About OP2MA

Supply Chain Management Consulting

Experience You Can Count On

We are a team of highly experienced and trusted supply chain advisors enabling business leaders to achieve sustainable financial growth by transforming their supply chains. Based in the North West, we work with businesses across the UK, Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific to deliver long term cost savings and value creation through optimising their supply chain practices.

We have worked with major well known brands across industries including Retail, Food and Drink, Distribution, Textiles, and Flooring; resulting in significant cost reductions, improvements in customer service and business growth. Read more about some of our projects.

Our founding principles:

Managing the supply chain effectively is critical to sustainability and growth.

All businesses can be set up for supply chain success and develop the capabilities to achieve excellence; it is not the exclusive preserve of large corporates.

Creating an environment where supply chain excellence is inevitable is as much about people as it is about process and technology.

Applying innovative analysis with practical insight can define the scope and scale of opportunity for any business.

The challenges to supply chain excellence are many and varied; coherent, data-driven analytics provide a compass in the face of uncertainty, turbulence, and increasingly demanding environments.

Optimum

Noun:
‘a condition, degree, amount or compromise that produces the best possible result’

Adjective:
‘most favourable or advantageous; best’

Collins English Dictionary - Online

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The Team

Our consultants bring extensive expertise and industry knowledge to the table, having worked across all dimensions of the supply chain and in many sectors. We have specialists in a number of key areas including; demand forecasting, sourcing and procurement, inventory management, supply planning, and logistics. They stay updated with the latest trends, best practices, and technologies in supply chain management to ensure that you benefit from the most relevant and effective solutions for your specific business needs.

We work flexibly, on an assignment basis, to align the most relevant skill set and experience to our clients. All our consultants have held significant line management roles as well as having excellent track records in delivering transformational supply chain performance.

The team is led by founder and principal consultant, Calum Lewis, who is an ex LEGO senior director. With the LEGO Group, Calum embedded best practice supply chain management to drive five-fold sales growth in the UK/Ireland market whilst supporting LEGO’s climb to No 1 UK Toy Supplier. More recently, with responsibility for planning and inventory management across EMEA, he enhanced the capability and effectiveness of managing supply to around 80 countries in the region.

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