Planning, Forecasting and Optimisation

Finding the Optimal Balance Between Service Level and Working Capital.

You shouldn't have to choose between happy customers and a happy finance team. We use data to find the mathematical sweet spot where inventory is minimised, but availability is maximised.

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Planning is the brain of the supply chain, but for many organisations, it runs on adrenaline and Excel. Whether you are manually stitching together spreadsheets to survive the week, or fighting against an expensive enterprise system that spits out numbers you don’t trust, the result is the same: uncertainty.

When you don’t trust the forecast, you over-compensate. You bloat inventory “just in case,” yet somehow still face stock-outs on your most critical items.

We replace guesswork with statistical rigor. We build transparent, practical planning models that stabilize your operations, ensuring you have the right stock in the right place to deliver on your customer promises.

Forecasting & Demand

Great planning starts with a believable baseline. We don’t promise “AI magic” that can predict the future, we implement Statistical Demand Planning that makes sense of your past.

We clean your historical data to strip out outliers, identify true seasonality, and correct for bias. We move you away from gut-feeling consensus and toward a data-backed forecast. The goal is not 100% accuracy (which is impossible), but a consistent, defensible number that allows Operations to plan labour and capacity with more confidence.

Inventory Optimisation

Your inventory is your insurance policy against volatility, but you are likely over-insured on the wrong items. We have a number of different ways to calculate optimal safety stock levels, depending on your business objectives.

We align your inventory strategy directly to your Service Level goals, helping you to better understand the optimal trade-offs to best meet your commercial and supply chain strategy.

Simulation and Modeling

The best way to test a supply chain idea is to simulate it first. We build digital models of your supply chain, allowing the exploration of “What If” scenarios before you commit resources.

Confidence in the Face of Volatility

You cannot control customer demand, market shifts, or global disruptions. But you can control how your network responds to them.

We provide the statistical foundation that turns your supply chain from a fragile, reactive system into a resilient, data-driven engine.

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Enhance your supply chain with data-driven strategies tailored to your business. Reach out today to explore how we can help you reduce costs, improve efficiency, and achieve measurable results.

Ashleigh Monks

Ashleigh Monks

Supply Chain & Data Consultant

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