Frank Sänger

Biography

Frank leads our Europe, Middle East, and Africa Consumer Packaged Goods Operations Group and co-leads our global Consumer Operations Practice. He seeks to expand the impact of our support to global and European packaged-goods manufacturers as they address critical aspects of operations in the consumer-goods industry. Frank works with executives in an advisory capacity to transform existing supply chains and design new operating models in order to control costs, increase margins, and enhance competitiveness by doing more with less. Beyond operations strategy, Frank’s interests in operational effectiveness have led to projects focused on optimizing SG&A functions and achieving successful zero-based budgeting. Examples of his recent client work include: orchestrating a two-year comprehensive transformation program for a leading food manufacturer, covering planning, manufacturing, plant network, logistics, and supply-chain organization helping a global food company revamp its supply-chain process with a focus on optimizing stocking efficiency implementing a new operating model for a consumer-packaged-goods company’s supply function to lower costs, increase flexibility, and boost efficiency leading a comprehensive redesign of a leading consumer-goods company’s corporate center across all major functions helping a leading consumer-packaged-goods company execute a service-level turnaround with a control tower approach that comprehensively improved sales and operations planning helping several leading consumer-goods companies benchmark their SG&A costs and implement strategies to control effectiveness Keenly interested in the future and dynamics of the consumer industry, Frank publishes frequently to share insights and spark debate. He wrote his doctoral thesis on electronic-transport marketplaces. Frank speaks German and English.

Research Interest

Leads our Cologne office and helps consumer-goods companies and logistics-service providers achieve excellence in operational effectiveness—including supply-chain management and business-support functions; selling, general, and administrative (SG&A); and operating-model design EXPERTISE Consumer Packaged Goods Travel, Transport & Logistics Operations Supply Chain Management Manufacturing