Demand & Planning - Logistics Executive

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Demand Planning & Forecasting

Unlocking Precision: Demand Planning
for Optimal Business Performance

In a world where market dynamics are ever-changing, accurate demand planning is crucial for staying ahead. Our demand planning consulting services provide businesses with the tools and insights needed to navigate these complexities, ensuring that every aspect of your operations is aligned and optimised. By leveraging advanced analytics and a systemic approach, we help you transform demand forecasting into a strategic asset that drives better business outcomes.

Our expertise spans all business functions, from supply chains to marketing, ensuring a comprehensive and integrated approach to demand planning. We don’t just improve forecast accuracy; we orchestrate these forecasts across your organization to enhance overall performance. Utilising your company’s historical and real-time data, combined with external data sources such as online searches and social trends, we create processes to achieve robust and reliable demand forecasts.

Our approach goes beyond data and algorithms. We focus on the human element by designing user-friendly interfaces and providing extensive training for your staff. This ensures that your team can not only produce accurate forecasts but also understand and apply them effectively. Our engineering teams ensure computational efficiency, preventing unexpected costs and ensuring seamless integration into your existing systems.

We offer both short-range operational demand planning and long-range strategic forecasting, tailored to your specific needs. Our end-to-end approach consistently generates effective plans and valuable business outcomes. We validate improved forecasts with in-market trials and support you in scaling these solutions, from vendor selection to mentoring in-house staff. By reconciling demand forecasting across every facet of your organisation, we ensure that your operations are not only intelligent but also cohesive and future-ready.

Elevate your demand planning capabilities with our expert consulting services, and unlock the precision needed for optimal business performance.

What We Do

Experience & Impact

3-10%

Improvement in overall operating profit

25%

Faster time to market

15-25%

Accuracy in daily order management

30-40%

Performance upside using Demand Sensing

Client Results

Advisory, Insight

Anticipating the Future: Advanced Strategies in Demand Planning

In an era where the pace of change in business operations and planning is not just rapid but exponential, companies are increasingly looking towards advanced Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Process Flow Integration as the linchpins of their strategic framework.

Advisory, Case Studies

Enhancing Warehouse Efficiency through Advanced Layout Design and System Performance Analysis

Optimizing Distribution: An In-Depth Simulation Study Redefines a Major Beverage Company's Warehouse Layout, Ensuring Maximum Space Efficiency and Seamless Material Flow

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Our Experts

Mark Lutton

  • Head of Consulting
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  • Business & Logistics Strategy
  • Project Management
  • Logistics, 3PL & Supply Chain
  • Cold Chain Logistics
  • Operational Excellence
  • Lean Six Sigma Expert
  • Supply Chain Management Process Mapping
  • CEP Policy development and Implementation
  • Market Feasibility Studies
  • Warehousing & Distribution Expertise
  • Business Strategy & Business Plan Design
  • Transformation & Business Re-Engineering
  • E-Commerce & Last Mile Network Design

Biography

Mark specializes in revitalizing businesses and optimizing supply chains, leveraging his expertise in strategic planning, organizational restructuring, and driving operations excellence initiatives. The cornerstone of his approach is flawless execution, honed through extensive end-to- end supply chain project management experience, where he strategically allocates resources for maximum efficiency.

MBA-qualified with 25 years experience leading diverse teams and delivering successful projects he is a leader with global operations experience calling on a rich background of consulting assignments and an unwavering desire to improve the environment. Mark’s regional experience is across UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman for both the government and private sectors delivered consulting projects on feasibility and market studies, developing business plans, and executing the plans via transformation programmes. His, approach involves a thorough assessment of a business's strengths and weaknesses, leading to tailored, creative solutions that unlock its full potential

Mark’s experience ranges from research and development, production management, supply chain, industrial engineering through to chief operating officer in a range of consumer driven industries. He is considered an expert in creating strategic business plans, restructuring organisations or implementing lean management tools.

 

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