OPERATIONS, MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY CHAIN
Commercial success creates operational pressure before it creates operational failure. The gap between the two is where most damage happens.
Proven Professionals connects UK food and drink businesses with senior professionals who have run factories, supply chains and technical functions.
Support is available on a project, fractional, interim or advisory basis.
Discuss your challengeCAPACITY
Production planning, line efficiency and the case for investment or co-manufacture.
SERVICE
Forecasting, stock and delivery performance to customers.
RESILIENCE
Technical standards, supplier risk and the processes a larger business needs.
Service levels that were reliable have become inconsistent. Late or short deliveries that were once rare are now routine.
A new listing or contract will add volume the site cannot yet produce.
The team is working harder to maintain output that used to come more easily.
Manufacturing. Capacity, yield, waste and labour, and the decision between investing in the site and using a co-manufacturer.
Supply chain. Demand forecasting, stock policy, warehousing and distribution, including third-party logistics.
Technical and quality. Accreditation, specifications and the systems customers audit.
The requirement is established first: where the constraint sits, and what growth depends on it.
A senior professional with direct operational experience in food and drink is then proposed. The scope is agreed before any work begins.
When demand exceeds what the site can produce, when a product needs equipment the business does not have, or when capital is better spent elsewhere. The trade is control and margin for capacity and speed.
Most often a forecast that does not reflect promotions and seasonality, stock held in the wrong place, or production plans that cannot respond to change. The cause is usually found before the factory, in planning.
A third-party logistics provider, or 3PL, stores and delivers products on behalf of a business. It replaces fixed warehousing cost with a cost that moves with volume.
Discuss your challengeThe Commercial Diagnostic is a written review of a food or drink business across five commercial areas, scored by a senior professional. £950, delivered in five working days.
See the Commercial Diagnostic