Max is a supply-chain partner in the Operations Practice and is based in McKinsey’s London office.

Max has deep expertise in designing and leading supply-chain transformations, primarily in the pharmaceutical, consumer-goods, agriculture, and chemical industries. He specialises in digital and advanced-analytics supply-chain planning, including sales and operations planning (S&OP), inventory optimisation, supply-and-demand planning, and the control-tower approach.

Max’s recent work includes the following:

• implementing a global performance-management system in a consumer-health company to identify and address obsolescence risks, excess inventory, and potential lost sales across more than 50 markets and 20 manufacturing sites
• designing and deploying a supply-chain transformation in a global pharmaceutical company to increase supply-chain agility, focusing on supply planning, end-to-end lead time, and inventory optimisation
• designing and implementing a supply-chain-planning system for a global agriculture company, including macroeconomic forecasting as part of the demand-planning process, advanced analytics in supply planning to minimize production and logistics costs, and S&OP for cross-functional collaboration
• redesigning the implementation road map of the supply-chain, manufacturing, and R&D operating model for a major consumer company
• designing and implementing a supply-chain system for a global biochemical-pharma company, including lead time and inventory optimisation, supply-chain configuration, and S&OP integrated with cross-functional weekly execution, such as the control-tower approach
• performing an inventory-optimisation and lead-time-optimisation diagnostic, redesign, and implementation for a major generic-pharmaceutical company, using production planning and parameter optimisation