Supply Chain, Manufacturing & Procurement

Designing and implementing resilient, high-performing industrial value chains

From demand planning to shopfloor execution, from strategic sourcing to distribution & aftermarket services — we help companies optimise, digitise, and transform their operations to achieve sustainable performance at scale.

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How we transform operations

Operations leaders face a perfect storm: volatile demand, fragile supply bases, regulatory pressure on sustainability, and a technology landscape that evolves faster than their organisations. We help them respond across five priorities.

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Optimising end-to-end supply chain performance end-to-end

Supply chains are under relentless pressure — volatile demand, rising logistics costs, and customers who expect faster, more flexible delivery. Winning requires planning better, moving smarter, and designing supply chains that are structurally aligned with business strategy.

Supply Chain Strategy & Network Design
Aligning logistics networks, infrastructure, and distribution models with the company's development strategy and market positioning
S&OP & Demand Planning
Designing planning processes that connect commercial forecasts to production and logistics capacity
Supply Chain Models
Designing differentiated operational models tailored to product segments: make-to-order vs. make-to-stock, push vs. pull, and hybrid configurations
Warehousing & Intralogistics
Helping from general concept to the implementation & ramp of full automated distribution centres
Inventory Optimisation
Balancing between service level and working capital
Transport Management
Defining transportation strategy, modes and optimising flows across geographies
02

Driving manufacturing excellence

Manufacturers need to produce more, faster, and with less waste, while managing rising product complexity, tightening workforce availability, and increasing sustainability constraints. This requires acting at both the strategic level, defining the industrial model - and the operational level, delivering daily performance.

Industrial Master Plan
Define the optimized plants footprint for the next 10 to 20 years ahead outlining the implementation trajectory from the current state
Production Performance & Lean
Performance diagnosis to improve OEE, throughput while reducing waste, mastering all technical, methodological, and organisational components
Organisational Flexibility & Change Management
Improving production sites' ability to adapt to variations in activity through versatility, mobility, and workforce engagement
Investment & Industrialisation
Integrating production constraints at design stage, optimising CAPEX, and securing new product and new line start-up phases
Shopfloor Digitisation
Deploying MES and digital tools that connect the shopfloor to the planning chain, aligning IT functionalities with operational requirements
03

Securing procurement and creating value from the supply base

Procurement decisions have an impact across the entire value chain, from cost structure and supply continuity to carbon footprint and competitive positioning. Industrial companies must secure their supply chains, control inflation-driven cost pressures, diversify their supplier base, and drive sustainable sourcing. Turning procurement into a strategic function is one of the most powerful levers to build resilience, protect margins and create lasting competitive advantage.

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management
Finding savings and value creation opportunities across spend categories, grounded in deep industrial knowledge, sector-specific benchmarks and AI-assisted market analytics to turn insights into measurable results
Supplier Risk Management & Diversification
Mapping supply base vulnerabilities and building tailored mitigation plans, from dual sourcing strategies and supplier qualification to real-time risk monitoring powered by AI-driven early warning signals
Sustainable Procurement & Scope 3 Decarbonation
Integrating ESG and carbon criteria into sourcing decisions, engaging suppliers through a co-construction approach to drive real emissions reductions - including circular sourcing strategies and sector-specific ESG benchmarking
Procurement Operating Model & Governance
Building organizations and processes that balance central efficiency with local agility, with the data governance foundations needed to sustain performance and enable digital transformation
Digital Procurement
Harnessing AI across the full procurement value chain: spend analytics, generative AI and agentic workflows. Our business consultants and Mews Labs data scientists work side by side - from PoC to full-scale deployment.
04

From maintenance to aftermarket: capturing value across the lifecycle

Industrial companies face two converging challenges. First, keeping their own infrastructure, production assets, and fleets running at maximum availability — with ageing equipment, constrained budgets, and tightening regulations. Second, for those who design and sell complex products, turning aftermarket services into a strategic growth engine, capturing recurring revenue from their installed base.

Maintenance Strategy & Planning
Defining the right mix of preventive, corrective, and condition-based maintenance across asset types and infrastructure networks
Predictive Maintenance
Deploying data-driven and physics-based models to anticipate failures before they occur (in partnership with Mews Labs)
Spare Parts Optimisation
Right-sizing inventories to maximise availability without over-stocking
Field Service Management 
Optimising technician scheduling, routing, and intervention efficiency
Aftermarket Transformation
Redesigning service and MRO models to improve margins and customer retention
05

Building resilient and sustainable operations

Geopolitical instability, climate regulation, and digital disruption are converging. Operations leaders must rethink how their value chains are designed, not just to reduce cost, but to absorb shocks and meet sustainability commitments.

Supply Chain Risk Assessment & Mitigation
Stress-testing supply chains and building contingency plans as well as mapping supplier vulnerabilities to design targeted procurement mitigation strategies
Nearshoring & Reshoring Strategy
Evaluating make-or-buy and location decisions in a changing geopolitical landscape
Decarbonation Roadmaps
Modelling scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, defining reduction trajectories and engaging the supply base through a co-construction approach to drive real upstream emissions reductions
Industrial Energy Performance & Footprint Measurement
Identifying operational levers to reduce energy consumption at factory level, and establishing industrialised CO₂ data governance to measure progress
Circular Economy Design
Integrating reverse logistics, reuse, and recycling into operations as well as developing circular sourcing strategies to reduce dependency on critical resources

Digital Enablers

Our operations engagements are supported by deep expertise in IT strategy and the digital tools that underpin modern supply chains and manufacturing systems — ERP, SRM, S2C, P2P, CLM, Orchestration Platform, APS, WMS, MES, TMS. We help plan the IT transformation, align application portfolios with business processes, and ensure technology choices serve operational performance objectives. 

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Digital Enablers

Powered by Mews Labs

Mews Labs brings advanced modelling, simulation, and AI to operational challenges.

Supply Chain Digital Twin Modelling end-to-end supply chains to simulate scenarios, test reconfigurations, and optimise flows before deployment.
AI-Powered Demand Forecasting Machine learning models that improve forecast accuracy by integrating external signals, seasonality, and market dynamics.
Predictive Maintenance Modelling Hybrid models combining physics-based degradation modelling with data-driven anomaly detection. Applied at RTE across 100,000+ km of high-voltage lines.
Production & Resource Optimisation Constraint-based scheduling and resource allocation models for complex manufacturing environments.
AI-Powered Procurement & Spend Intelligence Combining classical AI for supplier scoring and spend analytics, generative AI for contract analysis and sourcing strategies, and agentic workflows to automate end-to-end sourcing - from RFP generation to dynamic supplier risk monitoring.
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Selected Supply Chain & Procurement projects

Scope 3 Decarbonization & CMO Supplier Engagement in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Life Sciences Supply Chain, Manufacturing & Procurement

Scope 3 Decarbonization & CMO Supplier Engagement in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Our client – with over 200 CMO sites worldwide - had no Scope 3 roadmap and procurement decisions were disconnected from group CO2 targets. Mews Partners structured and led the full supplier engagement program: segmenting the CMO base by CO2 maturity, co-constructing emissions reduction plans with pilot suppliers, deploying a cross-functional decarbonation roadmap and implementing CO2 data governance.

9 pilot CMOs onboarded, 6 engaged in active co-construction.

Roadmap validated across all stakeholders.

S&OP Redesign Challenge
BioMérieux Life Sciences Supply Chain, Manufacturing & Procurement

S&OP Redesign Challenge

Redesign the Sales & Operations Planning process across a global footprint of 42 countries, replacing legacy planning tools and aligning demand forecasting with production and distribution.

New S&OP governance and RACI deployed.

APS benchmark and RFP completed for SAP APO replacement.

Pilot launched in 2 countries.

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From supply chain reconfiguration to shopfloor performance, from procurement transformation to predictive maintenance, we bring the expertise and proximity to make it happen.

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