Industry

Consumer Products & Manufacturing

Make, move and sell with less friction – and know your margin on every line.

Demand is volatile, input costs aren’t coming down, and the systems that run the plant rarely talk to the systems that run the business. We help you connect them, and get the people on the floor and in the boardroom working from the same numbers.

Where the sector is and where it’s going

Challenges

01

Margin under pressure

Input, energy and logistics costs rising faster than price can follow.

02

Disconnected operations

Plant, supply chain and commercial data living in separate systems with separate truths.

03

Legacy ERP at the heart

Decades of customisation, hard to change and expensive to run.

Opportunities

01

Demand sensing and planning

AI-driven forecasts that shorten the planning cycle and cut working capital.

02

Connected factory

Real-time quality, downtime and yield data in the hands of the people who can act on it.

03

Direct-to-consumer at scale

Owning the customer relationship, and the data that comes with it.

Practitioners at a glance

Three of the people who know this sector from the inside. Drawn from a network of 5,000+ practitioners averaging 14 years in their field.

Priya

Programme director · 18 years

Priya resets programmes mid-flight. Her last PMO refresh at a FTSE 100 manufacturer cut contracted resources by 43% and left audit-ready governance behind.

PMO as a ServiceProgramme recoveryManufacturing

Nye

Ways-of-working lead · 20 years

Nye brought 40+ countries onto one way of working for a global packaging group – credibility in the hardest market first.

Global ways of workingManufacturingChange

Claire

Planning lead · 15 years

Claire joined demand, production and commercial planning across 14 sites into one monthly cycle.

Integrated planningSupply chainFood

Let’s deliver outcomes, together.

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