Monthly Archives: August 2011

Our involvement began when the filling line kept failing after commissioning. Our client was losing sales and incurring in-house engineering costs for time expended when the supplier should have been fulfilling their warranty obligations. When we demanded an on-site presence from the supplier (in England), in our client’s factory (not in England), the supplier asked […]

This project involved the replacement of an old paint spray booth, now requiring state of the art equipment. The importance of this project was our client unable to compete in their market with other manufacturers who were achieving super high gloss finishing on their products. Unsurprisingly, retailers had stopped ordering our client’s products. An in-house […]

This client was experiencing high growth and extending its own brand into other national brand sales. This required extensive retail outlet refurbishment, new contracts for feedstock, and leadership of the existing procurement team. New production facilities were being procured and commissioned, a new IT system was being procured and other contracts required re-negotiation. We reported […]

This project involved a significant long-term capital investment in a Utility. It required planning, design, tendering, procurement, contractual risk management, financial planning, statutory approvals, testing, commissioning and through-life support. There were challenging in-house relationships to be managed, including the Main Board of Directors and an independent in-house design facility. The contractual challenges included initiating key […]

Our support to this project was the whole procurement portfolio. A complex range of electronic-mechanical and instrument packages were involved from more than 30 vendors, each on a critical path. We did the sourcing, negotiations, contract placement and contract management. Later we were engaged in the logistics and shipping arrangements, taking account of the Great […]

Our client was a UK manufacturer of caravans and motor-homes, competing with international brands. The client had a positive product development programme whereby the product range was either completely redesigned or refreshed each year. This placed considerable stress on procurement and supply chain to manage contracts and inventory in such a way that working capital […]

This assignment took place in an aerospace organisation that manufactured safety critical items for international airlines and defence clients. The review took place in all European, USA and Canadian sites. Expenditure on raw materials, machined components and Bought Out Finished parts were included in the review. We also reviewed the flow down of contractual risk […]