Retailers
Supply Chain Management & Development
Our team has many years’ experience in planning. Establishing and running supply chains, with particular emphasis on bespoke requirements. We can support initial planning, including market research, and tailor our solutions to meet your specific needs. We then create a project plan with your key milestones and deliverables. The team’s vast experience enables us to effectively deliver an efficient and high-quality solution that ensures your desired product is optimised and high levels of customer satisfaction are achieved.
Knowledge Transfer
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Project Management
Project Management is central to the experience of the team at Birnie Consultancy. The teams experience has included managing numerous multi-million pound R&D projects, Food and Drink Networks, Industry working groups to inform government policy. The team puts a strong emphasis on communication, building good relationships with stakeholders, and being outcome focused.
Strategic Development
Strategic development is fundamental to creating and running a business. Our experts can help you clarify your business aims, create ideas for development, select the most promising, and decide how best to meet customer and stakeholder need. We help you to analyse the key influencing factors and adjust to market and legislative changes – helping your organisation fulfil its aims and objectives.
Future
Scanning
Our team of experts can help spot important developments in your industry, putting you on the front foot with developing technologies, potential threats, and opportunities. Utilising their years of experience, our consultants along with their dynamic support team will undertake a desk-based study with an emphasis on new technology, which will help highlight where your business will be going next, and what you need to do to get there.
Independent Assessment & Validation of Product Claims
Let us put academic weight behind your new product with an Independent assessment. Birnie Consultancy is well placed to research your latest innovation, giving independent validation before you take it to market. Upon completion of our study, our experts will provide you with a full scientific report, outlining our findings and any recommendations we might have.
Farm Group Management
Our specialists have a 20-year track record in farmer group development. We have successfully developed supply groups into supermarkets, managed specialist technical development groups, developed food networks and assisted with farm diversification. Whatever the needs of your group, we can bring a wide range of expertise to maximise your effectiveness.
We are specialist in business development, food network development, retailer supply chains, product marketing, development of integrity and development and presentation of product attributes.
Agri-Team Professional Development
Building a knowledgeable, informed agri team is key to any retailer wanting to have a lasting impact on the farmers who they work with.