Entrepreneur – Practitioner – Enabler
Hermann Schalk –
Business consulting with flesh and blood
What you need now is not only a consultant – but a sparring partner with real industry experience
Portfolio
Client consulting.
Project development and support for brown- and greenfield projects
“Knowing how food businesses really work.”
We support your construction projects with decades of experience from more than 3,000 production facilities worldwide. Our approach is practical, process-oriented, and tailored to the specific requirements of the meat and food industry.
Process analysis and
digitalization concepts
We know processes not just from theory, but from real operations – and we know where digitalization creates real added value. With my background as a long-standing consultant, senior employee and board member in the food IT environment, I deliver concepts that work – fast, smart, implementable.
Intralogistics concepts
“Optimal flows for more performance – built from experience.”
My team and I develop intralogistics solutions based on real operational knowledge. With technical expertise, process insight and in-depth industry knowledge, we ensure smooth processes, fewer losses and maximum efficiency in the material flow. According to the approach:
„The information flow controls and optimizes the material flow.“
Cost management and
Costing concepts
Profit begins with clarity – and costing.
Efficient cost management is no coincidence, but the result of clear structures and practical calculations. We support companies in the food industry in creating economic transparency, making well-founded decisions and working profitably in the long term, and in the correct use of partial and marginal costing.
Sales organization concepts
Structured sales with vision.
We develop sales organizations that work – efficient, digitally supported and growth-oriented. With experience from global sales management and a deep understanding of the meat and food industry.
Central kitchens with gastro-
& canteen management
Efficiency behind the scenes.
Whether central kitchen, canteen or catering together with my partner, we optimize your processes – from production to logistics to control. Tried and tested, digitally supported and with an eye for quality and efficiency.
We are food engineers, business administrators, chefs, butchers, and software developers with decades of experience in production, logistics, and IT-supported management, and we understand both the operational and economic requirements – successfully bringing together both worlds (central kitchen, catering/gastro).
Picking and labeling solution concepts
Precision meets practice.
We develop efficient concepts for order picking and labeling – tailored to your products, customers and processes – for faster throughputs, lower error rates and a smooth connection to your production and logistics processes, for more efficiency in everyday life – from order to dispatch. With in-depth industry knowledge, digital expertise and a clear eye for smooth workflows, simple operation and maximum process reliability. For more speed, fewer errors.
About me – Hermann Schalk
Hermann Schalk
Your sparring partner with real industry experience
My career path didn’t start in the seminar room, but in the slaughterhouse and production – with my qualification as a master butcher at the Lower Bavaria/Upper Palatinate Chamber of Crafts. I learned the food trade from the ground up – honest, direct, down-to-earth. This approach still characterizes my work and my consulting style today.
For over ten years, I worked in the gastronomy sector – my responsibilities included purchasing, production, food service, and branch supervision. This included preparing three meals a day for over 1,200 people in the military – that’s what characterizes organizational talent and leadership.
After attending the 1st Bavarian Butchers‘ School in Landshut, I deepened my technical understanding through a study of food technology (Dipl.-Ing. FH) at the Technical University of Munich/Weihenstephan. My focus was on business administration alongside a wide technological orientation. In my Diploma thesis, I practically dealt with partial and marginal cost accounting in meat processing companies.
Even then it was clear to me that I want to understand products, shape companies, and lead them successfully.
That’s why I deliberately included all food sectors in my studies – to think outside the box.
CSB System AG (1988 – 2023) 35 years of leadership, consulting and management- worldwide
From 1988 to 2023, I worked for CSB-System AG in various roles – including as a consultant, project manager, managing director, chairman of the supervisory board in various CSB companies and as an authorized signatory and sales manager worldwide. From 2002, I was also a member of the board of CSB-Engineering AG.
During this time I have:
- visited and advised over 3000 production plants worldwide
- helped build up or expanded companies in over 15 countries – including the USA, Australia, India, South Africa, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and others
- aactively contributed to developing the CSB Group into an international player
My conviction was and is: Sustainable success needs a combination of operational excellence, entrepreneurial thinking and modern technology. It is precisely this combination that I bring to my consulting work today. And the most important thing is to pick people up!
Entrepreneurial consulting with depth (1989 – today)
Since leaving the CSB Group in 2023, I have been concentrating on my own companies: One of them is Entrconsulting Hermann Schalk. We advise commercial, medium-sized and larger companies in the food and manufacturing industry with a focus on:
- Process analysis and digitalization
- Intralogistics and production planning
- Cost and distribution structures
- Construction and other projects
I do not see myself as a traditional consultant, but as a sparring partner at eye level – pragmatic, solution-oriented and always with a view to concrete implementation
What drives me?
I believe in common sense, solid processes and a clear focus.
I believe that you can only gain trust with practical relevance and real experience.
If you agree – I look forward to getting to know you.
My guiding principles
“ Nothing comes from nothing ”
“ The water flows down the mountain. “
” What do we do now? „