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About Deepak

Deepak Mishra is a principal in McKinsey’s London office and co-leads our supply chain work in Europe, as well as our work on packaged goods operations globally. Deepak focuses on operations and supply chain transformation in consumer goods companies, retailers, materials industries and private-equity portfolio companies, working across supply chain planning, logistics, manufacturing and procurement.

Among his recent projects, Deepak helped a food company plan and implement an integrated operations transformation, redesigning its operating model to drive scale economies, assisting on a design-to-value programme to improve consumer value and deliver savings of 10 percent in materials costs, implementing a new sales and operational planning process to improve service and reduce inventory, and consolidating European logistics into a single platform. For an eastern European beverages company, he led an operations transformation aimed at achieving a 20 percent saving in the cost of goods sold and a 40 percent reduction in inventory through network reconfiguration, lean manufacturing, the redesign of supply chain planning and inventory management, and strategic supplier management initiatives.

In other sectors, Deepak has advised multichannel retailers on end-to-end supply chain strategy, covering merchandise planning, allocation and replenishment, logistics network strategy and franchisee management. He has also worked with clients in the chemicals, steel, software, consumer electronics and telecom industries on topics from customer service models to operational due diligence.

Before joining McKinsey, Deepak worked with Accenture’s supply chain practice, serving consumer goods companies in Asia and Europe. He has also worked as a solutions consultant with a supply chain software vendor and in marketing with Procter & Gamble. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a degree in computer science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science.

Published work

“Playing in the Champions League: Supply chain lessons from consumer goods companies,” Operations for the Executive Suite, McKinsey & Company, 2012 (Request a hard copy or full PDF version)

Past experience

Education