8% lower unit cost across the portfolio over two seasons.
A European premium beauty retailer, a portfolio of more than 800 SKUs.
Services
Sourcing & Supply Chain
We select and manage the factories that make your product, negotiate what it costs, and hold the launch date.
Most sourcing problems are not sourcing problems. They are decisions taken late — a tooling sign-off that slipped, a vendor chosen on relationship rather than capability, a cost baseline nobody ever built. We work upstream of that.
Who this is for
- Consumer brands taking a product from concept to first production run.
- Retailers who buy private label and want the cost broken down properly.
- Teams changing manufacturing base — country, region or vendor.
- Companies with a supplier base that grew by accident and now needs consolidating.
The work
Six services, two formats
An hourly session for one question, or a project engagement from two weeks to two years.
Hourly consulting
A paid session on one sourcing question: where to produce, whether a quote is fair, what a supplier is not telling you.
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Sourcing agent — project based
We act as your sourcing function: finding the factory, negotiating the price, and staying on it until the goods ship.
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Vendor management
Turning a supplier list into a managed base: scorecards, reviews, escalation and a second source where it matters.
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Negotiation
Preparing and running the commercial conversation, with the cost model built before anyone sits down.
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Project & launch management
Running the launch as a project: one dated critical path, gate reviews, and a single person chasing every supplier on it.
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Product & packaging development
From brief to approved first batch: formula, components, artwork, regulatory copy and the dates between them.
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Selected work
What this looked like in practice
Nine months from idea to launch, on a project other suppliers had refused. The brand is now in its fifth year.
A niche fragrance brand, first launch, from idea to shelf.
A product development process the company runs itself, with one owner per stage instead of three parallel lists.
A start-up consumer brand with no product development process.
Free tools
Two things you can work out yourself
Built from the models we use on engagements. No sign-up, nothing sent anywhere.
Landed cost calculator
The unit price is 60–80% of what a unit really costs. See the rest of your own number in two minutes.
Open the calculator →
Launch countdown planner
Enter the on-shelf date. Get the day tooling, artwork, regulatory copy and production each have to be signed off.
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Two ways to start
Request a paid session on one question, or send a project brief and we will come back with a written scope.