Supply chain thinking
for UK manufacturers.

The noise around AI in supply chain is deafening. Most of it is irrelevant to a £10M manufacturer. Here is what is actually useful, what is five years away, and what to do this quarter.

A UK manufacturer with £800K inventory and 87% accuracy is carrying an estimated £96K per year in costs that are hiding in plain sight. Here is how to calculate yours.

Sales & Operations Planning is not just for corporates. Here is a practical six-week process for implementing a working S&OP cadence in a business with 20–200 employees.

The CIPS data is clear: UK SMEs are leaving significant money on the table through reactive procurement. The fix is less complicated than most think, and faster than most believe.

Two decades managing supply chains in Sudan, Kenya and East Africa taught me more about resilience than any UK boardroom could. Here is what translates directly to the Midlands manufacturing sector.

A framework for understanding where your supply chain sits relative to UK peers across 15 critical dimensions, from inventory management to ESG reporting readiness.

A practical checklist for identifying and managing single-source dependencies, before a disruption forces the issue.

What pick accuracy should you actually be hitting? Real benchmarks, what drives the gap, and how to close it without more headcount.