For Food & Dairy
Margin and compliance under pressure?
The fix usually is not another system.
I work with Food & Dairy operators on cost, productivity, and compliance. Direct, senior involvement. No long discovery phase, no junior team, no layered-in consultancy.
Where I help
- Margin recovery — yield loss, procurement leakage, verified savings
- Compliance that holds — HSA, EPA, food safety, CSRD mapped to real owners and built into daily operations
- Productivity — OEE, throughput, output per shift
- Organisational effectiveness — spans, layers, management routines that actually hold
- Grants & Capex — Enterprise Ireland Approved Provider; pilots may be grant-eligible
Worked with
Green Isle · Kepak · Fox's Biscuits · Northern Foods · Rustlers · Panelto · Bandon Co-op · North Cork Creameries · Enterprise Ireland
What this tends to look like
A two-to-three-week diagnosis. A clear read on where margin is leaking and where the process base is weak. A short, ordered list of fixes. Then either I hand it back to you and step out, or I stay on to run the fix alongside your team. Either way, your team keeps ownership.
Why yield and compliance are the same problem
Yield does not drop because people stop caring. It drops because the process base shifted — a spec, a handover, a changeover, a rework loop nobody logs.
Compliance drifts for the same reason. If the process base is tight, both improve. If it isn't, neither will.
Worth a call if
- Margin is eroding faster than your cost programme is recovering it
- Compliance audits are passing but the same issues keep reappearing
- You are about to sign off on capex and want a second read
- A plant is underperforming and you are not sure if it is people, process, or equipment