Work
Aldermere Advisory Quarterly

Food supply
2025
Operations
Cutting nine days from every order
A wholesale bakery supplier was taking nine days to turn an order into a delivery. We mapped every hand-off, removed four of them, and moved the cut-off time by one afternoon.
9 → 3
days from order to delivery
£1.4m
cash no longer tied up in stock
−22%
waste in the first quarter

Software
2025
Pricing
A pricing model the sales team believes
A 60-person software company had six price lists and a discount for every deal. We replaced them with one page of three plans that the sales team helped write.
+18%
average contract value
5 wks
to roll out to every rep
1
price list, down from six

Housing
2024
Finance
Seven sites, one budget
A housing trust with seven sites was planning repairs site by site. We built one shared budget the whole board could read, and a five-year plan to match.
£3.1m
saved over three years
7 → 1
budgets merged into one
4 hrs
for the monthly board pack, from 3 days

Manufacturing
2025
People
Building the management layer
A 240-person engineering firm was promoting its best engineers into managers with no help. We designed the role, trained eleven people, and changed how promotions work.
11
new managers, all promoted from inside
−34%
leavers among team leads
6 wks
faster onboarding

Transport
2024
Planning
From three spreadsheets to one plan
A regional coach operator planned its routes, drivers and vehicles in three separate spreadsheets. We joined them into one plan that shows a clash before it happens.
3 → 1
spreadsheets to one plan
41
double-bookings caught in month one
£210k
lower agency driver spend

Retail
2025
Growth
A shop that breaks even in month five
An independent grocer with four shops wanted a fifth. We built a simple model of what a new shop must sell to pay its way, and opened it on that plan.
Month 5
the new shop broke even
£38k
under the opening budget
4 → 5
shops, with no new debt
Exhibit 4 · Headline change
What moved, by case.
The single biggest number from each case, as a percentage change. Direction is good in every row.
−67%
−83%
−34%
−22%
+18%
−31%