery chain, and R&D. In the future, the delivery chain organisation will be responsible for an area which covers functions from the receipt of customer orders all the way to production and the delivery of machines.
Jarmo Vidgrén, sales and marketing director, will continue in the management of sales and maintenance, and Juha Inberg, technology and R&D director, will be responsible for R&D. Ponsse is looking for a new employee in the management of the delivery chain process who will also replace Juha Haverinen, the current factory director, in the Group's Management Team.
“Through this change, we are preparing for a growth in long-term manufacturing volumes. The new organisational structure clarifies our operations, strengthens our capacity to respond to our customers' needs, improves productivity, and allows us to react quickly. Our objective is a high level of customer satisfaction brought about by an effective, transparent and sustainable delivery chain. Vieremä is home to the world's most modern forest machine factory and professional employees, and we are continuously developing our supplier network. Through these resources, we are able to manufacture PONSSE forest machines even more effectively than before,” says President and CEO Juho Nummela.
Juha Haverinen, who has acted as a factory director since 2008, will transfer to the position of product manager. The production manager, together with production operators, will be responsible for factory operations. Esa Penttinen will begin working as a production manager on 17 August. He has been in the service of Ponsse since 1996, having worked previously as a project manager for new products.
President and CEO Juho Nummela, together with the factory's strategy team, will be currently responsible for the strategic development of the factory.
Vieremä, 17 August 2015
PONSSE PLC
Juho Nummela
President and CEO
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Ponsse Plc specialises in the sale, production, maintenance and technology of cut-to-length method forest machines and is driven by genuine interest in its customers and their business operations. Ponsse develops and manufactures sustainable and innovative harvesting solutions based on customers' needs.
The company was established by forest machine entrepreneur Einari Vidgrén in 1970, and it has been a leader in timber harvesting solutions based on the cut-to-length method ever since. Ponsse is headquartered in Vieremä, Finland. The company’s shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic List. This year, Ponsse celebrates its 45th anniversary.