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Supply Chain Consultants

Enhance the efficiency of your supply chain through our industry-leading consultancy services

INTRODUCTION

Expert supply chain consultants

Are you seeking assistance in ensuring that your supply chain processes and networks are fully optimised and efficient? Our supply chain consultancy services encompass all aspects of the supply chain, leveraging our extensive multi-industry experience to cater to your specific requirements.

We are a highly analytical team based in the UK with many years of experience in both planning and operational roles. In addition to practical expertise, we possess a comprehensive understanding of data modelling, forecasting, software deployment, and advanced mathematical techniques. This ensures that your supply chain is thoroughly optimised and effectively managed.

MANAGING CONSULTANT

Paul Trudgian CMILT

Paul oversees all supply chain strategy projects, including inventory optimisation, S&OP/IBP, demand planning, and logistics outsourcing. He has over 30 years of experience in supply chain management.

Paul is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport.

SUPPLY CHAIN

The challenges of supply chain

Supply chain management goes beyond logistics to include procurement, planning, forecasting, network design, and inventory control. The cross-functional nature and activities make supply chains complex and introduce risks, from service disruptions upstream to fluctuating demand downstream. Managing these variables requires detailed planning. Our expert consultants can help improve your supply chain with both planning and execution.

CLIENTS

Who we work with

HERE TO HELP

Whatever the challenge

Our UK-based supply chain consulting team tackles strategic, tactical, and operational challenges. We handle material issues, warehouse design, and global demand and supply planning processes. No matter the size of your challenge, we’re here to assist.

SERVICES

Supply chain consultancy services

Inventory Optimisation

What inventory levels do you need? How do you calculate optimal inventory to balance working capital and service levels? How do you convince finance that your inventory is efficient while assuring sales that it meets customer targets?

Demand Forecasting

Demand forecasting is essential for sales budgeting, efficient asset use, lower operating costs, and better customer service. The demand planning process should involve production, logistics, finance, marketing, and sales teams.

Customs Compliance

The complex global marketplace, businesses involved in international trade face numerous challenges related to trade and customs compliance. Our team can ensure smooth cross-border transactions for our clients.

Production Planning

Effective production planning is essential for ensuring efficient manufacturing operations. Properly designed, systems-driven production planning allows a manufacturing operation to align resource and material requirements with all demand signals.

Sales & Operations Planning

S&OP should be a simple, efficient monthly process to balance supply and demand in the mid-to-long term. Its goal is to address capacity constraints or lower sales before they impact operations. See how we can help your business.

Logistics

Supply chains include the crucial logistics of moving goods. Our team excels in supply chain strategy, warehouse design, automation, and global transport network design. With decades of experience and knowledge of emerging technologies, we can enhance your logistics network.

INSIGHT

Supply chain articles & advice

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Supply Chain Development

Supply Chain Visibility – What It Is and How It’s Achieved

The business world is becoming more data-driven as companies recognise the benefits of using real-time data to accurately run their operations. Within the supply chain

Inventory

5 Objectives for Every Supply Chain Director

The role of a supply chain director is to control the movement of material from source to end customer. The remit is simple, but the

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Logistics Planning

Tactical Supply Chain Planning: Design, Deploy, Repeat.

Tactical supply chain planning is not a project – it should be a perpetual cycle, constantly evolving the performance of a supply chain. Supply chains

Client testimonials

The team’s experience of the industry, knowledge of logistic providers and their overall understanding of the current market place made a potentially very complex process look and feel very easy.

Their help, guidance and support during the tender process was invaluable and meant that we achieved our desired result with minimal stress for those involved. I could not recommend this consultancy more highly.

Commercially savvy, thoughtful, diligent and pragmatic are the phrases that come to mind. Above all, I’ve been impressed with their ability to translate and adapt the theory to the way our business actually has to work day-to-day.

The consulting team demonstrated a huge amount of experience within the supply chain sector and I really valued their opinion. As experts in the field they were able to present all the various options and associated costings in a very clear, like-for-like basis.

The team at Paul Trudgian has helped us understand our raw material and finished goods inventories in a highly complex global supply chain. Their clear, concise and analytical approach, with stakeholder engagement throughout, helped us reduce inventories while not compromising customer service

I engaged the team at Paul Trudgian to identify and engage a panel of the best regional 3PLs for our business. The consulting team demonstrated an excellent knowledge of the UK logistics market and I really appreciated working with them.

Paul Trudgian have recently been working with us to establish our warehouse capacity and transport effectiveness in order to enhance our service. The team have provided us with a clear picture of the needs for the business despite our complex product and delivery solution. I would have no hesitation recommending them.