The very origins of our business are in Supply Chain development and this continues to be an area of research for us. By working up and down supply chains it becomes possible to amplify the benefits of waste elimination because you can not only work on waste within more than one organisation but also work on the inter-company waste. This is the waste appearing in one organisation that is caused by another, often the largest amounts of waste in a supply chain. In a similar way, by collaborating across these boundaries better innovation can be achieved and customer value enhanced. You only have to look at how much innovation in consumer goods is actually in the packaging to realise this.

For us, Supply Chains extend downstream as well as upstream. So our work often involves working with your distributors and large retailers as well as suppliers, both eliminating waste as well as identifying customer value. Equally, we can work on the supply side both at the strategic level and in supply chain development.

We work with businesses at the various stages of maturity from being purely commercial, through a focus on quality through to working in collaborative partnerships.

Benefits for the client:

• Faster communications
• Better return on assets
• Reduced costs and inventory
• Improved cash-to-cash cycles
• Reduced lead times
• Create value in supply chain