Margin is slipping, and nobody can say exactly where
We trace cost and price through buying, ranging, warehousing and distribution, and size what is recoverable before you commit to anything.
Management consultancy for businesses that move physical goods
Operations that work.
We find the cost and margin hiding in how you buy, store and move goods, and we stay to help you take it out.
Polished · new
Fresh thinking
New tools, including AI, tested against your data before anyone asks you to buy them.
Copper · proven
Proven in practice
Methods refined over decades inside retailers, suppliers and distributors.
Verdigris · lasting
Built to last
Changes handed to your people with the tracking to protect the gain for years.
Where we help
Three problems we are asked to solve
Warehouse and logistics costs keep rising
With specialist partners we benchmark your operation site by site and redesign the work, not just renegotiate the rates.
You should be using AI, but it isn't clear how
We find the few uses that pay back in your operation and help your team adopt them, without starting a platform project.
How we work
Analysis before polish, and help to make it happen
- 01Diagnose
Your data, your sites, your people. Where the money goes, sized.
- 02Design
Options costed, one recommended, owners agreed.
- 03Deliver
Changes made alongside your team and measured every week.
- 04Embed
Handed over to named owners, with the tracking in place.
We only start work that will be implemented. If the conditions for success aren't in place, we pause rather than bill.
Read how we workBuilt by practitioners
We have run the operations and built the data platforms we advise on
2003David Armes founds Ivo Consulting Solutions, buying and commercial insight specialists
100+CPG suppliers served by SKUtrak, the supply chain data platform Guy Cuthbert founded
25+ yrsin UK grocery and supply chain data, including retailer-side work for Morrisons, Asda and Co-op
Our founders' clients include BT, Co-op, easyJet, Greggs, Marks & Spencer, Nature's Way and Yodel.
Tell us where the margin is going.
A 30-minute call with one of the directors. No pitch deck, no obligation.