Daniel oversees McKinsey’s consumer operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and leads our consumer operations benchmarking work globally. He primarily serves food and nonfood retailers, wholesalers, and packaged-goods manufacturers as well as logistics and healthcare across the globe, focusing on strategy and transformation, process optimization, and operations (especially supply chain and purchasing). Daniel has a special interest in helping clients to understand the opportunities and challenges presented by the latest technology and digital innovations.
Examples of his recent client work include the following:
- directing the end-to-end supply-chain optimization for a leading grocery retailer in the United Kingdom
- leading an end-to-end performance transformation for a European wholesaler, including sales, logistics, purchasing, and overheads
- developing the end-to-end operating-model transformation for a leading international branded-foods producer
- leading footprint optimization, design-to-value, and procurement for a leading global beverages company
- supporting a category-management transformation for a European healthcare wholesaler
- spearheading a strategy review and performance transformation for a medical-supplies wholesaler
- designing a digital transformation roadmap for a leading global third-party logistics, including a detailed review of use cases and vendor landscape
- leading the business-plan review and development of a restructuring plan for a European postal operator
Published work
“Hidden sources of better supply-chain performance," McKinsey Quarterly, August 2017
“My supply chain is better than yours—or is it?” McKinsey & Company, April 2017
“Supply Chain 4.0 in consumer goods," McKinsey & Company, April 2017
Education
Oestrich-Winkel, EBS University of Business and Law
PhD, supply-chain management
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
MA, industrial engineering and management