LCP Consulting
• A specialist customer focused supply chain consultancy – ‘specialists in demand and supply worldwide’
• Providing consultancy at: strategic advice, design and implementation levels
- extending from customer / product profitability, through SC planning, manufacturing, distribution, international logistics, sourcing and procurement
• Providing complementary services of training, recruitment, interim placement and market research
• Recognised as the leading and largest independent specialist consultancy in its field in the UK
• Generating around 40% of its revenues from outside the UK
• Three of the leading supply chain management Professors formally linked to the business – Prof. Alan Braithwaite (Executive Chairman), Prof Martin Christopher, Head of Marketing and Supply Chain, Cranfield University (non-Exec Director) and Prof. Richard Wilding, Chair of Supply Chain Risk Management, Cranfield (formal affiliate)
• Strong links with a number of internationally recognised Universities – the strongest and longest being with Cranfield School of Management, UK
• Recognised as a ‘leading edge’ yet ‘practical’ consultancy
• Invests in research and development – both internally and through sponsorship of University research
• An approved consulting practice by both of the professional bodies in the UK – the Institute of Business Advisors (formally the IMC) and the Management Consultancies Association (MCA)
• Strong and extensive supply chain and business analytical tools to support a ‘fact based’ approach to consulting – including Cost-to-Serve®
Customers and markets
• Significant clients in a range of markets, notably: Retail, consumer manufacturing, major manufacturing, health and pharmaceutical, oil and chemicals, the logistics service providers and public sector
• Clients are recognised major businesses including:
- Maersk, ExxonMobil, Shell, ASDA/Wal-Mart, TESCO
- Huntsman Chemicals, De La Rue, Woolworths, MFI Retail, Linde Group, B&Q, Harrods, John Lewis Partnership
accreditations & policies
Management Consultancies Association Member 
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case studies
Identifying, designing and delivering cost and service improvements by taking an end-to-end supply chain approachRieber and Son (Rieber) are a Norwegian £500m food manufacturing business with facilities and customers across Europe. The major food division is branded as TORO. Increasing product complexity and rising raw material costs led the business to seek help in identifying business and supply chain improvement opportunities.
LCP Consulting (LCP) worked...
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Sales & Operations PlanningFollowing a rapid operational Healthcheck, LCP was requested to implement a comprehensive Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process; restructure and reconfigure the Oracle Manufacturing Planning System along with introducing operational improvements where appropriate.
Operational HealthcheckLCP undertook a comprehensive review of operational performance and drivers of complexity in this niche proprietary Pharma business.
Lean Manufacturing - Six SigmaFollowing the successful implementation of S&OP, this Client requested LCP to complete a rapid study and implementation of Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma.
The project was undertaken over 6 weeks (8 weeks elapsed time) combining LCP methodologies and incorporating 3 key Client staff as an integral part of the team, with the objective of achieving...
Healthcare manufacturer - S&OPFollowing a distribution strategy review by LCP, we were asked to design and implement a global sales and operations planning (S&OP) process with a focus on enabling the company to match the growth rate of its more advanced markets.
Eletrical Manufacturer - S&OPLCP was approached to design and implement a robust sales and operations planning (S&OP) process and organisation as part of a larger supply chain programme.
UK Retailer - network strategyLCP has been retained on multiple occasions throughout this period to undertake network strategy, inventory analysis and operational due diligence (audits) to help optimise the operating cost base.
Supplier and merchandising operations definitionLCP undertook a ground up review of this Client's Supplier and Product Portfolio Management practices. Implementing new systems and segmenting the way Suppliers were managed resulted in substantial savings
Global oil company - product profitabilityLCP deployed its Cost-to-Serve® (CTS) tool & methodology to undertake a review of existing product/return costing approaches across the business. Following this initial review LCP developed four generic models using the CTS tool that were then successfully piloted in four operating countries. We then trained a client team in the use and implementation...
Global drinks business - profitabilityLCP deployed its Cost-to-Serve® methodology to undertake a strategic review of customer profitability following the merger between Fosters and Berringer Blass.
UK Clothing Retailer - Merch.Having successfully developed a clothing network distribution strategy, LCP was requested to work on the planning aspects of the Clothing business, with a view to specifying how the future panning function should operate.
UK Retail Multiple - Overseas sourcing & Import ManagementLCP completed a ground breaking analytical study and process review to deliver a clear Import Management policy and strategy definition for its Client.
UK Retail Multiple - networkLCP has been retained on multiple occasions throughout this period to undertake detailed network analysis and help determine the future supplier, inventory storage and retail store distribution strategy for the business.
Food manufacturer - Spain factory developmentFollowing the success of our earlier projects, the Client requested that we review their Spanish operations and establish the potential to increase capacity. The results were dramatic.
Food manufacturer - Central EuropeFollowing the success of our earlier Productivity Review project, the Client requested that we evaluate the potential for establishing a factory in Central Europe and what the scale of benefit could be.
Food manufacturer - Ops ReviewLCP deployed its RapiSCAN® methodology to undertake a Productivity Review of its manufacturing operations across 9 factories in the UK and 12 in Northern Europe, each regional review taking approximately eight weeks.
Global Chemicals - S&OPFollowing a comprehensive analytical review which was approved in full, LCP was employed to design, develop and implement a complete Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process; this underpinned by an operational improvement programme for specified factories around the globe.
UK Retailer - NDC designThis project was to create a business case for a new National Distribution Centre (NDC) and select an Integrator for the internal logistics system.
UK Retailer - DC WMS IT systemProject management of a Warehouse Management System implementation
UK Retailer - DC developmentProject Management of a new Distribution Centre development.
Global Chemicals - diagnosticsLCP undertook a comprehensive global analytical review, supported by selected operational reviews based on one Region to validate findings, to isolate the reasons for poor customer service and determine a programme of action to resolve this
Health Care - DC designFollowing a European distribution strategy review and design; LCP re-designed the European central distribution centre
FMCGLCP deployed its RapiSCAN® methodology to undertake a Productivity Review of its manufacturing operations across 9 factories in the UK and 12 in Northern Europe, each regional review taking approximately eight weeks.
Global Chemicals manufacturer - S&OPFollowing a comprehensive analytical review which was approved in full, LCP was employed to design, develop and implement a complete Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process; this underpinned by an operational improvement programme for specified factories around the globe.
UK RetailerThis project was to create a business case for a new National Distribution Centre (NDC) and select an Integrator for the internal logistics system
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Introduction
Why do so many executives in companies get so frustrated that their supply and demand is not in balance? Their experience is that products are not available, resulting in lost sales when inventory is too high and manufacturing plants complain:
Demand is not stable
Forecasts are a waste of time
People in sales don’t...
Retailers such as ASOS and John Lewis are making public forecasts of future growth in their on-line revenues of more than 30 per cent per year and setting targets of £1billion over the web in five years. The numbers show that these forecasts are not fanciful. There are already some billion pound players in the form of Amazon, TESCO and DSGi with...
A White Paper prepared by LCP Consulting for joint publication with Zetes By Professor Alan Braithwaite, LCP Consulting and Cranfield School of Management Professor Richard Wilding, Cranfield School of Management June 2010
The recent report by GS1 UK and Cranfield School of Management identified an 80% level of data inconsistency between UK...
SECTION 1 – Introduction
Over the last 40 years global supply chains have evolved to create and sustain growth and demand through their economic scale; delivering both lower costs and superior value. Without doubt this has contributed to global warming, pollution, environmental damage and longer term material shortages. It has also generated...
With the continued focus on driving profitability and cash generation, Paul Derbyshire & Julian Mosquera explore the best approach to Cost-to-Serve to avoid many of the common pitfalls and deliver the maximum benefit.
Understanding true profitability
The power of Cost-to-Serve is in creating an understanding of the profitability of products that...
An opportunity to focus on cost and relationships
Factory gate pricing is the new big initiative for fmcg (fast moving consumer goods) distribution and logistics. The dominant retailers are taking control of their inbound logistics and seeking commercial terms from their suppliers to pay for it. The questions that arise for suppliers are related...
Julian Mosquera, Director at LCP Consulting, provides further insight into how LCP’s Cost-to-Serve® approach reveals cost and margin improvement opportunities.
LCP's Cost-to-Serve® methodology provides businesses with rapid and incisive insights into how its customers and products consume resources and erode margin across the supply...
With the increasing focus on reverse logistics, Julian Mosquera, Director at LCP Consulting discusses the holistic and business process challenges for companies and provides five key steps to achieving greater value from reverse logistics operations...
Whilst many businesses, whether retail or manufacturing operate some form of reverse logistics...
With the resurgent focus of Lean and Six Sigma principles, Julian Mosquera, Director at LCP Consulting explains how a broader approach to their application is the way for businesses to achieve the next level of cost and service improvement … we call this “LEAN PLUS – MASTERING COMPLEXITY”
Lean (with its focus on lead time...
Management focus on reducing working capital has never been sharper. Julian Mosquera, Director at LCP Consulting explains how taking our wider 5 step inventory management approach will yield an improved, sustainable and agile inventory profile.
Whenever business performance drops and cash flow becomes restricted, the rush to reduce working capital...
As the economic conditions get harder, there will be just one mantra for CEOs and their Boards: “manage for cash”. We believe that how organisations manage their supply chains against this objective will be a critical success factor for their survival and profitability in the next few years.
Companies use a variety of terms to express...
The world is now sensitised to global warming and the effect of carbon emissions. The national targets are to reduce emissions by 60% by 2050. Business and political leaders talk about ‘Plan A because there is no Plan B’. But the unanswered question is ‘What is Plan A?’.
To answer this question, there is a requirement to be...
Global sourcing and supply has become a central part of many companies’ operations strategies. It has proved essential to increasing gross and net margin. In the competitive environment characterised by over-capacity, corporate consolidation and depressed spending, global sourcing is a key ingredient for corporate survival – taking advantage...
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