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Supply chain management services

Supply chain management has a critical impact on a company’s overall performance. Our team are highly proficient in optimsing the various components of the supply chain to help you reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance customer satisfaction.

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.

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.

Trade & 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.

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Why work with us?

With increasingly interconnected and competitive pressures on businesses, the efficiency and responsiveness of a company’s supply chain can mean the difference between success and failure. We bring the expertise needed to help businesses optimise their supply chains.

Expertise and Specialised Knoweldge

We have deep expertise that can be invaluable in navigating the complexities of modern supply chains. We are well-versed in the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices.

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Objective Perspective

As external experts, we can assess a company's supply chain without the biases that might affect internal stakeholders

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Cost Reduction

We can play a critical role in reducing costs through our expertise in every aspect of supply chain management including outsourcing, network optimisation, inventory management and customs compliance.

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Enhanced Efficiency

We can help streamline processes and improve operational efficiency through our expertise in lean manufacturing principles, just-in-time inventory practices and understanding of the latest technologies.

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Risk Management

We can help develop robust risk management strategies to identify potential vulnerabilities, and create contingency plans to ensure business continuity.

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Technology Integration

We help guide businesses in selecting the right technologies to enhance their operations. From ERP systems to warehouse management and transportation systems, we ensure that technology is aligned with business goals.

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Regulatory Compliance

From environmental regulations to trade and customs compliance, we can provide guidance on compliance and help avoid costly penalties and disruptions.

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CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE

The supply chain management challenges we solve

Supply chain management faces numerous challenges that can impact efficiency, increase costs, and hinder customer satisfaction. We have the expertise needed to identify and address these challenges to help companies navigate their way to a more streamlined future.

IMPROVING DEMAND FORECAST ACCURACY

Accurate demand forecasting is essential for effective supply chain management. However, predicting customer demand can be incredibly challenging due to various factors such as market volatility, changing consumer preferences, and economic fluctuations.

To meet this challenge, we are able to leverage advanced analytics in conjunction with S&OP processes to improve the accuracy of demand predictions.

OPTIMSING INVENTORY LEVELS

Managing inventory efficiently is a common challenge in supply chain management. Companies need to balance having enough inventory to meet customer demand while minimising holding costs.

Our team are able to design and implement optimised inventory policies that minimise stock and ensure that target service levels are achieved.

ENSURING TRADE AND CUSTOMS COMPLIANCE

Businesses in international trade face many challenges with trade and customs compliance. Navigating regulations, tariffs, and documentation requires expertise and precision.

Our consultancy services offer the knowledge and skills needed for smooth cross-border transactions.

S&OP DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) harmonises demand and supply and enhances decision-making. It’s a key process to help businesses drive efficiency and responsiveness in dynamic markets.

We can help design and implement a process that ensures cross-functional collaboration, data integration, and continuous review to align operational plans with business objectives.

IMPROVING MRP PROCESSES

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is a systematic approach in manufacturing to ensure materials and components are available for production. It helps manage inventory levels, plan manufacturing activities, and schedule deliveries.

Our team can help you get the best from your systems MRP functionality to ensure you can optimise production efficiency and meet customer demand effectively.

TESTIMONIALS

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.

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