LuFau Consulting
Transforming Tech Supply Chains
Welcome to LuFau Consulting, a consultancy that helps technology businesses drive lean, efficient and reliable supply chains, without impacting existing workstreams.
LuFau Consultancy provides services to support businesses to effectively optimise supply chains, drive down cost, and grow long standing supplier relationships that you can rely on.
Modern Supply Chains are often highly complex, and involve intricate organisation and optimisation, often requiring the maintenance and management of third parties within the supply chain.
Integration of the supply cycle demands an in-depth understanding of the complete end to end process. Knowledge of material flows, where material is at any time, potential choke points and problem spots, benefits not only the business, but also the customer, maximising resources.
Our Services
Discover Our Expertise
Supply Chain Health Check
Let us work with you to identify your supply chain needs. From start up to multi-national, it can be an overwhelming task to take a holistic view of your supply chain, introduce new processes and clean your purchasing habits.
We will identify existing supply chain functions, analyse your spend to establish areas of growth or improvement, and define your supply chain business strategy.
Performing a SWOT analysis of your supply chain performance will provide a robust strategy to create a highly effective supply chain: This can include vendors, distributors, subcontractors, logistics, business services and warehousing. Assessment of areas such as OTIF delivery, terms of business, pricing structures, charges, reviews, rebates, MDF, and relationships will create a clear path of improvement. Combined with an analysis of tooling performance such as ERP systems, costing methodologies and processes, a clear plan will be given to strengthen your business and elevate your offerings.
Consultation
Looking to develop your supply chain but not sure where to turn? Looking for new systems to support your back office? Need help planning or executing your next procurement project?
Navigate through your supply chain challenges with our key service offerings, tailored to your business needs.
Preferred Supplier Onboarding
Review and selection of suppliers in line with company standards, including risk evaluation, references, terms and conditions, and documentation.
Supplier Relationship Management
Building partnerships with suppliers to maximise return and retain an ongoing level of vendor support.
Acquisitions / Account Mergers
Provide strategic advice of acquired suppliers, highlighting areas of weaknesses, duplications, term anomalies, risks and opportunities. Working with each account to ensure streamlined supplier base and agreed amalgamated terms..
Warehousing, Fulfilment, and Logistics Optimisation
Optimisation recommendations to ensure space, time and resources are utilised effectively. Inventory pick/pack/ship assessment, logistics streamlining, 3PL advice and guidance.
Strategic Sourcing
Supplier sourcing for specific project work, territory expansion, or new portfolio to achieve the best price and quality of goods.
Contract Review and Renewal
Review of existing contracts to understand any risks, obligations, improvements or missed opportunities within the agreements made. Spend analysis and demand planning to support business growth.
Processes and Best Practice
Advice and implementation of supply chain processes and best practices. System migration support and advice to ensure clean and accurate data.
Pricing Negotiation
RFP negotiation and completion of hardware BoM to obtain best pricing. BAFO and contract award negotiation. Run rate vendor pricing agreements.
Strategic Planning Sessions
LuFau Consultancy will support your senior management team with data driven decision making on supply chain road maps, illustrating business impacts.
Providing guidance on best practices and implementation, we will give you a holistic view of the supply chain to support growth and optimisation. Focussing on customer-centricity, predictive maintenance, automation, and visibility to create a lean and efficient supply chain strategy.
Project Support
Providing direct support on specific supply chain and procurement tasks within your technology projects, globally.
Whether this is a new territory being established, negotiating new terms of business, costing for an RFP response, or a sourcing requirement following contract award, we can provide you with end-to-end supply chain support.
Training
Bespoke training for your team where staff can hone their skills in supply chain.
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Supplier negotiation techniques
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Supplier relationship building
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Understanding contracts
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Tender responses
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Tech exploration
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Partner training
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Stakeholder management
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Building your supply chain from scratch
About LuFau Consulting
Lucinda Faucheux, Founder of LuFau Consulting, has more than 13 years’ experience in supply chain management, understanding proven methodologies and systems across procurement, logistics, contract management and operations.
With 11 years in the AV industry, Lucinda has built a solid network of reliable and experienced providers from manufacturers, distributors, service providers and 3PLs.
From working within multiple system integrators, Lucinda’s understanding within the industry enhances her ability to deeply analyse existing data and processes, to provide clear strategic ways of working.
Lucinda’s unique position of understanding the AV market, alongside extensive supply chain knowledge, means her customers benefit from a global industry network, and gain the skills and expertise needed to optimise their supply chain.
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