Dr. Manuel Schrapers

Dr. Manuel Schrapers is a managing director at Metroplan, a leading technical consulting and planning company specializing in the conception, development and implementation of international production and logistics locations. Dr. Schrapers has successfully planned and implemented numerous production and logistics locations in Europe, Russia, Africa, America and Asia, among other things through his time at the DAX company LEONI and through long-term international assignments, for instance for HeidelbergCement to Russia. Furthermore, Dr. Schrapers has broad expertise in the site selection and location development of supplier plants in the automotive and construction supply industries. As a civil engineer, Dr. Schrapers has the necessary professional competence in plant, industrial and logistics planning and due to his international MBA and DBA training, he has a special understanding of the economic aspects of operations and logistics footprint projects.