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Defined engagements
Supply chain and operations advice for food and farming businesses. Each engagement has a fixed fee for a stated effort and ends with something you can act on. Any of them can be commissioned directly.
Cost and working capital
When margin is going somewhere nobody can point to, or too much cash is standing still.
OPS
Operations Diagnostic
Where the line actually loses time and money, not where the OEE report says it does.
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“Cost per unit keeps drifting up and no single thing explains it.”
WHAT IT COVERS
Where your line or farm actually loses time and money, as opposed to where the OEE report says it does. Production planning, throughput, labour and cost control on the floor.
WHAT YOU GET
- A cost-per-unit model built from your own data, in more detail than your accounts reach today, which your team can maintain after I have gone.
- A map of where output is really lost, with hours and money against each point.
- A ranked list of changes with estimated value and payback, split into what costs nothing, what costs management time and what costs capital.
- A plan your own managers can run, with the items that need outside help marked.
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PROC
Procurement and Sourcing Review
Your top ten categories reviewed, and where margin has gone unexamined.
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“Spend has grown but we haven't looked at the supplier base in years.”
WHAT IT COVERS
Your top ten spend categories reviewed, and the margin that has been sitting there unexamined.
WHAT YOU GET
- A spend analysis built from your purchase ledger, broken down by category and supplier, including spend outside any agreement.
- A plan for how each category should be bought, sorted by value and by supply risk.
- Options for cutting the supplier base, with the estimated saving and the risk attached to each.
- Negotiation briefs for the categories worth the effort: your position, theirs, what you can concede and when to walk away.
- A written buying procedure sized for your team, not for a procurement department you do not have.
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WC
Working Capital Programme
Find the cash your working capital is quietly absorbing, and the order to release it.
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“Stock is rising faster than sales.”
WHAT IT COVERS
The cash your working capital is absorbing, and the order to release it.
WHAT YOU GET
- Your stock broken down to show the cash held against each part of the range, sorted by volume and by how erratic demand is.
- Service levels set deliberately for each segment, not inherited, with the cost of each stated plainly.
- Reorder points, order quantities and safety stock calculated from your own demand and lead times, handed over ready to load, not as a recommendation to work them out.
- A phased plan to release cash, separating stock you can run down from stock that must be sold through or written off.
- The model itself, so you can repeat the exercise next year without me.
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FARM
Farm and Primary Production Review
Cost of production per unit, built from your own records, not industry averages.
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“We know our cost of production is too high. We don't know which part of it is the problem.”
WHAT IT COVERS
What it costs you to produce each unit, from your own records. Throughput, feed and input costs, and the decisions taken at the farm gate.
WHAT YOU GET
- A cost of production model per unit — per kilogram, per head, per hectare — built from your own records, not industry averages, that your own office can keep up to date.
- Feed and input costs: conversion, buying timing, and the cost of specification decisions taken years ago and never revisited.
- A ranked list of changes, split between those that cost nothing and those that need capital.
- A cost floor you can defend when you negotiate buyer and processor contracts.
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Planning and distribution
When the plan and the plant disagree, or the product does not survive the journey.
DEM
Demand Planning and S&OP
Forecasting method, planning rhythm, and the decision rights that make a plan mean something.
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“The sales forecast and the production plan are two different documents.”
WHAT IT COVERS
Forecasting method, planning rhythm and, most often, who decides what. That settles whether a plan still means anything after the meeting.
WHAT YOU GET
- Forecast accuracy measured properly, by product group and by time horizon, so the argument about whether the forecast is any good can be settled.
- A forecasting method for each group, with effort matched to value.
- Steady high-volume lines and erratic slow sellers do not need the same treatment.
- An S&OP calendar built around your own cycle, with inputs, owners and the decisions the meeting may take written down.
- Two cycles run with your team, with me facilitating, not performing.
- A short set of measures so you can tell in six months whether the process still works.
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Livestock and feed · Fresh produce and arable · Seafood and chilled food · Food manufacturing and wholesale
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DIST
Logistics and 3PL Review
Network, routes and carrier costs, and whether the 3PL contract is managed or just paid.
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“Freight cost per unit is rising faster than volume.”
WHAT IT COVERS
What each load costs you, and whether your 3PL contract is managed or just paid. Network, routes, and fleet or carrier costs.
WHAT YOU GET
- Freight and handling cost broken down by lane, customer and product, which often shows accounts being served at a loss.
- Network options tested against your real volumes, with cost and service stated for each.
- Contract and invoice findings, itemised: the rate card against invoices paid, extra charges, how fuel is charged, and the clauses that quietly shift risk onto you, including any overcharge you can recover.
- A tender pack or a prepared renegotiation position.
- A short set of measures to hold the provider to after signing.
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COLD
Cold Chain and Perishable Logistics
Where spoilage actually happens, which is almost never where it is recorded.
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“Spoilage gets written off as a cost of doing business.”
WHAT IT COVERS
Where your spoilage actually happens, which is rarely where it is recorded. Temperature checked through handling, storage and transit.
WHAT YOU GET
- A map of the cold chain showing temperature and dwell time at every stage, from harvest or production to the receiving bay, including the stages nobody logs.
- Spoilage charged to the stage that causes it, not the stage that records it, and costed at what the product was worth at that point.
- A ranked list of fixes, split into handling, equipment and specification.
- Most loss happens in the minutes at either end, not the hours in between.
- A monitoring and escalation procedure sized for your team, with limits that trigger action rather than a report.
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Sourcing, origin and reporting
When a customer asks what you can prove about your supply base, and the honest answer is not much.
AFR
Africa Origin Intelligence
Supply chain data built at origin, where no record yet exists.
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“Our supply passes through aggregators and below them the chain goes dark.”
WHAT IT COVERS
Supply chain data built at origin where none exists: smallholder mapping, volume checks and origin evidence, not an audit of paperwork that was never created.
WHAT YOU GET
- The real route from farm to export, including the aggregation layers that appear on no organisation chart and in no contract.
- A mapped supply base with records for each producer and plot, checked at origin, not taken from declarations.
- A volume reconciliation showing where declarations do not hold, which is where over-declaration shows up.
- Origin evidence laid out for the regulation or customer that asked for it.
- A collection method you can repeat, with local owners, so the data does not start ageing the day I leave.
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EUDR
Deforestation Regulation Readiness
What your due diligence file needs, what you hold, and every gap between them.
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“A customer has asked for a due diligence statement and I'm not sure we can produce one.”
WHAT IT COVERS
A desk audit of the compliance paperwork you already hold against the EU Deforestation Regulation, with every gap named and a route to close it.
WHAT YOU GET
- A clear answer on which of your products are in scope, and whether you are an operator or a trader.
- A check of the paperwork you hold today against what the regulation requires — geolocation, legality evidence and the traceability that links them — with every gap listed by supplier and commodity.
- A due diligence procedure written to the regulation.
- A plan to close the gaps before the deadline, with dates, owners and supplier requests, separating what a supplier must provide from what you must build yourself.
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S3
Scope 3 Supplier Engagement
Data your suppliers will actually give you, and figures that survive an auditor.
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“A customer has asked for supply chain emissions data and the deadline is real.”
WHAT IT COVERS
Supplier data requests built so suppliers will fill them in, and emissions figures that hold up when a customer or an auditor tests them.
WHAT YOU GET
- A check of which categories and suppliers carry the emissions, so effort goes where it changes the number, not where the data is easy.
- A supplier request pack and follow-up sequence, built around what suppliers already hold and written so a small supplier will answer it.
- A calculated figure for each category, with method and uncertainty stated.
- An evidence file set out for external assurance, which your customer's auditor can follow without you in the room.
- A plan showing which data will improve, and by when.
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CSRD
CSRD and CSDDD Readiness
Which datapoints apply to you, and what you can evidence today. Fewer than you fear.
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“Our customer is in scope and has started passing the requirement down to us.”
WHAT IT COVERS
What the sustainability reporting and due diligence rules will ask of your supply chain, set against what you can evidence today.
WHAT YOU GET
- A clear answer on which regime, which wave and which datapoints apply to you.
- Usually far fewer than the full standard set, and knowing which is most of the saving.
- A gap check of what each required datapoint needs against what your systems hold today.
- The due diligence duties mapped to your actual suppliers: spotting risk, preventing it, and the record that proves you did.
- A plan timed to the reporting date, showing what has to be built and what can simply be bought.
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Adapting to something new
When the supply chain was built for a business you are no longer running.
NPD
New Product Launch Supply Chain
Sourcing, capacity and packaging settled well before the launch date, not after it.
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“We've won a listing and nobody has tested the supply chain against it.”
WHAT IT COVERS
Sourcing, capacity, packaging and distribution checked before the launch date, not discovered after it.
WHAT YOU GET
- The launch turned into supply terms: volumes, timings, specification, packaging, and the service the customer actually needs rather than the headline figure.
- A capacity check: whether you can make it, at that rate, alongside everything else you make, and what the changeovers really cost.
- A sourcing plan with lead times, minimum order quantities and every single point of failure named.
- A launch plan with checkpoints and go or no-go dates.
- Both volume cases costed, so you know what happens if it comes in at half or at double.
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Livestock and feed
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BIO
Bioeconomy First Supply Chain
A supply chain for a feedstock that does not have one yet, built from the ground up.
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“The process works at pilot scale and the feedstock question is still open.”
WHAT IT COVERS
A supply chain built for a feedstock or product that does not have one yet. The longest and deepest engagement I offer.
WHAT YOU GET
- A supply chain designed end to end: sourcing, manufacturing, distribution and quality.
- A feedstock plan naming the suppliers, volumes, specifications and contract terms needed to reach commercial scale.
- A cost model showing unit cost at pilot, first commercial and full volume, so investors can see how the numbers move.
- A phased build plan with the decisions, owners and dates for each stage.
- A register of every single point of failure in the new chain, with what to do about each.
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AIR
AI-Assisted Reporting and Analytics
What your office rebuilds by hand each month, and what an AI system can reliably take off it.
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“The office spends the first week of every month rebuilding the same reports by hand.”
WHAT IT COVERS
The reports your office rebuilds by hand each month: where their numbers come from, and which steps an AI system can reliably take over. Tested on your own data, not a vendor's demonstration.
WHAT YOU GET
- A map of every recurring report: who builds it, from which systems, how long it takes and who reads it.
- A ranked list of the steps worth automating, with the hours each would save and the checks each needs.
- A working version of the most valuable report, built on your own data.
- A plain account of what an AI system should not be trusted with in your business, and why.
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Humanitarian and development
When budgets are cut and every tonne has to go further. Work is scoped to fit programme and donor budgets.
PREP
Prepositioning and Storage for Emergency Response
Food and supplies in the right districts before the roads close and the lean season starts.
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“We know the lean season is coming, but not what needs to be where, or by when.”
WHAT IT COVERS
A district-by-district prepositioning plan, a map of storage against need, and stock controls that stand up to an audit.
WHAT YOU GET
- A district-by-district prepositioning plan, setting out what needs to be where and by when, with lead times by corridor.
- A map of storage capacity across agency, government, commercial and partner sites, set against forecast need, with options to close the gap.
- Stock and loss controls sized for your team, from receipt to distribution, that stand up to a donor audit.
- A short brief for the people who run it day to day, so the plan survives staff turnover.
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CPT
Cost per Tonne Delivered
With aid budgets cut, every tonne has to go further.
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“We know what we pay for the food, not what it costs to get it there.”
WHAT IT COVERS
The full cost of getting food and supplies from purchase to final delivery, traced stage by stage and ranked by where it leaks.
WHAT YOU GET
- The full cost per tonne from purchase to final delivery point, built from your own records rather than standard rates.
- Each cost charged to the stage that causes it: procurement, port, transport, storage, handling and last mile.
- A ranked list of savings, including shared transport, local and regional buying, and better stock control, each with a value and an owner.
- A simple way to keep measuring cost per tonne after the work ends.
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CORR
Corridor and Border Dwell Review
Where the hours go at borders and ports, and what it would take to win them back.
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“Our trucks wait days at the border and we cannot say why.”
WHAT IT COVERS
Time that trucks spend waiting at borders, ports and depots, measured stage by stage and costed.
WHAT YOU GET
- A measured picture of dwell time at each border, port and depot on the route, stage by stage.
- The cost of that time in vehicle days, demurrage and spoiled cargo.
- The causes ranked, separating those you can fix yourselves from those that need a partner or government.
- Practical changes to scheduling, documents and staging that cut waiting time.
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DEV
Supply Chain Support for Development Projects
Short-term supply chain and market access support for food security and agriculture projects.
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“Farmers grow it, but cannot get it to a buyer in time.”
WHAT IT COVERS
Getting smallholder produce to buyers who pay, with the cold chain and traceability that export markets now expect.
WHAT YOU GET
- A clear view of the route from farm to buyer, with the losses and costs at each stage.
- Options to collect, store and move produce that farmer groups can keep running after the project ends.
- Cold chain and quality steps sized for the product and the market.
- Traceability that meets export rules such as the EU deforestation regulation, built from records the project can keep.
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Also on offer
Grant-matched support
Several public schemes will pay part of the cost of making a farm, food or seafood business more efficient. I match the work to the scheme that can fund it, scope it to fit the rules, and give you the evidence the application needs. My fee is the same with or without a grant.
Shared buying and haulage groups
For neighbouring farms and small processors that buy the same inputs or run half-empty wagons on the same roads. I work out whether pooling would pay, how the savings are shared, and how to set it up so it lasts.
Exit and succession readiness
For owners who expect to sell, hand on to family or step back within five years. I put the business through the checks a buyer will make, fix what would cost you money at sale, and leave it ready for due diligence.