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Aldermere Advisory Quarterly

Cases from the last three years.

Cases from the last three years.

Real problems, the numbers before and after, and what the client says. Names are used with permission.

Real problems, the numbers before and after, and what the client says. Names are used with permission.

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.

Order to delivery time

Order to delivery time

−67%

Board pack preparation time

Board pack preparation time

−83%

Leavers among team leads

Leavers among team leads

−34%

Waste in first quarter

Waste in first quarter

−22%

Average contract value

Average contract value

+18%

Driver agency spend

Driver agency spend

−31%

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