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Dayan Jayasuriya

PartnerMunich

Serves a broad range of retail and consumer goods companies with a focus on large-scale transformations and operational excellence

Dayan is a partner and core member of the Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods Practices. He primarily serves food and non-food retailers, wholesalers, consumer-packaged-goods companies, home-appliances companies and companies in the food and beverage sector. Dayan’s core expertise is designing and leading end-to-end operation transformations and advising on best practices in supply chain management. Additionally, Dayan leads McKinsey’s proprietary operation-benchmarking solution in retail and consumer-packaged goods (CPG) for rapid performance improvement assessments.

Examples of his recent client work include the following:

  • Designing and leading various global large-scale operation transformations in the food-processing, beverage, grocery-retail, consumer-health and home-appliance sectors covering procurement, manufacturing, supply chain and operating model
  • Leading numerous warehouse transformations applying lean principles and automation strategies
  • Conducting production and distribution footprint optimizations in the grocery retail, home-appliances, furniture, beverage and food-processing sectors
  • Introducing tech-enabled sales and operations planning at a branded-foods manufacturer
  • Optimizing supply chain planning at a leading European grocery retailer
  • Conducting procurement and design-to-value transformation at a leading European home-appliances company
  • Leading operations overhead productivity program at European consumer-packaged-goods company
  • Designing future-proof operating model for a multi-national consumer-health company
  • Leading the operation integration in a multibillion-dollar merger, including synergy planning, day-one preparation, and organization design
  • Conducting due diligence for an M&A bid for a leading food-processing company

Published work

Benchmarking in the dairy industry: Strengthening performance amid double volatility," McKinsey & Company, May 2021

Education

Technical University of Munich
MS, management and technology

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
BS, industrial engineering and management