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BestPractice.Club

Iter Consulting

SP / Consultant
Sponsor

We are a specialist supply chain consultancy with over 25 experience of supporting clients across manufacturing and logistics businesses, globally and locally.

Current collaborations

This page shows all the current Ecosystem Partner collaborations with BestPractice.Club across:

In-person meetingsOnline sessionsPerspectivesPeople

In-person meetings

Plenary / panel / enabler sessions

None upcoming.

Capability-focused roundtable discussions

What's limiting Your S&OP? It's not the process... it's the people

S&OP works in theory, but making it work in practice can be much harder. Sound familiar?

  • Meetings that are more about reporting than decision-making – focused on reviewing what’s happened rather than making the decisions needed to move forward.
  • Meetings that are poorly attended and prepared for – without the right people, preparation or engagement to make them effective.
  • Decisions that aren’t supported by the data – when the information provided doesn’t support the discussion or the decisions that need to be made.
  • Decisions that don’t stick – agreed in the room, but without the authority or support behind them to make them happen.
  • Lack of clarity on ownership – who owns a decision once it leaves the room, and who notices when it starts to unravel?

S&OP often reflects wider challenges in the way an organisation is structured – centralised vs decentralised, the KPIs used to incentivise performance and unclear accountabilities.

What’s this costing you in rework, credibility, wasted time and effort?

November 12, 2026
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November 12, 2026
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Autumn 2026 Meeting

Online sessions

None upcoming.

Perspectives

Interview: Tim Richardson on Designing Resilience for a Volatile World

JP Doggett & Tim Richardson, CEO, Iter Consulting
Supply chains designed for cost and efficiency are now operating in a permanently unstable world. In this conversation, Tim Richardson, CEO of Iter Consulting, explains why volatility is no longer cyclical, why confidence among supply-chain leaders has eroded, and why resilience must be designed into networks rather than bolted on after disruption hits. He argues that adaptability depends less on chasing new technology and more on clear thinking, sound foundations, and leadership capable of making decisions before the next crisis arrives.

People

People supporting decision-support from this Ecosystem Partner

Tim Richardson
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Founder and CEO

Lean, whilst driven by well understood tools is at its heart a creative process. This understanding has driven my working life and helped me to consistently deliver sustained competitive advantage from a manufacturing operation or wider supply chain, both as a consultant and operational manager. My personal success has come from my love of "making things" and my desire to help UK based companies to operate more competitively on the world stage. This has set lean in a wider context as part of the overall optimisation of the "cost to serve", balancing manufacturing cost with distribution and inventory holding costs to deliver the service the market demands.Understanding this is great, but it is my range of experience, emotional intelligence and leadership skills that have taken interesting ideas into the delivery of sustained competitive advantageSpecialities: Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Strategy and optimisation, Programme and Project Management, Sales and marketing of Consultancy, Organisational leadership - not just management