Partners & Associates
Graham Jones MSc, FCILT, I Eng., MSOE, MI Plant E., MIOM
Graham is a "hands on" consultant with over thirty years management experience in the food industry. He is a keen environmentalist who served with the British Antarctic Survey and spent two winters on Antarctic Bases followed by a period as Third Engineering Officer on the Antarctic supply vessel the Royal Research Ship Shackleton.
Graham has combined careers in bakery operations and engineering management with senior sales and logistics management positions in the food industry; executive interim management roles and international consulting assignments but believes strongly in life long learning and has recently achieved an MSc in International Logistics and Supply Chain Management awarded by Glamorgan University.
During his career, Graham has managed large industrial bread bakeries; smaller craft bakeries, large automated biscuit factories, and chilled foods companies where he consistently improved operating efficiencies and profit margins. He has also been a national accounts manager responsible for developing profitable customer relationships at senior level with major retailers, and logistics planning manager for a large UK bakery group. More recently Graham has worked as the interim Managing Director of K-Salat (a leading prepared salads manufacturer in Denmark), as interim General Manager at Northumbrian Fine Foods, and as a short term consultant with the International Finance Corporation, a division of The World Bank.
The core focus of Graham's consultancy experience has been to help clients improve performance across all aspects of their value chain, including market development strategy, sales and operations planning, procurement, manufacturing, distribution and energy management. In his consulting career, Graham has combined a strategic focus with strong analytical skills and an ability to communicate at all levels of an organisation.
David Lascelles BSc, PhD, FRSA
David Lascelles has had the good fortune to combine careers in management consultancy, academia and manufacturing, providing him with a wealth of experience and skills derived from widely differing environments. David has spent the last thirteen years as a consultant, manager and author. He has combined inter-personal skills with a strong analytical and delivery track record.
David has a broad range of sector experience as a consultant, with practical knowledge of general management, logistics, sales, manufacturing and engineering. David has worked with international “blue chips”, SMEs and public sector organisations. His areas of expertise include process analysis and re-engineering, best practice benchmarking, business excellence self-assessment, strategy mapping and balanced scorecards, supply chain strategy and analysis, and project and programme management.
The core focus of David’s consultancy career has been to help companies to improve the added-value created by their operations, through supply chain and business process analysis, strategic option evaluation and structured improvement programmes.
Tony Smith
Tony holds a degree in Food Science and Technology and is an innovative and resourceful results-orientated professional manager and a proactive leader with extensive business, managerial and motivational skills.
Tony has had a long and successful senior management career that has included strategic and operational planning, general and commercial management with full P and L responsibility for factories and associated distribution depots including all aspects of distribution and customer service, ensuring that the sites operate to, and comply with, the relevant quality, food safety (HACCP), environmental and health & safety legislation.
Latterly he has been involved in investigations into the alternative use of "co-products" with the government funded Carbon Trust and acted as the Operations lead on a large retailer's "mutual benefit project".
Business Partners
ToolBox Supply Chain Solutions
Logistics Planning Limited is the certified system partner for ToolBox Supply Chain Solutions GmbH the German company that specialises in supply chain solutions for the baking industry worldwide.
Anneliese Mertes
Logistics Planning Limited are the UK and Ireland representative for Anneliese Mertes the specialist manufacturer of equipment for the industrial baker.
