SGS in North America Awarded Board Seat for the Foundation for Supply Chain Solutions

Annette Saenger, Business Development and Sales Manager for Pharma, Cosmetics & Personal Care will be representing SGS.

F4SS, a non-profit organization, represents the food, beverage and personal care industry CPG companies that use external contract manufacturing and/or co-packaging partners. It supports its members in sharing best practices towards the creation of industry standards and increases access to a range of learning and development solutions aimed at improving efficiency, quality, sustainability and reduction of supply chain costs.

In her current role at SGS, Annette is responsible for the delivery of Supply Chain and Quality Compliance solutions to the Pharma, Cosmetic and Personal Care industry. She is also a team leader of Women 4 Supply Chain (W4SC) – an F4SS initiative which aims to attract, connect and recognize female talent in roles across supply chains.

Annette Saenger said: "I am very proud to be appointed to the F4SS board and look forward to actively supporting members to connect, increase their knowledge and transform the industry. I also relish the opportunity board membership brings to shine a light on W4SC and accelerate the work it is doing to support women working in a diversity of roles across contract manufacturing and packaging industries."

Don Sciolaro, Director of F4SS said: "We are delighted to welcome Annette to the Board. Her passion for, and experience within, the cosmetic and pharma industry and extensive knowledge of supply chain and quality compliance solutions will be of huge benefit to our members."

F4SS membership is open to all CPG companies that work with external manufacturers and contract packages or the supplier company, contact Don Sciolaro for more information.

SGS helps Pharma, Cosmetics and Personal Care customers all over the world operate in a more sustainable manner by improving quality and productivity, reducing risk, verifying compliance and increasing speed to market. SGS provides manufacturers, distributors and suppliers of cosmetics products with solutions in all aspects of product quality assurance and quality control.

For inquiries, please contact:

Anna Amato
Senior Manager
Marketing Global & NAM CBE Business
t: +1 201 508 3029

About SGS

SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 89,000 employees, we operate a network of more than 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world.