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Northern Lights

Planning, Inventory & Demand Visibility Strategy

Build a smarter, more resilient supply chain.

In today’s fast-moving consumer landscape, precision and agility aren’t optional, they’re an essential puzzle piece to running a successful consumer goods business.

At MET Supply Chain Consulting, our focus is on designing and implement planning, inventory, and demand visibility strategies that drive efficiency, strengthen collaboration, and enhance customer satisfaction.

 

We have a track record of making large scale significant improvements in client's delivery performance whilst reducing the costs of doing business by uncovering the blind spots, bringing visibility, teaching the skills and aligning the business around the art of demand and supply planning.   

What We Do

We work with your teams and partners to introduce best practice planning visibility, decision support, uncovering the insights and revealing the blind spots, to enable the right decisions to help your operation to run efficiently, whilst delivering the performance your customers expect.

Our strategies ensure the right products are in the right place, at the right time, without excess cost or waste.

Our Focus Areas

  • Demand and supply Planning

Build a unified, data-driven approach to forecasting, demand and supply planning, integrating real-time data and external signals to adapt quickly to market change.

  • Inventory Optimisation

Strike the perfect balance between availability and efficiency. Reduce working capital while maintaining service levels that delight customers and retail partners.

 

  • Visibility clarity

Design visibility models that are both cost-effective and customer-centric, enabling rapid, reliable delivery across multiple channels.

 

  • AI-Powered Cloud Solutions

Through partnerships with the new award winning Lumina AI platform, we offer bespoke cloud software tailored to your business needs. Access flexible planning tools, dynamic reporting, exception alerts, and interactive dashboards, all designed to give you complete visibility and faster, smarter decision-making.

 

Our Approach

We foster alignment across your supply chain ecosystem, from suppliers to manufacturers to retailers, ensuring decisions are guided by shared data, common goals, and transparent communication. By embedding flexibility and responsiveness into your planning and fulfilment processes, we help your business:

 

  • Anticipate and adapt to demand or supply fluctuations

  • Strengthen resilience against disruption

  • Turn real-time insight into decisive, value-creating action

  • Capitalise on emerging market opportunities

The Result

A resilient, data-driven, and customer-focused supply chain — one that not only keeps pace with your market but helps you stay ahead of it, leveraging the latest AI-driven insights to transform operations.

Supply Chain Consulting disciplines

THE DEMAND ENGINE

From firefighting to 

foresight.

Hours back in the week

One version of the truth

Alerts when things move.

Exception reporting

Scenario planning

Built around how you operate

​​Big Supply Chain intelligence, SME sized and built to fit.  ​

The Demand Engine

Business & market analytics / commercial decision support

Know where to act for maximum impact.​

Reveal hidden causes of inefficient underperformance.

We'll turn data into insight and insight into action.

Data intelligence capabilities help supply chain leaders see what’s happening, understand why and plan what’s next. ​

Big Supply Chain experience. SME delivered.

The Demand Engine

Finance

Prioritise decisions for financial advantage

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Link operations with cash, cost & margin

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Delivers financial advantage.
Turn operational data into clear financially grounded decisions, protecting margin and freeing cash.

 

 

 

Clarity for leaders.

Confidence for teams.

The Demand Engine

Change & capability enablement

 

Make improvements

stick

Hands on for delivery trust & adoption

Build the skills, processes, and mindsets needed to sustain high performance. Whether embedding new tools, or redefining processes, roles or behaviours.

Make sure change turns into lasting capability.​​​​​​

For suppliers turning £5m to £100m annually, where every customer relationship matters and every percentage point of share is fought for.

Data coordination improves operational efficiency.

  • Forecast accuracy

  • Promotional effectiveness

  • Customer satisfaction

  • Speed to market

  • Sales growth

  • Margin control

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