We help manufacturers turn strategy into execution: stabilising planning, fixing the inventory mix and building the systems that keep orders shipping on time.
If your team spends its days reacting instead of running to plan, the cause is usually further upstream, in planning, inventory and the systems underneath.
IFOT slipping, customers chasing, expediting becoming the norm.
Out of the lines you need, while capital sits in the ones you don't.
Forecasts miss, so planners quietly rebuild the plan in spreadsheets the MRP knows nothing about.
04Every day reactive. No time to fix the cause.
Critical decisions running on email, memory and manual workarounds.
Two reports, two answers, and a meeting spent arguing about whose number is right.
Different symptoms, the same few root causes upstream: in planning, inventory and the systems beneath them. That's where we start.
Strategy consultants are architects. We're the architect and the builder: we design the improvement, build the data and tools behind it and stay until your team can run it without us.
Most manufacturers don't need more advice. They need someone who understands the operational reality (late deliveries, stockouts, forecast swings, spreadsheets and disconnected systems) and can actually fix it.
We work shoulder to shoulder with your team across the full value chain, from sales order to dispatch, improving the process, the data and the systems together so the gains hold.
From the ASCI webinar From Strategy to Execution: Unlocking Real Business Performance, presented by Craig Bennett, 16 July 2025. Watch the talk →
Four connected practices that take you from diagnosis to a plant that runs on stable, on-time execution.
We assess the full value chain (order intake, planning, inventory, production and dispatch) to find exactly where delivery is breaking down.
Get the mix of inventory right: replenishment, MRP settings and demand signals tuned to cut stockouts and excess and bring weeks-of-cover down without risking supply.
Make the numbers trustworthy, then act on them: Power BI reporting, Power Apps and sales-order automation that retire spreadsheets and surface real-time operational visibility.
Read customer purchase orders in whatever format they arrive, validate them against your pricing and customer records, and load a clean sales order to the ERP. Only the exceptions need a person.
Three platforms shaped by the same work we do with manufacturers every day, built to run operations rather than describe them.
Connects demand, supply, inventory, orders, capacity and financial outcomes so risks surface early and the next action is clear.
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CHECK, SET, GO: understand reality, decide what matters, execute visibly. Not an audit document and not a task list.
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WHSQ-compliant incident reporting: capture events with photos, track investigations and manage corrective actions to closeout.
Explore the safety system →We measure success by what changes in your operation: reliable delivery, fewer firefights and gains that hold after we leave.
Food, FMCG and inventory-heavy operations. We have seen your problem before.
The FLSmidth automation build broke even in five weeks. We aim for that kind of horizon rather than a multi-year programme.
When we leave, your people run the systems we built. We train them on it as we go.
You work with Craig, not a graduate team.
How we automated FLSmidth's transactional supply and what it returned.
A 10:1 return in five weeks.
FLSmidth asked us to reduce supply-chain costs, starting with purchasing. We automated their transactional supply end to end: purchase-order life-cycle management, inter-branch transfers and redistribution of excess stock, with business intelligence dashboards over the top and full ERP integration. Delivered under budget.
Earlee Products: S&OP end to end.
Earlee had grown into a Queensland Manufacturer of the Year without a formal sales and operations planning process. After the operational review we built the frameworks, apps and reporting behind S&OP. Delivery IFOT up 113%, stockouts down 27%, stock cover down 13%, revenue up 22%.
Read the Earlee story →Because of this work, our supply chain is more agile, able to offer a higher service level to our customers and can do so at lower costs. Great job!
Short notes on delivery reliability, firefighting and the metrics that actually change behaviour.
Nobody decides to run the plant on expedites. One weekly meeting ate a full-time planner.
Read → PlanningIf the schedule changed three times before Monday, the floor has already decided it is optional.
Read → Delivery reliabilityWhen a delivery is late, everyone looks at the floor. The date was usually lost weeks earlier.
Read →Book a consultation. We'll pinpoint the operational issues driving late deliveries, inventory stress and firefighting and show you what to fix first.
Tell us what is happening in the operation. We reply within one business day.
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