Ardleigh Foods
Three points of margin across four sites, found without cutting a single product line.
Margin programme
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12 weeks
Food production
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2024
Ardleigh Foods
Three points of margin across four sites, found without cutting a single product line.
Margin programme
·
12 weeks
Food production
·
2024
Ardleigh Foods
Three points of margin across four sites, found without cutting a single product line.
Margin programme
·
12 weeks
Food production
·
2024
■ About the client
Ardleigh makes chilled ready meals for UK supermarkets from four sites in the East Midlands. Rising input costs had taken four points off its margin in two years.
■ About the client
Ardleigh makes chilled ready meals for UK supermarkets from four sites in the East Midlands. Rising input costs had taken four points off its margin in two years.
■ About the client
Ardleigh makes chilled ready meals for UK supermarkets from four sites in the East Midlands. Rising input costs had taken four points off its margin in two years.
Client
Ardleigh Foods
Food production
+3.1 pts
Gross margin
Brief
Find three points of margin across four sites without cutting a product line.
Gross margin rose 3.1 points within two quarters, with no product delisted and no site closed.
Outcome
Client
Ardleigh Foods
Food production
+3.1 pts
Gross margin
Brief
Find three points of margin across four sites without cutting a product line.
Gross margin rose 3.1 points within two quarters, with no product delisted and no site closed.
Outcome
Client
Ardleigh Foods
Food production
+3.1 pts
Gross margin
Brief
Find three points of margin across four sites without cutting a product line.
Gross margin rose 3.1 points within two quarters, with no product delisted and no site closed.
Outcome
The brief
The obvious answer was to cut the long tail of slow products. Ardleigh’s customers did not want that, and nor did its board.
The brief
The obvious answer was to cut the long tail of slow products. Ardleigh’s customers did not want that, and nor did its board.
The brief
The obvious answer was to cut the long tail of slow products. Ardleigh’s customers did not want that, and nor did its board.
What we did
We costed every line by site and shift, found where yield and changeovers lost the most, and rebuilt the production plan around them. Procurement renegotiated eleven contracts on the numbers we gave them.
What we did
We costed every line by site and shift, found where yield and changeovers lost the most, and rebuilt the production plan around them. Procurement renegotiated eleven contracts on the numbers we gave them.
What we did
We costed every line by site and shift, found where yield and changeovers lost the most, and rebuilt the production plan around them. Procurement renegotiated eleven contracts on the numbers we gave them.
What held
Margin was up 3.1 points two quarters later. The site managers now see cost by line every week, in a report they built with us.
What held
Margin was up 3.1 points two quarters later. The site managers now see cost by line every week, in a report they built with us.
What held
Margin was up 3.1 points two quarters later. The site managers now see cost by line every week, in a report they built with us.
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Ardleigh Foods
We expected to lose products. We lost waste instead.
Claire Dunmore
Finance Director
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Ardleigh Foods
We expected to lose products. We lost waste instead.
Claire Dunmore
Finance Director
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Ardleigh Foods
We expected to lose products. We lost waste instead.
Claire Dunmore
Finance Director
