Ian has personally managed multi million pound subcontracts and material procurement. He has a network of many former colleagues engaged in both defence and consumer sectors that can help you with:

• Supplier Selection –working with Engineering, Designing for Support, preparing to bid, designing for the environment, maintaining environmental compliance, preferred suppliers and components, ensuring competent design records and configuration management
• Bidding process –generating enquiries, statements of work, bid assessment
• Supply Chain Management – supply chain conferences, managing core suppliers, programme reporting, vendor performance
• Procurement Strategy – financial impact on the business, strategic commodity management, cost accounting and prediction
• Obsolescence planning – working with suppliers to reduce risk, agreeing consequences for failure, managing a risk budget and logging cost avoidance
• Generating Obsolescence Management Plans – working within a lifecycle discipline and documenting the management of obsolescence, actions and strategies.
• Business Development (-including International) – securing long term value and contracts, developing an improved service and support infrastructure